One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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The road-worker knob driving one of those trucks with the deformable barriers at the back, on the A1 at Markham Moor, whilst texting on his smartphone.
Those road-worker types are always whinging about road-safety and dangerous drivers, yet he was happy to put everyone else's safety at risk as he weaved all over the road.
Those road-worker types are always whinging about road-safety and dangerous drivers, yet he was happy to put everyone else's safety at risk as he weaved all over the road.
mp3manager said:
Those road-worker types...
As a road worker with a clean license and clean history, please continue with your generalisation?
I would bet that far more road workers are injured and killed (not to mention abused) by MOPs at road works sites than MOPs injured and killed by road workers. Or are you just being a bit snooty about manual workers as seen from the comfort of your (probably) diesel Passat?
jogger1976 said:
Lazy, incompetent f
kwits who (a). can't be bothered to indicate at roundabouts (b). use the outside lane on roundabouts, as if they're about to take the exit before yours, then lurch round, sans indicators, then have the fking cheek to beep at you.
Particularly the Susan Boyle lookalike in the A3 ragtop, the hairgel enthusuiast in the VXR Corsa and the coffin dodger in the Astra. Just fk off and take your st driving elsewhere, you stupid dangerous s!!!
I hope the next person you do that to is driving a fully laden artic and t-bones you, you stupid,cretinous, st for brains, cock sucking, mouth breathing wkers!!!! 
If you value your health I would NOT attempt to use the Runnymede roundabout, ever. I have to experience this every day and I can almost feel the aneurysms growing. kwits who (a). can't be bothered to indicate at roundabouts (b). use the outside lane on roundabouts, as if they're about to take the exit before yours, then lurch round, sans indicators, then have the fking cheek to beep at you.Particularly the Susan Boyle lookalike in the A3 ragtop, the hairgel enthusuiast in the VXR Corsa and the coffin dodger in the Astra. Just f
k off and take your st driving elsewhere, you stupid dangerous s!!!I hope the next person you do that to is driving a fully laden artic and t-bones you, you stupid,cretinous, s
t for brains, cock sucking, mouth breathing wkers!!!! OpulentBob said:
mp3manager said:
Those road-worker types...
As a road worker with a clean license and clean history, please continue with your generalisation?
I would bet that far more road workers are injured and killed (not to mention abused) by MOPs at road works sites than MOPs injured and killed by road workers. Or are you just being a bit snooty about manual workers as seen from the comfort of your (probably) diesel Passat?
And
OpulentBob said:
I would bet that far more road workers are injured and killed (not to mention abused) by MOPs at road works sites than MOPs injured and killed by road workers.
So that makes it OK then? (See what selective quoting can do?)Edited to add! And I really don't envy you working on roads in India!
PoleDriver said:
OpulentBob said:
mp3manager said:
Those road-worker types...
As a road worker with a clean license and clean history, please continue with your generalisation?
I would bet that far more road workers are injured and killed (not to mention abused) by MOPs at road works sites than MOPs injured and killed by road workers. Or are you just being a bit snooty about manual workers as seen from the comfort of your (probably) diesel Passat?
And
OpulentBob said:
I would bet that far more road workers are injured and killed (not to mention abused) by MOPs at road works sites than MOPs injured and killed by road workers.
So that makes it OK then? (See what selective quoting can do?)Edited to add! And I really don't envy you working on roads in India!
Yes, we do bang on about road safety for a bloody good reason. It's not nice standing on the side of the M25 in a lane closure on a February night while Mr VAG TDi comes flying past at 80mph, on his phone, and eating a Big Mac with the other hand (or throwing it at you, as I've experienced before)...
Driving home the other day - observed a jogger on the pavement approaching my road (single track lane with no pavements) - a left turn.
She reached my road just before I did and proceeded to turn into the lane and proceeded to jog right down the middle.
She didn't even pause, no glance over the shoulder, nothing before making the turn and was oblivious to my presence behind her (and my V8 ain't exactly quiet).
She eventually drifted over to one side of the lane and I overtook. The reason for her oblivion became clear. fking earphones.
Has the road safety message got so screwed up that pedestrians now take little to no responsibility for their own safety whilst on the roads?
She reached my road just before I did and proceeded to turn into the lane and proceeded to jog right down the middle.
She didn't even pause, no glance over the shoulder, nothing before making the turn and was oblivious to my presence behind her (and my V8 ain't exactly quiet).
She eventually drifted over to one side of the lane and I overtook. The reason for her oblivion became clear. f
king earphones.Has the road safety message got so screwed up that pedestrians now take little to no responsibility for their own safety whilst on the roads?
OpulentBob said:
Yes, we do bang on about road safety for a bloody good reason. It's not nice standing on the side of the M25 in a lane closure on a February night while Mr VAG TDi comes flying past at 80mph, on his phone, and eating a Big Mac with the other hand (or throwing it at you, as I've experienced before)...
For what it's worth I think you do a tough thankless job. Like any profession there will always be good workers and bad workers, unfortunately Mr VAG TDi only has a few seconds to judge you as he zooms past and in those seconds he's probably got to finish his text, drink his coffee, check his hair and block the middle lane so even then he's not got enough time to think it through properly.The VW Golf that performed a couple of crazy overtakes last night on completely blind corners. I was the first overtaken and the car in front of me the second.
It made me wonder whether he was just a tool or if there was a major emergency the driving was so erratic and risky.
I drove back down the road about 10 mins later and went around the corners a lot more cautiously than usual!
It was genuinely roll the dice stuff with their life and anyone who may be coming the other way.
It made me wonder whether he was just a tool or if there was a major emergency the driving was so erratic and risky.
I drove back down the road about 10 mins later and went around the corners a lot more cautiously than usual!
It was genuinely roll the dice stuff with their life and anyone who may be coming the other way.
sim72 said:
People who are completely unable to grasp the concept of how to drive round this fairly simple road layout.
In the six months I've been using it every day I've personally witnessed two accidents, and the lass who works in the Spar shop on the corner assured me there are far more than that.
You should try this oneIn the six months I've been using it every day I've personally witnessed two accidents, and the lass who works in the Spar shop on the corner assured me there are far more than that.
Utter chaos, especially at rush hour with most drivers having absolutely no idea what to do or who to give way to.
Dromedary66 said:
A406 North/East bound by Colney Hatch slip road. There are often queues here due to Lane 3 merging into Lane 2 ahead. Sometimes the queues can tailback past the slip road. The queues are reasonably fast moving most of the time.
Occasionally someone in lane 1 will drive onto the slip road and shoot up the inside just to get to the end of the sliproad and get back on to Lane 1 - maybe saving themselves 10-15 car lengths.
I think you've really got to be a self-important
of the highest order to pull this particular manoeuvre.I witnessed perhaps the most ridiculous, selfish and dangerous piece of driving I've seen for a long time on this road https://www.google.com/maps/@52.050827,-0.580691,3... at rush hour this morning.
The culprit was driving a black Octavia VRS estate and was going along at a fair rate of knots, bullying people out of the way, and weaving all over the road. He then came up behind an Evoque who was unable to pull over due to passing several HGV's.
This seemed to rile the bloke as he began to flash his lights. He then attempted to overtake using the narrow outer shoulder seen in the link, nearly causing a huge tank slapper as the car hit a gap in the paving!
The Evoque was about to pull over once past the HGV's, but the guy was so impatient that he used the shoulder again, nearly clipping the rear qarter of the Evoque and kicking up a huge cloud of dirt and dust.
I can't remember the full plate, but it was RU64 LC?, I think. Definitely a dangerous and inconsiderate wker either way 
The culprit was driving a black Octavia VRS estate and was going along at a fair rate of knots, bullying people out of the way, and weaving all over the road. He then came up behind an Evoque who was unable to pull over due to passing several HGV's.
This seemed to rile the bloke as he began to flash his lights. He then attempted to overtake using the narrow outer shoulder seen in the link, nearly causing a huge tank slapper as the car hit a gap in the paving!
The Evoque was about to pull over once past the HGV's, but the guy was so impatient that he used the shoulder again, nearly clipping the rear qarter of the Evoque and kicking up a huge cloud of dirt and dust.
I can't remember the full plate, but it was RU64 LC?, I think. Definitely a dangerous and inconsiderate w
ker either way 
Apparently I was a knob yesterday for driving round in an invisible car. Had at least 4 people pull out of t-junctions right in front of me without checking I was there. Even had a cyclist coming in the other direction cut across my path and flip me off in the process. At that point I had to stop and check if I had my main beams on or something was on the front of the car that people couldn't stand looking at.
I made doubly sure my car was visible this morning by walking around it 3 times after starting it up. Lo and behold, no incidents!
I made doubly sure my car was visible this morning by walking around it 3 times after starting it up. Lo and behold, no incidents!
jogger1976 said:
I witnessed perhaps the most ridiculous, selfish and dangerous piece of driving I've seen for a long time on this road https://www.google.com/maps/@52.050827,-0.580691,3... at rush hour this morning.
The culprit was driving a black Octavia VRS estate and was going along at a fair rate of knots, bullying people out of the way, and weaving all over the road. He then came up behind an Evoque who was unable to pull over due to passing several HGV's.
This seemed to rile the bloke as he began to flash his lights. He then attempted to overtake using the narrow outer shoulder seen in the link, nearly causing a huge tank slapper as the car hit a gap in the paving!
The Evoque was about to pull over once past the HGV's, but the guy was so impatient that he used the shoulder again, nearly clipping the rear qarter of the Evoque and kicking up a huge cloud of dirt and dust.
I can't remember the full plate, but it was RU64 LC?, I think. Definitely a dangerous and inconsiderate wker either way
What the fThe culprit was driving a black Octavia VRS estate and was going along at a fair rate of knots, bullying people out of the way, and weaving all over the road. He then came up behind an Evoque who was unable to pull over due to passing several HGV's.
This seemed to rile the bloke as he began to flash his lights. He then attempted to overtake using the narrow outer shoulder seen in the link, nearly causing a huge tank slapper as the car hit a gap in the paving!
The Evoque was about to pull over once past the HGV's, but the guy was so impatient that he used the shoulder again, nearly clipping the rear qarter of the Evoque and kicking up a huge cloud of dirt and dust.
I can't remember the full plate, but it was RU64 LC?, I think. Definitely a dangerous and inconsiderate w
ker either way k! This is one of those moments I wish there was a dashcam, and a policeman. Sounds like a dangerous knob in need of a ban. i opened this thread with the intention of a long winded rant that would run to about 8 paragraphs about my M8 based knob encounters this week. it then dawned on my i would just have to do the exact same next week so i'll stick with a more unusual rant.
Knob taxi punter booked for 3pm to go from Glasgow to Edinburgh Airport. i'm quite happy with that easy run out and back in Glasgow for 4:30pm missing rushhour.
rocked up at 10 to 3 let the client know I had arrived perfect. Client eventually ordained to grace me with their prescence at 15:45 then moan that they might miss their flight because of the traffic. **** you you horrible **** eventually after getting caught up in rush hour i made it home for 18:30
Knob taxi punter booked for 3pm to go from Glasgow to Edinburgh Airport. i'm quite happy with that easy run out and back in Glasgow for 4:30pm missing rushhour.
rocked up at 10 to 3 let the client know I had arrived perfect. Client eventually ordained to grace me with their prescence at 15:45 then moan that they might miss their flight because of the traffic. **** you you horrible **** eventually after getting caught up in rush hour i made it home for 18:30
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