Venting safe zone (no counter responses allowed)

Isambard

traffic lights which aren't linked in sequence, requiring you to sit at a red whilst the next light 50 metres ahead sits at green with no one moving.

Cantona's Collars

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

On the subject of rural driving,we must mention Mr. and Mrs. brake tapper. Hitting the brakes at every little curve or the merest sign of an approaching vehicle. If 2 tractors can meet and get by on the road then surely your little Micra/Yaris will have no problems.

Oh sweet Jesus this.
There's one road I should be using most days but I avoid it because of slow drivers. 40k indicated at most and there's a few who'll brake when you see a car a couple of corners away and then again as they approach it. ****ing idiots.

PaulKK

Absolute arseholes who sit waiting to turn right at this juntion in morning rush hour. Not allowing any cars through the lights even though it's backed up significantly. Note no right turn sign also....

liamog

People who bamp at you for merging into a lane during congestion when they've left approximately 5 car lengths, traffic is moving at sub 30km/h, and you've been indicating for approx. 15 seconds already.

Don't be surprised when traffic fills gaps.

crasy dash

To the nice person in the car park who decided to dent my rear door and just feck off after I parked miles away from the door and not within 10ft of another car must also give a big thank you to the security guard who wouldn't check the CCTV cameras for me.

Cantona's Collars

Those people who hold a phone to their chin when driving and seem to think they are doing nothing wrong because it's not up to their ear. Pretty much every car these days has Bluetooth so spend 2 minutes connecting your fooking phone to it.

JillyQ

People who don't know how to use roundabouts, it's quiet simply give way to cars coming on your right.

gmacww

Coming into our town it's single lane traffic. There is a turn off onto the ring road at aldi. Even in the worst of traffic you are usually not waiting any longer than about 10 seconds. You are waiting for you chance to turn and behind you the cars drive up onto the path to undertake you just so as they can re-join the queue of traffic 20 meters ahead of you. Jesus what's the hurry!!!

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Other Drivers man...dont they know who I am, seriously get out of my way.

Empty bus lanes in rush hour traffic - I pay for the roads let me use it.

Speed Ramps

120 KPH on the motorway should be 160.

Gatso Vans

Fuel Prices

VRT

Insurance companies bumming me each year.

Fake badging on cars

Birds ****ting on my car.

Multistory car parks with unnecessary narrow high kerbs.

Pot holes

Cars that dont turn off their lights automatically but have a circuit to bong at you instead.

Why people think audi interiors are so nice???

Stickers with little people representing the family of the car owner and their dog.

Motor Factors that sell 20 kinds of car shampoo but dont stock actual car parts.

Main Dealers taking the piss with customers cars.

.....I will think of more.

Mc Love

The Dacia range of cars

dr.fuzzenstein

Pointles badge snobbery

Thought of one earlier in the car then had one happen. :pac:

Driving with no lights at night. People can make a mistake, it happens. But when people are being flashed at and ignore it I don't get what kind of world they're in. Are they constantly getting flashed at so now they ignore it?


Then the classic arsehole taking forever to get up to speed. First set of traffic lights took 800m (checked on Google Maps :P ) to get up to 50km/hr. Next set we got up to 70 (80 zone) in the almost 2km before the turn-off they were taking. Bloody idiots.

fullstop

humberklog wrote: »

Truck and lorry drivers that park up on the roadside between the entrance and exit to a filling station whilst they go on their lunch break.
Fokkers!

N7 is ridiculous for this. There's a garage West/Southbound with a slip road beside it for access to houses and the truck drivers just park there and go in for food/coffee, leaving the residents having to drive through the forecourt to get to their house. The Esso just after Naas East/Northbound often has trucks parked on the hard shoulder between the entrance and exit as well so you have no idea if there's any traffic in the inside lane when pulling out :mad:

ewj1978

N25 heading to Midleton roundabout from Cork. The OVERTAKING lane isn't for you to fecking sit in for 5 miles from carrigtohill cos you're fecking turning right at the roundabout!!
The lights at the Bandon road roundabout. Go green and the ones from Dunnes are red... When its fecking closed!
The actual state of the road at that roundabout! get some fecking lines on it!
Insurance for a 2005 car is now how much!!
No Mr mechanic I don't want your opinion on why I shouldn't have bought X car. Here's my money please service it.
Tailgaters. At 120kph+ on the N25 in commuter traffic. Being up the hole of the car infront while hes up the hole of someone else, repeated by 20 knobheads, is going to be carnage when there's an accident.
Bloody turn on your headlights. Not your Daylight ones or even your front fogs. HEADLIGHTS!
So I pay my tax online and cos its a bank holiday I won't get my disc for 5-6 days and some knob can give me a ticket for not displaying on my TAXED car.
Stop speeding!
Everyone should resit their test every 5 years.
Cyclists WEAR A HELMET!
Anyone using a boat should have a licence. simple.
that's enough for now.

Doltanian

I'm calling for a genocide of all Deer around Killarney.

blackbox

I hate those plastic clips for holding on trim that break when you try to pop them in cold weather.

MetzgerMeister

A while back I was in Kildare Village. I parked in one of the sections that was completely empty the whole way down from the entrance to the bottom so that no one would park beside me. I was answering a text message when some bint pulls up RIGHT FVCKING BESIDE ME and opens her door onto my wing mirror and saw her go "oh fvck" to herself. I looked at her in disbelief as she continued on her way without so much as an wave or apology.

Autosport

To the lady driver who decided to pull out in front of me from a side road onto the main road, I suggest you go to spec savers and read the sign on your side of the road that said STOP and I won't say what language I used but if you choose to kill yourself don't think I'm going to help you.

fallen01angel

This one is v specific........To every single a**e driving the N25 who takes the Dublin lane at the Jack Lynch Tunnel roundabout to travel around the roundabout to head through the tunnel instead of queuing in the correct lanes like you're supposed to do .........you are selfish inconsiderate fokkers. If you want to avoid traffic queues,get on the road earlier.

Titzon Toast

If you're joining the motorway, put your f##king foot down and get up to a reasonable speed first.
I always get caught behind these cabbages and they drag every other car caught behind them onto the motorway at the same speed causing chaos.

And to the old granny who pulled straight out in front of me from the hard shoulder this morning at zero miles an hour on the M1 northbound. You should should hand in your license and use the bus pass you were given 50 years ago.

DaveyDave

People who flash you on the motorway because they think you have to let them in, but you're just passing by because they couldn't get up to speed and they're mad because that had to go in behind you.

When I merge and there's a car beside me I just wait and slip in behind, in what world does someone get annoyed at that and flash? I hope they crash...

SpitfireIV

You're driving along in a particular speed zone say for instance 100kph and the driver in front spots a speedvan and slaps on the brakes to slow down to some god awfaul rediculous speed of 50-60kph!!! Seriously grinds my gears, whats the point? To show the speedvan how they are a safe and considerate driver whom wouldnt dare go near the speed limit?! By the time they see the van its probably got them clocked anyway, but this stupid thing of slowing down!! :mad::mad:

Drivers merging onto main roads as if it were a motorway! See it every morning on the Dublin Road to Kilkenny, two junctions on the main road where people just pour out onto the main road, drive along the hard shoulder until they can merge!! :mad: There's a 'STOP' sign there for a reason.

To the learner driver I overtook, completely legitimately within the speed limit, without cutting him off or any other adverse driving techniques- I say to you this.

You're a learner driver- and indeed driving without an accompanying driver (maybe thats legal in some circumstances?)- anyway, you're obviously new to the road.

But, when someone overtakes you as i've described above, it doesn't give you licence to flash your lights and display a two finger salute to me. it indicates to me that you shouldn't yet be driving unaccompanied on the road.

I hope I don't meet you again- because next time, it won't be so pleasant - for you!!!

Experience_day

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Dregro

Get up go fucκing speed before joining the motorway.

Hal1

Only be courteous when it's safe to do so. There's no point creating potential problems for yourself, by holding up a main road to let 1 car out.

The_B_Man

It annoys me when people give up their right of way. There are rules of the road so everyone is on the same page and everyone understands fully what is happening at a junction. When someone gives up their right of way to let someone turn, it throws everything off and causes confusion, which is not what you want on roads!

Also, I hate when people go to such effort to overtake a single car.
There's a set of lights on the way to work with 3 lanes (left, straight, right) but the left lane has a left/straight arrow, so people use this as a way to overtake/undertake whoever is in the "straight through" lane. The problem is, on the far side there's a lane merge so if there's 2 cars in the straight lane, then the 1 car in the left/straight lane will barge in, causing the 2nd person in the straight lane to brake and let them in, with that person gaining exactly 1 overtaking spot, with a net gain of around 1 whole second!

I suppose what I mean is, for the hassle involved in performing an undertaking manoeuvre with a merge, is it worth the time you make up? Unless you're gonna overtake like 20 cars, I wouldn't bother. It boggles my mind when I see people driving like nutjobs in order to overtake 1 or 2 cars.

Craftylee

People who get right up the arse of a stopped bus and then cant safely see around it to go past

my3cents

Craftylee wrote: »

People who get right up the arse of a stopped bus and then cant safely see around it to go past

Same people do the same when the bus or other wide vehicle is moving making it impossible for them to overtake or you to overtake them :mad:

Fûskers with no spatial awareness making loads of pointless backwards and forwards moves to reverse out of a parking space.

BlackWizard

Really low sun shining right in my eyes. Too many environmentally friendly vehicles encouraging the sun to continue to do this. It must stop.

Dartz

Speed vans on primary roads are a tax on not having cruise control.

Eric Cartman

middle aged women in dacia's are the honey badgers of Irish roads. They just don't give a f*ck , 2 weeks ago one reversed in to me either intentionally or is actually blind and just ignored her car coming to an abrupt stop. Yesterday one just reversed out of a parking spot into the opposite lane in fitzwilliam square making me jam on the brakes to not hit her. Today one glides from the right hand lane on the quays all the way to the Jervis street exit almost getting t-boned by a bus. Its like they're just oblivious to the world.

GMSA

The state of the roads. Gone to bits with The snow freezing and The rain. The co councils shouldn't be left in charge of a flower bed let alone the nation's roads. Burst a tyre this evening coming home from work after striking a shocking bad pothole. Was full sure both back and front were gone. New fronts fitted last Sept and have about 1500miles done. Lovely cut in sidewall so that's for the bin. Sh1te car jacks , spacesaver wheels ,anti theft studs , nuts with decorative dust caps etc etc

LynnGrace

Drivers who overtake on a motorway or dual carriageway, (not another car in sight), yet they cut back in, nearly taking the front wing of my car with them. FFS, overtake properly!

jaxxx

Hello good citizens. Below you shall see a standard 4 exit roundabout with double approach and single exit lanes. Looks very much like a clock doesn't it??



Despite my lack of artistic ability, I feel I have done well to show proper lane usage (.e. the golden rule): blue background and white line to show proper usage for the left approach lane, and red background and yellow line to show proper usage for the right approach lane. Very standard stuff wouldn't you agree?

Well... can somebody please explain to me why there are so many idiots on the roads who cannot grasp this very simple concept??????????

"Derpy, derpy, derp, I'm going to take the 9/12 o'clock exit, I'm going to go in the right hand lane! Oh what is this, someone in the left hand lane going the same way?? HOW DARE YOU YOU ARE WRONG AND I AM RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I CANNOT SAY OUT LOUD WHAT I WANT TO DO TO THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR GODDAMN STUPIDITY BECAUSE I WOULD LIKELY GET MYSELF IN TROUBLE BUT I WANT TO INFLICT THEM WITH AS MUCH PAIN AS THEIR IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY CAUSES ME!!!!!!!!!

[deep breaths... in..... out..... in..... out.....]

Seriously though, negotiating a roundabout is the simplest thing! How can so many people not understand it????? :mad:

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Diesel drivers who leave their engines running when filling up, (Noisy, smelly!)and proceed to leave the car/van unattended, engine still running, while they enter the shop to pay for the fuel and any other purchases and expect the car/van to be still there when they come out. (DJ Carey).
Toyota Corolla drivers (hesitant, tend to not indicate especially when turning right, park crooked even in large spaces, unpredictable.)
Nissan Micra drivers (mainly old fossils who can't see more than 20 yards ahead and drive agonisingly slow.):(
Drivers who 'ride' the clutch at traffic lights, continuously creeping forward, then rolling back, then not moving off when the light actually turns green!

MuffinsDa

Nincompoops who want to turn right in a wide enough road, but instead of veering a few inches to the right while waiting for a gap in oncoming opposite traffic and sit right in the middle of the lane thus preventing people behind them to slowly pass them on the left and holding up traffic.

Also, those who do not pass right turners on the left when the right turner has been considerate enough to leave a lot of room for them to pass on the left. Instead, they sit firmly behind them waiting until the turn thus holding up all the cars behind them.

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Drivers who are too lazy/foolish to reverse into a parking space even though they have the time and space, then struggle to reverse out, usually on to a busy road with a restricted view.
I always remember when I first started driving, the wise words of an experienced driver: "It's much easier to reverse into a space than out of one".;)
Continental drivers always criticise Irish drivers for one thing above all else: they say "Why do Irish drivers never indicate when changing lanes?"
Parking on footpaths - illegal, dangerous and inconsiderate. Even if you park with 2 wheels on, this is illegal as I observed once when I saw a Garda, with great relish, put parking tickets on a string of about 12 cars who had parked not only on the footpath with 2 wheels, but also on double yellow lines. When he'd gone I had a peek at the ticket on one of the cars. Two offences had been committed - parking on a footpath and parking on double yellow lines, meaning 2 fines!:eek:

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Tolls - we shouldn't have to pay them as we've already paid to drive on the road/bridge being tolled through our road tax. Highway extortion!
On a matter of principle, when driving from Cork to Dublin on the M8/M7, I bypass the toll plaza near Mountrath by leaving the motorway and driving through Ballacolla and Abbeyleix, sometimes stopping off at the excellent Capri Grill or Abbeyleix Manor Hotel in Abbeyleix if I'm hungry. If you choose not to stop, it's only an additional 12 minutes more driving on average, than going through the toll.;)

flyingsnail

People who don't slow down when going through a puddle next to pedestrians, :mad:

my3cents

Companies that advertise cars in Ireland and the UK and can't be bothered to film a right hand drive version of the car :mad:

Experience_day

People that are evidently **** themselves off to the Garda twitter page. Yes we get it, you're a sanctimonious kunt, you'd like to kiss Shane Ross hoop for pleasure and all those beastial lawbreakers really should die....

and in the real world most people feel a bit of compassion for the fcker doing 140 in a 120 zone probably in late evening with half a kilometre visibility and don't feel the need to bend over for an organisation which seems to be increasingly corrupt...

redfacedbear

Why are you indicating right when you intend to use the 2nd exit off the roundabout? Not only is it wrong but it doesn't make any sense.

And of course you couldn't follow your lane around the roundabout - cutting in on other lane as you made your way around - of course you did.

Hal1

Stopping on the motorway, almost a dead stop to let a car merge into the driving lane. Absolute moronic, stupid dangerous cnut in front of me this afternoon.

Tommyboy40

Everyone who isn't me!

r3nu4l

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Piece of sh1t fcks who hog minor roads by going slow at any opportunity when overtaking can’t take place - there’s a special place in hell, just for you!

This.... They are almost always the same b*stards who then accelerate on the only straight stretch of road for miles before slowing to a crawl again on the windy bits, preventing any hope of overtaking for the long line of traffic behind them...

Autochange

Fat people in small cars

ewj1978

asshats driving silver/white cars in fog with no lights on.
I'm especially looking at you Mr. white Ioniq driver on the N25 this morning. Tailgating the feck outta the car in front was bad enough but no lights..
Trust me when I tell you an EV wont lose much range when you turn its bloody lights on!!

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Those who drive at night especially in urban areas with parking/sidelights only.
Not only illegal, but dangerous.:mad: