Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
yellowjack said:
Currently annoying me beyond reason?
Farnborough International Air Show.
Why?
Because it's trade week, a lot of airliners have been displayed today, and up right now is The Airbus A400M military turboprop transport aircraft. it weighs over 76 tonnes empty and can carry up to 50 tonnes of highly flammable fuel. Yet it's carrying out "dynamic manoeuvres" including extreme changes of height and direction, while pointed straight at my house .....
Never mind all that - am I going to have problems getting to Farnborough Costco tomorrow?Farnborough International Air Show.
Why?
Because it's trade week, a lot of airliners have been displayed today, and up right now is The Airbus A400M military turboprop transport aircraft. it weighs over 76 tonnes empty and can carry up to 50 tonnes of highly flammable fuel. Yet it's carrying out "dynamic manoeuvres" including extreme changes of height and direction, while pointed straight at my house .....
Nimby said:
Never mind all that - am I going to have problems getting to Farnborough Costco tomorrow?
The first entrance into Costco is open, but beyond that the business park is closed with a manned security checkpoint. All around there is no parking, so shouldn't be subject to parking-related congestion, although there may be above-normal general traffic of course.
V8mate said:
Except that £55bn industry flogging planes and missiles and stuff pays for the NHS etc. So screw yellowjack and his bike ride 
You misunderstand me I think. It's not the airshow annoying me. I've no quarrel with it, and quite enjoy the show. It's the hypocritical pretence of public safety as the reason for closing the towpath when aeroplanes, many vast in size, are happily tooling about the sky over a quite densely populated borough. And as I said before, the A323 is also closed. Which means that a lot of the A323 traffic will be pushed onto the A325, which is the road most of the air show traffic uses to arrive and leave.And it was an entirely selfless rant too, as I'm recovering from surgery on a broken leg, and am currently forbidden to drive, ride a bike, or walk without the aid of crutches.
It's only in very recent years that the towpath and the 'A' road have been closed during the flying display. In the past, driving under the runway threshold was fine, just as it is on any "normal" flying day outside of the airshow fortnight, when business jets arrive and leave at all hours of the day. If driving under approaching/departing aircraft were truly dangerous, the powers-that-be would have installed traffic lights on that road by now. No, along with the construction of grassy banks, it's a con to try to persuade freeloaders to buy air show tickets. Before they built the grassy banks to prevent line-of-sight into the airfield on the terminal side, they used to put up sheeting on the fence to stop people looking in. They pretended that was about "road safety" to stop drivers being distracted by aeroplanes on the ramp outside the TAG terminal. But that was a load of rowlocks too, because the sheeting wasn't there except for a couple of weeks every two years that mysteriously coincided with FIAS. I'm surprised that the organisers haven't bribed the council into fencing off every last green space where locals have traditionally gathered to get a free flying display. Although there's time for that yet...
ETA:
Link to Hart District Council website detailing some of the closures... https://www.hart.gov.uk/the-council/news/advance-r...
Hart District Council said:
Road closures - A323 Fleet Road and Aldershot Road
The following roads will be closed to vehicles and pedestrians from Monday 9 July to Sunday 22 July between midday and 5pm: (This includes practice week - Monday 9 July to Sunday 15 July)
A323 Fleet Road - from its junction with Norris Hill Road and its junction with Laffans Road
Aldershot Road - from its junction with A323 Fleet Road to the eastern boundary of The Foresters public house
A diversion route will direct traffic to use Bourley Road. You can find the full diversion route on the Rushmoor Borough Council website.
These roads are being closed because of increased safety measures introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority following the Shoreham Airshow accident.
As a result of these measures, the Farnborough Airshow organisers asked Hampshire County Council to close selected roads while the aerobatics displays are taking place. They also asked the Ministry of Defence to close a section of land to the south west of the airfield.
More extensive details on the Rushmoor Borough Council website... https://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/airshowtrafficThe following roads will be closed to vehicles and pedestrians from Monday 9 July to Sunday 22 July between midday and 5pm: (This includes practice week - Monday 9 July to Sunday 15 July)
A323 Fleet Road - from its junction with Norris Hill Road and its junction with Laffans Road
Aldershot Road - from its junction with A323 Fleet Road to the eastern boundary of The Foresters public house
A diversion route will direct traffic to use Bourley Road. You can find the full diversion route on the Rushmoor Borough Council website.
These roads are being closed because of increased safety measures introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority following the Shoreham Airshow accident.
As a result of these measures, the Farnborough Airshow organisers asked Hampshire County Council to close selected roads while the aerobatics displays are taking place. They also asked the Ministry of Defence to close a section of land to the south west of the airfield.
If your granny needs an urgent ambulance ride to Frimley Park Hospital from Aldershot, I'm afraid the airshow organisers said "f
k you, and the horse you rode in on, because we've got £55bn of sales to make..."Every two years they f
k up local traffic in exactly the same way, giving priority (there was even a "limo lane" a few years ago which even local buses were forbidden to use, ffs) to gimps in suits being carted around in big German saloon cars, and thumbing their noses at those of us who pay the council tax that funds the damned roads.The other thing that annoys me is "petrol-heads" who hate on cyclists, yet think absolutely nothing of clogging up the A27 for a whole weekend of 7 mile tailbacks once every July, with no thought for local people with jobs to get to, simply so they can see some has-been racing driver throw some half-baked prototype sports car up a hill outside a posh house.
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 17th July 18:29
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Shakermaker said:
But there's a place for a "family" email address perhaps - to which both/all parties have access? My parents have had one email address which they've used for years, they had it back when the internet started becoming really popular amongst consumers but didn't think they'd need their own for everything etc. And they still use it now for logging on to deal with utilities etc, and for family organising stuff. But both have their own email addresses which they've had for less time, but need for the situation as noted above for individual things.
That sounds reasonable. 
I guess it all comes down to what you use email for.
yellowjack said:
Currently annoying me beyond reason?
Farnborough International Air Show.
Why?
Because it's trade week, a lot of airliners have been displayed today, and up right now is The Airbus A400M military turboprop transport aircraft. it weighs over 76 tonnes empty and can carry up to 50 tonnes of highly flammable fuel. Yet it's carrying out "dynamic manoeuvres" including extreme changes of height and direction, while pointed straight at my house.
Not annoying in and of itself.
No, what's annoying is the fact that I can't take a stroll or ride my bike along the Basingstoke Canal towpath, nor drive along the A323 Fleet Road while the air show is on because "in this post-Shoreham era, the risk to public safety is too great".
Wowsers! So I have to run the risk of a dirty great Airbus airliner experiencing a double bird strike and complete loss of controlled flight (we've two large lakes and a canal in the area, one of the lakes is a waterfowl reserve so a flock of geese isn't a surprising event locally) while pointing at my house, a risk which I've no control over. Yet if I were to take a calculated risk (my own bloody risk to take, no one else's) to walk past the end of the runway during the flying display, nanny wouldn't permit it, and nanny has closed the army training area and perched a number of security guards on camping chairs to make sure everyone obeys nanny.
Post-Shoreham safety my pastey white arse! It's all a con to reduce the number of sites from which it's possible to view the flying display for free, the penny-pinching fktards. If it isn't safe to keep public roads open during an air show, then the whole shooting match ought to fk off to some former RAF runway in the back of beyond where the only things aeroplanes risk falling on if they fk it up are poor dumb animals. And no, the population of Aldershot (sadly) can't be lumped under that definition...
Having been in an aircraft which experienced a bird strike followed by an emergency landing, I sympathise with the Farnborough decision.Farnborough International Air Show.
Why?
Because it's trade week, a lot of airliners have been displayed today, and up right now is The Airbus A400M military turboprop transport aircraft. it weighs over 76 tonnes empty and can carry up to 50 tonnes of highly flammable fuel. Yet it's carrying out "dynamic manoeuvres" including extreme changes of height and direction, while pointed straight at my house.
Not annoying in and of itself.
No, what's annoying is the fact that I can't take a stroll or ride my bike along the Basingstoke Canal towpath, nor drive along the A323 Fleet Road while the air show is on because "in this post-Shoreham era, the risk to public safety is too great".
Wowsers! So I have to run the risk of a dirty great Airbus airliner experiencing a double bird strike and complete loss of controlled flight (we've two large lakes and a canal in the area, one of the lakes is a waterfowl reserve so a flock of geese isn't a surprising event locally) while pointing at my house, a risk which I've no control over. Yet if I were to take a calculated risk (my own bloody risk to take, no one else's) to walk past the end of the runway during the flying display, nanny wouldn't permit it, and nanny has closed the army training area and perched a number of security guards on camping chairs to make sure everyone obeys nanny.
Post-Shoreham safety my pastey white arse! It's all a con to reduce the number of sites from which it's possible to view the flying display for free, the penny-pinching f
ktards. If it isn't safe to keep public roads open during an air show, then the whole shooting match ought to fk off to some former RAF runway in the back of beyond where the only things aeroplanes risk falling on if they fk it up are poor dumb animals. And no, the population of Aldershot (sadly) can't be lumped under that definition...Yellow, sometimes you just have to defer to those who know and suck it up,
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Its one week every 2 years. Not worth getting worked up about and you get to see all the fancy planes (sadly not from my house). Honestly the FBro air show was less intrusive on traffic than the 18 months of roadworks that came after it.
FoxtrotOscar1 said:
A common one no doubt but the absolute fkknucklewktts that don't realise that the petrol pump nozzles actually reach around the back of most cars so yes you can go to any side and fill up you utter fking simpletons.
These make me happy, as it usually means there is one pump free, despite an apparent queue.kknucklewktts that don't realise that the petrol pump nozzles actually reach around the back of most cars so yes you can go to any side and fill up you utter fking simpletons.When they're all in the shop, er, shopping - while their numptywagon is still parked at the pump - yeah they can do one.
talksthetorque said:
FoxtrotOscar1 said:
A common one no doubt but the absolute fkknucklewktts that don't realise that the petrol pump nozzles actually reach around the back of most cars so yes you can go to any side and fill up you utter fking simpletons.
These make me happy, as it usually means there is one pump free, despite an apparent queue.kknucklewktts that don't realise that the petrol pump nozzles actually reach around the back of most cars so yes you can go to any side and fill up you utter fking simpletons.When they're all in the shop, er, shopping - while their numptywagon is still parked at the pump - yeah they can do one.
With you on the people who shop, although at the aforementioned Sainsbury's this has got better - when they rebuilt the petrol station, they actually made the shop smaller and it only sells a few grocery items.
Bandit110 said:
Crappy emails that start..."ready, steady, sale" "or ready, sail, go..."
fkoff
The emails that *really* annoy me are ones (usually from recruiters) where it is a cold (new) email but the subject starts with "re: "f
koffIt's a pathetic attempt at Social Engineering and it annoys me beyond reason.
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff