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    Stopping at Traffic Lights

    WHY, do some people stop at least a car's length from the line at traffic lights, I just don't get it?
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    #2
    Originally posted by Waldorf View Post
    WHY, do some people stop at least a car's length from the line at traffic lights, I just don't get it?
    I don't stop at all, maybe slow down a little. Rules are for fools.
    Me, me, me...

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      #3
      Originally posted by Waldorf View Post
      WHY, do some people stop at least a car's length from the line at traffic lights, I just don't get it?
      It gives old ladies extra space to burn rubber as they screech away.

      You'll learn how to do donuts when you're 70 as well, won't he Cliphead?
      What happens in General, stays in General.
      You know what they say about assumptions!

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        #4
        Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
        It gives old ladies extra space to burn rubber as they screech away.

        You'll learn how to do donuts when you're 70 as well, won't he Cliphead?
        I learned at 68.
        Me, me, me...

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          #5
          Originally posted by Waldorf View Post
          WHY, do some people stop at least a car's length from the line at traffic lights, I just don't get it?
          hippo's.
          If a hippopotomous escapes from the local zoo, and tries to scratch his back on your front or back fender, it gives you about 10 feet to roll backwards and forwards, to deter him.
          or her.


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            #6
            Originally posted by Waldorf View Post
            WHY, do some people stop at least a car's length from the line at traffic lights, I just don't get it?
            Not me. I failed my first mock driving test by doing so.

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              #7
              They think they have to stop at the point where they see the line near the bottom of their windscreen. Having ignored everything they learnt in school about trigonometry and perspective (cue comments about them learning jacktulip because they were never there) they haven't grasped that the front of the car isn't at the same place as what they can see as they look at the front of the car from the driver's seat.

              Such imbeciles regularly annoy me when I'm walking past the petrol station exit up the road: they stop about five feet back, so they're blocking the inside of the pavement, and you can't risk walking in front of them in case they suddenly shoot out into a gap in the traffic having forgotten you're in front of them, so you have to go all the way round the back.

              This delays my arrival at the pub by as much as one second. I'm not sure how much longer I can stand these idiots

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                #8
                AS I glanced down the list of threads I mis-read the title as "sleeping at traffic lights" and was rather disappointed to find it was not, as I suspected, an engaging tale of narcolepsy.
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                  #9
                  What about people who stop at clear roundabouts instead of taking it like a smooth fast chicane.

                  If everybody did a track day as part of the driving test my morning commute could be at least 5 minutes quicker.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                    What about people who stop at clear roundabouts instead of taking it like a smooth fast chicane.
                    What about the people that take roundabouts like a chicane and so driving straight across the lane that a faster car is using to overtake them?
                    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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