Another Bint on the hard shoulder....
Another Bint on the hard shoulder....
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tvradict

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3,829 posts

304 months

Wednesday 11th January 2006
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This is starting to annoy me more and more, it seems after the publicity that bint on the M6 got, people now think it is acceptable to park on the side of a dual carriageway/motorway.

I was listening to R1 this morning, Chris Moyles, Celebrity Tarzan. Some dozy bint from norfolk phones in, with 10 seconds she says 'I'm on the hard shoulder on the M25 which is making me a little bit nervous'

So she decides she wants to phone into a radio show so stops on the hard shoulder of the M25 at 8 in the morning to do it


It does not stop there however, with my blood suitably boiled, I venture out onto a dual carriageway, there is a particular section which is a gentle left hand bend, but it is tree lined and this reduces visibility slightly, round the bend to be confronted by a newish Polo parked up at the side (there is no hard shoulder), left indicator on, driver on the phone. This is the 3rd car I have seen like this in a few months, I really hope this doesn't become common.

And just as a side rant, does anyone else get really when they are asked to go to X Company on Y Street in Z Town. They go to Y Street in Z Town and start hunting for X Company. After 10 minutes get fed up hunting, so phone the office/boss only for them to tell you, 'Oh, Actually its A Company, not X' and you've passed A Company 4 times

princeperch

8,288 posts

277 months

Thursday 12th January 2006
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when I was coming onto the M11 the other day at harlow, I got some complete cock reversing up the slip lane to go back from whence he came.

Unbelievable the morons that have a licence to drive. unbelievable.

KB_S1

5,967 posts

259 months

Thursday 12th January 2006
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My GF and a few friends went to a club in Sheffield a few years back involved a 5am drive home of 4hrs. GF wakes up in passenger seat to find car parked on hard shoulder of M6 with driver sleeping.
Major flakey and 2 mins later my GF took over the driving duties.
Friend still cannot understand stupidity of actions.

Pot Bellied Fool

2,264 posts

267 months

Thursday 12th January 2006
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tvradict said:

So she decides she wants to phone into a radio show so stops on the hard shoulder of the M25 at 8 in the morning to do it

ARGH!!!

Mind you, I heard a snippet on Jeremy Vine (Radio 2 for the yoof element of PH! ) where someone rang in...

Caller: Yak... yak... yak...

Unknown voice: What do you think you're doing... Sir?

Caller: I'm on the phone to Jeremy Vine...

Unknown Voice: < incredulous tone > But Sir, you're on the hard shoulder of the M1..!

Jeremy Vine: Perhaps we'll leave that call there and move on...

I do hope the < unknown voice > had a pad of fixed penalty forms attached!

chrisgr31

14,285 posts

285 months

Thursday 12th January 2006
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KB_S1 said:
My GF and a few friends went to a club in Sheffield a few years back involved a 5am drive home of 4hrs. GF wakes up in passenger seat to find car parked on hard shoulder of M6 with driver sleeping.
Major flakey and 2 mins later my GF took over the driving duties.
Friend still cannot understand stupidity of actions.


I believe that there was a cort case involving someone sleeping on the hard shoulder of the motorway. I seem to recall they were let off, as whilst sleeping on the hard shoulder was dangerous it wasn't as dangerous as driving when about to go to sleep!

However it might have been appealled or I might have it wrong!

deva link

26,934 posts

275 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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KB_S1 said:

Major flakey and 2 mins later my GF took over the driving duties.

Hope she was insured?
KB_S1 said:

Friend still cannot understand stupidity of actions.

What, thinking it would be OK to drive for 4 hrs, starting at 5AM after being in a club all night (and presumeably awake most of the previous day)?

Imadreamer

353 posts

276 months

Sunday 15th January 2006
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I heard that on the Chris Moyles show as well, and she didn't say why she was on the hard shoulder, i.e. it's a fair chance she'd broken down and was waiting for recovery don't you think that it's a bit premature to start ranting about it?

_dobbo_

14,619 posts

278 months

Monday 16th January 2006
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I once saw a man weaving down the hard shoulder of the M5 on a push bike - the WRONG WAY!!! With a police range rover reversing behind him... Quite high up on the list of weirdest things I've ever seen, just above seeing "superman" crossing the road this morning.

Or at least a ginger superman. Anyway, back to work.

streaky

19,311 posts

279 months

Tuesday 17th January 2006
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_dobbo_ said:
I once saw a man weaving down the hard shoulder of the M5 on a push bike - the WRONG WAY!!! With a police range rover reversing behind him... Quite high up on the list of weirdest things I've ever seen, just above seeing "superman" crossing the road this morning.

Or at least a ginger superman. Anyway, back to work.
At last, a positive remark (I assume - S) to counter the homophobic feelings that are so widely displayed today that seemingly vast police and CSP resources are deployed to deal with them - Streaky

tvradict

Original Poster:

3,829 posts

304 months

Tuesday 7th February 2006
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Imadreamer said:
I heard that on the Chris Moyles show as well, and she didn't say why she was on the hard shoulder, i.e. it's a fair chance she'd broken down and was waiting for recovery don't you think that it's a bit premature to start ranting about it?


Well no, not really. Lets face it, if your broken down on the hard shoulder during rush would get out of the car, and go over the crash barrier out of harms way and wait for the very nice man in the yellow van, or would you sit in the car and phone in to some silly competition on Radio 1.

If I was broken down on the M25 Radio1 would be the last thing on my mind.

purpleheadedcerb

1,143 posts

252 months

Tuesday 7th February 2006
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I don't know. Being on the phone to Chris Moyles or even listening to his show would induce suicide.

Davi

17,153 posts

250 months

Tuesday 7th February 2006
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Dumbest bint I've come across for a long time is the one in the 4x4 merc that I have to navigate past in the morning. Always either doing her hair/makeup or like today, eating her breakfast - which BTW was not a handy bar of food or something, it was a pot of yoghurt - pot in one hand, spoon in the other -how many hands does that leave for the wheel? She even had the gaul to get abusive when I blared my horn in response to her drifting rapidly towards the side of my car (obviously legs not quite long enough to steer with

jazzyjeff

3,652 posts

289 months

Wednesday 8th February 2006
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Davi said:
She even had the gaul to get abusive when I blared my horn in response to her drifting rapidly towards the side of my car (obviously legs not quite long enough to steer with


Nah - you'd probably find she was balancing a hot cup of tea between her legs

c3ber

4,714 posts

253 months

Wednesday 8th February 2006
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Just a quick one... BINT is arabic for girl. Now you know...LOL

tr7v8

7,623 posts

258 months

Thursday 9th February 2006
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c3ber said:
Just a quick one... BINT is arabic for girl. Now you know...LOL


To be pedantic young girl...