dj0nes

Hi All,

I've recently found myself getting more and more wound up with some of the bell ends who use our roads.

Today is another standard example of inconsiderate tossers who make my blood boil, I was moving in crawling traffic about 10mph or so speeds through a local four laned one way system when a women in a big E class Mercades (She must have been about early 50's) decided to go from the far left hand lane to the right, cutting up a double decker bus in the process who had to brake harshly to avoid hitting her after sounding his horn it didn't seem to bother her and she then attempted to muscle in front of me, luckly I saw what she was about to do and got level to her before she could cut me up.
After sounding my horn.. as you do! She and her passenger laughed and I was then greeted with her passenger (a fellow 50-something) displaying the wanker sign.

She soon stopped doing this and quickly avoided eye contact when she realised the lights were turning red directly in front.

Is it just my bad luck or do people seem to be getting alot more ruder, I've only been driving a few years but recently events like this seem to becoming a daily occurance, not a dig at women drivers by the way as most the time it's men

Fiddy

There's two ways to deal with it, either full on road rage to release the anger, or accept there is a lot of inconsiderate cunts on the roads these days, and let them get on with it.

matts1

People don't give a shite mate, all to ready to cut you up to get ahead, and then will scream like foook when they end up colliding with you.

My mate was in a traffic over the weekend, a learner is in front so he left a big gap as they are on a hill. The learner starts rolling back and keeps coming and my mate hits the horn. Eventually they stop but are so close my mate thinks they have hit his car.

He gets out to check and the instructor gets out and says 'if there is any damage then it's your fault for going into the back of my car' WTF!!!!

I would have smashed his face in, lucky for the little prick my mate is a placid bloke and they hadn't bumped but still!!

pani_k

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People have lost the art of driving safely and steadily mate everyone is always in a hurry to jump 2 spaces forwards be doing 5-10mph more than necessary all the time. As above either just stay cool and fuck em or give it the full 10 on the Richter Scale chaos.

RichieST

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No reason to 'deal with them'. They will only aggravate you if you let it. So fuck em.

Let them get on with it, don't give a monkeys and get on with your life.

vroomtshh

My solution would be that we all turn our cars into something from Death Race/Robot wars. Flippers, axes, spinning cutting discs, 50calibre amchine guns. Then whenever anyone does something we don;t like, we can deal out the necessary punishment.

i.e. Cut someone up - punishment is 14 rounds fired at you.
fog lights on - all cars in the vicinity round on you and push you into the pit of death.

Nothing major

mk3_escort

I've given up getting angry, there are at least 4 twats on any one journey anywhere, if you let them know about it they always gesture as if it was your fault anyway.

My major nark at the mo is people not giving way if your travelling uphill (they are descending, parked cars on either side), thats a real pisser for me.

the reason ive given up getting angry is because I don't fancy getting a smack in the chops from some huge gypo who drives and acts like a cunt for a living, if its a little old lady I hit the horns both barrells (i can handle them)

Fiddy

I agree, but its easier said than done richie rich. thats my philosiphy, rise above it, but some of them make the most cuntish manouvers and it gets to you. i suppose a lot of the time your reaction is based on your mood, if your having a bad day, you may well react, but if your having a good day, you laugh it off, shake your heed, and let them get on with it.

RSandy

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deal with dumbass's everyday bein out on the road every working day, u just have to learn to get used to it, or prepare for an early stress related death!

today i had a foreign trucker veer into my lane and knock my wing mirror with his trailer, all i did was carry on overtaking and knock his back to return the favour lol. could have got stressed, but just had a laugh out of it instead

Northants Ford Fan

If i can when someone is trying to cut me up i make it as akward as possible for them, and occasionally ive lost it and made sure they dont try silly shit again (flashing you out of the way when your doing the limit and have nowhere to go is my pet hate and have taught a few people not to do it again, its funny when they push the girlfreinds fez when im travelling behind them in my van, as it surprises a few people )

TOMMY_RS

lol at the tags
my mates mum used to have a custom horn on her car, so when ever people cut her up etc, she wud press the horn and the sound of a machine gun or sumit like that would go off dead loud was proper funny to see peoples reactions lol!

dojj

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i drive a white van, so i either get given way way early, or they leaev it almost until it's too late before they pull over

coonts the lot of them

and the even bigger coonts are the ones who don't even acknowledge you when youv'e stopped by saying thanks

and women drivers, 95% of them are a waste of space, i should know, my wife's driving drives me nuts and she only uses 1st and second because all the roads she drives on are 20 mph limits

kosman

if they cut me up in truck they get both barrels of abuse,mainly telling the stupid cunts if they wanna fuck with a loaded 44tonner do it to someone else cos i dont want their deaths on my conscience,if im in car i let em get on with it.

ronf42

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I see it every morning on the M8 at the Kingston Bridge, people go into the left lane for the city exit, then cut in at the last minute to stay on the motorway, this morning it was a cunt in a 7.5t who dived in at the last kick.
As much as I hate it, I tend to sit right up behind the person in front of me when in heavy traffic on the M8 and dont let the chancers going up the outside lanes to cut in at the last kick in front of me as I have sat long enough in traffic because of these cunts. Others should fail to let them in and then they will have to divert off the motorway because of their selfishness(even though I am just as bad)
Many would probably say I should just do the same as them, but I hate doing that, makes me feel bad for some reason.

Puss2

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If someone is giving you abuse i find it funny to laugh at them it gets them even more annoyed

Shings

One day one of these cunts will kill me with their shit driving....

The way to avoid it in my opinion is to have a sporty enough car to get you out of trouble if needs be,

Rick74

If it happens to me i go off in one,I actually imagine me ramming there car,punching in the window,pulling them through it and booting fuk out them wether its a guy or woman,pet hate is someone flashing me from behind,instant one finger salute on the rear view mirror,i have issues lol.

Iain Mac

Getting cut up at 10mph - I can understand the fright the bus driver must have got, and how lucky you were to manage to cut her off from the manoeuvre she was trying to make.


I have no idea what the road layout is, but maybe she joined the system on the far left and her route meant that she needed to get to the far right? I have that when I go into Glasgow on the M8 and want to come off at Charing Cross . And, do you know what? At 10mph a bit of give-and-take actually keeps the traffic moving. Until someone decides to "teach someone a lesson".

My pet hate is when people insist on going into roadworks nose to tail - if everyone left a sensible gap, we'd all merge in turn and get through at 50mph, instead of sitting for hours trying to filter into non-existent gaps.

Psycho Warren

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drive really slowly when they tailgate you and when they move to the right to overtake, speed up to 30 again

That winds the inpatient tailgaters up LOADS you can see the anger boiling over!!!

STAFFY OWNER

+1. Exactly my tactics.

Iain Mac

Or why not just let them pass? That way they won't run up the back of your car, it's easier for you to keep an eye on them, and you can take the moral high-ground, knowing that you are a better driver/man/citizen/whatever*.
*delete as required

STAFFY OWNER

Easier said than done. If somebody pisses me off or tries to take advantage then the old red mist starts to descend. Also i don't see why other drivers should have to bow down to their bolshy atitude, if everyone just moves over it makes them do it even more.

orionmojo

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I drive lorries for a living and you have to keep your cool when numpties cut you up cos your slower. they seem to think that your automatically going to be slow so do some proper daft shit to over / undertake you. Having a proper horn really really helps me. the trucks have cab mounted chrome jobbies, a proper old skool low and loud truck horn. it always attracts attention and if your in abit of traffic everyone looks round and can usually piece together whats gone on when theres a merc coupe at a precarious angle in front of you still sat at a red light.
that makes me feel so much better and i quite happily continue without another thought of it. when i used to let it go, another idiot would do something similar an hour later and i'd instantly snap back double and have the red mist descend, you cant do much but it puts you in the wrong mood for driving heavy machinery.

I know people will probably disagree with me but get a few extra car horns and wire them in. i've got 4 on my car lol, yes before anyone says it its a "mines bigger than yours" type affair but it works for me its also great when the chavs walk as slowly as they can across the middle of the road slowing down the traffic deliberatly (not at crossings). they cant help but jump in fright a little bit as they're so loud, and by then its all over. no amount of styling it out is going to sort it.

Joe.

Psycho Warren

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because its 30 for a reason and in most 30 zones its dangerous to overtake. Not saying i stick to exactly 30 all the time, but i dont feel the need to sit up someones arse just because i want to speed and they dont.

They run up back of car and they pay/get to meet my steering lock close up!

Also in MOST cases even if you did let them overtake, theyve got no where to go due to traffic density. Its just them driving like dicks. Maybe if you get them mad and upset maybe one day theyll think "doh why i always pissed off at other motorists? erm maybe cos i drive like a cunt innit??"

And if not the extra anger and rage will hopefully contribute to an earlier heart attack/anuerism

Kelv

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it always amuses me at how others can be in the wrong, chopping lanes or pulling out in front of you with no consideration for others but you get the abuse for beeping or flashing at them as if your not allowed to be annoyed.

i had a woman one morning whizz up the inside of the flow of traffic as it went thru a turn right section and cut in front of me to a gap that hardly existed and the jump on her brakes to adjust her speed.
as she did so i ended up punting her from behind, only lightly tho.
but she jumped out after we pulled over saying its my fault as i hit her from behind and im a C*nt for not letting her in properly!

i sat there laughing at her, even said that im supposed to let her cut me up and get away with it when shes the danger on the road.
with that she started spouting off that she was going to call the police as i was out of order.

again i laughed at her, told her ill ring them myself as im sure they would think she was insane for illegally speeding up the inside of several cars, not indicating as she cut me up and changing lanes and then having to brake that hard to fit into a gap.

she soon changed her tune and said 'well theres no damage and im going to be late now'

stupid f*cking bint, wish id hit her harder now

Psycho Warren

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I like it! I like it alot!! Im thinking ship fog horn or similar?? Burst the fuckers ear drums

You kind of loose when the red mists decended. Far better to stay calm.

STAFFY OWNER

Had 2 instances on Sunday of arseholes and both happened to be Volvo estate drivers.
1st one, my missus was just pulling on to the road that enters our estate and twat in the Volvo behind blasts his horn cos she didn't go round the corner quick enough, if he could see the potholes that wait to greet you he would have known why she was so cautious.
2nd one just comes ploughing over a single lane bridge without slowing down as we were just about to go over it forcing us to have to stop.
Arrogant fuckers.

Saaamon

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A good driver wouldn't let it effect them, because they'd know their not 100% focused on driving.

STAFFY OWNER

Do you never have the radio on in your car? Do you never have a conversation with any of the passengers in your car? And most importantly do you never look at fit birds when you are driving your car?
All of the above are everyday distractions that happen numerous times on any journey and stop us being 100% focused on our driving. Now can you honestly say you are always 100% focused? I know i can't.

damonkreel

Given that I have to drive in Central London every day, I have lost count of the times I have been cut up, mostly from these licenced minicabs, most of these "drivers" probably got someone else to take their tests for them, as it is painfully obvious that there is a distinct lack of road training there!
Bendy buses are a bugger as well, most of them seem to think they own the road they roll on, if you get a particularly stroppy driver that decides that you WILL stay behind them, there is little or nothing you can do except stew quietly!
As for the idiots that try to tear past me to go a bit faster, I console myself with the facts that their efforts to be be bit more macho with their right foot is costing them more fuel, and they will get to the next red light first!
I usually try to remember a line written by the Science Fiction writer, Robert Heinlein;-
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity".
Roy.

dojj

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i tend to drive in london a lot, and if i were a traffic policeman, i would be working 24 horus a day dishing out fines for speeding, careless driving, agresive driving, driviing without due care and attention, etc

but some of the bigest dangers to road users are them dip shit pedestrians who just walk out without looking

plenty of times they don't even turn around until you scare the fuck out of them with the horn

i remember the time when some blokewas having a conversation in the middle of the road while i was waiting to turn left, and he went on and on and on and then he got upset because i beeped him and starting going off on one

so i open the door and stepped out, extracting my 2 foot breaker bar from where it had fallen into the side of the drivers seat with me and he soon fucked off

but it's not reall worth gtting worked up about shit like this, the best times i had was when i used to drive buses and everyone would pullout in front of you to cut you up, so i'd punt them across the road, as you do

one time when a woman pulled out in front of me as i was driving along and i took the front of her car off, absolutly THE biggest black man i've seen (at the time anyway) got out of teh passenger seat and i thought to myself "oh dear", but he was sweet about it as there was no way i could have stopped and it was her fault, but no one was hurt so it was all cool

or the lady who was driving her sons car and drove it into the side of the bus and then said "it's your fault, i've never had an accident in 30 years of driving"

"well my dear, you have now"

there was a bus lane i was in, she was on the right of the bus going the same way, and she wanted to turn into the left turn that my bus was curently occupiying, and yet she didn't see the bus and drove into the back wheel

38 accidents in 36 months, one was my fault when i reveresed the bus into one of the bollards in kingston bus station and one went down to a 50-50 when i hit the side of a brand new car some old chap had just driven off the forecourt about 20 feet down the road

but i also advocate the use of all available lanes when going into roadworks and restrictions rather than just sitting in one long queue of never moving traffic and if everyone merges inturn i don't see why there are so many holdups

especially when you get lorry drivers who think they are being "fair" by driving side by side while all the way down the road you can see there is just one lane of traffic for the next 5 miles, they ain't being fair, they are just being cunts

p17fld

Any chance of a brief summary?

dojj

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if you are in a workd vehicle and someone pulls out in front of you, hit them

if you are in your own car, see if you are more menacing than the person who's just cut you up and you may be able to make them feel small

if you are stuck in traffic, take plenty of lollypops with you to suck on

daveybgtt

People seem to give a lot more leeway, act like less of a cunt when I'm driving a nice looking/"boy racer" whatever car. When I'm forced to borrow the old mans F reg bluebird, which to be fair is a lot when your other two cars are an ERST and a R5GTT that's when people act up. maybe it's the stereotype of the driver? Modded car = angry young man, bluebird = coffin dodger?

dj0nes

Kingston Upon Thames mate?

Psycho Warren

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Dojj did you have the highest crash history of the bus company ever then??

St3V3_C

Fog lights - boils my piss too

Don't know they are on? You're an idiot - get off the road.

Need them so you can see? You're a blind idiot - get off the road.

Think it looks cool? You're an idiot that likes blinding others - get off the road!!

lol.

Eagle

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driving vans or trucks is a painfull existance nowdays ....
so glad im a van driver and not lgv ... had enough years ago of that .. should make everyone drive a truck to understand how they work/behave on a road... no the big gap infront aint the cue for you to barge in it .. unles you want 45tonnes to redesign your boot...

kermitt

What hacks me of is cunts sitting in the over taking lane when there is loadsa room on the left to just simply pull over and let others by but instead they hold everybody else up and you get the consortina brake light thing effect as one numpty in the que can't maintain an average speed simply by lifting off the go pedal.

dojj

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yes mate, as you go in at the far end, there are some over flow parking bays the other side that you have to reverse into, i spotted one of the bollards, but not the other one, and these fookers are about 8 inches thick surrounded by metal, and painted (at the time) like bumble bee's

they used me to help everyone fill out their accident forms