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Re: Driving
« Reply #15 on: 05 March 2012, 18:16:40 »

i work in mk aswell,and the amount of people that dont know how to use indicators is beyond a joke.
Or stick in the right lane, at 30mph on the 70mph limits, because they want to turn right in about 10 roundabouts time.  Grrrr
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Re: Driving
« Reply #16 on: 05 March 2012, 18:48:56 »

i work in mk aswell,and the amount of people that dont know how to use indicators is beyond a joke.
Or stick in the right lane, at 30mph on the 70mph limits, because they want to turn right in about 10 roundabouts time.   Grrrr

Aren't I supposed to do that? ::)
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Re: Driving
« Reply #17 on: 05 March 2012, 18:52:44 »

i've been contemplating taking a job in MK.....  maybe i won't ........   
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Re: Driving
« Reply #18 on: 05 March 2012, 22:03:00 »

I hate;

People driving with fogs on when it's not foggy
People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)
people who drive 40 everywhere, whether it's a 30 or a 60 limit
Any so called '4x4's' which aren't covered in mud (usually with a woman behind the wheel!)
Slow drivers
Horses on a road- when theres a perfectly good field next to it
Horseboxes who think they're transporting a nuclear warhead rather than a horse
people who either don't indicate or indicate the wrong way
And the highways agency for not putting up signs saying which lane to go in (at a roundabout near me)when people are blatantly incapable of remembering if your turning right at a roundabout you should be in the right lane!

I could go on but then i'll sound like a right old man (I'm only 26)

Rant over!
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Re: Driving
« Reply #19 on: 05 March 2012, 22:18:11 »

something i would say after a recent visit to daz and more recently sheffield i think drivers generally are better up ta north m1 was a dream today ditto m6 when i visited daz....its only when you get to the m25 it all goes tits up

of course i could be wrong maybe
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Re: Driving
« Reply #20 on: 05 March 2012, 22:19:49 »

why do people wear suinglasses when its raining :D 8)
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Re: Driving
« Reply #21 on: 05 March 2012, 22:23:58 »

now theres a question...just wish i knew the answer :y
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Re: Driving
« Reply #22 on: 05 March 2012, 22:26:05 »

People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)

It was "Driving, overtaking, overtaking" when I took my test..
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Re: Driving
« Reply #23 on: 05 March 2012, 22:28:41 »

when the driving instructors are not up to the job the standards are only going to go downward. bus lanes everywhere these days. most are oblivious to the timing restrictions of such, but when you see a tutor vehicle unable to distinguish at which point to use the lane..clueless.
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Re: Driving
« Reply #24 on: 05 March 2012, 22:53:45 »

People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)

It was "Driving, overtaking, overtaking" when I took my test..

I'm pretty sure it was fast driving when i took my test in about 2003
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Re: Driving
« Reply #25 on: 05 March 2012, 23:00:24 »

Cars are of course faster. Driving styles are terrible. i'm fairly sure a big amount of people have no concept of breaking distances!  >:(

True. The single most frightening thing for me.

I always leave tarmac and tyres and a bit more when pulling up in a queue. Then you get some gloit pulling up as close as possible behind you. Retards. I then pull forward to allow a gap (so I don't get rear ended if they do), then they pull forward so close they can lick my rear bumper. I hate that. Are they thick or what? I'm tempted to put the hazards on when the lights go green, and stay put so that they would have to reverse to carry on.

People do some sort of stupid manoeuvre only a retard would think is ok, nearly wipe you out, then gave you a black look/threaten violence/give verbal abuse etc as if it's your fault!

If they hit my car, that'll be that. It'll be damaged then, so it won't matter if I back up and ram them a few (hundred) times to teach them a lesson.

Second most frightening thing. Attitudes like that   :o

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Many bad drivers out there. They do things that annoy. In fact, driving standards generally are terrible.

Remember. You ain't gonna be able to change THEIR habits. Live with it. Accept it. If you get annoyed, and yes, I do sometimes, that will only add to the bad driving on the road. This time, you.

And the third most frightening thing is people like you who take things in the literal sense and can't relate to the true meaning.

Thanks for that lesson in wisdom  :y

Bloody hell!!!  Come and give me a driving lesson please dad!
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Re: Driving
« Reply #26 on: 05 March 2012, 23:06:11 »

I always leave tarmac and tyres and a bit more when pulling up in a queue. Then you get some gloit pulling up as close as possible behind you. Retards. I then pull forward to allow a gap (so I don't get rear ended if they do), then they pull forward so close they can lick my rear bumper. I hate that. Are they thick or what? I'm tempted to put the hazards on when the lights go green, and stay put so that they would have to reverse to carry on.

People do some sort of stupid manoeuvre only a retard would think is ok, nearly wipe you out, then gave you a black look/threaten violence/give verbal abuse etc as if it's your fault!

If they hit my car, that'll be that. It'll be damaged then, so it won't matter if I back up and ram them a few (hundred) times to teach them a lesson.

Sorry Geoffr but that is one of the most annoying habits I encounter on a daily basis. I go through a section of road with 3 sets of lights very close together. I pull up apply handbrake so my brake lightd don't dazzle the car behind and then the driver in front pulls forward another car length leaving me looking like an idiot.  :-X

Can't see why that's annoying. Why does the driver infront who pulls forward make you look like an idiot? You'd look more of an idiot having to reverse to carry on if he broke down, or rear ending him after being rear ended yourself. Anyway, you wouldn't pass your test pulling up so close behind someone. I prefer to keep a safe distance, just like the Highway Code says so  :y
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Re: Driving
« Reply #27 on: 05 March 2012, 23:14:26 »

People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)

It was "Driving, overtaking, overtaking" when I took my test..
Lanes 1, 2 and 3 for me.
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Re: Driving
« Reply #28 on: 05 March 2012, 23:18:20 »

something i would say after a recent visit to daz and more recently sheffield i think drivers generally are better up ta north m1 was a dream today ditto m6 when i visited daz....its only when you get to the m25 it all goes tits up

of course i could be wrong maybe

I have to agree with you... :y  Yes I am from up North, but I lived in Hertford for 7 years and drove as a Mini Cab driver most weekends for about 3 years...........you know the type, London post code, no licencing required just use your own car, with hire and reward insurance, and 'pay for a radio' and off you go....I worked for a more upper class company that ran out of Cuffley, and had the Rover 827, also did a bit of chauffeuring for another company, drove one of the girls out of Eastenders once  .... :y :y :y

What we have up here is courtesy, in the South no one lets you out of a junction, up here it is normal to be courteous.... :y :y :y

Lived in Poole for a while, drove tippers and skip trucks, traffic in the summer was terrible, sorry but it was ' I am bigger than you, I am coming out'...... :D :D :D
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Re: Driving
« Reply #29 on: 05 March 2012, 23:20:11 »

I always leave tarmac and tyres and a bit more when pulling up in a queue. Then you get some gloit pulling up as close as possible behind you. Retards. I then pull forward to allow a gap (so I don't get rear ended if they do), then they pull forward so close they can lick my rear bumper. I hate that. Are they thick or what? I'm tempted to put the hazards on when the lights go green, and stay put so that they would have to reverse to carry on.

People do some sort of stupid manoeuvre only a retard would think is ok, nearly wipe you out, then gave you a black look/threaten violence/give verbal abuse etc as if it's your fault!

If they hit my car, that'll be that. It'll be damaged then, so it won't matter if I back up and ram them a few (hundred) times to teach them a lesson.

Sorry Geoffr but that is one of the most annoying habits I encounter on a daily basis. I go through a section of road with 3 sets of lights very close together. I pull up apply handbrake so my brake lightd don't dazzle the car behind and then the driver in front pulls forward another car length leaving me looking like an idiot.  :-X

Can't see why that's annoying. Why does the driver infront who pulls forward make you look like an idiot? You'd look more of an idiot having to reverse to carry on if he broke down, or rear ending him after being rear ended yourself. Anyway, you wouldn't pass your test pulling up so close behind someone. I prefer to keep a safe distance, just like the Highway Code says so  :y

In anycase, the people who do pull forward so close that they can sniff my exhaust are generally mindless retards who are either on the phone, gassing to their fat mate in the passenger seat, stuffing their face with a pasty or some other activity that requires all their brainpower, hence having none left to actually concentrate on the task in hand of controlling a big lump of metal, which seems to have become secondary.

So before you tell me that's one of the most annoying habits you encounter on a daily basis, tell the millions of other people who do this, first. Thanks  :y
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