45mph for all occasions
Discussion
AndrewJG said:
Just a totally random topic of discussion. Perhaps some other people can relate.
You're driving along an 'A' road. The limit is 60mph. You're moderately held up by someone in front doing around 45mph. You're not in any particular hurry so you just go with it.
You come up to a small village, the limit is now 30mph. 45mph in front, still does 45mph through the village.
I've seen this on more than a couple of occasions. What gives? Who is Mr. 45mph everywhere?
You remember you used to read urban myths about gang initiations? They'd drive around at night with no lights on until someone flashed them, then they'd run the flasher down and murder them.You're driving along an 'A' road. The limit is 60mph. You're moderately held up by someone in front doing around 45mph. You're not in any particular hurry so you just go with it.
You come up to a small village, the limit is now 30mph. 45mph in front, still does 45mph through the village.
I've seen this on more than a couple of occasions. What gives? Who is Mr. 45mph everywhere?
These are the new them.
They'll pootle up to 45 in an NSL goading you into overtaking. DON'T. They'll swerve at you, accelerate to hang you out to dry or just latch onto your rear bumper and tailgate you to death flashing their main beams like mentalists and gesturing that you should pull over so they can scream in your face.
Without exception, they are extremely poorly endowed and this makes them very, very angry.
Cheers, Jim
GadgeS3C said:
My theory is they just drive at a speed they feel safe at. They have no hazard awareness so 40 in a 30 is no problem. But any faster and they think the car might jump off the road, so 40 in a 60.
Anyone going any faster is a dangerous idiot as they will obviously fall off the road at any moment.
The "40mph everywhere club" has been around far longer than most folks have had cruise control. I know because I've been calling them the 40mph everywhere club for long enough!
I remember reading a report in the local paper in the 1980s about a bloke who rolled his Cortina while drunk and died. He was at least 3 times over the limit. His wife was interviewed and said "he was a very safe driver who never went anywhere at more than 40mph".Anyone going any faster is a dangerous idiot as they will obviously fall off the road at any moment.
The "40mph everywhere club" has been around far longer than most folks have had cruise control. I know because I've been calling them the 40mph everywhere club for long enough!
I must get stuck behind his slower brother occasionally.
25mph max and brakes for every corner (even if you can safely take it at 60mph) or if another appears coming towards him. when there isn't a car coming towards him he moves out into the midlde of the road to stop people overtaking. I saw one guy get so hacked off with him he tried an overtake on a blind bend and almost took out a car coming towards him. I followed him into town one day and he sped up when he got to the 30mph limit.....
25mph max and brakes for every corner (even if you can safely take it at 60mph) or if another appears coming towards him. when there isn't a car coming towards him he moves out into the midlde of the road to stop people overtaking. I saw one guy get so hacked off with him he tried an overtake on a blind bend and almost took out a car coming towards him. I followed him into town one day and he sped up when he got to the 30mph limit.....
I agree with the people saying that its simply that 40-45mph is usually the lowest speed that the car will do in top gear. These kind of drivers accelerate until they can get into top gear and then stay there, with no power to allow acceleration. In towns, they accelerate up to get into top; out of town, they don't accelerate after corners so end up driving at what they consider a safe speed for tightish corners (usually about 40mph on most A roads).
This is one of the reasons that bad drivers are usually much faster in automatic cars.
These kind of dopey gits scare the hell out of me. I never overtake one without (a) flashing my lights to let him or her know that I am there, (b) indicating right for a good few seconds, (c) pulling out to overtake in the lowest possible gear and (d) (once it is clear that I have been spotted) flying past as quickly as safety and the law allow.
I would never try to overtake someone who is half asleep without making sure that they are properly awake!
This is one of the reasons that bad drivers are usually much faster in automatic cars.
These kind of dopey gits scare the hell out of me. I never overtake one without (a) flashing my lights to let him or her know that I am there, (b) indicating right for a good few seconds, (c) pulling out to overtake in the lowest possible gear and (d) (once it is clear that I have been spotted) flying past as quickly as safety and the law allow.
I would never try to overtake someone who is half asleep without making sure that they are properly awake!
On my commute, it is always, always a nearly new Skoda. I f
king hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)
It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the fking curtains every time a kid walks past.
I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the fking time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.
Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every fking morning. Please.
king hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the f
king curtains every time a kid walks past.I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the f
king time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every f
king morning. Please.gamefreaks said:
On my commute, it is always, always a nearly new Skoda. I fking hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)
It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the fking curtains every time a kid walks past.
I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the fking time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.
Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every fking morning. Please.
9/10king hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the f
king curtains every time a kid walks past.I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the f
king time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every f
king morning. Please.Excellent consistency of tone.
Excellent abstraction from the facts of the case onto a wider social malaise.
Very good sense of rising despair and anger.
Let down slightly by the lack of inventive swearing. I would have expected one use of 'weapons grade bellend' or 'miserable
y fk muppet'.45. You are lucky! Come to Suffolk and mainly the A12. 40 and under seems the norm round here. Braking on every corner or if a lorry comes the other way...Until they hit a 30 and then they speed up!
Streams of traffic following and normally a frustrated lorry driver right up their arse almost pushing them along. People getting annoyed by being held up and overtake with them flashing them and no doubt shouting "maniac".
They are a damn pest but the trouble is they are the ones who are pushing for the 20mph limit (Here in Suffolk they want "B" roads to be 40) but you know bloody well they would go 10mph under that.
If I ever get the power I would ban them from the road.
Streams of traffic following and normally a frustrated lorry driver right up their arse almost pushing them along. People getting annoyed by being held up and overtake with them flashing them and no doubt shouting "maniac".
They are a damn pest but the trouble is they are the ones who are pushing for the 20mph limit (Here in Suffolk they want "B" roads to be 40) but you know bloody well they would go 10mph under that.
If I ever get the power I would ban them from the road.
I had this the other day. Some geriatric in a Clio 1.2. Pulls out behind me in a village and tailgates me. I really didn't fancy collecting Clio in the back bumper of my Porsche so when we get to the NSL markers and I do that thing which one does on a good country road involving second gear and redlines and flat sixes and many many leptons.
Get to the next village and I'm back down to 30. What's that in my mirror after some time? Oh, a Clio. Ah, but he's indicating to turn off, but feck me he's leaving his braking late. Oh no, my mistake, the hoofwking bungle is actually pulling out to overtake me, at 45mph in a 30 through a single carriageway village. Beeping me.
Get to the next village and I'm back down to 30. What's that in my mirror after some time? Oh, a Clio. Ah, but he's indicating to turn off, but feck me he's leaving his braking late. Oh no, my mistake, the hoofw
king bungle is actually pulling out to overtake me, at 45mph in a 30 through a single carriageway village. Beeping me. gamefreaks said:
On my commute, it is always, always a nearly new Skoda. I fking hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)
It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the fking curtains every time a kid walks past.
I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the fking time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.
Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every fking morning. Please.
^^ I think this too. Well put. king hate them. My heart sinks when I see one pull out in front of me. (usually forcing me to brake!)It's either a taxi driver and he's on an economy run, or its an old person who hates cars, hates driving, hates fun, hates life and just bought something cheap and reliable in dog-turd brown.
Unless you are a taxi driver, I have no idea why anyone would buy a skoda. I will never comprehend why anyone would buy something so absolutely bland and boring with their own money! If they were free I could understand it. But they cost money. Real actual money. 14,000 of it. That's about 1,000 hours of labour for someone on the average wage. Every time you see a god-damned Skoda it means someone has (or will in the future) work for 26 weeks to pay for it. 26 weeks of your life so you can put that on the drive and twitch the f
king curtains every time a kid walks past.I mean even if you don't like driving or cars, you'd at least buy something that looks good? Or just buy a £1000 Volvo or something on eBay and spend the 'just £200 a month for all eternity' on something you actually like? It's like eating eating flour for lunch because it's cheaper than a sandwich. It's like going home and staring at the wall until it's time to go to bed because it's cheaper than having the telly on.
You hear about people who live miserly, stingy, miserable lives. They re-use teabags, they only buy from the damaged goods aisle of Asda, everyone hates them because they scowl and complain all the f
king time. These people are the reason Skoda (a trading style of Führer Automobil AG.) still exist.Money is simply a transient intermediate state of labour. Convert it to things you need, like shelter, clothes and food. Put some away for when you are old. With the rest, turn it into FUN. Blow it on coke and hookers, host swinger parties, go on holiday, turn it into shiny crap you don't need, just do something that puts a smile on your face with it. Get busy living or get busy dying. I don't care.
Whatever you do, don't turn 26 weeks of your life into a 4 wheeled box of misery and use it to hold me up every f
king morning. Please.I see this nearly every day on the way to work. 45 in a NSL, then carry on doing 45 past a school in a 30 zone. Brilliant. Yet of course these are the same kind of people who probably think you are being reckless should you dare overtake them. Gormless, oblivious, stupid idiots the lot of them. Send them all to live on the moon, that's what I say.
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