Irritations of the day...

[mistergixer]

Today, I have mostly been at the mercy of 2 of the most despicable sorts of person:

1) The traffic light wanker:

Traffic lights change colour - that's their job. Why then do some people seem so surprised that the traffic light at which they are waiting has changed from red to green (again)?? When I'm sat at a red light, I'm waiting till I can go again. I'm ready to move off. I want to move off.

Not so, the traffic light wanker. This wanker isn't ready to move off, they don't have the car in gear nor are they ready. No, the fact that the traffic light has changed to green again seems to be quite surprising to them. Once it has finally dawned on them, they still take an age to get going, and then inevitably dawdle*. Wankers.

2) The roundabout stopper:

Roundabouts are great - they aid traffic flow, plus you can put in a few fast laps and get your knee down around them. Marvellous. Roundabouts are everywhere, just have a think how many roundabouts you encounter on your daily commute, for example.

Why then, do so many people not know how they fucking work?? Give way to traffic from the right. That's the basic rule. Pretty fucking simple. Surely?

The clue is the difference between 'give way' and 'stop'. You don't have to stop at an empty roundabout, if there's nothing to give way to, don't give any way, just keep on going.

If you're a roundabout stopper, you stop at every roundabout, regardless. That means I too have to stop. Regardless. That means the car behind me also has to come to a complete stop....and so on. Before you know it, one wanker has caused a whole traffic queue.

The traffic light wanker and the roundabout stopper are evil people. They are stealing your life and costing you money. Sure, we're talking about mere seconds and pence for each infringement, but count it up over a long enough time line and you'll see just how long and how much you lose.



*Note: there is a special breed of traffic light wanker, who rather than dawdle, pulls away at great speed, thus making it appear that the person behind them is, in fact, the traffic light wanker.
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[Llama-Farmer]

battering rams should be fitted to the front of cars to punish roundabout stoppers

[anthony_r6]

I'm pretty sure most people don't know how to use roundabouts.
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[KLR600]

Traffic light wankers also do my head in. If I'm any less than 3 or 4 vehicles back from the traffic light I'm always ready to move off, even if it is bad habits to leave whatever I'm in/on in gear etc.

As far as roundabouts go, I remember my friend in college a few years ago had just passed his driving test and had started driving to college. As teenagers usually do we would spend hours avoiding lectures and just go for drives in his car. After a few hairy incidents on roundabouts where he'd just driven out without any care in the world I explained to him about giving way to the right to which he replied "Oooooh! I always wondered how roundabouts worked, they make sense now!". I was a little shocked to say the least, especially as he is usually an intelligent person.

Another thing that annoys me about roundabouts is grannys who think they're doing you a favour by letting you out onto the roundabout when they're already on it, it usually happens on mini roundabouts in my experience. I have no idea what's going through their heads...
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[hellkat]

My personal hatred is reserved for on-ramp stoppers.

Don't fucking well drive to the fucking end of the fucking onramp/sliproad and then fucking stop and wait for a fucking gap!

Godforsaken cornflake-packet-licence wankers!!

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[Kwaks]

Nothing worse than the cars which brake before indicating, ffs only 2 things in the order, why cant they get them right?
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[st3v3]

Among the very worst and most irritating types is the amber gamblers.

I like to play the flip side though, which is possible the worst where you have a nice clear run at a green but there's a twat behind you, so you speed up and the light wants to slow you down so it changes as you go hit the line... you get thru but the nice person nob behind you is stopped. I'm one of them.
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[Rogerborg]

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Mind you, I wish everyone at the first roundabout on my commute would treat it as a stop. Traffic from my left approaches down a steep hill at just the wrong angle, and I'm often hidden right behind the A pillar of a vehicle carrying a lot of speed all the way to the commit point. Two or three days a week start with a brown trouser moment, although the nearest miss so far has been with a pedalist who actually undertook as I was nursing the bike around in the wet.
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[Suntan Sid]

We have the more advanced traffic light onanist over here.
90% of cars on the road are autos, so when the lights change to red the car at the front of the queue starts creeping, they will go far enough so the traffic that has right of way has to steer round them, FFS.
To compound matters these, dozy, fuktards never seem to notice that the lights have actually changed and usually get left behind by traffic in the other lane.

The amber gamblers have taken it to a whole new level as well.
You know when you're a couple of yards from the lights and they change just as you're passing, a quick check in my mirror and I can guarantee at least 6 or 7 cars will follow.

There is one junction I have to negotiate, every day on my way to work, where these, fcukin', morons enter the junction knowing full well that the queue they're joining isn't going to move. This means they end up queuing across the junction blocking it for vehicles joining via the traffic lights from another road. Result fcukin' gridlock.

You only have to drive in the rush hour here to realise why there are only six other European countries that have worse accident statistics than Cyprus.
The vast majority of drivers here are total fcukin' idiots, most of them can't keep there cars on the right side of the road for more than 100 yards. Virtually everyone is constantly on a mobile, hardly anyone wears seat belts, kids sitting on the drivers knee, texting whilst riding a ped is one of my personal favourites!

I've seen more accident here, in the last 6 years, than I saw in the previous 40 in the UK.
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[Visitor Q]

Ha, you guys don't know how good the quality of driving in the UK is...

Fast, but good.

Except motorways... dicks need to learn how to use them *glare*
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[Nick 50]

My irritation:

The Filter Beeper

That car that pushes as far right as they can to stop you filtering. Then upon your navigating past their wee obstacle they start beeping their horn. Because we all know that because they are stuck in stationary traffic every other fucker must also.

One day, I will turn the bike around and go back an inquire as to what they wanted.
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The Traffic Copper

Complete cunts, never had a problem with them until last night. Admittedly it was just two of them, but until the others prove otherwise, they are all cunts.

Had to close part of a road off last night, had 4 cones and two signs, did a pretty good job, signs placed half a mile or so away, just after a slight bend, cars noticed it early. Yet when they come along, its all wrong and we shouldn't have done it
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[MarkJ]

One speed pricks are my nomination.

On any single carriageway NSL by me it's a fucking miracle if you ever follow someone who'll do more than 40mph on a single carriageway NSL road (individual vehicle speed limit permitting, of course). 35mph is the usual speed they'll do, which boils my piss. One of the roads is this one. Look how straight it is! You can see for miles and they'll happily plod along at a snails pace with a queue behind them because they're afraid of going over 40mph in case their head explodes.

But come to a 30 limit and they'll keep on doing 35mph.

ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Paulington]

As MarkJ has said above, but I'll continue it.

Around my area we have a lot of NSL --> 30mph limits and without fail you will always get a car that does 32mph ALL THROUGH the NSL and then as soon as they get to the 30mph limit, zoom, up to 40mph.

MFW --> . I don't get how they consider 32mph in a 60mph limit 'safe and fine' and then are happy doing 40mph in a 30mph zone? It boggles me. I've been tempted to stop next to them on the bike and inquire through their window what the heck they thought they were doing.

Also, as above, I cannot stand people who do this:

Brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, *five metres from corner*, INDICATE, brake, INDICATE, brake, turn.

That really boils my piss, you use indicators to signal what you are going to do. A right hand indicator means: "I intend to turn right at the next junction AND I will be braking so I can slow down enough to make the bend".

Yet somehow they are entirely happy with braking down to, basically, stopped and then slamming on their indicator. It drives me up the wall every time I see someone do it. !
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