One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5

[J4CKO]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Many years ago, when my son was in a carry cot (now at university!) I parked my Chimaera in a wide parent and child space. A woman in a people carrier stopped right behind me and was about to start on me for parking a sports car in a parent space. Then out came Joe in his carry cot and was placed gently on the roof.

Apparently, Chimaeras aren't appropriate child transporters. Who knew?

My father in law had a few nice vintage cars and stuff, none of which I ever drove as they were all kind of mothballed and incomprehensible to drive having the controls outside the car and needing cranking etc,

But he did also have a V12 E Type, so I used to nick that at every opportunity.

Was driving through Altrincham and some chimp in a van took umbrage at a young chap driving a very flashy blue Jag with shades on and the roof down on a sunny day, and for no reason other than jealousy, hadn't seen him before or cut him up or anything decides to make various offensive gestures speculating as to my hobbies etc.

Anyway, this goes on for a few seconds as the traffic shuffles back and forth, and obviously your viewpoint changes, and this allows matey in the van to see my cherubic, beaming little lad Oscar who was about 2 strapped in his car seat loving life and waving back at the bloke in the scabby van who he thought was waving at him, the gestures changed to a sheepish wave and off we went.

Took the car back and went back to my nomral car and being a bit skint.

[fflump]

Hol said:

fflump said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Many years ago, when my son was in a carry cot (now at university!) I parked my Chimaera in a wide parent and child space. A woman in a people carrier stopped right behind me and was about to start on me for parking a sports car in a parent space. Then out came Joe in his carry cot and was placed gently on the roof.

Apparently, Chimaeras aren't appropriate child transporters. Who knew?

I’m still tempted to use those parent and child spaces to protect nearby cars from my clumsy teenagers!

I stopped using P&C spaces as soon as my kids could understand simple concepts like opening the care door carefully and holding hands as we crossed the car park.

There’s no need for any parent with kids over seven years of age to be hogging. Other than laziness and a lack of empathy for the parents that actually need them.

My comment was tongue-in-cheek.

[Pit Pony]

Hol said:

And yes I know some disablements aren’t visible and often occasional. So, I just assume I am watching one of their good days.

Indeed.

My wife does not have a blue badge, but on her bad days, she couldn't even drive to the supermarket, let alone walk around it.
On her good days, she will walk to the beach and back instead.
Good old ME/CFS... post exceptional malaise means that following family visiting over Easter, she was pretty much bed bound yesterday. Tomorrow she will go to Tia-chi.

[Muddle238]

People who upon seeing you approach with a pushchair, can't help themselves but let their hands wander in and pull back the cover to see said baby, or go in to stroke their little hands/feet/face.

Excuse me but fk off, do not go around touching other people's children.

[donkmeister]

Hol said:

Gordon Hill said:

donkmeister said:

999gsi said:

The amount of people who see me park in a disabled bay and give me the w anchor sign before I put my badge on the dashboard. Apparently 51 year old males cant be disabled...

Trying to find the silver lining, but that does mean they would have the same reaction to someone abusing the spaces to save burning an extra calorie on the way to Greggs, or to "protect" their oh-so-rare mass-produced chavmobile with fridge magnet numberplates.

Shiny A-Class Mercs and wrapped 1/2-series BMWs both driven by be-tracksuited McDonalds patrons are the biggest abusers of disabled and P&C bays round here. Yes I understand the annoyance of people dinging the doors in car parks but that isn't the answer.

BMW 1/2 series, made me chuckle that.

My mum has a blue badge, but hers is a physical disablement and she needs a stick to walk anywhere.

Having a parent with a badge doesn’t stop me from doing a double take, when I see someone exit a car and walk with any obvious disablement into the shop.

And yes I know some disablements aren’t visible and often occasional. So, I just assume I am watching one of their good days.

I confess I make a quick judgement. Blue badge misuse is rife. I reckon if I had one for an "invisible yet precludes me from walking an extra 50 feet" disability I'd probably fake a limp from self-consciousness.

[donkmeister]

Muddle238 said:

People who upon seeing you approach with a pushchair, can't help themselves but let their hands wander in and pull back the cover to see said baby, or go in to stroke their little hands/feet/face.

Excuse me but fk off, do not go around touching other people's children.

Oh this. This so much. Buddy. I don't know if you have just been scratching your arse with that finger... Don't wipe it on my daughter's face.

One of these times I'm going to start stroking them and telling them they're pretty. See how they like it when a big hairy stranger starts giving them unsolicited face rubbing.

[Fetchez la vache]

donkmeister said:

See how they like it when a big hairy stranger starts giving them unsolicited face rubbing.

Don't knock it - sounds like a money-making niche

[donkmeister]

Fetchez la vache said:

donkmeister said:

See how they like it when a big hairy stranger starts giving them unsolicited face rubbing.

Don't knock it - sounds like a money-making niche

I've had worse jobs than "dominant prison bear", TBF.

Don't get me wrong, I love it when someone tells me how cute my daughter is, gives appreciative smiles, waves, talks to her and so on. Absolutely love it. I just don't like that thankfully rare sort who start touching and neither does Mini D.

[Fermit]

donkmeister said:

I confess I make a quick judgement. Blue badge misuse is rife. I reckon if I had one for an "invisible yet precludes me from walking an extra 50 feet" disability I'd probably fake a limp from self-consciousness.

This one is IME.

Having an elder brother with Cerebral Palsy, BB/ space abuse riles me. He's been inconvenienced by it, and IMO, people who misuse either the spaces or the badge are feckless, lazy inconsiderate s.

Accordingly, even though it usually falls on deaf ears (or I get the standard brainless trope of 'what's it got to do with you') I will challenge such people. On the very rare instance someone is genuine disabled/invisible I apologise, and state why it boils my piss. Offence has never been taken, with typical responses being that these individuals likewise despise abuse.

[Tommo87]

donkmeister said:

Hol said:

Gordon Hill said:

donkmeister said:

999gsi said:

The amount of people who see me park in a disabled bay and give me the w anchor sign before I put my badge on the dashboard. Apparently 51 year old males cant be disabled...

Trying to find the silver lining, but that does mean they would have the same reaction to someone abusing the spaces to save burning an extra calorie on the way to Greggs, or to "protect" their oh-so-rare mass-produced chavmobile with fridge magnet numberplates.

Shiny A-Class Mercs and wrapped 1/2-series BMWs both driven by be-tracksuited McDonalds patrons are the biggest abusers of disabled and P&C bays round here. Yes I understand the annoyance of people dinging the doors in car parks but that isn't the answer.

BMW 1/2 series, made me chuckle that.

My mum has a blue badge, but hers is a physical disablement and she needs a stick to walk anywhere.

Having a parent with a badge doesn’t stop me from doing a double take, when I see someone exit a car and walk with any obvious disablement into the shop.

And yes I know some disablements aren’t visible and often occasional. So, I just assume I am watching one of their good days.

I confess I make a quick judgement. Blue badge misuse is rife. I reckon if I had one for an "invisible yet precludes me from walking an extra 50 feet" disability I'd probably fake a limp from self-consciousness.

In the ideal world, the people with occasional ailments will use ordinary spaces when they aren’t feeling unwell.

But, we don’t live in the ideal world and some people’s nature is to only think of themselves and not the permanently disabled people 5 mins behind them.

Even worse, is the fact that IF they did leave the space free, Mrs Range Rover or Mr White Van Man, or Chavvy Mc BMW, would be straight in there anyway.

[BunkMoreland]

donkmeister said:

Don't get me wrong, I love it when someone tells me how cute my daughter is, gives appreciative smiles, waves, talks to her and so on. Absolutely love it. I just don't like that thankfully rare sort who start touching and neither does Mini D.

I was in a lift the other day and there was a couple with their baby daughter. Mother was holding the baby who instantly just locked on looking at me in confusion. (I know little eyes cant focus at distance well)

I smiled politely at the parents, and the mother said "say hello" to her daughter. (Which she obviously couldn't) More people joined the lift and I had to move a bit closer to baby who burst into a massive smile.

I just smiled politely and felt weirded out. Last thing I would have done would be to touch or actually talk to the kiddy! Probably catch a weird lurgy!

I'm Male, mid 40s, and have thankfully managed to avoid ruining my life with the addition of children!

[Blown2CV]

My daughter has the most amazing auburn curly hair and green eyes. It seems like catnip to total strangers who want to come and start touching her hair. From what we can gather it’s never coming from a bad place as such, but we’ve had to step in a few times. People are weird.

[El Zomba]

donkmeister said:

See how they like it when a big hairy stranger starts giving them unsolicited face rubbing.

You are Dave Lee Travis and I claim my five pounds.

[swisstoni]

I’ve just followed someone across a fully traffic lighted and gated level crossing. It gets about 4 trains an hour so I was keen to get on with things.

This driver stopped in the middle and looked both ways!

[LR90]

Flagpoles.

Having one in the garden is a cast-iron guarantee that the owner of the house is an anus.

I hate England flags hanging out of windows as much as the next person, but at least it’s (usually) only a temporary aberration that will cease once England get knocked out of whatever international tournament happens to be going on at the time.

A 50ft flagpole with a Union Jack hanging from it requires a lot more commitment, and I just assume whoever’s done it is some weird jingoistic, XL Bully-owning, mouth-breather.

Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions and being grossly unfair, but in my experience (admittedly, only with a sample size of 3) I’ve yet to be proved wrong.

[BunkMoreland]

LR90 said:

Flagpoles.

Having one in the garden is a cast-iron guarantee that the owner of the house is an anus.

I hate England flags hanging out of windows as much as the next person, but at least it’s (usually) only a temporary aberration that will cease once England get knocked out of whatever international tournament happens to be going on at the time.

A 50ft flagpole with a Union Jack hanging from it requires a lot more commitment, and I just assume whoever’s done it is some weird jingoistic, XL Bully-owning, mouth-breather.

Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions and being grossly unfair, but in my experience (admittedly, only with a sample size of 3) I’ve yet to be proved wrong.

And yet go across the EU and there's invariably a massive EU one and a massive national flag flying in lots of places.



America obviously has a lot of flags and people happy to celebrate the nation they live in.



Unless you can prove that a majority of those people are jingoistic and thick. I suspect the problem is not the flagpole.

It's YOU and your weird guilt you experience when you see the flag of a nation

Edited by BunkMoreland on Thursday 4th April 21:23

[Zarco]

BunkMoreland said:

LR90 said:

Flagpoles.

Having one in the garden is a cast-iron guarantee that the owner of the house is an anus.

I hate England flags hanging out of windows as much as the next person, but at least it’s (usually) only a temporary aberration that will cease once England get knocked out of whatever international tournament happens to be going on at the time.

A 50ft flagpole with a Union Jack hanging from it requires a lot more commitment, and I just assume whoever’s done it is some weird jingoistic, XL Bully-owning, mouth-breather.

Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions and being grossly unfair, but in my experience (admittedly, only with a sample size of 3) I’ve yet to be proved wrong.

And yet go across the EU and there's invariably a massive EU one and a massive national flag flying in lots of places.



America obviously has a lot of flags and people happy to celebrate the nation they live in.



Unless you can prove that a majority of those people are jingoistic and thick. I suspect the problem is not the flagpole.

It's YOU and your weird guilt you experience when you see the flag of a nation

Edited by BunkMoreland on Thursday 4th April 21:23

Except none of those examples are peoples houses.

On the whole I think he's right.

[Catweazle]

LR90 said:

Flagpoles.

Having one in the garden is a cast-iron guarantee that the owner of the house is an anus.

I hate England flags hanging out of windows as much as the next person, but at least it’s (usually) only a temporary aberration that will cease once England get knocked out of whatever international tournament happens to be going on at the time.

A 50ft flagpole with a Union Jack hanging from it requires a lot more commitment, and I just assume whoever’s done it is some weird jingoistic, XL Bully-owning, mouth-breather.

Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions and being grossly unfair, but in my experience (admittedly, only with a sample size of 3) I’ve yet to be proved wrong.

[BunkMoreland]

Zarco said:

Except none of those examples are peoples houses.

On the whole I think he's right.

Ask Italians if they cant stand the sight of their flag outside someone's house? Ask the Germans or the Swiss or any other nation.

This weird nonsense about the sight of a flag is something only the British do. And its irritating. Clearly not everything in this country is perfect. But to have a semi meltdown about the motivations or personalities of the flagpole erectors is ridiculous.

And says more about the "upset and offended" than the flag owners

[LR90]

FWIW, I have no guilt whatsoever over the sight of our flag.

It’s a wonderful flag and I’m proud to be British. I don’t think anyone should be ashamed to be British. I don’t think we should be ashamed of our history. I don’t think we shouldn’t fly the flag on government buildings etc. For all its faults, the UK is, on balance, a pretty great place to live.

But people who put flagpoles up in their front garden are, in my experience, mental.

It’s also pure speculation to suggest other nations don’t have a similar attitude to this.