One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in s
t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.Europa1 said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.Highway code said:
113
You MUST
ensure all sidelights and rear registration plate lights are lit between sunset and sunrise
use headlights at night, except on a road which has lit street lighting. These roads are generally restricted to a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) unless otherwise specified
use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226).
Night (the hours of darkness) is defined as the period between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise).
Laws: RVLR regs 3, 24, & 25, (In Scotland - RTRA 1984 sect 82 (as amended by NRSWA, para 59 of sched 8))
...note the "must" and the RVLR reference - it's the LAW. It's pretty self explanatory, really - if the sun has disappeared, put your fYou MUST
ensure all sidelights and rear registration plate lights are lit between sunset and sunrise
use headlights at night, except on a road which has lit street lighting. These roads are generally restricted to a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) unless otherwise specified
use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226).
Night (the hours of darkness) is defined as the period between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise).
Laws: RVLR regs 3, 24, & 25, (In Scotland - RTRA 1984 sect 82 (as amended by NRSWA, para 59 of sched 8))
king lights on. If it hasn't risen yet, put your fking lights on. If it's too grim and grey to see the sun at all, it's fair to assume that putting your fking lights on cannot be a bad idea.It was slightly misty this morning. No 'banks' of fog, just a whispy greyness. On the way to drop the wife off at work I was treated to the wholly unedifying spectacle of watching the two cars ahead of me on a dual carriageway driving along with brightly lit rear fog lights, while the car I could see ahead of them pootled along quite happily with no lights on at all. Pre-7am too. On the way home I gave a pickup driver a friendly 'flash' of high beam to remind him that he was not lit up in the misty gery morning, but his response was a raised middle finger. Well pardon me, and f
k you too, fat boy! 
One from this morning.
I enter a 40mph dual carriageway from a roundabout. The clown in a MINI who'd been tailgating me down a 30mph SC road blasts past, up to about 60mph. It's grim, it's grey, it's illegal, but whatever? Do what the fk you like, it's not directly affecting me.
So I keep to the limit (it's a bit misty, after all), and at the end of the DC I signal right and move into the RH lane so as to be in the correct lane to turn right at the next roundabout. Halfway along the queue (for left and straight on) in the LH lane, what do I spy ahead of me but the MINI, sat still, indicating left. So now you've gone from being in a burning hurry to get a move on to being stopped in the WRONG lane, blocking traffic behind you who's way ahead is otherwise clear. Now you ARE directly affecting me. What a wker. If you had half a brain, Mr Tiff Needell lookalike, you'd have continued up to the roundabout and driven a full circuit. You'd have caused no-one any issues, and probably gotten out ahead of the queue you were trying to force your way into. Which makes you a STUPID wker... 
Oh, and a dis-honourable mention to the idiot behind me on the DC. There's a well lit cyclist in lane 1 ahead of me. So full obs, proper move to lane 2 (with signal), and back in again to lane 1. A perfect demonstration of an overtake, fully in the (completely empty at that point) lane 2. The Doris behind me squeezes past the cyclist without even brushing the white line between lanes, with no sign of a signal. Which left the car behind her braking and diving for lane 2 when, understandably, the cyclist then appeared as something of a surprise. fking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads.
Now I now it's supposed to be "one thing", and this is thing number three, but idiots who drive several miles to arrive at a roundabout, whereupon they suddenly realise that they can't see out of their offside window to judge whether it's safe to enter a roundabout. You can't see, Mr Moron, because of those droplets of dew upon the window. What it tells me is that, for the last three miles that I've been following you along this road, you cannot possibly have been using you mirrors, because now that we've reached the roundabout you need to buzz your window down to see anything out of it at all. Hand, kitchen roll, squeegy? You'd find at least one of them useful to wipe the water off the window BEFORE setting off on a misty autumn morning at dark o'clock. tt.
I enter a 40mph dual carriageway from a roundabout. The clown in a MINI who'd been tailgating me down a 30mph SC road blasts past, up to about 60mph. It's grim, it's grey, it's illegal, but whatever? Do what the f
k you like, it's not directly affecting me.So I keep to the limit (it's a bit misty, after all), and at the end of the DC I signal right and move into the RH lane so as to be in the correct lane to turn right at the next roundabout. Halfway along the queue (for left and straight on) in the LH lane, what do I spy ahead of me but the MINI, sat still, indicating left. So now you've gone from being in a burning hurry to get a move on to being stopped in the WRONG lane, blocking traffic behind you who's way ahead is otherwise clear. Now you ARE directly affecting me. What a w
ker. If you had half a brain, Mr Tiff Needell lookalike, you'd have continued up to the roundabout and driven a full circuit. You'd have caused no-one any issues, and probably gotten out ahead of the queue you were trying to force your way into. Which makes you a STUPID wker... Oh, and a dis-honourable mention to the idiot behind me on the DC. There's a well lit cyclist in lane 1 ahead of me. So full obs, proper move to lane 2 (with signal), and back in again to lane 1. A perfect demonstration of an overtake, fully in the (completely empty at that point) lane 2. The Doris behind me squeezes past the cyclist without even brushing the white line between lanes, with no sign of a signal. Which left the car behind her braking and diving for lane 2 when, understandably, the cyclist then appeared as something of a surprise. f
king indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads. Now I now it's supposed to be "one thing", and this is thing number three, but idiots who drive several miles to arrive at a roundabout, whereupon they suddenly realise that they can't see out of their offside window to judge whether it's safe to enter a roundabout. You can't see, Mr Moron, because of those droplets of dew upon the window. What it tells me is that, for the last three miles that I've been following you along this road, you cannot possibly have been using you mirrors, because now that we've reached the roundabout you need to buzz your window down to see anything out of it at all. Hand, kitchen roll, squeegy? You'd find at least one of them useful to wipe the water off the window BEFORE setting off on a misty autumn morning at dark o'clock. t
t.
yellowjack said:
Oh, and a dis-honourable mention to the idiot behind me on the DC. There's a well lit cyclist in lane 1 ahead of me. So full obs, proper move to lane 2 (with signal), and back in again to lane 1. A perfect demonstration of an overtake, fully in the (completely empty at that point) lane 2. The Doris behind me squeezes past the cyclist without even brushing the white line between lanes, with no sign of a signal. Which left the car behind her braking and diving for lane 2 when, understandably, the cyclist then appeared as something of a surprise. fking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads.
I don't cycle but this one annoys me too. It's symptomatic of how completely and utterly self-absorbed they are. They're thinking of nobody else on the roads but themselves. That's not the same as being a BMW wking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads. ker trying to get ahead of a queue (which isn't to be commended) but rather that these people fail to recognise that other road users exist, which in turn implies that they cannot be paying due care and attention.Ergo, people who fail to properly pass cyclists should be banned because they're going to play a significant contributory role to a collision sooner or later and the best possible road safety improvement would be their removal from the roads.
jamieduff1981 said:
yellowjack said:
Oh, and a dis-honourable mention to the idiot behind me on the DC. There's a well lit cyclist in lane 1 ahead of me. So full obs, proper move to lane 2 (with signal), and back in again to lane 1. A perfect demonstration of an overtake, fully in the (completely empty at that point) lane 2. The Doris behind me squeezes past the cyclist without even brushing the white line between lanes, with no sign of a signal. Which left the car behind her braking and diving for lane 2 when, understandably, the cyclist then appeared as something of a surprise. fking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads.
I don't cycle but this one annoys me too. It's symptomatic of how completely and utterly self-absorbed they are. They're thinking of nobody else on the roads but themselves. That's not the same as being a BMW wking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads. ker trying to get ahead of a queue (which isn't to be commended) but rather that these people fail to recognise that other road users exist, which in turn implies that they cannot be paying due care and attention.Ergo, people who fail to properly pass cyclists should be banned because they're going to play a significant contributory role to a collision sooner or later and the best possible road safety improvement would be their removal from the roads.
This again.
Banning poor drivers isn't enough. Give them a choice. They can either be banned from diving for two years CD10 involving a cyclist or they can ride a bicycle for six months and a day. No catching a lift on a bad weather day they can use public transport for that. Only allowed to be a passenger in a privately owned vehicle (including private hire and Taxis) if it's an emergency or the journey is more than fifty miles. If they are caught in a vehicle during this period the two year ban starts that day. So it's like a cycle mounted probation.
Then sit back and watch attitudes on the roads change.
Six months and a day so they will still have to retake the driving test.
jamieduff1981 said:
yellowjack said:
Oh, and a dis-honourable mention to the idiot behind me on the DC. There's a well lit cyclist in lane 1 ahead of me. So full obs, proper move to lane 2 (with signal), and back in again to lane 1. A perfect demonstration of an overtake, fully in the (completely empty at that point) lane 2. The Doris behind me squeezes past the cyclist without even brushing the white line between lanes, with no sign of a signal. Which left the car behind her braking and diving for lane 2 when, understandably, the cyclist then appeared as something of a surprise. fking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads.
I don't cycle but this one annoys me too. It's symptomatic of how completely and utterly self-absorbed they are. They're thinking of nobody else on the roads but themselves. That's not the same as being a BMW wking indicate properly when passing cyclists, people. It's not for YOUR benefit, but, even if you don't NEED to leave your lane to pass the cyclist, a signal is beneficial to traffic behind you whose view of the cyclist may be obscured by your vehicle. This signalling of an "overtake" (and regardless of whether you feel cyclist should have road rights or not, It IS on overtake) is beneficial to the safety of that cyclist too. I frankly don't care if your personal opinion on cyclists is down there with something you'd scrape off your shoe. We're all human beings, and should NEVER be too busy, or lazy, to do something so simple that helps to keep another human being safe on our roads. ker trying to get ahead of a queue (which isn't to be commended) but rather that these people fail to recognise that other road users exist, which in turn implies that they cannot be paying due care and attention.Ergo, people who fail to properly pass cyclists should be banned because they're going to play a significant contributory role to a collision sooner or later and the best possible road safety improvement would be their removal from the roads.
Two other current bugbears:
- people on the open road who hit the brakes because an emergency services vehicle is coming the other way with lights/siren going, when the other way is completely empty and there is nothing to impede the emergency services vehicle; and
- people who think that because they are on a dual carriageway, somehow their full beam headlights magically are not blinding to traffic on the other carriageway.
Chap yesterday who swerved towards me (in a 4x4 pick up) as I was over taking a line of traffic on the offside (I was on my mtb bike), he was heading towards me, I was within the centre lines, and he just swerved towards me and squeezed me towards the queuing traffic. I was travelling about 20mph, he about 30/40 (it was in a 50), so closing speed with me and a bike......
If I braked I would of been squished, without thinking I shut my eyes and hoped for the best. Spooked me for the whole morning.
Absolute arse.
If I braked I would of been squished, without thinking I shut my eyes and hoped for the best. Spooked me for the whole morning.
Absolute arse.
I've had one this week. Not sure whether I was the knob or the bus driver that was in front of me.
At our local train station I want ed to turn right from the exit onto the main road out of the station. TO do this you have to cross the path of oncoming traffic and then there is a bus lane and a straight on lane ahead of you which you pull into after your turn. Someone let me out to the right. As I pulled into he middle lane next to the bus lane the bus drive at the same time decided he would pull into that lane to get in front of the bus in front of him in the bus stop. Bus driver was directly opposite me as I was pulling out - NO indicators on and he was in bus lane.
I ended up in the right hand lane trying to avoid the bus driver, with an oncoming vehicle as he proceeded to pull round the bus in front of him.
Who's the knob ? me or him ?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7432345,-0.34708...
Above is where it took place, i was coming out of the car park. Turning right.
At our local train station I want ed to turn right from the exit onto the main road out of the station. TO do this you have to cross the path of oncoming traffic and then there is a bus lane and a straight on lane ahead of you which you pull into after your turn. Someone let me out to the right. As I pulled into he middle lane next to the bus lane the bus drive at the same time decided he would pull into that lane to get in front of the bus in front of him in the bus stop. Bus driver was directly opposite me as I was pulling out - NO indicators on and he was in bus lane.
I ended up in the right hand lane trying to avoid the bus driver, with an oncoming vehicle as he proceeded to pull round the bus in front of him.
Who's the knob ? me or him ?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7432345,-0.34708...
Above is where it took place, i was coming out of the car park. Turning right.
silverfoxcc said:
Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.WD39 said:
silverfoxcc said:
Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.Idiot in the weird looking jeepers creepers look alike van last night. Not strictly illegal but used a (very short) 2nd lane to get in front of me (nearly wiping me out in the process) and THEN proceeded down the country road at a pitiful 30 MPH.
Why not just get behind me you tool? Instead of attempting a questionable overtake when you knew you'd be going at such as slow speed. I happily do 55-65 on this road and due to you being a knob, I had to sit behind you at 30 MPH while you fannied around turning on/off high beam like Blackbpool illuminations and braked for every single leaf on the road.
Why not just get behind me you tool? Instead of attempting a questionable overtake when you knew you'd be going at such as slow speed. I happily do 55-65 on this road and due to you being a knob, I had to sit behind you at 30 MPH while you fannied around turning on/off high beam like Blackbpool illuminations and braked for every single leaf on the road.
silverfoxcc said:
Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.king not no. The point is that if people lit their lights in good time for dusk then I would have no reason to post. If it's dark and people don't have their lights on because it's not teatime yet or whatever, clearly that's what i was getting at. Now are we all clear everyone? Not sure why it's so fking hard to grasp TBH.WD39 said:
silverfoxcc said:
Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.The nobber in an ultra rare //M530d who felt it necessary to flash me several times because he wanted a race. I'm sat at 68 indicated on a DC, 10pm, kids in the back with DVD players on (which can easily be seen through the tinted windows at night) and minding my own business. Just pass and leave me alone. He tagged onto a 1 series who 'took him on'. Think I'll remove the ST badge again, I got much less hassle without it for some reason.
The arrogant Gangsta tt in the Bentley Continental GT who thought he was so fking important that he could just bully his way onto the A1 this evening from a particularly tight slip road. I had to swerve to avoid colliding with the aresehole, forcing the cars behind me to anchor on.
He was lucky I saw hm at all, as he had completely forgotten to put his lights on, depsite it being pitch black. fking stupid .
t in the Bentley Continental GT who thought he was so fking important that he could just bully his way onto the A1 this evening from a particularly tight slip road. I had to swerve to avoid colliding with the aresehole, forcing the cars behind me to anchor on.He was lucky I saw hm at all, as he had completely forgotten to put his lights on, depsite it being pitch black. f
king stupid .Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
silverfoxcc said:
Blown2CV said:
WD39 said:
Blown2CV said:
playalistic said:
Everyone who is participating in st light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.
i do feel there is an element of "it can't be dark enough to put my lights on, it's not 6pm yet" (or whatever arbitrary time) amongst some of these titflaps. t light season. Either fully lit up with front / rear fogs ablaze or just randomly perished lights never to be replaced / repaired.40 love.
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