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[Carlos W]

I wonder how many people do what Hugh grant did in that film and buy a child seat and squash crisps and stuff into it to fool people into thinking you have a toddler?

 

Love it.

 

I hate people who don't understand the concept of a filter lane. They come to the entrance of the filter and just stop and wait for the traffic to clear. Why not just drive down the filter lane and filter in with the traffic.

 

The name is a dead giveaway really!

 

Ben

 

The number of people who stop at Stockbury when they're coming off the M2 coast bound and heading towards the island.

 

It really annoys me

[MaxAndPaddy]

I wonder how many people do what Hugh grant did in that film and buy a child seat and squash crisps and stuff into it to fool people into thinking you have a toddler?

 

 

 

I did once ask someone if they had accidentally left there child in the shop and did they want any help finding them

[Ben_O]

I know exactly where you mean mate. Stupid people.

 

Another good one in Sittingbourne is where the one way system comes round and splits for A2 and town centre. everytime i go round there, everyone just stops and waits to get over for park road and high street. I always keep going with my indicator on and MERGE.

[Miniminx71]

Filter lanes are just designed to create road rage. If you have a set of traffic lights, both lanes going forward with one merging into the other about 50 yards up, it's an automatic bunfight. You just can't help it!! Two queues of people who've never met each other all hating one another at once.

[M J W J]

It is a really good banter thread.

 

Really good for taking out your rage on and writing about things that have annoyed you!

 

We should have it pinned and renamed 'the Rant thread' 

 

Ben

 

Well its more interesting than the new Jeremy Kyle thread.

 

I hate people who only go 40 mph down slip roads on to motorways and then try and speed up right at the end. Its much easier to slow down than to accelerate. The worst are the ones that actually stop though. I had to swing left and go down the hard shoulder once to avoid someone who stopped at the line to join the motorway.

 

Back to the original topic a bit more:

 

As far as I am concerned anyone can park in the parent and child spaces because a. I don't have kids so don't use them, therefore its not a problem to me and b. I so rarely go to a supermarket during the day when its busy. I always aim to get to them just after 9pm when most children will be asleep. This also means that fresh produce is being put out and there is hardly anyone around to get it. You just have to be prepared to reach to the back of the shelves to get the stuff with a longer life on it.

 

I do understand why people get annoyed when people who don't really use them take up the spaces though.

 

I used to for ever park my mini in the Motor Cycle space outside work if the car park was busy and it was free. The mini was small enough to fit between the lines but large enough to cover the symbol so when it was parked in it, the mini just looked like it was parked in a space like everyone else. I must have annoyed a few motorcyclist though.

[MaxAndPaddy]

 

I hate people who don't understand the concept of a filter lane. They come to the entrance of the filter and just stop and wait for the traffic to clear. Why not just drive down the filter lane and filter in with the traffic.

 

The name is a dead giveaway really!

 

Ben

 

ah yes, but then what about the people who think filter lanes means, please pull out in front of me even though I'm doing 10mph because I have some kind of magical right of way

[HarrysMini]

 

It is a really good banter thread.

 

Really good for taking out your rage on and writing about things that have annoyed you!

 

We should have it pinned and renamed 'the Rant thread' 

 

Ben

 

Well its more interesting than the new Jeremy Kyle thread.

 

I hate people who only go 40 mph down slip roads on to motorways and then try and speed up right at the end. Its much easier to slow down than to accelerate. The worst are the ones that actually stop though. I had to swing left and go down the hard shoulder once to avoid someone who stopped at the line to join the motorway.

 

That's the correct way to do it! Approach a duel carriageway/motorway slowly, and if there's room, speed up and pull out. 

Everyone just seems to think they can do 70 down there, pull out and expect the motorists on the duel carriageway to give way.

 

If you're travelling down a slip road at say, 40mph, you're minimising your chances of having to stop, and you're not going so fast that you're not going to be able to stop at the end if you have to, which you may do sometimes, if there's no space to pull out. 

 

The fact that you had to swerve to avoid a car on a slip road just shows that you were driving too fast. 

Edited by HarrysMini, 01 July 2014 - 12:32 AM.

[l_jonez]

On the original topic Im not overly fussed about parent & child spaces as I don't use them but I agree with a post earlier there's no actual need for them to be next to the store.

Now people parking in disabled bays (who shouldnt ) really does annoy me. I even blocked some one in before whilst I helped my Nan ( blue badge holder) out of the car and into the shop.

This topic also touched on benefits and this winds me up the most! One thing I noticed which might be just a local thing but people on benefit who refer to the day in which they get their benefit as "pay day" or " I get played on..." NO its NOT "pay" you have to earn pay you get dole/benefit/job seekers etc but its certainly not pay you lazy. ...

Rant over

[Bungle]

grass in the middle of the road, what's that all about ?

 

is it highways idea to wipe off the oil on the underside of your gear box ?

[megamini_jb]

I don't really see the point of the parent and child bays being closer to the store, I'm not bother, but trust me, it is annoying in a normal space because some lazy arse is only thinking of themselves. I nearly got really angry with the door once kept shutting on me... Grrrr felt like kicking it off it's hinges haha

I'm not getting started on benefits. I'd tell them straight to get off their lazy fat arse and make an effort to get a job instead of playing the system.

Box junctions annoy me. Had so many times people who don't understand them

Edited by megamini_jb, 01 July 2014 - 07:21 AM.

[The Matt]

Why are they closer to the shop anyway? I mean, I understand having disabled spaces nearer, obviously. But surely parent and child spaces could be placed on the end of each normal row of spaces in a car park. They still have easier access by having more room on one side then.

[BronkoMini]

Interesting thread.

[M J W J]

 

 

It is a really good banter thread.

 

Really good for taking out your rage on and writing about things that have annoyed you!

 

We should have it pinned and renamed 'the Rant thread' 

 

Ben

 

Well its more interesting than the new Jeremy Kyle thread.

 

I hate people who only go 40 mph down slip roads on to motorways and then try and speed up right at the end. Its much easier to slow down than to accelerate. The worst are the ones that actually stop though. I had to swing left and go down the hard shoulder once to avoid someone who stopped at the line to join the motorway.

 

That's the correct way to do it! Approach a duel carriageway/motorway slowly, and if there's room, speed up and pull out. 

Everyone just seems to think they can do 70 down there, pull out and expect the motorists on the duel carriageway to give way.

 

If you're travelling down a slip road at say, 40mph, you're minimising your chances of having to stop, and you're not going so fast that you're not going to be able to stop at the end if you have to, which you may do sometimes, if there's no space to pull out. 

 

The fact that you had to swerve to avoid a car on a slip road just shows that you were driving too fast. 

 

 

I was always taught to pick up speed on slip roads as quick as you can and then match your speed to traffic so you can filter across, not get to the end of slip roads slowly and try and accelerate at the last second so you end up pulling into traffic too slowly forcing people to slow down. Your brakes are more powerful than you engine in the vast majority of cars. It is therefore easier to slow down than to speed up.

 

If you ever stop on the hard shoulder you accelerate up to speed on the hard shoulder then filter across once you match your speed. Not do as I saw someone do the other day do, crawl along at about 20 mph until they saw a gap, swing out into it and then try and speed up. I heard the lorry that caught up with them honk at them.

 

The incident in question I could have stopped but it seamed a better option to go a short way down the hard shoulder, than stop at the end of a slip road and then trying to accelerate to 50-60 mph in the space of about 10 yards. If the driver in front had been going a little quicker then they, myself and the two vehicles that decided to followed me down the hard shoulder (one of which was a lorry) could have easily filtered into the traffic.

Edited by M J W J, 01 July 2014 - 11:04 AM.

[Carlos W]

HarrysMini, on 01 Jul 2014 - 01:24 AM, said:
 

M J W J, on 30 Jun 2014 - 11:22 PM, said:
 

Ben_O, on 30 Jun 2014 - 9:51 PM, said:
It is a really good banter thread.

Really good for taking out your rage on and writing about things that have annoyed you!

We should have it pinned and renamed 'the Rant thread'

Ben

Well its more interesting than the new Jeremy Kyle thread.

I hate people who only go 40 mph down slip roads on to motorways and then try and speed up right at the end. Its much easier to slow down than to accelerate. The worst are the ones that actually stop though. I had to swing left and go down the hard shoulder once to avoid someone who stopped at the line to join the motorway.

That's the correct way to do it! Approach a duel carriageway/motorway slowly, and if there's room, speed up and pull out.
Everyone just seems to think they can do 70 down there, pull out and expect the motorists on the duel carriageway to give way.

If you're travelling down a slip road at say, 40mph, you're minimising your chances of having to stop, and you're not going so fast that you're not going to be able to stop at the end if you have to, which you may do sometimes, if there's no space to pull out.

The fact that you had to swerve to avoid a car on a slip road just shows that you were driving too fast.

REALLY? What I do is look at the speed the traffic is doing and then match my speed to the speed the traffic is travelling.

If I travel over the road before pulling onto the slip road I always have a look to see how the traffic is flowing.

The only time I see it necessary to stop on a slip road is if the traffic on the dual carriageway is stationary. If you're doing 40mph down a slip road in a mini with an artic lorry behind you you'll end up squashed.
I drive a transit connect for work, there's no way it would accelerate up a slip road from 40 to 70 quickly.

[M J W J]

Usually when you pull onto a slip road there is the motorway sign which means motorway rules applu or the clearway sign which means unless its an emergency or there is traffic you do not stop. Doing so is an offence.