One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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Shakermaker said:
Anyone who lives or works around Crawley at the moment will be aware of the roadworks going on at Pease Pottage roundabout, which is causing a lot of extra queues of traffic for people.
As well as the endless debates of "lane hoggers vs queue jumpers" - On the Brighton Road approach, people have taken to driving over the grass strip in the middle to do a u-turn and avoid the queue, much to the chagrin of the many, as it is both a) not the right thing to do and b) puts you out into the fast lane of traffic coming down the hill that's just escaped the roundabout from their own queue.
WIth the recent wet weather the central reservation is now more of a small quagmire. On one afternoon last week, a Tesco delivery van got stuck crossing it and couldn't move for over 4 hours until someone rescued him.
This morning though, I've just seen a person stuck there in a Discovery 5. The owner has sat there for so long spinning their wheels that the police have now turned up and I hope will give them a ticket.
All they needed to do was select "mud" on their Terrain Response (or whatever LR call it) and they'd have been away in seconds. But no, they've got no idea how to use their car, and I hope now, they'll get a ticket for their stupidity.
I avoid the Pease Pottage roundabout as much as I can, only really using it on Wednesday evenings when I play football at K2 - avoid it at all other times as it's bedlam. Not sure how much longer it will be until it's completed...As well as the endless debates of "lane hoggers vs queue jumpers" - On the Brighton Road approach, people have taken to driving over the grass strip in the middle to do a u-turn and avoid the queue, much to the chagrin of the many, as it is both a) not the right thing to do and b) puts you out into the fast lane of traffic coming down the hill that's just escaped the roundabout from their own queue.
WIth the recent wet weather the central reservation is now more of a small quagmire. On one afternoon last week, a Tesco delivery van got stuck crossing it and couldn't move for over 4 hours until someone rescued him.
This morning though, I've just seen a person stuck there in a Discovery 5. The owner has sat there for so long spinning their wheels that the police have now turned up and I hope will give them a ticket.
All they needed to do was select "mud" on their Terrain Response (or whatever LR call it) and they'd have been away in seconds. But no, they've got no idea how to use their car, and I hope now, they'll get a ticket for their stupidity.
maccas99 said:
I avoid the Pease Pottage roundabout as much as I can, only really using it on Wednesday evenings when I play football at K2 - avoid it at all other times as it's bedlam. Not sure how much longer it will be until it's completed...
Sadly I don't have much choice, the office is on the business park so I have to negotiate PP every day to get out. If you're going to K2 its almost worth coming at it from the other direction and going the full way around Crawley... I think we are 1 month into a 5 month project, due to be finished end of Feb/early March if the plans are to be believed! though some of the roundabout works might be completed earlier, I don't know.
Its actually getting a bit better except for Monday mornings and Thursday evenings..
Blown2CV said:
in your defence (and then i guess by proxy the defence of called out nobs guilty of similar offences in this thread), modern cars make it a lot harder to distinguish when you have you have only DRLs on versus sidelights, versus dipped beams. Automatic lights, fairly bright DRLs, intelligent illuminated instruments, lack of consistency across marques, and so on... (although obviously the clarity would only exist as a reminder and it's the responsibility of the driver bla bla).
I tend to take the stance of - if automatic then set to auto and let the car deal with it, unless driving in very heavy rain or fog.
I've got a Seat Cupra 2019 and there seems to be no indication on Auto whether your dipped headlights are on or whether you're just on DRLs. I end up putting it to manual dipped just in case. I tend to take the stance of - if automatic then set to auto and let the car deal with it, unless driving in very heavy rain or fog.
Zetec-S said:
The bellend in the ultimate driving machine 320d on the A303 yesterday evening who was unable to maintain anything close to a consistent speed and refused to move over into lane 1.
When I see idiots like this, I think that it's a great pity that they didn't let the machine drive.Sunday morning 8AM Tesla 3 driver doing a succession of full bore starts from the traffic lights, possibly in launch mode. 500m later at the next set of lights I had caught up with him, happened 4 times, so over the course of maybe 2km he had gained maybe 2 meters.
He was clearly having fun in his new car, road was quiet as early, no one was really inconvenienced.
The key detail however was that I was riding my bike on the cycle path to his left, every time I caught up he looked at me, his anger clearly growing.
He was clearly having fun in his new car, road was quiet as early, no one was really inconvenienced.
The key detail however was that I was riding my bike on the cycle path to his left, every time I caught up he looked at me, his anger clearly growing.
SalsaJason said:
Sunday morning 8AM Tesla 3 driver doing a succession of full bore starts from the traffic lights, possibly in launch mode. 500m later at the next set of lights I had caught up with him, happened 4 times, so over the course of maybe 2km he had gained maybe 2 meters.
He was clearly having fun in his new car, road was quiet as early, no one was really inconvenienced.
The key detail however was that I was riding my bike on the cycle path to his left, every time I caught up he looked at me, his anger clearly growing.
i am sure i read somewhere that you only get a finite number of those ridiculous launches in a Tesla before you invalidate the warranty and/or fHe was clearly having fun in his new car, road was quiet as early, no one was really inconvenienced.
The key detail however was that I was riding my bike on the cycle path to his left, every time I caught up he looked at me, his anger clearly growing.
k it up.Blown2CV said:
i am sure i read somewhere that you only get a finite number of those ridiculous launches in a Tesla before you invalidate the warranty and/or fk it up.
The model S and X limit power after a number of full power launches.k it up.However the post was about the model 3 which doesn't have launch control, so not really applicable.
Flibble said:
The model S and X limit power after a number of full power launches.
However the post was about the model 3 which doesn't have launch control, so not really applicable.
They, like the Taycan, ONLY get full power when used with Launch control which is why the model 3 performance is so impressive. However the post was about the model 3 which doesn't have launch control, so not really applicable.
Liquid Knight said:
yellowjack said:
fatboy18 said:
Seriously? What kind of tool lets off Fireworks at a Remembrance service?
I Know the IRA Let off a Bomb at one several years back.
But fk me ,it takes a special tool to even think of doing that 
My guess? Substance misuse and/or mental health issues. Speculation that he was a squatter living in a closed-down pub...I Know the IRA Let off a Bomb at one several years back.
But f
k me ,it takes a special tool to even think of doing that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-5...
Is that less bad, as bad, or worse than throwing fireworks at the house of a wheelchair user and his Downs Syndrome brother, though?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/hous...
Both incidents made easier by our relative lack of regulation on the sale of fireworks to
kwit can buy unstable explosives, the better.So a Public Order wist slap then. Funny how those graffiti artists who painted a poppy on a mosque are still in prison for it.
Talk about double standards eh?
Deliberate Daily Fail trolling there. Obviously there was no religious motive behind the Manchester incident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-5...
I nominate myself and the young lad driving a new A Class on Sunday along Upper Thames in London.
They were dithering so much, thought they were lost or infirm. They dithered upto a green light which turned amber as they coasted through making me stop at the subsequent red.
They didn’t move off at green lights a couple of times. I may have used the horn in anger. (Knob)
They were so slow I managed to overtake them in the 20mph zone within the speed limit (knob) as they dithered into a bus stop instead of the road.
Immediately of course he spent the rest of the journey up to the north circ charging around swapping lanes as I made smooth progress through traffic, trying to keep up with me. Much to his amusement. Obviously it was hilarious that I wasn’t further up the road, but I’m glad I taught him how to make sensible progress
They were dithering so much, thought they were lost or infirm. They dithered upto a green light which turned amber as they coasted through making me stop at the subsequent red.
They didn’t move off at green lights a couple of times. I may have used the horn in anger. (Knob)
They were so slow I managed to overtake them in the 20mph zone within the speed limit (knob) as they dithered into a bus stop instead of the road.
Immediately of course he spent the rest of the journey up to the north circ charging around swapping lanes as I made smooth progress through traffic, trying to keep up with me. Much to his amusement. Obviously it was hilarious that I wasn’t further up the road, but I’m glad I taught him how to make sensible progress
Greg the Fish said:
Liquid Knight said:
yellowjack said:
fatboy18 said:
Seriously? What kind of tool lets off Fireworks at a Remembrance service?
I Know the IRA Let off a Bomb at one several years back.
But fk me ,it takes a special tool to even think of doing that
My guess? Substance misuse and/or mental health issues. Speculation that he was a squatter living in a closed-down pub...I Know the IRA Let off a Bomb at one several years back.
But f
k me ,it takes a special tool to even think of doing that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-5...
Is that less bad, as bad, or worse than throwing fireworks at the house of a wheelchair user and his Downs Syndrome brother, though?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/hous...
Both incidents made easier by our relative lack of regulation on the sale of fireworks to
kwit can buy unstable explosives, the better.So a Public Order wist slap then. Funny how those graffiti artists who painted a poppy on a mosque are still in prison for it.
Talk about double standards eh?
Deliberate Daily Fail trolling there. Obviously there was no religious motive behind the Manchester incident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-5...
The silly woman in the F-Pace SUV today who was clearly driving a larger vehicle than her spatial awareness allowed for. She was queuing in a right-turn only lane, but positioned poorly so far to the left that her enormous SUV was blocking an HGV from getting past in the left lane. Especially annoying for the HGV as they had a green light but couldn't move thanks to the woman in the SUV.
Hampshire Council Roads department -
Stop fking gritting everything you stupid s, it's not even that cold. You can tell they overbought salt that one time it was cold years ago and now they are desperately trying to get rid of it.
Why don't you go out and actually fix some of the roads you useless, spineless, jerks? So many surfaces have deteriorated and if you can be bothered you just half arse it with that awful "surface dressing" rubbish.
tts.
Stop f
king gritting everything you stupid s, it's not even that cold. You can tell they overbought salt that one time it was cold years ago and now they are desperately trying to get rid of it. Why don't you go out and actually fix some of the roads you useless, spineless, jerks? So many surfaces have deteriorated and if you can be bothered you just half arse it with that awful "surface dressing" rubbish.
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ts. Reckless ove-rtaker this morning in a beaten up old P Reg MR2. Made worse by having one headlight out and both fog lights on, one of which was misaligned and equivalent to full beam bouncing off my mirrors as he approached. Roared up behind me and overtook on the dodgy A338 Ringwood to Salisbury road, I was doing 57 in a 50 and he still overtook with a car approaching from the other direction. Then overtook a car on a bend having to brake and push in at the last second, repeating the exercise 200 yards further on so squeeze into an almost non existent gap. We were all in a queue of cars driving at the speed limit or slightly above so he achieved absolutely fk all except endanger himself and others.
The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
k all except endanger himself and others.The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
greenarrow said:
Reckless ove-rtaker this morning in a beaten up old P Reg MR2. Made worse by having one headlight out and both fog lights on, one of which was misaligned and equivalent to full beam bouncing off my mirrors as he approached. Roared up behind me and overtook on the dodgy A338 Ringwood to Salisbury road, I was doing 57 in a 50 and he still overtook with a car approaching from the other direction. Then overtook a car on a bend having to brake and push in at the last second, repeating the exercise 200 yards further on so squeeze into an almost non existent gap. We were all in a queue of cars driving at the speed limit or slightly above so he achieved absolutely fk all except endanger himself and others.
The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
Doing 60 in a 50 = Knobk all except endanger himself and others.The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
The masturbating Highways England personnel who last night indicated five sets of non existent roadworks, complete with multiple lane closures and speed limits ranging from 40 mph on the M1 and M25, yet failed to offer any warning or appropriate signage on the one section which did have workers on the carriageway, and 3 of the 4 lanes closed.
George Smiley said:
greenarrow said:
Reckless ove-rtaker this morning in a beaten up old P Reg MR2. Made worse by having one headlight out and both fog lights on, one of which was misaligned and equivalent to full beam bouncing off my mirrors as he approached. Roared up behind me and overtook on the dodgy A338 Ringwood to Salisbury road, I was doing 57 in a 50 and he still overtook with a car approaching from the other direction. Then overtook a car on a bend having to brake and push in at the last second, repeating the exercise 200 yards further on so squeeze into an almost non existent gap. We were all in a queue of cars driving at the speed limit or slightly above so he achieved absolutely fk all except endanger himself and others.
The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
Doing 60 in a 50 = Knobk all except endanger himself and others.The one thing that really winds me up the most is idiots overtaking on fast A roads like this as it can all end up very badly. its tImes like this I wish I had dash cam tbh.
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