Top 10 sad bastards on Irish roads

Stephen

Sawthis on Cloud's planetoftheblogs.com site this evening:

http://gerrysrants.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-ten-sad-bastards-on-irish-roads.html

Its all true.

AMurphy

Stephen wrote:

Sawthis on Cloud's planetoftheblogs.com site this evening:

http://gerrysrants.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-ten-sad-bastards-on-irish-roads.html

Its all true.

1; I like personal/vanity plates. I don't have them, but I see some very witty ones out there like the one on the Toy Hybrid, "MOBL OHM", I've seen "GUINESS", "TALLAGH", "CORCAIG", on plates and saw one in Dub with "DANS RIG" on it. Mine had "LOW YOTA" for a while.

There were more than a few GTI's in Limerick when GTI ### was available.

2; Only problem I have is the insurance and getting grit in my hair. Otherwise, no better no worse than sun roofs, they all leak.

3; I'll agree with that, actually add bull-bars on anything but a bull. I have seen them on vans also. Dam dangerous too as they can snag stuff.
Forgot the mention the electric front winch.

4; Ignore them, it's a passing phase.

5; No problem with that, assuming the van is not trashed. Looks fine on a passenger van.

6, 7, 8 & 10; Who cares, so long as they can see the road. To everyone his own. I've seen cars plastered all over with stickers, front and back ledges loaded with stuffed floppy eared toys, windmills on the hitch point, rubber hands stuck out of the boot lid, Christmas lights about the eve and spinner hubcaps. One coated with Blue feathers also.

9; I don't care so long as they drive OK.

PS, concentrate on the car you are driving, not inspecting cars you are not driving.

peasant

Agree with all of it, especially the bull bars. Dangerous, pointless and lethal in case of an accident with a pedestrian. Should be banned.

But really, really, REALLY sad are bullbars made from plastic. Like the one Suzuki sells aftermarket for the Jimny. Pointless to the very extreme.

full forward

My dad has a 307 with 307 on the number plate. It was a demo car at a garrage. He didnt even notice it till I pointed it out to him.

FuzzyZoeller

The saddest (and illegal) number plate I have seen was on a new Volvo XC 90 D5

It read: 05 - D5 - 90

Alun

Have to disagree with the comment about convertibles. You don't have to have temperatures in the high 20's to enjoy driving a rag-top, as long as it's not raining. In fact, even if it is raining as long as you maintain a steady speed above a certain limit, in many convertibles the rain just flies over the top of you in the airflow.

I had an MX-5 in a previous life, and the most pleasant time to drive it open was in the middle of winter, on one of those dry crisp frosty, sunny days you sometimes get. Heater on full blast, side windows up and a hat and scarf for when you have to stop at traffic lights, and it feels like a ton of cold air has suddenly descended into the cockpit

Ste.phen

i've seen a Mini with the registration 01-MN-1

PH01

Seen a Black BMW with the reg '9* SO 666' (not sure about the year).
And who was driving it but a priest!

On the "Top Ten Sad Bastards On Irish Roads", there are many more like...
The 'overtaking-lane' hoggers!
These fuc¿ers really think the own the place. They never move in and they make you pass them on the inside lane.

Lazy Speed Camera Cops
Go to the accident black spots of the country and setup speed checks there? Hell no. Too much like hard work. Let's go down to the motorway or dual-carriageway and get them there! Shooting fish in a barrel, or what?!!!

Unnecessary Traffic Lights
You know the ones and not those at busy junctions. Those which stop the traffic for no reason and are a hindrance to good traffic flow.

Cork City Drivers
Ever heard of lane discipline?! Or indicators?

Taxi Drivers
Sure I know the way! It's just the most expensive and the longest way around. And I stop where I like. And i won't use indicators.

Those Drivers who don't know the width of their own cars
Oh, oh, oh I'll never get my big wide car through the small gap! Ever get stuck behind these fµckers? You can clearly see that the gap is wide enough but these gob****es won't MOVE!!!

Cars with a Donegal Reg.
Have you ever seen a car with Donegal reg with the correct font and font size?

Those 60 kph (40 mph) drivers.
Your driving to Dublin and you're stuck in a line of 20 cars just because there's some gob****e at the from doing 60 kph when the speed limit is 100 kph. You end up having to take huge risks to pass out these bastards.

Drummer

FuzzyZoeller wrote:

The saddest (and illegal) number plate I have seen was on a new Volvo XC 90 D5

It read: 05 - D5 - 90

I dont get this one !

kdevitt

Top of my list would be the sort of driver who is bothered about the items in the top ten list above...

Drummer

Two things -

1. I think bull bars look well and dress the front of a vehicle. It isn't as though not having them makes the mown pedestrian more comfortable. Drive more carefully !

2. You can't blame the lil muppets dressing their cars up. It aint their fault the insurance industry force them to drive granny bangers. Although, a little tact when coming to your chosen design wouldn't go astray lads. Some are done very tastefully and some look crap.

Praetorian

I'd like to add that I frequently see British / Northern Irish cars breaking the speed limits and breaking other rules of the road. Alot of these people don't seem to give a fu*k about the laws down here. I don't think I've ever seen them being pulled over either.

DMC

PH01 wrote:

Cars with a Donegal Reg.
Have you ever seen a car with Donegal reg with the correct font and font size?

Never. All of them have a bold font. Why, I do not know. Surely the NCT should fail them all?

seamus

Drummer wrote:

I dont get this one !

Should be 05 - D - 590, but he rearranged the dashes. Illegal to do.

gs39t

As usual a load of sh**e written by someone who's jealous of BMW drivers (more expensive cars than his) and thinks he's better than people with Micra's (cheaper cars than his) :rolleyes:

Boggle

PH01 wrote:

Those 60 kph (40 mph) drivers.
Your driving to Dublin and you're stuck in a line of 20 cars just because there's some gob****e at the from doing 60 kph when the speed limit is 100 kph. You end up having to take huge risks to pass out these bastards.

Amen to that. There is a place in hell specially reserved for these c*nts!

Dades

Some of the later ones I agree with.
Otherwise this guy is just bitter.

WTF is wrong with convertables? Britain and Ireland are the biggest buyers of convertibles in Europe. Probably because when it is sunny you can make the most of it and not sit sweating in a car.

Bitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitter

Silvera

Don't agree with number 1 - cherished plates look good on a car and add some variety to Irish motoring.

Number 2 - well, so so.

The rest is dead on, boy racers in Micras, Corsas.....or any car look really sad, ditto re Transits with alloys, window stickers, etc

highdef

Originally Posted by FuzzyZoeller
The saddest (and illegal) number plate I have seen was on a new Volvo XC 90 D5

It read: 05 - D5 - 90

That's my uncle's brother's car - And yeah, I agree that it's a bit silly alright

Silvera

I saw a Saab 95 with this plate -

03-LK-03.

Not as silly as the Volvo plate, but still technically illegal.

Chaz

ntl Technical wrote:

That's my uncle's brother's car - And yeah, I agree that it's a bit silly alright

Um, wouldnt that still make him your (other) uncle?

Alfasudcrazy

I think Toyota drivers deserve a place of their own on those lists. Especially Yaris/Starlet and Corrolla driver with a generous contribution given by Carina/Avensis drivers.
Always going too slow totally oblivious to the three mile tailback behind them :mad:

AMurphy

Igy wrote:

i've seen a Mini with the registration 01-MN-1

I have seen one here, obviously a French owner as the front had a "F" and a std French plate with the text "MINI BABE", seen another "MINI MEE"

AMurphy

PH01 wrote:

Seen a Black BMW with the reg '9* SO 666' (not sure about the year).
And who was driving it but a priest!

On the "Top Ten Sad Bastards On Irish Roads", there are many more like...
The 'overtaking-lane' hoggers!
These fuc¿ers really think the own the place. They never move in and they make you pass them on the inside lane.
........

Standing ovation here please.

Please differenciate between dangerous/illegal-nonspec items and pure and simple killers as this reader has with pinpoint accuracy.

Plastic bull bars, ...... better than steel ones.

It's just the bit that sticks outside the line of the vehicle I have a safety problem with, otherwise they are a guarenteed killer, so one will rarely be faced with the option of "vegetating" in bed for 20 years.

Seth Brundle

Igy wrote:

i've seen a Mini with the registration 01-MN-1

You can pre book a registration for something €300 - but you have to wait until all numbers up to your chosen one have been registered before you can drive.
However, lets say you pre-book 06-D-1000000 then you could be waiting a few years!

Dades

Chaz wrote:

Um, wouldnt that still make him your (other) uncle?

Not if he was your "uncle" because he's married to one of your parents brothers or sisters... :rolleyes:

magpie

9. Minimalist "L" plates.
Often seen on 4. above. The little bollocks doesn't want to compromise his reputation as a serious petrolhead and let people know that he is just a learner. So he cuts the white border away from the red letter of his "L" plates and sticks them in the corners where they won't be seen.

Man I hate this. I also hate people who put the 'L' plates on back to front or upside down. FFS, anyone who cannot manage to put on an 'L' plate correctly should receive a mandatory lifelong driving ban as they are clearly too stupid to be allowed to be in charge of a vehicle.

I sometimes wish I could be a traffic cop for a day.

Interceptor

Stephen wrote:

Sawthis on Cloud's planetoftheblogs.com site this evening:

http://gerrysrants.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-ten-sad-bastards-on-irish-roads.html

Its all true.

Its not all true, Gerry O'Sullivan sounds like the sort of nob who drives a diesel Primera or a Hyundai Accent.

I used have a Renault 4 with bullbars I made from an old farm gate and a row of spotlights on the roof. As for personalised plates, if the cops don't bother about it, the rest of the population can get snotted.

'c

Interceptor

magpie wrote:

anyone who cannot manage to put on an 'L' plate correctly should receive a mandatory lifelong driving ban as they are clearly too stupid to be allowed to be in charge of a vehicle.

I second this - they rarely know or care how roundabouts work either.

prospect

I don't like alot of the points,
Bullbars can look nice, and they can look crap, depending on the vehicle and style of bar.
I can't stand the souped up prams that the 18 year olds drive, because of the manner in which they are driven.

But over all, how someone dresses up thier car is a matter of personal choice. If they like it let them off. Some guy who pays a premium for a particular reg plate, may think i'm mad for blowing the equivalent amount of money on a couple of nights drinking!

As long as the drive well, i don't care how their cars look, and i don't car what others think of mine, (91 MX-5 Soft Top).

LFCFan

PH01 wrote:

Those 60 kph (40 mph) drivers.
Your driving to Dublin and you're stuck in a line of 20 cars just because there's some gob****e at the from doing 60 kph when the speed limit is 100 kph. You end up having to take huge risks to pass out these bastards.

Here Here. Would be too bad if there were more dual carriageways/Climbing lanes around but as it stands, it is the biggest pain in the rear. What's nearly as bad though is the muppet behind the slow driver not overtaking when it's clear to do so.

Add to the list, drivers who flick cigerette butts out their window :mad:
What's the Ashtray for you stupid f*cking Pr*ck!!!

dealgan

DMC wrote:

Never. All of them have a bold font. Why, I do not know. Surely the NCT should fail them all?

Oi !
I happen to have 5 proper DL plates.
2 cars and a trailer .. all regulation font, size, & layout.

Gurgle

Drummer wrote:

1. I think bull bars look well and dress the front of a vehicle. It isn't as though not having them makes the mown pedestrian more comfortable.

There are precious few bulls wandering around on Dublin streets.
Lets be more accurate and call them 'pedestrian bars'.
... and not having them makes the mown pedestrian considerably more alive.

PH01

LFCFan wrote:

...What's nearly as bad though is the muppet behind the slow driver not overtaking when it's clear to do so.

Forgot about them. Ya they make the problem worse, and probably the cause of the problem in the first place.
Like most decent drivers can over-take at least one car at a time, but there are fewer who dare to over-take two cars at a time. And once you have two, it becomes three very soon, Then four, five, and so on. And pretty soon you get a moving road block.

PH01

dealgan wrote:

Oi !
I happen to have 5 proper DL plates.
2 cars and a trailer .. all regulation font, size, & layout.

Well what can we say? You're one of the nice ones.

Going home through the streets of Dublin last night, I did see a Donegal reg with the correct font, size and layout.
I couldn't be wrong could I? Still, one swallow does make a summer.

gline

I hate bus drivers that just pull out with no indiction, they are bas*tards for it, they always do it, they pull out without looking or caring, force you nearly into the other lane and blame you for it even though they dont indicate, errrrrrr

528i

I'd like to add to that list (in an effort to create more awareness and make the roads that bit safer for everyone)

12) People who overtake at +2mph above the legal limit and force you into a highly dangerous double overtaking maneuver, and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance at mach10..

11) People who floor it just as you're about to join the 'duel' carriageway.. and then have the cheek to flash you for undertaking them and disappearing into the distance at mach10..

13) People who pull out to overtake just as you're approaching mach10 while passing around 16cars in a line.. and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance..

14) People who take 30mph zones waaay too seriously, do they even realise its only a guideline?, and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance at mach10..
You know who you are, GET OFF THE ROAD you fecking numpties !!

prospect

I once got done for 32mph in a 30mph zone at 4am in the morning!!!!!! IR£60 i think it cost me...
some times i just wanna cry

528i

what if a baby had absconded and downed a 3l bottle of cider and was attempting to cross this road (to ring a taxi or get nappies or something), that 2mph could have been the difference between life & death, and is thus totally unacceptable, unless it were a bmw with superior brakes ? anything else im afraid is just a tad irresponsible and you'll get no sympathy here (unless it was a bmw of course)

prospect

528i wrote:

what if a baby had absconded and downed a 3l bottle of cider and was attempting to cross this road (to ring a taxi or get nappies or something), that 2mph could have been the difference between life & death, and is thus totally unacceptable, unless it were a bmw with superior brakes ? anything else im afraid is just a tad irresponsible and you'll get no sympathy here (unless it was a bmw of course)

It was a Renault Megane Van, the 1.7L straight diesel type.
I am soooo ashamed and do apologise.
Having said that, would my IR£60 do that baby any good?

528i

no but it will go some way towards eradicating the prison rape problem and help facilitate the much needed resources required to put dangerous nutcase's like you behind bars for a brief spell to help concentrate their minds and contemplate on their actions, before being released back into society minus the cavalier attitude as regards road safety.

PH01

528i wrote:

I'd like to add to that list (in an effort to create more awareness and make the roads that bit safer for everyone)

12) People who overtake at +2mph above the legal limit and force you into a highly dangerous double overtaking maneuver, and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance at mach10..

11) People who floor it just as you're about to join the 'duel' carriageway.. and then have the cheek to flash you for undertaking them and disappearing into the distance at mach10..

13) People who pull out to overtake just as you're approaching mach10 while passing around 16cars in a line.. and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance..

14) People who take 30mph zones waaay too seriously, do they even realise its only a guideline?, and then have the cheek to flash you as you disappear into the distance at mach10..
You know who you are, GET OFF THE ROAD you fecking numpties !!

Hear, hear.

15) Just anyone who has the cheek to flash you!

AMurphy

528i wrote:

.... that 2mph could have been the difference between life & death, and is thus totally unacceptable, unless it were a bmw with superior brakes ? ......QUOTE]

Hope you'r joking, otherwise, while your prior comments were pretty true to life, this one gets a 5-finger salute.

Seth Brundle

prospect wrote:

It was a Renault Megane Van, the 1.7L straight diesel type.
I am soooo ashamed and do apologise.
Having said that, would my IR£60 do that baby any good?

now I know you are lying - a megavan diesel would never get up to 32mph