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I would like to add to this thread the Truck drivers (Bubba please feel free to comment/correct) who spend 2-3min overtaking another truck, of which they are going apporximately 0.000001 mph faster...

Some SCIENCE please!

If we assume 1 mile is 1609m, and an average truck is say 16m (need to travel 32m more in order to pass), at a speed of 0.000001mph relative to each other it would take 19888 hours for them to complete an overtake.

I know it feels like it sometimes though :lol:

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You're confusing Scotland with France lagers.

or Leeds?

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I would like to add to this thread the Truck drivers (Bubba please feel free to comment/correct) who spend 2-3min overtaking another truck, of which they are going apporximately 0.000001 mph faster...

Some SCIENCE please!

If we assume 1 mile is 1609m, and an average truck is say 16m (need to travel 32m more in order to pass), at a speed of 0.000001mph relative to each other it would take 19888 hours for them to complete an overtake.

I know it feels like it sometimes though :lol:

Got to love the A1.

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I know driving can be pretty frustrating sometimes but is it really worth getting this f*cked off about? I bet if you weren't in a steel box you wouldn't be quite as aggressive with people.
Well the thing is I am perfectly calm and mellow driving*, I just bottle up the rage and express it elsewhere. It was either going around bludgeoning people to death with a breezeblock, or ranting on UKB, I chose the latter.

Edit: * - actually in the case in question I wasn't, but I am capable of being calm and mellow driving, on the very rare occasions it's actually justified.

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If someone cuts you up in Tesco's do you throw your basket on the floor and shout at them... I think not.
No but I do think murderous thoughts. Actually the general fuckwittedness of knobends in charge of trolleys is directly comparable to the general fuckwittedness of knobends in charge of cars....

The M8 is exempt from the Left Hand Lane rule. Do they still have that crazy right hand  lane exit thing?
Yup. I was completely bewildered at first but have now grown to like it...

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ROFLMAO. Actually bizarrely enough the Scottish lift queues tend to work in a sensible and fairly smooth (if initially esoteric fashion) - unlike the Scottish lifts themselves. It's almost as if moronic wankstains who are so determined to fuck up the traffic system are elsewhere.....quite possibly in an infinite tailback of their own fucking creation, all the way down the right lane of the A9..... ::)

 

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