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

[Monkeylegend]

thebigmacmoomin said:

People driving at 5pm in December with no lights on

Depends where they are driving.

[fatboy18]

thebigmacmoomin said:

People driving at 5pm in December with no lights on

I blame this on modern cars,

Most cars now have the dashboard illuminated even in daytime. Once it starts getting dark (a Lot) of owners carry on driving believing they have their lights on.

When you do actually turn your lights on, the dashboard dulls down its brightness.

Not a great Idea at all

[PartsMonkey]

LetsTryAgain said:

PartsMonkey said:

Another Supermarket one I'm afraid. My wife and I were in Sainsburys a couple of Sundays ago, queueing at the till with everything on the conveyor belt, waiting for the customers in front to bag their shopping and pay. I could see in the corner of my eye an old lady with a bottle of port walking up and down looking for an empty till. She gave up and stood behind me, muttering "fks sake it's so busy." I gave it a few seconds and thought I'd be nice and let her go in front of us, good deed and all that. She was very thankful and squeezed past our trolley and stood next to my wife. While waiting for the people in front to go, She turned to my wife and said:

"When are you due?"

It's at this point I should state my wife is not pregnant. Nor is she the shape of someone that could be confused for being pregnant.

Absolute Knob!!!

You sort of brought this on yourself, I'm afraid.
Why you'd offer anyone who'd foul the air with that language in a public place a place in front of you is beyond me.

Fair Point. I suppose I was just trying to show that there are nice people in this world. Next time, fk 'em.

[LetsTryAgain]

PartsMonkey said:

Fair Point. I suppose I was just trying to show that there are nice people in this world. Next time, fk 'em.

Got to be selective as to when you deploy your nice-ness!

[Goldfever4]

LetsTryAgain said:

PartsMonkey said:

Fair Point. I suppose I was just trying to show that there are nice people in this world. Next time, fk 'em.

Got to be selective as to when you deploy your nice-ness!

Can't go around handing out niceness willy-nilly, what would people think?!

[LetsTryAgain]

Goldfever4 said:

Can't go around handing out niceness willy-nilly, what would people think?!

Nope, you certainly can't.
Or this is where you end up - a topic about aholes on a car forum.

PartsMonkey said:

Another Supermarket one I'm afraid. My wife and I were in Sainsburys a couple of Sundays ago, queueing at the till with everything on the conveyor belt, waiting for the customers in front to bag their shopping and pay. I could see in the corner of my eye an old lady with a bottle of port walking up and down looking for an empty till. She gave up and stood behind me, muttering "fks sake it's so busy." I gave it a few seconds and thought I'd be nice and let her go in front of us, good deed and all that. She was very thankful and squeezed past our trolley and stood next to my wife. While waiting for the people in front to go, She turned to my wife and said:

"When are you due?"

It's at this point I should state my wife is not pregnant. Nor is she the shape of someone that could be confused for being pregnant.

Absolute Knob!!!

Edited by LetsTryAgain on Wednesday 11th December 21:10

[GOATever]

This is in my neck of the woods.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18094562.lorry-st...

Again!!

This keeps happening, it’s not like their aren’t loads of signs, telling these fkwitts the size limits either

[GOATever]

thebigmacmoomin said:

People driving at 5pm in December with no lights on

Or only one light working, or no tail lights working, or full beams on, when you’re approaching them, or fog lights when it’s not foggy,

[nonsequitur]

Deranged Rover said:

All those people who seemingly no longer know what a handbrake is for or how to use it and instead sit on their footbrakes in traffic queues.

Last night i had to get out and ask the mouth-breather in front if he would mind using his, as we had been sitting in a traffic jam and gone nowhere for 35 minutes. We were facing down a hill and he was on his brakes the whole time - the lights were slowly burning three holes in my retinas.

Yes, a familiar complaint. Rear light clusters are very bright, and are annoying at extended halts at traffic lights, jams and all other sorts of delays.

I always think, why not take the opportunity to give your plates a rest from all that work they do, but no, feet on the footbrake blinding the driver(s), behind.

Many PHers dismiss this complaint as 'what's the problem', but it is a problem for many who are forced to sit behind very bright lights for long periods at a time.

[Bluedot]

Can we have bloke(s) in an office talking overly loudly on the phone or Skype whilst Manspreading and spinning around in their chair.
The conversation must include plenty of 'mmm' (but done in a quick fashion, not long and drawn out).
The conversation must also include plenty of wky business and IT speak.

Thanks, feel better for that.

[Baldchap]

nonsequitur said:

Deranged Rover said:

All those people who seemingly no longer know what a handbrake is for or how to use it and instead sit on their footbrakes in traffic queues.

Last night i had to get out and ask the mouth-breather in front if he would mind using his, as we had been sitting in a traffic jam and gone nowhere for 35 minutes. We were facing down a hill and he was on his brakes the whole time - the lights were slowly burning three holes in my retinas.

Yes, a familiar complaint. Rear light clusters are very bright, and are annoying at extended halts at traffic lights, jams and all other sorts of delays.

I always think, why not take the opportunity to give your plates a rest from all that work they do, but no, feet on the footbrake blinding the driver(s), behind.

Many PHers dismiss this complaint as 'what's the problem', but it is a problem for many who are forced to sit behind very bright lights for long periods at a time.

Automatic hand brakes use the footbrake in traffic, typically. So the person in front isn't necessarily a knob, they're just in traffic with their feet off the pedals.

[nonsequitur]

Baldchap said:

nonsequitur said:

Deranged Rover said:

All those people who seemingly no longer know what a handbrake is for or how to use it and instead sit on their footbrakes in traffic queues.

Last night i had to get out and ask the mouth-breather in front if he would mind using his, as we had been sitting in a traffic jam and gone nowhere for 35 minutes. We were facing down a hill and he was on his brakes the whole time - the lights were slowly burning three holes in my retinas.

Yes, a familiar complaint. Rear light clusters are very bright, and are annoying at extended halts at traffic lights, jams and all other sorts of delays.

I always think, why not take the opportunity to give your plates a rest from all that work they do, but no, feet on the footbrake blinding the driver(s), behind.

Many PHers dismiss this complaint as 'what's the problem', but it is a problem for many who are forced to sit behind very bright lights for long periods at a time.

Automatic hand brakes use the footbrake in traffic, typically. So the person in front isn't necessarily a knob, they're just in traffic with their feet off the pedals.

A minority of vehicles I would say. It's just lazy driving for all the others.

[Baldchap]

nonsequitur said:

Baldchap said:

nonsequitur said:

Deranged Rover said:

All those people who seemingly no longer know what a handbrake is for or how to use it and instead sit on their footbrakes in traffic queues.

Last night i had to get out and ask the mouth-breather in front if he would mind using his, as we had been sitting in a traffic jam and gone nowhere for 35 minutes. We were facing down a hill and he was on his brakes the whole time - the lights were slowly burning three holes in my retinas.

Yes, a familiar complaint. Rear light clusters are very bright, and are annoying at extended halts at traffic lights, jams and all other sorts of delays.

I always think, why not take the opportunity to give your plates a rest from all that work they do, but no, feet on the footbrake blinding the driver(s), behind.

Many PHers dismiss this complaint as 'what's the problem', but it is a problem for many who are forced to sit behind very bright lights for long periods at a time.

Automatic hand brakes use the footbrake in traffic, typically. So the person in front isn't necessarily a knob, they're just in traffic with their feet off the pedals.

A minority of vehicles I would say. It's just lazy driving for all the others.

I'd imagine most mainstream vehicles from the last five years or so.

[3059hp]

nonsequitur said:

A minority of vehicles I would say. It's just lazy driving for all the others.

My VW Tiguan does this. However, if you just apply the electric park brake switch, the brake lights go out, yet the brake is still applied

[carlove]

A BMW 3 Series I've seen every morning for about a month, it goes the other way. The reason I remember it is that for a month it's had a headlight bulb out and using the foglight as a replacement. How you can drive for a month, knowing full well you've got a blown bulb is beyond me.
My headlight bulb blew on the way to work a few weeks ago, I went to Halfords and replaced it on the way home from work, it's not hard to do. Good job I did too, the other side blew on the way home! (luckily I bought a twin pack).

[carlove]

Baldchap said:

I'd imagine most mainstream vehicles from the last five years or so.

I drive an Astra, however in the last few weeks I've driven with electronic handrakes; a VW Jetta (hire car in Toronto), an E Class (you just had to put this in park, a button on the shifter) and a Renault Kadjar, all three of these cars when I pressed the handrake button I could see in the mirror the brake lights went out.

To me this was no different to activating the manual handbrake in my Astra, in fact easier as you didn't have to deactivate, you just start driving.

[clayts450]

There is a positive to the non-handbrake-neutral idiots in front of you though, esp at traffic lights or in stop-start traffic. You can relax your normal observation skills and just wait for their brake lights to flick out (usually a whole row of them) rather than monitoring movement ahead and get going PDQ. Is distracting and blinding when traffic is stuck awhile, I agree, but for the few minutes max at the lights it's totally manageable.

[yellowjack]

thebigmacmoomin said:

People driving at 5pm in December with no lights on

It seems that our local taxi drivers have a rule that states it's fine to drive with only DRLs at 8 pm in December. Three of the beggars tonight, pootling around near Christchurch main street, coming onto Barrack Road from Christchurch Station, and one pulling up outside a house two streets away from me.

And the biggest knob(s?) of all are the person(s?) who decided to enact a law requiring DRLs to be fitted to modern cars, but thought that it was absolutely fine for them to be at the front only, because obviously no-one would ever forget to put on their side/tail lights or headlights when it got dark, so why bother requiring DRLs to also light up the tail lights?


Also, tonight's knob - driving a 1988 'F' prefix Nissan Micra. Back off you fking 'tard. 30 mph is, absolutely and definitively, quite fast enough all the way along Barrack Road and over Iford Bridge. It's fast enough because it's raining, and because it's also the maximum permitted road speed for any motor vehicle on that stretch unless exercising exemptions set aside for emergency vehicles. It's also quite fast enough because it's the same speed as traffic ahead is travelling at, as witnessed by the gap between me and the car in front of me neither growing nor shrinking as we made reasonable progress toward Bournemouth. And trying to intimidate me? Me in two tonnes of modern safety cell, and you in a shonky old Micra? Don't make me fking laugh you utter prick. You're about as scary as a letters page in the local rag. And the burning question I would ask if I could? If you were in such a damned hurry, why didn't you just overtake on the two-lane section of barrack road, or the two-lane section of dual carriageway on Castle Lane East? There was plenty of opportunity for even the most myopic Mr Magoo lookey-likey to effect a simple overtake on a largely empty dual carriageway. PS: I loved the blind acceleration you went for as I indicated left off Castle Lane onto Chaseside. Just as you should have been braking for the queue at the red light, which was why (along with needing to turn left onto a road with a 30 mph limit) I was staying at 30 mph in spite of the limit increasing to 40 mph at that point. Perhaps you might try tailgating the laws of physics next time, to see if you can change their behaviour to suit your inept driving? But it didn't work on me, so...

[Brooksay]

Well, took some doing, but I've finally managed to read my way through this entire thread. All 6000+ posts. Christ, people like to argue about ste, don't they?

[Dixy]

You should tell them to get a life.