(26-04-17, 07:21 PM)vinnyb link Wrote: Re: Dickhead HGV drivers
  A few weeks ago we were going through Elkesley on the A1. It's a 50 mph speed limit with cameras and occasionally police cars. The OH was driving and keeping to the speed limit in lane 1 with driver who were happy to risk a ticket going past in lane 2 and a Knobhead in a bloody great artic behind was trying to get into our boot 'encouraging' the wife to speed up a bit. She didn't. About 1/4 of a mile from the derestriction sign he forced his way into lane 2 and drove past, my wife pulled out to overtake the slower trucks ready to accelerate and this arsehole stayed in the outside lane at about 45 mph for about 5 miles cos we'd slowed him down through the 50mph speed limit. They think they own the bloody road.

(01-05-17, 07:54 AM)YamFazFan link Wrote: I stick to the speed limit rigidly through those sorts of places and they can sit as close as they like to my bumper, I ain't foccin speeding up

(25-04-17, 12:12 PM)Grahamm link Wrote: Dickhead HGV drivers.

Going up to London, approaching the Hindhead Tunnel, the traffic is all backed up and a 40mph limit is in effect, so I'm filtering up through it as always and I've just got most of the way past an artic when he starts indicating right and begins to try to push into Lane 2 because, up ahead, the sign for Lane 1 has a red X on it.

I brake, because I don't want him pulling over on me and I'm looking up at him in his mirror, he's waving and effing and blinding because I'm stopping him from moving over.

WTF? If he had a) checked his mirror before starting to manoeuvre or b) would wait about five seconds more, the vehicle on my right would move up, I could get past and he could move in, everyone wins.

But, no, he seems to want me to stop, let 40 feet of trailer go by and *then* proceed! Bugger that.

So I stay where I am, wait for the vehicle on my right to move, slip through and carry on, giving the guy a wave (and not with one finger!) to which he responds by flashing his lights repeatedly and waving his hand about.

Whatever.

So I go past the red X lane closed and there's a matrix sign saying "Pedestrian in road" and maintaining the 40 limit.

Next lane sign, however, has both arrows green. "Hmm, ok," I think, "I could move over to Lane 1, but nobody else has. The sign could be a mistake, so I'll wait for the next one." The next one is also both green, so I move over even though pretty much everyone else is staying in Lane 2.

I say "pretty much everyone", because guess who I see coming up behind me...

Now it's still a 40 limit, I'm not going to risk a ticket because of this idiot trying to tailgate me, so I keep my speed down, just tweaking the throttle to keep far enough ahead of him.

Finally we get out of the tunnel and past the second average speed camera, I kick it down a couple of gears and "Goodbye, asshole!"

I hope he feels better...

(17-05-17, 04:16 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.

Foccin idiots.

(18-05-17, 07:36 AM)Dave48 link Wrote: My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices

(18-05-17, 07:36 AM)Dave48 link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg260741#msg260741 date=1495034175]
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.

Foccin idiots.

(18-05-17, 08:22 AM)Gnasher link Wrote: [quote author=Dave48 link=topic=17546.msg260791#msg260791 date=1495089363]
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg260741#msg260741 date=1495034175]
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.

Foccin idiots.

(18-05-17, 06:09 PM)Dave48 link Wrote: As motorcyclists we all know how we need the sense of vision just like those WW2 fighter pilots who had to continually scan the sky. I wear rimless glasses-have done for years-since they provide the best peripheral vision.

(18-05-17, 07:36 AM)Dave48 link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg260741#msg260741 date=1495034175]
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.

Foccin idiots.

(18-05-17, 09:11 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: [quote author=Dave48 link=topic=17546.msg260791#msg260791 date=1495089363]
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg260741#msg260741 date=1495034175]
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.

Foccin idiots.

(18-05-17, 08:12 AM)NorthWestern link Wrote: What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.

(19-05-17, 01:19 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=NorthWestern link=topic=17546.msg260795#msg260795 date=1495091539]
What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.

(19-05-17, 03:01 PM)slappy link Wrote: Its because bananas produce ethylene gas which is something to do with the riipenng process,  if they are in an enclosed space then there is no air for the gas to be diluted in so it causes the banana to ripen very quickly.

(19-05-17, 05:20 PM)robbo link Wrote: The same as if you keep bananas in the fridge.The skin will ripen but the inside of the banana is ok.