so that other road users know your intention and know - for instance - whether or not they can emerge safely or are you subhuman filth who deserves summary roadside execution?
Asking for a friend.
so that other road users know your intention and know - for instance - whether or not they can emerge safely or are you subhuman filth who deserves summary roadside execution?
Asking for a friend.
Personally I place zero faith in any person's indicators.This is why I have never once had a car accident.Apart that time time Sir Charlie almost killed me but I don't like to talk aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Obviously, people who indicate that they're going to turn, but then blithely carry on past the exit are lethally dangerous and are going to hell. However, every morning I sit at this two-lane roundabout on the way to work cursing at people who don't indicate for the exit before mine, but then turn anyway, meaning I could have emerged safely but due to their idiocy, selfishness and thoughtlessness, wasn't able to.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I literally want them all dead.
If someone is waiting to enter I almost always signal, otherwise never. I feel this might make me human filth although it could be worse, I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Here's an interesting one. You enter a roundabout to turn right, there are already people on the roundabout as there is a traffic light just after and traffic has backed up. The right exit has only one lane, who has the right of way as you go to exit?
http://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/chang...or-roundaboutsQuote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
now, people who approach a roundabout in the left hand lane of 2 and turn right. no better than kiddie-fiddlers imo
'Almost' always, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Subhuman filth, I'm afraid. Condemned out of your own fingers. :judge:
Yes, I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Good chap, psrb. I never doubted you for a minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
My current (since 1995) bugbear is people taking full size bikes on rush hour trains, even worse is people with ****ing fold up bikes who don't ****ing fold the ****ing things up!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Hardly a surprise, bQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yes, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
However, taking a chap's indicating as carte blanche to pull out in front of him is simply asking for an embarrassing and potentially expensive collision.
You're still holding that agin me, I suppose. :rolleyes: It's not like the Irish have a history of maintaining grudges or harking back to ancient incidents.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Oh.
I always do, or at least try to remember to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Essentially I am a considerate road user and I am always in mind of Luke 6:31.
I'm actually beginning to doubt it happened.As Bonaparte said "“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Yes, of course. Why wouldn't you? You would have to be some kind of massive ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The arsehole turning right at a mini roundabout who doesnt bother signallling wants ****ing stabbing.
Yeah, but that is loser talk isn't it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
No no,as everyone knows our day will come.Mind you it's been 800 fúcking years so should be anytime now reallyQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Well that's what I'd have said, yes. However, some people seem to think it's an optional extra. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
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Originally Posted by Burney
I can at least understand why sometimes people think it unnecessary. The problem is that it then becomes a habit. If you allow people to use discretion as to where and when they bother to indicate you are always going to get some **** who regularly makes bad, inconsiderate and potentially lethal decisions.
So it is best to just do it all the time.
I thought your day came a while back with the Ray Houghton goal and all that?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I thought the whole thing was over and done with and we were all friends again?
Oh I suppose we could call the whole thing quits.You did, after all, take Eamonn Holmes off our handsQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It's just reflex for me. After all, it's important for your own welfare, too. If you've got some idiot up your arse and you're going to slow down and turn, you need to let the prick know in plenty of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
:-( He was like a Rottweiler puppy or something, c. Quite appealing when he was young, but we had no idea he was going to get so big and eat us out of house and home!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
It averted a curry chip famine here don't you knowQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
We've had thaose nice lads Eammon Andrews, Dave Allen and Terry Wogan. We never got your Gay Byrne though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
What's wrong with Gay Byrne?
I always imagine Gay Byrne sitting at home wondering why he never got the call for England and it never occurring to the silly cünt that it might be the fact that HE'S CALLED FÜCKING GAY*!!! :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
*NTTAWWI
Odd though, isn't it? You'd imagine in the 70sand 80s the BBC would have been gagging to wallpaper him in huge checques, whilst RTE were paying him in Guinness and a quarter of aul' Howie's pig dat he's going to shlaughter nixt week like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
My sister has hired a male nanny who is Gay Byrne's grandson - FACTQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
He is not Gay - at least he isn't called Gay
They had Wogan and Val Doonican, Dave Allen and Eammon Andrews - they may just have felt their Irish quota was filled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
He's gay. Trust me here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Male nannies, though :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Could never agree a transfer fee.Typical WengerQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
As the sub-human filth that I am, I once didn't signal at all when going right on a roundabout, not the right signal as I turned or the left signal as I exited. Simply because I was in a foul mood and couldn't be bothered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Turns out the bloke waiting to enter was a proper road rage nutter and he let loose a right volley as his eyes bulged out of his head.
Most amusing :hehe: I think I might do it more often just to see the nutters react.
You see, the problem is that you were in a foul mood and didnt indicate. You are the original 'nutter' in this story.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Nah, difference between being lazy and slightly selfish and being a nutter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
People who do the road rage thing are nutters, driving etiquette just isn't that important. :shrug:
It's not actually etiquette, though, is it? Indicating is actually road safety and basic driving competence. If you don't indicate when turning, you are an unsafe and incompetent driver. What is more, you are almost certainly likely to be in breach of the law.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
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Originally Posted by World's End Stella
By your own admission you failed to indicate because you were in a foul mood. Your own rage led you to endanger your life and the lives of other motorists. That is road rage.
You are guilty.
It depends though, doesn't it? Changing lane without indicating? Dangerous, less so if you always check it is safe first. Not indicating on a roundabout? Less so as all you're really doing is inconveniencing the person entering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I would put the latter in the 'in breach of the law and mildly irritating but not dangerous' category. Like speeding. :shrug:
There was no rage about it, merely indifference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
As for being guilty, so is anyone who breaks the speed limit. :shrug:
Foul mood+offence committed= road rage.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I dont make the rules :)