Round-abouts and idiots.

shauncr91

shauncr91

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Seriously, why is it that when going using a round-about most motorists turn into complete 'tards?

You know the ones, those who turn left down the road you're pulling out from, but forget how to use indicators, making you need to come to a full stop for no reason.

And those who have absolutely no idea what side of the road to use when going around one.


Honestly, how on earth do these people pass their tests?

/rant over
 
Stressful day?

Some people are just ignorant to other road users, others are just simple and cannot comprehend good road behaviour, and the rest... they're just inconsiderate idiots who would have died out due to natural selection years ago if the government didn't put all those "common sense" warnings everywhere (like fog warning signs etc...)
 
That really annoys me too. I think a lot of people don't bother indicating on roundabouts when they're going straight ahead as they think they don't need to.
 
Gods yes, have had arguments as a passenger with several people who seem to think it's absolutely correct to continue indicating right even when exiting a roundabout.
 
Road users are just getting increasingly lazy and therefore selfish. I consider myself to be really considerate. I also HATE roundabouts for this reason and do my best to get trhough them quickly and safely without peeing off the masses of people who all come to a stop and stare at each other, then all set off at the same flipping time.

The main issue is the number of inappropriate roundabouts that the council have lovingly implemented and managed to spend millions on, but still don't address the 4"+ pot holes 100 yards down the road.


Now its darker and grimmer up north than usual at the moment, I'm noticing a lot of people who just can't be arsed to use their lights either. Yes it's not officially dark, but you can't see **** due to the driving rain and overcast sky.
 
Dup said:
The main issue is the number of inappropriate roundabouts that the council have lovingly implemented and managed to spend millions on, but still don't address the 4"+ pot holes 100 yards down the road.

Now its darker and grimmer up north than usual at the moment, I'm noticing a lot of people who just can't be arsed to use their lights either. Yes it's not officially dark, but you can't see **** due to the driving rain and overcast sky.
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Don't forget councils who make fancy weird roundabouts.

As for lights, had a huge rain shower and hail other day, about 75% of the cars didn't have their lights on when the visibility was about 5m :/
I had lights and fogs on :D
 
Dano said:
Gods yes, have had arguments as a passenger with several people who seem to think it's absolutely correct to continue indicating right even when exiting a roundabout.
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That one really ****s me off, do they think they are somehow above the rules of the road, and that they should disregard what they were taught and tested on :mad:

The amount of people who don't even seem to understand the most simple rule of giving way to the right on a roundabout astounds me too. There is a mini roundabout at the bottom of my street where I usually turn right. The amount of times I've nearly been taken out by someone failing to give way from the left is amazing, happened just today too, some old duffer in a Seat :/ I often cycle that way too and being on a pedal cycle seems to increase their willingness to run into you even more.
 
the clowns who carry on around the roundabout without indicating at all, or in totally the wrong lane just to save a couple places in a queue, regardless of causing an accident being an almost dead cert

picking peanuts out of dog poo springs to mind
 
Yeah, one of my parents had a ding on a roundabout thanks to someone in a left hooker just swapping lanes right into them - evidently they weren't used to roundabouts, they were certainly not from this country with it's thousands, but at least they had insurance.
 
The other day i was waiting at a roundabout, guy on the other side coming on indicating left to exit out onto the road, just as well i never moved as he just came flying round across the roundabout. If i was to have moved then had to break suddenly of course id be the one geting the evil eye when it was him giving a misleading indication.

More of the larger roundabouts seem to be getting fitted with lights so only portions can move at a time, makes getting on an off them far easier instead of playing the "is this tit indicating properly?" guessing game.
 
I prefer people to not signal than to signal incorrectly.

It's easy enough to judge where the car will be by looking at its angle on the road and its front wheels tell you where it is going to be.
 
Gerard said:
The other day i was waiting at a roundabout, guy on the other side coming on indicating left to exit out onto the road, just as well i never moved as he just came flying round across the roundabout. If i was to have moved then had to break suddenly of course id be the one geting the evil eye when it was him giving a misleading indication.

More of the larger roundabouts seem to be getting fitted with lights so only portions can move at a time, makes getting on an off them far easier instead of playing the "is this tit indicating properly?" guessing game.
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It isn't as much of a problem on large round-abouts a find, it's more on small ones around local estates where people just think about themselves and nothing else.

Trifid said:
I prefer people to not signal than to signal incorrectly.

It's easy enough to judge where the car will be by looking at its angle on the road and its front wheels tell you where it is going to be.
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Generally by this point you're too close to the roundabout so have either stopped, or are going too fast in relation to the distance to the roundabout to be able to stop anyway.
 
One time this guy in a new shape civic on my right was indicating left as he was coming onto the roundabout, so I pull out, and he decides that although he was indicating left, he actually wanted to go straight on, and had the audacity to beep at me!

So in a fit of rage I beeped back and was halfway round the roundabout so could see his face and gave him an angry look, he didn't seem so pleased with himself then.

After typing all of this out I see it is quite similar to above post.
 
Lane control at roundabouts is shocking in this country.

The amount of people that whilst in the outside lane will cut over the inside lane when going straight ahead is amazing.

Happened to me the other night - the guy nearly forced me into the roundabout! I peeped my horn, next thing he speeds away, pulls over and jumps out his car looking at the wheels? Must've though I was peeping because something was wrong with his car, what a tube!
 
What are people views generally on having traffic lights on big round abouts... wouldn't it be better then to have just normal cross section traffic lights like in the states? I for one prefer having round abouts instead of 4-way give way junctions or junctions with traffic signals? So when they start putting traffic lights on most big round abouts (obviously with exception to very busy, complex ones) surely it's a backwards step?
 
shauncr91 said:
Generally by this point you're too close to the roundabout so have either stopped, or are going too fast in relation to the distance to the roundabout to be able to stop anyway.
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I can happily do this approaching at ~10mph. Obviously this doesn't work if you can't see the roundabout from a distance but you shouldn't be approaching fast anyway. Especially on small to medium sized ones.
 
People are stupid.

I had some weapons-grade bell end in an old Mazda hatchback meander out right infront of me on a mini roundabout the other day, then thought it'd be best to give ME the finger when I gestured him! Same happened when someone the next day squeezed out between me and a bus on a roundabout, and gave me a two-fingered salute when I gave him a blast of the horn. GRR "sorry" is the appropriate reaction you idiotic wastes of DNA :mad:
 
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