[Closed] South-East drivers

The OP din't allude to the abilities of people according to their ethnicity, merely their location....

Sorry I dont get this at all ???

Would it be ok to say people who live in Somalia are rubbish at driving then ?

HOWEVER he described a correlation between ethnicity and driving style, NOT a causal link.

No, he din't actually explain anything; he merely said:

of course you need to keep well away from the Somalian drivers.

No explanation [i]why[/i] we're meant to keep away from the Somalian drivers. Just that we should keep away from them.

I have a few Somalian friends who drive in London. Perhaps Hora could come down here and explain to them why we should keep away from them?

Well I assumed he meant a correlation...

Is it something to do with Pirates? Or Pilates? I get them mixed up.

What a pussy.

Man-up, you limp-wristed Northern loser!

Slug. That's what you get from a diet of crap beer, fags and lard.

I'm not bloody Northern! I'm half Northern, half Welsh from the Midlands. Or West Country depending on who you talk to.

West Country? Where the hell's that? No wonder you move around like a pregnant cow.

Get out of the way.

I have a few Somalian friends who drive in London.

I got the impression you knew all of them given the authority with which you speak!

Anyway Londoners shouldnt be on the roads, bunch of pikeys!

So to sum up, [s]drivers[/s] people [s]in the SE[/s] are either:
a) retarded
b) c**ts
c) both

There - fixed it for the pair of you.

" Foreign licences are only valid for 12 months. To continue driving here, you have to pass a UK driving test."

and a significant proportion drive with expired license or no license. In some area of London I think it's meant to be some stupid %. I can't find he article now but it was in several papers.

+1 Surrounded by Zulus.

Sums it up nicely.

The vast majority of people of overseas origin who drive in the UK have learned and passed their test here in the UK.

This sounds like speculation to the same degree as Hora's.

Is Cardiff in the North then? I have no idea. It's outside the M25, that's all I know.

This sounds like speculation to the same degree as Hora's.

Ok:

The vast majority of people of overseas origin who [b]are registered to drive[/b] in the UK have learned and passed their test here in the UK.

Better?

I should clarify that by 'overseas' I mean outside the EU.

Where is Hora to explain himself? Coward. Big gob, no bottle...

No wonder you move around like a pregnant cow.

Get out of the way.

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London car drivers are the most entertaining in the SE. Come time to bike across to Waterloo in the evening and it's more like a white-water adrenaline rush on two wheels!! Got it down to 13 minutes from work without dying, yet!!!

How good is that!?!?!? 😯 😀 8)

GET OUT OF MY WAY!

Ferkin pedestrians.

PS: All on a Brompton, I might add...

To which I've just fitted spuds.

AWEsome.

Got it down to 13 minutes from work without dying, yet!!!

Waterloo to Thomas More St, isn't it?

On a Brompton? 😯

That's pretty bloody good if you ask me...

Waterloo to Thomas More St, isn't it?

Yerp.

Even more fun in the dark.

Which route do you take?

I should clarify that by 'overseas' I mean outside the EU.

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Ever driven in rural France? It's like a whole new world... (that crosses the road at random and on blind bends)

😉

(The Periphique (sp?) at rush hour is pretty interesting too)

Stacey demonstrates the cycling eskimo roll....

Usually, round the Imax, along Stamford street, Southwark Street, turn right into St. Thomas Street then under the bridge past the Shard - Staines Street into Tooley Street.

Then along to Tower Bridge. Over the bridge, hack right across the oncoming traffic onto the pavement along East Smithfield.

Stamford street is oncoming one-way at the moment with roadworks, so it's out the back of W'loo and along the parallel route to the south until I turn left at Guildford Street to get back onto Southwark...

Coming back it's straight along Tooley until London Bridge, then straight through and round the Imax Death Race 2000 circus.

I'm not bloody Northern! I'm half Northern, half Welsh from the Midlands. Or West Country depending on who you talk to.

Anywhere north of the Watford Gap is the north country. Strange things happen there! 😉

So we are agreed then. Teh south east is full of pasty faced selfish subsidy gobbling illiterate twunts who could not drive safely if their life depended on it.

And to think my taxes go towards subsiding them

TandemJeremy - Member
So we are agreed then

Shouldn't think so. Stay north of Watford or get out of my way.

Fatso.

The watford gap is in Northamptonshire though so well north of Cardiff.

Unfortunately every one thinks its to do with Watford in London.

Ever driven in rural France? It's like a whole new world... (that crosses the road at random and on blind bends)

I did a summer job in a delivery van around SW London and I have had far worse experiences south of Lyon. Dont start on about the French on roundabouts please!

On topic,
You went to Pizza Hut for pizza.
In your car.
In Farnborough.

You lose. 😆

Tonight I'll be having black bass with a sun-dried tomato ragu and chorizo, with dauphinoise potatoes. In my room.

That better?

Infinately 😀

On topic,
You went to Pizza Hut for pizza.
In your car.
In Farnborough.

I did no such thing!

I'd never eat a pizza from Pizza Hut.

The vast majority of people of overseas origin who are registered to drive in the UK have learned and passed their test here in the UK.

And all the other arguments about this. I've been mulling it over carefully before replying. 🙂

Now, weather someone (Anyone) has passed a UK test or not means only one thing - They drove well enough to satisfy an examiner for 1/2 an hour. Which, to be fair, isn't that hard. Drive slowly and obey the law and you've cracked it. And the habits any older immigrant grew up with die hard, very hard. And like it or not, once they have a license, there's a good chance they'll slip back into their old ways.

And there people who make poor drivers: You know, you see a car in front driving in a certain way, and you say to yourself "Ahh. That'll be a XXXXXXXX [from XXXXXXX]* driving like that" and sure as eggs is eggs, you're right.
Drive for long enough, and you develop a 6th sense about it, like a copper has a nose for sniffing out criminals.....I certainly have. Ask Mrs PP - We'll be in the car together, and I'll say - "That bloke's gonna pull out in front of you" And then he does. And she looks at me all funny, wondering how I know...
And it was only when I went to India earlier this year that I understood why I see fair amount of (Generally older, granted) Asian people driving like they do. It's not not something that overly bothers me, I'm quite chilled when I drive generally, but it's something I noticed, a connection I made. Realisation if you like.
They have a 'style' shall we say?

Elfin mate, you don't drive do you? You just won't notice it like I do, you won't make that connection because you've never needed to, but it exists, honestly it does. 🙂

*Could be cabbie [from London], sales rep, young mum [on school run] old duffer, truck driver [from Poland] or any person from any country, an Italian, an Aussie (They really ARE bad drivers too!), or indeed an Indian from India.

Poland.. or any person from any country, an Italian, an Aussie (They really ARE bad drivers too

CharlieMungus - Member

Poland.. or any person from any country, an Italian, an Aussie (They really ARE bad drivers too

you can recognise and differentiate between these races?

you can recognise and differentiate between these races?

They were examples! You're just trying to pick an argument that doesn't exist. 🙂
Three countries I picked because I've been to 2 of them which have markedly different driving styles, and Poland because I know a LOT of E.European lorry drivers through my work, and generally, they're bloody good at it!

Although to be fair, I reckon I could tell an average Italian from an average Australian: The Italians can drive, the Aussies can't. They really ARE that bad. Scarily bad. Worse then the Indians a lot of the time..... 🙂

WTF Are you talking about? Have you ever herd of generalisation? Besides, the Polish, the Italians and the Australians are not races. People - certainly, races - no.

OH FFS IT WAS AN EXAMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP TWISTING THE POINT!

I got hassled by a dutch lorry driver on the way here on Monday. Right aggressive nutter, and speeding too. I will keep an eye out for the next dutch lorry driver, see if he does the same 😉

People - certainly, races - no.

The rest is debatable. This is just wrong. No point arguing about facts. Go look in a dictionary.

You're just trying to pick an argument that doesn't exist.

They're the best kind!
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STOP TWISTING THE POINT!

Ok, let's try this. You can't twist a point. The whole 'point' about a point, is that is a singularity. It is dimensionless, there is no place to which it can be twisted.

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Any takers?

Either the drivers are much better down here in Cornwall or we simply avoid blaming everyone else every time something unexpected happens.

Sure people do some daft things in cars but then don't we all on occasions? Unless it's a clearly aggressive act of driving, live and let live. And give OAP drivers a wide berth.

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I'm not a racist, but ....

all Portsmouth drivers are SHIT.

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Charlie - Can I take your / the point then?

Mat, driving standards vary wildly in different areas of the country ime. Whenever I've driven in Cornwall (although it was a long time ago) it seemed fine.

It's because people tend to do things they see other people doing. So that leads to regional driving variations.

[i]Mat, driving standards vary wildly in different areas of the country[/i]

No shit. Cities are obviously always worse than rural areas.
Everyone in Portsmouth thinks they're in some kind of race. A race to get nowhere.