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.

Blast.
As in 'I had to Blast at some wanker today, who clearly didn't know how to roundabout'

Toot or beep.

Bip or bib. If someone uses the horn at me, then they have pipped at me.

@KVIIIlyne no I wouldn't use my horn to tell somebody a light has changed, as that's an improper use of the horn. And it's never happened to me anyway.

I don't think most people use it as intended anyway. My brother thinks it's an "I'm pissed off" button.

I honk my horn. ‘Oi! dickhead!’

I thought this was going to be about feeling frisky.

@BreakfastOfWaffles

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

I saw this too and its tickled me ever since

@OhMyMirror

I say pamped/pamp. Im just outside Glasgow.

I’m in Glasgow, I ‘toot’ but I have heard pamp/pamper before.

Honda manual apparently

I dont drive but my DB had a huge American car a few years ago and is a very laid back driver so despite me traveling with him often I never heard the horn until one day when a muppet blasted through a red light at a cross junction nearly taking us out .
DB hit the horn Christ i nearly hit the roof of the car it scared the bugger out of me it was so loud !

I am not sure how I would normally describe hitting the horn but that was about as far away from a toot or peep as I think you could get !

Posted on the Facebook group of my home town just now ....

Normally have a quick wank (childish)

@ShowOfHands

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

I suspect you have been the subject of other people’s horns more than once 😂

I sit on it. That’s not as rude as it sounds. I get very impatient when driving.

Sound or beep. But I wouldn’t say beeped my horn, just beeped at them. I would say - sounded my horn.

It's a beep here.

I’m in Glasgow, I ‘toot’ but I have heard pamp/pamper before

Glasgow - a definite blast, and mean it..

Genuinely, I've had to hide the other thread as the word "pomped" upset me so much.

No one calls it that!!!

I’m in Glasgow.

I ‘beep’ if someone is fannying about at the lights and I’m getting their attention. I ‘honk’ if someone does something dangerous and I’m pissed off.

I toot

Honk

I blast mine. Example.

"Had to blast my horn at the numpty"

Beep