One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[idibbers]

I've had a couple over the weekend. Both happened on my estate, which has narrowish roads, the type you wouldn't be able to drive through if double parked.

One side of the road is always parked on because people there don't have any garages, that's fine, they leave car sized spaces here and there for anyone who needs to let another car past. A couple of nights ago there was a 1 series parked on the opposite side of the road leaving literally just enough space for a hatchback to squeeze through! The funny thing was though that there was only one car on the other side of the road that night, meaning she'd bloody chosen to park nearly parallel to it, even though there was the whole road available!!!!!

Another, and this fng annoys me even more. At the end of my road is a left turn and a right, both blind, so you always have to stop, anyway, this absolute moron stops just before the turn, I get behind him thinking he's letting another car pass, but NO he's just stopped there to fiddle around!! Unbelievable! No indicators or hazards or anything! I didn't actually use the horn, which looking back I should've been all over whilst overtaking.

Both those situations are quite hard to explain, basically people who stop opposite to another car on a tight road and people who don't indicate when needed are both nobs!!!!

[Blown2CV]

ManOpener said:

Blown2CV said:

ManOpener said:

shost said:

Looks repairable. But looks close to minimum depth. Risk of knob call for illegal tyres

I've actually just been out and checked because the picture does make them look pretty low. But they're really not! Circa 6mm across the everything I can reach...as I'd hope given that they've only got about 8k on them

pull the other one!!

Garage confirmed when they replaced the damaged one (apparently couldn't be repaired). 5mm fronts, 6mm rears.

It's times like this I feel the need for a mooning smilie.

custard and actuated depth gauge or it didn't happen mr wheelspinz!

[scarble]

Am I the only one now wishing for a custard stage on the WRC?

[Pan Pan]

ORD said:

Pan Pan said:

The very rich have usually been this way for decades if not centuries, so the know full well how to hang on to what they have got and to accumulate even more wealth, and since they are usually the controllers of a country (any country)they know how to adjust laws to benefit themselves. Yes they do take vast sums for themselves but in a country of 63 million plus, they are likely to be relatively few in number. I would suspect that very few people know a millionaire, but suspect that many of us know at least one someone, who is a benefits claimant.
Like it or not the main filter for humans is one of intelligence. Even in cave man days it often came down to strength plus intelligence, not just strength alone.
If a way could be found to give everyone on the planet an equal share of its resources, give it a year or two, and those resources will have started to be `re distributed' with some acquiring far more than their fair share, Some with more or less what they started with, and a large group with little or nothing left of their `fair share'
It is really the much derided, so called middle classes who do the work and produce the wealth and taxes which keeps those at the very top and bottom of the wealth spectrum alive.

In the UK, the top 10% of earners (whom you would probably deride as "rich") pay more than half of all income tax. The top 1% (whom you would definitely deride as "rich") pay not much less than a third.

It makes me think "knob" when people in the UK moan about the "rich" as though they are an indolent few rather than hundreds of thousands of people that are, compared to most Brits, massively productive and extremely heavily taxed. One fairly "rich" person will often pay more tax than about 20 middle-earners put together and will nonetheless be derided by Daily Mail readers for not paying his "fair share" (whatever in the name of fk the word "fair" is supposed to mean in that context). Most Daily Mail readers will pay an effective tax rate of 20-odd %; the "rich" people whom they envy and despise in equal measure often pay an effective tax rate of over 50%.

I don't deride the rich, they are most often the ones who provide the employment that most of us ordinary folk get `their' income from, but in a demographics lecture I attended many years ago when doing teacher training, we were told that 87% of the countries wealth, was held by just 6% of the
population. There are however idlers at both ends of the countries rich and poor population spectrum, who contribute f*ck all to the country, but take as much as they can get.
My belief is that it is the often derided middle classes, who work hard throughout their lives from school onwards who are the ones who form the backbone of the country, and pay for those at the top and bottom of the social spectrum.
When I hear benefits claimants moaning about the rich, my usual thought is `you should have tried harder at school! anyone prepared to do a days work for a days pay can get by, and even do quite well in this country. (as some immigrants have clearly shown) The real problem as noted above, are those that want to contribute nothing, but take as much as they can get, at both the rich and poor ends of the financial spectrum, who appear to be the real problem for the UK.

[Pan Pan]

Hol said:

Pan Pan said:

Hol said:

mattshiz said:

fatboy69 said:

Joey Barton.

Says that Lewis Hamilton is not a good role model for the country.

Really?

Joey Barton. KNOB!!!! Nn

Never understood why BBC insist on always quoting him and Robbie Savage. Both complete average footballers who if they had behaved in a professional manner throughout their careers they may have actually succeeded in winning something.

Instead they spend more time spouting absolute rubbish on twitter about people who have applied themselves in their professional discipline to a much higher level than either of them ever got close to.

Biggest highlight of Savages career was being the one failure from the 'Class of '92', whereas Barton's biggest professional achievement is being an absolute thug and getting sent off in the game that Aguero scored the late league winning goal.

Cretins.

I loved reading all the commical facebook comments about "F1 not being a true sport because you drive a car ('anyone' can drive a car fast etc... )" and "Golf not being a sport because you have to use a club"

If they had their way, the only true sport would be Naked Female Mud Wrestling.
- which does give them just the one positive point.

Does this mean that any `sport' which requires equipment of some kind in order engage in it, is not really a `sport'??? so that's just about everything, except Naked Female Mud Wrestling. but surely even this requires mud, and some kind of tank / receptacle for holding it.
Love to see a golfer play without clubs, or a cricketer play without a bat, or a footballer play without a ball.
But there may be a distinction between sports. where arguably motorsports could be one of the few truly human sports.
You could train dogs or chimpanzees run in a race, to kick a football, or hit a ball with a bat, or club (they may even be a lot better at it than we are!?) but try doing that with any kind of motorsport, and it really would not work out all that well. Cycling might also be the nearest sport that could be regarded as a truly human sport as a mix of man and machine.

Yup,
That was pretty much the sum of the argument.

Pretty much Athletics only.

I remember jocky Wilson stepping up to the plate on a televised darts match, and the commentator saying `Here come Jocky' follewd by `what an athlete!! and the problem was he meant it!

[silverfoxcc]

Going north on the A329 from Wokingham. At the Winnersh Crossroads light controlled, the north bound goes from 2 to 1 lane. there are merge arrows on the rh side.
I am in my bus for the disabled, which is well stickered as to who we carry( not that this is a mitigating fact). So i am slowly away from the lights in the RH lane and the first three LH lane cars get ahead, As the road begins to narrow, check mirrors to MIT and seeing there was space started to move left, until this total braindead old fart comes barrelling up on the inside and attaches himself to the car i was in the process of getting behind.
It was only good fortune i saw him though the side door glass otherwise this fkwit would now be in hospital,so i pull to the right hoping he realises he is doing a very silly thing, he then veers toward me and really gets on the rear of the other car. I am now running out of road,and fearing he will mega brake test me should i pull behind him just stay put, thinking of what move to make next, i mean, this piece of st for brains does not want me in that space at all!. Luckily the opposite traffic was non existant and the guy who was unweillingly giving him the tow, started to slow and i realised he had spotted what was happening, I took the hint and passed him, all within speed limit as well, gave him a thankyou and carried on leaving this little englander stewing in his epic fail.

Many thanks to this wonderful good samaritan, if i had his number i would plaster it high and wide. As for the other fker, i hope he get piles for Xmas, loses his teeth and taste, and is thankful he is still anonymous to me otherwise the next time i meet him not on company time his hearing might be permanently damaged due to me bellowing in his ear ,querying his existence, parentage and lack of driving skill It was only this that stopped me from really laying into him.
Transport manager agreed it was the best course of action, and should this cretin be able to use a phone and attempt a complaint, he will be told in no uncertain terms to get a HC code and read the section on merge in turn. A cocksocket of the highest order.

[Cliftonite]

This is PH. Why were you in lane 2 with a slow vehicle?

[Liquid Knight]

People making a big deal about petrol being a few Pence cheaper. Oil prices have dropped by 40% in the last year; petrol prices 5% if you're lucky.

[DervVW]

Seemingly everyone on Lydiate Ash Island (M5 jnc 4) tonight.
Red means stop
Green means go if its clear

Almost impossible to get around with people rushing through the lights only to queue up and block the exit for the next cars on green.

And the stupid woman in the volvo sitting in the outside lane at 60 all the way from the m5 to the m6, passing no one.

[Flibble]

Liquid Knight said:

People making a big deal about petrol being a few Pence cheaper. Oil prices have dropped by 40% in the last year; petrol prices 5% if you're lucky.

They've dropped about 12% by my reckoning, which given how little of the pump price is made up of the actual wholesale price of the fuel isn't that bad.

According to this: http://www.petrolprices.com/the-price-of-fuel.html the wholesale fuel cost was around 47p per litre earlier in the year, dropping that by 40% gives a reduction of 18.8p, plus 3.8p of VAT reduction. So we should have seen a reduction of 22.6p/litre, or a around 18%. So yes fuel is a little overpriced, but not massively so. At current oil prices, I wouldn't expect to see fuel below £1.05/litre.
A 40% drop from this years average price (of around £1.30) would see petrol at 78p/litre. For it to be that low the wholesale fuel plus distribution and retailer margin would have to be 7p/litre (the remaining 71p is duty and VAT). Given distribution and retailer margin is around 5p typically, that would mean a wholesale fuel cost of 2p/litre which is unrealistic.

[Pan Pan]

ORD said:

Pan Pan said:

The very rich have usually been this way for decades if not centuries, so the know full well how to hang on to what they have got and to accumulate even more wealth, and since they are usually the controllers of a country (any country)they know how to adjust laws to benefit themselves. Yes they do take vast sums for themselves but in a country of 63 million plus, they are likely to be relatively few in number. I would suspect that very few people know a millionaire, but suspect that many of us know at least one someone, who is a benefits claimant.
Like it or not the main filter for humans is one of intelligence. Even in cave man days it often came down to strength plus intelligence, not just strength alone.
If a way could be found to give everyone on the planet an equal share of its resources, give it a year or two, and those resources will have started to be `re distributed' with some acquiring far more than their fair share, Some with more or less what they started with, and a large group with little or nothing left of their `fair share'
It is really the much derided, so called middle classes who do the work and produce the wealth and taxes which keeps those at the very top and bottom of the wealth spectrum alive.

In the UK, the top 10% of earners (whom you would probably deride as "rich") pay more than half of all income tax. The top 1% (whom you would definitely deride as "rich") pay not much less than a third.

It makes me think "knob" when people in the UK moan about the "rich" as though they are an indolent few rather than hundreds of thousands of people that are, compared to most Brits, massively productive and extremely heavily taxed. One fairly "rich" person will often pay more tax than about 20 middle-earners put together and will nonetheless be derided by Daily Mail readers for not paying his "fair share" (whatever in the name of fk the word "fair" is supposed to mean in that context). Most Daily Mail readers will pay an effective tax rate of 20-odd %; the "rich" people whom they envy and despise in equal measure often pay an effective tax rate of over 50%.

It is typically Guardian readers who deride and despise the `rich' for not paying their `fair share' of tax, whatever that is.

[Northern Munkee]

Pan Pan said:

ORD said:

Pan Pan said:

The very rich have usually been this way for decades if not centuries, so the know full well how to hang on to what they have got and to accumulate even more wealth, and since they are usually the controllers of a country (any country)they know how to adjust laws to benefit themselves. Yes they do take vast sums for themselves but in a country of 63 million plus, they are likely to be relatively few in number. I would suspect that very few people know a millionaire, but suspect that many of us know at least one someone, who is a benefits claimant.
Like it or not the main filter for humans is one of intelligence. Even in cave man days it often came down to strength plus intelligence, not just strength alone.
If a way could be found to give everyone on the planet an equal share of its resources, give it a year or two, and those resources will have started to be `re distributed' with some acquiring far more than their fair share, Some with more or less what they started with, and a large group with little or nothing left of their `fair share'
It is really the much derided, so called middle classes who do the work and produce the wealth and taxes which keeps those at the very top and bottom of the wealth spectrum alive.

In the UK, the top 10% of earners (whom you would probably deride as "rich") pay more than half of all income tax. The top 1% (whom you would definitely deride as "rich") pay not much less than a third.

It makes me think "knob" when people in the UK moan about the "rich" as though they are an indolent few rather than hundreds of thousands of people that are, compared to most Brits, massively productive and extremely heavily taxed. One fairly "rich" person will often pay more tax than about 20 middle-earners put together and will nonetheless be derided by Daily Mail readers for not paying his "fair share" (whatever in the name of fk the word "fair" is supposed to mean in that context). Most Daily Mail readers will pay an effective tax rate of 20-odd %; the "rich" people whom they envy and despise in equal measure often pay an effective tax rate of over 50%.

It is typically Guardian readers who deride and despise the `rich' for not paying their `fair share' of tax, whatever that is.

'Fair share' is like 'hard working families' or 'progressive party/policy' it sounds nice, a good labour/liberal sound bite, but when you think about what it means in practice - is taxing more, including ordinary (hard working) people more and pissing up the wall on pet projects and their client state/voters.

Edited by Northern Munkee on Wednesday 17th December 08:06

[Pan Pan]

Northern Munkee said:

Pan Pan said:

ORD said:

Pan Pan said:

The very rich have usually been this way for decades if not centuries, so the know full well how to hang on to what they have got and to accumulate even more wealth, and since they are usually the controllers of a country (any country)they know how to adjust laws to benefit themselves. Yes they do take vast sums for themselves but in a country of 63 million plus, they are likely to be relatively few in number. I would suspect that very few people know a millionaire, but suspect that many of us know at least one someone, who is a benefits claimant.
Like it or not the main filter for humans is one of intelligence. Even in cave man days it often came down to strength plus intelligence, not just strength alone.
If a way could be found to give everyone on the planet an equal share of its resources, give it a year or two, and those resources will have started to be `re distributed' with some acquiring far more than their fair share, Some with more or less what they started with, and a large group with little or nothing left of their `fair share'
It is really the much derided, so called middle classes who do the work and produce the wealth and taxes which keeps those at the very top and bottom of the wealth spectrum alive.

In the UK, the top 10% of earners (whom you would probably deride as "rich") pay more than half of all income tax. The top 1% (whom you would definitely deride as "rich") pay not much less than a third.

It makes me think "knob" when people in the UK moan about the "rich" as though they are an indolent few rather than hundreds of thousands of people that are, compared to most Brits, massively productive and extremely heavily taxed. One fairly "rich" person will often pay more tax than about 20 middle-earners put together and will nonetheless be derided by Daily Mail readers for not paying his "fair share" (whatever in the name of fk the word "fair" is supposed to mean in that context). Most Daily Mail readers will pay an effective tax rate of 20-odd %; the "rich" people whom they envy and despise in equal measure often pay an effective tax rate of over 50%.

It is typically Guardian readers who deride and despise the `rich' for not paying their `fair share' of tax, whatever that is.

'Fair share' is like 'hard working families' or 'progressive party/policy' it sounds nice, a good sound labour/liberal bite, but think about what it means in practice is taxing everone, including ordinary people more and pissing up the wall on pet projects and their client state/voters.

There is probably no such thing as `fair' in the world. A bird catches and eats a worm. that is not `fair' on the worm, A cat catches, and eats a bird, that isn't `fair' on the bird. A dog kills a cat, that isn't `fair' on the cat. and so on.
As noted above the main `filter system' for just about everything on earth is intelligence. where the more intelligent of a species (any species) tends in the main, to do better, than the less intelligent. Darwin put forward the idea of survival of the fittest, but by that, he did not mean the strongest, nor even the smartest. He meant those most able to adapt to changing conditions, but arguably this does mean those with sufficient intelligence to recognise changing conditions faster than those around them. The problem for `some' these days is that the culture of political correctness
tries to fool the population into thinking that everyone is `equal' when in reality (for a variety of reasons) they are not.

[JagXJR]

Big Rod said:

AdeV said:

JagXJR said:

I thought the point was the rich knobs that avoid paying tax, rather than those playing the game fairly?

Even the rich knobs who avoid tax like mad, still pay stloads compared to those of us on more modest incomes.

Let's face it, would any of us willingly pay more tax than we're obliged to?

Since you have to earn more to pay more, yes I would! Any day of the week!

[JagXJR]

br d said:

JagXJR said:

Not having a go, you seem to be coming under enough flak but as Yellowjack is a username then surely it should be a capital Y?

Yeah this! Bloody yellowjack bloody non-comformist bloody lower-case bloody hell.

Again not having a pop but is your username not spelt with a lowercase b .................

[Ducks below the parapet for the inevitable .......................]

[JagXJR]

Knob does not even come close to the psychopathic, cowardly scum that take weapons into schools and other public places and open fire

I get that you feel you have a beef but grow a pair and make war on soldiers that are paid and trained to fight back not innocents you dumb cowardly fks!

So today's award goes to these pricks that act out their psychopathic tendencies justifying it with religion or what ever bullst excuse they can come up with so they can get their jollies. Tossers!

I would say napalm the fking lot of them but 2 wrongs don't make a right so not the answer

My thoughts and sympathies go to the families who have lost loved ones to these cretins

[fatboy69]

JagXJR said:

Knob does not even come close to the psychopathic, cowardly scum that take weapons into schools and other public places and open fire

I get that you feel you have a beef but grow a pair and make war on soldiers that are paid and trained to fight back not innocents you dumb cowardly fks!

So today's award goes to these pricks that act out their psychopathic tendencies justifying it with religion or what ever bullst excuse they can come up with so they can get their jollies. Tossers!

I would say napalm the fking lot of them but 2 wrongs don't make a right so not the answer

My thoughts and sympathies go to the families who have lost loved ones to these cretins

Couldn't agree more.

Yesterday morning I watched my son's school Christmas play which was done by five classes.

It struck me later on, when I head the news of the slaughter of those poor children, that the deaths were the equivalent of loosing four of the five classes that took part in the church yesterday morning.

Unbelievable.

Absolute scum.

RIP the 129 children.

[masermartin]

Hol said:

Yup,
That was pretty much the sum of the argument.

Pretty much Athletics only.

But not Pole Vault, Discus and Shot Put though?

[silverfoxcc]

Cliftonite said:

This is PH. Why were you in lane 2 with a slow vehicle?

Because there were even slower vehicles than me queueing in L1 behind the firt 4 cars, bus and refuse lorry

Next question?

[bairn7]

Twunt in the white van on the M8 eastbound at the M9 merge (I was merging from the M9) at rush hour this morning.

This is a common congestion point with the two lane M9 merging onto the two lane M8. The 3 cars in front of me manage a 1-1 merge like civilised people. Comes my turn - car in front merges and I slow briefly for one M8 car to pass, there is a two-car space back to white van man who had presumably took his foot of the gas. I indicate, wait a second and start to merge behind the car that has just past. I am almost half merged when white van c**t accelerates so hard up my backside that I was sure he was going to ram me. I then get an extended flash of full beams.

The only upside is that it was still dark and full beems helped him to get a good look at my middle finger.

tt