One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

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djc206

12,244 posts

124 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Blown2CV said:
sorry it's fking cringe. I travel, but i am not.... like that about it.
It's just an abbreviation. Most of us abbreviate all the time. Most of them are obvious too so it's not like it's an indecipherable code.

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Bluedot said:
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.
The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

Jim AK

4,029 posts

123 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Willy Nilly said:
The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?
I know I wouldn't.

However why not do it overnight, say between 22.00 & 05.00?

Every time I heard a news or travel bulletin Friday I was being told what a busy weekend it was going to be for Air, Road & Rail so why did some Cock Womble in a office miles away decide moving them at that time was a good idea?

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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djc206 said:
Blown2CV said:
sorry it's fking cringe. I travel, but i am not.... like that about it.
It's just an abbreviation. Most of us abbreviate all the time. Most of them are obvious too so it's not like it's an indecipherable code.
BLO-WNW-EAR-ESO-RRY-THA-TYO-THI-NKT-HRE-ELE-TTE-RCO-DES-ARE-CRI-NGE-WOR-THY-HAV-EAN-ICE-FLI-GHT



Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Unbearable.

More efficient it may be but I just have a clear picture of you guys in my head now. You take your gold BA club card out and put it on the table so people can see, hoping that someone will ask... and even if they don't.... yea i travel, i mean it's like WORK WORK WORK yaknow it's not as glam as you might think but beats being stuck at an office HEY FNAR FNAR... still since the old credito cruncho i can't get bolly on the old Exes anymore... club instead of first, YAKNOW HOW IT IS EH? Considering basing myself in Paris since the old Brexxo, yaknow the old LDN just isn't what it was still might keep the old PAD at the old STOMPING GROUND i mean rent's THROUGH THE ROOF etc etc etc etc

please stop.

silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Blown
You have benn living near the salt flats for toooo long, your mind has gone ;-)

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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silverfoxcc said:
Blown
You have benn living near the salt flats for toooo long, your mind has gone ;-)
you mean the SFS? smile

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Willy Nilly said:
Bluedot said:
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.
The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?
Bugger, I hoped they were off to the beach for a couple of weeks to build really huge sandcastles.

AlexRS2782

8,023 posts

212 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Jim AK said:
Willy Nilly said:
The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?
I know I wouldn't.

However why not do it overnight, say between 22.00 & 05.00?

Every time I heard a news or travel bulletin Friday I was being told what a busy weekend it was going to be for Air, Road & Rail so why did some Cock Womble in a office miles away decide moving them at that time was a good idea?
Depends where they were coming from and which section of the M3 they joined at. There have been night closures of the M3 from J2 to 4A again recently, and I'm fairly certain there have also been night closures for works around J6 & 7, the A303 feeder & J8. So moving them during the day may have been the only option?

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Sunday 23 July 23:19

funinhounslow

1,600 posts

141 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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silverfoxcc said:
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's only easier if you use the correct code. Newark is EWR...

djc206

12,244 posts

124 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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Blown2CV said:
Unbearable.

More efficient it may be but I just have a clear picture of you guys in my head now. You take your gold BA club card out and put it on the table so people can see, hoping that someone will ask... and even if they don't.... yea i travel, i mean it's like WORK WORK WORK yaknow it's not as glam as you might think but beats being stuck at an office HEY FNAR FNAR... still since the old credito cruncho i can't get bolly on the old Exes anymore... club instead of first, YAKNOW HOW IT IS EH? Considering basing myself in Paris since the old Brexxo, yaknow the old LDN just isn't what it was still might keep the old PAD at the old STOMPING GROUND i mean rent's THROUGH THE ROOF etc etc etc etc

please stop.
I'm a silver card holder not gold, I don't work in an office, I never travel for work, I don't like champagne, I don't travel in First (sorry F).

I work in aviation so I'm more used to using the 4 letter ICAO designators for airfields, I'll be sure to use those next time because most of them are indecipherable without the help of google.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

162 months

Sunday 23rd July 2017
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I'm guessing you work at LHR.

Dammit,I've started doing it now.......biglaugh

That was to Hounslow chap.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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yellowjack said:
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.

irked
Really don't like some of the roads around frimley.

Bluedot

3,573 posts

106 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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Willy Nilly said:
Bluedot said:
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.
The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?
I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

bad company

18,483 posts

265 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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Blown2CV said:
Unbearable.

More efficient it may be but I just have a clear picture of you guys in my head now. You take your gold BA club card out and put it on the table so people can see, hoping that someone will ask... and even if they don't.... yea i travel, i mean it's like WORK WORK WORK yaknow it's not as glam as you might think but beats being stuck at an office HEY FNAR FNAR... still since the old credito cruncho i can't get bolly on the old Exes anymore... club instead of first, YAKNOW HOW IT IS EH? Considering basing myself in Paris since the old Brexxo, yaknow the old LDN just isn't what it was still might keep the old PAD at the old STOMPING GROUND i mean rent's THROUGH THE ROOF etc etc etc etc

please stop.
Is it time to take that chip from your shoulder?

KerwinRobertson

135 posts

81 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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Driving down from Aberdeen to Knockhill early yesterday morning. Very foggy beside Stonehaven for about 15 miles, enough to warrant switching on rear fogs. Visibility down to 20-30 meters. Traffic slowing down due to the fog (50-60, rather than the usual 70+)

Silver car suddenly appears in my rear mirrors and overtakes. No lights whatsoever. Flashed them. Nothing. Flashed them again. Nothing. Switched between headlights and sidelights a few times. Nothing. Final flash. Nothing.
Oncoming cars were flashing them too. Finally, just as they vanished into the fog there was a faint glimmer of their one working rear light as they finally got the message.

You sir, are a complete tool.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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The Crack Fox said:
Caravanners. Pootling along at 2/3 the speed limit, all the lane discipline of a one-eyed drunk, utterly oblivious of the fking huge tailbacks caused as these grey old men in their 4X4s drag their Excelsior DateRape Deluxe to a wet field in the South West for 2 weeks of tedium.
Excellent!

JohnoVR6

690 posts

211 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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The chode who, I presume, deliberately did this to the front wing of my car;



And typically, in pictures it really doesn't look that bad! But its a decent attempt at gauging down to the undercoat frown

Bad enough I saw one of the directors at work let his driver's side door rattle in to the passenger side of my Impreza leaving a healthy sized dent last week, which he instantly denied and the CCTV didn't pick up on...so I've got two of the bds that I need to get sorted now at my own expense. Yay.

e21Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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People who think having a front number plate doesn't apply to them.

MorganP104

2,605 posts

129 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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e21Mark said:
People who think having a front number plate doesn't apply to them.
Saw a modified BMW 3-Series with its numberplate in the windscreen over the weekend.

Clocked the driver (young man wearing a baseball cap).

Clocked his passenger (disinterested looking young woman tapping away at her phone).

Totally standard.

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