The official let off steam thread

[sars]

People sat in ques of traffic for serval minutes with their foot on the brake. LED lights are even worse! No point in buying your sh!ty 'efficient' car with start/stop if you don't actually use it as designed.

you wouldn't pass a driving test doing that and it's fecking annoying!

Also what's with the twats that want to drive at stupid speeds along roads with standing water. Almost hitting others as they aqua plane

Hold your foot on the brake doesn't make stop/start tech stop working, not in my E87 anyway. Have to agree though, following a new auto TT with its 3ft wide third brake light burnt the back of my eyes every time he put his foot on his brakes. Luckily didn't get stuck behind him when he stopped.

Okay I was guilty of this with the Merc because of no handbrake, what do you two do?

 

[Angie4m]

People sat in ques of traffic for serval minutes with their foot on the brake. LED lights are even worse! No point in buying your sh!ty 'efficient' car with start/stop if you don't actually use it as designed.

you wouldn't pass a driving test doing that and it's fecking annoying!

Also what's with the twats that want to drive at stupid speeds along roads with standing water. Almost hitting others as they aqua plane

Hold your foot on the brake doesn't make stop/start tech stop working, not in my E87 anyway. Have to agree though, following a new auto TT with its 3ft wide third brake light burnt the back of my eyes every time he put his foot on his brakes. Luckily didn't get stuck behind him when he stopped.

Okay I was guilty of this with the Merc because of no handbrake, what do you two do?

I either put the car into park or put the car into nutural and apply the electronic handbrake in either case.

I tend to find that people who also sit with their foot on the brake also still that the engine running so they've either switched off the stop/start bit or they've got the clutch depressed.

Even in my E88 which was an auto I still always put into nutural and applied the handbrake. A habit, but a good habit and protects burning out the eyes of the driver behind me.

Oh and it was being stuck behind a new A3 for about 10 mins like that which made me vent. If the driver actually checked their mirrors they would have seen my face lit up along with the interior of the car and that should have been enough to realise.

 

[Angie4m]

New rant this morning.......shite weather so why do people insist on sitting 2 inches from your bumper and the car in front does the same to the car it's following and has to brake every 2 seconds.

Luckily I leave a good enough gap so I don't need to brake and can let off a little to compensate. But honestly, some people! If it goes wrong they could cause a serious accident

 

[sars]

Okay, with the stop start on the Merc you had to have your foot hard down on the brake to engage, put it into park and lift off the brake and the engine would start.

Haven't lived with the 4 for long so not sure yet, but moving into park is easy and it has a proper handbrake

 

[markeg]

Naming storms. Abigail was bad enough, but Barney? I cannot hear a weather report now without picturing a big f**k-off purple dinosaur rampaging around!

 

[stuartC]

Naming storms. Abigail was bad enough, but Barney? I cannot hear a weather report now without picturing a big f**k-off purple dinosaur rampaging around!

Ha, interesting, my mental image was of Barney Rubble

+1 for naming storms, another moronic Americanism that we can well do without... sigh.

 

[Wyldie85]

People in 4x4's and vans that insist on parking in the drop off bay at the supermarket. This isn't a parking space, you don't have some superior right to park here and then go off into the shop for half an hour. You're not parked properly, you're car/van is in the way, your stupid, gormless expression is very annoying. Don't park here, take your back combed hair, Jack Wills 'cot bots' and F R O somewhere else.

 

[stuartC]

Narcissistic females with the "wolf whistle" as their text notification sound.

Ugh.

 

[Dav the wheel nut]

Fecking health and safety

 

[enzed4]

Fecking health and safety

I'm all for health and safety (we have one of the worst workplace accident rates in the world. The Kiwi 'No. 8 fencing wire' attitude), but it is just taken to absurd levels so often it puts people off completely.
My workmate endured an interminable induction/health & safety briefing at a customer's site this week, stressing how important it was to follow proper procedures etc... then was told to remove his shoes while carrying a heavy box across new carpet in the office. If he had dropped the box he could have broken bones in his foot or lost a toe. I would have told them I could walk across their carpet shoeless, or I could install the new equipment they needed - the choice was their's. Madness

 

[enzed4]

The 'Articulated Lorry Right Turn' when morons driving city cars or bicycles for that matter feel that they need to suddenly swing out left whilst indicating a right turn in order to turn right, as you pass them on the inside. WTF is that all about?

I would expand this to include the muppets in cars who can't seem to judge the width of a right turn lane, so sit half in the straight through lane while indicating right and slowing down, until they reach the intersection and turn right. How F***ing hard is it to move your turd chariot actually into the turning lane so the rest of the world doesn't have to wait for you to complete what is obviously a highly complicated maneuver for you, you mental midget.

 

[Taz]

people putting things on facebook and asking others to say a amen for a cure

ffs its all bull sh*t, if god exist he's a first class w*nker - it boils my piss

 

[Xiaxio]

When the drivers at work don't seem to know there's this thing called regular maintenance and grease

 

[Nictrix]

Drivers who cut corners for no other reason than to cut the corner.
Like at junctions where they turn in early cutting the corner off the other lane.
Or roundabouts where they swap lanes to get a straighter line through them.
Same with bends in the road, going over the line just to straighten out the bend.
I am all for this if roads are quiet and you are going at a reasonable speed but just to do it for the sake of it annoys me.
For instance riding home last night following a car he strayed from lane to lane through 2 roundabouts without indicating and round several bends crossing the line but not going any quicker than myself who stayed completely in the proper lane and indicated too.
See it every day and its really really annoying.

 

[buzyg]

Drivers who cut corners for no other reason than to cut the corner.
Like at junctions where they turn in early cutting the corner off the other lane.
Or roundabouts where they swap lanes to get a straighter line through them.
Same with bends in the road, going over the line just to straighten out the bend.
I am all for this if roads are quiet and you are going at a reasonable speed but just to do it for the sake of it annoys me.
For instance riding home last night following a car he strayed from lane to lane through 2 roundabouts without indicating and round several bends crossing the line but not going any quicker than myself who stayed completely in the proper lane and indicated too.
See it every day and its really really annoying.

You been reading my mind.

 

[mj2k]

The tools on a motorway who decide to accelerate as you start overtaking them. I know they don't know they're doing it as a few minutes later, and a good few additional mphs, they suddenly poop themselves & within seconds have either hit the brakes or backed off & are no longer in a blind spot but a small dot in the mirror.

If feeling childish I sometimes drop a cog or two to see how quick their absent minded accelerating can be!

Oh and the chap in a silver Z I meet some mornings at the coppid beech roundabout. 3.0i I think. Always swiftly away from me as my engine is still only 2-3 minutes warm & he must think I drive like a spanner!! Last 3 letters are FKD

 

[pvr]

Last 3 letters are FKD

His engine will be if his is cold as well :lol:

 

[Number5]

People who come on the forum and and ask for help and then dont bother checking or replying to the posts....

 

[Angie4m]

people putting things on facebook and asking others to say a amen for a cure

ffs its all bull sh*t, if god exist he's a first class w*nker - it boils my piss

I agree.

On the subject of God, people who have no religious beliefs but insist on getting their children 'Christened' and making such a song and dance about it. What's that all about? Promised your mate you'd make him a 'godfather'.

 

[markeg]

people putting things on facebook and asking others to say a amen for a cure

ffs its all bull sh*t, if god exist he's a first class w*nker - it boils my piss

I agree.

On the subject of God, people who have no religious beliefs but insist on getting their children 'Christened' and making such a song and dance about it. What's that all about? Promised your mate you'd make him a 'godfather'.

Amen to that, brother/sister!

Oh, and people bringing religion into Xmas. What's that all about?