One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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People who make up their own rules but then get upset when others don't follow them.
For example, driving through a car park today, another car was driving towards me down the middle of the road. He begrudgingly moved onto his side, but as we drew level he shouts "ONE WAY!!!" out of the window. Nope, it's two way. Has been for at least 14 years, and there are no signs it's ever been any different, the road is obviously wide enough to be intended for two way use too. Plenty of other cars driving in both directions too.
Now if he wants to follow a particular route around the car park that's fine. I've got my preferred route around the supermarket but I don't shout at people who fetch their milk before their fruit and veg.
So, Mr Adenoids in the Freelander... You are a knob.
For example, driving through a car park today, another car was driving towards me down the middle of the road. He begrudgingly moved onto his side, but as we drew level he shouts "ONE WAY!!!" out of the window. Nope, it's two way. Has been for at least 14 years, and there are no signs it's ever been any different, the road is obviously wide enough to be intended for two way use too. Plenty of other cars driving in both directions too.
Now if he wants to follow a particular route around the car park that's fine. I've got my preferred route around the supermarket but I don't shout at people who fetch their milk before their fruit and veg.
So, Mr Adenoids in the Freelander... You are a knob.
donkmeister said:
People who make up their own rules but then get upset when others don't follow them.
For example, driving through a car park today, another car was driving towards me down the middle of the road. He begrudgingly moved onto his side, but as we drew level he shouts "ONE WAY!!!" out of the window. Nope, it's two way. Has been for at least 14 years, and there are no signs it's ever been any different, the road is obviously wide enough to be intended for two way use too. Plenty of other cars driving in both directions too.
Now if he wants to follow a particular route around the car park that's fine. I've got my preferred route around the supermarket but I don't shout at people who fetch their milk before their fruit and veg.
So, Mr Adenoids in the Freelander... You are a knob.
This happens a lot at two roundabouts local to me. People will use the left lane to take the third right hand exit off the roundabout (despite signs and arrows on the road advising otherwise), then get annoyed and angry at the few people who use the roundabout properly.For example, driving through a car park today, another car was driving towards me down the middle of the road. He begrudgingly moved onto his side, but as we drew level he shouts "ONE WAY!!!" out of the window. Nope, it's two way. Has been for at least 14 years, and there are no signs it's ever been any different, the road is obviously wide enough to be intended for two way use too. Plenty of other cars driving in both directions too.
Now if he wants to follow a particular route around the car park that's fine. I've got my preferred route around the supermarket but I don't shout at people who fetch their milk before their fruit and veg.
So, Mr Adenoids in the Freelander... You are a knob.
One woman got angry about people in the correct lane beeping at her on one of them local Facebook pages, 'I've always used this lane and always will!' Almost want her to crash into someone...
Lorries who tailgate. Tbh today is the only time it's happened to me, but you'd think that a lorry driver would be able to appreciate how dangerous it is.
Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
bluezedd said:
Lorries who tailgate. Tbh today is the only time it's happened to me, but you'd think that a lorry driver would be able to appreciate how dangerous it is.
Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
Lorry has speed limit set to 80kph (=56mph). Set cruise to an indicated 50+10% + 2 mph and you should be OK.Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
Pica-Pica said:
Lorry has speed limit set to 80kph (=56mph). Set cruise to an indicated 50+10% + 2 mph and you should be OK.
Thanks for the info. I had it previously set to beyond 60, but had to bring it down to 55 due to the traffic in lane 1 slowing down. I'm my speedo will overread too though so could have well been doing a genuine 50mph rather than an indicated 55. I guess he must have been wanting to do his top speed rather than drive appropriate to the speed of the cars in front.Think i'd probably need it to be set to up in the 60mph range if he's relying on doing a genuine 56mph everywhere.
bluezedd said:
Lorries who tailgate. Tbh today is the only time it's happened to me, but you'd think that a lorry driver would be able to appreciate how dangerous it is.
Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
What was the point in speeding up why not just let him past? That happens all the time catch car up, pull out to overtake, car speeds up, drop back behind, car slows down, repeat. So HGV driver gets bored and just stays behind as you slow/speed up. Sitting at and indicated 55mph in a 50 limit on a 2 lane motorway, in lane 1, keeping my distance from the car in front of me but matching its speed. Was doing an indicated 60mph previously but the car in front was preventing me and I'm already speeding.
An HGV decides to sit as close as they possibly could (without touching) behind me at 55mph in a 50mph limit.
My response was to turn off the cruise control and hopefully he'll drop back, so we coast down to 40mph and he's still up my arse. He then goes to overtake me. I suspected a 44 ton punishment pass was coming, so just accelerated quickly in my lane so he couldn't overtake and sped up to 60.
Probably just a case of the lorry driver not looking beyond the car in front and driving dangerously/trying to bully cars.
AstonZagato said:
I think the personalised numbers I have (all are of the format: A1 BCD) just look neater/cleaner than ZY98 XWV format plates. None are my initials, try to spell words or are mis-spaced or butchered in any way. None cost me more than £200 initially.
And there is nothing wrong with that.The problem arises when people hear the words 'Private' or 'Cherished' and lump everyone into the same category and thinks everyone with a plate is going to bodge around with the spacing and font to create a pre-school masterpiece.
(Like R808 or AB08 into BOB etc).
Worse still, is when the bodgers themselves propagate the fantasy and insist that everyone else is doing it, when clearly it a small minority.
Then you get the fiction writers, who insist that the DVLA and government secretly want them to bodge all the numbers and spacing, but are simultaneously saying the exact opposite in the guidance and rule books to hide the whole conspiracy.
There's a untapped market out there for Number Plate inspired tin foil hats.
Mandalore said:
And there is nothing wrong with that.
The problem arises when people hear the words 'Private' or 'Cherished' and lump everyone into the same category and thinks everyone with a plate is going to bodge around with the spacing and font to create a pre-school masterpiece.
(Like R808 or AB08 into BOB etc).
Worse still, is when the bodgers themselves propagate the fantasy and insist that everyone else is doing it, when clearly it a small minority.
Then you get the fiction writers, who insist that the DVLA and government secretly want them to bodge all the numbers and spacing, but are simultaneously saying the exact opposite in the guidance and rule books to hide the whole conspiracy.
There's a untapped market out there for Number Plate inspired tin foil hats.
Well if you look at how the DVLA price their vrm’s for auction you can clearly see certain plates derive their value from a word / name that would require a degree of mis-spacing.The problem arises when people hear the words 'Private' or 'Cherished' and lump everyone into the same category and thinks everyone with a plate is going to bodge around with the spacing and font to create a pre-school masterpiece.
(Like R808 or AB08 into BOB etc).
Worse still, is when the bodgers themselves propagate the fantasy and insist that everyone else is doing it, when clearly it a small minority.
Then you get the fiction writers, who insist that the DVLA and government secretly want them to bodge all the numbers and spacing, but are simultaneously saying the exact opposite in the guidance and rule books to hide the whole conspiracy.
There's a untapped market out there for Number Plate inspired tin foil hats.
G13NVL said:
What was the point in speeding up why not just let him past? That happens all the time catch car up, pull out to overtake, car speeds up, drop back behind, car slows down, repeat. So HGV driver gets bored and just stays behind as you slow/speed up.
The main reason was because I didn't trust the driver to pass me safely based on their dangerous tailgating previously. Don't think I've ever had a vehicle drive as close behind me at that speed in all of my past 12 years of driving. It wasn't worth the risk for me to let him pass.Either way, the motorway opens up to a 3 lane 60 limit shortly after that, and it resulted in the same average speed as he would have overtaking. I didn't block him in any way. I left him behind.
Sorry, I can understand if it read like I was preventing a pass and driving slowly. That's another knob thing too.
bluezedd said:
G13NVL said:
What was the point in speeding up why not just let him past? That happens all the time catch car up, pull out to overtake, car speeds up, drop back behind, car slows down, repeat. So HGV driver gets bored and just stays behind as you slow/speed up.
The main reason was because I didn't trust the driver to pass me safely based on their dangerous tailgating previously. Don't think I've ever had a vehicle drive as close behind me at that speed in all of my past 12 years of driving. It wasn't worth the risk for me to let him pass.Either way, the motorway opens up to a 3 lane 60 limit shortly after that, and it resulted in the same average speed as he would have overtaking. I didn't block him in any way. I left him behind.
Sorry, I can understand if it read like I was preventing a pass and driving slowly. That's another knob thing too.
Countdown said:
Pica-Pica said:
Lorry has speed limit set to 80kph (=56mph). Set cruise to an indicated 50+10% + 2 mph and you should be OK.
I'm not sure how strict the speed governors are sometimes. I'm positive I've been overtaken by Lorries doing 60+
Knob in a Hundeschwanzrot Juke on the A1 South on Saturday afternoon. Dual carriageway returns to a single-lane NSL at Felton in Northumberland.
There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
cmvtec said:
Knob in a Hundeschwanzrot Juke on the A1 South on Saturday afternoon. Dual carriageway returns to a single-lane NSL at Felton in Northumberland.
There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
It has to be Juke Guys.There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
cmvtec said:
Knob in a Hundeschwanzrot Juke on the A1 South on Saturday afternoon. Dual carriageway returns to a single-lane NSL at Felton in Northumberland.
There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
Sounds like a Juke of hazard.There's a GATSO speed camera about 400 yards before the lanes merge. I was maintaining a steady 70 in L2 as the Juke braked hard for the camera in L1. As I eased off for the single carriageway, matey boy decided to gun it up the inside of me, safest thing for me to do at that point was to speed up a little and use the chevrons, continuing my planned manoeuvre as there was another car sitting behind me, in a position to slot in behind the Juke.
Juke guy then decided to tailgate me, after mashing the horn.
Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
cmvtec said:
Dual carriageway returns to a single-lane NSL at Felton in Northumberland...Who speeds up in that type of scenario?!
I've seen it happen at that exact spot on numerous occasions - worst of which was a Range Rover and a BMW going two abreast on the single lane part as neither would give in. BMW eventually "won" and had the Range Rover up his arse until the Morpeth turn off.
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