[WA] Chat Thread

[Graham]

I hide inside too much

heh bits of metal... screw that!

Hmm i don't think I've seen that car, or if I have i cant bring up a mental image

[Dire]

Well they're nothing special really, hot hatches are just a rarity in australia <3 focus xr5 turbos.

My friend is buying an 04 commodore executive with a full R8 (or whatever she called it) body kit. Went and saw it and its hottt.
Got stormed on just after she signed the deal though so the dealership has been busy un-denting it

Commodores suit her completely. Shes probably cut off everybody in perth at least once.

[Graham]

hahahahah bloody commodores:P

the HSV kits seem to be the most common way to do up commodores, there isn't much else out there, very rarely do i see a unique commodore

[Dire]

Commodores and taxi's, the two groups I love to hate the most.
And micra's.

[Dire]

Graham why do you have trophies on your profile for things you haven't done?

[Graham]

what do you mean?

I'm missing "ClubCJ's most awesomest member trophy"

[Dire]

Wait, I've embarressed myself again.
Nvm (thought 'list all trophies' listed all your trophies not ALL trophies)

Wow im not doing too good lately



OFF TO TAFE FOR A TEST YAY

[Dire]

Back already. Did two tests in an hour


It is now my personal purpose in life to let people who can't use two lane roundabouts know that.... I am not happy with that fact. (cleaned up for your safety)

This woman, in her barina, in the left lane, indicating left, just sitting there when there isnt a single car in the lane shes going into.
And then she goes straight!!!!

As opposed to what usually happens, when the people who actually want to go left give way to the people who aren't even in/going in that lane.

I swear fully half of perth doesn't know what they're doing.

I love it when they look at you like 'whats your problem' or 'bloody P platers' or whatever they think when they don't even know how to steer or indicate.

I believe police should have the power to make you have to go to a driving assessment (not lose your licence, just go for a test. Or even just a thorough road-rules test or the HPT) and if you fail that then you shouldn't be allowed to drive without an instructor for a fortnight until you take another test, and if you fail again it just keeps going like that. And maybe a 5 trys and you're out system or something for the people who are REALLY bad but never give up.

It'd filter out the tards and make people think about their driving rather than assume just because they haven't crashed recently that they shouldn't change a thing.

/RAGE

[Graham]

I know right..

I am shocked at the stupidity at most of the drivers on Perth roads, honestly I don't know if it's their stupidity or they plain and simply just do not know the road rules.

Not indicating
Indicating 250 meters before a turn
Indicating at the last second
going into 2 lanes when turning on a double laned road
merging without indicating or checking blind spots
not indicating to leave a roundabout (I swear I'm the only one in Perth who does this at every roundabout, even at 3am when no one is around)
driving 10km/h below the speed limit, and then having the nerve to flip me off when I overtake them...

General stupidity!!!
even cars with a headlight or brake light out shits me off, it's important to have that sh!t working, it costs $20 TOPS to fix it!!!!!!!

/rage

[Graham]

I'm not saying that I'm a good driver (I've only been driving 3-4 years compared to people out there with 20+ years experience..) but I know the road rules and follow them.. (well... sometimes I may go a tiny bit over the speed limit, but that doesn't count)

There needs to be some sort of test or system that isolates bad drivers and fix the problem.

//rage

[Dire]

I am lax with indicating out of roundabouts. (I do cancel indication when exiting if I was turning though)
I don't indicate out if nobody is there and other times when I think its unnecessary... That is pure laziness though and you just made me think I should, as there could be an unseen pedestrian or something and its important to make clear your intended direction....

The reason i'm lazy about it is that its a bit of a joke as nobody seems to know how to anyway, and I always slow down for people on roundabouts whether they're indicating or not, as I assume they're doing it wrong.

So basically other people doing it means nothing to me because I slow down anyway, so it makes doing it myself more of a chore

You know that feeling when you think to yourself 'they're going to turn' when they arent indicating and you always seem to be right?

[Graham]

yup lol

I usually come to a complete stop when I approach a roundabout if someone is going through it without indicating because I don't want their stupidity to cause a crash

I'm not anal about indicating leaving roundabouts, it's just become habit with the 'tap' of the indicator on the CJ


And the media/people bag hoons for their driving behavior..

A DECENT PERCENTAGE OF HOONS ACCTUALLY KNOW HOW TO DRIVE AND CONTROL THEIR CAR!

Number of deaths caused by burnouts in Australia this/last year? Zero.

There have been deaths caused by dangerous driving/racing, unfortunately it does happen because people are stupid enough to do it in suburban areas or near traffic.

IMO if you hurt yourself or someone else doing something stupid you deserve everything you get (and usually more because our justice system sucks)

All the media does is wave figures and numbers around and it has the publics backing.


///rant

[Dire]

Haha. Yeah things are pretty bad.
Breaking the rules is made out to be a much bigger deal than it should be (in comparison to actually crashing I mean).

In no way saying speeding is ok or whatever, but yeah. Not happy with much about road rules.
Things like speed limits, they are what they are because they have to cater for all drivers.
This means normal people have to follow rules made for the oldest and frailest drivers, and the crappest ones too basically (not saying all old people can't drive).
I hate it even though there isn't really a proper solution...

And yeah hoons are given proportionally too much of a hard time. They may drive faster than you but they also probably love their cars a lot more than you so you can be confident they aren't going to crash into everyone they see.
The media doesn't represent reality anyway, they just propagate fear because people naturally desire having enemies.

Ranting is fun

[Dire]

Lol graham you know tindaro? We went to the same highschool.
(he never replies to me )

[Graham]

Hey, yeah I see him quite regularly on cruises, we don't really talk much though lol

He crashed last saturday, car might be a write-off... 3 car pileup on a cruise because of a taxi, it was almost a 5 car pileup with me included too, thankfuly the S15 behind me stopped in time!