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DEAR RICHARD posted:
I'm moving to Britain and putting the biggest bullbar I can find on the meanest chavviest Saxo I can find.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm moving to Britain and putting the biggest bullbar I can find on the meanest chavviest Saxo I can find. Wanna swap places???
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Aug 2, 2015 21:38
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Mooseykins posted:That's what that crossing is like all day, every day. I'll be honest, Mooseykins, I am kind of disappointed in you: As a bona fide London van driver, I expected you to be complaining about how you have to jetwash tourist blood off your van at the end of every day.
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Aug 2, 2015 23:01
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spog posted:I'll be honest, Mooseykins, I am kind of disappointed in you: Why would you wash it off?
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Aug 3, 2015 02:09
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spog posted:Watch the streaming video. I looked just now and was disappointed. Not many dickheads about at 3am i guess.
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Aug 3, 2015 03:29
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Is it legal for a pedestrian to simply stop in the middle of a crossing for no logical reason? Why don't the cops just hang out there and write tickets until they develop carpal tunnel syndrome from overuse? I feel like this is a fixable problem, and it's very obviously causing an impediment to traffic that is dangerous and ought to be dealt with. EDIT: Alternately, why don't the authorities simply remove that zebra crossing and say, basically, "this is why you can't have nice things!"
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Aug 3, 2015 04:53
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If there are that many tourists then close it off and monetize it, poo poo. America style. It should be costing these fools a 20 each to take this pic.
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Aug 3, 2015 05:47
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There is a stupid cricket in my attic, and the chirping is driving me nuts.
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Aug 3, 2015 05:53
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Signifncantly less honking to do in our future folks!  http://www.bmwusanews.com/newsrelease.do;jsessionid=2E922F0EF6F1F654C3498E5F204DC719?&id=2405quote:Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – July 27, 2015... The BMW Group announced today that it is the first manufacturer to bring the EnLighten App, by Connected Signals, into the car. Drivers of BMW Vehicles with iOS Devices will be able to see traffic signal data on the vehicle’s display in real time. The EnLighten app makes driving in cities easier by helping the driver anticipate traffic signal changes, which can increase safety and help save fuel by avoiding unnecessary acceleration. quote:At intersections where there are dedicated traffic signals for turns, the activation of the vehicle’s turn indicator tells the app of the driver’s intention to turn so that only the status of the relevant signal is displayed.
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Aug 3, 2015 13:08
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quote:Drivers of BMW Vehicles with iOS Devices will be able to see traffic signal data on the vehicle’s display in real time. ...because having people looking at screens whilst driving is something we need them to do instead of I dunno, looking ahead out of the windscreen whilst moving? If drivers are this poo poo then gently caress it, stop everyone driving it's clear we're incapable.
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Aug 3, 2015 13:24
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Seeing as it requires the driver to indicate I don't think BMW were the right target for this.
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Aug 3, 2015 14:26
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88h88 posted:...because having people looking at screens whilst driving is something we need them to do instead of I dunno, looking ahead out of the windscreen whilst moving?  If I'm reading it right though, it's shown on the vehicle's display which I'm hope it's near the usual dials and stuff. If it's only on the phone then welp.
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Aug 3, 2015 14:36
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Vice did a write up of that dude falling over and it's brilliance. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-brief-overanalysis-of-that-road-rage-video-where-that-guy-smashes-his-face-on-a-pavement-606 quote:Let us dive into the glassy lake that is this video, this video that went viral this weekend of a man losing his poo poo with a cyclist so hard he falls over breaking his fingers and his face, exhibiting a rage so pure and intense that it becomes almost beautiful, a rage so ever-burning and infinite that the person in the passenger seat doesn't even blink at it, they are so used to it, they don't even say a thing.
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Aug 3, 2015 15:18
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God drat the writing for that article really is a thing of beauty.
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Aug 3, 2015 16:26
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spog posted:Watch the streaming video. I've always meant to ask this, but what do the zigzaggy street lines mean?
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Aug 3, 2015 16:34
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nitrogen posted:I've always meant to ask this, but what do the zigzaggy street lines mean? https://www.gov.uk/using-the-road-159-to-203/pedestrian-crossings-191-to-199 No parking or overtaking, no excuse. Of course, while I was typing this, a transit van stopped on the wrong side of the road, on the zig-zags and unloaded - so we should add the caveat 'only if the police can be bothered'
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Aug 3, 2015 16:47
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spog posted:I'll be honest, Mooseykins, I am kind of disappointed in you: Don't be silly, i don't wash my van. nitrogen posted:I've always meant to ask this, but what do the zigzaggy street lines mean? No stopping. It's so both pedestrians and traffic have a good clear view of each other. 3 Points & £100 fine if caught stopped on zig-zags.
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Aug 3, 2015 17:41
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No stopping as in parking, or are you breaking the law if you're waiting for a signal to change and traffic happens to put you in a zigzag zone?
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Aug 3, 2015 17:46
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Safety Dance posted:No stopping as in parking, or are you breaking the law if you're waiting for a signal to change and traffic happens to put you in a zigzag zone? You can stop/pause between them like waiting in traffic, but you can't stop there for parking/loading/waiting or anything like that. For places you can't stop at all, even if traffic stops we have yellow boxes/hatchings:  And yes, people frequently stop on these too.
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Aug 3, 2015 17:49
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I love this, you have "Toucan, puffin and equestrian crossings" as well as "Zebra Crossings"
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Aug 3, 2015 18:16
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spog posted:http://www.abbeyroad.com/Crossing My god what a wicked drinking game you could fashion out of this. Selfiesticks, four people doing the pose across the crossing, people shooting the poo poo out of the Abbey Road sign, photographers upholding traffic on the jagged line / incoming lane / meeting lane, honks, long horns, near-hits, successful hits and finally drink the whole bottle when you see 3+ orange robe monks walking across. and people who walk out into traffic without looking e: Streaker spotted Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 18:30
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nitrogen posted:I love this, you have "Toucan, puffin and equestrian crossings" as well as "Zebra Crossings" "There are 6 different types of pedestrian crossing:- School crossing, Zebra, Pelican, Puffin, Toucan and Pegasus." Honestly, what the UK needs is more types of pedestrian crossings. Abbey road can be a new type called a "oval office crossing" due to it's primary use as a method of pointlessly slowing traffic so tourists can take mediocre pictures. Another type could be "two-wheeled twat crossing" because cyclists think that not only are they above traffic laws, but they can use any kind of pedestrian crossing while on a bike too. MrLonghair posted:My god what a wicked drinking game you could fashion out of this. You'd have alcohol poisoning in a number of minutes.
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Aug 3, 2015 18:56
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MrLonghair posted:My god what a wicked drinking game you could fashion out of this. I vote we never play this, ever.
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Aug 3, 2015 19:41
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http://gfycat.com/NecessaryHarmfulDinosaur Some people just don't understand how to cross a road I guess.
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Aug 3, 2015 20:20
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Mooseykins posted:Don't be silly, i don't wash my van. Something has been nagging at me for a while: previously, you've stated that your van was 'burgandy' in colour. Yet we all know that in the UK, Transit-type vans are only available in a) white or b) BT grey. I have to ask you: is your van decorated with the blood of your slain foes from the road?
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Aug 3, 2015 21:02
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Just had an amazing thing happen in front of me. Pulling up to an intersection, riding my motorcycle, to make a right. Huge, wide end of the road, about three vehicles wide. One side people pull to to right turn, one side people pull to to take a left turn. The middle sits empty. There's a red SUV in front of me waiting to turn right as I pull up, a white Vibe with its turn signal to go left just approaching the intersection. Out of nowhere the Vibe decides NO WAIT WE'RE TURNING RIGHT and jerks their wheel straight right and pulls a 90 turn out in front of me without even glancing in the mirror, the side of the vehicle almost hitting my front tire, so I lay on my horn for about a second and a half until the driver even seems to notice. I hear a yelled "HOLD THE gently caress UP" from the red SUV. The passenger in the front tries to open the door, fails somehow, so he comes leaping out the window, falls almost flat on his face. Gets up and does the wide armed "WHAT?!" stance, and screams "WHO THE gently caress DO YOU THINK YOU ARE BLOWING YOUR HORN AT US?" ................. at the white Vibe. I don't want to get this young, stupid pair murdered, so I popped my visor up and said "Hey, it was me honking at them, they just cut me off" and he doesn't hear me. Starts screaming some more, goes for his waistband, yells "gently caress I DROPPED IT" and dives into the weeds at the side of the road digging furiously, "JUST GO THE gently caress AROUND, GET THE gently caress OUT OF HERE!" and the driver of the red SUV pulls off to the side of the road and gets out to help him start looking for whatever he dropped (Probably a gun) while the people in the Vibe are still sitting there totally stunned. Passenger in the Vibe opens his door "Yeah it wasn't us... oh and sorry we cut you off," shuts the door, they take off. Guys are still rooting in the weeds. Road's clear, I go too.
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Aug 3, 2015 22:25
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Aug 3, 2015 23:51
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spog posted:Watch the streaming video. If there is any one place in the world that needs a coal-rolling brotruck doing donuts, it's there.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:19
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I'll just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTUMGx-NUE @ 2:07 
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Aug 4, 2015 16:26
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I-35 between Oklahoma City and Dallas had some bad rock slides around Davis, and the southbound lane narrows from two lanes to one, so the northbound traffic can be routed around the construction work and onto the southbound side of the freeway, for less than a mile. Of course, this creates massive backups both north and southbound since no one can figure out how to zipper merge. I was driving back to Dallas two weeks ago with some coworkers after a business trip up to OKC, and I told them, "hey this is where it narrows down to one lane, and I guarantee you some jerk will probably ride in the middle of two lanes so people won't pass him, even though the merge is a mile ahead". I also told them that I was going to lay on the horn if this happened, and it wasn't road rage so be prepared. I was prophetic of me, but much scarier. I'm in the left lane passing traffic and a RV in front of me merges to the backed up right lane, and there's a full mile of clear left lane to drive on until the merge. About a quarter mile later a jerk in a big Dodge truck is riding the median and I slowly approach him, then hug the left shoulder as I pass him while holding down my horn. The guy actually swerved towards me and tried to run me into the median! My boss yelled at me, but we have rental insurance and that guy was a jerk.
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Aug 4, 2015 17:11
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:I'll just leave this here. Holy gently caress.
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Aug 4, 2015 17:15
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GramCracker posted:I vote we never play this, ever. Within a minute I saw a cyclist cross the zigzag lines into the oncoming lane, overtake a car that was yielding to the pedestrians and then jump onto the pavement by the crosswalk. Brilliant. Edit: Holy poo poo this is infuriating. It should be legal to shoot these people on sight. Maybe putting a traffic light there could work too but but let's not half-rear end this. Maybe the fox hunting people could be useful for once.   Let's just stand in the middle of the road there. There were just a whole bunch of assholes doing the thing and being cunts in general. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Aug 4, 2015 17:38
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I did just saw a black cab basically force some people posing right in front of him out the way by using his car as a battering ram while they screamed and shouted at him, was quite cathartic.
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Aug 4, 2015 19:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6I_P5a6RC8&t=24s
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Aug 4, 2015 21:37
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its a matter of time before this guy removes himself from the gene pool
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Aug 4, 2015 23:43
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Twice I have seen an SUV overloaded with cargo and passengers that the fullsize spare underneath the car was hitting the road on certain bumps and curbs. One was on the highway that I'm sure had the poor motor pegged into redline to keep up with traffic at 60 MPH.
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Aug 4, 2015 23:50
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Ringo Star Get posted:Twice I have seen an SUV overloaded with cargo and passengers that the fullsize spare underneath the car was hitting the road on certain bumps and curbs. One was on the highway that I'm sure had the poor motor pegged into redline to keep up with traffic at 60 MPH. The mythical SUV with more than two people in it? Congrats on spotting the Unicorn!
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Aug 4, 2015 23:51
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:I'll just leave this here. I didn't see the suggested time-stamp and watched the whole video - most suspenseful two minutes of my life. You know something's gonna go wrong, but not where or when.... until it does.
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Aug 5, 2015 00:14
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Same. It's Russian so you know it's going to be special and then comes the waiting...
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Ukrainians you share the road with: http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1438690738
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