I was shouted at this morning

[Skweeky]

...because I was driving the new car and kept missing 3rd gear, putting it back into 1st instead:cry:


I think this was terribly unfair, as I've not even passed my driving test yet ( I've got my theory test tomorrow though, wish me luck)


Luckily I found out today that I perfectly capable of parallel parking, despite never actually having done it before:D

[Something Else]

Drivers get stressed easily, expect more shouting, just put some tunes on and ignore em :)

[Barbarossa]

...because I was driving the new car and kept missing 3rd gear, putting it back into 1st instead:cry:


I think this was terribly unfair, as I've not even passed my driving test yet ( I've got my theory test tomorrow though, wish me luck)


Luckily I found out today that I perfectly capable of parallel parking, despite never actually having done it before:D

What sort of car is it? Most decent cars have something clever in the gearbox to stop that from happening :pinch:

[Squeamous]

Er, was it your instructor shouting at you?

[BawA]

Luckily I found out today that I perfectly capable of parallel parking, despite never actually having done it before
and how many times did you lose the gear to achieve that :hooray:

[Mr. Mulder]

everyone else is a terrible driver, you are the only person who can drive properly - never forget that :no:

[Barbarossa]

True that. You always have to assume that is the case.

...except the guy that mowed down Seedler, I'd like to meet him/her and buy them a pint :smilie4:

[Biggles]

Dropping from 2nd to 1st after speeding up to go to 3rd gives the gerabox a good workout and is therapeutic for the neck muscles

:unsure:

[Alien5]

i don't drive real cars but in sega rally when you drop a gear you do a sweet power side round corners :smilie4:

[Biggles]

i don't drive real cars but in sega rally when you drop a gear you do a sweet power side round corners :smilie4:

I think if Skweeks does that in the new car the shouting will stop and all will go very quiet indeed.

[sleepyy]

ask for a new driveing instrutor you pay them remember that. i personaly would just test his patients see how he is when he loses it report him also

[Barbarossa]

I'm guessing it's Mr Skweeky doing the shouting :unsure:

[Biggles]

ask for a new driveing instrutor you pay them remember that. i personaly would just test his patients see how he is when he loses it report him also

If she does that she could be looking at a spanking.

[Mr JP Fugley]

ask for a new driveing instrutor you pay them remember that. i personaly would just test his patients see how he is when he loses it report him also

Good speech.

[Skweeky]

't was Mr Skweeky doing the shouting.
I'd have slapped any driving instructor shouting at me. :lol:


Mr Skweeky just got an angry stare, after which he apologised profusely for raising his voice.

[Something Else]

Spouses teaching driving is always testing in my experience...

[Mr JP Fugley]

't was Mr Skweeky doing the shouting.
I'd have slapped any driving instructor shouting at me. :lol:


Mr Skweeky just got an angry stare, after which he apologised profusely for raising his voice.

To be fair he was shouting "Sweet Jeebus, you're going to get us both killed woman, get off this fucking runway."

[Squeamous]

Oh no no no.....if you love them let someone else teach them.

[Skweeky]

't was Mr Skweeky doing the shouting.
I'd have slapped any driving instructor shouting at me. :lol:


Mr Skweeky just got an angry stare, after which he apologised profusely for raising his voice.

To be fair he was shouting "Sweet Jeebus, you're going to get us both killed woman, get off this fucking runway."


No, he shouted ' Pull over, you're pushing it to the left!'

He's been teaching me for the past few months and we've been ok.
I think the grinding sound of the gearbox of a new car was too much for him to take :lol:

[Mr JP Fugley]

Ah, he's talking pish.

You push a car to the right, you pull it to the left. The opposite is true in the USA and mainland Europe

[Skweeky]

He meant the gearstick
I was pushing the gearstick to the left.

I was, at that point, convinced that I wasn't
Until I looked down and had to admit he was right... for once....

[Mr JP Fugley]

You need to learn to hold your hand properly and that won't happen.

For 1st and 2nd hold the gearstick with your left thumb at the bottom and pinky at the top. Then push away from you.

For the other gears the thumb should be at the top and the pinky at the bottom. For 3rd and 4th simply push forward or pull back. For 5th pull towards you and forward.

It's very natural if you hold your hand the right way.

Does that make sence.

[Hairbautt]

I think the grinding sound of the gearbox of a new car was too much for him to take :lol:
:pinch::pinch::dabs::pinch:

[thewizeard]

Next time he shouts..he better remember, you are only on loan.... and that the KLF is scrutinizing this "case" ..:dry:

[weenden]

sorry skweeky if i new it was you i would not have yelled but get the hell out of the way

[Squeamous]

I did a lot of stupid things when I was learning to drive, but the actual operation of the vehicle was never a problem....I don't think I could even get the wrong gear on purpose. Took me about 130 hours of lessons and two tests to pass tho'.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I did a lot of stupid things when I was learning to drive, but the actual operation of the vehicle was never a problem....I don't think I could even get the wrong gear on purpose. Took me about 130 hours of lessons and two tests to pass tho'.

A natural.

[Squeamous]

:p

[Mr JP Fugley]

Well, 130 hours of lessons. That's fucking mental.

[Biggles]

Well, 130 hours of lessons. That's fucking mental.

It was London - that is about three miles of actual movement on the road like.

[Squeamous]

No, it was Leicester I learnt in.

Slow and steady wins the race you know.

[Mr JP Fugley]

Well, 130 hours of lessons. That's fucking mental.

It was London - that is about three miles of actual movement on the road like.

Oh FFS, Les.

Are you still paying for filesharing and buying snake oil.

[thewizeard]

.. a large heavy vehicle... a Leicester you say? No wonder it took so many lessons, must have been difficult steering it around bends...

[Mr JP Fugley]

Not for a bender.

[Biggles]

It was London - that is about three miles of actual movement on the road like.

Oh FFS, Les.

Are you still paying for filesharing and buying snake oil.

:snooty: You make one mistake like a brazillion years ago and do they let you forget?

I've driven in London it was pish btw - driven in Leicester too - the road signage was random to say the least.

[Imagine_If]

Oh FFS, Les.

Are you still paying for filesharing and buying snake oil.

:snooty: You make one mistake like a brazillion years ago and do they let you forget?

I've driven in London it was pish btw - driven in Leicester too - the road signage was random to say the least.

after a few beers it is :)

[Squeamous]

Not for a bender.

:noes:

[MediaSlayer]

't was Mr Skweeky doing the shouting.
I'd have slapped any driving instructor shouting at me. :lol:


Mr Skweeky just got an angry stare, after which he apologised profusely for raising his voice.

Hmm.... :sly:

[Hairbautt]

I remember when I was learning how to drive. Seems like it was just yesterday.

Probably because it was.

Shut up you.

Anyways, got my car. Knew fuck all on how to drive period. Plus it's a manual transmission. Spent two hours in a parking lot, then another two on the road then yeppie down to the DMV.

Got my license.

All in one day?

No, prick these hours spanned across one week.

[sleepyy]

ask for a new driveing instrutor you pay them remember that. i personaly would just test his patients see how he is when he loses it report him also

If she does that she could be looking at a spanking.

I would never object :whistling

[Something Else]

I can't drive, but neither can those army fools and they've had training:
http://xs320.xs.to/xs320/07416/1161dierakd8.jpg (http://xs.to)

[Biggles]

I can't drive, but neither can those army fools and they've had training:
http://xs320.xs.to/xs320/07416/1161dierakd8.jpg (http://xs.to)


Spike Milligan army memoires

Senior Officer "What the bloody hell is going on here?"

Young Officer saluting "Sah! We fucked it up Sah!!"

Senior Officer "Carry on"

[Something Else]

:lol: Thx biggles that really needed a good caption

[Mr JP Fugley]

Plus it's a manual transmission.

:O Are you like Lewis Hamilton.

[Hairbautt]

Do I look like Lewis Hamilton
http://ww2.tagheuer.com/_img/Ambassadors/Lewis%20Hamilton/tagheure-lewis-hamilton.jpg

[Proper Bo]

herbert's a merkin, he'll only know nascar drivers:rolleyes:

edit: :o
edit2: I bet he had to google the name to see who he was

[Mr JP Fugley]

Do I look like Lewis Hamilton
http://ww2.tagheuer.com/_img/Ambassadors/Lewis%20Hamilton/tagheure-lewis-hamilton.jpg

I haven't a clue.

Are you an attractive, talented, young millionaire sportsman.

[Proper Bo]

<: obvious jp liking lewis hamilton on pole joke here:>

[Mr JP Fugley]

<: obvious jp liking lewis hamilton on pole joke here:>

Homophobe

[Proper Bo]

Racist

[Mr JP Fugley]

Southerner

[Proper Bo]

Reported:no:

[Mr JP Fugley]

:lol::earl:

[Hairbautt]

edit2: I bet he had to google the name to see who he was
ya rly :(

[Skweeky]

American driving doesn't count
You're only allowed to go as fast as 50mph, ergo, you'd never go above 3rd gear :P

Anyway,

had my theory test yesterday morning and passed with...

50/50!!!!

I got a 100% correct!!

@JP: That pinky thumb thing makes sense. I've got it figured out now though. Just wasn't used to having a fairly new gearbox, as opposed to one that is about to fall to bits :lol:

[Sextent]

It's set to work that way, with springs and witchcraft.

If you put it into neutral, from any gear, it will naturally fall between third and fourth.

Congrats on the theory btw. Way to go you.

[Proper Bo]

Is the hazard perception part still ghey?

[Skweeky]

Yeah, it still is.
It's filmed with a normal camera from a moving car, so every time the car moves direction to quikcly the screen goes all blurry :lol:

[Sextent]

Yeah, it still is.
It's filmed with a normal camera from a moving car, so every time the car moves direction to quikcly the screen goes all blurry :lol:

That's to simulate you being hepped up on goofballs.

[Skweeky]

What are goofballs? :huh:

[Sextent]

I've no idea I read it off the Simpsons. Chief Wiggum said it to Ned Flanders if memory serves.

[Sextent]

Fuck that was sad http://www.snpp.com/guides/hepped.up.html

[Skweeky]

I'm not clicking any of your links anymore :snooty:

[Sextent]

:lol:

Well copy this into google - goofballs

[Proper Bo]

Yeah, it still is.
It's filmed with a normal camera from a moving car, so every time the car moves direction to quikcly the screen goes all blurry :lol:

I mean the "click when you see a potential hazard and then again if it becomes a hazard" thing.

It didn't work properly, it only seemed to count "potential hazards" as things right infront of the camera, like it didn't count a truck with it's hazard lights on down the road as a hazard even tho' it clearly was.

[Sextent]

Yeah, it still is.
It's filmed with a normal camera from a moving car, so every time the car moves direction to quikcly the screen goes all blurry :lol:

I mean the "click when you see a potential hazard and then again if it becomes a hazard" thing.

It didn't work properly, it only seemed to count "potential hazards" as things right infront of the camera, like it didn't count a truck with it's hazard lights on down the road as a hazard even tho' it clearly was.

That wouldn't be a potential hazard tho' it would be a hazard.

[Skweeky]

Yeah, you're still supposed to do that

It's dubious, because it acknowledges your click, but you don't know what it is acknowledging; the pedestrian on the pavement of the car parked on the road in the distance.
Got 68 out of 75 on that bit.
I just clicked everytime I saw something that changed lol

[Proper Bo]

I mean the "click when you see a potential hazard and then again if it becomes a hazard" thing.

It didn't work properly, it only seemed to count "potential hazards" as things right infront of the camera, like it didn't count a truck with it's hazard lights on down the road as a hazard even tho' it clearly was.

That wouldn't be a potential hazard tho' it would be a hazard.

what about a kid in the road on a bike? that was classed as a potential hazard even tho' it was obviously a hazard/

[Skweeky]

The way it was explained on the intro video was ;

'Click when you see a potential hazard and click again when the situation changes'

So you'd have to click for a cyclist on the road, and click again if he looks over his shoulder to change direction.

[Proper Bo]

I can't remember what it said when I did it, it was all in DOS anyway and everything was all fields back then.

[Skweeky]

I don't understand why they just can't let you click on the hazards on the screen instead of having little flags at the bottom :huh:

[Proper Bo]

To eliminate any need for mouse skills, some people don't use computers often, like.

[Sextent]

That wouldn't be a potential hazard tho' it would be a hazard.

what about a kid in the road on a bike? that was classed as a potential hazard even tho' it was obviously a hazard/

How is that a hazard, you would plough thro' her in jig time.

[Proper Bo]

what about a kid in the road on a bike? that was classed as a potential hazard even tho' it was obviously a hazard/

How is that a hazard, you would plough thro' her in jig time.

a hazard cause i might scratch my paintwork, obviousment.

I still think the fact that you can't see out any window other than the windscreen and that you can't see your mirrors is a hazard, like
(the footage you see on the test is like you're watching from on the dashboard)

[Hairbautt]

American driving doesn't count
You're only allowed to go as fast as 50mph,
:blink:

[Agrajag]

American driving doesn't count
You're only allowed to go as fast as 50mph,
:blink:

A lot of people think that's the limit throughout the USA, mate.

[Agrajag]

Or 55, some people think it's 55, but still throughout the USA.

[Hairbautt]

Apparently. It's 'bout 35-45 on most roads. Small highways: 50. Interstate: 70.

'Least 'round here it is.

55 is rare.

[Hairbautt]

Anyways I've done ~115 in my car. yep yep...:smoke:

'k it was more like 116, tbh.

[Proper Bo]

pfft, my mondeo did more than that ffs.

edit: +1 e-penis inch

[Agrajag]

55 isn't that rare, according to http://www.topspeed.com/cars/speed-limits-on-the-usa-highway-ar9977.html

Tho' to be fair they do say that the limit in Virginia on an urban interstate is 685.

I suspect that's a typo

[Hairbautt]

You motherfucking son of a bitch.

[Proper Bo]

h4r5h, he was just explaining something to you.

[Agrajag]

Indeed, some folk. Just because you point out their factual inexactitudes.

Do you think Harriet's middle names are Schoolboy and Error.

[Skweeky]

To eliminate any need for mouse skills, some people don't use computers often, like.



It's a touch screen...

[Proper Bo]

To eliminate any need for mouse skills, some people don't use computers often, like.



It's a touch screen...

Maybe it is these days, it wasn't when I were a lad tho'.

[Wizard Scuff]

Didn't have all that pish back in the day.

25 lesson, sat me test, job done.

[Proper Bo]

I had about 25 lessons and passed first time too, like. pwned the fuck out of both the theory test and the actual driving test, true story.

[Wizard Scuff]

We are proper blokes tho' mate.

Not lassies or metrosexuals.

[Hairbautt]

Theory test?

[Proper Bo]

Agree, at the start of my test I even had to lift the bonnet and point out where you would check the oil level AND show how to test the horn is working.

It was fucking difficult, i tell thee.

[Wizard Scuff]

Fortunately I was allowed to take a man with me to do that sort of thing.

[Proper Bo]

Vehicle safety questions

These are basic safety checks that a driver should carry out to ensure the vehicle is safe for use. Although some checks may involve the candidate in opening the bonnet to identify where fluid levels would be checked, pupils will not be asked to touch a hot engine or physically check fluid levels.

As vehicle technology advances, more and more vehicles are being equipped with electronic diagnostic systems, which inform the driver of the state of the engine fluid levels and tyre pressures. It will be acceptable for a candidate to refer to the vehicle information system (if fitted) when answering questions on fluid levels or tyre pressures.

You can find source material in the DSA publication 'The official guide to Driving - the essential skills' and 'The official DSA guide to learning to drive'. Advice and information on how to carry out vehicle safety checks can also be found in the manufacturer's handbook.

Candidates will be asked two questions, one 'show me' and one 'tell me'. One or both questions answered incorrectly will result in one driving fault being recorded.

Doesn't that pretty much make that whole part pointless?