One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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Blown2CV said:
of course i can't be factually correct - i wasn't there - i can only go from what the guy said which was he didn't signal so how should the van know he wanted to turn, and he admitted to moving out 'slightly' with no signal. Yes van driver is a dick, but on what planet would a failed overtake due to oncoming traffic alone (supposedly) result in the failed overtaker giving a cyclist s
t? Cyclist makes himself sound like he was just carrying on minding his own business and a nasty van man was right up his arse, did a failed overtake and then gave him st, all whilst he was just there sticking to the rules of the road. It is just highly unlikely to have happened like that. I propose that the cyclist took action, which it sounds like it resulted in the van driver perceiving that he has no choice but to abort the overtake, whether the overtake was sensible or not.... and hasn't really put that bit in the post because that interferes with the knob/victim narrative.
Part of the reason that you're meant to give 1.5m clearance is because the line of a cyclist can vary by over 1ft to avoid potholes, drainage covers, etc. Fact is, if you turn your head, you generally end up moving in that direction. Experience reduces that effect, but 1-2 inches shouldn't cause anyone any hastle. The alternative is to stick your arm out without looking over your shoulder first.t? Cyclist makes himself sound like he was just carrying on minding his own business and a nasty van man was right up his arse, did a failed overtake and then gave him st, all whilst he was just there sticking to the rules of the road. It is just highly unlikely to have happened like that. I propose that the cyclist took action, which it sounds like it resulted in the van driver perceiving that he has no choice but to abort the overtake, whether the overtake was sensible or not.... and hasn't really put that bit in the post because that interferes with the knob/victim narrative. Dagnir said:
nonsequitur said:
Welcome to the club, smithy.
<----slower 
Oh yes I remember now... <----slower A couple of years ago you admitted to knowingly/purposefully holding up traffic for no reason.
Looks like you're still it and you're proud about it too
I am not IT, have never been IT or as far as I can fortell, will never be IT.<<---------Not IT.
993kimbo said:
I reckon I could get away with an XJ6 in an Arthur Daley sort of way, as I have a trilby/panama hat and i’m always moaning about money.
There's a really rather nice XK8 for sale locally to me for under £3,000Legend has it you can convert to a proper gearbox using S-Type bits. Better still the S-Type I used to hammer around at work was discrete and a lot of fun. Shame the S-type Mondeo 4x4 in a frock was as reliable as the Mondeo but not as well built.
Not so much me thinking someone was a knob, but I think the lady concerned thought her husband was.
As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
Grahamdub said:
Not so much me thinking someone was a knob, but I think the lady concerned thought her husband was.
As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
did you both teach him a lesson?As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
nonsequitur said:
Dagnir said:
nonsequitur said:
Welcome to the club, smithy. <----slower
Oh yes I remember now... <----slower A couple of years ago you admitted to knowingly/purposefully holding up traffic for no reason.
Looks like you're still it and you're proud about it too
I am not IT, have never been IT or as far as I can fortell, will never be IT.<<---------Not IT.Blown2CV said:
Grahamdub said:
Not so much me thinking someone was a knob, but I think the lady concerned thought her husband was.
As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
did you both teach him a lesson?As I was walking out of our back gate at 06.30 this morning, I heard one of our neighbours calling me from the window of their coach house. Turns out her husband had gone to work (calm down) and had left his keys in the outside lock. This then stops you using a key from the inside and she was therefore locked in and late for work. I unlocked the door and gave her the keys, but from the look on her face, her husband is in trouble when he gets home tonight
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Liquid Knight said:
There's a really rather nice XK8 for sale locally to me for under £3,000
Legend has it you can convert to a proper gearbox using S-Type bits. Better still the S-Type I used to hammer around at work was discrete and a lot of fun. Shame the S-type Mondeo 4x4 in a frock was as reliable as the Mondeo but not as well built.
I think you mean X-type. The S-type was Jags limo that shared a platform with a Lincoln.Legend has it you can convert to a proper gearbox using S-Type bits. Better still the S-Type I used to hammer around at work was discrete and a lot of fun. Shame the S-type Mondeo 4x4 in a frock was as reliable as the Mondeo but not as well built.
I don't mind the X type, I think being a Mondeo in drag isn't a bad thing, get the reliability of a Mondeo with a bit more class... Maybe that's one for the unpopular opinions thread.
captain_cynic said:
Liquid Knight said:
There's a really rather nice XK8 for sale locally to me for under £3,000
Legend has it you can convert to a proper gearbox using S-Type bits. Better still the S-Type I used to hammer around at work was discrete and a lot of fun. Shame the S-type Mondeo 4x4 in a frock was as reliable as the Mondeo but not as well built.
I think you mean X-type. The S-type was Jags limo that shared a platform with a Lincoln.Legend has it you can convert to a proper gearbox using S-Type bits. Better still the S-Type I used to hammer around at work was discrete and a lot of fun. Shame the S-type Mondeo 4x4 in a frock was as reliable as the Mondeo but not as well built.
I don't mind the X type, I think being a Mondeo in drag isn't a bad thing, get the reliability of a Mondeo with a bit more class... Maybe that's one for the unpopular opinions thread.
"Legend has it" I was told the S-Type manual box bolts up to the XK8 engine. Thanks for correcting me there. Could have been expensive and expansive,
As for thread diversion that's why I click the "Off Topic" box.
Stridey said:
The drug dealer spec Range Rover that decided to overtake 5 cars at speed, on a road with entranceways, just before a corner.
In a signed 20 speed limit.
On a very newly resurfaced road.
Kicking up stones onto not only their car, but all the cars they passed. The noise was awful.
Perhaps his bruv runs the local windscreen replacement franchise or chips away?
I'm pretty sure that it'll turn out to be the fault of those five cars, the owners of the entrance ways, the contractors who built the bend in the road, or the surfacing firm that spread the stone. But, because of the unique (think "speshul") way that a PH forum works, the RR driver is not only entirely innocent, but is almost certainly (remember there are two sides to your story) the wronged party. Poor, innocent RR driver... In a signed 20 speed limit.
On a very newly resurfaced road.
Kicking up stones onto not only their car, but all the cars they passed. The noise was awful.
Perhaps his bruv runs the local windscreen replacement franchise or chips away?
yellowjack said:
Stridey said:
The drug dealer spec Range Rover that decided to overtake 5 cars at speed, on a road with entranceways, just before a corner.
In a signed 20 speed limit.
On a very newly resurfaced road.
Kicking up stones onto not only their car, but all the cars they passed. The noise was awful.
Perhaps his bruv runs the local windscreen replacement franchise or chips away?
I'm pretty sure that it'll turn out to be the fault of those five cars, the owners of the entrance ways, the contractors who built the bend in the road, or the surfacing firm that spread the stone. But, because of the unique (think "speshul") way that a PH forum works, the RR driver is not only entirely innocent, but is almost certainly (remember there are two sides to your story) the wronged party. Poor, innocent RR driver... In a signed 20 speed limit.
On a very newly resurfaced road.
Kicking up stones onto not only their car, but all the cars they passed. The noise was awful.
Perhaps his bruv runs the local windscreen replacement franchise or chips away?
I came up behind someone doing maybe 45 in a 60 earlier today, enough road/visibility for an uneventful overtake at that speed, so I passed them.
And of course they did the speed-up-as-you're-passing thing. Knob.
Still passed them, but not impressed at having to spend more time in the oncoming lane than should have been necessary just because they're being a tt. If you can do 60 once I'm alongside you, you could do 60 in the first place and I probably wouldn't have felt it necessary to overtake anyway.
Slowed down below even the speed they were originally doing once I was past them. Maybe they went back to sleep.
And of course they did the speed-up-as-you're-passing thing. Knob.
Still passed them, but not impressed at having to spend more time in the oncoming lane than should have been necessary just because they're being a t
t. If you can do 60 once I'm alongside you, you could do 60 in the first place and I probably wouldn't have felt it necessary to overtake anyway.Slowed down below even the speed they were originally doing once I was past them. Maybe they went back to sleep.
InitialDave said:
I came up behind someone doing maybe 45 in a 60 earlier today, enough road/visibility for an uneventful overtake at that speed, so I passed them.
And of course they did the speed-up-as-you're-passing thing. Knob.
Still passed them, but not impressed at having to spend more time in the oncoming lane than should have been necessary just because they're being a tt. If you can do 60 once I'm alongside you, you could do 60 in the first place and I probably wouldn't have felt it necessary to overtake anyway.
Slowed down below even the speed they were originally doing once I was past them. Maybe they went back to sleep.
I think this is what triggers the light flashing, gestures, wailing and no doubt of gnashing of teeth with so many of these people - it's a shock reaction, because they were completely oblivious to everything, and suddenly a vehicle alongside has rudely pulled them out of their torpor.And of course they did the speed-up-as-you're-passing thing. Knob.
Still passed them, but not impressed at having to spend more time in the oncoming lane than should have been necessary just because they're being a t
t. If you can do 60 once I'm alongside you, you could do 60 in the first place and I probably wouldn't have felt it necessary to overtake anyway.Slowed down below even the speed they were originally doing once I was past them. Maybe they went back to sleep.
Europa1 said:
I think this is what triggers the light flashing, gestures, wailing and no doubt of gnashing of teeth with so many of these people - it's a shock reaction, because they were completely oblivious to everything, and suddenly a vehicle alongside has rudely pulled them out of their torpor.
Quite possibly.Another entry today, came up behind a van on the M1 with a very soft rear tyre, it looked pretty much flat, and the van definitely had a bit of a wriggle going on on the rear end. I managed to get the driver's attention and get an open-window-to-open-window yell of "you've got a flat tyre!" across, to which he game me a thumbs up acknowledgement.
And then carried on at about 75.
I decided to remove myself from the vicinity of whatever incident was about to result from that.
The tt who didn't like being overtaken/woken on a 60 last night. Tailgated me, then followed me down a side road, with cars parked on both sides, so he could prove his manhood/throbberness, by overtaking me and the car in front.
The violence I was expecting didn't happen though, so that's a bonus.
t who didn't like being overtaken/woken on a 60 last night. Tailgated me, then followed me down a side road, with cars parked on both sides, so he could prove his manhood/throbberness, by overtaking me and the car in front. The violence I was expecting didn't happen though, so that's a bonus.
nonsequitur said:
At our local narrow bridge ' Give way to oncoming traffic', where the default position is 'charge through regardless', someone stopped and allowed me through today, as per road sign.
All previous chargers, uber knobs. That driver uber nice.
A couple of Sundays ago I was driving toward such a narrow road under a railway line. Three cars coming toward me, priority signed to me, but a "pillow" type speed hump on my side meant I wasn't going to reach the narrow section before the first car of the three. All previous chargers, uber knobs. That driver uber nice.
It was "cutting it fine" so to speak, but not nearly in "near miss" territory. I fully expected car no. 2 to stop at their 'give Way' line, but no, they "charged through regardless", speeding up to do so, and raising a middle finger when I dared to "toot" at them.
The biggest knob of them was car no.3 though. Despite me tooting at car no.2, and despite me now being in the narrow section, he continued to press on. Then he tooted at me, and waved at me to go back. I shrugged, and pointed to the (back of) the sign he'd just passed. He tooted some more, and waved at me to reverse once again. I switched the engine off, got out, and wandered past him on the footway.
This had the desired effect, and his window came down and he stuck his head out to ask me "what the hell are you doing?" I told him I was fine, and that I could walk home from here. Which he didn't like very much. There was a conversation, brief, and I can't remember it verbatim, but the gist was he thought I was a knob, and should reverse because he was further along the narrow section than I was. I pointed out that this was only the case because he'd failed to 'Give Way' as instructed. The reason he'd ignored the 'Give Way' line and priority sign? And why he thought I should 'Give Way' to him? "Because I was in a line of traffic, innit"
Well, with my car empty and locked, and three cars now queued up behind it (all with priority over him too) he was left with no choice but to reverse and let us all through. I was glad I didn't get sweary though, because he had an elderly woman as a rear-seat passenger (his mum, or m-i-l?) and a woman about his age next to him, and as I passed him and pointed to the sign instructing him to "Give Priority To Oncoming Vehicles" I could see both women getting rather animated at him...
How, I wonder, would these people react if the boot were on the other foot, and a long line of cars poured out onto a roundabout ignoring the fact that they were already on it, just because "we're in a line of traffic, innit, blud".
Bonus "knob points" today go to the young blonde in a Fiat 500 at the junction of Belle Vue Road and Seafield Road in Bournemouth ( https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7216576,-1.79815,3... ) . I'd come up the hill, westbound, and was turning right into Seafield Rd. Or at least I'd planned to, until this daft Doris decided she didn't fancy the downhill queue (lots of traffic leaving after the air display), so REVERSED AT SPEED past the mouth of Seafield Rd. Lucky I do my mirror/shoulder checks looking for bikers etc, or she'd have reversed right into my driver's door, and no doubt it would somehow have been my fault!
She raised a hand to me when she'd finished reversing, and I thought it might have been an apology, but no. She was, in fact, permitting me to turn and go down Seafield Rd ahead of her. The feckin' cheek of it!
The bell end who sped up when I overtook them today...
I was heading down a NSL road and came up behind a 240 doing just under 50, so I went to overtake and he booted it. Really booted it. In a moment of red mist I sped up and passed him. He then made it his mission to pass me again, this time at pretty naughty speeds only to slow down again.
This car was literally PH bingo; illegally spaced private plate, silly exhaust (it popped and banged like a good ‘un when he floored it), oiks covered in tattoos driving around town with an arm hanging out of the car etc.
I was heading down a NSL road and came up behind a 240 doing just under 50, so I went to overtake and he booted it. Really booted it. In a moment of red mist I sped up and passed him. He then made it his mission to pass me again, this time at pretty naughty speeds only to slow down again.
This car was literally PH bingo; illegally spaced private plate, silly exhaust (it popped and banged like a good ‘un when he floored it), oiks covered in tattoos driving around town with an arm hanging out of the car etc.
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