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

[WD39]

Coming up behind an HGV, and then moving to overtake, I observed that it was hauling a long, cylindrical, fleshy coloured object with two barrel shaped attachments at the back and a large vertical slit at the front end.

I immediately thought 'Knob'.

[carlove]

I hate to do this but I nominate not one but two cyclists and one motorist.

First one was going the wrong way on a one way street, I cut the corner entering as it's a one way and nobody will be coming, right? wrong! A lycra lunatic is there, and now having a tantrum, I call him an idiot and get on with my day, there's two massive no entry signs where he entered so he knew it was one way.

Later I reach a roundabout, I'm taking third exit so I'm indicating right, I notice there's a cyclist coming, he will have to stop however I know he will not stop (two reasons I knew this, first cyclists don't give way, second he isn't looking right), as I suspected he didn't but then must have panicked and came to a stop right in front on me, blocking my exit, a quick beep moved him, he didn't apologize but he didn't shout or give me a death glare either, so a result.

Finally a car driver having a tantrum, an old man in a Fiesta started pulling out, about to hit me, so I beep, he stops but is now directly behind me shaking his head manically and generally having a tantrum, I just laugh and give him a 'WTF' wave.

[smithyithy]

The two knobs - one in a white van, the other in a silver Corolla - who thought it was perfectly fine to use the hard shoulder to undertake at speed 2 lanes of standstill traffic on the M54 this evening.

It was at a standstill because we have a taper and lane 1 closure for emergency slab repairs.

These selfish s couldn't wait with the rest of us. This is the reason we have long tapers and crash cushions for lane closures, because without them, morons like that would end up plowing into the work zone and killing someone

[lord trumpton]

Whenever I see a hipster with sleeve tattoos and a big bushy beard.

[DJP]

Range Rover.

That is all.

[Cliftonite]

https://hacked.com/smart-car-tattles-hit-running-d...

[parabolica]

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

[Blown2CV]

parabolica said:

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

no-one gets out of that looking good.

[Liquid Knight]

Blown2CV said:

parabolica said:

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

no-one gets out of that looking good.

So you saw this happen and didn't think of starting a round of applause for the waster of Oxygen who stole from a beggar?

"Bravo, well done, congratulations!"



I would have humiliated it (doesn't deserve he or she) on the spot and handed it over to the Transport Police at the next station.


Did you report it or mention it to the beggar or just post it here so the thief has got away with it completely?

[rockford22]

Liquid Knight said:

Blown2CV said:

parabolica said:

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

no-one gets out of that looking good.

So you saw this happen and didn't think of starting a round of applause for the waster of Oxygen who stole from a beggar?

"Bravo, well done, congratulations!"



I would have humiliated it (doesn't deserve he or she) on the spot and handed it over to the Transport Police at the next station.


Did you report it or mention it to the beggar or just post it here so the thief has got away with it completely?

This reminded me of something that happened last week whereby I was very nearly the "knob" for doing something similar to your suggestion.

Waiting for departure on a very busy train headed out of London Waterloo a very scruffy looking woman sits down opposite (was a table seat) and puts her bag on the seat next to her, all other seats are full and people are already standing in the aisle but she refuses to move the bag. I counted 8 individuals ask her if she could move her bag and each time she smiled and replied "My husband is just in the toilet". No he f*cking isn't, you got on the train alone and I even happened to see you enter the station from a taxi sans spouse.

The urge to say something when individual #9 asked her to move her bag was overwhelming and I proceeded to tut, shake my head and do everything within my British bones to refrain from comment (she had clearly noticed me). This happened for the next few stops and I became increasingly angry at the bare faced lie this woman was telling about an imaginary husband.

At Woking station all of a sudden the husband materializes and I am suddenly thankful for keeping my damn mouth shut!

[Blown2CV]

rockford22 said:

Liquid Knight said:

Blown2CV said:

parabolica said:

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

no-one gets out of that looking good.

So you saw this happen and didn't think of starting a round of applause for the waster of Oxygen who stole from a beggar?

"Bravo, well done, congratulations!"



I would have humiliated it (doesn't deserve he or she) on the spot and handed it over to the Transport Police at the next station.


Did you report it or mention it to the beggar or just post it here so the thief has got away with it completely?

This reminded me of something that happened last week whereby I was very nearly the "knob" for doing something similar to your suggestion.

Waiting for departure on a very busy train headed out of London Waterloo a very scruffy looking woman sits down opposite (was a table seat) and puts her bag on the seat next to her, all other seats are full and people are already standing in the aisle but she refuses to move the bag. I counted 8 individuals ask her if she could move her bag and each time she smiled and replied "My husband is just in the toilet". No he f*cking isn't, you got on the train alone and I even happened to see you enter the station from a taxi sans spouse.

The urge to say something when individual #9 asked her to move her bag was overwhelming and I proceeded to tut, shake my head and do everything within my British bones to refrain from comment (she had clearly noticed me). This happened for the next few stops and I became increasingly angry at the bare faced lie this woman was telling about an imaginary husband.

At Woking station all of a sudden the husband materializes and I am suddenly thankful for keeping my damn mouth shut!

he was doing a st all the way from waterloo to woking?

[loafer123]

Me.

Let's just say defrosting your windscreen with tepid water and having rain sensing wipers are not a great combination if you stand in the wrong place...

[parabolica]

Liquid Knight said:

Blown2CV said:

parabolica said:

On the train to work this morning and there was a young lady handing out tissue packs in exchange for spare change (a form of begging I hadn't encountered until I moved to the capital). Anyway she sits the packs down on the seats next to passengers with the little note that gives her sob story and goes away to pick up the packs from the first half of the carriage. As she does, a gent in a business suit picked up three of her tissue packs behind her back and got off at a station without leaving anything behind.

I'm not exactly keen on this type of begging but it is unobtrusive, but to take three packs of tissues from someone who was visibly living below the breadline is class-A knob material.

no-one gets out of that looking good.

So you saw this happen and didn't think of starting a round of applause for the waster of Oxygen who stole from a beggar?

"Bravo, well done, congratulations!"



I would have humiliated it (doesn't deserve he or she) on the spot and handed it over to the Transport Police at the next station.


Did you report it or mention it to the beggar or just post it here so the thief has got away with it completely?

I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on as I was reading the paper; I just happened to catch the guy picking up the tissues and walking off the train - happened in a few seconds max so no time to call him out about it. Had I had spare change on me I would have offered the girl a few quid; felt pretty bad for her.

[WD39]

Blown2CV said:

the say when you die, it's easy for you as you don't know about it - it's only hard for those around you. It's the same as if you're a st driver. Troll or no troll!

And a philosopher to boot. I lurve PH.

[WD39]

Swanny87 said:

Will people stop biting into WD39's trolling!

I can think of no better use of dentures.

[WD39]

Cliftonite said:

Swanny87 said:

Will people stop biting into WD39's trolling!

I got told off by him for calling him a troll!

100 lines. 'I must not call WD39 a troll.'

[alpha channel]

The Merc driver this evening on the way home. He managed to correctly identify a cyclist on a windy extremely dark dual carriage, the A689 between the A19 and Sedgefield (you couldn't miss him it looked liked he's strapped a fog light on the back of his bike though having come across him before, I could see him for well over a mile away, that's about the only active concession to visibility as he wears black and a white helmet otherwise) but decided to wait until he was right on top of the bike before deciding to brake hard, indicate right and pull out.

I'd seen the biker and the Merc closing rapidly on him quite a distance away and had slowed quite a bit expecting the Merc to indicate, pull out and pass the cyclist safely (I'd been closing on the Merc at the time), I'd then pass the cyclist followed by the C1 that I had already overtaken. All the above happened rather rapidly so it became one of those 'What the hell happened there?' moments.

[silverfoxcc]

The prick in the BMW X5 tonight on Ringmead Bracknell at the 'hourglass' pinchpoint near Evendon.Where the signs and road markings for him show a red circle with a BIG black arrow pointing down and a small red one pointing up, with the legend give way to oncoming traffic, plus a give way road marking.He tries to bully his way through attacking a small jap vehicle, who doesnt budge, me and the guy in the van behind, had already started to follow her when this started so we just stopped, with me at the pinch point and van man behind me, very tight. Beemerbks then makes a big deal revesing to let her through, and as i start to move, does the same thing with me, shouting he has the right of ay. Now i know he hasnt, so i get out to check my road sign, van man says we have right of way mate, and i agree. so i get back to my car and just sit there. Beemerballs then does his big reverse actwith visible mutterings, and finally we get enough room to get past him, he doesnt try it with the van but sis there gbbing off at everyone, by now there were about 20 cars behind us so we all sailed through. His blood pressure must have been off the scale. Vanman gives a big thumbs up as we clear the pinchpoint.
A prize knob, the first for a few weeks

[jogger1976]

The old guy on the mountain bike who was riding down the northbound carriageway of the A1 yesterday evening.

No lights
Dark hat/coat/trousers
Wobbling all over the road


Driver of the new Clio who joined the M1 at Flitwick this evening and decided to go straight in to lane 3, obviously having failed to notice the big fk of Taylor's HGV that was bearing down on him. Said knob then decided to "punish" the driver for giving a well deserved blast of his horn by slowing to about 30mph (on a busy, rush-hour motorway) and performing a brake-check.

Orange, botoxed WAG in the Discovery who was so busy booking her next tanning session via her IPhone that she pulled straight out of a side turning, nearly wiping out cyclist in the process

[ORD]

Tosser who decided to accelerate hard in crawling traffic to prevent me getting into the correct lane before a junction. st like that boils my blood, and I have stopped holding back from telling that kind of driver what I think of them. The weird thing is that they always look surprised and offended, as though they don't understand that it's a completely dickish thing to do!