One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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Posting an eight Kilo parcel to California £115!!!
Flying to California £231
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/book-your-tra...
I weight quite a bit more than 16Kg.
Flying to California £231
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/book-your-tra...
I weight quite a bit more than 16Kg.
!!!What's the weight limit for carry on?
Could you make back the cost of your flight?
In snow.. fire? wat?
I don't even..
Could you make back the cost of your flight?
AnimalMkIV said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31036671
"In trying to drive out of the position he had got stuck in, two tyres set on fire and the fire then spread to the truck itself," he said.
How?"In trying to drive out of the position he had got stuck in, two tyres set on fire and the fire then spread to the truck itself," he said.
In snow.. fire? wat?
I don't even..
same article said:
One driver braved the elements in a convertible car in Yorkshire
Hero 
CB2152 said:
9mm said:
WD39 said:
9mm said:
CB2152 said:
The old bloke in the Peugeot 308 who, on a two lane roundabout, came from the outside lane to the inside lane, while I was in the inside lane.
I hit the brakes and sounded the horn in the hope he would not hit my front wing, but all that did was prompt him to indicate (which he wasn't before) while continuing to cut me off, as he was clearly intent on taking the 3rd exit. Fortunately he didn't hit me, must have missed by about a foot.
Didn't even acknowledge what he'd done afterwards.
Two types of driver who I always expect to straight line roundabouts - Range Rover drivers and old people.I hit the brakes and sounded the horn in the hope he would not hit my front wing, but all that did was prompt him to indicate (which he wasn't before) while continuing to cut me off, as he was clearly intent on taking the 3rd exit. Fortunately he didn't hit me, must have missed by about a foot.
Didn't even acknowledge what he'd done afterwards.
As this superb rendering shows:
ked up and are turning around the whole roundabout to rejoin mway going the way they came, or s who've come off the mway to rejoin, skipping some of the queueing traffic. Guess how many there are of each? OpulentBob said:
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
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
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
kowalski655 said:
Another bus driver
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/stuck-bus-driv...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKR9tCiwvAhttp://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/stuck-bus-driv...
I was tailgated last night by a knob in an E46, no more than a car length behind at 60mph on a twisty NSL in poor conditions in the dark.
I think he had some sort of ebay xenon kit on his car too. It looked like he'd somehow wrongly wired his lights so that only the inner main headlights came on. Had he somehow managed to wire dipped beam to the main beams and was happily blazing everyone with his new blue lights?
Eventually I just stopped to let him past and then followed him with full beam on, just to try and give him the message. He soon caught another hapless victim in a 30 zone, and tailgated him with his lights glowing off his bootlid.
Strangely, having been in such a hurry, I later ended up at the tail of a queue of cars doing 40mph and found Mr. Xenons dawdling along at the front...
My conclusion: knob.
I think he had some sort of ebay xenon kit on his car too. It looked like he'd somehow wrongly wired his lights so that only the inner main headlights came on. Had he somehow managed to wire dipped beam to the main beams and was happily blazing everyone with his new blue lights?
Eventually I just stopped to let him past and then followed him with full beam on, just to try and give him the message. He soon caught another hapless victim in a 30 zone, and tailgated him with his lights glowing off his bootlid.
Strangely, having been in such a hurry, I later ended up at the tail of a queue of cars doing 40mph and found Mr. Xenons dawdling along at the front...
My conclusion: knob.
speedking31 said:
OpulentBob said:
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
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
Be warned it happens more than you think, esp when patrolled by the council ticket givers
An interesting case methinks
Not sure about the PF, but no issue if it's a footway. It shouldn't be left open obstructing the footway full time, but to swing open and block it to allow vehicles out etc isn't a problem.
AdeV said:
Also - people who, when a van is overtaking them, speed up just enough to prevent the manoeuvre from completing in a reasonable time. Especially when the van in question has a slightly leaky turbo and the driver is doing his damndest not to trigger limp mode by overusing boost.... DAMHIKT.
You attempt to overtake in a van with this issue?Theres a word in the title of this thread to describe someone trying that sort of thing.
Two on the way back home, met the pair of utter cretinous dicks later on as well. The roundabout at the bottom of the Coundon bypass has a right turn only... well divot of a second lane, Golf boy, the first of the two, (rear windows blacked out, lowered, tinted rear lights... wick'd bruv) zipped past the traffic in a single lane leading down to the roundabout (the other side has two lanes coming off the roundabout). There's a reason it's a double white line, traffic comes on to the bypass in both lanes, seconds later Audi Q7 (all black, gangsta stylee) zips past and neatly cuts up the Focus in front of me and heads off down to Bishop Auckland buzzing the back end of a double decker bus.
I follow the Audi through Bishop and he takes off when he hits the crawler lane and promptly bullies his way into the traffic at the other end of the road (I can see the brake lights glaring away in the distance as he stops himself from rear ending some poor bugger that had the temerity of getting in the way). At the next roundabout there's basically two ways to go that take me home (you could say a la' raad an' a high raad, ahem...), I head off up the high raad to avoid the traffic, the la... low road is a nice flowing road generally but you damn near always come across someone who doesn't know what their right foot is for.
Aanyway coming down the steep bank to a junction having gone through North bhburn, you can pick up a fair lick of speed just coasting so I'm braking heavily anyway and hit thirty just past the thirty sign, here's Golf boy pulling out less than thirty feet away and not doing a particularly spectacular job of it either... and guess who decides to weld themselves to my rear bumper as I pass the junction.
I follow the Audi through Bishop and he takes off when he hits the crawler lane and promptly bullies his way into the traffic at the other end of the road (I can see the brake lights glaring away in the distance as he stops himself from rear ending some poor bugger that had the temerity of getting in the way). At the next roundabout there's basically two ways to go that take me home (you could say a la' raad an' a high raad, ahem...), I head off up the high raad to avoid the traffic, the la... low road is a nice flowing road generally but you damn near always come across someone who doesn't know what their right foot is for.
Aanyway coming down the steep bank to a junction having gone through North b
hburn, you can pick up a fair lick of speed just coasting so I'm braking heavily anyway and hit thirty just past the thirty sign, here's Golf boy pulling out less than thirty feet away and not doing a particularly spectacular job of it either... and guess who decides to weld themselves to my rear bumper as I pass the junction.Driver of a 54 reg light blue Peugeot 407 Estate on Fishergate in York. Honked at a cyclist because he couldn't overtake as the other lane was queuing, cyclist responded with a middle finger. Captain road rage decided to try to push the cyclist out the way with much honking and swerving, before squeezing the cyclist into the curb and nearly knocking him off, it stopped then as the car behind started honking.
If the 407 driver happens to read this. You are the biggest knob I have ever come across driving a car, almost killing someone because you can't overtake, you'd only stop at a red light in a few seconds. I hope someone who saw it had a dashcam and reported it to the police. Someone as mentally unstable as that should not be on the road.
Always a Peugeot.
If the 407 driver happens to read this. You are the biggest knob I have ever come across driving a car, almost killing someone because you can't overtake, you'd only stop at a red light in a few seconds. I hope someone who saw it had a dashcam and reported it to the police. Someone as mentally unstable as that should not be on the road.
Always a Peugeot.
Liquid Knight said:
Posting an eight Kilo parcel to California £115!!!
Flying to California £231
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/book-your-tra...
I weight quite a bit more than 16Kg.
I looked into sending a LSD to somewhere in mid America and found prices as low as £40. Pretty sure a diff weighs more than 8kg as well.Flying to California £231
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/book-your-tra...
I weight quite a bit more than 16Kg.
Jim AK said:
AdeV said:
Also - people who, when a van is overtaking them, speed up just enough to prevent the manoeuvre from completing in a reasonable time. Especially when the van in question has a slightly leaky turbo and the driver is doing his damndest not to trigger limp mode by overusing boost.... DAMHIKT.
You attempt to overtake in a van with this issue?Theres a word in the title of this thread to describe someone trying that sort of thing.
Honestly, what the f
k is wrong with you?carlove said:
Driver of a 54 reg light blue Peugeot 407 Estate on Fishergate in York. Honked at a cyclist because he couldn't overtake as the other lane was queuing, cyclist responded with a middle finger. Captain road rage decided to try to push the cyclist out the way with much honking and swerving, before squeezing the cyclist into the curb and nearly knocking him off, it stopped then as the car behind started honking.
If the 407 driver happens to read this. You are the biggest knob I have ever come across driving a car, almost killing someone because you can't overtake, you'd only stop at a red light in a few seconds. I hope someone who saw it had a dashcam and reported it to the police. Someone as mentally unstable as that should not be on the road.
Whilst I totally agree about the Pug driver - the cyclist also gets at least 10 knob points for unnecessary and provocative use of the middle finger. Just ignore the bIf the 407 driver happens to read this. You are the biggest knob I have ever come across driving a car, almost killing someone because you can't overtake, you'd only stop at a red light in a few seconds. I hope someone who saw it had a dashcam and reported it to the police. Someone as mentally unstable as that should not be on the road.
ds, they're already angry - why make them dangerously so? And - just in case I haven't made myself totally clear, yes, the pug driver is the knob in this scenario.I was driving my beloved 1965 double-decker bus in Lincoln while it was suffering from a slipping fluid flywheel (think "clutch slip") - since repaired.
By Sod's law I had needed to stop, on a steep hill, at the traffic lights where the white Transit-type van is in this picture.
When the lights turned green, I managed, eventually, to attain a maximum speed of 10 (yes, ten) m.p.h. crawling up the remainder of this steep hill:
Not surprisingly, I had collected quite a queue of following traffic but not one vehicle came past me between those traffic lights and the top of this hill!.
Knobs!!!
By Sod's law I had needed to stop, on a steep hill, at the traffic lights where the white Transit-type van is in this picture.
When the lights turned green, I managed, eventually, to attain a maximum speed of 10 (yes, ten) m.p.h. crawling up the remainder of this steep hill:
Not surprisingly, I had collected quite a queue of following traffic but not one vehicle came past me between those traffic lights and the top of this hill!.
Knobs!!!
AdeV said:
Whilst I totally agree about the Pug driver - the cyclist also gets at least 10 knob points for unnecessary and provocative use of the middle finger. Just ignore the bds, they're already angry - why make them dangerously so? And - just in case I haven't made myself totally clear, yes, the pug driver is the knob in this scenario.
I agree, the cyclist didn't help but the driver's reaction was just unbelievable, sort of thing you see on YouTube.ds, they're already angry - why make them dangerously so? And - just in case I haven't made myself totally clear, yes, the pug driver is the knob in this scenario.I did find it strange how when the car behind him honked he sped off and left the cyclist alone, maybe he realised he was the knob and not the cyclist.
AdeV said:
Jim AK said:
AdeV said:
Also - people who, when a van is overtaking them, speed up just enough to prevent the manoeuvre from completing in a reasonable time. Especially when the van in question has a slightly leaky turbo and the driver is doing his damndest not to trigger limp mode by overusing boost.... DAMHIKT.
You attempt to overtake in a van with this issue?Theres a word in the title of this thread to describe someone trying that sort of thing.
Honestly, what the f
k is wrong with you?It sounded like you weren't from your first post.
If you were overtaking on a normal two lane road in the knowledge of the problem with your van, you have noone to blame but yourself for putting yourself in danger.
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