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Sitting in the right lane of a highway is not law abiding?
Who do you think a cop is gonna pull over? The bloke doing 97 in the right hand lane on a freeway or you doing 130 to overtake them?

Mate, do whatever you like I don’t care, but own what you are, you’ve sort of done it then backtracked, you’re an angry hooning flog that thinks you own the road and everyone else is wrong.
 

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Who do you think a cop is gonna pull over? The bloke doing 97 in the right hand lane on a freeway or you doing 130 to overtake them?

Mate, do whatever you like I don’t care, but own what you are, you’ve sort of done it then backtracked, you’re an angry hooning flog that thinks you own the road and everyone else is wrong.
Well, considering I do that every time I’m on a freeway/highway that’s open enough to permit it and haven’t had any trouble, my money is on neither.

I don’t think I own the road, those sitting in the right lane who are breaking the law and think they are above it are the ones who think the road is theirs. “I’m just going to sit here and block this lane up because I’m a wanker”, how about you move to the left as the law states so that the highway can move in a fashionable and orderly fashion. Never thought it would be that damn hard. Almost as bad as pushbike riders who sit two abreast doing 30ks an hour max.

Someone mentioned earlier there’s a chance of me getting my head kicked in by sitting behind someone to the point they know I’m there to usher them across to the left. Have you considered that those who can’t do the speed limit and won’t move over, or sit side by side another slow driver (which is okay, if you’re in the left lane) to block the road up, could be at danger from the concretor who’s smoking crack to stay awake alongside his two junkie labourers and can’t get past this car making him infuriated? I reckon that’s a more likely scenario.
 

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I Ion’t think I own the road, those sitting in the right lane who are breaking the law and think they are above it are the ones who think the road is theirs. “I’m just going to sit here and block this lane up because I’m a wanker”, how about you move to the left as the law states so that the highway can move in a fashionable and orderly fashion. Never thought it would be that damn hard. Almost as bad as pushbike riders who sit two abreast doing 30ks an hour max.
See this attitude of not wanting others to break the law so that you can break a different law is what we struggle with.

Speed kills more than sitting in a certain lane does. Which do you think people have more of an emotional response to?
 
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See this attitude of not wanting others to break the law so that you can break a different law is what we struggle with.

Speed kills more than sitting in a certain lane does. Which do you think people have more of an emotional response to?
This is an excellent and mature summation of why you sound like a flog RU_
 

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What if on a two lane highway with speed limit of 100. Guy in front of me in left lane is going say 95. I choose to go in right lane and get to 100. I wont go over 100 as if i go thru a speed camera i will get snapped. So i stick to the limit of 100 and pretty much stay alongside this other guy going 95 for a while as the differential is not that much.
 
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See this attitude of not wanting others to break the law so that you can break a different law is what we struggle with.

Speed kills more than sitting in a certain lane does. Which do you think people have more of an emotional response to?
The law im breaking affects no one else, if I get pulled over or done by a camera for speeding then that’s on me. People who won’t keep to the left though are just making everyone who isn’t afraid to sit on the speed limit frustrated. Moving over literally does you no harm and keeps the highway smooth and fluent in the travel.

How am I going to kill someone by sitting in the right lane of a highway that doesn’t have exits and is basically a straight line. It’s not like I’m travelling at 180+ and weaving through the traffic. It’s going to have basically the same impact as doing the speed limit if I was to fall asleep, or something went wrong, as at the end of the day when you’re doing 100+ it’s going to be a catastrophe.
 

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This is an excellent and mature summation of why you sound like a flog RU_
You love throwing the flog word around don’t you.

At the end of the day, those who block the right lane up are campaigners who don’t know general road rules and clearly get satisfaction out of being tailgated and abused, otherwise you wouldn’t keep doing it.
What if on a two lane highway with speed limit of 100. Guy in front of me in left lane is going between 95. I choose to go in right lane and get to 100. I wont go over 100 as if i go thru a speed camera i will get snapped. So i stick to the limit of 100 and pretty much stay alongside this other guy going 95 for a while as the differential is not that much.
See if you’re content with doing 100 what difference is 95, why would you jump in the right lane anyway, especially if you’re not going to overtake and jump back in the left lane.

No doubt though you would be tailgated by the bloke behind you who just wants to get past the slow drivers.

Whenever this generally happens, I’ve been lucky and they speed up and pull to the left and I can go past them.
 

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You love throwing the flog word around don’t you.

At the end of the day, those who block the right lane up are campaigners who don’t know general road rules and clearly get satisfaction out of being tailgated and abused, otherwise you wouldn’t keep doing it.

See if you’re content with doing 100 what difference is 95, why would you jump in the right lane anyway, especially if you’re not going to overtake and jump back in the left lane.

No doubt though you would be tailgated by the bloke behind you who just wants to get past the slow drivers.

Whenever this generally happens, I’ve been lucky and they speed up and pull to the left and I can go past them.
What if the person is constantly changing between 90 and 95. Up and down. Up and down. And it is frustrating me so thats why i go to right. And then when there the person decides to speed up and hover at the 95-100 mark. And i cant get back left?
 

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What if the person is constantly changing between 90 and 95. Up and down. Up and down. And it is frustrating me so thats why i go to right. And then when there the person decides to speed up and hover at the 95-100 mark. And i cant get back left?
Well I don’t drive like that so I can’t really tell you what I would do, because I’d have everyone else up in arms again.

However if you’re in that situation you can see ahead for however many hundred meters to make sure there is no camera, and behind you and then speed up to 105-110 and overtake the car doing 95 max and then slow down to 100 in front of them, would take all of 20 seconds and you wouldn’t make everyone around you frustrated.

That’s just me though, I’ll probably get screamed bloody murder at over it.
 
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RU_ when you have a chance go back through the last 5-6 pages and have a look at how many people are telling you what you’re doing is silly. Take the victim hat off and just reflect on it for a minute.

And for the record I do like the word flog imo it’s the superior substation for campaigner on big footy
 

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RU_ when you have a chance go back through the last 5-6 pages and have a look at how many people are telling you what you’re doing is silly. Take the victim hat off and just reflect on it for a minute.

And for the record I do like the word flog imo it’s the superior substation for campaigner on big footy
That doesn’t phase me one bit. I guarantee half of these people do the exact same thing but won’t admit to it. Haven’t had a stack, close call or even road rage abuse directed towards me with the way I drive and I’m certainly not going to change because a few people on bigfooty are up in arms over it. If I have an accident because I’m going around the slow campaigner in the right lane who thinks the world revolves around them then you can tell me ‘I told you so’, until then I’ll take my chances. :thumbsu:
 
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That doesn’t phase me one bit. I guarantee half of these people do the exact same thing but won’t admit to it. Haven’t had a stack, close call or even road rage abuse directed towards me with the way I drive and I’m certainly not going to change because a few people on bigfooty are up in arms over it. If I have an accident because I’m going around the slow campaigner in the right lane who thinks the world revolves around them then you can tell me ‘I told you so’, until then I’ll take my chances. :thumbsu:
No I don’t particularly care about you having a stack I care about the car you overtook and it’s occupants being injured or killed because of your arrogance. This whole “I’m not endearing anyone else” schtick is bollocks.

You can backtrack all you like but in the previous pages you’ve admitted to tailgating, speeding and cutting people off, go do a snap poll of people in the street and ask “who is worse, a driver that goes under the speed limit in the right hand lane or a driver who speeds, tailgates and cuts people off” it’s pretty clear you don’t care about other people’s opinion but it’s worth remembering that all these people telling you what you do is stupid, reckless and arrogant are almost certainly all drivers who you share the road with.

Yes other road users frustrate me and everyone else but most of us are self aware enough to realise we probably frustrate them too, you don’t seem to grasp that no one is driving for the fun of it on city and country roads they have a purpose and it’s not to piss you off.
 

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No I don’t particularly care about you having a stack I care about the car you overtook and it’s occupants being injured or killed because of your arrogance. This whole “I’m not endearing anyone else” schtick is bollocks.

You can backtrack all you like but in the previous pages you’ve admitted to tailgating, speeding and cutting people off, go do a snap poll of people in the street and ask “who is worse, a driver that goes under the speed limit in the right hand lane or a driver who speeds, tailgates and cuts people off” it’s pretty clear you don’t care about other people’s opinion but it’s worth remembering that all these people telling you what you do is stupid, reckless and arrogant are almost certainly all drivers who you share the road with.

Yes other road users frustrate me and everyone else but most of us are self aware enough to realise we probably frustrate them too, you don’t seem to grasp that no one is driving for the fun of it on city and country roads they have a purpose and it’s not to piss you off.
I speed and I sit close enough that someone knows I’m there in hope that they’ll move to the left. Unless they completely jump onto their brakes and come to a stop for no reason I’m not going to cave their boot into the backseat as I assess the surroundings (I.e cars ahead, sets of lights, etc) and as I’ve said I don’t sit 30mm off their rear bumper, I leave enough space that I can stop safely, if they suddenly jam the brakes it’s not going to make a difference if I’m a car length or two car lengths off them, I’ll still rear end them. Please quote where I said I cut people off, I don’t do that, unless you’re talking about the merging left lanes into right lanes when a lane ends and then they have to give way to me as I’m ahead of them? Why would I sit in the traffic of the right lane when I could shoot down the left and jump past 20 cars?

Because overtaking a car is dangerous. Ok then. If that’s dangerous then so is grandma sitting in the right lane plotting along at 70 in an 80 zone with no idea of her surroundings, while she gets everyone stuck behind her agitated.

This is just going to be one of those agree to disagree conversations.
 

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Its really one of those you’re wrong but can’t see reason situations actually.
Or it’s the fact that you’re visually picturing me driving and I can guarantee all you’re seeing is a violent 4x4 veering between two lanes at dangerous speeds overtaking and cutting cars off and then flying off into the distance when that isn’t the case at all.

You know why there hasn’t been an accident? Because I don’t overtake in dangerous situations or drive like a ****head. Drive to the conditions and how you feel safe, if that requires you to sit in the left lane under the speed limit then do it, however don’t sit in the right lane and then get shitty when numerous people overtake or undertake you.
 

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Someone going 3km under the speed limit isn't something to get all het up about, considering that the speedo might be showing that they are doing the speed limit. Just accept that you sound like a total nob RU_. You haven't had a stack yet. You haven't been in a road rage incident yet.

One day you'll (hopefully) grow up to be a middle aged man, and you'll most likely shake your head at 21 year olds driving like dickheads and acting the biggun flashing their lights and honking at you.
 
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