Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[red98]

How come delevery drivers all drive like twats at 100mph and yet my delivery is always late

 

[darrsi]

Murderous c*nts in cars at roundabouts who either don't know, don't care or are simply in such a rush they're prepared to kill someone. Like the dangerous twot who driving the Iceland delivery van who drove  straight over the Hensingham round about almost running over a cyclist. The poor cyclist was around 60 years old and just managed to brake and stay upright as the van missed him by about six inches. How hard can it be to give way to the right?

Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?

[Val]

Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?

Not sure I've got this. Abroad you give way to everybody who is on or approaching closely the roundabout same as here?

[fazersharp]

Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?

Not sure I've got this. Abroad you give way to everybody who is on or approaching closely the roundabout same as here?

No I think I get what darrsi means and I think I have been behind a few foreign drivers. We are both on the roundabout (them in front ) and going around and then suddenly they stop on the roundabout to let someone on from the left.
Where as we give way to people already on the roundabout from the right.
Americans have a good system in which some states at least allow (as it would be in our case) left turns on a red light and the etiquette when there are a few left turners at the same junction is first come first served rather than give way from the left or right. 

[Val]

No I think I get what darrsi means and I think I have been behind a few foreign drivers. We are both on the roundabout (them in front ) and going around and then suddenly they stop on the roundabout to let someone on from the left.
Where as we give way to people already on the roundabout from the right.
Americans have a good system in which some states at least allow (as it would be in our case) left turns on a red light and the etiquette when there are a few left turners at the same junction is first come first served rather than give way from the left or right.

I see what you mean. I ride a lot here and on the continent and that never has happened to me, but different people drive/ride differently...

I have to say I have the wrong way going clockwise on the roundabout in France once  luckily it was no traffic at all 

[Grahamm]

Those people who have to have a fag as soon as they come out of asda

What about the ones who come out of the gym and light up...?!

[joebloggs]

Young kids in engineering firms who don't check their work before handing it over, spent half the afternoon waiting for my parts to be reworked after the youngun not only welded on the captive nuts but also managed to weld the screws to the nuts.................

[joebloggs]

Forgetting which brackets is cool enough to pick up after baking them in the oven for 20 mins...............No fingerprints again....Doh

[NorthWestern]

The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"

[fazersharp]

Adverts I think there must be 2 agency's knocking them out because every other advert either has a ukulele playing that has to end in a last strum or features a well known song that is sung acapella style, --- oh and all men featured HAVE to have beards. OR advertising agency peeps are all boring un imaginative sheep coping each other.

And another one -- false real people with fake stutters and falters in the script, we all know they are actors.

[mr self destruct]

The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"

Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.

[fazersharp]

Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.

  I dont think I have ever heard a better synopsis of how the motorcycle jurno's work 

[HarryHornby]

On a plus note, the roads were lovely and quiet today, due to it being half term and I knocked 15 minutes off my journey to work.


BAD...  AHHHHH they are all out today.


1) I had the "I'm going to do just under 40mph regardless of the speedlimit" in front of me for about 7 miles this morning and considering most of that was a 60 zone it was annoying, big queue of traffic behind us, carried on doing just under 40mph in a 30 too. 


2) A silly bitch dazzling other drivers with her fog lights on just because it was raining!  THEY ARE FOG LIGHTS YOU SILLY BITCH, RAIN ISN'T FOG!!! 


3) An Audi at a point where 2 lanes merge into one, could have pulled into the huge empty gap behind me but accelerated the last 30 yards to the merge point just to get in front and cut me up big time.... wanker! 


4) In Canterbury at a roundabout, 3 lanes, left is left, middle is straight, right is right and straight.  I'm going straight on and am in middle lane.  With about 10 yards to go to the roundabout a car pulls into left hand lane (fair enough, he's going left) then goes straight on forcing me to make an evasive maneuver as puts his car where mine should be..... arsehole! 


I feel better now, time to do some work! 

[noggythenog]

The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"

Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.

Yes .........brillliant .

[BIG MAC]

Anyone who tries to justify the current Govt's position in Parliament gets my goat but in reality what they do need is therapy

[darrsi]

Got a "KEEP CLEAR" box at the bottom of the road where I live (on the main road), so I ride down there getting ready to pull out and turn right as the lights towards the left had gone red and........a police car rolls into it and stops in front of me. 

I did the sensible thing and just shook my head and went around him, rather than the normal blast of the air horn that everyone else gets.

The police are not in my good books at the moment so this really pissed me off. 

[Freck]

Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!

[darrsi]

Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!

I've had a case going on for 16 months and they just completely dropped it, through their own fuck ups, delays, and lies. 

[fazersharp]

3) An Audi at a point where 2 lanes merge into one, could have pulled into the huge empty gap behind me but accelerated the last 30 yards to the merge point just to get in front and cut me up big time.... wanker! 
 

Thats a good one! . I get that a lot at a certian piece of road, the thing is that as you say this is where two lanes merge to one so 90% of the time the now single lane traffic he has just come up against is only going 15mph and so I just filter straight past the tosser.
Why the foc do they think that a bike would ever be holding them up in traffic

[darrsi]

Riding behind car drivers who insist on continuously looking at their passenger, but also who really talk with their hands at the same time.
Pay attention and watch the road you mong. 

[sinto]

Paying for something online, they take your money right away but when you return it for credit it takes days to return your money!
What the foc

[Val]

people who drive staright through roundabouts without even looking to the right WTF??

[darrsi]

People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all? 

[noggythenog]

Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch.


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key

[joebloggs]

Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch.


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key

Had a friend who did this (RIP Chris) use to argue that it saved his ignition switch????