One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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cb1965 said:
Short Grain said:
When He moved back into the middle lane you should have 'Orbited' him. Move back into lane 1, slow down so he overtakes you, Move out, overtake in lane 3, rinse and repeat! Amusing if you've the time and screws with their head. My record was 5 times before he stayed in lane 1!! 
The age old sport of hog lapping, love it and you beat my record of 4 :-)MorganP104 said:
Hoofy said:
I frequent Facebook a fair bit and one thing that makes me think "knob" is people who correct other people's spelling mistakes. Sure, it's painful when they write "your" as a short form of "you're" but the beautiful irony of someone correcting them mid-argument is that to me they're just as ignorant as the person who can't spell.
I'm a bit of a grammar nazi, and one of those people who insist on writing everything out in full, even in text messages (no "cul8r m8" for me, I'll have you know!)However, I'll generally only pick people up on their spelling/grammar if they are being a pious pillock in their post/message. If the posting is good-natured/informative/constructive/helpful, and someone's made the odd typo, I'll let it go - not even correcting them if I quote their post.
The pious t
ts get it good, though. Real good. 
Dr Murdoch said:
ezi said:
Todays knob is the driver of the black Mercedes 4x4 in Hillsborough rush hour, tail gaiting an ambulance with sirens on through the queue of traffic and then through the red lights.
Normally I'd just call them a and carry on with my day but I passed the details on to the Police via 101, he was so close to the ambulance and going so quickly he could easily have rear ended it.
A relative of the sick person?Normally I'd just call them a
and carry on with my day but I passed the details on to the Police via 101, he was so close to the ambulance and going so quickly he could easily have rear ended it.Edited by ezi on Monday 10th July 19:58
alorotom said:
SlimJim16v said:
alorotom said:
People using phones whilst driving ... if you're that infuriated get the pic properly not as a drive-by
He's in a car park and has stopped FFS. I suppose you'd want him to wear a hiviz vest too 
And I'm surprised that people would actually condone looking 90degrees across taking a photo while the car may or may not be moving, even less likely with the ignition off and even more likely in gear ... in a place likely to have many pedestrians, kids, doddery old folks who reverse and brake-stamp at will etc...
Edited by nonsequitur on Monday 17th July 15:50
Blown2CV said:
The Spruce goose said:
taking up 2 spaces in your stupid car in waitrose car park. Hard to tell but these are parent and child bays, with a walkway between them, this knobhead has parked on the walkway, and fast asleep in his car. so blocking 2 spaces and it wasn't busy.
if it wasn't busy then why do you care?Pica-Pica said:
loafer123 said:
Pica-Pica said:
ashleyman said:
People that do this
Yes, the time you would have saved (5 or 6 car lengths) makes it well worth uploading this image. He's a dick.
However, I do believe 'use both lanes' signs, followed by 'merge in turn' signs help regularise the issue.
As to the signs, 'use both lanes', 'merge in turn' etc, these are rarely used now at road works. There is a permanent one on a route into Norwich and one as you leave the ferry terminal in Portsmouth. Any more out there?
MorganP104 said:
Driving around town yesterday, being tailgated by a woman in a Fiat 500. And I mean PROPERLY tailgated - I could only see the top of her head in my rear view mirror.
At one point, I thought she might be wanting to go faster (I was doing the speed limit already), so when we got to a dual-carriageway stretch (going up a hill), I stayed in the left (crawler) lane. She sat in the right hand lane, doing the exact same speed. In the end, she dropped back, which I am putting down to the 500's inability to climb hills at any kind of pace.
Thinking I'd got shot of her, I carried on about my business. Two roundabouts later, she was right up my chuff again.
I drive a pretty big car, the back end of which would have destroyed her little Fiat, should I have needed to brake in an emergency.
She wasn't being aggressive, didn't want to pass me, and didn't appear to be in a hurry. It struck me that she genuinely thought being inches from the car in front was perfectly fine.
Which made me think - this is probably more dangerous than those people who tailgate to be aggressive/want to pass. At least they KNOW what they are doing. This woman was happy in her own little world, glued to the back of my motor, utterly oblivious.
We've all seen people like this, I know this is a motoring forum and we are all supposed to be driving gods but some people have no confidence or 3D awareness and a serious problem with pre-planning.At one point, I thought she might be wanting to go faster (I was doing the speed limit already), so when we got to a dual-carriageway stretch (going up a hill), I stayed in the left (crawler) lane. She sat in the right hand lane, doing the exact same speed. In the end, she dropped back, which I am putting down to the 500's inability to climb hills at any kind of pace.
Thinking I'd got shot of her, I carried on about my business. Two roundabouts later, she was right up my chuff again.
I drive a pretty big car, the back end of which would have destroyed her little Fiat, should I have needed to brake in an emergency.
She wasn't being aggressive, didn't want to pass me, and didn't appear to be in a hurry. It struck me that she genuinely thought being inches from the car in front was perfectly fine.
Which made me think - this is probably more dangerous than those people who tailgate to be aggressive/want to pass. At least they KNOW what they are doing. This woman was happy in her own little world, glued to the back of my motor, utterly oblivious.
These are the people you see pull into a supermarket car-park that despite being nearly empty go nose in to a space at the edge. No looping round into a space you can pull out of going forwards, the very idea would make them go cross-eyed.
Or the MLM, elbows-fixed-on-the-steering-wheel types, fixed focus gaze and no idea what is going on around them.
Frightening...but they don't as a rule break speed limits and so must be safer drivers.
nonsequitur said:
I do believe that the white car driver is slowly moving over to the left hand lane and will therefore become a pusher-in at the merge point.
As to the signs, 'use both lanes', 'merge in turn' etc, these are rarely used now at road works. There is a permanent one on a route into Norwich and one as you leave the ferry terminal in Portsmouth. Any more out there?
Going east out of Maidenhead on A4 towards Taplow.As to the signs, 'use both lanes', 'merge in turn' etc, these are rarely used now at road works. There is a permanent one on a route into Norwich and one as you leave the ferry terminal in Portsmouth. Any more out there?
I use it 2 or 3 times a month. It's not that well adhered to either, reckon I see or hear at least 1 slanging match or unnecessary hooting each month!
nonsequitur said:
Pica-Pica said:
loafer123 said:
Pica-Pica said:
ashleyman said:
People that do this
Yes, the time you would have saved (5 or 6 car lengths) makes it well worth uploading this image. He's a dick.
However, I do believe 'use both lanes' signs, followed by 'merge in turn' signs help regularise the issue.
As to the signs, 'use both lanes', 'merge in turn' etc, these are rarely used now at road works. There is a permanent one on a route into Norwich and one as you leave the ferry terminal in Portsmouth. Any more out there?
fking woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head.
Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager" that I fking despise.
Face like Dot Cotton licking ps off a nettle too.
king woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head. Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager"
that I fking despise. Face like Dot Cotton licking p
s off a nettle too. Had to visit the tip Sunday afternoon, just as I got there they were coning off the entrance as they needed to use the excavator to compact some of the skips. No problem, I'm happy to wait while they crack on, they just have to wait for the last few people to finish and leave. Most did, bar "Steptoe and Son", who obviously thought that it meant they were being given the VIP treatment and a private browse of every fking skip and piece of tat they can see 
Eventually they finish their private shopping experience, and then spend another 10 fking minutes deciding which skip a mop and bucket should go in before slowly making their way back to the car and taking an age to drive out 
king skip and piece of tat they can see Eventually they finish their private shopping experience, and then spend another 10 f
king minutes deciding which skip a mop and bucket should go in before slowly making their way back to the car and taking an age to drive out Blown2CV said:
ah the get a grip/life/stop being so miserable defence. Well, there's just no coming back from this, we may as well all admit that Yonex has won this argument........ unless....and this is a real long shot.... someone might be expert in the "takes one to know one" counter?!?! i sit with baited breath. It's like the finest courtroom drama.
It was a statement, if you're going to get pedantic. Does anyone, apart from someone with a full beard, actually say 'that car, it has an obscured front number plate'? Imagine if it was a number plate was both obscured and slightly smaller than normal, the letters and numbers, certainly not conforming to regs....that almost spelt out something....other....other...than the car designation.
That would surely fill the entire Internet with outrage.
Or, said individual could get over him/herself
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th July 08:25
yonex said:
It was a statement, if you're going to get pedantic. Does anyone, apart from someone wit a full beard, actually say 'that cat, it has an obscured front number plate'?
Imagine if it was a number plate both obscured, was slightly smaller than normal, the letters and numbers, certainly not conforming to regs....that almost spelt out something....other....other...than the car designation.
That would surely fill the entire Internet with outrage.
Or, said individual could get over him/herself
I need Number Plates for my Cat? Imagine if it was a number plate both obscured, was slightly smaller than normal, the letters and numbers, certainly not conforming to regs....that almost spelt out something....other....other...than the car designation.
That would surely fill the entire Internet with outrage.
Or, said individual could get over him/herself
Jbeale96 said:
fking woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head.
Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager" that I fking despise.
Face like Dot Cotton licking ps off a nettle too.
Probably a very nervous flyer. They do react in aggresive ways sometimes, as observed by myself when BA cabin crew. Or altenatively, she might be a 'not very nice person'.king woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head. Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager"
that I fking despise. Face like Dot Cotton licking p
s off a nettle too. Jbeale96 said:
fking woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head.
Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager" that I fking despise.
Face like Dot Cotton licking ps off a nettle too.
Did you get her number? king woman sat in my row on the flight I was just on. Daft cow moaned to the cabin crew that the price of the food was ridiculous as if they had any fking say in it. It's a plane not fking Lidl what was she expecting?! Then when we were about to land she got in a huff because she had to put her bag in the overhead storage (we were in the emergency exit row), and put on a sour face when they had to turn the cabin lights off, so she had to complete the arduous task of pushing the fking reading light switch above her head. Exactly the type of "I want to speak to the manager"
that I fking despise. Face like Dot Cotton licking p
s off a nettle too. 
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