One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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Liquid Knight said:
A couple of hours later I found out via a colleague Mr Audi gave the Police attitude so they ended up giving him three points and a hundred Pound fine for SP50 as he was doing over sixty when they played back the video of the overtake. 
It would have been a conversation if he kept his gob shut.
People that give police attitude, when they've clearly done something wrong and by doing so make the situation worse for themselves are utter throbbers in my opinion.It would have been a conversation if he kept his gob shut.
scarble said:
Liquid Knight said:
Yesterday evening on my way into work I was nearly hit by an overtaking Audi on Lynn Road, Wisbech. Obviously that driver hasn't seen the Penis Experiment clip or has and needs one of those vacuum pump things.
Equating bad driving to penis size is pathetic and no one else thinks your video is funny, give it a rest.You were probably lucky to not get a FPN for public order for your offensive hand gesture (more damming of our legal system than you)
OTOH, nice to see someone get their just desserts and I applaud the officers what dealt with the situation in the correct manner
Police Reform Act said:
Driving in a manner which is causing/has been causing, or is likely to cause alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public.
Basically if my gesture was deemed inappropriate or unprovoked and caused undue stress to other road users. Sadly the law does say driver and not road user so it's open to interpretation based on the old cyclists argument..."This is not a motor vehicle"
...I'm of a mind that it is the Road Traffic Act and as such if I'm on the road I am traffic and therefore the same rules apply to me as everyone else on the road.
As for the Penis Experiment unlike almost every other cyclist on the road clip out there it praises careful drivers as well as critique those who are more selfish. As the title suggests it's an experiment; trying to look at an issue from a different perspective instead of the usual "number plate and offence" clips YouTube is flooded with. Still seven hundred views in five months makes it the greatest viral success story since Mrs West got her arse out.
Yesterday, the absolute tail end on the M,8. I will never know why you would even think it was a good idea to undertake the 2 lanes of traffic as we were approaching a slip road that joined the motorway.
Everyone travelling at a nice steady pace, but oh no, as a some cars in Lane 2 would of added 20 seconds onto your journey, you dive into Lane 1 behind me and decide to go onto the hard shoulder, undertake me and several others then back into Lane 2.
At least you gained 3 car lengths on the people that you were behind originally in Lane 2. Dick.
Everyone travelling at a nice steady pace, but oh no, as a some cars in Lane 2 would of added 20 seconds onto your journey, you dive into Lane 1 behind me and decide to go onto the hard shoulder, undertake me and several others then back into Lane 2.
At least you gained 3 car lengths on the people that you were behind originally in Lane 2. Dick.
M25 today at mid-morning (~11:00). Seems to be a free-for-all where the rules of the motorway (esp the 4 Lane sections) have been changed to "choose any lane (except 1 of course) and any speed - enjoy and don't worry about anything or anyone else".
No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
I'll nominate the Yodel van driver near Houghton-le-Spring the other day: learner driver approaching a roundabout in the left lane to go straight over/2nd exit of the roundabout; Yodel muppet came tearing up the right hand lane and turned left across the nose of the learner and took the first exit, nearly collecting the learner at the same time.
Hermes couriers.
Ordered something 2 weeks ago on the Friday.
Gets dispatched and with the courier for delivery on Monday.
Status updates at Monday 10am as "Attempted delivery, no one home". Someone was in all day, and there was no attempt.
Next scheduled delivery is for the same day, in the afternoon.
Sits like this for a 2 weeks, chase them constantly for updates. Get fobbed off with IT errors, low updates etc.
They update it to "Delivered, 03/03/15 23:12"
They don't think its odd that
A) it HASN'T been delivered
B) It was "delivered" at 11pm after not being tracked for 10-12 days!
Ordered something 2 weeks ago on the Friday.
Gets dispatched and with the courier for delivery on Monday.
Status updates at Monday 10am as "Attempted delivery, no one home". Someone was in all day, and there was no attempt.
Next scheduled delivery is for the same day, in the afternoon.
Sits like this for a 2 weeks, chase them constantly for updates. Get fobbed off with IT errors, low updates etc.
They update it to "Delivered, 03/03/15 23:12"
They don't think its odd that
A) it HASN'T been delivered
B) It was "delivered" at 11pm after not being tracked for 10-12 days!
g3org3y said:
M25 today at mid-morning (~11:00). Seems to be a free-for-all where the rules of the motorway (esp the 4 Lane sections) have been changed to "choose any lane (except 1 of course) and any speed - enjoy and don't worry about anything or anyone else".
No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
First time on the M25?No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
Sounds like a normal day on the M25, has always been like that.
leigh1050 said:
g3org3y said:
M25 today at mid-morning (~11:00). Seems to be a free-for-all where the rules of the motorway (esp the 4 Lane sections) have been changed to "choose any lane (except 1 of course) and any speed - enjoy and don't worry about anything or anyone else".
No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
First time on the M25?No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
Sounds like a normal day on the M25, has always been like that.
Non commuter drivers are especially bad. Nowhere to go and all the time in the world for the journey. I'd take rush hour 'controlled chaos' over Sunday driver type bimbling any time.
A hat trick from the last few days.
1.Volvo XC90 driver billowing out smoke from the back.
Just stop before IT stops/seizes/blows and stop polluting and causing a smoke cloud hazard.
2.Audi stereotype alert.....Audi #1 pulls out on Audi #2 in front of me,we all get to the end of the high
street, #1 turns right, #2 turns left,neither indicated.
3.I'm waiting patiently to go past a bus stopped,dawdling driver coming the other way is preventing me from doing so.
She's reading a text/email !
1.Volvo XC90 driver billowing out smoke from the back.
Just stop before IT stops/seizes/blows and stop polluting and causing a smoke cloud hazard.
2.Audi stereotype alert.....Audi #1 pulls out on Audi #2 in front of me,we all get to the end of the high
street, #1 turns right, #2 turns left,neither indicated.
3.I'm waiting patiently to go past a bus stopped,dawdling driver coming the other way is preventing me from doing so.
She's reading a text/email !
Tosspot in an old Passat. Pulled out on me without even slowing, already going too quick and going the wrong way out Morrisons petrol station, I had to to a brake hard and actually stop (just had new discs and pads, not supposed to be braking hard). I wasn't actually too bothered, but he glared at me like I had done something wrong, I wasn't speeding or anything. As he was glaring at met I decided I was bothered and gave him a blast of the horn.
He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a t
t.
Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a t
t. Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
g3org3y said:
M25 today at mid-morning (~11:00). Seems to be a free-for-all where the rules of the motorway (esp the 4 Lane sections) have been changed to "choose any lane (except 1 of course) and any speed - enjoy and don't worry about anything or anyone else".
No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
I have given up worrying about the M25.No discernible attempt at any modicum of lane disciple or mirror usage. Simply wanting to do a speedo indicated 70 was very hard work.
Make steady progress, don't make sudden lane changes, don't worry about passing on the inside of people as the traffic and lane discipline makes it futile and just treat it like a US freeway.
This driver tonight, to paraphase Blackader, mst be the knobbist knob to ever come oout of the University of Knobbery
M3 southbound from J1 50 mph due to road works
Several knobs in L2 doing the 48mph speed camera limit, I am in L3 going past them, very slowly, about 51/2 ish
Suddenly Knob of the year goes past in L1 doing avbout 60mph, ok nothing untoward in that we all should have been one lane ove. Its what he did next that qualifies him
After going past this little dingleberry of drivers in L1, he the moved across to L2 and pisses off
WTF?????
M3 southbound from J1 50 mph due to road works
Several knobs in L2 doing the 48mph speed camera limit, I am in L3 going past them, very slowly, about 51/2 ish
Suddenly Knob of the year goes past in L1 doing avbout 60mph, ok nothing untoward in that we all should have been one lane ove. Its what he did next that qualifies him
After going past this little dingleberry of drivers in L1, he the moved across to L2 and pisses off
WTF?????
carlove said:
Tosspot in an old Passat. Pulled out on me without even slowing, already going too quick and going the wrong way out Morrisons petrol station, I had to to a brake hard and actually stop (just had new discs and pads, not supposed to be braking hard). I wasn't actually too bothered, but he glared at me like I had done something wrong, I wasn't speeding or anything. As he was glaring at met I decided I was bothered and gave him a blast of the horn.
He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a tt.
Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
Deep down, you know that the same thing will probably happen to you in Waitrose.He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a t
t. Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
It will just be some self-entitled t
t in a big 4x4 (RRS, X5, M series, etc), instead of a .Hol said:
carlove said:
Tosspot in an old Passat. Pulled out on me without even slowing, already going too quick and going the wrong way out Morrisons petrol station, I had to to a brake hard and actually stop (just had new discs and pads, not supposed to be braking hard). I wasn't actually too bothered, but he glared at me like I had done something wrong, I wasn't speeding or anything. As he was glaring at met I decided I was bothered and gave him a blast of the horn.
He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a tt.
Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
Deep down, you know that the same thing will probably happen to you in Waitrose.He looked like a gypsy (there's a caravan site next door to Morrisons) and I don't think his child was strapped in while he was driving like a t
t. Now, when I come in to Morrisons I don't have a great view of what's coming out the petrol station, as it's the entrance so didn't expect it at all, he probably couldn't see me which is why he should have stopped or gone the correct way.
Teach me for going to Morrisons, there's a Waitrose not two minutes away as well, what was I thinking?
It will just be some self-entitled t
t in a big 4x4 (RRS, X5, M series, etc), instead of a .Me last night on the way home in my Coupe. Coming off the A19 interchange, over took a Focus (just, he decided to put his foot down just as I started to nose in front after he was sat dawdling up to forty, knobbish behaviour right there), further on down the A689 here he comes barrelling up to my rear.
I decided, in a moment of irrational behaviour that I thankfully don't exhibit often (just got sick of dicks barrelling up behind me regardless of either the speed limit, being sat behind slower vehicles or chuntering along at an indicated 70 so probably closer to 64-ish or having people constantly deciding that they're just going too slow when I'm overtaking them when driving the Coupe) I decided to reciprocate what he did to me, only he gave up just I decided to let him go, I didn't feel good about it I have to admit for such knobbish behaviour.
Later on when approaching the A1 interchange he came barrelling past me in the inside lane on to the roundabout seemingly hell bent on getting past but came up short when a slower moving vehicle slowed him down (and I inadvertently zipped past him as there wasn't any vehicles in front of me and I rather enjoy the cornering ability of the old girl... when there isn't diesel on the road surface or slower cars in front).
I decided, in a moment of irrational behaviour that I thankfully don't exhibit often (just got sick of dicks barrelling up behind me regardless of either the speed limit, being sat behind slower vehicles or chuntering along at an indicated 70 so probably closer to 64-ish or having people constantly deciding that they're just going too slow when I'm overtaking them when driving the Coupe) I decided to reciprocate what he did to me, only he gave up just I decided to let him go, I didn't feel good about it I have to admit for such knobbish behaviour.
Later on when approaching the A1 interchange he came barrelling past me in the inside lane on to the roundabout seemingly hell bent on getting past but came up short when a slower moving vehicle slowed him down (and I inadvertently zipped past him as there wasn't any vehicles in front of me and I rather enjoy the cornering ability of the old girl... when there isn't diesel on the road surface or slower cars in front).
Fellow in a Prius at the weekend on Armley Rd in Leeds.
Set off from the lights in L1 with he in L2, the lanes merged into one shortly after so I was expecting him to pass but he didn't. He then sits on my bumper for the single carriageway stretch for a while, until the road opens up into a DC, eventually leading to a roundabout. As the lanes opened into the DC I was behind a jeep moving quite slowly and also needed to be in L2 to turn right at the roundabout, so I moved past the jeep at speed limit, however Mr Prius wasn't pleased about me obstructing him and proceeded to sit on my bumper as I passed the jeep, whilst doing so started swerving behind me, across the two lanes and back, showing his frustration at being held up.
Sorry mate, I'm going right at the roundabout and I'm not budging. He then, once there was a gap, floored it past in L1, across another lane of traffic, into the far left slip road that bypassed the roundabout heading into Leeds town ctr, whilst doing so, giving me and my Mrs the finger. To which we both politely gave him the finger back, absolute knobtard.
Set off from the lights in L1 with he in L2, the lanes merged into one shortly after so I was expecting him to pass but he didn't. He then sits on my bumper for the single carriageway stretch for a while, until the road opens up into a DC, eventually leading to a roundabout. As the lanes opened into the DC I was behind a jeep moving quite slowly and also needed to be in L2 to turn right at the roundabout, so I moved past the jeep at speed limit, however Mr Prius wasn't pleased about me obstructing him and proceeded to sit on my bumper as I passed the jeep, whilst doing so started swerving behind me, across the two lanes and back, showing his frustration at being held up.
Sorry mate, I'm going right at the roundabout and I'm not budging. He then, once there was a gap, floored it past in L1, across another lane of traffic, into the far left slip road that bypassed the roundabout heading into Leeds town ctr, whilst doing so, giving me and my Mrs the finger. To which we both politely gave him the finger back, absolute knobtard.
Edited by RSteve on Thursday 5th March 09:49
Liquid Knight said:
Basically if my gesture was deemed inappropriate or unprovoked and caused undue stress to other road users. Sadly the law does say driver and not road user so it's open to interpretation based on the old cyclists argument...
"This is not a motor vehicle"
...I'm of a mind that it is the Road Traffic Act and as such if I'm on the road I am traffic and therefore the same rules apply to me as everyone else on the road.
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Thats refreshing, a cyclist with a responsible and reasonable attitude. Shame it cannot replicate to others who cycle!"This is not a motor vehicle"
...I'm of a mind that it is the Road Traffic Act and as such if I'm on the road I am traffic and therefore the same rules apply to me as everyone else on the road.
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To all the entitled little s in Beaconsfield (Bucks) who don't know how a roundabout works. It's become such regular occurrence I don't know why I'm surprised anymore.
We have those morons who just sit on the roundabouts, blocking traffic. The completely obliviouss who just ignore anything coming from the right, like it's their god given right everyone should give way for them. And then of course the lazy sods who just refuse to indicate!
s in Beaconsfield (Bucks) who don't know how a roundabout works. It's become such regular occurrence I don't know why I'm surprised anymore.We have those morons who just sit on the roundabouts, blocking traffic. The completely oblivious
s who just ignore anything coming from the right, like it's their god given right everyone should give way for them. And then of course the lazy sods who just refuse to indicate! Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff