I do love the screaming and shouting in this. Sound on. Contains swearing
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11334 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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She asks some very pertinent questions that woman
Mine is Why did two drivers who caused multiple Offences leave the scene of their crimes?
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"The ice caused me to leave m'lord"
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Wow it's like the dodgems that! Reminds me of a bad spell of snow/ice a few years ago (I was living in Morningside at the time) and the number of BMWs/Mercs skiting around or simply sliding downhill due in part to being rear-wheel drive was a sight to behold. Thankfully nothing quite as high-speed as that video though!
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Not bad driving per-se but a near neighbour thought yesterday afternoon would be a good time to wash his car on the street. Cue a pop up ice rink come late evening. Sums up the 'man mind thyself' attitude most people have these days.
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They did not think that one through. Boredom, lockdown, very dirty car?
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It wasn't in swanston area was it? I was washing my car and my sisters but I made sure to get some salt on the surface afterwards, even minimsing water on the pavement. Our cars were filthy anyway.
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Stopped waiting behind a bus at a bus stop whilst driving yesterday. A driver behind drove the wrong side of a traffic island in order to overtake at least two cars and the bus.
They then got stopped in a queue for the traffic lights a further 10m ahead. We were right behind them 200m past the lights as they waited to turn right. Total time saved was five secs max.
Realised they were in a courtesy car. Can't imagine why they driver would have needed a courtesy car, driving like that.
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two close passes on Seafield Rd this morning, both I'd class as reportable. But really cant be bothered with the faff of cameras and reporting. Disappointingly i failed to catch up with either of them.
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During winter my neighbour throws a boiling kettle of water on her windscreen every morning before heading to work. It's usually about the time we're opening the curtains at the front of then house and I like to pause and wait to see if the windscreen explodes. It never has. I have chatted to her about this in the past. Has been done for years. Never had an issue which is surprising to me.
Post inspired based on above mention of neighbour washing car. The kettle water flows down onto the pavement but I grit it now rather than try and get them to stop as I can't help but feel that one day it's going to go pop!
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Perhaps it’s not boiling boiling - or just that glass is quite remarkable.
I know windscreens aren’t made of this brand, but -
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Pyrex is suitable for use from -192°C to +500°C
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https://camblab.info/what-are-the-temperature-limits-for-pyrex-glassware/
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@arobcomp do you rush out and grit just as they leave?
Takes me back.
We had he old stainless steel Morphy Richards electric kettle with the big red switch. Narrow spout, poor fitting lid struggle to open to get cold water in but beautiful arc of water as my dad would pour it over the windscreen in the morning.
Is antifeeeze bad for the enviro but a boiled kettle ok.?
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It wasn't in swanston area was it? I was washing my car and my sisters but I made sure to get some salt on the surface afterwards, even minimsing water on the pavement. Our cars were filthy anyway.
Not at all - South Gyle. S/he was probably just not putting 2+2 together as opposed to any malice I'm sure, was just moaning when I wrote that, I'm getting majorly fed up with this cold snap as those of you know know me will attest.
PS - re windscreens, I once had a car with a heated front windscreen. Seems to be rare so wonder if Ford had patented it.
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I believe Ford did originally have a patent on the heated front windscreen but it is also quite widely offered by other manufacturers these days (whether by licensing, because the patent has lapsed or something else I don't know). I believe it's usually a factory option rather than being part of a standard spec level, and it's not particularly widely taken up - particularly so by people who have a garage to put their car in overnight.
One downside is that if your windscreen suffers unrepairable damage of some kind then a replacement heated windscreen is expensive. The wires buried within the glass, being very thin, can be quite fragile so sometimes even damage that could be repaired in an ordinary screen can leave parts of the windscreen unheated, or stop the heating working altogether. Basically, the heating system is less robust than your common or garden heated rear window, and it resides in a more vulnerable part of the car.
Personally I don't find it a particularly onerous chore scraping the windscreen in the morning if I forget to put the cover on overnight. If it's been a particularly hard frost then de-icer spray is usually effective. Compared to sweeping snow off the car* and de-icing the rest of the windows (bar the rear which is heated anyway) it's hardly the most difficult item on the list of things you need to do to get the car going in wintry weather. I'd class it as a nice to have but not something I'd pay much money for, even back when I used to use the car daily.
* Although a disappointing number of people seem to think that this job isn't necessary.
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Two different drivers, in the space of ten minutes walking along Gilmerton Road, needed me to remind them that pedestrians crossing side roads have priority over drivers turning into that road.
One beeped the horn at me a few times including, amusingly, when he was in the middle of trying to explain what I did wrong.
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good explanation @ejstubbs!
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@ARobComp I remember Mr Bill's mum told us about a field trip they did somewhere in Australia many years ago (she did bio/environment stuff) and their car's windscreen froze. There was a Scottish guy in their group and he told them that you are supposed to pour water over it (i assume cold water but maybe ho) and turn on the wipers on max speed. I imagine the wipers were supposed to polish the frozen water so you could see through again. I think she said they tried but it didn't work.
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experienced a significant amount of callous motoring on the roads today, mostly the usual DILLIGAF but special mention to a couple of near life changing incidents -
the gormless obese gentleman who entered the roundabout as i was passing, driving straight at me while entirely engrossed in eating a large hamburger
the lorry driver who muscled past me within inches, at speed on a single track road while i attempted to negotiate a pothole
i later confronted both these parties who were entirely unrepentant, but neither were willing to exit their vehicles to discuss the matter further
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@bax San that is bad our margins are so slender.
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Managed to catch someone getting pulled over on this afternoon's government-mandated exercise ride
The warm fuzzy feeling of schadenfreude helped stave off the cold...
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A Fife man has been convicted of driving offences and struggling violently with police at Kirkcaldy’s Justice of the Peace Court – despite putting up his own bizarre defence case.
Steve Higginson, 56, of Thornhill Drive, Kirkcaldy, denied driving without insurance and a valid MOT on January 15 this year as he claimed he did not need them, while he accused police officers of being “thugs” at the JP court on March 14, 2016.
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Ahhh the old Magna Carta - sounds like he's a freeman of the land. (remember the "it's illegal to use a legal name" billboards? There was one near the NEPN at Roseburn)
They're always good value. I enjoy that most articles about them start with "Freemen of then land are yet to win a single legal case yet....etc"
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He is maybe part of the Court which is up the back of. Dundee pub that likes to annoy Social Work Depts.
He seems to have got off lightly, various unpleasantries dropped as charges, but is also a candidate for Scotland’s Strongest Man but maybe has to be resisting arrest to win such a contest?
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Entitled driver drives through the modal filter at Whitehouse Loan
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Reg: 28DM"You need a good bath you ****ing imbecile!"
Also, note the random stranger in the background assisting the driver by moving the cone! Grrr.
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Seems to be a gangster?
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@gembo - quite possibly, they are notorious sticklers for hygiene.
Well done @neddie for recording - enjoy your bath.
Roll on the planters.
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Diction and behaviour both suggest low-level brain damage.
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IWRATS - LOL.
I did hypothesize that he was driving 0.8 miles to go and watch the rugby, do some illegal social gathering, have a "couple" of pints, then drive home. All while abandoning the planet-destroyer-mobile-living-room-jerk-mobile on double yellows across a drop kerb for 3 hours.
But that would be a complete fabrication.
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