One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[yellowjack]

loose cannon said:

TommoAE86 said:

The dribbling moron in the silver E36 convertible in Farnborough at the weekend, yes you've very clever climbing into the boot of my car and then nosing out to try and be all aggressive. Despite all that you failed to notice the car in front that was going quite slowly anyway.

Even ignoring the above I highly doubt you have an engine that could match your attitude to other road users but I won't be rushed in a built up area.

The way your car "coped" with the undulations coming off the roundabout suggests to me that your lowered ride height was a) cheap and b) for looks.

Please grow up and modify/drive your car properly.

I've had that same clown tailgating me down minley road I just ignored him then unleashed my washer jets on him at the right time

I think I've had the misfortune to share a road with him too. Binary inputs? Drives everywhere like an absolute lunatic? There can't be that many badly modified, badly driven silver E36 ragtops in town, surely?

[Solocle]

Sorry, I just had to do this: http://bfy.tw/6YP

[nonsequitur]

Prabs91 said:

I was driving down the M6 at around 6am Sunday morning in my Citron C1, I was the only car on the motorway so was flying down in the crawler lane until I saw a BMW M4 driver sitting in the middle lane at around 70, so as one does I filtered into the overtaking lane, and when I tried to overtake him he sped up to around 100, and began swearing at me so as I slowed down at this point to get back into the middle lane myself, he also slowed down, so again tried I to overtake and same thing he sped up and began swearing.

Bonkers behaviour really, quite inexplicable.

Why do some people get so offended when you try a safe/ legal overtake?

Crawler lane? (was it a steep incline?) Overtaking lane?

Hard shoulder use notwithstanding, lane one, lane two, lane three please. It makes a post much easier to picture when using those terms.

[Flibble]

Europa1 said:

Drivers like this: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/live-latest-t...

How much bigger do the warning signs need to be?

Especially given the diversion is literally the same distance (it's the adjacent level crossing). Some people are just too impatient to wait a minute or two for a train and have to chance it.

[Liquid Knight]

Flibble said:

Europa1 said:

Drivers like this: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/live-latest-t...

How much bigger do the warning signs need to be?

Especially given the diversion is literally the same distance (it's the adjacent level crossing). Some people are just too impatient to wait a minute or two for a train and have to chance it.

Fairly local to me as I take the Queen Adelaide road instead of the A10 lemmings whenever I go to Cambridge.

I suggested ages ago they should put goal posts before low bridges (the one on the B1098 Stonea crossing is just as bad and hit as often) so vehicles have to stop before they potentially cause damage to the bridge.

As a follow up to my Suzuki Swift driver deliberately trying to hit pigeons last week. Yesterday I waited in a passing place for a Mercedes E class and it swerved to deliberately try and hit a pheasant in the road.

What the is wrong with people?

The road was wet and I know the E class has so many drivers aids Bono wants to do a charity single for it but a sudden swerve like that in those conditions could have been (well let's be honest) hilarious if that car ended up hitting mine.

The pheasant was not harmed but the owner of that car needs therapy.

[TommoAE86]

yellowjack said:

I think I've had the misfortune to share a road with him too. Binary inputs? Drives everywhere like an absolute lunatic? There can't be that many badly modified, badly driven silver E36 ragtops in town, surely?

Sound like the right guy, accelerator on / poor suspension reaction / accelerator off / accelerator on / poor suspe----- etc. Didn't take him long to get glued to the back of the Yaris that was in front of me. The Yaris didn't change speed either

Had changed his lightbulbs to that LED white look, just to further confirm his knobhead status.

[alpha channel]

The utter feckless cretin that decided that what he wanted (after passing the turn in of the lay-by) was a bacon butty and promptly slammed the anchors on to use the lay-bys exit forcing me to a complete stop on a fast dual carriage.

[Veryoldbear]

alpha channel said:

The utter feckless cretin that decided that what he wanted (after passing the turn in of the lay-by) was a bacon butty and promptly slammed the anchors on to use the lay-bys exit forcing me to a complete stop on a fast dual carriage.

Obviously suffering from severe bacon withdrawal symptoms

[NDA]

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

[Triumph Man]

TommoAE86 said:

yellowjack said:

I think I've had the misfortune to share a road with him too. Binary inputs? Drives everywhere like an absolute lunatic? There can't be that many badly modified, badly driven silver E36 ragtops in town, surely?

Sound like the right guy, accelerator on / poor suspension reaction / accelerator off / accelerator on / poor suspe----- etc. Didn't take him long to get glued to the back of the Yaris that was in front of me. The Yaris didn't change speed either

Had changed his lightbulbs to that LED white look, just to further confirm his knobhead status.

There is another thread running that asks if the E36 has escaped chavdom. I'm not entirely convinced it has...

[nonsequitur]

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

[yellowjack]

Everyone using a local petrol station this morning. But especially the "David Brent" lookey likey...

Dodgy facial hair? Check.
Ill fitting suit? Check
Attitude problem? Check.

Stupid pump arrangement in the first place, only space for one car per side of each island. All the other pumps are being hogged by additional knobs parking their cars a taxi ride away from the island to fill up, such that my car wouldn't fit between the free pump and their vehicles. This included a Transit van who wasn't even filling up, despite plenty of parking spaces for those wanting just the shop.

Anyway. "Brent" is filling his Mini 'estate' thing, but on the "wrong side" so he's stood in the middle of the space I want in front of the only free pump I can fit my car into. Fully at arms length from the filler cap, in a 'dominant' stance.

As I reverse out of a neighbouring space (behind the Transit van, at what I thought was a spare pump, was a Smart Fortwo hidden from view) and nose into this one, I look at him, fully expecting him to stand to one side. Perhaps (as I would have done) behind the vehicle. But no. So I edge forward, and he "Dominates the space" in an overcompensatingly macho fashion until I've paid him the required respect by mouthing the words "could you please move over" through the windscreen.

As I get out, and start to fill the tank, he "stares me down". Weird behaviour at any time and place, especially so as we're both filling "wrong side" and are consequently stood quite near one-another, I wish him a cheery "Good Morning!" I don't think this went down too well, as he then turned away so that his back was to me.

Ah well. No matter. Perhaps if he goes on a diet he'll lose the attitude along with some weight. I go in to pay, as I've only put in a £10 "splash'n'dash" to get me to a cheaper filling station. He's been in the shop a few minutes now. I nip in, and he's next in line at the single till operating. I hang back, waiting my turn, when another employee signs in and addresses me directly with "can I help you, sir?". I hand over my tenner, take the receipt, and I'm out of the door before "Brent". He's clearly less than impressed by me getting served first, I watch him glowering at me from my car as he stalks across the forecourt with his keys and a large paper bag full of some greasy horrible service-station mank in one hand, and a bucket of coffee in the other. No chance of him losing any weight then. The attitude's probably permanent too.

I smile at him, which seems to make him ever more grumpy, and move off into traffic. I approach a set of traffic lights where I'm going to have to wait for the right turn filter light. Accelerating up behind me, his little blue Mini. I'm swinging into the right turn filter lane to wait for the light, he changes lanes to be closer to me (Ah! How sweet... ) and gives me one last "dominant" stare as he flies past and has to stomp on the brakes to avoid a collision with another car as traffic merges back into one lane after the traffic light.

Just where do these people come from. All I wanted was a quick splash of fuel and to get on with my day. What I get is attitude and deliberate obstruction from a goon who clearly believes he's a PH stereotype "powerfully built company director". What? In a poorly fitted cheap suit with a railway station car park season ticket in the window of your wife's choice of car? Intimidating? And director? Hmmm? Maybe of traffic, in a high vis vest at an event car park.


And while I'm at it. People who shop at fuel filling stations. And people who park to shop while blocking a pump, even though there are half a dozen car parking spaces right at the front of the "shop". And drive-through coffee shops. Anyone that uses them out to be rounded up and fed into a bio-mass boiler system. It's the UK FFS, not the vast open spaces of the US mid-west. There is no earthly need for you to be supping coffee in your car at all, but being too fking lazy to walk from car to coffee shop to get it yourself? Eternal wkerdom for you.

In-car 'vapers' too. Some tart yesterday too busy 'vaping' to steer her way round a roundabout in the correct, MARKED lane, so she cut straight across, fully into "my" lane ahead of me, causing me to brake (although I'd been expecting some dumb move after spotting her stupid vaping 'thing') then causing the driver behind her to lean on the horn as she cut him up getting back into the lane she should have been following around to her chosen exit anyway. Seriously. These 'vapers' are supposed to be grown adults, yet with these lumbering great smoke generators in their hands/mouths they look like giant babies sucking on dummies.


Arrrrrgh!

[anonymous-user]

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

[Bobberoo99]

swiveleyedgit said:

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

Also guilty I'm afraid, my reasoning behind it being that I'd rather annoy a few people for a short space of time as I pass them listening to my music very loudly than inflict it on my neighbours!!

[NDA]

Bobberoo99 said:

swiveleyedgit said:

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

Also guilty I'm afraid, my reasoning behind it being that I'd rather annoy a few people for a short space of time as I pass them listening to my music very loudly than inflict it on my neighbours!!

Not sure if serious....

There is the option to close the windows of your car and annoy nobody.

[e30m3Mark]

The thoughtful twunt who emptied the contents of their ashtray out of the door, whilst parked in the National Trust car park at St Agnes Head.

[Bobberoo99]

NDA said:

Bobberoo99 said:

swiveleyedgit said:

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

Also guilty I'm afraid, my reasoning behind it being that I'd rather annoy a few people for a short space of time as I pass them listening to my music very loudly than inflict it on my neighbours!!

Not sure if serious....

There is the option to close the windows of your car and annoy nobody.

Depends on the weather really, if it's hot and sunny then the windows come down, major difference though between this and the idiots on bikes who CAN'T turn their obnoxiously loud pipes down, people like to decry others such as myself who enjoy loud music in our cars then say nothing about a Harley with open pipes, odd!!!!!!!

[Antony Moxey]

Bobberoo99 said:

NDA said:

Bobberoo99 said:

swiveleyedgit said:

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

Also guilty I'm afraid, my reasoning behind it being that I'd rather annoy a few people for a short space of time as I pass them listening to my music very loudly than inflict it on my neighbours!!

Not sure if serious....

There is the option to close the windows of your car and annoy nobody.

Depends on the weather really, if it's hot and sunny then the windows come down, major difference though between this and the idiots on bikes who CAN'T turn their obnoxiously loud pipes down, people like to decry others such as myself who enjoy loud music in our cars then say nothing about a Harley with open pipes, odd!!!!!!!

I would suggest that if you genuinely can't see the difference between loud music and loud exhausts then it might be you that's the odd one.

[nonsequitur]

Bobberoo99 said:

NDA said:

Bobberoo99 said:

swiveleyedgit said:

nonsequitur said:

NDA said:

It must be here already - but people with both windows down and music blaring out. Why?

They are insecure, have low self-esteem and need an outlet to be noticed. Uber loud music from cars is a simple solution.

Afraid I'm guilty of this heinous crime on occasion, normally along the front in Margate, when following one of the aforesaid attention seekers, although instead of Biggy Smalls or whoever, I prefer deafening pedestrians with a bit of Wagner.

Also guilty I'm afraid, my reasoning behind it being that I'd rather annoy a few people for a short space of time as I pass them listening to my music very loudly than inflict it on my neighbours!!

Not sure if serious....

There is the option to close the windows of your car and annoy nobody.

Depends on the weather really, if it's hot and sunny then the windows come down, major difference though between this and the idiots on bikes who CAN'T turn their obnoxiously loud pipes down, people like to decry others such as myself who enjoy loud music in our cars then say nothing about a Harley with open pipes, odd!!!!!!!

Both are anti-social.

[justinio]

The silly woman who parked her car so close to my drivers door at the petrol station, that I couldnt open the door (literally 2 inches from my door).

Then pretending that she is deaf and I'm invisible when I point this out to her.