The grumpy thread

[fotorabia]

Not entirely grumpy..but Ive finally been diagnosed as an epileptic!..which is the frontal lobe version which is the mildest form..partial complex...seems as tho it mess's with yer head when young..i just wasnt sure what it was thats why i stayed quiet about it..then you have some gap years..then creeps back when yer in yer late 40's..hence..so...im shite banned from driving...gonna be on the med's as of next week...apply for invalid benefit..and am entitled to 30% off train travel...ah well...tough titties...gonna make the best of it...sectioned to the Highlands..concentrate on photo projects...and can only reminisce about shite...

[Mr Livered]

Sounds like you've got a pretty good attitude about it Fotorabia, hats off to you for that. All the best, and hopefully the meds will help you out.

[bub2006]

I understand what you are going through fotorabia. I was released from hospital on 25 July with temporal lobe epilepsy,left side hemi paresis and something else with my back.first time in 10 years been without a bike. Wife drives though so still got car. I was told I can apply for license after 10 months not 12 though due to me voluntarily surrendering it. It's a nightmare doing anything with the car repairs wise so I had to cut back and slow down with everything. Was hard selling the bike I must admit. Luckily its gone to a friend who said I can have it back when I get license back

[RobT]

Not entirely grumpy..but Ive finally been diagnosed as an epileptic!..which is the frontal lobe version which is the mildest form..partial complex...seems as tho it mess's with yer head when young..i just wasnt sure what it was thats why i stayed quiet about it..then you have some gap years..then creeps back when yer in yer late 40's..hence..so...im shite banned from driving...gonna be on the med's as of next week...apply for invalid benefit..and am entitled to 30% off train travel...ah well...tough titties...gonna make the best of it...sectioned to the Highlands..concentrate on photo projects...and can only reminisce about shite...

 

Sorry to hear that, I can empathise too as I used to suffer from it as a teen which delayed me getting my driving license (only by a year mind you).  I then had a seizure when I was 20 which meant I couldn't drive for a year, which is a real bummer when you love cars.  Hopefully the meds will control it so you should be able to drive again eventually.  I still take mine despite not having an 'episode' for 18 years, not worth the risk coming off and losing my license again.  I have no sympathy for pricks who lose their license due to drink, speeding or whatever as they had a choice and I didn't (not that I'm bitter or anything...).

[fotorabia]

Thanking thee all kindly for shares dudes...it helps...my only dilemma really is what i do next cos my timeline here with old folks is nearly up..and Im gonna have to move forth once again..and Im not sure where...if anyone needs a budget photographer..let me know...!

[bub2006]

I agree with rob t. You hear of people still driving after numerous bans for either drink driving,careless driving etc or they just get a slap on the wrist. They are banned through their own stupidity.

[daveb47]

Quote from Englands most dangerous roads reply on Sky

 

I didn't get a BMW to drive it at 20mph everywhere. I will overtake when its safe to do so. All overtaking is not reckless. On bends, yes. If a road is empty, its up to me how quick I go and how late I brake. If I injure myself or damage my car, that's my problem so I don't see why you all get on the "omg he's going so fast" bandwagon. And yes, it may cost the NHS when I eventually end up with a broken leg or something, but I pay my taxes too. The end.

 

Twat needs removing from road perminently.

Better still from gene pool.

Too many like this on road.

[bub2006]

He will be one of those that ends up crashing and only breaking his leg. The other car he hits head on will probably be fatalities

[Sigmund Fraud]

BMW drivers driving aggressively and irresponsibly ? Who would have thought !

[Mr Lobster]

BMW driver sounds like a knob but I didn't see the programme so I've no idea of the context, however - 

 

 

 

I will overtake when its safe to do so. All overtaking is not reckless.

 

 

This bit is ok with me. There does seem to be a growing number of roadusers who can't / don't / won't / daren't / think its illegal to overtake. Every week I get stuck behind someone doing 40 on the same bit of wide, straight single carriageway in a NSL area in the countryside despite the clear oncoming road and good visibilty. Why they won't overtake is beyond me. 

[Spiny Norman]

This bit is ok with me. There does seem to be a growing number of roadusers who can't / don't / won't / daren't / think its illegal to overtake. Every week I get stuck behind someone doing 40 on the same bit of wide, straight single carriageway in a NSL area in the countryside despite the clear oncoming road and good visibilty. Why they won't overtake is beyond me. 

 

THIS.

 

It's possibly some new thing kids are being taught when they're learning to drive, that it's maybe 'too aggressive' or 'un-eco' to overtake another car, but it certainly gets some folk's backs up. Some people nowadays seem to regard being overtaken as some kind of slight on their manhood, especially the women, and react like complete dicks when you do.

[bub2006]

My wife doesn't agree with overtaking another vehicle in a single carriage way but will overtake anything doing less than 85 on the bypass. When i was driving I never did more than 75/80 on the clock and generally stuck to limits. But as already been said if I was on a national speed limit road or a 50/40 road and someone was dawdling around 25/30 I would overtake. Closely followed by a bollocking from the wife.

[bub2006]

75/80 on the bypass that should read. Cant edit on phone.

[Mr Livered]

I never heard of not "agreeing" with overtaking before. Of course there are some pretty nervous drivers around so some people might not have the bottle, but some kind of objection in principle? Bizarre.

[chaseracer]

Oh dear.  The line of three dawdlers I overtook on a wide straight road with a gentle squeeze on the 300E's throttle may have had objections to my doing so.

 

Tough.

[HillmanImp]

Whats the rules on suicide lanes? If there is nobody on the overtaking on the middle lane can anyone use it? If I overtake on them I regulary get flashed and beeped at by people on both sides of the road. I thought that the middle made was for whoever wanted to use it hence the dotted lines.

 

Can you only use the middle lane if you are on the 1 lane side if both lanes on the 2 lane side are free?

 

Not sure if I am doing something wrong?

 

I cant remember if I have asked this before on the Stupid Question Amnesty.

[bub2006]

I say not agree with it as if someone is dawdling she just stays behind them,if someone over takes on the opposite side of the road she will explain her displeasure through flashing of lights and obscenities! I just get bollocked.

[Mr Livered]

As I understand it, if there's a dashed line anyone can use it. Most are crawler lanes nowadays, so one direction has a solid line and shouldn't overtake but if there's no solid line and people beep and flash, I would have thought an obscene gesture would be in order.

[Cavcraft]

People who sit behind trucks doing 40mph on single carriage roads when they can safely overtake get in my tits.

Try the A49 and A41 Shropshire/Cheshire and you'll see what I mean. You can get large build ups if traffic because a few bottlers won't overtake. I used to pick them off oneat a time then get past the truck when safe to do so, and this in a 7.5tonner.

[Partridge]

I can't see the problem with over taking when it's a clear, straight road. And if the BMW tailgates, then that's wrong. But personally I can't be arsed to overtake half the time.

 

But what does piss me off is this: near where I live there's a lay by half covered with trees, right in a section where it goes from a 40 limit, to a 60 limit. I know the police lurk in it with a mobile piggy bank saftey camera van at times, so I wait until I'm past the de-restriction sign before dropping a cog and booting it, incase the poilce van is there.

 

Becuase I'm not speeding up towards the sign, quite often people will overtake before hand, and then every other bugger behind will blindly follow suite to get past the slow old duffer in the Citroen/Mercedes/Polo or whatever I'm driving at the time.

I'm useally co-operative when people want to get by (I move over and slow down to make it safer) but not on that strech, when they all rush by "because the person in front overtook as well", I just boot it and accelerate like a wanker. Sod 'em.

[hairnet]

40 in a 60 for example and solid white = obstuction = overtake as long as not dangerous

 

Pisses me off too

 

If theres a roundabout ahead on single cwy then why do it etc just wait

 

Shit slow can be as dangerous as shit fast

[Partridge]

Shit slow can be as dangerous as shit fast

Yes. Mongs doing 40 on the motorway is more likely to cause a smash than somebody doing 100.

[wuvvum]

People who sit behind trucks doing 40mph on single carriage roads when they can safely overtake get in my tits.

Try the A49 and A41 Shropshire/Cheshire and you'll see what I mean. You can get large build ups if traffic because a few bottlers won't overtake. I used to pick them off oneat a time then get past the truck when safe to do so, and this in a 7.5tonner.

 

That's fair enough when it's possible to do that, but I often find that if there's one or two bottlers at the front of the queue, everyone behind will then be trundling along nose to tail (but not overtaking) so it's impossible to overtake one or two at a time even in a car, let alone a truck.  The only option is to wait for a decent clear stretch and pass the whole lot at once - this is something the Rover of Doom used to excel at in its heyday, but not always feasible in a slower car.

[Cavcraft]

Or an Iveco Cargo, hence picking them off one at a time!

[Station]

I come home on the A41 and it's pretty horrible once you're stuck behind a queue. There are only three points you can 'legally' overtake (dual carriageways) from Birmingham to Chester, but I do at the best opportunity. Best road for overtaking is the M53/A5, it's constant A4/3-series overtaking whatever. I used to do it in my Nippa past trucks, etc.!

[saucedoctor]

If you want to overtake stuff and have fun at the same time, get a Yamaha TZR 250 Powerrrrvalve. I had one, and you could overtake whole traffic jams. It was even better after I realised the back tyre was on backwards, and I got it sorted.

[HillmanImp]

That's fair enough when it's possible to do that, but I often find that if there's one or two bottlers at the front of the queue, everyone behind will then be trundling along nose to tail (but not overtaking) so it's impossible to overtake one or two at a time even in a car, let alone a truck.  The only option is to wait for a decent clear stretch and pass the whole lot at once - this is something the Rover of Doom used to excel at in its heyday, but not always feasible in a slower car.

 

The trick I use is to wait for the point where the long line of traffic approaches a village where the speed limit changes. Even in a small car I boot it along the outside and because the line of traffic slows down significantly I normally get the whole line. You are barely speeding by the time you get to the front car. 

[Cavcraft]

The A5/A483 is a bit better than the A41, but still quite twattish at times. It was on that road (at the Oswestry/Shrewsbury roundabout) that I got my greatest ever driving accolade when some turnip cocked botty fondler rang my boss to say he'd been the transport manager of a haulage company for 23 years, and had never seen driving as bad as mine.

I think the fact I offered him a fight and implied his missus was a hefty bovine didn't really help.

[Bobthebeard]

The 'no car' lanes in Newcastle caused me to be slightly grumpy today, but possibly because I don't live there and/or understand how it actually works....

Makes turning left at junctions a real bugger. The 'no car' lanes being full of taxis, pickup trucks, buses, pushbikes, vans, pedestrians and, err, cars. Turning left was rarely an option.

Anyone?

Had me stumped. Was trying to get to St James' Park. Ended up on the A1 twice. Via the bus station....

[Bucketeer]

If you want to overtake stuff and have fun at the same time, get a Yamaha TZR 250 Powerrrrvalve. I had one, and you could overtake whole traffic jams. It was even better after I realised the back tyre was on backwards, and I got it sorted.

 

RD350 Powervulva for me. GR11 for overtaking lines of traffic. GR-6 for avoiding not being able to brake for the upcoming junction, dry-stone wall, and numerous broken bones.