Thanks for hitting me with that cigarette butt you tossed out your window while I was behind you on my motorcycle today. If you didn’t realize that I was behind you, then you’re an ignorant moron. If you did, then you’re something far fucking worse than that.
Many years ago, my Dad was out on his bike and had a driver empty the car ashtray out the window (and into his face) at 60mph. So Dad pulled over, picked up a huge handful of gravel from the side of the road and caught up to the car.
When said car driver gave Dad the finger, he copped all that gravel in the face, courtesy of the open window. At 60mph. The last Dad saw of the car, it had all 4 tyres locked up and sliding off the road onto the shoulder.
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Dangerous.
Well deserved! But dangerous.
You see that bollard there, with the keep left sign on it?
You know, like this one…
Yeah. You’re supposed to go to the left of it. That’s what the keep left sign is for. That’s why the bus driver is extra cross that you crashed into him.
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Yeah, the point of indicators is to let people know where you are going, not where you have been. That’s why the law says you have to indicate at least 3 seconds before you turn, not just after you have started turning 
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Your law is scary. Here you have to indicate either 100 yards before your junction (unless there’s another between you and your desired turn, in which case you indicate immediately after you pass it) on regular roads, or 300 yards on highways and motorways.
I think a length of time makes more sense than a specific distance.
If you are stuck in traffic and travelling at 10 km/h it makes no sense to be indicating for 40 seconds before you turn. Whereas travelling at 100 km/h, indicating for at least 3 seconds means you will be indicating around 100 metres before your turnoff.
Personally though, I actually indicate a lot earlier than that if I’m travelling at speed. The general rule of thumb I was taught was that you need to start indicating before you begin slowing down, or 3 seconds before your turn - whichever is the greatest.
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Interesting difference 
Then again our traffic laws are a clusterfuck of old and new pasted together. “Dead Slow” is still a legal mandatory speed limit from the 1890s - 4mph. Which makes it rather dangerous when you see roadworks on a 60mph road and you see the obligatory “RAMP AHEAD, DEAD SLOW” sign because dropping to 4mph would cause a crash!
You’re already breaking the law in this state by holding the cell phone against your ear while you drive. But you’ve made it harder on yourself by lowering the roof on your convertable so now you have extra wind noise to deal with. Even driving at a slower speed in town is still going to generate wind noise.
STOP STRADDLING THE FUCKING LANES.
Seriously. I get that there are roadworks. But there are still two lanes, just the fast lane has a 6’6 width limit now. There are still two lanes. Two lanes. Acting surprised when the ambulance, which had its siren on, sat behind you and just pounded the horn until you shifted back left is just ridiculous. And flipping him off? HE’S A FUCKING AMBULANCE YOU … I wanted to come up with a more vitriolic word than wankstain but no, no I can’t. It’s 23:54.
Edit: Moved to more appropriate topic by Nabiki
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Good grief, look before you make that left turn! Thank goodness it was a parking lot, I was only going about 10 mph, and I was watching. I still came closer than I’d like to hitting you!
I suspect that they may have been a bit more aware if they hadn’t been in a parking lot. I’ve noticed that when a lot of people get into parking lots their bad driving habits get amplified:
If they are normally a bit unobservant then they become completely oblivious to any other traffic.
Normally a bit impatient? Let’s travel at normal road speeds and honk at anyone who looks like they might cause a delay.
Disclaimer: May be dramatised for effect
If you were really hurt, as in you are close to dying and an ambulance was taking you to the hospital, would you want some inconsiderate jerk slowing down the ambulance and causing it to take longer to get you there?
No?
Then stop being an inconsiderate jerk and get out of the way of the ambulance so the person that’s in it that is hurt can get to the hospital!
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Where I come from, it’s illegal to not do that.
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It is here too, but the ambulance drivers are usually a little too busy to bother calling the police.
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True that. I suppose if you see it happen yourself though you can call the police and give them the registration number of the offending car.
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Thanks for moving that @Nabiki, it was late and I wasn’t paying attention!
Yeah in the UK it’s illegal to not get out of the way of emergency vehicles when they have their lights on (sirens don’t have to be on at night especially in areas with lots of houses). The ambulance driver probably pinged the license plate so he’ll get a fine from the police - all EMS have dash cams that can be used to record incidents on with a double-tap of the offending vehicle 
Shooting them seems a bit extreme.And when did they weaponize ambulances in GB?
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No it doesn’t. And more importantly, how can I get one of these weapons for my own use? 
Just last week, while waiting at a 4-way stop, a fire truck was coming down toward the intersection. Yay! We are already all stopped so they can just go right through. Wait, what? One car looks, sees we are all stopped, and turns out directly in front of the fire truck, not only slowing it down because now it can’t manuver around since we are all backed up in all directions, but also almost getting annihilated by the fire truck as it could hardly slow down in time. A small part of me wanted that, just to clear the gene pool. But it was late and i just wanted to go home, and that definitely would have delayed my day, as I was first in the line and would have been a primary witness.
Tl;dr - people are stupid and I should be in charge of granting drivers licenses. 
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I’d like to be in charge of taking them away.
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