Why are the slow people in such a rush?

[pzkpfw]

No, it isn't a conscious process. It is instinctive negatively-reinforced positive socialisation behaviour. It's territorial, and tribal.

I can believe it isn't conscious, but there would be a basis to it. "territorial" would cover the "I'll stay close so you can't take it" thing.

[James Deuce]

I can believe it isn't conscious, but there would be a basis to it. "territorial" would cover the "I'll stay close so you can't take it" thing.

Nope. It's about teaching people to behave better by taking the hit and being a dick right now, to teach people how to behave in future. It's not about ownership. It's about, "Be nice and share, or there will be consequences".

[mashman]

Being present and aware of others would be a start... but you can't teach anyone anything (people teach themselves), you can only ask that they be present and aware. I often giggle at people not traveling at a constant speed with enough space for two cars in front of them during rush hour and then you see the same people screaming at the cars in front for not going fast enough when the bottleneck appears. Merge like a zip has to be one of the best approaches, but meh, dad always drove selfishly, shy should I drive any differently.

[Edbear]

I think some folk suffer from constant speed syndrome. Generally between 65 & 85 kmh except for over taking lanes , two lanes x 65kmh = 130kmh.
They will annoy the shit out of you for miles on perfectly lovely road and then carry on at the same speed in a 50 kmh zone.
Just thoughtless I guess. The great uninvolved. Avoid them at all cost.

One of my pet peeves! I then wish to see them ticketed for speeding in the 50k area. That would be so fitting.

Excuse me I always slow at any light controlled intersection and ensure no fuckers as you call them are running red lights. Happening to often and seen to many examples of it.

Green means check before moving. I have had near misses from these morons a couple of times now.

Getting from A is the easy part...poor old sods have forgotten where B is

Or why they left home in the first place.

[release_the_bees]

The one that really winds me up is when cars entering the motorway on ramps drive past a large open gap right to the end of the onramp where there is no space to merge, then force their way into the flow of traffic causing the whole lane to come to a standstill.

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[mashman]

Seen on a "poster"...

We live in a culture where
People are more offended by swearing, middle fingers and race
Than they are by famine, warfare and the destruction of the environment.

My compliments to the human races' marketing and advertising departments.

[Ocean1]

Seen on a "poster"...

We live in a culture where
People are more offended by swearing, middle fingers and race
Than they are by famine, warfare and the destruction of the environment.

My compliments to the human races' marketing and advertising departments.

Fuck off, there'd be a fucksight more advertising and marketing budget to be found behind posters depicting famine, warfare and environmental issues than in anything to do with swearing, middle fingers or race issues.

[mashman]

Fuck off, there'd be a fucksight more advertising and marketing budget to be found behind posters depicting famine, warfare and environmental issues than in anything to do with swearing, middle fingers or race issues.

Observe your son. My compliments to the human races' marketing and advertising departments.

[Ocean1]

Observe your son. My compliments to the human races' marketing and advertising departments.

You'd have a fucking hard sell there, first thing I beat into him: advertisements are for losers.

[mashman]

You'd have a fucking hard sell there, first thing I beat into him: advertisements are for losers.

... some things are best left unsaid.

[scumdog]

You'd have a fucking hard sell there, first thing I beat into him: advertisements are for losers.

And are as truthful as KB....

[Ocean1]

And are as truthful as KB....

Always surprises me that normally perfectly reasonable adults seem to take adds as personal advice from some particularly clever friend to buy shit.

Rather than gibberish amounting to constant background white noise.

[granstar]

Probably dragged up as i didn't read previous posts but what gives me the shits (and Billy Connolly was onto this on his N.Z road tour) is slow drivers going into a passing lane and keeping left BUT!, as you carefully pass then, they speed up as if it's a race to the exit, in the words of Billy " Don't fuckin do that!".