One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[LuS1fer]

Short skirts, yes, lycra, unacceptable delay.

[Bobberoo99]

The two lardy wombles who keep stopping in the middle of the aisle to discuss what they want, it's absolutely heaving in M&S and you two fkwits are causing problems, step to the side and talk, and yes they've been asked several times to step out of the way and just ignore people and carry on talking!!!!

[yellowjack]

Bobberoo99 said:

The two lardy wombles who keep stopping in the middle of the aisle to discuss what they want, it's absolutely heaving in M&S and you two fkwits are causing problems, step to the side and talk, and yes they've been asked several times to step out of the way and just ignore people and carry on talking!!!!

Just squeeze past 'em. And DO NOT apologise when you indicate that you want to get past, neither.

Do it to those retarded "mobile phone zombies" too. I pick a direction, and walk in it. Occasionally you'll elicit an exasperated "Excuse me?" out of them. If that happens, politely tell them that it's nice of them to offer one, but you don't have time to accept their apology. Then go on about your business.

I'm heartily sick of these imbeciles expecting the rest of the world to make way for them while they're busy chatting to each other in narrow spaces, or gassing on the phone. Fk 'em. I'm all for kindness, and the spirit of Christmas, etc, but these types seem to have got up in the morning and set out on a mission to be a pain in the arse to everyone who happens to have the misfortune of bumping into them.

[ashleyman]

It’s christmas. It’s busy. Car parks are full.
But that doesn’t make it ok to park non EV cars in EV bays or to double park down the supermarket isles and block people in or park on double yellows at the entrance and exit.

I walked to Sainsbury’s yesterday and it was chaos. It was as if rules, common sense and any consideration for anyone else had been left at home.

[anonymous-user]

kowalski655 said:

I get nasty looks from OAPs when I park with OH in a blue badge bay, because we are not yet ancient! I always make sure I get out quickly & with no problems, which just makes them worse
UntiI have to help OH out!

A friend has quite a severely disabled daughter and does this all the time. He jumps out the car and runs around it, a picture of health, baiting comments. Then takes great pleasure making them feel tiny while he decants his daughter. He's one of life's great trolls though, he is a bloody nightmare and we all breathed a sigh of relief when he moved 30 miles away.

[Drive Blind]

I've commented on it before, but these knobs that flash their hazard lights after performing a st maneuver thinking that the flash somehow absolves them of all wrong doing

Knob in a van yesterday. Takes the wrong lane at the roundabout, drives round the outside of everybody else in the correct lane and then forces their way in at the front. Flashes hazards.
Knob then joins 70mph limit dual carriageway at about 40 and immediately jumps to lane 2. Nearly causes a pile up due the all the 70mph traffic in lane 2 having to slam on the brakes. Flashes hazards.

At no time did he ever use indicators yet has the time to use the hazards as some sort of made up joker card, invincibility cloak.

[Liquid Knight]

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the other people I have seen on the road tonight.

[nonsequitur]

Liquid Knight said:

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the otheor people I have seen on the road tonight.

Numbers 3 / 4 are open to debate I would argue. I only turn my fog lights off when it is apparrent that the fog has thinned or has cleared.

[anonymous-user]

nonsequitur said:

Liquid Knight said:

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the otheor people I have seen on the road tonight.

Numbers 3 / 4 are open to debate I would argue. I only turn my fog lights off when it is apparrent that the fog has thinned or has cleared.

If you can see their headlights then they can see your tail lights and don't need to sit looking at super high intensity lights that may obscure or reduce the effect of brake lights. My rear fogs are on for the absolute minimum time necessary.

[nonsequitur]

OpulentBob said:

nonsequitur said:

Liquid Knight said:

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the otheor people I have seen on the road tonight.

Numbers 3 / 4 are open to debate I would argue. I only turn my fog lights off when it is apparrent that the fog has thinned or has cleared.

If you can see their headlights then they can see your tail lights and don't need to sit looking at super high intensity lights that may obscure or reduce the effect of brake lights. My rear fogs are on for the absolute minimum time necessary.

One man's pea souper is another man's consomme.

[anonymous-user]

OpulentBob said:

If you can see their headlights then they can see your tail lights and don't need to sit looking at super high intensity lights that may obscure or reduce the effect of brake lights. My rear fogs are on for the absolute minimum time necessary.

Agreed 100%. Rear fog lights in nose to tail city centre traffic annoy me badly. Just because you went through a patch of mist 20 minutes ago doesn't mean you need your fog lights on for the rest of your journey.

[SlimJim16v]

OpulentBob said:

If you can see their headlights then they can see your tail lights and don't need to sit looking at super high intensity lights that may obscure or reduce the effect of brake lights. My rear fogs are on for the absolute minimum time necessary.

Yes, I do that also. It does however require common sense, observation and regard for others.

[Liquid Knight]

Glad we're agreed on rear fog lights only being necessary while there's nobody behind us. I could use this to trigger the brake lights at junctions debacle again as it validates my point but I will move on to front fog lights instead.

Simple refraction. Front fog lights are not penciled like headlights so they can dazzle oncoming traffic. That's why I turn mine off if there is someone headed my way. I can see them, they can see me therefore there is no need for the extra light.

[Liquid Knight]

I'm going to show my age here but when I first started messing about with cars you could buy universal fog and drive lights. Mount them upside down below the bumper line and they were fog lamps, mount them the right way up and above the bumper line and they were drive (auxiliary high beam) lamps.



As mounted to my Panda in the fog lamp position.

I have always had that in mind when using fog lights. They are basically low level high beams so should be turned off if there is any oncoming traffic the same way as you dip your headlights.

[alpha channel]

SlimJim16v said:

OpulentBob said:

If you can see their headlights then they can see your tail lights and don't need to sit looking at super high intensity lights that may obscure or reduce the effect of brake lights. My rear fogs are on for the absolute minimum time necessary.

Yes, I do that also. It does however require common sense, observation and regard for others.

Don't get me started on rear fog lights :grrr: when we've had a bit of fog the car in front, twice now (two separate vehicles), has come to a stop and I'm oh about five feet behind when their fog light suddenly pops on! What the hell is going through their heads? In the twenty four years (well it will be come January the 16th) I've only ever felt the need to put fog lights on once as visibility was down to around five to ten feet, the road leading from Woodland to Hamsterley can be tricky for fog but that was like nothing I've seen before or since.

I've the, almost, overwhelming urge to pop my headlights on full at such times.

[Blown2CV]

Liquid Knight said:

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the other people I have seen on the road tonight.

Why the fk would you turn off fog lights for other traffic? They are mostly intended to allow you to be seen.

[LuS1fer]

Liquid Knight said:

I'm going to show my age here but when I first started messing about with cars you could buy universal fog and drive lights. Mount them upside down below the bumper line and they were fog lamps, mount them the right way up and above the bumper line and they were drive (auxiliary high beam) lamps.



As mounted to my Panda in the fog lamp position.

I have always had that in mind when using fog lights. They are basically low level high beams so should be turned off if there is any oncoming traffic the same way as you dip your headlights.

Not really. Fog lights had fluted vertical patterned glass that diffused the light. Driving lights had a clear glass to supplement either high beam or ( tilted down) dipped beam. The classic Cibie 4 lamp rally setup had two lamps angled to the sides slightly.

[nonsequitur]

Blown2CV said:

Liquid Knight said:

I think the hazard light flash is a nice way of saying, "sorry got a bit nonchalant there". Especially when they do something equally as inept a few yards later.

Today. Driving in fog.

How had is it really?

1/ Slow down so you can stop in the distance you can see.
2/ Use fog lights when there is no traffic.
3/ Turn front fog lights off when there is on coming traffic.
4/ Turn rear fog light/s off when there is traffic behind you.
5/ DO NOT use high beams anywhere.
6/ DO NOT tailgate. Even if the road surface is bone dry allow at least a four second gap.

Sadly it's beyond most of the other people I have seen on the road tonight.

Why the fk would you turn off fog lights for other traffic? They are mostly intended to allow you to be seen.

Given the unprecdictable nature of fog, I would argue that to have a 'checklist' would seem a little 'short sighted'.

As said, front and rear fogs are there for you to be seen, although the front ones are low level and pointing outwards towards the kerb / verge, so an added bonus there.

A judicious use of said lights is required when in town and traffic, but I would suggest, in general , out on the road, they should be switched on.

[coolchris]

The complete tool that decided to park across my privately rented garage and another person's in a row of garages.I needed to get car out but was stuffed and so built up around there I wasn't going to go door knocking on boxing day at 8.30am.the selfish bit was there is parking across a wall opposite the garages that leaves access at all times why are people so bloody selfish

[randomeddy]

coolchris said:

The complete tool that decided to park across my privately rented garage and another person's in a row of garages.I needed to get car out but was stuffed and so built up around there I wasn't going to go door knocking on boxing day at 8.30am.the selfish bit was there is parking across a wall opposite the garages that leaves access at all times why are people so bloody selfish

Same thoughts about the ignorant thoughtless blue Audi S5 driver who parked on the street over night taking up two spaces.

Yes I know blah, blah, blah you don't own the road outside your house, car taxed etc etc etc. Save it. It is called common courtesy. The street opposite that you were visiting is tight for parking so fk other people just park on here, I am alright jack, fk you. wker.