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

[TehRin]

Jim AK said:

TehRin said:

People who smoke with their kids in the car, then try to use to excuse "I opened the window."

Don't know if it's been mentioned before. I have nothing against smoking.

Isn't it illegal now?

It is, it has been for a while. Still doesn't stop people putting their addiction before their children.

[Muddle238]

TehRin said:

People who smoke with their kids in the car, then try to use to excuse "I opened the window."

Don't know if it's been mentioned before. I have nothing against smoking.

On a similar subject, when people are vaping in a traffic jam. Everything looks normal until suddenly the gap in the open drivers window suddenly starts billowing more than a 4-6-2 pulling out of Kings Cross on a December morning.

[TehRin]

Muddle238 said:

TehRin said:

People who smoke with their kids in the car, then try to use to excuse "I opened the window."

Don't know if it's been mentioned before. I have nothing against smoking.

On a similar subject, when people are vaping in a traffic jam. Everything looks normal until suddenly the gap in the open drivers window suddenly starts billowing more than a 4-6-2 pulling out of Kings Cross on a December morning.

I'll just keep the windows up next time.

[lucido grigio]

OpulentBob said:

OT, but anyone seen WD39 lately? I've missed his entertaining grumblings.

Now known as Nonsequiter.

[Jim AK]

TehRin said:

It is, it has been for a while. Still doesn't stop people putting their addiction before their children.

Typical...... Yet another unenforced bit of legislation.

[TehRin]

Jim AK said:

TehRin said:

It is, it has been for a while. Still doesn't stop people putting their addiction before their children.

Typical...... Yet another unenforced bit of legislation.

A decent bit of legislation too, pull over and stand outside the car and do it. If it's not worth doing that but you'd rather smoke with your kids in the car then your priorities need to be sorted.

[AJXX1]

I don't want to sound like "that guy" but the bloke next door to us got himself a motorbike about 4 weeks ago and it's getting really fooking annoying. He constantly comes and goes, each time resulting in about 5 mins of idle and revving the knackers off it. I work from home so it's distracting but not a huge problem. The Mrs works night shifts and ends up getting woken up constantly. If he just came and went without the 5 mins+ of idle/revving it would not be a huge problem.

We're putting up with it for now, I've offered to have a quiet word but we decided against it. I'm worried the Mrs is getting very close to sticking said motorbike up said neighbors arse (probably sideways). Either way, I see conflict ahead.

Not sure if we are the knob(s) for being unreasonable?

Edited by AJXX1 on Tuesday 4th April 21:55

[Rich_W]

Muddle238 said:

TehRin said:

People who smoke with their kids in the car, then try to use to excuse "I opened the window."

Don't know if it's been mentioned before. I have nothing against smoking.

On a similar subject, when people are vaping in a traffic jam. Everything looks normal until suddenly the gap in the open drivers window suddenly starts billowing more than a 4-6-2 pulling out of Kings Cross on a December morning.

There are 2 immoveable facts with Vaping

1) Go and look in your local Vape shop (since their fking everywhere) The customer base is not the sort of person you should be identifying with or emulating in any way shape or form!
2) Think of the coolest person you can. Steve McQueen, George Clooney in Oceans 11, Sean Connery as Bond. Whoever. I can categorically state. They would never vape!

[ChevronB19]

Rich_W said:

Muddle238 said:

TehRin said:

People who smoke with their kids in the car, then try to use to excuse "I opened the window."

Don't know if it's been mentioned before. I have nothing against smoking.

On a similar subject, when people are vaping in a traffic jam. Everything looks normal until suddenly the gap in the open drivers window suddenly starts billowing more than a 4-6-2 pulling out of Kings Cross on a December morning.

There are 2 immoveable facts with Vaping

1) Go and look in your local Vape shop (since their fking everywhere) The customer base is not the sort of person you should be identifying with or emulating in any way shape or form!
2) Think of the coolest person you can. Steve McQueen, George Clooney in Oceans 11, Sean Connery as Bond. Whoever. I can categorically state. They would never vape!

Don't care. Vaping (with minimal 'smoke' - don't understand that bit) has got me off the fags after smoking for 25 years. In regard to number two, there's a great Eddie Izzard sketch about Steve McQueen chewing a matchstick - essentially, one = cool (at least in a 50's Steve McQueen sense), two = 'looking like a dhead' 😂

[swisstoni]

I have a feeling fate has something terrible in store for vapers a few years up the line.

[Cold]

swisstoni said:

I have a feeling fate has something terrible in store for vapers a few years up the line.

Is it something to do with alien lifeforms?

[Triumph Man]

swisstoni said:

I have a feeling fate has something terrible in store for vapers a few years up the line.

Hopefully for those ones who insist on making huge clouds of it, because tt.

I was driving behind somebody who had the "vapour" turned up so much so I could smell it in my car. And had to close my sunroof /firstworldproblems.

[alpha channel]

The silly mare in the white 320D that obviously had somewhere really, really important to get too. Pinned to my rear bumper on multiple occasions, looking to overtake into oncoming traffic occasionally. In the end I got sick of here trying to climb in to the boot of the car as we overtook a truck on the dual carriage section of the A689 just past Sedgefield dropped it a couple of cogs and gave it a boot and left her standing (it did fill two things at once mind, I also got to hear the engine... ).

Further up the road she zipped past me doing well north of 100.

A honourable mention to the old bird in the S-Type (leaper on the nose, front fogs blazing away despite our very pleasant conditions) that decided riding my rear bumper was a good idea... I certainly couldn't go any faster, two vans, an artic and a constant flow of traffic coming the other way put paid to that.

As an aside, and not in least knobbish, parked up the XK the other night and as I was in the kitchen a guy came up and had a good nosey around, he looked round pointed at the car mouthed "is this yours" I nodded went out, we had a chat and he offered to give me his phone number if I ever wanted to sell it... I've only had it three weeks (turns out he lives around the corner, and one of the streets residents is moving in with him and they're looking for one for her). It did however make me realise just how much I like it though and the thought of getting rid is as hard as the thought of getting shot of the Rover.

[nonsequitur]

AJXX1 said:

I don't want to sound like "that guy" but the bloke next door to us got himself a motorbike about 4 weeks ago and it's getting really fooking annoying. He constantly comes and goes, each time resulting in about 5 mins of idle and revving the knackers off it. I work from home so it's distracting but not a huge problem. The Mrs works night shifts and ends up getting woken up constantly. If he just came and went without the 5 mins+ of idle/revving it would not be a huge problem.

We're putting up with it for now, I've offered to have a quiet word but we decided against it. I'm worried the Mrs is getting very close to sticking said motorbike up said neighbors arse (probably sideways). Either way, I see conflict ahead.

Not sure if we are the knob(s) for being unreasonable?

Edited by AJXX1 on Tuesday 4th April 21:55

No, not at all. We had problems with bikes in our village. A visit to the miscreants followed. I was polite and courteous. Lots of grovelling and apologies ensued. No further bike noise, over and above what you would expect.

[Krikkit]

nonsequitur said:

AJXX1 said:

I don't want to sound like "that guy" but the bloke next door to us got himself a motorbike about 4 weeks ago and it's getting really fooking annoying. He constantly comes and goes, each time resulting in about 5 mins of idle and revving the knackers off it. I work from home so it's distracting but not a huge problem. The Mrs works night shifts and ends up getting woken up constantly. If he just came and went without the 5 mins+ of idle/revving it would not be a huge problem.

We're putting up with it for now, I've offered to have a quiet word but we decided against it. I'm worried the Mrs is getting very close to sticking said motorbike up said neighbors arse (probably sideways). Either way, I see conflict ahead.

Not sure if we are the knob(s) for being unreasonable?

Edited by AJXX1 on Tuesday 4th April 21:55

No, not at all. We had problems with bikes in our village. A visit to the miscreants followed. I was polite and courteous. Lots of grovelling and apologies ensued. No further bike noise, over and above what you would expect.

Unfortunately if it's a 2-stroke there might not be anything the biker can do - they need warming properly before they can be ridden, or you risk a seized engine.

[numtumfutunch]

We're currently on holiday in the UK
Within 5 miles of our gaff on arrival day I approached a slip road exiting onto my path

As I reach it a nondescript fully laden family wagon of no ambition arrives at speed, executes a fairly abrupt stop and then the cockwomble driving establishes brief eye contact with me before gunning it into my path causing me to brake heavily.

Now Im on holiday so am fairly chilled at the moment.
This kind of behaviour could legitimately have spawned the full house of horn, lights, expletives and gestures before overtaking him, performing a brake test and throwing a can of Red Bull, although I did say to the missus "I bet that tts our neighbour this week."

And guess what?
He IS our neighbour, we followed the muppet all the way here.

From parking up next to him and giving him a cheery greeting to everytime I see him maintaining the veneer of nicety I can tell he cant work out if Im taking the piss or am so damn stupid as to not recognise his car.

And every single time I see him I think "knob" - and often worse........

Cheers

[bad company]

400 pages of people saying others are knobs. Hmmmm.

[Rich_W]

The stupid bint in the Yaris (I think) who decided the best place to stop and chat to some wky yoof on the pavement was 2 car lengths from a junction and forcing everyone to have to drive around her and squeeze between the island.

But it's all right cause she had the Hazards on.

! Hope he gives her Herpes or something!

[AlexRS2782]

The colossal knob cheese in his "Barbarian" that decided the red light at the pedestrian crossing near Farnborough Gate r/bout was optional this afternoon and charged through forcing the 2 girls that were about to cross to jump back onto the pavement to avoid being run over.

Additional knobs were the morons driving the Nissan Juke and Golf R, following Mr Barbarian, that decided because he'd jumped the light, they might as well do so too.

[nonsequitur]

numtumfutunch said:

We're currently on holiday in the UK
Within 5 miles of our gaff on arrival day I approached a slip road exiting onto my path

As I reach it a nondescript fully laden family wagon of no ambition arrives at speed, executes a fairly abrupt stop and then the cockwomble driving establishes brief eye contact with me before gunning it into my path causing me to brake heavily.

Now Im on holiday so am fairly chilled at the moment.
This kind of behaviour could legitimately have spawned the full house of horn, lights, expletives and gestures before overtaking him, performing a brake test and throwing a can of Red Bull, although I did say to the missus "I bet that tts our neighbour this week."

And guess what?
He IS our neighbour, we followed the muppet all the way here.

From parking up next to him and giving him a cheery greeting to everytime I see him maintaining the veneer of nicety I can tell he cant work out if Im taking the piss or am so damn stupid as to not recognise his car.

And every single time I see him I think "knob" - and often worse........

Cheers

There is some satisfaction in you KNOWING that he is a knob. And he doesn't.