One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Mandalore said:
anonymous said:
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That in bold is a very good one.Even if they do indicate, its supposed to be one lane at a time - hence the frigging lane markings.
mikal83 said:
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?SLK 1A
BMW 123B
Mis-spaced or altered plates however...
A state of mind perhaps, but not in a good way.
Vanity is conceit, whilst combing hair and ironing are everyday tasks that we all do without thinking.
Choosing a 'chav plate' takes much more thought and consideration and involves insecurity and esteem.
Something to get you noticed, where nobody noticed before.
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
Jim, lovely poetry, but what are you trying to say?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
Approaching Hatfield Tesco roundabout with hidden left hand entrance, and have to stop at the lights. Goes green and I start off, but an unmarked Plod car with siren on forces his way through the traffic from hidden junction and makes clear I have to stop sharply to let him out by flooring it. Girl in Mini behind beeps horn at me as she had to stop quickly! The sun was in her eyes mind, bet she didn't see my brakelights.
Driving home from work today, on main road, there is a road joining from the right. Junction is a mini-roundabout. Car in front of me indicates right. Bloke coming the other way in his 65 plate Merc (who now of course doesn't have right of way) ploughs straight across the roundabout.
OK, minor see-it-every-day knobbishness. Except that there were THREE marked police cars behind him in a row (there's a police station half a mile in that direction). I looked in the rear view to see the lights on the leading one switch on. And smiled.
OK, minor see-it-every-day knobbishness. Except that there were THREE marked police cars behind him in a row (there's a police station half a mile in that direction). I looked in the rear view to see the lights on the leading one switch on. And smiled.
WD39 said:
mikal83 said:
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?SLK 1A
BMW 123B
Mis-spaced or altered plates however...
A state of mind perhaps, but not in a good way.
Vanity is conceit, whilst combing hair and ironing are everyday tasks that we all do without thinking.
Choosing a 'chav plate' takes much more thought and consideration and involves insecurity and esteem.
Something to get you noticed, where nobody noticed before.
People who leave their mains on for too long then turn them off just as they are about to pass.
Also annoying are pretty much any new Xenon headlights. If behind you it constantly looks like flashing in your rear-view as the car goes up and down with the road surface the beam "flashes" I'm sure you know what I mean.
Also people who creep at junctions. Stay still god dammit I do not trust you.
Also annoying are pretty much any new Xenon headlights. If behind you it constantly looks like flashing in your rear-view as the car goes up and down with the road surface the beam "flashes" I'm sure you know what I mean.
Also people who creep at junctions. Stay still god dammit I do not trust you.
j4ck100 said:
Also annoying are pretty much any new Xenon headlights. If behind you it constantly looks like flashing in your rear-view as the car goes up and down with the road surface the beam "flashes" I'm sure you know what I mean.
This - especially whatever the hell Nissan have fitted to their latest Qashqai models; more often than not I have to do a double take when I check my mirrors with one of these behind me as not only does it "flash" if it's completely pitch black (say country road or road without street lights) they seem to have have a very odd blue-ish tint which makes it seem like a police/ambulance/fire engine is behind you and trying to get past.Whilst we're on the discussion of lights - what on earth is this latest "trend" of driving around at night with a combination of sidelights and fog-lights? (no dipped beam)? I can only imagine that the visibility (long distance) is terrible - and again as I do a fair bit of country road driving encountering these weapons grade knobs is even more annoying as the glare is very off putting, plus due to the location of fogs and indicators, it often means if they're on-coming and indicating - you don't see the indicator.
If I encounter one of these halfwits on well lit roads, I just think to myself "knob" and move on - but if I see them on-coming on poorly lit country roads I don't hesitate to repeatedly flash my own fog lights at them to get my point accross - purely because their own visibility must be s
te and the glare they cause to on-coming traffic is usually enough to cause accidents (as I said, you're unable to see indicators etc...).I'm of the firm opinion that switching on the fog-lights should enable an accompanying warning buzzer (like a seatbelt warning), doesn't have to be as annoying, could only come on once every say 10 mins, but enough to make a numpty driving around with fogs on think twice.
Edited by AJXX1 on Wednesday 24th February 23:27
Edited by AJXX1 on Wednesday 24th February 23:28
silverfoxcc said:
WD39 said:
mikal83 said:
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?SLK 1A
BMW 123B
Mis-spaced or altered plates however...
A state of mind perhaps, but not in a good way.
Vanity is conceit, whilst combing hair and ironing are everyday tasks that we all do without thinking.
Choosing a 'chav plate' takes much more thought and consideration and involves insecurity and esteem.
Something to get you noticed, where nobody noticed before.
Jim AK said:
People removing front propshaft off a Freelander to 'improve' fuel consumption. Just how many miles do you do exactly?
Been ringing round ads today & 3 of the nearest in my area & price point don't have it!!
Knobs.
It's not really to improve MPG.Been ringing round ads today & 3 of the nearest in my area & price point don't have it!!
Knobs.
The centre diff fails on them, so you have to disconnect the drive to one end or they eat tyres.
People who don't realise I have a drive and would like to park there!
On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a wker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about.
Complete tosser.
On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a w
ker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about. Complete tosser.
People that can clearly see you're indicating to turn into somewhere but decide to cover the entrance of where you are trying to go while they wait for their side of the road to clear. Thus causing both sides of the road to be blocked.
I was trying to turn right into my drive the other day. The bus pulled up to off load passengers just outside and the women in the mini behind the bus looked to be slowing. I went to nudge out and she beeped and waved and shouted whilst cutting me off and blocking my entrance while she waited for the bus to set off again.
Whey do they do it! Surely it's easier to let me pull in so traffic on my side can flow as normal instead of being so selfish that getting in front of me is your priority.
I was trying to turn right into my drive the other day. The bus pulled up to off load passengers just outside and the women in the mini behind the bus looked to be slowing. I went to nudge out and she beeped and waved and shouted whilst cutting me off and blocking my entrance while she waited for the bus to set off again.
Whey do they do it! Surely it's easier to let me pull in so traffic on my side can flow as normal instead of being so selfish that getting in front of me is your priority.
ashleyman said:
instead of being so selfish that getting in front of me is your priority.
People are extremely selfish. I get so angry when people block the road and then don't let me over even though I am going the other way so I am not going to steal their precious space!They never look at you when they block the road too, always facing dead straight like you don't exist.
GravelMachineGun said:
People are extremely selfish. I get so angry when people block the road and then don't let me over even though I am going the other way so I am not going to steal their precious space!
They never look at you when they block the road too, always facing dead straight like you don't exist.
It's so frustrating. There's been plenty of times where I might be partially covering an entrance or drive due to bad planning or thinking 'oh, nobody is gonna want to use this entrance in the 50 seconds I'm sat here' and then someone comes along and if I CAN move it to allow more space I certainly will. Especially if the car wanting to turn is holding up traffic.They never look at you when they block the road too, always facing dead straight like you don't exist.
If it was me in the position of the mini, I'd have let me turn onto my drive and then carried on like normal. DRIVES ME INSANE.
GravelMachineGun said:
People who don't realise I have a drive and would like to park there!
On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a wker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about.
Complete tosser.
Perhaps this (emboldened) is where you went wrong?On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a w
ker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about. Complete tosser.
Cliftonite said:
Perhaps this (emboldened) is where you went wrong?
Or not.....If I approach Jim AK Towers from the South I have no option but to `Swing out` due to the fact the side road I turn into joins the main road at a 45 degree angle & if you stay correctly positioned for straight on you would need to reverse back into the main road to complete the turn, this is despite a `Concealed Entrance` sign.
I see Knobs like the van driver on an almost daily basis & in the morning rush the `Keep Clear` on the road entrance is often blocked by some obviously illiterate Knob queuing for the lights 100 feet ahead too.
Cliftonite said:
GravelMachineGun said:
People who don't realise I have a drive and would like to park there!
On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a wker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about.
Complete tosser.
Perhaps this (emboldened) is where you went wrong?On the way home from the gym I was being tailgated by a chav in his Astra van with his girlfriend. I indicated, slowed down, swung out so that I could reverse on my drive. He then had to slam the brakes on as he went to overtake me before I swung out, he then started beeping his horn and calling me a w
ker....If he wasn't driving so close to me and was not an impatient idiot he'd having nothing to complain about. Complete tosser.
He shouldn't have tried to overtake me whilst I was still moving.
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