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

[spookly]

DRFC1879 said:

Cycling
For the record, I HATE seeing cyclists riding on the pavement and jumping red lights. Countless times I've been stationary at a red, taking a swig fro my water bottle while some complete cretin flies straight past, no doubt trying to better their PB on a Strava segment. I always think "cheers for that, you've just wound up a load of motorists who will now feel aggressive and unforgiving towards cyclists in general and put me in danger.

I also hate it from the other side when you see cyclists deliberately putting themselves into risky situations so they can feel all virtuous giving drivers a lecture. It does no harm to pull in for a few seconds and let motor traffic past. in fact you'll make the roads safer for everyone.

[Tango13]

White Vauxhall Astras hogging the outside lane of the A1(M) from Welwyn all the way too Baldock despite there being dozens of opportunities to move into either lane 1 or 2 to maximise their visibility and safety.

It's especially knobish when the Astra driver is a fking police officer that should know better, cretinous spacktard!

[DaveGoddard]

The two occupants of the silver 207 I was following last night, who were continually chucking cigarette ends out of the windows. Cars have ashtrays for a reason, you cocksplashes.

[Centurion07]

I mentioned this a while back and was informed that not all cars nowadays come with ashtrays.

To which I scoffed. I was then roundly educated by lots of posters offering up examples of such cars.

Just sayin'.

[Liquid Knight]

WinstonWolf said:

Liquid Knight said:

DRFC1879 said:

Cycling
For the record, I HATE seeing cyclists riding on the pavement and jumping red lights. Countless times I've been stationary at a red, taking a swig fro my water bottle while some complete cretin flies straight past, no doubt trying to better their PB on a Strava segment. I always think "cheers for that, you've just wound up a load of motorists who will now feel aggressive and unforgiving towards cyclists in general and put me in danger.

+1 The Stravaists are as bad as Pokemon chasers. Just as distracted, just as stupid and when you think about it just as futile. Oh, whoop I have the fastest time for this kilometer I should get myself some cake.

I have suggested that using a mobile phone whilst cycling should carry the same penalties as when driving. You are on the road you are traffic you should stick to the same rules as everyone else. The Road Traffic Act.

Stravaists need to get on with the important task of paying attention to what's going on around them not what their phone app' or watch is doing.

Hang on, you're always setting PB's on your Back in the Saddle thread

I look at the time when I leave and when I get home. :P

I don't use an anti-social app' or feel the need to compete with anyone else.

[vtecyo]

I may have posted this before but was reminded of it this morning.

People who drive around with their wipers on max speed when intermittent will more than suffice. Especially when tailgating. Yes you, in the silver Rav 4.

I think I've used the mach 1 speed less than 5 times in my life.

[e21Mark]

Centurion07 said:

I mentioned this a while back and was informed that not all cars nowadays come with ashtrays.

To which I scoffed. I was then roundly educated by lots of posters offering up examples of such cars.

Just sayin'.

Don't see that as justification though myself.

[fooby]

vtecyo said:

I may have posted this before but was reminded of it this morning.

People who drive around with their wipers on max speed when intermittent will more than suffice. Especially when tailgating. Yes you, in the silver Rav 4.

I think I've used the mach 1 speed less than 5 times in my life.

This always amazes me too, I think I've used that speed once, during the northern floods of 2015. I do wax my windscreen though, so anything more than intermittent is very rare tbh.

Also I know it doesn't really make you a knob, you can do what you want in your own car, but why the hell do people ever have the urge to smoke in their cars? I even see some nicer, high end luxury cars with a yellow hand holding a smoke stick hanging out. It's disgusting to any passenger that ever gets in your car, and the resale must be halved at least.

I hate cigarettes with a passion. I've never been directly affected by somebody drinking in the street, yet it's perfectly legal to breathe toxins into my face while I walk down the high street.

Edited by fooby on Friday 19th August 10:23

[AH33]

Trying to get home yesterday. Edinburgh. Average speed 7mph. Old woman decides to just come to a complete stop in the middle of a busy roundabout while she squinted and peered at the roadsigns. Gave her a quick beep to let her know she was holding everyone up and she tutted made a "wait there" hand gesture. Leant on the horn this time and she gets annoyed, hanging out of her window asking what my problem was. Er - YOU ARE LOVE.

I called her gods least favourite word and she finally drove off, looking offended.

I win.

[kennydies]

fooby said:

his always amazes me too, I think I've used that speed once, during the northern floods of 2015. I do wax my windscreen though, so anything more than intermittent is very rare tbh.

Also I know it doesn't really make you a knob, you can do what you want in your own car, but why the hell do people ever have the urge to smoke in their cars? I even see some nicer, high end luxury cars with a yellow hand holding a smoke stick hanging out. It's disgusting to any passenger that ever gets in your car, and the resale must be halved at least.

I hate cigarettes with a passion. I've never been directly affected by somebody drinking in the street, yet it's perfectly legal to breathe toxins into my face while I walk down the high street.

Edited by fooby on Friday 19th August 10:23

Agreed, then drops the butt out the window. Because all the smokers have been kicked out the pub you can't sit in the beer garden without the cloud of death hovering over you anymore either.

[Europa1]

AH33 said:

Trying to get home yesterday. Edinburgh. Average speed 7mph. Old woman decides to just come to a complete stop in the middle of a busy roundabout while she squinted and peered at the roadsigns. Gave her a quick beep to let her know she was holding everyone up and she tutted made a "wait there" hand gesture. Leant on the horn this time and she gets annoyed, hanging out of her window asking what my problem was. Er - YOU ARE LOVE.

I called her gods least favourite word and she finally drove off, looking offended.

I win.

You called her an atheist?

[alpha channel]

What's got into some drivers this week, yesterday I had a cretin in a silver Rav 4 decide that "too close for comfort" wasn't good enough and went for "bloody fking dangerously close, I'm going to try and push you down the fking road" on a 50mph stretch (all I can see in my rear view mirror is a Toyota logo and a bit of grill). I'm trying to stop his Rav 4 from mating with my Rover (keeping in mind we've never come across each other before). I enter a nicely sighted roundabout with zero traffic so I carry a bit of speed in to it (on this one, the roundabout just outside Wynyard Park, you can get away with about 35-40mph and stay in lane), left lane of the dual carriage, he decides right at that moment he's going to overtake as we enter.

Judging by the way the thing lurched back in behind me I suspect he st himself trying to match my speed in to the roundabout and everything didn't go to plan, he goes for the overtake and promptly makes me brake hard as he cuts across back into my lane. The worst thing? the dumb fker slipped into the lane that took him onto the A19 northbound! Why the fk endanger my life acting like that just so he can get into a lane barely any traffic ever fking uses! It's not like I was holding him up either, when the lights changed he pootles off at a rather sedate speed!

(This morning it was an equally knuckle dragging fk wit in a VW Up that, even on a dual carriage, refused to let anyone overtake, ragging the car for all it was worth if anyone got close, even tried it on with a 4 series 335d on the other side of the A19).

[AW111]

One single thing that makes me think "knob" :

BigLion said:

Personally I always go through amber and often speed up to do so.

[BigLion]

AW111 said:

One single thing that makes me think "knob" :

BigLion said:

Personally I always go through amber and often speed up to do so.

For me, what makes me think 'knob.'...people who don't know how to drive in order to make SAFE progress...typically these are the same people who haven't quite succeeded in life.

[AW111]

BigLion said:

For me, what makes me think 'knob.'...people who don't know how to drive in order to make SAFE progress...typically these are the same people who haven't quite succeeded in life.

So accelerating to make a risky run through an amber light when you could easily have stopped is your definition of "SAFE"?
You did say "always".

[ManOpener]

Here I was, thinking that slowing down for amber lights instead of just hammering through and hoping for the best was the right approach. All those years I've shaken my head at the knuckle-draggers in badly modified poverty spec hatchbacks and angry dads in dented Zafiras for flooring it instead of coming to a stop when it's safe enough to do so, and now I'm learning I've been the one whose failed at life.

[BigLion]

AW111 said:

BigLion said:

For me, what makes me think 'knob.'...people who don't know how to drive in order to make SAFE progress...typically these are the same people who haven't quite succeeded in life.

So accelerating to make a risky run through an amber light when you could easily have stopped is your definition of "SAFE"?
You did say "always".

How the fk would you know if it's a risky run?

Honestly you are yet another tool to put on the avoid list.

[ManOpener]

You did say you "always" do it, I don't think it's beyond the realms of reasonableness to assume that not every amber light is safe to drive through.
Or are you claiming that every amber light is, in fact, safe to drive through?

[mistakenplane]

vtecyo said:

I may have posted this before but was reminded of it this morning.

People who drive around with their wipers on max speed when intermittent will more than suffice. Especially when tailgating. Yes you, in the silver Rav 4.

I think I've used the mach 1 speed less than 5 times in my life.

It's a good indication for people to be avoided on the road, they'll often leave them on when its stopped raining too.

If they arent capable of operating their wipers then you know they're going to do something else stupid.

[BigLion]

ManOpener said:

You did say you "always" do it, I don't think it's beyond the realms of reasonableness to assume that not every amber light is safe to drive through.
Or are you claiming that every amber light is, in fact, safe to drive through?

If you're driving through an amber light why wouldn't it be safe?