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Who are the WORST drivers???

  • 18-05-2001 3:53pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭


    Who are the WORST drivers??? men or women???


    In my opinion, neither are worst....some people are $hit!, some are good..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    i agree **** happens to all people, men or women, but it DOES seem to happen a bit more to women... i rest my case

    arrrrRRROOOOOOOOOOoooo...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Maybe, but perhaps that's down to some ancient genetic code. Men were MEANT to be better drivers so they could chaffeur women around everywhere and women can file their nails etc. while they're been driven around.
    Just a thought...

    Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ Flick 2001


    Kolodny,
    that seems 2 b what women spend most of their time doing, EVEN when they are driving.. smile.gifsmile.gif

    [This message has been edited by DJ Flick 2001 (edited 18-05-2001).]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DJ Flick 2001:
    Kolodny,
    that seems 2 b what women spend most of their time doing, EVEN when they are driving.. smile.gifsmile.gif

    [This message has been edited by DJ Flick 2001 (edited 18-05-2001).]
    </font>

    biggrin.gif

    Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    lol, yo flick you realise your gonna have an army of angry female moterists after they read this...?

    arrrrRRROOOOOOOOOOoooo...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    I'm actually quite a good driver, though I wasn't when I started learning.

    Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    put it this way, women just seem to have bad luck, and i mean VERY bad luck when it comes to driving... smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    I'll let that pass, as you used 'bad luck' rather than 'lack of natural skill' smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Chubby


    Everyone knows that women make bad drivers cause their boobs get in the way...

    /me boards the next flight out of the country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Chubby:
    Everyone knows that women make bad drivers cause their boobs get in the way...

    /me boards the next flight out of the country.
    </font>

    Don't yours? smile.gif


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ Flick 2001


    wolf,
    let um complain....
    smile.gifsmile.gifcool.gifcool.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kolodny:
    I'll let that pass, as you used 'bad luck' rather than 'lack of natural skill' smile.gif</font>

    no offense biggrin.gif



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ Flick 2001


    lol,lol smile.gifsmile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    screw the men women debate, van drivers are the worst... those or mothers with kids in the car, climbing over the seats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kolodny:
    Don't yours? smile.gif</font>

    LOL, talk about socking it to the man... nice one Kol



    arrrrRRROOOOOOOOOOoooo...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Thanks Kali.

    It's not a men or women thing. Irresponsible drivers are the worst.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Hendrix_Nighn


    Yes, and women are the most irresponsible drivers there are!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hendrix_Nighn:
    Yes, and women are the most irresponsible drivers there are!</font>

    And statistically all men are great drivers? rolleyes.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Hendrix_Nighn


    No they're terrible at golf too.
    smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭DrunkLeprachaun


    It seems that there is a differance between men and womens brains that makes women worse at reversing(you're just going to have to take my word for it), other than that, there shouldn't be too much difference. Old women do seem to be the worst drivers though.

    If there's one thing I hate, it's people.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    I'd just like to know who Kolodny is, and by that i mean, which one of dj flick or the wolf made him/her/it your joke account. it's a bit obvious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Hmmmmm, Both men and women are bad. Men as far as I can see have more road rage events. Then again some people would say that Women have more accidents. Who knows, or cares TBH??


    John


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Trev


    I had my first driving lesson on Thursday. So I'm probably the worst driver right now. Good fun though. Only turned 17 on Wednesday tongue.gif.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kolodny:
    I'm actually quite a good driver, though I wasn't when I started learning. </font>

    Exavtly, this belief (on behalf of all driver) is the root of all (driving) evil.



    Changing call sign to SIERRA PAPA OSCAR OSCAR FOXTROT.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,663 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Men's brains are better suited for driving so we're better at it. I reckon the 'women are safer drivers than men' myth is because there's still a lot more male drivers than women.

    On a side note : Have you ever watched women driving? 9 times out of 10 they're all tense, hunched forward over the wheel with their face all scrunched up and their mouth hanging open. I know this girl with a chicken chaser (Cinqenchento) and she drives with her face almost pressed to the windscreen! I was over-taking her with one hand on the wheel while fiddling with the radio then waved at her, and she was concentrating so much on what she was doing she didn't even see. I mean look, no hands! smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Chubby


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kolodny:
    Don't yours? smile.gif</font>
    Yes yes, my man breasts always get in the way. I wasn't just making a sexist remark, I speak from experience.



    [This message has been edited by Chubby (edited 19-05-2001).]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Slosh


    Taxi Drivers (by far the worst), Van Drivers, Learners (I try to be patient, really I do), old people and anybody that drives a fiesta !!

    Women arent that bad, pretty predictable tbh, they've got boobies so I can't knock em too much smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    I was just thinking, maybe men say women are shít drivers, because they actually pay attention to the rules of the road. Therefore they drive slower etc, actually stop and stop signs. Therefore they are better drivers legally, but men say they're **** cause they're slow smile.gif


    John


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Bomberman


    No Women !!!!!!!!!!!!! no douth about that 1!!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Has anyone considered Hans Moleman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    its fe<kin motor cyclists those fe<kers weave in and out of traffic, pass ya when ur stoped in traffic n get away with it, its unreal!!!

    "just because ur not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after u!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Mills


    I've found that old people are the worst drivers around here, well, some of them anyway. Some of course are fine but then you have the ones that don't pay any attention to what's going on around them on the road, I've seen some who just drive on out of sideroads unto the main road without ever looking to see if there was any oncoming traffic, happened me once when I was about 15 yards away, people who show no regard for the most basic and common sense rules of the road and for a week afterwards I was quite paranoid about old people darting out of junctions and into me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,414 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    (3rd hand so maybe wrong)

    The Indo ran an article on insurance statistics recently.

    They said:

    - men have far more accidents than women (cant remember figure)

    - women hit inanimate objects 4 times more often than men (rotfl smile.gif true methinks)

    Hope that helps!

    Al.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ Flick 2001


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Neil3030:
    I'd just like to know who Kolodny is, and by that i mean, which one of dj flick or the wolf made him/her/it your joke account. it's a bit obvious.</font>


    Neil-your SKIN AND BONE!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Drivers of silver coloured European cars.


    Changing call sign to SIERRA PAPA OSCAR OSCAR FOXTROT.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 paula


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Trojan:
    (3rd hand so maybe wrong)

    The Indo ran an article on insurance statistics recently.

    They said:

    - men have far more accidents than women (cant remember figure)

    - women hit inanimate objects 4 times more often than men (rotfl smile.gif true methinks)

    Hope that helps!

    Al.
    </font>
    Oi!! 1) i'm a woman, and i've only ever run one person over - far fewer than most men i expect.
    2) the fire engine that was on the wrong side of the road and nearly ran into me when i was learning last time was being driven by men.
    Therefore proving that men are far worse than women (in a way)!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    Women are **** at everything.

    Who even let em out of the kitchen? ffs.

    .logic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,308 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Who are the worst drivers?
    • Elephants (and quite a large number of other non-human lifeforms)
    • Drunks
    • Babies
    • Blind people
    • Really tiny midgets
    • Dead people
    • People with no arms
    • People with no legs

    I'm sure the list goes on...

    Bard
    Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I still say Hans Moleman is the worst driver...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    in my opinion (which says a lot!!), drunks, most elderly people, and young people who think they 0wn the road.

    avatar.jpg - Ciaran
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
    -Nietzsche</font>


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Neil3030:
    I'd just like to know who Kolodny is, and by that i mean, which one of dj flick or the wolf made him/her/it your joke account. it's a bit obvious.</font>

    No joke, I assure you....

    Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Men are better drivers (in general)
    Women are more careful, therefore less accidents (in general)

    I think its that simple


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Ever notice how insurance for under 25 males is insane?
    That is because we (yes, I belong to this group) are the worst drivers. It is not a generalisation, it's fact. We are terrible drivers who are more interested in speed than safety.

    This is pants, cause the roads are there to be driven on!!! Pedestrians are there to be killed!!! Cars are there to be crashed/crashed into!!!

    Joking aside, there are a lot of senior citizens who are driving that never took a test in their life. Most of them are good drivers (if a little slow), but some of them are clueless on newer road phenomonen such as Roundabouts and motorways. I have seen (3 times) seniors going the wrong way around a roundabout - once causing an accident and the other 2 occasions narrowly avoiding them. I'll bet you a pound their policy didn't go up in price, but the poor unfirtunate who swerved into another car to aviod them would've been in a bad way. Thankfully, no one was injured, but it's cause for concern that there are that many peolpe on the roads that really don't know how the reads work!

    This is not an anti senior thing - this was an example. I'm sure there's loads of people who don't understand. My own mother who's been driving (accident free) for 30 years gets lost whilst driving around Dublin (and she lived there for long enough). I think that's more to do with her complete inability to follow simple instrctions...



    All the best!
    Dav
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 partyman28


    Sorry daly(wolf) id have 2 say ur the worst driver coz if saw a passing cat u would hop out the window and chase it so stop slaggin other people!!!k?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,308 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kharn:
    It is not a generalisation, it's fact. We are terrible drivers who are more interested in speed than safety.
    </font>

    I'm not tongue.gif

    And sorry Dav, - whether you believe it to be fact or not, it IS, by definition, a generalisation - to say that all males under 25 are the worst drivers. Statistically, perhaps, the highest number of accidents are caused by that very group, - that doesn't mean we're all "terrible drivers who are more interested in speed than safety".

    I know I'm certainly not.

    Bard
    First motorbike in the bible ???? - a Triumph! - 'And yea verily did Moses strike down the ammmanites, - and all the land did hear the roar of his triumph !!!'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Chubby


    Bleh, statistics. For all we know, more males under 25 are in accidents because there are more people under this group who are driving. People should not be penalised because of this generalisation and then get their insurance lowered through no claims bonus. No claims bonus and car insurance in this country is the biggest scam I’ve ever seen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ Flick 2001


    ehhhh......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,663 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
    Statistically, perhaps, the highest number of accidents are caused by that very group
    </font>

    I dunno about caused. The fact is : statistics lie. 9 out of 10 statistics are made up on the spot smile.gif There was a study done in england that showed all the commonly held myths of motor insurance are wrong.

    It's well known that most fatalities/serious injuries in road accidents are to young males. This is simply because there tends to be more of us in the car. Young men are far more likely to own a car before a young woman of the same age, and because most of our friends live near us, we often give each other lifts when we go out. With older people, their friends tend to live further away, so they tend to drive to wherever they meet separatly.

    The myth that women have less accidents than men is actually true, in a way. There are far more men drivers, covering more miles than women drivers on the road. Because men spend more time driving than women (on average) we are far more likely to have an accident. If you compare the numbers proportionatly, women fare neglibly worse.

    It's well known that the most common type of accident is at a t-juntion, with someone turning right onto the main road. It was found that old people were most frequently involved in these.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AngelWhore:
    I still say Hans Moleman is the worst driver...</font>
    ok i'll acknowledge your post angelwhore biggrin.gif
    hmmmm let me see, he's old, blind, small ... yep he's the worst!

    "just because you're not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

    [This message has been edited by azezil (edited 03-06-2001).]


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