You have Snow chance to survive, make your time
by SynRaptor on Dec.02, 2010, under Angry Rants
With the recent cold snap in Britain, the media have finely whipped the entire nation into a hysterical frenzy like that of a potential zombie apocalypse. People are panic buying like there’s some kind of sub-zero Armaggeddon approaching and the shop shelves are empty and bereft of bread. Now seriously, why bread? Is that the only thing you can eat when it’s cold. It may sound weird but there’s always loads of items left in the frozen aisle yet people seem to perceive frozen food as indigestible if it’s frozen outside? It’s ridiculous.
Just because you're driving a 4x4, doesn't make you the A-Team. You twat.
It’s also in weather like this that you realise how detestable most 4×4 drivers are. Yes your car is bigger and has power distributed to all four wheels simultaneously, unlike front wheel drivers like myself. However, that does not mean you can drive normally in icy conditions. It’s an interesting notion if you think about how many people who own such monolithic machines can truly handle them. For a start being bulky, your field of vision is impaired compared to driving something smaller like a Nissan Micra, which means you have more significant and frequent blind spots. I have seen so many times, particularly last February’s cold snap that you get 4×4 vehicles charging round corners at a speed which could easily roll the car over if you hit a puddle of black ice. And it’s the soccer mum’s again I’m mainly aiming this at. 4×4 does not translate into snow-proof. But how many of these drivers have taken advanced driving lessons? I’ll wager not many.Yet they still charge around residential estates at the same speed as if there was no snow, almost trying to prove that owning a 4×4 makes you an automatic member of the A-Team. I had the same experience this morning when I was driving carefully to ensure that I had sufficient traction to stay safe and I got some dickhead in a Jeep come right up behind me. I mean that’s not repsonsible is it? Twat.
People in Britain just cannot handle snow!
And speaking of irresponsible. there’s so many steep hills around where I live and I see parents taking their kids tobogganing on the road. Just because there is snow doesn”t mean that all cars have stopped functioning. There hasn’t been some kind of cataclysmic electro-magnetic pulse detontated nearby causing all technology to become redundant, rendering it a barren wasteland like in Mad Max. No it’s just a bit of fucking snow! So why when I was trying to carefully traverse up a steep hill and failing getting traction did a family decide to set up camp and skid down the snowy road towards where I was trying to get up. It’s bloody irresponsible if you ask me. And I ask you, what would happen if a kid on a toboggan slid into me trying to get up the hill? I’d get the blame all because people won’t accept that fact that if you play in the road and die, you could have avoided it by not playing in the middle of the fucking road. And the fact that the mum gave me a bit of attitude was uncalled for. I did enjoy playing in the snow in my youth too, so I’m not being bitter about the fact I’ve had to come into work. I’m annoyed at the fact that my parents taught me not to play in areas whereby large petrol fuelled machines can kill you instantly and in less than optimal conditions, be even more careful. But it’s not just small children on sledges, you get pedestrians walking in the road. As if I’m looking out for enough obstacles while trying to maintain a safe speed and control, you get the extra impediment of people walking in the road instead of using the fucking footpath. Get out the road!
I made the wrong career choice. I should have studied to be a teacher. One snowflake and the school shuts faster than a country pub within earshot of a hen party. Especially seeing that the weather in general is moving towards it being more tundra in Britain, are the schools going to be shut from December to February? No wonder they’re dumbing down GCSEs, no one is ever there! So how do colder countries like Iceland and Sweden cope? They go to fucking school because it’s only fucking snow! But as usual in Britain we like to make a fuss. And mother nature has provided yet another scenario to whinge about.
December 2nd, 2010 on 6:52 pm
I completely agree, although I don’t have to deal with snow so much now-a-days, heavy rain is as infrequent here as snow is in the UK, and the locals here are just the same with rain as the knobs in the UK are with snow. I was driving to the next town over last week in torrential rain and in the 15km drive I saw not one, not two, but three upside down cars on the side of the road! Idiots.
I have a particular distaste for people with 4×4’s. The only person in my opinion justified in owning a 4×4 is a farmer. That’s it. Black and white.
Therefore, if you own a 4×4 and aren’t a farmer, you are a complete twat. Fact. No exceptions. As you’ve mentioned above, people who buy 4×4’s can’t drive at the best of times, they always act like complete psychos on the road as thought everyone else should bow down to them because they have more money than sense and have wasted over 80k on a Cayenne or an X3. That alone means they obviously have less brain cells than the average amoeba.
Not only that though, but in driving like idiots they put everyone else on the road in danger. And because of the 18 inches of pure steel surrounding them, they’re not the ones who are going to die if they hit your car: you are.
So if you own a 4×4 (and aren’t a farmer) you should consider selling it, or putting yourself down. Either action would be for the benefit of mankind.
December 5th, 2010 on 10:28 pm
The thing is, most 4x4s are not suitable offroaders – take the BMW X3 or Porche Cayenne. They’re just big cars for people with small dicks and their wives who couldn’t drive a shopping trolley.
The best thing to do with proctocological drivers who think one metre is a safe distance at 40 mph is to gradually slow down until you are going under 20. Then when they overtake you at speed waving a finger at you, slam on accelerator, hit your full beams and make them realise what a cock they are.