One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
Liquid Knight said:
This time of year people who drive with windows covered in condensation like this...
...when it takes ten seconds to clear it like this...
...frost or ice I can almost understand people are too lazy and want to get going. Not being able to see where they are going is only a minor issue. When I see people arriving at work knowing they have driven for ten or more miles with just the windscreen wipers cleared I wonder...
"How do they remember to breathe?"
A bit off topic - but maybe of interest to some....when it takes ten seconds to clear it like this...
...frost or ice I can almost understand people are too lazy and want to get going. Not being able to see where they are going is only a minor issue. When I see people arriving at work knowing they have driven for ten or more miles with just the windscreen wipers cleared I wonder...
"How do they remember to breathe?"
I have two of these, one in the car and the other on the Radiator in the house:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ThoMar-Air-Dry-604000-Dehu...
They work well in deep winter (including snow) so long as I swap them over every weekend to dry out. We bought them when the wife had an MX5 and it sorted condensation out.
Hol said:
Liquid Knight said:
This time of year people who drive with windows covered in condensation like this...
...when it takes ten seconds to clear it like this...
...frost or ice I can almost understand people are too lazy and want to get going. Not being able to see where they are going is only a minor issue. When I see people arriving at work knowing they have driven for ten or more miles with just the windscreen wipers cleared I wonder...
"How do they remember to breathe?"
A bit off topic - but maybe of interest to some....when it takes ten seconds to clear it like this...
...frost or ice I can almost understand people are too lazy and want to get going. Not being able to see where they are going is only a minor issue. When I see people arriving at work knowing they have driven for ten or more miles with just the windscreen wipers cleared I wonder...
"How do they remember to breathe?"
I have two of these, one in the car and the other on the Radiator in the house:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ThoMar-Air-Dry-604000-Dehu...
They work well in deep winter (including snow) so long as I swap them over every weekend to dry out. We bought them when the wife had an MX5 and it sorted condensation out.
It's been a wee while, but here goes with a few from the last two days...
1) Silver X-Type exits roundabout onto lane 1 of a short (40mph) dual carriageway. No problems there then. I exit the roundabout behind him, again in lane 1, but I'll need lane 2 in a few hundred yards to turn right at the next roundabout.
Mr Jaaaag immediately indicates and moves to lane 2, and drives the length of the section there. No problem. He needs the right turn too, he's moved over early is all. He's not bothering me as I'm at an electronically limited 40mph, he's slightly faster ahead of me. As the lane dividing lines lengthen into hazard lines, I check mirrors, etc, and indicate to move to lane 2 behind him. It's at this point that he now indicates left, and moves to lane 1 to go straight ahead.
I know it's a 'nothing' incident, and I was in no way wound up by it, but I just can't get my head around why you'd do that. Mysterious "Lane 1 Allergy" strikes again? This MUST be the exact type of driver who sits defiantly in the middle lane of a three lane motorway, I assume.
2) Cycling back from a traffic free training circuit last night, and for once I thought I'd give the cycle path a try. Big mistake, as just beyond the bridge halfway along, there was a Ford Transit parked entirely blocking the path. I can't simply 'hop off' the kerb onto the carriageway (too busy, and "because road bike" with thin tyres).
As I get closer I spot the "Highway Maintenance" stickers on the back, and the temporary traffic lights in the load bed. Ah. No problem. He's working, he must be. But no. This knuckle dragging buffoon is merely stopped to use his phone. There were no traffic lights (nor works of any kind) when I passed this way not 45 minutes ago, and no sooner had I squeezed past, clipping his nearside mirror with my shoulder, than he was on his way again, making all sorts of unintelligible noises and waving his arm around like a lunatic.
That there, non-cycling drivers of this parish, is the answer to the question "why don't you f
k off and use the cycle path?" It's because it's usually full of glass and other debris, or otherwise obstructed by some retarded Neanderthal, and there's no way of telling until we're stuck behind said retard. So, having given it a try, I'll not be bothering with that particular 'perfectly usable cycling facility' again for the foreseeable future... 
3) Cycling out to the traffic free training circuit (see, I'm an entirely reasonable cyclist. I wanted to train at 'rush hour' so I headed off to a traffic free tarmac road circuit to stay out of drivers' way as best I could) I needed to turn right off the main road into the military training facility I was heading to.
I make an early shoulder check, and the Doris in the white Focus seems to be holding back. Closer to my turn, I make a second check, and yup, she's still holding off from overtaking. A quick check ahead for oncoming traffic, and a glance into my turn for traffic waiting to exit, then I stick out my right arm to indicate my intention. Lucky for me I had a 'sixth sense' moment, and threw in a third "lifesaver". Because now this dumb bint has decided that, despite my changing road position (into the centre of the lane), my very clear signal of a right turn, and her previous lack of any urgency about passing me, now is definitely the very best time to execute a rushed overtake.
I seriously hope her impatience and poor decision making sees her upside down in a ditch crying for her mummy soon. FFS! Two more seconds (and she'd been behind me on a dead-straight road for at least 40) would have seen me safely OFF the road and out of her way anyway. Fk it! Next time I'll just train on the open roads, to save me from having to take my life in my hands simply to turn right. To hell with any delays it causes to drivers, fk 'em, they'll have to put up with it. Drivers? They're all the fking same, always driving like utter knobheads around cyclists, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah...
1) Silver X-Type exits roundabout onto lane 1 of a short (40mph) dual carriageway. No problems there then. I exit the roundabout behind him, again in lane 1, but I'll need lane 2 in a few hundred yards to turn right at the next roundabout.
Mr Jaaaag immediately indicates and moves to lane 2, and drives the length of the section there. No problem. He needs the right turn too, he's moved over early is all. He's not bothering me as I'm at an electronically limited 40mph, he's slightly faster ahead of me. As the lane dividing lines lengthen into hazard lines, I check mirrors, etc, and indicate to move to lane 2 behind him. It's at this point that he now indicates left, and moves to lane 1 to go straight ahead.
I know it's a 'nothing' incident, and I was in no way wound up by it, but I just can't get my head around why you'd do that. Mysterious "Lane 1 Allergy" strikes again? This MUST be the exact type of driver who sits defiantly in the middle lane of a three lane motorway, I assume.
2) Cycling back from a traffic free training circuit last night, and for once I thought I'd give the cycle path a try. Big mistake, as just beyond the bridge halfway along, there was a Ford Transit parked entirely blocking the path. I can't simply 'hop off' the kerb onto the carriageway (too busy, and "because road bike" with thin tyres).
As I get closer I spot the "Highway Maintenance" stickers on the back, and the temporary traffic lights in the load bed. Ah. No problem. He's working, he must be. But no. This knuckle dragging buffoon is merely stopped to use his phone. There were no traffic lights (nor works of any kind) when I passed this way not 45 minutes ago, and no sooner had I squeezed past, clipping his nearside mirror with my shoulder, than he was on his way again, making all sorts of unintelligible noises and waving his arm around like a lunatic.
That there, non-cycling drivers of this parish, is the answer to the question "why don't you f
k off and use the cycle path?" It's because it's usually full of glass and other debris, or otherwise obstructed by some retarded Neanderthal, and there's no way of telling until we're stuck behind said retard. So, having given it a try, I'll not be bothering with that particular 'perfectly usable cycling facility' again for the foreseeable future... 3) Cycling out to the traffic free training circuit (see, I'm an entirely reasonable cyclist. I wanted to train at 'rush hour' so I headed off to a traffic free tarmac road circuit to stay out of drivers' way as best I could) I needed to turn right off the main road into the military training facility I was heading to.
I make an early shoulder check, and the Doris in the white Focus seems to be holding back. Closer to my turn, I make a second check, and yup, she's still holding off from overtaking. A quick check ahead for oncoming traffic, and a glance into my turn for traffic waiting to exit, then I stick out my right arm to indicate my intention. Lucky for me I had a 'sixth sense' moment, and threw in a third "lifesaver". Because now this dumb bint has decided that, despite my changing road position (into the centre of the lane), my very clear signal of a right turn, and her previous lack of any urgency about passing me, now is definitely the very best time to execute a rushed overtake.
I seriously hope her impatience and poor decision making sees her upside down in a ditch crying for her mummy soon. FFS! Two more seconds (and she'd been behind me on a dead-straight road for at least 40) would have seen me safely OFF the road and out of her way anyway. F
k it! Next time I'll just train on the open roads, to save me from having to take my life in my hands simply to turn right. To hell with any delays it causes to drivers, fk 'em, they'll have to put up with it. Drivers? They're all the fking same, always driving like utter knobheads around cyclists, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah...stfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.
Ignorant dick faced fk then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.
Rant rant rant......
tfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.Ignorant dick faced f
k then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.Rant rant rant......
flyingscot68 said:
stfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.
Ignorant dick faced fk then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.
Rant rant rant......
Likewise the idiots wearing dark clothing wandering across poorly lit major roads in pissing down rain last night in South London..accident waiting to happen.tfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.Ignorant dick faced f
k then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.Rant rant rant......
flyingscot68 said:
stfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.
Ignorant dick faced fk then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.
Rant rant rant......
That sucks. Be sure to counter sue the drunk for post traumatic stress as you're now afraid to drive your car at night. tfaced drunks that wander down a dark road at three in the morning on their mobile nearly getting hit by three taxis then finally taken out by a fourth - mine.Ignorant dick faced f
k then wins £25k in compensation from my insurance company and I've got another claim on the policy on top of having to repair the damage.Rant rant rant......
Should be worth £50,000+ if you get the right lawyer.
Coffin dodger in the Berlingo who was driving along the A414 today in the outside lane at 40mph (NSL dual carriageway).
I waited patiently for him to move over, but no response,so I give him a quick flash of lights. The stupid old tt then decides to brake check me........twice!
I then hang back and decide to make an undertake as he's not moving over and is clearly a complete fkwit. As I go to pass, he drifts in to my lane, nearly hitting my offside wing. The stupid then drifts the back into his lane and is nearly wiped out by a fast approaching E-Class who has to perform a virtual emergency stop to avoid a massive accident.
I took this opportunity to get the fk out of there and as far away from the doddery old as possible.
I waited patiently for him to move over, but no response,so I give him a quick flash of lights. The stupid old t
t then decides to brake check me........twice!I then hang back and decide to make an undertake as he's not moving over and is clearly a complete f
kwit. As I go to pass, he drifts in to my lane, nearly hitting my offside wing. The stupid then drifts the back into his lane and is nearly wiped out by a fast approaching E-Class who has to perform a virtual emergency stop to avoid a massive accident.I took this opportunity to get the f
k out of there and as far away from the doddery old as possible.e21Mark said:
The MAMIL who was ''skiing'' along a country lane this afternoon. The contraptions he was wearing looked like short skis with a pram wheel at each end and must be the most inefficient mode of travel known to man?! Added to which he had become a slow moving chicane and looked as though he was about to drop through either exhaustion or heart failure. I'm all for keeping fit but this smacked of wealthy middle class exercise gimmick.
Cliftonite said:
This idiot, walking with his back to traffic, that, because of the narrowness of this busy main road, was having to wait to overtake him.
When there was a perfectly good pavement on the opposite side of the road!
giantdefy said:
e21Mark said:
The MAMIL who was ''skiing'' along a country lane this afternoon. The contraptions he was wearing looked like short skis with a pram wheel at each end and must be the most inefficient mode of travel known to man?! Added to which he had become a slow moving chicane and looked as though he was about to drop through either exhaustion or heart failure. I'm all for keeping fit but this smacked of wealthy middle class exercise gimmick.
Going around Southwark Park in London behind a lorry who was obviously following a Sat Nav and going down roads that werent best suited really.
Lorry is doing 10-15 mph so I poodle along behind it, an Audi suddenly shoots by the wrong side of the road at maybe 40 mph bouncing over the speed bumps and around the wrong side of an island to pass.
The woman in the BMW behind me then undertakes me through a bus lane attempting to get past the lorry to only succeed in passing me. I thought about squeezing her back out but whats the point?
Lorry is doing 10-15 mph so I poodle along behind it, an Audi suddenly shoots by the wrong side of the road at maybe 40 mph bouncing over the speed bumps and around the wrong side of an island to pass.
The woman in the BMW behind me then undertakes me through a bus lane attempting to get past the lorry to only succeed in passing me. I thought about squeezing her back out but whats the point?
Me on dual carriageway, in L1 doing about 55ish some trafic approaching from rear in L2. See this chap coming up the slip and getting level with me, Suddenly he goes for it and gets i front in L1
So far ok its what i would have done, perhaps not so close, but i didnt have to hit the brakes or change lane. I see him wave his arm, Thought he said thanks, THEN he brake tests me...WTF
Luckily i caught him at the lights and as we were side by side the conversation went like this. And i just asked ..no agresion/sarcasm ..just asked
M Why did you Brake test me back there
H Because you didnt give way
M Pardon??
H You should have given way
M Hang on i was on the main road, you give way to traffic on the main road.
H No i dont
Then His female companion joins in
F yea give way
M have you read the HC lately?
F yes its called merge in turn
M i suggest you re read it, because carrying on like that you will be checking the underside of an artic for illegal immigrants very soon
The mind just boggles at the stupidity of it all
So far ok its what i would have done, perhaps not so close, but i didnt have to hit the brakes or change lane. I see him wave his arm, Thought he said thanks, THEN he brake tests me...WTF
Luckily i caught him at the lights and as we were side by side the conversation went like this. And i just asked ..no agresion/sarcasm ..just asked
M Why did you Brake test me back there
H Because you didnt give way
M Pardon??
H You should have given way
M Hang on i was on the main road, you give way to traffic on the main road.
H No i dont
Then His female companion joins in
F yea give way
M have you read the HC lately?
F yes its called merge in turn
M i suggest you re read it, because carrying on like that you will be checking the underside of an artic for illegal immigrants very soon
The mind just boggles at the stupidity of it all
silverfoxcc said:
Me on dual carriageway, in L1 doing about 55ish some trafic approaching from rear in L2. See this chap coming up the slip and getting level with me, Suddenly he goes for it and gets i front in L1
So far ok its what i would have done, perhaps not so close, but i didnt have to hit the brakes or change lane. I see him wave his arm, Thought he said thanks, THEN he brake tests me...WTF
Luckily i caught him at the lights and as we were side by side the conversation went like this. And i just asked ..no agresion/sarcasm ..just asked
M Why did you Brake test me back there
H Because you didnt give way
M Pardon??
H You should have given way
M Hang on i was on the main road, you give way to traffic on the main road.
H No i dont
Then His female companion joins in
F yea give way
M have you read the HC lately?
F yes its called merge in turn
M i suggest you re read it, because carrying on like that you will be checking the underside of an artic for illegal immigrants very soon
The mind just boggles at the stupidity of it all
The best part of that is that even if it was M-I-T he still needs to merge safely with other traffic, not just push in, as he would be in lane 2, not the driving lane, so would have to be the one to give priority to you (IIRC)So far ok its what i would have done, perhaps not so close, but i didnt have to hit the brakes or change lane. I see him wave his arm, Thought he said thanks, THEN he brake tests me...WTF
Luckily i caught him at the lights and as we were side by side the conversation went like this. And i just asked ..no agresion/sarcasm ..just asked
M Why did you Brake test me back there
H Because you didnt give way
M Pardon??
H You should have given way
M Hang on i was on the main road, you give way to traffic on the main road.
H No i dont
Then His female companion joins in
F yea give way
M have you read the HC lately?
F yes its called merge in turn
M i suggest you re read it, because carrying on like that you will be checking the underside of an artic for illegal immigrants very soon
The mind just boggles at the stupidity of it all
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