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

[Mike_Mac]

Liquid Knight said:

yellowjack said:

People who park facing oncoming traffic at night. Not so bad here under a streetlight but there are reasons why vehicles have red reflectors on the back.

Double points if they leave their dipped beams on because - 'I'm only parking up for a minute' - triple points if they're on am up-slope at the time too - just for that extra dazzle as you come over the top!

[siremoon]

Mike_Mac said:

Double points if they leave their dipped beams on because - 'I'm only parking up for a minute' - triple points if they're on am up-slope at the time too - just for that extra dazzle as you come over the top!

... and quadruple points if they park at an angle relative to the kerb

[Flibble]

Mike_Mac said:

Double points if they leave their dipped beams on because - 'I'm only parking up for a minute' - triple points if they're on am up-slope at the time too - just for that extra dazzle as you come over the top!

I've occasionally seen people going for the x100 multiplier by leaving their main beams on.

[Willy Nilly]

Black Merc E220 reg ML64NHJ. Barged out in front of me from a T Junction because of how important he clearly is. Then when someone in an old Fiesta did the same to him he closed the gap. You sir are a toss pot.

[ORD]

The person who decided to scrap along the back of my (obviously extremely well looked after car) and then drive off, leaving a big scratch and some transferred paint on the back. Do I now pay a couple of thousand quid for the repairs or drive around in a bloody wreck? Stupid me for forgetting that this country is full of selfish s who would rather crash into someone's parked car than learn to park or just pay attention or get off Facebook while parking.

[WD39]

Willy Nilly said:

Black Merc E220 reg ML64NHJ. Barged out in front of me from a T Junction because of how important he clearly is. Then when someone in an old Fiesta did the same to him he closed the gap. You sir are a toss pot.

Are Mercedes drivers rapidly catching up with the BMW / AUDI oiks that feature frequently on this thread. Or have they been in hiding all these years and are now making a break for knobdom?

[loafer123]

Black 64 reg E220 = Executive Minicab

[Jim AK]

loafer123 said:

Black 64 reg E220 = Executive Minicab

[Joeguard1990]

Issi said:

People who are so staggeringly unimaginative, or perhaps think that people might actually care, add their car's names or models to their personal plates i.e

SLK 1A
BMW 123B

Why does that wind you up...? If people can afford to do so then why not?

Mis-spaced or altered plates however...

[DavidJG]

Joeguard1990 said:

Issi said:

People who are so staggeringly unimaginative, or perhaps think that people might actually care, add their car's names or models to their personal plates i.e

SLK 1A
BMW 123B

Why does that wind you up...? If people can afford to do so then why not?

Mis-spaced or altered plates however...

Doesn't wind me up, it's their money to spend how they like. I can't deny that I find it all a bit pathetic though.

[baldy1926]

Something really strange on the m11 today.
Firstly a marked police vehicle!!! Not seen one of them for weeks.
Then a white transit who liked the middle lane but he eventually got the hint to pull over.
Which is more than the white van man in an old luton who was stuck in lane 2 and would not pull over he actually got pulled over!!! result

[MarkRSi]

MarkRSi said:

A.J.M said:

We had some snow during the night.
Plenty of people haven't bothered to clear Windows, or lights, or roofs etc....

Like this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-o...

Justice!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-o...

[Horse Pop]

Is it national drive like a Canute day?

I think everyone is confused by daylight.

Special mention goes to the C-Class that just tried to kill me on the B5130.

I was roughly here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.106849,-2.870023...

He's coming the other way, roughly where the transit is.

I can see him, so he could surely see me. That doesn't stop him just overtaking the car in front of him (where the blue car is).

I'm glad I'd spent the money on new tyres the other week because if I hadn't been able to brake so hard I think it would have been a close thing.

Needless to say, I followed him home and hammered sausages into his lawn.

Edited by Horse Pop on Tuesday 23 February 19:05

[WD39]

Joeguard1990 said:

Issi said:

People who are so staggeringly unimaginative, or perhaps think that people might actually care, add their car's names or models to their personal plates i.e

SLK 1A
BMW 123B

Why does that wind you up...? If people can afford to do so then why not?

Mis-spaced or altered plates however...

Nothing to do with money. It's just the staggering hubris and vanity of it all.

A state of mind perhaps, but not in a good way.

[mikal83]

WD39 said:

Joeguard1990 said:

Issi said:

People who are so staggeringly unimaginative, or perhaps think that people might actually care, add their car's names or models to their personal plates i.e

SLK 1A
BMW 123B

Why does that wind you up...? If people can afford to do so then why not?

Mis-spaced or altered plates however...

Nothing to do with money. It's just the staggering hubris and vanity of it all.

A state of mind perhaps, but not in a good way.

You comb your hair? you iron your clothes............vanity!

[Conscript]

Guy driving a VW Passat on the M25 this morning with a completely opaque rear screen. But, the windscreen and sidewindows had all been cleared. Why on Earth would you go to all of the effort of scraping the side windows, but not just press the button to defrost the rear? Even if you forgot, surely you'd have realised before joining a major motorway. Shows how often some people look in their mirror I guess.

I thought perhaps that maybe the fuse for the heated screen might have blown, but if your diligent enough to scrape the side windows, why wouldn't you also do the rear?

[giblet]

People who fail to stop and give you way at a roundabout when it's your right of way, and then proceed to give you a stare down as they drive past. Cyclists who ride around at night without any lights, safety gear or reflective gear and the ones that casually cycle through a red light. Cocksockets.

[romeogolf]

KM06NSF - Golf on M27 east-bound this morning. Heavy traffic and this guy was weaving between lanes and just making the situation worse as everyone slammed on anchors to avoid him. Eventually found himself in the inside lane and kept drifting in and out of the hard shoulder, getting dangerously close to me and then seemingly falling asleep and not moving for 30 seconds before shooting right up behind me again.

[jimmy the hat]

People that manufacture conflict to prove a point.

Not as bad as people who manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point.

Still not as bad as people who attempt to manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point but fail.

Is there something more knob than attempting to manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point, failing but hooting anyway?

Cheers, Jim

[Monkeylegend]

jimmy the hat said:

People that manufacture conflict to prove a point.

Not as bad as people who manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point.

Still not as bad as people who attempt to manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point but fail.

Is there something more knob than attempting to manufacture conflict to prove an erroneous point, failing but hooting anyway?

Cheers, Jim

What's your point?