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Nothing bothers me. I just keep focus on my own driving and let everyone else crack on.

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I can't stand it when a car which would definitely lose to me tries to race me! Seriously now, if i knew my car would not beat a certain car, there's no point in trying because it would make me look like an arse lol. Gonna reverse this a bit now....

I also can't stand it when bigger cars which would obviously beat my car anyway come speeding up behind me and try giving it! For example i've had and Evo 7, E46 M3, and Audi RS4 Avant come up my arse. WTF! I'm driving a Lupo GTI! Not a f***in Ferrari! :lol: There are some serious twats in my area lol

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Quite simply women drivers..i honeslty honeslty think the majority of them sudedenly relise 'ooo I'm driving a car' Don't get me wrong i looove women..just not behind a wheel.

I can't stand it when a car which would definitely lose to me tries to race me! Seriously now, if i knew my car would not beat a certain car, there's no point in trying because it would make me look like an arse lol. Gonna reverse this a bit now....

I also can't stand it when bigger cars which would obviously beat my car anyway come speeding up behind me and try giving it! For example i've had and Evo 7, E46 M3, and Audi RS4 Avant come up my arse. WTF! I'm driving a Lupo GTI! Not a f***in Ferrari! :lol: There are some serious twats in my area lol

it dont piss me off....it make me laugh, well the silly fast cars do anyways.

Old people assuming a slip road onto a motorway is the same as a normal junction (stopping, indicating then pulling onto the carrigeway), I've seen a few close calls and collisions caused by this, including one guy pulling out at a crawl just to go straight under a lorry doing 60. carnage.

Worse still are the old drivers that should be off the road, one old guy living nr hes 80odd has a big 3l BMW and normally travels down the white line or swerving all over causing cars to swerve out of his way and he just carries on. I've reported him to the police a few times but they dont seem to botherd. next time ill have video evidence to back this up and one copy will be shown to the police the other to the DVLA.

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like you said the worrying this is the plod/DVLA probly wont doo jack. he has a license and is therefore able to drive in their opinion.

i think they should resit everyone every 5 years make sure their still compotent

Hi all I wanted to know what piss's people when driving day to day as there are many things that piss me of lol and want to make sure I'm not the only one . Here's what grinds my gears

1. People driving below the speed limit like 15-20 in a 30 zone .I know I shouldent but I sit so close to their bumper till the move out the way or do 30 which is slow enough .

2. Bikes driving like fucking cars . You have a bike why are you not overtakeing every one . 50cc moped doing 20 inbetween two cars the top speed is bout 30 on them things if I had one I would be full throttle all the time.

3. Parking wardens and their gay little smart cars ncp are utter twats and I give them shit every time I c them lol

4. Women in stupid cars eg x5 , porsha cayanna if that's how you spell it , range rovers . Not only do then not know how to drive them the never look in their mirrows and drive on the other side of the road and block roads cus they can't see that they can fit through a gap. O yeh and they can't park them for shit .

Lol I needed to get that of my chest sorry if this is a moaney post but I would like to hear that I'm not the only one

James

on point 2 u made i ride a scooter and u can only filter traffic at 20 mph of it is illagal and 3 points and a fine so al say a 20 thanks mate plus i dont wanna die wen a car pulls out in front of me wen ime doin 30 between to cars haha :-D

Hi all I wanted to know what piss's people when driving day to day as there are many things that piss me of lol and want to make sure I'm not the only one . Here's what grinds my gears

1. People driving below the speed limit like 15-20 in a 30 zone .I know I shouldent but I sit so close to their bumper till the move out the way or do 30 which is slow enough .

2. Bikes driving like fucking cars . You have a bike why are you not overtakeing every one . 50cc moped doing 20 inbetween two cars the top speed is bout 30 on them things if I had one I would be full throttle all the time.

3. Parking wardens and their gay little smart cars ncp are utter twats and I give them shit every time I c them lol

4. Women in stupid cars eg x5 , porsha cayanna if that's how you spell it , range rovers . Not only do then not know how to drive them the never look in their mirrows and drive on the other side of the road and block roads cus they can't see that they can fit through a gap. O yeh and they can't park them for shit .

Lol I needed to get that of my chest sorry if this is a moaney post but I would like to hear that I'm not the only one

James

on point 2 u made i ride a scooter and u can only filter traffic at 20 mph of it is illagal and 3 points and a fine so al say a 20 thanks mate plus i dont wanna die wen a car pulls out in front of me wen ime doin 30 between to cars haha :-D

X2 - even though I've never ridden a scooter.

If it wasnt the most stupid argument id ever heard id believe he was serious. But clearly not.

A biker has to thrash their vehicle at its limit,just so motorists can drive at the absolute maximum speed limit without inconvenience?

Trust me,he's only joking.

1. People driving below the speed limit like 15-20 in a 30 zone .I know I shouldent but I sit so close to their bumper till the move out the way or do 30 which is slow enough .

4. Women in stupid cars eg x5 , porsha cayanna if that's how you spell it , range rovers . Not only do then not know how to drive them the never look in their mirrows and drive on the other side of the road and block roads cus they can't see that they can fit through a gap. O yeh and they can't park them for shit .

I particularly like these two. I'm one of those in the first one. Not only do i drive at 15-20 outside schools but little more on the smaller and non-through residential roads. You wont see me doing more than 20mph on a brick-pathed street or one lined with parked cars for examples,and i'll only even head toward maximum legally permisable speeds on the ones i consider to be 'arteries' - 30mph housing roads that are used as the main drive throughs,as there's no trunk bypassment.

But even that depends on clarity,school hours,etc and not for lack of focus.

The second one,well 'women' is a bit prejudiced. Should've said 'most are menopauseal/post-menopause women with few real friends'.

Otherwise,cant really argue.

nice people who tailgate me on driving lessons, and the bastards who pull out without indicating and then give me evil looks cause i'm a learner. Also being raced off the lights by a fucking spaxo VTR. Drivingf a 0.02 litre 107 with ADI Driving Force on the roof, i'm hardly going to even attempt it...

I can't stand it when a car which would definitely lose to me tries to race me! Seriously now, if i knew my car would not beat a certain car, there's no point in trying because it would make me look like an arse lol. Gonna reverse this a bit now....

I also can't stand it when bigger cars which would obviously beat my car anyway come speeding up behind me and try giving it! For example i've had and Evo 7, E46 M3, and Audi RS4 Avant come up my arse. WTF! I'm driving a Lupo GTI! Not a f***in Ferrari! :lol: There are some serious twats in my area lol

it dont piss me off....it make me laugh, well the silly fast cars do anyways.

These guys are my favourite...love having a play and showing them what a proper polo can do!

Generally any cock in an audi/bmw

As the OP mentioned, women in big 4x4's like Porche Cayennes or BMW X5's, i mean ffs learn how to drive a fucking micra or something before you drive one of those, i mean what else did you husband buy you?

Could go on all day, but meh.

Stern, stern but fair.

people that overtake you on loose gravel road when you're going slow to protect your fresh paint!

people that overtake you on loose gravel road when you're going slow to protect your fresh paint!

Chevrons are the same. They always hide gravel unless people use them for overtaking,so that's one occasion its nice to be able to hold them off - there's only so long they'll pepper their arches before pulling back in.

People who get right up your arse and give you grief when you're doing the speed limit.

Back to 4x4s... In my experience, a lot of people who drive Freelanders are twats.

People (usually middle aged women) who charge at you on a narrow country road and make no effort to move over to their side of the road, forcing their victim onto the grassy bank / bush at the side of the road.

Middle lane hoggers.

I can't stand it when a car which would definitely lose to me tries to race me! Seriously now, if i knew my car would not beat a certain car, there's no point in trying because it would make me look like an arse lol. Gonna reverse this a bit now....

I also can't stand it when bigger cars which would obviously beat my car anyway come speeding up behind me and try giving it! For example i've had and Evo 7, E46 M3, and Audi RS4 Avant come up my arse. WTF! I'm driving a Lupo GTI! Not a f***in Ferrari! :lol: There are some serious twats in my area lol

it dont piss me off....it make me laugh, well the silly fast cars do anyways.

These guys are my favourite...love having a play and showing them what a proper polo can do!

But you're cheating :( you have a turbo! :lol:

maybe a little

2. Bikes driving like fucking cars . You have a bike why are you not overtakeing every one . 50cc moped doing 20 inbetween two cars the top speed is bout 30 on them things if I had one I would be full throttle all the time.

You sound like the kind of driver that makes me not want to filter through traffic at all. Bikes can be dangerous you know, not because of riders, because of drivers.

taxi drivers.

specifically, the ones that drive those london style cabs in Notts.

they think hazard lights are the universal signal for 'I'm parking on double yellows/in the middle of the road/in front of your driveway AND its ok to do so'

taxi drivers.

specifically, the ones that drive those london style cabs in Notts.

they think hazard lights are the universal signal for 'I'm parking on double yellows/in the middle of the road/in front of your driveway AND its ok to do so'

whilst you're on that subject....

i fookin hate the cabbi's in their mpv's! they always drive too close and feel the need to boot it everywhere!

nearly everyone on the road gets on my nerves!

- old oap tossers who CAN NOT drive properly

- New bmw and merc drivers, and now even brand new audi drivers, which is a shame because i love those cars!

- chavs, who insist on sitting up my arse in little 1.0 litre saxo's and corsa's not knowing that i can easily go faster than them.

- MOTORISTS ON MOBILE PHONES!

- Police for pulling me over most nights from coming home after work, asking me where I've been and just generally wasting my time!

- finally, push bikes, buses, c*nt cab drivers and the SHOCKING ROAD conditions.

overall I'm a real nice person, i love driving, safe and respect my car myself and other road users (who arent twats), just the other road users take the fun out of driving :(

Edited by Darrell Hx

On the HGV overtaking issue - if it didn't cause a problem, then why the M42 time trial in Staffordshire?? There's a section they set up a while ago where lorries were prohibited from overtaking at peak hours on a certain stretch of the road.

I accept there are a lot of twats out there in cars - I feel for the poor sod in the lorry who gets cut up by the car driver crossing three lanes to get off at his exit, because you can hear the lorry having to drop about 3 gears to start building the speed up again.

HOWEVER:

I experienced the worst example of a HGV driver last week who used the size of his lorry to bully his way back into my lane. It was in the 50mph average speed limit section on M6 north in Birmingham. I was doing 50, he was alongside me in lane 2 doing 50, and all of a sudden decides he wants to be in my lane so indicates and starts to move over when I'm about half way along his trailer. He continues to move over despite the fact that my finger is now welded to the horn (oh yes, he KNOWS I'm there) so I have a choice - get crushed into the barrier protecting the workmen in the roadworks, or brake SHARPLY. It turns out he had misjudged the distance to his exit. (J5) And then he had the cheek to give ME the finger.

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yeh fair bout bikes i have relised since i put this post up that shouldent annoy me but some how does. anyone who rides a bike has balls i would kill myself so i stick to cars . my step dad got knocked of his bike few months ago and one of my mates got taken out by some stupid womon in a 4x4 and survived but it was close he should be dead and his bike gsr1000 was complety fucked. my cousien races bikes so i have full respect for bikers and all ways keep my eyes/mirrors. i fully agree bout car drivers tho they dont know how bikes work .

another thing i would like to add to the list would be when fucking chavs walk in the road and make no effort to move and look at you like you shouldent be driving on the road "get on the pavment u nice person or I'm gunna run you over" lol

old people. go die.

People (usually middle aged women) who charge at you on a narrow country road and make no effort to move over to their side of the road, forcing their victim onto the grassy bank / bush at the side of the road.

Had one of those earlier, I think they're hilarious. What has more road presence, a brand new range rover, or a scruffy old transit tipper?

Sufficed to say, she moved out of the way.

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