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

[Liquid Knight]

I think I've matured. A few years ago I would have got out at the lights and given the driver a "Specsavers" leaflet.

[MarkRSi]

Red has long being invisible IMO and bright LED DRLs don't help either.

Just today had a muppet on a dual carriageway pull out in front of me at 40mph just before I overtook them, followed by another coffin dodger that sat in the overtaking lane for 30 seconds at 60mph after overtaking a truck, only moving (reeeeeeeeeeealy slowly*) once I'd flashed said coffin dodger (yeah I know I'm such a badass etc. etc.) TBH they probably didn't bother looking at their mirrors so colour wouldn't have made any difference, but still...

* funny, cos I'd bet a squillion quid if they'd passed me while I was cruising up the A90 yesterday at 60-odd mph as I wasn't in a hurry, they'd cut in WAY to fking close (less than 1 second gap, if that) like they're st scared of hanging in the overtaking lane for too long. Funny how they're not like that when I'm behind them

Edited by MarkRSi on Friday 29th May 20:17

[Escort3500]

Supreme knobbishness on a Golf R in Keswick last week. Upper case text at the bottom of the no plate stated:

"THE CAR IN FRONT IS.....ME. HA! HA!"

Unfortunately I didn't have my phone for photographic proof of such sadness. Doubly knobbish as it's based on a Toyota ad strap line from years ago, and triple points as he had the same text on the front plate

[maurauth]

GravelMachineGun said:

I have a dashcam so this isn't an anti DC post.
But I am sick to death of all the idiots I see with a DC right in the middle of their eye level, directly above the steering wheel.
Do they not see the poetic irony of a camera that is used to record other people's mistakes and then you have it fitted right there?
Complete and utter idiots.
I see the same with satnavs too. Police should crack down on it.

It really depends on the car and the DC. My DC has its USB cable at a weird angle and therefore needs an inch clearance between the box and the windscreen trim at the top. With the SLK having such a large trim and obnoxiously sized rear view mirror the placing is quite difficult.

Will attach a picture after work.

[scrubchub]

Escort3500 said:

Supreme knobbishness on a Golf R in Keswick last week. Upper case text at the bottom of the no plate stated:

"THE CAR IN FRONT IS.....ME. HA! HA!"

Unfortunately I didn't have my phone for photographic proof of such sadness. Doubly knobbish as it's based on a Toyota ad strap line from years ago, and triple points as he had the same text on the front plate

On a similair, "my car is so much faster than yours" note; I'm thinking of buying an Alfa GT so joined an Alfa group on Facebook. Lots of good information on there, but, my word, some of the sad cases are unreal. One guy in particular can't go more than a couple of days without posting about his on the road 'conquests' at the traffic light grand prix (he drives an old diesel 156). Just yesterday he posts about how he loves to 'scalp Golfs', before everyone chips in with tales of them pulling away from M3s and Focus RSs.

[mikal83]

I swore to the missus years ago I was going to buy a heap o ste white van and weld an I bar to the front and just keep going when some muppet pulled out on me/or went round roundabouts without indicating etc.....

[Mike_Mac]

scrubchub said:

On a similar, "my car is so much faster than yours" note; I'm thinking of buying an Alfa GT so joined an Alfa group on Facebook. Lots of good information on there, but, my word, some of the sad cases are unreal. One guy in particular can't go more than a couple of days without posting about his on the road 'conquests' at the traffic light grand prix (he drives an old diesel 156). Just yesterday he posted about how he loves to 'scalp Golfs', before everyone chips in with tales of them pulling away from M3s and Focus RSs.

I think that is the mentality behind a lot of the strange driving I see on the roads - I suspect in many cases I was losing a race I didn't even know I was in, or being shown just how much smaller my penis is compared to the lad wheelspinning away from the lights, who I hadn't even noticed.

Vaguely amusing, but rather odd.

[TheFinners]

Encountered a very odd Knob on the M27 coming back from Brighton the other day. I was doing about 70+10 (indicated) over the duration of the whole thing.

Anyway, firstly there is me in the left lane approaching said Knob in a MK5 Golf GTI who was being an MLC and we are both approaching a busier section of motorway. Anyway I go to the right lane and overtake, everything being perfectly normal so far.

A couple of minutes later on a now quieter stretch of motorway I am in the left lane travelling at the same speed I had been before, when Knob whizzes past probably doing 90 or so, and of course, he is still in the middle lane. The weird thing was he got about 50m in front of me then back off, so I was going faster than him again.

There is no other cars very near either of us so yet again I approach in the left lane and go to overtake, but just as I start to get in the right lane Knob decides to boot it again before moving over to the inside lane and slowing down yet again. I drew level with him only to see him looking at me in a pissed off manner with his middle finger pressed firmly against the window as he left the motorway.

I really don't understand how some people's minds work, although in fairness he did look like a proper 3.14key.

[maurauth]

mikal83 said:

I swore to the missus years ago I was going to buy a heap o ste white van and weld an I bar to the front and just keep going when some muppet pulled out on me/or went round roundabouts without indicating etc.....

Search for the "Russian punisher" on youtube. It's a Russian HGV driver with a dashcam who keeps going when people cut him up, there's at least 20 of his crashes on there haha. "It's hard to stop in a HGV at the last minute,honest"

[Negative Creep]

scrubchub said:

Escort3500 said:

Supreme knobbishness on a Golf R in Keswick last week. Upper case text at the bottom of the no plate stated:

"THE CAR IN FRONT IS.....ME. HA! HA!"

Unfortunately I didn't have my phone for photographic proof of such sadness. Doubly knobbish as it's based on a Toyota ad strap line from years ago, and triple points as he had the same text on the front plate

On a similair, "my car is so much faster than yours" note; I'm thinking of buying an Alfa GT so joined an Alfa group on Facebook. Lots of good information on there, but, my word, some of the sad cases are unreal. One guy in particular can't go more than a couple of days without posting about his on the road 'conquests' at the traffic light grand prix (he drives an old diesel 156). Just yesterday he posts about how he loves to 'scalp Golfs', before everyone chips in with tales of them pulling away from M3s and Focus RSs.

Reminds me of a mate who would swear blind that his CRX would be neck-a-neck with an M5 up to 130mph

[mikal83]

maurauth said:

mikal83 said:

I swore to the missus years ago I was going to buy a heap o ste white van and weld an I bar to the front and just keep going when some muppet pulled out on me/or went round roundabouts without indicating etc.....

Search for the "Russian punisher" on youtube. It's a Russian HGV driver with a dashcam who keeps going when people cut him up, there's at least 20 of his crashes on there haha. "It's hard to stop in a HGV at the last minute,honest"

Watched a cpl of the vids, and he did nothing wrong but what a load of crap driving going on.

[MarkRSi]

The spacktard in a 5 series with their family on board who tried to enter my boot, despite me pulling out onto the road from a T-junction quickly (admittedly getting a bit above indicated 30 in a 30 zone) about 50 yards down the road from a roundabout they exited at the same time, presumably desperate to 'teach me a lesson' for having the audacity to 'deliberately pull out on them' or something

However knob of the day goes to someone in a dark grey Polo who thought it would be a good idea to take the 4th exit (i.e. the road they came out on) on a large two lane roundabout in the left lane, causing much chaos/horn usage etc. from all the other drivers on the roundabout

[Ahimoth]

If you were driving an F type near West Mids Safari park today, you are an utter tt.

Yes, I was going under the speed limit. There were cars in front of me who were too. Speeding up so hard behind me I actually thought you were going to hit me, then braking and doing it again repeatedly achieved the square root of fk all.

[carlove]

Some chap who looked like he was on his way to see Jeremy Kyle in a Mazda 6, tailgated me ridiculously closely, despite me being in the flow of traffic that was going the speed limit, so couldn't go faster. He then used the wrong lane to overtook and ended up in front of me, I was then a knob to him, he didn't like it at all, so not sure why he does it to everyone else.

Also a bus, forced his way out of a junction and nearly hit the side of me, I gave him a beep, then I hear a bloody long beep behind as he forced the Nissan Juke behind me to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. He wasn't waiting ages, I was the first car he had to give way to, the Juke being the second, but he decided not to wait 10 seconds, didn't even come to a complete stop.

[ORD]

carlove said:

Some chap who looked like he was on his way to see Jeremy Kyle in a Mazda 6, tailgated me ridiculously closely, despite me being in the flow of traffic that was going the speed limit, so couldn't go faster. He then used the wrong lane to overtook and ended up in front of me, I was then a knob to him, he didn't like it at all, so not sure why he does it to everyone else.

Also a bus, forced his way out of a junction and nearly hit the side of me, I gave him a beep, then I hear a bloody long beep behind as he forced the Nissan Juke behind me to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. He wasn't waiting ages, I was the first car he had to give way to, the Juke being the second, but he decided not to wait 10 seconds, didn't even come to a complete stop.

I nominate you for acting like a knob in the first story and then failing to let out a bus then moaning about it.

[iva cosworth]

ORD said:

carlove said:

Some chap who looked like he was on his way to see Jeremy Kyle in a Mazda 6, tailgated me ridiculously closely, despite me being in the flow of traffic that was going the speed limit, so couldn't go faster. He then used the wrong lane to overtook and ended up in front of me, I was then a knob to him, he didn't like it at all, so not sure why he does it to everyone else.

Also a bus, forced his way out of a junction and nearly hit the side of me, I gave him a beep, then I hear a bloody long beep behind as he forced the Nissan Juke behind me to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. He wasn't waiting ages, I was the first car he had to give way to, the Juke being the second, but he decided not to wait 10 seconds, didn't even come to a complete stop.

I nominate you for acting like a knob in the first story and then failing to let out a bus then moaning about it.

Would you like to read the 2nd story again a bit slower ?

I got it the first time....

[carlove]

ORD said:

I nominate you for acting like a knob in the first story and then failing to let out a bus then moaning about it.

I did act like a knob in the first story.

The bus wasn't waiting to pull out of a bus stop, it was a junction and he didn't even come to a complete stop before starting pulling out, but I guess since it's a bus everyone has to stop, if he had been waiting ages I'd have let him out, but he wasn't. Have you though that since he didn't come to a complete stop and almost hit the side of me that perhaps I was too close to the junction to stop and let him out? Would having the car behind hit the back of me be reasonable as I'd let the bus out?

Are you one of those knobs who'll let anyone and everyone out of junctions without a care for other traffic and wait for as long as it takes for the other driver to pull out, even if it isn't safe for them to do so?

[CoolHands]

Ahimoth said:

If you were driving an F type near West Mids Safari park today, you are an utter tt.

Yes, I was going under the speed limit. There were cars in front of me who were too. Speeding up so hard behind me I actually thought you were going to hit me, then braking and doing it again repeatedly achieved the square root of fk all.

you should have pulled your handbrake on at the right moment and got a few thou for whiplash.

[ORD]

carlove said:

I did act like a knob in the first story.

The bus wasn't waiting to pull out of a bus stop, it was a junction and he didn't even come to a complete stop before starting pulling out, but I guess since it's a bus everyone has to stop, if he had been waiting ages I'd have let him out, but he wasn't. Have you though that since he didn't come to a complete stop and almost hit the side of me that perhaps I was too close to the junction to stop and let him out? Would having the car behind hit the back of me be reasonable as I'd let the bus out?

Are you one of those knobs who'll let anyone and everyone out of junctions without a care for other traffic and wait for as long as it takes for the other driver to pull out, even if it isn't safe for them to do so?

Maybe I got this one wrong, but every time I have ever seen someone brake very late and get annoyed about a bus coming out of a junction it was obvious for ages before that the bus was going to come out (they always do).

If it genuinely came out of nowhere and you couldn't have braked sooner, I apologise.

As I say, every 'close run' incident with a bus that I see is obviously about to happen for about 3 seconds before it does. But this case may be one where the bus driver was very much at fault.

As for letting people out, I certainly wouldn't brake hard and risk anyone behind me just to let someone out, but buses are a special case in that they pull out whether or not you slow to let them, so i always assume that one will pull out and slow gently as soon as I see it.

[carlove]

I could see him approaching the junction but couldn't really slow for him, I just expected him to give way like the other bus drivers who use that junction, if he had been waiting for ages I could see why he'd force his way out, I would have let him out if he had been waiting a while, I have done before at this junction. The Juke probably should have seen it coming, especially as she'd have seen him nearly hit me.

As a rule I always let bus drivers out of bus stops and if I can side roads, the bus drivers here do tend to wait until it's safe to pull out, this is the first time I've seen a bus driver do this.

This has made me think of another knob, was a month or so ago now, I'd stopped to let a bus out of a bus stop (was one of the layby bus stops) during stop/start traffic, for some reason the car behind me honked at me for doing so, if I remember right was a Ford Puma that had been tailgating me before we hit traffic.

Edited by carlove on Sunday 31st May 22:18