Driving the fun out of motoring.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

On the broader point. It doesn't matter what creed, colour, class, occupation blah blah blah you are it does not necessitate you driving like a twat. Inconsiderate, aggressive and dangerous drivers come from all walks of life and to generalise is prejudice.

 

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[jonny69]

What a fucking joke. No wonder there's so much aggression on the roads when you have to deal with shit like this on a daily basis. It's not helped by the frankly piss poor standard of driving.

Er, welcome to everyday driving in the south. No wonder I hate it so much

 

Some of the bullies and offenders have been your self-smug higher-middle class types who do actually believe they have more rights to the road than you do and will bully/cut you up/pull out in front of you because they do believe that you are on 'thier way'.

It's usually these people who spoil it for me, not reps. They are the wannabe I made its who think that their status symbol car makes them somehow better. Ya, a mid range Audi. Was that really the best you could do then, Mr Hotshot?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

What a fucking joke. No wonder there's so much aggression on the roads when you have to deal with shit like this on a daily basis. It's not helped by the frankly piss poor standard of driving.

Er, welcome to everyday driving in the south. No wonder I hate it so much

 

 

Not at all. It's not normally that bad - but yesterday was just an excercise in frustration and utter futility. The aggro started on the M1 by Leicester.............

 

 

 

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

We've talked on this thread about people thining they're above everyone else and that they should move out of thier way. Well, surprise surprise, I encountered such an attitude today........

 

Just picked up a mate and was heading toward the top of his road, my way is clear, there are a few parked cars to my right, few and far between, thogh, as I start to pass these cars an 08-plate Peugeot 307cc with a 'wag' type bint driving is also heading towards me, we both stop. To her left there is more than enough space for her to pull in behind the parked car on her side of the road, now any normal person would do so, but she wants me to reverse and get out of her way, she keeps in signing me to do so, I tell her that there is enough space to pull in behind the car on her sode of the road, she half arsely does so but keeps on telling me to move out of her way.

 

At this point I'm rather taken aback by this attitude, in her position I would happily pull in behind the parked on my side of the road and let the other car pass as its thier right of way. She starts to get a bit arsey and moves her car closer to mine and fold her arms in a strop.

 

To pass her I pull up on the pavement, as I pass she shouts twat to me, I retaliate with a similar jibe and carry on.

 

This just proves more to me that people do actually think they are better than you because of social standing, background, money etc.... Its just fucking stupid.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That degree of twattery doesn't surprise me. I've noticed of late a tendency for the less intelligent strain of Youth to walk in front of moving cars to deliberately slow you down.

 

Doesn't work on me. Some slouch beanie wearing halfwit tried that this morning. At the very last minute he leapt out of the way as it dawned on his spotty brain cell that I wasn't going to slow down or swerve. I would have no issue with running such a fool over - a broken leg/pelvis might teach them the Green Cross Code.

[barefoot]

I would have no issue with running such a fool over - a broken leg/pelvis might teach them the Green Cross Code.

 

Now you don't want to do that - I killed a pedestrian on an unlit dual carriageway one dark winter night & its something I don't intend doing again.

Can I suggest switching off the ignition which slows you down & you can click it back on at the crucial moment.

Then you get a freeby chuckle as they shit theyselves with the backfire.

[Lord Sterling]

I've noticed of late a tendency for the less intelligent strain of Youth to walk in front of moving cars to deliberately slow you down..

 

Reminds me of when I used to work at the garage. The garage was near a school, trying to manoeuvre a car at kicking out time was a farce, kids didnt care they just walk in front of you as you were reversing out of the garage, sometimes they didnt even see and would walk into it expecting you to move out of thier way, which was impossible with the stream of schooltwats walking in front, side and back of the car. Lemmings.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I would have no issue with running such a fool over - a broken leg/pelvis might teach them the Green Cross Code.

 

Now you don't want to do that - I killed a pedestrian on an unlit dual carriageway one dark winter night & its something I don't intend doing again.

Can I suggest switching off the ignition which slows you down & you can click it back on at the crucial moment.

Then you get a freeby chuckle as they shit theyselves with the backfire.

 

Understood, but was your poor victim trying to be a hard nut? A Guy I used to know ran a couple of folk over - not serious body-over-bonnet stuff but a wheel over the foot and enough to make them yelp. His reasoning was that if he stopped, he'd get a gun/knife pulled on him.

[RoadworkUK]

.... I've noticed of late a tendency for the less intelligent strain of Youth to walk in front of moving cars to deliberately slow you down.

 

I find dipping the clutch and spinning the front wheels on a surge of KV6 venom gets them moving.

 

Granted, they probably guffaw with larfter afterwards...

[Negative Creep]

An interesting post made on PH earlier on, which conveniently I can no longer find. On the subject of those stupid tall 5 seat MPV, someone pointed out that they are the Mumsnet of vehicles. No excitement, nothing interest, neutral handling, focused on safety. How many kids will grow up with an interest in cars when under-the-thumb Dad takes them to school in a Zafira?

[andrew e]

Hey I taught my girls to drive aged 11 in Zafira - on the Le-Mans infield! I have a picture next to the dunlop bridge and everything

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

How many kids will grow up with an interest in cars when under-the-thumb Dad takes them to school in a Zafira?

 

None, because they'll all be on PS43 Xboxfactor 9 wasting their life away. Dead brains and fuck all imagination, but thumbs with biceps. Brilliant.

 

The good old days are gone. When we were kids, our Dads took us to scrapyards (remember them?), did headgasket swaps in the garage and we dreamed of owning a shitter of our own when we were old enough. Our first cars were old shit, but we thoughtb they were great because we didn't know any better......part of growing up I believe.

 

I still have my late Dad's Haynes manuals, complete with his (and mine) oily thumbprints. Priceless.

[dollywobbler]

Sorry but my dad struggled to even change a tail-light bulb on his Mk1 Escort estate. The past is not entirely rose-tinted. The wonderful shite of yesteryear was just normal transport back then. People who are interested in cars are just interested in cars! No-one was getting excited by Ford Sierras in the 1980s, or Nissan Bluebirds. My dad owned both.

 

Youngsters are still getting into old cars. There's lots of not-old types on here, the Moggy club has a strong youth following as does (surprisingly!) the Vintage Sports Car Club. The Triumph TR Register even has a Yoof section.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The past is not entirely rose-tinted.

 

No, but it was a bit more interesting and you could get away with so much - MOT's dipped in brake fluid to wash the ink out and re-written, same with tax discs with a month left on them and pinched from a scrapper.

I certainly enjoyed car ownership and driving more 20 years ago.

[504GL]

I always get tailgaters.... but with a sickly (read cracked block, stretched timing chain and re-adjusted injector pump timing....!!) 41 year old diesel engine, the ability to smoke fuck out of them on hills is bloody wonderful. They seem to back off.

 

Used to LOVE doing that in 406. 30 through a 30 zone with a tailgater up my bum? Put it in 5th and floor it. Loads of fuel goes in, you go no faster, but the car behind gets smoked to hell and covered in crap.

 

If you think it's bad driving an old car, try driving a new car which is perceived to be very girly. Men just HAVE to overtake me when I'm in the 500 no matter what.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

An interesting post made on PH earlier on, which conveniently I can no longer find. On the subject of those stupid tall 5 seat MPV, someone pointed out that they are the Mumsnet of vehicles. No excitement, nothing interest, neutral handling, focused on safety. How many kids will grow up with an interest in cars when under-the-thumb Dad takes them to school in a Zafira?

 

Isn't this the case with most modern stuff? The driver involvement, noises and smells of motoring which I love have all been engineered out as NVH. Every modern bread and butter car I've driven has been perfectly pleasant, but I've never got out of one and thought "I wish I had one of those". I despise the feather-light clutches, accelerators with no resistance and steering wheels which feel like they're from an arcade game. Yet I learnt to drive in one such car and it didn't dull my enthusiasm.

 

I see car enthusiasts becoming a smaller, more concentrated group in the future. Young people can get something decent for they first car nowadays, so the only people getting stuck into the oily bits and rust buckets will be those who want to, rather than those who can't afford anything else.

[504GL]

An interesting post made on PH earlier on, which conveniently I can no longer find. On the subject of those stupid tall 5 seat MPV, someone pointed out that they are the Mumsnet of vehicles. No excitement, nothing interest, neutral handling, focused on safety. How many kids will grow up with an interest in cars when under-the-thumb Dad takes them to school in a Zafira?

 

Isn't this the case with most modern stuff? The driver involvement, noises and smells of motoring which I love have all been engineered out as NVH. Every modern bread and butter car I've driven has been perfectly pleasant, but I've never got out of one and thought "I wish I had one of those". I despise the feather-light clutches, accelerators with no resistance and steering wheels which feel like they're from an arcade game. Yet I learnt to drive in one such car and it didn't dull my enthusiasm.

 

I see car enthusiasts becoming a smaller, more concentrated group in the future. Young people can get something decent for they first car nowadays, so the only people getting stuck into the oily bits and rust buckets will be those who want to, rather than those who can't afford anything else.

 

You want a Fiat 500. The airbox on mine is currently broken and when you pull up at junctions you get a nice petrol/oil smell wafting into the cabin.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That'd be nice. Let me know if the power steering breaks, I'll make you an offer.