One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Alex_225 said:
The mini cab driver beeping and flashing his lights behind my mums car because she was sat at a red light.
The red light being around some road works but just because he's too impatient to wait at the red light don't hassle the driver in front.
I'm pretty sure you have to adhere to traffic light signals, temporary or otherwise.
Taxi drivers adhering? They know not the meaning.The red light being around some road works but just because he's too impatient to wait at the red light don't hassle the driver in front.
I'm pretty sure you have to adhere to traffic light signals, temporary or otherwise.
30% of cars on the road this morning with no lights on (DRL's don't count as the rears are just as important) in the driving rain. One twunt in a Nissan XTrail demo thing had no lights on and was holding his phone in front of him to talk. Fricking idiot, just pair it with the car and use hands free. So many thick people about these days.
Following another car down a tight twisty b road in the rain at 7.30am bit of tree sticking out in road where its a bit overgrown. Car in front goes past it, bike with no lights appears from behind the tree towards me in, the middle of the road. OK so I am in a Leaf and quiet, but he came damn close to launching over the bonnet. Self preservation is rule no1 riding a bike.
Going along a really twisty a-road, 10 people in the pouring rain in t-shirts doing some kind of army walk, in just t-shirts soaked to the skin. Not safe to walk there at all, no kerb or pavement at all for miles in the rush hour. Knobber who had been tailgating my nearly hits the back of me.
Going along a really twisty a-road, 10 people in the pouring rain in t-shirts doing some kind of army walk, in just t-shirts soaked to the skin. Not safe to walk there at all, no kerb or pavement at all for miles in the rush hour. Knobber who had been tailgating my nearly hits the back of me.
maccas99 said:
30% of cars on the road this morning with no lights on (DRL's don't count as the rears are just as important) in the driving rain. One twunt in a Nissan XTrail demo thing had no lights on and was holding his phone in front of him to talk. Fricking idiot, just pair it with the car and use hands free. So many thick people about these days.
Only 30% the Police must be doing a crack down where you are. I think they should set up a road block and anyone/everyone with only DRL's, side lights or no lights should be fined, given six points and have CD-10 tattooed across their worthless faces.
Sorry for having another go at people who are obviously too thick to know how their lights work.
Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
"parked" = abandoned
Todays rant, people who put in false injury claims after a shunt.
Had my renewal quote come through today, 11% more expensive than last year. Not entirely surprised, I was expected it to go up as a result of reading much PH this year, despite the fact that I have never had to claim on my car insurance, ever.
Quick google search turns up results, effectively to cover the increase in personal injury claims. I bet that a vast majority of whiplash claims are fraudulent, people see it as an easy way to make a quick buck, only a little accident but might aswell "get some compo innit mate".
I know this will be controversial as there are plenty of PHer's who have had genuine injury claims as a result from accidents and are still living with the effects, however surely with all the tech in modern cars such as automatic braking systems etc, the amount of personal injury claims shouldn't be rising. I invite those who have fraudulently put in a claim or claimed well in excess of what realistically they should be entitled to, to pay for the increase in my premium.
Of course, I'm yet to shop around for a better quote but it just bugs me that it should go up by so much, when my circumstances haven't changed!
Had my renewal quote come through today, 11% more expensive than last year. Not entirely surprised, I was expected it to go up as a result of reading much PH this year, despite the fact that I have never had to claim on my car insurance, ever.
Quick google search turns up results, effectively to cover the increase in personal injury claims. I bet that a vast majority of whiplash claims are fraudulent, people see it as an easy way to make a quick buck, only a little accident but might aswell "get some compo innit mate".
I know this will be controversial as there are plenty of PHer's who have had genuine injury claims as a result from accidents and are still living with the effects, however surely with all the tech in modern cars such as automatic braking systems etc, the amount of personal injury claims shouldn't be rising. I invite those who have fraudulently put in a claim or claimed well in excess of what realistically they should be entitled to, to pay for the increase in my premium.
Of course, I'm yet to shop around for a better quote but it just bugs me that it should go up by so much, when my circumstances haven't changed!
Utter knobhead in a '54' plate Vectra this morning.
We're approaching a set of traffic lights in a 40 mph zone, and he's tailgating me almost to the point of pushing me along. Ahead, I can see a long queue of cars waiting at a RED light so I slow down. Normally I'd ease off the gas and slow down gradually, but I feel compelled to let him know that I need to slow down so show a brake light, but very gentle pressure on the pedal.
Instead of dropping back he flashes his high-beams at me, but without a realistic alternative I continue to dump speed to avoid colliding with stationary traffic.
Idiot-features is clearly fuming. Our light goes green, but several cars ahead of me are hesitant, the result being that as I get to be 'next in line' to go over the stop line, the light turns red again. Obviously I stop. The chump in the Vectra leans on his horn, and after about 5 seconds decides that the only course of action available to him is to pull out, go around me, and drive straight over a four-way junction at which the light has been red for some time.
Somehow, by sheer luck I presume, the traffic from our left AND right was slow pulling away from a stop, and so this idiot got away with it.
I can't help it though. I hope by some miracle he comes to some serious harm when it's only him that gets to wear a tree or something. You just can't go around pulling stunts like that, no matter how much of a hurry you are in.
And for anyone who thinks I made this up, or exaggerated any of it? If it's any consolation I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself. The most willfully stupid and dangerous piece of driving I think I've ever seen, and the only time I've wished I had a dash-cam so I could pass footage to the police.
I'm absolutely stunned by it to be honest. If traffic hadn't been waiting against the red light on the crossing road, he could have come up against a driver at 30 mph to 40 mph going straight through on 'red & amber', not pulling away from a standing start. I actually held my breath and prepared to witness a smash as he overtook me from a standing start.
Still. There was no collision, so it must have been safe, right?
We're approaching a set of traffic lights in a 40 mph zone, and he's tailgating me almost to the point of pushing me along. Ahead, I can see a long queue of cars waiting at a RED light so I slow down. Normally I'd ease off the gas and slow down gradually, but I feel compelled to let him know that I need to slow down so show a brake light, but very gentle pressure on the pedal.
Instead of dropping back he flashes his high-beams at me, but without a realistic alternative I continue to dump speed to avoid colliding with stationary traffic.
Idiot-features is clearly fuming. Our light goes green, but several cars ahead of me are hesitant, the result being that as I get to be 'next in line' to go over the stop line, the light turns red again. Obviously I stop. The chump in the Vectra leans on his horn, and after about 5 seconds decides that the only course of action available to him is to pull out, go around me, and drive straight over a four-way junction at which the light has been red for some time.
Somehow, by sheer luck I presume, the traffic from our left AND right was slow pulling away from a stop, and so this idiot got away with it.
I can't help it though. I hope by some miracle he comes to some serious harm when it's only him that gets to wear a tree or something. You just can't go around pulling stunts like that, no matter how much of a hurry you are in.
And for anyone who thinks I made this up, or exaggerated any of it? If it's any consolation I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself. The most willfully stupid and dangerous piece of driving I think I've ever seen, and the only time I've wished I had a dash-cam so I could pass footage to the police.
I'm absolutely stunned by it to be honest. If traffic hadn't been waiting against the red light on the crossing road, he could have come up against a driver at 30 mph to 40 mph going straight through on 'red & amber', not pulling away from a standing start. I actually held my breath and prepared to witness a smash as he overtook me from a standing start.
Still. There was no collision, so it must have been safe, right?
The retard who stole my centre cap and dust caps today. The dust caps are only about 50p each but the centre cap was a bespoke part that was made specifically for my car, it won't fit any other car. The result is a totally useless part for the thief and me having to fork out a fair chunk to manufacture a replacement.
The remaining centre caps have been removed for safe keeping until such time that I change jobs and get out of Essex, hateful place. Full of utter yobs.
The remaining centre caps have been removed for safe keeping until such time that I change jobs and get out of Essex, hateful place. Full of utter yobs.
Muddle238 said:
The retard who stole my centre cap and dust caps today. The dust caps are only about 50p each but the centre cap was a bespoke part that was made specifically for my car, it won't fit any other car. The result is a totally useless part for the thief and me having to fork out a fair chunk to manufacture a replacement.
The remaining centre caps have been removed for safe keeping until such time that I change jobs and get out of Essex, hateful place. Full of utter yobs.
They wiil steal anything that will raise cash for drug money.The remaining centre caps have been removed for safe keeping until such time that I change jobs and get out of Essex, hateful place. Full of utter yobs.
The 
in the black 118d towards Bishop Sutton near Bristol, 35 in a 60 so I go for an overtake on a long straight.
He then accelerates to block me into aborting the overtake but just doesn't have the power and I was 3/4 of the way past before he noticed me overtaking.
I know I could have aborted but I had sight and a long straight but I did not anticipate an asshole trying to block me so my fault in fairness. I passed and then he dropped back to the same speed as before.
Why the hell do people do it, small cock or fking ugly missus syndrome I have no idea.
in the black 118d towards Bishop Sutton near Bristol, 35 in a 60 so I go for an overtake on a long straight. He then accelerates to block me into aborting the overtake but just doesn't have the power and I was 3/4 of the way past before he noticed me overtaking.
I know I could have aborted but I had sight and a long straight but I did not anticipate an asshole trying to block me so my fault in fairness. I passed and then he dropped back to the same speed as before.
Why the hell do people do it, small cock or f
king ugly missus syndrome I have no idea. The two neighbours who keep competing to get the disabled space outside my block of flats, despite neither being disabled or holding a blue badge, came out yesterday and one of them had parked his car in one disabled bay and his van in the other blocks disabled bay,nothing to do with me but still grinds my gears, a visitor space is 10 yards further away
Liquid Knight said:
Sorry for having another go at people who are obviously too thick to know how their lights work.
Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
Oh I would have waited for him to get back.Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
"parked" = abandoned
randomeddy said:
Liquid Knight said:
Sorry for having another go at people who are obviously too thick to know how their lights work.
Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
Oh I would have waited for him to get back.Today I stopped to help a chap in a Porsche Cayenne. He was "parked" about ten feet from a junction, hazard lights on, two wheels on a grass verge, sat at around a fifteen to twenty degree angle and there was blue/white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust.
I asked of he was okay and of he had broken down. The voice on the loud speaker laughed and he informed me he was on the phone.
"I'm in a fifty thousand Pound Porsche. As if I'm going to need help from someone in a....
...Fiat?"
"Okay. You are burning oil though. Probably because you are parked at such an angle".
I went by about half an hour later and the Porsche was still there with the bonnet up and engine turned off. I didn't feel like stopping to help that time to be honest. I did; but the chap wasn't there.
"parked" = abandoned
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