One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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caelite said:
Depends what car I am in as the above says. In my lowered Mazda 5 I really have no option but to slow down if I don't want to remove my exhaust. In my Shogun... Can hit them at 40 without really phasing it 
This is why I hate them. They disproportionately punish some road users (to the point of possibly causing damage to their cars) whilst having no effect on others.People wonder why SUVs are so popular these days.
Two words.... two words make me think "knob" instantly, one small word, one big word....
"New Lamborghini"
Any Lambo after the Reventon screams of a d-bag with too much money and a lust for Gold-Diggger girls. They may be nice cars but if you drive a newer Gallardo, Aventador, Murci SV, Hurracan etc, you look like a complete and total plonker.
"New Lamborghini"
Any Lambo after the Reventon screams of a d-bag with too much money and a lust for Gold-Diggger girls. They may be nice cars but if you drive a newer Gallardo, Aventador, Murci SV, Hurracan etc, you look like a complete and total plonker.
Nanook said:
LordTwaddle said:
Two words.... two words make me think "knob" instantly, one small word, one big word....
"New Lamborghini"
Any Lambo after the Reventon screams of a d-bag with too much money and a lust for Gold-Diggger girls. They may be nice cars but if you drive a newer Gallardo, Aventador, Murci SV, Hurracan etc, you look like a complete and total plonker.
Still better looking cars than a Crossfire. "New Lamborghini"
Any Lambo after the Reventon screams of a d-bag with too much money and a lust for Gold-Diggger girls. They may be nice cars but if you drive a newer Gallardo, Aventador, Murci SV, Hurracan etc, you look like a complete and total plonker.
Seriously though, I've owned hot hatches, 4x4s, horse boxes, soft top sports cars, noisy chav Imprezas, even a quad bike.
When you start to care what about people think about how you look, you've lost the game.
At least the Crossfire doesn't get swarmed by Car-paratzi or girls wanting my wallet
Going down the A3 this week, a Nissan Navarra moved from lane 3 to lane 2 and then booted it (copious smoke from exhaust as evidence) to try and stop me overtaking before he got to the next car in lane 2 and moved out again.
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t. Didn't work, either, given he drives a literal tank of a car.LordTwaddle said:
At least the Crossfire doesn't get swarmed by Car-paratzi or girls wanting my wallet
Wow, really? 'd have thought you would need to beat the girls off with a stick.You would really prefer a Crossfire to a new Lamborghini?
I also wouldn't want the attention, so would take my new Lamborghini out on fun roads instead of city centres (in the highly unlikely event that I ever buy one) .
Moonhawk said:
The two cars on the M56 swapping and changing lanes in a traffic queue.
A BMW and a Merc, both apparently desperate to get where they were going were chopping and changing lanes like crazy, cutting up other road users and generally being a pain in the backside. Sometimes it would work and they would get one or two cars ahead - sometimes they ended up further back than when they started (as viewed from the perspective of my car's position) as the lane they just joined grinds to a halt..
At one point they even flew up the off slip at a junction - and then down the other side to rejoin the queue a couple of hundred meters ahead of where they would have been.
The thing is - not long after this junction - the queue cleared and we were back up to 60-70mph. That couple of hundred meters they gained in all of their maneuvering translates into what.....7-8 seconds of elapsed time.
Why do people do this. It just slows the traffic queue further and gains them basically nothing.
See this all the time. People don't understand that this sort of behaviour only makes the traffic worse as they're only thinking of themselves (and the perception of "If I'm moving, I'm getting there quicker").A BMW and a Merc, both apparently desperate to get where they were going were chopping and changing lanes like crazy, cutting up other road users and generally being a pain in the backside. Sometimes it would work and they would get one or two cars ahead - sometimes they ended up further back than when they started (as viewed from the perspective of my car's position) as the lane they just joined grinds to a halt..
At one point they even flew up the off slip at a junction - and then down the other side to rejoin the queue a couple of hundred meters ahead of where they would have been.
The thing is - not long after this junction - the queue cleared and we were back up to 60-70mph. That couple of hundred meters they gained in all of their maneuvering translates into what.....7-8 seconds of elapsed time.
Why do people do this. It just slows the traffic queue further and gains them basically nothing.
Just been out in my old 3 series and parked at end of a space for 4 cars. I came back to find a Chrysler squeezed onto the end. As I reversed back, in order to leave, I touched the Chrysler with the rear of my car. It really was the lightest touch but the owner appeared tapping my window. I was about to apologise when he informed me that I had been lucky not to damage his Bentley as repairs cost a fortune!
e21Mark said:
Just been out in my old 3 series and parked at end of a space for 4 cars. I came back to find a Chrysler squeezed onto the end. As I reversed back, in order to leave, I touched the Chrysler with the rear of my car. It really was the lightest touch but the owner appeared tapping my window. I was about to apologise when he informed me that I had been lucky not to damage his Bentley as repairs cost a fortune!
Ah yes, the much-vaunted and aspired to Bentley 300C by any chance? There was one near me in Devon a few years back that always made me laugh when I saw it. 
Speed addicted said:
LordTwaddle said:
At least the Crossfire doesn't get swarmed by Car-paratzi or girls wanting my wallet
Wow, really? 'd have thought you would need to beat the girls off with a stick.You would really prefer a Crossfire to a new Lamborghini?
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If you wanna spend that money on a car, fine by me but I'll stick to weird and wonderful stuff that's not going to suck money away.
LordTwaddle said:
plus you'd be forever scared of people like me wanting to carve swear words into its paintwork.
I've never really understood vandalism. I kind of get damaging someones property if you know them and have been wronged in some way, but for whatever reason don't want take them on like an adult.However damaging something because you don't agree with someones values when it comes to how much to spend on something eludes me.
I see a supercar in the street and I enjoy the moment, I once saw a chubby bald chap driving a convertible purple Diablo through London. It sounded epic, he looked happy. I wan't upset by the obvious display of wealth at all, more annoyed I couldn't see and hear it being unleashed properly.
I find rich kids driving supercars more annoying simply because they'll never know the lows of bad cars so never properly appreciate how amazing the thing they're driving actually is.
I still wouldn't key the car though, any more than I would key the kids face.
Mike_Mac said:
e21Mark said:
Just been out in my old 3 series and parked at end of a space for 4 cars. I came back to find a Chrysler squeezed onto the end. As I reversed back, in order to leave, I touched the Chrysler with the rear of my car. It really was the lightest touch but the owner appeared tapping my window. I was about to apologise when he informed me that I had been lucky not to damage his Bentley as repairs cost a fortune!
Ah yes, the much-vaunted and aspired to Bentley 300C by any chance? There was one near me in Devon a few years back that always made me laugh when I saw it. The couple on the same distillery tour as me today - bloke talked all the way through the video at the start, and later on was trying to correct the person giving the tour. As if this wasn't the highest level of knobbery, they had brought their kids along who unsurprisingly were bored and making a nuisance of themselves.
Little girl had a toy dog that kept going "I love you, I love you" every time she shook it.
Halfway into the tour the guide looked at her and said "I won't love you if you shake that dog again"
After what seemed like the 100th time, the feckless dad shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know how to stop it" - to which an older gent piped up "stuff the toy in her mouth!"
Little girl had a toy dog that kept going "I love you, I love you" every time she shook it.
Halfway into the tour the guide looked at her and said "I won't love you if you shake that dog again"
After what seemed like the 100th time, the feckless dad shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know how to stop it" - to which an older gent piped up "stuff the toy in her mouth!"
Edited by V8Matthew on Saturday 22 April 19:38
V8Matthew said:
The couple on the same distillery tour as me today - bloke talked all the way through the video at the start, and later on was trying to correct the person giving the tour. As if this wasn't the highest level of knobbery, they had brought their kids along who unsurprisingly were bored and making a nuisance of themselves.
Little girl had a toy dog that kept going "I love you, I love you" every time she shook it.
Halfway into the tour the guide looked at her and said "I won't love you if you shake that dog again"
After what seemed like the 100th time, the feckless dad shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know how to stop it" - to which an older gent piped up "stuff the toy in her mouth!"
i bet they were from London and drove there in a new Range Rover.Little girl had a toy dog that kept going "I love you, I love you" every time she shook it.
Halfway into the tour the guide looked at her and said "I won't love you if you shake that dog again"
After what seemed like the 100th time, the feckless dad shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know how to stop it" - to which an older gent piped up "stuff the toy in her mouth!"
Edited by V8Matthew on Saturday 22 April 19:38
swisstoni said:
Seems to be a generation of parents who will simply not tell their kids off or remove them if causing a nuisance, or even tell them to get out of people's way.
I'm sure there's some excellent 'parenting' reason for it.
If you tolerate this; then your children will be next. I'm sure there's some excellent 'parenting' reason for it.
They are either the spawn of the "everyone gets a prize" generation or the ongoing "Idiocracy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E
Humanity is f
ked basically. Today a group of sportsbikes overtaking me as cars are going by the other side on double white lines then giving it hand gestures when they get stuck behind a car up ahead.They seem to ride like they think there on the tt with no regard to other road users today made me realise why some get knocked off or sadly even worse
e21Mark said:
Mike_Mac said:
e21Mark said:
Just been out in my old 3 series and parked at end of a space for 4 cars. I came back to find a Chrysler squeezed onto the end. As I reversed back, in order to leave, I touched the Chrysler with the rear of my car. It really was the lightest touch but the owner appeared tapping my window. I was about to apologise when he informed me that I had been lucky not to damage his Bentley as repairs cost a fortune!
Ah yes, the much-vaunted and aspired to Bentley 300C by any chance? There was one near me in Devon a few years back that always made me laugh when I saw it. swisstoni said:
Seems to be a generation of parents who will simply not tell their kids off or remove them if causing a nuisance, or even tell them to get out of people's way.
I'm sure there's some excellent 'parenting' reason for it.
it's the "cult of me", and there's no book about it; it's just that selfish I'm sure there's some excellent 'parenting' reason for it.
parents raise selfish kids.Hollywood. They're filming scenes for Jurassic World 2 locally.
It's past fking midnight and their stupid, annoying helicopter is still fart-arsing around over Hawley Woods. Or maybe it's a big helicopter and I can hear it from Pyestock?
Their fking moronic "security" staff. All except one of them, who's been nothing but chatty and friendly, they're a bunch of Walting wkers.
"You can't take photos" - (I just did).
"You can't come through here" - (Clearly I just have)
"Stop!" - (Errr? How about NO!)
Funniest was the prick behind the Herras fencing with an Alsatian. Threatening me with "I'll call the Police" (Well? Do it then, and let's see how interested they are in a man taking photos in local woodland). "This is private property" (Cool. But I'm not IN your private property now, am I?) "I'll use my radio" (Ah, well. That changes everything. Now I shall just HAVE to obey your every command, Herr Hivis.) "We can confiscate your camera" (
- You might try, but you won't like the result)
What a fking . Lot's of pseudo-Police badges on his dress-up outfit, looking like constabulary shields. And "K-9 Unit" on the dog's harness. Cheers for the clue, big man. I'd have had no idea it was a dog otherwise, like...
...and that fking helicopter is STILL fking about up there. Now where did I put that laser pointer, I wonder??? 
It's past f
king midnight and their stupid, annoying helicopter is still fart-arsing around over Hawley Woods. Or maybe it's a big helicopter and I can hear it from Pyestock?Their f
king moronic "security" staff. All except one of them, who's been nothing but chatty and friendly, they're a bunch of Walting wkers. "You can't take photos" - (I just did).
"You can't come through here" - (Clearly I just have)
"Stop!" - (Errr? How about NO!)
Funniest was the prick behind the Herras fencing with an Alsatian. Threatening me with "I'll call the Police" (Well? Do it then, and let's see how interested they are in a man taking photos in local woodland). "This is private property" (Cool. But I'm not IN your private property now, am I?) "I'll use my radio" (Ah, well. That changes everything. Now I shall just HAVE to obey your every command, Herr Hivis.) "We can confiscate your camera" (
- You might try, but you won't like the result)What a f
king . Lot's of pseudo-Police badges on his dress-up outfit, looking like constabulary shields. And "K-9 Unit" on the dog's harness. Cheers for the clue, big man. I'd have had no idea it was a dog otherwise, like......and that f
king helicopter is STILL fking about up there. Now where did I put that laser pointer, I wonder??? Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff