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

[jakesmith]

Rawwr said:

Naw, they all just think you're a nob, too.

Cheer up pal!

[Flibble]

WarrenB said:

People who tailgate for absolutely no logical reason.

Had one a few weeks ago on the motorway, plenty of chances to overtake over about 6 or 7 miles, but didn't. When he eventually did he beeped and tapped his dash cam a few times. Still no idea what that was all about.

And tonight, a little C1/107/Aygo thing, I'm doing a steady 60 in lane 1 and I see it come tanking up behind me, nothing in lane 2 so expect it to pull out, but it slows down and is so close I can barely see it's lights in my door mirrors (I'm in a Transit van, no rear view mirror). If I'd needed to slow down for any reason they'd have zero time to react.

If it's quiet, play the how slow will they go game. Just gently lift off and see how slow you get to before they wake up and overtake. Think I've managed about 40 mph before.

[captain_cynic]

Grahamdub said:

nonsequitur said:

Doggie day care. Who knew!

It's a boutique dog hotel actually
They have the run of the house and garden, although there is a special lounge area for them with tv, wood burner etc. They spend the mornings walking in the nearby woods, country park or beach, with regular Facebook updates so you can see what your pooch is doing. Our dog spends 2-3 days a week there and loves it. I want his life

Believe it or not, there was once a time when men were considered to be a dog's master.

[anonymous-user]

captain_cynic said:

Grahamdub said:

nonsequitur said:

Doggie day care. Who knew!

It's a boutique dog hotel actually
They have the run of the house and garden, although there is a special lounge area for them with tv, wood burner etc. They spend the mornings walking in the nearby woods, country park or beach, with regular Facebook updates so you can see what your pooch is doing. Our dog spends 2-3 days a week there and loves it. I want his life

Believe it or not, there was once a time when men were considered to be a dog's master.

I'm not even in 2nd place in our house and there's only 3 of us

[nonsequitur]

jakesmith said:

Blown2CV said:

swagmeister said:

I do a daily commute at peak times mostly motorway so its more often than not stop start traffic. I get frustrated at the knob jockeys who will swap lanes every 100 or so yards trying to get a car lengths of a gain. More often than not they end up no further ahead than where they started or further behind. Is gaining 10 feet really going to change your life ?

i get your view... and it is a traditional view... but maybe they aren't trying to genuinely make a huge time benefit to their commute, maybe they are just trying to spice up the mundanity? Could say the same about overtaking.

I do change lanes in heavy traffic if there is an advantage, I am very careful with mirrors and once I’ve done it 2/3 times I stop. Often you do miss a few turgid slowdowns and pass 20 cars before flipping back. Sometimes it doesn’t help and I feel like a bit of a nob

But usually it at least speeds things up a bit or alieviates my boredom. I wonder if my spicy exhaust gives a few motorists a moment of interest too whilst also highly annoying a few others.

Jake, you do realise that this is the knob thread where PHers report bad driving or dodgy tactics? (2).

[AC43]

Have we had the rear wiper parked vertically yet? I've started seeing that on various VAGs round here recently. It's often the very first sign of knobbishness

These cars can be seen driving aggressively, swerving from side to side, tailgaiting and generally being driven around in an imaginary franchise of the Fast and the Furious.

Phase two includes an actual rear wiper delete, dodgy plates and some sort of stupid coating on the headlights.

Phase three is for the fully committed and has all of the above illegal tints and a fart can.

Extra points for a matte white wrap with finger prints on the door and diesel soot on the back bumper and a gloss black roof that's so obviously not a pano that's it's laughable.

The final, irreversible, phase includes adding stickers, ruining the suspension and driving to an owners meet in a field somewhere. Or more likely a McDonalds car park near by.

[silverfoxcc]

PH related, and no doubt one will pop up milleseconds after this has been posted
Sometimes i might ask repeat a question that i asked a while back

The main reason is

There could be a new PH on here who knows the answer and doesn't spend his life reading every section from page 1

OR

I forgot that i asked it, it was that long ago!!


What i find sad to the Nth degree is you get the

'you asked this on.......' or even put the link

Now i dont mind it, but what kind of mind do they have to even begin to got through anyones post just to go ya boo sucks
Do they really get off on it?

Perhaps one of the said creatures could explain the rationale behind his thinking, at least i would then know

[nonsequitur]

silverfoxcc said:

PH related, and no doubt one will pop up milleseconds after this has been posted
Sometimes i might ask repeat a question that i asked a while back

The main reason is

There could be a new PH on here who knows the answer and doesn't spend his life reading every section from page 1

OR

I forgot that i asked it, it was that long ago!!


What i find sad to the Nth degree is you get the

'you asked this on.......' or even put the link

Now i dont mind it, but what kind of mind do they have to even begin to got through anyones post just to go ya boo sucks
Do they really get off on it?

Perhaps one of the said creatures could explain the rationale behind his thinking, at least i would then know

Same on the joke thread. First heard on Morecambe and Wise 1972, that sort of thing.

[carlove]

AC43 said:

Have we had the rear wiper parked vertically yet? I've started seeing that on various VAGs round here recently. It's often the very first sign of knobbishness

These cars can be seen driving aggressively, swerving from side to side, tailgaiting and generally being driven around in an imaginary franchise of the Fast and the Furious.

When I see these I've always assumed the wiper motor has broken, didnt know it was to look cool, how tragic.
I've seen cars, mostly VAG, with a single front wiper parked halfway up the windscreen, looks stupid, not sure if they're going for 90s Mercedes or broken Aygo look.

[anonymous-user]

carlove said:

When I see these I've always assumed the wiper motor has broken, didnt know it was to look cool, how tragic.
I've seen cars, mostly VAG, with a single front wiper parked halfway up the windscreen, looks stupid, not sure if they're going for 90s Mercedes or broken Aygo look.

I thought the rear wiper was broken too. The single front wiper parked at 90 degrees was a 90's thing that copied the BTCC cars of the time.

[Shiv_P]

Some knob in his barried fabia VRS 1.9 PD this morning
Whole back absolutely covered in soot from his whatever "delete" he's done to increase performance from his miserable 15 year old stbox with smoke pouring out the back into the faces of people walking in the road to get an extra 5bhp
Removed front plate
Can't read the rear plate. Car needs taking off the road. Could have kept it stock without the stupid delete and it would be a perfectly serviceable car

[matchmaker]

Grahamdub said:

carlove said:

When I see these I've always assumed the wiper motor has broken, didnt know it was to look cool, how tragic.
I've seen cars, mostly VAG, with a single front wiper parked halfway up the windscreen, looks stupid, not sure if they're going for 90s Mercedes or broken Aygo look.

I thought the rear wiper was broken too. The single front wiper parked at 90 degrees was a 90's thing that copied the BTCC cars of the time.

My rear wiper is parked half way up the screen. It is broken

[Composer62]

Really annoying incident this morning. I stop at a crossroads, I'm going straight across. I look right, two cars are approaching, road is clear behind them. Look left, two cars are approaching with a gap between them. As the first car from the left passes in front of me I look to the right again and see that, rather than just driving past me which would have taken approx 2 seconds, the first car has stopped and is beckoning me to go across which I can't do as the second car from the left hasn't yet gone past. WHY ? .. He's held up the car behind him for absolutely no reason and is trying to make go across the crossroads when there's still traffic approaching from the left ! If he'd just stuck to the rules of the road and driven past me no one would have been inconvenienced at all.

Edited by Composer62 on Friday 1st March 16:04

[silverfoxcc]

Nonseq

I agree, esp when the same joke is on three consecutive pages!

For me this comes under the' non picture' teeth itch. There was one trog who pulled up a question i asked four bloody years ago.when i repeated it, and made this big song and dance about it. Didn't answer it just pointed it out......... Why for Christs sake.

OK i have done a double post, but as i said, a new guy may be on here who could help.

I really just don't get their mentality or what pleasure they get out of it.

[carlove]

Grahamdub said:

I thought the rear wiper was broken too. The single front wiper parked at 90 degrees was a 90's thing that copied the BTCC cars of the time.

Shall I hand my PH card in on my way out?

[Europa1]

Grahamdub said:

I thought the rear wiper was broken too. The single front wiper parked at 90 degrees was a 90's thing that copied the BTCC cars of the time.

Best not look at the pictures on the Aston Martin Valkyrie article...

[anonymous-user]

Europa1 said:

Grahamdub said:

I thought the rear wiper was broken too. The single front wiper parked at 90 degrees was a 90's thing that copied the BTCC cars of the time.

Best not look at the pictures on the Aston Martin Valkyrie article...

Has it got a broken rear wiper ?

[J4CKO]

Off roaders with all the gear on, like the guy in Macclesfield earlier, I managed to end up in the wrong lane so was indicating in, he was steadfastly avoiding that occurrence but left a gap due to having a bit of a problem getting his engine to drag the heap up the hill by the looks of it, I take my chance and go into the gap, he knew I wanted to change lanes but was actively preventing it despite it being no skin of his nose and he got shirty when I managed to get in.

It was chucking out great clouds of black smoke, how are vehicles like that allowed an mot ? is there a special rule for wannabe mountain rescue walts ?

Anyway, then proceeds to drive up my backside to intimidate, so I did the decent thing and steadfastly ignored him, hopefully enraging him even more as it obviously didnt take much.

Sometimes its ok to give an inch, I did it several times in that journey, letting people out, change lanes, cross the road etc.

[Kuji]

Composer62 said:

Really annoying incident this morning. I stop at a crossroads, I'm going straight across. I look right, two cars are approaching, road is clear behind them. Look left, two cars are approaching with a gap between them. As the first car from the left passes in front of me I look to the right again and see that, rather than just driving past me which would have taken approx 2 seconds, the first car has stopped and is beckoning me to go across which I can't do as the second car from the left hasn't yet gone past. WHY ? .. He's held up the car behind him for absolutely no reason and is trying to make go across the crossroads when there's still traffic approaching from the left ! If he'd just stuck to the rules of the road and driven past me no one would have been inconvenienced at all.

Edited by Composer62 on Friday 1st March 16:04

It annoys me when I am behind someone who stops dead to let someone out of the road, when the road will be clear in under two 2 seconds anyway.

Do people not look in their rear view mirrors occasionally.

[Kuji]

Flibble said:

WarrenB said:

People who tailgate for absolutely no logical reason.

Had one a few weeks ago on the motorway, plenty of chances to overtake over about 6 or 7 miles, but didn't. When he eventually did he beeped and tapped his dash cam a few times. Still no idea what that was all about.

And tonight, a little C1/107/Aygo thing, I'm doing a steady 60 in lane 1 and I see it come tanking up behind me, nothing in lane 2 so expect it to pull out, but it slows down and is so close I can barely see it's lights in my door mirrors (I'm in a Transit van, no rear view mirror). If I'd needed to slow down for any reason they'd have zero time to react.

If it's quiet, play the how slow will they go game. Just gently lift off and see how slow you get to before they wake up and overtake. Think I've managed about 40 mph before.

I heard a road traffic commercial on the radio asking people not to tailgate.

Ill be honest and say I wish they had spent the money asking people to keep left instead and stop hogging the middle (and often by direct consequence the outside) lane.
The motorways would certainly flow better if 75% of cars weren't constantly forced to the right had side, to pass them all the time.

Edited by Kuji on Friday 1st March 17:25