One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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silverfoxcc said:
nonsequitur said:
JimbobVFR said:
Blown2CV said:
skiver. said:
Non car-related but still f
king annoying;
those tts that walk around with theiir i-phones held out in front of them waiting for the next call or text. fking idiots.
i'd just assume they were using google maps personally. Do you know what that is?king annoying;those t
ts that walk around with theiir i-phones held out in front of them waiting for the next call or text. fking idiots.d, he'll "accidentally" walk into people not looking where they're going on a phone or stop in front of them.
Also really bumping in people wearing camo pants with the surprised excuse
'Sorry mate didn't see you'
andyr30 said:
The woman on the slip road last night.
Narrow slip road with 2 lanes, both backed up with traffic up to the junction.
Ambulance approaces blue light and sirens on...not really much space for either lane to go but some people squeeze over and it manages to get about half way up.
Woman in a Corsa I think, pulls diaganolly across the lane not really creating any space just blocking the lane completely.
Meanwhile all the cars in front have managed to move out the way so the lane is clear.
She just sat there as the ambulance driver blared his bull horn - I stuck my arm out the window and signalled her to drive ahead on the now clear lane.
She did for a bit then doubled up against another car in the other lane but thankfully the ambulance managed to squeeze past.
What goes on in these peoples heads!?
Absolutely nothing.Narrow slip road with 2 lanes, both backed up with traffic up to the junction.
Ambulance approaces blue light and sirens on...not really much space for either lane to go but some people squeeze over and it manages to get about half way up.
Woman in a Corsa I think, pulls diaganolly across the lane not really creating any space just blocking the lane completely.
Meanwhile all the cars in front have managed to move out the way so the lane is clear.
She just sat there as the ambulance driver blared his bull horn - I stuck my arm out the window and signalled her to drive ahead on the now clear lane.
She did for a bit then doubled up against another car in the other lane but thankfully the ambulance managed to squeeze past.
What goes on in these peoples heads!?
Kuji said:
Top of the list has to be the spelling and grammar police.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
Pericoloso said:
PH watch forum New thread.
"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
Aagh I hate that! It makes me cringe when people use this idiot's idiom. I always want to do a mime of someone shooting a gun in a really dumb way as a response (but thankfully have not... Yet)"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
I would honestly prefer to hear someone say "brought" than "pulled the trigger" when they mean "I bought this".
Knebworth High St, there is a crossroads at the end with a mini roundabout. Buses are really held up trying to get through here, so I give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to right of way to speed things up a bit.
However I am approaching said junction at 6 o'clock turning right, bus coming towards me at 12 o'clock. I am turning right and have right of way, bus driver looks at me and steams over the junction. Very unprofessional driving. I have it on dashcam, but that might make me a "DCW".
However I am approaching said junction at 6 o'clock turning right, bus coming towards me at 12 o'clock. I am turning right and have right of way, bus driver looks at me and steams over the junction. Very unprofessional driving. I have it on dashcam, but that might make me a "DCW".
donkmeister said:
Pericoloso said:
PH watch forum New thread.
"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
Aagh I hate that! It makes me cringe when people use this idiot's idiom. I always want to do a mime of someone shooting a gun in a really dumb way as a response (but thankfully have not... Yet)"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
I would honestly prefer to hear someone say "brought" than "pulled the trigger" when they mean "I bought this".
The four utter bellends who ate the Maccy D’s in their silver Audi A3 in our office car park (near Cramlington) earlier today and the threw all of their out the windows in broad daylight - tts!!!! I don’t how anyone can think that’s even remotely ok - just amazed and pissed off at the same time...
ts!!!! I don’t how anyone can think that’s even remotely ok - just amazed and pissed off at the same time...andyr30 said:
The woman on the slip road last night.
Narrow slip road with 2 lanes, both backed up with traffic up to the junction.
Ambulance approaces blue light and sirens on...not really much space for either lane to go but some people squeeze over and it manages to get about half way up.
Woman in a Corsa I think, pulls diaganolly across the lane not really creating any space just blocking the lane completely.
Meanwhile all the cars in front have managed to move out the way so the lane is clear.
She just sat there as the ambulance driver blared his bull horn - I stuck my arm out the window and signalled her to drive ahead on the now clear lane.
She did for a bit then doubled up against another car in the other lane but thankfully the ambulance managed to squeeze past.
What goes on in these peoples heads!?
What goes through their heads is "Must stop. Immediately. Even if to do so would completely block the road." They seem to think that they earn extra points for forcing other traffic to stop in the way of the EV too.Narrow slip road with 2 lanes, both backed up with traffic up to the junction.
Ambulance approaces blue light and sirens on...not really much space for either lane to go but some people squeeze over and it manages to get about half way up.
Woman in a Corsa I think, pulls diaganolly across the lane not really creating any space just blocking the lane completely.
Meanwhile all the cars in front have managed to move out the way so the lane is clear.
She just sat there as the ambulance driver blared his bull horn - I stuck my arm out the window and signalled her to drive ahead on the now clear lane.
She did for a bit then doubled up against another car in the other lane but thankfully the ambulance managed to squeeze past.
What goes on in these peoples heads!?
I had my passenger say I was "a bit of a knob back there" once. I'd carried on driving at the speed limit along a single carriageway road for a few hundred yards while a fire engine gradually caught us up. By the time the fire engine was in a position to overtake, I was tucked into the mouth of a turning on the left, ready to make a left turn out behind the fire engine. I asked my 'friend' what he thought I should have done, and the answer was "You have to stop for blue lights. It's the law." Yet if I'd stopped when i first noticed the EV, I'd have been forcing it to slow right down to overtake a stationary vehicle on a narrow single carriageway road with a number of poorly sighted bends and the likelihood of there being oncoming traffic too.
I've got a number of relatives and friends in all three of the primary emergency services, and have discussed it with them, and the answer is always the same - "if there isn't a safe, convenient place in which to pull over, just keep driving and we'll manage the overtake when it's safe. Don't panic, and don't block the road is all we ask, we'll do the rest".
Kuji said:
Top of the list has to be the spelling and grammar police.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
How very dare you!!!(You can almost hear the fingernails breaking, as people hit their keyboards to hard in angry response).
Edited by Hol on Wednesday 10th January 19:28
lost in espace said:
Knebworth High St, there is a crossroads at the end with a mini roundabout. Buses are really held up trying to get through here, so I give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to right of way to speed things up a bit.
However I am approaching said junction at 6 o'clock turning right, bus coming towards me at 12 o'clock. I am turning right and have right of way, bus driver looks at me and steams over the junction. Very unprofessional driving. I have it on dashcam, but that might make me a "DCW".
Dashcam footage then?However I am approaching said junction at 6 o'clock turning right, bus coming towards me at 12 o'clock. I am turning right and have right of way, bus driver looks at me and steams over the junction. Very unprofessional driving. I have it on dashcam, but that might make me a "DCW".
Because, as described, I'm seeing two vehicles approaching a roundabout effectively "head on". Therefore each driver is entitled to think "He's as much to my right as I am to his right, so neither of us needs to give way". Were you indicating your intention to turn right? Did you accelerate to "beat" the bus over the roundabout? Or was the bus driver further back from the entry point and ought to have been "giving way to traffic already on the roundabout"?
I'm not having a dig here, but from the brief details you give it's possible to see that situation from either point of view. Also, and I suppose I ought to apologise in advance for pedantry, but what you may have had was "Priority" over the bus driver. Both of you had "Right Of Way".
Hol said:
Kuji said:
Top of the list has to be the spelling and grammar police.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
How very dare you!!!(You can almost hear the fingernails breaking, as people hit their keyboards *> to <* hard in angry response).
yellowjack said:
Hol said:
Kuji said:
Top of the list has to be the spelling and grammar police.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
I can see the need when text speak is used and nobody can understand the message, or where the incorrect word is actually funny, by mistake, but sadly most times it just seems to be some prissy knob with no ideas of their own and an inferiority complex.
How very dare you!!!(You can almost hear the fingernails breaking, as people hit their keyboards *> to <* hard in angry response).
k!!
Hol said:
Oh fk!!
Blame it on that "sticky 'O' key" on the PC keyboard, Hol,k!!I've got the same issue with 'K', 'D', 'S' and the space bar. I've lost count of the number of times I've re-read a post after hitting submit, only to have to do a hasty edit to add a 'K' to now to make know. If you now what I mean...
AstonZagato said:
Galveston said:
Jim AK said:
I keep seeing it written that these vastly expensive Cycle Lanes are unusable due to leaves, litter & general detritus, coupled with the fact no council has the brains to legislate cyclists to use them.
Answer is simple to me. Lobby the council as a driver, cyclist or both to sort it out!!!
Nothing to do with councils, it would require a change of legislation. Answer is simple to me. Lobby the council as a driver, cyclist or both to sort it out!!!
Personally I find it alarming how incapable most drivers seem of dealing with cyclists, equestrians and other slow moving road users.
(Former Cambridge highways engineer who experienced Cambridge Cycle "Campaign" many times - they were angry men who used to stand outside and wind themselves up before meetings to the extent their hands and voices were shaking, it was bizarre, but hilarious, behaviour)
Last minute bid on one of my eBay items last night.
Two minutes later...
...I did ask if he "accidentally clicked confirm bid as well" canceled the order, relisted the item and blocked the time waster from bidding on my items again.
Only the second eBayist I have ever blocked. The first was a pillock who kept bidding on all my listings and canceling bids because I reported his ringing kit business to the Police.
Two minutes later...
...I did ask if he "accidentally clicked confirm bid as well" canceled the order, relisted the item and blocked the time waster from bidding on my items again.
Only the second eBayist I have ever blocked. The first was a pillock who kept bidding on all my listings and canceling bids because I reported his ringing kit business to the Police.
donkmeister said:
Pericoloso said:
PH watch forum New thread.
"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
Aagh I hate that! It makes me cringe when people use this idiot's idiom. I always want to do a mime of someone shooting a gun in a really dumb way as a response (but thankfully have not... Yet)"Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy"
Epic fail......
I would honestly prefer to hear someone say "brought" than "pulled the trigger" when they mean "I bought this".
Every morning for the past 4 weeks I've passed a Honda Accord with a headlight out and foglights on to compensate. I can understand that after Christmas funds can be tight, but 1. H7 bulbs aren't that much, 2. There has been one pay day since! Therefore, sir, you are a nob for driving around with a headlight out for that amount of time.
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