Ever been in a car crash?

jimgoose

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

Well not that I agree with anything that OldNotWise says as he comes across as a liability on the road...

A liability? Because she makes a call on her speed to suit the prevailing conditions as she sees them, and this doesn't suit some young cowboy behind with too much engine up-front and sod-all between his ears? I'm afraid the only component responsible for what becomes of you and your car is the nut between the seat and the steering-wheel.

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

...and somewhat sick to take some kind of satisfaction or pleasure in people he deems to "deserve it" getting killed or injured on the roads...

You should hear my mother's views on what should ideally become of some of the sham-can gang! :pac:

ShowMeTheCash

OldNotWIse wrote: »

How exactly am I a liability? Because I don't speed up for joyriders? By the way, I was nearly orphaned by joyriders. My Mum had to be cut out of her car and spent months in hospital. The inebriates who crashed into them (in a stolen car) attacked and immobilised my Dad with an iron bar so that he couldn't call for help. I don't care if they do themselves in. No loss. You will not move me on this point, nor do I care what you think.

You clearly have an axe to grind and a definite "bad" attitude to other drivers.
That's why I think you are a liability, also no one said you need to speed up but you apear to be deliberately obtuse which in itself can be a problem. The "I won't budge" even if it helps attitude won't get you very far!

Your personal circumstances I have no interest in.

OldNotWIse

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

You clearly have an axe to grind and a definite "bad" attitude to other drivers.
That's why I think you are a liability, also no one said you need to speed up but you apear to be deliberately obtuse which in itself can be a problem. The "I won't budge" even if it helps attitude won't get you very far!

Your personal circumstances I have no interest in.

It's really very simple. Either you think I am under an obligation to speed up or you don't. If I don't speed up, am I being "obtuse"? Is that a thinly veiled way of saying I should? So, should I "budge" or shouldn't I?

If you've no interest in someone's personal circumstances then you also have no business making assertions about their character or personality.

I don't know what "axe" you are referring to tbh, perhaps you could enlighten us or in the alternative, try not to invent stuff about posters you don't like.

ShowMeTheCash

jimgoose wrote: »

A liability? Because she makes a call on her speed to suit the prevailing conditions as she sees them, and this doesn't suit some young cowboy behind with too much engine up-front and sod-all between his ears? I'm afraid the only component responsible for what becomes of you and your car is the nut between the seat and the steering-wheel.

You should hear my mother's views on what should ideally become of some of the sham-can gang! :pac:

As already explained, you get little boy racers but you also get people on the road who deliberately obstruct both.

Anyone with the attitude

OldNotWIse wrote:

No sympathy when these f.uckers go out and smear themselves on the road

OldNotWIse wrote:

Sadly, they managed to get away uninjured. Better luck next time.

I think there is something wrong with her/him with these type of comments!

ShowMeTheCash

OldNotWIse wrote: »

It's really very simple. Either you think I am under an obligation to speed up or you don't. If I don't speed up, am I being "obtuse"? Is that a thinly veiled way of saying I should? So, should I "budge" or shouldn't I?

If you've no interest in someone's personal circumstances then you also have no business making assertions about their character or personality.

I don't know what "axe" you are referring to tbh, perhaps you could enlighten us or in the alternative, try not to invent stuff about posters you don't like.

You seem like a very angry person, perhaps you should see a therapist?

twin_beacon

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Of course! I am not condoning such behavior! I just don't agree with your assertion that it's a justifiable provocation for other people to act the a.sshole. On both occasions I mentioned above when such idiots nearly wound up being hosed down off the road, I was driving at an appropriate speed given that we were on winding country roads which were narrow and had plenty of blind spots etc. I didn't slow down intentionally to inflame anyone, but nonetheless they were irate because in their heads I was going to slow. Was there an onus on me to speed up to try to calm them down and avoid a dangerous situation?

I think you misread some of my posts, there is nothing wrong with what you did, in what I have highlighted in bold. I talking about people that intentionally slow down to piss off the driver behind them, as an earlier poster said.

Took great delight recently in keeping a boyracer behind me on the winding road from Killarney as far as Derricunnihy.

jimgoose

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

As already explained, you get little boy racers but you also get people on the road who deliberately obstruct both.

You certainly do get plenty thickos. But I think you refer more to angry fools brake-testing people who "disrespect" them on the motorway than people who keep their speed down as they deem necessary, not suiting certain individuals behind them.

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

I think there is something wrong with her/him with these type of comments!

With the best will in the world, I think most of these kind of comments are said in a spirit of "experience teacheth fools, but by Cheeses the tuition fees!"

ShowMeTheCash

jimgoose wrote: »

You certainly do get plenty thickos. But I think you refer more to angry fools brake-testing people who "disrespect" them on the motorway than people who keep their speed down as they deem necessary, not suiting certain individuals behind them.

With the best will in the world, I think most of these kind of comments are said in a spirit of "experience teacheth fools, but by Cheeses the tuition fees!"

Ah fools.....

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

But perhaps it is all in the name!

WS

Knasher

Once as I was stopped outside my parents house waiting for a truck to pass in the opposite lane so I could turn across. My indicator was on, but the house is after a (very gradual) bend. A teenager on a provisional license, who was on the road for less than a week, rear ended my car with enough force to render his a complete write off, my car was also written off, it wasn't in that bad condition but the frame was bent so there was no way it would ever pass its next NCT. I guess we were very lucky, my two sisters were in the car with me, and he had three of his friends in with him, and nobody was seriously hurt.

jimgoose

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

Ah fools.....

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

But perhaps it is all in the name!

WS

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you open up with the .50-cal and take out their trucks. Then you win.

-- Mahatma Gandhi's slightly psychotic cousin.

GLaDOS

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

I think there is something wrong with her/him with these type of comments!

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

You seem like a very angry person, perhaps you should see a therapist?

Leave out the personal comments

rainbow kirby

Was on a 46A that managed to have a side-on collision with a truck in Stillorgan about 10 years ago, truck parked just before the left turn onto the northbound side of the dual carriageway near Oatlands. Bit of metal sticking out the back of it, bus driver didn't see it, piece of metal took out all the downstairs windows. Thankfully there were only 5 passengers on it, all upstairs at the time, but enough to give everyone a bit of a fright!

Ben D Bus

As a small child (before seat belts, never mind child seats) we got read ended and I got thrown from the back seat between the front seats & hit the dashboard. No serious injuries.

And back in the 90s a small lane changing incident on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, resulted in a written off rental car and a lift to our motel in a Memphis PD cruiser. Again no injuries (and plenty of insurance!) thankfully.