Last edited by Wind, 16th May 2022 at 19:17.
“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Last edited by Wind, 16th May 2022 at 19:17.
“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Aragorn (16th May 2022), Dreamtimer (18th May 2022), Fred Steeves (16th May 2022), Silly Wabbit (20th October 2022), Wind (16th May 2022)
Well, the way I see it, there are two reasons as to why people blow their horns in a situation like that.
- The first and probably most often applicable reason is out of anger, like slapping someone upside the head, and then the angry driver may even continue blowing their horn afterwards, or may decide to retaliate through some variant of road rage.
- The second and far less applicable reason is so as to warn the distracted traffic participant — it isn't always a driver, so I'm using a more generic term — that they are about to commit a blunder, and possibly also to alert other traffic participants of the impending danger.
It is this second reason as to why the horn must be immediately operable by hand nowadays, as opposed to for instance in the 1920s, when it was a bellows-like outboard-mounted device on the vehicle.
That all said, I do have to say that it's not all stupidity. Sometimes you really don't see the other car, and then they will angrily blow there horn over your "stupidity" while you're asking yourself "Where the hell did that one come from?" Because you did look, and it wasn't there when you did. I've been in that situation several times before as well.
And then there are the blind spots. Every year here in Belgium alone, several people — adults and children alike — die because they are being run over by a bus or a truck due to the driver simply not seeing them.
But of course, the roads are full of idiots, and that's a given. And assholes too. Just as you get narcissists and sociopaths in all areas of life, there are plenty of those behind the wheel as well. I myself have already amply had to deal with road rage, and the last time wasn't even all that long ago. Some jerk stuck to my rear bumper, then overtook me, then pulled up right in front of me, slammed on his brakes and stuck up his middle finger in his rear view mirror, all because I was keeping to the speed limit and because I couldn't pull out of his way due to there being another vehicle beside me on the one hand and the jerk sticking too closely to my rear bumper on the other hand.
= DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =
Dreamtimer (18th May 2022), Emil El Zapato (16th May 2022), Fred Steeves (16th May 2022), Silly Wabbit (20th October 2022), Wind (16th May 2022)
What I don't understand, is that these people see someone driving erratically, and rather than give a safer distance between themselves and those driving this way? They grab their cameras and keep going at the same speed...
Not a high marker of intelligence in my opinion...
Aragorn (16th May 2022), Dreamtimer (18th May 2022), Emil El Zapato (16th May 2022), Fred Steeves (18th May 2022), Wind (16th May 2022)
1/2 of em couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dead dingos arse with a sledgehammer and the other 1/2 are idiots
Ní siocháin go saoirse
Aragorn (16th May 2022), Dreamtimer (18th May 2022), Emil El Zapato (16th May 2022), Fred Steeves (18th May 2022), Silly Wabbit (22nd May 2022), Wind (16th May 2022)
Dreamtimer (18th May 2022), Emil El Zapato (16th May 2022), Fred Steeves (18th May 2022), Silly Wabbit (22nd May 2022), Wind (16th May 2022)