Why the **** can't people drive?!
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How exactly did they come up with that statistic?
that barely happens here anyway, its like a race to the empty till when a new one opens.
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out of their **** I expect! I can only comment from purely subjective experience, but considering the traffic density in France compared to the UK, I found driving standards to be much, much worse. In city's it was just scary, but what really got me was when I was going around a road with sheer 100m+ drops on the side, driving at a pretty rapid pace, only to be overtaken on a blind corner by a car that was practically on 2 wheels. Incredible.
merge in lanes do cause my blood pressure to rise slightly, I always always let one car in, what annoys me is when the car behind him thinks he is allowed to push in too that depending on the day/mood can annoy me
the thing that winds me up more than anything ever, is motorway junctions with big long queues, where people fly up lane two and turn in at the last minute, generally grinding lane two traffic to a halt because the sensible queuing public have no room to let the selfish christian/female/rover/bmw driver in. I go utterly mental when I see people do this, its selfish, not remotely "merge in" and positively dangerous.
the thing that winds me up more than anything ever, is motorway junctions with big long queues, where people fly up lane two and turn in at the last minute, generally grinding lane two traffic to a halt because the sensible queuing public have no room to let the selfish christian/female/rover/bmw driver in. I go utterly mental when I see people do this, its selfish, not remotely "merge in" and positively dangerous.
I have an old Cherry PS2 keyboard (with the little feet pronged outwards) on hand for those very occasions.
I thought you just used the passat as a battering ram?
PS Did you manage to get rid of it, or is my memory faulty?
i have a length of scaffold pole which knocks wingmirrors off very nicely, in the s2k/boxster i also used to have a collection of small off cuts of flint I'd flick with great skill at the windscreens of offenders to great effect.
for the sake of legality I'll pretend I'm making this up
It's parked outside, laughing at me and talking to the other cars in the car park about me.
I hate it.
people who cut in, got no issue with the people who refuse to let them in
this is especially true for taxi drivers who are supposed to be professional drivers (lol), I'll sit there all day long before I let them in. One classic example is on the embankment, road splits into three lanes, lane three being the right turn lane up to trafalgar square, people queue up all the way back down embankment (correctly) and cabs drive all the way up to front of the queue and push in, given coaches park in lane one this blocks the whole of lane two thanks to the "professional drivers" inability to drive.
this is especially true for taxi drivers who are supposed to be professional drivers (lol), I'll sit there all day long before I let them in. One classic example is on the embankment, road splits into three lanes, lane three being the right turn lane up to trafalgar square, people queue up all the way back down embankment (correctly) and cabs drive all the way up to front of the queue and push in, given coaches park in lane one this blocks the whole of lane two thanks to the "professional drivers" inability to drive.
To be fair to me (and my brethren) I am not talking about cutting in. I am talking about people not using a lane that they are supposed to use.
They aren't cutting in though. They are trying to merge. But none of the numpties in lane 1 left a space in front for a car to merge into.
It only appears as though they are "cutting in" because no space has been left. But that is the fault of the braindead zombies in lane 1.
Any time you feel like getting angry at people "cutting in" immediately stop yourself and instead think "why am I not using that lane as well!?"
It's funny how when there is a double or triple breadth queue to get into a shop or say a night club that it is usually very much an orderly process where people are courteous and respect that each "lane" of the queue should get an opportunity to enter the premises. But as soon as these very same people are cocooned in a steel and glass bubble called a car they turn into "**** OFF ME FIRST ME FIRST!!!11
" apes.
It only appears as though they are "cutting in" because no space has been left. But that is the fault of the braindead zombies in lane 1.
Any time you feel like getting angry at people "cutting in" immediately stop yourself and instead think "why am I not using that lane as well!?"
It's funny how when there is a double or triple breadth queue to get into a shop or say a night club that it is usually very much an orderly process where people are courteous and respect that each "lane" of the queue should get an opportunity to enter the premises. But as soon as these very same people are cocooned in a steel and glass bubble called a car they turn into "**** OFF ME FIRST ME FIRST!!!11
" apes.Oh, lets not get into an argument here. I agree with you. However Will Gill's rant sounds like a true case of cutting in, ie using a filter lane to get further forward then switching lane.
oh it definitely is, if I'm truely bored ill try and video it and include my colourful language, it brightens my day to see a cab going for their customary cut in only to have it blocked by me sitting there swearing at them and pointing to the turning half a mile up the road which will have them sitting in trafffic for an extra 15 minutes
Lots of these on the A38.
Also there's a certain type who seems to treat their trip as a "game" - i.e can I make it to my destination whilst being the fastest thing on the road?
Admittedly if they want to do 100+MPH then that's their choice, I just let them past so they can get on with it. But some people do 80 and then can't seem to take the fact that others are going faster. So they tend to block the overtaking lane. Then when I move across they straddle both lanes. And if I get past they speed up to 100 to re-overtake and then rinse and repeat.
I also had some ***** looking type in a Polo today swerve and almost hit the central barrier because he seemed more concerned about swiveling his head 180 degrees to stare at me than watching the road in front.
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oh it definitely is, if I'm truely bored ill try and video it and include my colourful language, it brightens my day to see a cab going for their customary cut in only to have it blocked by me sitting there swearing at them and pointing to the turning half a mile up the road which will have them sitting in trafffic for an extra 15 minutes
I think I speak for everyone here when I ask for this...
Post a link to the vids?
Well I had a first today (for me at least) regarding merging onto a dual carriageway.
A chap decided that rather than move into lane 2 on the relatively empty A19 (I was 3 cars behind, around 500yards back I'd say) to let somebody in a punto out of a slip road, he'd prefer to stop dead to let them out.
Cue a van, possibly not paying much attention, having to slam on his anchors and swerve around said idiot. Luckily myself and the car in front of me had seen what this numpty had done and moved over into lane 2 in sufficient time.
The worst thing was, the punto joining the a19 looked to be happy enough to join behind the idiot (they were braking at the same time, which to me implies that they were going to pull out behind them), however seemed to have been forced to join in front of him.
Safe to say, the retard then tailgates the punto
A chap decided that rather than move into lane 2 on the relatively empty A19 (I was 3 cars behind, around 500yards back I'd say) to let somebody in a punto out of a slip road, he'd prefer to stop dead to let them out.
Cue a van, possibly not paying much attention, having to slam on his anchors and swerve around said idiot. Luckily myself and the car in front of me had seen what this numpty had done and moved over into lane 2 in sufficient time.
The worst thing was, the punto joining the a19 looked to be happy enough to join behind the idiot (they were braking at the same time, which to me implies that they were going to pull out behind them), however seemed to have been forced to join in front of him.
Safe to say, the retard then tailgates the punto
I think I speak for everyone here when I ask for this...
Post a link to the vids?
havent made any yet, I'll toy with the idea when im next there, you can absolutely set your watch by them doing it every single day so I suppose it wouldnt take long to capture