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...all drive cars with the seat back tilted forward and their noses almost on the windscreen?
Doesn't seem to make a difference if they're tall or small, thin or fat, they all do it.
Why?
My wife does, she leans forward with only the small of her back on the seat!
When I've asked it's so they can see the corners of the bonnet.
...and why are the majority of accidents caused by men?
In polls, 85% of drivers said they were above average.
Mine doesn't!
My wife has the seat back tilted further back than I do so as to 'not mess up her hair'.
Becasue they are generally shorter than men and have proportionatly shorter arms, but longer legs.
MrsPP is the same height as me, and when I get in after she's driven, I have to move the seat forewards one notch and recline the backrest a bit.
In polls, 85% of drivers said they were above average.
99% of statistics are made up on the spot
100% of "x% of statistics are..." jokes are mediocre.
I wonder which of us is built wrong out of me and the wife as we don't need to adjust the seat or the mirrors when we swap drivers!
Nick, the 85% who considert themselves about average are scarey. The 15% who consider themselves below average and do nothing about it are really scarey!
And while we're having a 'why do women.....?' thread
Why do women.....when at a supermarket checkout look surprised, when having had all the shopping scanned, they are asked to provide some method of payment?
Then and only then will they start rummaging around in their bags to find their purse amongst the liferaft, 7 make-up bags, survival kit, anvil, canoe and whatever else is in their bags?
[i]85% of drivers said they were above average.[/i]
but if 15% of people are really, really rubbish then that might be true?
Like all those people with only one leg dragging the national 'average number of legs per person' statistics down? the average is less than 2 but most people have more than average?
Are we just doing general weird shit that women do that men just simply don't understand?
Like when Mrs nickc asks me if her hair looks OK when we go out, and I look, and it's no different from any other time, and I shrug and she gets the hump..?
I excuse Mrs North - she's only 4'10", but I see women who are taller than me using less space than is afforded a veal calf.
Stop it..!
[i]Why do women.....when at a supermarket checkout look surprised, when having had all the shopping scanned, they are asked to provide some method of payment?[/i]
Yeah I've pondered that one. Where's their allegedly great multi-tasking when you need it?
Squeezing spots I have known a number of women who like doing this, it's very, very odd.
multi-tasking
or, as I like to call it*, "trying to do too many things at once and not finishing any of them properly..."
*but only very quietly, and after she's left the room...
...and why are the majority of accidents caused by men?
Because the majority of drivers are men?
Nick, the 85% who considert themselves about average are scarey. The 15% who consider themselves below average and do nothing about it are really scarey!
Maybe that 15% didn't know, or actually thought they were average?
Like when Mrs nickc asks me if her hair looks OK when we go out, and I look, and it's no different from any other time, and I shrug and she gets the hump..?
Don't you know nuffink? ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS say it looks great or fantastic. Or, say it looks lovely and really catches the light. something like that you fool!
(To ba fair, at £80 for a haircut every month, and an hour every day washing, styling and blow drying, it bloody well should do!)
[i]ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS say it looks great or fantastic. Or, say it looks lovely and really catches the light.[/i]
then you fall into the
'Well what was wrong with it before, then?'
conversation which is even more scarey...
He he - the women clamped to the steering wheel makes me s**** too, even though they are my sisterhood, but then I've been accused on many occasion of driving like a bloke ... go figure. 🙄 😉
[i]Nick, the 85% who considert themselves about average are scarey. The 15% who consider themselves below average and do nothing about it are really scarey![/i]
Waves! 🙂
I hate it when people live down to predjudices.
But sadly I know 3 people who are terrifyingly poor drivers, two are women and 1 is a gay man. Not very scientific I know.
Oh and all the hair stuff and phaffing around at the supermarket, thats to annoy you..,
I am a s**t driver, and am neither a lady or gay.
I'm an entirely average driver.
Why do women... always need films explained to them?
"Who's the guy in the hat?"
"I thought he died already?"
"So who was Tyler Durden then?"
I thought they were supposed to be the empathic listeners so why can't they follow a simple narrative plot?
Why do the women in my spinning class look so damn good in lycra?
I recall once having a bit of a rant about women drivers, and my mate just quietly stated that male drivers are just bad, only in a [i]different[/i] way to women.
He was right too. I'm just a lot more comfortable with my own inadequacies than those of other people.
Why do women.....when at a supermarket checkout look surprised, when having had all the shopping scanned, they are asked to provide some method of payment?Yeah I've pondered that one. Where's their allegedly great multi-tasking when you need it?
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I too ponder this endlessly at the checkout. I have often thought it has something to do with their requirement to think of everything in terms of guilt. Guilt over having spent so much on food and the thought it will do to their figure? Ofc thinking ahead is purely a man skill.
[i]thinking ahead is purely a man skill.[/i]
from the number of blokes who unwittingly lose their families to divorce 'cos they can't keep their flies done up I'd say that wasn't a man skill at all, really.
All my female mtbing friends are really good drivers.
Whereas my non biking friends frighten me to death, I cling onto those elbow rests. They don't signal, cut up cyclists and do have their noses up to the windscreen. I would never, ever, ever go on a motorway in a car driven by the non biking friends.
Why do women.....when at a supermarket checkout look surprised, when having had all the shopping scanned, they are asked to provide some method of payment?Then and only then will they start rummaging around in their bags to find their purse amongst the liferaft, 7 make-up bags, survival kit, anvil, canoe and whatever else is in their bags?
I've genuinely never seen this?
Is that cos you've never actually been in a supermaket as thats the wifes department coffeeeking 😉
I am a s**t driver, and am neither a lady or gay.
Maybe a woman trapped in a man's body?
The driving skill thing is interesting. My opinion is that women tend to drive more carefully but men tend to be more capable at driving fast - obviously plenty of exceptions. So if men are more likely to have an accident it's because they are closer to their limit more often. Possibly women cause accidents by being overly cautious - slowing down significantly, and even stopping, at a roundabout when there is nothing coming.
Elfinsafety - Member
...and why are the majority of accidents caused by men?
Women actually have more accidents than men. It's just that men have bigger accidents. A woman will claim for a small scratch whereas a bloke will do the job properly. Statistics from a well know insurance company....
Women actually have more accidents than men. It's just that men have bigger accidents. A woman will claim for a small scratch whereas a bloke will do the job properly. Statistics from a well know insurance company....
Also men drive quite a bit further!
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1660
"Maybe a woman trapped in a man's body?" Nah, I was just trying to be argumentative. I dont actually use the car that much, I prefer to use my (motor)bike, and will freely admit that whilst doing so, I assume every other road user is an utter t**t.
Why do women like to "go shopping"
Shopping is what you have to do as an alternative to having no food to eat and no clothes to wear.
It is not an activity in itself.
Is that cos you've never actually been in a supermaket as thats the wifes department coffeeeking
In one 😀
Shopping is what you have to do as an alternative to having no food to eat and no clothes to wear.
It is not an activity in itself.
Just to play devil's advocate it could be argued that cycling is just a means of transport to get from A to B - not an activity in itself.
I'm no great fan of shopping myself, but each to there own.
I don't like shopping (unless its for bike bits...)
I do have my seat somewhat tilted forward, and even then I'm not leaning on it, no idea why...I've tried leaning back more but its just uncomfortable. I'c going to blame my long legs / short arms combination!
I don't get the leaning forward thing that women do...the only adjustment I make when I get in our cars after MrFC has been driving is to move the seat forward a notch or 2 as he is taller than me.
As for the shopping thing...I'm always in such a rush I have my credit card ready before I've packed away the shopping.
Maybe I should have been a man? 8)
I'm not having this! Mrs T is a sublime driver. Many's the time we've been travelling quietly down the road at 40mph and she's dipped the clutch and shifted as smooth as you like into reverse without so much as a judder. If it wasn't for all the honking horns and screeching tyres as cars behind swerve to avoid us, I'd never guess that we were suddenly travelling backwards.
"going to blame my long legs / short arms combination!" Are you a tyrannosaurus rex by any chance?
Where's their allegedly great multi-tasking when you need it?
not so much multitasking as changing their mind really quickly?
why are women so ................. ggggrrreeeeaaaaaaaaaaaatt!
i like them so much i married one - 30 years ago and I still love her 😀
Are you a tyrannosaurus rex by any chance?
darn it...now everyone will know!
TBH I often fall asleep when being driven by my other half, it's too relaxing. I like it when I need to hang on a bit 🙂
+1 jj55
[i]why are women so ................. ggggrrreeeeaaaaaaaaaaaatt!
i like them so much i married one - 30 years ago and I still love her [/i]
Me too but there are times I wish we could talk about cars or girls or watch fight club or the matrix together without me getting cross with all the questions.
"You've seen this film 4 times now, BRAD PITT IS NOT REAL!!!!"
(Spoiler alert 😉 )
Sorry. :-). It's an old film though. It's not like it's inception.
Can you imagine taking your wife to watch that?
We don't all do that! I'm female and drive with the seat well back and straight arms almost, I'm a short arse too, only 5'5" but it's just style of driving I prefer. I've seen plenty of female drivers with their noses up against the windscreen though - I sometimes wonder if they're too vain to admit to needing glasses. The supermarket thing annoys me too, just bag up and pay already, grrr!
+1 on the supermarket comment.
Even more infuriating - they then pay by cheque and produce the cheque guarantee card which, by some bizarre feat of modern technology, actually happens to be a F***ING SWITCH CARD!
Also on the subject of women - why on God's green earth do they ask you if they look fat? It'd serve 'em right if just once we replied 'yes'.
[i]It'd serve 'em right if just once we replied 'yes'. [/i]
Yeah, but then you'd not get sex.
Swings and roundabouts. (The latter of which should be taken in a circular fashion, driving in the most straight line possible is a poor option)
"Why do the women in my spinning class look so damn good in lycra?"
Because they have good figures and nothing on underneath.
[i]Because they have good figures[/i]
I must have watched *very* different spinning classes to you.
I saw a seagull eating a kebab today
Dancake, was it a female seagull though?
reply to waswas
thinking ahead is purely a man skill.from the number of blokes who unwittingly lose their families to divorce 'cos they can't keep their flies done up I'd say that wasn't a man skill at all, really.
Interesting how we get from a a super market queue to infidelity - know as many women stray. Ha the mind of women.
IF women are so good at multi tasking why cant they have a headache and sex at the sametime?
I'm told I drive like a bloke - not sure if that's a compliment tho. I do shout at women drivers, but that's only when they're letting the side down.
I have my purse out, ready to pay at the checkout - the look of surprise is for "HOW can I have spent that much again?".
Do not need plots explained to me - in fact I hate it when people talk thru films. I did get laughed at when I squealed cos the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 got crushed in The Dark Knight.
PS I don't think I'm a man in a woman's body but my climbing partner does say I'm an honorary bloke 😉
pah, I have the seat almost as close up to the steering wheel as it can go. that's just what feels comfortable - live with it!
and yes, a lot of women drivers just plain don't notice hazards on the road; and then there's a lot of men who just completely disregard..
so we're all rubbish, we're all ugly, and we're all doomed
miaowing_kat - Member
pah, I have the seat almost as close up to the steering wheel as it can go. that's just what feels comfortable - live with it!
Obviously I've not seen you drive, but I'd imagine your ability to carry out emergency manouvers, if required, are compromised by this driving position.
I imagine my ability to carry out emergency manoeuvres is hampered more by the fact that I've never come across such a situation whilst driving. FWIW I can't put the clutch down if I move the seat back by two notches, so I can't be in[i] that[/i] ridiculous a position..
As a cyclist, women drivers terrify me a lot less often than male drivers. In my experience, they are more respectful, slower, more considerate and less likely to kill me or hurl abuse at me.