[Closed] I don't give way to BMW's...shame me!

You had a hard day in another thread by any chance?

No. I think I've explained, its you - not me. Good luck with the rest of your winding up.

ttfn

Click me to make the thread explode

I knew what it was....

and still clicked it. 🙂

my old bug Is ace it's like being royalty on the road. the camper is fine until you get near the coast then everyone cuts you up drives up your arse ect as they get fed up seeing them I guess.

Kryton57 - Member
You had a hard day in another thread by any chance?
No. I think I've explained, its you - not me.

ttfn

No, really, it's you.

ttfn (and big hugs hunni) 😉

I clicked it 15 times just for funsies

TBH, I wouldn't cut up an Agila. I'd assume the occupant had already given up on life and offer them a sympathetic wave.

pk13 - Member
my old bug Is ace it's like being royalty on the road. the camper is fine until you get near the coast then everyone cuts you up drives up your arse ect as they get fed up seeing them I guess.

Guessing you mean the West Coast?

Don't see many down here in the SE at all. Love seeing them on trips to Cornwall though on family camping trips.

martinhutch - Member
TBH, I wouldn't cut up an Agila. I'd assume the occupant had already given up on life and offer them a sympathetic wave.

That was you!?

I clicked it 15 times just for funsies

You do know that 15 clicks commits you to a three year lease on a Hyundai i10?

#prayforperchy

See you in court Ling 😉

perchypanther - Member
I clicked it 15 times just for funsies

The count down begins...

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perchypanther - Member
See you in court Ling

Happy times. There is a story to tell on that one but.... I can't. 😉

I’ve owned 5series estates and can categorically state no matter how well or safe you drive, there is always another 22 Beemers up your chuff or pulling out indiscriminately or sulking in the drivers seat.

Buy a hybrid, the nicest people drive hybrids.

Though, have to say, around here people really do not like you driving the speed limits... if you watch them in your rear view mirror they’re apoplectic and in total rage, bit like watching a pork chop in a blender.

Tosserz 😆

Must be different in other parts of the country, but round here shit driving isn't specific to any particular make of car.

Round here, the vast majority of utterly shit driving I see daily is from drivers of cars that say "MAX Taxis" in big letters down the side. I swear they don't have a licence between them.

I hod one road-rager yesterday, my crimes were to merge with traffic in front of him despite him speeding up to try and box me out, and then later driving slowly behind a cyclist for about 50 yards rather than pass inches from them or throw myself into oncoming traffic. Sitting at on-tow distance behind me, lots of flashing headlights, the usual asshattery. He eventually overtook me at about 70mph as I was doing 50 and about to slow as it changed to a 30mph limit. As he shot past I saw the logo emblazoned down the side and just thought, "ah, that explains it."

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It's the DeLorean all over again...

Fortunately I have the ASA on speed-dial.

the nicest people drive hybrids.

The nicest people drive Saabs*

*except for a guy who was the manager of my local Safeway when I worked there. He was a dick.

Bikebouy
Though, have to say, around here people really do not like you driving the speed limits... if you watch them in your rear view mirror they’re apoplectic and in total rage, bit like watching a pork chop in a blender.

Tosserz

I have no choice but to drive at legal speeds (see car context above) but yeah, here in the SE I know what you mean.

See some nice, dangerous, heavy braking at the numerous speed cams though...

Zilog..not having a go here ..but what makes you think that people who drive BMW's, Audis , Mercedes or any other luxury branded cars aren't going about equally important business ..also to deadlines ..
Having spent the majority of my employed life in sales the pressure to get around to each customer was enormous and that was 20 years ago when the roads were a lot quieter ..
Reps still seem to get a hard time because of their "flashy" image ..but I always remember being told when starting out "Salesmen create jobs"..if it wasn't for the guy at the sharp end selling the stuff ..the factory wouldn't last too long..and the guys in the vans & trucks delivering the goods wouldn't last too long either..
Try to factor that in when making judgements of people in their nice cars ( and I do realise that not all of them are salesmen ) .

Reps still seem to get a hard time because of their "flashy" image

It's the shoes.

Haven't read the whole thread but OP reminded me of a magnificent [b]BMW vs Merc standoff
[/b] situation in Malvern some years ago.

About this time of year, it was dark early, rush hour on a Friday.

We were walking down Court Rd (a narrow road, but plenty of traffic from schools and local businesses). Problem with Court Road like many is that parked cars along its length effectively reduce the road to a single carriageway. Cars have routinely to pull-in behind a parked one and then flash each other through. It's often a verrrry long process in rush hour to get from one end of this 1/4 mile road to the other.

Anyway, obviously on this night someone was impatient and decided to drive on through without assessing/giving way to oncoming traffic. So there is a big flash Beemer and a big flash Merc heading directly at each other with no passing space. They meet. They stop.

And they glare.

And they glare.

I get the feeling that no-one is going to back their precious [s]ego[/s] car up in order to allow traffic to flow once more.

They are locked in silent combat. After just a minute a handful of other cars are queuing behind each cockmobile. . Horns from behind being politely papped. But not the Beemer-Merc owners. They are just sitting there. Silently. Tickover time-bombs. Facing-off like middle-class, middle-age bulls in a field full of onlooking school-mums..

[b]10 mins go by[/b] people are actually coming out of their houses to watch these two silent glaring nobbers do a absolutely nothing other than be nobbers. The sound of car horns behind them are now a wail of dissent.

By this time I (and my dog) too got bored and walked on.

I know they had gone by the next day. But I'll never know for how long that evening they continued to behave in such an utterly unyielding, humourless cock-like fashion 😆

My sister in law bought a BMW a few years ago and kept saying how quick it was. I couldn't resit the opportunity to point out my 1.4 fiat was quicker to 60.

perchypanther - Member
Reps still seem to get a hard time because of their "flashy" image...
It's the shoes

Your wit never fails to entertain.

I’d say it’s the “neenaw” helmet with flashing lights that’s the giveaway, that and the 50p Xmas Tree lapel badge complete with flashing Star of David..

I drive a BMW (white too!). I use the indicators as per the highway code, I'm sure it causes more confusion!

TBH round here it seems not many can be arsed flicking the indicator stalk up or down regardless of car manufacturer.

So which model of car would you recommend for being let in, on slip roads?

Malvern Rider - Member
Haven't read the whole thread but OP reminded me of a magnificent BMW vs Merc standoff
situation in Malvern some years ago

That remind me of a YouTube video.

Not the same incident of course but similar.

Took place under a narrow railway bridge from memory. 😀

Reps still seem to get a hard time because of their "flashy" image ..but I always remember being told when starting out "Salesmen create jobs"..if it wasn't for the guy at the sharp end selling the stuff ..the factory wouldn't last too long..and the guys in the vans & trucks delivering the goods wouldn't last too long either..

I used to be one of those people, watching my Sales team roll up for lunches with clients, driving flashy cars, wearing shiny suits and having 11am appointments rather than starting at 9 and ending at 5 like we had to in professional services on client delivery.

Then I moved into the Sales team - hardest and most stressful job I've ever done with longer than the 60 hours I used to work. Although not an excuse, getting to a meeting on time that [i]might[/i] just make that order happen and [i]might[/i] get me and my family something more than average to enjoy in the rare downtime moments and [i]might[/i] just keep me in a job sometimes causes some spirited emotion.

its not beemers comon

my pet hate is the creeper who sees the lights go to orange then red then snarls the entire roundabout up just because they are so ****ing self entitled they think they can by going through the lights just behind the next guy whos now slowly sinking into his seat thinking **** i maybe should have waited

they dont all drive beemers but since buying a 500 quid shed on wheels all my other ****ing moron in their PCP cars seem to have stopped venturing out onto the road ....funny that

We have a couple of cars but drive our 10 yr old Honda and I get tailgated much more plus sometimes you feel invisible on the road (no problem with this). Our Merc’s etc don’t get much “I’m not letting you out behaviour”, but I do try to use the indicators!

but what makes you think that people who drive BMW's, Audis , Mercedes or any other luxury branded cars aren't going about equally important business

At least you always know where an Audi behind you is heading. Right up yr arse and then a fast pass on the right*

* on the left if on motorway 😉

my pet hate is the creeper who sees the lights go to orange then red then snarls the entire roundabout up just because they are so * self entitled they think they can by going through the lights just behind the next guy whos now slowly sinking into his seat thinking * i maybe should have waited

they dont all drive beemers but since buying a 500 quid shed on wheels all my other **** moron in their PCP cars seem to have stopped venturing out onto the road ....funny that

Wow. This makes almost no sense at all.

And what kind of **** doesn’t give way to buses?!

This kind baby! 😉

I have a hatred of bus drivers built up over many years of using buses. I’m convinced that one of the key requirements of becoming a bus driver is to be a massive ****. Not letting them out at junctions is my sad, yet sweet revenge

40 minute standoff between 2 drivers who won't give way.

This is the one I was thinking of malvernrider!
No BMW content! 😉

[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/viral-video/11887686/Watch-stubborn-drivers-cause-40-minute-stand-off.html ]here[/url]

one good thing about having a really crap car is if a bmw/audi etc is trying to force it's way through you can just hold your ground so they have to abandon. I always let normal people and buses out but bmw/audi/range rover taxis etc don't get any chances, they wouldn't give you an inch so why reciprocate. White 1 series bmw seem to be the new worst thing on the road, I guess they're the cheapest 'prestige' car you can get free from work these days.

Been driving Beemers for about five years now. Not noticed any difference. Most people don't indicate properly, don't understand how to filter, don't know who has priority and can't work out how to switch their fogs off even when it's sunny.

I rejoice in swiftly proceeding from A to B safe in the knowledge I'm the perfect driver. And that's not a joke.

Amazing, very similar mentality to all those twunts who'd run you off the road for having the audacity to be there on a bicycle,

Indeed. They're so ignorant

one good thing about having a really crap car is if a bmw/audi etc is trying to force it's way through you can just hold your ground so they have to abandon

Just let em run into you ...but the right lines

Never, ever seen a Hyundai i10 driven within 15mph of the speed limit. Ever. ****s.

People who pull out of junctions and proceed to pootle like they are the only person on the road. Even though there is nothing behind me. ****s.

Where I live its the norm to stop and hold a line of traffic doing 40mph if you are turning left., To allow a car out from a side road , even if there is a stream of cars coming the from the opposite way.

Or , out from a petrol station . Appraoching car is 100m away , so they pull out half across the lane to block it and wait for a gap coming the other way. This I hate , so I get as close as possible to their drivers door so they have to make an awkward L shaped turn, because I can be an asshat behind the wheel.

Its not just BMW drivers . M27 road works, 50mph limit . The vast majority of the speeders are in german cars , or vans.

Try driving within 10% of the posted speed limit on my commute and I get tailgated everyday by pretty much all other traffic.
No -one cares anymore about leaving a gap , the 2 second rule etc . Mums with their own kids in their SUV ,. - " well your kids who walk or cycle to school can be crushed under my wheels and its not my fault you cannot afford a shiney SUV steel box to transport your own children around in , Im late for my nail bar appointment"
Or its men who dig holes in the road , no time to drive anywhere in a laid back relaxing manner . Its full gas everywhere as the boss is paying for the derv and the cafe is quickly filling up with other men
who dig holes in the road

This is the one I was thinking of malvernrider!
No BMW content!

haha, twunts. No worries, I'm an equal-opportunity eye-roller 🙄 😉

There is no greater pleasure* than cruising through Ilkley on the A65 at 29mph (past a couple of schools) and enjoying the tailgatey anger of various BMW X5s, sprinter vans. Occasionally an irate older gentleman in a Macan.

*there are greater pleasures, obviously.

Over here it is in the law that you need give way to a bus leaving stop, but only if area is classified as built-up area. Pure entertainment for all the bus drivers, less so for other drivers.

Never seem to notice any difference in my wife’s 1 Series. Maybe it’s not flash enough to stir up the jealous rage eating away at some of you? For the record, it costs no more per month than a focus, Astra etc.