Grumpy Old Man
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew you are really taking to this thread like a pterodactyl discovering fish fingers for the first time..
Don't get me started on processed fucking food.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
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self entitled pricks who decide queues, T3 lanes etc are for the plebs and speed down the lane that's free (because it is either restricted or doesn't go where everyone wants to get) and then at the last moment swerve into the queued lane relying on someone wanting to avoid an accident to create a gap.
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@nzzp people who indicate to turn right, but swing almost a full car width to the left to do thier right run manoeuvre
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@taniwharugby hey you gotta beware of the back end swing on your Focus!
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
Rarely have that problem in the UK as people will almost always flash/stop to let you turn. We all moan, but UK drivers are generally pretty considerate.
It's the fluffybunnies who still won't turn when flashed who give me the shits....
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@Victor-Meldrew ha I have always thought of the stand-offs we'd get over here if as many streets were reduced to single lane like so many UK ones are with neither arrogant fluffybunny wanting to back up to let the other through.
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@Victor-Meldrew I'm still getting used to drivers not having the sense to realise that you slowing down and the big gap you're leaving means they can go, nooo...they must be flashed! Dumb.
Similar to @taniwharugby fluffybunnies that pull up to an intersection on the left when they're turning right and vice versa. Morans.
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Who here reckons they could pass their restricted driving test first go nowadays ? Genuine question. They seem to just get tougher and tougher. I reckon I’d be fucked, so many bad habits and even with a reversing camera my parallel parking skills are inconsistent at best.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Who here reckons they could pass their restricted driving test first go nowadays ? Genuine question. They seem to just get tougher and tougher. I reckon I’d be fucked, so many bad habits and even with a reversing camera my parallel parking skills are inconsistent at best.
Possibly not if I'm being honest, but I maintain I'm a much better driver than the test can evaluate because I drive with decades of experience. I read the road and car users well ahead of me, taking action to avoid what will become an issue. I routinely witness people become surprised at shit they should've seen happening from hundreds of meters away. The most obvious being the traffic is slowing ahead. Not these clowns - they're busy concentrating on the car ahead of them because they're too close.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Who here reckons they could pass their restricted driving test first go nowadays ? Genuine question. They seem to just get tougher and tougher. I reckon I’d be fucked, so many bad habits and even with a reversing camera my parallel parking skills are inconsistent at best.
Possibly not if I'm being honest, but I maintain I'm a much better driver than the test can evaluate because I drive with decades of experience. I read the road and car users well ahead of me, taking action to avoid what will become an issue. I routinely witness people become surprised at shit they should've seen happening from hundreds of meters away. The most obvious being the traffic is slowing ahead. Not these clowns - they're busy concentrating on the car ahead of them because they're too close.
The other half doesn't have a license. She's a year older than me so I've accepted it's extremely unlikely to happen and it's a bit of a running joke with her family. It's a pain in the arse on long journeys or if I want to drink but in terms of issues with women it's nothing compared to what I've dealt with in the past. We were looking at driving tests on youtube and they're pretty tough ( merging, identifying hazards etc ). I completely agree with you about the experience thing but the point I'm making is I'd probably fail if I got a surprise test with no time to prepare cos of not indicating long enough, not indicating properly on roundabouts or some such pedantic thing like that.
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As a motorcyclist I'm pretty pedantic about signalling my intention to other road users.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
Rarely have that problem in the UK as people will almost always flash/stop to let you turn. We all moan, but UK drivers are generally pretty considerate.
It's the fluffybunnies who still won't turn when flashed who give me the shits....
Sorry, but I have experienced too many times when the “flasher” hasn’t actually thought out anything except creating a gap themselves. You pull out with little visibility and encounter a traffic from your left or a lane splitting motorbike or scooter coming from your right.
I’d rather decide when it is safe to pull out myself. If it isn’t obviously clear or I can’t edge out to see then I don’t move.
This is 10x worse if you are a cyclist. Pricks flash at you and put you in really dangerous positions -
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
Rarely have that problem in the UK as people will almost always flash/stop to let you turn. We all moan, but UK drivers are generally pretty considerate.
It's the fluffybunnies who still won't turn when flashed who give me the shits....
Sorry, but I have experienced too many times when the “flasher” hasn’t actually thought out anything except creating a gap themselves. You pull out with little visibility and encounter a traffic from your left or a lane splitting motorbike or scooter coming from your right.
I’d rather decide when it is safe to pull out myself. If it isn’t obviously clear or I can’t edge out to see then I don’t move.
This is 10x worse if you are a cyclist. Pricks flash at you and put you in really dangerous positionsI think this thread is done. This post cannot be topped for grumpy old manism.
How, the fuck, can you be grumpy at somebody letting you in?????
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
Rarely have that problem in the UK as people will almost always flash/stop to let you turn. We all moan, but UK drivers are generally pretty considerate.
It's the fluffybunnies who still won't turn when flashed who give me the shits....
Sorry, but I have experienced too many times when the “flasher” hasn’t actually thought out anything except creating a gap themselves. You pull out with little visibility and encounter a traffic from your left or a lane splitting motorbike or scooter coming from your right.
I’d rather decide when it is safe to pull out myself. If it isn’t obviously clear or I can’t edge out to see then I don’t move.
This is 10x worse if you are a cyclist. Pricks flash at you and put you in really dangerous positionsI think this thread is done. This post cannot be topped for grumpy old manism.
How, the fuck, can you be grumpy at somebody letting you in?????
Which bit of the explanation did you ignore? One person flashing at you doesn't mean the intersection is safe.
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@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
There's plenty of examples on this YouTube channel of cars being left a gap and flowing into oncoming traffic they can't see. I've witnessed it myself numerous times. Even a car turning right across one lane of traffic can impact a cyclist or motorcycle neither cage driver can see. It's dangerous.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
I think this thread is done. This post cannot be topped for grumpy old manism.
How, the fuck, can you be grumpy at somebody letting you in?????
Which bit of the explanation did you ignore? One person flashing at you doesn't mean the intersection is safe.
Good lord. It’s spreading.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
There's plenty of examples on this YouTube channel of cars being left a gap and flowing into oncoming traffic they can't see. I've witnessed it myself numerous times. Even a car turning right across one lane of traffic can impact a cyclist or motorcycle neither cage driver can see. It's dangerous.
Happened to our nanny a year ago. She was driving our kids, turning right across 2 lanes into a car park on the other side of the road. Car in the lane next to her waved her across, and she went, got plowed into by a car in the 2nd lane, that neigltherbhad seen.
Car was written off, luckily nobody was seriously hurt. She and the kids were VERY shaken up though, as you'd imagine.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Happened to our nanny a year ago. She was driving our kids, turning right across 2 lanes into a car park on the other side of the road. Car in the lane next to her waved her across, and she went, got plowed into by a car in the 2nd lane, that neigltherbhad seen.
Obviously not Mary Poppins then...
