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

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

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l354uge

2,892 posts

120 months

Saturday 3rd October 2015
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In one 10 min drive:

Cocky cat standing off with my car. Next person you pull that on might be a dog person.

Idiot straightlining a mini roundabout, missing someone on thier right who was turning by inches, dunno if he didn't notice the roundabout or simply didn't care...

All the morons in mk who cross the dual carrigeways rather than spend 1 min more using the underpass, amazingly the loved ones of these morons blame the nsl!

And the lorry driver very clearly on his phone while driving, its you career on the line as well as lives, bozo

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 3rd October 2015
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Monkeylegend said:
WD39 said:
Monkeylegend said:
lavaJava said:
A couple of examples from these recent foggy mornings -

To the tarmac-coloured Audi: please have the decency to put some lights on. Any lights will do.
And so many on here hate DRL's with a vengeance.
DRL's are the DB's.

Any positive sighting of a motor vehicle can only be a good thing, any time of the day.

So many drivers use no lights in fog, heavy rain or other reduced visibility or leave it until the last moment to switch on as darkness approaches.

Check out the reason they were introduced, it's illuminating.
We are saying the same thing. DRL's are a good substitute for front fogs, I love them.
Sorry, have to disagree.

DRL's are illumination for the benefit of other drivers during daylight hours. Front fogs are low down at the front of the vehicle with high wattage and aimed at the kerb le, flooding the road beneath the fog.

DRL's appear at all positions on different makes of vehicle and could not have the same effect as fog lights.

Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Saturday 3rd October 2015
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WD39 said:
Monkeylegend said:
WD39 said:
Monkeylegend said:
lavaJava said:
A couple of examples from these recent foggy mornings -

To the tarmac-coloured Audi: please have the decency to put some lights on. Any lights will do.
And so many on here hate DRL's with a vengeance.
DRL's are the DB's.

Any positive sighting of a motor vehicle can only be a good thing, any time of the day.

So many drivers use no lights in fog, heavy rain or other reduced visibility or leave it until the last moment to switch on as darkness approaches.

Check out the reason they were introduced, it's illuminating.
We are saying the same thing. DRL's are a good substitute for front fogs, I love them.
Sorry, have to disagree.

DRL's are illumination for the benefit of other drivers during daylight hours. Front fogs are low down at the front of the vehicle with high wattage and aimed at the kerb le, flooding the road beneath the fog.

DRL's appear at all positions on different makes of vehicle and could not have the same effect as fog lights.
My point was that if people are forgetting to put their lights on in fog, at least DRL's are better than no lights. I am not saying they are better than fog lights.

It was a little dig at the DRL haters, trying to point out they can have their uses, if not intentional wink

deltashad

6,731 posts

196 months

Saturday 3rd October 2015
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Not necessarily a knob. But it grates me a bit. People who fill their bins in the kitchen so high you cannot close the lid. Empty it please or put the big bottles, cardboard somewhere else.

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Saturday 3rd October 2015
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Idiot with row of red DRL-style LEDs, on the front of his crappy car.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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No fog. Front fog lights on all the time.

Fog. No fogs on, except those old dears and women who have they on all year round anyway.

Muddle238

3,871 posts

112 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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Several today.

The prick in the black i20 in the motorway who completely panicked when undertaken by an HGV, slammed the hazards on, slammed the brakes on and made a desperate dive into the inside lane. The motorway isn't that stay you know.

The tosser in her black VW Up too busy holding a gesticulation filled conversation with her passenger to maintain a steady speed in a 50.

The BMW exiting the motorway at the same junction as me, 500yrd gap behind me, insists on pushing in between me and the car infront.

The prize however has to go to the utter cocksocket in his transit flatbed, lesuirely pulls out onto a NSL about 250 yards infront of me, while I'm doing NSL plus maybe a bit on too having just overtaken the tts in the VW Up. I hope tonight you put your tatty van in a ditch.

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

182 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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I'm not a hundred percent sure about this...

https://youtu.be/E1uEFNJ4G40

...what do you guys think?

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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Crash for casters would disable the brake lights, surely. Just bad driving. Norfolk, innit.

Is it really that dark at 6.30 in the morning over there now? frown

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

182 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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OpulentBob said:
Crash for casters would disable the brake lights, surely. Just bad driving. Norfolk, innit.

Is it really that dark at 6.30 in the morning over there now? frown
You'd think that but the number of cameras about in cars and cctv at junctions also insurance companies are getting fed up of loosing money and inspecting post collision vehicles more diligently looking for missing fuses and secondary brake light switches should mean it would be less effective these days.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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Liquid Knight said:
I'm not a hundred percent sure about this...

https://youtu.be/E1uEFNJ4G40

...what do you guys think?
I'm still waiting for the emergency stop that the video dialogue claims to have happened. Looks like Golf moves to right lane and starts braking for the roundabout to me. Complete non-event.

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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From the footage alone it does look that, although I'm assuming the Golf slowed pretty much to a stop (well before the roundabout) after the OP passed on the left?

Thermobaric

725 posts

119 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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A few from my recent travels.

Pathetic bh in a grey C Max near Reading. I just joined a three lane main road and had to take an immediate right. The lane for turning right was standstill queuing to make the right I wanted to make. It started moving so I pull out, identify a gap and indicate to pull in. Utter fkwit accelerates and closes the gap I was heading into. Thankfully the person behind her had some manners and let me in.

Second one some pleb nearly t boned me. They pulled out onto a roundabout I was obviously on and clearly indicating. Luckily they stopped in time. I refrained from shouting abuse as it had POLICE written on the side...

Third, driving down a NSL road at about 50MPH. Two cyclists riding 2 abreast so passed with about a handlebar of clearance. Doesn't bother me but if you overtake with that much clearance, they'll obviously throw a tantrum . OK for them to pass though...

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Thermobaric said:
A few from my recent travels.

Pathetic bh in a grey C Max near Reading. I just joined a three lane main road and had to take an immediate right. The lane for turning right was standstill queuing to make the right I wanted to make. It started moving so I pull out, identify a gap and indicate to pull in. Utter fkwit accelerates and closes the gap I was heading into. Thankfully the person behind her had some manners and let me in.

Second one some pleb nearly t boned me. They pulled out onto a roundabout I was obviously on and clearly indicating. Luckily they stopped in time. I refrained from shouting abuse as it had POLICE written on the side...

Third, driving down a NSL road at about 50MPH. Two cyclists riding 2 abreast so passed with about a handlebar of clearance. Doesn't bother me but if you overtake with that much clearance, they'll obviously throw a tantrum . OK for them to pass though...
I do believe that the latest advice for passing cyclists is 'At least the clearance of a car width.' (do not know which car.)

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

182 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Thermobaric said:
Third, driving down a NSL road at about 50MPH. Two cyclists riding 2 abreast so passed with about a handlebar of clearance. Doesn't bother me but if you overtake with that much clearance, they'll obviously throw a tantrum . OK for them to pass though...
Similarly I passed two cyclists on an "S" bend with a clear view ahead. They were side by side with enough space between them for a third. Even though I had all four wheels over the centre line I got a hand signal not used in the Highway code. I showed the clip to a friend in the local cycling club who recognised one of them and played the clip at the next club meet on her tablet. They took the piss out of the guy for the rest of the session. hehe

e21Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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People carrier driver who was hurling abuse in Sainsbury's car park Truro today. Evidently ''disabled people get every f***ing thing on a plate nowadays'' and it was ''his taxes that probably paid for my car anyway''.

Am used to getting the occasional snide remark but today was a step up. I put him right but you could tell he was having none of it. He then informed me that I ''don't look proper disabled anyway'' and I should ''try workin' for a f***in' livin' like what he does''.

Shouldn't bother me what dross like this guy think, but kind of hard to ignore sometimes.

smithyithy

7,192 posts

117 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Bloke in lane 1, swings across into a too-small gap between myself and the car in front, then brakes.

Why swing over into a faster moving lane of cars, then brake?

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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e21Mark said:
People carrier driver who was hurling abuse in Sainsbury's car park Truro today. Evidently ''disabled people get every f***ing thing on a plate nowadays'' and it was ''his taxes that probably paid for my car anyway''.

Am used to getting the occasional snide remark but today was a step up. I put him right but you could tell he was having none of it. He then informed me that I ''don't look proper disabled anyway'' and I should ''try workin' for a f***in' livin' like what he does''.

Shouldn't bother me what dross like this guy think, but kind of hard to ignore sometimes.
Just be comfortable with the fact that he is already the mouth breathing cretin he deserves to be.

Flibble

6,470 posts

180 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Mine today was a supermarket (I think) artic that couldn't be bothered to slow down for a roundabout so just blasted through it, while I was turning right on said roundabout. Had to brake to avoid a collision. A bit annoying when they know they're going to come off much better in any incident so just don't give a st.

carlove

7,538 posts

166 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Flibble said:
Mine today was a supermarket (I think) artic that couldn't be bothered to slow down for a roundabout so just blasted through it, while I was turning right on said roundabout. Had to brake to avoid a collision. A bit annoying when they know they're going to come off much better in any incident so just don't give a st.
I slow down now when I see one approaching a roundabout as it seems to happen every time.

There was one not long ago who did just this I braked as I saw he wasn't stopping, he did stop but half way into my path, I had also come to a stop, as I went by I shook my head at him(nothing else, maybe a 'wtf' gesture actually, can't quite remember) and he started flashing his lights and honking his horn, I did lose my temper and beeped back at him and gave him the coffee beans and many other gestures, he keeps flashing and honking, then at a traffic light stopped inches behind, I think on purpose. I thought about reporting him, was a lorry delivering for a well known shop but probably would have gone nowhere.
If I hadn't seen him coming and stopped early I would very likely have hit him, which would have probably been quite a serious collision.
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