Things that annoy you beyond reason...?

[DrTre]

"Apparent speed and covert reliability" is probably nearer the mark.

[HereBeMonsters]

cazzer said:

Did Allegros have "Covert speed and apparent reliability" too?

Well mine did. Metro turbo engine and never broke down once. Your move.

[Phil Dicky]

Manny P...see Insane Biker thread and supercharged 535.

Edited by Phil Dicky on Saturday 22 January 21:41

[Langweilig]

There seems to be an overt use of the expression "ring-fenced" in the media of late. I do not like this and I must therefore ask those who use this "ring-fenced" expression to promptly desist and indeed ring-fence this ring-fenced expression forthwith.

[IndyAndy777]

Getragdogleg said:

40 mph along a national speed limit section of dry, clear, smooth road on a sunny day is not being safe, it is being slow, to then slow to 18mph while we go through a main road town with a 40mph limit is being VERY slow. To then speed up to 40 once we are out of the town is good but when we get to the dual carriageway a mile later you DO NOT need to get straight into the right hand lane and sit there at 40. you are overtaking NOTHING, you are holding everybody up, there is no roundabout for another mile so WHY ARE YOU OUT THERE ?

Do not then give me a filty look and a shake of the head when I come up your inside as we approach the roundabout, where the arrows are in the road, where I am allowed to filter to turn left or go straight on and you can finally fk off to B&Q and buy some overpriced nails and a tester pot of puke green to see if it goes with the furry toys on the parcel shelf and the cd/smelly/dreamcatcher suspended in a dangly dance of stinky vision obscuring tat from your rear view mirror, a clue in itself as to what the fking thing is for you slow articles of mediocrity.

I bet you went and inserted the dreadful Diahatsu placenta (with its 23feet of headroom) in a disabled space at a jaunty angle, I bet the fking car is a motobility car because you once had a funny twinge and it felt "bad doctor" I bet you lived a life of no work, skiving and generally malingering expecting the rest of the population to support you and your feckless brood. I expect Asda deliver blue pop and findus crispy pancakes to your door and the neighbours are heartly sick of your tiny car taking up 8 spaces because you have a disabled space and you still don't use it.

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.

GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU fkING IDIOTS.

Right or wrong, I never have the patience to wait that long to get past. Lane hogs on dual carriageways deserve to get over taken on the inside lane!!

[Pothole]

NeMiSiS said:

I went to the Cinema with my son to see Narnia something of the slayer blah blah, and there was an advert played for a Christmas 2011 animated film called Arthor Christmas, about Santas Son.

Don't get me wrong, we can wait to see it but, 12 months notice, please!

11 at most

[Pigeon]

Flip Martian said:

Pothole said:

I have no problem...I'd bet that far fewer people are away from home during office hours in 2011 than in 2001, FWIW. Maybe there's a market for private local collection hubs which will take in parcels during the day and stay open until late for people to collect them?

Same as any recession where people lose their jobs I suppose. But the basic point is sound - more people are out during the day now than in previous generations. I agree, there probably is a good market for that kind of service. If only I had a big enough garage...

I think you're too late. Went into a shop the other day and it was advertising in its window that it provided the service of allowing people to order stuff off the internet to be sent to the shop so they could then pick it up without having to wait in or drive all the way to the depot. The advert took the form of a mass-produced sticker, which suggests that there's a whole bunch of shops doing this.

[g3org3y]

"Root and branch restructure"

fk off s.

[Council Baby]

drunken northern idiots with slags in tow outside take aways in London... sorry, i don't understand you or your problem and i hope you fall under a bus

[fatboy18]

Council Baby said:

drunken northern idiots with slags in tow outside take aways in London... sorry, i don't understand you or your problem and i hope you fall under a bus

They probably say the same about drunken Southern idiots in Manchester

[captainzep]

The BBC Radio's sudden insistence to prefix the words 'News' or 'Sport' with 'yer'.

-As if it was agreed in some PR meeting that it was the best way to give the impression that the public who pay the licence fee have some sort of 'ownership' of output.

It is not 'yer news', it is, 'the news'.

I haven't just ordered it from a fking greasy-spoon menu.

[Council Baby]

fatboy18 said:

Council Baby said:

drunken northern idiots with slags in tow outside take aways in London... sorry, i don't understand you or your problem and i hope you fall under a bus

They probably say the same about drunken Southern idiots in Manchester

that's fair, luckily I've never been drunk in Machester

[Legmaster]

Pigeon said:

Flip Martian said:

Pothole said:

I have no problem...I'd bet that far fewer people are away from home during office hours in 2011 than in 2001, FWIW. Maybe there's a market for private local collection hubs which will take in parcels during the day and stay open until late for people to collect them?

Same as any recession where people lose their jobs I suppose. But the basic point is sound - more people are out during the day now than in previous generations. I agree, there probably is a good market for that kind of service. If only I had a big enough garage...

I think you're too late. Went into a shop the other day and it was advertising in its window that it provided the service of allowing people to order stuff off the internet to be sent to the shop so they could then pick it up without having to wait in or drive all the way to the depot. The advert took the form of a mass-produced sticker, which suggests that there's a whole bunch of shops doing this.

Or, even better collect your parcel from your local boozer, which doesn't shut at 5.30.
http://www.useyourlocal.com/

[Hell27]

Dirty scumbags who let their dogst in the street. Should be a law allowing you to legally superglue said animal's rectum shut.

[james_tigerwoods]

Today:

• People who anthropomorphise (if that's the right words) their pets
• The opportunistic nature of cats

[Hell27]

james_tigerwoods said:

Today:

• People who anthropomorphise (if that's the right words) their pets
• The opportunistic nature of cats

Been at an elderly female relatives have you?

[Pothole]

yes it's a word

[Life Saab Itch]

Hell27 said:

Dirty scumbags who let their dogst in the street. Should be a law allowing you to legally superglue the owner's mouth around said animal's rectum.

EFA

[Langweilig]

Parents who use cash machines and let their children "playfully" bash all the keys. The result of which, when it's my turn to use said machine, there is a "SORRY THIS MACHINE IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE." message. Oh br 'em to Hell!

[Lefty]

People who creep over speedbumps at 0.03mph in their fking beige diesel Astra, as if it were a Maser MC12.