One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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3059hp said:
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 appliedChester draws said:
Brooksay said:
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 s
te, don't they?
There's 3 more volumes previous to this one too...te, don't they? Brooksay said:
Chester draws said:
Brooksay said:
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?
There's 3 more volumes previous to this one too...te, don't they? That should sort the Xmas holidays period out.
Knobbo in a Jag today, totally blocking the entire three car drop off zone at the train station, so he could pop in and queue 10mins for a ticket, instead of parking 20m down the road.
Obviously cannot read, as he walked past all the signage, saying drop off only and no waiting or parking.
A bit of mansplaining required Monko.nonsequitur said:
Monkeylegend said:
We do get posters from the southern hemisphere on here you know, our antipodean colleagues.
Still more mansplaining needed, I think.
For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
Monkeylegend said:
It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
It's hard to believe I know, but I think bigmac was referring to the UK, at 1700, when it is dark.For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
nonsequitur said:
Monkeylegend said:
It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
It's hard to believe I know, but I think bigmac was referring to the UK, at 1700, when it is dark.For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
GOATever said:
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,Brooksay said:
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?
Oh no they don't!? Err is this the 5 minute or 10 minute argument? te, don't they? Lets face it ,no matter what the subject, who the poster is, or what their view point happens to be, there will always be someone who has the complete opposite point of view. and that is one of the absolutely best bits about PH.I suspect if anyone of us were put in a sealed room on our own, we could still start an argument!
Edited by Pan Pan Pan on Thursday 12th December 13:12
nonsequitur said:
Monkeylegend said:
It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
It's hard to believe I know, but I think bigmac was referring to the UK, at 1700, when it is dark.For all we know the post could have been from one of these colleagues so lights at 5pm in Australia in December might not be necessary, unless you driving in Sydney where a fog horn would probably be appropriate at the moment WD
Pan Pan Pan said:
Brooksay said:
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?
Oh no they don't!? Err is this the 5 minute or 10 minute argument? te, don't they? Lets face it ,no matter what the subject, who the poster is, or what their view point happens to be, there will always be someone who has the complete opposite point of view. and that is one of the absolutely best bits about PH.I suspect if anyone of us were put in a sealed room on our own, we could still start an argument!
Edited by Pan Pan Pan on Thursday 12th December 13:12
Blonde woman, clearly on the "school run", driving a blue 3 Series BMW just now. She was absolutely fuming at me when I refused to be bullied (by her creeping forward to barge into traffic) into letting her turn left from a side road. Nothing too surprising in that, except that she went out of her way, at the next two side turns, to do exactly the same to two other drivers.
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
yellowjack said:
Blonde woman, clearly on the "school run", driving a blue 3 Series BMW just now. She was absolutely fuming at me when I refused to be bullied (by her creeping forward to barge into traffic) into letting her turn left from a side road. Nothing too surprising in that, except that she went out of her way, at the next two side turns, to do exactly the same to two other drivers.
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
highway code said:
In slow-moving traffic. You should.....
allow access into and from side roads
yellowjack said:
Blonde woman, clearly on the "school run", driving a blue 3 Series BMW just now. She was absolutely fuming at me when I refused to be bullied (by her creeping forward to barge into traffic) into letting her turn left from a side road. Nothing too surprising in that, except that she went out of her way, at the next two side turns, to do exactly the same to two other drivers.
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
YJ, the key is 'your script - 10%'. I feel you could edit yours down at least 40%. You have a way with words, but you lose your audience if you embroider, embellish or elongate too much. Other than that I do like reading your posts. Comedy is your strong suit : lectures aren't. The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
Graveworm said:
yellowjack said:
Blonde woman, clearly on the "school run", driving a blue 3 Series BMW just now. She was absolutely fuming at me when I refused to be bullied (by her creeping forward to barge into traffic) into letting her turn left from a side road. Nothing too surprising in that, except that she went out of her way, at the next two side turns, to do exactly the same to two other drivers.
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
The most annoying thing is that the queue for the traffic light I was in is always long, and the queues to turn left to join it are always short. So why the bloody hell should I feel obliged to let anyone turn left in front of me while traffic is moving? All "letting people in" in this situation does is back the long queue up past a small roundabout, causing further delays on adjoining roads. And this is the road that is the ONLY entrance to a large hospital with an A&E department. Making the queue longer just makes the job of blue-light ambulance crews more difficult. Letting people out is, therefore, a "misplaced courtesy" in this scenario, and I will do all in my power to NOT let traffic out ahead of me unless traffic is stopped and I am compelled by my overriding sense of genuine courtesy to not creep forward to block side turnings for traffic turning right into them across my path.
I am sick and tired of missing a green traffic light phase because some moron with a misplaced courtesy complex is busy letting traffic cross from their right and join from their left while they can see the bloody green light ahead of them. And people I speak to who say stupid things like "well Castle Lane is bad for traffic anyway". Well it might be bad anyway, but that's no reason to go ahead and make it worse by letting these short-cutters and rat-runners in from the left, thereby reducing throughput at the traffic lights. Make them bloody wait. Like I've had to for the last mile. If i had my way I'd have those side turns blocked up and make them go via the roundabout anyway to join the back of the queue. Because that way, traffic on Castle Lane would only need to stop for red traffic lights, and the whole queue would move that much faster. Grrrrr!
highway code said:
In slow-moving traffic. You should.....
allow access into and from side roads
and Kenny Rogers said:
...the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and what to keep
...which is about as relevant to the situation described as your Highway Code advise. Especially when Statutory Signs & Road Markings give unequivocal instruction to those joining from said side road to "Give Way" to those already on the major route. And check my bold. I don't block side turns, nor do I occupy box junctions illegally. Unlike many Muppets round these parts whose driving licence appears to have tumbled from a Corn Flakes packet.If you're happy that one day you might be in the back of an ambulance prevented from getting in to A&E by a succession of Muppets letting rat-runners in from the left, and thereby increasing the length of the queue past the hospital entrance, then you carry on with your misplaced courtesy. I'll carry on taking my driving advise from statutory signs, signals and road markings, though...
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