One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
Liquid Knight said:
nonsequitur said:
densil101 said:
I'm sure it may have been mentioned already, but the one thing that gets me irrationally annoyed is:
Nürburgring stickers!
And all the other race track outline stickers on vehicles that have never been near a track.Nürburgring stickers!
:P
yellowjack said:
If you think that it's only appropriate to enter a debate if I'm going to agree with you, I feel sorry for you.
If you think my opinion is only valid if a scenario I described is exactly the same as yours, I feel sorry for you.
If you think that I'd come onto an internet forum and admit to being crap at overtaking, you're sadly misguided. I may or may not be crap at overtaking, but I certainly wouldn't come crying to the collected driving gods of PH because there is no advice that I would take from them. Preoccupied as they are with frothing at the mouth over THEIR own ineptitude and their seeming inability to safely pass a cyclist on any kind of road.
...and regarding your Exlaxia? If it's genuine you have my sympathy. But I suspect, based on the evidence before me, that it is either VERY mild, or non-existent. This may not be a spelling and grammar thread, but spelling, grammar, context, etc, is VERY important in the real world. I used to consign dangerous goods for transport by road. A few misplaced letters in a 'proper shipping name' could have a seriously detrimental effect in the event of an accident involving one of 'my' loads. To the point where the fire brigade might even use the incorrect firefighting media on a load and cause the situation to become far worse, even endangering lives. Before that I operated a squadron command vehicle in the army. A few transposed digits in a grid reference and I might call down an artillery fire mission on friendly forces, or hold up a battle group advance by ordering up a bridge that was too small to cross a gap. Again, accuracy is VITAL. I had the need for absolute accuracy almost literally beaten into me for 25 years. It's a habit I shall take to the grave, no doubt, and one for which I will NOT apologise. If you genuinely do "everyday [I] try and learn new things and better my grammar and punctuation" then you should be grateful for me pointing out your error and providing yesterday's lesson. If you are not dyslexic, but simply a bit thick or lazy, then it is very disingenuous to those who really do struggle with the condition, and can actively undermine their position.
As for me being an "absolute throbber"? I am in therapy at the moment with a genuine, diagnosed, long term mental illness as a result of my years of military service. I am also a very sensitive, delicate little flower. Thanks for setting my recovery back weeks, sweetcheeks...
We have a winner! You sir may be the angriest person on the internet, a man who once held a modicum of power and control over others and enjoyed every second of it. If you think my opinion is only valid if a scenario I described is exactly the same as yours, I feel sorry for you.
If you think that I'd come onto an internet forum and admit to being crap at overtaking, you're sadly misguided. I may or may not be crap at overtaking, but I certainly wouldn't come crying to the collected driving gods of PH because there is no advice that I would take from them. Preoccupied as they are with frothing at the mouth over THEIR own ineptitude and their seeming inability to safely pass a cyclist on any kind of road.
...and regarding your Exlaxia? If it's genuine you have my sympathy. But I suspect, based on the evidence before me, that it is either VERY mild, or non-existent. This may not be a spelling and grammar thread, but spelling, grammar, context, etc, is VERY important in the real world. I used to consign dangerous goods for transport by road. A few misplaced letters in a 'proper shipping name' could have a seriously detrimental effect in the event of an accident involving one of 'my' loads. To the point where the fire brigade might even use the incorrect firefighting media on a load and cause the situation to become far worse, even endangering lives. Before that I operated a squadron command vehicle in the army. A few transposed digits in a grid reference and I might call down an artillery fire mission on friendly forces, or hold up a battle group advance by ordering up a bridge that was too small to cross a gap. Again, accuracy is VITAL. I had the need for absolute accuracy almost literally beaten into me for 25 years. It's a habit I shall take to the grave, no doubt, and one for which I will NOT apologise. If you genuinely do "everyday [I] try and learn new things and better my grammar and punctuation" then you should be grateful for me pointing out your error and providing yesterday's lesson. If you are not dyslexic, but simply a bit thick or lazy, then it is very disingenuous to those who really do struggle with the condition, and can actively undermine their position.
As for me being an "absolute throbber"? I am in therapy at the moment with a genuine, diagnosed, long term mental illness as a result of my years of military service. I am also a very sensitive, delicate little flower. Thanks for setting my recovery back weeks, sweetcheeks...
No whistling the postman pat theme tune boys. It's no easy life in the RLC.
People who accelerate hard to try and get in front of other cars as two lanes merge in to one when doing so is clearly a close run thing and dangerous. Dangerous to them, dangerous to other road users, a clear and obvious fail if done on a driving test (if these people ever passed their test) and all for what, to save a second before getting held up by the next car in front that isn't travelling at suitably appropriate warp speed for their liking? How sad does a person have to be to seek to turn every moment in to a James Bond-esque last second dash for 'superiority'?
I saw a sunglasses-wearing shaft in a pretty high end Merc do this yesterday, trying to get ahead of a Qashqai. Didn't manage it before the lanes fully merged but did nearly cause a high speed collision that would presumably have cost him more financially than the other driver, before we even get to the reckless endangerment of health.
I saw a sunglasses-wearing shaft in a pretty high end Merc do this yesterday, trying to get ahead of a Qashqai. Didn't manage it before the lanes fully merged but did nearly cause a high speed collision that would presumably have cost him more financially than the other driver, before we even get to the reckless endangerment of health.
HumanDoing said:
How sad does a person have to be to seek to turn every moment in to a James Bond-esque last second dash for 'superiority'?
Yep - this type of thing happens all the time on the motorway - especially around junctions. You'll have a 2 second gap between you and the car in front - and several hundred yards of free motorway behind you - but some chode will always bomb up your outside then squeeze into the gap in front of you at the last minute - rather than simply pull in smoothly behind.
I guess these people have self esteem issues and must go for every 'win' no matter how small or pointless
I’m guessing as yellowjacks posts haven’t also been removed, then I dedicate yellowjack to this thread for starting an argument, then when faced with the realisation he’s a womble to complain and have my post removed as he doesn’t like to take what he gives, you sir are well worthy of the thread title.
Moonhawk said:
Yep - this type of thing happens all the time on the motorway - especially around junctions.
You'll have a 2 second gap between you and the car in front - and several hundred yards of free motorway behind you - but some chode will always bomb up your outside then squeeze into the gap in front of you at the last minute - rather than simply pull in smoothly behind.
I guess these people have self esteem issues and must go for every 'win' no matter how small or pointless
Yep, happens a lot on the stretch of the A1 on my commute home - the A1 between the Stevenage and Letchworth junctions, 3 lanes goes to 2 as the inside lane becomes the Letchworth turnoff. There always seems to be some total throbber who has to roar up the main carriageway then squeeze in at the last moment.You'll have a 2 second gap between you and the car in front - and several hundred yards of free motorway behind you - but some chode will always bomb up your outside then squeeze into the gap in front of you at the last minute - rather than simply pull in smoothly behind.
I guess these people have self esteem issues and must go for every 'win' no matter how small or pointless
Driving around some local roads where I live, minding my own business.
Very, VERY slow-moving car bimbles along the road across the junction I was stopped at (her right of way, so I didn't pull out in front of her).
Very slow car then travels even more slowly, braking randomly, with passenger pointing every few seconds. Yes folks, these people were lost, looking for a specific address.
Patiently, I wait behind said bumbling idiot, who by this time, has added absent-minded weaving across the road to their repertoire. A nice touch, I thought.
Not wanting to mate my car with hers, I was keeping a decent distance from her rear bumper. Good job, too, as a few seconds later, she stopped in the middle of the road, and put her hazard warning lights on. Yes madam, you are a hazard.
She then winds down her window, leans out, and starts shouting profanities at me. As I've kept a safe distance, and have my windows shut, I can't tell what she's saying. But boy, is she angry. Tirade over, she gestures for me to pass. Which I do.
Of course, her high blood pressure situation could have been avoided by letting me go in front of her at the previous junction, but that would have taken courtesy and common sense (neither of which this woman was displaying).
Very, VERY slow-moving car bimbles along the road across the junction I was stopped at (her right of way, so I didn't pull out in front of her).
Very slow car then travels even more slowly, braking randomly, with passenger pointing every few seconds. Yes folks, these people were lost, looking for a specific address.
Patiently, I wait behind said bumbling idiot, who by this time, has added absent-minded weaving across the road to their repertoire. A nice touch, I thought.
Not wanting to mate my car with hers, I was keeping a decent distance from her rear bumper. Good job, too, as a few seconds later, she stopped in the middle of the road, and put her hazard warning lights on. Yes madam, you are a hazard.
She then winds down her window, leans out, and starts shouting profanities at me. As I've kept a safe distance, and have my windows shut, I can't tell what she's saying. But boy, is she angry. Tirade over, she gestures for me to pass. Which I do.
Of course, her high blood pressure situation could have been avoided by letting me go in front of her at the previous junction, but that would have taken courtesy and common sense (neither of which this woman was displaying).
Near to my work is a large housing development that I have to drive through. As I approached work there was a large tipper truck parked up with a couple of ground workers shoveling tarmac from the little trap door in the back of the tipper. Both were near to the offside of the truck and both engrossed in their task. There was room to pass the truck but it was a little tight so seeing as I was in no rush I thought I'd just pull up and wait for them to finish what they were doing instead of trying to squeeze past.
All good you'd think, except one of the blokes too exception to this. Up he gets, arms waving and ranting about how much room there was and how I could pass easily. TBH I was taken aback - I was happy to wait, wasn't revving the engine, left them plenty of room to work safely (if they hadn't seen me they might have stepped back into my path) and thought all was well in the world.
In the end I told the twerp to wind his neck in and stop being a knob before driving on into work. As I drove off I could see he was still ranting and waving his arms about in my mirrors.
All good you'd think, except one of the blokes too exception to this. Up he gets, arms waving and ranting about how much room there was and how I could pass easily. TBH I was taken aback - I was happy to wait, wasn't revving the engine, left them plenty of room to work safely (if they hadn't seen me they might have stepped back into my path) and thought all was well in the world.
In the end I told the twerp to wind his neck in and stop being a knob before driving on into work. As I drove off I could see he was still ranting and waving his arms about in my mirrors.
Burnzyb said:
I’m guessing as yellowjacks posts haven’t also been removed, then I dedicate yellowjack to this thread for starting an argument, then when faced with the realisation he’s a womble to complain and have my post removed as he doesn’t like to take what he gives, you sir are well worthy of the thread title.
I have no problem with an "argument", although I prefer to try to debate. I have had posts removed myself, for being "personally abusive" when I can't recall that there was anything abusive in what I said. Annoyingly the PH moderator email that tells you as much doesn't include the original post, nor what specifically was felt to be offensive in it, so there's no room for response nor argument.Suffice to say that I do not agree with your stance on feeling that it is fine to block a lane for your own selfish ends. The law, as I read it, is with me on the subject, as I believe is the vast majority of opinion. Perhaps I make myself dislikeable on these forum threads. Maybe I'm even dislikeable in real life. Or maybe a 5W Eco bulb doesn't like it when the RE Corps Lights rock up and fire up the generators. You and your ilk can dislike me all you please. You may even scurry off to that "other website" where you can copy and paste posts from PH and giggle like schoolgirls while you circle the wagons to give you privacy for the inevitable circle-jerk.
Like I said, post opinion, instead of abuse, and I'm more than happy to debate a point. But there comes a point when you and I must both accept that we are not going to change each other's mind on this matter, and accept that we have taken the debate as far as it should go. I dropped it because these "thread hijack" subjects often make me think "Knob!!" and I truly believe that other contributors might want to move onto another subject. It has been brought up again though, in the posts above, yet nothing new has been said. Even the abuse and personal digs in my direction are nothing new. If you think I'm going to be put off posting you have another thing coming. These are words on a page, water off a duck's back. I've had my trousers set on fire by a petrol bomb in downtown Basra, FFS. Nothing a chap in a zip-up nylon '555' jacket can say on t'internet will cause me a second of lost sleep. Don't you have a supermarket car park to do donuts in, or a drive through McDonalds to "cruise"?
Please. For the sake of everyone else who posts on, and reads this thread, drop it now. Agree to disagree and move on. I don't intend to address this point any further now...
PS: Your behaviour in this clip that you posted yourself is hardly particularly edifying... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47K5tZ6yuLo&fe... ...the smart money is on not getting further involved in situations like that. Actively moving left on approach to the parked cars? Having no consideration for the owners of those cars which might have been damaged if the other car had hit them? Sociopathic possibly, but we often see criticism of drivers who must "go for every win, no matter how small". I wonder if you'll attract similar criticism, or if you'll somehow avoid any question over the wisdom of that move? For what it's worth, if the Corsa had blocked me I'd have used the empty right hand lane to cut the queue to the roundabout and done a full circuit of the roundabout to get into the correct lane, and I'd probably have got there well ahead of the Corsa that "blocked you" too. Think smart, not aggressive, and let the smooth flow through you like The Force.
He's the only person I know of that can cause an argument for no other reason than causing an argument!!! His long boring rambling posts are full of mumbled rubbish with little or no bearing on the original point he took issue with!!
As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
Bobberoo99 said:
He's the only person I know of that can cause an argument for no other reason than causing an argument!!! His long boring rambling posts are full of mumbled rubbish with little or no bearing on the original point he took issue with!!
As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
Mate, he could lose an argument in an empty room. As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
Flibble said:
Bobberoo99 said:
He's the only person I know of that can cause an argument for no other reason than causing an argument!!! His long boring rambling posts are full of mumbled rubbish with little or no bearing on the original point he took issue with!!
As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
Mate, he could lose an argument in an empty room. As I've previously stated and continue to believe, he could have an argument in an empty room!!!
sad but ultimately true!!!!!Enough guys. He's pretty good at getting his opinion across, which is what this is all about. Yes he's very Meldrew but that's part of his charm and character. He's probably the least sycophantic person on here. And yeah he was in the army, which means he's put his b
ks on the line somewhere people shoot at you, something I - and many of you - haven't done.
Save your pisstaking for someone that deserves it.
ks on the line somewhere people shoot at you, something I - and many of you - haven't done. Save your pisstaking for someone that deserves it.
OpulentBob said:
Enough guys. He's pretty good at getting his opinion across, which is what this is all about. Yes he's very Meldrew but that's part of his charm and character. He's probably the least sycophantic person on here. And yeah he was in the army, which means he's put his bks on the line somewhere people shoot at you, something I - and many of you - haven't done.
Save your pisstaking for someone that deserves it.
Was just about to post the same.ks on the line somewhere people shoot at you, something I - and many of you - haven't done. Save your pisstaking for someone that deserves it.
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