Which road user do you dislike the most ?

[Disaster]

Where's the "boy racer" option? Or the "timid 17-year old girl in a Micra" option?

 

[Griff]

Where's the "boy racer" option? Or the "timid 17-year old girl in a Micra" option?

Or the elderly Sunday driver in a Daewoo?

 

[sim667]

Where's the "boy racer" option?

You startin'?

 

[Disaster]

Or the elderly Sunday driver in a Daewoo?

*seethes*

 

[caizaab]

Black Cab drivers. As bad as normal car drivers are, cab drivers are (with only one or two exceptions) far worse.

I agree with this*. When cab drivers get their special licence, does it say on it that they don't need to indicate ever again?

* Not all cab drivers, but the vast majority.

 

[gentlegreen]

As it happens, last night I was on a bit of a roll and had fun with two boy racers who pointlessly overtook me at speed and promptly got stuck at the back of some traffic.

As I overtook the queue, I pulled up alongside each car in turn on my weird bicycle, while they revved their engines ineffectually .. it was all in good spirits for once.

I really need to get myself a brown mac and 1930s glasses like my ancient neighbour used to wear.

 

[Gromit]

No option for old people crawling along in really swish expensive cars.

Its bad enough that they are too old to drive at the correct speed but to drive a 2L Merc at a crawl seems to compound it for me.

If they are going to drive so slow why not get a 1L car instead of wasting such a fine and expensive machine.

 

[doddles]

Yeah - SUV drivers in towns/cities.
Middle lane drivers of course.
People who are slow off the mark at traffic lights.
Drivers turning a corner who don't give way to pedestrians crossing the road.

But above all else...

BMW drivers.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

People who drive dangerously slowly and impede traffic flow are almost as much of a danger in my book ...

Indeed, almost as dangerous, but nowhere near as dangerous.

 

[bi0boy]

I forgot VW Toureg drivers, with bonus points for sprogs in the back.

 

[gentlegreen]

People who are slow off the mark at traffic lights..

FFS.

 

[Velouria]

You might but when you're the sixth car back on a steep hill and the lights are only green for about 15 seconds and you're stuck there and they change and some slow bastard sits there and takes 4-5 seconds to get the car in gear and suddenly your blood is boiling and you're thinking GET MOVING YOU DODDERING CUNT!!! and then they take an age to accelerate away slowly and next thing you know the lights are turning amber and then it's FUUUUUUUCKING CUUUNT AAARGH YOU SLOW CUNT!!! and then that's another two minutes on your journey because people are SO FUCKING SLOOWWW!! ... you do get somewhat annoyed

Whereas if I am at the front then I'm off within a second or two of the lights changing. I even know what to watch for in the traffic pattern to know when it's about to go green and get the car in gear in advance. Why are some thick cunts incapable of such common sense?

 

[cybertect]

Other/all of the above.

Behaviour, not mode of transport is my peeve. I'd have voted for twats on phones.

 

[gentlegreen]

This evening had my closest incident ever with a private van driver where he actually touched my leg with his bumper trying to get past - pointlessly of course I exaggeratedly let him through and I managed to give him the evil eye on the way past .. first time I've waited in front of traffic lights where there isn't an advance box - but I felt righteous and there was a largeish SUV there already with loud music playing.

 

[gentlegreen]

Other/all of the above.

Behaviour, not mode of transport is my peeve. I'd have voted for twats on phones.

This evening on the way home (shortly after some twat tried to kill me) I managed to catch some woman's eye as she was doing it while waiting to pull out of a side road - as i went past I did a little mime of a silly bitch yapping on a phone.

 

[smmudge]

Oi! Excuse me! I really resent being classed in the same category as SUV drivers!

My car (Saab 93 1.8t convertible) is technically classed as a sports car for insurance purposes, apparently they decided this on the basis that it has two doors, as opposed to four.

SUV/sports car driver is a state of mind, not an insurance purpose. No worries eh

I'm going to have to go with moped drivers. Especially those that have their L etched onto their scooter as they know they will never bother taking any test. They seem to see everyone on the road as an inanimate object so don't consider how it would bother you if they get too close as they undertake you, overtake you, drive in the cycle lane, hit your back wheel with impatience when you are waiting for space at a junction

I'm a cyclist btw.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

You might but when you're the sixth car back on a steep hill and the lights are only green for about 15 seconds and you're stuck there and they change and some slow bastard sits there and takes 4-5 seconds to get the car in gear and suddenly your blood is boiling and you're thinking GET MOVING YOU DODDERING CUNT!!! and then they take an age to accelerate away slowly and next thing you know the lights are turning amber and then it's FUUUUUUUCKING CUUUNT AAARGH YOU SLOW CUNT!!! and then that's another two minutes on your journey because people are SO FUCKING SLOOWWW!! ... you do get somewhat annoyed

Whereas if I am at the front then I'm off within a second or two of the lights changing. I even know what to watch for in the traffic pattern to know when it's about to go green and get the car in gear in advance. Why are some thick cunts incapable of such common sense?

COOOOOOL down Velouria. Join the slow drivers club. It's much better for your health and you arrive with a happy smile on your face.

The smoking of cannabis should be mandatory before getting behind the wheel.

 

[subversplat]

It's all about knowing when to get moving and when to chill.

When cruising with my homies around Downtown LA I'm all

... with a bit of Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre on the valve amp, but if some jumped up no good wise guy wants to give it some then I'm all

... 'n shit.

cars are used for illustration purposes and may or may not be accurate

 

[amlu]

small car with a dark skinned lady just coming from a hairdresser. equipped with very long 40£ fake nail job. she is constantly hitting the wheel with them. saturday afternoon in east london. when lights turns green she pushes accelerator only when car in front of her goes at least 20 meters away.

edited:
plus a chavvy young not-so-gentleman with fag in one hand, his mobile in another, cycling on the pavement.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

As a pedestrian I hate them all, but people who drive SUV's just need shooting.

 

[Bakunin]

As a pedestrian I hate them all, but people who drive SUV's just need shooting.

Only those who drive urban SUV's, matey.

My dad, for example, is a tree surgeon who does most of his work on Dartmoor. So he needs a Land Rover, not only for jobs where he ends up out in a field somewhere but also one that has enough power to tow a large trailer with all his tools/minidigger/woodchipper/surplus wood and branches he clears up after every job and so on.

Most rural folk with four by four's have them because they have a reason (farmers, vets, those sort of people) and so rural four by four drivers tend to be a totally different breed from the muppets who drive 'Chelsea Tractors' whom my dad just mercilessly takes the piss out of at every opportunity.

Rural four by four drivers tend, in my experience, to drive vehicles that, shockingly enough to the 'Chelsea Tractor' mob, have actually been off-road. And usually look as though they see a fair amount of mud, low tree branches, puddles and all the things that four by fours are actually designed to deal with. Whereas the dreaded 'Chelsea Tractor' brigade usually drive their vehicles in pristine showroom condition, vehicles that have obviously never been further off-road than either being parked in a driveway somewhere or, if their owners are feeling particularly adventurous, might once or twice have actually been driven down the occasional country lane.

I'm fine with folk having a four by four if, like my dad, they actually have a proper need of one. But the 'Chelsea Tractor' brigade get right on my tits.

And anyone driving a four by four with bull bars on it (it seems to be a particularly popular optional extra with the 'Chelsea Tractor' mob, I've noticed) is an imbecile and a disastrous accident just waiting to happen.

 

[gentlegreen]

You might but when you're the sixth car back on a steep hill and the lights are only green for about 15 seconds and you're stuck there and they change and some slow bastard sits there and takes 4-5 seconds to get the car in gear

So it's actually hill starts and use of handbrakes. One of my own bugbears - having taught myself to drive one evening in 1984 I quickly got the hang of it - though, coming from a motorcycling background I forgot the handbrake when parking a few times . Pretty well all the incompetent idiots out there sitting on the clutch and throttle on hills, or drifting slowly into cycle advance boxes or up the backs of lorries at traffic lights actually had lessons - quite likely by the dozen.
I saw a police car do it right in front of me a couple of months back.

 

[haZe36]

Minicab drivers.

+1

And coach drivers. As a cyclist they're always too fast & far too close