Pet Hates

DrIndy · 06-05-2009 09:19PM #1

I'm starting a thread on your pet hates and why. We have them all and see the end results of people who do things to themselves and others.

Mine for the day is Speeders.

The carnage on our roads is unbelievable - we have speed limits for a good reason, not as a general guideline that going 20km/h above it is ok.

Statistically, your death and serious injury rate rapidly rises as speed goes up by even 10km/h compared to normal speed.

I unsuccessfully resuscitated a motorcyclist by roadside whilst out driving and it was harrowing.

pingu2008 · 06-05-2009 09:48PM

Rubberneckers seriously folks keep your eyes on the road

06-05-2009 10:29PM

cars full of rubbish and dirty.....grr

then again i'm a clean freak

TheNog · 07-05-2009 01:06AM

Fog lights are my pet hate.
Seriously they blind the road users coming towards you.
I feckin hate them.
I also hate that when I point out the fact you have your foglights on, people say "Oh I didnt realise", cue me saying "Well see that green light on your dash? That indicates your foglights are on. HOw can you miss that green light."

or worse still is

"No guard they are not foglights, they are spot lights"

"im sorry but under the RTA Acts they are foglights and still cause a certain amount of blindness to drivers coming towards you"

For Gods sake dont confuse a marketing gimmick such as spotlights for foglights!!!
On most cars they are the same thing and therefore should only be used during heavy fog or heavy snowfall

I hate foglights

rex-x · 07-05-2009 02:17AM

following on from a recent thread on another forum i must say that doing 25000 miles a year and driving for a number of years I have never ever been blinded or otherwise distracted by fog lights, and i can see no problem with them! certain new cars i.e. mercs turn on one fog light while turning right or left (see topgear episode minicabbing)

Overheal · 07-05-2009 05:52AM

TheNog wrote: »

Fog lights are my pet hate.
Seriously they blind the road users coming towards you.
I feckin hate them.
I also hate that when I point out the fact you have your foglights on, people say "Oh I didnt realise", cue me saying "Well see that green light on your dash? That indicates your foglights are on. HOw can you miss that green light."

or worse still is

"No guard they are not foglights, they are spot lights"

"im sorry but under the RTA Acts they are foglights and still cause a certain amount of blindness to drivers coming towards you"

For Gods sake dont confuse a marketing gimmick such as spotlights for foglights!!!
On most cars they are the same thing and therefore should only be used during heavy fog or heavy snowfall

I hate foglights

Theyre called Hi-Beams

/runs back to America

The guy ready to turn that doesnt - even though he has the right on red.

Broken Lights - you have no way on the road to really tell someone their light is busted, and they could be driving like that for weeks or months before they realize it.

I want desperately to talk smack to the driver behind me - I'm saving up for a keyboard, some duct tape, and this

The guy in the turning lane that leaves a huge gap between him and the lead car; usually resulting in half the queue having to sit through the next light cycle.

Cell Phone Talkers! :mad:

Its hard to think of any that arent road related.

jaffa20 · 07-05-2009 06:40AM

I hate when someone's break lights are not working. Of course, you are meant to look beyond the car and anticipate what is going to happen. I saw a guarda car with one breaklight not working in bray the other day. Now that did shock me.

lods · 07-05-2009 06:43AM

DrIndy wrote: »

I'm starting a thread on your pet hates and why. We have them all and see the end results of people who do things to themselves and others.

Mine for the day is Speeders.

The carnage on our roads is unbelievable - we have speed limits for a good reason, not as a general guideline that going 20km/h above it is ok.

Statistically, your death and serious injury rate rapidly rises as speed goes up by even 10km/h compared to normal speed.

I unsuccessfully resuscitated a motorcyclist by roadside whilst out driving and it was harrowing.

Add tail gateing while speeding.:mad:

TheNog · 07-05-2009 08:54AM

rex-x wrote: »

following on from a recent thread on another forum i must say that doing 25000 miles a year and driving for a number of years I have never ever been blinded or otherwise distracted by fog lights, and i can see no problem with them! certain new cars i.e. mercs turn on one fog light while turning right or left (see topgear episode minicabbing)

For me while driving for the last 16yrs and doing 50,000 miles a year for the past 9yrs I find Nissan Micra foglights to be the worst. Especially when the drver side foglight is misaligned and so directed across oncoming traffic.

Overheal wrote: »

Theyre called Hi-Beams

/runs back to America

OH you run boy

Im not referring to Hi-Beams but yes they are bad too.

Beruthiel · 07-05-2009 09:03AM

Overheal wrote: »

I want desperately to talk smack to the driver behind me - I'm saving up for a keyboard, some duct tape, and this

I have wanted one of those for a long time now!

"You are tailgating me"

"It is illegal to drive and talk on your phone"

"I left that space in front of me for safety sake"

"That lever on the side of your wheel is called an indicator, USE IT!"

"Put your makeup on before you leave the house!"

timmywex · 07-05-2009 11:43AM

Personally, truckers/taxi dirvers or anyone else who drives for a living using their phone while driving.

If your job involves being out driving everyday surely you should get a handsfree kit/bluetooth!

Trojan911 · 07-05-2009 12:08PM

Getting home from the shops & discovering the ice cream has melted is one, but speeders & drink drivers would top my list, always have, and still remain at the top...

07-05-2009 03:22PM

People using fog lights.
People using fog lights instead of their headlights.
People with only one headlight working.
People with only one fog light working.
People with one headlight and one fog light working. (usually on opposite sides)
People on mobile phones. (If i can walk up to you wearing my hi-viz and you don't see me what chance does a child or cyclist have?)
People driving in the overtaking lane of a dual carrige way or motorway. (if you are driving as slow as the car in the normal driving lane or there is no car in that lane that get out of my way.)
People not indicating. (I'm not pyschic)
People stopping five feet away from me at a checkpoint.
Drivers who forget how to drive when they see a Garda car.

Did I miss anything?;)

deadwood · 07-05-2009 04:27PM

My pet hates when other dogs sniff his bum.

My pet's a goldfish.

Celticfire · 07-05-2009 04:28PM

Is this the Motors or Emergency Services forum

07-05-2009 04:42PM

Celticfire wrote: »

Is this the Motors or Emergency Services forum

Considering we can issues fines for most of the "hates" so far what do you think? Especially for Deadwoods example!:D

ART6 · 07-05-2009 05:16PM

lods wrote: »

Add tail gateing while speeding.:mad:

A-bloody-men! I sincerely wish that the Gardai would do one of their clamp downs on tailgaters and take the damned fools off the roads. For some reason most of them seem to be female, driving with one hand on the top dead centre of the steering wheel, and oblivious to anything around them. Please, Traffic Corps, start pulling them up???

07-05-2009 05:20PM

ART6 wrote: »

A-bloody-men! I sincerely wish that the Gardai would do one of their clamp downs on tailgaters and take the damned fools off the roads. For some reason most of them seem to be female, driving with one hand on the top dead centre of the steering wheel, and oblivious to anything around them. Please, Traffic Corps, start pulling them up???

Both sexes are responsible for this one. Problem for the Gardai is that people tend not to do it when you are around. Only way of catching people who do it is by being around in unmarked cars.

Personally, if somebody is tailgating me I just ease off of the accelerator, don't brake, just slow them down. Most of the time they take the hint. If not and it is safe to do so I will move over to let them past me. Let them kill themselves. I want to go home at the end of my journey.

Oh, if you can get the offending cars details and feel so strongly about it report it to TrafficWatch and follow it through to court.

Hagar · 07-05-2009 06:17PM

TheNog wrote: »

Fog lights are my pet hate.
Seriously they blind the road users coming towards you.
I feckin hate them.
I also hate that when I point out the fact you have your foglights on, people say "Oh I didnt realise", cue me saying "Well see that green light on your dash? That indicates your foglights are on. HOw can you miss that green light."

or worse still is

"No guard they are not foglights, they are spot lights"

"im sorry but under the RTA Acts they are foglights and still cause a certain amount of blindness to drivers coming towards you"

For Gods sake dont confuse a marketing gimmick such as spotlights for foglights!!!
On most cars they are the same thing and therefore should only be used during heavy fog or heavy snowfall

I hate foglights

I don't get the hatred of fog-lights, unless it's jealousy because your rust-bucket doesn't have them. They are aligned downwards to illuminate the road, in particular the nearside curb, for a very short distance in front of the car as they are designed for relatively low-speed driving in poor visibility. If properly aligned like as headlights should be they should be dipped below your dipped headlights therefore less blinding than dipped headlights. What's the big deal?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 07-05-2009 06:46PM

Ok mine here - relating to AGS...

Why on earth do guards not polish their boots or press their uniforms?.

Seriously, it bugs the life out of me.

Other than that, spitting!.. I detest it.

And lads peeing on the street.

.

07-05-2009 06:50PM

Skye Powerful Cookbook wrote: »

Ok mine here - relating to AGS...

Why on earth do guards not polish their boots or press their uniforms?.

Seriously, it bugs the life out of me.

I polished my boots before work the other night and the first call that I went to I had to climb a wall ruining the polish. :mad:

I do agree re the presentation though. It doesn't take much effort to run an iron over the shirt and trousers.

ivabiggon · 07-05-2009 07:22PM

when people ring 999 and call me out in my ambulance at 4 i the morning to a pain they've had for a month....
or
call me when the hospital discharges them and they get a little pain and after travelling home in the taxi ring an ambulance...
oh then their partner travels behind the ambulance breaking red light etc with flashing hazards after i've told them not to follow the ambulance
gRRRRRRRRRRR????

jake59 · 07-05-2009 07:25PM

foreign wrote: »

I polished my boots before work the other night and the first call that I went to I had to climb a wall ruining the polish. :mad:

I do agree re the presentation though. It doesn't take much effort to run an iron over the shirt and trousers.

A few pet hates.. people not indicating, people indicating to pull in when i'm on blue lights/sirens coming up behind them and yet they keep on driving closing the gap between themselves and any oncoming traffic or central roadsign/island etc., (pull in and stop, let me pass you on the way to the emergency and then when its safe to do so carry on with your journey... k?), mules thinking its part of the uniform to wear your tie hanging over your vest with your top button open once its gone past 2am in the morning... it looks **** lads........:cool:

eroo · 07-05-2009 07:26PM

My pet hates..

The standard of driving in this country.

Gardai who don't use indicators and drive fast when they are definitely not on call. They should be setting an example for other road users both on and off duty.

But one of my biggest pet hates is people's refusal to cross a busy street at allocated points i.e. traffic lights. Or even worse.. crossing at traffic lights without waiting for the 'green man' signal.

donvito99 · 07-05-2009 07:42PM

Pedestrians who deliberately walk slowly until the traffic lights show red for peds and green for cars, and then cross the road, frowning upon drivers who beep at them.

Myggel · 07-05-2009 07:43PM

In the gym last night, girl about 18 pulled something in her leg. Mum was called and she called an ambulance.

The girl was put on a stretcher and taken away to the hospital.

I thought ambulances were for emergencies??

I heard a mate of mine bitching about ambulances being used as taxis but I thought he was exaggerating until I saw it with my own eyes.

The mother had a f**king car outside!!!

Is this as common as I'm lad to believe?

DrIndy · 07-05-2009 09:00PM

yes it is - its the big white taxi that takes you to the city centre area.

They did a pilot in cork where an emergency doctor was in the back of one of the units - cut the carry load to ED in half and in addition sorted out 2 really sick people immediately.

daithip · 07-05-2009 09:11PM

Biggest pet hate, temporary traffic lights at roadworks, actually not the lights, the people who disobey them and you end up sitting the far side of the lights while car after car follows the last one through the red until eventually your light has gone from green to red again:mad::mad::mad::mad:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 07-05-2009 10:21PM

Myggel wrote: »

In the gym last night, girl about 18 pulled something in her leg. Mum was called and she called an ambulance.

The girl was put on a stretcher and taken away to the hospital.

I thought ambulances were for emergencies??

I heard a mate of mine bitching about ambulances being used as taxis but I thought he was exaggerating until I saw it with my own eyes.

The mother had a f**king car outside!!!

Is this as common as I'm lad to believe?

You don't say what happened to the girl, and so I'd have to assume it might have been too serious for her mum to take her in the car.

A few years ago I tore a hamstring while kickboxing, I had to get an ambulance to the gym!.

I spent six weeks on crutches!.

Esel · 08-05-2009 12:30AM

Blame Deadwood for this post.

(Drug) dogs who sniff my package then sit beside me like they know me. Wtf like?

(Drug) mules who have the same type case as mine, and take it off the carousel because they got cold feet. The Customs guys who never believe this story.

Female Gardaí who refuse point-blank to give me their number, even though they're really hot, and I tell them this repeatedly.

Seriously though, I did think I was in Motors there for a while!

seanybiker · 08-05-2009 12:35AM

foreign wrote: »

People using fog lights.
People using fog lights instead of their headlights.
People with only one headlight working.
People with only one fog light working.
People with one headlight and one fog light working. (usually on opposite sides)
People on mobile phones. (If i can walk up to you wearing my hi-viz and you don't see me what chance does a child or cyclist have?)
People driving in the overtaking lane of a dual carrige way or motorway. (if you are driving as slow as the car in the normal driving lane or there is no car in that lane that get out of my way.)
People not indicating. (I'm not pyschic)
People stopping five feet away from me at a checkpoint.
Drivers who forget how to drive when they see a Garda car.

Did I miss anything?;)

Hate all them apart from the walking upto me at a checkpoint cos Im not a cop. I be laughing at people stopping before they get tot he guard though. whats the point

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