One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5
Discussion
In the press yesterday.
Uber knob bought a second hand ambulance and used it - lights flashing - to go shopping at ASDA. The entire family could be seen leaving the vehicle and entering the store. Driver was detained and charged with being banned , no insurance etc, and is currently a guest of Her Majesty.
Uber knob bought a second hand ambulance and used it - lights flashing - to go shopping at ASDA. The entire family could be seen leaving the vehicle and entering the store. Driver was detained and charged with being banned , no insurance etc, and is currently a guest of Her Majesty.
carreauchompeur said:
Absolute belters. Haven’t heard of being low key if you’re doing naughty things!
Like this end of a bell....Good as 4 times over the drink drive limit, no insurance, no licence.......Absolute c*** of the highest order.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19051642.suspected...
LunarOne said:
LetsTryAgain said:
... some American piped up next to us - "Gee, these guys have a real problem with parking spaces. They should build a few multi-storey car parks".
Clearly not a true story. No American would call a car park a car park!s
te drivers.
I spend my personal and professional lives surrounded by them. Case in point, RTC on the motorway today. Car hit standing water and collided with central reservation. Quickly got full closure on, car dragged to hard shoulder, reopened.
I’m the last car off the motorway. The pace car if you will. Unmarked. Bring all three lanes up to speed gently, then lights off and back to Ln1 at 70mph. Almost instantly I’m overtaken by several cars around 80mph. I mean, literally, the conditions are appalling, and you’ve just seen a car crash. The conditions are just as bad as they just were. And you’ve seen that unmarked cop car closing the road. And you’re passing it I’m excess of the limit. Jeez.
And then on the way home. Always the same. The kind of gormless monospeeders who’d follow you through 30 limits at whatever speed you wanted. No thought.
I respect all of the 30 limits on my route home, because they’re villages. Not pointless artificially slow limits. Villages. And naturally, halfway through one earlier an a3 is up my chuff. I’m doing 33 indicated. Really too far up my chuff. Back off until he does, gets the message, then back up to 33. Gently creeps towards me again.
At the end of this village there’s a set of bends in the NSL which can be reasonably perky. Enter the NSL and complete the set of bends at 60mph. Safe but good progress. Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
And so on. Then giving me death stares as I turned off.
Morons.
te drivers. I spend my personal and professional lives surrounded by them. Case in point, RTC on the motorway today. Car hit standing water and collided with central reservation. Quickly got full closure on, car dragged to hard shoulder, reopened.
I’m the last car off the motorway. The pace car if you will. Unmarked. Bring all three lanes up to speed gently, then lights off and back to Ln1 at 70mph. Almost instantly I’m overtaken by several cars around 80mph. I mean, literally, the conditions are appalling, and you’ve just seen a car crash. The conditions are just as bad as they just were. And you’ve seen that unmarked cop car closing the road. And you’re passing it I’m excess of the limit. Jeez.
And then on the way home. Always the same. The kind of gormless monospeeders who’d follow you through 30 limits at whatever speed you wanted. No thought.
I respect all of the 30 limits on my route home, because they’re villages. Not pointless artificially slow limits. Villages. And naturally, halfway through one earlier an a3 is up my chuff. I’m doing 33 indicated. Really too far up my chuff. Back off until he does, gets the message, then back up to 33. Gently creeps towards me again.
At the end of this village there’s a set of bends in the NSL which can be reasonably perky. Enter the NSL and complete the set of bends at 60mph. Safe but good progress. Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
And so on. Then giving me death stares as I turned off.
Morons.
It was snowy the other morning, not the worst I've seen but still snowy. I was behind a car going maybe a little too slow, 10mph in a 30, but it had a P plate and they were probably terrified. So I gave an even bigger gap than normal for the conditions, to not make them more nervous.
Sadly a taxi came behind, and being a taxi it didn't recognise I was giving the car in front plenty of room, and attached itself an inch from my bumper, dangerously close to the back of my car even if it was a lovely summer's day, not an snowy winters morning.
The nervous driver turned off and I went a bit quicker, about 20-25 (faster than I'd like for the conditions, but I thought it may deter the tailgating, it didn't), this still wasn't good enough for the taxi driver, who stayed just as close to the back of my car. We reached a red light later, and I had to fight myself not to get out and ask if he was stupid, and take a photo of his numberplate to send to the council. Managed to not get road rage and I turned left and he went straight and I forgot about it until I read the post above about people not driving to the conditions.
I honestly kind of hope he lost control later on and had a minor, no injury collision to teach him a lesson (I'd never wish injury on anyone).
Sadly a taxi came behind, and being a taxi it didn't recognise I was giving the car in front plenty of room, and attached itself an inch from my bumper, dangerously close to the back of my car even if it was a lovely summer's day, not an snowy winters morning.
The nervous driver turned off and I went a bit quicker, about 20-25 (faster than I'd like for the conditions, but I thought it may deter the tailgating, it didn't), this still wasn't good enough for the taxi driver, who stayed just as close to the back of my car. We reached a red light later, and I had to fight myself not to get out and ask if he was stupid, and take a photo of his numberplate to send to the council. Managed to not get road rage and I turned left and he went straight and I forgot about it until I read the post above about people not driving to the conditions.
I honestly kind of hope he lost control later on and had a minor, no injury collision to teach him a lesson (I'd never wish injury on anyone).
Edited by carlove on Thursday 4th February 20:33
My wife is a very careful driver. So careful she was pulled over at 2am between lockdowns as she looked so suspicious 
The number of people that will drive right up her rear bumper trying to bully her to go faster, but then as soon as an opportunity to overtake appears, they drop slightly back and keep repeating, beggars belief.
The number of people that will drive right up her rear bumper trying to bully her to go faster, but then as soon as an opportunity to overtake appears, they drop slightly back and keep repeating, beggars belief.carreauchompeur said:
ste drivers.
Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
Morons.
That's pretty much everyone.te drivers. Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
Morons.
I like to maintain momentum; don't really speed much, but I like to do as close to the speed limit as practicably possible.
I'll drive on an A road quite regularly, have someone sat up my arse at an indicated 65, go round a gentle-ish corner still doing 60, then they've done a vanishing act.
1 minute later, back up my arse.
LetsTryAgain said:
carreauchompeur said:
ste drivers.
Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
Morons.
That's pretty much everyone.te drivers. Where are you, I thought you wanted to go fast? Disappeared in the distance.
Continue to a long straight, car back up my chuff. Because...straight.
Morons.
I like to maintain momentum; don't really speed much, but I like to do as close to the speed limit as practicably possible.
I'll drive on an A road quite regularly, have someone sat up my arse at an indicated 65, go round a gentle-ish corner still doing 60, then they've done a vanishing act.
1 minute later, back up my arse.
carreauchompeur said:
ste drivers.
I respect all of the 30 limits on my route home, because they’re villages. Not pointless artificially slow limits. Villages. And naturally, halfway through one earlier an a3 is up my chuff. I’m doing 33 indicated. Really too far up my chuff. Back off until he does, gets the message, then back up to 33. Gently creeps towards me again.
This. Driving home today, I’m sandwiched between a Passat ahead and Leon behind. We reach a 30 limit through a narrow and winding village, as I drop to 30 the Passat disappears into the distance. The Leon behind up my chuff the whole way through the village. Upon reaching the NSL on leaving the village, I accelerate smartly up to 50-60, before long I’ve caught up the Passat who didn’t bother with the 30 limit, but is braking into every single bend in the NSL. te drivers. I respect all of the 30 limits on my route home, because they’re villages. Not pointless artificially slow limits. Villages. And naturally, halfway through one earlier an a3 is up my chuff. I’m doing 33 indicated. Really too far up my chuff. Back off until he does, gets the message, then back up to 33. Gently creeps towards me again.
Last week, more “knob driving” from a different Leon, caught up with me at the back of a line of traffic in a NSL. First opportunity he overtook me (fine by me, rather him ahead than up my chuff) then proceeded to tailgate the vehicle ahead, constantly dabbing his brakes as he was so close. We get to a roundabout, Leon driver takes L2 which is right-turn only. Pretty obvious he was going to leap frog a few cars on the roundabout and then push in on the straight-ahead exit, despite it not behind wide enough for two cars. He did exactly that, almost pushing an Astra into the nearside kerb as he forced his way in. Next roundabout about half a mile later, again he’s in the RH only lane to try and pass an HGV on an unmarked and fairly tight roundabout. When he overtook I noticed it was badged as a Leon FR, obviously FR is an acronym for the driver.
LetsTryAgain said:
Disassemble - a nasty Americanism which has made its' way over here.
You assemble, and dismantle.
.
I project managed a series of Corporately funded research project with a few universities in the 90s for Lucas Industries. You assemble, and dismantle.
.
The overarching programme was called Design for Whole Life Cost and included Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Design for the Environment, Design for Recycling and Design for Reliability and Maintainability. In that last project the PhD student developed a method to assess the ease of Disassembly. With difficulty scoring for different types of processes. One lunch time, I visited him at Coventry University nee Polytechnic and we had a couple of pints each and came up with The per-ttang factor, to add a bit extra to the difficulty, based on my recounting me spending half of Sunday, searching the floor of my garage, for a spring washer, that had disappeared on dismantling.
I digress, I'm still in touch with him, and I'm going to have to insist he gives his Doctorate back. Not once did he ever use the term dismantle.
Two on a twenty mile bicycle ride today. Both on the return part of the journey. First was one of those tall Renault/Peugeot things favoured by wheelchair conversion companies. A bit of background? A roundabout on the A35 is partly closed for resurfacing work. Lots of traffic trying to get through a narrow route with a 'defined priority pinch point' on it. A queue is clear ahead of me and I'm only a short way behind the last (stationary) car in said queue.
Well I'm off the pedals and sitting up when I hear the roar of this mighty Kangoo or whatever the hell it is. I'm thinking "no, surely not, he's not going to overtake because there's no room to get back in lane ahead of me..." Well he went for it. And when the dipst who couldn't see beyond "must. pass. cyclist. at. any. cost" suddenly realised the rear of a Ford Fiesta was rapidly approaching he simply swung the wheel to the left and I had to bang on the side window to avoid taking a hit. There was literally nowhere for me to go because the kerb was too high and the angle too shallow to bump up onto the footway.
To top it off, instead of profuse apologies for nearly knocking me off my bike, all I got was the usual indignant "who the fk do you think you are? how dare you touch my car..." attitude. So I just left him at the back of the queue and overtook about twenty cars as they waited to get through the pinch point with priority against them. Then I took a detour down NSN route 2 to have a play on the "Closed Due To Covid Legislation" BMX pump track.
Second one was a Doris in a white BMW 1 series. I was passing parked cars on our side of the road (here... https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7305052,-1.7940656... ) and in accordance with safety advice was allowing a door-and-a-half''s width as I passed them.
k right off with your Holier-than-thou attitude if you can't accept that riding on the centre line of the road IS the safe, and legal, way to ride when faced with inconsiderately parked cars. Get your communal house in order and learn a) some patience, and b) how to plan and properly execute a mind bendingly simple overtake. It really isn't that hard...
Well I'm off the pedals and sitting up when I hear the roar of this mighty Kangoo or whatever the hell it is. I'm thinking "no, surely not, he's not going to overtake because there's no room to get back in lane ahead of me..." Well he went for it. And when the dips
t who couldn't see beyond "must. pass. cyclist. at. any. cost" suddenly realised the rear of a Ford Fiesta was rapidly approaching he simply swung the wheel to the left and I had to bang on the side window to avoid taking a hit. There was literally nowhere for me to go because the kerb was too high and the angle too shallow to bump up onto the footway. To top it off, instead of profuse apologies for nearly knocking me off my bike, all I got was the usual indignant "who the f
k do you think you are? how dare you touch my car..." attitude. So I just left him at the back of the queue and overtook about twenty cars as they waited to get through the pinch point with priority against them. Then I took a detour down NSN route 2 to have a play on the "Closed Due To Covid Legislation" BMX pump track.Second one was a Doris in a white BMW 1 series. I was passing parked cars on our side of the road (here... https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7305052,-1.7940656... ) and in accordance with safety advice was allowing a door-and-a-half''s width as I passed them.
The Highway Code said:
Rule 67
You should
look all around before moving away from the kerb, turning or manoeuvring, to make sure it is safe to do so. Give a clear signal to show other road users what you intend to do (see ‘Signals to other road users’)
look well ahead for obstructions in the road, such as drains, pot-holes and parked vehicles so that you do not have to swerve suddenly to avoid them. Leave plenty of room when passing parked vehicles and watch out for doors being opened or pedestrians stepping into your path
This put me right on the centre white line. She still went for an overtake on an unsighted right hand bend though. And when she had to bail out of that overtake due to oncoming traffic she swerved in behind me and repeatedly revved the engine. Then, after we'd both cleared the row of parked cars, she leant on the horn as she close-passed me. Newsflash! Cyclists are constantly being berated on forums like PH for "not riding properly". Complaints when red lights are (allegedly) ignored. Complaints when cyclists ride on footways. Then complaints when they don't use shared use cycle lanes. Well here's a thing. FYou should
look all around before moving away from the kerb, turning or manoeuvring, to make sure it is safe to do so. Give a clear signal to show other road users what you intend to do (see ‘Signals to other road users’)
look well ahead for obstructions in the road, such as drains, pot-holes and parked vehicles so that you do not have to swerve suddenly to avoid them. Leave plenty of room when passing parked vehicles and watch out for doors being opened or pedestrians stepping into your path
k right off with your Holier-than-thou attitude if you can't accept that riding on the centre line of the road IS the safe, and legal, way to ride when faced with inconsiderately parked cars. Get your communal house in order and learn a) some patience, and b) how to plan and properly execute a mind bendingly simple overtake. It really isn't that hard... Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 4th February 22:46
Pit Pony said:
came up with The per-ttang factor, to add a bit extra to the difficulty, based on my recounting me spending half of Sunday, searching the floor of my garage, for a spring washer, that had disappeared on dismantling.
That's a fantastic metric. Easily adds a good half an hour to most simple tasks Today's thread winner....
Ok, Crawley, it's a bit s*** and the people that live there aren't exactly 'angels' shall we say.
Wife phones up husband:
I've been stopped by the police. They've seized the car because it's not insured or taxed
Ok love, calm down, must be a mistake, I'll come and pick you up.
Turns up....
HIS car gets seized for.......no insurance or tax.
Be careful of Crawley people, they are stupid.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19064775.crawley-c...
Ok, Crawley, it's a bit s*** and the people that live there aren't exactly 'angels' shall we say.
Wife phones up husband:
I've been stopped by the police. They've seized the car because it's not insured or taxed
Ok love, calm down, must be a mistake, I'll come and pick you up.
Turns up....
HIS car gets seized for.......no insurance or tax.
Be careful of Crawley people, they are stupid.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19064775.crawley-c...
Many years ago I was with my brother in his Twin cam Europa, driving along the south coast. we were minding our own business, doing around 40 - 50 mph on a nice twisty driving road, Up behind, comes Mr Knob in a Granada coupe, to within a few feet of the rear of the Europa (and by a few feet, I mean about 3 or 4 feet).
Despite having many opportunities to just go past, and be on his way, he did not, and stayed just a few feet behind the Europa.
We realized that this bloke wanted to play, and at a suitable moment, my brother floored it, and walked away from the Granada, after which my brother slowed to his original speed. After doing this a few times, the Granada driver had still not twigged onto the fact, that the Europa was much faster, and we just wanted him to go past, and get on his way.
After a bit, my brother said he was fed up with being tailgated, and coming up to a very sharp bend, he booted it again, leaving the Granada behind.
We waited for the Granada to appear round the bend in the mirrors, but it did not reappear when we expected it to.
When it did appear it was going backwards `very' fast, and it crossed the other carriageway, (which was fortunately empty) went down an embankment, through a fence, and a long long way into the field behind the fence.
We stopped, and went back to ask if the bloke was OK (from the road) and the knob started shouting that `his' accident was `our' fault FFS!
At this, we gave him the single digit sign of approval, and drove off to let him sort his self induced situation out.
Despite having many opportunities to just go past, and be on his way, he did not, and stayed just a few feet behind the Europa.
We realized that this bloke wanted to play, and at a suitable moment, my brother floored it, and walked away from the Granada, after which my brother slowed to his original speed. After doing this a few times, the Granada driver had still not twigged onto the fact, that the Europa was much faster, and we just wanted him to go past, and get on his way.
After a bit, my brother said he was fed up with being tailgated, and coming up to a very sharp bend, he booted it again, leaving the Granada behind.
We waited for the Granada to appear round the bend in the mirrors, but it did not reappear when we expected it to.
When it did appear it was going backwards `very' fast, and it crossed the other carriageway, (which was fortunately empty) went down an embankment, through a fence, and a long long way into the field behind the fence.
We stopped, and went back to ask if the bloke was OK (from the road) and the knob started shouting that `his' accident was `our' fault FFS!
At this, we gave him the single digit sign of approval, and drove off to let him sort his self induced situation out.
Pit Pony said:
LetsTryAgain said:
Disassemble - a nasty Americanism which has made its' way over here.
You assemble, and dismantle.
.
I project managed a series of Corporately funded research project with a few universities in the 90s for Lucas Industries. You assemble, and dismantle.
.
The overarching programme was called Design for Whole Life Cost and included Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Design for the Environment, Design for Recycling and Design for Reliability and Maintainability. In that last project the PhD student developed a method to assess the ease of Disassembly. With difficulty scoring for different types of processes. One lunch time, I visited him at Coventry University nee Polytechnic and we had a couple of pints each and came up with The per-ttang factor, to add a bit extra to the difficulty, based on my recounting me spending half of Sunday, searching the floor of my garage, for a spring washer, that had disappeared on dismantling.
I digress, I'm still in touch with him, and I'm going to have to insist he gives his Doctorate back. Not once did he ever use the term dismantle.
*some artistic licence needed on the dictionary definition of this for alleged smartarse effect.
I've noticed this recently, however now the more I look into it the more I see it has long been "a thing", and actually the longer I look into it the more it annoys me.
I'll have to give examples as I'm not sure how to describe it.
"My car needs washed", "the baby needs changed", "that wall needs painted"
In what world does anyone speak like that and think it's correct? It doesn't even sound right.
I'll have to give examples as I'm not sure how to describe it.
"My car needs washed", "the baby needs changed", "that wall needs painted"
In what world does anyone speak like that and think it's correct? It doesn't even sound right.
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