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People who drive slow...

prowla
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...and get upset when you overtake them.

What's that all about?
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  • peter_the_piper
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    Define "Slow"
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • prowla
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    Define "Slow"
    10+ mph below the speed limit.
  • warehouse
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    Beware, these are the kind of threads that the army of "how dare you break the law" brigade tend to occupy. Moral high ground watch out.
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  • Marvel1
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    prowla wrote: »
    10+ mph below the speed limit.

    Especially on the 50mph average speed camera on the motorway! :mad:
  • peter_the_piper
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    prowla wrote: »
    10+ mph below the speed limit.
    Got to agree about the 30/40's but not so sure about NSL.
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  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    People who drive slow what? Cars? Cattle?

    People who use adjectives in place of adverbs. What's that all about?
  • iammumtoone
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    prowla wrote: »
    10+ mph below the speed limit.

    What type of road?

    The UK has plenty of national speed limit single track/very narrow winding roads, when on an unfamiliar one I always drive slow according to your definition, to do so otherwise would be dangerous to me.

    There is also one of these roads local to me which I know very well therefore enabling me to drive at a speed acceptable to your definition. I often meet a motorist in front of me driving 'slow' on this road - do I get annoyed no as I try to understand they are probably not local and experiencing the difficulties I face on this type of road that is unfamiliar to me.
  • Mercdriver
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    This question has been done before. I think Strider was the last to ask it...
  • PsiDOC
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    It's a speed limit, not a target. ;)
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  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    edited 24 August 2017 at 7:43AM
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    Local to me a dual-carriageway which has been narrow to one lane each way (still a dual-carriageway), people drive down it at 35mph, but then at the ONLY passing place they speed up to 60/70mph, actively trying to block anyone who dare overtake, just before slowing down to 35mph again. The result is a whole bunch of people (including lorry drivers) overtaking on the solid white line hatch markings that used to be the 2nd lane.

    I actually don't mind if people want to drive more slowly, what I hate is that 9 times in 10 they wish to enforce this on everyone else.
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