One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Me. This morning.
After putting some recycling into the box in the garage, and getting my son's bike out for him to go to work, I was frantically stabbing at the buttons on the remote control for the garage door, but it wouldn't shut.
Damn it! Not again.
So I went off to the file in the cupboard with all the instructions and warranties in it. I found the "Trouble Shooting" guide for the garage door and motor, and as I walked out of the door to go fix it, there, hanging on it's hook, was the garage door key fob. So I rummaged in my pocket and discovered that the remote control I'd been trying to use was the one for the keyless start system on the car. Turns out I'd used the spare garage fob in the car to open it, so it was never in my pocket at all.
Fortunately, though, I was alone so no-one knows how silly I felt at the time...
....arrrrgh! B
ks!
After putting some recycling into the box in the garage, and getting my son's bike out for him to go to work, I was frantically stabbing at the buttons on the remote control for the garage door, but it wouldn't shut.
Damn it! Not again.
So I went off to the file in the cupboard with all the instructions and warranties in it. I found the "Trouble Shooting" guide for the garage door and motor, and as I walked out of the door to go fix it, there, hanging on it's hook, was the garage door key fob. So I rummaged in my pocket and discovered that the remote control I'd been trying to use was the one for the keyless start system on the car. Turns out I'd used the spare garage fob in the car to open it, so it was never in my pocket at all.
Fortunately, though, I was alone so no-one knows how silly I felt at the time...
....arrrrgh! B
ks!Frank7 said:
When you're approaching a gap that is too narrow for two vehicles going in opposite directions to get through together, and the driver ahead of you has instantly recognised the situation, and has politely moved to the left, after presumably flashing the vehicle coming toward him.
You are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
I had this a few weeks ago too. The only consolation when this happens is the slight feeling of joy as you and the other driver who waited share the same eye roll expression on the way through after the standoff has ended!!You are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
Frank7 said:
When you're approaching a gap that is too narrow for two vehicles going in opposite directions to get through together, and the driver ahead of you has instantly recognised the situation, and has politely moved to the left, after presumably flashing the vehicle coming toward him.
You are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
They're just trying to dominate the road, that's allYou are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
Hackney said:
The other favourite of bus drivers is to pull up at a stop and immediately whack the right indicator on, thus keeping everyone behind them. I've seen it done as passengers are still alighting, never mind getting on. wkers
The best is when they are coming towards you and don't have RoW to move through a gap but whack the right indicator on and carry on regardless.kersIts not really an indicator, more an I'm coming through signal.
Bunch of w
k-biscuits. yellowjack said:
Hol said:
It was probably Yellowjack out trying to score more 'points'.
Wow! Did I just get "owned" on the internet again!Sheesh!
!The concept is probably lost on you.
Europa1 said:
Frank7 said:
When you're approaching a gap that is too narrow for two vehicles going in opposite directions to get through together, and the driver ahead of you has instantly recognised the situation, and has politely moved to the left, after presumably flashing the vehicle coming toward him.
You are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
I have had this happen to me when I have been the "polite guy". I could not quite believe the level of dribbling, slack-jawed retardness it must have taken on the part of the driver who overtook.You are intelligent enough to take all this in, and slow to a halt behind the polite guy ahead of you.
As the vehicle coming in the opposite direction starts pulling gratefully into the gap, the knob behind you, too dumb to see what is obvious, overtakes you, sees the vehicle heading toward him, and stops parallel to the guy who'd pulled over ahead of you.
By the time it filters through to brain-damage that he has screwed up, a bus or an articulated truck has followed him into the non existent gap, and now the mother of all Mexican stand-offs begins.
Like this from today: https://youtu.be/jLMBAnNCpD8 and this one from a few weeks back: https://youtu.be/2pkY4EvTbZ4
I only save the videos to send to a friend in Scotland who appreciates stupid dash cam videos!
Edited by ashleyman on Saturday 20th May 00:34
White C63 AMG on the Blackwater Valley heading towards The Meadows roundabout earlier this morning. Nice car, lovely exhaust note but it was let down by your extremely tttish driving.
The following points do not make you a driving god, just a massive dick.
- Aggressive acceleration to within an inch or two of the rear bumper of the car in front, followed by repeated headlight flashing and a horn blast, to try and get that car to either go faster than the 50 limit or to move over. Neither of which was possible due to cars being in the left hand lane, without a particularly safe gap to move into, and in front of the car you were already tailgating.
- Swerving into the left lane, into a minimal gap, barely missing both the rear of the car you then undertook and the front of car that was already in the left hand lane you cut into, followed by another aggressive swerve to cut back into the right lane and then slamming on your brakes to either show how effective they are or, far more likely, to be clever in an attempt to prove a point by brake testing the car you just undertook.
- When traffic started to slow on approach to The Meadows, occupying both lanes by weaving from left to right which was either an attempt to show how effective your power steering is or, far more likely, an attempt to pretend you're a racing driver "warming" your tyres.
- Launching yourself off at the Stanhope road traffic lights with a full bore launch. The exhaust may have sounded lovely when you drove off, but the rest of us around you could have done without having to listen to a good 30 seconds worth of you sat with, what I assume was, the launch control option selected and the car sitting on whatever revs the limiter was set at whilst waiting for the lights to change. All of which was pointless as the next set of lights a few hundred yards away were already red.
- Launching yourself off from The Meadows roundabout traffic lights (thankfully this time not with launch control) and nailing straight through the red light on the pedestrian crossing on Marshall road, narrowly missing the 2 men that were crossing, i assume because you couldn't be bothered to slow down / brake and come to a halt once again.
If you're on here, I'm sure your friend in the passenger seat was very impressed, however I'd lay good money on all the other drivers you encountered, and the pedestrians you nearly ran over, thinking you're a massive dick.
ttish driving.The following points do not make you a driving god, just a massive dick.
- Aggressive acceleration to within an inch or two of the rear bumper of the car in front, followed by repeated headlight flashing and a horn blast, to try and get that car to either go faster than the 50 limit or to move over. Neither of which was possible due to cars being in the left hand lane, without a particularly safe gap to move into, and in front of the car you were already tailgating.
- Swerving into the left lane, into a minimal gap, barely missing both the rear of the car you then undertook and the front of car that was already in the left hand lane you cut into, followed by another aggressive swerve to cut back into the right lane and then slamming on your brakes to either show how effective they are or, far more likely, to be clever in an attempt to prove a point by brake testing the car you just undertook.
- When traffic started to slow on approach to The Meadows, occupying both lanes by weaving from left to right which was either an attempt to show how effective your power steering is or, far more likely, an attempt to pretend you're a racing driver "warming" your tyres.
- Launching yourself off at the Stanhope road traffic lights with a full bore launch. The exhaust may have sounded lovely when you drove off, but the rest of us around you could have done without having to listen to a good 30 seconds worth of you sat with, what I assume was, the launch control option selected and the car sitting on whatever revs the limiter was set at whilst waiting for the lights to change. All of which was pointless as the next set of lights a few hundred yards away were already red.
- Launching yourself off from The Meadows roundabout traffic lights (thankfully this time not with launch control) and nailing straight through the red light on the pedestrian crossing on Marshall road, narrowly missing the 2 men that were crossing, i assume because you couldn't be bothered to slow down / brake and come to a halt once again.
If you're on here, I'm sure your friend in the passenger seat was very impressed, however I'd lay good money on all the other drivers you encountered, and the pedestrians you nearly ran over, thinking you're a massive dick.
AlexRS2782 said:
White C63 AMG on the Blackwater Valley heading towards The Meadows roundabout earlier this morning. Nice car, lovely exhaust note but it was let down by your extremely tttish driving.
The following points do not make you a driving god, just a massive dick.
- Aggressive acceleration to within an inch or two of the rear bumper of the car in front, followed by repeated headlight flashing and a horn blast, to try and get that car to either go faster than the 50 limit or to move over. Neither of which was possible due to cars being in the left hand lane, without a particularly safe gap to move into, and in front of the car you were already tailgating.
- Swerving into the left lane, into a minimal gap, barely missing both the rear of the car you then undertook and the front of car that was already in the left hand lane you cut into, followed by another aggressive swerve to cut back into the right lane and then slamming on your brakes to either show how effective they are or, far more likely, to be clever in an attempt to prove a point by brake testing the car you just undertook.
- When traffic started to slow on approach to The Meadows, occupying both lanes by weaving from left to right which was either an attempt to show how effective your power steering is or, far more likely, an attempt to pretend you're a racing driver "warming" your tyres.
- Launching yourself off at the Stanhope road traffic lights with a full bore launch. The exhaust may have sounded lovely when you drove off, but the rest of us around you could have done without having to listen to a good 30 seconds worth of you sat with, what I assume was, the launch control option selected and the car sitting on whatever revs the limiter was set at whilst waiting for the lights to change. All of which was pointless as the next set of lights a few hundred yards away were already red.
- Launching yourself off from The Meadows roundabout traffic lights (thankfully this time not with launch control) and nailing straight through the red light on the pedestrian crossing on Marshall road, narrowly missing the 2 men that were crossing, i assume because you couldn't be bothered to slow down / brake and come to a halt once again.
If you're on here, I'm sure your friend in the passenger seat was very impressed, however I'd lay good money on all the other drivers you encountered, and the pedestrians you nearly ran over, thinking you're a massive dick.
Insecurity can make people do strange things. Especially behind the wheel.ttish driving.The following points do not make you a driving god, just a massive dick.
- Aggressive acceleration to within an inch or two of the rear bumper of the car in front, followed by repeated headlight flashing and a horn blast, to try and get that car to either go faster than the 50 limit or to move over. Neither of which was possible due to cars being in the left hand lane, without a particularly safe gap to move into, and in front of the car you were already tailgating.
- Swerving into the left lane, into a minimal gap, barely missing both the rear of the car you then undertook and the front of car that was already in the left hand lane you cut into, followed by another aggressive swerve to cut back into the right lane and then slamming on your brakes to either show how effective they are or, far more likely, to be clever in an attempt to prove a point by brake testing the car you just undertook.
- When traffic started to slow on approach to The Meadows, occupying both lanes by weaving from left to right which was either an attempt to show how effective your power steering is or, far more likely, an attempt to pretend you're a racing driver "warming" your tyres.
- Launching yourself off at the Stanhope road traffic lights with a full bore launch. The exhaust may have sounded lovely when you drove off, but the rest of us around you could have done without having to listen to a good 30 seconds worth of you sat with, what I assume was, the launch control option selected and the car sitting on whatever revs the limiter was set at whilst waiting for the lights to change. All of which was pointless as the next set of lights a few hundred yards away were already red.
- Launching yourself off from The Meadows roundabout traffic lights (thankfully this time not with launch control) and nailing straight through the red light on the pedestrian crossing on Marshall road, narrowly missing the 2 men that were crossing, i assume because you couldn't be bothered to slow down / brake and come to a halt once again.
If you're on here, I'm sure your friend in the passenger seat was very impressed, however I'd lay good money on all the other drivers you encountered, and the pedestrians you nearly ran over, thinking you're a massive dick.
spent the last week in Bavaria, and whilst heartily enjoying the derestricted sections of autobahn despite the rather wheezy hire car, was surprised that even though the general driving standards are higher than UK (the sttest on their roads are far better than the sttest on ours), it's amazing how many people still haven't worked out that it's dangerous to just pull out into L3 without properly checking mirrors and assessing closing speeds. You need to be 10x more on the ball than the average UK driver at all times, and many drivers seem not to be.
ttest on their roads are far better than the sttest on ours), it's amazing how many people still haven't worked out that it's dangerous to just pull out into L3 without properly checking mirrors and assessing closing speeds. You need to be 10x more on the ball than the average UK driver at all times, and many drivers seem not to be. The Spruce goose said:
yet according to death statistics the uk is the 4 th safety to drive in the world, safer than Germany as well.
people make mistakes, so those choosing to go at high speeds need to be super vigilant and far more adept than the typical UK driver at predicting situations and running scenarios in their head as they go. At least in Germany someone making a mistake generally then realises they have done it and tries to remediate. In the UK they generally don't know they've done anything wrong, and are often blissfully unaware of the near misses they caused. We probably have fewer accidents per head because we can't go very fast at all, mostly due to the volume of vehicles, not because we are better drivers. Blown2CV said:
The Spruce goose said:
yet according to death statistics the uk is the 4 th safety to drive in the world, safer than Germany as well.
people make mistakes, so those choosing to go at high speeds need to be super vigilant and far more adept than the typical UK driver at predicting situations and running scenarios in their head as they go. At least in Germany someone making a mistake generally then realises they have done it and tries to remediate. In the UK they generally don't know they've done anything wrong, and are often blissfully unaware of the near misses they caused. We probably have fewer accidents per head because we can't go very fast at all, mostly due to the volume of vehicles, not because we are better drivers. I imagine that would be worse now.
I had to drive to North London last week. Google map suggested it was 80 miles and two hours and twenty six minutes. It took three and a half hours. Average speed 24.4mph.
Liquid Knight said:
I read somewhere about five years ago that if everyone who had a license and owned a vehicle in the UK decided to go for a drive at the same time the average speed would be 1.3 mph due to traffic and 96% of the road network would be covered.
I imagine that would be worse now.
I had to drive to North London last week. Google map suggested it was 80 miles and two hours and twenty six minutes. It took three and a half hours. Average speed 24.4mph.
if everyone pulled their money out of the banks the whole financial industry would collapse.I imagine that would be worse now.
I had to drive to North London last week. Google map suggested it was 80 miles and two hours and twenty six minutes. It took three and a half hours. Average speed 24.4mph.
i had a drive yesterday, my average was 50mph but i don't live in a smog infested crap hole of london so all good for some.
The Spruce goose said:
Liquid Knight said:
I read somewhere about five years ago that if everyone who had a license and owned a vehicle in the UK decided to go for a drive at the same time the average speed would be 1.3 mph due to traffic and 96% of the road network would be covered.
I imagine that would be worse now.
I had to drive to North London last week. Google map suggested it was 80 miles and two hours and twenty six minutes. It took three and a half hours. Average speed 24.4mph.
if everyone pulled their money out of the banks the whole financial industry would collapse.I imagine that would be worse now.
I had to drive to North London last week. Google map suggested it was 80 miles and two hours and twenty six minutes. It took three and a half hours. Average speed 24.4mph.
i had a drive yesterday, my average was 50mph but i don't live in a smog infested crap hole of london so all good for some.
MKnight702 said:
I don't live in London either, but my average commute speed down the A14/M11 is ~26mph. I have had it down to 18mph on occasion and this was before they started the 3 years of road works. Now can someone please explain why the very first thing they did when re-routing the A14 was not to build the new road, but put width restrictions on the existing (already over-crowded) road??
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