One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[WD39]

budfox said:

Ownership of a Honda Jazz.

I am currently on my second Honda Jazz and I agree with you.

[Liquid Knight]

irocfan said:

just read the article and watch the vid - knobishness of the highest order!

http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/09/25/car-narrow...

I take the A47 every commute and that's pretty tame.

[CoolHands]

bairn7 said:

I've started travelling along the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh, in the rush hour during the morning. It is a constant stream of traffic which gets quite congested at certain junctions along the way. You have a choice - sit in L2 and constantly accelerate/brake for 30 miles or cruise along in L1 around 40-50 mph but make steady progress. Both options get you to Edinburgh around the same time.

I've chosen option 2, much more relaxing. But the 'knob' element of the story comes when I'm cruising at say 50mph and I come level with a car in L2 which is in a braking section (for L2). The amount of people in L2 who will then accelerate to match my speed and close any gap is staggering. Despite the fact that many cars will have seen me in their mirrors for several miles, they somehow think that I'm going to use this opportunity to pass them and cut into a slower L2 in front of them!! Just another examplse of the 'how dare you overtake me' brigade!

I just openly laugh now, especially if I catch them glancing over. I've made a game of counting how many people do it. My record so far is 15 for one journey

you should indicate right just to wind them up

[aclivity]

kowalski655 said:

The 2 knob cyclists on the A1 today,where they are banned.
Called 999 to report it...well actually dialled 101 & got put through to 999

why are they banned?

[FRMATT]

aclivity said:

why are they banned?

I would guess it was a motorway part of the A1

[aclivity]

FRMATT said:

aclivity said:

why are they banned?

I would guess it was a motorway part of the A1

He didn't say "A1(M)" though?

[carreauchompeur]

aclivity said:

FRMATT said:

aclivity said:

why are they banned?

I would guess it was a motorway part of the A1

He didn't say "A1(M)" though?

Yawn

[kowalski655]

True,I didn't,and it wasn't,its the bit just south of Edinburgh,the slip road has signs saying no bikes,pedestrians or horse drawn vehicles as I presume it's too dangerous for them
No idea what their crimes,if any,would be,probably just going through a stop sign

[Silverbullet767]

Liquid Knight said:

irocfan said:

just read the article and watch the vid - knobishness of the highest order!

http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/09/25/car-narrow...

I take the A47 every commute and that's pretty tame.

How the hell did it roll over? Was it some kind of jacked up 4x4?

On another note, I nominate the knob on the A90 southbound from Aberdeen in his clapped out Citroen Saxo, both him and his wife were so fat that there was barely daylight between them in the car, the suspension crying out in pain. Naturally this guy was sat in the outside lane overtaking a sea of nothingness at 58mph for about 20 minutes. It comes to the short 50mph section and I'm behind said idiot. I wrongly assume when it goes back to 70 that he'll see me and move over. Nope. Nothing. A quick right hand indicate from me behind him didn't work either, neither does a flash. It's been 25 minutes at this point and I'm getting annoyed. So I move in and pass on the inside. Mouthbreather takes offence to this and speeds up to go along side. Waving his chubby fingers and arm fat around. I've had enough at this point so I just accelerate off and get on with my day. How his little saxo with that much weight in it could accelerate at all was beyond me.

[Hol]

AdeV said:

Knobs this week:


2nd knob-ette; the shrew-faced woman who shoved in front of me in the massive queues @ Kings Cross station for LUL the other day (busy platforms, apparently, meant that access to the deep level tubes was restricted, hence a 1/2 mile long queue. Upon taking her to task for her queue-jumping ways, she tried verbal abuse, I managed to send her on her way without actually resorting to violence or swearing; but really, why do people do it?

I see that an awful lot these days.

In fact I think Feminine Behaviour is becoming an endangered art in the modern world.

I still like to hold the door open for people following me, but I rarely get a polite thank you and have notice a pretty universal trend amongst women under 40 to just let the door slam behind them, without even looking to see if anyone is following.

Earlier this summer, I saw some young Doris on her mobile walk straight to the front of a group of people walking in a corridor who had slowed to allow the head of the pack to open the closed door in front - at which point she impatiently mimed for him to 'hurry up', before shoving past him through the gap befopre the door was fully open.
Oviously her normal 'attendants' were not available that morning.

[smithyithy]

AdeV said:

Knobs this week: Watching "Motorway - Life in the fast lane" ep 3, the knobs who throw things at the traffic wombles. Yes, they're wombles, but I've now got a much better idea of what they do (and don't) do. And ultimately, if they're making a travelling road block, it's not just for the entertainment value.

2nd knob-ette; the shrew-faced woman who shoved in front of me in the massive queues @ Kings Cross station for LUL the other day (busy platforms, apparently, meant that access to the deep level tubes was restricted, hence a 1/2 mile long queue. Upon taking her to task for her queue-jumping ways, she tried verbal abuse, I managed to send her on her way without actually resorting to violence or swearing; but really, why do people do it?

I work on that Area contract, it was Amey, now it's EM Highways. Not in Traffic Management specifically but I have dealt with emergency repairs and design / engineering.

Glad to hear someone appreciates, to a degree, what we try to do. There is so much involved in keeping it all running and maintained, and the general travelling public don't exactly make it easy a lot of the time..

My Knobs are every day occurances on the 2-lane M54 motorway I use each day from Birmingham / Walsall to Telford, Shropshire.

On a normal day, I'll set my cruise control to 63mph, I can sit at 85mpg average and just let the speeders pass by in Lane 2. Unless lane 2 becomes congested and slows down..

Now as far as I'm concerned, if I'm already sat a fair speed, it's not undertaking if the 'faster' lane suddenly slows down below my speed - I haven't made a move to undertake, I'm just travelling faster than Lane 2.

Cue the moron in the white Insignia, that after tailgating me for a couple of minutes in lane 1 when there was space to move over into lane 2.. Then moves back into Lane 1 and brakes to stop me 'undertaking' ... This spray-tanned idiot with wife in passenger seat genuinly tried to 'traffic manage' me because I was gonig to pass him and other cars when his lane got congested.. Then when lane 2 got back up to 70mph+ he moved back over and buggered off!

[mikal83]

irocfan said:

half the time you can short-circuit this and just check if they have a Belgian plate

Not just Belgians, its most europeans. After 10k caravanning around southern EU this year just WTF is it about roundabouts that they just dont get. Just pick any lane and go around however you like. The amount of times someone on the outside lane that would just keep going was mindboggling. And it just so happens that a Belgian was a major culprit one day in Southern Spain..... Entering a RB I needed to go all the way round taking the last exit but one...there were 5, so I was in the left hand side of the entrance. Matey with his small caravan was to my right, (remember we are now in Spain). Half way round I indicate right and started to move over but Belgy decided he wanted to keep going, all the way round .....NOT an isolated case at all. It was scary.
Then theres the Italians. By far and away THE worst drivers I came across, by a country mile. And the condition of the roads.....abso ste. Fecking tolls everywhere, stupid signs, narrow lanes, grrrrrrrrrrrr I could go on.

[JagXJR]

Liquid Knight said:

irocfan said:

just read the article and watch the vid - knobishness of the highest order!

http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/09/25/car-narrow...

I take the A47 every commute and that's pretty tame.

Bulgaria too, Blind bends, trucks coming the other way - they just seem to drive 'using the Force'

[JagXJR]

smithyithy said:

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On a normal day, I'll set my cruise control to 63mph, I can sit at 85mpg average and just let the speeders pass by in Lane 2. Unless lane 2 becomes congested and slows down..

Now as far as I'm concerned, if I'm already sat a fair speed, it's not undertaking if the 'faster' lane suddenly slows down below my speed - I haven't made a move to undertake, I'm just travelling faster than Lane 2.

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This annoys me too. How hard is it to maintain a steady speed? Yet on a motorway journey these days you cannot just use cruise control on its own as some cars seem to vary their speed so much. Often end up overtaking the same car several times keeping to the same speed on CC

[silverfoxcc]

Bank underground, Northern line. Now i havent had much travelling in London recently by tube, and it is always an eye opener, watching these muppets do it every day for possible 40yrs, Anyway, i am polite and a firm believer in the Let the passengers off first routine. This knob decides he needs on as soon as the doors open. earpieces in and head down stance, however i had just about had enough of these cretins and he was the 'chosen one' Sharp shoulder charge into his chest and he goes backwards at a fair speed hitting the tt behind who was intent on beatin him on! Bonus!!! just said sorry in that nice 'cheery but couldnt give a fk' voice.

[The Don of Croy]

irocfan said:

just read the article and watch the vid - knobishness of the highest order!

http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/09/25/car-narrow...

If you've not already sampled the 'Serbian Fail Blog' over on the tube channel, you'll happily lose an hour or two seeing end to end knobbishness bordering on Darwin Award grade driving;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6I1bnHuU0E

[Swanny87]

silverfoxcc said:

Bank underground, Northern line. Now i havent had much travelling in London recently by tube, and it is always an eye opener, watching these muppets do it every day for possible 40yrs, Anyway, i am polite and a firm believer in the Let the passengers off first routine. This knob decides he needs on as soon as the doors open. earpieces in and head down stance, however i had just about had enough of these cretins and he was the 'chosen one' Sharp shoulder charge into his chest and he goes backwards at a fair speed hitting the tt behind who was intent on beatin him on! Bonus!!! just said sorry in that nice 'cheery but couldnt give a fk' voice.

Whilst I don't shoulder charge them, I just pretend that they're not there and barge them out of the way. I've seen some people blocked getting off trains go absolutely batst crazy though...

Manners, red lights and speed limits are optional in London don't you know?

[berlintaxi]

The ahole in a 1 series, what else, who thought he was better than everyone else by slipstreaming through traffic following an ambulance this morning, eventually the ambulance turned right ttface went straight on. Lord only know what made him feel he was so important that he should go on whilst everyone else made way for the Ambulance.

[Blown2CV]

Swanny87 said:

silverfoxcc said:

Bank underground, Northern line. Now i havent had much travelling in London recently by tube, and it is always an eye opener, watching these muppets do it every day for possible 40yrs, Anyway, i am polite and a firm believer in the Let the passengers off first routine. This knob decides he needs on as soon as the doors open. earpieces in and head down stance, however i had just about had enough of these cretins and he was the 'chosen one' Sharp shoulder charge into his chest and he goes backwards at a fair speed hitting the tt behind who was intent on beatin him on! Bonus!!! just said sorry in that nice 'cheery but couldnt give a fk' voice.

Whilst I don't shoulder charge them, I just pretend that they're not there and barge them out of the way. I've seen some people blocked getting off trains go absolutely batst crazy though...

Manners, red lights and speed limits are optional in London don't you know?

A lot of people assume you'll get out of their way in London. They don't like it when you don't! A woman once bounced off me in a very busy underground foyer; Farringdon IIRC. I couldn't easily move out of her way as we were walking quickly towards one another, but she assumed somehow I'd find a way, and ended up just colliding with me, but I was a fair bit larger than her. She asked me "what the fk are you doing?". As I wasn't actually doing anything other than walking along as she came at me, I didn't feel it merited a response, let alone an apology so just carried on my way. Possibly I am also a knob but I feel I am far the lesser one, unless you're going to string me up over some chivalry bks.

A different woman on a different occasion once deliberately clipped my heel trying to trip me up when I walked past her. No idea why and she had to speed up to catch me in order to do so. I looked at her and she pulled the "sarcastic smile". All very weird. London is fking horrid. The only way to survive is to be equally as much, or even more of a than everyone else.

[Cliftonite]

How is her walking into you any different from your walking into her?