I will freely admit
to a bit of compulsive tidying periodically, or being tourette's-twitchingly particular about some things (use a fucking coaster!) but I would say by far the most aberrant thing I do is when driving.

I passed my test nearly 8 years ago and have seemingly never encountered anyone else who can even see them, let alone abide by them. It's these funny numbers in a red circle by the side of the road. You see them every mile or so generally - or at least, I do, but then I'm becoming increasingly convinced I'm hallucinating the little fuckers. Freakish behaviour, I know, but I always thought that they denote the legal speed limit. Weird, eh?
(berk, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 13:30, 15 replies)

So you're that prick
that seems to be always at the front of the traffic jam.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:18, closed)

I'm the prick
if 'prick' I can be called, who can't see the point in risking my life and my license by breaking the speed limit and thus the law.
I presume you are one of the cunts who seem to be permanently up my trumpet swearing and gesticulating like a pissed up hobo?
(berk, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:25, closed)

That'll be me
trying to get to fucking work before I get sacked.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 0:12, closed)

Here's a newsflash for you
try leaving the house earlier.
(berk, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:12, closed)

Generally
I do not gesticulate, I just try and get around and on my way. It doesn't make much sense to me to hang around and converse in sign language when you've just overtaken someone. The whole concept, I think, is to get where you want to go go with as little as possible fuss, and causing as little as possible disruption.
This can change suddenly though, should the "overtakee" decide that I have no right to overtake, and try to physically stop me,at this point generally I will make an effort to remove a side mirror with a boot before continuing on my way.
Also adhering to the speed limit, does not guarantee safety,I prefer a "drive/ride at a speed where you are most alert" approach.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 3:14, closed)

When I was learning to drive
I used to get tailgated all the time. It's amazing the what effect slowing down by 2mph can do to an already stressed van driver. Even more when the driving instructor points the camera phone in the van's direction.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:20, closed)

Drive as slow as you want
if you stay out of the middle or outside lanes.

If you're doing 65 in anything other than the inside lane you're being the anti-social one so don't be surprised if people get angry at you.
( evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:53, closed)

I'm not talking about
going slowly just to piss people off. I do the speed limit, i.e., the fastest I or anyone else should legally be going. Which by default makes the screaming idiot on my bumper the anti-social one, not me. This is 70 on motorways. And generally on the M6 during or just after rush hour, which is when and where I do most of my motorway driving, the outside lane is crammed full of idiots going nowhere fast and the inside lane is comparitively empty.

It's all a big conspiracy don'tcherknow *tinfoil hats*
(berk, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 15:09, closed)

Yes the left hand lane seems to almost always clear
where I live. I have driven in a few places around the world (not a lot, but enough)to be able to say that I think Queensland drivers, and in particular, Brisbane drivers would have to go close to being the worst, slowest, most obnoxious,obstructive pricks you could ever put behind the wheel of a vehicle.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:45, closed)

You know, I've seen those too...
... but around here people seem to think that it means "drive at half this speed". Then they get upset when you overtake them at 60mph in a 60mph limit, because they're doing 30mph so *everyone* should do 30mph. I have actually been followed home (well, not *my* home, I stopped outside someone else's house for obvious reasons when I figured out the guy was following me) by someone who proceeded to rant for five minutes about how dangerous and irresponsible I had been overtaking him on a perfectly clear, straight stretch of road and didn't I know that there was a speed limit? He was utterly enraged when I pointed out that I overtook him at a couple of mph *below* the speed limit, and had a pretty good expectation that since he was doing 30 in a 60, he'd probably do 15 in the upcoming 30 limit.

Length? About 5'6" if I'd bothered to lay him out. Typical Small Man Syndrome.
(gordonjcp, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 15:28, closed)

I for one agree with you
And the replies to the thread (some of them, maybe, by interpretation) are a sad reflection of the truth that you just spouted.

There's usually a limit for a reason, the problem is everyone thinks they are that special and highly skilled snowflake who it shouldn't apply to.

There are also the people who always drive at "30something", thinking that they are smarter than those who set the limit. 30 isn't plucked out of thin air: it's the point where if you hit an under-18 the stats show an 80% chance they will live (at 40, an 80% chance they will die). Hence it's reduced to 20 in areas where it's even more sensitive.

Always the Audi drivers too innit
(Cloudane, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 17:57, closed)

Or those old people in rovers
That do 40mph when the limit is 60 holding everyone up and then continue to do 40mph where ever they happen to be, cul de sac, outside of a school at home time, busy town centre. What the hell is wrong with them.
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 18:59, closed)

That is very true
And I should clarify that although I advocate driving legally and safely there's no reason to crawl. Whilst the limit is not a target and sometimes it's sensible to do less (lanes) generally speaking somewhere within 0-5mph of it is a good place to be.
(Cloudane, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 19:23, closed)

those statistics
should really account for swerving.

It's as though you're saying, the child should only be exposed to a 20% risk of death, but it must be taught a lesson about road safety.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:00, closed)

I tend to agree
At least on roads with limits under 60 mph.

I find it amusing how the objections to speed cameras are always to their presence at all, and there never seems to be a campaign to raise the speed limit in such areas so twunts in Audis can do 80 past the infants school.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:54, closed)