bimbling idiots

Is it just me or is this the ultimate in bimbling idiot stupidity..
When turning right off a NSL road , would you flash people waiting to
pull out to let them go.. and sit stationary in the middle of the
road.. I can't even undersand why anyone would do that.. suffice to
say the 'bird has a nice loud horn !

 

No, I wouldn't. Aside from the fact that flashes are easily misinterpreted
and you could be held responsible for any ensuing pile-up, it is illogical
to remain in a hazardous position on a NSL road for longer than necessary
just for someone else's convenience. I suspect such numpties think they are
being "good drivers" (confusing politeness with road manners - after you
Claude, no, after *you* Cecil, kind of thing). Another manifestation is the
elderly Sunday-driving jizzrag who slows down in a stream of nicely-moving
traffic to let someone out of a side-road. When traffic is at a crawl and
there is no flow to impede, I let people out all the time, on the basis that
the inconvenience to me is more than offset by the gain to them, and what
goes around comes around. But when traffic is moving well, deliberately
slowing the flow of traffic in the cause of some notion of good manners is
in fact the worst manners of all - help out one, inconvenience twenty. IAM
say that one's first duty in traffic is to keep the flow going, and on this
I agree with them.

I would lump such driving with the Middle Lane Owners' Club and other such
abominations. Give 'em the horn, and the finger too, if you can spare a
hand from the bars.

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As an aside, I thought if you go for it when someone flashes and that
results in an
accident then the flasher is not at fault ?

 

The HC advises against acting on another motorists' flash signals, but the
HC isn't the law. I can imagine some whining snotrag going to court to
argue that you had "induced" them to pull out, or whatever, and try to prove
liability. They probably wouldn't win, but I'd rather not have to hire a
defence team and go to court to find out.

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Rich
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1971 S2a 88" petrol
2006 Bandit 1200S

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This kind of thing has long since been settled against whining snotrags.
It was decided long ago that whining snotrags, same as anybody else,
must be responsible for their own actions and it's up to them to decide
for themselves whether to go or not, irrespective of being 'politely'
flashed out or not.

 

Decided when and by whom? I thought the concept of anyone being
"responsible for their own actions" had been made illegal under Yuman Rights
legislation.

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1971 S2a 88" petrol
2006 Bandit 1200S

Take out the obvious to email me.

 

Long ago and not so far away, by strange men with a penchant for
dressing up in gowns and wigs.

 

mr p banged the rocks together and they said :

If it was a busy main road, and at that time there wasn't anyone
immediately behind me, then yes I'd let people out.

Have you not sat in a side road for ages because the main roads just
too busy, and no **** slows to leave a gap, or lets you out?

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, frag

If there's no one immediately behind you (that is, close enough to be
inconvenienced by your slowing down for no apparent reason) then a
reasonably competent driver should be able to get out of the side road
after you've passed.

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... and if you have to slow down ,or stop, to let them do it, it'd be
quicker, for them, if you went straight past anyway.

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If you're slowing to take a 90 degree left and indicating I'd have been
out of the side junction before you started to enter it in any case.
The driver behind could slow down a little (although probably not too
much) or overtake.

I'd not see any reason for someone to stop before turning left off a
main road unless the driver emerging from the side road was blocking the
side road.

 

Yes, but there's a lot more reasonably incompetent drivers out there.

I believe in care-in-the-community.

 

The OP said turning right, so I've assumed in the UK and hence crossing
oncoming traffic.

So I meant traffic in my direction was light at that time, traffic in
the other direction was such I had to stop, and when a gap came up there
was time to let someone out and then for me to turn in.

After all I have a better view of oncoming traffic than someone in the
side road.