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Post by bigfudge on Dec 15, 2015 3:12:47 GMT
Great choices there Eppy. I have nothing against Queen as such but they are massively overhyped.
Harry Potter again is okay but people who make it their lifes passion and smugly talk about what they know like its a masters degree from Oxford need to seriously get out more...!
Queue jumping is the worst though in any scenario. One of the few times I've driven since getting my licence was on the Denton roundabout at Crown Point and there were roadworks with a lane closed and some pillock in a Range Rover was waiting to cut in and I closed the gap between me and the car in front so he couldnt edge in front and no one let him past and you could hear him shouting & going red in the face at each missed opportunity. I was going back the other way about 5 minutes later and he was still there. Karma at its finest...sorry CF hope it wasnt you haha!
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Post by sandbachhatter on Dec 15, 2015 10:02:42 GMT
One of my finest achievements as a driver was to go flying down a right turn only lane past a queue of cars, knowing full well the BMW behind me would follow. As we sat there at red lights, he started revving, keen for us both to make a quick break for it when the lights went green, so that we could both cut in front of the traffic on the left before the lanes merged. He was right on my bumper, so when the lights started to change, and I put my right indicator on and sat there, he went apocalyptically mad at me because, like in Fudgie's story, no one would let him in and he was too close to my bumper to manoeuvre out anyway.
In the end, my right filter light came on, and I turned out of his way, just as the main lights went back to red so he had to sit there (at a 4 road junction) until the lights changed again. Delicious.
I didn't even need to turn right, as it meant going an extra mile out of my way to get home, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass.
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Post by gazz on Dec 15, 2015 10:15:53 GMT
One of my finest achievements as a driver was to go flying down a right turn only lane past a queue of cars, knowing full well the BMW behind me would follow. As we sat there at red lights, he started revving, keen for us both to make a quick break for it when the lights went green, so that we could both cut in front of the traffic on the left before the lanes merged. He was right on my bumper, so when the lights started to change, and I put my right indicator on and sat there, he went apocalyptically mad at me because, like in Fudgie's story, no one would let him in and he was too close to my bumper to manoeuvre out anyway. In the end, my right filter light came on, and I turned out of his way, just as the main lights went back to red so he had to sit there (at a 4 road junction) until the lights changed again. Delicious. I didn't even need to turn right, as it meant going an extra mile out of my way to get home, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass.
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Post by gazz on Dec 16, 2015 14:45:18 GMT
Not falling out with a fellow Heavener over it thats for sure. I think I could have shown a tad more diplomacy with my response there, mate. Apologies. Perhaps not.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Dec 17, 2015 1:07:35 GMT
queen are pants. It's not their fault everyone else over exaggerates their abilities.
Quidditch. Love the potter books enjoyed reading them all but never inflicted this knowledge on anyone who didn't want to discuss them. Generating reading interest in so many children is an incredible feat.
Your rant against queue jumping, invoking the Magna Carts? Just pure unadulterated genius
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Post by dudleyhatter on Dec 17, 2015 1:11:31 GMT
My favourite wind up of a fellow driver was during a build of a traffic I was in no real rush to get where I was going (home!). This chap comes flying up behind and flashes at me to speed up, presumably into the car in front. I didn't, but at every side road I did let at least one person out. Watching him turn beetroot and scream impotently at me still makes me smile to this day. After half a mile of this I 'accidentally' straddled both lanes of a roundabout before turning left and leaving him free to hopefully crash into a lamppost.
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Post by sandbachhatter on Dec 17, 2015 18:31:58 GMT
Looks like queue jumping will take this one but there's still time to vote if you haven't already.
We'll then take a two week break from CHIVE and reconvene in the new year on 4th Jan.
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Post by countybenno on Dec 18, 2015 9:01:37 GMT
Has to be queue jumping for me, these people think that they will get to wherever they are going quicker but never do, winds me up lots.
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Post by sandbachhatter on Dec 18, 2015 12:13:33 GMT
Time's up. Queue-jumping takes it comfortably and enters the fault.
From all at CHIVE (erm.... me) have a grumpy, miserable Christmas, with lots of whining and dining, and we'll see you in January for more rants about life's worst crimes.
Archie is up next with Week R.
Now bugger off.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Dec 19, 2015 13:10:17 GMT
late to the party, but there are a handful of queen songs that are either just good songs, or are stylistically interesting in some way ('you're my best friend', 'killer queen', 'now i'm here', 'under pressure'), and i quite like 'bo rhap' even though it stands pretty much against everything that i hold dear about music. perhaps it's because it does so in such a preposterous way. the utter horror of 'we will rock you', 'we are the champions', and anything from the early 80's onwards isn't quite enough to vault them for me.
harry potter is saved by encouraging kids to love reading. i have no great problem with adults reading kids books if they want, but i have a great problem with so many of them doing it that they feel it's ok to talk effusively about the houses and daft games of potter-land. shut it dominic, before you have a nerdgasm.
queue jumpers for me too. some great rants and actions by fellow heaveners on this, but ultimately it's all in vain, because some clampet will inevitably let them in, or in the case of the vault, out. there is no justification for it. if everyone got in lane earlier, traffic would be smoother and the choke point near the cones wouldn't be as bad. it would be better for everyone. unfortunately there are a lot of selfish f***s who don't care about everyone.
as i've posted before, one of my favourite motoring moments ever was locking a queue-jumper out right by the cones, him honking his horn, leaning out of his window shaking his fist and shouting all sorts of abuse, which continued when a motorist behind let him in...until a patrol car came up the hard shoulder, game him a quick flash of blues and pulled him over to have a word. should probably have pulled me over too for turning and laughing my b*ll*cks off at him while moving slowly off.
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Post by gazz on Dec 19, 2015 14:04:51 GMT
That's just got to go in the Oxford English, utterly brilliant! if everyone got in lane earlier, traffic would be smoother and the choke point near the cones wouldn't be as bad. it would be better for everyone. unfortunately there are a lot of selfish F**ks who don't care about everyone. as i've posted before, one of my favourite motoring moments ever was locking a queue-jumper out right by the cones, him honking his horn, leaning out of his window shaking his fist and shouting all sorts of abuse, which continued when a motorist behind let him in...until a patrol car came up the hard shoulder, game him a quick flash of blues and pulled him over to have a word. should probably have pulled me over too for turning and laughing my b*ll*cks off at him while moving slowly off.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Dec 19, 2015 16:06:49 GMT
can't claim the credit for it gazz, but i think it's a good one too!
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Dec 19, 2015 20:19:27 GMT
Your rant against queue jumping, invoking the Magna Carts? Just pure unadulterated genius Cheers, duds! You can definitely come to my party! When I thought of queue jumpers my mind went to the divine right of kings and from there onto the Magna Carta. I suspected this one would be a bit of a landslide, and so it has proved. Good riddance to the lot of them. If only we knew a school boy wizard who could cast a spell and make it really happen... I've really enjoyed writing my choices and reading all the others - a most excellent thread!
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