'motorists'-get it off your chest thread.

spunkymunky

Exactly as it says.
Did something happen on the road today that pissed you off?
Slow driver, Women drivers, Men drivers, break downs, whatever!!

Post here and release a little bit of that fury.

Was driving to work today on my bike, firstly i was up a 615 for work(on a sunday i might add), it was freezing and slighly snowing, then after about 5 or six miles my bike cuts out at the traffic lights and wont start, so i have to push the b.astard to get it going again. All the while still freezing and being snowed on. And to top it of I was late for work!!!

D!ve^Bomb!

well i was up at 5 this morning to get to work for 6, on a sunday i might add;) and i saw absolutely nothin, it was a joy to drive to work at that time!!! no one about at all, apart from a few scumbags walkin home from their night of drinkin dutch piss

Gothic Warrior

spunkymunky wrote:

Exactly as it says.

Dude, it says "The motors get if off your chest thread", which doesn't make sense. So how can it be exactly like it says?

Lafortezza

Sunday public transport.
Boy racers and their Nissan Micra's.
The cost of taxis.

ando

women drivers

D!ve^Bomb!

ando wrote:

women drivers

ah, touché

spunkymunky

Gothic Warrior wrote:

Dude, it says "The motors get if off your chest thread", which doesn't make sense. So how can it be exactly like it says?

sorry chief, got it now?

and women drivers..... a thread in itself!!

D!ve^Bomb!

spunkymunky wrote:

sorry chief, got it now?

and women drivers..... a thread in itself!!

i still don't think it makes sense man,, try ''motorists - get it off your chest''

spunkymunky

works for me

D!ve^Bomb!

coolaboola

rander00

A chicken crossed the road in front of me on my way to work, when i clearly had the right of way.

spunkymunky

rander00 wrote:

A chicken crossed the road in front of me on my way to work, when i clearly had the right of way.

Did you ask the chicken why he was crossing the road?

D!ve^Bomb!

rander00 wrote:

A chicken crossed the road in front of me on my way to work, when i clearly had the right of way.

hairy japanese bastards!!

commited

What a girl said to me last night

"I'm not quite clear on the rules of the road"

Thus - all provisional drivers should be banned from the roads unless they are accompanied by a reasonably compentent adult.

Borderfox

People overtaking when all the have under their arse is a beat up old motor that can't overtake especially when I am coming the other way and have to jam on the brakes to stop a major crash....I drive into work at 5 in the morning also and it is heaven with very little traffic for my 22 mile trip in...

Seth Brundle

would everyone just get the feck outta my way!!!!!!!!!!!!

[InsertHandle]

I was driving home from work the other night(a little bit tired). I heard something "crunch" under my left front wheel :rolleyes:



... just thought i'd get it off my chest

Alfasudcrazy

One night a guy (Bulgarian) walks into the Garda station and says ' I think I may have knocked someone down with my car' Oh says I where and when?

He says about 15 miles back the road :eek:

Quick emergency drive back to where he said he thought it happened (a hitchhiker) he thought. Hitchhiker found alive and well. It was just his thinking that got to me - I mean if you knocked (or thought) you knocked someone down would you contiunue driving for 15 miles before thinking that it might need to be reported to someone? :rolleyes:

ando

Women drivers... Jeez

I was clearly in the right lane and this women tries to glide into my lane when i'm obviously in it and have right of way. Then she shouts to me 'your in the wrong fcking lane'..... Damn women doesnt have a clue

ibanez

Bastards that drive everywhere at 48 mph and wont pull in or hurry the **** up.

Banjo013

Seen all above.....

But the only thing that really gets to me is all the traffic lights in Dublin, and they all seem to be red. How is anyone supposed to make any progress when you've got to stop every 100yds or less ???

Hellrazer

Idiots going through roundabouts in the wrong lane.
The right hand lane is for going right people even if there are 2 lanes on the other side of the roundabout.Ive nearly been killed twice in the last week by idiots going straight in this way.

ds20prefecture

Hellrazer wrote:

Idiots going through roundabouts in the wrong lane.
The right hand lane is for going right people even if there are 2 lanes on the other side of the roundabout.Ive nearly been killed twice in the last week by idiots going straight in this way.

Really not sure about this. If you take the roundabout at Glenageary and/or the one at the Graduate for example, the right hand lane is clearly for taking any exit but the first one. To try to use the left hand lane for the 2nd or 3rd exit is suicide.

I think the rules of the road are fairly specifc and (from memory) state that the left hand lane is to be used if you are taking the first exit from a roundabout. The right hand lane is to be used in all other cases, moving into left hand lane when your exit is next. Am I wrong? If so, I would like to know! - it has been 10 years since the test.

De Hipster

Old farmers...20mph...in a banger.

impr0v

Hellrazer wrote:

Idiots going through roundabouts in the wrong lane.
The right hand lane is for going right people even if there are 2 lanes on the other side of the roundabout.Ive nearly been killed twice in the last week by idiots going straight in this way.

I think you're wrong about this, the right hand lane is for going straight or turning right when there are two lanes on the far side of the roundabout. And how have you been nearly killed by them, trying to turn right from the left hand lane?

seamus

ds20prefecture wrote:

I think the rules of the road are fairly specifc and (from memory) state that the left hand lane is to be used if you are taking the first exit from a roundabout. The right hand lane is to be used in all other cases, moving into left hand lane when your exit is next. Am I wrong? If so, I would like to know! - it has been 10 years since the test.

General rule:
1st and 2nd exit - left-hand lane. All other exits - right-hand lane.
Unless the road markings indicate otherwise.

Turlock

Yeah I'd go with d20*'s answer

Dan_B

The self Righteous,
I can just about handle when someone does something really dumb but when they go off on one like your in the wrong......

You get me??

ds20prefecture

Dan_B wrote:

The self Righteous,
I can just about handle when someone does something really dumb but when they go off on one like your in the wrong......

You get me??

I know exactly what you mean. The other day I was turning right onto Gardiner St. and some gobsh1te had blocked the yellow box. When it cleared, I eased into it, fuming (and neglecting to acknowledge the courteous driver who let me in). It was only after a minute or two had passed that I realised that my right turn was illegal! :eek:

[InsertHandle]

Hellrazer wrote:

Idiots going through roundabouts in the wrong lane.
The right hand lane is for going right people even if there are 2 lanes on the other side of the roundabout.Ive nearly been killed twice in the last week by idiots going straight in this way.

ok ppl imagine a roundabout is the face of a clock and u are entering the roundabout at 6 o'clock ... for any exits that are between 6 o'clock and up to AND INCLUDING 12 o'clock you are in the left lane ... anything after 12 o'clock it's the right hand lane.

Now lets not forget indicating ... first exit between 6 and 12 your indicating before u get onto roundabout ... after first exit up to 12 o'clock your in left lane but not indicating until after the exit before the one u wanna take. After 12 o'clock(remember right hand lane) your always indicating right until after the exit before the one u wanna take when u indicate left and get the hell off the roundabout of death.

Just on a side note the "give way to ppl on the right" rule thing still applies on a roundabout... ie if someone in the right lane is indicating left u should play nice and give way ... but ppl of the right beware don't force this as u WILL cause accidents, just go around again

Hellrazer

Seamus is right on this one.The left hand lane is for going left or straight and then some idiot decides to go straight in the right hand lane pushing the car in the left lane in towards the kerb.
Thats how I was nearly killed twice.In my first post I was wrong about the left lane rule if there are 2 lanes on the far side of the roundabaout--apparently this is ok.
My problem is when there is only one lane the far side of the roundabout and some ****head decides to go straight through in the right hand lane.

http://www.iol.ie/~pt/roadrule.html

[InsertHandle]

ds20prefecture wrote:

It was only after a minute or two had passed that I realised that my right turn was illegal! :eek:

i'm not from dublin but was in the city centre a bit lately ... now i know about the no turning left onto O'Connell street but whats this no turning right thing. I made a right turn on Dame st and got alot of angry looks ... then a little later i was around tallagh and there was no right turn allowed at that junction either. I know ppl turning right can kinda hold up traffic but at this rate soon you'll only be able to drive in straight lines through dublin

ds20prefecture

[InsertHandle] wrote:

i'm not from dublin but was in the city centre a bit lately ... now i know about the no turning left onto O'Connell street but whats this no turning right thing. I made a right turn on Dame st and got alot of angry looks ... then a little later i was around tallagh and there was no right turn allowed at that junction either. I know ppl turning right can kinda hold up traffic but at this rate soon you'll only be able to drive in straight lines through dublin

Soon you will not be able to drive through Dublin at all. All traffic is diverted to the quays at some point - pearse st heading into town stops at tara st except for buses. Dame street stops at Georges st, there is no O'Connell st any more, it seems. NB: I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. Yet.

When I leave work, I either take an illegal right, or loop around 3 "blocks" to get to the same point. All traffic control seems to divert you towards one or other of the toll bridges, which is another rant altogether.

m3tolls.com

The M3 will be tolled twice in County Meath - www.m3tolls.com.

A commuter for example, traveling from north of Navan hoping to travel on the M3 to work in Lucan or south of the M50 will be forced to pay 3 tolls there and 3 tolls back—6 tolls per day, 30 per week.

The entire M3 debate seems to revolve around a controversial 3km, and the double tolling of the M3 has largely been ignored by our elected representatives in Dáil Éireann.

Using the current M50 toll charge of €1.80 per car for calculation purposes you would have to pay €10.80 per day or €54.00 per week to get there and back! This is unacceptable.

This is just one of many issues affecting the M3 including route construction delays and building across the old Dublin Navan Railway line without putting in bridges before the M3 is built.

Meath needs an M3 now, without delays or double tolls.

Visit www.m3tolls.com and sign the online petition..

camarobill

m3tolls.com wrote:

The M3 will be tolled twice in County Meath - www.m3tolls.com.

A commuter for example, traveling from north of Navan hoping to travel on the M3 to work in Lucan or south of the M50 will be forced to pay 3 tolls there and 3 tolls back—6 tolls per day, 30 per week.

The entire M3 debate seems to revolve around a controversial 3km, and the double tolling of the M3 has largely been ignored by our elected representatives in Dáil Éireann.

Using the current M50 toll charge of €1.80 per car for calculation purposes you would have to pay €10.80 per day or €54.00 per week to get there and back! This is unacceptable.

This is just one of many issues affecting the M3 including route construction delays and building across the old Dublin Navan Railway line without putting in bridges before the M3 is built.

Meath needs an M3 now, without delays or double tolls.

Visit www.m3tolls.com and sign the online petition..

what a f...... joke,crusty the clown must be in charge,riped off as always,whats new about that in this country :mad: :mad:

Ernie Ball

I thought I'd seen it all. Today on the N4 I saw a muppet in an Integra driving very aggressively, tailgating in the passing lane and, when he couldn't get the eejit in the passing lane to move, undertaking him at speed. Then he continued on his merry way at 70mph. At the M50 interchange I pull up alongside him and notice . . .


he's got the 'temporary' spare tyre on his left front wheel!

This guy was weaving in and out of traffic at 50+mph.

I couldn't believe it.

prospect

In no particular order:

1. People who drive too slow, and won't pull over
2. People who drive to fast (up your ass), when there is no opportunity for you to pull over
3. People who pull out of a side road in front of you, and then drive at a crawl, and won't pull over
4. People who do not know the rules of the road
5. People who do not indicate
6. *This is a long one* When you are waiting to join a main road turning right. And, there is a car coming from the left, (with traffic behind it), and at the last moment, it indicates right, and turns accross infront of you and up your road. Why can't they indicate earlier, and slow down for about 3 seconds to let you out onto the road in front of them!!!!
7. People who are completely oblivious to the 'overtaking lane' "myth"
8. People who wait till they are actually at the toll barrier, and then go rooting for money.
9. People who cannot park, and use more than one space.
10. Huge trucks using small roads for shortcuts (cause controversy before, but it still annoys me)
11. Trailers with bad/no/mixed up lighting
12. People who do not indicate
14. People who do not display an ounce of courtesy, almost to the point of being aggressive
15. People who use buslanes and hard shoulders to skip traffic jams, and then think it is their god-given-right to be allowed to merge back into the traffic when they see fit.
16. Lane hoppers.
17. People who use their fog lamps (front & rear) when there is no fog!
18. People who do not dip their full beams, this applies to oncoming cars, and cars behind.
19. People who slow down AGES before their turn, and then take an ungodly amount of time to execute the turn
20. Drivers who are obviously completely oblivious to what is happening around them. e.g. A queue at the lights and one car leaves a gap of about three or four meters, not realising that if they move forward, a car (further back) trying to exit a parking spot would be free to continue on their way.
21. People who cannot use roundabouts
22. People who do not seem to understand what a yellow box is for. (in Naas recently, and there is a very long yellow box on the Sallins road, at the Monread turn off. Anyway, the lights are red and a guy stopps at the yellow box, which means he is about 20meters back from the lights. The bloke behind SITS on the horn to try and make him move forward:mad: )

Can't think of any more at the moment, but If if do, I'll add them.

Johnny Storm

ds20prefecture wrote:

....If you take the roundabout at Glenageary and/or the one at the Graduate for example, the right hand lane is clearly for taking any exit but the first one. To try to use the left hand lane for the 2nd or 3rd exit is suicide.....

100% agree. That Graduate one is potentially very dangerous.

impr0v

Articulated lorries overtaking other lorries on the motorway, in heavy traffic conditions at 55-60 miles an hour when the lorry being overtaken is doing only marginally less.

sutty

People thinking that just becasue a bike is tin, that under taking it is ok. Vary dangorus and has happened a few times. Latest was a woman driver who then started beeping me. Funny thing was, I was going over the speed limit of the area (the cannal) and I was coming up to traffic about to brake for it. Looked into my left mirror to see a car right along side of me (while I am in the center of the lane) turn about on the bike and make a jesture as to ask what the hell is she doing... then she beeps me! I stopped at the traffic and counted to 10.. other wise I was getting off the bike to have a word in her ear.

Other thing that gets to me, is people stoping on a roundabout to let the people at the next exit on! :rolleyes:

sandyg

My two main motor griefs are fog lights when there is no fog :mad: and cars with little or no lights on the front/only one working/one like a candle - the list goes on!!! :mad:

Alun

Apart from all of the above, which I see with worrying regularity, there's the people who, after they've put your and their life and that of the people around you in danger by their stupid and reckless behaviour, seem to think they can absolve themselves of all responsibility by waving nonchalantly at you and mouthing "sorry" :mad:

Seth Brundle

impr0v wrote:

Articulated lorries overtaking other lorries on the motorway, in heavy traffic conditions at 55-60 miles an hour when the lorry being overtaken is doing only marginally less.

is the rest of the heavy traffic going much faster?