One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
Discussion
alpha channel said:
The mentioning of Christmas at this time of year grates a little but what grates a great deal is the latest TV missive from Argos - Gifting/Gifting season! with the Argos Christmas catalogue spinning in the middle of the screen.
Gifting FFS! mumble, mumble, PC t
ts, mumble 
They're about as bad as the Park savings adverts. They normally start during Christmas, to encourage saving for the following year, however this year the adverts started over the last days of September Gifting FFS! mumble, mumble, PC t
ts, mumble 
Even better, they're no longer just advertising / encouraging people to save for Christmas 2018, but you can also start saving for Christmas 2019 too. Bloody hell.Zetec-S said:
The fkwit biker on the A303 Sunday night, who must have been doing over 100, deciding he couldn't slow for a couple of seconds to allow me to move over after overtaking another car, so decides to pass on the inside.
You (and your pillion passenger) are bloody lucky I checked over my shoulder before I moved across, otherwise someone would probably still be scraping you both off the tarmac.
Ah! But we must all "Think Bike! Think Biker!"kwit biker on the A303 Sunday night, who must have been doing over 100, deciding he couldn't slow for a couple of seconds to allow me to move over after overtaking another car, so decides to pass on the inside.You (and your pillion passenger) are bloody lucky I checked over my shoulder before I moved across, otherwise someone would probably still be scraping you both off the tarmac.
Because they're all too busy thrashing their sewing machines at a bajillion miles per hour while lane splitting to be doing any thinking for themselves. They're worse than f
king cyclists, all dressed up in their gaudy power-ranger outfits, terrorising normal folks and desperately trying to get their macho machines to spit them high-side off into the scenery."Think Bike!" ???
Jog on. It's about time those stupid matrix signs were reprogrammed to read "Bikers! Think!" Talk about a sub-section of road users who think the law does not apply to them, and who are a danger to themselves and others...
48k said:
Hats off to you being able to target the rear view mirror of a car driving past you at in excess of 50 mph. In the dark.
He said Torch, not Laser...I'm sure there was enough spread of the beam that it didn't have to aimed too accurately, just in the general rear windscreen area.
PS - OP - love it!
AstonZagato said:
Blown2CV said:
Angry Christmas Stuff
My wife is super organised and buys all her non-perishable Christmas stuff in the previous January sales (cards, crackers, decorations). And she buys the presents in the summer sales. But I still found her lurking in the John Lewis Christmas department last weekend. It's like catnip to her.
There are year-round Christmas shops in Germany. Kathe Wohlfahrt's Christmas Shop in Rotenburg was one of my wife's favorite places to go when we lived there.
Edited by AstonZagato on Tuesday 17th October 12:13
Shopping early because it's cheap makes financial sense. Wearing christmas clothes at home and playing christmas carols when it's still 20+ degrees outside is f
ked in the head.InitialDave said:
If we're going to moan about holidays and shopping: Black Friday. The basis for it existing in the US is not applicable here, and it shouldn't be attempted to wedge it into our calendar any more than you would a 4th of July event.
i think it abruptly disappeared the year after it arrived. I don't often feel proud to be British, but I did then.Trying to join the M4 or exit to the M25 being made infinitely more difficult by some of the muppets.
Just as I'm attempting to merge onto the M4, lane one is clear so start to move. Just as idiot from lane two decides it's time to merge into lane one. Yes, I know it's a give way line so factored it in and had space to adjust the manoeuvre but when you see cars joining the motorway, many people make an attempt to move aside to make space where possible. Courtesy not a rule but logical to allow those cars to join where possible, not block them off.
Same goes for exiting the motorway, you have a one mile slip road from the M4 to the M25 where people often queue. Except the bint in the Beetle who not only squeezed in front of me in lane one (not the slip road) who then pulled into a gap on the slip road and slammed her brakes on but with a third of her car in lane one. Talk about absolute hazard!
I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
Just as I'm attempting to merge onto the M4, lane one is clear so start to move. Just as idiot from lane two decides it's time to merge into lane one. Yes, I know it's a give way line so factored it in and had space to adjust the manoeuvre but when you see cars joining the motorway, many people make an attempt to move aside to make space where possible. Courtesy not a rule but logical to allow those cars to join where possible, not block them off.
Same goes for exiting the motorway, you have a one mile slip road from the M4 to the M25 where people often queue. Except the bint in the Beetle who not only squeezed in front of me in lane one (not the slip road) who then pulled into a gap on the slip road and slammed her brakes on but with a third of her car in lane one. Talk about absolute hazard!
I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
Alex_225 said:
Trying to join the M4 or exit to the M25 being made infinitely more difficult by some of the muppets.
I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
Sat nav generation?I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
Mike_Mac said:
48k said:
Hats off to you being able to target the rear view mirror of a car driving past you at in excess of 50 mph. In the dark.
He said Torch, not Laser...I'm sure there was enough spread of the beam that it didn't have to aimed too accurately, just in the general rear windscreen area.
PS - OP - love it!
The Crack Fox said:
InitialDave said:
If we're going to moan about holidays and shopping: Black Friday. The basis for it existing in the US is not applicable here, and it shouldn't be attempted to wedge it into our calendar any more than you would a 4th of July event.
See also; Trick or treat
and one of these:
And I'm going to scare the living s
t out of the nieghbourhood scrotes when they come to my door. Which happens to be No.13. I want to see crying children and angry parents. Dr Murdoch said:
Alex_225 said:
Trying to join the M4 or exit to the M25 being made infinitely more difficult by some of the muppets.
I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
Sat nav generation?I only drive that stretch of road a four times a month and i see incidents on the exit to the M25 quite regularly. People panic and don't get across in time for the exit and push in and brake. Must be so many bumper to bumper accidents which aren't due to driving too close.
The irony is with that slip lane is that usually you can sale past the idiots, the traffic usually clears and you can exit the motorway normally. If not, next junction and come back.
Absolute weapons grade bellend in a black M3 on the M40 earlier. Weaving in and out of 80 mph traffic, undertaking, swerving all over the road, carving people up and generally driving appallingly.
I couldn't work out if his AB53ENT vanity plate referred to his brain, driving skill or manners. If you're on here mate, sort it out before you cause a very nasty accident.
I couldn't work out if his AB53ENT vanity plate referred to his brain, driving skill or manners. If you're on here mate, sort it out before you cause a very nasty accident.
Alex_225 said:
Most likely mate. Sees nothing but 'take the exit' and goes into panic mode. Rather than use a bit of logic or think that if they miss the junction they can come back on themselves, just risk safety and nearly cause an accident.
The irony is with that slip lane is that usually you can sale past the idiots, the traffic usually clears and you can exit the motorway normally. If not, next junction and come back.
What discounts do you offer in your sales?The irony is with that slip lane is that usually you can sale past the idiots, the traffic usually clears and you can exit the motorway normally. If not, next junction and come back.
Knob in the 'souped up' VW van last week (I think it was a T5, with body kit, big alloys etc)
I was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
I was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
Moonhawk said:
Knob in the 'souped up' VW van last week (I think it was a T5, with body kit, big alloys etc)
I was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
There is no thought process. Drivers like that just grab the wheel and go, and err,.. that's itI was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
nonsequitur said:
Moonhawk said:
Knob in the 'souped up' VW van last week (I think it was a T5, with body kit, big alloys etc)
I was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
There is no thought process. Drivers like that just grab the wheel and go, and err,.. that's it I was on the M56 in the outside lane - overtaking a line of traffic in the middle lane. I was probably doing around 75-80 indicated, so not like I was dawdling or anything.
VW van came blasting up and sat right up my arse, flashing his indicators and gesturing (presumably wanting me to get out of his way). Quite where he thought I could go is anyone's guess - perhaps he thought I could monorail the central barrier.
Can anyone explain the though process behind driving like this?
Not indicating, EVER, round abouts, entering/exiting motorways/dual carriageways.
Sitting in the middle lane overtaking NOTHING.
Blocking "KEEP CLEAR" signs.
Parking, anywhere the fancy takes them, the whole "The rules do not apply to me!!" thing.
Forcing their way passed parked vehicles/obstructions on their side of the road, regardless of the fact YOU have to stop because they are too ignorant/important/stupid to wait.
Forcing their way into the gap in front of you, thus reducing your braking space to zero.
Straight lining roundabouts, and while we're on the subject, lane discipline in general!!
I passed my test way back in 1989 and I sure as sh*t wasn't taught to drive that way!!!
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