One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[Hooli]

vtecyo said:

Roger Irrelevant said:

Bloke up the road from me is leaving at the same time as me this morning. Bin lorry is slowly coming down the road. Bloke decides that getting out in front of the bin lorry is more important than clearing his screen of ice, so drives off with a totally opaque screen and his head sticking out of the window. Within the space of 100 metres mounts the kerb on the drivers side and very nearly hits the row of parked cars on the passenger side. If the bin lorry had got past him all it would have meant is that he would have had to have done a very easy 3-point turn to go the other way up the road. Utter .

Unless you live at the North Pole I'm calling dog egg on that one.

I had to scrape frost off the seat of my bike this morning & our van had a frosted up screen.

[masermartin]

It was snowing on the M6 (near Tebay?) yesterday, so I heard. It's not exactly summer yet, despite what it feels like in the south.

[zedx19]

Thick frost on my car this morning in Belper, Derbyshire.

[Liquid Knight]

This is something that I have always questioned. Not the brake performance but the thinking time. In the 50's when the chart was introduced the average IQ was 91; now not so much...



...also the number of distractions in a vehicle being driven in the 1950's is a lot less than these days. Brakes are becoming more efficient but people are getting dumber. Braking distances may well be improving but thinking distances are getting worse.

Edited by Liquid Knight on Monday 13th April 21:20

[V8 FOU]

cootuk said:

, so just let the creep take up the distance until the lights change.

Always some creep taking up space in the traffic......

[Patch888]

Yet again, monospeeds.

[Flibble]

nullogik said:

People who can't judge braking distances properly. By that I mean those that come to a stop in a line of traffic leaving an unnecessary two car length gap between themselves and the car in front. They then fiddle around and creep forward a few little, loose momentum and drift to a stop still leaving a large gap in front. Finally they inch forwards again and close the gap. This causes an unnecessary concertina effect in the traffic behind with every one else having to creep forward, stop, creep forward, stop.

Ugh, this. I like to pull up and have the engine switch itself off, only to then have some knobend create a huge gap in front.

[castex]

We're not here to make you feel good about your start/stop technology, Flibble.

[Flibble]

castex said:

We're not here to make you feel good about your start/stop technology, Flibble.

Nonsense, you're all here to make me feel good about everything!

[Europa1]

The cyclists in Cambridge (where else?!) who undertook me approaching a left turn despite the fact I was indicating and despite the fact the lights had changed to green so I was actually about to turn 90 degrees left.

To the one who laughed when I hooted - you were inches from being in a human being/car interface that would have ended really badly for you - what the actual fk is funny about that?

[Parsnip]

Liquid Knight said:

This is something that I have always questioned. Not the brake performance but the thinking time. In the 50's when the chart was introduced the average IQ was 91; now not so much...

Isn't the IQ score normalized to 100, such that 100 is pretty much bang on the average?

[luckystrike]

Parsnip said:

Isn't the IQ score normalized to 100, such that 100 is pretty much bang on the average?

It's also got very little to do with reaction times. Cats don't have a high IQ but they can chase a mouse down.

[CrutyRammers]

Liquid Knight said:

Edited by Liquid Knight on Monday 13th April 21:20

Publications which publish charts like that. A 100-year linear extrapolation based on 50 years' worth of data? Knobs.

[ManOpener]

luckystrike said:

Parsnip said:

Isn't the IQ score normalized to 100, such that 100 is pretty much bang on the average?

It's also got very little to do with reaction times. Cats don't have a high IQ but they can chase a mouse down.

Add to that I suspect the graph is complete bunk anyway given that the exact inverse of the trend it claims to show has been observed across the entire developed world over the last century. That's precisely why the IQ test is normalised every year or so. In order for the graph to make sense you'd have to use 1950 as the baseline and readjust every point from then onwards to take into account the regular changes made. Which would most likely result in a graph doing basically the opposite of that one.

Edited by ManOpener on Tuesday 14th April 13:27

[Mafffew]

Non car related this one. I confess I am a knob, went to stick a fork in a tomato at lunch, it squirts all down the right of my shirt. I'm now sending the apprentice out to site instead

[scarble]

Liquid Knight said:

I do hope you're trolling.
An IQ of 100 is average, average IQ is 100, that's how the scale is defined, therefore average IQ cannot change over time, it's always 100.
That's like saying the prototype kilogram doesn't weigh a kilogram any more, you could cut the thing in half and it'd still weigh a kilogram.
It's also just not true, average intelligence has gone up as various studies other than the dailyfail have shown.
A person's IQ is demonstrably raised by financial incentive.
IQ has never been linked to reaction time.

[masermartin]

scarble said:

A person's IQ is demonstrably raised by financial incentive.

I agree with the rest of your post, but are you sure about this?

If you've got 20 minutes to spare, watch this talk. It's very informative. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?la...

[Roger Irrelevant]

vtecyo said:

Roger Irrelevant said:

Bloke up the road from me is leaving at the same time as me this morning. Bin lorry is slowly coming down the road. Bloke decides that getting out in front of the bin lorry is more important than clearing his screen of ice, so drives off with a totally opaque screen and his head sticking out of the window. Within the space of 100 metres mounts the kerb on the drivers side and very nearly hits the row of parked cars on the passenger side. If the bin lorry had got past him all it would have meant is that he would have had to have done a very easy 3-point turn to go the other way up the road. Utter .

Unless you live at the North Pole I'm calling dog egg on that one.

Northern England in 'Still Quite Chilly at Start of April' Shocker.

[MarkRSi]

Van drivers that pull out in front of you sloooooooooowly and force you to brake, like a fat person waddling out in front of you and taking up the entire width of the pavement

In both cases there was no traffic behind me so could have pulled out afterwards. Knobbing cockfking knobsockets!

[WD39]

scarble said:

Liquid Knight said:

I do hope you're trolling.
An IQ of 100 is average, average IQ is 100, that's how the scale is defined, therefore average IQ cannot change over time, it's always 100.
That's like saying the prototype kilogram doesn't weigh a kilogram any more, you could cut the thing in half and it'd still weigh a kilogram.
It's also just not true, average intelligence has gone up as various studies other than the dailyfail have shown.
A person's IQ is demonstrably raised by financial incentive.
IQ has never been linked to reaction time.

Sorry, but isn't trolling malicious and offensive posts, usually to celebs? I wouldn't have thought that stopping distances and IQ charts come under this category. Or am I lacking in the finer points and etiquette of discussion forums? (IQ unknown at this time).