Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

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Clockwork Cupcake

74,389 posts

271 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Frank7 said:
Joy of driving?
I’m on the right site, as there’s a bunch of other things here for me, but joy
of driving is a totally alien concept, and has been since circa 1988 for me.
I'm sorry to hear that. frown

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Frank7 said:
Joy of driving?
I’m on the right site, as there’s a bunch of other things here for me, but joy
of driving is a totally alien concept, and has been since circa 1988 for me.
I'm sorry to hear that. frown
I appreciate your sympathy CC, but I’m okay with it, my wife knows better than to aim for the passenger seat, she’ll get behind the wheel while I get in the back, feet up, reading a paper.
She knows that if she really doesn’t feel like it, I’ll drive, but I bi*ch about having to do it so much, that it’s rare that she asks.
I really, really, cba with driving, bores me to tears.
Joy? You’re kidding, right?

Allanv

3,540 posts

185 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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George Smiley said:
I used to agree with you, now I figure if I cant beat them join them and have taken to grabbing some camera phone pics for discussion on Facebook
Yup facebook for idiots, why take pictures? Just get on with your journey.

But take a photo for the rest of the idiots to comment on fking weird. Do you not have a life?

I will never understand SM


Edited by Allanv on Friday 29th November 00:48

Cantaloupe

1,056 posts

59 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Allanv said:
Yup facebook for idiots, why take pictures? Just get on with your journey.

But take a photo for the rest of the idiots to comment on f***ing weird. Do you not have a life?
Same with those bottom feeders who video any incident the police will attend, a fight, a public arrest, traffic shunt.

When actually would be the right time to gather the family and watch that again ?

Clockwork Cupcake

74,389 posts

271 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Frank7 said:
I really, really, cba with driving, bores me to tears
Are you sure you're on the right website?

Frank7 said:
Joy? You’re kidding, right?
"The joy of driving" is, or certainly was, the tagline of EVO magazine.

But, yes, driving is fun. Why else would you do a track day or road trip?


Clockwork Cupcake

74,389 posts

271 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Allanv said:
I will never understand SM
Clearly not, given that this forum is a form of social media. wink

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Cantaloupe said:
Same with those bottom feeders who video any incident the police will attend, a fight, a public arrest, traffic shunt.

When actually would be the right time to gather the family and watch that again ?
To be fair, if the fracas turns out to involve someone famous the pictures could be worth a few quid.

Big Easy

136 posts

79 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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George Smiley said:
Ver said:
Rubberneckers...

If you're so desperate to see a mangled car wreckage then go to your local banger meet not slow down to snails pace to have a gawp at whats happening on the other carriageway of the motorway to then continue at normal speed straight after... rage
I used to agree with you, now I figure if I cant beat them join them and have taken to grabbing some camera phone pics for discussion on Facebook
I hope you're winding us up.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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DoubleD said:
Shakermaker said:
Ver said:
Rubberneckers...

If you're so desperate to see a mangled car wreckage then go to your local banger meet not slow down to snails pace to have a gawp at whats happening on the other carriageway of the motorway to then continue at normal speed straight after... rage
Once I've been slowed down by the person in front, in turn slowed down by the person in front of them, and so on for 2,000 cars or whatever, I might as well have a look?
Maybe, but you are adding to the problems.
On my travels I have found this to be a worldwide problem. Whatever foreign road, if there is an incident, traffic slows down to have a butchers.
drivingdrivingdrivinggrumpy

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Frank7 said:
I really, really, cba with driving, bores me to tears
Are you sure you're on the right website?

Frank7 said:
Joy? You’re kidding, right?
"The joy of driving" is, or certainly was, the tagline of EVO magazine.

But, yes, driving is fun. Why else would you do a track day or road trip?
In reply to your first quote, I’ve already said that there’s
plenty of other stuff to pique my interest on PH.

To your second quote, I’m unsure what a track day is, I’d guess maybe a race meeting, like Brands Hatch, Silverstone?, or is it more of a get together of like minded car enthusiasts?
Neither being my style.
A road trip suggests U.S.A. to me, I did a couple in the early to mid 80s, NYC to Montreal round trip, Atlanta GA to Memphis TN round trip, Las Vegas NV to Los Angeles CA, via San Francisco CA one way, great fun then, with a sun tanned 25 something Yankette in the passenger seat, and I drove 44 tonners all over Europe, but working hasn’t got the same cachet I guess.
If anyone suggested a trip to Cornwall nowadays for example, I’d check the schedules from London City Airport to Newquay Airport, I couldn’t do a schlep like that in a car, even in the back seat.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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The whole "rubberneckers" thing is a pain in the 'arris, true enough, but in most cases those being accused of "rubbernecking" actually aren't. It only takes one imbecile to slowly crawl past an incident for a passenger to film it on their phone, and suddenly the whole road is limited to their speed on a two lane DC/motorway. So traffic behind them has no choice, they are pinned to the speed of the idiot. And it only takes a few seconds for the concertina braking effect to roll back and form a queue which may then stretch for miles. The original idiot who caused the problem is long gone, but everyone is now starting from a standstill. There might not even be any "rubberneckers". If several vehicles ahead collide, traffic behind has to brake hard, sometimes to a standstill, to avoid being involved themselves. Drop the speed of hundreds of cars from 70+mph to zero, and then try to get them rolling again, while traffic behind continues toward the back of the still-forming queue and you have a volume v. capacity problem that cannot be solved simply by driving through the restriction at full speed. Add in the morons blocking traffic from merging together smoothly into one lane from two, and it just makes things worse.

It's also true to say that it is usually necessary to slow down past an incident, especially if it's still "live" and emergency crews are working in close proximity to traffic, or if there is debris on the carriageway to be avoided. Besides which, collisions are seldom truly accidents - they usually have a cause, and it's almost certainly going to be one or more drivers who can't manage to look around them properly and avoid crashing into one another. Blame them, not the poor saps stuck in the queue with little choice as to their rate of progress past the mess they caused...

tongue out

George Smiley

5,048 posts

80 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Big Easy said:
George Smiley said:
Ver said:
Rubberneckers...

If you're so desperate to see a mangled car wreckage then go to your local banger meet not slow down to snails pace to have a gawp at whats happening on the other carriageway of the motorway to then continue at normal speed straight after... rage
I used to agree with you, now I figure if I cant beat them join them and have taken to grabbing some camera phone pics for discussion on Facebook
I hope you're winding us up.
It's much easier now the camera unlocks with a finger print but you're going slow enough you can tap the pin. Sometimes the crashes were caused by people using their mobiles irony LOL

borcy

2,569 posts

55 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50556886

People like this, they want to be banned, why don't they just have a tiny bit of self control rolleyes

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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George Smiley said:
Big Easy said:
George Smiley said:
Ver said:
Rubberneckers...

If you're so desperate to see a mangled car wreckage then go to your local banger meet not slow down to snails pace to have a gawp at whats happening on the other carriageway of the motorway to then continue at normal speed straight after... rage
I used to agree with you, now I figure if I cant beat them join them and have taken to grabbing some camera phone pics for discussion on Facebook
I hope you're winding us up.
It's much easier now the camera unlocks with a finger print but you're going slow enough you can tap the pin. Sometimes the crashes were caused by people using their mobiles irony LOL
hehe

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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ChevyChase77

1,079 posts

57 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Frank7 said:
I really, really, cba with driving, bores me to tears
Are you sure you're on the right website?

Frank7 said:
Joy? You’re kidding, right?
"The joy of driving" is, or certainly was, the tagline of EVO magazine.

But, yes, driving is fun. Why else would you do a track day or road trip?
Driving is fun until you encounter idiotic road users. Which is often. Very often.

ChevyChase77

1,079 posts

57 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Cotty

39,387 posts

283 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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borcy said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50556886

People like this, they want to be banned, why don't they just have a tiny bit of self control rolleyes
"Harriet thinks it would be a good idea if retailers banned serial returners because it would encourage her to make more considered decisions".

Or she could just go to a shop and try things on before buying them.

Drihump Trolomite

5,048 posts

80 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Or maybe Govt to change the rules on distance selling.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Drihump Trolomite said:
Or maybe Govt to change the rules on distance selling.
I don't like government intervention. Would be better if clothes retailers decided it was all to much hassle and went back to the High St, wouldn't it?
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