"without a care or thought for other road users around them"
Do you really mean other "road users" or some other motorists?
Mimsers are a blessing for some road users, eg walkers, cyclists, hosey types, after all mimsers don't actually cause accidents, it is often the ill-judged, impatient moves of others that cause the accidents which they then try to excuse by shifting the blame.
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>>>Mimsers are a blessing for some road users, eg walkers, cyclists, hosey types, after all mimsers don't actually cause accidents, it is often the ill-judged, impatient moves of others that cause the accidents which they then try to excuse by shifting the blame.<<<
This person deserves promotion and a large increase in salary !!
Dog.
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Mimsing is simply an insult used by drivers who are opposed to steady driving of people in no real hurry.
It should be separated from the issue of those who dont hold a uk license who drive like idiots because they dont know the rules on uk roads and from elderly drivers ( who have three times tried to have a slow motion impact with me just today! ) due to having no clue whats going on around them. Personally, id say these are a far worse bunch who deserve their own rally, if only so we know where they all are and can avoid them.
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Mimsing is simply an insult used by drivers who are opposed to steady driving of people in no real hurry.
Not from my perspective.
I make a clear distinction between "slow drivers" and "mimsers".
"Slow drivers" are those who drive slowly but considerately -- and who usually will actually pull in to the left when being overtaken. They generally stick rigidly to the rules of the road, and nothing wrong with that.
"Mimsers" are those who do 40mph everywhere (including 30 zones), come to a virtual stop when there is clearly nothing on a roundabout, have poor lane discipline, get irate when overtaken and generally appear to have been put on this earth to annoy others.
Totally different species.
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quite jase 1. People who think mimser is an insult directed against steady considerate drivers may fear that they are themselves mimsers. If they are, I beg them to stop being that as soon as they can manage it.
And it just isn't true that mimsers don't cause accidents. Some mimsing behaviour is incredibly dangerous and must have caused many deaths.
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The worst kind of mimser is the middle-lane-owners'-club type.
Recently, the petrol price increases have had a marked effect on local drivers' habits, and the WORST of these are the MLOC types.
Now, having read the 'how to save fuel' articles in the paper they mimse in the centre lane of the three lane freeway at 60km/h, instead of their previous 80km/h!
Fortunately, passing on the inside is allowed here, and often I have been in the 'slow' lane, doing 100, and passed at least a dozen of the mimsers who are contentedly bowling along in their little world in the centre...
This behaviour continues, despite the huge signs 'KEEP LEFT PASS RIGHT' which adorn our freeways, in several languages...
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Oh no, this thread is in danger of merging into davidh's one.
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apologies - I posted before I read davidh's ramblings...
Let's list some other classic examples of mimser-type behaviour:
1) Mimser slows down, indicates, tries to reverse park in bay at least 4 ft longer than their car. Makes about 17 attempts at it, then eventually drives on, without a care for the 47 folk who have been waiting (im) patiently while they display their total lack of know-how.
2) Mimser waits at lights, unwraps sweets, fiddles with the radio, continues conversation with passenger. Lights change. (im) patient driver sounds horn after mimser sits for 5 seconds. Mimser gesticulates, then screams off from lights... and repeats pattern at next light.
3) Mimser at T-junction turning left. You are behind mimser. Notice space in traffic coming from the right... Is he going ...yes, yes yes... NOPE! Next space in traffic, repeat. eventually a space which would take 4 pantechnicons, the queen mary, the space shuttle transporter, the band of the grenadier guards appears... but the mimser is now piddling about with his radio or something, and misses it... ONLY to then trundle out a short while later into a gap which nobody in their right mind would have taken.
4) Sitting in traffic. Hear siren, emergency vehicle coming from behind. EVERYONE pulls over to the side. Except Mimser, who contines just sitting where they were... "I wonder what all these people are doing indicating to pullover?"
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> 1) Mimser slows down, indicates, tries to reverse park in bay at least 4 ft longer than their car. Makes about 17 attempts at it, then eventually drives on, without a care for the 47 folk who have been waiting (im) patiently while they display their total lack of know-how. <
Eek. I (kind of) did that years ago when I was inexperienced.
In my case, there was I space I knew I could get into, and there was no traffic around, but it was just after a blind bend. Just as I was starting to reverse a bloke in a white van came around. This of course makes me mistime the swing-around and cock the procedure up.
Slams it into first and tears away out of the vicinity at speed, totally flustered and embarrassed.
Not my finest hour!
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Ladydog and I had a good larf this morning about all your definitions of what a mimser is and isn't a mimser and she said "I'll tell you what a mimser is" ... The dozy (chronologically challenged ruminant) - old cow! in front of you who pulls out onto the roundabout only to come to a sudden-dead stop to let traffic out *from the left* ... I have had 2 shunts in the past because of this.
Dog
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And to end this thread I'd like to offer a new slant on the word mimser ...
This is from a friend who's had something I've not - Edumacation!
Don't ask me what its about - I haven't the foggiest ~
It has been used in a similar form as an adjective, remember the Jabowocky:-
T'was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Dog.
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Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll. Interesting point though Dog: is there I wonder an etymological connection between 'mimsy' and 'to mimse, mimser etc.'? I am trying to seek enlightenment, so far without success.
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A'ha ... so my friend can't be that educated then, being he spelt Jabberwocky wrong!
The nearest I've come across Re: mimser Lud, is Mimsie the cat ~
The company is also remembered for its mascot, Mimsie the Cat (1968-1988), who was an obvious parody of MGM's Leo the Lion. Mimsie was in real life, Mary Tyler Moore's cat. In each MTM production, Mimsie (also known as "Dick Turpin" and "Dick Marino") would arrive in a different disguise as its closing logo, corresponding to the style and theme of a certain show.
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