One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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I don't think BMWs are "knob" driver favourites any more. Definitely Audis, I see it regularly. Case in point. I work on a industrial estate directly off of a busy A road. I'm at the main exit to the estate turning left. There's a long line of slow moving traffic followed by a decent gap. I pull out, accelerate and join the end of the line. A small Audi 4x4 screams up behind me, flashing lights, honking horn with the driver waving (well not exactly waving) like a loony. I'm driving a 2.5 tonne Ranger with a heavy duty tow bar. The little Audi gets so close I cannot see the front of the car. If I have to brake, how does she think that's going to end for her & her passengers? Anyway, first "opportunity" she overtakes and I see 2 small children strapped in the back (presumably terrified). Remember the long line of slow traffic? Well there's nowhere for her to pull in to and oncoming traffic, so I have to brake to make enough room to let her back in safely. Knob. I just hope she doesn't kill those poor kids in her next road rage incident.
Sorry, but plenty of tailgating numpties still in BMWs....but agree plenty in Audis, possibly more....
..by far the worse though IMO is usually the elderly Vauxhall, particularly Vectras...one on my commute route every day loves trying to climb into the boot of the car in front. Didn't like it much however, when I decided to give him some of his own treatment the other day and got up close for a brief stretch...its always dangerous to pull a tiger's tail however, so I left him carry on his merry way after a short while!!
Some old fat bearded tit in a s
tty old Isuzu pick up thing, was going 40 on a 60 road, so when there was a straight stretch I overtook, as soon as I put my indicator on he accelerated, I don't know if he was trying to out-accelerate me in an attempt to keep me behind, I was in the Mercedes so he wasn't even slightly successful, in fact I'm sure he tried moving to the centre when I was alongside, once I was past he slowed back to 40 and I gave him the coffee beans, he turned off, thankfully as I was ready to have a word.
No need for it, I had been keeping my distance until it was safe to overtake, he must have been a psychopath.
First time someones done this to me, I've been flashed at for overtaking, given the V sign and various other hand gestures when overtaking 40mph drivers but nobody has ever sped up and moved towards the centre when I've overtaken before.
Didn't have my dashcam on but I think if I did I would have reported them, even though I've said before I wouldn't use it to report people, that changed when they try and make you crash.
tty old Isuzu pick up thing, was going 40 on a 60 road, so when there was a straight stretch I overtook, as soon as I put my indicator on he accelerated, I don't know if he was trying to out-accelerate me in an attempt to keep me behind, I was in the Mercedes so he wasn't even slightly successful, in fact I'm sure he tried moving to the centre when I was alongside, once I was past he slowed back to 40 and I gave him the coffee beans, he turned off, thankfully as I was ready to have a word. No need for it, I had been keeping my distance until it was safe to overtake, he must have been a psychopath.
First time someones done this to me, I've been flashed at for overtaking, given the V sign and various other hand gestures when overtaking 40mph drivers but nobody has ever sped up and moved towards the centre when I've overtaken before.
Didn't have my dashcam on but I think if I did I would have reported them, even though I've said before I wouldn't use it to report people, that changed when they try and make you crash.
Had a funny one today, which could equally go in the bad parking thread.
I took my mother to a local garden centre.
There were loads of badly parked cars due to just about everyone in the place being 70+ and it is in norfolk.
As i was walking back to my car one of the coffin dodgers gets in his pug 308.
He reverses out of the space with a tree over a car length away to the side. The tree was protected by a base made up of what could be described as half length telegraph poles.
The tree must regularly jump out at the partially sighted local drivers.
Mr Peugeot expertly reverses out of the space and keeps going until he hits the tree.
I start laughing as it looked like a Russian car crash video.
I'm thinking he's going to stop and inspect the damage.
Oh No he casually drives off but with an added extra to his car.
Yep half size telegraph pole was attached to the rear bumper of his car.
I'm laughing even more whilst trying to attract his attention.
He managed about 150 yards before mine and my mothers waving attracted his attention.
I have no idea how you can drive that far dragging 12 foot of timber behind you.
His wife then comes across the car park and has a right go at him.
I didnt give the old gent a hand to drag the pole back as he seemed capable. Plus i;m recovering from a severe chest infection and cant lift anything or even walk to far with out running out of breath and i'd probably pass out.
He was a knob for that and he no doubt thought i was a knob for not helping.
It looked like he got away with very little damage as well
I took my mother to a local garden centre.
There were loads of badly parked cars due to just about everyone in the place being 70+ and it is in norfolk.
As i was walking back to my car one of the coffin dodgers gets in his pug 308.
He reverses out of the space with a tree over a car length away to the side. The tree was protected by a base made up of what could be described as half length telegraph poles.
The tree must regularly jump out at the partially sighted local drivers.
Mr Peugeot expertly reverses out of the space and keeps going until he hits the tree.
I start laughing as it looked like a Russian car crash video.
I'm thinking he's going to stop and inspect the damage.
Oh No he casually drives off but with an added extra to his car.
Yep half size telegraph pole was attached to the rear bumper of his car.
I'm laughing even more whilst trying to attract his attention.
He managed about 150 yards before mine and my mothers waving attracted his attention.
I have no idea how you can drive that far dragging 12 foot of timber behind you.
His wife then comes across the car park and has a right go at him.
I didnt give the old gent a hand to drag the pole back as he seemed capable. Plus i;m recovering from a severe chest infection and cant lift anything or even walk to far with out running out of breath and i'd probably pass out.
He was a knob for that and he no doubt thought i was a knob for not helping.
It looked like he got away with very little damage as well
I followed an old boy in a rather nice Jag X350 4.8 V8 in a lovely shade of blue. It was resplendent with front and rear facing dash cams.
I enter a roundabout in lane 2 on my bike on a dry road expecting to pass the Jag in lane one and continue on my way. The Jags positioning indicated he would take the first exit onto a 30 limit 2 lane DC, so passing him should be a formality. But he barged out in front of the van I was waiting for the cut across the traffic to turn right from the left lane. No wonder he needs 2 dash cams
I enter a roundabout in lane 2 on my bike on a dry road expecting to pass the Jag in lane one and continue on my way. The Jags positioning indicated he would take the first exit onto a 30 limit 2 lane DC, so passing him should be a formality. But he barged out in front of the van I was waiting for the cut across the traffic to turn right from the left lane. No wonder he needs 2 dash cams
The absolute feckwit in a black (or possibly very dark blue) BMW X5 on the M3 northbound on Saturday afternoon.
Jct 6 has closures, such that you can only leave the motorway to 'U' turn back to Jct 7, or get back on in the same direction. Retard in the X5 dives from lane 3 off down the slip road, almost taking a Peugeot 206 with him. Fortunately the Pug driver was paying attention and somehow braked/steered away partly onto the slip road to avoid the collision. Very restrained too, with no resorting to the horn. I just rolled my eyes, as it's no longer surprising when tts do this sort of thing. My wife was incredulous that anyone could drive that badly.
Anyway. Sure enough, this same moron comes barreling past in lane 3 a few minutes later, having trundled off down the slip road, presumably found the road closed (as the yellow signs had been promising for a few miles) and then had to get back onto the motorway.
Jct 6 has closures, such that you can only leave the motorway to 'U' turn back to Jct 7, or get back on in the same direction. Retard in the X5 dives from lane 3 off down the slip road, almost taking a Peugeot 206 with him. Fortunately the Pug driver was paying attention and somehow braked/steered away partly onto the slip road to avoid the collision. Very restrained too, with no resorting to the horn. I just rolled my eyes, as it's no longer surprising when t
ts do this sort of thing. My wife was incredulous that anyone could drive that badly. Anyway. Sure enough, this same moron comes barreling past in lane 3 a few minutes later, having trundled off down the slip road, presumably found the road closed (as the yellow signs had been promising for a few miles) and then had to get back onto the motorway.
The blonde lady holding an E-Cig in her V-plate Audi TT this morning. Attached herself to the car in front on a slip road to prevent anyone merging ahead of her, then cut across the white hash-markings on to the main carriageway... Then straight into a busy lane two, despite lane one moving clearly.
Some scrote this morning tailgating me and swerving side-to-side in some failed attempt to intimidate me into speeding up.
Yes mate. I'm sooooo impressed/intimidated by your Barry'd Saxo!
Eventually he 'roared' past me on the wrong side of the 'Keep Left' signs on a pedestrian refuge. So blinkered was he that despite some pronounced hard braking, he barely avoided rear-ending the... Ma-hoosive white high capacity long wheelbase Iveco van ...that was about 200 yards ahead of me, and which was the reason why I was not bothering to accelerate up to it myself. Then he began to repeat his childish "tyre warming" swerve dance right on the bumper of the van. Sadly, being too close to the van meant that he could no longer see ahead enough to seize two obvious overtake opportunities, and it was probably wasted on the van driver who I would imagine couldn't even see Saxo-man in his mirrors
Oh and the fat useless in a modified BMW yesterday who deliberately close-passed me while on my bicycle, then shot off down the road well in excess of the 30mph limit. You are a fat twunt. Your car sounds like some demented turbo-charged chainsaw. It's all show and no go, too, judging by the vast increase in noise for no discernible increase in output you were getting from it. What is holding you up, dhead, is not the presence of a bicycle on the road ahead, but your bizarre urge to slow down alongside it and over-rev your POS car. Just do as everyone else was doing yesterday - overtake swiftly, safely, and get on with your life. The fact that 500 yards later I was approaching a junction which you were still sat waiting at proves conclusively that what is 'holding your journey up' is not bicycles, but other cars, being driven sensibly within the law.
Yes mate. I'm sooooo impressed/intimidated by your Barry'd Saxo!
Eventually he 'roared' past me on the wrong side of the 'Keep Left' signs on a pedestrian refuge. So blinkered was he that despite some pronounced hard braking, he barely avoided rear-ending the... Ma-hoosive white high capacity long wheelbase Iveco van ...that was about 200 yards ahead of me, and which was the reason why I was not bothering to accelerate up to it myself. Then he began to repeat his childish "tyre warming" swerve dance right on the bumper of the van. Sadly, being too close to the van meant that he could no longer see ahead enough to seize two obvious overtake opportunities, and it was probably wasted on the van driver who I would imagine couldn't even see Saxo-man in his mirrors
Oh and the fat useless
in a modified BMW yesterday who deliberately close-passed me while on my bicycle, then shot off down the road well in excess of the 30mph limit. You are a fat twunt. Your car sounds like some demented turbo-charged chainsaw. It's all show and no go, too, judging by the vast increase in noise for no discernible increase in output you were getting from it. What is holding you up, dhead, is not the presence of a bicycle on the road ahead, but your bizarre urge to slow down alongside it and over-rev your POS car. Just do as everyone else was doing yesterday - overtake swiftly, safely, and get on with your life. The fact that 500 yards later I was approaching a junction which you were still sat waiting at proves conclusively that what is 'holding your journey up' is not bicycles, but other cars, being driven sensibly within the law.Driving through Stevenage's premier vehicle endurance course...i mean tax payer funded "roads" Saturday night doing 40 in the 40 limit and some virgin ripped past me in his mums Mini Cooper, spraying the front of my car with grit.
He was going the same way i was so i assume by the weaving, flashing of hazards and erratically speeding up he must have thought i was following him and started to panic. Hopefully he hit a lamppost.
He was going the same way i was so i assume by the weaving, flashing of hazards and erratically speeding up he must have thought i was following him and started to panic. Hopefully he hit a lamppost.
Me.
Coming off the M9 yesterday afternoon. There are traffic lights at the end of the slip road - the road then turns into a 30. As the lights were green as I approched the end of the slip, I kept a faster-than-I-should-have pace to get through. Didn't slow down straight after. A few hundred metres along the road, out steps two men in luminous yellow clothing. Yep...clocked on radar doing 45 in a 30. Doh!
Luckily I escaped with 3 points and £100 fine. But it is my second speeding charge in 4 months having previously never had any fine or points in 15 years of driving.
Lesson finally learned...
Coming off the M9 yesterday afternoon. There are traffic lights at the end of the slip road - the road then turns into a 30. As the lights were green as I approched the end of the slip, I kept a faster-than-I-should-have pace to get through. Didn't slow down straight after. A few hundred metres along the road, out steps two men in luminous yellow clothing. Yep...clocked on radar doing 45 in a 30. Doh!
Luckily I escaped with 3 points and £100 fine. But it is my second speeding charge in 4 months having previously never had any fine or points in 15 years of driving.
Lesson finally learned...
One from this morning.
Waiting at the lights and to my left is a White transit. The prize tt has got his iPhone stuck to the windscreen right in front of his face, which is bad enough but to earn more tt ponts he's got a film playing on it!
Seriously wtf goes through the heads of people like that! Does he not think how ridiculously stupid that is, and not even being subtle about it.
What fks me off even more is that I was taking the little one to school and its sts like that that will either plow into me or a pedestrian because of their ignorant attitude. (Things like that annoy me ten fold when I've got the kids in the car).
Waiting at the lights and to my left is a White transit. The prize t
t has got his iPhone stuck to the windscreen right in front of his face, which is bad enough but to earn more tt ponts he's got a film playing on it! Seriously wtf goes through the heads of people like that! Does he not think how ridiculously stupid that is, and not even being subtle about it.
What f
ks me off even more is that I was taking the little one to school and its sts like that that will either plow into me or a pedestrian because of their ignorant attitude. (Things like that annoy me ten fold when I've got the kids in the car).MarkRSi said:
Europa1 said:
I know "speed limits aren't targets" blah blah blah, but anyone in a car on a wide sweeping A road in rush hour doing less than 60 is a complete stroker.
But they'd be easy to overtake on a wide/sweeping A road...?Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff