I've Always Wanted to Tell You This

[RedCelt69]

Uhmm... my facts were straight. I erred in not being explicit about context (see above).

"Are you sure?"

"200%!"

[munchingfoo]

that doing 50 mph in a 60 mph zone isn't actually a crime and sitting right behind someone bitching about it actually makes me a little scared.

You will actually get pulled over by the traffic police (if they actually exist anymore) for driving too slowly in some situations, although you probably are correct that 50 in a 60 is quite reasonable.

[RedCelt69]

Strange. I'm not seeing Patience's original post. Unless it was deleted between being posted and replied to.

No. Doing 50mph in a 60mph isn't a crime. But it does show a lack of consideration to everyone stuck behind you. Which isn't an excuse to tailgate.

[Fawksie]

I can tolerate 50 on a 60 road, particularly some of the roads around here which have tight corners in quick succession. But driving at 40 in a car down a perfectly maintained, wide road, for no particular reason, is showing blatant disregard for the rapidly accumulating queue of people behind you who actually want to get to their destination within the next day. Go back and learn to drive again if you don't have the confidence to take corners without slowing to a crawl. These people also must save a bundle on brake pads, because you'll notice that they never touch them, because their speed never wavers from 40, which will get you round everything short of the bridge at Lundin Links.

[theshadowhost]

You will actually get pulled over by the traffic police (if they actually exist anymore) for driving too slowly in some situations, although you probably are correct that 50 in a 60 is quite reasonable.

yeah if you arent keeping up with traffic on your driving test you can fail for this. On the mean streets of milton keynes this means 70Mph through the town center

[Duggeh]

I drove from St Andrews to Cupar last night behind some twat who insisted on doing 35. At 10:30 on a quiet road (not quiet on the other side otherwise I'd have been able to overtake). They make my blood boil. I call them the 40 Club. They also have this neat feature whereby if they find themselves on a long straight they'll speed up to make passing them slightly more difficult. And it's frankly astounding how many people seem to think that the limit for a car on a dual carriageway is 60. I actually had to show the Highway Code to my father to prove it.

Oh the straight line speeders actually make me explode. I have to wipe my foaming angry spittle off the inside of the windscreen. You think the Guardbridge road is bad? Try the Largo Road, people who do 40, speeding up to 65 for each overtaking area, and don't drop below 40 in the villages one of which has a 20 zone. It pisses me off that automatic weapons are banned in this country. Two years ago I actually followed the car at the front of what become a more than 30 car tailback all the way to its destination. It was two old biddies in a Nissan Micra (we've all met those useless blind whimpering fools). They must have been scared shitless when this guy who had been following them miles got out of his car and knocked on the window. I told them I'd written down their numberplate and that if I was part of another 30 drivers who got stuck behind them for 12 miles while they did 1/3 of the speed limit I'd phone the police.

In retrospect it was a daft thing to do, especially if I'd given one of the blithering idiots a heart attack, but I don't think that before or since I've been that angry at someone's utter inability to drive. Retesting should be mandatory every (x) period for the over 70s.

[Anon.]

People who go slowly around the twisty bits and then speed up on the straight so you can't overtake are actually driving properly: suiting their speed to the road. That doesn't make it any less infuriating to be stuck behind them though

[orudge]

It is particularly annoying on the A91 out of St Andrews though, since that road - even on the corners - is a pretty decent road. Slowing down to 45 or 50 for the bends, perhaps, seems reasonable. Slowing down to 30 is pushing it a bit. I have to say, it's much nicer to drive along these roads at night, when there are few other people at the road - sometimes, you can even get up to the speed limit!

What gets me about the "40mph club" is the fact that they will trundle through the countryside at 40, and then they'll just keep on going through towns and villages at the same speed, despite the fact the speed limit is somewhat lower. While I'm not generally a fan of automated speed enforcement (I'd rather they had a few more traffic police out to catch the real criminals on the road, rather than those doing 32mph in a 30), I'd almost like for a few cameras to appear just to catch these infuriating drivers.

[Fawksie]

Heh, your biddy-scaring amused me Duggeh. I know all about the A915 and 916, driving both of them regularly, depending on which side of town I'm on when I need to leave. I'm also well-versed in their peripheral roads, having driven most of them on at least one occasion after becoming frustrated with following a 40 Clubber, giving up in disgust and moving across to the other road to escape them...

[LonelyPilgrim]

I detest drivers who overtake you and then slow down, forcing you to overtake them, and everyone just ends up back where they started. I particularly hate it when this process keeps repeating itself, as it is wont to do on the ... I guess you'd call them dual carriageways, around here.

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

People who walk on treadmill at the gym during peak times. Ok, this is fine if you're walking in preparation for a run on the freaking thing, but seriously!

Another gym one - people who unnecessarily grunt and/or make bestial noises during exercises clearly to emphasise how macho/pushing themselves-to-the-limit-hardcore etc etc they are. Just shut up! Nobody gives a damn about your workout - we're all in our own little worlds of pain and don't need to be distracted by your vocal cords.

[munchingfoo]

YOu know, the grunting noises could actually just be because they are lifting a weight heavy enough to force the tension of the muscles around lungs and to expel the air within them. I don't think it's anything that can be helped to be honest...

[Josherick3]

People who write (you can sometimes hear them say it, too) "Could of" or "should of" instead of "could've" or "should've".

Also, people who write "loose" when they mean "lose".

[Guest]

People who use the phrase "whoop whoop", my word that expression is grating

[LonelyPilgrim]

Also, people who write "loose" when they mean "lose".

Or, indeed, people who write "lose" when they mean "loose."

[Senethro]

People who use the phrase "whoop whoop", my word that expression is grating

Drunk white girls dancing everywhere?

[pete-the-meat]

People who walk on treadmill at the gym during peak times. Ok, this is fine if you're walking in preparation for a run on the freaking thing, but seriously!

Another gym one - people who unnecessarily grunt and/or make bestial noises during exercises clearly to emphasise how macho/pushing themselves-to-the-limit-hardcore etc etc they are. Just shut up! Nobody gives a damn about your workout - we're all in our own little worlds of pain and don't need to be distracted by your vocal cords.

Anyone who thinks that going to the gym to work out is a valid past-time. The earth is immense and even though two thirds of it are covered in water, and our island is a relatively small one, that still leaves a huge amount of ground upon which you are perfectly capable of running - why bother standing on a little conveyor belt looking at the same piece of wall for hours? Is it that you're too much of a wimp to go out when it's cold and rainy (ever heard of thermal underwear?) or is it that you're just too cool to be seen on the same piece of ground as the rest of us poor miserable sods? If you want to lift some weights then get a weekend job as a delivery man or something - going to the gym accomplishes nothing other than making you look like a complete arsehole.

[theshadowhost]

Drunk white girls dancing everywhere?

I've only every really noticed people doing it in the bop. I do think though that people have started doing it cause they thinks its cool or something. I always thought that it was actually a piss take out a of cheesy dance tracks.

[Duggeh]

People who walk on treadmill at the gym during peak times. Ok, this is fine if you're walking in preparation for a run on the freaking thing, but seriously!

Another gym one - people who unnecessarily grunt and/or make bestial noises during exercises clearly to emphasise how macho/pushing themselves-to-the-limit-hardcore etc etc they are. Just shut up! Nobody gives a damn about your workout - we're all in our own little worlds of pain and don't need to be distracted by your vocal cords.

Anyone who thinks that going to the gym to work out is a valid past-time. The earth is immense and even though two thirds of it are covered in water, and our island is a relatively small one, that still leaves a huge amount of ground upon which you are perfectly capable of running - why bother standing on a little conveyor belt looking at the same piece of wall for hours? Is it that you're too much of a wimp to go out when it's cold and rainy (ever heard of thermal underwear?) or is it that you're just too cool to be seen on the same piece of ground as the rest of us poor miserable sods? If you want to lift some weights then get a weekend job as a delivery man or something - going to the gym accomplishes nothing other than making you look like a complete arsehole.

I go to the gym because the idea of my podgy unfit arse doing exercise out in public is about 35x worse than doing it in a room at least part full of other unfit podgy bastards. Besides if I'm on the bike in the gym then I get to choose where the hills are.

[jm231]

If you want to lift some weights then get a weekend job as a delivery man or something - going to the gym accomplishes nothing other than making you look like a complete arsehole.

This sentence is so flawed I hope it's said tongue-in-cheek!