There was a US film with Michael Douglas - he gets stressed in a traffic queue and goes on a shooting rampage.
An excellent film by the name of "Falling Down"
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This will get way off motoring PDQ but Aprilia is right. As a society we are under too much pressure, mainly financial pressure and these days one little thing and we kick off.
Without going in to details I got in a road rage thing recently and went from Mr. Calm to boiling point in 10 seconds flat.
Bit much with the kids in the car...
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I think it's partially down to more traffic - lots of times I see car drivers pull out of junctions in an unsafe manoeuvre because they've been waiting for so long. Things like this tend to snowball too.
I've no idea what you did wrong, but it must have been pretty serious - did you kick their grandmother earlier perhaps?
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Calm to boiling point in 10 seconds flat.>>
As long as that..:-)
I've found that it's the female drivers who are often even worse than the men these days.
I'm pretty quick to get uptight about some of the more diabolical driving I see most days and, on occasions, I've given a somewhat rude sign when I've felt it warranted.
But compared to the hand gesturing or highly aggressive antics/manoeuvres of some of the younger members of the opposite sex it's tame in comparison.
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Might just be pure envy of someone who's worked hard, and got a nice car from their own efforts whilst thinking the world owes them a favour.
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I find the only way to avoid frustration on today's roads is to adopt the 'if it happens, it happens' attitude. Doesn't stop people having a rage at you for no reason, but you enjoy life a lot more.
There isn't much to it. Just never rush and accept the circumstances - leaving in plenty of time always helps too. I'm lucky in that my boss didn't mind that I was an hour late for work due to a road-closing crash on the A1 this morning.
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Might just be pure envy of someone who's worked hard, and got a nice car from their own efforts whilst thinking the world owes them a favour.
What??
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The Grocer's just bought an E320.
E320 = (very) Nice car.
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Sorry Aprilia, will try and make my thoughts clearer in future.
Thanks for explaining Adam.
Pete.
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I suffer from rage in general, I don?t need a ton of metal around me to get me to boiling point, in fact I?m much more chilled out in the car with one hand on the wheel and top tunes on the stereo. And I very rarely, if ever, drift over the speed limit these days, not having to watch for cameras or plod is just so much more relaxing. I?m more likely to get wound up with people in supermarkets or dilly dalliers walking down Oxford Street. A couple of years ago I got this bee in my bonnet about cyclists going through red lights at Oxford Circus as I was crossing and I took to trying to hit them in the face with a rolled up Telegraph.
Big blokes who shout at small girls in cars are my pet hate. That is totally out of order and completely inexcusable.
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That should be two hands on the wheel Dave...
Unless of course you have only one hand, in which case I apologise unreservedly.
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It?s all part of the general decline in moral standards. Violence is now seen by a large proportion of the population to be acceptable. Fifty years ago there was little violence. If someone annoyed you, you just ignored it. Nowadays, if you as much as inadvertently make eye contact with someone you are likely to get the response ?Who you looking? at?? followed by a punch-up.
A policy of zero tolerance would help greatly. These days very few people seem to know where to draw the line between right and wrong.
Morality goes up and down in cycles, but unfortunately I don?t think that it will get significantly better in our lifetime.
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Fifty years ago there was little violence. If someone annoyed you, you just ignored it. Nowadays, if you as much as inadvertently make eye contact with someone you are likely to get the response ?Who you looking? at?? followed by a punch-up.
Yes, I agree. There was a recent 'survey' (I saw it on Teletext) which found that the UK had the highest rate of road-rage in Europe. I can well believe it. British people are generally quite agressive, especially in the evenings. A few weeks ago I was wandering around in Munich after 10pm and felt pretty safe - I wouldn't feel the same in most British cities.
There is also no longer any feeling of 'national identity', we are a collection of disconnected 'communities' and interest groups so there is a lot of 'them and us' agression (and this is not, as many would have us believe, confined soley to the residents of council estates).
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"That should be two hands on the wheel Dave..."
If there?s no one next to me I tuck my left hand under the passenger headrest and spread out, but if I?m singing along to the Stone Roses I have to hold my pretend microphone. That?s if I?m not drumming on the steering wheel. I like to drum to live Genesis cds and of course, slap bass to 80s tracks and air guitar for Guns n Roses. I tell ya, there?s nothing further from my mind than road rage.
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The world is full of very strange and derranged people. A large number of them have cars.
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The world is full of very strange and derranged people. A large number of them have cars.
Is that an answer to the road rage question? Or a comment on Dave's interesting dtriving habits he just revealed? ;)
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I'd be more worried about Adski ferrying skinheads about. Was this through choice?
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I'd be more worried about Adski ferrying skinheads about. Was this through choice?
Now now let's not be stereotyping, if Adam wants to have no hair and a gold loop earing in his left ear then that's up to him :-D
Seriously though I know a perfectly respectable guy who just goes skinhead because it looks better (I agree!).
Back to motoring it may have been Adam's turn at taxi service and got whoever was travelling with whom. I one thought I was picking up two people I knew from the bottom of town and it turned into 6, none of whom I know nor have seen since.
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Sorry, I probably just have a thing about skinheads.
When I was growing up they were either just really poor kids from deprived council estates or, erm......skinheads.
Being badly beaten-up by the shaven ones at age 12 can not have helped.
So Adamski has a shaved head and an earing?
Why, in that case he must be a gay skinhead!
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Woah woah woah!!! - back it up a little here Gents.
Firstly, I don't have a skinhead or an earing! I used to have a skinhead back in the bad old days but now just a good old short back and sides.
Mike's obviously been there before - I was taxi service yes - en route to pick up someone else actually! It was through choice though - to be fair - it was my turn!
P.S. I'm not gay
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It isn't just road rage. There is shopping trolley rage (try getting close to the Tesco doors at opening time before the pensioners and you get an earful. Pavement rage (i.e. someone walking slower than the one behind) 10 items or less rage (just try to get into the short queue with 11 items in your basket without hearing a "Tutt Tutt") Bus queue rage, standing near the train doors rage, having to wait one minute longer in the queue rage, breathing loudly rage, mobile phone rage, parking outside someone else's house rage, rage against rage rage.
Everyone is in a rage, tense, stressed....too much information rage.
Phew....I need a holiday. DOH! Plane delay rage!
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The above sums it all up perfectly. It is because we live in a horrible, mean spirited and very overcrowded little country that is living on past glories and has been for the last 60 years. We have too high an opinion of ourselves, "best police force, fire-brigade, post-office, blah, blah in the world", don't make me laugh. We treat each and every one of our fellow people with contempt, witness the current daily discourse on the cult of "the chav".
We do not embrace our cultural heritage in any level. Name an English folk song or something "traditionally" English, other than something like the Royal Family or Beefeaters, which we parody anyway.
To be honest I think the big problem is, we do not appear to have any proper sense of identity and if we do try to show it,it is trampled on sharpish. We are governed by what Paxman called laughably the Scottish Raj, but he has a point.
It is very, very, very depressing. I would leave tomorrow if I could.
I think I need to lie down!
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You see if the entrance to the shop was wide enough, they would drive into the shop and park next to the tills!!!
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Colney Heath. Mini roundabout. I've come from the M25 direction. Turn left at the mini roundabout and there is a big 4 wheel drive parked on the zig-zag's One wheel on the pavement. SHE is on the 'phone.
I hit the horn ( air, quite loud,) got a disgusted look from the LARGE woman in the Land Cruiser. If you know this area you will know where I mean. Just round a blind corner, on the zig-zags of a zebra crossing. Shop opposite.
I nearly offered her a copy of the Highway Code.
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about 4 months ago (yes 4!) a junction was changed from left/straight/right in the town centre to straight on only. Plenty of cars seem to not catch on early on but most now have.
Anyway today I saw a car indicate and turn left at the traffic lights. Police vehicle right behind him went straight on and I don't think even noticed him. Might as well have saved council money IMHO and kept the junction how it was.
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