One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5
Discussion
ch37 said:
I was nearing the end of a 10 mile walk across fields, this was the only bit of a pavement on the entire walk and I'd not seen anyone for 3 hours, so it really was a million to one chance that I (or anyone) would be there at that moment.
Ogilvy said that about stuff coming from Mars, and look what happened!
Amateur traffic police... By this I mean the people who decide they make and enforce the rules. I can only imagine these rules are ideas they've had and they think the world would be a better place if only everyone did what they do. I have been Judge Dredd'd by two such throbbers in the past few weeks, which is surprising considering how little I drive at the moment.
1) on a road where traffic calming has been effected by building out the pavement a little at a crossing (still wide enough for a car and a bus to pass each other) an angry dad in a Kia floored it towards me and drove down the centreline flashing his lights and going purple. It's not a "give priority" gate, it's simply there to try and psychologically prevent hooning. I'm making an assumption that's what he thought but he was shouting incoherently as he went past me (I had stopped to avoid having a head-on with him)
2) someone in front of me on a two lane DC who decided to pace a lorry in L1 until his turning was next, then accelerated to pull in front of the lorry. He got very angry that I accelerated safely passed him and took the same turning but... IN FRONT OF HIM. Impotent flashy flashy, then when I parked up further down the road I got the stare of hardness from him...
1) on a road where traffic calming has been effected by building out the pavement a little at a crossing (still wide enough for a car and a bus to pass each other) an angry dad in a Kia floored it towards me and drove down the centreline flashing his lights and going purple. It's not a "give priority" gate, it's simply there to try and psychologically prevent hooning. I'm making an assumption that's what he thought but he was shouting incoherently as he went past me (I had stopped to avoid having a head-on with him)
2) someone in front of me on a two lane DC who decided to pace a lorry in L1 until his turning was next, then accelerated to pull in front of the lorry. He got very angry that I accelerated safely passed him and took the same turning but... IN FRONT OF HIM. Impotent flashy flashy, then when I parked up further down the road I got the stare of hardness from him...
This van. The driver hasn't forgotten to put the lights on, there's two holes where the lights should be. How anybody could think this is acceptable is beyond me, we're about to go out of the street lit section and onto dark NSL roads. That tiny red light on the top right and the numbeplate lights were the only illumination.
carlove said:
This van. The driver hasn't forgotten to put the lights on, there's two holes where the lights should be. How anybody could think this is acceptable is beyond me, we're about to go out of the street lit section and onto dark NSL roads. That tiny red light on the top right and the numbeplate lights were the only illumination.
Dreadful. Not even being sarcastic.
carlove said:
This van. The driver hasn't forgotten to put the lights on, there's two holes where the lights should be. How anybody could think this is acceptable is beyond me, we're about to go out of the street lit section and onto dark NSL roads. That tiny red light on the top right and the numbeplate lights were the only illumination.
I hope you’ve reported this to the police.Deranged Rover said:
carlove said:
This van. The driver hasn't forgotten to put the lights on, there's two holes where the lights should be. How anybody could think this is acceptable is beyond me, we're about to go out of the street lit section and onto dark NSL roads. That tiny red light on the top right and the numbeplate lights were the only illumination.
I hope you’ve reported this to the police.Two Muppets this morning (both in BMWs) a few miles apart. Both seemed to believe that ownership of an 'ultimate driving machine' had somehow endowed in them superhuman abilities to see through thick fog. Overtaking half an hour afore sunrise into thick fog well in excess of 80 miles per hour? Not clever.
Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
yellowjack said:
Two Muppets this morning (both in BMWs) a few miles apart. Both seemed to believe that ownership of an 'ultimate driving machine' had somehow endowed in them superhuman abilities to see through thick fog. Overtaking half an hour afore sunrise into thick fog well in excess of 80 miles per hour? Not clever.
Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
It's not brain science either Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
The stupid woman this afternoon who decided to change lanes nearly taking the front wing of my other half's car in the process. A beep of the horn resulted in the middle finger the duration of the large roundabout she was making a hash of trans versing. The daft woman then drifts back into the lane she was in originally. Quite literally no spacial awareness at all and zero eye contact once we'd arrived alongside each other.
Trouble is I was fuming but not beyond giving her a look and a shake of the head. Yet for a woman who appeared to be in her mid 60s at least, I can imagine she'd rile someone up who'd have a lot more of a volatile response!
Trouble is I was fuming but not beyond giving her a look and a shake of the head. Yet for a woman who appeared to be in her mid 60s at least, I can imagine she'd rile someone up who'd have a lot more of a volatile response!
yellowjack said:
Two Muppets this morning (both in BMWs) a few miles apart. Both seemed to believe that ownership of an 'ultimate driving machine' had somehow endowed in them superhuman abilities to see through thick fog. Overtaking half an hour afore sunrise into thick fog well in excess of 80 miles per hour? Not clever.
Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
I had cause to be driving down the motorway at a very decent lick this morning (exemptions, etc etc) and hit a very thick bank of fog. Scary how quickly the visibility can just diminish!Add also those not using lights when driving around dawn in fog.
Add also those who leave foggy areas but continue to use their rear fog lights.
It's not bloody rocket surgery...
I've had to drive the same route over the last three days, which also happens to be the most driving I've done this year to date. For being a journey of all of ten miles each way I encountered a few knob-ish road users each day.
- Today I encountered a bona fide, card-carrying member of the '40 everywhere' club. Ancient Hundai Atos (looked like a wardrobe on wheels) with weird mix of stickers on the back, juxtaposing a remembrance poppy with various cartoon animals. I ended up stuck behind them doing 40 on a NSL road. Went into a 30 zone on the edge of a town and off he went. This became a 20 mph residential area, and he was even further ahead. Caught up with him at a set of traffic lights and he was putting his seat belt on! Lane discipline was also non-existent. One of these drivers that takes corners as a series of straight-lines with a sharp jerk of the wheel at the end of each arc like the edge of a 50p piece.
- Some Kia 4x4 lump yesterday in PCP white. Seemed to be a member of the 'two card door widths from the kerb at all times' club. Strayed out over the median if there were pedestrians on the pavement! Obviously their first big car, so driven like it was the size of an ocean liner.
- On a similar note, drivers with no spatial awareness in general. I've been stuck behind cars on all three days where the driver has held back because there are cars coming the other way and other parked half in the road and half on the pavement in our lane. In all cases there was enough room to send a tank through without going into the other carriageway, but the driver ahead still shat it and sat on their brakes anyway. Again these drivers seem to think that they need two car door-widths clear on both sides at all times before moving off (but have no problem tailgating lorries, etc).
- A member of the '20 under the posted limit' club. I ended up behind them on the roundabout over the M9 just east of Polmont. They were taking the roundabout at a brisk walking pace. They then roll onto the A803 towards Linlithgow Bridge, getting up to a mighty 40 mph by dint of the curvature of the Earth. I class this as different knob-ish driving to the Hyundai guy as this guy would probably drop to 5 mph in a 20 mph rather than stick to 40 mph.
- Today I encountered a bona fide, card-carrying member of the '40 everywhere' club. Ancient Hundai Atos (looked like a wardrobe on wheels) with weird mix of stickers on the back, juxtaposing a remembrance poppy with various cartoon animals. I ended up stuck behind them doing 40 on a NSL road. Went into a 30 zone on the edge of a town and off he went. This became a 20 mph residential area, and he was even further ahead. Caught up with him at a set of traffic lights and he was putting his seat belt on! Lane discipline was also non-existent. One of these drivers that takes corners as a series of straight-lines with a sharp jerk of the wheel at the end of each arc like the edge of a 50p piece.
- Some Kia 4x4 lump yesterday in PCP white. Seemed to be a member of the 'two card door widths from the kerb at all times' club. Strayed out over the median if there were pedestrians on the pavement! Obviously their first big car, so driven like it was the size of an ocean liner.
- On a similar note, drivers with no spatial awareness in general. I've been stuck behind cars on all three days where the driver has held back because there are cars coming the other way and other parked half in the road and half on the pavement in our lane. In all cases there was enough room to send a tank through without going into the other carriageway, but the driver ahead still shat it and sat on their brakes anyway. Again these drivers seem to think that they need two car door-widths clear on both sides at all times before moving off (but have no problem tailgating lorries, etc).
- A member of the '20 under the posted limit' club. I ended up behind them on the roundabout over the M9 just east of Polmont. They were taking the roundabout at a brisk walking pace. They then roll onto the A803 towards Linlithgow Bridge, getting up to a mighty 40 mph by dint of the curvature of the Earth. I class this as different knob-ish driving to the Hyundai guy as this guy would probably drop to 5 mph in a 20 mph rather than stick to 40 mph.
People tailgating and then overtaking in thick fog like the absolute throbber in the X2 this morning on the A35. 25 m visibility max, but it didn’t stop him.
Yes I flashed you for being a prick (and being so willing to involve me in the accident you seemed to be at best indifferent about causing) and so did the lorry you eventually (dangerously) overtook.
Some of the most appalling driving I’ve seen in ages.
Yes I flashed you for being a prick (and being so willing to involve me in the accident you seemed to be at best indifferent about causing) and so did the lorry you eventually (dangerously) overtook.
Some of the most appalling driving I’ve seen in ages.
Wow! Over a month since anyone has thought 'that's knobbish'???
Lockdown huh?
Anyway. Today on BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshi...
Lockdown huh?
Anyway. Today on BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshi...
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