One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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LambShank said:
Trabi601 said:
Great one tonight.
Woman with 2 kids ignored all the signs on the approach to the Severn Bridge and ended up in the TAG lane, despite not having a tag.
This resulted in a queue building up behind her as it took about 5 minutes for a member of staff to meander over from the toll office to the booth (which is in the far right lane!).
I don't know which part of the bright green LED 'TAG ONLY' sign she struggled with!
Perhaps she was wearing one of their watches.Woman with 2 kids ignored all the signs on the approach to the Severn Bridge and ended up in the TAG lane, despite not having a tag.
This resulted in a queue building up behind her as it took about 5 minutes for a member of staff to meander over from the toll office to the booth (which is in the far right lane!).
I don't know which part of the bright green LED 'TAG ONLY' sign she struggled with!
At the Dartford crossing before the new scheme came in, I've been stuck behind people who have gotten out to retrieve their purse/wallet from inside the boot.
Im pretty sure they knew they would have to do so 'before' the pay-booth, but inconveniencing 10x others was obviously better for them personally than pulling into a side road on-route and being a minute later.
Hol said:
I drove that route for the first time ever this year and it is pretty obvious from the signs.
At the Dartford crossing before the new scheme came in, I've been stuck behind people who have gotten out to retrieve their purse/wallet from inside the boot.
Im pretty sure they knew they would have to do so 'before' the pay-booth, but inconveniencing 10x others was obviously better for them personally than pulling into a side road on-route and being a minute later.
Almost as good as when the Severn Bridge had the coin bins and I watched a woman in an X5 throw a handful of change at the bin....and miss it with every single coin. Had to get out of her car and scrabble around in the wet picking them all up. I was laughing too much to be angry.At the Dartford crossing before the new scheme came in, I've been stuck behind people who have gotten out to retrieve their purse/wallet from inside the boot.
Im pretty sure they knew they would have to do so 'before' the pay-booth, but inconveniencing 10x others was obviously better for them personally than pulling into a side road on-route and being a minute later.
Tankrizzo said:
Almost as good as when the Severn Bridge had the coin bins and I watched a woman in an X5 throw a handful of change at the bin....and miss it with every single coin. Had to get out of her car and scrabble around in the wet picking them all up. I was laughing too much to be angry.
Did similar with a LHD years ago at Dartford. Very embarrassing .......
I had to take the Trabi across the Severn Bridge a few months ago. I forgot my TAG.
Ended with a very comical scene of me jumping out, running around to the booth to pay, being a quid short, going back to the driver's side to get my wallet... finally paying before crawling away in a cloud of blue smoke
Ended with a very comical scene of me jumping out, running around to the booth to pay, being a quid short, going back to the driver's side to get my wallet... finally paying before crawling away in a cloud of blue smoke
The Greenflag driver, on the M25 / A10 roundabout here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6836539,-0.04814...
As I moved to the left to take the "new" lane over the M25 he swerved in front of me.
No real bother, I'll go in the middle lane and join the shorter queue.
Except he swerved back into the middle lane.
It's OK all three lanes go down the A10 and I have several routes to get to work from the A10, so now I'm sat next to him at the lights here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6830841,-0.04810...
When I see him leaning out of the window giving me the coffee beans gesture, for "overtaking on the inside"
If you're going to drive like a w
ker can I advise you not to do it in a van advertising the company you work for with a phone number prominently displayed on all four sides of said van. Hopefully your boss has a word with you about how you conduct yourself on company time, you knob.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6836539,-0.04814...
As I moved to the left to take the "new" lane over the M25 he swerved in front of me.
No real bother, I'll go in the middle lane and join the shorter queue.
Except he swerved back into the middle lane.
It's OK all three lanes go down the A10 and I have several routes to get to work from the A10, so now I'm sat next to him at the lights here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6830841,-0.04810...
When I see him leaning out of the window giving me the coffee beans gesture, for "overtaking on the inside"
If you're going to drive like a w
ker can I advise you not to do it in a van advertising the company you work for with a phone number prominently displayed on all four sides of said van. Hopefully your boss has a word with you about how you conduct yourself on company time, you knob.OpulentBob said:
Kinda like other people's dogs then. Seeing them is one thing, hearing them is annoying as fk.
Fireworks are for a week in November, usually reserved to a few hours in the evenings. Noisy fking mutts can be incessant.
I know which I'd rather silence.
No, it's not a week, it's a day. Did they say, "remember, remember, the week up to and including the 5th of November"? No. Do you give presents every day from the 18th of December? No you don't.k. Fireworks are for a week in November, usually reserved to a few hours in the evenings. Noisy f
king mutts can be incessant. I know which I'd rather silence.
So why let off fireworks for a week (over a week, from Mid October sometimes) then?
It's not as if the ones people buy are any good. They're s
t. Pitiful display, with a bang at the end. If you like fireworks that much go to a proper display that other people can avoid. If you like loud bangs, go to fking Syria.Monkeylegend said:
Well done you, another PH driving god 
Haha, okay fair point i should have let him go it was childish i accept that,but in my defence i was in my recently acquired Amg and i like the noise it makes. Spruce - We filtered across the oncoming lane through traffic lights and lane 1 was full so everybody had to use lane 2 initially and i was the lead car from the lights as we filtered through to the set where speedy was waiting.
Hackney said:
So why let off fireworks for a week (over a week, from Mid October sometimes) then?
Not defending it but 2 reasons I can think of.Diwali & Schools, Sports Clubs trying to,"maximise" the income for themselves by holding the events on different weekends, especially when November 5 is mid week.
1 of the displays local to me was last night (Sunday) & had the worst attendance ever, apparently due to a local school holding theirs Saturday & them not wanting to clash.
People won't/can't go to events like that on a week night as it can often end up both parents unable to attend, as would happen for us,d due to work commitments, journey times & late nights for their children.
Superflow said:
Haha, okay fair point i should have let him go it was childish i accept that,but in my defence i was in my recently acquired Amg and i like the noise it makes.
Spruce - We filtered across the oncoming lane through traffic lights and lane 1 was full so everybody had to use lane 2 initially and i was the lead car from the lights as we filtered through to the set where speedy was waiting.
Spruce - We filtered across the oncoming lane through traffic lights and lane 1 was full so everybody had to use lane 2 initially and i was the lead car from the lights as we filtered through to the set where speedy was waiting.
Just what a Amg is for , laying down the law !
Bloke in black BMW coupe at IKEA roundabout in Bristol this weekend.
I know you thought you were cool by booting it when that car got out of your way and to show your displeasure you floored it half way round the roundabout, but everyone else who was sat in the queue next to you thought you were Tiff Needell when the back end let go and you spun round to face the other way and narrowly miss the back end of 2 cars and a kerb. And me, sat in traffic with my 2 kids in the car. The kids asked what you were trying to do (six and four) and I had to honestly say I didn't know but I think you should put that TC fuse back in.
I know you thought you were cool by booting it when that car got out of your way and to show your displeasure you floored it half way round the roundabout, but everyone else who was sat in the queue next to you thought you were Tiff Needell when the back end let go and you spun round to face the other way and narrowly miss the back end of 2 cars and a kerb. And me, sat in traffic with my 2 kids in the car. The kids asked what you were trying to do (six and four) and I had to honestly say I didn't know but I think you should put that TC fuse back in.
Hackney said:
No, it's not a week, it's a day. Did they say, "remember, remember, the week up to and including the 5th of November"? No. Do you give presents every day from the 18th of December? No you don't.
no, the 12 days from 25th onwards, starting with a selection of small birds, then some jewellery and getting ever more ridiculous after thatSterotypical L200 this morning driving incredible close to the back of my car, then faking overtakes in 30mph limits. After a while he dropped back, but then would floor it, then repeat. Absolute bell end. When we reached a 60mph limit, he proceeded to overtake me despite oncoming traffic. Not only did he force on coming cars off the road, he overtook myself and 2 other cars while doing this! The poor chap in the Merc who had to pull over into a grass verge as the L200 came towards looked properly shook up. Further up the road, L200 turned into a junction.
Hackney said:
OpulentBob said:
Kinda like other people's dogs then. Seeing them is one thing, hearing them is annoying as fk.
Fireworks are for a week in November, usually reserved to a few hours in the evenings. Noisy fking mutts can be incessant.
I know which I'd rather silence.
No, it's not a week, it's a day. Did they say, "remember, remember, the week up to and including the 5th of November"? No. Do you give presents every day from the 18th of December? No you don't.k. Fireworks are for a week in November, usually reserved to a few hours in the evenings. Noisy f
king mutts can be incessant. I know which I'd rather silence.
So why let off fireworks for a week (over a week, from Mid October sometimes) then?
It's not as if the ones people buy are any good. They're s
t. Pitiful display, with a bang at the end. If you like fireworks that much go to a proper display that other people can avoid. If you like loud bangs, go to fking Syria.Don't believe me? Try storing them in a military ammunition bunker. The licensing will, in most cases, not permit it due to the classification and risk. And if you apply for a temporary exemption order to allow it, ninety nine times out of a hundred you'll have to clear out every single other item from the room you want to store fireworks in. Sounds crazy, but it's true. Even the officers who had bought the fireworks in (for a display by a commercial pyro company) were stunned when I had to tell them our storage bunkers were not licensed for the nature of explosives which fireworks come under, and that they couldn't be mixed with our stock under any circumstances. Damn near put a dampener on the display too. In the end the fireworks had to be delivered to site on the day of the display, no other (workable, legal) solution could be found...
...display dates local to us varied too. The local army barracks had a bonfire 'open night' on Thursday the 3rd. Proper event, bouncy castles, hot dogs, etc. Local junior school went for Saturday the 5th, and the local football club had their display on Sunday 6th, because obviously the stadium was in use for football on the Saturday afternoon. That's a four-day spread when the actual night of 5th November falls on a weekend. Other years when it's fallen mid week, you get an 8 or 9 day spread of just the officially licensed organised displays. It's grown to silly proportions these days. I remember as a kid that some households would have a small tin of rockets and such in their back garden, and there'd be one big display in the local park, put on by the council. Two, maybe three nights maximum. Tough luck if your shifts meant you couldn't go.
Superflow said:
The near sixty year old suited solicitor type who shot off from the lights as he noticed me in lane two beside him,i don't normally play but i needed to turn left at the roundabout ahead,he lost..badly
I find it amusing to blip the throttle, and accelerate hard-ish for the first car length or so.9 times out of 10, the sucker will gun it down the road at full power, leaving a nice gap behind them for me to tuck into.
Very satisfying, especially when they glance across to see where I've gone
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