One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
Solocle said:
People who drive around with inappropriate lights.
Story about this - was going through a 30 zone with calming at night. It was dark, except for street lighting. I see an oncoming vehicle, only illuminated by the street lighting. No driving lights are anything.
All credit to them, my full beam triple flash followed by a momentary turning off of my lights got the message through! Some people just would carry on obliviously.
Also under this category, there was the time I was following a vehicle with only one working brake light (of 3)! As soon as that final bulb goes, disaster will ensue. If you drive an old bucket, it needs more regular checks of its systems. Heck, I check the bulbs on my 15 reg car. If you live in a residential area, here is a tip for checking your brakes. Set up your phone behind your car and film. No 2nd person needed.
A triple flash could be interpreted as intimidating. A single one usually has the desired effect. On a lighter note, who would have the time, or the inclination, to ' set up your mobile behind the car and film the rear lights' ? Sounds like a complicated manoevre for a simple task.Story about this - was going through a 30 zone with calming at night. It was dark, except for street lighting. I see an oncoming vehicle, only illuminated by the street lighting. No driving lights are anything.
All credit to them, my full beam triple flash followed by a momentary turning off of my lights got the message through! Some people just would carry on obliviously.
Also under this category, there was the time I was following a vehicle with only one working brake light (of 3)! As soon as that final bulb goes, disaster will ensue. If you drive an old bucket, it needs more regular checks of its systems. Heck, I check the bulbs on my 15 reg car. If you live in a residential area, here is a tip for checking your brakes. Set up your phone behind your car and film. No 2nd person needed.
Alex_225 said:
The utter utter tw*t in a minibus driving what I assume were school kids who pulls out from a side street straight in front of me. Then winds his window down next to me and goes "It's a 30!!".
People pulling out from side roads forcing you to reduce speed or take evasive action is becoming more & more prevalent.It's the new 'give way'
I'll pull out in front of you if I think you can slow down enough before you hit me.
The consequence of this seems to be to speed up if you notice someone trying to join 'your' road. It happens frequently.
The idiot in front of me yesterday who thought it appropriate to throw his drinks can out of his car window (and yes it was red bull - anyone on here?) and then flipped me the bird when he saw me raise my hands in disgust in his read mirror. Mate, throwing your cigarette packet out of the window after that did not signal your defiance but only how much more of a knob you are that you think littering is acceptable!
ASA569 said:
The idiot in front of me yesterday who thought it appropriate to throw his drinks can out of his car window (and yes it was red bull - anyone on here?) and then flipped me the bird when he saw me raise my hands in disgust in his read mirror. Mate, throwing your cigarette packet out of the window after that did not signal your defiance but only how much more of a knob you are that you think littering is acceptable!
Littering isn't serious enough to get any attention from authorities; but any rubbish disposed of from a vehicle is fly tipping. Report it to your local Council and their details will be added to the Police database to be stopped as soon as they pass an active ANPR camera. 
Liquid Knight said:
ASA569 said:
The idiot in front of me yesterday who thought it appropriate to throw his drinks can out of his car window (and yes it was red bull - anyone on here?) and then flipped me the bird when he saw me raise my hands in disgust in his read mirror. Mate, throwing your cigarette packet out of the window after that did not signal your defiance but only how much more of a knob you are that you think littering is acceptable!
Littering isn't serious enough to get any attention from authorities; but any rubbish disposed of from a vehicle is fly tipping. Report it to your local Council and their details will be added to the Police database to be stopped as soon as they pass an active ANPR camera. 
t.iSore said:
Mt temporary neighbour, who, apart from having some revolting Rottweiler type animal that barks at anything/everything, fires up his £200 Nissan stbox and leaves it idling for ten minutes before driving off. The fking heap is out there now, rattling away.
Idiot.
tbox and leaves it idling for ten minutes before driving off. The fking heap is out there now, rattling away.Idiot.
Shove a spud up the exhaust & problem solved!HtH
Liquid Knight said:
ASA569 said:
The idiot in front of me yesterday who thought it appropriate to throw his drinks can out of his car window (and yes it was red bull - anyone on here?) and then flipped me the bird when he saw me raise my hands in disgust in his read mirror. Mate, throwing your cigarette packet out of the window after that did not signal your defiance but only how much more of a knob you are that you think littering is acceptable!
Littering isn't serious enough to get any attention from authorities; but any rubbish disposed of from a vehicle is fly tipping. Report it to your local Council and their details will be added to the Police database to be stopped as soon as they pass an active ANPR camera. 
The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish t
ts.ChrisnChris said:
People pulling out from side roads forcing you to reduce speed or take evasive action is becoming more & more prevalent.
It's the new 'give way'
I'll pull out in front of you if I think you can slow down enough before you hit me.
The consequence of this seems to be to speed up if you notice someone trying to join 'your' road. It happens frequently.
It does seem to be more common, this "They'll stop" mentality so they just go. It's the new 'give way'
I'll pull out in front of you if I think you can slow down enough before you hit me.
The consequence of this seems to be to speed up if you notice someone trying to join 'your' road. It happens frequently.
Like I mentioned in my post I was doing 30mph give or take a couple of mph, I wasn't studying the speedo but I know full well I wasn't speeding. I saw this guy push the bumper of this minibus over the give way lines so immediately eased off the accelerator anyway. So couldn't have been doing more than 20mph when he just carried on driving out in front of me but still had to come to an abrupt stop!!
It's just that irony that if you genuinely think a car is speeding the last thing you do is pull out!!
The fiesta st and I think it was a Z4 racing up the m1 between junction 37/38 in the rain at about 9 this morning.
How the Bmw managed to not hit any other traffic or go down the banking when they lost control I will never know. The fastest transition from lane 3 to hard shoulder I've ever seen. I'm no driving god but I think it was more luck than driving skill that saved that for certain disaster.
Who ever you were I hope it took a while to convince your sphincter to relinquish it hold on your underwear and taught you a valuable lesson about high speed driving in the pissing down rain.
Mostly don't do it you crayon chewer as came very close to ruination of other people's day and your own
How the Bmw managed to not hit any other traffic or go down the banking when they lost control I will never know. The fastest transition from lane 3 to hard shoulder I've ever seen. I'm no driving god but I think it was more luck than driving skill that saved that for certain disaster.
Who ever you were I hope it took a while to convince your sphincter to relinquish it hold on your underwear and taught you a valuable lesson about high speed driving in the pissing down rain.
Mostly don't do it you crayon chewer as came very close to ruination of other people's day and your own
Three in ten minutes this afternoon.
All three of them drove up a slip road between dual carriageways, past this sign... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3130423,-0.74997...
Yet all three of them then STOPPED at the top of the slip, right on the bend, indicating to go into what becomes lane 2, over a SOLID WHITE LINE... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3127718,-0.74945...
Despite the fact that if they'd read the sign, and observed the solid white line, they'd have safely rounded the corner to find an entire ¼ of a mile lane in which to negotiate the move from the Camberley-only lane to one of the other two... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3128769,-0.74910...
It's fking dangerous, and is asking to be shunted from behind by traffic coming up the slip road behind you. Anyone doing it should be banned instantly for being too brain dead to hold a driving license. What makes it worse is when someone in the lane they want to join stands on the brakes from 40mph (and usually more than that to be fair) to "be nice, and let the idiot out". They should be banned too. Bunch of aholes.
All three of them drove up a slip road between dual carriageways, past this sign... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3130423,-0.74997...
Yet all three of them then STOPPED at the top of the slip, right on the bend, indicating to go into what becomes lane 2, over a SOLID WHITE LINE... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3127718,-0.74945...
Despite the fact that if they'd read the sign, and observed the solid white line, they'd have safely rounded the corner to find an entire ¼ of a mile lane in which to negotiate the move from the Camberley-only lane to one of the other two... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3128769,-0.74910...
It's f
king dangerous, and is asking to be shunted from behind by traffic coming up the slip road behind you. Anyone doing it should be banned instantly for being too brain dead to hold a driving license. What makes it worse is when someone in the lane they want to join stands on the brakes from 40mph (and usually more than that to be fair) to "be nice, and let the idiot out". They should be banned too. Bunch of aholes.loafer123 said:
Banana in the tailpipe...
Expanding foam is best.I used this on the Corsa s
tbox of a neighbour 10+ years ago the day I moved. It was some 1.2 thing with a Peco antisocial big bore system and the little used to give it a rev most mornings to rattle the windows. B&Q expanding foam, with the nozzle poked all the way down, expands very quickly. I used a bit of cardboard with a hole in the centre and held over the tailpipe so it would expand towards the engine and fill most of the exhaust system.I didn't laugh, much.
silverfoxcc said:
nonsequitur said:
Blown2CV said:
people that refer to a city by its 3-letter airport code e.g. LDN, BKK so as to seem like a casual expert. s.
Here's to EWR, YVR, HNL, NRT, MNL, DAR, ADL, PER, AUH, FCO and LGW. Home.s.LHR-SFO-DEN-ORD-MDW-STL-YYZ-YUL-IAD-JFK-LHR
And survived a head on with a coach in Yosemite ( it was a party of 7th Day Adventists... i bet they started praying when they saw me coming towards them!!)
Just a bruise on the left knee and no airbag going off
And being an Ex BA Customer agent it is quite natural to use the IATA codes
Edited by silverfoxcc on Friday 21st July 17:40
king cringe. I travel, but i am not.... like that about it.10 parked cars ahead, on my side of the road, with a car coming towards me, so I stop to allow the oncoming car his right of way.
Stopped towards the centre of the road, no indicators to make people think I'm parking, but still, 2 cars and a van sail past me, and meet the oncoming car half way down the queue of parked cars, causing chaos.
Stopped towards the centre of the road, no indicators to make people think I'm parking, but still, 2 cars and a van sail past me, and meet the oncoming car half way down the queue of parked cars, causing chaos.
Krikkit,
An internet pint to you
I never use them when speaking to people about where i was going just the main cities, but where there is more than one airport to use, the the code is a lot bloody easier. Take New York La Guardia,Newark or Kennedy or LGA/NWK/JFK
It is the same with the BMW/Merc crowd, i wouldnt know an E36 from an XYZ, yet these terms are bandied about as if they expect non users to be fully conversant with them.
The Scoffers on this thread tended to ignore the fact that as an ex BA Customer Service Agent at Terminal One or should i have said a CSA at T1? these codes are drilled into us until they are a second language.
But outside of work it is Heathrow/Luton/City/Gatwick/Stansted instead og LHR/LTN/LCYLGW//STN
An internet pint to you
I never use them when speaking to people about where i was going just the main cities, but where there is more than one airport to use, the the code is a lot bloody easier. Take New York La Guardia,Newark or Kennedy or LGA/NWK/JFK
It is the same with the BMW/Merc crowd, i wouldnt know an E36 from an XYZ, yet these terms are bandied about as if they expect non users to be fully conversant with them.
The Scoffers on this thread tended to ignore the fact that as an ex BA Customer Service Agent at Terminal One or should i have said a CSA at T1? these codes are drilled into us until they are a second language.
But outside of work it is Heathrow/Luton/City/Gatwick/Stansted instead og LHR/LTN/LCYLGW//STN
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