Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
MartG said:
Drivers who take several seconds to register that the traffic light has turned green before they realise they need to do something to make their car move
Pedestrians who start to cross just after the lights have started to change
Those are the drivers that then get through the lights just as they go back to red leaving you sat there. There are some traffic lights on my way back from work that are hyper sensitive and seem to sense the slightest gap in traffic and go straight back to red. If traffic flows normally you can get 10-15 cars through, but if the first couple hesitate, they are the only ones to get through. To compound the problem, the right lane is a bus lane, but invariably they use the normal left hand lane, leaving the bus lane empty.Pedestrians who start to cross just after the lights have started to change
Cars with stop-start annoy me. Crossing the road at night on foot, there is a parked BMW that I can’t see inside, no lights and not idling. The road is clear so I start to cross in front of the BMW which simultaneously starts, light on and starts moving towards me, if it had been idling like a proper car I would have known someone was in it.
GroundEffect said:
julianm said:
Today's Google Doodle is 'Happy Holidays'.
It's Christmas.
It's also Hanukkah period...It's Christmas.
FourWheelDrift said:
GroundEffect said:
julianm said:
Today's Google Doodle is 'Happy Holidays'.
It's Christmas.
It's also Hanukkah period...It's Christmas.
t. And of course, Christmas was co-opted from elsewhere too...So, basically, stfu.
Cotty said:
Cars with stop-start annoy me. Crossing the road at night on foot, there is a parked BMW that I can’t see inside, no lights and not idling. The road is clear so I start to cross in front of the BMW which simultaneously starts, light on and starts moving towards me, if it had been idling like a proper car I would have known someone was in it.
As a car with start-stop I find it annoying as well. Stops for 0.00001s and then starts again. I'm sure it cannot do the battery a lot of good. Oh and the heating obviously doesn't work either.Morningside said:
As a car with start-stop I find it annoying as well. Stops for 0.00001s and then starts again. I'm sure it cannot do the battery a lot of good. Oh and the heating obviously doesn't work either.
Cars have gone sentient! 
Ps. The heating should kick the engine back in if it is needed.
talksthetorque said:
Morningside said:
As a car with start-stop I find it annoying as well. Stops for 0.00001s and then starts again. I'm sure it cannot do the battery a lot of good. Oh and the heating obviously doesn't work either.
Cars have gone sentient! Ps. The heating should kick the engine back in if it is needed.
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nonsequitur said:
The CRS for 'bottom' is ARIS. from Aristotle=bottle=bottle and glass=a**e. Convoluted, but told to me by a genuine cockernee geezer.
I used to be mystified by a line in Fools & Horses until I researched it. Referring to a frightening situation, Del boy said his April was 'Twitchin' like a good un'.
I figured he was referring to his RP but this is how it works...
April rhymes with 'April in Paris.
Paris ='Arris
Arris = Aristotle
Aristotle = bottle
Bottle = bottle' n' glass
= arse
I make that CRS five times removed.
On the one aynd they’ll towk aw geezah and pronounce Harris as ‘arris. But then in the same breff will pronounce glass to rhyme with arse.
It’s why anyone from “daarn saaarf” shouldn’t be allowed to sing at football matches.
“Who’s the bar-stard in the black?” indeed.
Morningside said:
Cotty said:
Cars with stop-start annoy me. Crossing the road at night on foot, there is a parked BMW that I can’t see inside, no lights and not idling. The road is clear so I start to cross in front of the BMW which simultaneously starts, light on and starts moving towards me, if it had been idling like a proper car I would have known someone was in it.
As a car with start-stop I find it annoying as well. Stops for 0.00001s and then starts again. I'm sure it cannot do the battery a lot of good. Oh and the heating obviously doesn't work either.My worst experience of them was while waiting for a colleague. Needed to get out to change my coat. Quick check; engine's off, flick up the electric handbrake as I jump out... Engine turns back on, it was an auto so pulls forward, 'handbrake' doesnt work and the car drives off without me, scraping a wall.
As an added annoyance with modern tech, the key was in my pocket.
Having a proper key to turn off, no auto restarting, a proper gearbox or proper handbrake would have saved a big scrape down the side of the car.
On my Golf, the Stop-Start will not engage unless you've come to a complete stop, using the footbrake (ie. you've shown you want to come to a complete stop), and the automatic handbrake has engaged. And it will not move off on its own without a small touch of the throttle.
I can't speak for any other cars, but I find it highly dubious that a car would move off on its own if you got out of it when Stop-Start had the engine stopped and the handbrake on.
I don't deny people their right to be annoyed beyond reason, although it would help if it sounded plausible.
I can't speak for any other cars, but I find it highly dubious that a car would move off on its own if you got out of it when Stop-Start had the engine stopped and the handbrake on.
I don't deny people their right to be annoyed beyond reason, although it would help if it sounded plausible.
Hackney said:
Cockerneea annoy me beyond reason because of things like this.
On the one aynd they’ll towk aw geezah and pronounce Harris as ‘arris. But then in the same breff will pronounce glass to rhyme with arse.
It’s why anyone from “daarn saaarf” shouldn’t be allowed to sing at football matches.
“Who’s the bar-stard in the black?” indeed.
Colour me mildly confused here, I’m a Londoner, born within the sound of Bow Bells, lived here all my life, at present in Rotherhithe.On the one aynd they’ll towk aw geezah and pronounce Harris as ‘arris. But then in the same breff will pronounce glass to rhyme with arse.
It’s why anyone from “daarn saaarf” shouldn’t be allowed to sing at football matches.
“Who’s the bar-stard in the black?” indeed.
I say glass almost to rhyme with arse, maybe not glarse, perhaps glahss, should I say it like an American, glass, rhyming with ass?
Maybe I need to have my hearing checked, but I can’t recall ever hearing “sarf.”
To me I hear, and think that I also say, “souf”, or “sowf.”
As for bar-stard, I say it as bahstuhd, or barstuhd, not claiming to be right, just telling you how I say it.
Ordered two items for christmas presents online yet neither has arrived, first item I ordered a month in advance as it was coming from China, I paid for express 10 working day delivery, the next item came from the USA and I paid a lot extra for express postage to make sure it was here in time for Christmas.
Both items I had high hopes for checking the online tracking as the parcels quickly travelled thousands of miles yet both of them have just been languishing doing nothing as soon as they have entered the UK.
Chinese package
USA package
Complete shambles, we seem to have a worse postal service than even third world countries.
Both items I had high hopes for checking the online tracking as the parcels quickly travelled thousands of miles yet both of them have just been languishing doing nothing as soon as they have entered the UK.
Chinese package
USA package
Complete shambles, we seem to have a worse postal service than even third world countries.
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