Not sure it’s just limited to driving. Lots of self entitled cunts everywhere.

You're safe in your box and it dehumanises all the other road users a bit

I've had this theory for a while that it's an Id/Ego thing. My very basic understanding of those two things is that Ego is what the world sees and Id is all your internal unfiltered behaviour. I reckon that when you get into a car, that car becomes what the world sees and you, as the consciousness safely inside it, instinctively revert to being more Id led. You feel safe and enclosed so you stop filtering your behaviour the way you would walking down the street.

As someone who has driven in different countries though, terrible behaviour is absolutely not limited to the UK. In France I experienced drivers who actually go out of their way to ruin your day. In the Middle East it was an almost complete lack of caring at all and a comically enthusiastic attitude to risk taking. In Greece everyone seemed to be ok with today being the day they die on the road and in Argentina people just pointed their cars in a direction and hoped for the best!

I think people find driving stressful because they struggle to operate machinery more than they are comfortable to admit

Modest mouse has a whole song about it.

Car dependency on streets that are too small for cars

Number of times I was almost run over in a crosswalk by someone blowing a red light:

• car:0
• cyclist: 2

Getting cursed out by the dickhead running the red is a great experience. #vancouver

(downvotes? You think that's not the number?)

Strap a propane cylinder to your bike. You can't win when they run you over, but you can take them with you

How dare you disparage my wanky vinyl wrap!

"This thing costs me £750+ per month, you can fucking bet I'm going to draw attention to myself"

If I'm walking on the pavement and a cyclist rings their bell to make me get out of their way, I'm gonna get mad

I know cars suck. But you're meant to cycle on the road - You're not supposed to cycle on the pavement. I don't care if you do if the road is horrible, fair play, but ringing your bell at me? It's my right of way, so no thanks

I cycle in the middle of the road as the highway code intended. Keeps me most visible and reduces dangerous overtaking, plus gives me more swerving space.

My feeling is that unless there is a bike lane you should go on the pavement. You're not going to hit a pedestrian, not if you've been careful, and the roads are just not set up for cyclists.

However if there is a cycle lane, and as long as cars aren't parked in it, you should be using it.

A kid on their bike on the pavement is not really a threat imho

On a residential street like that there is zero reason not to be on the road, especially if there are cars on the pavement, but I don't really mind cyclists being on the pavement if it's a busy A road.

There's a road near me with a speed limit of 50 and I regularly see cyclists on that road. It's insane that they're risking their life to be on a road when there's a perfectly good pavement right next to them and there's never anyone on the pavement. No one wants to take a walk along a road with a 50 mph speed limit.

Anyone who tells people not to bike on the sidewalk, and who owns a car, deserves to have it magically explode right then and there. And I hope they're driving it when they do.

I've been hit by kids on bikes. if you have average able bodied as per work safety regulations strength you can probably pick up the whole bike along with the kid. even if not its not much worse than slipping on ice. The one time I had a kid crash in to me and the parent was not combatative about it I picked up the whole bike and turned to put it on the other side of me and the parent just apologized and said he hopes the kid won't expect him to do that now. now if it was an electric fatbike then no, not happening.