I enjoy the politeness when cars arrive simultaneously
at each junction of a mini roundabout.

I am a fan of all driving courtesies and etiquette. I enjoy buses flashing their lights to say thank you, I enjoy polite waves when you let someone through, but if I pull aside for a biker to overtake and he doesn't give me a thank you wave, I want nothing more than to drive into the fucker and teach him a lesson.
( stevierar, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 14:38, 16 replies)

iirc Bill Bryson said something similar like
"I love a country where you bump into someone and they immediately apologise to you"
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 14:44, closed)

Sometimes we can't...
'cos we're using the clutch or the road's too uneven to ride down a 4' gap while waving one arm around. Slight discourtesy > crashing.
(squigbobble existed, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 14:48, closed)

Oh I'm very aware that taking your hand off isn't always
possible, I was making a silly.
( stevierar, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 15:00, closed)

Not everyone is possessed of such wit.
And it's easier to dole out info on the Net than while wheelie-ing along a double white line past a primary school for blind children at 3:30pm.
(squigbobble existed, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 15:45, closed)

I'm permanently logged on
so I can do both.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 3 Oct 2013, 17:42, closed)

This is all well and good, but whoever decided it would be considered polite to flash your full beams at someone in order to say "thanks" should really go and have a rethink.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 14:52, closed)

Especially at night
*swerve*
*crash*
(squigbobble existed, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 15:41, closed)

this, very much so.
I just flick mine onto sidelights quickly instead, it gives a visible thanks without giving the other driver an eye white spot.
(Kehhlyr unlurked for a few seconds on, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 19:10, closed)

The politeness
becomes so much more evident when you've been anywhere else in Europe, within the past six months.

They are absolute animals on the road.
(Chairman Lmao Something something your mum, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 15:55, closed)

Here's the former colony of Canada
we have the "4 way stop"
This is simply a junction in need of a roundabout because it runs on the principle of - first to arrive has the right to enter the junction first.
In theory this is fine, but Canadians are too polite to make use of a system based around such vagueness.

I'm sure somewhere there are people who have died of old age muttering, "no, you first" under their breath.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 16:03, closed)

Hah, imagine the same system in Italy
Chaos
( Major Turd for tonight only, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 18:57, closed)

To be honest, that'd be indistinguishable
from the current situation. I decided it was more like brownian motion than traffic last time I was in Rome.
( chthonic, Thu 3 Oct 2013, 19:01, closed)

Probably resulting in...
...a brownian movement.
(squigbobble existed, Fri 4 Oct 2013, 9:22, closed)

Hah!

( stevierar, Fri 4 Oct 2013, 3:15, closed)

Despite the sometimes horrific congestion
It's a delight to drive in the UK.
( Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Fri 4 Oct 2013, 17:16, closed)

it's a shame this courtesy is unknown to the wankers who routinely undertake, never look where they're going, play chicken with the other driver at non-signalised junctions, and cut across lanes on motorways and busy roundabouts without indicating

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 6 Oct 2013, 1:01, closed)