[foot-loose]

Meh - it would have been too easy.

[timp]

Annoying me today is two things. First my French coursework, and second drivers who choose the wrong lane to go right, around a roundabout on dual carriageways. This resulted in a a berk almost (i think he just braked in time) colliding into my side as he had chosen the inside lane to turn right and I was going straight ahead in the outside lane....

Annoying me today is the bloody SAME thing happening again! This time I had to come to a complete halt while the car cut me up.

Also there are 3 thread titles that are anti moyles, in the latest threads on the homepage at the moment. I can kinda see why we have a reputation with Moyles about being all moany and bitchy...but the fact still remains that it's not most of us! Promise!

[geek]

Ita th big St Patricks day party in the union which my mates are at but instead of joining them Im in my flat doing coursework. The same coursework which I spent all weekend on before anyone says I should have done it earlier.
Aslo the number of anti-Moyles threads. This is a fan site - go join somewhere else if you want to moan about the big man but leave this site alone.

[MK Chris]

Timp, you will soon learn that the best way to drive is to assume that everyone else is a twat who got their license off the back of a Corn Flakes packet. You'll be surprised the number of times you're right. Generally, (not knowing the roundabout in question) I tend to think that if you can be in the left-hand lane, it's better to be - even if you can also be in the right-hand lane. That may be just a personal preference though.. just make sure you're not hogging that outside lane all the time, otherwise you need a good slap.

I did the "magic" roundabout at Hemel today and honestly, I can't understand what all the fuss is about.

[Zoot]

After a while, you kind of gain a 'sixth' sense when it comes to other drivers. last week i came to a mini roundabout on the way to a supermarket, where i wanted to turn left. There was a little old lady peering over the steering wheel of a dented pinto on my left, and for some unkown reason, i held back when it was safe to go. This lady then drove diaganol straight over the roundabout and took the right exit. If i had pulled off she would of gone into my side. It is true that you have to drive for other people. When i drive i tend to be 'too careful', but i've not had an accident for 4 years and i've only driven for 5, so it does work.

[foot-loose]

I saw a belter of an accident last week. I was just sitting parked up on the phone to my dad, by chance looking in the wing mirror. A polo was coming along the main road and a big * off delivery lorry came shooting out of a side street without stopping. The polo lady did a good effort to swerve and avoid but she had no chance - the * off lorry ploughed straight into the side of her.

Luckily she seemed alright, even though the thing hit her drivers door - it could have been really nasty. Also, because she was sent into a spin, the poor pedestrian wandering happily along the pavement could have been nastily injured either by the polo itself or after she flung herself over the wall into the park to avoid said polo.


Timpo - as I said last night, the sooner you realise that the majority of folk on the road are either * that will only look after themselves (mainly Audi drivers) or as topher said, folk that applied for their license off the back of a cornflakes packet, the better. Just make sure you don't end up falling into either of those categories.

And folk that sit in the right hand lane just cos thats where they are should be taken out and have their baws removed. Then shot.

[Yudster]

I did the "magic" roundabout at Hemel today and honestly, I can't understand what all the fuss is about.

We've got a massive one of those in Colchester too - it's easy, it's just a series of mini roundabouts. Where's the problem? Except - the popular way to describe these kind of roundabouts is to say "ooh, you can go round it in either direction" - which of course you can, the whole thing - but each mini roundabout is just a standard roundabout. However the poor woman I saw carefully negotiating each one of them anti-clockwise clearly hadn't understood this.........

[Zoot]

we have a roundabout up on the main road here outside a trading estate. They recently put traffic lights all around it. The first time we went round it we count 38 sets of traffic lights. 38!!! The traffic there is worse than ever.

[Yudster]

We've got one like that too, by the railway station - it's been there for a few years now and it's still a complete mystery to pretty much everyone in the town. Complete crap.

[MK Chris]

And folk that sit in the right hand lane just cos thats where they are should be taken out and have their baws removed. Then shot.

Absolutely correct. Same goes for the middle lane drivers on the motorway.

http://www.middlelanemorons.com/

I did the "magic" roundabout at Hemel today and honestly, I can't understand what all the fuss is about.

We've got a massive one of those in Colchester too - it's easy, it's just a series of mini roundabouts. Where's the problem? Except - the popular way to describe these kind of roundabouts is to say "ooh, you can go round it in either direction" - which of course you can, the whole thing - but each mini roundabout is just a standard roundabout. However the poor woman I saw carefully negotiating each one of them anti-clockwise clearly hadn't understood this.........

If that wasn't so worrying, it'd be funny. But it's worrying. As you say, if you don't think of it as one roundabout, just a few mini roundabouts close together, you shouldn't have a problem.

[foot-loose]

Thecrumbunderneathmyspacebarisreallyannoyingme.

[Vivienne]

You shouldn't be eating over keyboards.

[foot-loose]

I know that now.

I hit it a few times. It seems to have sorted itself

[Sunny So Cal]

After a while, you kind of gain a 'sixth' sense when it comes to other drivers. last week i came to a mini roundabout on the way to a supermarket, where i wanted to turn left. There was a little old lady peering over the steering wheel of a dented pinto on my left, and for some unkown reason, i held back when it was safe to go. This lady then drove diaganol straight over the roundabout and took the right exit. If i had pulled off she would of gone into my side. It is true that you have to drive for other people. When i drive i tend to be 'too careful', but i've not had an accident for 4 years and i've only driven for 5, so it does work.

A Pinto?? Good God. I didn't know those were even still on the road. They used to have a reputation (along with Gremlins) of bursting into flame willy-nilly.

[SpaceBoy]

I regularly travel over 35,000 miles a year with work and there are some folks who should not be on the road and weekend drivers get where water can't. They seem to be welded to the road and go nowhere! I agree with someone who said that on top of mortorway bridges there should be snipers to blow out the tyres of drivers who are traveling 5mph below the speed limit so they veer off the road. This is great in theory but it would cause a few problems. I love my grandad very much but as a kid whenever we would travel out and about on the weekend we would go the Bus Route because he was a Bus Driver and it was kind of like going onto auto pilot, but it would annoy me and anyone else in the car, I think this means my grandad was a weekend driver BAD TIMES! But we did enjoy ourselves when we got to our destination GOOD TIMES!

I love the fact that with age we get more chilled out about things and look at the wider picture, but where do bosses get off about looking outside the box! there is so many folks outside the box that no one is in the box and is able to control things may be the best plan is to have alternating days where you are in on a monday and out on a tuesday and rotate each week that way companies may get more productive instead of setting all these unrealistic and unachevable goals! That is my rant for Today

[timp]

That may be just a personal preference though.. just make sure you're not hogging that outside lane all the time, otherwise you need a good slap.

No, don't worry I wasn't I was overtaking, then it wasn't safe to pull back into the inside lane. Consequently I had to enter the roundabout on the outside lane, so I had to stay in lane and exit on the outside lane.

Yeah I suppose it's a good mentality to have this...

Timp, you will soon learn that the best way to drive is to assume that everyone else is a twat who got their license off the back of a Corn Flakes packet.

If you are turning right you should be in the outside lane, on the roundabout in question. He was a dangerous twat.

He should have been driving an Audi foots :p

[foot-loose]

I made my points clear in the below thread. Anyone wishing to revive it can feel free.

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=18162&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[MK Chris]

I was overtaking, then it wasn't safe to pull back into the inside lane. Consequently I had to enter the roundabout on the outside lane, so I had to stay in lane and exit on the outside lane.

Well, that's alright then. As long as you can use the outside lane to go straight on.

If you are turning right you should be in the outside lane, on the roundabout in question.

Correct.. unless (on the rare occasion) you are allowed to be in the middle lane to go right on the roundabout in question. In which case, either the middle or right-hand lane is fine.

[foot-loose]

Being on hold to the bank for about 15 minutes and them playing the same 30 seconds of whatever this classical song is over and over and over.

Dedade dodado dedade dodado
Dedade dodado dododo dadadaaaah.

[Ballbag]

That's the theme to the last of the summer wine isn't it?

[foot-loose]

No. Thats...

Deedadadah deedadadah deedadadah deedadadah
Deedadadah deedadadah deedadadah dadah

[Sunny So Cal]

Damn you, Footsy. Now I'm humming it.

[foot-loose]

Damn you, Footsy. Now I'm humming it.

Footy. Not Footsy. Footy.

[Sunny So Cal]

What was that you said recently? "Build a bridge"?
FootSy...as in WootSy.
So cute!

[foot-loose]

Crazy american bird woman.