One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Fully marked X5 police car, was behind him for about 10 minutes, in that time he turned left without indicating, went through an amber light despite the car ahead not being able to clear the crossing, police car blocked it, then he jumped a red light, then turned right without indicating, I fully respect the police but that certainly not a good example to set. As you hopefully can guess he didn't have blue lights on.
carlove said:
Fully marked X5 police car, was behind him for about 10 minutes, in that time he turned left without indicating, went through an amber light despite the car ahead not being able to clear the crossing, police car blocked it, then he jumped a red light, then turned right without indicating, I fully respect the police but that certainly not a good example to set. As you hopefully can guess he didn't have blue lights on.
Probably working under cover.yellowjack said:
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...
Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?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...
Cliftonite said:
yellowjack said:
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...
Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?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...
alpha channel said:
House builders/architects who build house with garages that are too damned small for the smallest of modern cars let alone for the average sized motor (or some bikes for that matter). Just came to mind as there's been recent building going on around my area and some of the garages that have been constructed look barely big enough for some bikes let alone for anything with four wheels.
There's been a trend in this country to build 3:4 scale houses for some time now. so it makes sense that they do the same to garages.Unfortunately cars (especially white goods mass market cars - looking at you Peugeot) have been built on a 5:4 scale for just as long
veevee said:
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.
I asked her a question, I was trying to help. It's a low speed residential road with poor visibility due to the bends and high number of cars and vans parked on both sides. She's liable to try this trick on someone who's genuinely speeding and get hit.
I'm white. My observation is that this demographic exhibits a very high level of poor visual awareness or, "I'll do what I'm going to do no matter what impact it has on everyone else but it'll look like I'm not paying attention" attitude.
Heading north on the A1 this morning, it's 3 lanes past Borehamwood. As you approach the junction with the M25 the left lane becomes a slip road (signs, change in lane marking), this happens about a mile ahead of the actual junction.
I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.
Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.
She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.
And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?
I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.
Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.
She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.
And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?
There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
DougMcC said:
There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
+100Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
I wish the Bib would start giving people who do this tickets.
Hackney said:
There's been a trend in this country to build 3:4 scale houses for some time now. so it makes sense that they do the same to garages.
Unfortunately cars (especially white goods mass market cars - looking at you Peugeot) have been built on a 5:4 scale for just as long
Our garage just fit my old clio. When it went and I was car shopping I was amazed how few cars would actually fit in it (and enable me to get back out ). In the end I went with a Fiat 500 which does fit perfectly. If I'd needed something bigger for the kids etc though our garage would have been useless and despite recent trends the garage was built with the house in 1971. Unfortunately cars (especially white goods mass market cars - looking at you Peugeot) have been built on a 5:4 scale for just as long
DougMcC said:
There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
Looks like they're listening Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/28/...
Hackney said:
Heading north on the A1 this morning, it's 3 lanes past Borehamwood. As you approach the junction with the M25 the left lane becomes a slip road (signs, change in lane marking), this happens about a mile ahead of the actual junction.
I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.
Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.
She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.
And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?
The highways agency folk even have the bare faced CHEEK to put big blue signs up on gantries, which even tell you which lane you need to be in!I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.
Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.
She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.
And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?
yellowjack said:
Cliftonite said:
yellowjack said:
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...
Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?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...
How many cars in total on your side of the road.
How many cars before the gap on your side.
How long/wide was the gap on your side.
How many cars on your side of the road after the gap.
How far from the other end of the cars was the Taxi, when came upon the gap.
Draw a picture if you want.
[car][car][car][car].........[car][car][car][car] taXi
TheAllSeeingPie said:
Hackney said:
What are these people thinking?
Probably that you were pushing in and she wanted her place back. Some people are just weird in that way.There was nowhere to push in to, just empty lanes. I didn't accelerate past her to close a gap, I kept a constant speed until I slowed behind other cars.
She also didn't have a place because there was nothing infront of her, nothing behind her, nothing to her left until her poor driving put her in a lane she didn't want to be in with three cars to her left.
She had ample opportunity to
a) be in the left hand lane rather than be a MLM
b) just pull in behind me rather than slowly pass me and one other car before trying to push in herself
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