Traffic Poo

Redpunto

:(:mad:Just like to say that traffic is poo, my clutch foot is hurting

Oryx

Redpunto wrote: »

:(:mad:Just like to say that traffic is poo, my clutch foot is hurting

Thats terrible. I feel for you, I just got cut up by a guy in a merc. Yes indeedy. Traffic is poo.

Oh, and buy an automatic.

Or use your handbreak like your supposed to and stop burning your clutch.
If someone rearends you'll smack into the person infront and double the hassle.

And how are the pair of you posting from your cars.

FruitLover

Oryx wrote: »

Oh, and buy an automatic.

Agreed, I recommend an Uzi.

Cut me up at the lights, will ya....

Oryx

Moonbaby wrote: »

Or use your handbreak like your supposed to and stop burning your clutch.
If someone rearends you'll smack into the person infront and double the hassle.

And how are the pair of you posting from your cars.

Astra(l) travel.

I'm not a nerd. Speak english.

Redpunto

Moonbaby wrote: »

Or use your handbreak like your supposed to and stop burning your clutch.
If someone rearends you'll smack into the person infront and double the hassle.QUOTE]

Awh thanks, I was wondering what i was doing wrong all these years

Oryx

Moonbaby wrote: »

I'm not a nerd. Speak english.

That wasnt nerdspeak. That was woo-woo speak.

This thread was not what I expected when I clicked on the title, I thought we were about to uncover ways to take a poo in traffic without being noticed, I want my money back

Actually funny I found this, I had to abandon my car in Blackrock this morning and get a DART. 15 mins outside Frascati and didnt move one inch. Nightmare.

Abi

You gots to take your foot off the clutch when you arent moving. You are going to fucketh up your pedal bracket. Replacing one of those will hurt more than your left foot lil lady.

WindSock

I had the most horrid day yesterday trying to navigate myself around by using public transport. I got a fine from the dart and also ended up in skerries in the rain and cold
give me traffic anyday.

The Sweeper

Automatic cars FTW. I have a full manual licence but I still the automatic car I'm driving, and I'd want to because it's a 4.5 litre V6 and it's nearly five metres long, so it's like driving a canal barge. (And it's 12 years old, and the electric windows won't go back up if you put them down in wet weather, and it starts with a drum roll every time, and generally it's a POS.)

Star Lord

Minesajackdaniels wrote: »

Automatic cars FTW. I have a full manual licence but I still the automatic car I'm driving, and I'd want to because it's a 4.5 litre V6 and it's nearly five metres long, so it's like driving a canal barge. (And it's 12 years old, and the electric windows won't go back up if you put them down in wet weather, and it starts with a drum roll every time, and generally it's a POS.)

So it's about 15/16 foot long? :eek:
What do you drive???

The Sweeper

A Ford Falcon Futura. Vroom vroom, beep beep. Chug. Splutter. Cough.

...aaaaaaand, fail.

Wibbs

You know what women are ike judging distance in their cars. It's probably a micra. A 2.5 litre micra but still......:D Oh I'll be roasted for that.

I do think auto is the way to go in towns and cities. Even long journeys one rarely changes out of 5th. Petrol consumption is an issue though. I'm somewhat of a luddite in that I prefer the action of changing gear. My idea of purgatory is a winding backroad and an automatic gearbox. Basically a boy racer who should be old enough to know better.:o:D

As for your clutch foot hurting, get more comfortable shoes as few cars, outside of high performance yokes have too heavy a clutch(even there they usually don't). A lot of the time your seating position may be the issue. Slight rant alert. A lot of women drivers I know have their seat position utterly arseways when compared to the men I know. They usually sit way too close to the steering wheel for a start. I even know two that have their seatback forward of vertical if you know what i mean. Boggles the mind. Now women tend to be shorter than guys and a lot of cars are not built with that in mind, but still, even the shortarse guys I know have the seat well setup. Those that drive in high heels should be... well just no.

This isn't the usual women drivers guff. The women I know are all good and safe drivers. One in particular is a very talented driver at any speed. It's just a thing I've noted with seating position.

ozchick

Redpunto wrote: »

:(:mad:Just like to say that traffic is poo, my clutch foot is hurting

I hear you! I can't believe there are so few automatic cars available here! My left leg is getting longer than my right!!!

Wibbs, I have the oven on 180 degrees, care to step inside :(

ozchick

ozchick wrote: »

I hear you! I can't believe there are so few automatic cars available here! My left leg is getting longer than my right!!!

Wibbs, I have the oven on 180 degrees, care to step inside :(

Automatic?! Surely you prefer to DRIVE your car, no?!!!


Wibbs is already in the oven....theres no such thing as a 2.5 litre Micra!!

Oryx

Wibbs wrote: »

You know what women are ike judging distance in their cars. It's probably a micra. A 2.5 litre micra but still......:D Oh I'll be roasted for that.

Oh, I always thought men had the greater difficulty with distances, considering they think this: >

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On the seat adjustment thing, I notice with new drivers they tend to sit a bit more upright or lean forwards, than an experienced driver, and in that position they need the seat closer, the angle of the body means the legs are further back, if you get me? (Try it and youll see. )

WindSock

Yeah I guess the seat distance from wheel and angle is a confidence thing. Also a racial thing.

black guys drive a car like this.Do, do, ch. Do-be-do, do-be-do-be-do.
Yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this.Dee-da-dee, a-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee.

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Yeah I guess the seat distance from wheel and angle is a confidence thing. Also a racial thing. Yo, check this out: black guys drive a car like this.Do, do, ch. Do-be-do, do-be-do-be-do.
Yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this.Dee-da-dee, a-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee.

I like to Pimp My Ride. I have the seat reclined so that Im nearly in the bac seat, though Im very tall so its from a convenience point of view rather than anything else, bloody long legs!!:cool:

Oryx

Oryx wrote: »

Oh, I always thought men had the greater difficulty with distances, considering they think this: >

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pretty quickly with the right amount of tuition and encouragement!! :pac::pac:

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

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pretty quickly with the right amount of tuition and encouragement!!

Ah bless.:D

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

Wibbs is already in the oven....theres no such thing as a 2.5 litre Micra!!

ehhhhh, follow the thread and join the oul dots.... egg on your face or wha?

Oryx wrote:

Oh, I always thought men had the greater difficulty with distances, considering they think this: >

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Maybe but I reckon it's cos men tell them that's what 6 inches looks like and since women are crap at judging measurements......:D

On the seat adjustment thing, I notice with new drivers they tend to sit a bit more upright or lean forwards, than an experienced driver, and in that position they need the seat closer, the angle of the body means the legs are further back, if you get me? (Try it and youll see. )

I got you and I know men who drove like that at the start(less mind), but there are quite a few women I know who drive like that or in really godawful awkward positions long after the ink on their full licence has dried.

Actually this very afternoon and mindful of this post I asked just such a woman of my aquaintance why she does this and she said she can better tell where the corners of the car are sitting that high up. Maybe that's it. Also she said it was easier to turn the steering wheel. God knows why as it's massively over assisted anyway.

As I wrote most of the women I know are better and certainly more careful drivers than the men in general. They tend to drive slower for a start. The one thing I have noticed is that in general women get used to their particular car and if you put them in a different car they adapt to the new car more slowly than men. Again in general as I know one guy who damn near needs flags at each corner and still his car looks like it's been scraped off walls on each corner. This guy has hit his own garden gatepost twice(oh yea and he complains about women drivers.:rolleyes:). Maybe it's that spearchucker distance accuracy gene in men that helps there.

Wibbs

Wibbs wrote: »

ehhhhh, follow the thread and join the oul dots.... egg on your face or wha?

Oh I got it, was very clever, hows that workin out for ya?! I was pointing out to the girl that quoted ya............

Wibbs wrote:

Ah bless

Well someone had to tell her, for all we know she isnt aware of that intricate working of an elastic band!! :D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Ladies, ladies, ladies....

You ARE The traffic.

I do agree with the uzi idea. though. Especialyl considering I don't drive. But by God this city could do with a bit of genetic clensing

I like gears they're pretty.

ozchick

Deleted User wrote: »

Automatic?! Surely you prefer to DRIVE your car, no?!!!


Wibbs is already in the oven....theres no such thing as a 2.5 litre Micra!!

Yeah I do, but we are talking about Dublin traffic!! Got a Subaru back home and choose gears, I do prefer them and we can get up to decent speeds there:D

I just stuck a skewer in Wibbs and he's overcooked!! :cool:

Reku

Here's the really important question regarding this topic:
Does a lady who insists on driving all the time, in spite of the traffic meaning she'd be faster walking, still have the right to expect a sugarcoated/false (but in a good way) answer when she asks "does my bum look big in this?"?:D

watna

Minesajackdaniels wrote: »

A Ford Falcon Futura. Vroom vroom, beep beep. Chug. Splutter. Cough.

...aaaaaaand, fail.

They do love they're big cars down this side of the world. The one we bought is a big people carrier thing. There were no small cars for sale! My OH's friends have taken to calling us mum and dad when we collect them and I open the sliding van door thing to let them in the back!

MAJD - the electric window thing happened withour car too. The garage sprayed some kind of silicone stuff on in and now it's right as rain!

I drove in to Wellington city centre this morning for a 9am interview. It took just under 15 minutes, and that was in the rush hour. Traffic is something I definitely don't miss about Dublin!

Loopy

What bother's me is, I reckon every kid in Ireland must be driven to school now. What happened to walking?

Also, you look around when your on the M50 and there's one person in every car..

Oryx

looptheloop wrote: »

What bother's me is, I reckon every kid in Ireland must be driven to school now. What happened to walking?

Ah, you townie.:) In my case my kids are driven cos its a four mile walk and there's no bus. Id love them to cycle when theyre older, but I doubt they will, its a dangerous route.

Also, you look around when your on the M50 and there's one person in every car..

Agree thats simply daft, but what can you do? Chances of your neighbour working where you do are slim. More buses/luas or park and ride seem to be the only workable answers.

aye

looptheloop wrote: »

What bother's me is, I reckon every kid in Ireland must be driven to school now. What happened to walking?

Also, you look around when your on the M50 and there's one person in every car..

yeh i notice that. kids all get driven everywhere.

one person in each cars isnt surpising, the government could also car pooling for the use of bus lanes, they dont want tho, they just want people to use the oh so great public transport system.

Reku

Oryx wrote: »

Agree thats simply daft, but what can you do? Chances of your neighbour working where you do are slim. More buses/luas or park and ride seem to be the only workable answers.

Unfortunately because of traffic these are not reliable enough for people to be willing to use, and because people won't use them they get held up by all the traffic and aren't reliable.:(

Nevyn

I hate automatic cars or worse the ones which tell you when to change gear.

A lot of people just don't know how to adjust their car seats to the optimum setting for themselves.

But at least gone are the days where seats were not as adjustable and women needed to have cushions to sit on to drive, or at least my mother and aunts did.
If you are getting clutch cramp the look at the shoes you are wearing and see about moving your chair back so that your ankles does most of the work and not your knee.

Wibbs

What Thaedydal said re seats. An ex of mine used to complain of clutch footitus and on a journey across the country through rush hour traffic in towns and I got her to drive my car at the time, which had a very heavy clutch compared to her own car. I set the seat for her and lo and behold she had no clutch foot problem.

Oryx

Speaking of seats, what was the reason behind those bead cover thingys people used to have in their cars? I know they were meant to be comfortable, but I sat on one once and I thought it was like sitting on a pebble beach. You never see them anymore, so is that because they were a 70,s and 80's fad or are seats more comfy or were they just useless?

Abi

Oryx wrote: »

Speaking of seats, what was the reason behind those bead cover thingys people used to have in their cars?

Think my Dad has one on his seat Dont find them comfortable at all, so purpose I dont know.


They are uncomfortable enough to make you not fall asleep at the wheel though. Cant see it catching on for that reason either.



Re: traffic poo, that was a shocking day for it today :eek:

Trinity

I drive in a completely upright position with the seat pushed right into the dashboard. I cant drive any other way? I cant see over the wheel otherwise!

OH drives lying down practically. I'm only 5ft 2 so when i get into his car to drive it I am literally lying down.

He goes crazy when i adjust the seat