The Angry Viking

Right… this is just weird….

Very odd…. [Via Ectomo.com]

Right, to start with, your probably thinking whats with all the angryness around cars? Well, i do a lot of driving around Dublin and Ireland in general, and, it has been said that you don’t have to be mad to drive in Dublin, but it helps. You get angry with a lot of people while driving around Dublin; Taxi drivers, Bus drivers, Bus lanes, speed cameras, speed bumps, and generally anything that gets in your way or slows you down.

So, on to the speed part of things. This idea of “Speed Kills”. It doesnt. Think about it. In a crash, the actual thing that kills is usually the sudden deceleration, the object that either hit you or you hut, and the car your traveling in breaking up and causing harm. Look at F1. Robert Kubitza crashed his F1 car doing 180Mph, and survived. Richard Hammond crashed at 288Mph and survived, with injuries to his brain, but is back to being himself.

Back to my point. Speed does not kill. its loosing control of your car at speed that causes problems. its like the idea of falling off a building will kill you. Well, it wont. its the sudden stop at the end, which we can blame gravity for, which actually kills you.

Grand Theft Auto, Malaysian style. Reminds me of the 3 brand new Mercs in Gone in 60 seconds (can you guess what film I was watching last night! J)

something that really pisses me off is stupid drivers on back roads. what do i mean by stupid drivers? Someone who is doing about half the speed limit, if not less, on a road where you cant over take. And back roads are the very twisty roads usually in the country, but there are a few around Dublin.

The reason this pisses me off is my car. I drive a 523 BMW. Ok, its about 11 years old, is burning oil, and like drinking petrol (2.5l engine) but, get it on to one of these back roads, and i can garentee a big smile on your face when you finish.

but you get on to this road, and you have some idiot in a car in front who has an idea of how to drive, but really shouldent be let on public roads, and it just pisses me off no end. There is a particular road i hit on the way home, actually there are a few, but this one in particular is a pain if you get stuck behind a godshite, because there are no over taking places. yea, you can probably overtake a bike on this road, but, the arsehole you get stuck behind wont even try that, if your very unfortunite.

It makes me wonder how half of these people ever got a drivers license…..

This is my Ranting blog. Language may be used that could offend, so be careful. This is where i just get angry at everything and anything, from Bus Lanes to house alarms going off and waking me on aSaturday morning.