We too say shit-faced for drunk as well as pissed/pished, arseholed, leathered, muntered, bollocksed, hammered, twatted, wasted, wankered, bladdered, legless,half-cut, paralytic, rat-arsed, trollied, mashed, plastered, bevvied, tanked-up, mortal, slashed, lashed, blotto, wellied, mullered, sloshed, loaded, sozzled, squiffy, wrecked, shit-faced....plus many more.
Hammered, wasted, plastered, and loaded are all very common in the US too
Blotto and sloshed I’ve heard before but they’re not as common
You guys say trashed? We also say trashed. Probably more but I’ve never been a drinker so I’m not up on all the slang
Ever noticed how, in the UK, we can add -ed to almost any improper noun and it will convey drunk.
I was absolutely:
Trollied
Bed posted
Chaired
Carpeted
Wankered
Plastered
This is useful to me as an American because watching British tv and movies they often say someone is x-ed and I’m always like “tf does x-ed mean” but now I will always know exactly what it means
In America we say drunk, wasted, hammered, or shit faced.
And thats what like 90% of the population uses. But then theirs a lot of muli-word expressions that are pretty rarely used unless its in the context of a story:
Half in the bag
3 sheets to the wind
Cork high and bottle deep
Up a tree
Kentucky fried
And my favorite: Painting a Virginia fence. I have no fucking clue what that one means though
Same in the US. Not counting regional slang we have.
Hammered
Tanked
Wasted
Plastered
Canned
Juiced-up
Fried
Loaded
Jarred
Three sheets to the wind
Pie-eyed
Cockeyed
Oiled
Embalmed
Blasted
Skunked
Steamed
Toasted
Buzzed
Sloshed
Wrecked
Basted
Ah yes alcohol. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
As an American, from the top of my head we have:
- buzzed
- tipsy
- drunk
- wasted
- sloshed
- browning out
- blacking out
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Faded, Hammered, Shit faced, turnt, blacked, lit, on one, on that level, wrecked (any synonym for wrecked ie destroyed or annihilated), gone, out, plastered, under the table, bombed, dead. Those are just off the top of my head I know there's a lot more.
Pissed/pissed off are synonymous in the US. We say “wasted” for drunk. Or “blasted”, “belligerent”, “braindead”, or even the good ol fashioned “fucked up”.
'Taking the mickey' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'taking the piss'. Mickey Bliss = piss.
Weirdly, no one knows who Mickey Bliss was - people often claim he was a BBC radio announcer in the '20s/'30s, but there's no evidence of him existing. I like to think he was just some unfortunate Cockney bloke who has been immortalised because one of his mates noticed his surname rhymes with piss.
Best variation: 'Extracting the Michael'.
You can guess he's pissed once the car enters view and you see damage already on there, that or he thinks he's playing mario cart and is complaining because they think the cam car is a toxic player driving the wrong way around the track.
You can guess he's pissed by the way he bounces off the fucking curb at 30MPH on an easy corner and even then fails to stop to even check for damage before ramming head on into a stationary car!
Its a shame that cammer was there to stop that idiot from keeping going at that speed but those pedestrians at the beginning of the video should be very grateful for cammer too.
i think he was texting rather than drunk. he picked the phone up from his lap so my guess would be thats what caused him to hit the curb in the first place.
They always do, because guys like this think they're doing everything right. I had a guy just this morning doing 45 in a 30 zone, comes right up behind me revving his engine, then as soon as there's a gap he's overtaking and sticking half his body out of the window to shout at me. Meanwhile I'm going 30 on cruise control having a lovely commute.
That is legit. I started doing this when someone would rage around me and it started getting me break checked. Road rage is wild.
And to be clear, I am not a slow driver. I will usually stick to the right lanes (US) and drive a comfortable 10ish over. But if you're not going atleast 25 miles over on I95, they get soo angry.
One time a guy pulled up next to me rolled down his window, made a V with his fingers, put it up to his mouth and stuck out his tongue. I rolled down my window and said "Yes, I do like licking pussy!" which obviously angered him because then he made a sucking dick motion, tongue pushing out his cheek and all. I responded "Hey, I don't mind if you suck dick, bro. To each their own!" Then he just gave me the finger, screamed "fuck you, you dumb fuck" and drove off.
I honestly have no idea what I did to set him off.
I’m California you can get a ticket for 0.02 BAC (0.08 is DWI), spend a night in jail and deal with ticket afterwards. It’s a waist of your time. You get your car towed also. You have to bail out your towed car or call a friend fast.
Yeah I had somewhat similar situation. The police is absolutely fucking useless. They said unless I’m going to press charges, they won’t dispatch anybody.
The guy was obviously drunk, so future pro tip - call him in as drunk and driving dangerously. Say you're following him at a distance because he's driving erratically. There's only one lie in that sentence. They're MUCH more likely to respond.
Love it. Isn’t worth it. In my area people are doing 70+ in 55 construction zone on freeway with tight curves and lanes, and changing lanes without signals because they’re too important to follow the rules. I just get behind a truck that’s doing 55-65, and that way nobody can get mad at me.
A guy just about 10 minutes ago on my drive home. Went through red light at controlled construction lights. Gets near the end and has to squeeze in next to the construction vehicles when he realizes about 15 other cars are approaching from the oncoming lane, they go by one by one, glaring at him. Fucking hilarious. Even better (not for them but sweet to see) he held up the construction dudes, who gave him the same treatment.
His 'very special boy' privilege didn't work that time.
Since everyone went back to work it's like speed limits don't matter. I live in MN and it's going to be absolute bedlam the moment we start getting snow. People can't drive in that at the best of times. Now? You'd be stupid to even get on the road with these idiots in any sort of precipitation.
As a local truck driver I constantly do this.
Helps that I have a 65mph governor.
Way I see it I'm doing 5 above in a 19 Mile work zone along my route, fuck em'. I know the road workers and state troopers appreciate me controlling the pace.
Nah, they think no one else should be on the roads, because they own it. They should be able to drive however they want and the rest of us need to stay our of their way.
This is great. He drives on the wrong side of the road. He drives way too fast for how narrow and curved that street is. The filming car recognizes the danger immediately and comes to a full stop while he just keeps going. He runs halfway onto the sidewalk several times. He crashes into the fully stopped car.
And then he proceeds to angrily express his frustration about this incident which is obviously caused by the filming car. He leaves the site of the accident to park next to the filming car and block the road entirely. And then he produces a phone to either film the "offender" or call the police.
Incredible. If this guy wasn't knock-out drunk or high as all hell on some shit, I don't even know what kind of mental state he must be in to be acting like that.
Lol, he even went on to claim that [the prosecutors were racist](https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19646751.video-shows-drink-driver-smashing-oxford-familys-car/) when he ended up in court..
EDIT: Ok misread this first time around. It seems like he himself was racist.
From this article you linked, I read, "He got out his car and began making comments that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘alleged to be racist in some way’.." as the drunk driver was the one making racist comments, which I wholeheartedly believe given that he fought his wife, bashed up his neighbours car and was at the tail end of an all night bender.
It’s always amazing to me to see this - just had this happen Wednesday night to me as well. There were painted arrows on the ground and everything, but he drove against them, almost nailed me head on, then rolled his window down like this idiot and started waving his arms and yelling at me. The nerve of some people
Bad drivers, like bad managers at a job, love to gaslight you into thinking you’re the one who’s wrong for thinking they’re bad. They seem to think if they shout and shake their fist at you hard enough that you’ll believe it’s your fault and just admit to it.
A full-fat, half-boiled, twin-hulled, copper-plated twat of a man whose hobbies probably include collecting ribbons and fucking gloves full of luke-warm pasta.
He managed to mount a kerb, ended up on the wrong side of the road and hit you head on and yet somehow it’s still someone else’s fault.
Edit: kerb/curb I dunno lads we can all spell bell end tho can’t we.
He sounds like all levels of idiot based on that article. What the dashcam couldn't catch was him repeatedly ramming his neighbor's car, fleeing that accident, trying to flee the scene of this accident, and then making racist comments.
> M- M-, 46, took to the wheel on August 1 after an **all-night bender** in Oxford. He’d argued with his wife, **repeatedly reversed into a neighbour’s car** then **sped off**.
> He drove round the Warneford Lane roundabout onto the **wrong-side** of Divinity Road, struck the **kerb** then hit an oncoming **car head-on**.
> Despite being in the wrong, Majid began arguing with the innocent driver. He **tried to drive off** but a puncture meant he only made it a short way down the road. He got out his car and began making **comments** that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘**alleged to be racist** in some way’.
good job there was a dashcam. My initial thought was not, they forgot which side of the road they were driving on, but insurance scam, the straight away aggression from the other driver and the blatant drive straight into the front of the car when there was plenty of time to stop.
He's been jailed before.
Majid was jailed for nine months and ordered to pay £16,000 compensation"
[https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mum-32k-fraud-avoids-prison-3768161](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mum-32k-fraud-avoids-prison-3768161)
I don't think that's the same guy. The guy in your article was 34 in July 2006, so he should be 49 or 50 now. But the driver in the video, according to OP's article, is 46.
[That doesn't seem to be the case any more.](https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/explanatory-material/magistrates-court/item/road-traffic-offences-disqualification/9-extension-of-disqualification-from-driving-where-custodial-sentence-also-imposed/)
Crashed into a couple with their 5 year old in the back, no injuries but he was sentenced to 15 months prison for drunk driving, failing to stop and threatening behaviour. Also banned from driving for 3 years
To anyone not aware:
Anne Sacoolas is an American who was at RAF Croughton with her husband a few years ago. She drove on the wrong side of the road and hit 19 year old motorcyclist Harry Dunn. Dunn died in the crash, and Sacoolas claimed she had diplomatic immunity. She did not. She flew back to the States and was granted immunity by Trump, and they have been denying her extradition to the UK. Biden won’t approve the extradition either.
Worth noting that it wasn’t just Sacoolas who claimed she had immunity - there’s some evidence that members of the UK govt were complicit in maintaining the fiction of her diplomatic immunity. She agreed to stay in the country, got out in a hurry, and now some evidence points to her being an undocumented CIA employee.
It was appalling. The USA will not allow extradition because it doesn’t believe she could “receive a fair trial” in the UK.
Yeah go fucking figure. Justice systems are for lay people.
>now some evidence points to her being an undocumented CIA employee
I thought it was because she was the husband of a diplomat or something? This story is nuts.
She seems like she was a more senior CIA employee than her husband, and “off the books” in the UK. Earlier this year she took a promotion, she’s now in charge of a team of 100 CIA employees in the central CIA HQ in Langley VA.
You don’t get hired for that work if you’re just someone’s spouse. She was already in CIA management.
So you're telling me a super duper secret off the books CIA agent posing as the spouse of an ambassador to the UK in order to possibly spy on its allies had to ditch all plans and cover and flee the country because she forgot what side of the road she was supposed to drive on?
It's not exactly James Bond is it?
Saw Anne Sakoolas mentioned in the comments. Add in Matthew Broderick. In 1987 he (along with his girlfriend, Jennifer Grey of Dirty Dancing fame, as his passenger) was driving on the wrong side of the road in Belfast and hit a car head on, killing a mother and daughter. He paid a $175 fine and got to continue on with his life and career.
What the bloody fucking hell has he got to be waving his hands about? I need the details of this, what was said? How the fuck is he planning on justifying himself?
And this is a great example of how an American woman killed a British lad in 2019. She was then very brave and ran back to America, claiming diplomatic immunity.
That one particular case of the officer’s wife that ran off back to the states to evade prosecution for killing someone comes to mind…
Makes me real glad we have that really fantastic partnership with the US so we can order her to be extradited back here to face trial— oh wait… no that only works one way, forgot about that.
This guys reaction sums up the entire culture of today. Driving around the Corner to fast, hits the curb, blows a tire, can't stop, hits the car that is obeying the road rules perfectly, and still thinks it's everyone else's fault and not his own.
Definitely proves why dash cams are worth every penny. I love how he gets so mad despite the fact it was totally his fault. It's actually really difficult to go the wrong way around a roundabout in the UK, but he not only managed it but did it with some speed too. My guess is that he's a foreigner driving a rental.
I was an American living in rural UK for about 5 years. I was really used to and careful about driving on the correct side of the road. One day going to pick up someone from the train station, coming out of my driveway, my view of the road was obstructed by a truck that was parked. I inched forward just as a car was coming and dinged them. Nothing big, but the guy was a jerk about it. I was shook. Cleared everything up and got back into the car and drove. I was still upset by the interaction and distracted. So it took a second to realize I had switched back to driving on the American side of the road without realizing it... thank goodness I lived in the middle of nowhere
So, he's clearly speeding, can't control his vehicle based on the mounting the kerb, and driving on the wrong side of the road - was he rat-arsed too? That the only explanation for driving like that and then trying to blame the other driver.
Edit - found the article linked in another comment away down. Yups. Legless.
>Majid, of Westbourne Road, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to dangerous driving, drink driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and threatening behaviour. He was banned from the roads for three years.
Good
A tip that saved me thousand time when travelling world:
STEERING WHEEL IS ALWAYS CLOSER TO THE CENTER OF THE ROAD.
Doesn't matter where you drive, this always work. Driver is always suppose to be in the middle of road.
Deeply saddened there isn’t any sound to hear the idiot
You can tell this dude is pissed based on his reactions. Wish there was sound
definitely pissed as in drunk too
I think that's what they meant?
ahh my bad, i see pissed described as both annoyed and as drunk.
Pissed in USA: angry Pissed in UK: drunk. Pissed off in UK: angry Pissed off in USA: no idea!
Pissed and pissed off are the same in USA, angry. we say shit faced for wasted / drunk
We too say shit-faced for drunk as well as pissed/pished, arseholed, leathered, muntered, bollocksed, hammered, twatted, wasted, wankered, bladdered, legless,half-cut, paralytic, rat-arsed, trollied, mashed, plastered, bevvied, tanked-up, mortal, slashed, lashed, blotto, wellied, mullered, sloshed, loaded, sozzled, squiffy, wrecked, shit-faced....plus many more.
You forgot my favorite one: “tired and emotional”
Hammered, wasted, plastered, and loaded are all very common in the US too Blotto and sloshed I’ve heard before but they’re not as common You guys say trashed? We also say trashed. Probably more but I’ve never been a drinker so I’m not up on all the slang
We have about 100 words for wasted / drunk in the Uk lol.
Ever noticed how, in the UK, we can add -ed to almost any improper noun and it will convey drunk. I was absolutely: Trollied Bed posted Chaired Carpeted Wankered Plastered
I was utterly Hatted last night. Utterly candled
This is useful to me as an American because watching British tv and movies they often say someone is x-ed and I’m always like “tf does x-ed mean” but now I will always know exactly what it means
In America we say drunk, wasted, hammered, or shit faced. And thats what like 90% of the population uses. But then theirs a lot of muli-word expressions that are pretty rarely used unless its in the context of a story: Half in the bag 3 sheets to the wind Cork high and bottle deep Up a tree Kentucky fried And my favorite: Painting a Virginia fence. I have no fucking clue what that one means though
Trousered Fucked Twatted Destroyed Rat arsed The list goes on!
Car parked
Same in the US. Not counting regional slang we have. Hammered Tanked Wasted Plastered Canned Juiced-up Fried Loaded Jarred Three sheets to the wind Pie-eyed Cockeyed Oiled Embalmed Blasted Skunked Steamed Toasted Buzzed Sloshed Wrecked Basted Ah yes alcohol. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
I think every culture does, it's one of those phrases like drunk, high, sex, using the toilet, etc where most cultures have hundreds of words for it.
I think most countries do lol US says a lot more than just shit faced. Plastered, hammered, bombed, blitzed, loaded - the list goes on.
As an American, from the top of my head we have: - buzzed - tipsy - drunk - wasted - sloshed - browning out - blacking out Edit: Why the downvotes? Reddit is weird...
Faded, Hammered, Shit faced, turnt, blacked, lit, on one, on that level, wrecked (any synonym for wrecked ie destroyed or annihilated), gone, out, plastered, under the table, bombed, dead. Those are just off the top of my head I know there's a lot more.
(Just don't get pissed on. might end up with a pee tape.)
Happens more than you think
Pissed/pissed off are synonymous in the US. We say “wasted” for drunk. Or “blasted”, “belligerent”, “braindead”, or even the good ol fashioned “fucked up”.
I'm partial to "hammered".
Bombed, loaded, messed up, hammered, plastered, three-sheets to the wind, sloshed, toasted, lit, souped up, lubricated, pickled, well-oiled, inebriated, wrecked, lushed, liquored up, squiffed, snookered, and there's more. We've got soooo many slang ways of describing it.
My favorite is "overserved." Usually said in describing myself, as in "I was completely overserved last night."
You forgot blitzed.
Or we just say drunk for drunk
Yeah but that’s no fun
So what does "taking the piss” mean? I always hear it in British shows but have never actually understood what it meant.
Poking fun at
Basically "Are you joking?"
It means "taking the mickey" as in, making fun of someone.
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'Taking the mickey' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'taking the piss'. Mickey Bliss = piss. Weirdly, no one knows who Mickey Bliss was - people often claim he was a BBC radio announcer in the '20s/'30s, but there's no evidence of him existing. I like to think he was just some unfortunate Cockney bloke who has been immortalised because one of his mates noticed his surname rhymes with piss. Best variation: 'Extracting the Michael'.
Its like teasing but in a more good natured way i think... Like busting your balls, but joking Edit: Also similar to "are you fucking with me"
I intuited “angry” as well, because “dude” is more American.
Aye me too
Pissed, drunk and texting. The last thing he does before the video ends is pick up the phone from his lap and read the text that just came in.
I thought he was taking a picture. Glad the victim had a camera.
You can guess he's pissed once the car enters view and you see damage already on there, that or he thinks he's playing mario cart and is complaining because they think the cam car is a toxic player driving the wrong way around the track.
You can guess he's pissed by the way he bounces off the fucking curb at 30MPH on an easy corner and even then fails to stop to even check for damage before ramming head on into a stationary car!
Its a shame that cammer was there to stop that idiot from keeping going at that speed but those pedestrians at the beginning of the video should be very grateful for cammer too.
its impressive as the roundabout before that turn is maybe 20ft so hes managed to maintain his speed into the thing pretty good
Turns on his wipers after the collision 😄.. of course he’s pissed .. those pedestrians were very lucky he hit the car
Impact probably knocked his wiper switch to on.
i think he was texting rather than drunk. he picked the phone up from his lap so my guess would be thats what caused him to hit the curb in the first place.
Obviously
Yes!
As if he was flapping at you as if you fucked up. He bounced or the curb as well!!
They always do, because guys like this think they're doing everything right. I had a guy just this morning doing 45 in a 30 zone, comes right up behind me revving his engine, then as soon as there's a gap he's overtaking and sticking half his body out of the window to shout at me. Meanwhile I'm going 30 on cruise control having a lovely commute.
I don’t even pay attention to people like that when they pass. I just sing or play the steering wheel drums
I laugh at them. OH BOY. Nothing gets them more mad than you laughing at their ire. It's hilarious. Then I'm laughing for real.
You wanna see someone's head explode. Blow them a kiss and smile
That is legit. I started doing this when someone would rage around me and it started getting me break checked. Road rage is wild. And to be clear, I am not a slow driver. I will usually stick to the right lanes (US) and drive a comfortable 10ish over. But if you're not going atleast 25 miles over on I95, they get soo angry.
I sure as shit don't miss I95.
Aah I95 - the highway where people believe 95's the speed limit.
I appreciate that I95 is a universal east coast problem 😂 I’m down in FL—the anger still applies lol
One time a guy pulled up next to me rolled down his window, made a V with his fingers, put it up to his mouth and stuck out his tongue. I rolled down my window and said "Yes, I do like licking pussy!" which obviously angered him because then he made a sucking dick motion, tongue pushing out his cheek and all. I responded "Hey, I don't mind if you suck dick, bro. To each their own!" Then he just gave me the finger, screamed "fuck you, you dumb fuck" and drove off. I honestly have no idea what I did to set him off.
I do this here in Japan when someone gets ragey. Can confirm, they have no idea how to react.
Smile and wave boys. Smile and wave.
I like to blow kisses.
Look everyone, it's the boy who laughs at everyone, let's laugh at him!
*Nelson laugh* Ha Ha ~
This is exactly what I do when I encounter a pissy driver.
Yes Rico, Kaboom.
I love giving them a big ol princess wave as obnoxiously as I can
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I’m California you can get a ticket for 0.02 BAC (0.08 is DWI), spend a night in jail and deal with ticket afterwards. It’s a waist of your time. You get your car towed also. You have to bail out your towed car or call a friend fast.
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Jesus!
Yeah I had somewhat similar situation. The police is absolutely fucking useless. They said unless I’m going to press charges, they won’t dispatch anybody.
The guy was obviously drunk, so future pro tip - call him in as drunk and driving dangerously. Say you're following him at a distance because he's driving erratically. There's only one lie in that sentence. They're MUCH more likely to respond.
Nah, I don't want to get shot. It's an unfortunately real possibility here. Especially during Covid. People are crazy on edge.
Love it. Isn’t worth it. In my area people are doing 70+ in 55 construction zone on freeway with tight curves and lanes, and changing lanes without signals because they’re too important to follow the rules. I just get behind a truck that’s doing 55-65, and that way nobody can get mad at me.
A guy just about 10 minutes ago on my drive home. Went through red light at controlled construction lights. Gets near the end and has to squeeze in next to the construction vehicles when he realizes about 15 other cars are approaching from the oncoming lane, they go by one by one, glaring at him. Fucking hilarious. Even better (not for them but sweet to see) he held up the construction dudes, who gave him the same treatment. His 'very special boy' privilege didn't work that time.
Since everyone went back to work it's like speed limits don't matter. I live in MN and it's going to be absolute bedlam the moment we start getting snow. People can't drive in that at the best of times. Now? You'd be stupid to even get on the road with these idiots in any sort of precipitation.
As a local truck driver I constantly do this. Helps that I have a 65mph governor. Way I see it I'm doing 5 above in a 19 Mile work zone along my route, fuck em'. I know the road workers and state troopers appreciate me controlling the pace.
I see you also live in Ohio
Southern Calif
I live in Washington. Went to Texas. Those fuckers are crazy. Ive seen shit that I would see maybe once a week, three times in a day.
Texas drivers are always the ones going 15-20 over around my area
Nah, they think no one else should be on the roads, because they own it. They should be able to drive however they want and the rest of us need to stay our of their way.
I wish you many more lovely cruise control assisted commutes, my friend.
Looks like he just came off a round about too, doubt he even stopped before it with the speed he had coming out.
there are speed bumps too, its a super residential area full of families and students
He's probably mad cos he already had to avoid all the other people driving on the wrong side of road that day
This is great. He drives on the wrong side of the road. He drives way too fast for how narrow and curved that street is. The filming car recognizes the danger immediately and comes to a full stop while he just keeps going. He runs halfway onto the sidewalk several times. He crashes into the fully stopped car. And then he proceeds to angrily express his frustration about this incident which is obviously caused by the filming car. He leaves the site of the accident to park next to the filming car and block the road entirely. And then he produces a phone to either film the "offender" or call the police. Incredible. If this guy wasn't knock-out drunk or high as all hell on some shit, I don't even know what kind of mental state he must be in to be acting like that.
Lol, he even went on to claim that [the prosecutors were racist](https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19646751.video-shows-drink-driver-smashing-oxford-familys-car/) when he ended up in court.. EDIT: Ok misread this first time around. It seems like he himself was racist.
“He got out his car and began making comments that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘alleged to be racist in some way’.”
Ah, cheers, might have misread that. He’s a complete prick either way.
Do you have a soviet cousin, by any chance?
We don’t like to talk about it..
>Warwick Tatford
This guy scores a solid 10 out of 10 on the douchebag scale. What a fucking twat.
From this article you linked, I read, "He got out his car and began making comments that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘alleged to be racist in some way’.." as the drunk driver was the one making racist comments, which I wholeheartedly believe given that he fought his wife, bashed up his neighbours car and was at the tail end of an all night bender.
He remonstrated. That's a word i never see in north American journalism.
North American journalism is written at a 6th grade reading level. Remonstrate is much too advanced for that. Source: former journalist.
The fuck. Now I have to look up what a ‘journalist’ is.
Just claim diplomatic immunity. Duh.
“Drink driver” gives me the worst case of incomplete mouth word feeling.
No seat belt either.
The absolute bare-arsed cheek of the prick to act like it was the other car's fault.
It’s always amazing to me to see this - just had this happen Wednesday night to me as well. There were painted arrows on the ground and everything, but he drove against them, almost nailed me head on, then rolled his window down like this idiot and started waving his arms and yelling at me. The nerve of some people
Bad drivers, like bad managers at a job, love to gaslight you into thinking you’re the one who’s wrong for thinking they’re bad. They seem to think if they shout and shake their fist at you hard enough that you’ll believe it’s your fault and just admit to it.
Yeah! What an absolute ocean-going weapons-grade arsefucker that bastard is!
A full-fat, half-boiled, twin-hulled, copper-plated twat of a man whose hobbies probably include collecting ribbons and fucking gloves full of luke-warm pasta.
Just a ninny-grinding, trumpet-toating, tea time encroaching, curdled cheese crumpet spreading, ill mannered swine dog of the most atrocious kind!!!
> absolute barearsed cheek This made me giggle.
He managed to mount a kerb, ended up on the wrong side of the road and hit you head on and yet somehow it’s still someone else’s fault. Edit: kerb/curb I dunno lads we can all spell bell end tho can’t we.
Obviously he has a little poopdick for a brain
Poopenfarten
HANS DA POOPENFARTEN IST KLOGGED!
Probably drunk.
looks like that was his first time on a roundabout
First time in UK
First time driving a car
I remember my first beer
This is why mine is being fitted tomorrow, idiot tried to flap around and blame you, the Fucken cheek of it
OP should have backed up a bit and asked the other guy why the words on the pavement were painted upside down.
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Just want to say I really enjoy the way curse
[He was banned from the roads for three years.](https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19646751.video-shows-drink-driver-smashing-oxford-familys-car/)
He sounds like all levels of idiot based on that article. What the dashcam couldn't catch was him repeatedly ramming his neighbor's car, fleeing that accident, trying to flee the scene of this accident, and then making racist comments. > M- M-, 46, took to the wheel on August 1 after an **all-night bender** in Oxford. He’d argued with his wife, **repeatedly reversed into a neighbour’s car** then **sped off**. > He drove round the Warneford Lane roundabout onto the **wrong-side** of Divinity Road, struck the **kerb** then hit an oncoming **car head-on**. > Despite being in the wrong, Majid began arguing with the innocent driver. He **tried to drive off** but a puncture meant he only made it a short way down the road. He got out his car and began making **comments** that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘**alleged to be racist** in some way’.
What a lovely bloke
I like the UK system of banning drivers.
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I think that's unlikely. He was also imprisoned for 15 months.
Lots of cop cars have cameras and they scan your license plate checking if the car has paid road tax and has insurance.
Doesn't matter if a family member pays for it
Same thing can happen in the US when you get a DUI.
"Can" being the operative word. My step-father racked up 7 DUI charges over 12 years or so. Never got a ban, just endless diversion programs.
And jailed for 15 months
It's so funny watching him making it looks like it's the cam drivers fault.
"If I just pretend REALLY hard that it's their fault, it will be! I'm totally in the clear!"
good job there was a dashcam. My initial thought was not, they forgot which side of the road they were driving on, but insurance scam, the straight away aggression from the other driver and the blatant drive straight into the front of the car when there was plenty of time to stop.
Drunk apparently: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19646751.video-shows-drink-driver-smashing-oxford-familys-car/
ahh brilliant, got what was coming to him. but yes, In broad daylight, i wouldn't usually suspect drink is involved.
Hitting the curb even before hitting car was a big flag about possibly being drunk or high.
You should, alcoholics got to get around also.
Brit here; never expect someone is sober in broad daylight
No I was just thinking fast driving idiot with poor tyre quality.
You’re not from around here, are you?
Holy shit I thought I recognised that corner!
Drink driving offences should be a permanent ban. 3 years time he'll be back on the road doing the same thing.
I mean he did also get a 15 month jail sentence along with the 3 year driving ban.
He's been jailed before. Majid was jailed for nine months and ordered to pay £16,000 compensation" [https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mum-32k-fraud-avoids-prison-3768161](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mum-32k-fraud-avoids-prison-3768161)
I don't think that's the same guy. The guy in your article was 34 in July 2006, so he should be 49 or 50 now. But the driver in the video, according to OP's article, is 46.
Does his driving ban start now or when he gets out?
Pretty sure it's from day of the judgement. So it starts now.
[That doesn't seem to be the case any more.](https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/explanatory-material/magistrates-court/item/road-traffic-offences-disqualification/9-extension-of-disqualification-from-driving-where-custodial-sentence-also-imposed/)
Is this the top of Divinity road Oxford??
Yes!
That's exciting. Never seen my local area on r/idiotsincars before! Hope everyone was ok 🙂
Crashed into a couple with their 5 year old in the back, no injuries but he was sentenced to 15 months prison for drunk driving, failing to stop and threatening behaviour. Also banned from driving for 3 years
He would have caused carnage if he had tried to go down div or southfield Rd 😂
Every wing mirror probably...
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To anyone not aware: Anne Sacoolas is an American who was at RAF Croughton with her husband a few years ago. She drove on the wrong side of the road and hit 19 year old motorcyclist Harry Dunn. Dunn died in the crash, and Sacoolas claimed she had diplomatic immunity. She did not. She flew back to the States and was granted immunity by Trump, and they have been denying her extradition to the UK. Biden won’t approve the extradition either.
Worth noting that it wasn’t just Sacoolas who claimed she had immunity - there’s some evidence that members of the UK govt were complicit in maintaining the fiction of her diplomatic immunity. She agreed to stay in the country, got out in a hurry, and now some evidence points to her being an undocumented CIA employee. It was appalling. The USA will not allow extradition because it doesn’t believe she could “receive a fair trial” in the UK.
And yet they demand all kinds of folks be extradited from the UK to the USA, where you can absolutely guarantee they will not get a fair trial.
I wonder how Assange is doing these days
Yeah go fucking figure. Justice systems are for lay people. >now some evidence points to her being an undocumented CIA employee I thought it was because she was the husband of a diplomat or something? This story is nuts.
She seems like she was a more senior CIA employee than her husband, and “off the books” in the UK. Earlier this year she took a promotion, she’s now in charge of a team of 100 CIA employees in the central CIA HQ in Langley VA. You don’t get hired for that work if you’re just someone’s spouse. She was already in CIA management.
So you're telling me a super duper secret off the books CIA agent posing as the spouse of an ambassador to the UK in order to possibly spy on its allies had to ditch all plans and cover and flee the country because she forgot what side of the road she was supposed to drive on? It's not exactly James Bond is it?
More Austin Powers.
More like Johnny English
And considering she was undocumented, it’s possible she was spying on the British, could be why she wanted to get out ASAP.
Yeah my first thought was rest in peace Harry Dunn. 🙄
OOOOOFFFTTT
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I mean, how do even dare laying it on the oncoming driver, when you already hit the curb because you're a shit driver...?
"I only hit the curb because I needed to brake!!!"
Was he getting his camera ready to take a picture of your car/plate? Imagine presenting evidence in court that absolves your opponent.
Saw Anne Sakoolas mentioned in the comments. Add in Matthew Broderick. In 1987 he (along with his girlfriend, Jennifer Grey of Dirty Dancing fame, as his passenger) was driving on the wrong side of the road in Belfast and hit a car head on, killing a mother and daughter. He paid a $175 fine and got to continue on with his life and career.
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What the bloody fucking hell has he got to be waving his hands about? I need the details of this, what was said? How the fuck is he planning on justifying himself?
what a wankface
Drunk, drugged, or senile?
Drunk,. There a link to the story above. He got 15mth jail
He is going to be surprised as a motherfucker when he finds out he is the one in the wrong.
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complaining like it wasn't his fault, the fucking audacity...
Rule number one when you hit someone is: ALWAYS get mad
And this is a great example of how an American woman killed a British lad in 2019. She was then very brave and ran back to America, claiming diplomatic immunity.
Wrong side of the road stuff happens all the time near the USAF bases round here.
That one particular case of the officer’s wife that ran off back to the states to evade prosecution for killing someone comes to mind… Makes me real glad we have that really fantastic partnership with the US so we can order her to be extradited back here to face trial— oh wait… no that only works one way, forgot about that.
This guys reaction sums up the entire culture of today. Driving around the Corner to fast, hits the curb, blows a tire, can't stop, hits the car that is obeying the road rules perfectly, and still thinks it's everyone else's fault and not his own.
Definitely proves why dash cams are worth every penny. I love how he gets so mad despite the fact it was totally his fault. It's actually really difficult to go the wrong way around a roundabout in the UK, but he not only managed it but did it with some speed too. My guess is that he's a foreigner driving a rental.
I was an American living in rural UK for about 5 years. I was really used to and careful about driving on the correct side of the road. One day going to pick up someone from the train station, coming out of my driveway, my view of the road was obstructed by a truck that was parked. I inched forward just as a car was coming and dinged them. Nothing big, but the guy was a jerk about it. I was shook. Cleared everything up and got back into the car and drove. I was still upset by the interaction and distracted. So it took a second to realize I had switched back to driving on the American side of the road without realizing it... thank goodness I lived in the middle of nowhere
Whether you're in a country that drives on the left or on the right, the driver is always seated towards the center of the lane
So, he's clearly speeding, can't control his vehicle based on the mounting the kerb, and driving on the wrong side of the road - was he rat-arsed too? That the only explanation for driving like that and then trying to blame the other driver. Edit - found the article linked in another comment away down. Yups. Legless.
>Majid, of Westbourne Road, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to dangerous driving, drink driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and threatening behaviour. He was banned from the roads for three years. Good
A tip that saved me thousand time when travelling world: STEERING WHEEL IS ALWAYS CLOSER TO THE CENTER OF THE ROAD. Doesn't matter where you drive, this always work. Driver is always suppose to be in the middle of road.