One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
Discussion
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Of course not. On this occasion they'f offended me, when I was already at a low point, and having spent many months giving it all a facelift for sale. The hope was that they may realise how crap it feels to be on receiving end of such silliness. It made me feel vaguely better.
I’m with you, great cunning. Similar time a prospect came to view and offered asking price but in the process of the viewing he received a parking fine which he demanded I pay. I didn’t. He then got to the exchange day and withdrew his offer moments before the exchange. He then offered 25k less
I refused told him to eff off, he then raised the offer but the sake was off. Sold it a week later for more than original price. Estate agent said after he was an investor and had pulled the same trick on several unsuspecting others, some of which were forced to accept.
Monkeylegend said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Some people are simply arses. In 2009, when the crash was in full swing I had my then house for sale at £180k. Some clown viewed, and followed up with an offer of £100k. Presumably with enough offers banded about they'd find someone on the edge of desperation.
Unbeknownst to them I knew one of the Estate Agents. I asked him to inform me if their house ever came up for sale, which it did a few years ago, at £425k. I viewed it (I wasn't present when they viewed mine) and gave an 'offer' to the agent of £250k.
See how you like it you a
holes!
Why would you go to all that effort to lower yourself to their level of knobbishness?Unbeknownst to them I knew one of the Estate Agents. I asked him to inform me if their house ever came up for sale, which it did a few years ago, at £425k. I viewed it (I wasn't present when they viewed mine) and gave an 'offer' to the agent of £250k.
See how you like it you a
holes! You are a strange man Fermit
Greg the Fish said:
Sorry if repost, but this RRS driving northern monkey really does qualify as a knob
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yor...
What a prize bell, "I was that busy and needed to get to work", due care and attention anyone? https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yor...
Grahamdub said:
PF62 said:
That takes me back to many many years ago when I lived in Bristol, and having just passed our tests the aim of my friends and I was to see how fast you could go through that narrowing. Probably made me a knob at the time...
If you are really old, the flyover by Temple Meads was where you tested your driving skill.Pan Pan Pan said:
The reasons / rules for giving a signal are so simple, even a single brain cell amoeba ought to be able to grasp them.
Nevertheless there are still large numbers of drivers who it seems just cannot cope with the combined tasks of driving a vehicle, and giving traffic signals.
If behind a car that has failed to give any signal, I tend to stay as clear of them, as road conditions allow, but if obliged to come alongside them. then I give a short beep of the horn, in an attempt to make sure they know I am there. ( although I accept, that if they are not giving signals they are poor drivers in the first place, and could still be unaware of the traffic around them)
And there’s the other one who I encounter every time I use a motorway who thinks that their indicator is a request. It’s not a bl00dy request, it’s a statement of intent. It should be used as such, not as ‘Excuse me, but could I pull out in front of you, pleas???’Nevertheless there are still large numbers of drivers who it seems just cannot cope with the combined tasks of driving a vehicle, and giving traffic signals.
If behind a car that has failed to give any signal, I tend to stay as clear of them, as road conditions allow, but if obliged to come alongside them. then I give a short beep of the horn, in an attempt to make sure they know I am there. ( although I accept, that if they are not giving signals they are poor drivers in the first place, and could still be unaware of the traffic around them)
Magnum 475 said:
And there’s the other one who I encounter every time I use a motorway who thinks that their indicator is a request. It’s not a bl00dy request, it’s a statement of intent. It should be used as such, not as ‘Excuse me, but could I pull out in front of you, pleas???’
Exactly the indicator should not even come on until after they have made sure it is safe and no one need slow down or alter course. (Rule 133)PF62 said:
Grahamdub said:
PF62 said:
That takes me back to many many years ago when I lived in Bristol, and having just passed our tests the aim of my friends and I was to see how fast you could go through that narrowing. Probably made me a knob at the time...
If you are really old, the flyover by Temple Meads was where you tested your driving skill.Magnum 475 said:
Pan Pan Pan said:
The reasons / rules for giving a signal are so simple, even a single brain cell amoeba ought to be able to grasp them.
Nevertheless there are still large numbers of drivers who it seems just cannot cope with the combined tasks of driving a vehicle, and giving traffic signals.
If behind a car that has failed to give any signal, I tend to stay as clear of them, as road conditions allow, but if obliged to come alongside them. then I give a short beep of the horn, in an attempt to make sure they know I am there. ( although I accept, that if they are not giving signals they are poor drivers in the first place, and could still be unaware of the traffic around them)
And there’s the other one who I encounter every time I use a motorway who thinks that their indicator is a request. It’s not a bl00dy request, it’s a statement of intent. It should be used as such, not as ‘Excuse me, but could I pull out in front of you, pleas???’Nevertheless there are still large numbers of drivers who it seems just cannot cope with the combined tasks of driving a vehicle, and giving traffic signals.
If behind a car that has failed to give any signal, I tend to stay as clear of them, as road conditions allow, but if obliged to come alongside them. then I give a short beep of the horn, in an attempt to make sure they know I am there. ( although I accept, that if they are not giving signals they are poor drivers in the first place, and could still be unaware of the traffic around them)
Please note I used the words other road users, because signals are not just for drivers, but for all persons using the roads, including pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc.
TL,DR Lexus driver drives like a cock!!
The complete and utter tt driving an 08 plate Lexus IS this morning, sliproad onto the restricted 50mph limit M27 Hamble junction, this scenario was compounded by the knuckle dragger in a Dacia Duster in front of me straddling the white line to ensure no one overtook him coming up the sliproad, said Lexus driver in inside lane wouldn't move over to allow the three of us who were trying to join the M27 to filter on, cue Mr Dacia driver trying to push into the side of the Lexus and then braking hard because he was running out of sliproad, I was already dropping back to try and join behind the Lexus, but then Mr Lexus slams his brakes on due to Dacia man virtually in the side of his car, which means I've got nowhere to go so brake and the guy behind me is on his brakes too!!! So we finally sort ourselves out and I pass Lexus man at 52mph, he's bumbling along under 50mph, I exit at Whiteley and use the inside lane of sliproad which becomes the middle lane of three on the roundabout then inside lane onto the link road to Segensworth, oh look Mr Lexus is beside me, third lane coming around the round about, and as we start to clear the exit back onto the motorway he indicates and cuts straight across in front me causing me to brake, fookin hard as I'm actually level with his bumper, no reaction at all, just sails on without a care in the world, now it could end at this point but no, he's not finished yet, back out into the outside lane as we approach the main Segensworth round about, green light means we barely slow and he enters the round about as if he's going straight across and instead uses EVERY LANE ON THE ROUND ABOUT to come off at the same exit as me towards Fareham, including going over the chevrons at the edge of the exit straight back into the right hand lane of the DC, indicator going he then tries to push in in font of me, again, unfortunately for him I was already accelerating down the DC, you'll notice it's a dual carriageway but he appears to be intent on being in the lefthand lane, so he eventually swerves in behind me and slows down!!!!!
Serious question, how is any of that normal? What kind of fugue do you have to be in to see that sort of driving as acceptable?
The complete and utter t
t driving an 08 plate Lexus IS this morning, sliproad onto the restricted 50mph limit M27 Hamble junction, this scenario was compounded by the knuckle dragger in a Dacia Duster in front of me straddling the white line to ensure no one overtook him coming up the sliproad, said Lexus driver in inside lane wouldn't move over to allow the three of us who were trying to join the M27 to filter on, cue Mr Dacia driver trying to push into the side of the Lexus and then braking hard because he was running out of sliproad, I was already dropping back to try and join behind the Lexus, but then Mr Lexus slams his brakes on due to Dacia man virtually in the side of his car, which means I've got nowhere to go so brake and the guy behind me is on his brakes too!!! So we finally sort ourselves out and I pass Lexus man at 52mph, he's bumbling along under 50mph, I exit at Whiteley and use the inside lane of sliproad which becomes the middle lane of three on the roundabout then inside lane onto the link road to Segensworth, oh look Mr Lexus is beside me, third lane coming around the round about, and as we start to clear the exit back onto the motorway he indicates and cuts straight across in front me causing me to brake, fookin hard as I'm actually level with his bumper, no reaction at all, just sails on without a care in the world, now it could end at this point but no, he's not finished yet, back out into the outside lane as we approach the main Segensworth round about, green light means we barely slow and he enters the round about as if he's going straight across and instead uses EVERY LANE ON THE ROUND ABOUT to come off at the same exit as me towards Fareham, including going over the chevrons at the edge of the exit straight back into the right hand lane of the DC, indicator going he then tries to push in in font of me, again, unfortunately for him I was already accelerating down the DC, you'll notice it's a dual carriageway but he appears to be intent on being in the lefthand lane, so he eventually swerves in behind me and slows down!!!!! Serious question, how is any of that normal? What kind of fugue do you have to be in to see that sort of driving as acceptable?
Graveworm said:
Magnum 475 said:
And there’s the other one who I encounter every time I use a motorway who thinks that their indicator is a request. It’s not a bl00dy request, it’s a statement of intent. It should be used as such, not as ‘Excuse me, but could I pull out in front of you, pleas???’
Exactly the indicator should not even come on until after they have made sure it is safe and no one need slow down or alter course. (Rule 133)
Knob A: Idiot in the clapped out piece of st Toyota filled with boxes, clothes and other random detritus who couldn't even keep it well enough maintained to get through the Blackwall Tunnel
Knob B: Motorcyclist flying down the centre of the traffic jam caused by the above, cutting up other filtering bikers and slaloming all over the road, pinning the throttle with the clutch in at every opportunity.
Knob C: The pubescent presumed drug dealer in the C63 AMG that treated the jam like a safety car lap, weaving in and out of expanding traffic once we exited the tunnel and haring off only to be caught in traffic going into Stratford rendering his little display pointless.
Jesus Christ I really fking hate living here.
t Toyota filled with boxes, clothes and other random detritus who couldn't even keep it well enough maintained to get through the Blackwall TunnelKnob B: Motorcyclist flying down the centre of the traffic jam caused by the above, cutting up other filtering bikers and slaloming all over the road, pinning the throttle with the clutch in at every opportunity.
Knob C: The pubescent presumed drug dealer in the C63 AMG that treated the jam like a safety car lap, weaving in and out of expanding traffic once we exited the tunnel and haring off only to be caught in traffic going into Stratford rendering his little display pointless.
Jesus Christ I really f
king hate living here.While waiting at a roundabout last night, traffic from my right was all making the best of it, as it was heavy going. Everyone using both lanes of the roundabout to go straight ahead, side by side, and with a two-lane entry and a two-lane exit, it was working well. Until some bonehead in a Zafira just drove straight across, from the left lane, "clipping the apex" of the roundabout, and back to the left lane again as if it were entirely normal to cause the Lexus in the right-hand lane to jam on the brakes to avoid a collision. A little way up the road, the idiot in the Zafira then brought traffic to a halt because they needed to turn right at a side road. From the left hand lane across three other lanes of traffic, two of them oncoming. Top knobbing, Mr Zafira. Especially as, in traffic that heavy, any sane, sensible person would have gone up to the roundabout ahead and come back down to turn left down that road. He appeared to have no concept of "other road users" nor a considerate bone in his body.
yellowjack said:
While waiting at a roundabout last night, traffic from my right was all making the best of it, as it was heavy going. Everyone using both lanes of the roundabout to go straight ahead, side by side, and with a two-lane entry and a two-lane exit, it was working well. Until some bonehead in a Zafira just drove straight across, from the left lane, "clipping the apex" of the roundabout, and back to the left lane again as if it were entirely normal to cause the Lexus in the right-hand lane to jam on the brakes to avoid a collision. A little way up the road, the idiot in the Zafira then brought traffic to a halt because they needed to turn right at a side road. From the left hand lane across three other lanes of traffic, two of them oncoming. Top knobbing, Mr Zafira. Especially as, in traffic that heavy, any sane, sensible person would have gone up to the roundabout ahead and come back down to turn left down that road. He appeared to have no concept of "other road users" nor a considerate bone in his body.
I have a theory that MKnight702 said:
I have a theory that drivers occupants of a Zafaliure have lost at life and are deliberately trying to take it out on the rest of us. My other theory is that the Honda Jazz speedo over reads by 50% so when they are bumbling about on an A road at 45mph the reason is that they think they are doing 65 or so, which is why they insist on flashing like mad when you overtake.
Incorrect. The Honda Jazz does not have a speedo, so we have to guess at our speed. Always on the cautious side, mind.
We only use headlight flashers to illuminate knob drivers.
nonsequitur said:
MKnight702 said:
I have a theory that drivers occupants of a Zafaliure have lost at life and are deliberately trying to take it out on the rest of us. My other theory is that the Honda Jazz speedo over reads by 50% so when they are bumbling about on an A road at 45mph the reason is that they think they are doing 65 or so, which is why they insist on flashing like mad when you overtake.
Incorrect. The Honda Jazz does not have a speedo, so we have to guess at our speed. Always on the cautious side, mind. We only use headlight flashers to illuminate knob drivers.The utter psychopath I encountered on my walk to today's exam. Happened to be on a bicycle. Was on a segregated path and riding right down the white line, swerving towards pedestrians who got anywhere close to it. When my turn came, I was part of a group, so I had nowhere to go, and we smacked shoulders. He carries on, then turns around and tries to run into me. Tried, because I had the measure of him, and when he got close enough I sidestepped (I think), and threw him off the bike. 
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