and another thing....
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thekickingmule wrote:
Maybe these people are trying to deliberately crash into you!Thewaylander wrote:People straight lining round abouts in rush hour cutting everyone up, i''ve given up being polite now and good hand of horn is used teh finger and large dose of the right foot.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _for_Cash/
Watch the first few minutes, you'll understand a bit more. I watched this yesterday, it's making me think about driving now! If I ever crash, I'm taking photos!
Dude, had a guy jam his break on after pulling onto a duel carriage way while we were both pulling on this year. he claimed whiplash for a sub 15 MPH crash. it was obvious he did it on prpose to get money and with the current laws the fat git did, cost me my £500 excess too.
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"The world is full of complete nob heads in cars now."
they gave my ex a license....nuff said
she was terrible. tunnel vision doesnt even begin to describe it.
plus add phone, a mirror to look at hair in and talking non stop about friends she hates.
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I'll middle lane your motorway in a bit! : twisted:sheepsteeth wrote:i drove home from wales in the middle lane of all of the motorways i used yesterday,
I too have experienced this phenomenon. All I can guess is that my speedo is wrong or something. I drove home the other day at about 95 (desperate for a pi$$!) and noticed that it took no longer than if I drove at my usual 75/80 (Don't speed kids!)sheepsteeth wrote:also, slightly attached driving question, how is it that driving home at about 65mph as opposed to 80mph got me home just as fast and with about a quarter less of a tank of fuel over a 280 mile journey? ive never understood why driving 15mph faster doesnt seem to get me home an hour earlier?
Thewaylander Towards the end of the film, they show a bloke at a crash test dummy plant, where they're trying to find out how fast you need to be going to get whiplash, and then determine how bad the whiplash should be. So if you show pictures that it was a simple bump, hopefully it will disprove whiplash claims!It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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my bro in law is being taken to court by a guy who he bumped into over 6 months ago. he was doing less than 10mph at a roundabout and there wass no damage to either car so they went on their way. he's now had a letter from the court cos the guy is claiming whiplash, loss or earnings etc etc. he claims my bro in law was travelling at 20 mph plus.
now, a fly in his ointment is that the airbags weren't deployed in my bro in laws car and on his particular car they would've deployed at 15mph so his claims are bollocks, he's just a money grabbing cnut :evil:
the guy even took photos of both cars to show small scuffs on each cars bumper, but he claims that there was a need to replace the entire bumper and lights on his car, he's had another accident hasn't he and is trying to claim from my bro in law, what's the odds he'll claim to not have any pics of the original crash!!!0 -
Maybe it would be worth phoning the police to ask if there is any fraudulent claims going on at the moment. They may be interested in hearing about this.
I would have thought that 6 months after the accident was a little late to first hear about it. HmmmIt takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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The speed thing is odd. I have no understanding of how the time it takes yo uto get somewhere should be calculated. I mean, it should be simple. But there must be some unknown chaos theory thrown in there somewhere.
For example, when driving to my sister's, it takes me an hour and 20 minutes, say. Even with a perfectly clear road.
On the way home, the same route, even with heavy traffic, it only takes me 45 minutes :?0 -
it does seem odd, driving faster should mean i get to my destination sooner, surely, this is just science isnt it?
but i genunely find that driving faster on the motorway doesnt get me home particularly quicker and uses more fuel.
i might just be imagining the time thing but im sure im not. a couple of weeks a go i drove back from cornwall with a mate in a similar van, he drove at 85-90 mph and i drove at 70, he got home 30 minutes sooner than me over a 5.5 hour journey which doesnt seem alot quicker considering the extra fuel he burned to do it,0 -
I tend to just pootle everywhere around 70 anyway. I'm important enough for people to wait for me. Maybe...0
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I think it's probably the fact that it's virtually impossible to drive at such a high speed continuously, wihtout being held up in slower moving traffic. Even though we're convinced we're travelling at 90mph constantly, we'd probably find we're not.
And those minutes caught up behind things are all eating away at our average speed.
If you really CAN keep up a a good speed, then it makes a big difference. Like I've said several times, it only takes me an extra hour to drive to Glentress (from north West Wales) than it does to drive to Swansea. The differewnce being is that the road to Swansea is all nadgery twisty roads, where you constantly get caught up behind slowe drivers, busses, tractors and the like, and almost the entire journey to Glentress is on dual carriegeway and motorways. Even over the border in Scotland, the road to peebles is a fairly straight, well surfaced road.0 -
i thik you might be right, ive heard it described as going at a certain speed when in traffic just means you catch up with stuff you hve to slow down behind quicker and more often.
was a bit of an eye opener though and makes the impreza a bit less expensive for trips to good cycling which means i am more inclined to do it more often. (unluckily for you yeehaa)0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:makes the impreza a bit less expensive for trips to good cycling
You got the turbomabob version?
If so, allow me to smug for a short while as for once, I'll have better fuel economy (only slightly though) than someone one else...
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Not a problem at all sheeps, i had a great day.
I could have sworn I didn;t see any nettles in Llandegla though.0 -
El Capitano wrote:sheepsteeth wrote:makes the impreza a bit less expensive for trips to good cycling
You got the turbomabob version?
If so, allow me to smug for a short while as for once, I'll have better fuel economy (only slightly though) than someone one else...
retract your smugness for just a moment, mine is naturally aspirated, im too pikey to pay for the insurance let alone the fuel costs associated with a proper impreza, mine is the 2.0 sport awd thing. i love it and what it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in cornering which is does really well especially considering its quite an agricultural system from what i can gather.0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Not a problem at all sheeps, i had a great day.
I could have sworn I didn;t see any nettles in Llandegla though.
they were definately there, i thnk i fell in them whilst doing the larger drops as you were being a girl on the smaller sets 0 -
El Capitano wrote:psymon wrote:these are the same people who:
think its ok to cruise the middle lane of the motorway.
brake sharply then indicate.
In other words, BMW drivers...
i've undertaken a few BMWs (cockends) the past few weeks.
On my last trip to Cardiff, there was some twonk in the outside lane giving it 65mph "look at me look at me" with the North of England sat behind him trying to get the fecker to move.... there was literally nothing infront of him for miles and miles!
I also hate people that don't like being overtaken, so speed up just as you're gently cruising past... WFT is all that about.0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:El Capitano wrote:sheepsteeth wrote:makes the impreza a bit less expensive for trips to good cycling
You got the turbomabob version?
If so, allow me to smug for a short while as for once, I'll have better fuel economy (only slightly though) than someone one else...
retract your smugness for just a moment, mine is naturally aspirated, im too pikey to pay for the insurance let alone the fuel costs associated with a proper impreza, mine is the 2.0 sport awd thing. i love it and what it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in cornering which is does really well especially considering its quite an agricultural system from what i can gather.
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There's no need to stop at red lights, either. This video proves that nothing will happen to you if you don't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FrsrR7LQwg
Was this sheeps on his way home from Rhyl?Canyon XC 8.0 '11
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well, that driver is clearly a legend so maybe it was me, i wouldnt have noticed if it was but im going to say yes, that was me.0
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Hey Monekey,
I have to admit as people over take me with out even noticing my foot slowly presses down on the louder pedal
But as for BMW's with the outside lane I have seen that alot recently and worse still is a growing glut of 20-30year old woman in A3 diesels doing the same slow ass outside lane manuever.0 -
The Northern Monkey wrote:
I also hate people that don't like being overtaken, so speed up just as you're gently cruising past... WFT is all that about.
I was on the M42 a few weeks ago, as I was turning off where it meets the M6 South a guy in a Lexus veered across all 3 lanes of traffic without indicating, and cut in front of me on the slip road/exit lane. As I slammed on the brakes I beeped my horn. A 70mph crash in a 106 would NOT be pretty.
A minute or 2 later I catch up with him, doing 70ish in the middle lane, fair enough, as he was passing people in the slow lane. I move into the 'fast' lane to overtake and as I get next to him he looks over at me, then speeds up (in a 3 or 3.5l lexus, vs me in my 1.1l 106
). I can see a Vectra absolutely flying (easily 95+) up behind me, so put my foot down to try to get past, he speeds up again. I brake, he brakes. I indicate left, he doesn't move and just matches my speed :shock:
Ucking Cutter Funt. :evil:
Or something like. I think as punishment for beeping my horn, he wouldn't let me back in. He eventually floored it and sped off once the Vectra started beeping at me.0 -
I just hate drivers in general, i find fridays are the worst days for bad driving though
Had a fantastic Taxi driver over here yesterday, litrerally raced his mate with our friends across Lisbon, threw the cab lane to lane and round tiny streets shouting schumacher schumacher and up yours whenever we crossed paths with his collwague. totally twonkish behaviour but also so much fun0 -
where i work its roundabout after roundabout, it seems none of the backward inbred basildonians know how to use any of them, left hand lane to go right and every other lane to go straight ahead into the outside lane of the next set of dual carridgeway.
no one, thats NO ONE uses the highway code, either because its how their taught or because its the only way to survive?
on the upside it does mean i have a lane to myself to and from work and only have to guess where the twonks go at the roundabouts.
As for the BMW's there still the worst drivers out therebut i'm begining to hate myself because i'm warming towards a M5 estate or a X5i just dont think i'm a big enough wanker0
