One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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Glenn63 said:
I nominate the moron at Tesco fuel pumps this morning. Fills his car goes in to pay, the usual extra long wait that I’m used to now while people do their big shop in the kiosk. He finally returns with all kinds of stuff. Next thing the bonnet opens and the guy starts checking and filling all his fluids, little cone in the oil filler topping it up a bit then checking the dipstick, little bit more. At the pump. Wtf.
Its hard to decide who annoys me more... the selfish idiots doing it or the gimps behind them in the queue that just accept it 
If they were told to cut it out they'd stop doing it.
Algarve said:
Glenn63 said:
I nominate the moron at Tesco fuel pumps this morning. Fills his car goes in to pay, the usual extra long wait that I’m used to now while people do their big shop in the kiosk. He finally returns with all kinds of stuff. Next thing the bonnet opens and the guy starts checking and filling all his fluids, little cone in the oil filler topping it up a bit then checking the dipstick, little bit more. At the pump. Wtf.
Its hard to decide who annoys me more... the selfish idiots doing it or the gimps behind them in the queue that just accept it If they were told to cut it out they'd stop doing it.
I just went to the next pump and left him to it. Car dealers again. This time leaving billboard cars in supermarket car parks. Not parked haphazardly or poorly and usually a fair distance from the store entrance but left in positions where anyone interested has to virtually stop and rubberneck. It's parked, you know where it is, drive on and come back on foot to read the small print later instead of holding the bloody world up. 
Also...
Cambridgeshire.
I followed a van out of a Tesco petrol station and it was slopping diesel everywhere on the A47 roundabout near Wisbech. I pulled over tried to report it to the Cambridge Constabulary only to be told...
I gave up. Needed to be somewhere and it had taken over half an hour to do something that should have taken a moment. All of the calls were recorded so if there is any kind of come back they can't say nobody tried to warn them.
About an hour or so later on my way back the lane on the roundabout was closed (blocked by a Police van) due to a collision right where the Diesel patch was. A mk6 VW Golf had under steered off the roundabout into a field.
Don't Overfill. A Spill Can Kill!
Also...
Cambridgeshire.
I followed a van out of a Tesco petrol station and it was slopping diesel everywhere on the A47 roundabout near Wisbech. I pulled over tried to report it to the Cambridge Constabulary only to be told...
101 Operator said:
That's a job for the Highways Department not the Police but thanks for calling anyway.
...after a Google search for the number. Three attempts and a twenty minute hold. I called the Cambridge County Council Highways Department...Highways Operator said:
Because it's on the outskirts of the town you need to call Fenland District Council.
...(You probably know where this is going right?) Another Google search to find another number for another Council. On hold for three minutes this time only to be told...Fenland District Council Operator said:
You need to speak to Highways Cambridgeshire or report it to the Police.
I gave up. Needed to be somewhere and it had taken over half an hour to do something that should have taken a moment. All of the calls were recorded so if there is any kind of come back they can't say nobody tried to warn them.
About an hour or so later on my way back the lane on the roundabout was closed (blocked by a Police van) due to a collision right where the Diesel patch was. A mk6 VW Golf had under steered off the roundabout into a field.
Don't Overfill. A Spill Can Kill!
nonsequitur said:
carlove said:
I’m not bashing cyclists, I just encountered one that was a knob.
I was waiting for a safe spot to overtake a cyclist passing approaching parked cars, I wait and as we’re passing the cars one of them starts pulling out into the side of me, i bip (tiny warning beep) the horn, the car stops and all is well. Until the cyclist turns round starts giving it hard with middle fingers and w
ker signs. I point at the car that is stopped at a jaunty angle to try and show that the beep wasn’t at her but she wouldn’t have it and carried on with the obscene gestures. I can understand why she might have thought I’d beeped her but no need to be obscene.
This annoyed me really, thinking the world revolved around her. Further up the road after I decided not to get too annoyed and passed safely the lights turned red. I opened my window to see if she’d stop for a chat and I’d explain the world doesn’t revolve around her and I didn’t beep at her but she didn’t, she just went through the red light.
Gestures AND a red light. A double whammy indeed.I was waiting for a safe spot to overtake a cyclist passing approaching parked cars, I wait and as we’re passing the cars one of them starts pulling out into the side of me, i bip (tiny warning beep) the horn, the car stops and all is well. Until the cyclist turns round starts giving it hard with middle fingers and w
ker signs. I point at the car that is stopped at a jaunty angle to try and show that the beep wasn’t at her but she wouldn’t have it and carried on with the obscene gestures. I can understand why she might have thought I’d beeped her but no need to be obscene. This annoyed me really, thinking the world revolved around her. Further up the road after I decided not to get too annoyed and passed safely the lights turned red. I opened my window to see if she’d stop for a chat and I’d explain the world doesn’t revolve around her and I didn’t beep at her but she didn’t, she just went through the red light.
knugget ignored a red light on the opposite carriageway and very nearly took out two pedestrians crossing on a GREEN MAN light. I bet that nasty cyclist didn't nearly run someone over, eh? And the sad thing about the Panamera 'incident'? There's a roundabout less than 100 metres away, and if the driver had just made a right turn they could easily have turned around without commiting an offence. There's a red light camera up on a pole there, though. One can only hope the moron got caught by it. I was two cars behind, so couldn't see the plate to report it. The two peds? Almost certainly medical staff heading in to work at the hospital on the other side of the road, given that it was shift change time. Annoying me today?
The throbber in a white Range Rover who tried, and failed, three times to overtake me at passing places. I was cycling. I'd specifically decided to take the hilly, narrow "third choice" road between Corfe Castle and Swanage in order to avoid holding folk up (Grockles are such fking awful drivers on the whole). There I was, unintentionally holding up said Range Rover. So I decided to pull across as far left as possible through a passing place. But the acceleration from the RR driver didn't come until I'd run out of passing place, so the overtake failed. Same again at the next passing place. Late decision, lack of throttle application, another failed attempt.
Now I don't mind moving over, and even easing back a little to allow an easier overtake. But I'm not pulling up and stopping, and no, you won't be getting a gold embossed written invitation. "It's the fking thin pedal on the right, you moron!!!" If either you, or your Range Rover (or both) lack the necessary to overtake a bicycle uphill, then you need remedial driving lessons or a mechanic (or both). Third passing place? I even waved them on, and tried to encourage them to close up on approach to the passing place. To no avail.
As luck would have it, at another passing place up ahead, there was a couple walking their dog, AND an oncoming XC90. So I managed to squeeze through and get on with getting on, while the RR and Volvo drivers took forever to sort themselves out. By the time the RR caught up with me again it was on a decent width of two lane road several miles further on, heading toward the chain ferry at Sandbanks, so even this inept fool managed to get past in the end...
Oh, and I doubt I'll take that narrow road again. I'll stick to the two main options which are far less hilly and not inhabited by drivers who flat refuse to pull in to a passing place to allow a cyclist ALREADY ESTABLISHED in the narrow section to get to said passing place. Especially the Transit van driver who drove right at me then seemed surprised that I hadn't dived over a hedgrow to get out of his way. Seriously, chap? You can see the passing place between you and me. You can see the high verge. You know I've got nowhere to go. Why create conflict where there needn't be any? He either needs his attitude "adjusting" or he needs to start reading the road further ahead than his bonnet badge. It's a strange world.
The throbber in a white Range Rover who tried, and failed, three times to overtake me at passing places. I was cycling. I'd specifically decided to take the hilly, narrow "third choice" road between Corfe Castle and Swanage in order to avoid holding folk up (Grockles are such f
king awful drivers on the whole). There I was, unintentionally holding up said Range Rover. So I decided to pull across as far left as possible through a passing place. But the acceleration from the RR driver didn't come until I'd run out of passing place, so the overtake failed. Same again at the next passing place. Late decision, lack of throttle application, another failed attempt.Now I don't mind moving over, and even easing back a little to allow an easier overtake. But I'm not pulling up and stopping, and no, you won't be getting a gold embossed written invitation. "It's the f
king thin pedal on the right, you moron!!!" If either you, or your Range Rover (or both) lack the necessary to overtake a bicycle uphill, then you need remedial driving lessons or a mechanic (or both). Third passing place? I even waved them on, and tried to encourage them to close up on approach to the passing place. To no avail. As luck would have it, at another passing place up ahead, there was a couple walking their dog, AND an oncoming XC90. So I managed to squeeze through and get on with getting on, while the RR and Volvo drivers took forever to sort themselves out. By the time the RR caught up with me again it was on a decent width of two lane road several miles further on, heading toward the chain ferry at Sandbanks, so even this inept fool managed to get past in the end...
Oh, and I doubt I'll take that narrow road again. I'll stick to the two main options which are far less hilly and not inhabited by drivers who flat refuse to pull in to a passing place to allow a cyclist ALREADY ESTABLISHED in the narrow section to get to said passing place. Especially the Transit van driver who drove right at me then seemed surprised that I hadn't dived over a hedgrow to get out of his way. Seriously, chap? You can see the passing place between you and me. You can see the high verge. You know I've got nowhere to go. Why create conflict where there needn't be any? He either needs his attitude "adjusting" or he needs to start reading the road further ahead than his bonnet badge. It's a strange world.
Cliftonite said:
NSFW (audio swearing)
https://www.facebook.com/thebashmash/videos/562526...
What an absolute oxygen thief. Shame he didn't bounce off the train and do us all a favourhttps://www.facebook.com/thebashmash/videos/562526...
What about the chaps (and it's always blokes...) who seem to need to have their seat height right down on its lowest setting?
As I waited to cross the road outside work today, i noticed a gent in his pimped-up black Golf (and wearing pimped up gold sunglasses - he looked very cool) trying to see round a parked van to see if it was safe to pass. Unfortunately as he appeared to be quite short, and clearly had his seat right down on the floor of the car, not only could he barely see over the steering wheel, he could only get his head halfway out of the window to peer out.
Being the nice chap that I am, I waved him on when the road was clear but.....why??
As I waited to cross the road outside work today, i noticed a gent in his pimped-up black Golf (and wearing pimped up gold sunglasses - he looked very cool) trying to see round a parked van to see if it was safe to pass. Unfortunately as he appeared to be quite short, and clearly had his seat right down on the floor of the car, not only could he barely see over the steering wheel, he could only get his head halfway out of the window to peer out.
Being the nice chap that I am, I waved him on when the road was clear but.....why??
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