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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 1:59:55 GMT -5
I don't think anybody has mentioned people who jump red lights. That's is highly annoying as well as illegal. The most annoying are cyclists who don't 'try to nip through' but blatantly go through a red light to try and get through the junction while other lights are on green. If you're cycling on the road, you follow the same Highway Code as everybody else. I once nearly ran a cyclist over because he went through a red light like how I mentioned. Of course he got angry, to which I replied "if you won't follow the Highway Code by going through red lights, don't expect me to follow the Highway Code and give you room". You have to be a lot more careful these days with how more people have cameras on their helmets/bikes/in their vehicles. I have always had something against people riding bikes on the road. Here in the UK we pay road tax and they should pay some sort of bike tax if they want to ride their bikes on the road, simple. I am guessing a lot of people here ride bikes and i don't mean to offend you but when cyclists run red lights and then complain about how CAR drivers are driving then please just bugger off and break your bike in half, thanks  Couldn’t agree more Dan. They should pay rego and display a plate so they’re identifiable when they break road laws. |
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Post by linkslover on Apr 4, 2019 6:46:02 GMT -5
At 30 I went back to Uni and became a taxi driver at nights. Let me tell you, doing 500 city km each night will sharpen your skills like nothing else. I had a mate also drove and he told me when I started that it would improve my driving. I figured I was already a better driver than him and dismissed it, but what he said was right. It’s a skill that a lot of people don’t practice, and should. Taxi drivers in the UK are on the whole awful. They don't indicate, they cut you up and they pull out in front of you. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 6:58:26 GMT -5
At 30 I went back to Uni and became a taxi driver at nights. Let me tell you, doing 500 city km each night will sharpen your skills like nothing else. I had a mate also drove and he told me when I started that it would improve my driving. I figured I was already a better driver than him and dismissed it, but what he said was right. It’s a skill that a lot of people don’t practice, and should. Taxi drivers in the UK are on the whole awful. They don't indicate, they cut you up and they pull out in front of you. That’s probably the stereotype here as well. I was constantly told by customers they were surprised to see a 30yo white guy driving. Was a pretty decent way to fund uni, it was my second time round so no mum and dad to pay my way. Lots of study time while I was waiting for a fare 👍 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 7:02:19 GMT -5
One good thing I had was that I drove for a private owner who had a very nice car, that only he and I drove - so it was clean, and very well maintained. A 4.0 6cyl that was RWD and and absolute dream to drift around on wet Brisbane nights when everyone else was tucked away in bed. Making that couple of minutes up on the race back to the city to line up at the casino or airport might get you in front of 3 other cabs, saving you half an hours wait time on the quiet nights 👌🏻
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Post by nevadaballin on Apr 4, 2019 11:57:57 GMT -5
My biggest pet peeves when driving are (no particular order)
People who do not use their turn signals.
People using their phones while driving.
People thinking they can drive while partying.
People who think that public streets are a race track.
All of the above have killed people I've known over the years. Some were doing it, others victims of someone doing it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 17:44:44 GMT -5
My biggest pet peeves when driving are (no particular order) People who do not use their turn signals. People using their phones while driving. People thinking they can drive while partying. People who think that public streets are a race track. All of the above have killed people I've known over the years. Some were doing it, others victims of someone doing it. I forgot to mention lack of indicating in my original post. It's the lack of it that frustrates me and also when people indicate literally as they are turning. For example in the UK we have slip roads as you do in America and you should give plenty of warning to motorists around you before you turn.....but I see a lot of people gradually move off and halfway across the line they start indicating....I can see you are bloody turning you moron.. 😡🤣 |
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Post by paulus on Apr 5, 2019 6:34:47 GMT -5
I think I'm old fart enough to join this thread... I will never ever ever let a 4x4 out at a junction. Those gas guzzling, pedestrian killing, never been on a dirt road, look at my status symbol, mother@!$#ers are the very definition of anti-social and the bastards driving them get nothing from me. I do like to let dear old ladies in tiny cars going very slowly out in front of me tho - especially sweet when a tailgating 4x4 is behind me Middle lane campers on the motorway can also suck my balls. |
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Post by Koop on Apr 5, 2019 7:06:00 GMT -5
There are rules for a 4-way stop and having the other driver wave to me or flashing their lights at me telling me to go when clearly they have the right of way bugs the sh!t out of me.
I usually just wave back, then point in all different directions trying to demonstrate to them their own stupidity.
You do not need a masters degree to understand how a 4-way stop with multiple cars work. Do you?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 8:05:24 GMT -5
I think I'm old fart enough to join this thread... I will never ever ever let a 4x4 out at a junction. Those gas guzzling, pedestrian killing, never been on a dirt road, look at my status symbol, mother@!$#ers are the very definition of anti-social and the bastards driving them get nothing from me. I do like to let dear old ladies in tiny cars going very slowly out in front of me tho - especially sweet when a tailgating 4x4 is behind me Middle lane campers on the motorway can also suck my balls. Letting slow drivers out in front of me is something i don't ever want to do regardless of driving etiquette if there is such a thing. I may be a dick for it but i don't want to spend a year of my life getting home or wherever  I agree with your 4x4 point though. It is also the same for bus drivers, van drivers etc (at least the majority i see). They seem to not give two shits about anyone else, the bad ones anyway. Whenever i see a bus driver indicating i don't stop and let it out because they normally don't give a crap about anybody else so i want to return the favour |
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Post by cliffs on Apr 5, 2019 8:18:54 GMT -5
By indicating, I believe you mean turning on a turn signal or using hand gestures for same?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 8:31:46 GMT -5
By indicating, I believe you mean turning on a turn signal or using hand gestures for same? Yes. In the UK we call it indicating. The lack of turn signalling from people is ridiculous where i live. We are supposed to guess where people are going. It can get bloody frustrating sometimes, in fact all the time. |
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Post by linkslover on Apr 8, 2019 10:19:12 GMT -5
I know Daniel. The number of indicators that are 'broken' is astonishing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 15:03:09 GMT -5
I had a guy today on the wrong side of the road, completely blocking traffic because he was lined up to get cheap fuel. There was room for him to enter the service station (servo) but it wasn’t the lane he wanted - so instead of waiting on his own side of the road, he just blocked my lane. I pulled up close and yelled at him to ‘move his piece of sh!t’, and he just sat there for a further minute or two while I had a lineup of about 20 cars behind me. I couldn’t go around him because of the other people lined up to enter the servo, waiting on the correct side of the road.
It’s like he was blocking it to stop anyone from my direction from cutting in line, and screw anyone who wasn’t entering an obviously full service station and using the road to, y’know, get somewhere.
The price is the same all day, if the servo is THAT full and busy, maybe come back later??
Most of the things that bug me on the road all boil down to people being selfish.
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Post by LKeet6 on Apr 8, 2019 15:30:28 GMT -5
Another one I see all the time, whether it be on foot, my bike, or as a passenger in a car, is when people don't stop for you to cross the road.
Now of course I'm not saying they should ALWAYS stop, but what I see ALL the time (I live in a busy trafficy city) is when there's a red light and a huge queue just ahead and they still don't stop! ZERO common sense. In a rush to get that traffic jam ahead, obviously. Will actually stop in front of me, in my way, at the crossing place...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 22:34:58 GMT -5
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