One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5
Discussion
BunkMoreland said:
donkmeister said:
Don't get me wrong, I love it when someone tells me how cute my daughter is, gives appreciative smiles, waves, talks to her and so on. Absolutely love it. I just don't like that thankfully rare sort who start touching and neither does Mini D.
I was in a lift the other day and there was a couple with their baby daughter. Mother was holding the baby who instantly just locked on looking at me in confusion. (I know little eyes cant focus at distance well) I smiled politely at the parents, and the mother said "say hello" to her daughter. (Which she obviously couldn't) More people joined the lift and I had to move a bit closer to baby who burst into a massive smile.
I just smiled politely and felt weirded out. Last thing I would have done would be to touch or actually talk to the kiddy! Probably catch a weird lurgy!
I'm Male, mid 40s, and have thankfully managed to avoid ruining my life with the addition of children!
The child looks over, and you don't know whether to look suitably disapproving in support of the mother, or smile benevolently in an attempt not to be drawn in as an unwitting third party disciplinarian.
75Black said:
I always find it funny that the ones that froth at the mouth calling people 'flag shaggers' whenever someone displays or argues about displaying an England/GB flag, will also have a EU/LGBT/Palestine flag in their twitter/whatever bio and not see the irony in it. 
i always find it funny when people say things like "the people that say/do X are definitely the ones who say/do Y" without actually possessing any evidence suggesting an overlap between the two unrelated groups. Sycamore said:
matchmaker said:
Sycamore said:
Knob in a chavved up M135i revving the tits off of it in stationary traffic with the customary pop pop bang bangs, while leaning out his window recording it on his phone, presumably to put it onto Instagram or Tik Tok or to w
k off to when he gets home.
Come to think of it, any sporty/quick hatchback ever falls into the knob category for me. Confirmation bias
I have a big grey Skoda. It is a barge. It has heated leather sofas for seats. It's a 285bhp quick hatchback. So I'm a knob? k off to when he gets home. Come to think of it, any sporty/quick hatchback ever falls into the knob category for me. Confirmation bias
But it was more so intended at the Audi RS/Golf R/M1234567i crowd - I'll add a NOT SKODAS disclaimer next time
donkmeister said:
Roger Irrelevant said:
The fact that the British don't generally feel the need to go in for flag-waving fiestas or go out of their way to show how they think that the UK is the bestest country in the world speaks more of a quiet confidence and maturity IMO.
Agreed. Foreigners are overly excitable and jingoistic, and our humility is why the British are best.
Catweazle said:
donkmeister said:
Roger Irrelevant said:
The fact that the British don't generally feel the need to go in for flag-waving fiestas or go out of their way to show how they think that the UK is the bestest country in the world speaks more of a quiet confidence and maturity IMO.
Agreed. Foreigners are overly excitable and jingoistic, and our humility is why the British are best.I was introduced to their music when I worked with someone who would start singing "the gasman cometh" whenever someone went into a lengthy explanation of all the tasks that would need to be done before her seemingly simple request could be fulfilled. Something of an eccentric, and she would always make sure to get an "it all makes work for the working man to do" in before stopping... Which led to some frankly bizarre and awkward situations as everyone else sat quietly waiting.
BunkMoreland said:
Ask Italians if they cant stand the sight of their flag outside someone's house? Ask the Germans or the Swiss or any other nation.
This weird nonsense about the sight of a flag is something only the British do. And its irritating. Clearly not everything in this country is perfect. But to have a semi meltdown about the motivations or personalities of the flagpole erectors is ridiculous.
And says more about the "upset and offended" than the flag owners
We once didn't put an offer on a house which had a neighbour opposite with a flag pole in the middle of the front lawn. This weird nonsense about the sight of a flag is something only the British do. And its irritating. Clearly not everything in this country is perfect. But to have a semi meltdown about the motivations or personalities of the flagpole erectors is ridiculous.
And says more about the "upset and offended" than the flag owners
I don't imagine that their motivations were anything other than genuine, but I didn't want to live near someone prepared to display their allegiance to the crown, in such an obvious way. The proper British way is a shelf in the kitchen with commemorative mugs and plates, that are never used. And never seen
Pit Pony said:
We once didn't put an offer on a house which had a neighbour opposite with a flag pole in the middle of the front lawn.
I don't imagine that their motivations were anything other than genuine, but I didn't want to live near someone prepared to display their allegiance to the crown, in such an obvious way. The proper British way is a shelf in the kitchen with commemorative mugs and plates, that are never used. And never seen
100% I would not buy a house within visible distance of a small minded flagpole nut. I’m so glad that most brits do not fly a union jack, it’s just a sign of unhealthy nationalism and should be repelled at every opportunity I don't imagine that their motivations were anything other than genuine, but I didn't want to live near someone prepared to display their allegiance to the crown, in such an obvious way. The proper British way is a shelf in the kitchen with commemorative mugs and plates, that are never used. And never seen
Driving to Edinburgh on Thursday, on a stretch of the A1 where it’s mainly single carriage-way I got caught short of overtaking 3 wagons on the dual carriage way stint before hand.
They were plodding a respectable 55 which wasn’t too bad, but I knew there wasn’t any safe taking spots coming up so we just sat back for the long haul.
Boyo in a chavved out mk6 Golf GTD committed some of the worst overtakes I’ve ever seen.
Firstly pulls 3 cars behind me just to get behind me, forcing a car coming to hanker on. Idiot undeterred, however.
He then overtakes me around a swooping blind corner, and the first lorry, before bottling it and diving in forcing us to break.
He then sits behind 2 more lorry’s for about 5 miles before he has a clear road up ahead. Overtakes the 2 Lorry’s to take the next turn off some half mile further up the road.
Utter moron putting plenty of people’s lives in danger, for what eventually saved him about 45 seconds to his turn off.
They were plodding a respectable 55 which wasn’t too bad, but I knew there wasn’t any safe taking spots coming up so we just sat back for the long haul.
Boyo in a chavved out mk6 Golf GTD committed some of the worst overtakes I’ve ever seen.
Firstly pulls 3 cars behind me just to get behind me, forcing a car coming to hanker on. Idiot undeterred, however.
He then overtakes me around a swooping blind corner, and the first lorry, before bottling it and diving in forcing us to break.
He then sits behind 2 more lorry’s for about 5 miles before he has a clear road up ahead. Overtakes the 2 Lorry’s to take the next turn off some half mile further up the road.
Utter moron putting plenty of people’s lives in danger, for what eventually saved him about 45 seconds to his turn off.
axel1990chp said:
Driving to Edinburgh on Thursday, on a stretch of the A1 where it’s mainly single carriage-way I got caught short of overtaking 3 wagons on the dual carriage way stint before hand.
They were plodding a respectable 55 which wasn’t too bad, but I knew there wasn’t any safe taking spots coming up so we just sat back for the long haul.
Boyo in a chavved out mk6 Golf GTD committed some of the worst overtakes I’ve ever seen.
Firstly pulls 3 cars behind me just to get behind me, forcing a car coming to hanker on. Idiot undeterred, however.
He then overtakes me around a swooping blind corner, and the first lorry, before bottling it and diving in forcing us to break.
He then sits behind 2 more lorry’s for about 5 miles before he has a clear road up ahead. Overtakes the 2 Lorry’s to take the next turn off some half mile further up the road.
Utter moron putting plenty of people’s lives in danger, for what eventually saved him about 45 seconds to his turn off.
People who overtake/drive like nobs to get absolutely nowhere make me chuckle, it's the ones in heavy traffic on a multi lane road, always the same types, chaved up older German car, smoked number plates, loud exhaust, blacked out rear lights, they are easy to clock as they are driving like muppets, in and out of lanes, cutting people up, heavy on the accelerator, heavy on the brakes, invariably they either end up where they started or just a car or 2 ahead, all that stressful driving for zero gain.They were plodding a respectable 55 which wasn’t too bad, but I knew there wasn’t any safe taking spots coming up so we just sat back for the long haul.
Boyo in a chavved out mk6 Golf GTD committed some of the worst overtakes I’ve ever seen.
Firstly pulls 3 cars behind me just to get behind me, forcing a car coming to hanker on. Idiot undeterred, however.
He then overtakes me around a swooping blind corner, and the first lorry, before bottling it and diving in forcing us to break.
He then sits behind 2 more lorry’s for about 5 miles before he has a clear road up ahead. Overtakes the 2 Lorry’s to take the next turn off some half mile further up the road.
Utter moron putting plenty of people’s lives in danger, for what eventually saved him about 45 seconds to his turn off.
A few weeks ago I was on my way to work, there were a couple of cyclists ahead, one was about 4-5 car lengths ahead of the other, I was on a residential street with plenty of bends, I couldn't see far enough ahead for a clear road, I could have overtaken cyclist no.1 easily, however if I needed to abort overtaking cyclist no.2 it would have been tight pulling infront of cyclist no.1, likely causing them distress so I hung back, behind me was a Clio right up my arse, being impatient.
Finally the road straightened out enough for me to get a clear view ahead enabling me to safely pass the 2 cyclists, right indicator on, checked my drivers side mirror and just caught a glimpse of the black Clio, the d
head was overtaking me and powered ahead to overtake the cyclists, he then stopped at a red light up ahead, which was green when he made the move but anyone with half a brain would likely think "light is green I'm a fair bit back, it will most likely be red by the time I get there", he made a potentially dangerous move to get 1 car ahead of me!!^^^
Fortunately there are relatively few absolute dheads on the road. I've only met three oncoming vehicles on my side of the road in the last 40yrs or so, but each of those was far too close for comfort.
The flatbed Transit flying over a blind brow on a single track road with it's suspension on full droop precipitated the fitment of a dashcam - if only to provide the finer details of how we have met our untimely end.
He had fast reactions, plowing through the heather covered embankment to his near side, dragging half of it back onto the road behind us.
We were in our Prius and the wedge shaped front end would have had him hit at windscreen level. I would dearly have loved to have a 'chat' with the ahole.
Fortunately there are relatively few absolute d
heads on the road. I've only met three oncoming vehicles on my side of the road in the last 40yrs or so, but each of those was far too close for comfort.The flatbed Transit flying over a blind brow on a single track road with it's suspension on full droop precipitated the fitment of a dashcam - if only to provide the finer details of how we have met our untimely end.
He had fast reactions, plowing through the heather covered embankment to his near side, dragging half of it back onto the road behind us.
We were in our Prius and the wedge shaped front end would have had him hit at windscreen level. I would dearly have loved to have a 'chat' with the a
hole.My mate has a flagpole and a nicer bloke you could not meet..
He flies the Manx flag during the TT, the Black Country flag, because he is a Yam Yam and an assortment of others, the Iron Maiden Eddie the Trooper one being my favourite.
Much healthier than anything of a nationalistic bent, I always find the US fetish of house and garden flags a bit weird.
He flies the Manx flag during the TT, the Black Country flag, because he is a Yam Yam and an assortment of others, the Iron Maiden Eddie the Trooper one being my favourite.
Much healthier than anything of a nationalistic bent, I always find the US fetish of house and garden flags a bit weird.
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