One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Liquid Knight said:
People who post boastful video clips on YouTube because they overtake a "supercar". 
Congratulations you can get past someone who isn't speeding.
Very regular, might just be my part of the country though (Essex).Congratulations you can get past someone who isn't speeding.
You can see them coming from miles back, weaving in and out desperate to show off. I love the ones who are convinced we are actually racing, diving up the inside, cutting in front then sweeping across 3 lanes to stay ahead, especially funny if they then get stuck behind something and I potter past them again!
Sometimes if it's quiet I will enjoy myself but usually I just feel embarrassed that the idiots are putting other people in danger to prove a point.
The driver of the silver C Class Merc with a big green P plate on it in Southend. You sir are not only clearly inexperienced, but you are also a total and utter tool and menace to other road users.
The reason the man in the small, Korean hatchback sounded his horn at you is because you went from lane 3 to lane 1 just before a roundabout then proceeded to cut back across the road to turn right, barging you way past everyone. Did I mention you are a tool?
The reason the man in the small, Korean hatchback sounded his horn at you is because you went from lane 3 to lane 1 just before a roundabout then proceeded to cut back across the road to turn right, barging you way past everyone. Did I mention you are a tool?
Some dick on a 125, overtook me at a island and cut in just before another, making me brake. He gave me a glare when I pointed at my speedo which was at the speed limit, and when I beeped at him when he made me brake, he then went on to tailgate the car in front and cut someone up at and a roundabout giving the car he cut up a 'wtf' gesture.
Two knobs today
1. I approached a roundabout in the RHL to go straight on. As I'm on the roundabout a car passes me to my left and starts to wander into my lane so I pipped him. He slowed right down and gestured at me as I passed him. Then I realised why he'd slowed down. He was actually turning right on the roundabout. But obiously I'm a knob for being in the right lane and taking the correct exit.
2. My journey home takes me down a residential street with lots of parked cars and speed pillows. I make sure I stick below 20 because a) it's the limit and b) you're liable to meet someone coming the other way much faster than 20 and it gives you more time to get out of their way. So, I'd just turned into the street and a few meters ahead of me a middle-aged woman of colour pulled away from the kerb. Because she was parallel parked she had to do it slowly, forcing me to stop. I pipped my horn because presumably she hadn't looked. But no, when she pulled over 20m down the road I stopped next to her and asked if she'd seen me. Yes she had, but I was going too fast. "So, even though I was going under 20mph you think it's OK to pull out in front of a car you think is speeding"
Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions. Knob.
I realise this may make me a dashcam knob, but frankly I don't care. I'm just grateful that if she'd done this a second or two later and I'd hit her my footage would prove I was right no matter how many equally fat middle aged women passengers would swear I was speeding down the road.
1. I approached a roundabout in the RHL to go straight on. As I'm on the roundabout a car passes me to my left and starts to wander into my lane so I pipped him. He slowed right down and gestured at me as I passed him. Then I realised why he'd slowed down. He was actually turning right on the roundabout. But obiously I'm a knob for being in the right lane and taking the correct exit.
2. My journey home takes me down a residential street with lots of parked cars and speed pillows. I make sure I stick below 20 because a) it's the limit and b) you're liable to meet someone coming the other way much faster than 20 and it gives you more time to get out of their way. So, I'd just turned into the street and a few meters ahead of me a middle-aged woman of colour pulled away from the kerb. Because she was parallel parked she had to do it slowly, forcing me to stop. I pipped my horn because presumably she hadn't looked. But no, when she pulled over 20m down the road I stopped next to her and asked if she'd seen me. Yes she had, but I was going too fast. "So, even though I was going under 20mph you think it's OK to pull out in front of a car you think is speeding"
Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions. Knob.
I realise this may make me a dashcam knob, but frankly I don't care. I'm just grateful that if she'd done this a second or two later and I'd hit her my footage would prove I was right no matter how many equally fat middle aged women passengers would swear I was speeding down the road.
two more knobs identified themselves today today, original shape Zafira who was in the right lane and wanted the left lane, the left lane that I was occupying and was currently next to him, without indicating (he did a mirror check and I don't think I was in his blind spot) moves over almost hitting me and made me brake hard, I beeped him and he gave me the middle finger salute. In the Zafira's defence it's a crap bit of road, two lanes that both go right and no road signs to say which lane to use, so someone who doesn't know the area will use right lane when should use left, happens every day, normally I ignore it but the fact the Zafira actually saw me and then moved over made him a knob. This is the junction https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.952431,-1.075631...
Second a Vauxhall Mokka, I'm approaching a mini roundabout where I'm turning right, coming towards me I see said mocha going through a zebra crossing while someone was crossing and I thought "he's not going to give way" so I prepare to stop, my idiot sensor was working perfectly, Mokka didn't give way, I beep him and I think woke him up as he did a swerve, god knows what he was doing, but it wasn't concentrating on the road.
who was in the right lane and wanted the left lane, the left lane that I was occupying and was currently next to him, without indicating (he did a mirror check and I don't think I was in his blind spot) moves over almost hitting me and made me brake hard, I beeped him and he gave me the middle finger salute. In the Zafira's defence it's a crap bit of road, two lanes that both go right and no road signs to say which lane to use, so someone who doesn't know the area will use right lane when should use left, happens every day, normally I ignore it but the fact the Zafira actually saw me and then moved over made him a knob. This is the junction https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.952431,-1.075631...Second a Vauxhall Mokka, I'm approaching a mini roundabout where I'm turning right, coming towards me I see said mocha going through a zebra crossing while someone was crossing and I thought "he's not going to give way" so I prepare to stop, my idiot sensor was working perfectly, Mokka didn't give way, I beep him and I think woke him up as he did a swerve, god knows what he was doing, but it wasn't concentrating on the road.
Edited by carlove on Tuesday 26th May 22:01
Me today for tailgating and waving my arms like a loony. The poor auld git in the silver Scenic must have thought I was demented...
Oh. Wait. No. HE was the knob. He overtook me in a 50mph limit, then rode his brakes all the way down the hill, ensuring he never once got above 40mph. Then, when I went to overtake him, he suddenly remembered where the throttle pedal was and went off like a scalded cat. Until I passed him a few hundred yards ahead, in a queue of about 20 cars at a roundabout. Stupid silver-haired knob!
Oh. Wait. No. HE was the knob. He overtook me in a 50mph limit, then rode his brakes all the way down the hill, ensuring he never once got above 40mph. Then, when I went to overtake him, he suddenly remembered where the throttle pedal was and went off like a scalded cat. Until I passed him a few hundred yards ahead, in a queue of about 20 cars at a roundabout. Stupid silver-haired knob!
Hackney said:
I stopped next to her and asked if she'd seen me. Yes she had, but I was going too fast. "So, even though I was going under 20mph you think it's OK to pull out in front of a car you think is speeding"
Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions.
How do you ever get anywhere if that minor level of bell endery causes you to jump out and argue?Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions.
Chris1255 said:
Hackney said:
I stopped next to her and asked if she'd seen me. Yes she had, but I was going too fast. "So, even though I was going under 20mph you think it's OK to pull out in front of a car you think is speeding"
Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions.
How do you ever get anywhere if that minor level of bell endery causes you to jump out and argue?Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions.
br d said:
Liquid Knight said:
People who post boastful video clips on YouTube because they overtake a "supercar".
Congratulations you can get past someone who isn't speeding.
Very regular, might just be my part of the country though (Essex).Congratulations you can get past someone who isn't speeding.
You can see them coming from miles back, weaving in and out desperate to show off. I love the ones who are convinced we are actually racing, diving up the inside, cutting in front then sweeping across 3 lanes to stay ahead, especially funny if they then get stuck behind something and I potter past them again!
Sometimes if it's quiet I will enjoy myself but usually I just feel embarrassed that the idiots are putting other people in danger to prove a point.
Proving a point - would be to display their ability to stay at a constant distance behind you, no matter how much power you put down, or how little you slowed for corners.
Looking at your garage, I cannot see that happening very often.
A bloke in the pub last night talking about the massive "Chemtrail Cover Up" and how it was a conspiracy to control the climate by belching chemicals out of aircraft so we all think Global Warming isn't a myth and by Prius's. I told him I had evidence that the RAF did it on a regular basis and showed him this...
Tool.
Tool.
Two in five minutes earlier.
Had to give some verbal to a mini cab that doesn't know his rights of way.
He's passing the parked vehicle blocking his side of the road,so it's my right of way.
He gave me a "look" of incredulity....
Then I couldn't see the Focus indicating in front of me because the rear lights have some crap over them for cool scene reasons.
Had to give some verbal to a mini cab that doesn't know his rights of way.
He's passing the parked vehicle blocking his side of the road,so it's my right of way.
He gave me a "look" of incredulity....
Then I couldn't see the Focus indicating in front of me because the rear lights have some crap over them for cool scene reasons.
king lazy to drive round the loop (probably takes 5 seconds longer) and not risk a head on collision.
Around an hour ago, I was approaching stonebridge island on the A45 near Bickenhill travelling away from Birmingham, imagine my surprise when a woman in a 60 plate black polo turned up our one way entrance to the roundabout. 3 lanes of traffic coming towards her seemed quite a surprise to her. A long slow turn around and she was on her way, while I was left gobsmacked.
The thing is she had to virtually turn back on herself to "exit" the roundabout.
This shows my view, just imagine a polo turning left towards you!
The thing is she had to virtually turn back on herself to "exit" the roundabout.
This shows my view, just imagine a polo turning left towards you!
People who try to force their way through a narrow section rather than slowing (sometimes barley perceptibly) and waiting for you to clear it. Such as when you are on "their" side of the road because of a long line of parked cars on your own side.
No, petal. I'm NOT going to reverse along the sides of four parked cars to the nearest available gap, simply so you can have your "right of way" (
). What is actually going to happen now is that YOU are going to reverse, to a position at which you ought to have waited anyway, so that I can clear the last HALF!!! a parked car, and get out of your way like I originally intended. Either that, or you can sit there and wait for hell to freeze over.
FYI, the cretin in question had just exited a roundabout, and turned left toward me. When I committed to passing the parked cars, the road ahead was entirely clear, and I assert that I had EVERY JUSTIFICATION in expecting him (a feckin' cabbie, BTW) to hold for just a couple of seconds to let me clear that last car. If he has a problem with the parking arrangements for that road, he can take them up with the council. It's not like I marked the feckin' parking bays, FFS.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.293779,-0.759887...
No, petal. I'm NOT going to reverse along the sides of four parked cars to the nearest available gap, simply so you can have your "right of way" (
). What is actually going to happen now is that YOU are going to reverse, to a position at which you ought to have waited anyway, so that I can clear the last HALF!!! a parked car, and get out of your way like I originally intended. Either that, or you can sit there and wait for hell to freeze over.FYI, the cretin in question had just exited a roundabout, and turned left toward me. When I committed to passing the parked cars, the road ahead was entirely clear, and I assert that I had EVERY JUSTIFICATION in expecting him (a feckin' cabbie, BTW) to hold for just a couple of seconds to let me clear that last car. If he has a problem with the parking arrangements for that road, he can take them up with the council. It's not like I marked the feckin' parking bays, FFS.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.293779,-0.759887...
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