One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
Discussion
TheFinners said:
'POA' on an ad for a 6 year old run of the mill Golf, they don't even provide any pictures of it ffs!
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/v...
I really really hate POA on an ad, especially in Classic and sports car mag adshttp://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/v...
pinchmeimdreamin said:
carlove said:
. I don't know if you can phone the police without signal, I've never had to try.
Think about it 
masermartin said:
Flibble said:
That would be a reasonable point, but the HGV was stationary waiting at the r/bout entrance and deliberately moved off as we approached.
Funnily enough this just happened to me this morning and I've got it on Dashcam ... will post later 
http://youtu.be/T__szzc2P0M
Bit of a long un.
A couple - Last night on the way home a moron in a rather sizeable people carrier took umbrage, while we were waiting at a set of traffic lights, to potentially being overtaken. He decided to try race me off the line, what the hell is it with the Rover all of a sudden? I'm not driving it any different, yeah she's sixteen years old and a Rover (something which most people these days seem to see as a crime on both counts) and seem to decide to put me in my place, most of which seem to be driving s
tters, I seem to get the most respect from those that usually drive like utter tools (Beemers, Audi's and Passat drivers mainly on my commute).
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Tonight a grade A bell end in a silver 300C over took a a VW Up! because he wasn't going fast enough then slammed the anchors forcing not only the VW but the Volvo and me to slow down dramatically (forcing us to drop from 60 to circa 30). Toddles off down the hill (Coundon bypass), at the bottom of the hill a roundabout lies and tt face deliberately blocks the VW from going around the roundabout and exiting (I happen to reach the roundabout just as the VW is making a second circuit).
I catch up to the arse as we enter Bishop Auckland town centre and who's now tailgating a bus which promptly pulls over to let a passenger off he (presumably) sits at the next (a mini) roundabout as far over as their fat arsed car could go without dinging their alloys on the traffic island to try and stop a bike from overtaking, which didn't have any intention of doing so and wouldn't have because the rider had good road sense and wasn't suicidal.
First time I've ever really wanted to do physical harm to another driver whose actions have not been directed at myself.
A couple - Last night on the way home a moron in a rather sizeable people carrier took umbrage, while we were waiting at a set of traffic lights, to potentially being overtaken. He decided to try race me off the line, what the hell is it with the Rover all of a sudden? I'm not driving it any different, yeah she's sixteen years old and a Rover (something which most people these days seem to see as a crime on both counts) and seem to decide to put me in my place, most of which seem to be driving s
tters, I seem to get the most respect from those that usually drive like utter tools (Beemers, Audi's and Passat drivers mainly on my commute).-
Tonight a grade A bell end in a silver 300C over took a a VW Up! because he wasn't going fast enough then slammed the anchors forcing not only the VW but the Volvo and me to slow down dramatically (forcing us to drop from 60 to circa 30). Toddles off down the hill (Coundon bypass), at the bottom of the hill a roundabout lies and t
t face deliberately blocks the VW from going around the roundabout and exiting (I happen to reach the roundabout just as the VW is making a second circuit).I catch up to the arse as we enter Bishop Auckland town centre and who's now tailgating a bus which promptly pulls over to let a passenger off he (presumably) sits at the next (a mini) roundabout as far over as their fat arsed car could go without dinging their alloys on the traffic island to try and stop a bike from overtaking, which didn't have any intention of doing so and wouldn't have because the rider had good road sense and wasn't suicidal.
First time I've ever really wanted to do physical harm to another driver whose actions have not been directed at myself.
carlove said:
Encountered possibly the most stupid human being in the world, at least York.
Just left a village at about 9pm and approaching 60, that's when I see an unlit silhouette right in front of me, slowed down and thought "bloody cyclist with no lights on", it wasn't that.
It was a jogger running towards me on the road wearing nothing reflective on a dark A19 while it was wet.
There is no pavement on this road, there was a massive grassy area next to the road. Maybe when he saw my lights coming he could have thought "he probably wont be able to see me until the last second, I should go on the grass and wait", instead he thought "there's lights coming towards me, I should keep running towards them".
Luckily nothing was coming the other way so I could move straight into the oncoming lane.
I had one of these last winter. Dark, narrow NSL road. As I approached a small summit a sixth "spidey sense" told me to ease off even more than usual - as it's blind the other side. Just as I got close to the crest I spotted a female jogger clad entirely in black running towards me, in the road. There is actually a pavement on this road, but not the side she was on. I dunno what people think they are doing......Just left a village at about 9pm and approaching 60, that's when I see an unlit silhouette right in front of me, slowed down and thought "bloody cyclist with no lights on", it wasn't that.
It was a jogger running towards me on the road wearing nothing reflective on a dark A19 while it was wet.
There is no pavement on this road, there was a massive grassy area next to the road. Maybe when he saw my lights coming he could have thought "he probably wont be able to see me until the last second, I should go on the grass and wait", instead he thought "there's lights coming towards me, I should keep running towards them".
Luckily nothing was coming the other way so I could move straight into the oncoming lane.
masermartin said:
Similar, smaller roundabout and much closer to the oncoming traffic though. The truck had to pull up to a stop to avoid hitting the side of the bus!Location was here: http://goo.gl/maps/X6MRq
Truck where the red car is, Google car is about where I was, bus in front of me!
Two yesterday - it's getting close to Halloween after all...
First one was a doddery old whatsit who decided to go all the way around the roundabout to the three-o'clock exit on the outer (left) lane of the roundabout. There's a two lane exit so it didn't cause me any actual problem (except for then needing to slow to pull behind him to take the next left) but both the signs and highway code are very clear and haven't changed for years on how to do this turning right at the roundabout thing!
Second one on the motorway last night, idiot in a shopping trolley who couldn't drive at a steady speed came past me, then slowed down unnecessarily (no change in speed limit, large gap to next car) so I caught up. I pulled out to overtake smoothly still on cruise control, just around the 800m sign before roadworks. Relative momentum would have taken me past comfortably. Shopping trolley then sped up to block my overtake to the point they had to anchor up to avoid driving into the car in front of them, basically trying to put me in the cones.
To top it off, the shopping trolley's exit from the motorway was pretty much at the last second, across the hatchings. Loony.
First one was a doddery old whatsit who decided to go all the way around the roundabout to the three-o'clock exit on the outer (left) lane of the roundabout. There's a two lane exit so it didn't cause me any actual problem (except for then needing to slow to pull behind him to take the next left) but both the signs and highway code are very clear and haven't changed for years on how to do this turning right at the roundabout thing!
Second one on the motorway last night, idiot in a shopping trolley who couldn't drive at a steady speed came past me, then slowed down unnecessarily (no change in speed limit, large gap to next car) so I caught up. I pulled out to overtake smoothly still on cruise control, just around the 800m sign before roadworks. Relative momentum would have taken me past comfortably. Shopping trolley then sped up to block my overtake to the point they had to anchor up to avoid driving into the car in front of them, basically trying to put me in the cones.
To top it off, the shopping trolley's exit from the motorway was pretty much at the last second, across the hatchings. Loony.
masermartin said:
Two yesterday - it's getting close to Halloween after all...
Is that what it is? There's a lot of agression on the roads this past week.Wednesday evening, Zafira in front and I behind used the quieter LH lane off from some lights and got comfortably ahead of everyone else at the merge point before a bus lane starts (Zaf man at this point had been keeping up a fair pace without speeding, nothing dangerous), a long way later an Astra undertakes both of us in the bus lane, pulls in front and slams on the brakes. Zaf man returns the favour, then they do it again.. and again. By this point we're in a 30. I hang back and smh in disbelief.
Both were diesels too
This is the same stretch of road where on Saturday I was undertaken in the same bus lane and brake tested.. by a Hilux, we know how sharp their brakes are.. Really they should get rid of the bus lane as there's about one bus every 40 minutes even on weekdays, or at least put cameras on to stop these w
kers, or perhaps when the red mist descends and they're desperately trying to reclaim their pride they won't care?Also brake checked by a camper van when joining the A46. He pulled out on me, I flashed my lights, he hit the brakes. (Was I knobish? I do it in the hopes they realise their mistake and in future be more careful, I know when I was new I took honks and flashes as learning experiences).
Edited by scarble on Friday 31st October 11:46
scarble said:
Is that what it is? There's a lot of agression on the roads this past week.
Wednesday evening, Zafira in front and I behind used the quieter LH lane off from some lights and got comfortably ahead of everyone else at the merge point before a bus lane starts (Zaf man at this point had been keeping up a fair pace without speeding, nothing dangerous), a long way later an Astra undertakes both of us in the bus lane, pulls in front and slams on the brakes. Zaf man returns the favour, then they do it again.. and again. By this point we're in a 30. I hang back and smh in disbelief.
Both were diesels too
This is the same stretch of road where on Saturday I was undertaken in the same bus lane and brake tested.. by a Hilux, we know how sharp their brakes are.. Really they should get rid of the bus lane as there's about one bus every 40 minutes even on weekdays, or at least put cameras on to stop these wkers, or perhaps when the red mist descends and they're desperately trying to reclaim their pride they won't care?
Also brake checked by a camper van when joining the A46. He pulled out on me, I flashed my lights, he hit the brakes. (Was I knobish? I do it in the hopes they realise their mistake and in future be more careful, I know when I was new I took honks and flashes as learning experiences).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUNJN8KXGoWednesday evening, Zafira in front and I behind used the quieter LH lane off from some lights and got comfortably ahead of everyone else at the merge point before a bus lane starts (Zaf man at this point had been keeping up a fair pace without speeding, nothing dangerous), a long way later an Astra undertakes both of us in the bus lane, pulls in front and slams on the brakes. Zaf man returns the favour, then they do it again.. and again. By this point we're in a 30. I hang back and smh in disbelief.
Both were diesels too
This is the same stretch of road where on Saturday I was undertaken in the same bus lane and brake tested.. by a Hilux, we know how sharp their brakes are.. Really they should get rid of the bus lane as there's about one bus every 40 minutes even on weekdays, or at least put cameras on to stop these w
kers, or perhaps when the red mist descends and they're desperately trying to reclaim their pride they won't care?Also brake checked by a camper van when joining the A46. He pulled out on me, I flashed my lights, he hit the brakes. (Was I knobish? I do it in the hopes they realise their mistake and in future be more careful, I know when I was new I took honks and flashes as learning experiences).
Edited by scarble on Friday 31st October 11:46
I'm sure it's probably been mentioned before - But i think 'KNOB' every time i see someone with a road car that has been lowered to an inch of its life and/or has rock hard suspension - For the following reason:
This morning i found myself traveling behind an old E36 BMW 3-series. Now ignoring the fact that it had been painted satin black, had tyres that barely fitted the width of the wheels and camber that (i would imagine) means he has to bin a pair of 95% perfectly good tyres every few thousand miles..... The thing that wound me up the most, was the way the driver had to constantly slow down and skirt all over the road to avoid even the most minor imperfection in the road surface and then took an absolute age to drive down a short stretch of road that had some humps..... In the end i managed to overtake him and let him know of my displeasure to his ridiculous contraption...... That poor, poor 328i.
This morning i found myself traveling behind an old E36 BMW 3-series. Now ignoring the fact that it had been painted satin black, had tyres that barely fitted the width of the wheels and camber that (i would imagine) means he has to bin a pair of 95% perfectly good tyres every few thousand miles..... The thing that wound me up the most, was the way the driver had to constantly slow down and skirt all over the road to avoid even the most minor imperfection in the road surface and then took an absolute age to drive down a short stretch of road that had some humps..... In the end i managed to overtake him and let him know of my displeasure to his ridiculous contraption...... That poor, poor 328i.
JakeThePeg said:
Ok he left it a bit close to join... but that "Brake test" looks more like he was slowing down for the roundabout after gunning it to get ahead of the camera car (who could have moved right seeing a car that wants to join... doesn't have to but could have moved right)So I'll score Mr Astra a 4/10 on the knob score
richard300 said:
I'm sure it's probably been mentioned before - But i think 'KNOB' every time i see someone with a road car that has been lowered to an inch of its life and/or has rock hard suspension - For the following reason:
This morning i found myself traveling behind an old E36 BMW 3-series. Now ignoring the fact that it had been painted satin black, had tyres that barely fitted the width of the wheels and camber that (i would imagine) means he has to bin a pair of 95% perfectly good tyres every few thousand miles..... The thing that wound me up the most, was the way the driver had to constantly slow down and skirt all over the road to avoid even the most minor imperfection in the road surface and then took an absolute age to drive down a short stretch of road that had some humps..... In the end i managed to overtake him and let him know of my displeasure to his ridiculous contraption...... That poor, poor 328i.
One of the students (can't be anyone other than a student around where I work) has 'slammed' his Aygo-thing and bunged stretched tyres on it (gods know how the tyres aren't stripped by the wheel arches it's so low), lovely colour though.This morning i found myself traveling behind an old E36 BMW 3-series. Now ignoring the fact that it had been painted satin black, had tyres that barely fitted the width of the wheels and camber that (i would imagine) means he has to bin a pair of 95% perfectly good tyres every few thousand miles..... The thing that wound me up the most, was the way the driver had to constantly slow down and skirt all over the road to avoid even the most minor imperfection in the road surface and then took an absolute age to drive down a short stretch of road that had some humps..... In the end i managed to overtake him and let him know of my displeasure to his ridiculous contraption...... That poor, poor 328i.
Local roundabout down my way. Left hand lane, marked as left turn only. Right hand lane, straight on and right turn only. Now its not the best designed roundabout as majority of traffic is going straight on, so in rush hour the right lane can tail back a bit with minimal traffic in the left lane.
So why do some people think they can fly down the left lane to the give way line then cut in front of the traffic in the right lane waiting to go straight on? Really annoys me.
The best one on Friday was someone done the above but realised they couldn't force their way in. So they turned left then done a U turn round the traffic island and pulled out in front of the traffic again. He didn't gain much ground as I was only 3 cars behind him on the subsequent stretch of road after being about 6 cars behind him in the correct lane before the roundabout. It just annoys me that some folk don't think the road rules apply to them, nor should they have to wait in a queue like the rest of us.
So why do some people think they can fly down the left lane to the give way line then cut in front of the traffic in the right lane waiting to go straight on? Really annoys me.
The best one on Friday was someone done the above but realised they couldn't force their way in. So they turned left then done a U turn round the traffic island and pulled out in front of the traffic again. He didn't gain much ground as I was only 3 cars behind him on the subsequent stretch of road after being about 6 cars behind him in the correct lane before the roundabout. It just annoys me that some folk don't think the road rules apply to them, nor should they have to wait in a queue like the rest of us.
ch108 said:
Local roundabout down my way. Left hand lane, marked as left turn only. Right hand lane, straight on and right turn only. Now its not the best designed roundabout as majority of traffic is going straight on, so in rush hour the right lane can tail back a bit with minimal traffic in the left lane.
Theres a similar one in Leeds where some bellends think that the left lane of a dual carriageway island would let them turn right. The amount if near misses I've had there is ridiculous.But the cake-taker is the woman at the top of my road with her circa 10-year-old son who I passed at about 20-25mph in a 30, due to parked cars on one side of the road, narrow residential street, etc.
In town 20 is plenty, but less on a narrow residential street, with all those hazards just waiting to ambush you.
In town 20 is plenty, but less on a narrow residential street, with all those hazards just waiting to ambush you.
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