Nob of the Day.......

[S-Westerly]

Last year on the A1M going past Doncaster there was some guy in the outer lane doing 55. Three cars behind him and nothing on the inside. So I zipped past on the inside. His reaction made me think I'd assaulted his wife, abused his kids and stolen his dog. Played silly buggers for about 5 miles until we got to where the road is down to one lane for repairing the bridge over the Aire (I think) and I filtered up and away. He doubtless went on his way fuming about feckless motorcyclists.  Twat.

[curlylegend]

2 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Last year on the A1M going past Doncaster there was some guy in the outer lane doing 55. Three cars behind him and nothing on the inside. So I zipped past on the inside. His reaction made me think I'd assaulted his wife, abused his kids and stolen his dog. Played silly buggers for about 5 miles until we got to where the road is down to one lane for repairing the bridge over the Aire (I think) and I filtered up and away. He doubtless went on his way fuming about feckless motorcyclists.  Twat.

I'm sure if they'd incorporated psychological testing into the driving test there would be half the number of drivers on the roads today.

[S-Westerly]

You mean the number of semi psychos living in the UK today? Worrying isn't it?

[daveinlim]

Commuting home this evening. Road is 5 lanes wide. 2 left lanes peal off and the other 3 are the start of the motorway. Uber driver in his 7 seater prius realised he's in the wrong lane and cuts across some cars to get off the motorway. I'm in lane 1. He entered lane 2 and then I saw he's not stopping moving across and cut me up at 40mph where I had to slam on the anchor to get in behind him before he went into me from the side. 

 

I've a bright red and white cbr, lights on, a huge fluorescent yellow back back and he still went straight into my space. 

 

 

Separate to this on the same commute home I was at a roundabout and last minute decided I needed petrol. But I ended up stopped at the lights on the roundabout in the wrong lane. Instead of cutting up the van to my left I waved at the driver and mimed that I wanted to go left. He gave me the thumbs up. He did the rev your engine mime. So I twisted the throttle a bit before the lights went green. Made me laugh and undo my annoyance at the earlier incident. 

[daveinlim]

Whoever invented these as just a fashion item and even moreso whatever clown buys them for nearly £10,000.

 

https://www.balenciaga.com/en-gb/biker-pantashoes-red-white-black-774301TPS296278.html

 

Edited April 26, 2024 by daveinlim

[S-Westerly]

A fool and his money are soon parted. These have to be one of the more hideous items to have crossed my visual horizon.

[curlylegend]

5 hours ago, daveinlim said:

Whoever invented these as just a fashion item and even moreso whatever clown buys them for nearly £10,000.

I thought maybe it was just a mistake on the pricing, but I had a look at the site and came across T shirts at over £500 !

I'm lost for words !

[S-Westerly]

Instead of being made in a Far East sweatshop they're probably made in a European one staffed by illegal migrants who are effectively slaves.

[daveinlim]

Not sure if I should nominate the traffic warden or the guy that owns the scooter. 

 

 

[S-Westerly]

It would be interesting to know the back story to that.

[RideWithStyles]

wonder if its not just the time but because its parked side on?

 

id lust like to see just how many more tickets the warden could neatly stick to the screen?  then do they do the front when they run out of space on the back? 

then do you do the interior cubbys then the foot boards, then the seat, the exterior panels, wheels....

Edited May 2, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Fozzie]

I've said it before, but it seems there is a real uptick in small businesses in the past year or two. It's like after covid when the cost of living started rising, people began supplementing their income. Loads of cleaners, gardeners, dog walker, dog groomer, and baby/house sitter jobs have sprung up. And I consistently encounter these people on the road, in stickered up estate cars or old vans, and they are some of the worst drivers on the road. They are quickly approaching the "Addison Lee" London taxi driver level of incompetence. 

 

The most recent 2, had a lady in a stickered up old van for a cleaning business pull out on me at a roundabout and then go into a rage at me for beeping at her, after causing me to brake hard enough to trigger the ABS in dry conditions. And another in a old Kia Minivan called "Pedros pals", who sat in the right hand lane for 3 miles of a dual carriageway, and got upset/floored it whenever I, on cruise control the entire time, got close to passing up the inside. Due to a patch of traffic I got ahead, but she then followed me and yelled at me at a set of lights. She was "turning right ahead" after I said "I was on cruise control, and you were lane hogging under the speed limit". In the time she'd sat in the lane, the lanes had gone from 2 to 1, and back to 2 again, and she was still more than a mile from turning right. 

 

What I find a bit nuts about it, is they have their social media plastered on the side of their vans. The two I encountered would have you believe they were patron saints, which I guess isn't that unusual these days. I messaged one to say "I was the blue Kia you yelled at, I was on cruise control and you kept slowing down, I wasn't messing with you so I don't know why you took it so personally. Calm down in future as if you do that with dogs in the back, you'll end up either in an accident or on the wrong side of a bad person, and you're easy to trace due to your vans stickers". Didn't even get a scathing reply, just got blocked, which spoke volumes. 

[husoi]

I would have a "Sean Lock" approach and would have ask them if they know they need a driving license before going on the road...

Edited May 2, 2024 by husoi

[daveinlim]

8 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

wonder if its not just the time but because its parked side on?

 

id lust like to see just how many more tickets the warden could neatly stick to the screen?  then do they do the front when they run out of space on the back? 

then do you do the interior cubbys then the foot boards, then the seat, the exterior panels, wheels....

 

This was in Westminster. Bike was parked in a bike bay alongside several others so was parked correctly. Just hadn't paid the parking fee. The fine I believe is £40 a day or something Vs the daily fee of £1 or £100 for a year. So it's been an expensive few days for this guy. 

 

[fastbob]

The undisputed Nob of the day is me . 

I've just done an oil and filter change on the Harley .

I was very pleased to note that there were absolutely no ferrous particles on the magnetic sump plug which is always good news . 

So , just tidying up now and I decide to decant the old oil from my customised washing up bowl purchased at the local cheapo emporium into a more suitable container . Again , I was very pleased to note that the oil was as viscose as the day it went in and hardly smelled of combustion products . Happy days !

Then I spotted it ! The whole of the bottom of the bowl was covered in glittering metallic particles ! SHIT ! ......SHIT , SHIT , SHIT !  NOT GOOD AT ALL . 

Then I looked at the rest of the bowl . Yep , the glitter is in the plastic .

 

 

Edited May 5, 2024 by fastbob

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Sat here wondering why my tea isn't cooking.

 

I've turned the top oven onto 200 degrees.

 

And put my tea in the bottom oven. 

 

Feck!

[Simon Davey]

26 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Sat here wondering why my tea isn't cooking.

 

I've turned the top oven onto 200 degrees.

 

And put my tea in the bottom oven. 

 

Feck!

 

At least we know you're a normal person.....

 

[RideWithStyles]

The mofo in a tesla who has no understanding of the round about, lane discipline that was quite contemp to run me off the road cos the fing moron got in the r

wrong lane and thought they could jump the queue.

[curlylegend]

2 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

The mofo in a tesla

Anyone driving a Tesla should be given a wide berth...

[RideWithStyles]

9 hours ago, curlylegend said:

Anyone driving a Tesla should be given a wide berth...

id go alot further by putting extremist view aside involving a industrial compactor while the owner is still in it, all whist hoping the owners inner demons dont surface out like in the superman film when they find out their laptop was thrown in containing their favourite power point slides of some bs they made up to make their job worth while ...what i think of them and their general need in society doesn't get more positive than that.

 

[S-Westerly]

8 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

id go alot further by putting extremist view aside involving a industrial compactor while the owner is still in it, all whist hoping the owners inner demons dont surface out like in the superman film when they find out their laptop was thrown in containing their favourite power point slides of some bs they made up to make their job worth while ...what i think of them and their general need in society doesn't get more positive than that.

 

My son drives a Tesla and I'm rather fond of him.

[rennie]

Last time I was out on the bike I enjoyed a rather spirited few miles of A road! With a Tesla! We weren't racing of course but I won 

[Bender]

1 hour ago, rennie said:

Last time I was out on the bike I enjoyed a rather spirited few miles of A road! With a Tesla! We weren't racing of course but I won 

He wants to learn how to drive then  

 

I ended up in the middle of a group of long way round wannabes last year out in the sticks all on oversized land barges with panniers, I know the roads well, the rear half dropped back 2 pulled over and only one was persisting at staying Infront of me, give him his due he didn't wait for the rest of them, couldn't pass him on the straights but he was way slower in the corners, I was in my van tho.

 

 

[Fozzie]

Pulled out on at the same roundabout twice. Going to shops, old man pulls out from the left and I slam on to avoid. I could see him looking to the left until I honked... He was giving way to the wrong side I'm thinking. Was lucky I saw him looking the wrong way. Old nob.

 

Coming back from the shops. A van pulled out, but this driver was just in a rush and didn't care. Bashed up gardening service. Just tutted and said "typical". 

 

Other contender this week was a former colleague who moved to a different part of the business. She narrowly dodged redundancy, and I had complaints about her as she said a lot, did nothing, and she was in charge of standardising approaches to projects that in the end I had to sort out. I suspect I found out why today when she e-mailed everyone to support her Etsy home made jewellery business. Just found it a mix of infuriating and inappropriate, as it's fairly obvious she's investing a lot of time into this thing... Heard someone else remark "wage thief". Don't disagree. 

[veracocha]

About 10 days ago a Range Rover sport driver was acting the big bollox and weaving through traffic at speed in a 30. He forced me to the side in his impatient attempt to beat the lights. I had it on my dashcam so I decided to upload it to the West Mids Police scheme and thought noting of it. I got a call from an Officer today who viewed the footage and confirmed the "nob" has now been sent a NIP for both going through two sets of red lights and having an illegal number plate. They then backed it up with an email saying he will have three points and £200 fine. Karma eh!