mystery machine

drivers who slow down when you come up behind them

How close 'up behind them' are we talking here?

Lol no was at the pictures but the rain was so heavy coming home I should have took an oar with me in the scooby

What did you see, and was it any good? If not, then feel free to punt it into SIDC Room 101

And if we're binning movies, I'll drop "Bowfinger", "The Fast and the Furious", "Rocky IV" and any 2000s remake of any of the classics

people who wont let me out of a junction cos I am in a Scooby

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paying Road Tax when half the roads are appaling

people who drive when they are untaxed and uninsured

I was tempted to write "Tax me".

Then he'd have to wash it!

Oh, and Simon Cowell.

Was wondering how long it'd be before someone mentioned that insufferably smug wee flannel

Another:

Inaccurate weather reports that promise dry weather, lulling you into cleaning your Scooby, only to find yourself on the road two hours later with lorries and buses slushing past you from the opposite direction... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

ok if us southern softies join in..............good!

People who take life and themselves too seriously

Also, bad manners get on my wick, e.g.

• People who don't show gratitude when you hold a door open for them.
  
• People who don't place the 'Next Customer Please' bar on the conveyor belt behind their shopping in the supermarket.
  
• Non-waving Scooby drivers!
  

Sorry but its called filtering and it is legal.

I thought so too... as long as the traffic is pretty much stop-start? To be fair though, the thread's not so much about what's legal and what's not - more about what gets on your respective goats

I'm more concerned about those Kamikaze bikalists who think it prudent to squeeze between a lorry and a car on a free-flowing motorway at 90mph

(dont ask why i am up this late sober!)

Not another feral cat stakeout, I hope?

I've not really had many boy racers baiting me. I tend to get LOADS of middle age reps in Audi's, Beemers and mid range Merc's driving like eejits.......still good fun to smoke them though

Yep, this is my experience too... often wondered if it's because I don't drive much at night...

Think you need a few

I reckon you're right... but I don't think I need a swallae half as much as some of the Daily Mail readership that appear to have turned out for the thread... (don't mention single mothers or diminishing pension funds to them - like a red rag to a bull ).

Never mind, some choice ales lined up at the bottom of the fridge tonight

Another few to get off my chest:

• Traffic 'calming' islands.
  
• Speed humps.
  
• New roundabouts, especially those that take in the region of two years to build... (the Empire State Building took less than 14 months to erect!).
  

Able bodied people who use disabled parking bays

I was at Braehead retail park once with my (able bodied) mate. Not content with parking in a disabled space, he actually made a point of parking diagonally across two of them. To say that I was a bit embarrassed would be rather like saying that Pol Pot was a wee bit mean-spirited...

Right now count to ten......... bet you feel better now lol

MM ... See what you have started you must have had a bad day??

Aye, and today wasn't much better... thinking of taking up the fags again

I didn't think you could get within 50 yards of a smoker these days even if you wanted to...

I gave up years ago... seldom bothered me since then, before the public smoking ban or after. If smoke ever came my way and I didn't like it, I'd usually exercise my own free will, discretion and self-preservation by erm... moving away from it

It's a radical idea, but evidently not for everyone

oh yes

Gav

Quality...

and after the past couple of test drives,potential customers who think they can drive....................................................................and can't!!!

You must have some stories to tell about that?

I'll add:

Almost any new legislation that is introduced to supposedly 'save lives'. Yes, that's a little emotional trick the government like to play on an unwary public when they're planning to:

- Raise taxes (road tax - environmentally friendly, green, saves lives).

- Add a new stealth tax (more speed cameras, saves lives).

- Strip you of your civil liberties or other consumer freedoms (smoking ban, minimum pricing for alcohol - saves lives).

- Invade your privacy (more CCTV, snooping on emails to identify 'terrorist networks', saves lives).

How about locking us in our houses and feeding us through our letterboxes? That could save thousands of lives!

protesters who protest at anything simply because they are associated with Greenpeace or an equally harmful/useless eco-warrior type body of nutters.

Almost as bad as that curious breed of low-brow vigilante that have emerged in the last decade or so, a bunch of whom got into trouble a while back for vandalising the home of some poor woman after discovering that she was an acting PEDIATRICIAN

On the Scooby theme:

• Hawkeye tail lamps (much prefer the Bug/Blob items)
  

The increasing and scandalous price of fuel

Now we're rolling, have to add phoney 'green' road tax to that too...

280 Bhp - Where To Go From Here

Jings, I only just got there

Some stuff a little more Scooby-related...

• Chocolate newage shocks
  
• Equal length headers
  

Folk who never indicate the direction they are going

That's the spirit

And what about those chumps who fail to cancel their indicators even after a mile of motorway traffic has passed them, lights a-flashing, horns a-tooting?

.......probably just people who constantly moan about anything!

Ranting is a proven (and often entertaining) method of stress relief and as a Scotsman it is my duty to ensure that at least 50% of my verbal communications include a moan or gripe of some sort (75% for folks from Dundee). We're not Englanders - "mustn't grumble" is not part of our vocabulary*.

Complain away folks...

* let it be known that I have no general gripe about English peoples - canny bunch of lads, most of them

In the mood for ranting today, so here's my starter for ten:

• Drivers who park closer up the side of your car than necessary.
  
• The evil cousin of the above, the careless munter who opens his/her car door onto yours.
  
• Cyclists who appear out of the blue in queuing traffic and pass within millimeters of your bodywork.
  
• Comments from passers-by when you're washing your car to the effect of "you can do mine when you're finished!". Hardy. Hardy. Har.
  
• Digital roadside signs that display useless information that does nothing more than distract drivers - they could at least flash jokes up there, or a weather forecast, or fitbaw scores (or even nikked wummins, if the technology's up to it?).
  
• Gritters spraying the highways on dry evenings when it would be warm enough to take the bins oot in yer kekks.
  

Anything to add? The less obvious, the better

P.S. Let's no' get too heavy - wouldn't want it to turn into a 'haters' thread (I hate those)