c***s on the road

[mathematics]

2 hours ago, RH33 said:

Some c**t accelerated towards and through a puddle, resulting in me being soaked head to toe.

 

Funny and not funny. Schrödinger’s Splash.

[alta-pete]

Some right roasters on here this evening. Thoroughly confirming the need for a thread such as this to spot the wrang uns. 

Why on earth would anyone want to turn their car into a mobile roadblock? Baffling. If the driver behind is being such an erse then do yourself a favour and let him have his accident somewhere further up the road instead of it involving you. 

Or if you care about it that much away and join the Poileas. 

Edited April 28 by alta-pete

[RandomGuy.]

3 hours ago, Doctor Manhattan said:

Assuming you're driving at the speed limit and not one of those "40-in-a-60" types, then pulling in to let them past merely rewards and reinforces their bad behaviour. Better that they're stuck behind me than letting them through to give some hypothetical little old lady further down the road a heart attack.

How do you know a hypothetical old lady isn't having a heart attack in the car behind you?

As someone who genuinely has been trying to smash it down a motorway to reach a hospital, only to be stuck behind someone doing 60 in the overtaking lane, I do find it hilarious how "righteous" people permanently just assume what they're doing is the best thing.

Tailgaters aren't going to stop because you've held them up either, if anything it'll make them speed more and undertake in future. Not everyone cares about your life enough to be safe if you're annoying them. I've never felt its worth the risk doing that just to feel good about yourself.

Edited April 28 by RandomGuy.

[Miguel Sanchez]

2 hours ago, RH33 said:

Some c**t accelerated towards and through a puddle, resulting in me being soaked head to toe.

 

[RandomGuy.]

18 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

Why on earth would anyone want to turn their car into a mobile roadblock? 

Too many people assume nothing bad can happen to them.

Then one day it'll be someone of their face behind them who just rams them off the road.

Then you'll be dead or permanently crippled, but at least you'll have the moral high ground.

[19QOS19]

21 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

Some right roasters on here this evening. Thoroughly confirming the need for a thread such as this to spot the wrang uns. 

Why on earth would anyone want to turn their car into a mobile roadblock? Baffling. If the driver behind is being such an erse then do yourself a favour and let him have his accident somewhere further up the road instead of it involving you. 

Or if you care about it that much away and join the Poileas. 

 

9 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

How do you know a hypothetical old lady isn't having a heart attack in the car behind you?

As someone who genuinely has been trying to smash it down a motorway to reach a hospital, only to be stuck behind someone doing 60 in the overtaking lane, I do find it hilarious how "righteous" people permanently just assume what they're doing is the best thing.

Tailgaters aren't going to stop because you've held them up either, if anything it'll make them speed more and undertake in future. Not everyone cares about your life enough to be safe if you're annoying them. I've never felt its worth the risk doing that just to feel good about yourself.

I've only ever once pulled over to let someone pass me. It was last year on a single track road in the Highlands. I did it because I was travelling way below the speed limit (given it was single track and a bendy road), the guy was in a van and obviously knew the road well and because by letting him pass it meant I could go quicker as he'd be ahead to warn me of oncoming traffic. 

I don't think I would ever pull over to let someone pass if I was doing the speed limit though. If someone wants to be right up my arse they can carry on. I wouldn't drop my speed though, I have to say.

[alta-pete]

1 minute ago, 19QOS19 said:

 

I've only ever once pulled over to let someone pass me. It was last year on a single track road in the Highlands. I did it because I was travelling way below the speed limit (given it was single track and a bendy road), the guy was in a van and obviously knew the road well and because by letting him pass it meant I could go quicker as he'd be ahead to warn me of oncoming traffic. 

I don't think I would ever pull over to let someone pass if I was doing the speed limit though. If someone wants to be right up my arse they can carry on. I wouldn't drop my speed though, I have to say.

Just about the first and most obvious rule of single track roads - there are signs everywhere - is ‘use passing places to allow overtaking’. 

Why people feel the need to deliberately impede someone else on the road still baffles me. 

[Doctor Manhattan]

34 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

How do you know a hypothetical old lady isn't having a heart attack in the car behind you?

I think we can safely statistically assume that 99.99% of the time this will not be the case. (Rather than xG, this could be classed as xC, for "expected c***s".)

34 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

As someone who genuinely has been trying to smash it down a motorway to reach a hospital, only to be stuck behind someone doing 60 in the overtaking lane,

If I'm on a motorway and in an outside lane I can assure you I'm not doing 60. And if some c**t is up my arse with his lights flashing at 90 I will indeed happily pull in just to be rid of them. For clarity, though, almost all of my driving these days is done on one-lane roads (i.e. not dual carriageways, and certainly not motorways) given that I don't live in mainland UK, which is the scenario I thought we were discussing here. This may have been a wrong assumption on my part, coloured by own everyday circumstance.

I still encounter my fair share of tailgating bellends on these winding country roads, and as a general rule I'll be fucked if I'm going out of my way to pull off the road for them, even where this is possible.

Edited April 28 by Doctor Manhattan

[Doctor Manhattan]

28 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Too many people assume nothing bad can happen to them.

Then one day it'll be someone of their face behind them who just rams them off the road.

Then you'll be dead or permanently crippled, but at least you'll have the moral high ground.

True story, honest. 

Many years ago I was cut up by a van on the Bow flyover in East London. I gave the offender a blast of the horn and a friendly two-finger wave, and was greeted in return by him raising what looked very much like a sawn-off shotgun from the passenger seat, accompanied by a raised eyebrow and body language which I took to be him asking whether I wanted to stop and discuss the matter further. Needless to say, I didn't, and I've been a lot more circumspect behind the wheel ever since.

[Doctor Manhattan]

1 minute ago, PogoStick said:

Also, bit of an unnecessary pile on, tone of some of the responses seem more motivated by his post count than his post. 

Nae need.

Didn't notice his post count until after he'd starting spraying the red dots about. He seems to have got the hang of those pretty quickly for a new poster. And as I type I see that's a habit you've adopted too.

Nae need.

[Molotov]

These cnuts drive on our roads…..best ignored. 
 

[101]

1 minute ago, Molotov said:

These cnuts drive on our roads…..best ignored. 
 

Who?

[19QOS19]

1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

Just about the first and most obvious rule of single track roads - there are signs everywhere - is ‘use passing places to allow overtaking’. 

Why people feel the need to deliberately impede someone else on the road still baffles me. 

If I'm doing 30mph in a 30 zone and someone is up my arse, I'm not impeding them, they're behaving like an arsehole. 

 

17 minutes ago, 101 said:

Who?

RONNIE PICKERING!!!

[Loonytoons]

Personally, I work on the 2 second rule of safe driving.  If someone is tailgating, I'll slow down so there's a 2 second gap between us.

If there's an oppertunity for them to get passed, fair enough, if not they can sit at whatever speed that 2 second gap entails for their and my safety.

Doing so definitely* saved a rear end collision/auld wifie getting flattened in Edinburgh as I had to "slam on" the brakes at about 10 mph when she stepped out in front of me.  Gave the previously tailgating c**t behind me that 2 second gap to stop. *(Yes, I know had I being doing 30mph we'd both been past her but still...)

[alta-pete]

@19QOS19 yourvmulti quote seems to have mucked up the reply function but: 

1. I (and I may be wrong) think this conversation came about by way of people’s behaviour on dual carriageways or motorways so we were talking around 70mph limits; and 

2. the National Speed Limit applies to the single track roads you describe so that’s 60mph, not 30mph. 

No wonder that van was keen to get past you! 

[Butters Scotch]

1 hour ago, Doctor Manhattan said:

Didn't notice his post count until after he'd starting spraying the red dots about. He seems to have got the hang of those pretty quickly for a new poster. And as I type I see that's a habit you've adopted too.

Nae need.

The guy seems like a total sasij, more interested in brandishing out dislikes rather than offering a viewpoint, not even worth replying too. 

Edited April 28 by Butters Scotch

[RandomGuy.]

7 hours ago, Doctor Manhattan said:

True story, honest. 

Many years ago I was cut up by a van on the Bow flyover in East London. I gave the offender a blast of the horn and a friendly two-finger wave, and was greeted in return by him raising what looked very much like a sawn-off shotgun from the passenger seat, accompanied by a raised eyebrow and body language which I took to be him asking whether I wanted to stop and discuss the matter further. Needless to say, I didn't, and I've been a lot more circumspect behind the wheel ever since.

Aye.

I once slowed down to stop a Passat that was clearly doing about 50 in a 20.

It swung out to overtake me, into oncoming traffic, and genuinely had about 8 folk in the car with their jaws swinging who didn't seem to even realise I was there.

Seen it on the A9 too where a tailgater overtook then cut across the person who'd been in front of them and blocked the whole road as he confronted them.

You just don't know who's in the other car.

[19QOS19]

7 hours ago, alta-pete said:

@19QOS19 yourvmulti quote seems to have mucked up the reply function but: 

1. I (and I may be wrong) think this conversation came about by way of people’s behaviour on dual carriageways or motorways so we were talking around 70mph limits; and 

2. the National Speed Limit applies to the single track roads you describe so that’s 60mph, not 30mph. 

No wonder that van was keen to get past you! 

1) The speed of the road is irrelevant. The point remains the same. 

2) You seem to have just made up a story in your mind here. I never said I was doing 30 in a 60, I said I was doing well below the speed limit given the conditions. I had no issue letting the van past and never claimed he was tailgating. I only told that story as it was the only time I'd let someone pass me.

[scottsdad]

I was following a hearse on the motorway. It was going kind of slow in the middle lane. I thought, I can't overtake it as that would be disrespectful.

So I decided to undertake. 

[KnightswoodBear]

I see we have now reached the point where indicating at roundabouts is entirely optional.