Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

worst Drivers

13»

Comments

  • #62
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,581 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    redzerdrog wrote:
    All women and old men:p

    You'll eventually be one of them, an old man most likely


  • #63
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    mathew wrote:
    Or wrapped around someone else... most likely killing them....

    Personaly People who stop in yellow boxes annoy me.. The boxes are there for a reason.

    And people who use mobile phones. Nearly been hit by them twice, and seen many of them almost break red lights, stoping in yellow boxes or not seeing cyclists/pedestrians.

    To add a bit of humour:
    Yellow boxes?

    I await a post from a Celbridge resident on these yellow boxes.

    Worst.Junction.Ever.


  • #64
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Eastern Europeans by a mile, they should be made take the test as soon as they arrive. Two examples within an hour of each other

    Car with Polish/Latvian reg turns up wrong way of dual carriageway in lane for cars to turn right, luckily nobody in that lane

    Another car parked right across a junction from small road onto major road so the driver could look for his fags or whatever it was he was rootoing for and blocking the road


  • #65
    Schlemm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Schlemm


    At the SuperValu in the Rise in Mount Merrion one day..............it gets pretty jammers up there and there's parking spaces on either side of a central lane which you drive down. This aul fart in a Merc (would you expect anything less..) is driving down the central lane. There aren't any spaces in the immediate vicinity and he wants to go to the newsagents which is just on his left.

    So he stops his car in the middle of the lane, gets out and goes into the shop. Now I should mention that there's a massive queue of traffic behind him who can't pass his car on either side, and he's blocking a bunch of parking spaces.

    However, the day was saved by an aul Granny, who's trying to back out of a space near the aul fart's car. The 'sit low, drive slow' technique paid off as she ploughed into yer man's Merc just as he was coming out of the shop! He was waving at all the enraged drivers behind his Merc to apologise and his face fell about a foot when he saw yer one!

    Also, SUV's in the city. Pure selfishness if you ask me.

    People in the fast lane going slowly and tailgaiting...annoying and dangerous!

    Seeing kids on bikes trying to go to school in the morning traffic or on foot,while all the farts going off to work are nearly killing them by driving too close and ploughing through red lights.:mad: :mad: :mad: This has to be the worst...if it was your kid on the road you'd drive a hell of a lot better I tell ya. The irony of it is that all the blonde Mammies in their SUV's are driving them for 'their own safety'...but if they mowed down someone else's kid on a bike or on foot they'd be a gonner. It'd be bad enough to be hit by a car, but being hit by an SUV would prob be a lot worse, esp. for head injuries.


  • #66
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Women with kids: "I can multitask!"
    Mercedes drivers: "Taxi!"
    BMW drivers: "With brakes this good, 160kph in a residential area is perfectly safe"
    Audi drivers: "I can afford the insurance claims"
    Punto drivers: "It's my first time!"
    Micra drivers: why, oh dear god, why
    Teenage drivers: "deadly buzz"
    Middle age drivers: "I own the road"
    Old drivers: the cap on the head is a metaphor for a cap on their speed. If the car goes over 50kph, the brakes will activate.
    Irish drivers: "I got my license in an amnesty"
    Eastern European drivers: "They all drive on the wrong side of the road over here"
    Nigerian drivers: "Where am I? What the hell is this thing?"
    Northern Irish drivers: "Get the points, 'cause we sure aren't getting any".
    People with mobiles: "I need it for my all important successful job that doesn't pay me enough to afford Bluetooth".

    Did I get everyone? :)


  • Advertisement
  • #67
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,635 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Every day I look out from our apartment and count the dozens of cars who drive the wrong way up the one way street outside. The only thing worse are the ones who do it and fail to stop at the junction at the top of it. I'm shocked that in 7 months of living here that I haven't seen a single accident there.

    It's true lunacy and extremely dangerous.


    Oh, and the other thing is funerals. Yes funeral parlours are not know for providing much parking but would it kill you to park a minutes walk away instead of illegally parking and blocking vision at a junction/double parking and walking away/parking across an entrance blocking it completely? I swear you could make a fortune as a clamper close to some of the funeral parlours near here.


  • #68
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Stark wrote:
    Women with kids: "I can multitask!"
    etc...
    Did I get everyone? :)

    Damn right Stark, great post.

    :)


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    nesf wrote:
    Every day I look out from our apartment and count the dozens of cars who drive the wrong way up the one way street outside. The only thing worse are the ones who do it and fail to stop at the junction at the top of it. I'm shocked that in 7 months of living here that I haven't seen a single accident there.

    It's true lunacy and extremely dangerous.
    .

    probably something to do with this


  • #70
    Lorax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lorax


    [Edit] Jus like those ppl in SUV's ays are talking about, my dad drives 1 for work and I think most pl who drive them are for work, yea u see the odd woman with 1 but the majority are work vehicles, why would u fork over €1,000/year in tax, petrol, etc


  • #71
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,635 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Deleted User wrote:
    probably something to do with this

    No it used to be badly marked but the council recently (well 2 months ago) remarked it. There is now the standard solid line followed by a broken line across the road on the quay end and arrows painted the length of it indicating the flow of traffic. It has had little effect.


  • Advertisement
  • #72
    Schlemm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Schlemm


    Lorax wrote:
    [Edit] Jus like those ppl in SUV's ays are talking about, my dad drives 1 for work and I think most pl who drive them are for work, yea u see the odd woman with 1 but the majority are work vehicles, why would u fork over €1,000/year in tax, petrol, etc
    Cos the nouveaux riche have too much money for their own good. Simple as that. The amount of them clogging up the roads in Dublin is unbelievable!


  • #73
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Schlemm wrote:
    Cos the nouveaux riche have too much money for their own good. Simple as that. The amount of them clogging up the roads in Dublin is unbelievable!


    Ah now come on!.

    Although I don't see the sense in buying one unless its for work. I drive 'em for work too, I'm in the Defence forces so we'd use them alot.

    But other than that, they're slow, heavy on juice, expensive on parts, labour and tyres and most are not particularly comfortable!.


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If you're not a farmer or a big game hunter then you must be a tasteless ignoramus to drive an SUV/Pigmobile.


  • #75
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    beanyb wrote:
    I think the criticising of learner drivers is a bit unfair. Everyone had to learn at some point. People forget that they were just as useless when they started to drive! And the L plates are there to warn you of the poor driving, so it's not like it should be a shock!
    In other countries Learners never drive unaccompanied and can pass the with less than 40 hours on the road. They don't clog up the road.

    If a learner is in a Driving instructors car, or if there are two people in the car and it looks like some instruction going on then they get the benefit of the doubt even if means I'm driving at 20mph for a junction or two.
    Drives on their own and L plates are proclaiming to the world they consider themselves able to drive. And I have no special consideration for them.
    People who dont indicate on roundabouts drive me insane. Very nearly had a crash on a roundabout yesterday because of some idiot not indicating. Not fun.
    I loose a minute a day because I've to slow down/wait until I see which way someone turns - I don't believe indicators.
    SUV does it. I drive a small car, so when they're behind me their lights are always directly in line with my rearview mirror and totally blind me.
    Would mirrors work ? must look into something for people who don't dip their lights either.

    Taxi's using hazards
    Has anyone mentioned "white van man" yet ?


  • #76
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    must look into something for people who don't dip their lights either.

    There's also people who don't seem to understand fog lights :mad:. They're for use in heavy fog... nothing else. They're nearly as blinding as full beam headlights.
    And the people who have them on also tend to be poorish drivers. If you dont know when to use fog lights you shouldn't get a car with them in the first place.


  • #77
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Mairt wrote:
    Ah now come on!.

    Although I don't see the sense in buying one unless its for work. I drive 'em for work too, I'm in the Defence forces so we'd use them alot.

    You're obviously not living anywhere near a school...I have four schools in my neighbourhood - and believe me, those mummies do NOT use their SUVs for work. They just 'need' it to ferry their fat lazy kids to and from school, so that the little ones are safe. Until they get mowed down by another idiot mummy in an SUV...


Advertisement
Advertisement