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

[Bluedot]

yellowjack said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

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.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

Just a thought. Maybe the trucks HAD to be moved then. Overnight M3 closures would make a two-lane oversize load impossible to shift on the A30 diversion routes. And you say it was the southbound M3. At the bottom of which is the major shipping port of Southampton. Where, quite possibly, the trucks were due aboard a ship for export.

But fk the economy, and people whose jobs depend on such things. So long as everybody's blessed children can go on their holidays the very second school kicks out. There's seven fking weeks for you to get a holiday in. Selfish cretins. Everything has to revolve around your ing children. Parking in, or blocking people's driveways to drop them off at school. Driving like a tit to get to school in time to drop them off or collect them. Ignoring traffic lights and give way lines on your journey to/from work because school timings make you late. Generally clogging up the roads with zillions of cars carrying your precious princes and princesses. They should be walking, or on school buses like we all were as kids, and like mine were the whole time they were at school. fking selfish parents, whinging about trucks causing delays on one day of the year, when you cause abject misery for millions on 195 bloody days of the year, all of which are working days. You must cost the economy billions simply because you won't allow your children to walk to bloody school...

What about the hundreds of people in the queue who were also working or trying to get to work ? What about their part in the economy ?
fk them as well ?

[Bluedot]

ezi said:

yellowjack said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

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.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

Just a thought. Maybe the trucks HAD to be moved then. Overnight M3 closures would make a two-lane oversize load impossible to shift on the A30 diversion routes. And you say it was the southbound M3. At the bottom of which is the major shipping port of Southampton. Where, quite possibly, the trucks were due aboard a ship for export.

But fk the economy, and people whose jobs depend on such things. So long as everybody's blessed children can go on their holidays the very second school kicks out. There's seven fking weeks for you to get a holiday in. Selfish cretins. Everything has to revolve around your ing children. Parking in, or blocking people's driveways to drop them off at school. Driving like a tit to get to school in time to drop them off or collect them. Ignoring traffic lights and give way lines on your journey to/from work because school timings make you late. Generally clogging up the roads with zillions of cars carrying your precious princes and princesses. They should be walking, or on school buses like we all were as kids, and like mine were the whole time they were at school. fking selfish parents, whinging about trucks causing delays on one day of the year, when you cause abject misery for millions on 195 bloody days of the year, all of which are working days. You must cost the economy billions simply because you won't allow your children to walk to bloody school...

Preach

Sorry to break it to you but that equipment being moved was almost certainly more important than your holiday - loads such as what you're describing don't just get permission to be moved at times such as that on a whim.

What holiday ?
And what about all the other people in the queue also at work or trying to get to work ?

[Willy Nilly]

Bluedot said:

What holiday ?
And what about all the other people in the queue also at work or trying to get to work ?

What is the largest load you have driven or moved?

[Bluedot]

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

What holiday ?
And what about all the other people in the queue also at work or trying to get to work ?

What is the largest load you have driven or moved?

What relevance is that ?

[Hackney]

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

What holiday ?
And what about all the other people in the queue also at work or trying to get to work ?

What is the largest load you have driven or moved?

What relevance is that ?

Oh come on, everyone knows that the bigger something is the more important it is.

[Willy Nilly]

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

What holiday ?
And what about all the other people in the queue also at work or trying to get to work ?

What is the largest load you have driven or moved?

What relevance is that ?

If you have only driven a car, you will not have any comprehension what a massive pain in the bks moving oversized loads is. I've moved combine harvesters up and down the mid west USA on trucks and while it was much easier than here you have stop at state lines and some states like South Dakota are too much agro to drive them through, then you can't pull an oversized load at night, so have to plan the trip around places you can stop that can accommodate 4 machines.

I escort our combine along the road and it's only a mile or two and we have to move when we have to move. Even over that short distance it's a ball ache. This year I'll be driving it, so a different set of challenges.

These guys will probably be told when they can move and what route they can take. If they're heading for a ship, they have a window to get the machines loaded or the ship will go without them. There is probably a crew with the machines responsible for them and responsible for getting them loaded on the boat and lashed down properly. They may well even have to travel with the machines to get them assembled at the final destination. All this has to be coordinated. Yes, it's an inconvenience for you, but the country needs things like this to happen to make the economy work and keep people in jobs.

[Countdown]

I'm probably the first to mention this but....cyclists going through red lights.....

[DeltaTango]

yellowjack said:

Just a thought. Maybe the trucks HAD to be moved then. Overnight M3 closures would make a two-lane oversize load impossible to shift on the A30 diversion routes. And you say it was the southbound M3. At the bottom of which is the major shipping port of Southampton. Where, quite possibly, the trucks were due aboard a ship for export.

But fk the economy, and people whose jobs depend on such things. So long as everybody's blessed children can go on their holidays the very second school kicks out. There's seven fking weeks for you to get a holiday in. Selfish cretins. Everything has to revolve around your ing children. Parking in, or blocking people's driveways to drop them off at school. Driving like a tit to get to school in time to drop them off or collect them. Ignoring traffic lights and give way lines on your journey to/from work because school timings make you late. Generally clogging up the roads with zillions of cars carrying your precious princes and princesses. They should be walking, or on school buses like we all were as kids, and like mine were the whole time they were at school. fking selfish parents, whinging about trucks causing delays on one day of the year, when you cause abject misery for millions on 195 bloody days of the year, all of which are working days. You must cost the economy billions simply because you won't allow your children to walk to bloody school...

Chapeau

[yellowjack]

Countdown said:

I'm probably the first to mention this but....cyclists going through red lights.....

[Flibble]

Bluedot said:

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

Oh boohoo, your journey took an extra 45-60 minutes. These things happen, get over it.
But maybe you're right, think of the children!!!

[Bluedot]

Willy Nilly said:

If you have only driven a car, you will not have any comprehension what a massive pain in the bks moving oversized loads is. I've moved combine harvesters up and down the mid west USA on trucks and while it was much easier than here you have stop at state lines and some states like South Dakota are too much agro to drive them through, then you can't pull an oversized load at night, so have to plan the trip around places you can stop that can accommodate 4 machines.

I escort our combine along the road and it's only a mile or two and we have to move when we have to move. Even over that short distance it's a ball ache. This year I'll be driving it, so a different set of challenges.

These guys will probably be told when they can move and what route they can take. If they're heading for a ship, they have a window to get the machines loaded or the ship will go without them. There is probably a crew with the machines responsible for them and responsible for getting them loaded on the boat and lashed down properly. They may well even have to travel with the machines to get them assembled at the final destination. All this has to be coordinated. Yes, it's an inconvenience for you, but the country needs things like this to happen to make the economy work and keep people in jobs.

So this has now become two ginormous tipper trucks, gainfully struggling on whilst single handedly keeping the economy afloat.
Meanwhile behind them are 2000 Vauxhall Zafiras, full of screaming kids all heading to Butlins, Minehead
Only on PH

If we're going to bring the whole 'well they're on the A34/M3 south so therefore they must be going to Soton docks then how about all the hundreds of lorries all stuck behind them ? You know, the same ones who "needs things like this to happen to make the economy work and keep people in jobs". Who's to say many of these weren't trying to make it to ships on time ?

Anyway, I think we've taken up enough space in this thread and if it's ok we'll agree to disagree.
I think someone royally fecked up somewhere but happy for you and others to think it was planned all along.

[Liquid Knight]

A bit of an "Instant Kama" moment on the way to work last night.

The main road out of my village has just been kitty littered and there's a recommended/temporary 20mph speed limit.

Now the pot holes have been given a layer surface dressing and it was overcast enough to be dark and raining I was doing 20mph.

Within a few seconds I was caught up by group of four vehicles.

1/ Renault Clio sat on my back bumper.
2/ Generic white van sat on the Clio back bumper.
3/ BMW 320D overtook all three of us nearly hitting a bus head on.
4/ Vauxhall Astra Coupe also nearly hit the bus looking to overtake.

As soon as the bus had gone by all three overtook and the Astra decided to wheel spin a load of kitty litter over my car as he did. No damage to the windscreen and twenty something year old paint so not worth bothering with.

At the end of the road all four had been pulled over by the Police.

Two traffic cars and a van. I have no idea why the Police were there but I gave a polite "beep" and thumb up as I continued my commute.

[Wills2]

Drivers that enter a petrol forecourt, see that all the pumps are being used and then stop near the entrance in an attempt to cover all the pumps.

Just pick a car to wait behind FFS! You don't go to the supermarket and stand in the middle of the checkout area expecting everyone to queue behind you, so don't do it at the petrol station.

[silverfoxcc]

Wills2 said:

Drivers that enter a petrol forecourt, see that all the pumps are being used and then stop near the entrance in an attempt to cover all the pumps.

Just pick a car to wait behind FFS! You don't go to the supermarket and stand in the middle of the checkout area expecting everyone to queue behind you, so don't do it at the petrol station.

Yep and dont the feckers get upset when you suss out someone coming out the kiosk and just roll up behind then.

Bulging eyes and red veins standing out. Normally old buggers in small jappy type cars

[Jim AK]

silverfoxcc said:

Yep and dont the feckers get upset when you suss out someone coming out the kiosk and just roll up behind then.

Bulging eyes and red veins standing out. Normally old buggers in small jappy type cars

Even better when that happens & 2 pumps clear together on the LPG line & I'm going to use it. It's the rearmost pump & I love the hooting & hollering from them 'all fuels are on all pumps go forward' they rant.

How I love pointing out the only LPG pump on the site.

Beats going on a pump that's on my nearside despite my filler being on offside. Read the signs Cretins. Extra long hose. Even gives you a picture to show it reaches round.

KNOBS!!

[anonymous-user]

Wills2 said:

Drivers that enter a petrol forecourt, see that all the pumps are being used and then stop near the entrance in an attempt to cover all the pumps.

Just pick a car to wait behind FFS! You don't go to the supermarket and stand in the middle of the checkout area expecting everyone to queue behind you, so don't do it at the petrol station.

Yes yes yes and more yes! Completely oblivious to the utter chaos caused behind then (a bunch of them singlehandedly brought Lysander Road in Yeovil to a standstill once).

Nothing more satisfying than going round them to join a pump queue and finishing filling up before they've even started however!

[Hoofy]

Late night Uber drivers. They'll suddenly pull across you and stop. I thought I was going to be the victim of a car jacking but it turns out he was dropping off some passengers.

They say practice makes perfect. If so, why are Uber drivers so st?

[djc206]

Hoofy said:

Late night Uber drivers. They'll suddenly pull across you and stop. I thought I was going to be the victim of a car jacking but it turns out he was dropping off some passengers.

They say practice makes perfect. If so, why are Uber drivers so st?

Round here most minicabs seem to drive for uber as well which would explain it

[CoolHands]

Public touchscreens at various locations. Eg cinema, Argos, etc

I can't stand using them - I hate the way they are so useless, I don't like the feeling in my finger when I have to prod them as they are so unresponsive. Just use a fking keypad instead of trying to be trendy you wkers.

[Gunk]

CoolHands said:

Public touchscreens at various locations. Eg cinema, Argos, etc

I can't stand using them - I hate the way they are so useless, I don't like the feeling in my finger when I have to prod them as they are so unresponsive. Just use a fking keypad instead of trying to be trendy you wkers.

As a child of the 1960's anything self service drives me bananas, the worst though is in Barclays, get rid of all the counters and stick in two big iPads which no one can work out how to use, and then wait for what seems like hours whilst frustrated staff show some poor 80 year old how to pay a cheque in.