One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
I agree, it's a piss boiler. I use a large roundabout every night (4 lanes, 7 exits), and despite a recent 15 month, multi million pound revamp, most people just use the quietest lane as they approach it regardless of where they actually want to go. It's a confusing roundabout so some people will genuinely get in the wrong lane and need to sort it out halfway round, but when you see the same car do it every night, you just know they are a throbber.
RicksAlfas said:
I agree, it's a piss boiler. I use a large roundabout every night (4 lanes, 7 exits), and despite a recent 15 month, multi million pound revamp, most people just use the quietest lane as they approach it regardless of where they actually want to go. It's a confusing roundabout so some people will genuinely get in the wrong lane and need to sort it out halfway round, but when you see the same car do it every night, you just know they are a throbber.
You always know which ones have genuinely got it wrong on this one, because the approach lanes are clearly marked left/straight & right a bit further back from my first picture, and after this they indicate right and wait to properly merge into the queuing traffic before the lights.Anyone who tries it on the roundabout is just a knob. It's usually white van drivers, I presume they don't care too much if they sideswipe some poor sod (and I've seen a LOT of near misses due to this).
The plumbsack road knight in the blue Peugeot 307 this afternoon in Basingstoke, dual carriageway with the outside lane closing in 600 yards before a roundabout due to earth works. Traffic (because residents of Basingstoke are thick as s
t) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many.
t) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many. A black focus I've seen just about every day driving home for about three weeks, it only has one sidelight working (fog lights on) noticed when I passed today one of the rear lights has gone. I assume from one sidelight and fog lights in the dark means the headlights have both blown. This happened but three weeks like it takes the piss.
Slip road on to the A47 earlier. VW Passat estate decided to sit in my blind spot so I had to brake at the end and pull on to the road behind him. He then decided to do a brake test so as the right lane was clear I started to overtake. Again he matched my speed and sat in my blind spot. I'd slow, he'd slow, I'd accelerate he'd stay in my blind spot as if he wanted me to cut across causing him to crash or hit me.
Dropped a gear and put myself a safe distance from him. The next slip road he tried the same trick with a truck.
Crash for cash scammer, Darwinist or suicidal?
Dropped a gear and put myself a safe distance from him. The next slip road he tried the same trick with a truck.
Crash for cash scammer, Darwinist or suicidal?
mistakenplane said:
Pulled up behind someone the other day and thought "blimey thats a big dash cam".
Nope, they were watching a film on their iPhone which was located just below the rear view mirror.
I see this all the time on the A3. Van man on his iphone stuck to the window flicking through facebook, saw a young girl the other week with her foot resting on the brake at 60mph and reading a bloody kindle. Almost rear ended me when i was turning off the dual carriageway onto a tiny road.Nope, they were watching a film on their iPhone which was located just below the rear view mirror.
A driver of what I believe was a Passat who suddenly veered into my path while negotiating a fast-ish left hander (right-hander for me) on a medium sized country lane at around 6.15pm near Stokenchurch on the way towards Christmas Common, just at the motorway bridge over the M40.
I was too busy emergency stopping and watching my life flash before my eyes to think knob as our closing speed was initially around 100mph.
How they missed me I do not know as we were heading for a head on collision, I was stuck with the choice of trees or car so I braked, kept it on the road and braced.
Total knob.
I was too busy emergency stopping and watching my life flash before my eyes to think knob as our closing speed was initially around 100mph.
How they missed me I do not know as we were heading for a head on collision, I was stuck with the choice of trees or car so I braked, kept it on the road and braced.
Total knob.
LANE DISCIPLINE!
Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
kuro said:
The tt who thought it would be a good idea to join rush hour traffic in exeter driving a massive tractor with an equally massive trailer attached to it causing near gridlock through exwick.
Why do you think the driver shouldn't have been there, is your journey more important than theirs? t who thought it would be a good idea to join rush hour traffic in exeter driving a massive tractor with an equally massive trailer attached to it causing near gridlock through exwick.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNvINg31AU Watch it all.
Muddle238 said:
The plumbsack road knight in the blue Peugeot 307 this afternoon in Basingstoke, dual carriageway with the outside lane closing in 600 yards before a roundabout due to earth works. Traffic (because residents of Basingstoke are thick as st) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many.
This sort of behaviour drives me spare. For historical reasons, I live in Cambridge. I now work in glamorous Stevenage. Most days I get the train - so much less stressful. But on the rare occasions I drive: as one heads out of Camrbidge, through the outskirts of Trumpington, towards the M11/A10 junction - Jesus H Candlesticks, the other direction: coming into Cambridge, 2 lanes, then going into one. The number of road captains straddling the white line to block others. What the juddering ft) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many. k do they think the 2 (count them, 2) lanes are for?! The council decided to spunk hundreds of thousands of pounds on a tarmac, entirely decorative, feature? s. Total, unalloyed s. AJXX1 said:
LANE DISCIPLINE!
Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
Not excusing it but some of these drivers may be new in the UK.Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
A couple of years ago I was exiting via the mini roundabout at Tesco in Walkden. I was mildly surprised to see a youngish woman having a driving lesson which involved going around the roundabout in the wrong direction. She seemed irritated by my presence blocking her progress!
Thankfully this was v low speed and not on the main public road.
AJXX1 said:
LANE DISCIPLINE!
Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
I passed a line of cars following an ambulance all sat in lane 2 (of 4) on the M6 recently. Plenty of space in lane 1. Could have been worse I suppose, the MLMs usually sit in lane 3 in the 4 lane sections. Specifically the handful of numpties I encounter on a daily basis at night on my way home from work who, without fail, enter the deserted A1M from the slip road (3 lane MW) and then immediately plonk themselves in L2! or worse the twunt always crawling up L3 despite there being no other traffic around.
I zoom past them all in L1 these days without a care in the world.
Europa1 said:
Muddle238 said:
The plumbsack road knight in the blue Peugeot 307 this afternoon in Basingstoke, dual carriageway with the outside lane closing in 600 yards before a roundabout due to earth works. Traffic (because residents of Basingstoke are thick as st) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many.
This sort of behaviour drives me spare. For historical reasons, I live in Cambridge. I now work in glamorous Stevenage. Most days I get the train - so much less stressful. But on the rare occasions I drive: as one heads out of Camrbidge, through the outskirts of Trumpington, towards the M11/A10 junction - Jesus H Candlesticks, the other direction: coming into Cambridge, 2 lanes, then going into one. The number of road captains straddling the white line to block others. What the juddering ft) backing up for 600 yards in L1, L2 empty to the merge. A silver Golf is trundling down L2 towards the cones in, when this piece of work in his blue Pug decides to pull out and block L2, a good 500 yards before the cones. The Golf ends up on the central verge, then the tt in the Peugeot also mounts the verge in a police-style block in, doing everything he can to stop the Golf driver using the lane. He then proceeds to drive along in L2, matching the speed of the stop-start traffic in L1 until the merge. Complete waste of a lane, if the Pug driver had pulled into the same car park as I was heading I would have had words but as it was, they didn't. Utter cretins. A good enough reason not to go to Basingstoke, among many. k do they think the 2 (count them, 2) lanes are for?! The council decided to spunk hundreds of thousands of pounds on a tarmac, entirely decorative, feature? s. Total, unalloyed s. t out of people like this. Police would find them dead with the relevant pages of the HC stapled to their worthless corpse. Btw I live near Salisbury and the A36 is a classic for this. d
heads the lot of them. 3 times in the past two weeks the same Mercedes has pulled out of a junction further up this road to head towards where this picture was taken, into oncoming traffic (spaces are usually full the whole way along the left hand side) and just sat there, refusing to move. The first time I was second in the queue, and at that time of day the queue quickly built behind me, the woman in front of me got out and had words, and after 5 minutes he finally gave in and reversed back into the junction to allow what was by then 10-15 cars to pass. Second and third times it all just came to a complete stand still and a whole load of us had to edge back along this road and find gaps to pull over into, on one of those occasions an old dear really struggled to reverse back along here so it took nearly 10 minutes to resolve it.
Mentalist, no idea what he is trying to achieve as it's clearly not speeding up his journey.
Mentalist, no idea what he is trying to achieve as it's clearly not speeding up his journey.
'Stealth cyclists'. These are the ones on matt black bikes, all dressed in black with black crash hats and black back packs - of a type I know full well are available with bright visibility patches on them.
One I see regularly has the tiniest barely visible lights on it.
Riding around in the dark like that is just storing up trouble for some other road user.
Some kind of weird 'urban warrior' thing going on?
One I see regularly has the tiniest barely visible lights on it.
Riding around in the dark like that is just storing up trouble for some other road user.
Some kind of weird 'urban warrior' thing going on?
ukaskew said:
3 times in the past two weeks the same Mercedes has pulled out of a junction further up this road to head towards where this picture was taken, into oncoming traffic (spaces are usually full the whole way along the left hand side) and just sat there, refusing to move. The first time I was second in the queue, and at that time of day the queue quickly built behind me, the woman in front of me got out and had words, and after 5 minutes he finally gave in and reversed back into the junction to allow what was by then 10-15 cars to pass. Second and third times it all just came to a complete stand still and a whole load of us had to edge back along this road and find gaps to pull over into, on one of those occasions an old dear really struggled to reverse back along here so it took nearly 10 minutes to resolve it.
Mentalist, no idea what he is trying to achieve as it's clearly not speeding up his journey.
Some bimbo did that to me going through the village, she was in a Merc too. Trouble, for her, was I was in my tractor, so stopped, flipped the steering wheel up and poured a coffee, while she looked in the owners manual for reverse. Mentalist, no idea what he is trying to achieve as it's clearly not speeding up his journey.
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