One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
Discussion
V8RX7 said:
Alex_225 said:
Idiots who pass you on the motorway, then pull in far too close in front and then slow down!!
Three times I had this happen on the M4 on Sunday evening. I have the cruise control set to 70mph so I know I'm not accidentally increasing speed without realising and I'm sat in lane one so not in anyone's way.
First driver is a white van, comes past me at a few MPH faster than I'm travelling which is fair enough. Then merges in front of me 3/4 of a cars length but way too close than necessary. Wouldn't have been an issue had he not kept up his speed but he then slowed down meaning either I'm forced to slow down or I over take. I waited a few moments and overtook, meaning he dropped back and didn't appear again for ages despite not having accelerated past 75.
Then the absolute moron does exactly the same thing again about ten minutes later!!
I'm glad it's not just me who has experienced this, I've recently been using my car trailer so I'm doomed to the inside lanes and 60mph, the amount of cocksockets who repeatedly overtake you, then slow down or cut in far too quickly - particularly close to junctions then bang on their brakes - CAN YOU SEE THE fThree times I had this happen on the M4 on Sunday evening. I have the cruise control set to 70mph so I know I'm not accidentally increasing speed without realising and I'm sat in lane one so not in anyone's way.
First driver is a white van, comes past me at a few MPH faster than I'm travelling which is fair enough. Then merges in front of me 3/4 of a cars length but way too close than necessary. Wouldn't have been an issue had he not kept up his speed but he then slowed down meaning either I'm forced to slow down or I over take. I waited a few moments and overtook, meaning he dropped back and didn't appear again for ages despite not having accelerated past 75.
Then the absolute moron does exactly the same thing again about ten minutes later!!
kING CAR ON THE TRAILER ? DO YOU THINK I LEFT A BIG GAP FOR A REASON ?
Cutting in close is annoying in itself but when the other driver is exceeding your speed even by 5mph they pull away fairly quickly and the gap increases which is ok-ish.
Certainly when I posted before this one particular driver stood out for creeping past maybe 1-2mph faster, cutting in close then dropping in speed on two occasions. Utter moron!
Deranged Rover said:
When I grew up, a family of chavs moved in a few doors down the road. One of the daughters used to park her car outside our house which was on a blind corner and was always a point of 'discussion' between her and my father. However, at one time. her latest boyfriend (there were lots...) then took to parking his car by sticking the nose in their driveway behind the cars already there, but leaving the car then right across the pavement and with its boot sticking out in the road. We had a few elderly people in the area (including my own grandparents) who were forced right out into the road to get round it, but the police didn't want to know.
Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
It Worked !Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
nonsequitur said:
Deranged Rover said:
When I grew up, a family of chavs moved in a few doors down the road. One of the daughters used to park her car outside our house which was on a blind corner and was always a point of 'discussion' between her and my father. However, at one time. her latest boyfriend (there were lots...) then took to parking his car by sticking the nose in their driveway behind the cars already there, but leaving the car then right across the pavement and with its boot sticking out in the road. We had a few elderly people in the area (including my own grandparents) who were forced right out into the road to get round it, but the police didn't want to know.
Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
It Worked !Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Liquid Knight said:
Similar situation long ago. My new neighbors were throwing a moving in party and one of their guests cars was blocking my driveway. I went round and politely suggested they moved it as I was going to be leaving for work at half four in the morning.
I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Obviously that didn't happen.I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Why do folk have to make up such s
te in a failed attempt to engage/impress random people on 'the net'?Dr Murdoch said:
Liquid Knight said:
Similar situation long ago. My new neighbors were throwing a moving in party and one of their guests cars was blocking my driveway. I went round and politely suggested they moved it as I was going to be leaving for work at half four in the morning.
I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Obviously that didn't happen.I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Why do folk have to make up such s
te in a failed attempt to engage/impress random people on 'the net'?
nonsequitur said:
Deranged Rover said:
When I grew up, a family of chavs moved in a few doors down the road. One of the daughters used to park her car outside our house which was on a blind corner and was always a point of 'discussion' between her and my father. However, at one time. her latest boyfriend (there were lots...) then took to parking his car by sticking the nose in their driveway behind the cars already there, but leaving the car then right across the pavement and with its boot sticking out in the road. We had a few elderly people in the area (including my own grandparents) who were forced right out into the road to get round it, but the police didn't want to know.
Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
It Worked !Anyway, one night, i was returning home from the pub a little........'refreshed' and decided I couldnt be bothered to go round said car, but instead walk directly over it. I did no damage other than to leave a few muddy footprints behind but the bloke got the message and didn't do it again!
Note, I am not proud of this behaviour and do not condine it, blaming it on the folly of youth and quite a few pints of HSB. More importantly, the chap in question was a big lump and would have beaten seven buckets out of me if he'd caught me, but still...
Because, people assume that something is acceptable, unless told (or in this case shown) otherwise.
After all, if nobody actually complains, then everybody must be happy??
Deranged Rover said:
When I grew up, a family of chavs moved in a few doors down the road.....
Oh that brings back memories...As a student I moved into a terraced house, I was the only one with a car.
Two doors down lived a scumbag family with 3 mouth breathing brothers, each having a car.
They had a tatty notice in the front window "No Parking"
I came back one day to find one of them had parked outside my house and the only space on the road was outside theirs.
So I parked there - at which point, one of the knuckle draggers came out "Oi you can't park there" pointing to his cardboard sign
I replied "You've parked outside my house, yet no one can park outside your house ? Yet you have 3 cars and it's ok for you to park outside everyone else's house ?"
Whilst he was reeling from this revelation I added "If you don't park outside mine, I won't park outside yours" and I went inside.
I was fully expecting trouble after this, but never had an issue and they never parked outside my house again.
Liquid Knight said:
This should probably be on the bad parking thread or somewhere in Speed, Plod and Law section but...
There is a discussion on antisocial media about parking in a way that blocks footpaths and how it put pedestrians and others at undue risk. A campaign is being run by Guide Dogs for the Blind to raise awareness and make parking in such a way illegal.
We already know that...
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/sectio...
...is a separate offense but parking is a simple, basic part of driving. So shouldn't failure to park to an acceptable standard also be failure to drive to the standard expected of a competent driver? By parking or abandoning a vehicle in such a way that it places others at undue risk.
Careless Driving or Driving Without Due Care and Attention (consideration).
What do you guys think?
Anyway knobs one and all who think they literally own the road outside their property and can block the path or road. Knobs who looked at the property with no off street parking and bought/rented it anyway and knowing they had nowhere to park bought a car big enough to block the path/road anyway... etc.
I'm living in Belfast at the moment. The room people leave on the footpath is laughable. The other day I watched a woman park almost completely on the footpath, then struggle to get out and walk away from her own car. I leave a trail of pushed about wing mirrors. I'm surprised no one smashes them. There is a discussion on antisocial media about parking in a way that blocks footpaths and how it put pedestrians and others at undue risk. A campaign is being run by Guide Dogs for the Blind to raise awareness and make parking in such a way illegal.
We already know that...
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/sectio...
...is a separate offense but parking is a simple, basic part of driving. So shouldn't failure to park to an acceptable standard also be failure to drive to the standard expected of a competent driver? By parking or abandoning a vehicle in such a way that it places others at undue risk.
Careless Driving or Driving Without Due Care and Attention (consideration).
What do you guys think?
Anyway knobs one and all who think they literally own the road outside their property and can block the path or road. Knobs who looked at the property with no off street parking and bought/rented it anyway and knowing they had nowhere to park bought a car big enough to block the path/road anyway... etc.
Dr Murdoch said:
Liquid Knight said:
Similar situation long ago. My new neighbors were throwing a moving in party and one of their guests cars was blocking my driveway. I went round and politely suggested they moved it as I was going to be leaving for work at half four in the morning.
I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Obviously that didn't happen.I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Why do folk have to make up such s
te in a failed attempt to engage/impress random people on 'the net'?By the way doc, you believed, as did I, the chap who walked over a car to make a point. (Which obviously didn't happen).
TommoAE86 said:
Whichever stupid bellend was responsible for sorting out the lane closures for the M3/M25 slip road closure at the weekend.
The slip road south was closed (towards Gatwick), so what did these stupid chumps do? Close the 2 north filter lanes (towards Heathrow) then open one after 300m of closed lanes, so everyone has to do a fking slalom just to get onto the M25.
OpulentBob please give me the rationale behind it - I cannot fathom it and it seemed to just cause 40 mins of traffic (when we got there) was longer as I went past it on the way home.
Fell foul of this on Sat morning, trying to get to Epsom from Wiltshire. Thanks to the failure to adequately signpost the lanes for the southbound M25 I ended up missing the exit entirely and had to continue on the M3 to the Feltham roundabout (which deserves a thread on its own for its bonkers traffic light system) and then come all the way back west along the M3 to get onto the M25. And I wasn't the only one either. The slip road south was closed (towards Gatwick), so what did these stupid chumps do? Close the 2 north filter lanes (towards Heathrow) then open one after 300m of closed lanes, so everyone has to do a f
king slalom just to get onto the M25. OpulentBob please give me the rationale behind it - I cannot fathom it and it seemed to just cause 40 mins of traffic (when we got there) was longer as I went past it on the way home. Blackpuddin said:
Fell foul of this on Sat morning, trying to get to Epsom from Wiltshire. Thanks to the failure to adequately signpost the lanes for the southbound M25 I ended up missing the exit entirely and had to continue on the M3 to the Feltham roundabout (which deserves a thread on its own for its bonkers traffic light system) and then come all the way back west along the M3 to get onto the M25. And I wasn't the only one either.
Why didn't you get off at Sunbury Cross??? Lol.
It was still bloody annoying!nonsequitur said:
By the way doc, you believed, as did I, the chap who walked over a car to make a point. (Which obviously didn't happen).
It genuinely did, I promise you! I wouldn't do it again because I am no longer young, drunk and foolish, plus I'm a bit heavier and cars are generally flimsier and taller these days, so i can't be sure I would get away with doing no damage again (to either the car or me..).Dr Murdoch said:
Liquid Knight said:
Similar situation long ago. My new neighbors were throwing a moving in party and one of their guests cars was blocking my driveway. I went round and politely suggested they moved it as I was going to be leaving for work at half four in the morning.
I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Obviously that didn't happen.I was told less politely to leave.
So I did. Got my trolley jack and dollies. lifted the car, pushed it to the nearest bus stop, took it off my dollies and left it there.
Apparently by the time the party goers surfaced there were three parking tickets on the windscreen. £40 each.
Why do folk have to make up such s
te in a failed attempt to engage/impress random people on 'the net'?Nobody would still be alive with the number of high blood pressure inducing road rage-esque incidents he encounters every day.
What is it they say - if you spend all day thinking others are idiots....
TommoAE86 said:
Whichever stupid bellend was responsible for sorting out the lane closures for the M3/M25 slip road closure at the weekend.
The slip road south was closed (towards Gatwick), so what did these stupid chumps do? Close the 2 north filter lanes (towards Heathrow) then open one after 300m of closed lanes, so everyone has to do a fking slalom just to get onto the M25.
OpulentBob please give me the rationale behind it - I cannot fathom it and it seemed to just cause 40 mins of traffic (when we got there) was longer as I went past it on the way home.
Completely agree it was stupid. Luckily a friend had travelled that way earlier and had warned us, so we just took the scenic route instead... Terrible planning.The slip road south was closed (towards Gatwick), so what did these stupid chumps do? Close the 2 north filter lanes (towards Heathrow) then open one after 300m of closed lanes, so everyone has to do a f
king slalom just to get onto the M25. OpulentBob please give me the rationale behind it - I cannot fathom it and it seemed to just cause 40 mins of traffic (when we got there) was longer as I went past it on the way home. V8RX7 said:
Oh that brings back memories...
As a student I moved into a terraced house, I was the only one with a car.
Two doors down lived a scumbag family with 3 mouth breathing brothers, each having a car.
They had a tatty notice in the front window "No Parking"
I came back one day to find one of them had parked outside my house and the only space on the road was outside theirs.
So I parked there - at which point, one of the knuckle draggers came out "Oi you can't park there" pointing to his cardboard sign
I replied "You've parked outside my house, yet no one can park outside your house ? Yet you have 3 cars and it's ok for you to park outside everyone else's house ?"
Whilst he was reeling from this revelation I added "If you don't park outside mine, I won't park outside yours" and I went inside.
I was fully expecting trouble after this, but never had an issue and they never parked outside my house again.
They didn't expect you to stand up for yourself.As a student I moved into a terraced house, I was the only one with a car.
Two doors down lived a scumbag family with 3 mouth breathing brothers, each having a car.
They had a tatty notice in the front window "No Parking"
I came back one day to find one of them had parked outside my house and the only space on the road was outside theirs.
So I parked there - at which point, one of the knuckle draggers came out "Oi you can't park there" pointing to his cardboard sign
I replied "You've parked outside my house, yet no one can park outside your house ? Yet you have 3 cars and it's ok for you to park outside everyone else's house ?"
Whilst he was reeling from this revelation I added "If you don't park outside mine, I won't park outside yours" and I went inside.
I was fully expecting trouble after this, but never had an issue and they never parked outside my house again.
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