One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
Discussion
Apologies for the Daily Fail link but this is knob gold.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2927012/Mo...
Miss Mackie, who lives with her parents, said the situation has become so stressful she is considering moving house
Hilarious.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2927012/Mo...
Miss Mackie, who lives with her parents, said the situation has become so stressful she is considering moving house
Hilarious.
Hackney said:
ORD said:
One from Friday that confused me at the time and seems stranger the more I think about it...
A queue of traffic back from red light at a junction. Single lane road.
I am in the queue, stopped just before a yellow hatched box that allows traffic to turn across the queue in and out of a side-road. I spot someone in my right-hand rearview overtaking the line of stationary traffic. He passes about 7 or 8 cars and then ducks into the hatched box in front of me and flashes his hazard lights, presumably to say "Thanks" or "Sorry". He then proceeds in the queue, having gained 7 "places".
WTF was he doing? Did he think it was a two-lane road? Unlikely given how busy it is - he must have passed traffic going the other way before seeing a gap and deciding to overtake. Utterly bizarre! He must be a local (like me) and have decided that he doesn't like how slow the road can be in the evening.
Becoming increasingly common.A queue of traffic back from red light at a junction. Single lane road.
I am in the queue, stopped just before a yellow hatched box that allows traffic to turn across the queue in and out of a side-road. I spot someone in my right-hand rearview overtaking the line of stationary traffic. He passes about 7 or 8 cars and then ducks into the hatched box in front of me and flashes his hazard lights, presumably to say "Thanks" or "Sorry". He then proceeds in the queue, having gained 7 "places".
WTF was he doing? Did he think it was a two-lane road? Unlikely given how busy it is - he must have passed traffic going the other way before seeing a gap and deciding to overtake. Utterly bizarre! He must be a local (like me) and have decided that he doesn't like how slow the road can be in the evening.
Waiting in a long line of traffic at the Enfield Lock railway crossing and not one but two cars drove past the whole line of traffic on the wrong side of the road, passing circa 20 cars in total to then pull in to the queue.
And this morning, queueing down the A1055 (single lane, long line of traffic) two cars drove past the entire queue to join the "right turn" lane but went on straight on.
It's the whole "f**k you" attitude that's so prevalent in society.
ORD - the hazard lights mean "yes, I know I did a t
ttish thing but hopefully you won't think so if I flash my lights"Both Hackney and Swisstoni* above are bang on.
It's a mixture of an increasing "f*&^ you" sense of self entitlement, an expectation that your own self is the most important thing and you are allowed your wish immediately (see the "NHS casualty crisis" - so much of it seems to be people with minor complaints who either won't man up and accept they're a bit ill and it's uncomfortable but will pass if they'd just F%^&ing wait and deal with it), coupled to a combination of successive governments trying to save money by cutting "boots on the ground" whilst at the same time being able to pander to the simplistic "speed kills" lobby and therefore a blind belief that speed cameras are the panacea to all road traffic ills.
"Speed kills" is a daft, binary, simplistic mantra. It's bad driving that kills. Speed may, in some accidents, be a manifestation of bad driving, bit can someone from government or Brake explain how a speed camera is going to catch some f$%^tard updating their mybebospace status, or spot the car with iffy tyres, or distinguish between the powerfully built hair product enthusiast in his 1 year old company Audi A at 3am on a deserted road who is just over the alleged 10% allowance versus the 19 year old in a knackered 15 year old hatchback with 4 of his mates on board, rust visible on the bodywork which is indicative of rust on vitally important components tooling along in rush hour traffic who is, in all likelihood, a far greater danger than our Audi afficianado?
When I and my mates had recently passed our tests when the decade started with a "9" [gulp], we were ttting about in a station car park and got clocked by a couple of police in a patrol car. They gave us all a talking to but no ticket. It scared the living daylights out of us and took a lot of teenage wind out of our sails, because the officers spoke directly to us and spoke from personal experience of seeing other teenagers get the ambition/talent equation badly wrong.
Whilst speeding is, legally, a strict liability offence, the momentum towards relying on cameras, as opposed to police officers with brains and a sense of judgement, causes resentment, not reflection, in the errant motorist, and is, I would suggest, unlikely to cause any behavioural change in the motorist.
I'll take a deep breath and go and lie down now.
It's a mixture of an increasing "f*&^ you" sense of self entitlement, an expectation that your own self is the most important thing and you are allowed your wish immediately (see the "NHS casualty crisis" - so much of it seems to be people with minor complaints who either won't man up and accept they're a bit ill and it's uncomfortable but will pass if they'd just F%^&ing wait and deal with it), coupled to a combination of successive governments trying to save money by cutting "boots on the ground" whilst at the same time being able to pander to the simplistic "speed kills" lobby and therefore a blind belief that speed cameras are the panacea to all road traffic ills.
"Speed kills" is a daft, binary, simplistic mantra. It's bad driving that kills. Speed may, in some accidents, be a manifestation of bad driving, bit can someone from government or Brake explain how a speed camera is going to catch some f$%^tard updating their mybebospace status, or spot the car with iffy tyres, or distinguish between the powerfully built hair product enthusiast in his 1 year old company Audi A at 3am on a deserted road who is just over the alleged 10% allowance versus the 19 year old in a knackered 15 year old hatchback with 4 of his mates on board, rust visible on the bodywork which is indicative of rust on vitally important components tooling along in rush hour traffic who is, in all likelihood, a far greater danger than our Audi afficianado?
When I and my mates had recently passed our tests when the decade started with a "9" [gulp], we were t
tting about in a station car park and got clocked by a couple of police in a patrol car. They gave us all a talking to but no ticket. It scared the living daylights out of us and took a lot of teenage wind out of our sails, because the officers spoke directly to us and spoke from personal experience of seeing other teenagers get the ambition/talent equation badly wrong.Whilst speeding is, legally, a strict liability offence, the momentum towards relying on cameras, as opposed to police officers with brains and a sense of judgement, causes resentment, not reflection, in the errant motorist, and is, I would suggest, unlikely to cause any behavioural change in the motorist.
I'll take a deep breath and go and lie down now.
- Edited to change "both the posters above" to their names because by the time I had finished my diatribe a couple of other people had posted.
Edited by Europa1 on Monday 26th January 21:20
Cliftonite said:
Knob on motorway with windscreen blocked by snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
Interesting they make a point of mentioning the speed.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
Who gives a f**k what speed he / she was travelling at, the fact that the car was moving at all is reckless enough
Hackney said:
Cliftonite said:
Knob on motorway with windscreen blocked by snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
Interesting they make a point of mentioning the speed.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
Who gives a f**k what speed he / she was travelling at, the fact that the car was moving at all is reckless enough
Total, utter, world champion, lavishly tooled, diamond encrusted f$^&tard.
Re the woman in Dundee.
As she is in Scotland, she can ignore the private parking invoices as the parking company can only chase the driver,not the RK UNLESS, and i think she is, dozy enough to tell them it was her.
BUT the local council have been missing a trick as the carriageway extends from edge to edge, so parking on the cobbles does not exempt her from parking FINES, which are very legally enforcable, as it is still considered a part of the carriageway
An example, you are attending an event and the provided car park is full.
The road outside the venue has double yellows on each side
However there is a very wide grass verge (10ft plus) with a hedge on each side
You park on the grass well away from the road
You get a ticket as you are parked on double yellows
You are bang to rights no get out clause
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
As she is in Scotland, she can ignore the private parking invoices as the parking company can only chase the driver,not the RK UNLESS, and i think she is, dozy enough to tell them it was her.
BUT the local council have been missing a trick as the carriageway extends from edge to edge, so parking on the cobbles does not exempt her from parking FINES, which are very legally enforcable, as it is still considered a part of the carriageway
An example, you are attending an event and the provided car park is full.
The road outside the venue has double yellows on each side
However there is a very wide grass verge (10ft plus) with a hedge on each side
You park on the grass well away from the road
You get a ticket as you are parked on double yellows
You are bang to rights no get out clause
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
SistersofPercy said:
Horrid people, they need some help and probably shouldn't be on the road with their attitude. KNOBS x 2Jim AK said:
Mine are Photocromic so I don't get blinded by any Other road user!!
Yes I Have these and was similarly still blinded by and idiot in a 10 year old MPV with full beams on. Only he was doing it through the roadworks on the M1 on Christmas eve night. Tried signalling him nothing. Couldn't get away due to 50 limit. Few other cars to block him. Slowed down a little he slowed too. It was the particularly straight it past Leicestershire I think. Eventually I performed a rolling road block. Down to 10mph. Still no overtake. Held it at 10 for a moment or too. Then used the full power of my right foot to get away as far as I could before the next ave speed cam.
I was so furious at the time how someone could be so ignorant.
Edited by shost on Tuesday 27th January 08:05
Europa1 said:
Both Hackney and Swisstoni* above are bang on.
It's a mixture of an increasing "f*&^ you" sense of self entitlement, an expectation that your own self is the most important thing and you are allowed your wish immediately (see the "NHS casualty crisis" - so much of it seems to be people with minor complaints who either won't man up and accept they're a bit ill and it's uncomfortable but will pass if they'd just F%^&ing wait and deal with it), coupled to a combination of successive governments trying to save money by cutting "boots on the ground" whilst at the same time being able to pander to the simplistic "speed kills" lobby and therefore a blind belief that speed cameras are the panacea to all road traffic ills.
"Speed kills" is a daft, binary, simplistic mantra. It's bad driving that kills. Speed may, in some accidents, be a manifestation of bad driving, bit can someone from government or Brake explain how a speed camera is going to catch some f$%^tard updating their mybebospace status, or spot the car with iffy tyres, or distinguish between the powerfully built hair product enthusiast in his 1 year old company Audi A at 3am on a deserted road who is just over the alleged 10% allowance versus the 19 year old in a knackered 15 year old hatchback with 4 of his mates on board, rust visible on the bodywork which is indicative of rust on vitally important components tooling along in rush hour traffic who is, in all likelihood, a far greater danger than our Audi afficianado?
When I and my mates had recently passed our tests when the decade started with a "9" [gulp], we were ttting about in a station car park and got clocked by a couple of police in a patrol car. They gave us all a talking to but no ticket. It scared the living daylights out of us and took a lot of teenage wind out of our sails, because the officers spoke directly to us and spoke from personal experience of seeing other teenagers get the ambition/talent equation badly wrong.
Whilst speeding is, legally, a strict liability offence, the momentum towards relying on cameras, as opposed to police officers with brains and a sense of judgement, causes resentment, not reflection, in the errant motorist, and is, I would suggest, unlikely to cause any behavioural change in the motorist.
I'll take a deep breath and go and lie down now.
stop with your common sense!It's a mixture of an increasing "f*&^ you" sense of self entitlement, an expectation that your own self is the most important thing and you are allowed your wish immediately (see the "NHS casualty crisis" - so much of it seems to be people with minor complaints who either won't man up and accept they're a bit ill and it's uncomfortable but will pass if they'd just F%^&ing wait and deal with it), coupled to a combination of successive governments trying to save money by cutting "boots on the ground" whilst at the same time being able to pander to the simplistic "speed kills" lobby and therefore a blind belief that speed cameras are the panacea to all road traffic ills.
"Speed kills" is a daft, binary, simplistic mantra. It's bad driving that kills. Speed may, in some accidents, be a manifestation of bad driving, bit can someone from government or Brake explain how a speed camera is going to catch some f$%^tard updating their mybebospace status, or spot the car with iffy tyres, or distinguish between the powerfully built hair product enthusiast in his 1 year old company Audi A at 3am on a deserted road who is just over the alleged 10% allowance versus the 19 year old in a knackered 15 year old hatchback with 4 of his mates on board, rust visible on the bodywork which is indicative of rust on vitally important components tooling along in rush hour traffic who is, in all likelihood, a far greater danger than our Audi afficianado?
When I and my mates had recently passed our tests when the decade started with a "9" [gulp], we were t
tting about in a station car park and got clocked by a couple of police in a patrol car. They gave us all a talking to but no ticket. It scared the living daylights out of us and took a lot of teenage wind out of our sails, because the officers spoke directly to us and spoke from personal experience of seeing other teenagers get the ambition/talent equation badly wrong.Whilst speeding is, legally, a strict liability offence, the momentum towards relying on cameras, as opposed to police officers with brains and a sense of judgement, causes resentment, not reflection, in the errant motorist, and is, I would suggest, unlikely to cause any behavioural change in the motorist.
I'll take a deep breath and go and lie down now.
- Edited to change "both the posters above" to their names because by the time I had finished my diatribe a couple of other people had posted.
Edited by Europa1 on Monday 26th January 21:20
shost said:
Yes I Have these and was similarly still blinded by and idiot in a 10 year old MPV with full beams on. Only he was doing it through the roadworks on the M1 on Christmas eve night. Tried signalling him nothing. Couldn't get away due to 50 limit. Few other cars to block him. Slowed down a little he slowed too. It was the particularly straight it past Leicestershire I think.
Eventually I performed a rolling road block. Down to 10mph. Still no overtake. Held it at 10 for a moment or too. Then used the full power of my right foot to get away as far as I could before the next ave speed cam.
I was so furious at the time how someone could be so ignorant.
Been in a similar situation but when I slowed to 10-15mph the asshat overtook then cut in tight and brake checked me. Sometimes I think the have them on to deliberately upset people.Eventually I performed a rolling road block. Down to 10mph. Still no overtake. Held it at 10 for a moment or too. Then used the full power of my right foot to get away as far as I could before the next ave speed cam.
I was so furious at the time how someone could be so ignorant.
Edited by shost on Tuesday 27th January 08:05
Hackney said:
Becoming increasingly common.
Waiting in a long line of traffic at the Enfield Lock railway crossing and not one but two cars drove past the whole line of traffic on the wrong side of the road, passing circa 20 cars in total to then pull in to the queue.
And this morning, queueing down the A1055 (single lane, long line of traffic) two cars drove past the entire queue to join the "right turn" lane but went on straight on.
It's the whole "f**k you" attitude that's so prevalent in society.
I can top this. Back in November I think, I was making the best of the balmy weather and walking to work, there's one T-junction, lights on all roads, with a very big pedestrian island in the middle, with the full chicane thing to stop you running right across and each direction has an individual crossing, this is on the "side" road of the junction.Waiting in a long line of traffic at the Enfield Lock railway crossing and not one but two cars drove past the whole line of traffic on the wrong side of the road, passing circa 20 cars in total to then pull in to the queue.
And this morning, queueing down the A1055 (single lane, long line of traffic) two cars drove past the entire queue to join the "right turn" lane but went on straight on.
It's the whole "f**k you" attitude that's so prevalent in society.
As everyone is slowly filtering out of this on their green light, one driver decided he was too important to wait and drove on the wrong side of the island. I don't recall now if the crossing was on a green, I think it had *just* changed to red. He then just sort of.. pushed in to the traffic that had gone the correct side of the island before turning right.
I'm now extra careful crossing there, particularly as there's a bus stop with a lay-by there which blocks a pedestrian's view up that way, not that you should ever need to.
Pity I didn't get his plate really, I was a bit dumbfounded.
Edited by scarble on Tuesday 27th January 10:49
bairn7 said:
Bint in the sh*t Peugeot 206 who drove full onto the pavement to get around a bin lorry, almost taking me out in the process.
I swear, since I've been running partly into work, I see more Knobs whilst running than I do whilst driving!
had a similar sort thing happened to me except it was a zebra crossing. I was a 1/3rd across when a car just kept going so I slammed my hand down hard on the roof, he just kept going with hopefully as nice dent! I swear, since I've been running partly into work, I see more Knobs whilst running than I do whilst driving!
alpha channel said:
People who are winding their merry way to work who have their rear fogs on when it hasn't been foggy for weeks (white Transits seem to be the biggest offender), though we might have had a very light mist (with no effect on visibility) a few days ago.
I was following a car last week who on a brightly lit day (I was wearing sunglasses ffs) turned on their fog lights for no reason!No my head lights aren't out of adjustment, or even switched on at the time etc etc
mikal83 said:
had a similar sort thing happened to me except it was a zebra crossing. I was a 1/3rd across when a car just kept going so I slammed my hand down hard on the roof, he just kept going with hopefully as nice dent!
Years ago I was crossing the road in Paris and a car decided to pull off from the junction and drive through the pedestrians (light still red for him and green for pedestrians). The bonnet was pushing me and 2 other people in the thigh. I did what you did - I smashed my hand down on the bonnet and shouted at the driver. The other pedestrians just sort of slid over the bonnet and carried on walking without blinking. I think it must have been quite common for a car to push you out of the way!silverfoxcc said:
Re the woman in Dundee.
As she is in Scotland, she can ignore the private parking invoices as the parking company can only chase the driver,not the RK UNLESS, and i think she is, dozy enough to tell them it was her.
BUT the local council have been missing a trick as the carriageway extends from edge to edge, so parking on the cobbles does not exempt her from parking FINES, which are very legally enforcable, as it is still considered a part of the carriageway
An example, you are attending an event and the provided car park is full.
The road outside the venue has double yellows on each side
However there is a very wide grass verge (10ft plus) with a hedge on each side
You park on the grass well away from the road
You get a ticket as you are parked on double yellows
You are bang to rights no get out clause
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
All depends on the highway boundary location. If the cobbles are a part of the residence, i.e. not a council asset then no issue with parking there. The situation above, there's no discernable boundary between residence and road. I think the parking attendant got a bit lucky - if he gives tickets out like that quite often, then I wouldn't be surprised if a fair proportion are won (or is that lost? The car owner "winning") at appeal. He would have minimal knowledge of highway boundaries. As she is in Scotland, she can ignore the private parking invoices as the parking company can only chase the driver,not the RK UNLESS, and i think she is, dozy enough to tell them it was her.
BUT the local council have been missing a trick as the carriageway extends from edge to edge, so parking on the cobbles does not exempt her from parking FINES, which are very legally enforcable, as it is still considered a part of the carriageway
An example, you are attending an event and the provided car park is full.
The road outside the venue has double yellows on each side
However there is a very wide grass verge (10ft plus) with a hedge on each side
You park on the grass well away from the road
You get a ticket as you are parked on double yellows
You are bang to rights no get out clause
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
On the way into work last night a 64 reg resale white BMW 4-series overtook me on the dual carriageway way above the speed limit. No issue there it's a life choice and didn't place anyone else at undue risk.
On the approach to a roundabout BMW boy got stuck behind a Honda CRV and pensioner spec' Golf (you can tell as any Golf owned by someone under fifty have blacked out rear windows and are covered in road muck). BMW boy tailgates the CRV who turns off a little while later. As the CRV slowed to take the junction a gap of about an eighth of a mile opened between BMW boy and the Golf. BMW boy decided to floor it, leaving me (traveling at the 50mph speed limit) behind as if I were standing still before the brake lights strobed due to how heavily the driver had to brake to avoid crashing into the back of the Golf. I caught up again and BMW boy was sat inches from the back of the Golf. There were plenty of gaps big enough to overtake but BMW boy was sat so close he probably couldn't see around enough to tell. The side of BMW boys face was illuminated as he took a phone call. We all crossed over into a forty zone and the Golf slowed, BMW boy had to strobe his brake lights again, followed by a blast of his horn, so busy on the phone he failed to notice the driver ahead had slowed down. At a set of traffic lights BMW boy pulls into a right turn only lane, opens his window and shouts at the Golf driver. The right lane light changed and he sat there much to the annoyance of the van waiting to turn right behind him. The main lights changed and he launched the BMW down the road. I followed the Golf to the next roundabout where he turned left and I carried on straight. BMW boy was at a pedestrian crossing fifty feet later. Launched it off the line again as soon as the amber light came on, only to brake light strobe at the next red light a hundred feet later. The light it changed a few seconds after I arrived so all that display was for a grand total of six feet.
What a fool.
On the approach to a roundabout BMW boy got stuck behind a Honda CRV and pensioner spec' Golf (you can tell as any Golf owned by someone under fifty have blacked out rear windows and are covered in road muck). BMW boy tailgates the CRV who turns off a little while later. As the CRV slowed to take the junction a gap of about an eighth of a mile opened between BMW boy and the Golf. BMW boy decided to floor it, leaving me (traveling at the 50mph speed limit) behind as if I were standing still before the brake lights strobed due to how heavily the driver had to brake to avoid crashing into the back of the Golf. I caught up again and BMW boy was sat inches from the back of the Golf. There were plenty of gaps big enough to overtake but BMW boy was sat so close he probably couldn't see around enough to tell. The side of BMW boys face was illuminated as he took a phone call. We all crossed over into a forty zone and the Golf slowed, BMW boy had to strobe his brake lights again, followed by a blast of his horn, so busy on the phone he failed to notice the driver ahead had slowed down. At a set of traffic lights BMW boy pulls into a right turn only lane, opens his window and shouts at the Golf driver. The right lane light changed and he sat there much to the annoyance of the van waiting to turn right behind him. The main lights changed and he launched the BMW down the road. I followed the Golf to the next roundabout where he turned left and I carried on straight. BMW boy was at a pedestrian crossing fifty feet later. Launched it off the line again as soon as the amber light came on, only to brake light strobe at the next red light a hundred feet later. The light it changed a few seconds after I arrived so all that display was for a grand total of six feet.
What a fool.
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