gordondaviesmoustache said:
urmston said:
If being a road hog is suddenly such a bad thing to do then why only a crackdown (which won't happen) on motorways.
The worst types of road hog I encounter are
1. Young men, probably quite thick ones, cruising round and round town at night at very low speeds, fog lights on because of poor eyesight caused by too much w*nking, sometimes stopping for a chat with a similar moron driving the other way, thinking they and their cars look cool, wicked or whatever the latest kids word is for trendy and with it.
2. People parking on double yellows outside shops and takeaways, and everyone has to wait for a gap in the oncoming traffic to get past.
3. Fat slobs and lazy people who drive round crowded streets very slowly waiting for a parking space to appear because they are so disgustingly lazy and/or fat they can't walk more than 20 yards to where they want to go.
4. People who buy cars but can't afford a house with enough off-road parking and so they leave their cars on the road all the time making it impossible for 2 way traffic to use the road, so causing lots of waiting for other drivers.
5. People who are so pathetically proud of their cars and how shiny and pristine they look that they need a gap twice as wide as the bloody thing before they'll get a move on, so they end up blocking the road needlessly for normal drivers.
Compared to these anti-social types the middle lane motorway hogger is a very, very rare bird indeed.
I would say you need to get out more, but judging by that it seems you do little else but drive around looking for things to annoy you.
All of his threads regarding motorists are like this, he is pathetic, and hates them all! I wrote him quite a long and detailed response a few weeks back in a motoring thread and he didnt reply too for some reason. What's more worrying, is that he doesn't seem to ever see middle lane hoggers. That probably because he is one in his Toyota Prius.
My take on this new rule is brilliant and one that has been long overdue. People who sit in the middle lane for no reason cause tailbacks, undertaking and tailgating. If the inside lane isn't clear, then use the middle lane to overtake. If that middle lane is also busy, then move to the outside lane to overtake. When the middle lane is then clear, move back over and the. Again to the inside lane at the earliest opportunity. It isn't rocket science, just common sense.