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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 21, 2019 15:02:31 GMT
They might not be kids but they are enjoying their second childhood.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2019 15:32:41 GMT
Until they decapitate themselves on a tractor digger bucket like someone round these parts did a while back. He'd not long started walking without crutches from the last accident, too...
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 21, 2019 19:59:19 GMT
Despite being (having been, most probably, nowadays) a biker myself, I have zero sympathy for people like those described above.
I have even less tolerance for those who say "I don't have to wear leathers if I don't want to, cos it's XXX-degrees and I'll be too hot and it's my skin anyway blah blah blah". Won't be that when you do fall off and scrape half your skin off to the bone and can't walk/ride/fuck ever again. AND put my taxes up to pay to fix you. Cunts!
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Post by Tim on Aug 22, 2019 13:36:43 GMT
Me? No I don't think so.
I pulled out of a sideroad on the edge of Cupar last night and got a raised palms gesture from the Merc van taxi driver that I pulled across in front of. If he'd been doing the 30 limit instead of closer to 50 he wouldnt've got anywhere close so, having thought about it, no mate, you can fuck off.
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Post by Alex on Aug 22, 2019 17:40:11 GMT
Me? No I don't think so. I pulled out of a sideroad on the edge of Cupar last night and got a raised palms gesture from the Merc van taxi driver that I pulled across in front of. If he'd been doing the 30 limit instead of closer to 50 he wouldnt've got anywhere close so, having thought about it, no mate, you can fuck off. Happens a lot on the road outside our work. Traffic leaving the industrial estate looks right, sees oncoming car is at a suitable distance and pulls out, oncoming car has decided to do between 40 & 50mph instead of the limit of 30mph and then blasts their horn at the car that has caused them to slam on their anchors.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 23, 2019 8:59:30 GMT
I believe Chronostasis (stopped clock illusion) plays a part here. People hare up to junctions, don't give themselves time to look properly and as such, the brain cannot truly judge the speed. It happens pretty much daily on my commute to work through one particular junction. Neither do they consider they are pulling out on to a NSL road. So double twattery.
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Post by Martin on Aug 23, 2019 9:09:37 GMT
It’s particularly annoying when someone pulls out on you and there’s a big gap behind they could have easily slotted into.
Yesterdays villain was a Passat Estate driven by a madman, who was weaving in an out of traffic in a dual carriageway when it was moving at speeds of between 50-70mph. It wasn’t even due to poor lane discipline which makes a nice change. Small kid in a car seat in the fro t as well, who didn’t look to be particularly well strapped in.
Front and rear cameras as well, which isn’t a big surprise. Would make it interesting if he does crash into someone.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 23, 2019 9:20:56 GMT
I believe Chronostasis (stopped clock illusion) plays a part here. People hare up to junctions, don't give themselves time to look properly and as such, the brain cannot truly judge the speed. It happens pretty much daily on my commute to work through one particular junction. Neither do they consider they are pulling out on to a NSL road. So double twattery. Wasn't that a Red Dwarf episode? When watching these dash cam videos I'm always struck by the number of times the vehicle in question will be travelling along a main road at a good rate of knots, approaching a junction where a car is waiting to pull out. There never seems to be any anticipation that said vehicle may pull out and an easing back of speed a touch in case they do. It seems that the attitude is "I have right of way and if you pull out and hit me it's your fault." Of course the car does pull out resulting in evasive manoeuvres and much swearing. Trucks, in particular, seem loathe to loose any momentum and bowl along regardless of potential hazards ahead.
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Post by Alex on Aug 23, 2019 16:59:37 GMT
I believe Chronostasis (stopped clock illusion) plays a part here. People hare up to junctions, don't give themselves time to look properly and as such, the brain cannot truly judge the speed. It happens pretty much daily on my commute to work through one particular junction. Neither do they consider they are pulling out on to a NSL road. So double twattery. Wasn't that a Red Dwarf episode? When watching these dash cam videos I'm always struck by the number of times the vehicle in question will be travelling along a main road at a good rate of knots, approaching a junction where a car is waiting to pull out. There never seems to be any anticipation that said vehicle may pull out and an easing back of speed a touch in case they do. It seems that the attitude is "I have right of way and if you pull out and hit me it's your fault." Of course the car does pull out resulting in evasive manoeuvres and much swearing. Trucks, in particular, seem loathe to loose any momentum and bowl along regardless of potential hazards ahead. A lot of the footage on YouTube involves the camera car racing up roundabouts and turning right then blasting their horn at a car that has entered the roundabout dispite the ‘villain’ having been at the roundabout well before them. A variation on the theme is the camera car attempting to undertake around a roundabout and being surprised when he car next to them starts moving left to leave the junction! In in the instance above that I describe, the biggest issue is often that the car pulling out sees the oncoming car is suitably far away that they have time to pull out but the oncoming car is speeding and so they approach a lot sooner than expected.
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Post by johnc on Aug 26, 2019 15:01:22 GMT
As I was walking to a clients this afternoon two Golfs were coming towards me at a junction, both going very slowly with one straddling two lanes - as it passed I saw the young female driver with her phone in her hand (kept low so it couldn't be seen) trying to watch the road, indicate and read whatever was too important to miss. She nearly missed her junction, caused the other Golf to brake hard as she meandered off still fully engrossed in her phone. Darwin needs to step up the practical side of his theory a bit!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 7:45:39 GMT
Similar with a young chimp we saw on a moped on the way to swimming yesterday. Overtook two cars glacially as they got to the 40 limit, ducking in before a pedestrian island and then turning left. Fuck knows how close he was to hitting both island and then front of 2nd car, but given his t-shirt and shorts combo, a fall or collision would have been (at the very least) fucking painful.
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Post by johnc on Sept 24, 2019 12:36:07 GMT
I was in the John Lewis multi-story car park this morning, in Glasgow. As I was leaving, I came down the ramp with right of way when I noticed a red Hyundai i10 coming along the floor I was about to reach and it didn't look as though it was going to give way (as the well painted signs on the floor told her she should). Sure enough the young 20 year old girl sailed straight through the give way and gave me a dirty look as I braked to avoid her. I followed her round the next bend where she just sailed straight across the give way markings again and right in front of a car coming up this time. He was a bit less polite and gave her a dose of his horn!
Given that she can only have passed her test about 2 or 3 years ago at most, how did she miss the give way signs twice? What do they teach them for the test?
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Post by Tim on Sept 24, 2019 12:48:03 GMT
She's entitled to do what she wants, don't you realise that? You're such an old man
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 24, 2019 16:30:27 GMT
She was probably upset and needed to get to a safe space asap.
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Post by johnc on Sept 24, 2019 17:27:48 GMT
She was probably upset and needed to get to a safe space asap. Because I looked at her in an aggressive manner!?
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 24, 2019 18:12:23 GMT
She was probably upset and needed to get to a safe space asap. Because I looked at her in an aggressive manner!? Well, yes! Old bully!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 8:06:34 GMT
Had a similar thing with someone puling out in front of me in the swimming pool car park on Monday. Unfortunately, she was turning right and I left at the exit, and quite unintentionally I ended up positioned so that she couldn't see to pull out and had to wait until I had departed.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 26, 2019 8:19:33 GMT
Had a similar thing with someone puling out in front of me in the swimming pool car park on Monday. Unfortunately, she was turning right and I left at the exit, and quite unintentionally I ended up positioned so that she couldn't see to pull out and had to wait until I had departed. "Unintentionally"...😆
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 10:02:39 GMT
Naturally!
Not sure what 'puling' is though - clearly it must have irked me!
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Post by johnc on Sept 26, 2019 13:43:26 GMT
I don't know if anyone remembers me posting about a guy on a bike who crosses over the road I take from the house to the main road, as he goes from a side road, across the road I am on, to a cycles/pedestrian only road which is a decent shortcut. His main problem is that he takes a chance every day that no-one is coming up or down the road and flies across it at unabated speed (i.e. not a chance of missing him if he gets his timing wrong). Over the past year or so he has flown across the road in front or behind me on many occasions but apart from the once I posted about it, he hasn't been close enough to bother me......until last night. I left the office early (5.30) to get home for my daughter's birthday when idiot features appeared on my right at high speed just as I was passing the path he was coming out of. I couldn't do anything because he would have hit me in the middle of the car if he hadn't taken action. Thankfully he hit his brakes which nearly put him over the handlebars and he just missed the back of the car as he slid off the seat and put his feet down to prevent a well deserved meeting with the tarmac....he didn't even glance at me but just jumped on and cycled off again. Is Cycle Russian Roulette a new game?
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Post by chocy on Sept 26, 2019 15:47:19 GMT
It's a shame that a minority of cyclists tarnish the reputation of them all.
It's hard to stick to good driving standards when you are presented with these idiots, but that's the difference between them and us.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 15:54:46 GMT
Another cyclist on the way back from the weekly Mecca pilgrimage. Cut right across me to turn right, lucky I was expecting something stupid or he might have been the latest example of the Darwin awards.
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Post by chocy on Sept 26, 2019 16:22:19 GMT
I have a lot of respect for cyclists, they lose it instantly if I see they have headphones in.
How do they think they can be aware of other road users, when they can't hear vehicles approach from the rear?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 27, 2019 20:07:58 GMT
Today's uber twat was in the Ford Kuga, driving with 2 wheels on the footpath behind a mum and young girl walking home from school. Clearly they were in his way, having the temerity to be walking on the footpath, and he couldn't wait for oncoming traffic to clear, so had to use that bit at the side of the road where those annoying pedestrians are.
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Post by johnc on Sept 30, 2019 8:55:32 GMT
Two drongos within 30 seconds of each other this morning. First one was a black or dark blue Transit van who joined a 40mph dual carriageway behind me with no lights on: when I say he was invisible, he really was. Just as I had put enough distance between me and the Transit, something caught me attention on the other side of the dual carriageway - a cyclist pedaling hard in the outside lane, going the same way as me. I noticed him because of the twin red lights flashing on the back of his helmet. He had a similar flashing white light on the front. He was lucky because there was nothing coming the other way but he must have travelled at least a quarter of a mile before he came to an opening where he could cross back on to the right (left) side of the road (just behind the invisible Transit)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 21:04:36 GMT
I've witnessed several cars being driven in a twattish manner over the last few days and they've all been one of two makes; either Ford or VW. The one today was a Focus RS in that nasty light blue having the taps fully opened on a 40 limit road that I'd crossed a few seconds earlier. Had the exact same thing with a mk2 ST a few days ago except this nobhead was also on the wrong side of the road flooring it past other cars. He got obscenities shouted at him!
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Post by Tim on Oct 3, 2019 12:15:24 GMT
Was there a full moon due last night because on the commute home the 3 Audis that followed me at various stages were all so close that I couldn't see their headlights.
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Post by johnc on Oct 3, 2019 12:55:33 GMT
Was there a full moon due last night because on the commute home the 3 Audis that followed me at various stages were all so close that I couldn't see their headlights. I think that Audi adaptive cruise control is set for 10feet behind the vehicle in front.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2019 13:51:06 GMT
Well, that's better than the 4 foot gap used when it's turned off!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 4, 2019 0:16:32 GMT
We are entering silly season. Darker nights, wetter road conditions, soon the clocks will change and it will be all out twattery on the roads.
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