Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[Studio117]

Poor control over ones umbrella.

[fatboy18]

The Don of Croy said:

Risotto said:

fatboy18 said:

Might be a bit of a controversial one this but.....

I'm seeing more and more shrines to lost loved ones at the sides of roads

Now while I do realise that someone has lost their life in a tragic way, surely the reason we have cemeteries is so that we can remember these people with a Grave or plaque where one can lay flowers.

Some of theses roadside shrines have so much stuff around them that they may actually cause another accident as drivers become distracted looking at them while driving past?
Yesterday an oncoming car strayed into my lane as they became distracted!

I can understand it up until the point of the funeral, but once the funeral has taken place surely these should be removed?

They do seem a bit mawkish. As you say, the cemetery would seem a far better place to leave flowers and quietly reflect.

In all honesty I wouldn't mind the roadside flowers if they would only remove them when the flowers have died. Instead every other lamp post sports a bunch of rotten brown twigs lashed in place with yellowing Sellotape and filthy football scarves.

If you want to leave some sort of tribute at the scene in the immediate aftermath, you should at least be prepared to tidy it away when the time comes.

Edited by Risotto on Saturday 22 August 22:47

We have a 'railside' tribute near to us - on a country path where it passes under the branch line. Now a full ten years since the lad walked under the train, someone is still lighting candles in the lantern and adding floral tributes now and again. Time to move on perhaps?

There again in times past people built clock towers and stuff to honour the passing of family and friends - so perhaps not throwing up a thirty foot tall brick structure is a sign of progress (or a lack of skilled tower builders at economic rates).

What annoys me more is the lack of 'Labour leadership' discussion in the news...

Have to say, the first time I came across these shrines was on the Greek Island of Corfu during the early 80s. No over there was a small white rendered brick structure with a little glass door. Inside would be a little cross, possibly a picture of someone and some water.
The Idea was that the water was there to refresh a weary traveler. A nice idea. (mind you know idea how long the water had been there!)

But over here its Ribbons, Bows, various coloured lanterns, non waterproof laminated pictures, football scarfs and bundles of flowers it causes distraction to drivers and may actually increase the risk of another accident!

[JonRB]

fatboy18 said:

Have to say, the first time I came across these shrines was on the Greek Island of Corfu during the early 80s. No

Aye. My dad and I were in Greece in the early 80's and as he drove a hire car far harder than it should be, he remarked to me that the shrines told him to brake harder and earlier at those bends.

[fatboy18]

JonRB said:

fatboy18 said:

Have to say, the first time I came across these shrines was on the Greek Island of Corfu during the early 80s. No

Aye. My dad and I were in Greece in the early 80's and as he drove a hire car far harder than it should be, he remarked to me that the shrines told him to brake harder and earlier at those bends.

Like his thinking, a true Petrolhead

[227bhp]

fatboy18 said:

may actually increase the risk of another accident!

Might make someone think twice too.

I drive past a couple of these every day, I haven't driven off the road in sympathy yet.

[fatboy18]

227bhp said:

fatboy18 said:

may actually increase the risk of another accident!

Might make someone think twice too.

I drive past a couple of these every day, I haven't driven off the road in sympathy yet.

Please read my first post on this.
I had to avoid an oncoming car due to Driver being distracted

[SpeedMattersNot]

Stickyfinger said:

Same for profession

listen mate/darling, you are not in a Profession if your a shop assistant, meat packer, part time Care assistant or a fracking Kwick-Fit fitter...

you have a JOB !, be proud of it

People who claim to be an engineer, is much, much more annoying.

Broken sliding door, we've called the engineer.

Hand drier is broken, an engineer has been called.

Boiler isn't working, British Gas engineer is on his way.

Ordered a sandwich at Subway, an engineer is assembling your chicken and mayo for you.

Absolute bks!

[JonRB]

SpeedMattersNot said:

People who claim to be an engineer, is much, much more annoying.

Broken sliding door, we've called the engineer.

Hand drier is broken, an engineer has been called.


Boiler isn't working, British Gas engineer is on his way.

Ordered a sandwich at Subway, an engineer is assembling your chicken and mayo for you.

Absolute bks!

I agree. People seek to "enginerise" what I do.

Software Engineer. I don't engineer software. I don't bang out identical copies of some template. I'm not the producer, I'm the designer. I *design* the template that engineers produce.

I'm a fking 'Code Poet', bhes.

Oh, sorry, was I meant to see 'Engineer' as an aspirational thing? Sorry. I'm no engineer.

(This post is brought to you by alcohol. Alcohol is great!)

Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th August 22:39

[227bhp]

fatboy18 said:

227bhp said:

fatboy18 said:

may actually increase the risk of another accident!

Might make someone think twice too.

I drive past a couple of these every day, I haven't driven off the road in sympathy yet.

Please read my first post on this.
I had to avoid an oncoming car due to Driver being distracted

That is the fault of the person who allows themselves to be distracted, not what they are looking at.
What do we do, hide everything from sight incase someone looks at it? People will then get so bored of no scenery they'll fall asleep at the wheel

[Tango13]

DaveGoddard said:

People who "check in" on Facebook at hospitals, then won't say why they're there, even when people take the bait and ask them.

Because they're at the clap clinic?

[KingNothing]

FourWheelDrift said:

People who pay a lot of money to go to a big sporting event (World Athletics in China) and video the big race (the men's 100m final) using a massive tablet which blocks their own view of the race. You go to watch it live with your own eyes not view it on a screen in front of your face, you'd have been better off watching it at home on your TV.

Once watched a girl film almost the enitre duration of a gig on her mobile phone/compact camera. Holding the camera above her head and looking up at the screen, watching the gig through a 2.5" TFT screen, for what? A bunch of grainy videos with atrocious sound quality. I've been there and filmed gigs using my old phones before, was worthless and I soon stopped. What happened, she probably ended up watching them once, realising the video quality and lighting was rubbish, and that sound quality was so st she didn't even know what songs were being played on half the video's. Could have just stood there and watched the actual gig with her own eyes and got a better view.

[SpeedMattersNot]

JonRB said:

I agree. People seek to "enginerise" what I do.

Software Engineer. I don't engineer software. I don't bang out identical copies of some template. I'm not the producer, I'm the designer. I *design* the template that engineers produce.

I'm a fking 'Code Poet', bhes.

Oh, sorry, was I meant to see 'Engineer' as an aspirational thing? Sorry. I'm no engineer.

(This post is brought to you by alcohol. Alcohol is great!)

Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th August 22:39

Maybe you should design alcohol ?

[aka_kerrly]

JonRB said:

I'm a fking 'Code Poet', bhes.

[anonymous-user]

SpeedMattersNot said:

Stickyfinger said:

Same for profession

listen mate/darling, you are not in a Profession if your a shop assistant, meat packer, part time Care assistant or a fracking Kwick-Fit fitter...

you have a JOB !, be proud of it

People who claim to be an engineer, is much, much more annoying.

Broken sliding door, we've called the engineer.

Hand drier is broken, an engineer has been called.

Boiler isn't working, British Gas engineer is on his way.

Ordered a sandwich at Subway, an engineer is assembling your chicken and mayo for you.

Absolute bks!

Subway bread choppers are genuinely called "sandwich artists". I'd rather be called a than a sandwich artist.

And code poet, nice. I really am an engineer but trust me there's nothing glamorous in it.

[fezst]

When people misspell lose as loose.

[McAndy]

fezst said:

When people misspell loose as loose.

If you're going to moan about it, at least get it right.

[fezst]

McAndy said:

fezst said:

When people misspell loose as loose.

If you're going to moan about it, at least get it right.

PT82 said:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=...

Something I bet you never considered lol plus will not loose money. Will probably go up when they are legally allowed to be imported into the U.S just like the R32.

From thread : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=153...

Edited by fezst on Tuesday 25th August 08:26 (formatting)

Edited by fezst on Tuesday 25th August 08:30

[All that jazz]

^ Oops!

[RobinOakapple]

Stickyfinger said:

Same for profession

listen mate/darling, you are not in a Profession if your a shop assistant, meat packer, part time Care assistant or a fracking Kwick-Fit fitter...

you have a JOB !, be proud of it

I expect professional people would know the difference between 'your' and 'you're' too.

[Stickyfinger]

RobinOakapple said:

I expect professional people would know the difference between 'your' and 'you're' too.

there you go Mr spelling Nazi
~
I would also expect professional people to know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'.