One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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yellowjack said:
GravelMachineGun said:
People who can't stay at the same speed in traffic.
Becoming more and more noticeable lately but I as following a white GLA thing last night and she was leaving a gap the accelerating hard to the car ahead and then braking hard when she caught up.
No idea why she and others just can't stop at a nice 5mph like most of the others in traffic.
I often wonder the same thing in traffic. I'll roll along nicely at 3 to 5 mph constantly, sometimes the gap ahead is larger, sometimes I close up, but usually I manage to keep moving at roughly the same speed with no need to brake or "boot it". It does seem to wind up the stop/go/stop/go/stop brigade behind me somewhat, but it's all the stopping, and almost certainly the delay in re-starting when the queue begins to move again that causes more delay than there need be.Becoming more and more noticeable lately but I as following a white GLA thing last night and she was leaving a gap the accelerating hard to the car ahead and then braking hard when she caught up.
No idea why she and others just can't stop at a nice 5mph like most of the others in traffic.
I think perhaps people are just so myopic that they only look at the car in front, or they are just happy to be moving. I would be surprised if anyone is actually actively thinking about queuing and 'backward wave' theory.
RSTurboPaul said:
nonsequitur said:
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.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!
Two idiots this morning. Both coming toward me, both behind cars that were slowing, and signalling, to turn left. And both decided that waiting for the car ahead to complete their left turn would just take too damned long, so they swerved abruptly into "my" lane, preferring a head-to-head moment over simply easing off the 'go pedal' and safely remaining on "their" side of the road. I hope the rugby was worth rushing back for, Engelse dwase.. 
Oh, and the numpty behind me when traffic stopped and I left a big gap to the car ahead. I was holding back because to move up to the car in front of me would have put me directly under the tree that was leaning precariously over the road in winds gusting up to 60 mph (recorded officially at the nearby airport). When it comes to your turn, mate, stop under a tree that looks like it might topple at any moment if you want to, but don't involve me in your "suicide by nature" bid.
Oh, and the numpty behind me when traffic stopped and I left a big gap to the car ahead. I was holding back because to move up to the car in front of me would have put me directly under the tree that was leaning precariously over the road in winds gusting up to 60 mph (recorded officially at the nearby airport). When it comes to your turn, mate, stop under a tree that looks like it might topple at any moment if you want to, but don't involve me in your "suicide by nature" bid.
Driving north out of Nottingham, the A60 is largely single lane, but goes into two lanes for each set of traffic lights, both lanes for straight ahead. It then drops back to a single lane shortly after each set of lights. It’s a 30 limit with SPECS, so there’s no opportunity for making any real progress, but the second lane is useful for getting past buses, lorries, dawdlers etc. Except...
A number of times recently, I’ve been behind a car which has pulled out from behind a bus into the second lane and then stopped next to it at the lights. They’ve then just crawled off the line when the lights go green and tucked back in behind the bus again. This is usually repeated at every bloody set of lights, leaving everyone stuck in a big queue.
Even stranger is when the road is deserted except for a car in front who pulls into the second lane at the lights, leaving the left lane empty, then bimbles off the line and pulls back into the left lane again.
It’s a complete mystery to me as well as being bleeding frustrating. I‘be genuinely got no idea what’s going through these people’s heads.
Well, at least I’ve got that off my chest...
A number of times recently, I’ve been behind a car which has pulled out from behind a bus into the second lane and then stopped next to it at the lights. They’ve then just crawled off the line when the lights go green and tucked back in behind the bus again. This is usually repeated at every bloody set of lights, leaving everyone stuck in a big queue.
Even stranger is when the road is deserted except for a car in front who pulls into the second lane at the lights, leaving the left lane empty, then bimbles off the line and pulls back into the left lane again.
It’s a complete mystery to me as well as being bleeding frustrating. I‘be genuinely got no idea what’s going through these people’s heads.
Well, at least I’ve got that off my chest...
Edited by jimbobs on Sunday 3rd November 18:41
At a well known McDrive through this morning a thicket green lane Land Rovers in the car park and a very special example was shouting...
Here are a couple of suggestions should this Darwinist be a member of this fine forum.
1/ Park in a space and walk ten feet like your pals did you lazy git.
2/ Maybe, just maybe if you didn't have a dick slap exhaust on your coal rollin' bellendmobile you might be able to hear something inches away from you.
Twunt said:
I can't f
king hear you!
I said.
I CAN'T fkING HEAR YOU! YOU STUPID bh !
...at the drive through speaker before driving off in a huff and puff of black exhaust and blue clutch smoke.king hear you!I said.
I CAN'T f
kING HEAR YOU! YOU STUPID bh !Here are a couple of suggestions should this Darwinist be a member of this fine forum.
1/ Park in a space and walk ten feet like your pals did you lazy git.
2/ Maybe, just maybe if you didn't have a dick slap exhaust on your coal rollin' bellendmobile you might be able to hear something inches away from you.
Liquid Knight said:
...at the drive through speaker before driving off in a huff and puff of black exhaust and blue clutch smoke.
Here are a couple of suggestions should this Darwinist be a member of this fine forum.
1/ Park in a space and walk ten feet like your pals did you lazy git.
2/ Maybe, just maybe if you didn't have a dick slap exhaust on your coal rollin' bellendmobile you might be able to hear something inches away from you.
To be fair, my Land Rover 90 with a standard exhaust and engine is too loud to hear a McD drive through speaker. I just turn off the engine when I get to the speaker. Here are a couple of suggestions should this Darwinist be a member of this fine forum.
1/ Park in a space and walk ten feet like your pals did you lazy git.
2/ Maybe, just maybe if you didn't have a dick slap exhaust on your coal rollin' bellendmobile you might be able to hear something inches away from you.
Local town centre lights have two lanes. Left hand lane is for a 90 left, right lane is straight on. If you're going straight on however you generally have to allow for someone in the left hand lane prefacing their turn with a ridiculous veer right which (in their mind) somehow makes the left turn easier. I remember my Dad doing this in his 1960s Ford low loader because of limited steering lock but it really isn't necessary in a modern car. 
Blackpuddin said:
Local town centre lights have two lanes. Left hand lane is for a 90 left, right lane is straight on. If you're going straight on however you generally have to allow for someone in the left hand lane prefacing their turn with a ridiculous veer right which (in their mind) somehow makes the left turn easier. I remember my Dad doing this in his 1960s Ford low loader because of limited steering lock but it really isn't necessary in a modern car.
Yes. Some, when turning left, almost make it to the centre line. (Only allowed for large and cumbersome vehicles).Perhaps the title isn't strong enough for this.
Travelling down the M62 on Monday, at 40 in a 50 for absolutely no reason. A red MkV Golf comes past in the outside lane a few times but has a huge gap in front of him, about 20 cars. I was suspicious of this car, the driver seemed to have binary throttle syndrome to close up some of the gap, then would brake to recover his 20 length gap, headlights that looked like he lived in a sandstorm and a smashed nearside wing mirror. Car was tatty all over. Travelling along and he's about 4/5 car lengths ahead of me, still in the outside lane and all of a sudden he drops the anchors. Full on emergency brakes. Nose dive, car squirreling, the lot. Suzuki swift behind him barely stops in time, had maybe a foot to spare. Must've been a crash for cash thing and I suspect this isn't the first time he's done it. Can't think of any legitimate reason to screech to a halt on the outside lane. I got slowed down turning off towards the M60 and he came past again, no further damage to be seen.
This morning I was held up by a Highways Officer. Big red triangle on the gantries for "Incident". Fair enough, Officer slows us all down. Gantries all showing 50, HO slows us down to 30. Right, still moving I suppose. 3-4 miles later he lets us all go and the gantries say "End". What did I see? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Not even a car with a flat tyre or a cloud of feathers. Absolutely zero. Why?? I understand the whole safety aspect of slowing down for an incident but did he really need to slow us down for an "incident" that wasn't there? Surely they'd have access to some cameras that would show the motorway was clear?
Travelling down the M62 on Monday, at 40 in a 50 for absolutely no reason. A red MkV Golf comes past in the outside lane a few times but has a huge gap in front of him, about 20 cars. I was suspicious of this car, the driver seemed to have binary throttle syndrome to close up some of the gap, then would brake to recover his 20 length gap, headlights that looked like he lived in a sandstorm and a smashed nearside wing mirror. Car was tatty all over. Travelling along and he's about 4/5 car lengths ahead of me, still in the outside lane and all of a sudden he drops the anchors. Full on emergency brakes. Nose dive, car squirreling, the lot. Suzuki swift behind him barely stops in time, had maybe a foot to spare. Must've been a crash for cash thing and I suspect this isn't the first time he's done it. Can't think of any legitimate reason to screech to a halt on the outside lane. I got slowed down turning off towards the M60 and he came past again, no further damage to be seen.
This morning I was held up by a Highways Officer. Big red triangle on the gantries for "Incident". Fair enough, Officer slows us all down. Gantries all showing 50, HO slows us down to 30. Right, still moving I suppose. 3-4 miles later he lets us all go and the gantries say "End". What did I see? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Not even a car with a flat tyre or a cloud of feathers. Absolutely zero. Why?? I understand the whole safety aspect of slowing down for an incident but did he really need to slow us down for an "incident" that wasn't there? Surely they'd have access to some cameras that would show the motorway was clear?
RazerSauber said:
This morning I was held up by a Highways Officer. Big red triangle on the gantries for "Incident". Fair enough, Officer slows us all down. Gantries all showing 50, HO slows us down to 30. Right, still moving I suppose. 3-4 miles later he lets us all go and the gantries say "End". What did I see? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Not even a car with a flat tyre or a cloud of feathers. Absolutely zero. Why?? I understand the whole safety aspect of slowing down for an incident but did he really need to slow us down for an "incident" that wasn't there? Surely they'd have access to some cameras that would show the motorway was clear?
Had this on the M25 recently.They do it to buy another traffic womble enough time to clear the issue ahead of the slowing traffic with out closing it all down.
When it happened to us I could just see in the distance another group of wombles towing a breakdown truck along a slip road ot get it off the Mway.
I had to chuckle at a breakdown truck breaking down and causing a traffic delay.
the absolute piss-flap with MGIF syndrome getting onto a basically empty bus.
For my sins, It's easier and cheaper to commute to work by Bus. Bus arrived and pulled in, and in doing so everyone got up from their seats (I was stood) and the bus stopped with it's doors literally infront of me. Some dopey cow, with full "Can I see the manager" haircut barged her way past around 4 people, including me to get onto the bus first. I simply said "No need to be first, there's plenty of seats" in a somewhat sarcastic tone. She scoffed and mumbled "fk off" or similar; fk was the only bit I heard. I replied "Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning, or are you always such a bh?"
For my sins, It's easier and cheaper to commute to work by Bus. Bus arrived and pulled in, and in doing so everyone got up from their seats (I was stood) and the bus stopped with it's doors literally infront of me. Some dopey cow, with full "Can I see the manager" haircut barged her way past around 4 people, including me to get onto the bus first. I simply said "No need to be first, there's plenty of seats" in a somewhat sarcastic tone. She scoffed and mumbled "f
k off" or similar; fk was the only bit I heard. I replied "Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning, or are you always such a bh?"The amount of people who still insist in using their fog lights when there isnt a hint of fog.
Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
RazerSauber said:
This morning I was held up by a Highways Officer. Big red triangle on the gantries for "Incident". Fair enough, Officer slows us all down. Gantries all showing 50, HO slows us down to 30. Right, still moving I suppose. 3-4 miles later he lets us all go and the gantries say "End". What did I see? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Not even a car with a flat tyre or a cloud of feathers. Absolutely zero. Why?? I understand the whole safety aspect of slowing down for an incident but did he really need to slow us down for an "incident" that wasn't there? Surely they'd have access to some cameras that would show the motorway was clear?
Errrrm? Really?You've not considered the possibility that there was an "incident" of some sort, a breakdown, a dead animal, or other debris on the carriageway, and that the traffic officer was slowing traffic down in order that another HETO (or three) could safely clear the "incident" ahead without having to have eyes up their arses looking out for idiots who are far too important to heed mere warning symbols on overhead gantries?
It's a dangerous job. One I wouldn't do and I went off to war zones quite happily, more than a couple of times. So anything that is done to make their workplace safer is fine by me. 5 miles at 50 mph takes 6 minutes. Driving 5 miles at 30 mph takes 10 minutes. Therefore, even if you were "held up" at the lower speed by the traffic officer for a full 5 miles (doubtful, given the distances between junctions on an average motorway), then your journey time was only impacted by 4 minutes. And I reckon 4 minutes is quite enough time for a couple of HETOs to clear a simple incident if they aren't having to work around traffic hooning past at 70+ mph while they're busy. I'll gladly give 4 minutes of my day up in exchange for one of those much-maligned HETOs to go home safely to his/her family rather than a trip to A&E or worse. After all, if there is a serious collision with debris on the carriageway, or some other "incident", then you're likely to lose a lot more than 4 poxy minutes.
jdizz said:
The amount of people who still insist in using their fog lights when there isnt a hint of fog.
Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
A chap at work used to do the side lights and fog lights thing. He reckoned it made his car look lower. Knob.Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
Grahamdub said:
jdizz said:
The amount of people who still insist in using their fog lights when there isnt a hint of fog.
Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
A chap at work used to do the side lights and fog lights thing. He reckoned it made his car look lower. Knob.Raining - Fog Lights
Twilight - Fog Lights
Nightfall - Fog Lights
WHY!? You have head lights for a reason, you're not fooling anyone into thinking they're DRLs, or that your headlight is out and they're in fact your main beams.
Twunts.
jamei303 said:
nonsequitur said:
Yes. Some, when turning left, almost make it to the centre line. (Only allowed for large and cumbersome vehicles).
I'd much prefer it if people almost made it to the centre line or even crossed it, than ran over the kerb with their nearside rear wheel.
Blanchimont said:
the absolute piss-flap with MGIF syndrome getting onto a basically empty bus.
For my sins, It's easier and cheaper to commute to work by Bus. Bus arrived and pulled in, and in doing so everyone got up from their seats (I was stood) and the bus stopped with it's doors literally infront of me. Some dopey cow, with full "Can I see the manager" haircut barged her way past around 4 people, including me to get onto the bus first. I simply said "No need to be first, there's plenty of seats" in a somewhat sarcastic tone. She scoffed and mumbled "fk off" or similar; fk was the only bit I heard. I replied "Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning, or are you always such a bh?"
You wasted a good insult on an absolute knob, monty.For my sins, It's easier and cheaper to commute to work by Bus. Bus arrived and pulled in, and in doing so everyone got up from their seats (I was stood) and the bus stopped with it's doors literally infront of me. Some dopey cow, with full "Can I see the manager" haircut barged her way past around 4 people, including me to get onto the bus first. I simply said "No need to be first, there's plenty of seats" in a somewhat sarcastic tone. She scoffed and mumbled "f
k off" or similar; fk was the only bit I heard. I replied "Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning, or are you always such a bh?"Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff