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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 29, 2017 17:13:02 GMT
Walking back from the pub last night, with Evan on his bike and the dog on his lead beside me. On the footpath is a large SUV. Fully blocking the path. It was also at a bus stop, on the raised bit of kerb that the bus floor lowers to. And right up to the bus stop and street lamp post so that we had to wait for traffic to clear and walk in the road. Have a guess what make and model of large SUV it was. Go on. It's not difficult. X5/6 or RR Spurt? X6, naturally.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 7:28:20 GMT
There was a git-plated X5 parked at a jaunty angle in our local's one disabled space yesterday lunchtime (we were walking the dogs, honestly). As Mrs 12th said, it could still have a blue badge. It could, but I'd have bet it didn't.
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Post by Tim on Aug 30, 2017 13:31:09 GMT
On the commute home last night there was a cyclist coming the other way, at the top of a hill on a twisty road A road (the main road from Dundee to St Andrews. The queue behind him was approximately 1 mile long! It must be time to start creating proper cycle paths that separate them from the road?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 31, 2017 7:38:35 GMT
There was a git-plated X5 parked at a jaunty angle in our local's one disabled space yesterday lunchtime (we were walking the dogs, honestly). As Mrs 12th said, it could still have a blue badge. It could, but I'd have bet it didn't. We shouldn't stereotype but....
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 31, 2017 7:50:52 GMT
A few this morning who seemed to be having difficulty seeing me and pulling in to spaces that, in one particular case (yes, YOU cuntybaws in the shitty little C1) simply didn't exist!
Main villain this morning though was the old boot in a A6 avant who carved right across my front from the outside lane (wanky indicators on which, in her own mind at least, seemed to make the move acceptable) and down the slip I took seconds later. This is the same one many people use to try and cut out the stop-start curve in the M-way at that point.
Fine, something that happens a lot. Most will get down the slip, round the part of roundabout needed and away in fairly short order. Not this stupid woman, who dawdled down the centre of the road (easily wide enough for two Lambos!) then felt the need to wait for cars still coming out of the estate 1/4 of a mile away (only a slight exaggeration!) before she'd move! Thankfully, she'd moved left just enough that I could squeeze past, but SO unnecessary.
Aaaand breeeaaathe .. .. .. ..
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Post by johnc on Sept 5, 2017 9:06:21 GMT
On Saturday I had to take my daughter to Troon to play hockey which necessitates a trip down the A77. When leaving Glasgow, the road goes to 3 lanes up a long hill and after about a mile or a bit more, the outside lane ends and it returns to 2 lanes. The traffic was moving fairly slowly (about 45/50mph) in the two inside lanes as I got past a few of the dawdlers. When I was about 400/500 yds from the end of the outside lane I moved to the middle lane and came up behind a white, last gen Clio who wasn't even doing 40mph. I wondered if there was a queue in front of him but when I had a look, there was nothing in front, so I accelerated around him and back into the middle lane. I looked in my mirror as I pulled back in and the driver (who was on his own) was giving me a very long middle finger. The Audi which was behind me previously then pulled the same manoeuvre and he also got the finger. A mile or two later as I cruised along, a speeding Clio came up alongside me and the driver (a male about 30) was looking straight ahead but had his left hand out with his middle finger extended. I had two 13 yr old girls in the car and my daughter asked why he was doing that. I couldn't answer other than to say he was just a fool. I did wonder if he was some kind of camera warrior trying to provoke a reaction but he had better be very careful because that type of behaviour is likely to get him very badly hurt.
Yesterday, I was heading up the A80/A9 towards Stirling and then Perth and was catching an ambulance which was getting along pretty smartly. I was coming up for an overtake when he decided that he preferred the outside lane and he accelerated up to about 80 to get ahead. He pulled a small gap and then started to come back towards me as he slowed down to below 70. Finally, he passed the lorry he was trying to overtake, returned to the inside lane and just as I got going again, he started to pull away as his speed increased back up to about 80. I pulled back in behind him but when he went for his next overtake he did the same thing again and slowed down. He did this to me 4 or 5 times before we reached the average speed section of the A9 where he slowed down well below 70 and I sailed past on cruise. Very irritating.
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Post by michael on Sept 5, 2017 9:10:59 GMT
The dashcam warriors are a sad state of affairs. I saw a middles aged bloke park his Qashqui in a disabled space then walk into the supermarket over the weekend, no blue badge. Sure enough he had a dashcam mounted to presumably police the road by his own standards.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 10:02:29 GMT
Are these dashcams supposed to be used in case of an accident? It's what I thought they were for anyway.
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Post by michael on Sept 5, 2017 10:05:28 GMT
My brother told me his father in law has one and he uploads the content to send to the police.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 10:16:44 GMT
That must please the government immensely.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 5, 2017 16:27:35 GMT
That must please the government immensely. I can tell you that it pleases the police immensely. Not.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 18:29:59 GMT
What I mean is the government getting the public to report each other as an easier method if enforcing the law. Having to go through shed loads of 'evidence' strikes me as torture.
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 5, 2017 19:41:02 GMT
On Saturday I had to take my daughter to Troon to play hockey which necessitates a trip down the A77. When leaving Glasgow, the road goes to 3 lanes up a long hill and after about a mile or a bit more, the outside lane ends and it returns to 2 lanes. The traffic was moving fairly slowly (about 45/50mph) in the two inside lanes as I got past a few of the dawdlers. When I was about 400/500 yds from the end of the outside lane I moved to the middle lane and came up behind a white, last gen Clio who wasn't even doing 40mph. I wondered if there was a queue in front of him but when I had a look, there was nothing in front, so I accelerated around him and back into the middle lane. I looked in my mirror as I pulled back in and the driver (who was on his own) was giving me a very long middle finger. The Audi which was behind me previously then pulled the same manoeuvre and he also got the finger. A mile or two later as I cruised along, a speeding Clio came up alongside me and the driver (a male about 30) was looking straight ahead but had his left hand out with his middle finger extended. I had two 13 yr old girls in the car and my daughter asked why he was doing that. I couldn't answer other than to say he was just a fool. I did wonder if he was some kind of camera warrior trying to provoke a reaction but he had better be very careful because that type of behaviour is likely to get him very badly hurt.
Two friends and I were down the A77 on Saturday too, on our way to the Air Show. Lots of twats on the road, but none as bad as that!
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Post by Alex on Sept 5, 2017 22:42:00 GMT
My brother told me his father in law has one and he uploads the content to send to the police. All part of being in the big society!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 6, 2017 11:03:36 GMT
What I mean is the government getting the public to report each other as an easier method if enforcing the law. Having to go through shed loads of 'evidence' strikes me as torture. I don't really believe that is any different to how it has ever been except that evidence is far more readily available and technology, whilst increasing that availability, has also created more opportunities to commit offences. With regards dashcams, they have their place, especially in the case of serious RTCs but, of course, there are many whingers out there who wish to report every tiny indiscretion or mistake, simply because they caught it on camera.
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Post by Tim on Sept 6, 2017 12:05:49 GMT
there are many whingers out there who wish to report every tiny indiscretion or mistake, simply because they caught it on camera.
Have you seen the you tube stuff that some BMW touring motorbike mounted guy puts out as well?
Whingeing about people who have 2 wheels on the white line while going round a roundabout, etc. Petty.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:29:06 GMT
Unless it is the two front wheels.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 5:52:07 GMT
Prick in a Range Rover who parked right outside the door of the McDonald's in Frome so that everyone parked in the proper spaces had to do 5 point turns to get out. Did I say prick? I meant cunt!
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 15, 2017 9:05:39 GMT
Prick in a Range Rover who parked right outside the door of the McDonald's in Frome so that everyone parked in the proper spaces had to do 5 point turns to get out. Did I say prick? I meant cunt! A friend of mine lives on the lower part of quite a steep hill, and many of the people further up drive big SUVs, bigger saloons etc and will absolutely NOT give way to anyone going up the hill, instead firing up & down the hill at really stupid speeds. I've seen it myself when I've visited, some really don't have any regard whatsoever for the fact there are young kids around, and the cops seem unable to do anything either.. Anyway. I mentioned to him last night that with the plethora of engineering skills available in our flying club, it shouldn't be too difficult to rustle up our own version of a Stinger; just not sure (well, I am really!) where we'd stand legally .. .. .. Sounds that might be a good option for RR guy SimonP!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 10:51:13 GMT
City driving/drivers. So many are rude, dangerous gits.
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 15, 2017 16:10:02 GMT
North end of the M6.
That's it, nothing more, you can move along now .. .. ..
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 15, 2017 16:58:26 GMT
North end of the M6. That's it, nothing more, you can move along now .. .. .. All of the M6, surely?
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 15, 2017 21:55:03 GMT
North end of the M6. That's it, nothing more, you can move along now .. .. .. All of the M6, surely? Weeeell .. .. .. it usually has been any time I've ventured past Liverpool/Heysham (I.o.M. ferries you see) , so probably, yes!
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Post by scouse on Sept 20, 2017 14:31:20 GMT
I tend to find it's once you get past Junction 14 going North that the standard of driving on the M6 plummets.
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 21, 2017 7:24:23 GMT
Today's villain is the driver of a quite Quashqai who despite being in the outside lane of the Basingstoke ringroad, decided he needed the exit sliproad immediately on his left, so just put his indicator on and drove across 4 lanes of traffic, almost collecting me as he did so
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 21, 2017 8:39:16 GMT
I tend to find it's once you get past Junction 14 going North that the standard of driving on the M6 plummets. I tend to find that it is anything north of J1
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Post by Tim on Sept 21, 2017 10:44:28 GMT
Today's villain is the driver of a quite Quashqai who despite being in the outside lane of the Basingstoke ringroad, decided he needed the exit sliproad immediately on his left, so just put his indicator on and drove across 4 lanes of traffic, almost collecting me as he did so
That kind of activity is more and more common, I've even seen it at roundabouts where, surely, the least stressful option (to yourself and other road users) would be to simply turn right and go right round the roundabout!
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Post by Alex on Sept 21, 2017 11:19:21 GMT
Best bit of villainy this week was a RR Sport driver. I was sat at the front of the line in a right turn lane yesterday when he appeared in the clear straight ahead lane. Lights go green and he's put on his right indicator and cut around the front of me in a hail of wheelspin. It was a busy right turn and so I wasn't he only one who gave him a blast of my horn. He then stopped in the middle of the road holding us all up to let his two little angels out to run to their posh prep school. I suspect this is quite common behaviour in Esther and I doubt he felt he'd done anything wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 12:22:00 GMT
Sounds like a right cunt.
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Post by Tim on Sept 21, 2017 12:34:43 GMT
I suspect this is quite common behaviour in RRSpurt Land and I doubt he felt he'd done anything wrong. FYP
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