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

[TheAllSeeingPie]

JagXJR said:

I wasn't quoting anything, just trying to make a point.

Really? Then you felt you had to wade in why?

You we're quoting Oscar Wilde, but only using the first half which you thought was a put down, but unfortunately the full quote would have meant the person you were trying to insult was receiving a compliment from you on their high intelligence.

[JagXJR]

Sorry, wasn't aware of that. Not really an OW fan I'm afraid.

[JagXJR]

Can I nominate the knobs who left a wall of used tyres at a beauty spot near our house. Why don't you dump your st on your own back doorstep? Grrrr

[kowalski655]

TheFinners said:

I shall nominate the tw@ in the white Range Rover Sport last night who stuck their high beams on just as they saw me and left them on until they had passed me, I was walking along the pavement in the opposite direction and it was a well lit road. What the fk is wrong with some people?

Edited by TheFinners on Saturday 28th February 14:17

On a well lit road it is perhaps the actions of a knob,(especially in a RRS) but I never get the reactions of pedestrians on poorly lit roads though if you have high beams on, acting like you are pouring acid in their eyes. In charge of several tons of metal moving a LOT faster, who needs to see properly the most?

[SistersofPercy]

Probably me, but just in case it's not I nominate whoever had the bright spark of an idea to invent bloody LED bulbs and the 'bulb pullers' that are about as useful as a condom in a convent.
I've spent ten minutes balanced on a stool in the kitchen trying and failing to pull 3 of the feckers out. I have now given up and he can sort it when he gets back from the football. On the plus side I can't see to cook so it's a takeaway then. Every cloud and all that

[Blown2CV]

kowalski655 said:

TheFinners said:

I shall nominate the tw@ in the white Range Rover Sport last night who stuck their high beams on just as they saw me and left them on until they had passed me, I was walking along the pavement in the opposite direction and it was a well lit road. What the fk is wrong with some people?

Edited by TheFinners on Saturday 28th February 14:17

On a well lit road it is perhaps the actions of a knob,(especially in a RRS) but I never get the reactions of pedestrians on poorly lit roads though if you have high beams on, acting like you are pouring acid in their eyes. In charge of several tons of metal moving a LOT faster, who needs to see properly the most?

it's as blinding to a pedestrian as it is to an oncoming driver, bizarrely enough.

[kowalski655]

Indeed, but blinding a pedestrian wont cause 2 tons of metal to swerve at 30 mph. Obviously dip them if its a car,not necessarily with a pedestrian

[GekkoRules]

Terrible weather up here today in Glasgow area.

Well done to the guy/girl in the Corsa for overtaking at an unsafe time and place and wading right into a massive flood.

Don't know whether you seized the engine or just flooded it but you looked like a knob.

[Ahimoth]

Speaking of high beams and oncoming traffic, and I don't know if this is due to cars with auto high beams, but why can't some people wait until they are properly past you before sticking them back on.

Big kudos to the knob in the A6 today who cut in front of me at the last second to use the ahead lane on a roundabout, and two miles later used a right turn only lane at some lights to go straight on.

And last night the woman in the Mini who was crawling up my arse in a 30mph, left behind in an NSL and then must have been doing 55+ in the next 40mph section to catch up as quickly as she did, to then crawl all over me again.

[carlove]

Some chavs in a Focus, pulled straight in front of me and then just stopped, so I beeped the horn, they then pulled into a drive where another chav was waiting, they honked back and started shouting, I drove off.
Focus didn't indicate once, pulled out and made me stop but they're too thick to realise that they've done wrong, or don't care.

[Mike_Mac]

kowalski655 said:

Indeed, but blinding a pedestrian wont cause 2 tons of metal to swerve at 30 mph. Obviously dip them if its a car,not necessarily with a pedestrian

Is switching to dipped beam for a pedestrian, just while you're going past them, going to affect your visibility that much though?

To me it's just common courtesy to avoid blinding anyone else on the road if at all possible - pedestrian, or vehicle.

[xRIEx]

Mike_Mac said:

kowalski655 said:

Indeed, but blinding a pedestrian wont cause 2 tons of metal to swerve at 30 mph. Obviously dip them if its a car,not necessarily with a pedestrian

Is switching to dipped beam for a pedestrian, just while you're going past them, going to affect your visibility that much though?

To me it's just common courtesy to avoid blinding anyone else on the road if at all possible - pedestrian, or vehicle.

On most pedestrian/pavement roads the limit is going to be 30 or 40, so dipped beams for a couple of seconds is about zero hardship.

[Hol]

JagXJR said:

Hol said:

I guess you have no sense (of humour).

Sarcasm is the lowest form of (t)wit

Guess my humour isn't winding other people up for fun. Or trying to, you're not that good at it

Still, while you're having a go at me you're leaving others alone. As I don't care that must be a win-win

Oh, you totally misunderstand
I wasn't being scartastc at all. You really don't have a sense of humour. At all.

Did you look in the mirror for inspiration when you wrote the rest about winding people up. Chum(p).

[JagXJR]

Hol said:

Oh, you totally misunderstand
I wasn't being scartastc at all. You really don't have a sense of humour. At all.

Did you look in the mirror for inspiration when you wrote the rest about winding people up. Chum(p).

Sticks and stones ect

[Stevoox]

Came across a complete knob jockey Friday evening on my way to have all 4 tyres changed.

At a set of traffic lights, it is clearly marked left hand lane straight only, right hand lane turn right only.

Straight continues on the main road so is naturally more congested. So what do a select few try to do...go in the right hand lane for straight on.

There is a traffic island at the lights, so the people in the wrong lane are then just cutting you up/pushing in just to gain that extra car length.

Can't stand people doing it, so i made sure to block the twit trying to push in. Despite him being purposely in the wrong lane he proceeds to flash etc. So a hand gesture was returned.

How about just getting in the correct lane like everyone else.

[Big Al.]

JagXJR said:

Hol said:

Oh, you totally misunderstand
I wasn't being scartastc at all. You really don't have a sense of humour. At all.

Did you look in the mirror for inspiration when you wrote the rest about winding people up. Chum(p).

Sticks and stones ect

Guys put the handbags away, or you might lose your ability to post on the thread.

TYIA

[Blown2CV]

xRIEx said:

Mike_Mac said:

kowalski655 said:

Indeed, but blinding a pedestrian wont cause 2 tons of metal to swerve at 30 mph. Obviously dip them if its a car,not necessarily with a pedestrian

Is switching to dipped beam for a pedestrian, just while you're going past them, going to affect your visibility that much though?

To me it's just common courtesy to avoid blinding anyone else on the road if at all possible - pedestrian, or vehicle.

On most pedestrian/pavement roads the limit is going to be 30 or 40, so dipped beams for a couple of seconds is about zero hardship.

if it's a road with no street lights (otherwise why are you using full beams?) then chances are it's going to be the type of road that has a rough pavement or none at all, and as the recommendation is for pedestrians to walk into traffic, they'll be on the same side of the road as you. If the car driver was the only 'active' participant then that's one thing, but the pedestrian is moving and exposed. You blind them with your full beams they might stumble in front of your car! If you've seen them, you should be slowing anyway given the above so the need for long-throw light is lessened, and you can do without it for as long as it takes a car to pass you, so you can do without it for as long as it takes you to pass a pedestrian. It's not just bad manners, it's probably unsafe behaviour on the part of the driver, rather than somehow making the road a safer place.

[ORD]

Stevoox said:

Came across a complete knob jockey Friday evening on my way to have all 4 tyres changed.

At a set of traffic lights, it is clearly marked left hand lane straight only, right hand lane turn right only.

Straight continues on the main road so is naturally more congested. So what do a select few try to do...go in the right hand lane for straight on.

There is a traffic island at the lights, so the people in the wrong lane are then just cutting you up/pushing in just to gain that extra car length.

Can't stand people doing it, so i made sure to block the twit trying to push in. Despite him being purposely in the wrong lane he proceeds to flash etc. So a hand gesture was returned.

How about just getting in the correct lane like everyone else.

I nominate you. Blocking s merge is dangerous and knob behaviour .

[whysub]

ORD said:

I nominate you. Blocking s merge is dangerous and knob behaviour .

They are not merging though are they? They are deliberately using the lane with the intention of cutting in to the lane they should be in. Note the words deliberately and intention. Three points and a fine if caught by the BiB as it an offence to do so.

[djc206]

whysub said:

They are not merging though are they? They are deliberately using the lane with the intention of cutting in to the lane they should be in. Note the words deliberately and intention. Three points and a fine if caught by the BiB as it an offence to do so.

Very true but I'd rather have one of these halfwits in front of me where I can see what they're doing and keep my distance. If you force them in behind you then run the risk of having not just a knob but an irate knob sat inches from your bumper.