Grrrrrrrr

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:28 am

OK, moan time... (Where's supafrisk these days by the way)

Is it me or are people on the roads idiots? I mean, the white van drivers are the worst scum of the earth. They never indicate, have their fog lights on when it's foggy (or any lights for that matter) and block your way on the dual carriage way going up a hill thinking they can overtake ANOTHER white van, but really they don't have the power to do so. And still block your way. Oh and in fog, I counted FOUR cars (including mine) today who actually had their fog lights on. I mean come on - I don't have x-ray vision.

Closer to Swindon (I just realised I work on the Welton Road! - no, really) I find a typical middle aged smoked up whore of a woman with skin falling off her in a beat up Fraud Kaaaaa. As she was joining the dual carriageway, she nearly pushed me off the bloody road. I couldn't get into the outside lane as I was being overtaken, so what do she do? Brake? Nooooo.... Just ram into me. Thankfully, whoever was overtaking me managed to do so and I pulled out of her way with lots of swearing, beeping and light flashing. Moron...

And last but not least... LORRIES!!! I think they should ALL be banned from roads during rush hour. They are the only reason that we have traffic jams in the middle of nowhere on otherwise fast roads. Even on the motorway, one will be overtaking another, which means everyone else doing over 50mph has to pile into the outside lane causing jams. Don't even get me started on single carriage ways. They never do over 40mph and annoy the hell out of everyone (well, me anyway). Yes, I know that they carry goods for everyone and stuff, but we are getting it in the neck with all the congestion charging cr*p. Stay off the roads between say 7-9am in the morning and 5-7pm in the evenings.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Welly** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:08 am

Your just getting used to your new commute then Captain

The problem, as I see it, is that you have to get to work at the same time as all the 'get out of my way, I'm very important' wankers that work in all the business parks and offices of Sunny Swindon.

Your mixing with the cream of the British empire in the rush hour you know and they won't give you so much as an inch, or a friendly wave

I would hate to do that kind of journey now, everyones in such a flipping rush

[American voice on] ''If you snooze you loose'' [/American voice off]

Keep smiling Captain.

Blue406 · Post by **Blue406** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:57 pm

Weee! a rant thread!...... My turn.

First, I feel I should defend the lorry drivers. On a and B roads they're limited to 45mph by law. Its a stupid clandestine law put in place in the first century BC, but its law all the same. And the lorries have to get to their destination too, so can't afford to pull over and let folk by.
Its annoying, I get stuck regularly behind a bloody fuel tanker who never goes over 35mph on a loooong stretch of A class road I need to take to get to and from work. At 60 it takes about 20 mins to get through, at 30 it can take forever. But, there's chaff all the lorry driver or I can do about it. So I try not to get worked up into a tizz.

My main, absolute, pet hate is any w**ker on the road who think they own it. Typically Van, Taxi and Citroen Picasso drivers.
I don't know what it is with Picasso drivers, but everytime I come up behind one they're doing 40 on an A road thats so straight you can see 5 miles up to which point the earths curvature puts the rest out of sight. Naturally, one can't overtake as the oncoming traffic is strategically placed so that you have no time to get around the Picasso.

I echo Crasher Jacks observations on van drivers and their inability to operate the numerous lights on their vehicles. I sometimes think van drivers go on a dumbing down course before they're let loose with their white mounts. As if they're told purposely not to use any lights in thick fog, never indicate and pull out into traffic with moments to spare and never get up to speed. Morons.

My Pet hate in chief is the old codger. The flat capped senior in a brand new 3 litre Honda Accord who refuses to go above 40. Does 40 on the motorway, 40 in a 60 zone and then 40 in a 30 zone.
They pull out on you and cause you to break sharply. They no nothing about lane discipline on round abouts and are all colour blind and wait till someone toots their horn before pulling away from a green light, just in time to catch everyone behind them by the light changing back to red.

I reckon that after a person turns 60 years old, they should be required to go through an annual retest. I'm certain 80% will fail due to shite eyesight.

trem1 · Post by **trem1** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:23 pm

can i just say not all van drivers are like that while i agree some are they tend to be of the builder variety rather than a proper van-man

can you guess my occupation

TooT · Post by **TooT** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:51 pm

Im a van driver, and i know were your coming fom guys, i really do, but the big problem is that the law has changed from any van having a gross vehical weight (GVW) of 7.5 ton being limited to 56mph (90kph) too any van above 3.5 ton being limited to 56mph, this happened from the first of jan this year. This is why the country seems to be grinding to a halt

I drive a 53 plate Merc Sprinter which has a GVW of 4.6 ton so yep it could be me in front of you crusing at snails pace, im sorry but theres nothing we can do.

Luckly my boss is pissed with this so hes order me a new 3.5 ton Sprinter with a 3.0 V6 CDI engine cranking out 186bhp and 400nm of torque. It arrives this summer. So you had better get out of MY way.

Post by **Welly** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:50 pm

Bejesus, Sprinters are fast enough already aren't they, I hired one once with a multi cylinder engine (straight 5 cyl ????) I had an interesting time on a wet roundabout

I don't think van drivers are bad. They can see a whole lot better than us car drivers and so they are able to take actions which seem a bit odd to motorists. Plus they do sh*t loads of miles so become very competant behind the wheel. The only pitfall of your typical courier type is that he is up against the clock all day.

Imagine how you would drive if your income depended on it.

TooT · Post by **TooT** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:04 pm

Welton, thats what mine is now, 5 cyclinder 156bhp 330nm of torque. Yours must have the same. It was whick as fook till VOSA man played around with the ECU

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:33 pm

3.5T vans are fine. Since they travel at speed they come and they go, only blinding you with their main beams in fog/broad daylight for a few seconds. 7.5T drivers are generally the worst (second only to Royal Mail 7.5T lorries!), and it comes from the license test being completely inadequate.

HGVs are usually ok in my book as long as they can stay awake. It can get frustrating when it takes them 10 miles to overtake each other on the motorways though. I reckon instead of this stupid road pricing plan, they should spend the money on an automatic HGV/LGV speed limiter system which could work by putting transceivers in the cabs and mounted on motorway location markers... A head-end computer can work out how fast a truck's going and the transceivers can tell the speed limiters to slow down or speed up slightly so EVERY truck travels EXACTLY the same speed (bar steep hills like the M40 around Oxford). If they're all going the same speed, there's no need for overtaking, freeing up another motorway lane, reducing congestion and saving the country millions/billions per year!

Blue406 · Post by **Blue406** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:48 pm

Don't get me started on lanes and motroways.

Lane hoggers really make my blood boil.

tux2006 · Post by **tux2006** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:42 pm

Time to play that card.....the woman driver

Not that im sexist in any way shape or form...in fact I love them just not their driving and its not all women just the majority

Gets coat and leaves...talk amoungst yourselves

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:11 pm

I saw a woman driver all over the f*cking M602 (2 mile straight, slow moving) this morning... Stupid wench was putting her make-up on. Then she got beeped at at the next *6* sets of traffic lights because she was too busy in the mirror to notice the lights had turned green... Then she nearly took out a cyclist when she turned off the road.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:22 pm

I still neither *really* know what women are for nor *really* understand them... let alone their driving. Although my ex (fking bia*ch) was quite a good driver and my lady colleague from work was also pretty good, but that's very rare.

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:28 pm

Captain Jack wrote:I still neither *really* know what women are for

Hey Welts, care to share some of your favourite websites? ;)

darrenwall · Post by **darrenwall** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:35 am

Blue406 wrote: I reckon that after a person turns 60 years old, they should be required to go through an annual retest. I'm certain 80% will fail due to shite eyesight.

speaking of that , i saw a very old man drive his brand new 07 plate mondeo into the side of an unoccupied, parked up ( on the pavement out of the way ) van in swansea high street today , he was only doing about 2 - 3 mph but he still didnt have the reflexes to stop his car untill he put a very deep gouge down his car from the front wing to the rear lights and he was a full 10 meters past it

. he knew he had hit it cos he put his hand on the horn the moment he done it till he come to stop . when he got out of his car ,surprise surprise he claimed he didnt see it , must have been his mr maggoo style glasses then

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:22 pm

Time to resurrect this moan thread...

Monday: Left work at 2pm so I can get to my folk's house... That means a sprint on M4 from Swindon, jump onto M5 down to Bridgwater and I am nearly home. But what do I get instead... Some idiot deciding to crash, spilling diesel all over the motorway, in turn closing M5 northbound and causing absolute CHAOS on M5 southbound, M49 and all of Bristol. Needless to say, I never got to my parents that day and didn't get home till 8:30!!!!!!!! I could have driven to Scotland in that time.

Tuesday: Sh!tty Link courier decided to deliver a parcel for me (we are getting a marine fish tank - it relaxes, you see?), saw that I wasn't home and threw a piece of paper saying you were out and you must phone HO to arrange redelivery or collection. So, I phone up HO to be greeted with a robotic voice on the other end asking me to enter a consignment number.... er.... right... I would, except teh delivery monkey didn't actually write anything on the delivery note. And there was no option to speak to a live drone. So I had to drive to Bristol on Wednesday, hoping there'd be no traffic. Thankfully it was actually rather clear. And also thankfully, Chitty Link didn't make a fuss and simply gave me my parcel. Nice, but they are a delivery service not a 'pick me up' dealership. Idiots...

Today: When all you wanna do is get home after a hard day's work, you HAVE to be held up by some piss stained pensioner... or some berk on a 5cc scooter which doesn't do over 10mph and is "riding" in the middle of the freaking road not letting anyone past... Fecking tw@t. And where did all these trucks come from? I've never seen a 7.5 tonne lorry trying to make it up a single track road on a 12% mountain of a hill, which turns 90 degrees to the left near the middle. Result? 1mph and a 1 mile tailback. Berk....

Do people have NO common sense in the world today AT ALL??? Anyone?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh....

beer time...