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Dolting along
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:48:15 »

Is my phrase to cover some of the drivers on roads in Britain.

My theory is that people are randomly selected each day ( or perhaps permanently?) to drive at a ridiculously low speed for the prevailing conditions in whatever lane they happen to be in.

The journey from Leeds airport to Scarborough ( 67 miles) takes about two hours despite big chunks of dual carriageway. Some of it is volume of traffic but mostly it is the few DOLTING ALONG at say 45 mph in the outside lane or 30 on a country road
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #1 on: 09 December 2023, 12:27:04 »

45 MPH is the chosen speed of hard of thinking drivers who CBA to remember what the speed limit is and aren't sufficiently awake to have a handle on the prevailing road conditions and hazards.  >:(
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #2 on: 09 December 2023, 12:46:07 »

My pet hate is when you have no traffic behind you but some old codger decides to pull out in front of you, before maxing his aged soot chucker out at 28MPH. :-X

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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #3 on: 09 December 2023, 12:51:00 »

Is my phrase to cover some of the drivers on roads in Britain.

My theory is that people are randomly selected each day ( or perhaps permanently?) to drive at a ridiculously low speed for the prevailing conditions in whatever lane they happen to be in.
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The random selection around my way this lunch time were all Jags. The little XE, an XF and coincidentally on different stretches of road two XKR-S’s. They were all the straw hat brigade, no doubt off for their afternoon cream teas. I can forgive the other two for not keeping pace but the XKR’s, come on.  ::)
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #4 on: 09 December 2023, 16:25:52 »

I came across the phrase aimers and steerers on another forum which I think is descriptive. These are the 'drivers' whose last thought about their driving was just before the examiner told them they had passed. They're the one who do stupid things like 27point turns-in-the-road instead of three left(or right ::) ) turns around the block, ensure that all four corners of a junction have a 2.5tonne 4x4 parked on them when the primary schools kick out, live main roads but never back into their drives, just stop whenever they see an emergency vehicle without realising they've actually blocked the lane, overtake on blind corners or opposite junctions yet sit behind slow moving traffic on straight stretches, wait at giveway signs for seemingly hours before pulling out in front of a truck(schoolbus for extra points) moving fast enough to scare them,  turn on the rear fog lights whenever it rains but never slow down when the visibility is bad, just manage to get onto an exit slip after cutting across 3 lanes of traffic yet trundle down the on slip at 30mph and just merge into the inside lane when the slip runs out, etc etc.
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #5 on: 09 December 2023, 16:48:23 »

Unfortunately we now live in times where common sense in many aspects of daily events no longer exists.
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #6 on: 09 December 2023, 20:19:11 »

Round these parts everyone drives 15mph below the speed limit, which is bloody dangerous. So accidents happen, and then the do-gooders insist the limit is lowered.  Peole still driver 15mph below that, which is bloody dangerous and....

At what point will I be selecting reverse?
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #7 on: 09 December 2023, 20:19:59 »

Is my phrase to cover some of the drivers on roads in Britain.

My theory is that people are randomly selected each day ( or perhaps permanently?) to drive at a ridiculously low speed for the prevailing conditions in whatever lane they happen to be in.
………….

The random selection around my way this lunch time were all Jags. The little XE, an XF and coincidentally on different stretches of road two XKR-S’s. They were all the straw hat brigade, no doubt off for their afternoon cream teas. I can forgive the other two for not keeping pace but the XKR’s, come on.  ::)
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #8 on: 09 December 2023, 21:56:38 »

2hrs,, from LBA, to Scarborough,  Sounds like your the one dawdling along. :o
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #9 on: 09 December 2023, 22:52:03 »

Mm stop moaning, try Wales you lucky bastards. Drakeford has us by the nuts. The Nazi nLady bits
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #10 on: 09 December 2023, 22:52:58 »

Sorry I meant… C@ntt
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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #11 on: 09 December 2023, 22:53:24 »

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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #12 on: 09 December 2023, 22:53:44 »

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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #13 on: 09 December 2023, 22:54:18 »

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Re: Dolting along
« Reply #14 on: 09 December 2023, 22:54:34 »

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