Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
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droopsnoot said:
Adults cycling on pavements, alongside fairly quiet country roads, are annoying me at the moment. I keep encountering one as I'm on the way to the pub, fortunately in a fairly wide section of pavement. He slows down, gets to the edge of the pavement, waits until I've passed, then carries on. What he doesn't do is what he should do - which is cycle on the road.
You've encountered a polite cyclist who is being considerate of both motorists and pedestrians... and that annoys you beyond reason... o.0MartG said:
My neighbours
Whenever they see me they always whinge that my garden is untidy – and compared to the paved-over wasteland of theirs it probably is – but whenever I go out to do some gardening they always seem to make an appearance, and then stand there making sarcastic remarks – hardly encouraging
Personally I prefer to look out onto greenery than to be able to spy on what the neighbours opposite are up to – and unlike theirs my garden has several birds nesting in it.
Mine's the one in the middle
There are many ways to tell people to fWhenever they see me they always whinge that my garden is untidy – and compared to the paved-over wasteland of theirs it probably is – but whenever I go out to do some gardening they always seem to make an appearance, and then stand there making sarcastic remarks – hardly encouraging
Personally I prefer to look out onto greenery than to be able to spy on what the neighbours opposite are up to – and unlike theirs my garden has several birds nesting in it.
Mine's the one in the middle
k off and mind their own business. I find the simplest and most effective one is to tell them to fk off and mind their own business.captain_cynic said:
droopsnoot said:
Adults cycling on pavements, alongside fairly quiet country roads, are annoying me at the moment. I keep encountering one as I'm on the way to the pub, fortunately in a fairly wide section of pavement. He slows down, gets to the edge of the pavement, waits until I've passed, then carries on. What he doesn't do is what he should do - which is cycle on the road.
You've encountered a polite cyclist who is being considerate of both motorists and pedestrians... and that annoys you beyond reason... o.0Alas, life is too short to get pissed off with what other cretins do - it's not like I can change anything.
RizzoTheRat said:
Being spammed with adverts on Facebook. It's reached the point that about every third entry in my timeline is a bloody advert. I was hoping maybe using a browser and an adblocker instead of the FB app might help but AdGuard doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it.
U-Block Origin. Nary seen an ad in years. Firefox recently introduced a new feature, a facebook container that stops it from leaking data. Was particularly handy for me as I've got two (English speaking and Spanish speaking)
The assistant for the self checkout tills in Asda today, our checkout decided to stop working and throw up a red light, she was about 6 tills away chatting to another customer who had finished and was stood at the end of the till, we waited, she looked up but carried on talking, we waited longer and she just kept talking, it wasn't until I started to walk down to get her that she finished her conversation and started to come and help!!!
captain_cynic said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Being spammed with adverts on Facebook. It's reached the point that about every third entry in my timeline is a bloody advert. I was hoping maybe using a browser and an adblocker instead of the FB app might help but AdGuard doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it.
U-Block Origin. Nary seen an ad in years. Firefox recently introduced a new feature, a facebook container that stops it from leaking data. Was particularly handy for me as I've got two (English speaking and Spanish speaking)
RizzoTheRat said:
Does U-Block Origin work on Android? I have it on my desktop PC and I believe it's supposed to be live if you're logged in to chrome on any other machine, so it either doesn't work on my phone, or isn't managing to block the ads. I rarely use FB on my desktop to know if it's any better on there.
I switched to Firefox on Android for that very reason, U-Block Origin and Privacy Badger work fine on them. Also, that way I can leave Chrome unmolested in case I need an unmodified browser. Balmoral said:
And,
People who play the 'it's your own confirmation bias' card, when it's just stating the bleedin' obvious.
If someone throws the confirmation bias card at me I ask them if they are sure that their allegation of confirmation bias is not just their own confirmation bias. People who play the 'it's your own confirmation bias' card, when it's just stating the bleedin' obvious.
Frank7 said:
You don’t, I don’t, but I imagine that quite a few do.
The BBC have a large bee in their bonnet about ladies football, and ladies golf.Nobody watches ladies football, or ladies golf, but the BBC have decided that 40% of their coverage is going to be about ladies events nobody bothered to see live.
I’m going to venture that more people go to watch speedway than go to watch ladies golf. How much attention does the BBC give speedway?
eBay. You looked at this item ONCE. You didn't watch it but hey...it's ending it 20 minutes. Oh, now it's finished but here is 20 others that are ending.
By the way eBay a Kenwood radio is NOT the same as a Kenwood Chef and I've no interest in cooking.
Plus stop showing me the last few things I looked at because it's a pain especially when trying to buy something for the wife.
By the way eBay a Kenwood radio is NOT the same as a Kenwood Chef and I've no interest in cooking.
Plus stop showing me the last few things I looked at because it's a pain especially when trying to buy something for the wife.
Morningside said:
eBay. You looked at this item ONCE. You didn't watch it but hey...it's ending it 20 minutes. Oh, now it's finished but here is 20 others that are ending.
Oh yes - and it ignores that you bought an identical item from another seller...or that you actually have an identical item for sale yourself, and were just researching prices...captain_cynic said:
droopsnoot said:
Adults cycling on pavements, alongside fairly quiet country roads, are annoying me at the moment. I keep encountering one as I'm on the way to the pub, fortunately in a fairly wide section of pavement. He slows down, gets to the edge of the pavement, waits until I've passed, then carries on. What he doesn't do is what he should do - which is cycle on the road.
You've encountered a polite cyclist who is being considerate of both motorists and pedestrians... and that annoys you beyond reason... o.0yellowjack said:
captain_cynic said:
droopsnoot said:
Adults cycling on pavements, alongside fairly quiet country roads, are annoying me at the moment. I keep encountering one as I'm on the way to the pub, fortunately in a fairly wide section of pavement. He slows down, gets to the edge of the pavement, waits until I've passed, then carries on. What he doesn't do is what he should do - which is cycle on the road.
You've encountered a polite cyclist who is being considerate of both motorists and pedestrians... and that annoys you beyond reason... o.0I'm a hopeless cyclist, if I tried to do a hand signal I'd probably fall off. Sometimes I like to cycle very slowly and carefully on the pavement down to my local park, where I can then speed up for a bit of exercise.
How do some cyclists manage to ride without holding on to the handlebars? It seems like magic to me.
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