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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 19:03:35 GMT
I only spent 2 quid on some chips to go with the sausages and eggs Mrs P was cooking at home. I have no problem with the smell of food in the car anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 19:42:17 GMT
Not hard to spend £10 on fish and chip now.
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 11, 2019 19:49:57 GMT
Not hard to spend £10 on fish and chip now. I'd be raging if I only got the one chip!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 22:36:37 GMT
It is a full 1Ib for the money though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 7:13:41 GMT
City and motorway driving. Had two people barge in in ways I considered particularly cuntious yesterday. First was a small white conveyance that took the wrong one of the two motorway slip roads and pulled in front of me with no space to spare and just before the road splits in two. I confess to pleasure at being able to undertake in traffic and flip the bird.
Then an XC90 at one of several stretches that briefly open up into two lanes and almost immediately go back to single. He stayed in the right hand lane, and pulled in across my nose - thereby gaining one place and being a totally self-important cunnit.
As I get older, it's definitely life's little discourtesies that wind me up the most - it's all so unnecessary.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 14:18:37 GMT
Not hard to spend £10 on fish and chip now. I'd be raging if I only got the one chip!! Depends how big the fish is!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 16, 2019 15:01:55 GMT
Not hard to spend £10 on fish and chip now. I wouldn't spend more than £7 on large cod and chips or large haddock and chips.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 17:16:34 GMT
I was meaning a family or a couple at least. £10 is easily spent then. Sorry, I have to be clearer.
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Post by Martin on Apr 16, 2019 17:23:06 GMT
Not hard to spend £10 on fish and chip now. I wouldn't spend more than £7 on large cod and chips or large haddock and chips. It’s £8.60 from my local chippy, but it does fill two large plates, need to add Curry sauce and a Pineapple fritter to get it delivered free!
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Post by johnc on Apr 25, 2019 6:00:52 GMT
Last night on the way home, I pulled up in the inside lane at a set of traffic lights, indicating left. My way home takes me left on a small slip road onto another piece of 30mph dual carriageway about 60 or 70 yds after the traffic lights. A car pulled up on my right and stopped but I was too busy trying to find a particular radio station that I didn't even notice what it was. The lights turned green and I pulled away only to hear a roar to my right together with screeching tyres as a previous model grey M5 burst into life, pulled ahead of me and then straight across in front of me by maybe 2 or 3 feet as he shot up the same slip road I was using! I am still running my car in, didn't accelerate hard and he nearly hit me. Why didn't he just pull in behind me - there was no-one behind me and I was indicating left when he chose to come up my outside?
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 25, 2019 6:26:33 GMT
Last night on the way home, I pulled up in the inside lane at a set of traffic lights, indicating left. My way home takes me left on a small slip road onto another piece of 30mph dual carriageway about 60 or 70 yds after the traffic lights. A car pulled up on my right and stopped but I was too busy trying to find a particular radio station that I didn't even notice what it was. The lights turned green and I pulled away only to hear a roar to my right together with screeching tyres as a previous model grey M5 burst into life, pulled ahead of me and then straight across in front of me by maybe 2 or 3 feet as he shot up the same slip road I was using! I am still running my car in, didn't accelerate hard and he nearly hit me. Why didn't he just pull in behind me - there was no-one behind me and I was indicating left when he chose to come up my outside? Nedded-up (chavved, to you Southerners!) particularly early? Or simply a massive knob-end with a nice car!
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Post by johnc on Apr 25, 2019 6:40:58 GMT
Or simply a massive knob-end with a nice car! The passenger was sitting so low and reclined that I doubt he had forward vision of anything but the sky. I didn't see the driver but the passenger was a big clue.
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Post by Martin on Apr 25, 2019 8:20:00 GMT
I’m afraid you’ll have to get used to it. The Golf is an idiot magnet, an M5 must be several times worse.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 17:25:34 GMT
Fella in a 5 series earlier doing that going in the wrong lane and then cutting back across thing to get a few car lengths ahead. Did on at least three roundabouts, either over or undertaking before I lost sight of him. Nob.
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Post by Tim on Apr 29, 2019 11:48:29 GMT
Me on Saturday morning. I was making progress in the light-hearted pursuit of a Volvo 850 and on the final approach to the local town there's a sereies of corners that are fun. One of the middle ones is a cresting, blind left hander and as I came round and got a view of the road ahead there was said Volvo following a heavily laden, slow-moving tractor. As I hoofed on the brakes I learned that the stability control on the Micra works particularly well.
Naughty.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 30, 2019 7:19:08 GMT
Automotive un-villainy on Sunday; as I was spiraling upwards in the city centre car park, a nice blond lady in a full fat Range Rover, coming the other way, wound down her window and gave me her parking ticket. Saved me £3. Little acts of kindness and all that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 14:30:33 GMT
She'd probably saved herself three quid by parking across two spaces like most Range Rover drivers do.
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Post by ChrisM on May 3, 2019 6:47:28 GMT
Last night on my way home on the M3 I was in the middle lane passing some slower moving stuff at 65mph (satnav indicated speed, speedo was higher) when an old Imprezza came steaming past in the outside lane, must have been doing 75 or 80mph.
Front nearside wheel was a space-saver limited, no doubt, to 50mph. The car looked lopsided due to the difference in rolling diameter (and tyre width) between this wheel/tyre and the other 3. Imbecile !!
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Post by johnc on May 3, 2019 9:34:12 GMT
Girl in a Golf last night on the M8 - the left (4th) lane of the motorway starts where a slip road comes on, runs for about a mile and then becomes an exit slip for the Clyde Tunnel. Busy rush hour traffic in the outer 3 lanes going at about 35/40mph at most and it is normal for people to move over to the left and get on to the slip road left in its first half mile or so.
Girl in the Golf pulls into left lane at the earliest opportunity, puts her foot down and is doing about 70mph up the inside, giving anyone who was trying to pull onto the slip road, a full dose of horn and headlights as she belts up the inside at twice their speed. She'll learn her lesson the hard way I reckon.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 8:29:30 GMT
Chubber bin lorry pilot who'd abandoned his conveyance so he could sit outside the chip shop and stuff his face - lorry left on opposite side of the road, blocking the pavement. And leaving his engine running the whole time. If Mrs 12th hadn't been with me, I'd have photographed it and reported him.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 9:04:17 GMT
Oh, and a baboon in an original shape Micra - attempted the TLGP at a roundabout, and tried to use the turn right lane at the next one to get past. I think not on both counts. I got to the next set of lights which just started to change as I went through. We weren't surprised to see him come through against obvious reds.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 19:28:11 GMT
Range Rover just drove past the dog and I through a big puddle and at more than the speed limit. You know what I'm going to say next, don't you!
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Post by Martin on May 8, 2019 19:57:39 GMT
Range Rover just drove past the dog and I through a big puddle and at more than the speed limit. You know what I'm going to say next, don't you! Bloody SUV drivers......?
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Post by ChrisM on May 10, 2019 13:37:46 GMT
I thought I was going to see a biker knocked off his machine this morning. Just short of where I work is a large oval roundabout, big enough for there to be some large trees in the middle of it.
As I approached, coming from the other way was a small stream of a few cars followed by a motorbike then nothing. On the side road to my right was a blue Berlingo waiting to pull out, which he did right in front of the bike, having stopped to let the cars past. The biker sounded his not-too-loud horn and I could see in my mirrors he somehow managed to swerve to avoid the Berlingo, then drew level and I could see his face turn sideways to face the driver as he carried on like this for several seconds, no doubt cursing the driver (quite deservingly) until they were out of my rear-view mirror range
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 11, 2019 9:08:20 GMT
Last night on my way home on the M3 I was in the middle lane passing some slower moving stuff at 65mph (satnav indicated speed, speedo was higher) when an old Imprezza came steaming past in the outside lane, must have been doing 75 or 80mph. Front nearside wheel was a space-saver limited, no doubt, to 50mph. The car looked lopsided due to the difference in rolling diameter (and tyre width) between this wheel/tyre and the other 3. Imbecile !! That'll bugger his 4WD gubbins, too.
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Post by LandieMark on May 11, 2019 16:13:06 GMT
My Legacy said put the spacesaver on the back for a maximum of 50 miles at 50mph. It used to make the rear diff grumble like hell due to the size difference.
It probably wouldn't bugger the AWD putting it on the front as the front diff is open so one side can turn faster than the other, otherwise turning corners would bugger the AWD!
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Post by Boxer6 on May 12, 2019 21:01:53 GMT
My Legacy said put the spacesaver on the back for a maximum of 50 miles at 50mph. It used to make the rear diff grumble like hell due to the size difference. It probably wouldn't bugger the AWD putting it on the front as the front diff is open so one side can turn faster than the other, otherwise turning corners would bugger the AWD! It did indeed, but I well remember a situation on mine where the puncture was on the front, it was pissing down and in a bad part of town - swapping (heavy) wheels here there & everywhere just wasn't happening! Mind you, I didn't do 80mph on it either!!
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Post by LandieMark on May 12, 2019 21:35:09 GMT
I remember having a front puncture and swapping good rear wheel to front to put the spacesaver on the back. PITA.
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Post by Alex on May 13, 2019 6:19:48 GMT
Wouldn’t it have made more sense for Subaru to supply a full size spare?
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Post by Tim on May 13, 2019 9:34:05 GMT
On Saturday, heading home after what appears to be my new routine of a weekly trip to B&Q. Anyway, came round a fast but blind corner near home and saw 2 cyclists heading towards it with 3 cars approaching them. Watched in the mirror as the cars all slowed down then car 1 overtook, giving cyclists the requisite wide berth. That seemed to me to be a very stupid thing to do. However, apparently not to the drivers of cars 2 and 3. The latter was still over the white line as he started to disappear round the corner and clearly only just got in before the next car came along heading the opposite way.
What is wrong woth these people, don't they have any imagination?
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