Poll: What gets under your skin [Back to Voting]
rear fog lights left on 12 (0%) -»
pulling out in front of you then turning right 7 (0%) -»
going all the way around the outside of a roundabout 7 (0%) -»
not pulling over too the left when theres an empty lane 15 (0%) -»
two lorrys/CARAVANS overtaking for about 6 miles 13 (0%) -»
Hazards used as parking lights 0 (0%) -»
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Jon Ison

posted on 1/6/05 at 06:32 PM Reply With Quote
What gets under your skin

just a few rants too pick from, feel free too add your own..........






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colibriman

posted on 1/6/05 at 06:39 PM Reply With Quote
wheres the option for all of the above except the last one...





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posted on 1/6/05 at 06:40 PM Reply With Quote
all of the above





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posted on 1/6/05 at 06:40 PM Reply With Quote
espeeeeeeecially not pulling over...





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I love speed :-P

posted on 1/6/05 at 06:46 PM Reply With Quote
my main two are fog lights on at night/extra bright lights which blind every one else and people tailgating you 2 push u along

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andylancaster3000

posted on 1/6/05 at 06:49 PM Reply With Quote
All of them too! But mainly the fog lights as my car isn't really up to the faster of the motorway lanes for the not pulling over one to bother me!
I'm assuming you had a bad drive home from work today Jon!?

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Fozzie

posted on 1/6/05 at 07:10 PM Reply With Quote
Hard to pick just one of them Jon. Can you add another button to say 'All of above'.....they are all prone to wind me up I am afraid.

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Jonr

posted on 1/6/05 at 07:36 PM Reply With Quote
Not pulling over!!!

I drive 20 miles to work everyday. 10 of them on the A92, a real pleasure, A road, not dual carriageway, bumble along happily, several good places to overtake and if I get stuck behind a lorry or a bus or a tractor, no big deal.

Hit the A90 dual carriageway and I can't get past anything!!!! Everything is crawling along the fast lane, scared to pull in, in case somebody passes them! It's shit, I cover the 10 miles of normal road in half the time it takes me to travel the same distance on dual carriage way.


Grrrrrrrrr


Hmmm how about a RANT section???

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Peteff

posted on 1/6/05 at 07:43 PM Reply With Quote
People who don't indicate on roundabouts or drive all the way round with the left indicator on. Last minute indicators when you are waiting at a junction as well.





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GeoffT

posted on 1/6/05 at 07:58 PM Reply With Quote
Traffic lights turn green for their 12 second cycle - 5 seconds later the lead car decides to make a move......

[Edited on 1/6/05 by GeoffT]

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zilspeed

posted on 1/6/05 at 08:05 PM Reply With Quote
All of the above plus a lot more into the bargain.
Add mobile phone use while driving to that list as well - usually perpetrated by non seat belt wearing young mothers with unbelted toddlers standing between the front seats.

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JoelP

posted on 1/6/05 at 09:42 PM Reply With Quote
1) lane mismanagement
2) inappropriate use of lights - either fogs on good days, or no lights on in heavy rain
3) the gloit in the right lane at lights who only indicates right after the lights change, so you get stuck behind him trying to go straight on
4) tailgaiting
5) people who overtake you on the motorway but only change lane at the last minute, almost brushing your bumper
6) people going too slow.
7) people who beep you for pulling across their path, even if they were nowhere near you
8) people who stop at a roundabout when there is blatantly no one coming
9) poor use of inicators, either just slack or even giving misleading signals.

There are loads more, but thats my favourite few.

However, i have the pleasure of witnessing good driving at times, when people demonstrate awareness and consideration that you do not usually come across - like nipping into a small gap in the middle lane to let you come steaming through, when many would've just made you slow down and wait for a big gap. all is not lost.






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subk2002

posted on 1/6/05 at 10:00 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by colibriman
espeeeeeeecially not pulling over...


I sure know about your hate for this colin






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subk2002

posted on 1/6/05 at 10:02 PM Reply With Quote
What about folk pulling out infront of you when you are towing at 60mph






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Spyderman

posted on 1/6/05 at 10:04 PM Reply With Quote
1. Using front Fog lights.
2. Motorway overtakers that have to pull in less then 2 yards in front of you and then go slower than you were going before they passed.
3. Idiots that have to overtake just so they can turn off in front of you, usually to the right, forcing you to stop.
4. Sliproad lunatics. The idiots that have to go from sliproad to outside lane in one movement, usually forcing every other vehicle to swerve or brake.
5. Juggernaut drivers that think putting their indicator on makes all vehicles alongside vanish. Then sit 6 inches off your rear so you can read the print on the oil filter behind their grill.
6. Any other driver that uses their vehicle as a weapon!





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colibriman

posted on 1/6/05 at 10:17 PM Reply With Quote
What about folk pulling out infront of you when you are towing at 60mph


well folk's...on the way back north after picking up Drew's mini (Drew driving his van, towing mini on my trailer), some muppet in a fiesta van pulled out from a side road in front of us.....'oh dear' we shouted...van and trailer slowed really well....no drama...except for us shouting and smelling brown stuff...





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scoobyis2cool

posted on 1/6/05 at 10:29 PM Reply With Quote
The one I hate most is people not pulling over. I was getting a lift home with my mate the other week and he did it for about 100 miles solid, I felt like punching his lights out on behalf of all the other road users

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Hellfire

posted on 1/6/05 at 11:17 PM Reply With Quote
Jon - all of them bar the last one!

The road sense has all gone a bit Pete Tong....






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RoadkillUK

posted on 2/6/05 at 10:02 AM Reply With Quote
People who can't use lanes properly, forcing me to illegally 'undertake' or cross 2 lanes just to overtake them.

Many of them really don't know what they are doing wrong.

I vote for a retest every 5-10 years.





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Fred W B

posted on 2/6/05 at 11:21 AM Reply With Quote
Out here we have all the above problems, plus a big problem with pedestrians crossing freeways.

Last night a mate of mine was going home at the legal speed of 120km per hour in a middle lane in his 5000km old all singing all dancing Subaru. Pedestrian ran out from in front of a slow truck in the inside lane, in front of him. He didn't even have time to get his foot on the brake before he hit her. So the pedestrian killed herself, and took out the entire front of the car, including radiator, intercooler, cam belt, windscreen, dashboard etc. Not nice at all

Cheers

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locogeoff

posted on 2/6/05 at 12:13 PM Reply With Quote
People turning right at a roundabout who approach in the left hand lane then force their way into the right hand of the roundabout lane because they can't be bothered driving right round the outside and/or when there is only one exit lane from the roundabout blow their horn cause you've cut them up.

There is one particular roundabout in Edinburgh that this happens all the time, its infuriating, I now drive left of centre in the proper lane as close to the line as is safe, thus forcing these fekin twats to drive right round the outside, I will then leave them enough room, just enough mind, to exit the roundabout, just thinking about this is making me mad.....

Time for a fag methinks!

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bigandy

posted on 2/6/05 at 12:47 PM Reply With Quote
Couldn't agree more with the regular retests. Every 5 years max, and the test should cover sensible driving bits, like not driving down the middle lane when the inside lane is empty, instead of whether you can parallel park or not....

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Dammit! Too many decisions....

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jestre

posted on 2/6/05 at 06:40 PM Reply With Quote
Lack of turn signal use!!
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flak monkey

posted on 3/6/05 at 08:57 AM Reply With Quote
All of the above, and people who drive 4x4s...Well those so called 4x4's that never see mud, and would be useless on it anyway. (Nothing against those in real ones, i.e Landy's)

The reason?...most of them drive like they own the road. Same goes with the majority of BMW/Volvo drivers as well...

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