One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5

[Watcher of the skies]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Pit Pony said:

lancslad58 said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Unfortunately that has become the case.

Some gimp on Twitter posted a picture of a union flag with the comment "I'm proud of my flag, why shouldn't I be?" He got very confused by my comment of "yeah it looks great in the corner of mine".

Not the response he was looking for I suspect.

No need to be confused. I suspect Jordie is from a land far away that used to belong to Great Britian.

Sort of still does.

Often belongs to England at world cups

[Muddle238]

Knobheads who come up behind a small car and immediately feel the need to drive as closely as possible behind it.

I'm usually behind the wheel of one of our estate cars, which usually is absolutely fine. Then every so often, I pick up the keys to our supermini city car, and immediately I'll have somebody latched to the rear bumper. I'm not driving it any differently to the estate cars; my speeds are the same yet for some reason the little car must be bullied by larger road users at all costs. What pisses me off is that having had a tailgater rear-end us in the past due to, er, tailgating, the faffage of dealing with insurance companies, claims paperwork, body repair centres, then increased premiums thanks to a non-fault claim on the record for the next five years, is a massive ballache.

Had it today, tailgated despite being stuck behind slower moving traffic. Where exactly would you like me to go? I would dearly love to travel at the NSL, but there is a dawdling van infront of me that, you might be able to see, if you looked further than my rear bumper. That is why I am doing 40mph. Filling my rearview mirror with the front of your vehicle isn't going to magically make me disappear, nor the dawdler ahead. Eventually when we got to a straight, the tailgating butt nugget seemed surprised that I fked off into the distance, finally having an opportunity to overtake said dawdler.

[Sebring440]

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

[McLarenLad]

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

I think what they're trying to say, is people who don't follow the outside curvature of a roundabout and instead treat it like an apex(?) annoys them.

I think...

Edited by McLarenLad on Wednesday 17th April 22:45

[LunarOne]

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

[stogbandard]

McLarenLad said:

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

I think what they're trying to say, is people who don't follow the outside curvature of a roundabout and instead treat it like an apex(?) annoys them.

I think...

Edited by McLarenLad on Wednesday 17th April 22:45

New roundabouts have got worse in having opposing curves and the type of entry angles as well that make knobs drift across lanes. Unfortunately geometry standards are not as knobproof as they were.

[Triumph Man]

Muddle238 said:

Knobheads who come up behind a small car and immediately feel the need to drive as closely as possible behind it.

I'm usually behind the wheel of one of our estate cars, which usually is absolutely fine. Then every so often, I pick up the keys to our supermini city car, and immediately I'll have somebody latched to the rear bumper. I'm not driving it any differently to the estate cars; my speeds are the same yet for some reason the little car must be bullied by larger road users at all costs. What pisses me off is that having had a tailgater rear-end us in the past due to, er, tailgating, the faffage of dealing with insurance companies, claims paperwork, body repair centres, then increased premiums thanks to a non-fault claim on the record for the next five years, is a massive ballache.

Had it today, tailgated despite being stuck behind slower moving traffic. Where exactly would you like me to go? I would dearly love to travel at the NSL, but there is a dawdling van infront of me that, you might be able to see, if you looked further than my rear bumper. That is why I am doing 40mph. Filling my rearview mirror with the front of your vehicle isn't going to magically make me disappear, nor the dawdler ahead. Eventually when we got to a straight, the tailgating butt nugget seemed surprised that I fked off into the distance, finally having an opportunity to overtake said dawdler.

I find this in my 29 year old bmw - which isn’t a small car but I suppose relatively low and narrow, vs my Discovery. Nobody seems to bully the discovery, but the bmw suffers from assuming it’s an old car so must be slow.

[Antony Moxey]

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

Pretty obvious really. Instead of following the curve of the roundabout (and staying in their lane), they treat the road as a normal 90 degree left hand bend as if the roundabout wasn't there.

[C5_Steve]

LunarOne said:

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

[C5_Steve]

Antony Moxey said:

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

Pretty obvious really. Instead of following the curve of the roundabout (and staying in their lane), they treat the road as a normal 90 degree left hand bend as if the roundabout wasn't there.

I'll be honest I also didn't have a clue what the post was on about but thanks for clarifying. I found it confusing as I have never once seen someone do that, what utter plank is driving onto the roundabout then taking a hard left??? Knobish behaviour indeed.

[Unreal]

C5_Steve said:

Antony Moxey said:

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

Pretty obvious really. Instead of following the curve of the roundabout (and staying in their lane), they treat the road as a normal 90 degree left hand bend as if the roundabout wasn't there.

I'll be honest I also didn't have a clue what the post was on about but thanks for clarifying. I found it confusing as I have never once seen someone do that, what utter plank is driving onto the roundabout then taking a hard left??? Knobish behaviour indeed.

It's bloody obvious what he was trying to convey. Let me summarise - people taking weird lines to get to their exit or changing lanes between an entry and exit point with no other exit between them.

As for other knobs, those that crawl past you when you are making perfectly decent progress, maybe even above the limit, and then slow down once past you. Just why?

[RazerSauber]

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Plenty of this on a major roundabout near me. 3 lanes, left lane is left only (first and 2nd exits). Very common to take the left only lane, drift into the middle lane and then take the 2nd exit is infuriating. Having no lane markings on the roundabout doesn't help. Driving in a staggered formation works as long as other drivers do the same.

[donkmeister]

I'll keep an eye out for that, but can't say I've seen it round here. Mostly seems to be:

1) inappropriate straight lining (i.e. when there's other people to see you do it, you are stuffing up the flow of a roundabout)
2) over-abouting (aka The Dashcam Warrior approach)

I've also seen a couple of "go the wrong way round the roundabout to turn right" manoeuvres, where I've later seen the same battered Toyotas picking up delivery service food from a McDonalds.

[C5_Steve]

Unreal said:

C5_Steve said:

Antony Moxey said:

Sebring440 said:

Hackney said:

Not my finest work, but people who rather than go around the roundabout go…..well around an opposing curve. Particularly when it’s a wide, two lane but unmarked roundabout like the one near work.

Haven't got a clue what your post is about.

Pretty obvious really. Instead of following the curve of the roundabout (and staying in their lane), they treat the road as a normal 90 degree left hand bend as if the roundabout wasn't there.

I'll be honest I also didn't have a clue what the post was on about but thanks for clarifying. I found it confusing as I have never once seen someone do that, what utter plank is driving onto the roundabout then taking a hard left??? Knobish behaviour indeed.

It's bloody obvious what he was trying to convey. Let me summarise - people taking weird lines to get to their exit or changing lanes between an entry and exit point with no other exit between them.

As for other knobs, those that crawl past you when you are making perfectly decent progress, maybe even above the limit, and then slow down once past you. Just why?

No, it wasn't. I just told you I didn't get his point, as did at least one other person. I then explained I did understand so didn't need your summary ta. I also agree with the OP that it was indeed knobish.

Not sure why you felt the need to try and tell everyone something was obvious when it wasn't, it was obvious to you. Nothing wrong with getting a little clarity chap.

(it would have been more obvious if he'd drawn the lanes on FYI. As it was it just looked like a single land roundabout)

[Magikarp]

Muddle238 said:

Knobheads who come up behind a small car and immediately feel the need to drive as closely as possible behind it.

I'm usually behind the wheel of one of our estate cars, which usually is absolutely fine. Then every so often, I pick up the keys to our supermini city car, and immediately I'll have somebody latched to the rear bumper. I'm not driving it any differently to the estate cars; my speeds are the same yet for some reason the little car must be bullied by larger road users at all costs.

I get this when I drive my wife's Electric Smart. The most offended seem to be van drivers. They really ought to know that slipstreaming only works if the car in front is larger than yours.

[Tommo87]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Pit Pony said:

lancslad58 said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Unfortunately that has become the case.

Some gimp on Twitter posted a picture of a union flag with the comment "I'm proud of my flag, why shouldn't I be?" He got very confused by my comment of "yeah it looks great in the corner of mine".

Not the response he was looking for I suspect.

No need to be confused. I suspect Jordie is from a land far away that used to belong to Great Britian.

Sort of still does.

Was it once a large open air nick…?

[swisstoni]

I used to belong to a whole bunch of different people altogether.

[PomBstard]

Saw a black Audi Q5 yesterday - black wheels, dark tinted windows, blacked out rear lights - licence plate was

EVASION

Without seeing the driver or knowing anything else about them, I thought, “What a knob!”

[yellowjack]

People who swear black is white...

Tesco this morning. I'd just had my hair cut, got my steps in for the day, and was in a good mood. I only popped into Tesco for a big bottle of Pepsi. I headed for the self service tills, specifically picking the 'Cash and Card' side and not the 'Card Only' row of tills. Scan clubcard, scan item, press button for 'Finish and Pay'. Select the 'Cash' option and stuff two £1.00 coins in the slot marked 'Coins'. Select the 'Print Receipt' option too. So far, so good. The machine whirs, mechanical noises suggest change is on its way, and a 20p coin duly appears. Along with a message on screen saying "assistance is on its way - change owed = 21p"

Well, I was only short changed by a penny, so as the assistant approached I said I was happy to let a single penny slide, but the till would need clearing before it could be used again. So far, so good, again. Pepsi under my arm I toddled off. As I drew level on the other side of the "corral" she turned and said that it was "no wonder it's broken - this is a Card Only till".

WTF now? So we had a brief back-and-forth, where she insisted it was Card only, and I assured her that it's impossible for a card only till to accept and count coins, then calculate and dispense change. The only fault was clearly with the penny dispenser chute. All she seemed capable of saying was "it's card only, it's card only..." like some robotic toddler.

At this point I knew I needed to leave before I got barred from the store for calling a spade a spade, so I left her with "it's Cash AND Card. Follow the logic. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you." There was no persuading her, and she wouldn't back down even though she now had the machine open with the coin sorting machinery on display for all to see.

TL;DR? If you're wrong, and all available evidence shows you to be wrong, please don't double down. Politely apologise and back down. Thank you.

[C5_Steve]

yellowjack said:

People who swear black is white...

Tesco this morning. I'd just had my hair cut, got my steps in for the day, and was in a good mood. I only popped into Tesco for a big bottle of Pepsi. I headed for the self service tills, specifically picking the 'Cash and Card' side and not the 'Card Only' row of tills. Scan clubcard, scan item, press button for 'Finish and Pay'. Select the 'Cash' option and stuff two £1.00 coins in the slot marked 'Coins'. Select the 'Print Receipt' option too. So far, so good. The machine whirs, mechanical noises suggest change is on its way, and a 20p coin duly appears. Along with a message on screen saying "assistance is on its way - change owed = 21p"

Well, I was only short changed by a penny, so as the assistant approached I said I was happy to let a single penny slide, but the till would need clearing before it could be used again. So far, so good, again. Pepsi under my arm I toddled off. As I drew level on the other side of the "corral" she turned and said that it was "no wonder it's broken - this is a Card Only till".

WTF now? So we had a brief back-and-forth, where she insisted it was Card only, and I assured her that it's impossible for a card only till to accept and count coins, then calculate and dispense change. The only fault was clearly with the penny dispenser chute. All she seemed capable of saying was "it's card only, it's card only..." like some robotic toddler.

At this point I knew I needed to leave before I got barred from the store for calling a spade a spade, so I left her with "it's Cash AND Card. Follow the logic. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you." There was no persuading her, and she wouldn't back down even though she now had the machine open with the coin sorting machinery on display for all to see.

TL;DR? If you're wrong, and all available evidence shows you to be wrong, please don't double down. Politely apologise and back down. Thank you.

I imagine what she meant was that someone (probably her) should have put it in card-only mode but clearly as you'd been able to pay, they hadn't and as it hadn't been filled with coins to dispense change it short changed you. So rather than take it out on you she should have been apologising and having a word with herself

Totally agree with your point on those types of people, I used to work somewhere with ATMs and the number of people who would complain that the machine had failed to give back their card when in fact they had taken their card and put away already was staggering.

Conversations would usually go like this:

"Excuse me your machine has taken my card"
"Oh I'm sorry, did you get your cash?"
"Yes"
"Ok, are you sure you didn't take your card and put it away because it won't give you cash until you take the card"
"No it hasn't given me my card and I'm in a rush can you hurry up and get it!"
"No problem but would you mind humouring me and checking your wallet/purse etc because it'll take me longer to go and get it than you to check that first..."
"No I haven't got it" (without looking in said purse/wallet/pocket

A few moments later.....

"Right I've looked and it's not in the machine"
"Well where is it then because it's not in my..." (proceeds to open wallet/purse and find card)
"Is it in there"
"Yes"
"Right then enjoy your day"

When I tell you this would happen a few times a week, even when you'd tell them that a lot of people take the card and forget they'd still refuse to check first. Oh to be so sure of oneself.