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

[Cliftonite]

[Cliftonite]

Some dogs do have crappy, knobby owners.

[Liquid Knight]

Cliftonite said:

Narrow track, wide tyres, four wheel drive with not much power. Freelander?

[Europa1]

Cliftonite said:

Yep, definitely penile behaviour. On my street we now have bollards in the at each end of the verge strips between driveways because the verges were being turned into mud by last F&^%tards who insist on parking tight outside the property they are visiting rather parking on the street and walking ooooh, all of 50-100 yards.

What is truly depressing is that despite the bollards, you still get the odd knobjockey who squeezes his car onto the verge between the bollards to park.

[Liquid Knight]

Me today, well yesterday.

I stopped for petrol but was distracted by what looked like a drug deal doing on in the corner away from the forecourt. Went in to pay grabbed a couple of other things for lunch and asked how good the cctv was because I couldn't make out the number plates of the two cars involved as they were in the dark and forecourt was obviously lit up so it was like an ID parade from where I was.

Scanned stuff, chip and pin paid and went to work.

Sent a text to a mate in the Police Service to tell him about the suspicious behavior and descriptions of the people and vehicles involved. Got a knock on the door this afternoon. I'd paid for the food and drink but not the Petrol.

I was that distracted I didn't check the till reading, the chip and pin readermebob or the receipt so it's as much my fault as theirs for not charging me.

[thismonkeyhere]

jogger1976 said:

I was driving along the northbound A1 this evening at steady 65-70mph, staying well away from the TDI tailgate brigade occupying lane 2.

I suddenly notice that everybody is braking and pulling into lane 1. What could be the problem? An accident? Animals or debris in the road? No, it's a marked 5 series sat in lane 1 at 60 mph

Cue lots of people driving at 50 mph, followed by painfully hesitant overtakes with a 0.5mph speed differential, (including a rather tasty 911 and a RS6!) panic braking and trying to pull in to gaps that just weren't big enough because people couldn't possibly drive at the speed limit. Oh think of the children! I'll get a driving ban!

I had to laugh at all the lemmings as I passed at 70mph in my 14 year old Golf, followed by a bloke in a tatty old Transit

Always frustrates and gives me a laugh in almost equal measure too.

I like to sail past at 80 to test the oft-mooted theory that sensible trafpol don't care about an extra 10mph if you are driving safely and to the prevailing conditions. Haven't been stopped yet.

[smithyithy]

thismonkeyhere said:

Always frustrates and gives me a laugh in almost equal measure too.

I like to sail past at 80 to test the oft-mooted theory that sensible trafpol don't care about an extra 10mph if you are driving safely and to the prevailing conditions. Haven't been stopped yet.

Same happens to me quite often on the M54 to Telford.. 2 lane motorway, most mornings between 7:30 and 8:00 a cop van gets on and travel a few junctions up, and everybody slows to a crawl..

I've passed it a dozen times at 80 in the past year or so and nothing has ever come of it..

[scarble]

Liquid Knight said:

Sent a text to a mate in the Police Service to tell him about the suspicious behavior and descriptions of the people and vehicles involved. Got a knock on the door this afternoon. I'd paid for the food and drink but not the Petrol.

So busy sticking your nose in other people's business when you're the one braking the law? Sounds pretty knobbish to me you busy body nosey parker you

jogger1976 said:

Saw a classic on the M1 this week. 99% of people huddled behind the HATO in lanes 1 and 2. Me and K reg Micra swan past all the powerfully built company directors in their 520d's, closely followed by a smoke belching Sprinter van doing warp speed in lane 4

This always makes me happy, round here they use Daewoo SUVs too so they're very obviously not BiB and being tall the markings are easy to see from a way back. You just have to be ready for people in front panic braking, but it does tend to clear L3

Edited by scarble on Monday 17th November 11:21

[Squishey]

Not one but two this morning:

1. Motorcyclist joining the A2. 6:45am, black bike, no lights, undertaking traffic - not smart, knob.

2. Girl in a silver Ka on the A12. Joined from the Brentwood slip, still dark(ish) and loads of spray about but no lights. She joined behind me, with no indication, straight to the outside lane where I was doing 70 at the back of a queue overtaking a truck. She drove so close to me that I could not see her number plate (on a wet road), so I got past the truck and moved left to let her pass. She sped up, straight up the arse of the Golf in front. The Golf had to brake lightly as was the traffic in front of it, cue the silver Ka taking a nosedive and weaving around. I hung back until the 3 lane Ingatestone/Margaretting bypass where she sat in the middle lane doing 60ish about a metre from the arse of another car, I re-engaged cruise and overtook her in an empty lane 3 at 70mph. I carried on overtaking other traffic but watched her in my mirror get all the way to the Chelmsford slip (where you lose lane 1) then move left, cutting up another car, to leave the A12. Utter, utter knob!!

[Europa1]

People in the F1 threads who use way too much jargon or abbreviations - particularly those that abbreviate drivers' names to GUT, ALO, SUT etc like they are the person doing the captions on the TV.

[Disastrous]

Europa1 said:

People in the F1 threads who use way too much jargon or abbreviations - particularly those that abbreviate drivers' names to GUT, ALO, SUT etc like they are the person doing the captions on the TV.

Yes!

Also, nicknames for drivers, like they're pals (Fred for Alonso, BJ for Button etc).

[AdeV]

smithyithy said:

Same happens to me quite often on the M54 to Telford.. 2 lane motorway, most mornings between 7:30 and 8:00 a cop van gets on and travel a few junctions up, and everybody slows to a crawl..

I've passed it a dozen times at 80 in the past year or so and nothing has ever come of it..

I got stopped @ 75mph on the M6 once, just shy of the M54 junction (in the days before the toll road existed too)

Turns out, the copper was a big fan of Mk2 Granadas, and he just wanted to chat about the one I was driving...

Scared the bejeezus out of me, I thought I must have lights out or something, or he'd seen me doing [insert-larger-number-here]mph prior to my spotting him...

[robgraham17]

People that don't enter motorways and Dual Carriage ways at the speed of the existing traffic

[WD39]

thismonkeyhere said:

Always frustrates and gives me a laugh in almost equal measure too.

I like to sail past at 80 to test the oft-mooted theory that sensible trafpol don't care about an extra 10mph if you are driving safely and to the prevailing conditions. Haven't been stopped yet.

They are almost certainly on another 'job' and have no interest in you speeding by.

[Cliftonite]

Councils who think it is a good idea to dump unmarked chunks of masonry in the road in the name of 'road safety'

Very nice in the dark, rain or snow!

Cretins!

[smithyithy]

Repeat post by me I'm afraid..

People parking half on/off, at night, on an unlit road, facing the wrong way

Oh, also something I've seen a few times recently and I'm not sure what it is..

Flickering brake lights. You know on the motorway people can't maintain a distance to the car ahead, or they follow too closely so they have to keep knee-jerk braking? Well recently I've seen a few car's brake lights just flicker for milliseconds about half a dozen times, almost as if their foot is just caressing the brake pedal constantly..

Really odd...

[yellowjack]

The tailgating asshat in a BMW, who followed me for over a mile this evening.

It started when he caught up with me as I was behind another car waiting to overtake a cyclist. Then we couldn't reach the posted limit because a van ahead was slowing to turn left. That was followed by a period stuck at 25mph because a convoy of three cars ahead were stuck behind a slower car. No option to overtake, because it simply wouldn't have been safe nor legal (oncoming traffic and street furniture).

Following a complex junction (roundabout immediately followed by a right turn) we were faced with a clear (in his mind, not mine, I suspect) lane ahead, but some inconsiderate parking meant a slalom around parked cars with traffic coming from the opposite direction. No sooner had we (I) managed to achieve the speed limit, than I was signalling to turn left into my estate.

The most knobbish thing about this asshat was that despite being clearly frustrated by our limited speed for about a mile and a half (90% of that in a 30mph zone), he waited until I was already most of the way around my left turn off the 'main' road before he flashed the high beams at me. And the fact that after I signaled left to get out from in front of him, he didn't ease off to let me get out of the way, but closed up tighter than at any other point in our shared journey. And before anyone asks, yes, all of my rear lights function correctly - I checked when I got back home

Sorry, BMW driving chimp, but you are a

[Tyre Tread]

The trailer towing 4X4 on the ay to market this morning with a mile tail back of cars behind him who are all commuters and have to be somewhere. You couldn't just pull over occasionally and ket the traffic go could you? No. 30mph and less in a NSL for eight miles +

Then a similar situation with a tractor towing a trailer with an excavator on it for 2 miles + at speeds as low as 15mph on the hills.

Mostly the knobs at the front of the queue for not overtaking when safe to do so.

Then just to finsih it off the 07 plate Civic driver tootling along 20 mph below the speed limit. So hesitant that at first I thought it was an old woman until a large gob of phlegm came out of the drivers side window. No, just a knob being a control freak positioning his car so nobody could overtake.

Why?

[thismonkeyhere]

WD39 said:

thismonkeyhere said:

Always frustrates and gives me a laugh in almost equal measure too.

I like to sail past at 80 to test the oft-mooted theory that sensible trafpol don't care about an extra 10mph if you are driving safely and to the prevailing conditions. Haven't been stopped yet.

They are almost certainly on another 'job' and have no interest in you speeding by.

Or it's at least possible they could be trafpol on patrol and not interested in someone driving sensibly at 10mph over the limit?

I like the way you are so certain though...

[scarble]

smithyithy said:

Flickering brake lights. You know on the motorway people can't maintain a distance to the car ahead, or they follow too closely so they have to keep knee-jerk braking?

Cruise control maybe?
If not, still nothing wrong with adjusting your speed using brakes, if it's just a flicker it's obviously very slight braking, i.e. they're probably doing a good job of holding a constant gap. Not to p**s on your high horse parade.