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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 04:49 PM
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Don't you just hate it when your stopped at a roundabout and cars coming from your right don't indicate..and the idjeet behind you is tooting for you to go ..just had 2 this week do that to me...
1. Mr Boyracer ( in his dreams) Escort with the dice in the mirror toots me when I have to stop at a roundabout as someone is auctally coming around it ..he promptly got the V's up from me via the mirror ..he felt such a fool he hung right back for the rest of the road.

2. Mrs Red Pug driver..behind me yapping on her mobile and no it wasn't hand's free ...toots when I again have to stop because, amazingly enough I don't have a crystal ball to predict the idjeets who aren't indicating


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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 04:54 PM
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Sometimes I'm shocked they got the keys in the door Tracie! My pet hate is the people who get into the right hand lane of a dual carraige-way, 1 mile before turning right
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 04:56 PM
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Hey Tracie

I Totally agree with you, i live in swindon the place with officially the most roundabouts.

I get told of quite a bit by my other half for ranting about non exsisting indicators which is very annoying.

You can probably guess the ammount of accident's we have on the magic roundabout, which is five mini roundabouts acting as one big round about where you go around the wrong way

All fun, but never mind

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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 04:59 PM
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Don't you love people!

These people chatting on their phones amuse me.....they have all the add ons in their cars and all the best imitation Burberry stuff but can't afford about £25 for a hands free kit! What makes it worse is that it could save either their life, someone else's who would be in the way of their car when they can't control it with one hand, or their licence!

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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 05:46 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Checkie_checkmate
Hey Tracie

I Totally agree with you, i live in swindon the place with officially the most roundabouts.

I get told of quite a bit by my other half for ranting about non exsisting indicators which is very annoying.

You can probably guess the ammount of accident's we have on the magic roundabout, which is eight mini roundabouts acting as one big round about where you go around the wrong way

All fun, but never mind

Keep smilling

It's actually 1 regular roundabout surrounded by 5 mini roundabouts.

Picture of Magic Roundabout

It was acceptable in the 80's
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 06:33 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Root Ginger
It's actually 1 regular roundabout surrounded by 5 mini roundabouts.

If you know your way around it, it can be really quick to navigate.
Heavy traffic? Just go round anti-clockwise. It's the best junction in the country.
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The problem is it takes a huge amount of effort to move your finger to the indicator,.....not indicating is one of my pet hates and those people that think they can overtake something doing the same speed,ohh and those people that sit in the overtaking lane when theres nothing to overtake.

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The Magic Roundabout looks like fun!!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Root Ginger
It's actually 1 regular roundabout surrounded by 5 mini roundabouts.

Picture of Magic Roundabout


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrgggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 08:51 PM
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It's not too bad aslong as you take each roundabout in turn and think of it like that.

It's not the roundabout that's the problem it's the 'others'

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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 09:30 PM
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I know exactly what you mean about people not indicating - really gets me annoyed, as well as people taking the wrong lane... GRRRRR.
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 10:13 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by ADE90J
The Magic Roundabout looks like fun!!

All we need is to work out a pattern where you can circle every roundabout without repeating any and then get a whole bunch of MINI's together to do laps round there!

It was acceptable in the 80's
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 10:22 PM
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those things really annoy me too! not indicating is the worst because it requires such little intelligence. why does it seem most drivers only have one brain cell?
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Old Feb 26th, 2006, 11:33 PM
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...why does it seem most drivers only have one brain cell?

I wouldn't credit them with as many as that.
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Well, I have to say I've never seen anything like the Magic Roundabout in my entire life. Who thought it up? It looks more terrifying than fun
The worst I've seen is the oblong roundabout on a blind corner with a tram track going through it.
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