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

[anonymous-user]

Liquid Knight said:

Okay this is what some jokers call "resurfacing" but it was done last year and one of the most statistically dangerous roads in the county was lethal for six months unless you had a Paris Dakar spec' bike, gravel rally car or some kind of Land Rover.

Really?

What about the advisory limit signs that would have been put up? If people took notice of those, and didn't think they knew better, then the roads could be driven or ridden in safety.

I've driven hundreds of miles on freshly surface dressed roads and I've never died, got stuck, or fallen out of my car.

[Liquid Knight]

OpulentBob said:

Liquid Knight said:

Okay this is what some jokers call "resurfacing" but it was done last year and one of the most statistically dangerous roads in the county was lethal for six months unless you had a Paris Dakar spec' bike, gravel rally car or some kind of Land Rover.

Really?

What about the advisory limit signs that would have been put up? If people took notice of those, and didn't think they knew better, then the roads could be driven or ridden in safety.

I've driven hundreds of miles on freshly surface dressed roads and I've never died, got stuck, or fallen out of my car.

When the A17 had a hard surface there were no fatalities. Since they first put kitty litter down four years ago there have been three.

I can not say for everyone else but the advisory limit is only there for the day or maybe a couple of days after the flytipping. A week or so later the surface is as bad as it was before or worse.

[WD39]

deltashad said:

Havoc856 said:

Sat waiting for traffic lights to change on remembrance avenue, Colchester in a queue of traffic. Minding my own business, windows down listening to Ed Sheeran... rentokit Audi A5 next to me... it's window winds down and the driver screams somewhat angrily ..

"Nice hairdressers car you fking faggot!"

Hmmmm..... ed sheeran.

What is a hairdressers car?

I can only come up with a vehicle that cuts you up, narrowly missing your trim and giving you a close shave.

The ultimate hairdressers car must be a Roller.

[AH33]

Havoc856 said:

Sat waiting for traffic lights to change on remembrance avenue, Colchester in a queue of traffic. Minding my own business, windows down listening to Ed Sheeran... rentokit Audi A5 next to me... it's window winds down and the driver screams somewhat angrily ..

"Nice hairdressers car you fking faggot!"

Safe to say I said what I thought to the Mouthbreathing knob.

People who listen to Ed Sheeran. What were you thinking, man?!

[anonymous-user]

martindesu said:

How do retards like this afford such nice cars?

ebay + financing

[Blown2CV]

deltashad said:

Girls on adult cam sites who menace you to give them tokens to take their clothes off.
If I want to tip I will, otherwise stop messaging me.

now i can't 100% relate to this being as i have never participated in this particular thing, but you know that if you want zero interaction with a girl on the Internet and just want to see her.... do things.... you can just watch the trillion free of charge videos rather than pay money to see an actual girl pretend to have fun like a weird 60s peep show?

[sim72]

Kn*bheads in 4x4s and big SUVs who seem completely unable to actually keep their 2 ton piece of status symbol on the right f***ing side of the road. Three of them today - a FFRR, an Audi Qwhogivesaf**k and something built by Mazda. Three times I had to move over because the tw*tpuffin driving them seemed to think they owned 60% of the road surface. For f**k's sake.

[WD39]

sim72 said:

Kn*bheads in 4x4s and big SUVs who seem completely unable to actually keep their 2 ton piece of status symbol on the right f***ing side of the road. Three of them today - a FFRR, an Audi Qwhogivesaf**k and something built by Mazda. Three times I had to move over because the tw*tpuffin driving them seemed to think they owned 60% of the road surface. For f**k's sake.

This post contains no expletives.

Described colourfully above, cutting corners and bends in the road and trespassing into the other lane, has now reached epidemic proportions.

Even as you are approaching oncoming they will cross the centre line, into your lane, darting back just in time as you pass.

GET OVER!!! stay in your own lane, don't be a ******* . Phew, that feels good.

[Mandalore]

Chester draws said:

yellowjack said:

I had a run-in with a big pickup the other day. Coming off a roundabout... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2756283,-0.80804... ...where he had 'his own' lane coming off, to my left, I checked back looking to move off the road onto the cyclepath. It's OK - he's holding back. So I checked again, to be sure, and he's still holding his position behind me to my left. Then I start to swing over to my left, but I give it one last 'lifesaver' which it appears may have saved my live, because no sooner had I started to cross into the lane in front of him than he accelerated violently, and I had to get back into a rapidly running out lane 2, and I missed the dropped kerb entry to the path which meant I had to use the carriageway up until the roundabout in the middle of the bypass.

I am quite certain that he deliberately engineered a situation where he could pull that stunt, because he was waiting at the roundabout where I swung off onto the cyclepath, he slowed to shout unintelligible gibberish out of his window at me all along the carriageway, then tried to catch my again at the next roundabout, but I sold him a dummy and he went sailing off in the wrong direction. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've always assumed that to be a solid white line separating the two traffic lanes.... I certainly wouldn;t like to see a bike attempting to cross across in front of me there, but I would make efforts to ensure a safe merge further up.

Had you really wanted to be in the cycle lane at that point, perhaps, (assuming you were coming from Windy Gap) you could have avoided the possibility of an incident here by entering the cycle path before the roundabout..



crossing Norris Hill Road at the designated crossing points



You could have then crossed the bridge in safety on the cycle path, and wouldn't have come into conflict with road users at the merge.



Try it next time, I suspect it won't be as quick, but should be safer, and won;t require you to cross a solid white line.

Edit, also no mention in your very detailed account of you giving a left arm signal?

Edited by Chester draws on Monday 18th July 10:03

Surely, that's not the same dropped kerb.

The description, is very misleading, if so.

[Trabi601]

Idiots on the M25 ignoring the red X lane closure sign, causing chaos and an hour delay for everyone else. A special place in hell is reserved for those who deliberately move into the lanes with a white arrow to designate an upcoming lane closure, then charge right down to the cones, ignoring the red cross, just to get a few minutes jump on everyone else.

There should have been a police car pulling them (or at least snapping photos of them to fine them later).

[Chester draws]

Mandalore said:

Chester draws said:

yellowjack said:

I had a run-in with a big pickup the other day. Coming off a roundabout... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2756283,-0.80804... ...where he had 'his own' lane coming off, to my left, I checked back looking to move off the road onto the cyclepath. It's OK - he's holding back. So I checked again, to be sure, and he's still holding his position behind me to my left. Then I start to swing over to my left, but I give it one last 'lifesaver' which it appears may have saved my live, because no sooner had I started to cross into the lane in front of him than he accelerated violently, and I had to get back into a rapidly running out lane 2, and I missed the dropped kerb entry to the path which meant I had to use the carriageway up until the roundabout in the middle of the bypass.

I am quite certain that he deliberately engineered a situation where he could pull that stunt, because he was waiting at the roundabout where I swung off onto the cyclepath, he slowed to shout unintelligible gibberish out of his window at me all along the carriageway, then tried to catch my again at the next roundabout, but I sold him a dummy and he went sailing off in the wrong direction. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've always assumed that to be a solid white line separating the two traffic lanes.... I certainly wouldn;t like to see a bike attempting to cross across in front of me there, but I would make efforts to ensure a safe merge further up.

Had you really wanted to be in the cycle lane at that point, perhaps, (assuming you were coming from Windy Gap) you could have avoided the possibility of an incident here by entering the cycle path before the roundabout..



crossing Norris Hill Road at the designated crossing points



You could have then crossed the bridge in safety on the cycle path, and wouldn't have come into conflict with road users at the merge.



Try it next time, I suspect it won't be as quick, but should be safer, and won;t require you to cross a solid white line.

Edit, also no mention in your very detailed account of you giving a left arm signal?

Edited by Chester draws on Monday 18th July 10:03

Surely, that's not the same dropped kerb.

The description, is very misleading, if so.

My third picture is looking back at the roundabout. The red car in the left lane in that street view grab is where I understand the truck in question to have been. And the red line to be Jack.

I believe it is the dropped kerb in question. There's no others in the street view that access the cycle path. Thing is, I don't think you're meant to access it from the right hand lane of the roundabout... There is a much safer way round as I described.

[Blown2CV]

Trabi601 said:

Idiots on the M25 ignoring the red X lane closure sign, causing chaos and an hour delay for everyone else. A special place in hell is reserved for those who deliberately move into the lanes with a white arrow to designate an upcoming lane closure, then charge right down to the cones, ignoring the red cross, just to get a few minutes jump on everyone else.

There should have been a police car pulling them (or at least snapping photos of them to fine them later).

does the X mean "this lane is closed" or does it mean "this lane is closed somewhere ahead"

[Trabi601]

Blown2CV said:

Trabi601 said:

Idiots on the M25 ignoring the red X lane closure sign, causing chaos and an hour delay for everyone else. A special place in hell is reserved for those who deliberately move into the lanes with a white arrow to designate an upcoming lane closure, then charge right down to the cones, ignoring the red cross, just to get a few minutes jump on everyone else.

There should have been a police car pulling them (or at least snapping photos of them to fine them later).

does the X mean "this lane is closed" or does it mean "this lane is closed somewhere ahead"

It means you should not be driving any further in that lane.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/red-x-means-don...

[Mandalore]

Pistonhead Spelling Nazis.


Especially, when they only critique the spelling but add fk all else in terms of a useful or constructive contribution to the thread in question.

[Mr2Mike]

Mandalore said:

Pistonhead Spelling Nazis.


Especially, when they only critique the spelling but add fk all else in terms of a useful or constructive contribution to the thread in question.

The comma after 'Especially' is not required and makes the sentence awkward to read.

HTH

[Europa1]

Mr2Mike said:

Mandalore said:

Pistonhead Spelling Nazis.


Especially, when they only critique the spelling but add fk all else in terms of a useful or constructive contribution to the thread in question.

The comma after 'Especially' is not required and makes the sentence awkward to read.

HTH

And its "Pistonheads", not "Pistonhead". Also HTH

[anonymous-user]

Europa1 said:

Mr2Mike said:

Mandalore said:

Pistonhead Spelling Nazis.


Especially, when they only critique the spelling but add fk all else in terms of a useful or constructive contribution to the thread in question.

The comma after 'Especially' is not required and makes the sentence awkward to read.

HTH

And its "Pistonheads", not "Pistonhead". Also HTH

"It's". HTH

[Gary29]

WD39 said:

This post contains no expletives.

Described colourfully above, cutting corners and bends in the road and trespassing into the other lane, has now reached epidemic proportions.

Even as you are approaching oncoming they will cross the centre line, into your lane, darting back just in time as you pass.

GET OVER!!! stay in your own lane, don't be a ******* . Phew, that feels good.

Glad it's not just me, this seems to be happening more and more, only this morning on my way to work, I had 3 cars following each other, ALL cut a blind corner on to my side of the road, if I was driving a wide vehicle, there would've been an enormous accident, no two ways about it.

I really don't know how these people manage to get from A to B in one piece anymore.

[Monkeylegend]

OpulentBob said:

Europa1 said:

Mr2Mike said:

Mandalore said:

Pistonhead Spelling Nazis.


Especially, when they only critique the spelling but add fk all else in terms of a useful or constructive contribution to the thread in question.

The comma after 'Especially' is not required and makes the sentence awkward to read.

HTH

And its "Pistonheads", not "Pistonhead". Also HTH

"It's". HTH

"it's" HTH

[Cliftonite]

Europa1 said:

And its "Pistonheads", not "Pistonhead". Also HTH

It's 'PistonHeads'

HTH