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 Posted: 18:52 - 09 Aug 2009 Post subject: So what does it for you? |
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Whilst doing my now unfortunately all too regular motorway jaunt between homes I saw all the nobbish behavior you can on the roads of modern britain and it got me to wondering...
What annoys you most on the roads today?
People on phones? Tailgating? Being cut up?
Me personally I have to say its the people on the phone. Where as my other two examples can simply be caused by someone being a complete moron being on the phone to me means they are conscientiously endangering other road users because telling (or even worse txting ) someone how drunk they were last night simply cant wait.
So please join me in venting... |
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| The Shaggy D.A. |
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Things that annoy me du jour...
people who won't do the speed limit, nor attempt to get close to it.
people who don't use slip roads to match the speed of the traffic they're joining, then stop at the end and wait for a gap.
people who don't drive up to the line at junctions when turning right, instead they wait half a car's length away stopping me from turning left.
people who sit at a green light in the filter left lane, because they really wanted to go straight on but that light is red.
people who take a ticket at the hospital car park barrier then drive forward 10 feet and stop, whilst wondering where to park, stopping anyone else from clearing the barrier.
These are not problems I have when on the bike, however  ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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| The Shaggy D.A. |
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Which reminds me...
People who think that indicating means "I am now going to perform this manoeuvre" rather than "I intend to perform this manoeuvre". ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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people: everything about them and everything they do
anyone going faster than me is a crazy fool
anyone going slower than me is causing delays and shouldn't be on the roads
anyone criticising me or my driving/riding is a safety nazi
anyone who does something I can criticise is a dangerous idiot
anyone who pulls out in a hurry is being an impatient arsehole
anyone taking their time must be a hesitant OAP who should have their license taken away
and so on
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People who don't use the marked out boxes when turning right!!!
People who overtake push bikes and decide they have to use the whole of the other lane to do it? Its usually OAPs... ____________________ Honda SFX50 > Aprilia SR125 > Aprilia RS125 > Honda RFV400 > K4 GSXR600 > KTM Duke > C1H 636 > K3 GSXR1000 > Aprilia RSV-R > Triumph Street Triple R > Ducati 899 Panigale > Aprilia Tuono 1100 > Triumph Daytona 675R > KTM SuperDuke 1290 2.0 |
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people who ignore the 2 car rule when turning at traffic lights. Think they can squeese in and then make is so no other twat can get out at the lights.
When i see people on the phone a nice hard smack on the window with a few shouts about the phone and they soon put it down.
And cyclists who jusp the lights. I have them a nice shout aswell. Usally "What fucking highway code did you fucking read!" Or something simular.  |
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In no particular order:
Tossers who purposely try to stop me overtaking and usually force me into the opposite side of the road.
People who never indicate.
People who run red lights.
Joy riders/illegal drivers/foreign drivers.
Boy racers and juvenile car drivers who always see bikes as an excuse to tailgate and push for a race
Dickhead ped boys who ride side by side all the time like a pair of sissys.
and i suppose in general....i just hate everybody else on the roads
Had a bizzare encounter the other day too.Just done a roundabout and was belting down a wide stretch of open road when i noticed all the cars were stopped dead in the opposite lane (without reason ).
There`s also a car stopped in my lane up ahead too so i start to slow down.As i get there i see i both cars are filled with arrogant liitle fucktards just chit chatting through the windows and giving all the other cars the middle finger/verbal abuse even though they`re the ones in the wrong by holding everyone up.
I can`t get up the middle coz they`re too close to each other so i flash the twats,beep the horn,then move to the nearside to undertake.Just as i get alongside he floors it and tries to run me into the kerb.I brake/pull back then come up on the drivers side and start shouting "WTF??" and to my surprise the little cunt turns the wheel towards to me as if to imply he`ll knock me off if i dont move.
Needless to say....i dissapeared off into the horizon before things got any worse.!!!  |
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The main things that annoy me are:
People who stay in the overtaking lane on the motorway when there's nothing in the slow lane and sit in it at 60mph.
People who drive at 40mph everywhere.
People who stop at the end of slip roads or people who generally just can't figure out how to use sliproads.
Cars overtaking other cars on the motorway really slowly when it's busy making all the other traffic back up behind it (lorries doing this does not annoy me as they're just doing they're job and working with what they've got, tourist in his people carrier full of kids and holiday stuff doing it does my head right in though, just stick your foot down for 10 seconds!)
It's mainly motorway stuff that annoys me, I can cope pretty well with people being idiots in towns and the like but when people can't drive on motorways where it's pretty hard to get it wrong that's when I get really annoyed.
| Skudd wrote: | Sports bike riders who will do 90mph on a twisty B- road but only 75mph on the motorway. |
Why does that annoy you? I do that pretty much, I don't get any thrills from doing 90mph on a motorway but doing a similar speed on a non motorway road is usually a bit more involved. As long as they're not hogging the overtaking lane then what's the problem? I think (well in North Wales anyway) you're probably more likely to get done for speeding on a motorway, the amount of people I've seen pulled over on the A55 by North Wales Police HQ is crazy.
| Ste wrote: | anyone going faster than me is a crazy fool
anyone going slower than me is causing delays and shouldn't be on the roads
anyone criticising me or my driving/riding is a safety nazi
anyone who does something I can criticise is a dangerous idiot
anyone who pulls out in a hurry is being an impatient arsehole
anyone taking their time must be a hesitant OAP who should have their license taken away
and so on
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Starting with my biggest:
| The Shaggy D.A. wrote: | Things that annoy me du jour...
 people who won't do the speed limit, nor attempt to get close to it. |
Then, clowns that overtake pushbike's only to pull into a side road right after, making the pushbike slowdown; stop or scrape the side of the car.
I think everything else I could say is covered nicely here:
| Ste wrote: | people: everything about them and everything they do
anyone going faster than me is a crazy fool
anyone going slower than me is causing delays and shouldn't be on the roads
anyone criticising me or my driving/riding is a safety nazi
anyone who does something I can criticise is a dangerous idiot
anyone who pulls out in a hurry is being an impatient arsehole
anyone taking their time must be a hesitant OAP who should have their license taken away
and so on
everyone is wrong, no matter what they do. apart from me, who is always right, no matter what I do  |
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| KLR600 wrote: |  People who drive at 40mph everywhere. |
this one..
on the fairly rare occasions that i get to go somewhere for pleasure I love driving in the countryside.. B roads and such.
Seems every time I do however, I get caught by some doddering arse-candle, usually in some small Korean car that blatently screams "i traded my mint condition, beige, Austin Maestro in for this to celebrate the 10th anniversary of my retirement" who holds to the belief that it's perfectly acceptable to average out all the speed limit signs they encounter on their journey, leading to them sticking religiously to 45mph no matter where they are.
School Zones, 30limit village high-streets, b-roads, a-roads, motorways, doesn't matter.. Agnes and I've been driving for 166 years and never had an accident,, I long for the day when one of these people decides to drive Muriel down to Italy for the holiday sun and we get treated to the CCTV footage of them getting flattened by a 7Series BMW because they were doing 45mph on the Autobahn
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By driving an overpriced; overweight and unreliable tin can that reminds me of a chinese takeaway tin foil wrapper.
I'm joking, I'm all for the greener way of life when it's someone else making the effort.
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People.
Thats it  ____________________ Fallen Angel "Nae sniffing my seat now!!!!! "
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Car that pull out on me when im in the right hand land, going 40+, causing me to hammer on the brakes sharpish, because those 3 seconds of waiting for me to go past is asking far too much of their time.
But the kicker is when they do that and pull into the right hand lane to crawl slowly as fuck up to the speed limit, meaning I either undertake if it;s possible, or am left crawling behind them, frothing with anger as I wish them a rotting death and hope their ghosts get cancer too.
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Apart from everything listed, one that really fecks me off is when your stuck behind a long queue of traffic for a few miles, and as soon as an overtaking opportunity appears, the arse-wit infront of you (in a rover 25 no doubt) decides to go for it. Overtaking maybe 2 cars if they're lucky, at a pace about 5mph faster than the rest of the traffic, stopping me from making like a russian (Fuckoffski!) past the whole lot.  ____________________
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 16 years, 135 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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