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

[Countdown]

Short Grain said:

Countdown said:

It's called "merge in turn"...

So His Lane closes, but 'merging in turn' is not accelerating hard to get in front, then slamming on 'cos you're going too fast for the traffic in front of you!
Or do you mean His version of 'merge in turn' and I'm due a parrot?

There you go...

[Short Grain]

Countdown said:

Short Grain said:

Countdown said:

It's called "merge in turn"...

So His Lane closes, but 'merging in turn' is not accelerating hard to get in front, then slamming on 'cos you're going too fast for the traffic in front of you!
Or do you mean His version of 'merge in turn' and I'm due a parrot?

There you go...

[PF62]

Hol said:

One of my pet hates is people who slam on the brakes and indicate just before turning.

If you are leaving a correct distance that should be irrelevant.

Almost every evening on my way home I get some moronic tt who doesn't think the 30 mph limit applies to them and as a result is tailgating.

The junction I need to turn into is preceded by another about 10 meters before, so I can't indicate before that junction or the moron will think I am turning in there, but when I do indicate immediately after that junction and then slow to take the turn, the tailgating then has to slow to zero whereas had they left the correct distance just easing off would have been enough to see me round the corner and they could be off.

So the knobs are the tailgaters who are too thick to read the road and think people might be turning off.

[Pica-Pica]

Countdown said:

There you go...

That’s a budgie, you must have smuggled that onto here.

[RSTurboPaul]

yellowjack said:

kowalski655 said:

romeogolf said:

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

I knew someone would have a go at this! Had just came off a roundabout, slowed slowly (as I had seen him up my chuff) and indicated at the same time, there was no room to delay before I had to turn

I know exactly what you mean. There's a turn near me shortly after a roundabout. If you use a 'breakaway' signal off the roundabout there literally isn't enough road left before the left turn in which to cancel the left turn signal, do a full set of obs, and re-apply the signal for the turn. You literally come off the roundabout immediately into the deceleration phase of the turn. Me? I keep my left turn signal on, but often the driver behind fails to recognise that you are slowing (or even just not accelerating) in order to position for the turn, and you occasionally get a toot of irritation from them. Odd, really, since a junction ahead is a highly visible thing, and a known hazard. Especially for a young driver who has sat a hazard perception test. You'd think they'd know better than us older drivers. We must have had it so easy, learning about hazards out in live traffic instead of sitting in an office chair in a computer suite to get our heads around potential hazards, eh?

In that sort of situation one could use the Hazard warning lights to indicate an intention to slow and turn?

Non-standard, yes. But then isn't the point of being a good driver that one adapts to a situation rather than applying a rigid set of rules?

[Teebs]

The daft woman on the M1 Tuesday evening watching a TV show on her screen mounted phone. Needs her license removing permanently..

[Killer2005]

Yesterday, the chap in a Corsa who couldn't be bothered to wait at this traffic island whilst traffic was coming the other way, so he drove along the pavement to the left so he didn't have to wait



This morning, the two morons both using the left hand lane of the brighouse M62 roundabout to go right and beat the people doing it properly.

[fatboy18]

Looks like yet another bit of useless street furniture designed to make traffic stop, sit there chucking out more emissions, and create Havoc for the Motorist.

Can't see the point of that at all, I would be having a word with the local MP and council. And then further down the road it looks like there's speed ramps too!

What a waste of cash

[nonsequitur]

Pica-Pica said:

Countdown said:

There you go...

That’s a budgie, you must have smuggled that onto here.

At great speed o' the cuttlefish highway.

Edited by nonsequitur on Thursday 31st October 18:06

[nonsequitur]

Teebs said:

The daft woman on the M1 Tuesday evening watching a TV show on her screen mounted phone. Needs her license removing permanently..

Watching Motorway Cops? (Dreadful driving of course).

[nonsequitur]

fatboy18 said:

Looks like yet another bit of useless street furniture designed to make traffic stop, sit there chucking out more emissions, and create Havoc for the Motorist.

Can't see the point of that at all, I would be having a word with the local MP and council. And then further down the road it looks like there's speed ramps too!

What a waste of cash

Not sure if serious. There is no such thing as a waste of cash when it involves street furniture / signs that slow traffic down on a hazardous stretch of highway, as that picture shows.

[fatboy18]

nonsequitur said:

fatboy18 said:

Looks like yet another bit of useless street furniture designed to make traffic stop, sit there chucking out more emissions, and create Havoc for the Motorist.

Can't see the point of that at all, I would be having a word with the local MP and council. And then further down the road it looks like there's speed ramps too!

What a waste of cash

Not sure if serious. There is no such thing as a waste of cash when it involves street furniture / signs that slow traffic down on a hazardous stretch of highway, as that picture shows.

Yea, the Hazzard is the added Island and all the bloody signage. I could understand the Island being there if it was being used by pedestrians to cross the road, but there is no footpath opposite the island!

If you want the traffic to slow down then just add another set of speed ramps, you don't need to cause congestion do you?

[Killer2005]

nonsequitur said:

fatboy18 said:

Looks like yet another bit of useless street furniture designed to make traffic stop, sit there chucking out more emissions, and create Havoc for the Motorist.

Can't see the point of that at all, I would be having a word with the local MP and council. And then further down the road it looks like there's speed ramps too!

What a waste of cash

Not sure if serious. There is no such thing as a waste of cash when it involves street furniture / signs that slow traffic down on a hazardous stretch of highway, as that picture shows.

That bit is just inside a 30 limit, with housing on both sides just around the corner and a chemical plant to the right. Behind is a more fun road, with a 40 limit going into the 30 section.

It probably does need it as a lot of people do tend to ignore the 30 limit, but it doesn't slow a lot of them down.

[V8RX7]

Killer2005 said:

nonsequitur said:

fatboy18 said:

Looks like yet another bit of useless street furniture designed to make traffic stop, sit there chucking out more emissions, and create Havoc for the Motorist.

Can't see the point of that at all, I would be having a word with the local MP and council. And then further down the road it looks like there's speed ramps too!

What a waste of cash

Not sure if serious. There is no such thing as a waste of cash when it involves street furniture / signs that slow traffic down on a hazardous stretch of highway, as that picture shows.

That bit is just inside a 30 limit, with housing on both sides just around the corner and a chemical plant to the right. Behind is a more fun road, with a 40 limit going into the 30 section.

It probably does need it as a lot of people do tend to ignore the 30 limit, but it doesn't slow a lot of them down.

What a crock of st, the only people such things slow are the slow drivers.

The fast drivers are going too fast to stop and force their way through, or crash

As do the large vehicles and the dheads

It's using the same logic as reducing speed limits when the bikers crashing were already doing twice the limit - reducing it further doesn't affect them !

[silverfoxcc]

Zetec said

People who think that (front) sidelights and 1 rear foglight are perfectly acceptable when driving at night.

Z, not wishing to troll or pick argument, back in the 50/60's everyone in built up areas drove on side lights
And do you know, pedestrians didn't die in their thousands as you could see them ,and they were not hidden in the frigging daxxel from oncoming traffic.

And IIRC it isn't illegal to still drive on sidelights in built up areas!

But back to knobs

My road this morning, an Estate spine road with access roads right and left. Traffic is parked on my RHS so i have a clear run don. There is a humungus gap where a garaging area is, and i have just passed one of the side roadson my side and now passing cars on RH side

Self entitled man is heading towards me passing all the parked cars...no problem , he will pull in the gap, so i slow to crawl and wait for him to do so. but NO he passed the gap and comes up to me nose to nose

I did point at gap and mouthed that he should have gone in there, but he sat there looking at me.
In the end i reversed back to the side road and left him enough to squeeze through.
As he was suited and booted i expect he was in a hurry to get to work.
Next time i shall just sit there and read the paper. I have all day..... he hasn't

[LetsTryAgain]

Bobberoo99 said:

I'm afraid social media has a lot to answer for, tens of thousands of people see self entitled idiots with no discernible talent being paid huge amounts of money to promote themselves, and then think "Well if it's ok for them i'll do it!"

For as long as there's been Hollywood we've had plenty of folk with 'no discernible talent being huge amounts of money' with an unearned sense of superiority.

[Bobberoo99]

LetsTryAgain said:

Bobberoo99 said:

I'm afraid social media has a lot to answer for, tens of thousands of people see self entitled idiots with no discernible talent being paid huge amounts of money to promote themselves, and then think "Well if it's ok for them i'll do it!"

For as long as there's been Hollywood we've had plenty of folk with 'no discernible talent being huge amounts of money' with an unearned sense of superiority.

True, however it appears more prevalent in today's society as social media is so massively accessible.

[Mafffew]

Me probably. I undertook a mouth breather MLM this morning. It flashed me, I flipped it off, it flashed again, I flipped it off again.

It's just petty ste, I really shouldn't rise to this kind of childish nonsense but hey ho. Hopefully I'll be on some sort of dash cam compilation.

[yellowjack]

silverfoxcc said:

...My road this morning, an Estate spine road with access roads right and left. Traffic is parked on my RHS so i have a clear run don. There is a humungus gap where a garaging area is, and i have just passed one of the side roadson my side and now passing cars on RH side

Self entitled man is heading towards me passing all the parked cars...no problem , he will pull in the gap, so i slow to crawl and wait for him to do so. but NO he passed the gap and comes up to me nose to nose

I did point at gap and mouthed that he should have gone in there, but he sat there looking at me.
In the end i reversed back to the side road and left him enough to squeeze through.
As he was suited and booted i expect he was in a hurry to get to work.
Next time i shall just sit there and read the paper. I have all day..... he hasn't

There's a railway bridge near me where there's one of those "Priority Over Oncoming Traffic" signs because the road under the brick arch bridge is too narrow for two lanes. I frequently find myself approaching it "With Priority" and there'll be a small queue on the other side. What tends to happen is that cars which can clear the single lane section before I arrive there do. But then every car behind them tucks up like a trailer on the rear of the car ahead, and they'll force their way through "Against Priority".

Normal sketch is to let them, because engineering a confrontation is silly if they are already in the single lane section. But a driver once tried the same trick on me but left too large a gap between him and the car in front. I got into the narrow section first, but he was in at the other end. A stand-off. Cool! He got increasingly frothy at me, shouting, and waving for me to reverse. I held my nerve, and soon a few cars were backed up behind me, all of us with priority over this errant old fool. Anyway, I got bored with this nonsense. It was a Saturday morning and I was on my way home from a bakery with a nice sourdough loaf for my morning toast. He still wouldn't back down so I stopped the car, got out, locked it, and started to walk past him on the footway. He looked VERY confused. He got out of his car to shout across his roof... "what the bloody hell are you doing?" I told him that it was fine. If he wanted to play the fool, I was quite happy to walk the rest of the way, and I'd come back to move the car after I'd had some breakfast. His response? "It was MY right of way - couldn't you see I was following in a line of cars?"

Now I'm not trying to be clever here, but unless you can clear such a traffic calmed section of road BEFORE the oncoming vehicle with Defined Priority arrives, then you obey the Statutory Signs and Road Markings, and "Give Way" like you're being instructed to do. I don't give a flying fig whether you're a single vehicle, or in a queue of hundreds. Sometimes, it is necessary to summon the moral courage to challenge such behaviour.

I did it once before too. On a narrow country lane, with a big Volvo XCxx heading toward me. I was approaching a passing place, and the previous one was hundreds of yards back around a blind bend. The Volvo driver was adamant that I should reverse, despite the rear quarter of her vehicle being alongside the passing place. All she needed to do was reverse in a straight line, to allow me to get into the passing place, which had been my intention all along, and which I'd have done smoothly and without fuss if she'd eased off the gas instead of accelerating toward me. Well, we sat there for a few seconds with her waving frantically for me to reverse, and me countering by pointing to the passing place just behind her. She wouldn't budge, so I got out and carried on my journey on foot. Again the "what are you doing?" conversation. Again, my rely that I was close enough now that I could walk the rest of the way. Then she asked "what am I supposed to do then?" Well you're the one with the 4x4 dear. Go around on the verge? Cut across a field? Or you could simply reverse 20 yards, I'll drive into the passing place, and then you can be on your way...

My wife hates it. I humour her by rolling over and taking it up the pooper from these Muppets when she's with me, but it leaves a sour taste when they get away with driving like morons. I suspect they do it to "save time" on their journey, so if they're allowed to go unchallenged they'll continue to do it. Only by making such behaviour actually cost them time will they learn that following the rules gets everyone where they're going in good time.

[nonsequitur]

silverfoxcc said:

Zetec said

People who think that (front) sidelights and 1 rear foglight are perfectly acceptable when driving at night.



And IIRC it isn't illegal to still drive on sidelights in built up areas!

Maybe not illegal, but foolhardy.