Grumpy old buggers thread

[cuppabillytea]

I will regularly do that, in the perhaps vain hope that 'what goes around comes around'. It costs me nothing and frees up the traffic flow. On the weekend, where I live, you could grow old and die waiting for a gap in oncoming traffic. Sometime people may even thank me....

Ditto.

[RANDLOVER]

...................The last time I got Uber eats during heavy rain I had to donate a towel to the delivery cyclist. Imagine having to donate anything to a cyclist.

Cyclists usually get blood and organ donations.

[V8Ian]

On my first visit to the UK in 1973, we were in bumper to bumper traffic on what passed for a main road (one lane each way)on the outskirts of London. My brother was driving - he had been there before and he said "We need to turn right here, so he stopped with the right blinker on, and the next car coming the other way immediately stopped and let us turn right. I was astounded! I don't know if the fact we were in a LHD Denmark registered car was a factor.

Doesn't seem to work here. Slow down, create the gap, flash the headlights and they still won't move until they receive a written invitation.

[JDNSW]

Doesn't seem to work here. Slow down, create the gap, flash the headlights and they still won't move until they receive a written invitation.

That was my point - it doesn't happen here, but it did in London. Whether it still does in London, I don't know.

[4bee]

It improves when 4bee's at home.

Oi You, I am still here you know.

Was going to say nice things about Sydney drivers about 40 years ago. Not sure I will now. Oh bugger, it serves you right.

Went on a Trade visit back then to places like Carrier, Kirby etc & a few other plants & included the CBD for onsite inspections. Was driven from one place to the next by each ones Sales Manager. I recall saying to him on our way to Seven Hills how courteous Sydney drivers were & pretty much as described above for London.


I think he replied with summat like "Hell Bee, if we didn't no -one would be going anywhere".


No idea what they are like these days though. Maybe the same as Adelaide as traffic has built up in both places since then. A bit.


Me, I blame the European Ethnics mostly & usually their "hot" cars. as well as poorly marked lanes, signage, Roadworks etc.

Even an Indian Taxi driver here drove me with care & consideration recently. It was a pleasure to arrive safely in Peak Hour traffic. Don't think he blew his horn once.


There are bad drivers & Motor cyclists everywhere these days & the latter always seem to have suicidal Tendencies.


"Double Lines? What double lines Mate? Not for me matey, they are for everybody else to stick to."


MCs are a good Revenue Raiser for SAPOL it seems. Heard or read recently of the thousands of fines handed out on a Hills road near here which attracts the "leaning over the centreline Motor cyclists." Then there are those that Gravity does not apply to & they slide underneath oncoming vehicles on a sharp bend.


Right, where's me Beeza Bantam?

[NavyDiver]

I didn't mean to shut down the petrol, gas, airline ....... Please don't hunt and kill us??

Just my thought on the Hacker group response

"DarkSide hackers say the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack was only about the money — not politics
Posted 4hhours ago"

"The ransomware gang accused of crippling the leading US fuel pipeline operator has said it never meant to create havoc, an unusual statement that experts said was a sign the cyber criminals' scheme had gone awry."

Suspect the group just made them selves a target plus for some very grumpy FBI, CIA and the spooks we do not know about

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[JDNSW]

Was in town today. Driving past the council offices a car pulled out in front of me (nose in angle parking), ignoring my flashed headlights and requiring some heavy braking on my part. Half a block ahead, the lights were red, so I figured I would be able to read his rather dirty number plate there. He just sailed through the intersection against the red light. Fortunately, the car on his right had good brakes!

Last I saw of him.

[cuppabillytea]

S'no wonder they call the place Dubbo.

[cuppabillytea]

These days in Sydney, it seems that the rule is becoming: If I reckon the other driver can pull up in time, it's ok to pull out in front of them. I think it's high time I started having attacks of very slow reflexes.

[Grumbles]

Our main street in the shopping centre has nose in angle parking on both sides. It is a one way street and only one car width. . There are a couple of accidents every week when two cars on opposite sides of the street both reverse out at the same time. Result - one reverses into the other.

Locals try to avoid parking there when they can but tourists are another matter. They happily reverse out in a hurry [typical city folk behavior, always in a rush] without using their mirrors or even swiveling their heads to have a gander to see if the road is clear. Bent panels and broken tail lights are a common result.

It is poorly planned by the council who are aware of the problem but do nothing about it.