AIBU to ask what do you do with your horn?

[AllThatIAmRoom101]

Just a carry on really from the other thread. Everyone seemed to have so many different words for "beeping' your horn.

Honk or beep

@Picklypickles

Meeped/meeping.

No you don't

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I think cars should have two horns. A little one you bib that means "Er, excuse me I think you'll find the light has just gone green," and a loud blare that says "You bastard you could have killed me, you shouldn't be on the bloody road!"

My car only has the former. It doesn't matter how angry I am it only produces a noise like a teddy bear's fart.

Beep. My mum bibs apparently.

Beep or bip. Possibly. Never actually done it - passed my test in 1998.

Pomped sounds like you've farted.

Pamp

I ride a motorcycle. I accidentally beep it now and then.

Honked or blasted.

I toot, I seem to be in a minority

I think cars should have two horns.

Some do. They used to be called town and country. The town one was quieter.

I've got a big van and the horn is an embarrassment it's

Toooot toooot
Sounds like thomas the tank engine

Bip it. Usually when I'm putting the lock on and I bip it accidentally.

Beep, pip or honk.

I love pomp though.
I may do this too now. 🤣🤣

Blast

As I only use it is an emergency to sound a massive warning - it's Blast

Bip

I don't use mine (I just curse idiotic, dangerous drivers to myself and anyone else in the car), but I'd say a loud, long sound is honking the horn, whereas a short, "polite" sound is beeping.

Parp or beep, usually parp. "Give him a parp!"

Pressed but current car horn is pathetic, so its only had a test press!

Beep

I've been pomping since yesterday.

Honk
Beep
Toot

(In order of preference )

"Tootle. If very annoyed, tootle with vigour" I love this translation in a Japanese magazine from years ago 😂.

@ShowOfHands

I've never beeped/bibbed/sounded my horn in 8 years of driving.

It's the height of bad manners (unless someone does something drastic to warrant it).