Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[kowalski655]

ClockworkCupcake said:

tezzer said:

so I reach into the drawer for a fork, and pull out a knife or a spoon...........

Isn't it ironic.

Its self preservation...when she annoys you so much that you are compelled to grab a knife & plunge it deep into her heart, what you actually do is grab a spoon and tap her!
Always thinking ahead these women

[Stickyfinger]

Frank7 said:

talksthetorque said:

People who tar all lorry drivers with the same brush.

Go to the top of the class.

Only if he adds feathers to the mix.........

[RizzoTheRat]

I might have mentioned this before, but fkwits who post videos of stuff to forums or facebook filmed in portrait. How fking hard is it to rotate your phone 90 degrees and film it properly?

[RumbleOfThunder]

When passengers can't locate the seat belt buckle. The chime is going insane and you're fumbling around like an 80 year old! Give it here!!

[Stickyfinger]

RumbleOfThunder said:

When passengers can't locate the seat belt buckle. The chime is going insane and you're fumbling around like an 80 year old! Give it here!!

Thanks for giving my 80year old Mother a lift ...........

[randomeddy]

Travelling down the A1 on Sunday, in no rush, cruising along at about 60-65. We came to a 50mph bit and slowed to 50.
The lorry that we had just passed decided that we were now going too slow according to his super calibrated speedo and went to pass.
The 50 bit isn't very long and as it ended the lorry was next to us in the outside lane, I went back up to 65 and he was left to get back into the inside lane.
Just what was the point of going for an overtake?

[nicanary]

randomeddy said:

Travelling down the A1 on Sunday, in no rush, cruising along at about 60-65. We came to a 50mph bit and slowed to 50.
The lorry that we had just passed decided that we were now going too slow according to his super calibrated speedo and went to pass.
The 50 bit isn't very long and as it ended the lorry was next to us in the outside lane, I went back up to 65 and he was left to get back into the inside lane.
Just what was the point of going for an overtake?

Momentum?

[ClockworkCupcake]

nicanary said:

randomeddy said:

Travelling down the A1 on Sunday, in no rush, cruising along at about 60-65. We came to a 50mph bit and slowed to 50.
The lorry that we had just passed decided that we were now going too slow according to his super calibrated speedo and went to pass.
The 50 bit isn't very long and as it ended the lorry was next to us in the outside lane, I went back up to 65 and he was left to get back into the inside lane.
Just what was the point of going for an overtake?

Momentum?

Indeed. I've never driven a lorry, but I imaging that it is (paradoxically) like driving a small underpowered car - momentum is hard won and not something you want to give up easily.

Plus, with a lorry, the extra fuel spent regaining momentum when given up, over the course of a journey, could be the difference between a profit and a loss financially.

[nicanary]

ClockworkCupcake said:

nicanary said:

randomeddy said:

Travelling down the A1 on Sunday, in no rush, cruising along at about 60-65. We came to a 50mph bit and slowed to 50.
The lorry that we had just passed decided that we were now going too slow according to his super calibrated speedo and went to pass.
The 50 bit isn't very long and as it ended the lorry was next to us in the outside lane, I went back up to 65 and he was left to get back into the inside lane.
Just what was the point of going for an overtake?

Momentum?

Indeed. I've never driven a lorry, but I imaging that it is (paradoxically) like driving a small underpowered car - momentum is hard won and not something you want to give up easily.

Plus, with a lorry, the extra fuel spent regaining momentum when given up, over the course of a journey, could be the difference between a profit and a loss financially.

Exactly. Which is why trucks can constantly be seen trying to overtake each other, when their speed differential may only be 5/10mph. They have probably got a full load, and have taken maybe 2 or 3 miles to get up to cruising speed. Decelerating and then re-accelerating can use up one heck of a load of diesel.

[ClockworkCupcake]

nicanary said:

Exactly. Which is why trucks can constantly be seen trying to overtake each other, when their speed differential may only be 5/10mph. They have probably got a full load, and have taken maybe 2 or 3 miles to get up to cruising speed. Decelerating and then re-accelerating can use up one heck of a load of diesel.

Still bloody annoying on a two lane carriageway though.

[silverthorn2151]

As it was my post which triggered this brief elephant race discussion let me be clear.

This thread is not intended for level debate on a subject, its to vent about something that is annoying you beyond reason.

My A1 drive on Tuesday did that ENTIRELY because of when seemed to be a fking convoy of trucks apparently shuffling their pack and doing so with a 1mph differential. It annoyed me beyond reason then and is annoying me beyond reason when I think about it.

There were, in addition, some tt drivers in car

[Fastdruid]

Europa1 said:

There is still a stretch northbound near Duxford with the scheme in place.

What it, and the similar scheme they trialled on the A14, proves to my mind is that a lot of the time it is not a lorry overtaking another lorry that's the problem, it's the drooling inadequate in a car who thinks that anything over 55mph on a motorway is a reckless, dizzying speed that will result in a nosebleed or render them unconscious through lack of oxygen if they exceed it.

Gah. The A14.

I have for my sins to travel from the Midlands to near Cambridge about once a month. The first ~100miles is dispatched in 1h 30m or so. The last 8-9 miles takes 50minutes and has on occasion taken as long as to do the first 100 miles. It's horrific and there is no alternative (except maybe to do a detour that would take even longer). It annoys me beyond reason.


Oh and while I'm on the subject of the A14. The fking drivers who drive at 60mph in the outside lane when the inside lane is clear, presumable "because it's an NSL dual carriageway with average speed cameras" and they don't have a fking clue that the speed limit is 70. Or they are just fking idiots and don't fking care.


Anyway back to lorries, yes they are bloody annoying when they overtake on a dual carriageway and yes they sometimes do "elephant race" but while some individual lorries are annoying, what boils my piss is less the lorries and more the car drivers. Especially the ones on the motorway who either fail to plan for the trucks end up behind them, then pull out doing 56 into the outside lane and then fail to accelerate. Or the ones who are doing 57mph and continue blissfully on their way into the BMW outside lane as faster traffic daring to do the speed limit and has planned ahead and moved over in plenty of time has to haul on the anchors.

On the motorways when the traffic is not too heavy it's not the lorries that hold up traffic when they are overtaking one another, it is those idiots.

Edited by Fastdruid on Wednesday 25th October 23:29

[tezzer]

kowalski655 said:

Its self preservation...when she annoys you so much that you are compelled to grab a knife & plunge it deep into her heart, what you actually do is grab a spoon and tap her!
Always thinking ahead these women

Very, very possibly !

[shakotan]

mko9 said:

mko9 said:

That annoys me beyond reason. There is basically nothing ironic highlighted in that entire song.

Vocal Minority said:

The bit where the man is scared of flying, gets on a plane and it crashes...that is.

That is the only thing mind, - but 'isn't it a pain in the arse' didn't scan.

Sorry to derail the vent about the elephant races to flash back to this, but there is nothing ironic about dying in a plane crash if you are afraid of flying. That would be a well founded fear of flying. It would be ironic if the man with the fear of flying took the train instead, then died in some horrible train crash while the plane landed without incident.

Indeed. It would be ironic if a man who scoffed at the 'fear of flying guy' then died in a 'plane crash, but not the aviophobic himself.

[ClockworkCupcake]

shakotan said:

Indeed. It would be ironic if a man who scoffed at the 'fear of flying guy' then died in a 'plane crash, but not the aviophobic himself.

And rain on your wedding day would only be ironic if you were marrying a weatherman and he had confidently predicted that it would be sunny. Otherwise it's just annoying.

And 10,000 spoons would only be ironic if you got rid of them all, and then found that the thing that you needed a knife for could have been achieved equally well with a spoon.

(Credit: Ed Byrne on both the above)

In fact, the song should have been called "Annoying" rather than "Ironic". Which is kind of ironic really.

Edit: Although perhaps it's deliberate that none of the situations in the song are actually ironic, and it was done deliberately and ironically. And that is the irony.

I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[Shakermaker]

The term "Sky fairies" being used anytime someone wants to detract from a discussion with religious aspects to it to vehemently display their atheism to anyone who is listening/reading.

[kowalski655]

I do the same to anyone who refers to a real god

[SpeckledJim]

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[Shakermaker]

kowalski655 said:

I do the same to anyone who refers to a real god

Referring to religion through discussion doesn't have to infer you follow said religion, just that it is part of it I suppose.

[SpeckledJim]

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