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Is it me, or are people who don't let you filter in FUCKING CUNTS?!

Some dappy bint didn't want to let me in, so I wind down the window to have a word a politely remind her it's a filter lane, or to that effect. She replies with "we've all had to queue, so should you".

WTF?! It's what filter lanes are designed for. In the end, she still didn't let me in and to top it off she was a fucking Tory (the window proudly stuck in her back window said so).

RAGE!!!   :twisted:

But 'filter' doesnt mean 'rip down the oustide and try to force your way in', it means think, plan and merge earlier.

if everyone did that there wouldnt be as much congestion at the filter.

Spot on Jim, I hate the wankers that fly down the closing lane on the Motorway then try to push in, fuck 'em, I don't let the impatient bastards in.

If it was a genuine filter lane then I can see where you're coming from, but on Thamesdown drive the kj's who use the third lane at the traffic lights to try and push in front are aholes too, never let them in either.

Sorry Samdy.....YOUR WRONG!!!!...as a lorry driver i see it all,theres no such thing as a filter lane,basicly i just pull over into the filtet and let the morons seeth behind me cos they cant push in,the fact she wouldnt let you in is probably because she was there before you!

I'm one of those idiots who come racing up the outside lane of the filter lanes, it saves you so much time and you always get in. You get a bit of arm waving but what the hell it gets me home earlier.

Exactly. They're there for a purpose. I don't cut people up, I slow down and pull across, it's just you get some idiots who are hellbent on not letting you in because they've had to queue longer than you.

So you are the kind of driver that creates the queues on the motorway, great, cheers.

Next you'll be moaning about people who use the inside lane of the motorway, and then the overtaking lanes when required, instead of sitting in the middle lane for miles and miles.

which you use incorrectly

Why am I using them incorrectly?

Tarmac is there to be filled.

What really freaks me out is the roundabout on the Wootton Bassett road (turn left to go up Old Town hill past the Esso garage, right to Bassett & the railway bridge). It clearly designates both the right and middle lanes for turning right, yet nobody, ever, uses the middle lane, apart from me naturally. Why the fuck don't people use that lane? It'd reduce the queue by exactly half, thankfully they don't though as it saves me 2 minutes each and every day. Minicab drivers try killing me for daring to use said middle lane, I also had one geezer informing me that he wanted to slit my throat too, rather harsh i thought

Should have dragged her out of the car and wacked the nut on her.

She'll let you in next time.

Meh,

You should try driving in Bangkok, theres some REAL road rage material here.

Yeah and I'm one of of them, if some cunt thinks they're too good to wait like anyone else they can piss off if they think I'm letting them in.

I NEVER let people in.  :twisted:

Me neither, just look straight ahead and pretend they're not there!

I normally let drivers in as I'd expect them to let me in.

Filter lanes are designed to get cars off busy roundabouts and stop queues blocking exits... i use them all the time if necessary (usually at the Peugeot garage roundabout when trying to head to town). There are even arrows indicating the purpose of said filter lane, so i don't understand why people get funny about it. If more people used them, there wouldn't be so many inconsiderate cunts blocking peoples exits from roundabouts in this town.

I wouldn't have let you in either, Sam.  When I see an exit coming up, I'll pull over at the start of the filter lane and wait my turn to get off the main road like everyone else.  I wouldn't be so arrogant as to assume that my time was more important than everyone else's.

Then I would ram you, I dont care if I put a dent in my car but most other drivers will back down, once you have let me in, I will do a 'Sussex' and look straight ahead and not even notice your dirty looks in my direction,  your swearing, arm waving and stressful attitude. 8)

Then I'd get out and Nut you. Its my right of way.

I really don't understand this whole "I've queued, so should you" attitude. If there's an empty piece of tarmac that'll get me home quicker then I'm filling it.

Then you are a cunt

Says the bloke who pulls people out of their cars.

Then you will hurt your head!! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Fine.  Just don't expect me to let you in.  The point you seem to be missing is that when pulling over you don't have right of way.  There is no obligation for anyone to let you in...so best not to get too chopsy when people don't.  You made your bed...

I usually let the ladies in so I can get a smile and a wave. :mrgreen:

The way I see it is, let one in move on and so on. I get annoyed when I let one in and five come flying past.

You'd be amazed as to how many people do that  :D

I didn't even use filters when I used to smoke rollies.

I forgot to add this:D

Hmm it depends doesnt it, if I know two lanes are merging into one I will move over as early as possible. If im queing I usually let one person in then move myself, as Lady said I'd expect to be let in...

What I cant stand is when everyone knows the lane is coming to an end, so everyone moves across into the non filter lane....there is a que of about 7 or 8 cars and someone comes up the inside in the empty filter lane knowing full well he needs to get in having jumped the que. Try not to let those type of people in.

Sandy Gary quite frankly you are a selfish cunt. Why the fuck shouldn't you cue like everyone else? your a smart arse cunt hopefully you'll try cutting in and someone will take expection dragg you out of the car and teach you a lesson. :fu:  :fu:  :fu:  :fu:  :fu:

CUNT.

Right!

First off the pendantry, what you're takling about isn't a filter lane. A filter lane is like a right turn only lane at a busy junction/set of lights that stops the traffic being jammed up behind a right turner. Sometimes this is controlled by a filter arrow on the lights.

What you're talking about is a road narrowing and losing a lane, and what the protocol for a considerate road user should be in these circumstances.

There's a couple of issues here. Sometimes there is a bloody good reason to positively encourage people to use both lanes and merge as late as possible. On busy roads, particularly when you're talking about roads narrowing due to road works, you can cause huge tailbacks interfereing with the operation of roundabouts and other junctions if the merging lane isn't used. HOWEVER, when that's the case you'll normally see a sign that reads, "Use both lanes, Merge in turn".

If not, then how soon you choose to pull over out of a lane that's due to close is a matter of personal choice. You CAN leave it until the last minute and get as far up the clear lane as you can before you pull across, but if you do remember this; there's no imperative whatsoever for anyone to let you pull across. It's the other lanes right of way and they can let you in if they want to or ignore you completely, it's up to them.

Samdy, you're right of course that flying up that lane usually will get you ahead of the game a bit, as there's always some mug that will let you in, or some old dear that will not react quick enough to cut you off, but you can't come on here and moan because someone refused to let you in, that's the chance you take.

You also take the chance that if you try to nudge out without being invited some stressed out driver will drag you out of your car and stick one on you, and an entire queue of traffic will pointedly look in the other direction.

If you where in a shop would you push to the front of the queue? Same principal.

I have pushed in sometimes, but only when I have missed the turn or something and I would then like to be let in, but then how are the other drivers to know that it was a genuine mistake and I'm not just being a selfish cunt.

Asides from that I join the back of the queue and wait my turn, like the vast majority of other drivers do. After all those in front probably want to get to their destination quickly just as much as I do.

:D

Youve done it now!

Er. What Lumps said. In the eyes of the law it's called lane priority, as I found out a few years ago.

Slow moving traffic on a duel carridgeway and needed to get in the right hand lane. Plenty of room, indicated, started to move across and the bloke wasn't looking, speeded up and ran into the back of me.

Apparently it was my fault according to Mr. Policeman as he had lane priority.

Thank fuck for protected no-claims  :D

I hate the people that flit across 3 lanes of the motorway in really slow traffic in order to try and always be in the fastest moving lane. Rarrr

what jim said.and fair play to the woman.you'd have got a one finger salute from me

I would have given a hand shuffle as well.

its the same on motorway roadworks.you get clear indication that it will go down to one lane.most drivers queue in the lane as they should.but you get arseholes moving out of that lane to then tear up the outer lane to then cut in.likewise the twats who wait until they are virtually hitting the cones to then cut in.

Just go into  the outside lane and stay parallel to the cars you were next to, until you get to the end, problem solved.

Oh well, I'm going to enjoy pissing off some more people on my way home today then.

Today is one day i would advise not doing it to me :D

We'll all be looking out for you tonight then  :shock:

BTW what was the car that gave you abuse..I know a young lady who drives round with a tory poster in her car.....

I hate people that swing from lane 3 to 1 on the motorway just in time to turn off at the last second

I hate cunts that dont indicate at all, or ones that dont acknowledge when you give way to them. Bastards, its not fucking hard  :evil:

These cunts are all eclipsed by MIDDLE LAND IDLING WANKERS I FUCKING WANT TO KILL THOSE PRICKS.

GET THE FUCK INTO THE INSIDE LANE YOU TOYOTA PRIUS DRIVING TWAT

Fog light users when there's the faintest bit of mist.  If you can see me in your rear view mirror, then I can see you.  I don't need you to put you effin fog lights on.  They give me a headache, I can't stop looking at them!!!  Arrrrgh!!

I'm with you there janaage.

Why can't some people understand that if they have their fog lights on, on a clear night then the on-coming traffic is blinded by the light.

revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night

Don't get Arriba started on signalling - he lost one argument years ago and has been a miserable cnut ever since :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Madman drummers bummers,
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

Took me a while, but I caught on eventually.  :wink:

The worst is when BMW drivers race up behind you on the motorway with their fog lights on in broad daylight in a "get the fuck out of the way" attitude.

That really annoys me.

When that happens to me, I always make a point of indicating to pull back in to the middle lane and then do so  r e a l l y  s l o w l y.

Dont get me wrong, I never sit in the outside lane unless I need to overtake a lorry or something thats pulled into the middle lane but yeah, pulling back over slowly really pisses them off  :D

reminds me of a time just outside Bern where some old nazi couple in a merc got right up my arse on the motorway.  i couldn't really pull in anyway as the inner lane was fairly busy and i certainly wasn't dawdling.  so i sat there for a bit, they got more and more annoyed, flashing lights, very close to me etc.  So, knowing that there was a speed camera ahead, I just carried on, but finally pulled over, very slowly,  meaning that when merc saw his chance to demonstrate just how considerably richer than me he was, he floored it and was probably doing at least 180kmh  when he went past the camera.  Flash, flash - laughed all the way home.

I nearly got overtaken by a Merc this morning on one of these lanes that merge in together today. I braked as i was coming up to the roundabout, the twat then tries to push me in to the merging lane and overtake me on the outside!!! I think fuck this and move back across forcing him to brake, get to the roundabout and he gets out his car giving me all what for!!  :shock:
I dont think he liked it when i wound my windows up whilst he was pointing his finger through at me shouting, thus trapping it between the glass and the seal, he seemed to scream a bit.

Tosser.