Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Bluedot said:
Cheltenham town centre and the complete lack of any meaningful signage to get you through the poxy place.
I think it's a new spec for town centres...Ashford (Kent) is the same. The next town to the West is Maidstone, and they used to be linked by the A20 (once the main route from London to Folkestone), but try finding a sign on the inner ring road indicating that.If you've somehow found your way into a town centre the planning bods want you trapped until you spend your way out.
Today I am mainly annoyed by all things Orgreave.
The cyclist who I have started seeing on a narrow lane on the way in to work, who:
(a) has never given way to me at a passing place, always me to him
(b) has never offered me any acknowledgement
Before PH's pet cyclists pile in, it's not related to his mode of transport, just that he's a rude t
t.
(a) has never given way to me at a passing place, always me to him
(b) has never offered me any acknowledgement
Before PH's pet cyclists pile in, it's not related to his mode of transport, just that he's a rude t
t. Though he does have that slight "angry old hippy" look of someone that probably thinks he has more right to be on the road than I do.
rambo19 said:
Foglights.
This and 10 million times this. It's 17:30, it's dark, the traffic is heavy stop start, there is a hint of fog but visibility is >100m.
Mr w
ky fktard with his power of a million suns high intensity fog lights has them on despite being close enough to see their face in the mirror.Thanks
wombles, now I can't see a fking thing beyond your car and all the other idiots who have done the same means I can't tell if that sudden bright light a few cars ahead is someone putting their brakes on or just some tt with their fog lights on and being un-obscured.I don't even understand the kind of mentality that thinks "I'm in stationary/slow traffic, I can see the car behind me perfectly but there is a hint of fog, I'd best blind the car behind".
Although in one occasion I had such a f
kwit do it in stationary traffic and I then put on front fogs and full beam. He turned them off again. 
Fastdruid said:
I don't even understand the kind of mentality that thinks "I'm in stationary/slow traffic, I can see the car behind me perfectly but there is a hint of fog, I'd best blind the car behind".
Because a lot of people learn to drive parrot-fashion, without any comprehension as to the reasons. So to their tiny little minds, fog means putting their fog lights on. Because fog. No comprehension as to the reason for fog lights being so that cars behind can see you are there and are therefore only needed when you cannot see any cars behind you. Fastdruid said:
rambo19 said:
Foglights.
This and 10 million times this. 227bhp said:
Stuff that doesn't even fit on my computer screen, wtf is all that about?
Just reading an Ebay ad which i'm having to scroll from left to right to read.
Yeah, there's a term for that but I forget what it is. Just reading an Ebay ad which i'm having to scroll from left to right to read.
The worst contender is my s
tty work phone, a Nokia Lumia, which doesn't have that auto-sense screen size thing and so as a consequence it never properly displays emails in the same fashion that an iPhone can do with ease. Piece of crap.Shakermaker said:
227bhp said:
Stuff that doesn't even fit on my computer screen, wtf is all that about?
Just reading an Ebay ad which i'm having to scroll from left to right to read.
Yeah, there's a term for that but I forget what it is. Just reading an Ebay ad which i'm having to scroll from left to right to read.
The worst contender is my s
tty work phone, a Nokia Lumia, which doesn't have that auto-sense screen size thing and so as a consequence it never properly displays emails in the same fashion that an iPhone can do with ease. Piece of crap.king steaming s write "looooooooooooooooool" (only with 5 times the amount of "o"s/). May you contract leprosy of the cock and end up face down over an electric barbed-wire fence while the at-large AIDS-ridden criminal "Big Barry the Dry Bummer" has his way with you before delivering you unconscious and bleeding to your mum's front door with a note around your neck saying "I asked for, and enjoyed it all".
Johnnytheboy said:
The cyclist who I have started seeing on a narrow lane on the way in to work, who:
(a) has never given way to me at a passing place, always me to him
(b) has never offered me any acknowledgement
Before PH's pet cyclists pile in, it's not related to his mode of transport, just that he's a rude tt.
Yep, that yanks my chain as well. As I live in Cambridge, it happens a lot - letting cyclists through, and then not a flicker of recognition.(a) has never given way to me at a passing place, always me to him
(b) has never offered me any acknowledgement
Before PH's pet cyclists pile in, it's not related to his mode of transport, just that he's a rude t
t. Though he does have that slight "angry old hippy" look of someone that probably thinks he has more right to be on the road than I do.
Mind you, more and more motorists seem to be getting just as rude.
Nanook said:
Einion Yrth said:
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Davie_GLA said:
[clarkson] 2. Some footballist[/clarkson], Real Madrid i think on £750k a WEEK. three quarters of a million.
That's not annoyance, that's jealousy.You really know so little about football that you think the correct word is footballist, and not footballer?
Great I take a week off work to do some stuff round the house, get my car sorted etc. So talking to the girl im transferring work to tells me she has a cold. So now its Tuesday on my week off an I have picked up her bug and feel like crap, nose running, light headed, slightly dizzy, got a chesty cough etc.
Cotty said:
Great, I take a week off work to do some stuff round the house, get my car sorted etc. So talking to the girl I'm transferring work to tells me she has a cold. So now it's Tuesday on my week off and I have picked up her bug and feel like crap, nose running, light headed, slightly dizzy, got a chesty cough etc.
That's a fair trade; You gave her your workload....Cotty, are you sure you were just talking to her?
Enjoy it with whiskey & Night Nurse
"That guy gets zero sympathy from me"Cars/buses/trains being described as 'zero emission'.
No they fking aren't - they just don't emit anything at the 'point of use' but the energy they use needs to be generated SOMEWHERE, and in the case of most countries that will be by coal or gas power stations.
Thanks to the inefficiency of then having to transmit the power across the country, via several step up/step down transformers, then either use it to charge batteries ( with about 95% of the energy subsequently being available for use ) or make hydrogen ( where at best a mere 60% of the input energy can then be used ) they can end up creating more emissions than an ic vehicle
And that is before you consider the environmental impact of mining the stuff used in their battery's construction
No they f
king aren't - they just don't emit anything at the 'point of use' but the energy they use needs to be generated SOMEWHERE, and in the case of most countries that will be by coal or gas power stations. Thanks to the inefficiency of then having to transmit the power across the country, via several step up/step down transformers, then either use it to charge batteries ( with about 95% of the energy subsequently being available for use ) or make hydrogen ( where at best a mere 60% of the input energy can then be used ) they can end up creating more emissions than an ic vehicle
And that is before you consider the environmental impact of mining the stuff used in their battery's construction
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