Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
Balmoral said:
People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.
And then we have the absolute
s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.
There is a pedestrian crossing near our office that is about 25yds from a 3 way junction with traffic lights. You can guarantee that as the main traffic lights go green the pedestrian lights go red so only a couple of cars can actually move anywhere. As above, it's normally when the person who pushed the button has disappeared up the road anyway, having crossed when we were all sat in the queue at a red light ...And then we have the absolute
s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.yellowjack said:
Kilts are not limited to the Scottish though. There are kilts and tartans both Irish and Welsh in (claimed) origin. And you can blame the British army for the survival of the kilt into modern civilian dress. After the Sottish defeat at Culloden, the garment was proscribed (banned), among other measures to control and pacify the Highland clans. An exemption was made for Scottish regiments serving in the British Army, and it is the evolution of their regimental dress that has influenced the design of the modern kilt.
This is my "family" Welsh tartan. If I had money to waste, I might even buy myself a kilt or some other garment made from it. But I don't, so I won't...
...the other thing about "Welsh kilts" is that you can dig up any number of images taken in the past of women in traditional Welsh costume, but in none that I've seen are there any kilts on any men. So I'm left wondering if the "Welsh kilt" is a figment of the modern gentleman's wedding outfitters imagination?
At the end of the day, though, it's only another item of clothing. It's like being annoyed by white tie at dinner, or morning coats at weddings. The world would be a terribly boring place if all us gentlemen turned up at weddings in lounge suits, yet women at weddings typically put a great deal of thought and effort into their outfits.
You are correct of course, but my rant was more directed at the simpletons who wear them just because they are called Stewart or Campbell... and have no real idea what Tartan means.This is my "family" Welsh tartan. If I had money to waste, I might even buy myself a kilt or some other garment made from it. But I don't, so I won't...
...the other thing about "Welsh kilts" is that you can dig up any number of images taken in the past of women in traditional Welsh costume, but in none that I've seen are there any kilts on any men. So I'm left wondering if the "Welsh kilt" is a figment of the modern gentleman's wedding outfitters imagination?
At the end of the day, though, it's only another item of clothing. It's like being annoyed by white tie at dinner, or morning coats at weddings. The world would be a terribly boring place if all us gentlemen turned up at weddings in lounge suits, yet women at weddings typically put a great deal of thought and effort into their outfits.
As for being annoyed by a white tie at dinner... don't get me started!!
yellowjack said:
Kilts are not limited to the Scottish though. There are kilts and tartans both Irish and Welsh in (claimed) origin.
According to Wikipedia - the kilt (as we know it today) was actually invented by an English man from Lancashire in the 1700s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_kilt#...
Tartan originates from central Europe and isn't thought to have been introduced into Scotland until around the 16th century.
Mel Gibson wears a tartan kilt in Braveheart - which is set around 300 years before both were ever used in Scotland
Edited by Moonhawk on Monday 30th April 12:32
Grahamdub said:
Balmoral said:
People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.
And then we have the absolutes who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.
There is a pedestrian crossing near our office that is about 25yds from a 3 way junction with traffic lights. You can guarantee that as the main traffic lights go green the pedestrian lights go red so only a couple of cars can actually move anywhere. As above, it's normally when the person who pushed the button has disappeared up the road anyway, having crossed when we were all sat in the queue at a red light ...And then we have the absolute
s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.Talking about traffic lights I would like to nominate the tool who decided to put them just as you exit the roundabout to make it worse you need to look hard to the right due to them flying down the hill and then look at the right hand traffic light as the left one is obscured by the building as you approach.
Morningside said:
Talking about traffic lights I would like to nominate the tool who decided to put them just as you exit the roundabout to make it worse you need to look hard to the right due to them flying down the hill and then look at the right hand traffic light as the left one is obscured by the building as you approach.
dhead council have installed these at the junction with the main road near me. I commute to work everyday and never ever saw a queue or a problem for people getting out or into the junction in the 4 years I've lived here. I bet that on one day at some point one of the curmudgeonry, piss stained old fk sticks that infest our council got caught while attempting to get to a meeting from his mistresses house and decided to ruin everyone else's life with these poxy things... Grahamdub said:
Allanv said:
Sounds like Prince street..
Got it in one ! Anyway have we had zebra crossings on the roundabout exits? At least with lights you stand a chance. Here is Bristol we have zebra bloody crossing right on the exits, I want to go around to the right or 3 o'clock but alas I cannot as the RB is gridlocked due to, yep you guessed it.
With regard to pedestrian crossings...
...ahole car drivers who flat refuse to lift ever so slightly off the accelerator in order to grow a gap big enough to allow a reasonably fit and healthy adult to nip across. THAT is why people push the button on crossings and then cross anyway because they have to wait days for the lights to go red and there's been a safe crossing gap in the interim.
Oh, and ahole car drivers that fail to give way to pedestrians ALREADY crossing side roads into which they have just turned.
The car IS NOT king. Drivers use the roads under license, pedestrians have absolute right of way, and often have legally assigned priority even if drivers think it shouldn't be so.
Perhaps if drivers were a little more considerate, and engineered gaps in traffic that allowed pedestrians to cross safely, then we'd need far fewer zebra and light-controlled crossings overall. Instead, though, most drivers seem to tailgate one another in busy urban traffic, despite there being absolutely no advantage to gain from such behaviour. Very odd, imho...
And kudos to the driver of the Audi Q7 in Farnborough the other day. A young mum pushing a bike with a toddler trailer attached was waiting to cross at a roundabout. Audi was turning left (first exit) toward me, and entered the roundabout only to halt to allow the lady to cross to the centre island. This gave me an excuse to stop to let her complete the crossing in one go. Her bike/trailer combo was too long for the centre refuge anyway. Yet STILL the plankton behind me was tooting and revving, despite the fact that even Blind Pew could have seen that traffic ahead was at a standstill while it waited to get around a badly parked van which was obstructing "our" lane.
Which leads me neatly on to something that annoys me beyond reason...
...which is the "I'll just be a minute" crowd. Fk everyone else. It's OK folks, she's just collecting Tabitha and Tarquin from prep school, so she'll "only be a minute". Sod the build up of traffic, he's collecting his shirts from the dry cleaners and he'll "only be a minute". I'm pretty sure the driver of the Vectra parked opposite a load of parked cars, and mostly on the footway on Friday morning in Galmpton village, Devon meant to "only be a minute". But the look on the face of the Jewson delivery driver who couldn't fit his lorry through the gap suggested it had been there a whole lot longer than said minute. I only just squeezed my car through the gap.
Listen up cts. Your reason for parking like an utter tt is entirely irrelevant. I don't care if it's collecting kids from school, delivering medical prescriptions to the elderly, or nipping in for a copy of the Daily Sport. Unless you are having a medical emergency yourself, or have a blue light atop your vehicle, then find a fking parking space that doesn't inconvenience the rest of the world, you selfish halfwit. And if you ARE, or EVER HAVE BEEN one of these cts? Do me the service of not bumping your gums about how annoying pedestrians are for simply wanting to cross the fking road safely, eh?
...a
hole car drivers who flat refuse to lift ever so slightly off the accelerator in order to grow a gap big enough to allow a reasonably fit and healthy adult to nip across. THAT is why people push the button on crossings and then cross anyway because they have to wait days for the lights to go red and there's been a safe crossing gap in the interim.Oh, and a
hole car drivers that fail to give way to pedestrians ALREADY crossing side roads into which they have just turned. The car IS NOT king. Drivers use the roads under license, pedestrians have absolute right of way, and often have legally assigned priority even if drivers think it shouldn't be so.
Perhaps if drivers were a little more considerate, and engineered gaps in traffic that allowed pedestrians to cross safely, then we'd need far fewer zebra and light-controlled crossings overall. Instead, though, most drivers seem to tailgate one another in busy urban traffic, despite there being absolutely no advantage to gain from such behaviour. Very odd, imho...
And kudos to the driver of the Audi Q7 in Farnborough the other day. A young mum pushing a bike with a toddler trailer attached was waiting to cross at a roundabout. Audi was turning left (first exit) toward me, and entered the roundabout only to halt to allow the lady to cross to the centre island. This gave me an excuse to stop to let her complete the crossing in one go. Her bike/trailer combo was too long for the centre refuge anyway. Yet STILL the plankton behind me was tooting and revving, despite the fact that even Blind Pew could have seen that traffic ahead was at a standstill while it waited to get around a badly parked van which was obstructing "our" lane.
Which leads me neatly on to something that annoys me beyond reason...
...which is the "I'll just be a minute" crowd. F
k everyone else. It's OK folks, she's just collecting Tabitha and Tarquin from prep school, so she'll "only be a minute". Sod the build up of traffic, he's collecting his shirts from the dry cleaners and he'll "only be a minute". I'm pretty sure the driver of the Vectra parked opposite a load of parked cars, and mostly on the footway on Friday morning in Galmpton village, Devon meant to "only be a minute". But the look on the face of the Jewson delivery driver who couldn't fit his lorry through the gap suggested it had been there a whole lot longer than said minute. I only just squeezed my car through the gap.Listen up c
ts. Your reason for parking like an utter tt is entirely irrelevant. I don't care if it's collecting kids from school, delivering medical prescriptions to the elderly, or nipping in for a copy of the Daily Sport. Unless you are having a medical emergency yourself, or have a blue light atop your vehicle, then find a fking parking space that doesn't inconvenience the rest of the world, you selfish halfwit. And if you ARE, or EVER HAVE BEEN one of these cts? Do me the service of not bumping your gums about how annoying pedestrians are for simply wanting to cross the fking road safely, eh?Edited by yellowjack on Monday 30th April 15:27
Allanv said:
Everyday I am there as I park in the NCP.
Anyway have we had zebra crossings on the roundabout exits? At least with lights you stand a chance. Here is Bristol we have zebra bloody crossing right on the exits, I want to go around to the right or 3 o'clock but alas I cannot as the RB is gridlocked due to, yep you guessed it.
Worst pedestrian crossing in Bristol has to be the one at the end of Welshback by Coffee #1 where pedestrians and cyclists have priority. Anyway have we had zebra crossings on the roundabout exits? At least with lights you stand a chance. Here is Bristol we have zebra bloody crossing right on the exits, I want to go around to the right or 3 o'clock but alas I cannot as the RB is gridlocked due to, yep you guessed it.
We’re sitting in the living room, watching something that we’d recorded from TV, when my wife’s phone rang.
I paused the TV, and she said, in no particular order, “when?, what time?, what’s the name of the hotel? I can’t do it now, I’m busy, maybe I’ll get Frank to do it.”
Before starting the TV again, I said, “What was that about?”
She said, “It was Steve, (her brother), they’re going to Madeira in a couple of months, he wants me to check out transfers from the airport to their hotel, is there a bus, how much is a taxi? Blah, blah, blah.”
I went ballistic, “Are you ****ing SURE!” I said, “He’s 59 years old, a betting shop manager, what’s wrong with him going online and looking himself?”
“Don’t start a row, you know that he’s as thick as st”, she said.
I said, “No, you’re the thick one, if he’s too dumb to do something, show him how, all the time that you, his kids, his grandkids, rush to help him, he’ll never do f**k all for himself.”
Take me, I’m a five and dime retired Black Cab driver, it took me about half an hour to work out what to do on Expedia, book a flight, an hotel, a rental car, whatever, there are sites that tell you what taxis to take, how to get from JFK to Manhattan by subway, I can do it, you can do it, you’re father can do it, a retired bus driver, but your dumb brother couldn’t find his a**e in the dark with both hands.”
When the row subsided, you guessed it, “Frank, give me your iPad please.”
I paused the TV, and she said, in no particular order, “when?, what time?, what’s the name of the hotel? I can’t do it now, I’m busy, maybe I’ll get Frank to do it.”
Before starting the TV again, I said, “What was that about?”
She said, “It was Steve, (her brother), they’re going to Madeira in a couple of months, he wants me to check out transfers from the airport to their hotel, is there a bus, how much is a taxi? Blah, blah, blah.”
I went ballistic, “Are you ****ing SURE!” I said, “He’s 59 years old, a betting shop manager, what’s wrong with him going online and looking himself?”
“Don’t start a row, you know that he’s as thick as s
t”, she said.I said, “No, you’re the thick one, if he’s too dumb to do something, show him how, all the time that you, his kids, his grandkids, rush to help him, he’ll never do f**k all for himself.”
Take me, I’m a five and dime retired Black Cab driver, it took me about half an hour to work out what to do on Expedia, book a flight, an hotel, a rental car, whatever, there are sites that tell you what taxis to take, how to get from JFK to Manhattan by subway, I can do it, you can do it, you’re father can do it, a retired bus driver, but your dumb brother couldn’t find his a**e in the dark with both hands.”
When the row subsided, you guessed it, “Frank, give me your iPad please.”
Moron insurance company. At last I've finally quit them and moved to elsewhere. After they lost my information regarding my wife's claim and then accused me of fraud. Then when they sorted it they lost it again.
Now finally as I leave they managed to lose one year no claims even if their system says full and protected.
Great company..
Now finally as I leave they managed to lose one year no claims even if their system says full and protected.
Great company..
yellowjack said:
Huge missive of which the waves of logic lapped upon the pebbled shores of rant island
Our village is just large enough to have a mini roundabout at the end of the main thoroughfare. I would need more than one hand to count the times (That’s at least 5, not at least 6, I’m just outside Lincolnshire) two passing drivers have stopped for a chat I have taken to leaning on the horn so they can’t hear each other. I realise I may get an asbo and make the local newspaper by causing such a kerfuffle.
Grahamdub said:
Worst pedestrian crossing in Bristol has to be the one at the end of Welshback by Coffee #1 where pedestrians and cyclists have priority.
I have to agree, now the road works in Prince street seems never ending for such a small street it have been going on for years. What are they doing next to the NCP looks like they are changing the wide of the road by half.Either some weird bus stop or a very wide pavement.
The 2 pleps this morning having some road rage for mile after mile, along B roads causing massive tailbacks on a otherwise free running road. When I joined the que of traffic doing 20mph I initially thought we were stuck behind a tractor. But then traffic got up to 50mph so I assumed the tractor had gone, only for traffic to then stop completly, then back up to 20mph, then stop. This went on for a few miles until we hit a very long, straight road where at the front I could see a white van and a Fiesta swerving all over the place and slamming on brakes. They continued doing this, making it dangerous for anyone to overtake for another few mile until I reached my turn off. Usually takes me 10 minutes to get to work, took 20 this morning thanks to these nose farts.
Allanv said:
Grahamdub said:
Worst pedestrian crossing in Bristol has to be the one at the end of Welshback by Coffee #1 where pedestrians and cyclists have priority.
I have to agree, now the road works in Prince street seems never ending for such a small street it have been going on for years. What are they doing next to the NCP looks like they are changing the wide of the road by half.Either some weird bus stop or a very wide pavement.
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