One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
On my way home today I was driving behind a guy in a white van (who had just needlessly undertaken me at speed in town). Approaching traffic lights. 2 lanes on our side of the road. We are in the right hand lane which is for straight on or right. Left lane is for straight on or left. He waits until he is through the lights, then anchors on and signals right, waiting for a gap in the traffic coming the other way, leaving me stuck behind him as all the traffic in L1 blasts past and those behind me in L2 get out before me (I hate that - they have the gap before you because they are behind and block you in). I'm also now in the yellow box.
Why not f
king signal?! Infuriating prat.
Why not f
king signal?! Infuriating prat. It must be the sun because I've never come across so many Sunday drivers who've got wonky calenders, barring the idiot in the 1 series who over took both me and the learner in front of me on the approach to a blind bend (who I caught up at a set of temporary traffic lights and then took off well above the thirty limit) damn near every driver this morning decided to potter along at a steady forty in the NSL.
This afternoon the bell end in a 1.6 Focus that decided to undertake me and the three cars in front on the approach to a roundabout presumably because of our speed who then cut back into the right lane to go straight across at the next traffic light controlled one. Me thinking mister speed racer would accelerate faster than he, in fact, actually did (think driving Miss Daisy speeds) then him again as he pull left, no problem I accelerate past he immediately pulls back in behind me, cutting up the poor bugger behind me and then promptly tries to glue his car to my rear bumper.
This only stopped after I overtook a truck, which, in my opinion was too close to the roundabout we where approaching to pull back in front of so I stayed right, not so for Mr speedy who thought he'd try an undertake on the roundabout. eee wrong, third gear and away I went. He decided to pick on a weaker target and decided to tailgate a small white van who obviously took the hump as I looked in my mirror said van decided to get away from the fool. He must've got really irate at that because he managed to get the heap up to something approaching eighty before he reached his turn off.
This afternoon the bell end in a 1.6 Focus that decided to undertake me and the three cars in front on the approach to a roundabout presumably because of our speed who then cut back into the right lane to go straight across at the next traffic light controlled one. Me thinking mister speed racer would accelerate faster than he, in fact, actually did (think driving Miss Daisy speeds) then him again as he pull left, no problem I accelerate past he immediately pulls back in behind me, cutting up the poor bugger behind me and then promptly tries to glue his car to my rear bumper.
This only stopped after I overtook a truck, which, in my opinion was too close to the roundabout we where approaching to pull back in front of so I stayed right, not so for Mr speedy who thought he'd try an undertake on the roundabout. eee wrong, third gear and away I went. He decided to pick on a weaker target and decided to tailgate a small white van who obviously took the hump as I looked in my mirror said van decided to get away from the fool. He must've got really irate at that because he managed to get the heap up to something approaching eighty before he reached his turn off.
Me being a knob cyclist today...
...Doh!
Travelling along a road so little used it had grass growing down the middle, I hadn't encountered a car for miles. I reached down to grab my bottle for a quick drink, when around the next corner came a BMW 1 Series. Well, I handled that one OK, maintaining control with one hand and carving out a tidy line well away from the BMW. But that's where it went a bit awry. Instead of learning my lesson, and putting the bottle away until the road straightened out a bit, I pushed my luck into the next right hander, only to encounter a Mercedes estate filling the road.
No space this time to steer a safe course around it, and so I grabbed a handful of (rear) brake. Damn. The rear locked up on the loose gravelly surface, and instead of lobbing the bottle onto the verge and taking proper control, I just steered into a field entrance and used my feet to stop. No harm done in the end, but I ran it pretty close to disaster, and it was all my own fault. Neither of the cars was doing anything remotely dodgy, no excess speed, nothing. Just me being a dick and picking the worst possible complex of corners to take a sip of my drink.
Lesson learned, without a shadow of a doubt. Complacency had crept in I think, but that was quite quickly washed away again...
...Doh!
Travelling along a road so little used it had grass growing down the middle, I hadn't encountered a car for miles. I reached down to grab my bottle for a quick drink, when around the next corner came a BMW 1 Series. Well, I handled that one OK, maintaining control with one hand and carving out a tidy line well away from the BMW. But that's where it went a bit awry. Instead of learning my lesson, and putting the bottle away until the road straightened out a bit, I pushed my luck into the next right hander, only to encounter a Mercedes estate filling the road.
No space this time to steer a safe course around it, and so I grabbed a handful of (rear) brake. Damn. The rear locked up on the loose gravelly surface, and instead of lobbing the bottle onto the verge and taking proper control, I just steered into a field entrance and used my feet to stop. No harm done in the end, but I ran it pretty close to disaster, and it was all my own fault. Neither of the cars was doing anything remotely dodgy, no excess speed, nothing. Just me being a dick and picking the worst possible complex of corners to take a sip of my drink.
Lesson learned, without a shadow of a doubt. Complacency had crept in I think, but that was quite quickly washed away again...
The "Guardian of the Year" nominee in the white Nissan Juke (N20 ***) yesterday afternoon on the A90 northbound at Stonehaven.
With the unrestrained youngster (looked 3 or 4) in the front passenger seat who was clambering on the dashboard to look at the iphone stuck to the windscreen as a satnav, just as you dived in behind me to then take the sliproad off.
fking seriously??
You utter retard.
With the unrestrained youngster (looked 3 or 4) in the front passenger seat who was clambering on the dashboard to look at the iphone stuck to the windscreen as a satnav, just as you dived in behind me to then take the sliproad off.
f
king seriously??You utter retard.
i saw a girl driving a new nissan micra (yes they still make them) yesterday. She had two signs in the rear of the car, the type that are of the style "baby on board" but with different writing:
"i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
"i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
Blown2CV said:
i saw a girl driving a new nissan micra (yes they still make them) yesterday. She had two signs in the rear of the car, the type that are of the style "baby on board" but with different writing:
"i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
If the signs really were written exactly as you say, they are barely English. Horrific comma splicing, among other things. "i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
ORD said:
Blown2CV said:
i saw a girl driving a new nissan micra (yes they still make them) yesterday. She had two signs in the rear of the car, the type that are of the style "baby on board" but with different writing:
"i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
If the signs really were written exactly as you say, they are barely English. Horrific comma splicing, among other things. "i'm not driving slowly, it's called the SPEED LIMIT"
and
"my insurance company are watching my speed"
so i don't nominate her (although she was waiting to turn right with no indicator on, and was gingerly creeping forward looked petrified at the wheel) but perhaps the parent that insisted on the badges of ridicule. The black box is just fine if it reduces the insurance premium and the likelihood of a prang, but she's not on L-plates FFS just let her become part of the real world. Helicopter aggressive parenting, to my mind.
Europa1 said:
I drove into work this morning for a change, and that means it's back to an old hobbyhorse: throbbers who slow down to 10mph under the speed limit when they come to a GATSO. Regardless of the direction the GATSO is pointing.
Having now had two speed camera convictions, It's just not worth the hassle of another.I always slow down. (along with everyone else on that stretch of road.)
WD39 said:
Having now had two speed camera convictions, It's just not worth the hassle of another.
I always slow down. (along with everyone else on that stretch of road.)
They're always set at the limit or a few mph above though, what does slowing down to 10 mph below the limit get you, other than tailgated?I always slow down. (along with everyone else on that stretch of road.)
Pretty much every day travelling along Callington road towards the Airport road I get tailgated. It used to be a 40MPH limit all the way.
The limit changed a while back to 30MPH for about 600 yards on a downhill stretch with a common scamera van presence. It annoys me that the limit has been reduced but sod the risk of getting points! Stop tailgating for fk sake I don't like the arbitrary limit either.
The limit changed a while back to 30MPH for about 600 yards on a downhill stretch with a common scamera van presence. It annoys me that the limit has been reduced but sod the risk of getting points! Stop tailgating for f
k sake I don't like the arbitrary limit either.A knob in what I think was a brown Vauxhall Meriva (the OAP Vauxhall with silly doors) who was behind me texting in slow traffic, I noticed which annoyed me then she went completely on the wrong side of the road on a curve, she carried on texting and nearly hit a cyclist when she decided she wanted to take a quick trip into the bike lane, nearly hit the back of my car, then we became next to each other at the lights and I had a vigilante cyclist moment and told her not to text while driving and that she is a crap driver who shouldn't be driving.
The Vauxhall Double-frappe iced Mocha Starbucks thing, who had no idea what a safe following distance is and sat on my bumper despite me being in the flow of traffic, he also had three baby on board badges, but doesn't seem to care about their safety judging by his driving.
The Vauxhall Double-frappe iced Mocha Starbucks thing, who had no idea what a safe following distance is and sat on my bumper despite me being in the flow of traffic, he also had three baby on board badges, but doesn't seem to care about their safety judging by his driving.
yellowjack said:
Me being a knob cyclist today...
...Doh!
Travelling along a road so little used it had grass growing down the middle, I hadn't encountered a car for miles. I reached down to grab my bottle for a quick drink, when around the next corner came a BMW 1 Series. Well, I handled that one OK, maintaining control with one hand and carving out a tidy line well away from the BMW. But that's where it went a bit awry. Instead of learning my lesson, and putting the bottle away until the road straightened out a bit, I pushed my luck into the next right hander, only to encounter a Mercedes estate filling the road.
No space this time to steer a safe course around it, and so I grabbed a handful of (rear) brake. Damn. The rear locked up on the loose gravelly surface, and instead of lobbing the bottle onto the verge and taking proper control, I just steered into a field entrance and used my feet to stop. No harm done in the end, but I ran it pretty close to disaster, and it was all my own fault. Neither of the cars was doing anything remotely dodgy, no excess speed, nothing. Just me being a dick and picking the worst possible complex of corners to take a sip of my drink.
Lesson learned, without a shadow of a doubt. Complacency had crept in I think, but that was quite quickly washed away again...
...Doh!
Travelling along a road so little used it had grass growing down the middle, I hadn't encountered a car for miles. I reached down to grab my bottle for a quick drink, when around the next corner came a BMW 1 Series. Well, I handled that one OK, maintaining control with one hand and carving out a tidy line well away from the BMW. But that's where it went a bit awry. Instead of learning my lesson, and putting the bottle away until the road straightened out a bit, I pushed my luck into the next right hander, only to encounter a Mercedes estate filling the road.
No space this time to steer a safe course around it, and so I grabbed a handful of (rear) brake. Damn. The rear locked up on the loose gravelly surface, and instead of lobbing the bottle onto the verge and taking proper control, I just steered into a field entrance and used my feet to stop. No harm done in the end, but I ran it pretty close to disaster, and it was all my own fault. Neither of the cars was doing anything remotely dodgy, no excess speed, nothing. Just me being a dick and picking the worst possible complex of corners to take a sip of my drink.
Lesson learned, without a shadow of a doubt. Complacency had crept in I think, but that was quite quickly washed away again...
TheAllSeeingPie said:
WD39 said:
Many thanks for the mention.
Possible positive reaction to my, so far, solo crusade.
From: WD39, founder member, life president and all round good egg of APIS.
Just for clarity: you're a Possible positive reaction to my, so far, solo crusade.
From: WD39, founder member, life president and all round good egg of APIS.
.You should take a long hard look at youself and be ashamed.
Parsnip said:
WD39 said:
AshVX220 said:
TheAllSeeingPie said:
AshVX220 said:
Apologies, but APIS Member = ?
Never heard, seen that term before.
Anti-Pushing In SocietyNever heard, seen that term before.
Possible positive reaction to my, so far, solo crusade.
From: WD39, founder member, life president and all round good egg of APIS.
Edited by Parsnip on Thursday 13th August 08:18
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grayze said:
OpulentBob said:
Blown2CV said:
You can give it the moral high ground all you want, but the law will not agree with you. Run someone into the cones and the police will likely fk you more than the other guy.
Maybe not more, but as much. k you more than the other guy. As a guy who has stood in the cones when exactly that has happened, and given a statement to the Police (including the details of the vehicle "holding" the other car out in L3 approaching, and in to, the taper), I would agree. The driver who wiped out the cones was definitely prosecuted, but the Police were very interested indeed in the other guy. Not many people notice the CCTV on many road works vehicles. Couple the make and model of the car with the ANPR used in the average speed cameras/traffic monitoring, and the person thinking they're teaching the overtaker a lesson becomes VERY easy to identify. The Police take a very dim view indeed of people playing silly buggers on high speed roads around road works.
Oh, and as mentioned a billion times before, this APIS s
te is 100% wrong. I don't know what you do for a living, WD39, but it's nothing to do with traffic. Well, I do work with traffic, I know the reasons for the rules, and you could not be more wrong. I don't like getting all "I know better than you" and arrogant, but in this case, I really do know a LOT better than you. Your reasons for not liking "pushing in" as you call it cause more dangers than you realise. I hope you get caught out for it one day, either by the Police - in which case you'll get a bking - or by someone who is on the way to something important, like seeing a dying relative - in which case you'll hopefully get a punch in the sanctimonious mouth. The taper is where it is for a reason. Don't start second guessing people with years of experience, the Police etc just because your feelings are hurt. Now, pull up your pissy knickers and go and learn to drive properly. Knob. Edited by OpulentBob on Thursday 13th August 05:44
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