One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
FraMac said:
WD39 said:
This is de rigeur in heavy traffic currently. 'Queue weaving' is as common as not indicating. Changing lanes to get a one car advantage. Changing back when assummed advantage is not forthcoming. It also takes the form of other pushing in ruses. It IS pushing in and not 'merging' as suggested in a previous post reply.
What has become of our once civilised motoring world?
A load of this on the M56 this evening near Manc airport. Comical, where the lane they moved from immediately moved faster than the lane they moved to. Not once, but four times. Good grief. What has become of our once civilised motoring world?
The behaviour described above was comical, with people weaving in and out of lanes to try and get ahead of one car.
And don't even get me started on the self-entitled t
ts who couldn't be tossed to queue, so used the hard shoulder a their own personal lane.
WD39 said:
Sorry, but the last paragraph is definitely pushing in.
As traffic exits the RBT It turns into a race to the two lanes into one point.
Sorry again, but to you it is 'using available space', but to most other motorists it is 'pushing in', gaining ground by underhand means. Why do you think most of your fellow drivers wait patiently in the left hand lane? Lemmings they are not, considerate and patient I would suggest.
My previous post regarding lane switching,and then back again, was written after witnessing dozens of drivers carrying out this selfish manoevre leaving Nottingham recently.
They were all out that afternoon.
I am with yellowjack on this one. A prompt getaway is usually easy from Lane 2 at the roundabout because its exit clears first (marginally, as traffic on the roundabout comes from the right). This generally gives enough opportunity to get in front. If driver in Lane 1 wants a race, drop in behind him, or if this is not possible (very rarely) , do a complete circuit of the roundabout.As traffic exits the RBT It turns into a race to the two lanes into one point.
Sorry again, but to you it is 'using available space', but to most other motorists it is 'pushing in', gaining ground by underhand means. Why do you think most of your fellow drivers wait patiently in the left hand lane? Lemmings they are not, considerate and patient I would suggest.
My previous post regarding lane switching,and then back again, was written after witnessing dozens of drivers carrying out this selfish manoevre leaving Nottingham recently.
They were all out that afternoon.
The people queueing are the same ones that fail to use bus lanes outwith their times of operation and queue for hundreds of yards at lane closures as they are frightened of 'merge in turn' scenarios.
Cliftonite said:
WD39 said:
Sorry, but the last paragraph is definitely pushing in.
As traffic exits the RBT It turns into a race to the two lanes into one point.
Sorry again, but to you it is 'using available space', but to most other motorists it is 'pushing in', gaining ground by underhand means. Why do you think most of your fellow drivers wait patiently in the left hand lane? Lemmings they are not, considerate and patient I would suggest.
My previous post regarding lane switching,and then back again, was written after witnessing dozens of drivers carrying out this selfish manoevre leaving Nottingham recently.
They were all out that afternoon.
I am with yellowjack on this one. A prompt getaway is usually easy from Lane 2 at the roundabout because its exit clears first (marginally, as traffic on the roundabout comes from the right). This generally gives enough opportunity to get in front. If driver in Lane 1 wants a race, drop in behind him, or if this is not possible (very rarely) , do a complete circuit of the roundabout.As traffic exits the RBT It turns into a race to the two lanes into one point.
Sorry again, but to you it is 'using available space', but to most other motorists it is 'pushing in', gaining ground by underhand means. Why do you think most of your fellow drivers wait patiently in the left hand lane? Lemmings they are not, considerate and patient I would suggest.
My previous post regarding lane switching,and then back again, was written after witnessing dozens of drivers carrying out this selfish manoevre leaving Nottingham recently.
They were all out that afternoon.
The people queueing are the same ones that fail to use bus lanes outwith their times of operation and queue for hundreds of yards at lane closures as they are frightened of 'merge in turn' scenarios.
As for "considerate and patient"? Patient, maybe. But I wouldn't call queueing across the two "Keep Clear" boxes, and blocking all the cross traffic from the left and the right "considerate" in any way. By using the right hand of the two lanes I can clear the roundabout in one move, and do all of my queuing on the far side. Much safer, and far more considerate, in my humble opinion.
We were sitting outside the front of a village a couple of weeks ago enjoying a drink in the sunshine. All the other tables were full with peeps doing the same.
Jimmy Dd exits the pub and disappears round to the car park at the back. Emerges in his crappy silver VW Eos cabriolet (the one with the metal roof), stops in front of the assembled crowd and proceeds to put the roof down. It's electric of course, and involves various bits folding and going up and down. JD sits in the car with a smug look on his chops until the exercise is finished and then cruises out of the car park.
The derision on the faces of the fellow drinkers was almost universal. What a tt.
Jimmy D
d exits the pub and disappears round to the car park at the back. Emerges in his crappy silver VW Eos cabriolet (the one with the metal roof), stops in front of the assembled crowd and proceeds to put the roof down. It's electric of course, and involves various bits folding and going up and down. JD sits in the car with a smug look on his chops until the exercise is finished and then cruises out of the car park. The derision on the faces of the fellow drinkers was almost universal. What a t
t.Escort3500 said:
We were sitting outside the front of a village a couple of weeks ago enjoying a drink in the sunshine. All the other tables were full with peeps doing the same.
Jimmy Dd exits the pub and disappears round to the car park at the back. Emerges in his crappy silver VW Eos cabriolet (the one with the metal roof), stops in front of the assembled crowd and proceeds to put the roof down. It's electric of course, and involves various bits folding and going up and down. JD sits in the car with a smug look on his chops until the exercise is finished and then cruises out of the car park.
The derision on the faces of the fellow drinkers was almost universal. What a tt.
Jimmy D
d exits the pub and disappears round to the car park at the back. Emerges in his crappy silver VW Eos cabriolet (the one with the metal roof), stops in front of the assembled crowd and proceeds to put the roof down. It's electric of course, and involves various bits folding and going up and down. JD sits in the car with a smug look on his chops until the exercise is finished and then cruises out of the car park. The derision on the faces of the fellow drinkers was almost universal. What a t
t.
I would love to have seen that. Sounds like an utter tool. jogger1976 said:
FraMac said:
WD39 said:
This is de rigeur in heavy traffic currently. 'Queue weaving' is as common as not indicating. Changing lanes to get a one car advantage. Changing back when assummed advantage is not forthcoming. It also takes the form of other pushing in ruses. It IS pushing in and not 'merging' as suggested in a previous post reply.
What has become of our once civilised motoring world?
A load of this on the M56 this evening near Manc airport. Comical, where the lane they moved from immediately moved faster than the lane they moved to. Not once, but four times. Good grief. What has become of our once civilised motoring world?
The behaviour described above was comical, with people weaving in and out of lanes to try and get ahead of one car.
And don't even get me started on the self-entitled t
ts who couldn't be tossed to queue, so used the hard shoulder a their own personal lane.k had happened - Stevenage ground to a halt, apart from those Audi drivers who's ticked MSoSE on the options list (Massive Sense of Self Entitlement) - by way of example, being in the outside lane of a "dual carriageway" (ie in the urban sense, 40mph limit),(looking at you, hair product enthusiast in the TT, the second one in the boxster and you, tango coloured lady in the SLK) to go up a sidestreet to appear at a junction 100 metres further up...right in front of the people you cut up - no wonder the chap in front of me called you a fking . traffic crawling, but they suddenly decide to cut at 90 degrees across the traffic A scruffer in an S-reg Focus, started waving his arms and trying to get in my boot for not accelerating at 100mph from some lights (I set off the moment they changed and started approaching 40 at a fair rate) he then overtook, cut me up when slowing for a roundabout and then cut up a car on the roundabout. When the traffic slowed to a halt about 20 seconds later he'd gained a distance of 3 cars.
Cliftonite said:
The driver of the smart-looking double-decker at the give-way junction of Old Steine with Madeira Drive, Brighton at 1500H today. Making no effort to drive off - he was doing paperwork at the wheel. Stream of stationary traffic behind him . . .
Reminds me of a taxi yesterday, stopped at a give way line with his van positioned to turn left (no indicator), I was going left so stopped behind him, after about 10-20 seconds and nothing going past I changed position to start passing and realised he was just sat texting, obviously not noticed me waiting behind, or didn't care.Cliftonite said:
Martin_M said:
Cliftonite said:
HD53 HTP
Is the appendage not attached to the boot lid / hatch?
Women (other varieties are available) who park on pavements, over DYLs with 4-way flashers ablaze . . .
. . . and who then just drive off, pulling out with no change of signal, just as I am coming alongside:
(Note differing distances between front wheel and white line).
Then gives me the arm waving in response to my 'warning of approach' as she continues to pull out (still without signalling) in front of white van man who flashes his headlights at her!
HV57 EZZ
. . . and who then just drive off, pulling out with no change of signal, just as I am coming alongside:
(Note differing distances between front wheel and white line).
Then gives me the arm waving in response to my 'warning of approach' as she continues to pull out (still without signalling) in front of white van man who flashes his headlights at her!
HV57 EZZ
Edited by Cliftonite on Monday 4th May 16:38
One single thing? Two actually...
Farnborough "Household Waste Recycling Centre" today. Or "The Dump" for those of us who are longer in the tooth.
I was waiting near the entrance (Bank Holiday, massive queue, another 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back) when out of "the dump" came a blue Ford, possibly a C-Max. The retard driving it was holding a phone with a massive white 'flip' case to his right ear with his right hand. Bad enough when you've clearly only started moving seconds earlier, but to compound his knobbery, before he'd properly straightened up after turning out of the exit from the dump, he put on his seatbelt with his left hand, while still holding the phone with his right. Nice of his blonde female passenger to hold the wheel for him while he sorted the seatbelt out. Can't be too careful, eh? The twunt very nearly failed to negotiate the (very simple) turn out of the HWRC, and only the intervention of his passenger in applying a bit more steering meant that he didn't hit a car a bit further up the queue from me.
Then the two young Asian lads in a Renault Trafic at B&Q. I'd parked in the last row before the 'trade only' parking area, and gone in for a pot of fence paint. I come out to find these two oafs parked at a jaunty diagonal angle behind me, well out into the roadway between parking rows. After a lot of jiggling to and fro, I'd extricated my car from it's space, when these two "tradesmen" came back to the van with their important purchases from the store. No, wait. That's wrong. They came back from the burger van with what appeared to be two baguettes, wrapped in foil. Well. I couldn't then resist making a big show of putting on my seatbelt, and doing a full-on 'cockpit drill' before getting out of their way, at which, of course, they began to get ever so slightly annoyed. Good, yer pair of twunts! If'n you'd parked in a space properly, instead of blocking me in by abandoning your van at such a jaunty angle, then I'd have been long gone by the time your bacon rolls were bloody ready.
Oh, and me, for not taking a camera with me, when there was soooo much fodder for the 'Bad Parking' thread in the B&Q car park on a busy, sunny Bank Holiday Monday.
Farnborough "Household Waste Recycling Centre" today. Or "The Dump" for those of us who are longer in the tooth.
I was waiting near the entrance (Bank Holiday, massive queue, another 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back) when out of "the dump" came a blue Ford, possibly a C-Max. The retard driving it was holding a phone with a massive white 'flip' case to his right ear with his right hand. Bad enough when you've clearly only started moving seconds earlier, but to compound his knobbery, before he'd properly straightened up after turning out of the exit from the dump, he put on his seatbelt with his left hand, while still holding the phone with his right. Nice of his blonde female passenger to hold the wheel for him while he sorted the seatbelt out. Can't be too careful, eh? The twunt very nearly failed to negotiate the (very simple) turn out of the HWRC, and only the intervention of his passenger in applying a bit more steering meant that he didn't hit a car a bit further up the queue from me.
Then the two young Asian lads in a Renault Trafic at B&Q. I'd parked in the last row before the 'trade only' parking area, and gone in for a pot of fence paint. I come out to find these two oafs parked at a jaunty diagonal angle behind me, well out into the roadway between parking rows. After a lot of jiggling to and fro, I'd extricated my car from it's space, when these two "tradesmen" came back to the van with their important purchases from the store. No, wait. That's wrong. They came back from the burger van with what appeared to be two baguettes, wrapped in foil. Well. I couldn't then resist making a big show of putting on my seatbelt, and doing a full-on 'cockpit drill' before getting out of their way, at which, of course, they began to get ever so slightly annoyed. Good, yer pair of twunts! If'n you'd parked in a space properly, instead of blocking me in by abandoning your van at such a jaunty angle, then I'd have been long gone by the time your bacon rolls were bloody ready.
Oh, and me, for not taking a camera with me, when there was soooo much fodder for the 'Bad Parking' thread in the B&Q car park on a busy, sunny Bank Holiday Monday.
The four drivers who decided to pass some roadworks while I was coming the other way making me stop. First one (can't remember what) just made it, second car a C1 who could see me but flew out making me brake hard, then a Zafira who could see me came darting out made me stop, finally a Polo, she probably couldn't see me (I couldn't see her behind the Zafira) but assumed it was safe as the others had gone.
Everybody except the Polo driver gave me a glare, the girl in the Polo apologised and actually looked shocked, the only
driver with an excuse was the only driver who acknowledged their mistake. So the Polo, maybe not a knob, maybe just a bit silly.
Nobody behind me so the impatient cocks only saved about 5 seconds.
Everybody except the Polo driver gave me a glare, the girl in the Polo apologised and actually looked shocked, the only
driver with an excuse was the only driver who acknowledged their mistake. So the Polo, maybe not a knob, maybe just a bit silly.
Nobody behind me so the impatient cocks only saved about 5 seconds.
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