One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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The angry bloke in the Aygo on the M1 this afternoon.
Southbound in lane 3 through roadworks I was doing 54 (gprs indicated) about 3 or 4 car lengths behind another car. Moderately busy.
Mr Angry caught me up at quite a speed, I'd say 70 at least and sat on my bumper. He was already gesticulating but he could have been on the phone. Then he started flashing his lights and the gesticulating increased. Still nowhere for me to go and if I had pulled left (I'd have had to brake to fall in behind the car that was there safely) and still a car (in fact a line of cars) ahead.
He swerved left accelerated and then swerved into the gap, which was safe distance until he put himself in it. In the next half mile he did this a few more times and got a few cars ahead just in time for the roadworks to end and the limit increase to 70.
A matter of seconds later I passed him at 70ish and he was in the left lane in front of a lorry doing about 56
I have no idea why. Other than the man is a complete and utter knob.
Southbound in lane 3 through roadworks I was doing 54 (gprs indicated) about 3 or 4 car lengths behind another car. Moderately busy.
Mr Angry caught me up at quite a speed, I'd say 70 at least and sat on my bumper. He was already gesticulating but he could have been on the phone. Then he started flashing his lights and the gesticulating increased. Still nowhere for me to go and if I had pulled left (I'd have had to brake to fall in behind the car that was there safely) and still a car (in fact a line of cars) ahead.
He swerved left accelerated and then swerved into the gap, which was safe distance until he put himself in it. In the next half mile he did this a few more times and got a few cars ahead just in time for the roadworks to end and the limit increase to 70.
A matter of seconds later I passed him at 70ish and he was in the left lane in front of a lorry doing about 56
I have no idea why. Other than the man is a complete and utter knob.
Edited by Hackney on Friday 27th May 00:19
Blown2CV said:
Countdown said:
Dromedary66 said:
Boarding a train that is 10% full and seeing every 4 seat table being used by a solitary person. f
king annoying when travelling as a group of four.
Annoying for you perhaps but not "knob" surely? Why is a single traveler any less entitled to a table seat?king annoying when travelling as a group of four.South West Trains website FAQs said:
Can I reserve a seat on your trains?
Seat reservations are not available on any of our services.
You are free to choose a seat in the class of travel shown on your ticket.
So when I need to go "Oop North" or "t't Midlands" I can book seats on the trains between Basingstoke and my destination (usually on Virgin Trains services) but I have to take pot luck and possibly have to stand between Farnborough and Basingstoke (not a massive hardship, granted, as it's not that long a trip). And seeing as how this is the Waterloo to Portsmouth line, no amount of getting up early is ever going to guarantee me getting first choice of seats when I get on board.Seat reservations are not available on any of our services.
You are free to choose a seat in the class of travel shown on your ticket.
The real knobs on trains are the single travellers who place bags on seats to dissuade you from sitting there, or spread themselves all over a table for four - papers, books, laptops, coffee, etc. I seek these people out, and only ask once. If you don't move your bags and guff of your own free will, it'll find it's own way into the racks or onto the floor. Either way, if you're hogging a seat, and I want to sit down, I'll be sitting down. And don't, whatever you do, f
king lie to me about your mate getting on at the next station. Because my answer to that is "I'll keep the seat warm until they get here then". 
There's another group of knobs on trains too. 'The Regular'. Stands at the same spot on the platform every morning, enters the same carriage, through the same door. Turns left and walks exactly 10 paces to "His" seat and expects to sit in it. "Excuse me, but I think you're in my seat." Eh? WT actual F? Do one d
head. You ought to read the FAQ section on SWT's website, as it's quite clearly there in black and white. Now fk off and sit in a different seat, or toddle along and stand somewhere. I'm not taken in by your briefcase full of sandwiches, nor your poncy double cuff and cufflinks look - you're a paying punter, same as me and I was here first. It doesn't matter a jot to SWT that I'm off for a day out at the Science Museum and you are a season ticket holder off to broker multi-million pound deals in 'The City', I'm sitting in it, which makes it my seat until I decide otherwise, so tough st. yellowjack said:
Blown2CV said:
Countdown said:
Dromedary66 said:
Boarding a train that is 10% full and seeing every 4 seat table being used by a solitary person. fking annoying when travelling as a group of four.
Annoying for you perhaps but not "knob" surely? Why is a single traveler any less entitled to a table seat?king annoying when travelling as a group of four.South West Trains website FAQs said:
Can I reserve a seat on your trains?
Seat reservations are not available on any of our services.
You are free to choose a seat in the class of travel shown on your ticket.
So when I need to go "Oop North" or "t't Midlands" I can book seats on the trains between Basingstoke and my destination (usually on Virgin Trains services) but I have to take pot luck and possibly have to stand between Farnborough and Basingstoke (not a massive hardship, granted, as it's not that long a trip). And seeing as how this is the Waterloo to Portsmouth line, no amount of getting up early is ever going to guarantee me getting first choice of seats when I get on board.Seat reservations are not available on any of our services.
You are free to choose a seat in the class of travel shown on your ticket.
The real knobs on trains are the single travellers who place bags on seats to dissuade you from sitting there, or spread themselves all over a table for four - papers, books, laptops, coffee, etc. I seek these people out, and only ask once. If you don't move your bags and guff of your own free will, it'll find it's own way into the racks or onto the floor. Either way, if you're hogging a seat, and I want to sit down, I'll be sitting down. And don't, whatever you do, f
king lie to me about your mate getting on at the next station. Because my answer to that is "I'll keep the seat warm until they get here then". There's another group of knobs on trains too. 'The Regular'. Stands at the same spot on the platform every morning, enters the same carriage, through the same door. Turns left and walks exactly 10 paces to "His" seat and expects to sit in it. "Excuse me, but I think you're in my seat." Eh? WT actual F? Do one d
head. You ought to read the FAQ section on SWT's website, as it's quite clearly there in black and white. Now fk off and sit in a different seat, or toddle along and stand somewhere. I'm not taken in by your briefcase full of sandwiches, nor your poncy double cuff and cufflinks look - you're a paying punter, same as me and I was here first. It doesn't matter a jot to SWT that I'm off for a day out at the Science Museum and you are a season ticket holder off to broker multi-million pound deals in 'The City', I'm sitting in it, which makes it my seat until I decide otherwise, so tough st. followed a bloke in a tiny red mercedes this morning, over the moors. he'd stuck stickers on his bumper saying "bears on tour" and "royal northern yacht club b***stards".
none of this made any sense.
all I could think of was gay men, who are "bears" and he might have tried his hand at sailing once and needed to tell everybody.
any, knob.
none of this made any sense.
all I could think of was gay men, who are "bears" and he might have tried his hand at sailing once and needed to tell everybody.
any, knob.
Blown2CV said:
Countdown said:
Dromedary66 said:
Boarding a train that is 10% full and seeing every 4 seat table being used by a solitary person. fking annoying when travelling as a group of four.
Annoying for you perhaps but not "knob" surely? Why is a single traveler any less entitled to a table seat?king annoying when travelling as a group of four.Unless the seats ARE reserved, have a premium price attached, or have been given priority to those than have difficulty standing - then all people have bought the same ticket, which means they can use any seat and don't HAVE to sit next Brenda and Barry from Birmingham, if there are other seats free.
If you have a genuine requirement, then ask in a positive manner. Most people respond positively to polite request and being polite costs nothing.
On the other hand getting punched in the face for being un-polite is just as cheap, but probably more deserving.
yellowjack said:
There's another group of knobs on trains too. 'The Regular'. Stands at the same spot on the platform every morning, enters the same carriage, through the same door. Turns left and walks exactly 10 paces to "His" seat and expects to sit in it. "Excuse me, but I think you're in my seat."
Don't want to spark a war but I was one of those "regular's" for about 6months and none of the people that stood at the point with the 3 rocks in the sleeper at the gap in the mortar between the slabs so you could see the rails and got on carriage 8 of the 06:18 to Waterloo ever did this. 
In fact we used to rotate who got on first between the queue of 5 of us so we'd each have a day where we'd have a 10% chance of having a seat, it was all very British.
Cliftonite said:
Councils who think that allowing cyclists and pedestrians to share pavement space is a good idea.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14514645.Pedestrian...
It's not the council that's the problem.http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14514645.Pedestrian...
The problem is the users tend to drift off into a little world of their own when they're out. That includes walkers, dog walkers, joggers and cyclists.
If they all appreciate that other people use the strips of tarmac, keep aware and compensate for it then we could all share the space in harmony but these 'highways' seem to attract beings with some sort of inflated sense of entitlement.
(And don't get me started on dogs off leads! >.< )
Liquid Knight said:
Cyclists who leave the scene of a collision are as bad as hit and run drivers.
Absolutely. I got knocked off my bike in Cambridge years ago by a cyclist who overtook me, then clipped my front wheel as he swerved back in. I went down, broke my arm (a week before Henley: 8 months of 8 sessions a week of training down the pan) and still get pain in my shoulder. Cyclist didn't stop. To this day I would struggle to piss on a cyclist in Cambridge if they were on fire.
Europa1 said:
Absolutely. I got knocked off my bike in Cambridge years ago by a cyclist who overtook me, then clipped my front wheel as he swerved back in. I went down, broke my arm (a week before Henley: 8 months of 8 sessions a week of training down the pan) and still get pain in my shoulder. Cyclist didn't stop.
To this day I would struggle to piss on a cyclist in Cambridge if they were on fire.
I like your story! I was in Cambridge about 2 years ago and was walking around the shops. I had my phone in my hand standing still and a cyclist came so close to me he knocked the phone out of my hand and it smashed on the floor. I was on the pavement, stood still and he felt the need to do that. To this day I would struggle to piss on a cyclist in Cambridge if they were on fire.
Not as serious as yours but I still hate cyclists!
Tipper driver's.
WTAF! Do these tossers get their licences out of a crisp packet?
I've lost count of the amount of crap, inconsiderate, dangerous driving I've seen from anyone in these types of vehicles. It's almost as if they think "I'm in a 10 ton lorry full of gravel. fk you!"
Also anyone driving a skip lorry in the last week or so can fk off as well!!!!! tts!!!!
WTAF! Do these tossers get their licences out of a crisp packet?I've lost count of the amount of crap, inconsiderate, dangerous driving I've seen from anyone in these types of vehicles. It's almost as if they think "I'm in a 10 ton lorry full of gravel. f
k you!" Also anyone driving a skip lorry in the last week or so can f
k off as well!!!!! tts!!!!
Hol said:
Wow!
Am I the only person who doesn't actually hate cyclists?
(But DOES enjoy winding the occasional one up a little bit on PH when they become critical of every other road user groups bad behaviour, except their own
)
i only half hate them nowAm I the only person who doesn't actually hate cyclists?
(But DOES enjoy winding the occasional one up a little bit on PH when they become critical of every other road user groups bad behaviour, except their own
) the vast majority of the ones in london are pretty decent now (i guess the red light jumpers got killed off)
the ones i hate are the lycra wearing tossers who ride in packs over the weekends pretending they are on "the tour de france" blocking all the good NSL roads, f
k off s !!!!Dave Hedgehog said:
Hol said:
Wow!
Am I the only person who doesn't actually hate cyclists?
(But DOES enjoy winding the occasional one up a little bit on PH when they become critical of every other road user groups bad behaviour, except their own )
i only half hate them nowAm I the only person who doesn't actually hate cyclists?
(But DOES enjoy winding the occasional one up a little bit on PH when they become critical of every other road user groups bad behaviour, except their own
) the vast majority of the ones in london are pretty decent now (i guess the red light jumpers got killed off)
the ones i hate are the lycra wearing tossers who ride in packs over the weekends pretending they are on "the tour de france" blocking all the good NSL roads, f
k off s !!!!Really rips my knitting.
ashleyman said:
Europa1 said:
Absolutely. I got knocked off my bike in Cambridge years ago by a cyclist who overtook me, then clipped my front wheel as he swerved back in. I went down, broke my arm (a week before Henley: 8 months of 8 sessions a week of training down the pan) and still get pain in my shoulder. Cyclist didn't stop.
To this day I would struggle to piss on a cyclist in Cambridge if they were on fire.
I like your story! I was in Cambridge about 2 years ago and was walking around the shops. I had my phone in my hand standing still and a cyclist came so close to me he knocked the phone out of my hand and it smashed on the floor. I was on the pavement, stood still and he felt the need to do that. To this day I would struggle to piss on a cyclist in Cambridge if they were on fire.
Not as serious as yours but I still hate cyclists!
jogger1976 said:
Tipper driver's. WTAF! Do these tossers get their licences out of a crisp packet?
I've lost count of the amount of crap, inconsiderate, dangerous driving I've seen from anyone in these types of vehicles. It's almost as if they think "I'm in a 10 ton lorry full of gravel. fk you!"
Also anyone driving a skip lorry in the last week or so can fk off as well!!!!! tts!!!!
Most of them do in fact get their licenses out of crisp packets, unfortunately their vehicles are normally 32t rather than the 10 you thought. They are mostly knob heads. Lower down the evolutionary scale are skip lorry drivers who have yet learned to walk upright. WTAF! Do these tossers get their licences out of a crisp packet?I've lost count of the amount of crap, inconsiderate, dangerous driving I've seen from anyone in these types of vehicles. It's almost as if they think "I'm in a 10 ton lorry full of gravel. f
k you!" Also anyone driving a skip lorry in the last week or so can f
k off as well!!!!! tts!!!!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff