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Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 04 July 2015, 07:46:42 pm
No, not a thread especially for midden  :lol

Stolen the idea from another forum, as it can get quite funny, and also, lots of whingeing old bastards on here who like a good gripe (not me, I'm not old - just stuck in my ways...apparently  :rolleyes ).

So I'll kick off with my latest one, verbatim from the other site:

When you discover a product at the supermarket that you really like and they stop stocking it. Or, they reduce the serving and bump up the price. In fact, one seems to precede the other, so that's probably what will happen to the particular thing I have in mind this time.

 They're feckin rationing me! My meals are getting smaller and smaller, cos damned if I'll pay for two now they've shrunk the original. Bastards.

"New recipe!" less of the more expensive ingredients. "Same price!" for a smaller portion.


 :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Get's My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 July 2015, 07:57:03 pm
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Post by: NorthWestern on 04 July 2015, 08:03:03 pm
Forum threads where people just moan and whinge..... :)
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 04 July 2015, 08:06:22 pm
Forum threads where people just moan and whinge..... :)

People who moan and whinge about people who moan and whinge. Hypocrite!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 04 July 2015, 08:09:15 pm
Irony is lost on some people haha :) 

Extremely slow (typically elderly)  drivers who think nothing of travelling for miles with a queue behind them, never once pulling over to let people past
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 04 July 2015, 08:25:26 pm
Foccers who pull out in front of me on a twisty road, then crawl along and there is nowhere to overtake, especially when there is no one else on the road behind me in the first place. :wall :wall :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 04 July 2015, 08:31:18 pm
People who insist on driving in the middle lane (or even the outside lane) on the motorway regardless of whether they're overtaking or not. Of course this is only when I'm in the car, don't give a monkeys when I'm on the bike  :lol  just blat past them wherever they are


Steve
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: jonesthesteam on 04 July 2015, 08:31:50 pm
From today's ride...


The modern propensity to not bother using indicators, mostly Audi drivers but not limited just to them


And


People driving in country lanes who cut the corners forcing me into the hedge, follow the contours of the road tossers and stop refusing to drive close to the hedge in case of the odd scratch!


And that's just today's griping..


Jonesy
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 04 July 2015, 08:34:06 pm
Drivers who remain stationary when the lights have turned green because they actually wanted the other lane which is still on red and they are waiting for the lights on that one to change, by which time the original lane has turned red again and we all missed a turn >:.
Title: Re: Today's "What Get's My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 04 July 2015, 08:35:12 pm

Me actually being a grumpy old foccer means my post count is going to rocket, the list of things that get my goat is endless :)


Mm mm, yep me too!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 04 July 2015, 08:39:02 pm

The modern propensity to not bother using indicators

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Post by: youngsterbiker on 04 July 2015, 08:40:02 pm
People who sit in the outside lane going slower than people on the inside.....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 04 July 2015, 08:43:57 pm
People who hog the third Lane doing 70 mph then pull into the middle lane and accelerate to 90
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Post by: Dead Eye on 04 July 2015, 08:53:15 pm
Going back to nick's gripe; when the supermarket has a 2 for whatever offer on and there is only 1 fucking item left! That pisses me off more than said item being out of stock
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Andy FZS on 04 July 2015, 10:15:52 pm
Bikers who get bikers a bad name by being stupid (at the wrong time or in the wrong place). Leaving Barton bike night on Wednesday some idiots (my opinion) were so busy showing off they ran into the back of another bike. Moan moan moan......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 04 July 2015, 11:07:34 pm
Women who are devoid of logic but comment on everything.
Graduate Engineers who if they knew half of what they think they did would be feckin geniuses.
People not saying thanks when I hold a shop door open for them....."It's alright mate, I'm a bloody doorman"
Slough - nuke it!
Boring people with no sense of humour who don't understand the reasoning of "doing something just for a laugh"
Gays who are flamboyant and mince to show you they're gay.

............I'm going to stop there - getting wound up  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 05 July 2015, 12:01:38 am
Bikers who let you know they are going to turn right or left for fecking miles and then just do not bother there arse. Usually they will correct this at a road junction.
Yes I am guilty as well. :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 05 July 2015, 12:31:53 am
When I'm  in the perfect position to look up a girls skirt, or see the sun shining behind a  summer dress, or catch an eyeful as the wind lifts up a skirt and some totally ignorant cockblocker walks in between and blocks my view. That's it really, the rest I can live with.  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 05 July 2015, 12:42:47 am
Dazza, peeping Tom pervert springs to mind.
But will say this while waiting to travel out to my ship say in Singapore or Hong Kong there was just something about a nice piece of ass in tight jeans :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 05 July 2015, 12:50:20 am
Slow witted retards who approach roundabouts and don't indicate they are turning left at the first exit. You slow down for them and stop, they turn left meaning everyone has now stopped for no reason than this moronic tw#t can't be arsed to drive consideratly. Next time you're in a traffic jam chances are some knob like this started it.
Tossers who take 3 or more seconds to set off when the lights turn green, at best three get through leaving everyone else seething at their incompetence.
Shop assistants who tell you there is no demand for the item you've just requested, really, what am I then? A feckin' apparition, didn't I just ask for it?
Numb nuts who refuel their cars parked three feet away from the pump. You've filled yours and are ready to leave but can't because the normal seven foot channel to drive through is now only four feet wide.
I'm a grumpy old bastard but only because I've no time for arseholes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 05 July 2015, 01:01:41 am
Dazza, peeping Tom pervert springs to mind.
But will say this while waiting to travel out to my ship say in Singapore or Hong Kong there was just something about a nice piece of ass in tight jeans :)

Each to their own Lew, I only like women though, :b as for being a pervert, as long as I have vision, I will look and enjoy. 8)
I guess that's why it winds me up so much,  I go from being  a perfectly innocent bystander who just happens to be in the right spot at the right time, to a totally guilty and potentially peeping Tom pervert if I succumb to the urge to move to get my view back.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stevie-g1968 on 05 July 2015, 06:08:44 am
0people who park at the pumps, dont buy fuel but go into the forcourt shop and do the weekly shop... :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 05 July 2015, 06:33:32 am
Women who put their arse on show by tucking skirt in their knickers. Inconsiderate bitch could wore a thong that day  ;)

The revised highway code roundabout diagram which must be the main reason I've had to agree with 7 omly,  it appears to have removed logical reason from mind of the driver

people who take up 2 car  lengths to park a fekkin peugeot 204
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 05 July 2015, 09:45:39 am
 :grumble dog shit, pot holes, speed cameras, facebook, trying to open sellotape, chav's, reality tv, trying to get a dentist/doc's appointment, litter, ppi, queue skippers, computers, loud people, bad parking, bad manners, sorry rant over!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 05 July 2015, 10:17:26 am
People in stationery traffic who leave enough room between them and the car in front to get two 40 foot long artics in, great for me when I am on the bike but sends me crazy when I am in the cage.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 05 July 2015, 10:52:03 am
packaging. all this shrink fit plastic around bulbs, tools etc--never meant to be removed once sealed.
Inconsiderate parking.
MP's who whine about their lot---lazy well off bastids.
Nosey neighbours.
All lazy bastids who won't work and we have to keep them in a style they have become accustomed to. :pc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 05 July 2015, 01:39:04 pm
B@&tard cyclists out on the country lanes taking up all the road, they're a f@&king liability!
I've very nearly had a pile up today on the way home when coming down a country road (60mph) and finding two Lycra clad imbeciles in the middle of the road as I've gone round a bend  :eek
And I'm not talking the middle of their lane, one of them was dawdling along by the central white line turning round and chatting to his mate.....f@&king retard!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 05 July 2015, 05:01:25 pm
Oooh I'm on one today........ :lol


People who insist on driving at 35mph no matter what the speed limit is, be it 30,40,60 or even 20mph limits in villages........thoughtless w@nkers!!  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 July 2015, 09:03:21 pm
:grumble dog shit, pot holes, speed cameras, facebook, trying to open sellotape, chav's, reality tv, trying to get a dentist/doc's appointment, litter, ppi, queue skippers, computers, loud people, bad parking, bad manners, sorry rant over!

So would you say you're generally a pretty laid back kinda guy?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 05 July 2015, 10:27:27 pm

Modern life . . . It drives you crazy!
Sometimes my mood's up and down like a bride's nightie on honeymoon, no wonder I take a drink! 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 06 July 2015, 12:03:50 am
Or, they reduce the serving and bump up the price.

Tell me about it!

For instance Mars Bars have shrunk in size because of this new "treatwise" idea (that if you make chocolate bars smaller, people won't be such fat bastards), yet they still cost the same.

Meanwhile Asda's Toad in the Hole has gone from the original size with 8 sausages in it to the original size with only 6 sausages and now it's about 2/3rds the size and only has *four* sausages in it! Once again, of course, the price hasn't changed...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 06 July 2015, 12:10:21 am
Oh and the twat on Saturday who drove along the M275, along the slip road and half way along the Cosham road with his left indicator on and when I pulled up alongside him and pointed it out says "Oh, is that bad then?"

Pillock!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 06 July 2015, 04:56:52 am


Cornflower packets.............it goes everywhere...............pings off the inner wrapper...., over the work tops, under the cooker controls, generally focs me off.....normal flour isn't much better...........I should probably use painting and decorating dust sheets before I start cooking.

and Blue bikes :b...................because they are slower than dial up internet.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: devilsyam on 06 July 2015, 07:22:29 am
Women maximum  frustration
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Post by: lew600fazer on 06 July 2015, 07:43:10 am
People who do not pay there bills and debts on time, then have a vote about it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nightfury on 06 July 2015, 08:50:55 am
The self destructive nature of humankind.
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Post by: midden on 06 July 2015, 10:00:21 am
People who moan about  reduced food portions without lower pricing who still buy the product.
Buy a different brand or even better do a Noggy and get the flour out and make ya foccin own  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 July 2015, 10:14:18 am
People who moan about  reduced food portions without lower pricing who still buy the product.
Buy a different brand or even better do a Noggy and get the flour out and make ya foccin own  ;)

I do make my own. But guess what? They reduce the quantities and increase the prices on the ingredients you buy as well  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dead Eye on 06 July 2015, 10:58:46 am
Or, they reduce the serving and bump up the price.

Tell me about it!

For instance Mars Bars have shrunk in size because of this new "treatwise" idea (that if you make chocolate bars smaller, people won't be such fat bastards), yet they still cost the same.

This seriously doesn't work with me... instead of having one reduced portion, I'll end up having 2 portions which were more than the original portion to start with... this could explain why I am a fat bastard though...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 06 July 2015, 03:03:08 pm
Weaning seven month old daughters who, when you try them with a small portion of home made veg purée, wolf it down, so you make a shitload more and they won't fucking touch it. Ever.

Getting excited because after two months of physio your knee finally bends enough to reach the gear lever, only to find the ligaments in your foot have shrunk too much to twist round and actually touch the fucking thing.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 06 July 2015, 07:14:20 pm
WAGON WHEELS   :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 06 July 2015, 08:28:16 pm
People who don't know the difference between "there" (location), "their" (belonging to them) and "they're" (short for "they are")! :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: hotmetal on 06 July 2015, 09:34:20 pm
People who insist on driving in the middle lane (or even the outside lane) on the motorway regardless of whether they're overtaking or not. Of course this is only when I'm in the car, don't give a monkeys when I'm on the bike  :lol  just blat past them wherever they are


Steve

I just read that the police have recently prosecuted the first person for middle lane hogging ever (white van man surprise surprise).
http://www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/first-conviction-over-middle-lane-driving?MediaCode=806&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsletterMR20150706manual&utm_source=Newsletter0706
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 06 July 2015, 11:13:26 pm
B@&tard cyclists out on the country lanes taking up all the road, they're a f@&king liability!
I've very nearly had a pile up today on the way home when coming down a country road (60mph) and finding two Lycra clad imbeciles in the middle of the road as I've gone round a bend  :eek
And I'm not talking the middle of their lane, one of them was dawdling along by the central white line turning round and chatting to his mate.....f@&king retard!!!
at least they were on the road.    riding out toward the middle around country lanes is sensible makes you more visible. I tend to do it on either bicycle  or the fazer.  Unlike the probable tard I keep ears and eyes open and move toward the side to allow vehicles to pass when safe. Beats cars racing passed so close they want to force you in the hedges  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 07 July 2015, 01:21:37 am
I just read that the police have recently prosecuted the first person for middle lane hogging ever

So he was charged *two years* ago and only now has he been convicted.

Ok, the fine and, more importantly, the five points are good, but probably by now most drivers will have forgotten all about this law (especially given the number of Middle-Lane Larrys I've seen out there), so it's hardly going to be much of a deterrent :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 07 July 2015, 06:21:58 pm
everything you buy have shrunk but my foccing waist haven't.
jeans says 40" but more like 38",42" to foccing big.
try another size 40" and it fits from another shop.
sizes these days are all over the place.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 07 July 2015, 06:23:55 pm
everything you buy have shrunk but my foccing waist haven't.
jeans says 40" but more like 38",42" to foccing big.
try another size 40" and it fits from another shop.
sizes these days are all over the place.

I just cheat. I still buy the same waist size, but stretch jeans, or cargo trousers with an elasticated waist band  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dead Eye on 07 July 2015, 08:21:04 pm
Pretty sure that my trousers are shrinking... *stuffs another biscuit in mouth*
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 07 July 2015, 08:41:35 pm
WAGON WHEELS   :grumble
:eek  What's wrong with Wagon Wheels??  Yum, yum!!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 07 July 2015, 08:49:22 pm
Pensioners & people that don't work in the supermarket at weekends!!
you have all week to do yourshopping when we are at work so why clog up the roads & shops at weekends?

CORMAC!! ( for those that don't know they are the Cornish council workers CORMAC stands for Cant Organise Road Maintenance Around Cornwall)
oh yeah we wait until May to start any major road project that is going to last 6 months so we block up both main roads in & out of the country at the same time at the busiest time of the year!! we will cone off dual carriageways for miles and only do work on 200 yards a week!! the rest is coned off ..... for safety...fucking hell that length of road you could land 3 jumbo's on if it weren't fecking coned off!!!!

and breath.....
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 07 July 2015, 08:57:25 pm
Nothing.......30yrs ago they were the size of real wagon wheels   :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 07 July 2015, 11:39:10 pm
People like Robbie who have no time for pensioners shopping, Supermarkets are open until 21.00 hrs some are open 6x 24 hours. :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 08 July 2015, 06:39:52 am
What really annoys me is people, particularly young people whom insist on using the word 'like' all the time as a conversation filler . . . "you know what I mean like", " I was like all . . . " drives me nuts. What's worse is that upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that makes everything seem as if it's a question!?! It's this I'm referring to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY)

It's all just wrong, and plain annoying
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Post by: Nightfury on 08 July 2015, 09:28:37 am
Kim Kardashian
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 July 2015, 11:49:35 am
What really annoys me is people, particularly young people whom insist on using the word 'like' all the time as a conversation filler . . . "you know what I mean like", " I was like all . . . " drives me nuts. What's worse is that upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that makes everything seem as if it's a question!?! It's this I'm referring to

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY[/url])

It's all just wrong, and plain annoying


At work in the film industry, the word that bugs the hell out of me is "amazing".

Was sitting upstairs minding my own business having lunch and there were a production team sitting next to me.

"How are your Cheese & Chive crisps?"
"Oh they're amazing!"
"Really? The same as my watercress and celery seeded baguette, it's amazing too."
"What about your beetroot and plum smoothie?"
"Oh it's truly amaz......"

"OH FUCK OFF!"  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 08 July 2015, 11:58:17 am

At work in the film industry, the word that bugs the hell out of me is "amazing".

Was sitting upstairs minding my own business having lunch and there were a production team sitting next to me.

"How are your Cheese & Chive crisps?"
"Oh they're amazing!"
"Really? The same as my watercress and celery seeded baguette, it's amazing too."
"What about your beetroot and plum smoothie?"
"Oh it's truly amaz......"

"OH FUCK OFF!"  :wall

That's just awesome!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 July 2015, 12:32:30 pm

At work in the film industry, the word that bugs the hell out of me is "amazing".

Was sitting upstairs minding my own business having lunch and there were a production team sitting next to me.

"How are your Cheese & Chive crisps?"
"Oh they're amazing!"
"Really? The same as my watercress and celery seeded baguette, it's amazing too."
"What about your beetroot and plum smoothie?"
"Oh it's truly amaz......"

"OH FUCK OFF!"  :wall

That's just awesome!

Haha, yeah that as well.  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 08 July 2015, 12:53:07 pm
People like Robbie who have no time for pensioners shopping, Supermarkets are open until 21.00 hrs some are open 6x 24 hours. :)
yeah supermarkets are open 24/7 but when I work away from home only time I get to do a food shop for the family is at a weekend. even on a Friday evening I'll go at 8-830 after I've spent time with my boys at rugby training and yes they are in Asda trying to decide which aisle to clog up and then they bump into Eric from across the road & have a natter in the narrowest part of the shop... they got cafe's for nattering in!!
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 08 July 2015, 08:16:43 pm
What really annoys me is people, particularly young people whom insist on using the word 'like' all the time as a conversation filler . . . "you know what I mean like", " I was like all . . . " drives me nuts. What's worse is that upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that makes everything seem as if it's a question!?! It's this I'm referring to

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNhEzrWQpY[/url])

It's all just wrong, and plain annoying



You fool, you forgot "you know" as well. Used in every interview now, you know. No i don't fucking know thats why you are the expert getting interviewed. Ok just breathe.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: alan09 on 08 July 2015, 08:57:45 pm
Some cnut walking around London with an IS flag draped over his shoulder and a kid sat on his shoulders waving a small IS flag just over a week after 30 British people were murdered on a beach in Tunisia by IS. The police said they can't do anything about it because he hasn't done wrong FFS.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 July 2015, 10:00:26 pm
Some cnut walking around London with an IS flag draped over his shoulder and a kid sat on his shoulders waving a small IS flag just over a week after 30 British people were murdered on a beach in Tunisia by IS. The police said they can't do anything about it because he hasn't done wrong FFS.

+1 to that. :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 08 July 2015, 10:05:43 pm
Some cnut walking around London with an IS flag draped over his shoulder and a kid sat on his shoulders waving a small IS flag just over a week after 30 British people were murdered on a beach in Tunisia by IS. The police said they can't do anything about it because he hasn't done wrong FFS.

+1 to that. :grumble
I think you'll find there'll be +quite a lot to that one  :\  definitely me included

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 08 July 2015, 11:10:04 pm
People like Robbie who have no time for pensioners shopping, Supermarkets are open until 21.00 hrs some are open 6x 24 hours. :)
yeah supermarkets are open 24/7 but when I work away from home only time I get to do a food shop for the family is at a weekend. even on a Friday evening I'll go at 8-830 after I've spent time with my boys at rugby training and yes they are in Asda trying to decide which aisle to clog up and then they bump into Eric from across the road & have a natter in the narrowest part of the shop... they got cafe's for nattering in!!
 :lol
So all us old folk should stay in so you can go shopping disrespectful I know but feck off :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 July 2015, 07:29:30 am
People like Robbie who have no time for pensioners shopping, Supermarkets are open until 21.00 hrs some are open 6x 24 hours. :)
yeah supermarkets are open 24/7 but when I work away from home only time I get to do a food shop for the family is at a weekend. even on a Friday evening I'll go at 8-830 after I've spent time with my boys at rugby training and yes they are in Asda trying to decide which aisle to clog up and then they bump into Eric from across the road & have a natter in the narrowest part of the shop... they got cafe's for nattering in!!
 :lol
So all us old folk should stay in so you can go shopping disrespectful I know but feck off :lol


Apparently a lottery win, or ordering online can sort these issues out.
Replacing a loaf of bread with a loofah, 'cos it was close in the alphabet, can cause the odd argument but hey,nobody's perfect.  :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 09 July 2015, 08:05:20 am
Some cnut walking around London with an IS flag draped over his shoulder and a kid sat on his shoulders waving a small IS flag just over a week after 30 British people were murdered on a beach in Tunisia by IS. The police said they can't do anything about it because he hasn't done wrong FFS.

And why the kid on his shoulders - so us decent people won't smack the shit out of him for doing it 'cos he has a kid with him. The spineless, wank stain, piss taking tw@  :grumble . On his own he'd be dog food.
 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 July 2015, 09:46:08 am
Some cnut walking around London with an IS flag draped over his shoulder and a kid sat on his shoulders waving a small IS flag just over a week after 30 British people were murdered on a beach in Tunisia by IS. The police said they can't do anything about it because he hasn't done wrong FFS.

And why the kid on his shoulders - so us decent people won't smack the shit out of him for doing it 'cos he has a kid with him. The spineless, wank stain, piss taking tw@  :grumble . On his own he'd be dog food.

Probably just a growth on his shoulder that came to life, they're generally a bit 'special'.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 09 July 2015, 02:59:26 pm
People like Robbie who have no time for pensioners shopping, Supermarkets are open until 21.00 hrs some are open 6x 24 hours. :)
yeah supermarkets are open 24/7 but when I work away from home only time I get to do a food shop for the family is at a weekend. even on a Friday evening I'll go at 8-830 after I've spent time with my boys at rugby training and yes they are in Asda trying to decide which aisle to clog up and then they bump into Eric from across the road & have a natter in the narrowest part of the shop... they got cafe's for nattering in!!
 :lol
So all us old folk should stay in so you can go shopping....

Yep, that's the jist of it!  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 09 July 2015, 08:57:33 pm
People that use the newspaper stands in supermarkets as a reading lectern :book, rather than picking the paper up and moving back a bit to flick through it >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 09 July 2015, 09:12:29 pm
Surface Dressing - I am surprised, somewhat that this is the first "whinge" about Surface dressing.
It is the season and it strikes - randomly - and according to the signs can take a whole week to do 500yds!

And for those "lucky" enough - try following the "Convoy Vehicle" through on a freshly laid section. They go at less than the DVLA request of new riders doing their tests! On a moving surface.
There is generally little warning.............
And getting the tar spots off - don't get me started.....
And I agree - keep old people out of supermarkets - I mean why are they queuing at Morrisons in Cheltenham, to get in at 7AM?  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 09 July 2015, 10:23:57 pm
People that use the newspaper stands in supermarkets as a reading lectern :book , rather than picking the paper up and moving back a bit to flick through it >:
People who read the newspapers or magazines in supermarkets.......it's not a f@&king library!!!  :rollin
If you want to read it then buy it yer tight bastids!!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 09 July 2015, 11:48:34 pm
Freck use the corner shop you moaning git!!! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 10 July 2015, 06:24:25 am
Freck use the corner shop you moaning git!!! :lol

He would, but there was a queue of pensioners in their bathrobes and slippers in there  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 10 July 2015, 07:31:14 am
No Nick , it is usually some young ones still in there PJ's at 2 pm just out of bed and need a can of RED BULL and 20 Cigs to get them going.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 22 July 2015, 09:28:48 am
I was spitting feathers yesterday evening.


Riding home on the M20 I overtake a woman, she's in the inside lane doing her makeup at 60 MPH.  Bottle of foundation in one hand, applying it with a sponge in the other, squinting up at the rear view mirror to make sure she applied it right.  :eek


Couldn't believe what I was seeing, stayed alongside her for a bit and sounded my horn, eventually she looked over, I pointed and shock my head in the hope she might realise what she was doing was so so stupid but no, I got the finger and told to fuck off (at least that's what I lip read).


I rode alongside her for a bit longer hoping she might stop knowing I was there but no!  In the end I didn't fancy being on the end of her inevitable accident and rode off.


Wish I had a camera for moments like this I would love to send that sort of evidence to the police.


I tried to remember her number in my head to report her (bit of a waste of time because the police only do anything if they have two witnesses to the crime) but by the time I'd concentrated on changing lanes to pull onto the A249 I had forgotten it!  DOH!


Do you know what made it worse, no amount of focing makeup was gonna make her look pretty......  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 July 2015, 11:28:45 am
Insurance AGAIN
For the car this time Admiral multicar me and my daughter she is 22 and now has 2 years NCB yet the insurance has gone up - I am maxed out on my NCB and am 48 so I dont expect any reductions on those two accounts for me anymore but I would of thought at her age and with her adding another year  NCB the insurance should be coming down.

I am sick of it every year having to spend time doing the rounds to find cheaper and then ring my current insurer to tell them for them to say "OH er ok MR Fazersharp lets have a look for you, hold the line I will just speak to my manager------- yes we can match that for you"   
WHY DONT YOU FECKING JUST QUOTE ME THE BEST PRICE STRAIGHT THE WAY, cause im not a twat - im not just going to pay it without question so why insult me with a cheeky cash grab.
Im telling you this scam will be the next PPI   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeRock on 22 July 2015, 11:30:52 am
Insurance AGAIN
For the car this time Admiral multicar me and my daughter she is 22 and now has 2 years NCB yet the insurance has gone up - I am maxed out on my NCB and am 48 so I dont expect any reductions on those two accounts for me anymore but I would of thought at her age and with her adding another year  NCB the insurance should be coming down.

I am sick of it every year having to spend time doing the rounds to find cheaper and then ring my current insurer to tell them for them to say "OH er ok MR Fazersharp lets have a look for you, hold the line I will just speak to my manager------- yes we can match that for you"   
WHY DONT YOU FECKING JUST QUOTE ME THE BEST PRICE STRAIGHT THE WAY, cause im not a twat - im not just going to pay it without question so why insult me with a cheeky cash grab.
Im telling you this scam will be the next PPI


Primarily because a lot of people are twats, and will just pay an increased price rather than shopping around!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 22 July 2015, 12:25:36 pm
This really fucking winds me up. Popped into Greggs to get a couple of sausage rolls. Big sign on the counter(see pic).
Look round at the seating area and it's just a couple of chairs and tables plonked in the corner by the window penned in by a snaking queue of pikey women and  badly behaved screaming kids...Really....You're going to charge me 20% extra for the fucking delightful privilege of sitting there looking up at a constant queue of the towns finest citizens. They don't even provide toilet facilities where you can piss on the floor in protest or at least wash your fucking hands.....FUCK OFF ! :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 July 2015, 03:39:29 pm
Popped into Greggs to get a couple of sausage rolls.  a snaking queue of pikey women and  badly behaved screaming kids
Errrr ----- you were there, what does that say.

I took lunch in a local park surrounded by butterflies that were attracted by the sweet aroma of my tiny little humus and watercress triangles
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 22 July 2015, 11:08:44 pm
Popped into Greggs to get a couple of sausage rolls.  a snaking queue of pikey women and  badly behaved screaming kids
Errrr ----- you were there, what does that say.

I took lunch in a local park surrounded by butterflies that were attracted by the sweet aroma of my tiny little humus and watercress triangles
:rolleyes   You're such a bitch fazersharp. perhaps I should start eating little humus and watercress triangles........Oh wait, I can't, I don't have a vagina  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 22 July 2015, 11:25:47 pm
It's midweek on the Glasgow fair,  the roads are relatively empty too, great day for a ride we thought :)

Foccin cage driver's when your out on a jolly with your mate and these idiots don't look in their mirrors :groan


The one that really annoyed us most....
Mondeo driver,  both wing mirrors tucked in!
What the foc was that about?

She only had one foccin mirror to look in and she never even done that no matter how much we moved behind her!

How can you drive a cage and not realise that BOTH your foccin mirrors are not showing anything?  Crazy people.

Ok, rant over,  I feel good now, cheers :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Jazoli on 24 July 2015, 08:50:23 am
Folk who call cars cages......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 24 July 2015, 10:27:47 am
Old people on red bikes :-) and people who keep crashing yellow ones :-)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 July 2015, 10:39:00 am
Council pest controllers who don't want to deal with pests.

Pointless conference calls where people ramble on for 2 hours about something nobody really gives a fec about.

Hyundai main dealers who cant get hold of a flexi-brake pipe for a recent model car for nearly two weeks.

Kids on school holidays.

Illegal immigrants causing travel chaos.

Unemployed French ferry workers causing travel chaos.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Andy FZS on 24 July 2015, 10:55:22 am
People who moan. Lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 24 July 2015, 11:04:42 am
Old people on red bikes :-) and people who keep crashing yellow ones :-)

Blue bikes that never see the light of day  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 24 July 2015, 01:08:52 pm
Well, as a qualified old git......................


People who say "Nucular"


TV adverts


Right turners who stay in the left lane instead of using the right turn section clearly marked in the centre.


Mobile phone users, especially those driving.


Roundabout straightliners and right turn signallers who then turn left. (There is no right turn off a roundabout)


Call centres who leave you on hold at premium rates............. HMIT please note.


Yoof.


Yapping dogs.


Picky eaters.






and finally...................all of the above when I am off to spend my pension in the supermarket on a Saturday.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 24 July 2015, 10:34:02 pm
........ :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 25 July 2015, 07:56:18 am
Folk dragging caravans in rush hour traffic and getting defensive when people indicate to pull out in front of them...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 July 2015, 10:07:17 am
Folk dragging caravans in rush hour traffic and getting defensive when people indicate to pull out in front of them...


 :2guns

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: redfox1 on 25 July 2015, 12:09:57 pm
That awful Trip Advisor ad with the pukin' dog!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 25 July 2015, 02:43:25 pm
Quote
Folk dragging caravans in rush hour traffic and getting defensive when people indicate to pull out in front of them...

Having towed a caravan in rush hour myself I can sort of sympathise. If you tow properly you don't hold traffic up at all (except you can only do 50mph on a 60mph single carriage way road) but you do tend to want to keep rolling and as such don't want brake suddenly which some muppets (indicating or not) make you do when they think there is a gap big enough for their car to fit into in front of yours. What they don't think about is the fact that the car they are cutting in front of was using that space to stop in already so by you pulling out into the gap has caused me to brake suddenly.

I dont like towing the caravan and I try not to tow it in rush hour traffic. To help me avoid doing it, I don't even keep it in this country anymore.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 25 July 2015, 06:03:23 pm
The cyclist I met few days ago here on the A322 dual carriageway (https://goo.gl/maps/64klZ) texting with one hand on his smartphone whilst wobbling around with the other hand on the bars.

WTF dude??  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: griff86 on 25 July 2015, 07:00:41 pm
Zebra crossings.

People who open their car door all the way, sit down with the door wide open then close it, fucking lumps.

Everyone.




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 July 2015, 07:57:21 pm

People who open their car door all the way, sit down with the door wide open then close it, fucking lumps.



+ passengers who open your car doors when it's blowing a gale & then let go of it so that it slams back on the hinges >: >:

....& passengers who get in your car with really muddy boots & don't keep their feet still on the mat >: >:

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 25 July 2015, 08:09:17 pm
People balancing their carbs who constantly text, "heeelp, I can't doooo it!  :'(" when you're trying to enjoy a day out  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Mark YPVS on 28 July 2015, 07:41:11 am
Shops selling Christmas stuff in July , went to BHS in Staines and they were selling Jacobs Christmas crackers !!! WTF  :eek :eek :eek


Mark :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 28 July 2015, 10:34:10 am
Shops selling Christmas stuff in July , went to BHS in Staines and they were selling Jacobs Christmas crackers !!! WTF  :eek :eek :eek


Mark :)


The type you pull or the ones you eat :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Mark YPVS on 28 July 2015, 10:37:00 am
Shops selling Christmas stuff in July , went to BHS in Staines and they were selling Jacobs Christmas crackers !!! WTF  :eek :eek :eek


Mark :)


The type you pull or the ones you eat :lol


The ones you eat , i should have got some but will properly be out of date before Christmas !!! :rollin :rollin :rollin


Mark :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: helen on 29 July 2015, 03:29:54 pm
Wow, you're all so.....angry!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 29 July 2015, 03:56:12 pm
Wow, you're all so.....angry!

Nah, If I am not moaning I'm not happy :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 30 July 2015, 01:19:27 pm
Got auto renewal quote through for home and contents £222.40
Went online to furry friend to get comparison quotes cheapest came in £140
Phone existing insurer to cancel auto renewal and then completed purchase through the furry one ;)

Result........same policy with same insurer (yep same insurer)  minus £82.40 plus a furry toy and 2 for 1 cinema tickets

That's what gets my goat
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Andy FZS on 30 July 2015, 06:25:20 pm
I wish mine was £222.40 grrr really anoyed now grrrrrr.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 July 2015, 07:17:49 pm
Car drivers that are too stupid to notice the huge amount of parked cars up ahead of them, then just drift over to the right as if you're not even there.
Same applies to when they undertake you even though there's a big fuck off red bus about to stop in front of them, then they get annoyed when you don't let them pull out.
Tossers.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 31 July 2015, 07:10:42 am
Coat hangers !!!!

I bought some new jumpers,,,just got one out of the bag and it took me 5 minutes to get the coat hanger out of it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 31 July 2015, 07:26:57 am
Arrogant suited city twats!
Had one yesterday step off the kerb in front of me because apparently (stopped for a chat  :lol ) the zig zags either side of a pedestrian crossing count as part of the crossing so you can cross anywhere within the zig zags and it counts as part of the invisible force field around these crossings  :wall . We agreed he was a complete fuckwit who should fec off to Calais to be a H & S advisor for the tossers trying to get through the chunnel.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 July 2015, 07:54:44 pm
When the self-service checkout in the supermarket gives all your change in coppers >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 31 July 2015, 07:59:04 pm
When the self-service checkout in the supermarket gives all your change in coppers >:
Was it Morrissons by any chance? They're great for throwing ya coppers in, so may be payback  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 31 July 2015, 09:17:14 pm
The complete and idiots, on the M5 northbound this afternoon between J10 and J9.  (Just in case you might identify either yourself of the wanker driving the vehicle!!!!)
First the Volvo estate towing a trailer - in the outside lane!
Second, the Ford KA, about 150yds further on - loads of pushbikes attached to the back of the car. No lights visible through the tangle of spokes etc!

Gobsmacked, but if I put a small number plate on...................
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 31 July 2015, 09:26:33 pm
Folk who call cars cages......
Folk who moan about people calling cars 'cages' :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 31 July 2015, 09:27:59 pm
Folk who moan about people who moan about .......... :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 31 July 2015, 09:28:51 pm
We agreed he was a complete fuckwit who should fec off to Calais to be a H & S advisor for the tossers trying to get through the chunnel.
:rollin :rollin
Absolutely loved that.... "we"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 31 July 2015, 09:32:11 pm
Folk who moan about people who moan about .......... :rollin :rollin :rollin
:lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 31 July 2015, 09:41:54 pm
Ohh another thing - the Foccin oil pump on my Mercedes. Only 175,000 miles on the thing and it feckin seized, engines BER, cars scrapped and the Germans planned for a 1000 year reich! I don't think so Hans - make your shit a little stronger and you may have done better 70 years ago!!!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 31 July 2015, 09:53:59 pm
Ohh another thing - the Foccin oil pump on my Mercedes. Only 175,000 miles on the thing and it feckin seized, engines BER, cars scrapped and the Germans planned for a 1000 year reich! I don't think so Hans - make your shit a little stronger and you may have done better 70 years ago!!!!!!
Thats pathetic! One of our 300 series LWB diesel Sprinter vans ran to 500000 miles before giving up the ghost. It was the "full power" version 5 speed box and the only trouble I ever had was a split turbo hose temporarily repaired with yards of gaffer tape. it spent most of its life in the "fast lane" in the region of the National SpeedLimit(officially anyway!) :lol [size=78%] The accountants at MB advised the company to cut costs about 17 years ago which led to  a spate of reliability/warranty issues in the early noughties.[/size]
On a separate note concerning German cars, dont ever think about getting to the water pump on certain Audis-have to strip half the engine out first! :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dinger1962 on 31 July 2015, 09:57:35 pm
Career benefit scroungers--cnts claiming sickness benefits they are not entitled to--illegal immigrants (if i do something illegal i am punished for it)--they are rewarded with benefits-housing-free healthcare -schooling-enough money to send home so the next wave of parasites can get here and bleed my country dry of resources which my taxes have funded .ill stop there for now for fear of sounding racist (i am of mixed race my parents both worked all their lives and instilled a good work ethic into me) oh and people who judge me for saying what everyone else is thinking but are afraid to say-rant over- ill post something more light hearted in keeping with the spirit of this site another time when my piss not boiling with anger/rage
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 31 July 2015, 11:56:53 pm
NHS consultants who are paid a fortune , then complain they have to work one weekend in five. Meanwhile Nurses and Paramedics Ambulance drivers and other healthcare workers who do more hours and are paid no where near their value.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 August 2015, 07:03:50 pm
0people who park at the pumps, dont buy fuel but go into the forcourt shop and do the weekly shop... :rolleyes

...& why is it that when all the pumps are occupied & you stop to queue behind the only car without a driver filling up (thinking that your one is already paying & will be out in a few secs), all the other drivers have finished filling, been in & paid & driven off before your one appears!? :'(. What are they doing in there?? :rolleyes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 August 2015, 08:23:01 pm
So they have filled up and paid and back in the car and then take another feckin 5 mins programming the sat nav MOVE AWAY FROM THE PUMP AND DO IT OVER THERE !!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 August 2015, 08:42:45 pm
Waiting to get served my first pint, which takes about 15 seconds to pour, while the bar staff are having to make someone really complicated cocktails, or a round of hot drinks, that take about half an hour to make :'(.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 03 August 2015, 04:39:51 pm
The stupid young bitch who cut me up at a road junction this afternoon.
I was approaching to turn right when she cut across the junction by 5 feet, still in fairness the stupid bitch didn't see me because she was busy on her mobile phone at the time.
Housing estate during the summer holidays - what could possibly go wrong with the way she drives.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 03 August 2015, 08:58:30 pm
What why why do people going through average speed cameras go through them at the set speed, (50mph in the case of new ones on M74) then speed up in between them?
Don't they realise they're called 'average speed cameras'?  Foccin donkeys :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 04 August 2015, 01:33:36 pm
twats in beemers tailgating up your arse on the motorway......had this last night in lane 3........then the twat in the car behind the beemer who decided to undertake all of us by moving from 3 to 2

a quick point to some blue chequered tape on me high viz saw both twats immediately fall back a good distance.......CNUTS
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 August 2015, 06:35:10 pm
On the way home from work just now there was a BMW( :rolleyes ) facing me with his right indicator on ready to do a right turn so as the lights had gone red up ahead I did the decent thing and stopped to let him cross my path.


SEVEN cars then thought "Fuck that." and UNDERTOOK me as me and the BMW driver just sat there like idiots watching them all fly past and join the queue of traffic a bit further up? What the fuck?


Manners have just about disappeared on the roads these days, especially around my area, drivers appear to be completely self righteous wankers.


Rant over.  :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: caretaker on 04 August 2015, 06:40:07 pm
people who complain.


all right, i'll get my goat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 04 August 2015, 06:44:03 pm
people who complain.


all right, i'll get my goat.

Get your coat while your at it :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 August 2015, 06:48:07 pm



  Dyslexia.  :lol







Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 04 August 2015, 06:51:16 pm
Dyslexia or predicted txt? :lol
That a pic of you darrsi? :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 August 2015, 07:25:04 pm
Dyslexia or predicted txt? :lol
That a pic of you darrsi? :)


"What gets my toga"



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 04 August 2015, 07:26:19 pm
"What gets my toga"

:rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 04 August 2015, 07:48:51 pm
people who complain.


all right, i'll get my goat.


You've goat to be joking
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 05 August 2015, 12:46:18 pm
Career benefit scroungers


People who fall for the "Scrounger"/ "Illegal Immigrants"/ "Parasites" narrative that our Government and their tame media keep pushing out.

Did you know that, for instance, the owners of the Daily Mail, that paper that claims to be on the side of the "Hard Working Tax Payers" are registered abroad to avoid tax?

See this list (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/whos-who-britain-legal-offshore-tax-avoidance-james-dyson) for many more famous names that do the same.

But no, let's keep kicking the poorest in society and blame them for being poor and force them to work in conditions of near slavery, whilst the rich bastards have expensive lawyers and financial advisers and do tidy deal with HMRC and their mates in power to allow them to hoard lots of money and screw everyone else because "I'm alright, Jack"!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 05 August 2015, 03:44:58 pm
mate knows a cop who works fraud/tax cheating
along with HMRC they've just busted a large well known Co. who have evaded £22M in tax

evaded = deliberately dodging their tax in this case and they're on their way to court now.......probably strike a deal to pay back a few mil  :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 05 August 2015, 09:09:13 pm
No turn mattress, like it's a beneficial selling point  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 05 August 2015, 10:44:53 pm
No turn mattress, like it's a beneficial selling point  :(


I got one of those no sex mattresses instead :lol



No turn pancakes would be good though


Or no turn steak
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 August 2015, 07:01:17 am
No turn mattress, like it's a beneficial selling point  :(


I got one of those no sex mattresses instead :lol



No turn pancakes would be good though


Or no turn steak


I seem to be a life member of the no turn winning Lotto club.  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Jazoli on 06 August 2015, 07:13:02 am
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 August 2015, 09:53:30 am
 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: esetest on 06 August 2015, 11:43:26 am
People in stationary traffic who get too close .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 August 2015, 11:45:37 am
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.

Got one of those who works in the next road from me, he also has different colour reflective squares on his panniers, 2 tiny red lights above the tail end each side of the rear camera, a camera on his shoulder and a white lid with black and white cheque banding on it.
The giveaway is the yellow hi vis jacket he wears is just the same as builders use.  :lol
In fairness people do tend to get out of his way though, even if it is a bit of a strange mentality, and I must confess I even moved out of his way once to let him pass, then felt a bit duped when I saw who it was.  :bobby
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 August 2015, 12:29:03 pm
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.

Got one of those who works in the next road from me, he also has different colour reflective squares on his panniers, 2 tiny red lights above the tail end each side of the rear camera, a camera on his shoulder and a white lid with black and white cheque banding on it.
The giveaway is the yellow hi vis jacket he wears is just the same as builders use.  :lol
In fairness people do tend to get out of his way though, even if it is a bit of a strange mentality, and I must confess I even moved out of his way once to let him pass, then felt a bit duped when I saw who it was.  :bobby

That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 August 2015, 12:55:09 pm
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.

Got one of those who works in the next road from me, he also has different colour reflective squares on his panniers, 2 tiny red lights above the tail end each side of the rear camera, a camera on his shoulder and a white lid with black and white cheque banding on it.
The giveaway is the yellow hi vis jacket he wears is just the same as builders use.  :lol
In fairness people do tend to get out of his way though, even if it is a bit of a strange mentality, and I must confess I even moved out of his way once to let him pass, then felt a bit duped when I saw who it was.  :bobby

That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.

Police bikes and uniforms, unless undercover of course, are quite clearly marked as "POLICE".
He's doing nothing wrong.
When was the last time you saw a bike copper in a hi vis builders jacket?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Jazoli on 06 August 2015, 01:02:22 pm
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.

Got one of those who works in the next road from me, he also has different colour reflective squares on his panniers, 2 tiny red lights above the tail end each side of the rear camera, a camera on his shoulder and a white lid with black and white cheque banding on it.
The giveaway is the yellow hi vis jacket he wears is just the same as builders use.  :lol
In fairness people do tend to get out of his way though, even if it is a bit of a strange mentality, and I must confess I even moved out of his way once to let him pass, then felt a bit duped when I saw who it was.  :bobby

That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.

Police bikes and uniforms, unless undercover of course, are quite clearly marked as "POLICE".
He's doing nothing wrong.
When was the last time you saw a bike copper in a hi vis builders jacket?
So you don't think there's anything wrong with trying to fool people and pretend he's a police officer? There is no other reason for wearing a 'polite' vest, at all, go on then how long have you had yours?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 August 2015, 01:16:29 pm
I think the chap darrsi was talking about did not have the polite on his vest but come oooooooon

Im gonna get me a lab coat and a stethoscope and have a wander down maternity ----- I wonder if I get arrested
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 August 2015, 01:18:24 pm
Folk who wear hi vis jackets with pretend police stripes or even worse with POLITE on them, I did ask one particular cocksocket last weekend why he was wearing a POLITE hi vis, he responded that cars would get out of his way, I called him a c you next tueday and he didn't like it much, the knob jockey.

Got one of those who works in the next road from me, he also has different colour reflective squares on his panniers, 2 tiny red lights above the tail end each side of the rear camera, a camera on his shoulder and a white lid with black and white cheque banding on it.
The giveaway is the yellow hi vis jacket he wears is just the same as builders use.  :lol
In fairness people do tend to get out of his way though, even if it is a bit of a strange mentality, and I must confess I even moved out of his way once to let him pass, then felt a bit duped when I saw who it was.  :bobby

That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.

Police bikes and uniforms, unless undercover of course, are quite clearly marked as "POLICE".
He's doing nothing wrong.
When was the last time you saw a bike copper in a hi vis builders jacket?
So you don't think there's anything wrong with trying to fool people and pretend he's a police officer? There is no other reason for wearing a 'polite' vest, at all, go on then how long have you had yours?


Maybe he was just being polite.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 August 2015, 01:22:17 pm
I think the chap darrsi was talking about did not have the polite on his vest but come oooooooon

Im gonna get me a lab coat and a stethoscope and have a wander down maternity ----- I wonder if I get arrested


No, he doesn't.
And yes, you would.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 August 2015, 02:02:11 pm
just tried it
and i am
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 06 August 2015, 02:03:53 pm
You will get away with the white coat thingy, do it at the weekends they think you are an over worked consultant. Earning an extra £313.00 for supposing to be on call.
Sorry my nephew is a consultant him and his wife all they have been doing is fucking moaning about Jeremy Cunt.
I caused a family rift when I mentioned all I ever see them do on facebook is post photos of being on holidays at least 4 or 5 a year.
I did suggest that they take a pay cut and donate some to the under paid paramedics , nurses etc! fell on deaf hears that did.
My brother does their tax returns last year including private work £587,000.
They moan because they have to be on call 1 weekend in 5.
Rant over.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 August 2015, 09:55:57 pm
Horses - in general yes but why on those horse boxes and fancy transporters do they have written on the  back and sides "horses", what the chuff do I care - am I suppose to drive differently or something or are they just saying ooh look at me ive got a horse it costs me thousands to run I have to shovel its crap and its only 1hp at the hind legs   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 06 August 2015, 11:31:02 pm
While we are on the subject of horses, why do these horsey people insist on taking a half a tonne of skittish, mental, easily scared metal footed animal on the public road when they know that at the first sight of a car, bike or carrier bag in a hedge, it will become totally uncontrollable endangering itself, the rider and other members of the public? We were out for a ride the other week riding at 30mph (barely believable I know but true) over the brow of a hill to find a horse and rider coming up the hill in the opposite direction, I whipped the clutch in and hit the kill switch and sowed down to about walking pace rolling down the road, as did everyone else, when I drifted slowly past I could see the young girl was having trouble controlling it, by the time two more had rolled slowly past it was sideways in the road and rearing up. The remaining guys stopped completely and waited until she got the animal under control, which she didn't. The lads told me that eventually the horse slid, kicked and reared its way up the hill past them totally out of control.
Apart from the usual "we belong on roads these days and horses don't" argument, I think the main point here is, why would you consider taking a large animal on the road when you know that ANY vehicle will spook it to such an extent that it will become uncontrollable and possibly cause damage to itself or other people/property? The other point is, why do they always shit on the racing line round bends?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 August 2015, 07:09:04 am
While we are on the subject of horses, why do these horsey people insist on taking a half a tonne of skittish, mental, easily scared metal footed animal on the public road when they know that at the first sight of a car, bike or carrier bag in a hedge, it will become totally uncontrollable endangering itself, the rider and other members of the public? We were out for a ride the other week riding at 30mph (barely believable I know but true) over the brow of a hill to find a horse and rider coming up the hill in the opposite direction, I whipped the clutch in and hit the kill switch and sowed down to about walking pace rolling down the road, as did everyone else, when I drifted slowly past I could see the young girl was having trouble controlling it, by the time two more had rolled slowly past it was sideways in the road and rearing up. The remaining guys stopped completely and waited until she got the animal under control, which she didn't. The lads told me that eventually the horse slid, kicked and reared its way up the hill past them totally out of control.
Apart from the usual "we belong on roads these days and horses don't" argument, I think the main point here is, why would you consider taking a large animal on the road when you know that ANY vehicle will spook it to such an extent that it will become uncontrollable and possibly cause damage to itself or other people/property? The other point is, why do they always shit on the racing line round bends?


Maybe it freaked out 'cos you all crept up on it so quietly like a special forces assassination bike squad, then just appeared, which is probably also when the desire to take a shit arises. :lol

Horse wing mirrors are what's needed, so they can see what's going on around them at all times, and not get so spooked.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 07 August 2015, 07:40:15 am
Horses were on the road first,,lanes roads were made for them,,carts n all

What gets my goat,,,French,,well all who moan about French folk blockeading ports,roads etc and here the bloody  Unions are at it again  and no one blasts them,,,,fooking unions,,committing suicide again,,,messed up London again for two days,,sack the bloody lot.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 August 2015, 08:20:14 am
Still with horses has anyone else noticed that if you meet someone for the 1st time they will make sure you know they have a horse within 2 mins of talking. Lets say you went for a hair cut and you say its a bit nippy today and they say "oh yes i had to put an extra blanket on my horse"  errrrrhhh !

And another thing when im shopping in sainsburys (cause im posh) there will always be -- and its always girls --- what is it with girls and horses, there will  be someone in their jodhpers and riding boots with shit on them while im buying FOOD, its not even like they have parked their horse outside -- get fecking changed before you go food shopping, its just another "look at me I have got a horse" 
We should eat more horse in this country.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 August 2015, 10:40:26 am
Still with horses has anyone else noticed that if you meet someone for the 1st time they will make sure you know they have a horse within 2 mins of talking. Lets say you went for a hair cut and you say its a bit nippy today and they say "oh yes i had to put an extra blanket on my horse"  errrrrhhh !

And another thing when im shopping in sainsburys (cause im posh) there will always be -- and its always girls --- what is it with girls and horses, there will  be someone in their jodhpers and riding boots with shit on them while im buying FOOD, its not even like they have parked their horse outside -- get fecking changed before you go food shopping, its just another "look at me I have got a horse" 
We should eat more horse in this country.

Same as when you pop into a bookies, all you hear is "Damn those fecking horses."  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 07 August 2015, 11:21:38 am
There are some horse riders in and around my Parish who wear yellow high vis jackets with the word POLITE on the back, makes them look like police, it's just to get you to slow down. Totally intentional- should be done for impersonating the plod!  :bobby that gets my goat!

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 August 2015, 11:47:00 am
goons at zebra crossings or any crossing for that matter who stand on the left hand side but then want to go to the right when they reach the other side, cutting across you.....leaves everyone jostling for position......why don't the thick foccers stand on the right side and make a smooth exit....that gets me goat





















especially if they have a horse with them ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 August 2015, 12:01:56 pm
people moaning about unions

I don't want to strike and lose money but when you're backed into a corner sometimes you have to come out fighting

people forget the unions were started to protect and give the workers better conditions, unfortunately when one strikes it has an impact on others but that seems forgotten in this day and age where everyone are only concerned about themselves and foc anyone who dares to interrupt their daily lives

not forgetting Cam and his cronies......we're all in it together bollox
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 07 August 2015, 12:42:28 pm
Workers in unions using BLACKMAIL on their bosses and not the way they should,what about the other people they are inerfering with. ungrateful c..nts
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Red Ceri on 07 August 2015, 01:40:43 pm
Workers in unions using BLACKMAIL on their bosses and not the way they should,what about the other people they are interfering with. ungrateful c..nts


Just like tfl are using BLACKMAIL to the workers do this extra unsocial time for fuck all recompense or f*(k off.


If unions are such a bad idea why do big business have one they use to lobby and influence their friends in government and hold them and us to ransom.............. the CBI


that and the general race to the bottom..................that's what gets my goat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 07 August 2015, 02:08:02 pm
Workers in unions using BLACKMAIL on their bosses and not the way they should,what about the other people they are interfering with. ungrateful c..nts


Just like tfl are using BLACKMAIL to the workers do this extra unsocial time for fuck all recompense or f*(k off.


If unions are such a bad idea why do big business have one they use to lobby and influence their friends in government and hold them and us to ransom.............. the CBI


that and the general race to the bottom..................that's what gets my goat.


When a medium sized company making millions in profit decides to give a below cost of living pay rise of 1% then unions can come in handy.......as a self employed person youd expect to up your prices as the cost of living rose because you arent a charity and it is no different to other workers......when house prices are already rising stupidly compared to wages then you need someone in your corner to claw back some pennies.........if you were fixing a boiler and someone said ok now landscape my garden and thats included in the price then you'd be pissed off too.


Plus it isnt all aout wages......unions are a support network when the shit hits the fan, injury, unfair dismissal, legal advice  [size=78%]etc etc[/size]
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[/size][size=78%]Its a shame when strikes affect the public as enivitably there is a bad light cast but it is lso the managemt that have allowed this to happe but nobody seems to shout about that[/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 07 August 2015, 02:31:28 pm
There are some horse riders in and around my Parish who wear yellow high vis jackets with the word POLITE on the back, makes them look like police, it's just to get you to slow down. Totally intentional- should be done for impersonating the plod!  :bobby that gets my goat!
it was designed by a horse rider for horse riders and save the blue check is a useful tool for their safety. It's the bikers who blatantly use it for their mobility advantage and further make the intention clear by hivising and putting blue 'driving' lights on their bike.  *cough* tossers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 August 2015, 04:47:58 pm
Workers in unions using BLACKMAIL on their bosses and not the way they should,what about the other people they are interfering with. ungrateful c..nts


Just like tfl are using BLACKMAIL to the workers do this extra unsocial time for fuck all recompense or f*(k off.


If unions are such a bad idea why do big business have one they use to lobby and influence their friends in government and hold them and us to ransom.............. the CBI


that and the general race to the bottom..................that's what gets my goat.


When a medium sized company making millions in profit decides to give a below cost of living pay rise of 1% then unions can come in handy.......as a self employed person youd expect to up your prices as the cost of living rose because you arent a charity and it is no different to other workers......when house prices are already rising stupidly compared to wages then you need someone in your corner to claw back some pennies.........if you were fixing a boiler and someone said ok now landscape my garden and thats included in the price then you'd be pissed off too.


Plus it isnt all aout wages......unions are a support network when the shit hits the fan, injury, unfair dismissal, legal advice  [size=78%]etc etc[/size]

[size=78%]Its a shame when strikes affect the public as enivitably there is a bad light cast but it is lso the managemt that have allowed this to happe but nobody seems to shout about that[/size]


Yeah but feeking train drivers strike every month for one reason or another, it has nothing to do with workers rights and them being overpaid lazy pricks.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: esetest on 07 August 2015, 06:35:38 pm
inconsiderate cnuts who walk side by side along the pavement towards you , want do you want me to do walk in the fucking road , get in single file .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 07 August 2015, 07:11:54 pm
inconsiderate cnuts who walk side by side along the pavement towards you , want do you want me to do walk in the fucking road , get in single file .
Whenever I get this......I simply stop, their choice after that  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 07 August 2015, 07:12:16 pm
My main point is WHY DO THE UNIONS USE THEIR POSITION TO FOOK UP OTHER PEOPLES LIVES, ????/  they have the problem,,dont fuck everyone else up,,,sort it yourself.

Do they think they will get support from the general public?   balls no.

I was working at a house the other day and the owner and his wife had the wifes parents come to this country for a week,,they had booked into a hotel in Heathrow and were due to hop on the tube into London,,,their first time as well as their guests,, it was the tube strike clash,,,they tried to cancel the holiday,,no good,,when they went it was a nightmare,,waited for two hours to get a bus into the city,,packed to the hilt,,even worse trying to get back,,they never even tried the second day,,,

So why do the unions do this to us,other folks,,,fuck our lives up,,,no support from a lot of fellow people.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 07 August 2015, 09:02:50 pm
Still with horses has anyone else noticed that if you meet someone for the 1st time they will make sure you know they have a horse within 2 mins of talking. Lets say you went for a hair cut and you say its a bit nippy today and they say "oh yes i had to put an extra blanket on my horse"  errrrrhhh !

And another thing when im shopping in sainsburys (cause im posh) there will always be -- and its always girls --- what is it with girls and horses, there will  be someone in their jodhpers and riding boots with shit on them while im buying FOOD, its not even like they have parked their horse outside -- get fecking changed before you go food shopping, its just another "look at me I have got a horse" 
We should eat more horse in this country.
So you seriously don't like looking at girls in tight jodphurs and boots? (Or is there something wrong with me???????)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 07 August 2015, 09:35:20 pm
Still with horses has anyone else noticed that if you meet someone for the 1st time they will make sure you know they have a horse within 2 mins of talking. Lets say you went for a hair cut and you say its a bit nippy today and they say "oh yes i had to put an extra blanket on my horse"  errrrrhhh !

And another thing when im shopping in sainsburys (cause im posh) there will always be -- and its always girls --- what is it with girls and horses, there will  be someone in their jodhpers and riding boots with shit on them while im buying FOOD, its not even like they have parked their horse outside -- get fecking changed before you go food shopping, its just another "look at me I have got a horse" 
We should eat more horse in this country.
So you seriously don't like looking at girls in tight jodphurs and boots? (Or is there something wrong with me???????)


Yes there is something wrong with you if you like girls covered in horse shit :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 07 August 2015, 10:16:18 pm
I think your missing the point here slimwilly. Strike is always the last option. I've been a Shop Steward for 36 years and been on strike once. That was to get the company I work for to honour an agreement they'd consistently welched on for over five years. As for no one supporting strikers, that's exactly what the torys want as they are currently engaged in moves to seriously curtail unions powers, no just on striking but also on representation and safety issues. Any public body will have virtually no chance of withdrawing their labour.  Cue nurses paid even less with no redress, mass exodus of nurses, the end of the NHS. Just what the tories want. Unity is the only way forward, with it comes occasional distress and discomfort but without it the plight of the underpaid, zero hours contract workers and similar will get worse. I gave financial support at the last fireman's strike which wasn't about money but pensions. Few people condemn the firemen for striking because it's a dangerous and necessary service.  Why condemn others for defending their rights with a last ditch effort against their employers. People only see the media's side. Banks are making staff redundant whilst the clown Osborne sells off bank shares to his mates in the city at well below the going rate costing the tax payer millions. How many public sector workers could have had their first decent pay rise in four years with that money?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 07 August 2015, 10:26:23 pm
You misguided fool !!!

Its got nothing to do with the Tories,,the trade unions fucked the Labour governments over and over too..

You union people have your unions,,you are welcome to them,,pay them well, they will advise you correctly I am sure,,, but get the fuck out of other peoples lives,,,,why fuck every one elses life up.?

Its blackmail,,,trying to MAKE an employer give greedy workers what the unions say they need,,,and sometimes deserve..

It gets my goat when strikes mess everyone up.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 07 August 2015, 10:58:17 pm
Slim you drama queen :b

they aren't foccing peoples lives.....merely inconveniencing them......people being late etc...it isn't safety critical....they aren't dying.......it's trains at the end of the day...and a stinking underground....anyway im biased im a hillbilly we don't get such modern luxuries thank foc.....anyway.....lets say for example there was a new law passed that plumbers could only be paid a max of £8.00 an hour....what would they do.....down tools and work in McD instead i reckon.......then everyone would be shouting "down with the plumbers" "how dare they ruin our lives" "my exit pipe is full of shiiiiiiiiite"  :lol......sure there would be more plumbers to fill the gaps on £8 and hour....but would they be any good?....luckily plumbers control their own wages but for those that don't there is the reliance on the employer to do the moral thing and that involves trust....sadly trust is very much lacking these days....the old days of the unions are long gone...i don't think many would dispute that at times in the past the unions took things too far but it is a very different time now and flogging the past to death is worthless because nowadays it is more about fighting for cost of living rises alone.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 07 August 2015, 11:37:59 pm
We have just had a ballot where I work for industrial action as the multinational that employs us has decided that we we will get a 0% ( !!! )pay rise this year despite making more profit last year than ever before and our order books are that full we are taking on contractors and sub contracting work to other companies.
It has taken us 4 months to get this far, 86% of the workforce have voted for industrial action in the ballot and now a postal ballot has to be arranged to keep it all legal and above board, strikes are not something that can be done at the drop of a hat anymore, too many employers know this and use it to their advantage, they refuse to negotiate at all and then blame the workers when they use their last resort which is strike action.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 08 August 2015, 12:52:28 am
Fucking tenants , I still own a property in the UK (bolt hole). He has been living in the property for just over 3 years now. The property is a two bedroom two bath flat modern built in 2000. It is on the beach front in Hoylake, Wirral , 5 minutes from last years Open Golf championship venue. So shall we say it is in a nice desirable area.
He contacted me last week asking for a rent reduction as the Central heating boiler is now 10 years old and (1) is not energy efficient and (2) the energy rating on the white goods are also not as as energy efficient  as modern appliances( I pointed out that when he signed his tenancy agreement I had gifted him the goods). He is requesting I fit a new boiler, replace the 4 year old washing machine and the 6 year old fridge freezer
He has not had a rent review in the whole time he has lived there. I was content with the, reasoning better a steady income and a reliable tenant so do not get greedy.


I pointed out that Landlord insurance has increased by 17% this year, building maintainence cost(management fees)by 4%.
His reply , not my problem!!! I phoned him this morning and asked if he was having financial problems regarding paying his rent( he has never missed his rent)
I could hear someone in the background goading him on!! Obviously I asked him was someone there. Yes turns out he has a new lady in his life!!!!!!!
Just doing some research on investment/ valuation on two bed two bath properties within a 2 mile radius of Hoylake. Yer maun is fucked, I am entitled to put up his rent by 6%, do not need to replace the boiler unless advised by the service engineer on the annual gas&electricity safety report.
Gets better had a valuation on the property (£275,000) so just informed my tenant I am giving him 6 months notice to vacate the property as I intend to return to the UK in January, health reasons (my arse)
Next village down  from Hoylake for that kind of money I can buy to rent 3 two bed flats returning me 120% more in rent than I am getting now. I am not a greedy person  but fucking tenants!!!!!!!!!!!!







Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 08 August 2015, 01:39:03 am
Bloody hell Lew, your middle name is not Rachman by any chance :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 08 August 2015, 01:56:56 am
That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.


No, it's not (http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2013/june/jun1413-polite/)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 August 2015, 07:23:54 am
That is bordering on the offense of impersonating a police officer. No wait it isnt bordering on - it is impersonating.


No, it's not ([url]http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2013/june/jun1413-polite/[/url])



I rest my case.  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 August 2015, 10:10:50 am
The intent is there clearly

Just noticed your post was also a link

"A spokesman said: ‘It does not look like a police uniform." ---- Fazersharp says "yes it fecking does"

"The makers admit there is little difference between the chequered strip on the bib and blue-and-white crosshatching used by police."----- EXACTLY

Ok so I see how it may be of benefit but I also see an issue when a load of twats in an astra pull up next to you and take umbridge that they have been fooled into thinking you were a copper 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 August 2015, 10:20:29 am

I am giving him 6 months notice to vacate the property as I intend to return to the UK in January, health reasons (my arse)


I thought that you as the landlord only need give 2 months notice.
Funny how he was happy and content - was paying low rent then along comes this woman gives him grief and then gives you grief.
This grief you are getting now will not end with new white goods and a boiler it will be on going about every little thing you are best shot of them.
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 August 2015, 10:30:04 am
The intent is there clearly


Intent of what?


If you see old bill on the roads, what's the first thing you do?
Behave yourself and also slow down.
Is that a bad thing?
They're not trying to arrest you by wearing a "Polite" signed jacket!

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 August 2015, 10:31:11 am
I have added some extra text since you last looked on the other page
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 August 2015, 10:48:14 am
The intent is there clearly

Just noticed your post was also a link

"A spokesman said: ‘It does not look like a police uniform." ---- Fazersharp says "yes it fecking does"

"The makers admit there is little difference between the chequered strip on the bib and blue-and-white crosshatching used by police."----- EXACTLY

Ok so I see how it may be of benefit but I also see an issue when a load of twats in an astra pull up next to you and take umbridge that they have been fooled into thinking you were a copper


But they're a load of twats in an Astra!  :car
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 August 2015, 10:50:54 am
Tommy Cooper wore a fez, that never made him an Egyptian did it?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 August 2015, 11:18:44 am
Tommy Cooper wore a fez, that never made him an Egyptian did it?  :lol
Just like that !
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 August 2015, 11:30:35 am
Is that the new Egyptian Ahamay Rezaf?  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 August 2015, 12:37:25 pm

I am giving him 6 months notice to vacate the property as I intend to return to the UK in January, health reasons (my arse)


I thought that you as the landlord only need give 2 months notice.
Funny how he was happy and content - was paying low rent then along comes this woman gives him grief and then gives you grief.
 

It would depend what notice period is written into the tenancy agreement wouldn't it?.

So sounds like he's gained a girlfriend & lost his nice flat in the process :rolleyes. Blimey, she must be a stunner! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 08 August 2015, 09:48:59 pm
Well slimwilly, I'm a misguided fool, about what? And how the hell has it got nothing to do with the unions. The unions are a collective.
Basically what you are telling me is that anyone employed in any capacity that may affect you has no right to strike. That means that nurses, fireman, train drivers and the like will have to suffer financial hardship and deteriorating conditions just so they don't inconvenience you.
I agree that the unions in the 70's had far to much power and behaved irresponsibly. However I don't want to return to tugging my forelock and being totally subservient to the employer like it was before the Trade Union movement began.
You should lighten up a bit, we all have to suffer but A days train strike isn't the end of the world.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 09 August 2015, 05:19:54 pm
what gets my goat is feckers pulling out just your about on top of them nah not the roof :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 August 2015, 05:34:29 pm
what gets my goat is feckers pulling out just your about on top of them nah not the roof :rolleyes


What?  :look
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 10 August 2015, 12:07:28 am
what gets my goat is feckers pulling out just your about on top of them nah not the roof :rolleyes

5.19pm is a bit early to be pissed isn't it?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 12 August 2015, 09:48:43 pm
Todays....

Personalised number plates? - I mean why - its a Peugeot!

(However, whoever has FAZ 3R please get in touch  :rollin :rollin :rollin )
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 12 August 2015, 09:53:09 pm
Todays....

Personalised number plates? - I mean why - its a Peugeot!

(However, whoever has FAZ 3R please get in touch  :rollin :rollin :rollin )

I think every personalised plate should be

KN08 END

:lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 12 August 2015, 10:44:05 pm
I saw one last week,


MAH 800B


it was a bloke driving, weirdo.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: PieEater on 12 August 2015, 11:20:11 pm
I saw one last week,


MAH 800B


it was a bloke driving, weirdo.

MAN BOOB - After a certain age we all get them  :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 13 August 2015, 06:27:05 am
Todays....

Personalised number plates? - I mean why - its a Peugeot!

(However, whoever has FAZ 3R please get in touch  :rollin :rollin :rollin )


Especially ones that are really shit attempts at a name with random numbers in the mix that make no sense whatsoever, but the owner can only see their name quite clearly.
3 people at my work have really good ones which match their name spot on, but 2 others have diabolical efforts which are laughable, and they paid for that privilege.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 13 August 2015, 07:55:50 am
Personalised no plates......there are some really nice/good ones but the majority I see now are "the leftovers/dregs" that owners illegally space letters/numbers in some ludicrously pathetic attempt to give themselves some "status" or highlight their ethnicity( eg near me I8(S?) LAM) :eek
I can see the point of putting a cheap Northern Irish plate on to avoid the 6 monthly age-related nonsense-but I suppose it keeps some people employed?
When they introduced the new system in Sept 2001 (51) they also brought in a standard font. In my understanding all these jiggled around plates should be MOT failures as it could be argued that this is an attempt to confuse the scanning cameras.
Its all ego isnt it & it backfires because most sane people think "What a Tosser!"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 13 August 2015, 12:06:18 pm
Personalised no plates......there are some really nice/good ones but the majority I see now are "the leftovers/dregs" that owners illegally space letters/numbers in some ludicrously pathetic attempt to give themselves some "status" or highlight their ethnicity( eg near me I8(S?) LAM) :eek
I can see the point of putting a cheap Northern Irish plate on to avoid the 6 monthly age-related nonsense-but I suppose it keeps some people employed?
When they introduced the new system in Sept 2001 (51) they also brought in a standard font. In my understanding all these jiggled around plates should be MOT failures as it could be argued that this is an attempt to confuse the scanning cameras.
Its all ego isnt it & it backfires because most sane people think "What a Tosser!"


Bargain.  :eek

http://metro.co.uk/2008/02/17/the-7m-number-plate-632383/ (http://metro.co.uk/2008/02/17/the-7m-number-plate-632383/)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: hotmetal on 13 August 2015, 01:53:50 pm
I generally think 'cockwomble' when I see personalised plates but I would have L1 TRE on my Fazer and STR 675R on my Triumph.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 13 August 2015, 01:58:59 pm
I have had my plate for 26 years now  , it reads     BIL 288   something,,,













you know what it says about me,,,========my name is Bill, incase I forget,,i know I will be old one day.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 13 August 2015, 04:02:30 pm
Spiders! The bloody things are working overtime spinning webs at our house at the moment.
 
I think they're waiting until I've gone in the house and then they're spinning another bloody web across the back door....... at head height too! Little B@stards!!  >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 13 August 2015, 04:55:57 pm
Spiders! The bloody things are working overtime spinning webs at our house at the moment.
 
I think they're waiting until I've gone in the house and then they're spinning another bloody web across the back door....... at head height too! Little B@stards!!  >:
If you think its bad now just wait til the Autumn-its an obstacle course between my back door & shed. Why dont they stick to the giant hedge?!
But the insects were here first & will probably still be spinning their webs when us humans are extinct :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 13 August 2015, 06:05:58 pm
Motorcyclists who ride with their headlights on FULL BLOODY BEAM,

makes me flash main beam at them,,,a beemer bike today , two up,,dazzled the shit out of me,,must of been those stupid HID bulbs,

should be made illegal as dangerously bright
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 13 August 2015, 06:39:40 pm
Motorcyclists who ride with their headlights on FULL BLOODY BEAM,

makes me flash main beam at them,,,a beemer bike today , two up,,dazzled the shit out of me,,must of been those stupid HID bulbs,

should be made illegal as dangerously bright
Ah ! but you DID see him  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 13 August 2015, 06:46:38 pm
Cars with those stupid HID bulbs so bright white light its like daylight.
The other night I was traveling in my car down a country lane I did not know with lots of humps and hollows and bends- I get this git in a merc behind me right up my arse with lights so bight they were casting a black shadow of my car in front of me and everything else each side of this shadow was bright white it was like driving into a hole, I had to slow right down to 20 mph which made him get even closer which made it get even worse which ment I had to go even slower, there wasnt even a good spot for me to let him pass.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 13 August 2015, 07:02:30 pm
Bloody car drivers who drive down country lanes with their main beam on (even when it's still light enough to see) and then seem to forget where the switch is to dip them, as they've just blinded you!
The buggers then pop the main beam back on just as they're passing you, just to give you one last blinding  :'(
EAT MORE CARROTS YER FOCCERS, then you won't be blinding everyone  >:
 
........and relax  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 13 August 2015, 07:43:02 pm
Drivers who look left first at a T junction whilst still creeping forward when iam coming from the right  :wall :wall :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 13 August 2015, 08:09:11 pm
Drivers who look left first at a T junction whilst still creeping forward when iam coming from the right  :wall :wall :wall


Had that tonight, bastard white van man creeping forward so half his van was sticking out so I shook my head at him as approached him and went past so he didn't pull out.


He then flew past me and further down the road he indicated left whilst in the right lane then cut right across me and both lanes and turned left into the next road. :eek


After a good blast of the air horn he shot off again and at the end of the road he put his right indicator on.......and turned left.  :rolleyes


Prick!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 14 August 2015, 10:09:47 pm
I saw one last week,


MAH 800B


it was a bloke driving, weirdo.

MAN BOOB - After a certain age we all get them  :o


Oh i thought it meant my boob! Still a weirdo what ever it says.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dead Eye on 15 August 2015, 05:23:01 pm
Spiders! The bloody things are working overtime spinning webs at our house at the moment.
 
I think they're waiting until I've gone in the house and then they're spinning another bloody web across the back door....... at head height too! Little B@stards!!  >:

I much prefer having spiders around than the stupid insects that they thankfully eat... the webs can get a little annoying when put in stupid places but I'm generally pro-spider these days - I've gotten over any major fear of them
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 15 August 2015, 07:47:57 pm

I much prefer having spiders around than the stupid insects that they thankfully eat... the webs can get a little annoying when put in stupid places but I'm generally pro-spider these days - I've gotten over any major fear of them

 :agree here. 1+ for spiders. And they bring luck too you know. Never kill a spider if you do not want bad karma. I have one living in my car front mirror for years. Even we have been on a France holiday together  :lol eat your heart DEFRA I have not paid Eurofunnel dudes for his travel either  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 August 2015, 10:05:01 pm

I much prefer having spiders around than the stupid insects that they thankfully eat... the webs can get a little annoying when put in stupid places but I'm generally pro-spider these days - I've gotten over any major fear of them

 :agree here. 1+ for spiders. And they bring luck too you know. Never kill a spider if you do not want bad karma. I have one living in my car front mirror for years. Even we have been on a France holiday together  :lol eat your heart DEFRA I have not paid Eurofunnel dudes for his travel either  :rollin :rollin :rollin

You sure it wasn't just a crack?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 15 August 2015, 10:40:21 pm
You sure it wasn't just a crack?  :lol


Oh man am I seeing spiders? Hope that is normal...in Bracknell  :lol

(http://i57.tinypic.com/sxhk3n.jpg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 16 August 2015, 12:25:12 pm
I saw one last week,
MAH 800B

The other day I saw J 60OBS :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 16 August 2015, 03:45:57 pm
Those 'staff tips' jars that are put in your face when your buying stuff in a takeaway shop etc
I mean, what the foc? :rolleyes
You want me to tip you for doing your foccin job?? :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 18 August 2015, 09:03:32 pm
Going for 7th gear - when I had an FJR I kept going for 6th  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 19 August 2015, 03:06:18 pm
Just got home from B&Q, about 6 miles. They had a "reduced" bin at the back of the store and I spied a low energy light bulb for £1...


Just checked the receipt.....................went through the till at £4




BOLLOCKS.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 19 August 2015, 05:27:30 pm
Just got home from B&Q, about 6 miles. They had a "reduced" bin at the back of the store and I spied a low energy light bulb for £1...


Just checked the receipt.....................went through the till at £4




BOLLOCKS.
Guaranteed someone dumped it in there from their basket when they saw a cheaper one in that bin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 19 August 2015, 05:37:46 pm
People who use the hazard lights while parked in front of other vehicles, WTF?
It looks like your indicating to come out and some good guy (me) slows down to let you out but alas you don't come out as your not in the vehicle and no one can see your nearside indicator on.
Not only is it annoying it's illegal according to the highway code. Go and read rules 239 for parking and 274 for use of hazard lights :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 19 August 2015, 05:55:16 pm
maybe the car behind wasn't there when the hazard flasher abandoned their car?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 19 August 2015, 06:07:16 pm
maybe the car behind wasn't there when the hazard flasher abandoned their car?
Nah, I don't think that's the case, well maybe that happens about 5% of the time, I see guys just pulling in, reversing up a wee bit and putting their hazards on, think it's in the couriers handbook of rules as it's generally them and post office workers that do it,  plonkers!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Stewie on 19 August 2015, 07:32:08 pm
What gets my goat is on motorways and A roads when people see a lorry in the far far far distance and pull out to overtake and then every one else moves out in sympathy so you can be stuck in  useless queue of trafic for 5 minutes as everyone trundles past.
Whats worse is that the lorry has moved back in but everyone has moved now and they are damn well staying there.
I did over half a mile in the inside lane at nearly legal speeds with the outside lane doing 50-55 and no one in the middle lane.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: limax2 on 19 August 2015, 08:08:24 pm
Here here Stewie. I don't normally go in for an undertake but like you if there is an empty lane between us I will sometimes do it. Many is the time I have gone from inside lane to third lane and back to inside lane to pass a middle lane hog who still doesn't get the message. I've always been impressed on French motorways how quickly they get back to the inside lane, don't know if it's a law that gets enforced over there.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 August 2015, 08:30:47 pm
People who use the hazard lights while parked in front of other vehicles, WTF?
It looks like your indicating to come out and some good guy (me) slows down to let you out but alas you don't come out as your not in the vehicle and no one can see your nearside indicator on.
Not only is it annoying it's illegal according to the highway code. Go and read rules 239 for parking and 274 for use of hazard lights :groan

There's a nursery school on my way to work and the parents must've all been told to leave their hazards on whilst parked up.
It is annoying,  especially if one of them does actually pull out on you when there's about 6 cars all flashing away.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 19 August 2015, 10:10:41 pm
There's a nursery school on my way to work and the parents must've all been told to leave their hazards on whilst parked up.
It is annoying,  especially if one of them does actually pull out on you when there's about 6 cars all flashing away.
They still shouldn't be sitting there with the hazards on, not even if God told them to do it, as you say, if one does pull out, you don't know if they're signaling or not. And I'm guessing they're all sitting on the zig zags too :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 August 2015, 10:27:00 pm
Im in the car on a duel carriageway and see a car comming from the left joining from the sliproad and he is going slower I move over to the right to let him join but then he speeds right up and wont let me back over to the left. Usually an audi or bmw why dont you just slow down - join safely let me pass and pull back over to the left and then overtake ---- you twat   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 19 August 2015, 10:32:06 pm
Im in the car on a duel carriageway and see a car comming from the left joining from the sliproad and he is going slower I move over to the right to let him join but then he speeds right up and wont let me back over to the left. Usually an audi or bmw why dont you just slow down - join safely let me pass and pull back over to the left and then overtake ---- you twat   
I had the exact same this morning by a fellow trucker! Then he got so close to another truck (about 2ft to be exact!) he was stuck there as I was already in the outside lane (2 lane motorway) overtaking the two of them :rollin
He wasn't amused when he saw me laughing at him :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 19 August 2015, 10:45:09 pm
Just got home from B&Q, about 6 miles. They had a "reduced" bin at the back of the store and I spied a low energy light bulb for £1...


Just checked the receipt.....................went through the till at £4




BOLLOCKS.
Keep your receipt and next time passing take it fecking , don't bitch get even
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 August 2015, 10:54:08 pm
There's a nursery school on my way to work and the parents must've all been told to leave their hazards on whilst parked up.
It is annoying,  especially if one of them does actually pull out on you when there's about 6 cars all flashing away.
They still shouldn't be sitting there with the hazards on, not even if God told them to do it, as you say, if one does pull out, you don't know if they're signaling or not. And I'm guessing they're all sitting on the zig zags too :rolleyes


It wouldn't be god, no such thing!  :lurk :lurk

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 19 August 2015, 10:56:05 pm
What gets my goat is on motorways and A roads when people see a lorry in the far far far distance and pull out to overtake and then every one else moves out in sympathy so you can be stuck in  useless queue of trafic for 5 minutes as everyone trundles past.
Whats worse is that the lorry has moved back in but everyone has moved now and they are damn well staying there.
I did over half a mile in the inside lane at nearly legal speeds with the outside lane doing 50-55 and no one in the middle lane.
1/2 a mile well what an inconvinence. French have it down to a tee. Indicator on right up your arse  pass and then pull over until the next overtake is required. On A roads worst drivers in Europe, Toll/Motorways excellent.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 20 August 2015, 08:26:48 pm
Ashley on Emmerdale and his ridiculous  impression of an epileptic fit
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 20 August 2015, 08:28:59 pm
People who watch emmerdale.........WHY ............. :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 20 August 2015, 08:30:22 pm
People who watch emmerdale.........WHY ............. :wall
:agree

And any other soaps! ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 20 August 2015, 09:57:30 pm
People who watch emmerdale.........WHY ............. :wall
:agree

And any other soaps! ;)
is that including Hollyoaks. ..... good perv to be had lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 20 August 2015, 09:58:47 pm
People who watch emmerdale.........WHY ............. :wall
:agree

And any other soaps! ;)
is that including Hollyoaks. ..... good perv to be had lol
Yes it does as I don't do perv stuff, I've no need to :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 20 August 2015, 10:32:37 pm
People who watch emmerdale.........WHY ............. :wall


My wife watches this.....& coronation street....both on her ipad with headphones in or out of earshot....i kid you not i hate them that much.......& im not ye olde typical bloke coz i have to do all my own washing, cooking, wanking, ironing, working, dog shit picking, bin taking outing...,the lot..............sneaky thing i do is say "oh not that eastenders again" she doesnt watch Eastenders....every time she gets pissed off & has to reply "i dont watch Eastenders actually"...i know she doesnt but it is a cheap dig and shes too dull to realise :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 21 August 2015, 12:13:33 pm
 i have to do all my own washing, cooking, wanking, ironing, working, dog shit picking, bin taking outing...,the lot.

I hate wives that don't do wifey things........point of order for anyone getting hitched.......foc the money, get her to do all the above in the pre nup :rolleyes

:evil

:lol







ps I hope er indoors isn't reading this :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 21 August 2015, 01:59:10 pm
I hope er indoors isn't reading this :eek
I think you'll be going for a pre-op if she is :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 21 August 2015, 03:07:47 pm
Johnny bobbit  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 21 August 2015, 04:07:53 pm
Johnny bobbit  :eek

I don't think you can avoid that soon or later  :lol

The vile creatures have a sixth sense, do not be surprise if she asks you "Honey have you done something bad today?"  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 21 August 2015, 05:30:56 pm
What gets my goat is that I have to take the bins out and pick up the dog shit,,,makes me mad,,

I have trained her to do all the other things.(not wanking)

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 August 2015, 08:06:14 pm
Gets my goat people driving along in cars and keep braking yet the car isnt slowing down, coming up to a junction or lights on the flat the brake lights will be on for 40 meters and yet no sign of the car slowing even though its only doing 10mph anyway, and then they do stop at the lights and you could get another car in between them and the line 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 21 August 2015, 08:15:26 pm
Cagers waiting until the lights have turned to green before selecting gear and releasing hand brake, even when there not on a hill    :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 21 August 2015, 08:27:57 pm
Bikers who filter slowly and stop at a  "you'd get a bus through there"  tight gap, they see you but never yield and let you pass
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 21 August 2015, 08:34:51 pm
Lesbians.....not into men apparently, so why is there always a butch one that dresses like a bloke, I don't get it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 August 2015, 10:53:12 pm
Idiots who sit next to you in their motor at red traffic lights who have just blatantly told their passenger "Watch this, if I nudge forward the biker will be be dumb enough to move off, hahahaha."

Yet I could finish Santa Pod's quarter mile before they get to release the hand brake.

Knobs!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:16:48 am
cagers who think they can beat you at the lights   :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin










edit,that not a moan........THATS ENTERTAINMENT  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:23:59 am
you lot got me going now  :rolleyes




manangers ,who like to think, because they have that title they then, know it all ............ :uhuh :uhuh :uhuh :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:26:42 am
kids,who like to think,because they have that title they then,know it all......... :uhuh :uhuh :uhuh :uhuh      :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:29:43 am
anyone who cant be bothered to explain what they mean when trying to tell you something.so add "do you know what i mean" at the end of a sentence.........NO I FOCCIN DONT,YOUR TELLING ME  :wall :wall :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:32:36 am
use of the words    "like"   "kinda"   "so"   "innit" and (see above)     "do you know what i mean"   :grumble   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 22 August 2015, 07:35:03 am
foccers who wake up grumpy and post their thoughts on the interweb  :rolleyes    :lol




i`ll STFU  now......... :lol [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 22 August 2015, 08:20:56 am
Don't think anyone's mentioned the twunts that pak next to you when the car park is f'in empty!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 August 2015, 10:44:22 am
anyone who cant be bothered to explain what they mean when trying to tell you something.so add "do you know what i mean" at the end of a sentence.........NO I FOCCIN DONT,YOUR TELLING ME  :wall :wall :wall


I'm not sure what you mean?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 August 2015, 11:02:46 am
What gets my goat is that almost everything gets my goat - it even gets my goat that getting my goat gets my goat
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 22 August 2015, 06:54:54 pm
What gets my goat is that almost everything gets my goat - it  : gets my goat that getting my goat gets my goat
The only good goat is goat curry  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Andy FZS on 22 August 2015, 09:08:47 pm
I don't have a goat......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 24 August 2015, 07:06:45 pm
Those foccin coach driver's who are responsible for a coach load of people and they're on those fekkin mike's telling them to look left and look right blah blah and doing the same thing themselves without looking at the foccin road ahead of them, and the worse one goes to the prat that didn't have one of them, so he decided it was ok to use a mike that he held in his  hand, WTF? :groan
Why don't these assholes get a fekkin ticket?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 August 2015, 08:21:32 pm
Why is it that after having trod in mud or dog poop you can walk for miles and it don't shift, yet the moment you walk indoors it's everywhere?? :'(.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 August 2015, 11:14:53 pm
Am i surprised.......no, not really.  :rolleyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwGN7oBgR8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwGN7oBgR8)

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 August 2015, 11:17:11 pm
Funniest comment ever "Still didn't indicate."  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 25 August 2015, 10:54:46 am
Helmet manufacturers
L 59-60cm   XL 61-62cm
Why the hell don't they have a 60-61 cm size
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 August 2015, 10:55:10 am
When you pull over for an ambulance/fire engine/police car, then once it's passed the people behind you overtake you or don't let you back out?

WTF?  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 25 August 2015, 11:28:49 am
When you pull over for an ambulance/fire engine/police car, then once it's passed the people behind you overtake you or don't let you back out?

WTF?  :groan
Ahhhhhh this is spot on, whats wrong with these people - I was right in front of them they saw me pull over for the blues knowing im not just someone who was parked.

On the same subject - those who panic when bules come from behind. Its a wide enough road for them to pull to the side and yet they swerve and almost mount the pavement over kerb scattering pedestrians.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 August 2015, 12:41:57 pm
When you pull over for an ambulance/fire engine/police car, then once it's passed the people behind you overtake you or don't let you back out?

WTF?  :groan
Ahhhhhh this is spot on, whats wrong with these people - I was right infrount of them they saw me pull over for the blues knowing im not just someone who was parked.

On the same subject - those who panic when bules come from behind. Its a wide enough road for them to pull to the side and yet they swerve and mount the pavement over kerb scattering pedestrians.

Happened to me again on the way to work this morning, then unfortunately further up the road I caught up with the police car and an ambulance who were attending to a crashed biker on the pavement.  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 02 September 2015, 06:48:22 pm
What got my goat tonight was the following:


1) sitting in the cage at a roundabout trying to get out of Canterbury tonight.  Traffic very slow.  Im in left hand lane to go straight on.  CAr coming round on inside lane, indicating right, my spider sense tells me he's going straight on, but I decide to pull out, as I would be entitled to given his road positioning and indication, he's gloing about 10 mph so happy we can both stop.  And YEP, I was right, he was going straight on, still indicating right as he crosses lanes to go straight on, he then sits on his horn pissed off at me for "pulling out in front of him"!  TWAT!  It's times like that I want to stop the car and very calmly explain that indicating right on the inside lane means he's going round and not pulling off and actually he was in the wrong, not me.  Not worth it though.


2) driving through Faversham on the A2 bloke behind me talking on his phone and smoking a fag!  Great multitasking skills I suppose, driving, smoking and using a phone  :\ [size=78%], [/size][/size]but what a twat!!![size=78%]

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 02 September 2015, 07:07:37 pm
Bus drivers who think theres only one rule in the highway code      :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 02 September 2015, 07:59:34 pm
some idiots bikers who think there's only one rule in the highway code '
[/size]had one over take me while I was overtaking 3 cars ..felt him whizz pass.
[/size]friggin moron if I'd remember his no plate would've kicked him up the kyber.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 03 September 2015, 12:32:20 am
People who can't use the Size tag on Forum posts properly...! :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 03 September 2015, 09:00:27 am
bastids done it again. ah feck it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Bikerz on 03 September 2015, 09:35:41 am
Kids back at school and the journey  to work doubling in time!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 05 September 2015, 05:23:25 pm
in Liverpool city centre yesterday and in lane 1 of 2 on a dog leg right waiting at lights. Old bint in cage in L2, lights change and we both move, road changes into 3 lanes with me automatically in L2 and she cuts across me so I go into L1, she cuts across me again and lights go red. I go into L2 and ask her why she's cut me up twice?
I don't know where I'm going she said............
well that's all fucking right then.......you can wipe me out coz you're fucking lost......FUCK OFF AND USE YOUR MIRRORS.......TWAT

Just as well I'm switched on but some poor kid who's not, or on L plates may not be so lucky
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 September 2015, 06:05:58 pm
Pizza bike riders.......no explanation needed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 September 2015, 08:32:18 pm
Pizza bike riders.......no explanation needed.
Always quite fancied being one of those --- would do it for free, looks like proper fun, --- they seem to be held together with duct tape ! 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 September 2015, 08:35:08 pm
People who say "shod" when talking about what tyres they have fitted
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 05 September 2015, 08:57:39 pm
People who say "shod" when talking about what tyres they have fitted


What shod they say then? :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 06 September 2015, 01:26:00 am
Absolutely inconsiderate bastards who ride towards me whilst I'm walking on the pavement and then expect me to jump into the road so they can use the pavement as their own cycleway.
Oh and the feckin horsey set who do the same.
Oh and the horsey set who let their steeds shit a small mountain in the middle of the pavement for the rest of us to avoid. Not easy if you've got a buggy and don't like playing chicken with speeding vehicles. I'm going for a lie down. ✊
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Stewie on 08 September 2015, 02:54:22 pm
The labels "lovingly made" or "proudly made" on the side of many products now a days, it is even on a packet of margarine!


I realise that they cannot put the truth "slapped together as cheaply as possible by clock watching minimum wage drudges who cannot wait until 5 to get the hell out" or "made with the cheapest crap we could find and blended with chemicals to make it taste right" or We hope this doesnt kill or injure you but it was made as cheaply as possible so all bets are off"


Maybe just leave the blatant lies off and leave us to reading the normal "healthy" or "low fat" lies whilst pretending it doesnt really mean "shit storm of chemicals"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 08 September 2015, 04:17:27 pm
The labels "lovingly made" or "proudly made" on the side of many products now a days, it is even on a packet of margarine!


I realise that they cannot put the truth "slapped together as cheaply as possible by clock watching minimum wage drudges who cannot wait until 5 to get the hell out" or "made with the cheapest crap we could find and blended with chemicals to make it taste right" or We hope this doesnt kill or injure you but it was made as cheaply as possible so all bets are off"


Maybe just leave the blatant lies off and leave us to reading the normal "healthy" or "low fat" lies whilst pretending it doesnt really mean "shit storm of chemicals"
I think they should go back to the original ingredients and slap 'Not to be eaten by fat bastards' on the side of the packet.
To bloody pc this world
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2015, 01:26:54 pm
Those traffic light sensor strips in the road that detect when you go over them. Only thing is sometimes me and my bike dont seem heavy enough to set them off and I end up sitting there watching the sequence go over and over each time bypassing me, until a car comes behind me and instantly gets me a green light.

I have taken to going very slow and diagonally over them to get my full weight on them, I have even reversed back over and bounced up and down to get a light change 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 09 September 2015, 01:34:00 pm
I didn't think it was weight, thought it was magnetic......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 09 September 2015, 04:12:11 pm
Certain school run mum's......Hormonal, premenstrual fucking psycho's in charge of a deadly fucking weapon. Now whoever thought that was a good idea ? :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 09 September 2015, 05:49:58 pm
Those traffic light sensor strips in the road that detect when you go over them. Only thing is sometimes me and my bike dont seem heavy enough to set them off and I end up sitting there watching the sequence go over and over each time bypassing me, until a car comes behind me and instantly gets me a green light.

I have taken to going very slow and diagonally over them to get my full weight on them, I have even reversed back over and bounced up and down to get a light change


  :useless
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2015, 06:20:41 pm
sorry no pics from me but must have the boys and girls viewing the traffic cams a head scratcher.

So are they pressure or magnetic - either way they sometimes dont work and my antics seems to get them to
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 10 September 2015, 12:36:44 pm
So are they pressure or magnetic - either way they sometimes dont work and my antics seems to get them to


They work by induction, a bit like a metal detector. I've had the same problem with ones in combined bus and cycle lanes because there just isn't sufficient metal on a bicycle to trigger them all the time. If that happens, I'll stop and if the lights cycle more than once without mine changing I'll treat it as a Stop sign and proceed with caution.

Here's a bit about them, although I don't guarantee its techniques will definitely work! http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights (http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 September 2015, 12:51:19 pm
Perhaps you could get off your bike and rub it on the floor  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 10 September 2015, 01:27:07 pm
Foccing tax man, for the last five years I have been sent notices saying I have underpaid  tax, when I haven't ,this year got it all straightened out and I got a refund of  £24.80 :)
Just got another letter off them saying I underpaid by £342 in 2012/2013, when you ring them to complain about how useless they are and they should sack the person who cannot do basic maths they take the hump.
I wouldn't mind but I am on paye, one wage and one pension, how hard can it be?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 10 September 2015, 02:09:19 pm
AHHHHHHH, I've just walked through Canterbury, must have been all of 5 minutes and I had:


1) A chap on a push bike ride through a red light just as our pedestrian crossing was turning green... I called out that he had just gone through a red light and got the finger..... WANKER!


2) A chap in his cage go through a very late amber just going red on another pedestrian crossing ON HIS PHONE!  He was only crawling along in traffic, maybe 10 mph so could and should have stopped......WANKER


If that's what's going on in quarter of a mile imagine how bad it's getting across the country...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 10 September 2015, 04:17:09 pm
Perhaps you could get off your bike and rub it on the floor  :rollin
Like cyclists care about traffic lights  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 10 September 2015, 04:25:21 pm
Perhaps you could get off your bike and rub it on the floor  :rollin
Like cyclists care about traffic lights  :)


Just beat me to it.....


Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]Feckin wank stain, arrogant, fucktard, shit kicking, dumb cnut cyclists in London.
[/size]
 :wall :grumble :wall :grumble :wall :grumble :wall :grumble :wall :grumble :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 10 September 2015, 04:53:00 pm
Copying and pasting on this forum.


Why does it always turn micro, and why hasn't it been sorted out?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 10 September 2015, 05:44:02 pm
Err this cyclists doesn't.


In fact it was a biker who got my goat i was indicating left to come off a round about and said biker cuts up inside of me as i was crossing to get into the curb. His mate was much more polite and patient and he got a wave thank you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: esetest on 10 September 2015, 06:54:31 pm
I see as many car drivers and bikers  run red lights every day , as well as parking on pavements , and speeding and plenty of other stupid things , people in glasshouses springs to mind .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 10 September 2015, 07:41:29 pm
Motorcyclists who over exaggerate the top speed of their bikes. If they want to impress a non rider, fair enough, but don't try to tell me their GPZ500 does 170.......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 10 September 2015, 08:00:47 pm
I see as many car drivers and bikers  run red lights every day , as well as parking on pavements , and speeding and plenty of other stupid things , people in glasshouses springs to mind .
Not disagreeing but ofcourse cars parking on pavements shouldn't be a problem for real cyclists  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 10 September 2015, 08:22:18 pm
Motorcyclists who over exaggerate the top speed of their bikes. If they want to impress a non rider, fair enough, but don't try to tell me their GPZ500 does 170.......




I had one of those....your right, didn't do 170...........mine did 180  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stevie-g1968 on 10 September 2015, 08:29:05 pm
0in Beaconsfield today, stopped at the zebra crossing... woman gets halfway across and  her phone rings in her handbag... so she stops in the middle of the road, has a rummage in her bag and the proceeds to have a chat... still standing there. Cant gob off at her to much as im in the company van... but she got the " in your own time love " shout.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 September 2015, 09:12:52 pm
People who say "can I stop you there" --------------------- no you fecking can not.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 11 September 2015, 12:08:15 pm
People who say "can I stop you there" --------------------- no you fecking can not.
:lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 11 September 2015, 12:13:52 pm
Those numpties at eBay who thought it was a good idea to upgrade the app that was working perfectly :groan

It took me ages to go into the community section and find out how to get it back, and then it was another member who told me how to do it not anyone from eBay, I think the eBay people were too busy telling people the new app is the best thing since sliced bread and report to them the issues I have. What? I'm now testing their foccin app? Pay me and I'll do that sir!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 11 September 2015, 08:36:17 pm
Ebay again.....seller who have clearly sold an item that isn't fit for purpose trying to get out of returning your hard earned

(http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4264/Uylzwe.jpg)

Would you want to ride with your grips hanging over the end of the bar..............
Exactly
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 11 September 2015, 09:46:36 pm
Ebay again.....seller who have clearly sold an item that isn't fit for purpose trying to get out of returning your hard earned

([url]http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4264/Uylzwe.jpg[/url])

Would you want to ride with your grips hanging over the end of the bar..............
Exactly

Geez Joe, I guess you'll need to go clucthless to get that grip on!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 September 2015, 10:33:14 pm
Designed for standard bars though?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 11 September 2015, 11:06:36 pm
The stock tube would end where the grip ends, the thundercat end weight has a long shoulder before the thread that fits inside the tube

(http://imageshack.com/a/img661/3681/BKMAk1.jpg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 11 September 2015, 11:10:28 pm
Designed for standard bars though?

Sure thundercat clutch stock and switch gear may be slightly different, but it would be millimeters out not an inch
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 11 September 2015, 11:20:30 pm
Designed for standard bars though?

Sure thundercat clutch stock and switch gear may be slightly different, but it would be millimeters out not an inch
But if the barends are longer, won't they take up the difference? Meaning that your grips are over most of the bars and some of the barends?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 11 September 2015, 11:39:06 pm
Designed for standard bars though?

Sure thundercat clutch stock and switch gear may be slightly different, but it would be millimeters out not an inch
But if the barends are longer, won't they take up the difference? Meaning that your grips are over most of the bars and some of the barends?
I had an email from another seller on ebay stating that the tube length of the bars he has for sale without bar ends is 260mm, the set I have are 240. Yes they would fit but they will still be loose at the end. I don't know if you've ever had a handlebar grip come off mid corner, if you have I don't need to remind you how bloody scary it was.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 12 September 2015, 12:01:45 am
Quote
I had an email from another seller on ebay stating that the tube length of the bars he has for sale without bar ends is 260mm, the set I have are 240.
I don't have them in front of me and you showed two separate pictures, so I was surmising, rather than actually knowing there was a difference.
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Yes they would fit but they will still be loose at the end. I don't know if you've ever had a handlebar grip come off mid corner, if you have I don't need to remind you how bloody scary it was.
Nope, never had that happen as I've never modded any bike with clamp on bars,  but yes, I could imagine it's scary as is most times anything falls off your bike :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 12 September 2015, 12:05:49 am
Certain school run mum's......Hormonal, premenstrual fucking psycho's in charge of a deadly fucking weapon. Now whoever thought that was a good idea ? :grumble


It all went wrong when they gave them the fecking vote.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 12 September 2015, 10:53:25 am
Being put on hold when I phone HASTINGS to renew my insurance,,13 mins 47 sec and counting   :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 12 September 2015, 10:57:58 am
Being put on hold when I phone HASTINGS to renew my insurance,,13 mins 47 sec and counting   :grumble :grumble :grumble
Is that all? I was on the phone waiting for about 25mins just to say I'd actually got 9yrs protected ncb as apposed to the 7 I put online and he then said there was no difference if I bought it there and then, but if I waited till end of month it could go up as it's changed on a daily basis!
I thought once you got a quote it lasted for 30 days? He says nope, that's only a guide price and when you actually go to purchase it, it can change! Foccin insurance rip off!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 September 2015, 10:59:13 am
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 12 September 2015, 11:00:14 am
20 mins 10 secs I aint goin to get back   :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 September 2015, 11:14:32 am
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.


Do you hear loud sireny noises, and see blue flashing lights perchance?  :stop   :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 September 2015, 11:20:13 am
Being put on hold when I phone HASTINGS to renew my insurance,,13 mins 47 sec and counting   :grumble :grumble :grumble
Is that all? I was on the phone waiting for about 25mins just to say I'd actually got 9yrs protected ncb as apposed to the 7 I put online and he then said there was no difference if I bought it there and then, but if I waited till end of month it could go up as it's changed on a daily basis!
I thought once you got a quote it lasted for 30 days? He says nope, that's only a guide price and when you actually go to purchase it, it can change! Foccin insurance rip off!


Hence the reason i refuse to phone them, online is so much less hassle, and cheaper.
Use GoCompare and they even save your details, so just add another years No Claims Bonus each year then wait a few seconds for the results.


Although my mate uses Kwik Fit Insurance yearly.
They send him a renewal rip off price through the post, he phones up to cancel, then they say "Who have you found cheaper than us?"
And every year he replies "You, ONLINE."  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 September 2015, 11:22:34 am
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.


Do you hear loud sireny noises, and see blue flashing lights perchance?  :stop   :rollin :rollin :rollin

That is another reason to let them past as I cannot clearly see who is driving I am always suspicious why someone is interested in keeping up with me
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 12 September 2015, 11:46:55 am
Being put on hold when I phone HASTINGS to renew my insurance,,13 mins 47 sec and counting   :grumble :grumble :grumble
Is that all? I was on the phone waiting for about 25mins just to say I'd actually got 9yrs protected ncb as apposed to the 7 I put online and he then said there was no difference if I bought it there and then, but if I waited till end of month it could go up as it's changed on a daily basis!
I thought once you got a quote it lasted for 30 days? He says nope, that's only a guide price and when you actually go to purchase it, it can change! Foccin insurance rip off!


Hence the reason i refuse to phone them, online is so much less hassle, and cheaper.
Use GoCompare and they even save your details, so just add another years No Claims Bonus each year then wait a few seconds for the results.


Although my mate uses Kwik Fit Insurance yearly.
They send him a renewal rip off price through the post, he phones up to cancel, then they say "Who have you found cheaper than us?"
And every year he replies "You, ONLINE."  :lol
I did use a comparison site and they then put you through to the website of whoever you choose to go with but I realised that my ncd was different and decided to call them, big mistake see above :(

But yes, as you say, they are cheaper online :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 September 2015, 12:28:12 pm
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.


Do you hear loud sireny noises, and see blue flashing lights perchance?  :stop   :rollin :rollin :rollin

That is another reason to let them past as I cannot clearly see who is driving I am always suspicious why someone is interested in keeping up with me


Maybe they want to be friends.  :kiss
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: esetest on 12 September 2015, 02:37:43 pm
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.
Yes had one of those idiots tailing me yesterday , like you I either pull over or overtake the car  in  front if it's safe to do so .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 September 2015, 07:22:42 pm
Why is it that when you change radio channel in the car and it's a song you really like that's currently playing it's always just coming to an end, whereas if it's a song you really dislike it's always just starting!?? :wall.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 12 September 2015, 07:30:26 pm
Idiots in cars driving like a loon just to try and prove something by keeping up with me on twisty country roads putting me in danger as they push too hard.
You know what I do -------- pull over, let them past and hang back and let them be a twat way off in front of me out of my way.

Motorcyclists who can't ride getting in the way of my car on roads they should own........ :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 27 September 2015, 04:45:26 pm
I'm starting to notice a lot of twat drivers, going too fast for road conditions,screaming up outside lanes trying to get a few cars ahead, DELIBERATELY moving out when your filtering etc.
LUCKILY it's very easy to spot them, they tend to be young males in a small family car. You can't miss them- there are
TWO VERTICAL STRIPES running down to the rear of the vehicle.
Is it a special care in the community initiative or something?


Today that's "What Gets My Goat"



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 28 September 2015, 05:28:18 pm
People who think it's acceptable to drive at 35mph in a 50 speed limit but who don't change speed when in a 30 limit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 29 September 2015, 09:34:51 am
wonnie pickerwin :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 October 2015, 11:41:58 am
I'm starting to notice a lot of twat drivers,
LUCKILY it's very easy to spot them,
TWO VERTICAL STRIPES running down to the rear of the vehicle.

Yeh im seeing a lot of those two stripe twats too, like you say you see that and it gives you a nice warning of what to expect, also I am seeing a lot of transit size vans with some black fabric or something on the bonnet which must be the van they have to use for work because they drive the same
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: 7omly on 23 October 2015, 11:00:18 pm
Murderous c*nts in cars at roundabouts who either don't know, don't care or are simply in such a rush they're prepared to kill someone. Like the dangerous twot who driving the Iceland delivery van who drove  straight over the Hensingham round about almost running over a cyclist. The poor cyclist was around 60 years old and just managed to brake and stay upright as the van missed him by about six inches. How hard can it be to give way to the right? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 24 October 2015, 12:57:17 am
How come delevery drivers all drive like twats at 100mph and yet my delivery is always late
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 24 October 2015, 01:06:15 am
I had forgot about this post but now (thank you ) you have set me off again.
Those people who have to have a fag as soon as they come out of asda FFS they have only been in there 1 hour. ------ Funny I never see any outside Sainsburys or waitrose
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 24 October 2015, 06:21:59 am
People who think it's acceptable to drive at 35mph in a 50 speed limit but who don't change speed when in a 30 limit.


My road is exactly like that! 30 by my house, then 60, then 30 in the next village. That village being full of old fuckers who do 40 no matter where they are. The 60 stretch is also over a blind hill and pretty twisty, so unless you're on a bike you can't overtake safely.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 24 October 2015, 07:53:36 am
How come delevery drivers all drive like twats at 100mph and yet my delivery is always late






 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 October 2015, 10:40:28 am
Murderous c*nts in cars at roundabouts who either don't know, don't care or are simply in such a rush they're prepared to kill someone. Like the dangerous twot who driving the Iceland delivery van who drove  straight over the Hensingham round about almost running over a cyclist. The poor cyclist was around 60 years old and just managed to brake and stay upright as the van missed him by about six inches. How hard can it be to give way to the right? :rolleyes


Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 24 October 2015, 01:15:23 pm
Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?

Not sure I've got this. Abroad you give way to everybody who is on or approaching closely the roundabout same as here?

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 24 October 2015, 03:12:24 pm
Could this be due to the opposite way they use roundabouts abroad, as in you give way if you're already on the roundabout?

Not sure I've got this. Abroad you give way to everybody who is on or approaching closely the roundabout same as here?


No I think I get what darrsi means and I think I have been behind a few foreign drivers. We are both on the roundabout (them in front ) and going around and then suddenly they stop on the roundabout to let someone on from the left.
Where as we give way to people already on the roundabout from the right.
Americans have a good system in which some states at least allow (as it would be in our case) left turns on a red light and the etiquette when there are a few left turners at the same junction is first come first served rather than give way from the left or right. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 24 October 2015, 08:16:15 pm

No I think I get what darrsi means and I think I have been behind a few foreign drivers. We are both on the roundabout (them in front ) and going around and then suddenly they stop on the roundabout to let someone on from the left.
Where as we give way to people already on the roundabout from the right.
Americans have a good system in which some states at least allow (as it would be in our case) left turns on a red light and the etiquette when there are a few left turners at the same junction is first come first served rather than give way from the left or right.

I see what you mean. I ride a lot here and on the continent and that never has happened to me, but different people drive/ride differently...

I have to say I have the wrong way going clockwise on the roundabout in France once  :) luckily it was no traffic at all  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 26 October 2015, 01:34:26 pm
Those people who have to have a fag as soon as they come out of asda

What about the ones who come out of the gym and light up...?!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 26 October 2015, 03:36:59 pm
Young kids in engineering firms who don't check their work before handing it over, spent half the afternoon waiting for my parts to be reworked after the youngun not only welded on the captive nuts but also managed to weld the screws to the nuts.................
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 26 October 2015, 03:56:32 pm
Forgetting which brackets is cool enough to pick up after baking them in the oven for 20 mins...............No fingerprints again....Doh :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 26 October 2015, 08:36:01 pm
The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 October 2015, 11:37:19 pm
Adverts I think there must be 2 agency's knocking them out because every other advert either has a ukulele playing that has to end in a last strum or features a well known song that is sung acapella style, --- oh and all men featured HAVE to have beards. OR advertising agency peeps are all boring un imaginative sheep coping each other.

And another one -- false real people with fake stutters and falters in the script, we all know they are actors.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 27 October 2015, 06:30:17 am
The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"


Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 October 2015, 08:13:38 am


Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.

 :agree I dont think I have ever heard a better synopsis of how the motorcycle jurno's work  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 28 October 2015, 08:26:50 am
On a plus note, the roads were lovely and quiet today, due to it being half term and I knocked 15 minutes off my journey to work.


BAD...  AHHHHH they are all out today.


1) I had the "I'm going to do just under 40mph regardless of the speedlimit" in front of me for about 7 miles this morning and considering most of that was a 60 zone it was annoying, big queue of traffic behind us, carried on doing just under 40mph in a 30 too.  :wall


2) A silly bitch dazzling other drivers with her fog lights on just because it was raining!  THEY ARE FOG LIGHTS YOU SILLY BITCH, RAIN ISN'T FOG!!!  :grumble


3) An Audi at a point where 2 lanes merge into one, could have pulled into the huge empty gap behind me but accelerated the last 30 yards to the merge point just to get in front and cut me up big time.... wanker!  :2guns


4) In Canterbury at a roundabout, 3 lanes, left is left, middle is straight, right is right and straight.  I'm going straight on and am in middle lane.  With about 10 yards to go to the roundabout a car pulls into left hand lane (fair enough, he's going left) then goes straight on forcing me to make an evasive maneuver as puts his car where mine should be..... arsehole!  :thumbdown


I feel better now, time to do some work!  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 28 October 2015, 08:50:41 am
The motorcycle press. Why is it every year we hear the new model is better in every way than the last. Faster, sharper, easier, comfier, more magnetic then after a few years we get gushing articles of how the '05 model "is by far the best - here's why".  You would think one at least would say "it's good but a step backwards because of xyz"


Those shootout articles where they do exactly the same thing. E.g. they take half a dozen bikes, berate the one with the stiffest suspension on the long distance test, then berate the one with the softest suspension on the test track, the most economical one for being slowest, the most powerful for its poor tank range, while the bike that's the best compromise gets slammed for being dull.






Yes :lol .........brillliant :lol .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BIG MAC on 28 October 2015, 08:54:45 am
Anyone who tries to justify the current Govt's position in Parliament gets my goat but in reality what they do need is therapy
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2015, 08:57:19 am
Got a "KEEP CLEAR" box at the bottom of the road where I live (on the main road), so I ride down there getting ready to pull out and turn right as the lights towards the left had gone red and........a police car rolls into it and stops in front of me.  >:

I did the sensible thing and just shook my head and went around him, rather than the normal blast of the air horn that everyone else gets.

The police are not in my good books at the moment so this really pissed me off.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 28 October 2015, 09:11:26 am
Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2015, 09:24:09 am
Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!

I've had a case going on for 16 months and they just completely dropped it, through their own fuck ups, delays, and lies.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2015, 09:49:45 am


3) An Audi at a point where 2 lanes merge into one, could have pulled into the huge empty gap behind me but accelerated the last 30 yards to the merge point just to get in front and cut me up big time.... wanker!  :2guns
 

Thats a good one! . I get that a lot at a certian piece of road, the thing is that as you say this is where two lanes merge to one so 90% of the time the now single lane traffic he has just come up against is only going 15mph and so I just filter straight past the tosser.
Why the foc do they think that a bike would ever be holding them up in traffic :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2015, 06:41:29 pm
Riding behind car drivers who insist on continuously looking at their passenger, but also who really talk with their hands at the same time.
Pay attention and watch the road you mong.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 01 November 2015, 06:12:04 pm
Paying for something online, they take your money right away but when you return it for credit it takes days to return your money!
What the foc :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Val on 02 November 2015, 01:18:55 am
people who drive staright through roundabouts without even looking to the right WTF??
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 November 2015, 11:27:08 am
People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 02 November 2015, 11:45:01 am
Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 02 November 2015, 01:33:48 pm
Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

Had a friend who did this (RIP Chris) use to argue that it saved his ignition switch????
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 02 November 2015, 03:14:34 pm
People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

You beat me to it :), going along A64 this morning the number of cars with no lights on at all was  ridiculous.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 November 2015, 04:31:45 pm
Too many plebs believe that automatic headlights work.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bobdog on 02 November 2015, 05:21:16 pm
people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 02 November 2015, 05:33:33 pm
people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.


Agreed. Then those same people get all pissy about 'lowball offers'.  :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 02 November 2015, 10:57:51 pm
Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 02 November 2015, 11:00:00 pm
people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.

People who put messages in the For Sale area with the subject line of "For Sale". Yes, we know it's something for sale, that's what the bloody area is about, try putting *what* is for sale in the subject so we don't have to open the bloody message and find it's nothing of any interest to us!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 November 2015, 06:58:19 am
Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...


Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 03 November 2015, 10:06:46 am
Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...


Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?

I think that only happens if your in gear with the clutch out, fuel on a carbed bike would still be drawn into the engine and ignited when you flick the kill switch to on
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 03 November 2015, 11:02:59 am
Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?

Not on a fuel injected bike :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 03 November 2015, 12:08:12 pm
People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

You beat me to it :) , going along A64 this morning the number of cars with no lights on at all was  ridiculous.

Oh yes then they look at you as though you're stupid when you flash your lights at them. I had one clever soul follow me for about 1/2 mile completely oblivious to any gesture I made and ignoring me turning my lights off and on again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 November 2015, 02:02:19 pm
People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

You beat me to it :) , going along A64 this morning the number of cars with no lights on at all was  ridiculous.

Oh yes then they look at you as though you're stupid when you flash your lights at them. I had one clever soul follow me for about 1/2 mile completely oblivious to any gesture I made and ignoring me turning my lights off and on again.


He's probably on another forum moaning about "People who flash their lights on and off for no apparent reason?"  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 03 November 2015, 03:39:57 pm
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 04 November 2015, 09:46:41 am
All the year round fireworks. When I was a kid November 5th was magical, we looked forward to it almost as much as Christmas. Now every other night is firework night >:.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 04 November 2015, 04:54:51 pm
All the year round fireworks. When I was a kid November 5th was magical, we looked forward to it almost as much as Christmas. Now every other night is firework night >: .
Where do you live, downtown Damascus?  :rollin
We get fireworks for about a fortnight around Nov 5th but not all year  :D
Got to admit, it is a pain when the dog's glued to your leg with fright. I thought spaniels were supposed to make good gun dogs  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 04 November 2015, 05:02:27 pm
There is the 3-4 weeks before 5th November when the kids realise they are available in the local shops (they forget the shop a couple of miles away that sells them all year), New year, Diwali, end of Ramadan, Chinese new year, the odd scrotes birthday and whenever the scrotes remember the shop down the road that sells them all year round.

My dogs don't seem to mind them too much if they (the dogs not the fireworks) are inside the house but wont go out into the garden if they hear fireworks going off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 04 November 2015, 09:33:49 pm
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 04 November 2015, 10:11:37 pm
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble


 :lol  Your'e right It's shocking. The missus was offered overtime on Sunday night to put up the Xmas decorations- she works for Tesco.
It's the same every year, as soon as Halloween is over the whole thing kicks off!


I expect 'Black Friday' will soon be rammed down our throats, the latest consumerist festival to be foisted upon us 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 04 November 2015, 10:25:20 pm
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble


 :lol  Your'e right It's shocking. The missus was offered overtime on Sunday night to put up the Xmas decorations- she works for Tesco.
It's the same every year, as soon as Halloween is over the whole thing kicks off!

 I was in Asda last week before Halloween and they were putting the decorations om the tree that might of been put there by night shift, bit anyway, I said to the staff "bit early"? Reply was....."no way, would be even earlier if we didn't have to wait on the boss telling us to do it" says it all really :(


I expect 'Black Friday' will soon be rammed down our throats, the latest consumerist festival to be foisted upon us
 your right, they just want us to spend our hard earned cash on others instead of ourselves or our beloved bikes :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 05 November 2015, 01:57:17 am
I expect 'Black Friday' will soon be rammed down our throats, the latest consumerist festival to be foisted upon us 

I think after the debacle that last year's nonsense resulted it, shops are going to be a lot more careful about this sort of thing :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 November 2015, 06:53:06 am
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble



Roll back to 4th September!


http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,18151.0.html (http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,18151.0.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 05 November 2015, 06:57:12 am
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble



Roll back to 4th September!


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Yeah Mr darrsi, but that's not foccin adverts on the TV or big trees in shops. Just saw another advert last night. We have to start a rebellion about this :rolleyes :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 November 2015, 01:23:45 pm
It's not even bonfire night and just saw a Xmas advert on TV!

These should be banned till December 1st at the earliest :grumble



Roll back to 4th September!


[url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,18151.0.html[/url] ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,18151.0.html[/url])

Yeah Mr darrsi, but that's not foccin adverts on the TV or big trees in shops. Just saw another advert last night. We have to start a rebellion about this :rolleyes :rolleyes



Started hearing adverts on the radio today too.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 05 November 2015, 06:25:12 pm
Pedestrians who stand 10ft away from a pedestrian crossing but refuse to use it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 05 November 2015, 06:32:51 pm
  :lol Pedestrians in general!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2015, 08:00:16 pm
Pedestrians who stand 10ft away from a pedestrian crossing but refuse to use it.

Yep I see that all the time in town :rolleyes.

Other variations on the same theme are the pedestrian stood at the Zebra crossing on the phone, but not actually intending to cross, thus wasting everyone's time pulling up and the pedestrian that does a seamless 90 degree turn from the pavement onto the crossing without even pausing/looking to make sure the traffic has stopped.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2015, 08:50:38 pm
Pedestrians who stand 10ft away from a pedestrian crossing but refuse to use it.

Yep I see that all the time in town :rolleyes .

Other variations on the same theme are the pedestrian stood at the Zebra crossing on the phone, but not actually intending to cross, thus wasting everyone's time pulling up and the pedestrian that does a seamless 90 degree turn from the pavement onto the crossing without even pausing/looking to make sure the traffic has stopped.


That's because it a feckin forcefield that protects them - no one told you that  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 06 November 2015, 01:08:47 am
the pedestrian that does a seamless 90 degree turn from the pavement onto the crossing without even pausing/looking to make sure the traffic has stopped.

Idiot drivers who don't realise that the bicycle ahead has stopped at the pedestrian crossing because someone's about to start crossing, swerve around you and almost take out the pedestrian which they haven't seen...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 November 2015, 06:24:07 am
the pedestrian that does a seamless 90 degree turn from the pavement onto the crossing without even pausing/looking to make sure the traffic has stopped.

Idiot drivers who don't realise that the bicycle ahead has stopped at the pedestrian crossing because someone's about to start crossing, swerve around you and almost take out the pedestrian which they haven't seen...


Bit like if a van you're behind gives way to a car in front of them on a narrow side street, then the car zips round the van but then has to slam on the brakes when they suddenly see you directly behind it as if you've appeared out of knowhere by magic.
Knobs!
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 06 November 2015, 11:52:09 am
If u r filtering and any high vehicle that blocks ur vision to the left stops then u should stop also.....if u stay back a bit u can avoid the vehicle pulling out and he won't have to break.....there not nobs Darrsi  just people pulling out of junctions because they have been let out.  If u were to hit the vehicle in this scenario u would be liable.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 November 2015, 12:52:58 pm
If u r filtering and any high vehicle that blocks ur vision to the left stops then u should stop also.....if u stay back a bit u can avoid the vehicle pulling out and he won't have to break.....there not nobs Darrsi  just people pulling out of junctions because they have been let out.  If u were to hit the vehicle in this scenario u would be liable.

They are knobs when they put their foot down and then swerve in aiming at you.
I'm on about tight side roads, not junctions.
I wouldn't be liable for shit either, I'm not even moving!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 November 2015, 04:19:39 pm
Computers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 06 November 2015, 04:30:01 pm
On coming traffic swerving in to the middle when we are filtering is Fukin nobish I agree. When that happens I just stop and they won't hit anything stationary. 

Even if u were to pull slightly past the vehicle that's stopped to let someone out of "any side road"  and u had stopped also....it would go 50/50 because of ur road position. Always best to hang back a little if ya can.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2015, 04:38:57 pm
Computers

  +1
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 November 2015, 04:47:48 pm
Heres one I am hearing a lot just now

"On The Ground"

"Our experts are on the ground" that type of thing------- well where the Foc are they going to be, floating in the air!
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Post by: NorthWestern on 06 November 2015, 06:08:58 pm
"starts on the button" 
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Post by: joebloggs on 06 November 2015, 07:09:08 pm
People moaning about being stuck in Egypt, they should try getting stuck in Grantham for a night......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 06 November 2015, 07:10:54 pm
People moaning about being stuck in Egypt, they should try getting stuck in Grantham for a night......
Not half as bad as being stuck in Paisley :lol
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Post by: darrsi on 06 November 2015, 07:12:38 pm
On coming traffic swerving in to the middle when we are filtering is Fukin nobish I agree. When that happens I just stop and they won't hit anything stationary. 

Even if u were to pull slightly past the vehicle that's stopped to let someone out of "any side road"  and u had stopped also....it would go 50/50 because of ur road position. Always best to hang back a little if ya can.


You're misunderstanding me.
No side turnings at all.
I'm on about an oncoming vehicle ahead of the vehicle in front of me, that is given the go ahead for right of way.
They then swing in left to go around the vehicle in front of me then swing right again, straight into my path as I'm waiting, quite patiently and innocently I'll hasten to add.  :D
Just 'cos they can't see me doesn't mean they shouldn't be careful.
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Post by: Exupnut on 06 November 2015, 07:16:09 pm
AHA....now I understand...... KNOBS!!! lol
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Post by: joebloggs on 06 November 2015, 07:18:47 pm
People moaning about being stuck in Egypt, they should try getting stuck in Grantham for a night......
Not half as bad as being stuck in Paisley :lol

Getting stuck in Paisley's wife would be a bad experence................
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 06 November 2015, 07:23:33 pm
People moaning about being stuck in Egypt, they should try getting stuck in Grantham for a night......
Not half as bad as being stuck in Paisley :lol

Getting stuck in Paisley's wife would be a bad experence................
I'm sure it would :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 November 2015, 10:25:30 pm
AHA....now I understand...... KNOBS!!! lol

That's what I said.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 November 2015, 12:23:31 pm
Back to fireworks, there has to be some law introduced as to the size of ones that you can buy for your garden. Last year right next to my car was the remnants of a rocket it was about the size of a loo roll and quite thick and solid plastic at the bottom, if that had hit the car it would of put a dent in it. People in their back gardens are sending these things up without a care in the world as to where the remains will fall.
I also found the stick in the road which was about 3 feet long and 1/4inch thick FFS     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 November 2015, 12:31:07 pm
Back to fireworks, there has to be some law introduced as to the size of ones that you can buy for your garden. Last year right next to my car was the remnants of a rocket it was about the size of a loo roll and quite thick and solid plastic at the bottom, if that had hit the car it would of put a dent in it. People in their back gardens are sending these things up without a care in the world as to where the remains will fall.
I also found the stick in the road which was about 3 feet long and 1/4inch thick FFS     


I've always argued the fact that you can get nicked for randomly dropping a cigarette butt on the floor, but it's perfectly fine to launch the equivalent of a stick of highly explosive dynamite into the air towards some unsuspecting victims property, not only blatantly littering but possibly causing a major fire hazard or resulting in serious injury to some poor sod.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 November 2015, 12:56:02 pm
We have a "diverse community"  ;) where I live and it almost seems like there is an arms race as to who is closer to their religion by who has the the biggest firework.
I also had to remove a big rocket stick off the southern wing of sharp halls roof which was heading for the gutter.
They should be micro chipped with the launchers name and address.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 07 November 2015, 12:57:57 pm
When I lived in Brixton the kids would by shit loads of rockets and get some long tubes and blank one end off and foccin bazooka each other....one day a guy in a suit was walking by our house and one of the kids fired a rocket at him and it wedged into his day sack....he must have heard the rocket fizzling so he started to run....foc knows why but when the rocket went off he sort of shit himself and landed flat on his front .....me and the mrs an kids pissed ourselves laffin...then he got up and chased the kid who was screaming like a banshee and when he caught him he gave him a slap and nicked his money/fone/and remaining rockets and buggered off ......
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Post by: joebloggs on 07 November 2015, 01:37:09 pm
I worked with a local lad in Jersey and they set a world record for launching rockets, 50000 or something like that. Anyway, took them several days to set up the attempt and over a week to clean up the mess they left lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 November 2015, 07:59:35 pm
And as if to prove my point look what I found, I took this picture exactly where it lay this afternoon in the court yard of sharp hall, from last nights lot. Its only a small one this time but must of hit the car
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 07 November 2015, 08:02:28 pm
And as if to prove my point look what I found, I took this picture exactly where it lay this afternoon in the court yard of sharp hall, from last nights lot. Its only a small one this time but must of hit the car
That's what we call a sparkler in Scotland :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 07 November 2015, 08:07:56 pm
And as if to prove my point look what I found, I took this picture exactly where it lay this afternoon in the court yard of sharp hall, from last nights lot. Its only a small one this time but must of hit the car
That's what we call a sparkler in Scotland :lol


Good job it didn't hit the car - It's a Renault which would have folded in half  :D
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Post by: noggythenog on 07 November 2015, 08:10:21 pm
And as if to prove my point look what I found, I took this picture exactly where it lay this afternoon in the court yard of sharp hall, from last nights lot. Its only a small one this time but must of hit the car
That's what we call a sparkler in Scotland :lol


Good job it didn't hit the car - It's a Renault which would have folded in half  :D


The car where the humans are the crumple zone :lol .......you can see where it hit...the coloured bit on the bump strip
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Post by: fazersharp on 07 November 2015, 08:51:08 pm
Tiz of no great matter as it was parked in the service yard of sharp hall so it would of been one of the servants cars
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 November 2015, 12:48:44 pm
Some old woman in a big fuck off Merc decided it would be okay to nudge the car forward this morning whilst sitting in static traffic.
Obviously my Hi-Vis jacket wasn't bright enough for her, or the fact that me and the bike were right in front of her car!
She slid across the corner of my end can (ooh err missus) with the plastic bumper, nearly pushing me over in the process until I banged my hand on the bonnet of her motor.
After making the bike vertical again to take the weight off my leg, and quite a few expletives later, she just sat there staring at me with a stony look that resembled an angry Queen Victoria, then a few more expletives later she eventually held her hand up as an apology.
A few more expletives later, I quickly checked the bike for any obvious damage but couldn't see any, so after a few more expletives I rode off with the hump.
There were plastic bits of the bumper sticking out of the exhaust when I got to work but fortunately there appears to be no damage.
That was at 8.30am, but I've calmed down a bit now.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 09 November 2015, 01:07:12 pm
You should of  got off the bike , put it on the stand and then made a big show of taking pictures with your phone of "damage" to your bike, then a photo of her number plate and then asked her for her insurance details so that you can contact them to arrange repairs, see how stony faced she would of been then.
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 09 November 2015, 01:20:00 pm
You should of  got off the bike , put it on the stand and then made a big show of taking pictures with your phone of "damage" to your bike, then a photo of her number plate and then asked her for her insurance details so that you can contact them to arrange repairs, see how stony faced she would of been then.

EXACTLY!!!! She wudda been left wondering if  u were gonna claim and would probably have improved her driving.  What a KNOB ....ay Darrsi ?.....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 November 2015, 01:35:48 pm
It was at a really busy junction and I was right in the centre of it all and the traffic was properly fucked as it was, then you get the wankers all around beeping their horns.
Fortunately there's no real damage, although they'll be a nice scrape on her bumper judging by the plastic left in the join of my end can.
It was just sheer fucking ignorant and shit driving. :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 09 November 2015, 07:13:33 pm
Could have been a lot worse fella- you need to remember with most (but not all) big Merc drivers is that they OBVIOUSLY own the road!  :eek 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stevegixer on 09 November 2015, 07:21:53 pm
great ride home from work ( in very high winds & rain) until a twat of a taxi driver pulled out on me ,obviously without indicating  :rolleyes on a dual carriagway , then as i eventually passed him i noticed he was texting  :wall
i didnt have my gopro on so when i got home i rang the taxi company & had a few choice words. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 09 November 2015, 08:38:46 pm
I was in the car a while ago in stop/start traffic behind a driver that was obviously texting. Every time the traffic in front of her moved on there was a really long pause until she realised and moved on herself. This went on for about a mile. The traffic then pulled up at a red light. When the lights changed to green...you guessed it, no movement. I gave a bip on the horn and received the 2 finger salute from her thru the back window. Charming :rolleyes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 09 November 2015, 08:41:17 pm
Drivers who don't carry the most basic of emergency kit.


On my ride into work today I came across the aftermath of an accident. Young lad had just lost control of his Peugeot on a blind bend and slammed into a tree. Front end was fucked, car's a write-off, but it came to rest across both lanes with cars backing up on either side. I got off and asked if he was ok (not a scratch on him, but in shock), then tried to push the car off the road. No luck with that, so I asked the nearest few drivers if they could tow the Peugeot to the side of the road for safety's sake. None of them did, the drivers started getting impatient and going round on the verge to get past.
I stopped every car as they passed and asked if they could help.
Nobody, fucking nobody, had even a tow rope in their cars. WTF?


My basic kit includes a tow rope, light bulbs, fuel can, everything to change a wheel, medical kit, food & water.


People think if they have an AA card they don't need anything else. Fucking dicks. :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 09 November 2015, 08:41:56 pm
I see loads on phones on my commute, texting, checking Facebook, grinder... They all have a tell tale drift and slow reactions
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 November 2015, 09:28:26 pm
You should of  got off the bike , put it on the stand and then made a big show of taking pictures with your phone of "damage" to your bike, then a photo of her number plate and then asked her for her insurance details so that you can contact them to arrange repairs, see how stony faced she would of been then.

EXACTLY!!!! She wudda been left wondering if  u were gonna claim and would probably have improved her driving.  What a KNOB ....ay Darrsi ?.....
I wonder if she even knew she nudged you. Shes sat there thinking there's some wild man waving his arms around yelling :grumble blurh  :lmao2 blab  :nana blurh!!  :crazy
Her eventual hand up was "please don't kill me crazy man"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 November 2015, 10:08:38 pm
You should of  got off the bike , put it on the stand and then made a big show of taking pictures with your phone of "damage" to your bike, then a photo of her number plate and then asked her for her insurance details so that you can contact them to arrange repairs, see how stony faced she would of been then.

EXACTLY!!!! She wudda been left wondering if  u were gonna claim and would probably have improved her driving.  What a KNOB ....ay Darrsi ?.....
I wonder if she even knew she nudged you. Shes sat there thinking there's some wild man waving his arms around yelling :grumble blurh  :lmao2 blab  :nana blurh!!  :crazy
Her eventual hand up was "please don't kill me crazy man"

Unfortunately this is what happens when you try and nudge me off my bike from the comfort of a nice warm large motor for no reason other than sheer incompetence and shite driving, with a lack of manners thrown in for good measure.

I get upset.  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 November 2015, 06:09:57 pm
Along the same lines as my "on the ground" goat getter, I have just heard and thought of another one.
There seems to be a trend from news commentators and or their script writers to jump on the phrase "gone into lock down" to try to add extra dramatics
Just heard it again right now some school kids got too hot in an over crowded classroom and q uite a few started fainting and the news item said the school had gone in to "lock down"
I would of thought opening the doors and windows would of been a better response
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 11 November 2015, 06:22:39 pm
They were probably "locked down" aswell for health an safety.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 November 2015, 08:45:24 pm
FIREWORKS again Look at this FOC I have just found next to the car

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 13 November 2015, 11:30:29 am
The current fad of starting all sentences with "So"


In the bin with all the "Can I get" brigade.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 13 November 2015, 11:56:46 am
Oh DILLIGAF, I am with you on those.


"Can I get a coffee?"  "No you focing can't, you may have one, I'm the coffee make I'll get it for you!"


And yes, I've noticed everyone starting sentences with so, especially on radio and TV when people are replying to a question.
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 13 November 2015, 12:10:00 pm
Agree with the above......and I'll add all the Motorsport interviews where they keep saying "for sure...."  Bloody gets my goat that.,...

























For sure.... Lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 13 November 2015, 12:25:15 pm
Oh DILLIGAF, I am with you on those.


"Can I get a coffee?"  "No you focing can't, you may have one, I'm the coffee make I'll get it for you!"


And yes, I've noticed everyone starting sentences with so, especially on radio and TV when people are replying to a question.

Yep im with both of you on those.
Another one I have spotted is mainly with politicians I have noticed over time that phrases and ways of speaking come and go, the current most used ones are
"We think"
"What we know is "
"what we have seen is "
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: J_Dub on 13 November 2015, 02:12:41 pm
The use of the Americanese word gotten.
So, I've gotten grumpier over the years for sure.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 13 November 2015, 02:52:29 pm
The use of the Americanese word gotten.
So, I've gotten grumpier over the years for sure.

Most American words are ours, just after the founding fathers colonised the US, our english evolved into what we hear and use today, they didn't have the same evolution hence the difference pronounciation of the same words, tomato v tomato
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: J_Dub on 13 November 2015, 04:21:41 pm
The use of the Americanese word gotten.
So, I've gotten grumpier over the years for sure.

Most American words are ours, just after the founding fathers colonised the US, our english evolved into what we hear and use today, they didn't have the same evolution hence the difference pronounciation of the same words, tomato v tomato

I know.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 13 November 2015, 08:10:23 pm
"you know"


























No i don't f**king know thats why you are being interviewed, idiot.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: griff86 on 13 November 2015, 08:58:36 pm
I hate it when people who have no intention of ever going buy concert tickets just to stick on eBay for more money.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 November 2015, 11:56:58 am
Radio DJ's that cut classic songs' short. I've lost count of the number of times 'Free Bird' has been faded out just as the brilliant instrumental bit gets going :wall.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 November 2015, 04:03:10 pm
This focin gale force wind >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 15 November 2015, 04:03:24 pm
Continuing my dismay of Xmas too early.....

There now showing Xmas films on channel 5! I know there's not much good on TV at the best but showing Xmas films 6 weeks prior to Xmas is ridiculous and while I'm on the subject.....

Shopping centres now playing Xmas songs.

Xmas will soon be an all year event at this rate :(
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Post by: darrsi on 15 November 2015, 04:06:53 pm
Continuing my dismay of Xmas too early.....

There now showing Xmas films on channel 5! I know there's not much good on TV at the best but showing Xmas films 6 weeks prior to Xmas is ridiculous and while I'm on the subject.....

Shopping centres now playing Xmas songs.

Xmas will soon be an all year event at this rate :(


Happy Easter  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 15 November 2015, 04:09:18 pm
Continuing my dismay of Xmas too early.....

There now showing Xmas films on channel 5! I know there's not much good on TV at the best but showing Xmas films 6 weeks prior to Xmas is ridiculous and while I'm on the subject.....

Shopping centres now playing Xmas songs.

Xmas will soon be an all year event at this rate :(


Happy Easter  :lol
Foc off :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 November 2015, 06:46:16 pm
Continuing my dismay of Xmas too early.....

There now showing Xmas films on channel 5! I know there's not much good on TV at the best but showing Xmas films 6 weeks prior to Xmas is ridiculous and while I'm on the subject.....

Shopping centres now playing Xmas songs.

Xmas will soon be an all year event at this rate :(

I went to the garden centre the other day for some moss treatment for the lawn. Most of the actual gardening things had been displaced by baubles and tinsel :eek. The stuff I was looking for had been bunged outside in a shed :rolleyes.
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Post by: fazersharp on 15 November 2015, 07:05:16 pm

I went to the garden centre the other day for some moss treatment for the lawn. Most of the actual gardening things had been displaced by baubles and tinsel :eek . The stuff I was looking for had been bunged outside in a shed :rolleyes .

What the FOC are you doing buying lawn moss treatment for in November  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 November 2015, 07:31:15 pm

I went to the garden centre the other day for some moss treatment for the lawn. Most of the actual gardening things had been displaced by baubles and tinsel :eek . The stuff I was looking for had been bunged outside in a shed :rolleyes .

What the FOC are you doing buying lawn moss treatment for in November  :eek

It's a nightmare trying to keep on top of it. I have to treat it at least twice a year. Yeah I guess it's a bit late for it, but I've found it still works. Probably wouldn't bother again until Spring now tho. The main issue is that re-seeding is a bit hit & miss when it turns cold and wet.

Forget the bikes..welcome to gardeners corner :lol.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Deefer666 on 15 November 2015, 07:53:20 pm
Autojumblers.... I mean JUST WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? I have spent the day watching piss smelling, hat wearing, old cunts spend serious amounts of wedge on rusty old pieces of shit. I shit you not I watched some old boy part with enough folding to snort coke off of a high end hooker's arse on a rusty wheel rim that looked like it had been at the bottom of the canal for decades and then walk away clutching said rusty shit and looking like he was gonna cream in his pants....

I just don't get it, serious go to an autojumble and see for yourselves cos it baffles the fuck outta me!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 15 November 2015, 07:55:14 pm
I find that the best way is to treat with moss killer and the use an electric scarrifer around about April and the re seed. If you have never use an electric lawn rake before you will be amazed how much moss and thatch you will take out. The south lawns of sharp hall are not that bad for moss but the rear lawns that fall under sharp halls shadow can get mossy in areas.
The gardener didn't scarify this year and I noticed that he did not have to mow the lawns half as much as in previous years due to the thatch suppressing growth.
I am going to have a word with him next year and get him to scarify as Lady Sharp had commented about the lawns condition during her last garden party       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 15 November 2015, 08:07:24 pm
I find that the best way is to treat with moss killer and the use an electric scarrifer around about April and the re seed. If you have never use an electric lawn rake before you will be amazed how much moss and thatch you will take out. The south lawns of sharp hall are not that bad for moss but the rear lawns that fall under sharp halls shadow can get mossy in areas.
The gardener didn't scarify this year and I noticed that he did not have to mow the lawns half as much as in previous years due to the thatch suppressing growth.
I am going to have a word with him next year and get him to scarify as Lady Sharp had commented about the lawns condition during her last garden party     
I blame the Lord of the Manor for not keeping the standard up for Lady Sharp :b

Shame on you trying to blame the gardener :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 15 November 2015, 08:14:20 pm
"to the manor born"   , bet mrs sharp is a goer,,maybe with the gardener
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Post by: fazersharp on 15 November 2015, 08:33:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqZkjNAvBk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqZkjNAvBk)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 15 November 2015, 09:09:34 pm
:rollin :rollin :rollin

Exactly how I thought sharp hall would be like :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sadlonelygit on 17 November 2015, 12:31:07 pm
discovering in the middle of the month we are somehow 35gb over our internet usage allowance...............and at £2.50/gb i'm not a happy bunny.
step son will find the router password has been changed when he gets home tonight.........pennygetyourownwifi might be appropriate!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 17 November 2015, 06:51:49 pm
Had a new one happen last night on the way home.


Stuck in traffic (again) and I noticed the car about 4 foot in front of me inching backwards, so waited for the brake lights to come on but they didn't so I gave a quick blast on the air horn.


No brake lights and now the car is getting closer and also picking up momentum.
Now I have the air horn on full blast......car still moves towards me!


So I have to make a decision to get the foc out the way in a split second and I had to blindly reverse the bike hoping I never hit anyone behind me, then I swung round the car and moved forward up to the driver's door, then banged on his window.

I WOKE THE BASTARD UP!!!


I could see by the way he jumped and moved his head that he'd nodded off, adding the fact that my air horn is bloody loud and he never even heard it.
Wouldn't be surprised if he hit the car behind either, because if he's anything like me I take an hour to properly wake up.  :lol :z :z :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 18 November 2015, 01:27:41 pm
Stupid bitches using the phone when driving, nearly hits a bus then I have to slam all on in the car when she swerves to avoid bus, then she gives me the finger when I roll down window and tell her she is a stupid c**t.
Taxi drivers who stop and block a lane of traffic off just drop a passenger off, foccing wankers.
Peugeot main dealers who don`t have parts, don`t know when they will arrive if you order them and advice you to try Andrew Page instead.


This morning has been shit!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 18 November 2015, 01:46:40 pm
Our technical (QA'S) department at work, who regularly change the padlocks on the focin toolbox's and don't give out keys........ Finally lost it yesterday and my manager got it.

Focers what to get a proper job
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 November 2015, 01:56:17 pm
Our technical (QA'S) department at work, who regularly change the padlocks on the focin toolbox's and don't give out keys...

Have you ever thought that its just YOU they are not giving a key too :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 18 November 2015, 02:48:51 pm
Our technical (QA'S) department at work, who regularly change the padlocks on the focin toolbox's and don't give out keys...

Have you ever thought that its just YOU they are not giving a key too :pokefun

LOL

Three locks in as many months, first was a combination which they changed as they were concerned anyone could gain access so changed it for a lock with a key, which of course everyone had access to. So in the name of security they put on a third lock and kept the key to themselves............I have enough focin things to do on start up without having to hunt down a member of their team to open up the bloody box.

The box is plastic, if they carry on like this the box will have an accident 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 November 2015, 05:01:00 pm
The way politicians add in little fake "laughs" when they are being interviewed when they are trying to pretend they don't care
EG Maria Eagle on BBC this eve on finding out via twitter that her boss Corbin has appointed his old red left anti nuclear supporter Ken Livingston as head of the nuclear yes or no committee
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 18 November 2015, 05:20:17 pm
Stupid bitches using the phone when driving, nearly hits a bus then I have to slam all on in the car when she swerves to avoid bus, then she gives me the finger when I roll down window and tell her she is a stupid c**t.
Taxi drivers who stop and block a lane of traffic off just drop a passenger off, foccing wankers.
Peugeot main dealers who don`t have parts, don`t know when they will arrive if you order them and advice you to try Andrew Page instead.


This morning has been shit!

Andrew Page, isn't he a fellow foccer on here?

"Apage16"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 November 2015, 09:06:11 pm
Smart arse reporters who insist on using Fronglish and say  Charleighe Ebdough surly for us its - Charlie Ebdo innit ?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 November 2015, 07:03:12 am
Smart arse reporters who insist on using Fronglish and say  Charleighe Ebdough surly for us its - Charlie Ebdo innit ?



Compared to "reporters" like a girl called Emma Kelly who's job involves trawling the web for photos of "sideboob" or "nip slips" in the Daily Star.


I spend all day running round like a maniac and lifting heavy shit, and she undoubtedly gets paid much more than me looking for tits and arse on the internet!


I could seriously do her job very well in an instant, yet i doubt she could do mine if we swapped for a day, but i'm more than willing to give each other a sporting chance.  :b


Here's a perfect example:


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here/476362/Jorgie-Porter-I-m-A-Celeb-cockroaches-bum (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here/476362/Jorgie-Porter-I-m-A-Celeb-cockroaches-bum)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 19 November 2015, 08:28:33 am
Do what I do, don't read papers any more :)
Who the foc is Jorgie Porter anyway?
My wife records all that shit like celebrity get me out of here, x factor, strictly come dancing and watches it when I am at work, she knows I will put my boot through the telly if she puts it on if I am in the house.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 19 November 2015, 09:07:59 am
People who stand right in front of lift doors with little thought that people might actually be inside when the lift arrives and that they might actually want to get out!  Impatient twats!  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 19 November 2015, 09:13:16 am
People who hang about a zebra crossing with no intention of....crossing causing cars to stop unnecessarily..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 November 2015, 09:36:45 am
People who stand right in front of lift doors with little thought that people might actually be inside when the lift arrives and that they might actually want to get out!  Impatient twats!  :grumble

Same as the London Underground tubes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 November 2015, 09:38:59 am
People who hang about a zebra crossing with no intention of....crossing causing cars to stop unnecessarily..

Or who cross about 50 feet either side of a crossing, what's all that about?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 November 2015, 10:35:05 am
People who hang about a zebra crossing with no intention of....crossing causing cars to stop unnecessarily..
AND
its a quiet road and virtually only me on it and a person at the crossing chooses to press the button and stop the only car on the road.
Even when its busy if I need to cross I can usually see a gap coming down the road and so don't press the button at all   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 November 2015, 07:52:41 pm
Here another one I was reminded about today, tractors that have mud caked on the wheels and then come straight out of a field onto a main road where all the shit flings off onto the road, I was having to slarlem though coke can size piles of mud right on my ride line.
It should be illegal and they should have to stop in the field entrance and scrape it off and not fling it on the main road.
Couple of years ago I was in the car going in the opposite direction and a tractor pulled out of a field and a stone flung off his wheels and chipped my screen
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 22 November 2015, 07:59:01 pm
The appalling standard of motorway driving, in particular, people who overtake, then pull in front of you and then slow down. WTF?


And when traffic is fairly heavy and all lanes are moving at a similar pace, people who keep cutting across from one lane to the next, then back again, in the hope they'll end up a couple of car lengths ahead of where they might otherwise be. Don't they see that if everyone moves into the lane that just for a moment is going a bit faster, then that'll slow down and the lane they all moved from will speed up? If it's heavy traffic, why not just stay in one lane until it eases up a bit? Tossers!  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 22 November 2015, 08:18:30 pm
People who park in hedges at speed ......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Deefer666 on 23 November 2015, 03:53:04 pm
Cunts the join a dual carriageway by using a slip road and not even looking whats actually coming or making an effort to blend in with traffic. They expect everyone on the dual carriageway to give way to them OR even worse the fuckers get to the end of the slip road and jam their  brakes on! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????...... these knuckle fuckers don't deserve to live... No Trial, No Prosecution. Just a bullet in the back of the head and the body left on the grass verge as a warning for any other cunting cockwomble that cant use a fucking sliproad!!!!!!!!!! CUNTS :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 23 November 2015, 04:09:22 pm
Cunts the join a dual carriageway by using a slip road and not even looking whats actually coming or making an effort to blend in with traffic. They expect everyone on the dual carriageway to give way to them OR even worse the fuckers get to the end of the slip road and jam their  brakes on! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????...... these knuckle fuckers don't deserve to live... No Trial, No Prosecution. Just a bullet in the back of the head and the body left on the grass verge as a warning for any other cunting cockwomble that cant use a fucking sliproad!!!!!!!!!! CUNTS :grumble :grumble :grumble


Sounds like someone had a good day :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 23 November 2015, 04:57:38 pm
People who park in hedges at speed ......


The sad thing is, I don't think he was going that fast when he trimmed the hedge.....you get a more even trim that way!  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 23 November 2015, 04:59:57 pm
Cunts the join a dual carriageway by using a slip road and not even looking whats actually coming or making an effort to blend in with traffic. They expect everyone on the dual carriageway to give way to them OR even worse the fuckers get to the end of the slip road and jam their  brakes on! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????...... these knuckle fuckers don't deserve to live... No Trial, No Prosecution. Just a bullet in the back of the head and the body left on the grass verge as a warning for any other cunting cockwomble that cant use a fucking sliproad!!!!!!!!!! CUNTS :grumble :grumble :grumble


I thought that was a transcription of a Punkstig accident there, the number of "cunts" you had going on!  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 November 2015, 01:13:03 pm
All the churned-up grass verges where people won't stop driving on them no matter how wet it is :wall. What a mess.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 November 2015, 01:18:12 pm
People who eat a takeaway meal in their car, then chuck all the packaging straight onto the street :wall. What a mess.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 29 November 2015, 02:12:42 pm
Foccin idiots who drive with no lights on when it's pissin it down with rain!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 29 November 2015, 02:13:51 pm
Foccin BT :groan

They advertise a big sale for Black Friday, then once I've done my homework etc of what I want, go online and get really confused of their packages and what I want, I think I'll call them only to find out they're closed on a Sunday! I mean WTF is that about and the bloody sale ends tomorrow :(

Looks like I'll be sticking to basic broadband with SKY and not be getting the free sports package that BT are advertising :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 29 November 2015, 04:24:29 pm
Here another one I was reminded about today, tractors that have mud caked on the wheels and then come straight out of a field onto a main road where all the shit flings off onto the road, I was having to slarlem though coke can size piles of mud right on my ride line.
It should be illegal and they should have to stop in the field entrance and scrape it off and not fling it on the main road.
Couple of years ago I was in the car going in the opposite direction and a tractor pulled out of a field and a stone flung off his wheels and chipped my screen

They have a duty to make sure the road cleaned, I've spoken to two farmers re the state of the road, one cleaned it up instantly, the other cleaned it up after a visit by the local police.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 30 November 2015, 04:31:40 pm
Dickheads who put xmas lights up in November, half of the houses in the cul de sac where I live have trees in the window and outside lights up already.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 30 November 2015, 07:28:34 pm
Dickheads who put xmas lights up in November, half of the houses in the cul de sac where I live have trees in the window and outside lights up already.


+1 for this Slappy, whatever happened to the 12 days of Christmas? it's more like a month!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: alan09 on 30 November 2015, 08:11:58 pm
This Cnut got my goat today taking up 4 spaces outside morrissons.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: risticuss on 30 November 2015, 09:05:06 pm
This Cnut got my goat today taking up 4 spaces outside morrissons.


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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 30 November 2015, 09:07:16 pm
This Cnut got my goat today taking up 4 spaces outside morrissons.


Give him a break. It's a Rover, the geriatric old cunt did well enough to miss the trolleys!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 November 2015, 10:07:43 pm
This Cnut got my goat today taking up 4 spaces outside morrissons.


Give him a break. It's a Rover, the geriatric old cunt did well enough to miss the trolleys!

Gearbox probably failed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 30 November 2015, 10:24:20 pm
This Cnut got my goat today taking up 4 spaces outside morrissons.


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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 01 December 2015, 11:46:34 am
4 foccin spaces?

 check for camera's then slash his tyres :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 01 December 2015, 11:53:31 am
watching the news last night and they're banging on how models have to be thin and that some are too thin

they cut to a plump middle aged boss of "VOGUE" magazine and ask her who's to blame/responsible for putting pressure on models to be skeletons (paraphrasing here) and she says......ummmmm, I don't know


it's YOU, you foccin bitch, you don't buy your clothes off the peg in Primani so get a foccin grip and own up. You're not a stick insect so these big fashion houses obviously make clothes to fit fat foccers like you.......no need for malnourished girls to wear their clobber in the first place, just get normal sized 8/10/12/4 sized girls etc even though you looked a size 14/16

gggrrrrrr
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 December 2015, 12:45:19 pm
I do like it when peoples goats get propper got. Makes me feel better about my own rants  :D

The whole fashion industry is FUBAR for sure
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 01 December 2015, 03:24:42 pm
Foccing every bastard thing today!  :o .......I'm trying to stop smoking  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sadlonelygit on 01 December 2015, 07:52:02 pm
having to deal with this kind of crap.........'because the teachers are too busy'

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12313896_10207469440670762_2980562812313843552_n.jpg?oh=58d537bc2f8cdd3541a1d2f2f0740aa7&oe=56DDDB6B)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 01 December 2015, 08:03:02 pm
having to deal with this kind of crap.........'because the teachers are too busy'

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12313896_10207469440670762_2980562812313843552_n.jpg?oh=58d537bc2f8cdd3541a1d2f2f0740aa7&oe=56DDDB6B)
Bet you're sick of it  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sadlonelygit on 01 December 2015, 08:29:53 pm
Like the boss said, the pay is crap but it's all you can eat
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 01 December 2015, 08:31:06 pm
having to deal with this kind of crap.........'because the teachers are too busy'

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12313896_10207469440670762_2980562812313843552_n.jpg?oh=58d537bc2f8cdd3541a1d2f2f0740aa7&oe=56DDDB6B)


Well if you had got to the bogs in time you wouldn't have to clear it up off the floor!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 03 December 2015, 10:27:37 pm
Ars3hole in a big white Mercedes decides to close the gap between him and a big fuck off truck while I was legitimately filtering through traffic on a 3 lane A road. He did it INTENTIONALLY, just before I reached him.  :grumble Had to slam on brakes hard luckily speed was only around 20mph. Almost lost it- not the bike, my temper. "FUCKING NUTCASE YOU FUCKING NUTCASE ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME ARE YOU FOR REAL YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLE ARESEHOLE" he wisely decided to role his window back up after my tirade, I've obviously mellowed in my old age, resisted the urge to put my boot into the driver door ffs some people!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 December 2015, 09:40:41 am
Ars3hole in a big white Mercedes decides to close the gap between him and a big fuck off truck while I was legitimately filtering through traffic on a 3 lane A road. He did it INTENTIONALLY, just before I reached him.  :grumble Had to slam on brakes hard luckily speed was only around 20mph. Almost lost it- not the bike, my temper. "FUCKING NUTCASE YOU FUCKING NUTCASE ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME ARE YOU FOR REAL YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLE ARESEHOLE" he wisely decided to role his window back up after my tirade, I've obviously mellowed in my old age, resisted the urge to put my boot into the driver door ffs some people!
Ive seen that quite a few times - they just hate it when they see you filtering along while they are stuck in the line, I usually say thank you and go around the other side of them in the gap they have just made there, if it takes me past the drivers side it gives me a chance to give them the slow head shake   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 09 December 2015, 05:44:59 pm
One foccing day I am going to murder a cyclist, today I nearly hit a dickhead on one who decided to dive across two lanes without a cursory glance behind  or to the side and then went straight across a pelican when the lights where on red., best thing was he had a helmet cam so he could probably upload bad driving to youtube the foccing tosser.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 09 December 2015, 06:53:28 pm
Drivers of trucks with the body of the truck wider than the cab and no marker lights :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 09 December 2015, 07:17:33 pm
Drivers of trucks with the body of the truck wider than the cab and no marker lights :grumble
Well that rules me out :angel

But I know what you mean, I meet some of these idiots on single carriageways and it's pretty scary when you realise that the load is hanging out somewhat. :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 09 December 2015, 08:39:07 pm
Met one of these arseholes driving an enclosed rigid truck on the way home this evening coming towards me on our unlit "just wide enough in places for the Fazer and a truck" road, in the pissing rain and howling wind. Had to stop and when I looked behind at it, he had one near side rear light and no marker lights.  :grumble Just as well it was white in colour.

Just glad I was on one of the wider parts of the road when I met him.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 09 December 2015, 08:49:05 pm
Met one of these arseholes driving an enclosed rigid truck on the way home this evening coming towards me on our unlit "just wide enough in places for the Fazer and a truck" road, in the pissing rain and howling wind. Had to stop and when I looked behind at it, he had one near side rear light and no marker lights.  :grumble Just as well it was white in colour.

Just glad I was on one of the wider parts of the road when I met him.
Ahh, think I've just clicked onto what you mean.
Your not meaning a load over the width of the truck, your meaning that the truck just didn't have any marker lights??
So basically the driver hasn't checked his lights, or if he has, he's not bothered to fix them before he drives off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 09 December 2015, 10:18:11 pm
One foccing day I am going to murder a cyclist, today I nearly hit a dickhead on one who decided to dive across two lanes without a cursory glance behind  or to the side and then went straight across a pelican when the lights where on red., best thing was he had a helmet cam so he could probably upload bad driving to youtube the foccing tosser.
:agree Had one this morning who by looking over his shoulder automatically activated his forcefield - feckin twat  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 16 December 2015, 11:49:21 am
Motorway warning signs that cry wolf. Central reservation signs saying 50 for 4 miles then an overhead sign saying Animals In Road, then 1/4 mile further on End. No sign of any animals and probably never were.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 16 December 2015, 12:46:12 pm
FOC-U christmas theme. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 16 December 2015, 01:03:13 pm
:agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 16 December 2015, 02:34:39 pm
 :agree x2


Another place I have to have it rammed down my throat  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 16 December 2015, 03:44:00 pm
I want to know where I can get one of those hats for my fairing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 16 December 2015, 05:31:07 pm
:agree x2


Another place I have to have it rammed down my throat  :rolleyes

Same here coupled with it not displaying properly so it's fucking hard to read.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 December 2015, 08:27:13 pm
 :agree
Im ok with the theme an all but it defiantly is smaller I have noticed that yesterday some pictures did fit but now they go off the edges and you need to scroll them
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 December 2015, 08:46:36 pm
:agree
Im ok with the theme an all but it defiantly is smaller I have noticed that yesterday some pictures did fit but now they go off the edges and you need to scroll them

Agreed, even on my laptop the pictures were pretty useless.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 17 December 2015, 12:14:49 pm
:agree
Im ok with the theme an all but it defiantly is smaller I have noticed that yesterday some pictures did fit but now they go off the edges and you need to scroll them
I get this most of the time with using an iPad. Some people put pictures up that are that big it's a real pain to view them.
Oh and the Christmas theme is nice and festive but it is smaller and harder to read the white on blue  :'(  and it's not optimised very well for iPad as some of the text is overlapping.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 17 December 2015, 09:54:24 pm
Motorway warning signs that cry wolf.

 :agree :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 17 December 2015, 10:04:07 pm
Fucktard car designers who think "yup, it's an excellent idea to have the dash lights on when the car is running, irrespective of if the car main lights are on or not"


FECKIN NO!!!!! You end up with the soppy twats driving at night with just their running lights looking at their dash thinking their lights are on. See it more and more....aaaarrrgggghhhhh  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 December 2015, 10:13:18 pm
I have just not 1 hour ago had that same conversation after seeing a car with NO lights on at all. I was scratching my head thinking how can they not know because on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that I would notice were not on.
I was putting it down to a section of new LED lamposts that give a very goo clean bright white light meaning that you cannot see your own lights affect
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 17 December 2015, 10:19:47 pm
I have just not 1 hour ago had that same conversation after seeing a car with NO lights on at all. I was scratching my head thinking how can they not know because on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that I would notice were not on.
I was putting it down to a section of new LED lamposts that give a very goo clean bright white light meaning that you cannot see your own lights affect


Sharpy, next time you pass a car like this have a peak inside and see the speedo and rev counter lit up. Citroens and Toyota Prius are classics.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 December 2015, 10:54:33 pm
I do have a citroen but on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that come on with the lights that I would notice were not on. There is also the warning light on the dash, maybe people are just too busy looking at there shat naffs
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 18 December 2015, 04:08:07 pm
Fazersharp, my view is the same as Frosties etc as I tend not to notice "other lights " in the car. If its dark outside and the speedo is visible then my lights must be on. This is one reason when I drive my dads Audi I go into the menus and turn off the DRL's.

There are another bunch of fecwits though. Those who drive down the road with no lights on and you wonder when the last time they looked at their speedo was as there is no way that they could have seen it in the dark.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 December 2015, 05:32:01 pm
My speedo and main dash is an lcd but in reverse in that it is black but the numbers are silver/clear and it is permanently lit green from the back other wise you would not see them. But to help me realize my lights are not on as well as the cd ect being lit, the main permanently lit dash dims when the lights ar turned on so that you realize that its looking brighter than it should.
So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 18 December 2015, 06:07:42 pm
So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all.
Or at the road ahead to see the light cast from the headlights?  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 18 December 2015, 07:56:10 pm
Focin muppets I work with want to buy our manager a xmas present. WTF,

I sweat for my manager not the other way around


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 18 December 2015, 08:12:38 pm
Focin muppets I work with want to buy our manager a xmas present. WTF,

I sweat for my manager not the other way around

Could never understand that logic myself.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 December 2015, 08:21:59 pm
So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all.
Or at the road ahead to see the light cast from the headlights?  :rolleyes
Well there you are back to my first post the section of street was brightly lit with white LED lamp posts - you canot see your own light beam 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 19 December 2015, 08:22:28 am
Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 December 2015, 09:10:02 am
Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall


I mentioned that on a different post yesterday.
They do fecking notice, they're just lazy bastids that don't care.
I've seen one overtaking a car coming towards me before that had no right light, so the car was on my side of the road but the only lit light looked like a bike within its lane.


When i'm finally allowed to get my machine gun fitted to my fairing, probably during WW3, it won't be so much of an issue.  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 19 December 2015, 12:58:45 pm
Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

I think part of the issue with that is the fact that the headlamp bulbs on most cars are so difficult to replace nowadays due to limited access to the rear of the lamps.

There is so much extra stuff under the bonnet these days and it all has to be crammed in somewhere.

I've been told that on some models the bumper has to come off to change a bulb!.

I reckon it puts people off trying to do it themselves, when years ago it would have been a breeze.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 19 December 2015, 01:52:15 pm
Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

I think part of the issue with that is the fact that the headlamp bulbs on most cars are so difficult to replace nowadays due to limited access to the rear of the lamps.



Totally agree - hence shed loads of poorly aligned (read "cack handed replacement") lights shining all over the place. Never used to be an issue.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 19 December 2015, 05:34:23 pm
Cage drivers who have one out of 3 or more brake light bulb that actually light up

Cage drivers who let halfrauds  "we're shit" fit a new headlight bulb upside down.

Tyre fitters who think rear tyres don't need balancing
Tyre fitters that use air guns to do up the nuts and then use a torque wrench to pretend they are doing it properly
Tyre fitters that over inflate tyres by 30% because they are too feccin lazy to check the correct pressure.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 26 December 2015, 06:54:57 pm
Wankers in 4x4s who cannot  foccing use them,  I came to a dip in the road that was flooded to find one in front  of me that was doing a multi point turn to avoid the flood and  then I took my Focus through and the "flood" was only about six inches deep.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 27 December 2015, 09:22:38 pm
Cunts sitting in the outside lane, whether it's a 2 lane or 3 lane carriageway.....WTF?

just move over and let us past for you dozy fuckin fuckwits...gggrrrrrr
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 27 December 2015, 09:38:19 pm
theyre still doing it,, i fooking hate em,,,look at them ,,,fools,,,wrong it is,,,twats,,,oh look all the lorry drives are doing it,,small dicks they have,,,,conts ,the lot of em,,,are they Scottish ? or what,,




yes ,,,still driving with their bloody fog lights on,,,,that's it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 27 December 2015, 10:07:37 pm
Sky TV!  You pay for the service /channels and they still pepper everything with adverts. Every time you put the telly on it will be adverts. I can watch adverts while eating breakfast and finish before anything comes on like a tool!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 28 December 2015, 09:12:14 am
Ah yes....sky tv.......iam not a sports fan and I dont watch soaps or sit coms.....usually end up watching history channel or sometimes spike, gold......which show a lot of BBC programs which ive already paid for and watched, I pay my sky subs and watch the same programs again with the adverts .........iam sure in some cases the ads last longer than the programs   :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble......and another thing.after every advert they repeat the bit you watched before the foccin adverts  :grumble :grumble :grumble..............thanks NW..thats pissed me right off    :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 December 2015, 12:00:34 pm
I rarely watch anything that i've not recorded now.
I make a living out of commercials/films, but i'm fucked if i'm gonna sit there and watch ads.
An hour long show is generally around 40 minutes long in reality, i just hit the 2 minute forward button twice on my remote and it cancels them out.
Saves a hell of a lot of timewasting, and i can watch 3 x 1 hour long programmes in just over 2 hours.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 28 December 2015, 12:11:55 pm
I rarely watch anything that i've not recorded now.

Yep, the only thing I watch "live" is the News and even then I tend to switch it on, stick it on Live Pause, put the TV on standby and get on with something else for a while before speed-reading the news ticker and seeing if there's actually anything that is of sufficient interest to watch.

Given that so much news these days seems to be vox-pops of people going "oh isn't it terrible that this happened to me" or talking heads given tedious "analysis" that very often adds bugger all to the understanding of the situation, it saves a lot of time!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 December 2015, 12:25:09 pm
Motorway warning signs that cry wolf. Central reservation signs saying 50 for 4 miles then an overhead sign saying Animals In Road, then 1/4 mile further on End. No sign of any animals and probably never were.
Last night I saw one that made me chuckle, 1st one said Don't Drink And Drive and then a few miles down the road the next one just said End
So Im guessing after that point its ok to drink at the wheel
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Deefer666 on 29 December 2015, 12:37:53 pm
Today's "What gets my goat" is......

Public outpouring of grief over a musician who was only mildly talented but is only famous for surviving as long as he did on a diet of narcotics and alcohol. I read today that he was a "leading light of rock" & a "truly talented musician".... Really??? he had a voice that sounded like a wookie gargling gravel and a guitar that judging by his music only had 3 strings (all of the being G chord).

OK he was famous in the 70's & 80's when most music sucked and anyone who could shout into a microphone could be famous then..... As you can guess I'm not a fan. It's sad that someone has lost their life but don't deify the bloke.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 29 December 2015, 12:59:38 pm
Car insurance companies

Got rear ended on Sunday night and couldn't get the claim booked until this morning. Spent all morning on the foccin phone and still haven't got a feccin hire car. I must admit, I made it a bit harder for them. I told them I am off to France this weekend and need a similar sized 4x4 to lug all the booze back in safety at 140kmh.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 06 January 2016, 04:15:05 am
I'm getting pretty fed up with People who knock your door asking for charity donations.I want to tell them to  Fuck off.
Had a woman today asking for a donation for the Local sperm bank.


By God did I give her a mouthful. :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 06 January 2016, 08:32:58 am
 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 06 January 2016, 09:15:42 am
Landlords who don't evict aggressive customers.

Two pissheads out last night looking for trouble, one of the lads was carrying a knife and had pulled it on someone who had been drinking with them. When they left one forgot his coat, rather than wait for them to return I suggested the bar manager (female) take his coat out to him as there was less chance of a confrontation if a woman went out to them.

According to the manager this makes me a pussy, focin idiot couldn't see how a man going out could potentially cause an issue. This lad was pushing people around her bar from the moment he walked in and she had done nothing to try to diffuse the situation, only served them several more beers before they finally went (like that was going to help)

Not focin happy


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Deefer666 on 06 January 2016, 10:30:36 am
 :agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 06 January 2016, 12:16:05 pm
I'll never forget an evening, years ago now.  We had been in our first house for about a year and thought we would give the local pub a go.  Despite living in Sittingbourne all my life I had never been to this pub, but I'd never heard anything bad about it.


We were having a drink, playing some pool when a drunk chap comes out the toilets and rolls across the pool table mid game.  I simply said, "hey mate, no need for that, we're in the middle of a game" and that was it.


He's squaring up, his mates come over (BIG mates, proper BIG mates), my mate stands up and there is lots of "you want it" from the 3 chaps now in front of us.  One other says "leave it lads, we've only just got out, don't want to go back just yet"  I'm shitting it, coz I am far from a fighter and not built to fight plus these guys look battle hardened.


Anyway,  managed to calm it by talking my way out of it and the 4th guy calmed his lot with the prison talk.


The land lord came over but stood well back and not once said anything or did anything.  Once it was all ended he went back behind the bar and not even an apology of any sort.


We never ever went back!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 January 2016, 12:32:21 pm
:agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.

I've found over the years that it's rarely people who go for just a few beers that mainly start trouble, but the ones who are bugled up to the eyeballs on the devil's dandruff, and then also mix it with booze.
I've seen many a placid man, and woman, turn into complete and utter wankers when they're off their heads.
The even more annoying thing is that they don't even appreciate the fact that they're being complete arseholes either.

It pisses me off as well when I read newspaper articles about people in court that have done heinous crimes but it's always alcohol that gets blamed because it's an easy excuse, but there's hardly ever any mention of drug using.
The criminal liars tend to keep that one as quiet as possible in court to paint a rosier profile of the accused.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 January 2016, 12:54:54 pm
For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 January 2016, 01:51:46 pm
For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent.


But people like that are just cnuts in the first place.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 January 2016, 05:18:12 pm
Some of the worst are those people who you don't see in the pub for weeks or months, who then turn up one evening having seemingly decided to drink 8 weeks worth in one sitting :rolleyes.

I've packed up going out new years eve now because it attracts all the once a year drinkers who hog the bar and act like they own the place.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 January 2016, 03:00:42 pm
faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 January 2016, 06:48:06 pm
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
[size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tex on 07 January 2016, 07:29:13 pm
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
[size=78%] [/size]
 
  Best swallow  your pride like me and go to halfords :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 07 January 2016, 07:32:46 pm
faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\


Do you not change the valves every second time or every time you change the tyres?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 07 January 2016, 10:31:59 pm
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(



It's designed that way because hairdressers never ever work on their own cars  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 January 2016, 11:18:23 pm
new tyres not so long ago, so imagine the dealer fitted new valves...........never had an issue before but today the rear just wouldn't have it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 08 January 2016, 08:25:24 am
I would double check if the dealer changed the valves  because many do not unless you ask them to. Valves perish like tyres and eventually crack near the rim..

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 08 January 2016, 03:36:05 pm
I helped a damsel in distress the other week, she'd got a flat tyre on a dark rainy night and didn't seem sure on how to change the wheel. Apparently she'd had a slow puncture and some local garage had repaired it? When I arrived on the scene she was struggling to remove the wheel trim and tbh it wasn't easy when I took over, whoever fitted it must have put some force behind it as they had not lined the trim up and had sheared off the valve, no shit, it wasn't there. Focin cowboys, it must have been flat when she drove it away! Way I see it is you've got to tell them exactly what you want, may seem patronising, but at least you know it's hopefully been done correctly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 January 2016, 07:35:31 pm
I know someone that spent an hour or so hunting for an Allen key to remove a wheel trim when they had a flat..... they were 'decorative' Allen heads moulded onto the cover and it just pulled off like any other :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 January 2016, 01:17:49 pm
Oy! Frostie you cheeky Foccer. lol
 :rollin :'( :lol
If I ever meet up with you, I will either blind you with Hair Spray or throw my curlers at you.
Tom ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 09 January 2016, 01:46:11 pm
Oy! Frostie you cheeky Foccer. lol
 :rollin :'( :lol
If I ever meet up with you, I will either blind you with Hair Spray or throw my curlers at you.
Tom ;)


I know petal.....I know  :lol


If you post one more piccy of your mint bike up then it gets sprayed pink and i'm slapping this sticker on your motor.


Old age is no defence on this site fella  :pokefun :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 10 January 2016, 06:56:00 pm
LMFAO. love the sticker
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 11 January 2016, 07:31:15 pm
Smart Motorways (M42 for example!) - now you've got three lanes of trucks all doing 55.9mph and one outside lane with some cars/vans coasting at 65. Hows that supposed to improve congestion  :evil :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 11 January 2016, 09:11:34 pm
Drivers, who having said and waved goodbye to the passenger they have just dropped off, then sound the car horn 'goodbye'...about half a dozen times...at 6am... >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 12 January 2016, 12:03:21 pm
twats who jump amber lights when they're miles away and easily have time to stop but don't
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 January 2016, 04:39:57 pm
twats who jump amber lights when they're miles away and easily have time to stop but don't

Amber? That's for lightweights.
Bus drivers round my way will only jump full on red lights and nothing less.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 21 January 2016, 01:56:18 pm
the weather.....foccing freezing and now proper chucking it down here, can't get the washing dry, can't take the dog out....blah blah blah

and...... I've got to go out to get the Mrs some grapes.......I'll have to take that phone off her when I visit tonight  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 January 2016, 02:37:03 pm
Witnessed a new record on the way home last night.
Saw NINE cars jump a RED light!

The lights in front of me were amber and then green so I know that every motor jumped a red one.

Absolute piss takers!  :stop
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 21 January 2016, 02:51:32 pm
Witnessed a new record on the way home last night.
Saw NINE cars jump a RED light!

The lights in front of me were amber and then green so I know that every motor jumped a red one.

Absolute piss takers!  :stop


A4 between the Ritz and Hyde Park underpass by any chance?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 January 2016, 07:23:22 pm
Witnessed a new record on the way home last night.
Saw NINE cars jump a RED light!

The lights in front of me were amber and then green so I know that every motor jumped a red one.

Absolute piss takers!  :stop


A4 between the Ritz and Hyde Park underpass by any chance?


Whitton Avenue / Greenford Road crossroads, in Sudbury.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 21 January 2016, 09:43:41 pm
Forum members who ask for help to solve/resolve a problem they are having and are given various suggestion/advice to fix the problem, but they never come back to say what worked. :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 21 January 2016, 09:49:59 pm
Forum members who ask for help to solve/resolve a problem they are having and are given various suggestion/advice to fix the problem, but they never come back to say what worked. :grumble
:agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 January 2016, 05:28:26 am
People that complain they had a spider or bug in their hotel room in a mega hot country like Turkey or Egypt then go onto review sights to totally slag of their ruined holiday.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 January 2016, 11:46:35 am
Many many years ago we were in Barbados and we had lizards on the wall and we thought it was great !
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 January 2016, 12:27:42 pm
People who fail to understand that 5* in Egypt (or somewhere else not in the 1st World) will not be the same standard as 5* in the UK
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 24 January 2016, 06:59:39 pm
People checking their grinder account while driving!  Three cars drifted over the white line while I was filtering on Friday, all of them on Facebook.   One of them actually stopped in traffic a good three feet over the line.  I mean I love posting how I twerked so hard I shat my thong but I can wait till I get home!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 25 January 2016, 03:35:01 pm
In a line of slow moving traffic and saw a young girl waiting to pull out of a side road. Stopped to let her out, she pulled out in front of me..............THEN STOPPED TO ANSWER HER FUCKING PHONE !!!!!!!!!
Gave her a blast on the horn, she moved forward about a foot AND CARRIED ON TALKING !!!!!

PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 25 January 2016, 08:35:10 pm
when you're in the cage and in lane 2 of 2 thinking you'll now make good progress past the HGV in lane 1......only for the cager twat infront who decides at the very last minute to put his indicator on to turn right, leaving you stuck and watching lane 1 disappear.......GGRRR
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 February 2016, 07:11:41 am
People who simply don't have the brains to turn their phone horizontally when filming something, so instead of getting a full width landscape view you end up with that stupid portrait strip in the middle with large portions of blanked out sides, resulting in a really shit piece of annoying filming.
How difficult can it really be for fucks sake?  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 02 February 2016, 09:30:55 am
Or when they're trying to sell something and post a picture of it but the picture's upside down. How do they do that? And if you comment they say "I don't understand technology"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 February 2016, 09:43:48 am
Or when they're trying to sell something and post a picture of it but the picture's upside down. How do they do that? And if you comment they say "I don't understand technology"
On the same subject, looking at a picture of somthing you want to buy -- click on it for a bigger picture ---- and up pops one exactly the same focing size  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 February 2016, 10:06:35 am
Or when they're trying to sell something and post a picture of it but the picture's upside down. How do they do that? And if you comment they say "I don't understand technology"
On the same subject, looking at a picture of somthing you want to buy -- click on it for a bigger picture ---- and up pops one exactly the same focing size  :wall

Or even smaller in the corner......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 05 February 2016, 12:33:27 am
Todays....

Personalised number plates? - I mean why - its a Peugeot!

(However, whoever has FAZ 3R please get in touch  :rollin :rollin :rollin )




Or FZS 600 would do me
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 February 2016, 08:06:16 am
Todays....

Personalised number plates? - I mean why - its a Peugeot!

(However, whoever has FAZ 3R please get in touch  :rollin :rollin :rollin )




Or FZS 600 would do me


You could have BJ08 PLS for the poofs car MR2 ragtop Tommy  :lol


orrrrrrrrr KN08 ROT, BA11 BAG. And yeah.....I know mine is T055 ER  S  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 05 February 2016, 09:35:43 am
People who Americanize themselves on forums, talking about riding on the freeway and buying things for a few hundred bucks then hollar at people when they ask which state they live in.


Just my two cents...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 February 2016, 10:09:27 am
Same everywhere now people saying "can I get" -- a bigmac. ..................er no you can have one and I will get it for you. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 05 February 2016, 10:44:02 am
Another annoying one is 'can you borrow me'
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 05 February 2016, 09:08:36 pm
People who start every sentence with "So". And that tosser on Countdown the other day who started every letter selection with "I'd like to see a consonant".
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 05 February 2016, 09:48:36 pm
Tossers who watch countdown lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 05 February 2016, 10:29:01 pm
people whe drive white transit vans,,,i am going steady down a very steep single lane hill,van comes around the corner,,i brake and skid 60 yds into the front of the bastard,,he had long enough to select reverse and fuck off, I think we even speeded up at one place, wet,slippy,wornout road surface
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 05 February 2016, 10:49:48 pm
the  wanker on the pushbike who went under my car scratching it, ;) .        but he was in the iron man tenby,        so I didn't comment   ;)  he was on the wrong side of the road on a blind bend, ffs,.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 06 February 2016, 08:08:46 am
people who use the word "like" far too often ......people talking bo**ocks and then say "do you know what i mean" at the end ..........er,no,because your talking bollocks   :wall


tossers who countdown to the time when they can criticize other foccers  :rolleyes    :pokefun [size=78%] [/size] :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 February 2016, 08:25:58 am
People who park their cars on overhead motorway bridges to watch the traffic. Every bastard slows down 'cos they think it's plod.


What the feck is interesting about watching fecking motorway traffic  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 February 2016, 08:37:43 am
Whilst i'm on - ACRONYMS!!! WTF is that all about eh?


Every bastard meeting I go to with different companies, they all have their own full list of wank stain acronyms which they use every feckin time at every opportunity. Me - I have to learn about a dozen full sets of acronyms. Complete bunch of EIFOS's (Educated Idiots Full Of Shit)  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 February 2016, 08:46:49 am
People who park their cars on overhead motorway bridges to watch the traffic. Every bastard slows down 'cos they think it's plod.


What the feck is interesting about watching fecking motorway traffic  :grumble


They're probaly shooting a porno over the bonnet, what you see is the lookout.......apparently.  :lol 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 06 February 2016, 09:28:18 am

tossers who countdown to the time when they can criticize other foccers  :rolleyes    :pokefun [size=78%] [/size] :lol

Hehehe....errrrrr......tossers who critisize other tossers for critisizing tossers who watch countdown (while tossing over Rachel Riley) ;-)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 06 February 2016, 09:40:05 am
 :lol :lol :lol ......not rachel,carole  ;)    :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 February 2016, 10:50:55 am
:lol :lol :lol ......not rachel,carole  ;)    :lol


Oooohh, i can feel a mass debate coming on.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 February 2016, 11:14:22 am
:lol :lol :lol ......not rachel,carole  ;)    :lol


Nah, Lisa Riley  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 February 2016, 11:20:14 am
And that tosser on Countdown the other day who started every letter selection with "I'd like to see a consonant".
That has to be the most intellectual goat get ever in the history of gotten goats
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 06 February 2016, 11:38:10 am
In conversations people who repeat the question.............

"You chop the onions finely and then fry them"

"Yes, I chop the onions finely and then fry them"

I JUST FUCKING SAID THAT !!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 06 February 2016, 01:46:42 pm
:lol :lol :lol ......not rachel,carole  ;)    :lol


Nah, Lisa Riley  :lol




nah, nah, nah,      carole as she was.....not as she is now  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 06 February 2016, 05:13:17 pm
Having just driven 250 odd motorway miles in sh*te wet conditions the amount of f**k wits, with their day time running lights on but no rear lights, for F**k sake. And as for those who have no lights on at all :2guns :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 07 February 2016, 07:47:02 am
In conversations people who repeat the question.............

"You chop the onions finely and then fry them"

"Yes, I chop the onions finely and then fry them"

I JUST FUCKING SAID THAT !!!!


Yeah, when people repeat what I just said back to me as a question, I change it just to fuck with them
Our fork lift driver does it all the time.
"Chris, I need those parts taking over to C Block before 10.00."
"You need those parts taking over to C Block before 10.00?"
"No I don't."
"But you just said..."
"Oh so you did fucking understand the first time!"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 February 2016, 01:24:09 pm
Having just driven 250 odd motorway miles in sh*te wet conditions the amount of f**k wits, with their day time running lights on but no rear lights, for F**k sake. And as for those who have no lights on at all :2guns :2guns


Have you noticed the sudden appearance of 4 or 6 headlights on as well, that blind the hell out of you if approaching over a bridge, or through your wing mirrors?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 February 2016, 03:10:12 pm
Having just driven 250 odd motorway miles in sh*te wet conditions the amount of f**k wits, with their day time running lights on but no rear lights, for F**k sake. And as for those who have no lights on at all :2guns :2guns


Have you noticed the sudden appearance of 4 or 6 headlights on as well, that blind the hell out of you if approaching over a bridge, or through your wing mirrors?
Its those focing nissan jukes (micra on steroids ) that are the worse when they have the fog lights on as well you get 6 lights coming at you, its like fecking close encounters 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 February 2016, 07:04:59 pm
When you open a bag of salt & shake crisps and the little salt packet is right at the bottom underneath all the crisps :wall

When you open a tin of mackerel with the ring pull top and it flicks the sauce everywhere just as the top breaks away from the can :wall

When you go to open a can of beer and the ring pull snaps off before it's opened the hole in the top :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 February 2016, 07:30:24 pm
When you open a bag of salt & shake crisps and the little salt packet is right at the bottom underneath all the crisps :wall




Easily solved, open the packet the other end.  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 February 2016, 08:18:27 pm
When you open a bag of salt & shake crisps and the little salt packet is right at the bottom underneath all the crisps :wall




Easily solved, open the packet the other end.  :pokefun


Or buy Ready Salted........voila.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 08 February 2016, 04:39:27 pm
My people skills are fine , I just need to bone up on dealing with fuckin zoomers & fuckwits.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 February 2016, 03:45:06 pm
'Tommy you get right up my goat' <<<<< that was said to me after a heated discussion on a building site with my Labrador one day.
That is why he is still a f-----g Labrador and not a tradesman. Anyway who the f--k told him about my affiliation with his goat? Bastards :evil <<< His Goat.
Very pretty.
LOL

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 09 February 2016, 07:39:44 pm
Twats like this idiot in Salisbury who decide that if all the car spaces are occupied, they can use the bike space instead  :2guns

(Had I been staying longer than just to have a quick pee, I'd have parked in front of their car and blocked them in)

Maybe I should start carrying some extra sticky labels that are a bastard to peel off saying "Nice Motorcycle, Idiot!"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 09 February 2016, 08:37:22 pm
Twats like this idiot in Salisbury who decide that if all the car spaces are occupied, they can use the bike space instead  :2guns

(Had I been staying longer than just to have a quick pee, I'd have parked in front of their car and blocked them in)

Maybe I should start carrying some extra sticky labels that are a bastard to peel off saying "Nice Motorcycle, Idiot!"


Post the pic on parks like a cunt
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 February 2016, 10:30:40 pm
Twats like this idiot in Salisbury who decide that if all the car spaces are occupied, they can use the bike space instead  :2guns

(Had I been staying longer than just to have a quick pee, I'd have parked in front of their car and blocked them in)

Maybe I should start carrying some extra sticky labels that are a bastard to peel off saying "Nice Motorcycle, Idiot!"


Why mess with a label grab yourself a small rattle can of shocking lime green spray paint :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 09 February 2016, 10:48:09 pm
Twats like this idiot in Salisbury who decide that if all the car spaces are occupied, they can use the bike space instead  :2guns

(Had I been staying longer than just to have a quick pee, I'd have parked in front of their car and blocked them in)

Maybe I should start carrying some extra sticky labels that are a bastard to peel off saying "Nice Motorcycle, Idiot!"


Why mess with a label grab yourself a small rattle can of shocking lime green spray paint :eek


Yeah......you could do a quick pic of a Kwak down each side so he complies  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 February 2016, 11:11:56 pm
sounds like a plan

Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: hotmetal on 10 February 2016, 01:03:23 am
Just write "selfish illiterate  foccer" on the windscreen with lipstick. (Sure your Mrs would have one she don't like). It's a sod to get off. Mind you then he'll be even more myopic on the way back and probably knock more bikers off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 10 February 2016, 01:07:32 pm
Is it really so foccing difficult or time and energy consuming for people to use indicators?!?  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 10 February 2016, 01:31:13 pm
I love the ones who don't indicate on round about. Always fun trying to second guess which way they're going....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 10 February 2016, 01:39:45 pm
Is it really so foccing difficult or time and energy consuming for people to use indicators?!?  :groan


Had a BMW (what else) move over to the other side of the road in front of me last week, didn't indicate or anything, but i stupidly presumed he wanted the parking space.
So as he's now out of my way i carry on to go past him and he then goes for a left hand u-turn.
Wtf?
The air horn came in to play, and my headlights shining through his passenger window gave him a bit of a fright, then he apologised.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: hotmetal on 10 February 2016, 06:39:39 pm
My IAM observer got taken out big time by a BMW doing an illegal and unexpected u-turn. He moved left, she assumed he was taking the next left, continued past in the right hand lane of the dual carriageway only to find he had moved left to get a bigger swing at the (no u-turns signed) gap in the central reservation. She had to be taken away in the air ambulance, and the BMW driver just trotted out some lame crap to the judge about being a CEO and needing his car, he did get done but not nearly commensurate with the damage to her and her bike that he wilfully caused by being a typical BMW cockwomble. He had no chance of doing a runner though - the car behind him was old bill.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 11 February 2016, 04:10:06 pm
the BMW driver just trotted out some lame crap to the judge about being a CEO and needing his car

The Judge should have said "Buy a train ticket until you pass a re-test..." :(
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Freck on 11 February 2016, 06:16:16 pm
My IAM observer got taken out big time by a BMW doing an illegal and unexpected u-turn. He moved left, she assumed he was taking the next left, continued past in the right hand lane of the dual carriageway only to find he had moved left to get a bigger swing at the (no u-turns signed) gap in the central reservation. She had to be taken away in the air ambulance, and the BMW driver just trotted out some lame crap to the judge about being a CEO and needing his car, he did get done but not nearly commensurate with the damage to her and her bike that he wilfully caused by being a typical BMW cockwomble. He had no chance of doing a runner though - the car behind him was old bill.
She was lucky in a way because there were witnesses to the accident. Not so with my accident where the young scrote turned into me without looking or indicating and got away with it because it was his word against mine that he signalled.  :o
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: hotmetal on 11 February 2016, 10:47:56 pm
Sorry to hear that Freck. It really is luck of the draw who's on the road near you, whether they are good drivers or whether they'll stop if they witness something. I got knocked off my old FZR600R by some buffoon diving into a parking space on the other side of the road just as I was overtaking. He knew it was his fault but insurance said I hit rear quarter so they blamed me. Then some old dear came along and started having a go at me about how all the bits of plastic fairing were making the place untidy and I'd better pick them up! I was like WTF? Yeah of course madam, as soon as I get this f***Ing motorbike off me I'll get the broom out! FFS!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 12 February 2016, 01:05:19 pm
Dear Lord! Some people are amazing (if that's the right word).

I've had a couple of clumsy cnut moments where I've dropped the bike and people just don't offer to help, they just look at you as though you're a circus act.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 14 February 2016, 10:54:20 am
Back in my courier days I had a woman step out from behind a van, right in front of me. BANG! Me, her and my bike all over the road. Within seconds a lynch party congregated all muttering about how bikers are a danger on the road and I must have been going too fast etc.

No fucker asked if I was OK or offered to help.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: tommyardin on 27 February 2016, 12:33:15 am
Just write "selfish illiterate  foccer" on the windscreen with lipstick. (Sure your Mrs would have one she don't like). It's a sod to get off. Mind you then he'll be even more myopic on the way back and probably knock more bikers off.


What you mean 'his Mrs would have one she don't like' he's got loads of his own.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 01 March 2016, 03:13:16 pm
cars with stickers on the back window saying "Princess on Board"------- fucking morons.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 March 2016, 04:05:05 pm
cars with stickers on the back window saying "Princess on Board"------- fucking morons.

Think Princess Anne has one of those.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 01 March 2016, 07:10:00 pm
She used to have a reliant Scimitar you know.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: caretaker on 01 March 2016, 07:18:55 pm
woohoo!!! i had two of them. brilliant cars.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 March 2016, 07:35:00 pm
woohoo!!! i had two of them. brilliant cars.


Woo foccin hoo?! In a what gets my goat thread?! That really gets my goat!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 03 March 2016, 10:58:05 am
First Buses going at 20MPH to save fuel on a 30 MPH route---arseholes feck
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 03 March 2016, 03:03:45 pm
First Buses going at 20MPH to save fuel on a 30 MPH route---arseholes feck
Years ago you'd have been prosecuted for obstructing the flow of traffic by driving 10mph under the speed limit, now it seems every foccer does it regardless of the road conditions  :groan
I know someone who even failed their advanced driving exam for driving too slowly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 March 2016, 04:01:33 pm
:agree

Nowdays you have to go that slow to avoid the potholes and numpty pedestrians who step out without looking.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 03 March 2016, 08:41:57 pm
Idiots who dazzle you with badly adjusted HIDs and when you point at them and shade your eyes, think it's clever to hit the high-beams to leave you totally blind  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 03 March 2016, 08:46:20 pm
get the m8 nuts out mate
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 03 March 2016, 08:54:13 pm
get the m8 nuts out mate


Yup......so many uses for these bad boys  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 March 2016, 07:36:48 am
Idiots who dazzle you with badly adjusted HIDs and when you point at them and shade your eyes, think it's clever to hit the high-beams to leave you totally blind  :2guns


I'm sure some of these are European cars with the lights aiming the wrong way, 'cos when i go over a bridge near me i sometimes get properly blinded.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 04 March 2016, 02:51:36 pm
Most muppets that fit HIDs do not check the alignment after fitting them.
They also fail to realise that they are actually illegal unless you have automatic self levelling headlights and headlamp washers fitted to prevent dazzling oncoming traffic whenever they go over a bump in the road.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 05 March 2016, 11:09:26 am
Snow.


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/jonnyspatter/IMG_31191_zpsngphjkcv.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jonnyspatter/media/IMG_31191_zpsngphjkcv.jpg.html)



And inaccurate weather forecasts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 March 2016, 11:35:26 am
I like the way your bikes "ears" are folded back like it's cold
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 06 March 2016, 07:10:42 pm
You should've seen it's nutsack!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 07 March 2016, 04:52:21 pm
famous rugby players from the 70,s 80,s and 90,s.  making comments about todays games,  it is completely different game, keep there beaks out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 08 March 2016, 09:10:20 am
MP's who know fuck all about fuck all, and then try and tell us mere mortals how to live--fuck them all. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 19 March 2016, 07:25:40 pm
That American bloke on the telly just after the Gorilla glue advert who says "Okeefe's working hands" AAAAARRRRRHHHHH ! Find myself squeezing something very hard and audibly yelling the enlarged letters. :eek ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tu8uLmRKQJA#)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 21 March 2016, 12:49:51 pm
People who say..........."At the end of the day"

Recent knob on TV being asked about his breakfast............"Well, at the end of the day, its breakfast"

?????? WTF ???????
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 21 March 2016, 01:03:09 pm
People who say..........."At the end of the day"

Recent knob on TV being asked about his breakfast............"Well, at the end of the day, its breakfast"

?????? WTF ???????


Well, when all's said and done, it's just another phrase for saying all things considered, so after the dust has settled, at the end of the day.....the sun goes down  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 March 2016, 01:36:40 pm
To be fair I think you are both wrong
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 21 March 2016, 01:42:46 pm
With respect You're all c*nts!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 21 March 2016, 01:44:14 pm
To be fair I think you are both wrong


In the final analysis, at long last, and in the fullness of time, I think you'll find we're not  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 21 March 2016, 02:53:38 pm
at the end of the day it gets dark.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 March 2016, 03:22:24 pm
so we are all singing from the same hymn sheet
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 21 March 2016, 03:48:25 pm
cyclists (again...)


Not so much the general people out for a ride but the wannabies.  Was out for a quick ride at the weekend and going down a country road a huge "peloton" came around a 90 degree bend heading towards me, completely filling both sides, about 30 of em!  They were not for yielding either, I gradually moved over to the left as I approached but they stayed in situ, seemingly they were more concerned about keeping in their little formation.  It was only when the lead riders realized that I wasn't going to stop and/or ride right in the gutter for the assembled royalty that they started giving a sharp wave to the riders behind to move in.  Absolutely no nods to me that I had given them a wide berth on my side of the road or anything, more like looks of disgust as I had had the audacity to take my bike onto a cycling race track...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 21 March 2016, 06:27:15 pm
walking the dog the other day and seeing a woman in a 4 x 4 driving along with both hands doing her hair up into a pony tail  :\ FFS
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 March 2016, 08:21:09 pm
People in supermarkets who must be so starving or near death from dehydration that they cannot wait until they get home or even to the car and are eating/drinking the goods before they get to the checkout and pass an empty packet through the tills   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 21 March 2016, 08:54:31 pm
Yeah but at the end of the day, at least they paid for it  :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 21 March 2016, 09:31:44 pm
So, moving forward, I'd like to come back to this, so is it possible you all could diarise a forward thinking blue sky nudge in the very near future...shall we say six months!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 March 2016, 09:47:12 pm
Swap-out
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 21 March 2016, 10:01:46 pm
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwirkciJ49LLAhWLWhQKHeIUC8cQuAIIKjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dtu8uLmRKQJA&usg=AFQjCNH8yn9DDc9DpXBh66ZXqLYFO7_jPg (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwirkciJ49LLAhWLWhQKHeIUC8cQuAIIKjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dtu8uLmRKQJA&usg=AFQjCNH8yn9DDc9DpXBh66ZXqLYFO7_jPg) :wall :wall :wall :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 21 March 2016, 10:09:20 pm
Following in the bullshit manager vein, how many of us have the expert as in this clip?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 21 March 2016, 10:33:14 pm
staying on the shop theme........at Xmas/bank hols, people who load the trolley with 27 loaves (and there's not one left for me) who think they're going to starve to death when in reality the shop opens again in a day or two

tossers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 21 March 2016, 11:11:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tu8uLmRKQJA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tu8uLmRKQJA) :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 22 March 2016, 02:23:18 pm
Idiots who blow themselves up in airports and tube stations...... TWATS!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 22 March 2016, 02:56:19 pm
Idiots who blow themselves up in airports and tube stations...... TWATS!!!!

They can all blow themselves up as far as I am concerned, just wish they would it where there is no one else present.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 March 2016, 06:41:17 am
Idiots who blow themselves up in airports and tube stations...... TWATS!!!!

They can all blow themselves up as far as I am concerned, just wish they would it where there is no one else present.


It's just so unnecessary, and makes you feel so helpless when all this shit keeps happening.
All by some bunch of backward cnuts who are basically retarded and insane.


I think for starters that someone should announce worldwide that Syrians keep calling Kim Wrong'un a fat bastard with a soppy haircut, and let him do the job properly with his new toys he's itching to use.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 23 March 2016, 08:47:48 am
all shop assistants in Scotland who say to you after you have purchased something "Is that You" of course is me you the F*** do you think I am. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 March 2016, 10:00:29 am
The phrase "vast majority"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 March 2016, 01:41:50 pm
That "Big Bad Wolf" song that is constantly on radio and telly, i'm sick of it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 23 March 2016, 02:15:02 pm
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj5zN2I_9bLAhULnBoKHYfwAU4QtwIIMDAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl_UNyl7YkY4&usg=AFQjCNFKrxgELimM5aHY043RajzxrdKLiA&bvm=bv.117218890,d.d24 (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj5zN2I_9bLAhULnBoKHYfwAU4QtwIIMDAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl_UNyl7YkY4&usg=AFQjCNFKrxgELimM5aHY043RajzxrdKLiA&bvm=bv.117218890,d.d24)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tu8uLmRKQJA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tu8uLmRKQJA)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 24 March 2016, 09:34:26 am
People who advertise a bike as a particular year based on the reg plate knowing its not the actual model year then failing to mention that in the description.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 24 March 2016, 05:36:08 pm
Women & gardens.... in that order.  :'(
Have all the parts to do the following, steering head bearings, front brake pads, oil, filter etc you get the picture - a day in the garage.....
But noooo - the frigging Leylandi in the garden are coming down tomorrow.
The only positive I can see at the moment is that I get to play with a chainsaw - all 49hp of it :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 24 March 2016, 05:48:54 pm
Women & gardens.... in that order.  :'(
Have all the parts to do the following, steering head bearings, front brake pads, oil, filter etc you get the picture - a day in the garage.....
But noooo - the frigging Leylandi in the garden are coming down tomorrow.
The only positive I can see at the moment is that I get to play with a chainsaw - all 49hp of it :lol


 :eek  fook me a 49hp chain saw, please go steady.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 24 March 2016, 06:08:15 pm
Women & gardens.... in that order.  :'(
Have all the parts to do the following, steering head bearings, front brake pads, oil, filter etc you get the picture - a day in the garage.....
But noooo - the frigging Leylandi in the garden are coming down tomorrow.
The only positive I can see at the moment is that I get to play with a chainsaw - all 49hp of it :lol




49hp !!!!!.....you sure thats not 49cc ?........
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 24 March 2016, 06:22:24 pm
 :eek .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 24 March 2016, 06:34:29 pm
peado's
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 28 March 2016, 11:35:24 am
peado's
I'll probably get flamed to fuck for this but the special hatred reserved for paedos bugs me, like it's somehow less disgusting to rape an adult. I know a few folk who've been raped, some as kids, some as adults, and they've all been through the same hell.
Rapists of adults deserve no better treatment than paedos IMO, I don't differentiate between the two.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 28 March 2016, 03:42:43 pm
peado's
I'll probably get flamed to fuck for this but the special hatred reserved for paedos bugs me, like it's somehow less disgusting to rape an adult. I know a few folk who've been raped, some as kids, some as adults, and they've all been through the same hell.
Rapists of adults deserve no better treatment than paedos IMO, I don't differentiate between the two.
:agree

I'll not flame you for that thought ;)

It's the same thing in my book too
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 28 March 2016, 03:43:31 pm
I agree Rape is Rape
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 29 March 2016, 01:34:12 pm
HGV drivers that "police" dual carriageways when they are busy, to stop cars legitimately overtaking and then filtering in!! especially on A303 where it says "When busy use both lanes" & "merge in turn"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Deefer666 on 29 March 2016, 04:47:56 pm
Everyone.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 29 March 2016, 05:38:07 pm
Main dealers who can't be arsed to ring you back when you've already phoned them twice today to buy an 8 Grand bike.
They obviously don't need the sale.  (http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy231/celticfisherman_photos/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif) (http://s795.photobucket.com/user/celticfisherman_photos/media/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 29 March 2016, 07:45:04 pm
Main dealers who can't be arsed to ring you back when you've already phoned them twice today to buy an 8 Grand bike.
They obviously don't need the sale.  ([url]http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy231/celticfisherman_photos/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif[/url]) ([url]http://s795.photobucket.com/user/celticfisherman_photos/media/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif.html[/url])



Ha it took a ford main dealer 6 weeks to call me back when i wanted to arrange a test drive that day.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: david095 on 29 March 2016, 10:39:29 pm
three word story   :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 30 March 2016, 09:26:42 am
David, fuck off ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 March 2016, 01:28:20 pm
Why can't workmen fill in all the damn potholes in a street while they've got the tarmac to hand, rather than just filling in the biggest ones?


And what the feck are they making roads with these days, is it some form of marmite and breadcrumb combo?
They just seem to be disintergrating really quickly.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 31 March 2016, 07:58:21 am
Sky TV.  You pay all that money a month and it's packed with adverts!  I can make breakfast, pop the TV on while eating it, usually it's just adverts. Finish eating, turn TV off and go to work having only watched ads
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 31 March 2016, 10:00:14 am
Ryanair....a bit late but only just read about it!

first they want loads of money off people to fly home from a terrorist attack (why can't HMG send a big fuck off plane in and fly everyone out?) then they see LFC have drawn Dortmund and double or treble the price of a flight ticket (don't start about supply and demand :evil)
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: mr self destruct on 31 March 2016, 10:24:15 am
Sky TV.  You pay all that money a month and it's packed with adverts!  I can make breakfast, pop the TV on while eating it, usually it's just adverts. Finish eating, turn TV off and go to work having only watched ads


That's why I won't pay for TV on principle (apart from the licence). I'll stick with my Freesat box.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 31 March 2016, 06:20:25 pm
Politicians and Union leaders who end every sentence with " The Business Going Forward".
Well it would be no good if it was going foccing backwards would it you fecking feckwits ??  :wall :grumble


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 31 March 2016, 06:56:44 pm
Gift vouchers........., had a few" infinity motorcycles" gift vouchers for christmas, did'nt know they are only valid for 6 mths from purchase, nothing on the vouchers, just pure chance I found out........got caught out a few years back with some amazon ones........thieving bast* rds......why do they have to have a use by date    :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 31 March 2016, 07:04:35 pm
Main dealers who can't be arsed to ring you back when you've already phoned them twice today to buy an 8 Grand bike.
They obviously don't need the sale.  ([url]http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy231/celticfisherman_photos/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif[/url]) ([url]http://s795.photobucket.com/user/celticfisherman_photos/media/Smilies/rant2_zps2bbb4fc6.gif.html[/url])



You obviously dont need a tracer Grayo :lol .........was behind one today & it sounded really nice....still prefer the naked MT09 personally........p.s i cant find those pegs anywhere sorry, magpies have nicked them maybe.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 31 March 2016, 10:03:30 pm
Sky TV.  You pay all that money a month and it's packed with adverts!  I can make breakfast, pop the TV on while eating it, usually it's just adverts. Finish eating, turn TV off and go to work having only watched ads

That's what Sky+ is for!

Switch on the Box, press pause, go and make breakfast, then, once you're eating it, unpause and skip through the ads :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 01 April 2016, 02:04:33 am
Don't talk to me about sky! the Missus is bending my ear- they've put the price up cunts!  :eek
aNYWAY, what's the deal with this amazon firestick thingy?


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 01 April 2016, 09:11:47 am
people praising other people that they have just dismissed from their job---insincerity rules ok---B******s
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 01 April 2016, 04:41:24 pm
Why can't workmen fill in all the damn potholes in a street while they've got the tarmac to hand, rather than just filling in the biggest ones?


And what the feck are they making roads with these days, is it some form of marmite and breadcrumb combo?
They just seem to be disintergrating really quickly.

Do you live near me? It's really shite the way they repair roads round here. They even stopped tarmacing in the middle of a rut because the depth was marginally less than the minimum. FFS, what do they think will happen next, the bleeding new tarmac will peel up because the jobs not finished properly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 April 2016, 05:13:11 pm
Why can't workmen fill in all the damn potholes in a street while they've got the tarmac to hand, rather than just filling in the biggest ones?


And what the feck are they making roads with these days, is it some form of marmite and breadcrumb combo?
They just seem to be disintergrating really quickly.

Do you live near me? It's really shite the way they repair roads round here. They even stopped tarmacing in the middle of a rut because the depth was marginally less than the minimum. FFS, what do they think will happen next, the bleeding new tarmac will peel up because the jobs not finished properly.

I took a different route home last night so had to keep my eyes peeled for potholes, but still ended up whacking one full on, but they look like they've been dug with a shovel these days rather than just slowly growing bigger.
I've never seen so many that are so bad before.
It's a proper nightmare when riding in the dark, especially if it's raining 'cos they just fill up with water and resemble a puddle.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 01 April 2016, 06:51:06 pm
And the further north you go, the worse they are.
Here's one that Hedgetrimmer rode into in Cumbria recently.


(http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy231/celticfisherman_photos/Junk/Pothole_zps2oxee4xy.jpg) (http://s795.photobucket.com/user/celticfisherman_photos/media/Junk/Pothole_zps2oxee4xy.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slimwilly on 01 April 2016, 07:43:27 pm
Cars on the side of a road with a notice in the window saying " FOR SALE" then about sixteen pages telling you how many miles to the gallon  and how carefully it has been driven, its had a new clutch,all new brakes, reconned engine, wheel bearings, new alternator, reconned starter , (foocked really)    and then at the bottom in small writing that you can NEVER see is the price,,,,,,how much,,umm I wonder ,,,,,,I am not stopping and going back,,fock um......fools

All they need is one piece of paper with £2,000  written on it in big writing,, fools the lot of em
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 01 April 2016, 08:59:32 pm
Slim has started me off now.


Bike sellers that say that shit "runs like it should"...,,,coulda, woulda, shoulda, give a focca....does it run good or does it run shit, none o that slopey shouldered should shit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 April 2016, 09:20:36 pm
Slim has started me off now.


Bike sellers that say that shit "runs like it should"...,,,coulda, woulda, shoulda, give a focca....does it run good or does it run shit, none o that slopey shouldered should shit.

Problem with that is that my ideology of a bike running really well can be a million miles off someone elses beliefs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 01 April 2016, 10:01:52 pm
Slim has started me off now.


Bike sellers that say that shit "runs like it should"...,,,coulda, woulda, shoulda, give a focca....does it run good or does it run shit, none o that slopey shouldered should shit.

Problem with that is that my ideology of a bike running really well can be a million miles off someone elses beliefs.


But who's to say that their idea of how it should run is in fact the way it should run?....unless they are motorcycle clairvoyants :evil [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 April 2016, 10:19:12 pm
Slim has started me off now.


Bike sellers that say that shit "runs like it should"...,,,coulda, woulda, shoulda, give a focca....does it run good or does it run shit, none o that slopey shouldered should shit.

Problem with that is that my ideology of a bike running really well can be a million miles off someone elses beliefs.


But who's to say that their idea of how it should run is in fact the way it should run?....unless they are motorcycle clairvoyants :evil [size=78%] [/size]

I think that's what i just said, but in a more understandable way?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 01 April 2016, 10:39:38 pm
Wanky rugby refs who spoil a game with crap decisions that i paid to see.
I am not bad loser, because my side suck, just like their main sponsor Dyson.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 01 April 2016, 10:54:56 pm
crap decisions that i paid to see.


Why would you pay to see crap decisions  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: noggythenog on 02 April 2016, 09:20:35 am
Slim has started me off now.


Bike sellers that say that shit "runs like it should"...,,,coulda, woulda, shoulda, give a focca....does it run good or does it run shit, none o that slopey shouldered should shit.

Problem with that is that my ideology of a bike running really well can be a million miles off someone elses beliefs.


But who's to say that their idea of how it should run is in fact the way it should run?....unless they are motorcycle clairvoyants :evil

I think that's what i just said, but in a more understandable way?


Writed like you should
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 02 April 2016, 09:28:28 am
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Can I get a coffee?"


NO YOU CAN'T FUCKING GET A COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE ONE AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER WILL GET IT FOR YOU!!!!!!  FUCKING FUCKTARDS!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :grumble :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 02 April 2016, 09:45:13 am
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Can I get a coffee?"


NO YOU CAN'T FUCKING GET A COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE ONE AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER WILL GET IT FOR YOU!!!!!!  FUCKING FUCKTARDS!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :grumble :2guns


Don't get me started on coffee! Starbucks, I hate starbucks, I hate the way they ask you your name to write it on your cup, I hate their overpriced flapjacks, I hate their corporate log, I hate the fact that they're everywhere, I hate the tall, grande , venti sizes, its small, medium and large, when the fcuk did tall ever mean 'small'. I hate starbucks, tax dodging cnuts!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 April 2016, 12:44:42 pm
And the further north you go, the worse they are.
Here's one that Hedgetrimmer rode into in Cumbria recently.


([url]http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy231/celticfisherman_photos/Junk/Pothole_zps2oxee4xy.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s795.photobucket.com/user/celticfisherman_photos/media/Junk/Pothole_zps2oxee4xy.jpg.html[/url])



Funny how all of these roads look in better shape than where i live in NW London.  :look


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3503086/From-China-s-highway-water-world-s-longest-tunnel-bizarre-thrilling-driving-roads-earth-revealed.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3503086/From-China-s-highway-water-world-s-longest-tunnel-bizarre-thrilling-driving-roads-earth-revealed.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 02 April 2016, 03:31:10 pm
rugby players throwing there toys out of the pram when a decision dont go there way..  sometimes it goes the other way they dont cry and stamp there feet then.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 April 2016, 11:25:45 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Can I get a coffee?"


NO YOU CAN'T FUCKING GET A COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE ONE AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER WILL GET IT FOR YOU!!!!!!  FUCKING FUCKTARDS!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :grumble :2guns


Don't get me started on coffee! Starbucks, I hate starbucks, I hate the way they ask you your name to write it on your cup, I hate their overpriced flapjacks, I hate their corporate log, I hate the fact that they're everywhere, I hate the tall, grande , venti sizes, its small, medium and large, when the fcuk did tall ever mean 'small'. I hate starbucks, tax dodging cnuts!
You don't dislike them that much because clearly you have been in there many times.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: greg1953 on 03 April 2016, 09:12:08 am
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Can I get a coffee?"


NO YOU CAN'T FUCKING GET A COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE ONE AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER WILL GET IT FOR YOU!!!!!!  FUCKING FUCKTARDS!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :grumble :2guns


Don't get me started on coffee! Starbucks, I hate starbucks, I hate the way they ask you your name to write it on your cup, I hate their overpriced flapjacks, I hate their corporate log, I hate the fact that they're everywhere, I hate the tall, grande , venti sizes, its small, medium and large, when the fcuk did tall ever mean 'small'. I hate starbucks, tax dodging cnuts!
I remember when 9/11 happened there was a comment that NYC Firefighters had been refused water at Starbucks as they had rushed out without any cash....they've never had a penny from me ....while we're on the subject of moans I'm hoping that if we leave Europe we won't hear kilometres etc on the tv instead of miles and people who say" hommage and uber .....can't stand this euro talk crap...that's all.
Greg
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 April 2016, 11:49:47 am
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Can I get a coffee?"


NO YOU CAN'T FUCKING GET A COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE ONE AND THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER WILL GET IT FOR YOU!!!!!!  FUCKING FUCKTARDS!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :grumble :2guns


Don't get me started on coffee! Starbucks, I hate starbucks, I hate the way they ask you your name to write it on your cup, I hate their overpriced flapjacks, I hate their corporate log, I hate the fact that they're everywhere, I hate the tall, grande , venti sizes, its small, medium and large, when the fcuk did tall ever mean 'small'. I hate starbucks, tax dodging cnuts!
I remember when 9/11 happened there was a comment that NYC Firefighters had been refused water at Starbucks as they had rushed out without any cash....they've never had a penny from me ....while we're on the subject of moans I'm hoping that if we leave Europe we won't hear kilometres etc on the tv instead of miles and people who say" hommage and uber .....can't stand this euro talk crap...that's all.
Greg


 :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 05 April 2016, 08:28:42 am
A bunch of these old has been celebs about to be inflicted on us in a new style driving entertainment show for 5 weeks, it's just a fuckin pension top up for useless bastards, Johnnie Vegas et all useless prats each and everyone of them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 April 2016, 09:01:26 am
Fake adverts where the actors are being portrayed as real people with stuttering and pauses included in the script 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 April 2016, 12:00:28 pm
Fake adverts where the actors are being portrayed as real people with stuttering and pauses included in the script

I make a living out of these people.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 April 2016, 12:04:24 pm
Fake adverts where the actors are being portrayed as real people with stuttering and pauses included in the script

Same as people who over act, or worse still people who can't stop acting even in real life.
The luvvie Emma Thompson springs to mind.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 05 April 2016, 07:00:33 pm
Pizza delivery boys on scooters in Stratford on a death wish coming up my left side and going straight on at the lights as I'm turning left with my indicators on in my astra van. No wonder so many of them are killed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 06 April 2016, 11:48:34 am
people selling cars or bikes, and say it owes me.       example car for sale yesterday 12 grand,   but have spent 17, on it last year  yes right.  more fool you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 06 April 2016, 08:23:12 pm
red tape/goons hiding behind it

had to ring DWP to enquire after the wife's pension since the stroke...................sorry we cannot talk to you.........but I've already spoken to you once and passed the security.....................cut a long story short, ask for supervisor and she says the same. I say I'm not asking for the code to the bank of England, all I want to know is where is the paperwork you were sending out 10 days ago?

due to data protection, I cannot confirm if the letter has been posted or not..........................GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR

F**K O** YOU T**T THE PROBLEM IS WITH YOUR END NOT ME, GET A F****N GRIP OF YOUR PEOPLE

I'll feed your feedback into the system she said



guess what I told her?

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 April 2016, 08:36:59 pm
Oh yeh that one will push my buttons every time --- a call from my gas supplier or whoever. I say
 is it about my overdue payment
we can not tell you anything until you confirm who you are mr fazersharp
Yep thats me
Well we have to ask you some security questions
well what for - YOU rang me !
whats your post code and DoB
Well hold on how do I know who YOU are - whats my customer number
We cannot tell you until you confirm your post code and DoB
Well I ant telling you that until you prove who YOU are
At this point they are now getting shirty with ME ffs
Well mr Fazersharp if you will not confirm your id I am afraid I am going to have to end this call
WELL FOCING GREAT - I never asked you to call in the first place -- the cheque is in the post.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 April 2016, 08:38:59 pm
red tape/goons hiding behind it

had to ring DWP to enquire after the wife's pension since the stroke...................sorry we cannot talk to you.........but I've already spoken to you once and passed the security.....................cut a long story short, ask for supervisor and she says the same. I say I'm not asking for the code to the bank of England, all I want to know is where is the paperwork you were sending out 10 days ago?

due to data protection, I cannot confirm if the letter has been posted or not..........................GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR

F**K O** YOU T**T THE PROBLEM IS WITH YOUR END NOT ME, GET A F****N GRIP OF YOUR PEOPLE

I'll feed your feedback into the system she said



guess what I told her?


Do you not have power of attorney over your wife's affairs?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 06 April 2016, 09:06:53 pm
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

don't get me fuckin started on powers of attorney :tape


she said I'd have to go down that route, I said me wife's in bed not in the fucking grave, she's had a stroke and I'm just trying to sort things without stressing her even more

blah blah blah she says, so I said to her...............you really expect me to go and pay a solicitor just so I can speak with you?................I don't have 2 minutes to myself let alone going out to meet a brief, FFS get a grip of your organisation. I'm off with stress and you're just adding to my woes












CNUT
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pilninggas on 06 April 2016, 10:01:16 pm
Oh yeh that one will push my buttons every time --- a call from my gas supplier or whoever. I say
 is it about my overdue payment
we can not tell you anything until you confirm who you are mr fazersharp
Yep thats me
Well we have to ask you some security questions
well what for - YOU rang me !
whats your post code and DoB
Well hold on how do I know who YOU are - whats my customer number
We cannot tell you until you confirm your post code and DoB
Well I ant telling you that until you prove who YOU are
At this point they are now getting shirty with ME ffs
Well mr Fazersharp if you will not confirm your id I am afraid I am going to have to end this call
WELL FOCING GREAT - I never asked you to call in the first place -- the cheque is in the post.

Had the exact same thing the other day.

"Hi Pilninggas, this a call about your lectric a-cunt.

-Can you confirm your postcode", me -"No, you called me, you could be anyone, how's the weather in Lagos?" "Um, about your postcode". "Do one pal, you called me, now sling your hook", hang-up.

They can send me a red letter.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 07 April 2016, 12:43:00 pm
To be fair they have to confirm they are speaking to the right person. We have to do that when we phone up patients from the hospital. Some people don't want other people to know they are ill or possibly what they are ill with, so we have to make sure it is the patient before we disclose any details. Mind you the bank or whoever should be expected to prove who they are as well.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 07 April 2016, 01:04:42 pm
I had a great one like this with a credit card agency a few years ago,
they rang me bout paying off the balance , but somewhere along line the card had swapped agency's and they had put my DOB in wrong!
Hi Mr Robbie can you confirm your date of birth
Yes its 8 6 66
no that's not correct do you use another one?
no I'm not the queen I only have one birthday a year on 8th June every year!
well we can progress this call
can I speak to your supervisor please?
they will only tell you the same thing !
that's fine transfer me to your supervisor
hello supervisor speaking
you've got my date of birth wrong in your system
no we haven't
oh that's fine then in that case can i have a transcript of this conversation please?
whys that?
so when I don't pay my balance off you cant take me to court because I don't exist on your system as my date of birth is wrong!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: david095 on 07 April 2016, 07:10:43 pm
David, fuck off ;)

 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 10 April 2016, 03:59:13 pm
In the cage with the family struggling to get through city centre traffic which is in gridlock due to a half marathon race. I'm blocking a junction for about a few seconds longer than necessary due to nose to tail cars. Fat wanker in a full race suit out with his mates all on their expensive toys gives me the head shake like I'm a fucking idiot!!  :2guns  Get a life you middle aged obnoxious fat cunt, go back to your garage with your sunday fair weather toy and get waxing, it's about all you and your bike are good for.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 19 April 2016, 10:24:43 pm
amateur family chefs


you know the ones.............they make you a great pie/meal/pudding etc and you ask how do you do that, what did you put in it.....I'd love to have a go?


oooohhhhhh.....I can't tell you


well foc right off then.......do you think I'm a spy from M&S or I'm about to sell a trade secret to some Michelin starred chef?

all I want to do is make the family/mates the same wonderful meal that you just made for me......FFS!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 21 April 2016, 07:45:55 am
Carole Nash Insurance who I rang up to see if my bike keys were covered for theft when we were burgled in Barcelona ( bike outside locked to a tree )
..They said no sorry....but 3 years later brought it up as a theft that I hadn't told them about !!

I said my wifes  i pad was nicked too that aint covered by you , wanna load me for that ? its nothing to do with my bike insurance if you don't cover it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 21 April 2016, 10:24:07 am
Dumb sale's team at pro bolt. Sent and email explaining I needed a m10 bolt with a shoulder length of 40mm or just under, sent me a link for a 40mm bolt, sent another email explaining that the shoulder is the unthreaded part of the fastener and that the bolt length isn't important, just the shoulder length (I can cut the thread down)

She sent a link to two more bolts but no dimensions  :wall :wall :wall

Focin prices they charge for their products you'd think they'd employ someone who knew what the foc I wanted
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 21 April 2016, 10:42:15 am
Another thing that piss's me off is when I dont read the focin email correctly and jump to conclusions lol

Bit of egg on my face  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 21 April 2016, 05:26:44 pm
Sellers on Ebay who do not put you name or house number on the package. How  foccing hard can it be? :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 26 April 2016, 11:46:54 pm
all the rats in power who labelled me and my City as murderers who pissed on the Police and pickpocketed from the dead. You've all gone into hiding and fucking quiet today, you bunch of fucking shithouses
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 May 2016, 01:52:39 pm
The big outcry about there not being enough women in job certain roles, as in today the BBC bleating on about there are not enough women film directors.
The BBC never moans that there are not enough Men as nursery school teachers do they.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 06 May 2016, 02:45:40 pm
:agree

I work in an industry that was historically a male industry. Now women are being promoted above men simply because they are women rather than on merit or experience. Its the same in many other industries and not just related to male/female but for ethnic reasons.

Look at the police and fire service for example. They reduced the height requirements and the strength tests to get women and small Asians etc into the mix simply to meet some unreasonable target. The result is now that some fire service staff don't have the physical strength  to carry someone out of a burning building and coppers who cant hold their own in a pub brawl.

People should be recruited/promoted to do a job because they can meet the requirements for that job, not dumb down the job so that they can meet some other non-sensible requirement.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 May 2016, 04:08:12 pm
How come in the winter you have the heating on 20 degrees and you are still cold in bed, but then come the summer and its 20 degrees at night and the weather presenters start saying it will be uncomfortable sleeping
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 May 2016, 04:16:58 pm
How come in the winter you have the heating on 20 degrees and you are still cold in bed, but then come the summer and its 20 degrees at night and the weather presenters start saying it will be uncomfortable sleeping


https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2p0455/eli5_why_do_i_feel_colder_inside_my_house_in_the/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2p0455/eli5_why_do_i_feel_colder_inside_my_house_in_the/)
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 07 May 2016, 04:26:54 pm
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

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Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Freck on 07 May 2016, 05:53:19 pm
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

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This really p@&*es me off too. Also when people stop in a queue at the lights but stop 10 feet from the car in front, then once you've stopped behind them they move forward.  :rolleyes
My car's got start/stop on it so when they move forward my engine's already shut down to save fuel. If I move forward too, the start/stop function doesn't work again.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 May 2016, 06:13:21 pm
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

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This really p@&*es me off too. Also when people stop in a queue at the lights but stop 10 feet from the car in front, then once you've stopped behind them they move forward.  :rolleyes
My car's got start/stop on it so when they move forward my engine's already shut down to save fuel. If I move forward too, the start/stop function doesn't work again.  :groan
Oh yeh that gets my goat too, even though I dont have the stop start shit, dont mine the big gap at the front though when I am on my bike and filtering-----I just say "thak-you" for saving me a space
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 May 2016, 08:15:27 pm
How come in the winter you have the heating on 20 degrees and you are still cold in bed, but then come the summer and its 20 degrees at night and the weather presenters start saying it will be uncomfortable sleeping

 :lol. That's just one of life's mysteries ;).

 I'm yet to find anyone who can tell me why golf caddie's at the big tournaments carry that great big bag around on their shoulder rather than just use a trolley to wheel it around like everyone else does :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 07 May 2016, 09:17:02 pm
B.G.T.
Should be W.T.F.?

Surely the point of this program should be to find talent that isn't singing, I'm not saying singing isn't talent but is that not what they have that other show for?

Rant over, beer time :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 07 May 2016, 10:39:08 pm
Fuckwits like Joey Essex being worth £4.5m - I work bloody hard and use my brain...........WTF  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 07 May 2016, 11:56:54 pm
How come in the winter you have the heating on 20 degrees and you are still cold in bed, but then come the summer and its 20 degrees at night and the weather presenters start saying it will be uncomfortable sleeping

 :lol . That's just one of life's mysteries ;) .

 I'm yet to find anyone who can tell me why golf caddie's at the big tournaments carry that great big bag around on their shoulder rather than just use a trolley to wheel it around like everyone else does :rolleyes

I want to know where does the dark go when you turn the light on..............
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: mr self destruct on 08 May 2016, 08:26:26 am
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

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Is it that there is a space reserved for cyclists at the front? We have a lot of them in Coventry and it annoys me when people in cars ignore them and go right to the line.


(http://www.drivingtesttips.biz/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cyclist-box-traffic-lights.jpg)


Having said that I've yet to see a cyclist apart from myself  actually obey the lights in the first place so fuck knows why these were invented!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 08 May 2016, 08:44:33 am
No, back from the white line.  As freck says it actually helps you because you can just take a normal position when filtering rather than having to keep between cars. 

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 08 May 2016, 08:48:20 am
Ahh fair enough then, I'm right with you on that one!  :D
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: darrsi on 08 May 2016, 08:58:30 am
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

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Is it that there is a space reserved for cyclists at the front? We have a lot of them in Coventry and it annoys me when people in cars ignore them and go right to the line.


([url]http://www.drivingtesttips.biz/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cyclist-box-traffic-lights.jpg[/url])


Having said that I've yet to see a cyclist apart from myself  actually obey the lights in the first place so fuck knows why these were invented!  :lol



I know motorbikes aren't s'posed to go in these boxes, but i did always wonder if i could argue the fact that on the old tax discs it blatantly did say "bicycle" on them!
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 08 May 2016, 09:51:39 am
I use them often, especially if I am between trucks that might not have seen me.

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 08 May 2016, 01:04:37 pm
What's with more.and more people stopping short at traffic lights.  I am noticing it more often now, filter up to red lights and the front car is a car length back from the white line.

What's the problem? It means you can filter past, move into that space, then pull away without worrying about some twat trying to beat you off the line :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 08 May 2016, 01:07:05 pm
I know motorbikes aren't s'posed to go in these boxes, but i did always wonder if i could argue the fact that on the old tax discs it blatantly did say "bicycle" on them!

There was a video clip of someone who deliberately rode his motorbike in a cycle lane when Police were checking and tried to make the same argument.

Nice try, but he still got a £30 fine...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 08 May 2016, 01:19:56 pm
when people stop in a queue at the lights but stop 10 feet from the car in front, then once you've stopped behind them they move forward.  :rolleyes

Because if the idiot behind approaches too fast, you've got a bit of space to move into, rather than having them slam into your rear.

Also Bike instructors teach you to leave a bike and a half's length between you and the vehicle in front so, if they break down or you need to avoid someone behind you, you've got room to pull past.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 08 May 2016, 02:52:19 pm
Didn't say there was a problem....

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 09 May 2016, 07:09:12 am
I was at a rehearsal yesterday afternoon and had gone there on the bike.  Popped out at half time for a bit of fresh air and there was someone I didn't know, having a chat around my bike (nothing wrong with that) but using the tail of my bike as a table for her tea and biscuits!  :eek   Really love, would you do that to someone's car?


I politely asked her not to do it and all was well, but, some poeple!  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 09 May 2016, 06:30:04 pm
I was at a rehearsal yesterday afternoon and had gone there on the bike.  Popped out at half time for a bit of fresh air and there was someone I didn't know, having a chat around my bike (nothing wrong with that) but using the tail of my bike as a table for her tea and biscuits!  :eek   Really love, would you do that to someone's car?


I politely asked her not to do it and all was well, but, some poeple!  :(


They have got a cheek haven't they! >:


Years ago when I had my brand new RD350 F2, I came back to find someone had left their bicycle parked leant up against it >:

Guess I was lucky they hadn't actually locked it to it :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 10 May 2016, 12:31:40 pm
Insurance, how the foc do they calculate it?
Recieved stupid renewal quote from Carole Nash of £256, which included a broker fee of £50! Told them on phone I would not be renewing with them at any price and went online.
Got a quote of £101 from Bennets, went to their website to buy it and when checking it realised I had put wrong birth year in, 1947 instead of 1957, then the quote changed to £98, also realised I should tell them  that I am a named driver on my sons` Peugeot Boxer van who is in the middle of trying to get a claim settled against an asshole of a DPD driver who reversed into him and and is denying liability even though the dashcam shows him doing it, and then the quote changed to £92!
So come on, how the foc do they calculate it, someone must know.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 May 2016, 01:14:56 pm
First one is easy Slappy.

Based on what you told them, £101.. You then tell them you are actually young enough to have most of your faculties still, so they reduced it a bit as you are less of a risk (£98) then you told them that you wont be out on the road all of the time being a risk to others at their expense as you are a named driver on something else so they revised it down again to £92.


Work this one out though. I have two bikes on my multibike policy. Aparently, with Hastings, you cant have three bikes on a multibike policy so had to take out another policy with zero no claims etc. £170.
Went elsewhere with the same details and got it for £72. This is a 900i Triumph Tiger with no no-claims. I'm a youngster at 47 too!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 May 2016, 01:26:19 pm
Another insurance anomaly, not a bike but when I was first looking for insurance quotes for my daughters car.
She had just passed her test and I was getting some quote on different cars so we could then get a car that we know would be cheep insurance.
The section how long held a full licence, when I was looking at the time with 1 month having passed it was dearer than if I said 2 months having passed which was for when we may find a car.
So every month she held a full licence for the quote came down by something like £20 even though she had no extra driving experience.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 10 May 2016, 11:41:05 pm
Insurance, how the foc do they calculate it?

Simple, they pick a number out of the air and think "can we get away with charging some mug that?"

If you challenge it, then, miraculously, they find a "better deal" (which they should have offered you in the first place)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 11 May 2016, 02:48:02 am
Just arranged a Latvian friend his 2nd year of insurance, he'd been third party only with lot's of restrictions to keep the 1st year as low as possible, directline (his present insurer) renewal was about £900, which was more or less what he paid for the 1st, with all the same restrictions. An online quote on one of the money saving sites was £513 fully comp with only a milage restriction. I called directline to see if they could compete, £1050 was the best they could do......

How the foc does that work
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 May 2016, 06:10:19 am
Just arranged a Latvian friend his 2nd year of insurance, he'd been third party only with lot's of restrictions to keep the 1st year as low as possible, directline (his present insurer) renewal was about £900, which was more or less what he paid for the 1st, with all the same restrictions. An online quote on one of the money saving sites was £513 fully comp with only a milage restriction. I called directline to see if they could compete, £1050 was the best they could do......

How the foc does that work


Bollox to that mileage restriction deal, that reminds me of the one where they fit a black box tracker and monitor you constantly in your car, i'm not sure if they do it on bikes yet though?.
I got that one year for a mate of mine and the restrictions are a joke, they stitch you up from all sides, and if you consider a 2nd year what they did with him was make the total mileage of his first years driving the upper limit for the next year. Problem is, he was deliberately taking it easy the first year so as not to exceed his given limit.
Then they charged him to remove the tracker when he complained about it.


I fully understand this would be your own fault, but if i remember correctly there was a clause that if you "accidently" exceed 100mph, the tracker clocks it and you become uninsured as your policy instantly gets cancelled!
FOC that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 11 May 2016, 06:31:00 am
When you lose your car keys and tear the house apart looking for them because you can't remember actually having them in the house after you get home, and you worry all night that you might have dropped them outside and some thieving little shit has taken them with the intention of coming back later to take the car, and you tell this to your wife and she worries about it too, and the next day you get a call from your mate asking for a lift so you take the spare keys and drive the car to his house, but your mrs assumes you've gone on your bike so when she gets out of the shower and sees the car gone she calls the police and reports it stolen, and the first thing you know about this is when you and your mate get pulled over by the coppers, and it turns out your darling little 17 month old daughter had put your keys in the kitchen bin which you'd emptied into the wheelie bin so had to go through all the old cat food and shit just to get it back!


Yeah that gets my goat.  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: greg1953 on 11 May 2016, 07:47:03 am
On a similar vein to the insurance issues...we are with Scottish Power for gas & elec. and our elec meter recently went mad so my wife rang them to sort out the readings...after this was done she asked if they could offer us a better deal, less than two minutes later he comes back with, "how about £30 pm less ?".Why the f..k couldn't they do this in the first place ? moral of the tale..question every bill these days ,these people are doing as they please.
Greg
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 May 2016, 09:49:33 am
On a similar vein to the insurance issues...we are with Scottish Power for gas & elec. and our elec meter recently went mad so my wife rang them to sort out the readings...after this was done she asked if they could offer us a better deal, less than two minutes later he comes back with, "how about £30 pm less ?".Why the f..k couldn't they do this in the first place ? moral of the tale..question every bill these days ,these people are doing as they please.
Greg

My workmate rings the same insurance firm he uses every year to challenge his new quote that he's received through the post, and they ask him every time "Who is your cheaper quote with?"
And he answers "You......online."  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 11 May 2016, 02:25:03 pm
Insurance for my son on a 20 year old 125 is about £900. If I insure the bike but with him as the main user it's about £350. And they wonder why there are so many uninsured vehicles around.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: rayburn600 on 11 May 2016, 06:08:31 pm
Why, after you have booked your flight, had your holiday, do you get e mails telling you of special deals on flights from where you've been to, where you been from, cheaper than you bought when you went?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Stewie on 12 May 2016, 02:43:07 pm
On a similar vein to the insurance issues...we are with Scottish Power for gas & elec. and our elec meter recently went mad so my wife rang them to sort out the readings...after this was done she asked if they could offer us a better deal, less than two minutes later he comes back with, "how about £30 pm less ?".Why the f..k couldn't they do this in the first place ? moral of the tale..question every bill these days ,these people are doing as they please.
Greg


Those buggers are even more clever than the insurance companies.
They reduce your monthly direct debit but then you start running up a bill because you are not paying enough to cover the costs of what you use so then they send you a huge bill at the end of the year.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 May 2016, 03:21:23 pm
I put my bike value down at £1000 (i know in reality it's probably less) but look at the excess these jokers want!  :rolleyes



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 01 June 2016, 10:26:06 am
idiots working for the council

ring up and say I need to sort a proxy vote for the euro stay/leave vote and she says I can go online and complete the form and email it to them or she can post forms out. I opt for online...........big mistake

fills most of the form out but it won't allow me to enter DOB or sign in the box, ring the council again who say that I need to print it off and countersign it and post it to them......................FFS

why didn't she say this at the start?
I tell her she may as well have just posted the forms out to begin with and she asks if I want her to do that....YES FFS WHY WOULD I NOT WANT YOU TO SEEING AS HOW I CAN'T COMPLETE ONLINE?

 FOCKWIT
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 01 June 2016, 09:55:39 pm
Read an article the other day with a link to the tps (telephone preference service) Though it would be a good idea to register and add my phone number to stop all the ppi calls once and for all. Now to register your number you had to give a valid email address, which of course I did, and guess what, no calls, but 200+ spam emails this morning alone......... Not impressed
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 01 June 2016, 10:03:25 pm
Foccin trucks that tailgate then when they overtake you the driver gives a few hand signals suggesting hurry up etc etc then to top it off they cut my nose off as they just pass me nearly causing a fekkin accident!

And yes it's while I'm driving my truck they do it, no wonder truck drivers in general get a bad name! I think it's down to how they get paid, probably by the quicker they can do the job the more they get whereas I'm salaried so not on any bonus to drive upto 44t trucks like an ass! 
:groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 01 June 2016, 10:12:54 pm
Foccin trucks that tailgate then when they overtake you the driver gives a few hand signals suggesting hurry up etc etc then to top it off they cut my nose off as they just pass me nearly causing a fekkin accident!

And yes it's while I'm driving my truck they do it, no wonder truck drivers in general get a bad name! I think it's down to how they get paid, probably by the quicker they can do the job the more they get whereas I'm salaried so not on any bonus to drive upto 44t trucks like an ass! 
 :groan


I'm guessing you know where the indicator is then!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 01 June 2016, 10:21:34 pm
Foccin trucks that tailgate then when they overtake you the driver gives a few hand signals suggesting hurry up etc etc then to top it off they cut my nose off as they just pass me nearly causing a fekkin accident!

And yes it's while I'm driving my truck they do it, no wonder truck drivers in general get a bad name! I think it's down to how they get paid, probably by the quicker they can do the job the more they get whereas I'm salaried so not on any bonus to drive upto 44t trucks like an ass! 
 :groan


I'm guessing you know where the indicator is then!

Being Scottish he's probably to tight to use them  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 01 June 2016, 10:31:02 pm
I'm guessing you know where the indicator is then!
Yes I do and even better I know exactly the correct time to use it. You've obviously came across Mercedes and Volvo truck drivers :lol

Being Scottish he's probably to tight to use them  :D
Oh that hurt :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 01 June 2016, 10:41:02 pm
You know I mean it  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 01 June 2016, 11:07:22 pm
You know I mean it  :eek
I do and that's the worrying bit :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 June 2016, 09:38:42 am
Read an article the other day with a link to the tps (telephone preference service) Though it would be a good idea to register and add my phone number to stop all the ppi calls once and for all. Now to register your number you had to give a valid email address, which of course I did, and guess what, no calls, but 200+ spam emails this morning alone......... Not impressed

Your spam may not be because of that and it may be coincidence, just read that outlook and another one by microsoft systems anti spam filters had been breached and people have been getting spam.Read here http://mspoweruser.com/outlook-spam-filters-currently-broken-fix-way/ (http://mspoweruser.com/outlook-spam-filters-currently-broken-fix-way/)     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 02 June 2016, 05:32:19 pm
Read an article the other day with a link to the tps (telephone preference service) Though it would be a good idea to register and add my phone number to stop all the ppi calls once and for all. Now to register your number you had to give a valid email address, which of course I did, and guess what, no calls, but 200+ spam emails this morning alone......... Not impressed

Your spam may not be because of that and it may be coincidence, just read that outlook and another one by microsoft systems anti spam filters had been breached and people have been getting spam.Read here [url]http://mspoweruser.com/outlook-spam-filters-currently-broken-fix-way/[/url] ([url]http://mspoweruser.com/outlook-spam-filters-currently-broken-fix-way/[/url])   


I heard something about it at work this morning, several people were complaining of being bombarded with spam when someone said they heard the problem lay with microsoft.

Seems better today so hopefully they've sorted it

Thanks for the link
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 05 June 2016, 01:57:31 pm


One of my modern life gripes is that nobody introduces themselves. It's particularly prevalent on the telephone i.e. caller: is that Brian? Oi have some manners and courtesy - give your name and reason for calling before asking for information - to do otherwise is just plain rude. It's just as bad at the front door, on the street pretty much everywhere in fact.


During the Iceland volcano dust cloud time I had a call from an airline - is that <name>? are you related to <parents name?> can you confirm your address? Right stop there says me, before I give out any personal details beyond perhaps my first name don't you think it might be polite to say who you are and give your reason for calling? Oh she said, I suppose you are right. We are calling to let you know that your parents are stuck in Dubai and we can't find them a flight home.... Well why not say that then?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: sinto on 17 June 2016, 07:15:49 pm
Out driving my truck today in Glasgow City and in front of me was one of those scooters delivery guys with the big topbox on the back with deliveroo on it and the obligatory L plates.

The guy on it is constantly looking to his left hand area and I'm thinking he's looking at the only mirror he has!

Wrong! As he's looking there, he's lifting his left hand and pressing a satnav or mini computer or something WTF!

We stop at lights and I gets out my truck and walk upto him and he's oblivious I'm even there as he's too busy tapping away, so I tap him on the shoulder and ask him why he's doing such a stupid thing and his reply was how car drivers say...."what's wrong, I wasnt doing anything wrong?"
My reply was "I ride bikes too and when car drivers etc fart about using mobile phones or satnavs, a fellow biker gets killed or seriously injured!"


Fekkin stupid idiot, can't believe these clowns are allowed on the roads!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 20 June 2016, 12:13:19 pm
pulled pork gets my goat. ;)    a few years ago if pork was over cooked and stringy it was classed as shit,   nowdays it is pulled pork. :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 June 2016, 12:18:20 pm
pulled pork gets my goat. ;)    a few years ago if pork was over cooked and stringy it was classed as shit,   nowdays it is pulled pork. :eek
Its not just pork, it seems now everything is has to be called "pulled" I saw pulled chicken. The biggest thing being pulled is cash out of your pocket.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 20 June 2016, 08:51:43 pm
pulled pork gets my goat. ;)    a few years ago if pork was over cooked and stringy it was classed as shit,   nowdays it is pulled pork. :eek
Its not just pork, it seems now everything is has to be called "pulled" I saw pulled chicken. The biggest thing being pulled is cash out of your pocket.

HERE HERE  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 20 June 2016, 09:00:08 pm
You can get pulled pork flavour popcorn! 

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 20 June 2016, 09:00:46 pm
pulled pork gets my goat. ;)    a few years ago if pork was over cooked and stringy it was classed as shit,   nowdays it is pulled pork. :eek

Pulled Pork? Isn't that something your mates reminded you about the day after the night out!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 20 June 2016, 09:09:41 pm
you need to ask Cameron about pulled pork
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 21 June 2016, 08:48:38 pm
Human "beat boxing"...... BummmmmBA wickidi tschhh.... Yawn.

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 21 June 2016, 08:50:01 pm
pulled pork gets my goat. ;)    a few years ago if pork was over cooked and stringy it was classed as shit,   nowdays it is pulled pork. :eek

Pulled Pork? Isn't that something your mates reminded you about the day after the night out!


 :lol :lol  Who hasn't been there.
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 01 September 2016, 02:23:10 pm
Bikers wearing man bags....wtf is that all aboot....tell me if I'm wrong but I thought a manbag belongs on a woman's chin.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: MB61YAM on 01 September 2016, 04:08:59 pm
people ragging on my Fazer 8, it has all the same parts as the 1000 but is missing 200cc, it does all I need and if 106 donkeys and 150mph isn't enough, tough titties
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 01 September 2016, 05:48:37 pm
people ragging on my Fazer 8, it has all the same parts as the 1000 but is missing 200cc, it does all I need and if 106 donkeys and 150mph isn't enough, tough titties


Totally agree - apparently it's not as good as a CBF1000 either  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 September 2016, 06:17:16 pm
Quote from: Exupnut link=topic=17546.msg240635#msg240635 date=147273619Bikers wearing man bags....wtf is that all aboot....

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Not seen any of that around here ------------- must just be in your area
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 01 September 2016, 08:13:45 pm
Bikers wearing man bags....wtf is that all aboot....tell me if I'm wrong but I thought a manbag belongs on a woman's chin.
:rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 01 September 2016, 08:16:17 pm
no man bag,s in wales either, the odd de walt belt allowed that is about it.     otherwise you is asking for trouble. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 01 September 2016, 09:48:31 pm
no man bag,s in wales either, the odd de walt belt allowed that is about it.     otherwise you is asking for trouble. ;)


 :lol  Nice one fella, which one of these would you go for?  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 September 2016, 06:16:51 am
people ragging on my Fazer 8, it has all the same parts as the 1000 but is missing 200cc, it does all I need and if 106 donkeys and 150mph isn't enough, tough titties


33% extra engine compared to a 600, for an extra 10mph.......wahay.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 02 September 2016, 02:55:56 pm
Blokes that won't carry a handkerchief or tissues when they've got a cold and blow their nostrils out one at a time onto the pavement.

Disgusting.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 September 2016, 03:20:40 pm
Blokes that won't carry a handkerchief or tissues when they've got a cold and blow their nostrils out one at a time onto the pavement.

Disgusting.

Oh don't, there's a young lad at my work who blows his nose but holds the tissue about 6 inches away from his face.
It's kind of impressive, but makes me heave.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 02 September 2016, 08:09:03 pm
Life
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 02 September 2016, 09:02:40 pm
Come on Maddog....can't be as bad as that....your bike could be slow red ffs...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 02 September 2016, 10:31:39 pm
my boxeye was red..............best colour of the lot ;)

been listening to the rising by Springsteen and Biko by Gabriel

life's on the up 8)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 02 September 2016, 10:33:54 pm
Blokes that carry tissues when they got a cold.
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 03 September 2016, 10:50:46 am
Blokes that won't carry tissues when they got a cold.
 :lol

Fixed that for you :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 September 2016, 01:59:54 pm
This current trend for standing miles back from the counter in shop queues.

Yes it's polite not to stand right on top of the person at the front and to leave a suitable gap, but is 30 feet back really necessary!?

In fast-food restaurants now you have no idea who's already ordered or who's waiting to order :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 03 September 2016, 02:24:24 pm
This current trend for standing miles back from the counter in shop queues.

Yes it's polite not to stand right on top of the person at the front and to leave a suitable gap, but is 30 feet back really necessary!?

In fast-food restaurants now you have no idea who's already ordered or who's waiting to order :rolleyes
Oh yeh that one, just the other day I didn't know there was a cue cause the stood so far back so went straight up to the counter and got a "scuse me ther is a cue here"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 03 September 2016, 06:43:02 pm
TV weather forecasters,  daft cow today said we would have "angry rain" and "a spanner in the works". Sometimes I have watched the weather forecast and had no idea what the foc they are on about.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 September 2016, 08:06:47 pm
  When you stop to fill up with fuel at one of those single lane pumps in the middle of the forecourt and you can see a car trying to squeeze past your bike whilst you're inside waiting to pay  >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 September 2016, 11:41:48 am
TV weather forecasters,  daft cow today said we would have "angry rain" and "a spanner in the works". Sometimes I have watched the weather forecast and had no idea what the foc they are on about.
I actually think the straight talking forecasts that they do now are a lot more accurate. Not quite but almost like this.
"its going to really piss it down but its one of those where its going to be just your focing luck if you get caught in one, some places will be just that missly stuff that gets you wet" 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Snetter on 05 September 2016, 04:43:15 pm
Acupuncture,  it did nothing for my haemophilia.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 06 September 2016, 11:58:58 pm
TV weather forecasters,

Similarly, ones who seem to think that the weather stops at 4pm and starts the next day at 8am as if nobody's going to be out after dark!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 September 2016, 06:50:02 am
TV weather forecasters,  daft cow today said we would have "angry rain" and "a spanner in the works". Sometimes I have watched the weather forecast and had no idea what the foc they are on about.
I actually think the straight talking forecasts that they do now are a lot more accurate. Not quite but almost like this.
"its going to really piss it down but its one of those where its going to be just your focing luck if you get caught in one, some places will be just that missly stuff that gets you wet"


Your bike must tremble on days like that.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 September 2016, 08:31:28 am
Sweet puppy dogs, but, they been known to cause confusion.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 September 2016, 08:43:34 am
 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 07 September 2016, 12:11:24 pm
People driving big powerful cars at 30mph on a 60/70mph road and give you a scowling look when you overtake. They are usually the same FOCCERS that stay in the middle lane on the motorway when there is FOC all in the left lane.

&

ASSHOLES driving while on the phone.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 September 2016, 12:19:15 pm
Sweet puppy dogs, but, they been known to cause confusion.
Come on then you funny focers whats the name of the bread of dog, I will start with
GOLDEN retriever
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 September 2016, 01:11:32 pm
Sweet puppy dogs, but, they been known to cause confusion.
Come on then you funny focers whats the name of the bread of dog, I will start with
GOLDEN retriever


Mongolian Knob Hound
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 07 September 2016, 05:37:09 pm
English rugby fans moaning about the appointment of gatland as lions coach,  give him a chance he only picked the welsh in 2013 on form.  GRANDSLAM winners .    this time England ,
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 September 2016, 06:14:10 pm
Really which ones are whinging?
What they wanted our great 8 game old coach to disappear for a year, dumb t*ats.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 07 September 2016, 07:12:19 pm
exactly we should be the ones moaning loseing our coach. I thought you had won nine not eight.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 07 September 2016, 07:18:21 pm
Sweet puppy dogs, but, they been known to cause confusion.
Come on then you funny focers whats the name of the bread of dog, I will start with
GOLDEN retriever


Mongolian Knob Hound


So one of these then Tommy - a Mongolian bird who can sniff out a cock at a thousand yards  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 September 2016, 08:09:39 pm
exactly we should be the ones moaning loseing our coach. I thought you had won nine not eight.


Oh yeah forgot about the welsh drubbing,  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 September 2016, 09:07:47 am
Sports commentators that say

Booked their place
Crashed out
Shock defeat

Is there a sports commentator school that teaches these people that they must use these phrases
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 08 September 2016, 07:32:51 pm
how did you forget the welsh one,  eng-er-land aint done us much in the last few years.     beginers luck for eddie lol.   good luck skipper I hope they take all your finest,.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 09 September 2016, 09:43:28 am
*People that creep over the line at a red light but then don't pull away as soon as the light changes.

*Work vans parking on my drive thay aren't anything to do with my property, and when you finally find the driver and ask them 'nicely' to move they say "yeah! just give me 10 mins" (NO MOVE YOUR PIECE OF CRAP OFF MY DRIVE NOW!)  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2016, 09:51:10 am
Tatoo's that are just a block / paragraph of text
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 09 September 2016, 01:57:00 pm
*People that creep over the line at a red light but then don't pull away as soon as the light changes

AGREE!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2016, 02:02:52 pm
Postman delivering a load of junk leaflets folded over real post so that I mistakenly rip it in shreds and throw it at the door, and then have to crawl around trying to piece birthday cards and tenners back together 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 09 September 2016, 02:43:10 pm
HGV drivers that block city centre roads whilst doing their deliveries at morning rush-hour, making everyone else late for work.

HGV drivers that use their size to intimidate and bully other drivers on the motorways.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 09 September 2016, 04:22:31 pm
Car drivers "hogging" middle lane of 3 lane motorway
Car drivers that tailgate other motorists
Car drivers that speed along 30mph road  then brake violently for GATSO camera then once past road markings speed again
4x 4 vehicles doing school run parking any old place-zig-zags? no problem
HGVs on dual carriageway overtaking other HGVs with a speed differential of 1 or 2 mph causing unnecessary delays/hold ups/frustration to other road users
Cars that drive in lane 1 of motorways at less than 65mph causing frustration to HGVs
And so on & so on....
crap personalised number plates
car/van/lorry/bus drivers using hand held phones
Cyclists who terrorise pedestrians by recklessly riding on pavements..


Feck it I m off to Wales to see the tractors & sheep! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 09 September 2016, 04:49:34 pm
How come I forgot to mention Motor Insurers? :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2016, 05:18:48 pm

Feck it I m off to Wales to see the tractors & sheep! :lol
tractors that chuck mud all over the road
sheep that barr all night keeping me awake
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 09 September 2016, 06:30:43 pm
Car drivers "hogging" middle lane of 3 lane motorway
Car drivers that tailgate other motorists
Car drivers that speed along 30mph road  then brake violently for GATSO camera then once past road markings speed again
4x 4 vehicles doing school run parking any old place-zig-zags? no problem
HGVs on dual carriageway overtaking other HGVs with a speed differential of 1 or 2 mph causing unnecessary delays/hold ups/frustration to other road users
Cars that drive in lane 1 of motorways at less than 65mph causing frustration to HGVs
And so on & so on....
crap personalised number plates
car/van/lorry/bus drivers using hand held phones
Cyclists who terrorise pedestrians by recklessly riding on pavements..


Yep agree. They are all very annoying.


  Earlier today I joined the 2 lane motorway in front of an HGV. Heavy traffic in the outside lane.

  After approx. a quarter of a mile I came up behind a car doing about 55 MPH. Still heavy traffic in outside lane, so no opportunity to overtake.

  Said lorry comes roaring up about half an inch off my bumper flashing his headlamps. I still can't overtake the car in front.

  Eventually the lorry overtakes (having the first opportunity, being at the rear of our 3 vehicle convoy).

  He levels alongside my window and gives an extended blast on his air-horn, then carries on.

  Unless he was auditioning for a re-make of 'Duel' I fail to see what the twats problem with me was :rolleyes

  I appreciate what a difficult job it must be trying to manoeuvre a truck that size in motorway traffic and the vast majority are great drivers, but there is a few who lord it over everyone else simply because they are the biggest thing there.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 September 2016, 03:51:06 pm
Was it a tipper truck? They tend to get paid load bonuses so want to get there and back as quickly as possible.

Either way, a truck on a single carriageway road is not meant to go over 50mph.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 10 September 2016, 05:00:41 pm
Was it a tipper truck? They tend to get paid load bonuses so want to get there and back as quickly as possible.

Either way, a truck on a single carriageway road is not meant to go over 50mph.

It was a container lorry.

The motorway was 2 lanes in each direction.

I was surprised at his speed. After he had overtaken myself and Mr Slowly in front of me 'Slow' accelerated to a steady 60MPH, but the truck was still pulling away from us both gradually.

I stayed back, reluctant to get alongside him. It was only a few miles to my turn-off and you never know what someone like that is going to do, do you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 10 September 2016, 05:12:12 pm

Feck it I m off to Wales to see the tractors & sheep! :lol
tractors that chuck mud all over the road
sheep that barr all night keeping me awake


Have you tried counting them to help you sleep?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 11 September 2016, 11:12:16 am
Ache of the day is drivers who have to look down at the gear stick to change gear, like it might have moved ?????????
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 September 2016, 12:11:47 pm
I saw a fella last night pull out of a side road on to a main road in a left hand drive large van, and he went to drive off on the right hand side of the road.
I wondered what he was doing 'cos he was positioned all wrong when he pulled out.
After a load of cars were aiming at him he suddenly swerved back over to the left side.  :eek
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 11 September 2016, 12:36:03 pm
That guy with a "gixxer" in his living room on the motogp show adverts. Looks like such an arse.

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 11 September 2016, 08:46:54 pm
Saw a woman come down the slip road onto the motorway. Halfway down the slip road she slows down, and winds the window down. She came to a halt with one wheel in lane 1 apparently fiddling with the wing mirror!
The next prize numpty was the bloke in a BMW X5 who ignored all the signs in the roadworks which say "Lanes 1&2 M42, Lanes 2 & 3 M5". He then realises he wants the M5 not the M42 and cuts across two lanes of slip road followed by the chevroned area to end up back on the M5.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 12 September 2016, 08:37:36 am
Drivers who pull out in front of you when there are no vehicals behind you and then proceed to drive at their comfort speed of about 30mph  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 12 September 2016, 08:40:56 am
Their Not there  :oops
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 12 September 2016, 08:49:00 am
Saw a woman come down the slip road onto the motorway. Halfway down the slip road she slows down, and winds the window down. She came to a halt with one wheel in lane 1 apparently fiddling with the wing mirror!
The next prize numpty was the bloke in a BMW X5 who ignored all the signs in the roadworks which say "Lanes 1&2 M42, Lanes 2 & 3 M5". He then realises he wants the M5 not the M42 and cuts across two lanes of slip road followed by the chevroned area to end up back on the M5.


Thats a regular occurence on the M5 northbound approaching M42 junction-a lot of cagers use lane 3 to overtake slower moving vehicles on the uphill section then find they have to speed up over the so-called 50mph roadworks limit& then have to cut up other vehicles to cross over to lane 1/2 for M42.I see it EVERY time I come along that section.


Good one yesterday coming back from Wales. Mucklow Hill, Halesowen steep uphill 2 lane road 40mph limit with roundabout half way up. Numpty drove the whole hill in outside lane at speed varying from 20-30mph even though NOTHING in lane 1. Approaching 30 mph limit at top of hill he/she speeds up to 35-40! :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 September 2016, 08:18:49 pm
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 September 2016, 08:52:09 am
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes).....or eat more buns :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 18 September 2016, 09:57:05 am
  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

I find it is the other way round. Plenty to fit Mr Average but nothing for the better padded people. I blame head office. They have a formulae that says they will sell 1x size 40, 2x38, 3x36 etc so only order that in.

The reason they only sell that is because they never order more of the larger sizes you fecwits. If you had more 40" trousers, you would sell more.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 18 September 2016, 10:06:56 am
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes ).....or eat more buns :b


Small or large people would tend to disagree with you, they have an abundance of stock always to hand in XS or XXXXL.  :lol [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 18 September 2016, 11:42:34 am
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes ).....or eat more buns :b


Small or large people would tend to disagree with you, they have an abundance of stock always to hand in XS or XXXXL.  :lol [size=78%] [/size]

I'd love to find all these shops with larger sizes............especially larger sizes which take account of the whole larger size body 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 18 September 2016, 07:01:50 pm
I remember going to buy some motorbike gear from Aldi. I was 5th in through the door when the shop opened and took a slightly different route through the shop to this other similarly sized bloke. He beat me there by a few seconds and got the only XXL jacket in the shop.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 September 2016, 07:13:10 pm
I seem to be in the minority on this one! :lol

I've still got, and can still fit in, my first ever Scott leather jacket I bought in 1989 :D

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 18 September 2016, 09:02:07 pm
You can go off some people.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 18 September 2016, 09:25:05 pm
I seem to be in the minority on this one! :lol

I've still got, and can still fit in, my first ever Scott leather jacket I bought in 1989 :D

I have always fitted into jackets that were 3 sizes to big regardless of how long ago I tried them on  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 September 2016, 04:54:49 pm
  Radio DJ's that join in at the end of each song. Usually in a falsetto, parody of the real singers voice  :z
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 20 September 2016, 05:42:40 pm
  Radio DJ's that join in at the end of each song. Usually in a falsetto, parody of the real singers voice  :z

Definitely agree.....that used to piss me off sooo much as a kid tryin to record all my fav tunes on the top 40 on a Sunday.....thank god for YouTube
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 20 September 2016, 05:52:28 pm
Selfish sods who take up the prime easy to get to bike bays knowing it's going to be left there for weeks even months
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 September 2016, 07:36:11 pm
TV Programs that spend about 15 mins saying
Coming up
Up next
Later we will be
Find out later
Still to come
But now

Just focing get on with it and stop wasting time, once you take out all the pointless music intros that also accompanies the "up nexts" there is only about 10 mins of actual content to view 

Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: hotmetal on 21 September 2016, 12:36:20 am
Clients that love the work you've done but then don't pay you for 3 foccin' months and ignore your emails.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: darrsi on 21 September 2016, 07:28:46 am
Clients that love the work you've done but then don't pay you for 3 foccin' months and ignore your emails.


At my work we get emails that start with "Right, so we've got this zero budget job coming up, can we have......"
Pisses me right off, especially as we are manic busy anyway.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 21 September 2016, 07:40:18 am
Arseholes on bikes who ride like twats cut up other bikers and have the fkn nerve to do it while wearing a think bike tabard  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 21 September 2016, 02:31:10 pm
two words- sky broadband  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 21 September 2016, 08:32:20 pm
two words- sky broadband  :grumble


Talk Talk
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 22 September 2016, 07:47:33 am
two words- sky broadband  :grumble


Talk Talk


good call fella  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 22 September 2016, 08:04:03 am
Being ignored at work by managers because I'm not a female with a big pair of tits. It's been going on for months now but you can't put in a complaint as it's one of those situations where it's bloody obvious but you can't prove it, plus the HR woman is FOCCING useless  :wall
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: hotmetal on 22 September 2016, 04:01:44 pm
Plus the hr woman is unlikely to side with a hairy arsed biker bloke anyway. She probably has had enough sexism her way that seeing a bloke get a drop of it is probably her idea of fair.
(Arse hirsuteness status irrelevant, but lack of baps might be your problem).
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2016, 04:31:43 pm
Pensioners that bought their houses for next to nothing, had jobs for life and retired at 60 on a good pension, but STILL moan  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Fazer99 on 22 September 2016, 08:42:44 pm
Plus the hr woman is unlikely to side with a hairy arsed biker bloke anyway. She probably has had enough sexism her way that seeing a bloke get a drop of it is probably her idea of fair.
(Arse hirsuteness status irrelevant, but lack of baps might be your problem).


How did you know I had a hairy arse  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 22 September 2016, 11:11:04 pm
Being ignored at work by managers because I'm not a female with a big pair of tits. It's been going on for months now but you can't put in a complaint as it's one of those situations where it's bloody obvious but you can't prove it, plus the HR woman is FOCCING useless  :wall

she may be useless but she may side with you if she's lacking in the tit department  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 23 September 2016, 08:04:38 am
Being ignored at work by managers because I'm not a female with a big pair of tits. It's been going on for months now but you can't put in a complaint as it's one of those situations where it's bloody obvious but you can't prove it, plus the HR woman is FOCCING useless  :wall

she may be useless but she may side with you if she's lacking in the tit department  ;)

 :lol yes she has a chest like a 10 year old boy  :lol she is a really nice woman but when anyone speaks to her about work problems, she turns it into an argument and then nothing gets resolved  :wall I'm not going to stress about it as I am looking for alternative employment any way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 23 September 2016, 08:49:20 am
No doubt wears her bra inside out, to fill in the dents.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 23 September 2016, 08:55:10 am
No doubt wears her bra inside out, to fill in the dents.

 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 23 September 2016, 12:01:03 pm
Dickheads parking their cars/vans/motorhomes!! In the motorcycle bays at tesco just because they are too bone idle to park properly!!
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 23 September 2016, 01:22:36 pm
My bike slowin down every time I drive past High Wycombe
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 28 September 2016, 08:20:27 pm
Foccing adverts that I can't skip past on catch up tv.

And the new Red Dwarf series XI, unfunny and cliched, not a patch on the old ones.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 28 September 2016, 11:35:04 pm
Learner drivers being taught the wrong way to use roundabouts  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 29 September 2016, 07:38:46 am
Learner drivers being taught the wrong way to use roundabouts  :(

Learner drivers being taken through busiest areas during rush hour!! I know they have to learn but go learn somewhere quiet so I don't have to wait 10 minutes for you to pull out of a f#@king junction!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bikemad on 29 September 2016, 08:43:15 am
People driving at 20-25mph in 30 & 40 zones when there is sweet FA in front of them 😡 maybe they saved 1p off their Aviva insurance with the drive app  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 September 2016, 08:43:15 pm
People driving at 20-25mph in 30 & 40 zones when there is sweet FA in front of them 😡 maybe they saved 1p off their Aviva insurance with the drive app  :rolleyes

Yep and the bloke behind you is driving right up to within an inch your bumper even though it's not your fault that Mr Slowly at the front is holding everyone up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bikemad on 30 September 2016, 12:22:05 am
Yep and the bloke behind you is driving right up to within an inch your bumper even though it's not your fault that Mr Slowly at the front is holding everyone up.


Not wrong there lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 30 September 2016, 02:29:23 am
Learner drivers being taught the wrong way to use roundabouts  :(

Learner drivers being taken through busiest areas during rush hour!! I know they have to learn but go learn somewhere quiet so I don't have to wait 10 minutes for you to pull out of a f#@king junction!!


Yes! I blame the stupid driving instructors. Why force new & usually nervous/hesitant pupils into rush hour traffic conditions when they havent even mastered basic car control(Plenty of quiet trading estates to practice)Also b****y driving instructors blatantly breaking speed limits driving from one lessonjust [size=78%]finished to next pupil. Had one pass me the other day 45mph in a 30 limit-some example that.[/size] :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 September 2016, 08:46:47 am
:agree

And why do they insist on practising their 3 point turns in my bloody road all day every day. I guess it has nothing to do with the fact that DVSA also use it as part of the test route. Bastids.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2016, 11:39:16 am
People who drive 1 inch from my bumper because I have the audacity to go 30 in a 30 zone

Also
two lanes of traffic going the same way in a 30 zone - at the end of the road is a right filter which is where I need to go, so I am in the right hand lane doing 30,  focs who drive right up my arse and zig to the left land and then zag back in font of me - glaring at me as they go around my left at 40mph -like I am the one doing something wrong, ho yes and because they were glaring at me they didn't see the pedestrian crossing gong amber and so now I have to brake harder because the foc cut me up.

Also
Same two lane one direction road, in the right lane there is always a long queue but the left hand lane usually runs smooth, I stop at some yellow hatched markings and every focing time a tosser in the left lane uses it as an opportunity to cut in and then blocks the turn for the right turners (what the hatchings were for) which then leads to that lane backing up all the way down to MY right turn so no no focer is moving.

I should of just said.-- "People who do not know how to use a hatched box junction"
But I feel better now.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 30 September 2016, 12:55:48 pm
People who drive 1 inch from my bumper because I have the audacity to go 30 in a 30 zone

And then when you leave the 30 limit they drop way back.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 September 2016, 02:06:33 pm

two lanes of traffic going the same way in a 30 zone - at the end of the road is a right filter which is where I need to go, so I am in the right hand lane doing 30,  focs who drive right up my arse and zig to the left land and then zag back in font of me - glaring at me as they go around my left at 40mph -like I am the one doing something wrong, ho yes and because they were glaring at me they didn't see the pedestrian crossing gong amber and so now I have to brake harder because the foc cut me up.


People sitting in the right hand lane really pisses me off. Round where I live we have roundabouts everywhere connected by dual carriageways. Many are over half a mile long and people come off of one round about and sit in the right hand lane at the speed limit (or lower) to go straight over the next roundabout and then turn right 2-3 roundabouts later.

Drive on the fickin left until about 3-400 metres before the roundabout then move out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 30 September 2016, 02:32:21 pm
Its like every "f****r has their own version of the Highway Code-Its a jungle out there & getting worse by the day. How many vehicles on our roads-c 37 million? & how many can actually drive?.......Supply your own answer :eek  Its the cager version of "all the gear-no idea!"
I only drive after 10am & before 3pm if I can help it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2016, 02:50:19 pm

two lanes of traffic going the same way in a 30 zone - at the end of the road is a right filter which is where I need to go, so I am in the right hand lane doing 30,  focs who drive right up my arse and zig to the left land and then zag back in font of me - glaring at me as they go around my left at 40mph -like I am the one doing something wrong, ho yes and because they were glaring at me they didn't see the pedestrian crossing gong amber and so now I have to brake harder because the foc cut me up.


People sitting in the right hand lane really pisses me off. Round where I live we have roundabouts everywhere connected by dual carriageways. Many are over half a mile long and people come off of one round about and sit in the right hand lane at the speed limit (or lower) to go straight over the next roundabout and then turn right 2-3 roundabouts later.

Drive on the fickin left until about 3-400 metres before the roundabout then move out.

Problem is that when you are travelling at the 30 speed limit in the left lane and everyone in the right lane is passing you doing 37 they then will not let you cross over to the right lane, so you learn your lesson and stay in the right lane doing the 30 speed limit. Doing 30 in a 30 zone is not sitting in a lane, it shouldn't be holding anyone up as they should only be doing 30 too. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 September 2016, 05:53:14 pm
  Garlic. Foccin stinking stuff >:
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 30 September 2016, 09:33:52 pm
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160930/b5f69d715d79a04485e54fa6eaa09d28.jpg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 30 September 2016, 09:50:00 pm
  Garlic. Foccin stinking stuff >:

only to those silly enough to not eat some ;)

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 September 2016, 10:09:18 pm
To the woman who rolled up in front of me this morning, then planted herself right on top of the "KEEP CLEAR" box, i hope i embarrassed the fuck out of you with my air horn and pointing.  :evil
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 01 October 2016, 12:30:14 am
U shudda filmed it and posted it on YouTube and sent it to plod...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 01 October 2016, 06:24:01 am
No doubt wears her bra inside out, to fill in the dents.

Bra??  If you didn't have feet would you wear shoes  ;)
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: darrsi on 01 October 2016, 07:02:35 am
U shudda filmed it and posted it on YouTube and sent it to plod...


I ride a motorbike, not drive a BMW  :photo
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bikemad on 01 October 2016, 09:41:03 am
A lot of places like London people who know keep out of box junctions cos they'll be fined,some in my area have got cameras to monitor them unsure if they actually fine anyone ?


With roundabouts increasing in my area all kinds of wrong lane tossers are out there !
One that really pisses me off dual carriageway or motorway outside lane clear but twats will not move over to let people merge off the slip road 😡 so choices are either cut them up or slow down had one yesterday doing 60 in a 70 ffs 🙄
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: darrsi on 01 October 2016, 10:40:40 am
U shudda filmed it and posted it on YouTube and sent it to plod...


Didn't know this, so will have to rely on pointing and embarrassing even more now, which in fairness is much more fun.


Maybe they should add on "...but be warned, you may encounter the relentless wrath of darrsi..."  :D



Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 01 October 2016, 10:53:09 am
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161001/c0144fe03db905ecc6189e55ff7cffce.jpg)


No point not blocking them if everyone else doesn't.... just make sure you look the driver trying to pull out in the eye and give him a smile for that extra kick.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 October 2016, 11:05:33 am
Doesn't really help that it was me who one day asked this councillor who was walking the streets one summer asking people if he could do anything for them and i suggested this Keep Clear sign as i was pissed off at not being able to exit my road safely every morning, then lo and behold he only got the job done about 3 weeks later!
So i kinda feel like that box is mine and nobody elses.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 October 2016, 11:13:54 am
one day asked this councillor who was walking the streets
 i suggested this Keep Clear sign then lo and behold he only got the job done about 3 weeks later!

Wow how did you manage that, did you say to him "we need to get this party started"  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 October 2016, 11:32:41 am
one day asked this councillor who was walking the streets
 i suggested this Keep Clear sign then lo and behold he only got the job done about 3 weeks later!

Wow how did you manage that, did you say to him "we need to get this party started"  ;)


He was just out there selling his soul, wanting to make friends with anyone who would listen to him.
I've seen him twice since down my local pub, spilling his pint all over his feet, absolutely smashed off his head both times,but still shouting to everyone he's a local politician.
They're not my kind of people at all, but i'll raise a glass for the "Keep Clear" sign, that deserves a bit of respect.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: midden on 01 October 2016, 01:07:15 pm
U shudda filmed it and posted it on YouTube and sent it to plod...

let it go man, let it go  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 01 October 2016, 07:37:38 pm
The phrases "pulled the trigger " and "gonna get me a " people on forum's seem keen to use

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 October 2016, 08:22:29 pm
The phrases "pulled the trigger " and "gonna get me a " people on forum's seem keen to use

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OH yeh that one. Loads of that especially on utube I see that american speak is filtering over to the uk, stuff like
Uboxing
Then you are gonna wanna
You are gonna wanna go-ahead and--
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 01 October 2016, 09:09:19 pm
My biggest gripe atm, is the cop out statement.....T's & C's apply......So basically, you can say any sort of shit you want to hook people up to rip them off but by putting that at the end makes the initial offer totally foccing worthless.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 October 2016, 10:30:57 pm
  Golf spectators shouting out 'Get in the hole!' at every tee shot, no matter how long it is  :z
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 02 October 2016, 07:26:30 am
one day asked this councillor who was walking the streets
 i suggested this Keep Clear sign then lo and behold he only got the job done about 3 weeks later!


Wow how did you manage that, did you say to him "we need to get this party started"  ;)



He was just out there selling his soul, wanting to make friends with anyone who would listen to him.
I've seen him twice since down my local pub, spilling his pint all over his feet, absolutely smashed off his head both times,but still shouting to everyone he's a local politician.
They're not my kind of people at all, but i'll raise a glass for the "Keep Clear" sign, that deserves a bit of respect.



This will cheer u up Mr Darcy


London councils raise millions through box junctions fines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37474415

And this....

CCTV road fines: Tackling traffic or raising money?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22867081
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 October 2016, 09:25:49 am
one day asked this councillor who was walking the streets
 i suggested this Keep Clear sign then lo and behold he only got the job done about 3 weeks later!


Wow how did you manage that, did you say to him "we need to get this party started"  ;)



He was just out there selling his soul, wanting to make friends with anyone who would listen to him.
I've seen him twice since down my local pub, spilling his pint all over his feet, absolutely smashed off his head both times,but still shouting to everyone he's a local politician.
They're not my kind of people at all, but i'll raise a glass for the "Keep Clear" sign, that deserves a bit of respect.



This will cheer u up Mr Darcy


London councils raise millions through box junctions fines
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37474415[/url] ([url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37474415[/url])

And this....

CCTV road fines: Tackling traffic or raising money?
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22867081[/url] ([url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22867081[/url])



Why?
I've already pointed out there is no law or fine for stopping in a "Keep Clear" signed box, it just makes you a bit of an arrogant bastard if you do, even more so when there is someone blatantly waiting to exit the side road, ie: me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 October 2016, 09:35:08 am
Something else that continuously puzzles me, is online media reporters that can't spell?
How can this even happen when you have spellchecker that guides you towards the fact you're making no sense?
And the fact that you've written something that is being put out to millions of people to read would it really harm you to maybe read it back to yourself first, before releasing it?
It's just people being very shoddy at their job. :pc
Title: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Exupnut on 02 October 2016, 09:44:04 am
Why indeed......
U shud get that councillor pissed and get him to put a yellow box there.....failing that I would suggest this ....put a sign up yourself and get out there at night with a tin of yellow gloss and paint your own box jctn

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161002/31d0b88b1154ebb1ef38cda5b09c3a32.jpg)

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161002/e40921af88a7fcfc05f169845199358c.jpg)

You know u want to
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 October 2016, 10:49:23 am
 :lol  That is kinda what has passed my mind before.


Here's a picture to give you a better idea of what i'm chatting about.


Please note that to the left, about 6-8 car lengths away are traffic lights, so i'm not on about cars rolling in front of me in the hope the traffic in front will move off, because the lights are red, and the traffic ain't going anywhere.
That's when you get the slight turn of the head and they then think "Ooohh, i wonder if that chap with the balaclava and crash helmet on with the angry looking eyes making all that noise and pointing at me wanted to come out of that road that i just parked across on top of this big lettered Keep Clear sign?"  :look







Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 October 2016, 11:04:13 am
My biggest gripe atm, is the cop out statement.....T's & C's apply......So basically, you can say any sort of shit you want to hook people up to rip them off but by putting that at the end makes the initial offer totally foccing worthless.

Always remember this

The Large Print Giveth
             and
The Small Print Taketh Away
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 02 October 2016, 06:15:44 pm
The idiots on those " recumbent"  tricycles where their head is about two foot off the ground, look like a kids toy.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 02 October 2016, 06:18:48 pm
The idiots on those " recumbent"  tricycles where their head is about two foot off the ground, look like a kids toy.
That's nothing, there's a guy goes past our house every day on a bike that works like a stepper machine or cross trainer type of thing.
He looks like a proper tool on it!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 October 2016, 06:21:29 pm
The idiots on those " recumbent"  tricycles where their head is about two foot off the ground, look like a kids toy.

Why anyone would want to lay back on one of those with lorries and buses driving around them just amazes me?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Chillitt on 02 October 2016, 08:15:26 pm
Air box rubbers.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 October 2016, 05:57:30 am
The idiots on those " recumbent"  tricycles where their head is about two foot off the ground, look like a kids toy.
That's nothing, there's a guy goes past our house every day on a bike that works like a stepper machine or cross trainer type of thing.
He looks like a proper tool on it!  :lol


There is a reason behind these strange looking bikes, i think you get a good cardio work out on them but they're low impact on the body even though they're full weight bearing, so they can be used to assist recovery from bone injuries, joint replacements, etc.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 October 2016, 06:02:43 am



This is obviously the turbo version judging by the price  :eek



Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 03 October 2016, 07:02:18 am
The red ones are only a tanner thrupence
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 03 October 2016, 11:05:20 am
Air box rubbers.

 :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 03 October 2016, 01:24:57 pm
You could buy a decent Fazer at those prices, ride it somewhere and then just go for a nice walk, the perfect free exercise.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 04 October 2016, 11:53:04 am
People who drive a 35 mph and accelerate like a retarded slug on main roads then take off like a bat out of hell on minor roads.
And people who think that because I am taking a blind bend carefully they can stick their phallic symbol right up my arse.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 05 October 2016, 07:52:43 am
Assholes that can't drive within the fecking lines. Nearly got taken out by a Fricking Range Rover this morning as they decided they wanted 2 thirds of my lane as well  :grumble :2guns :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 05 October 2016, 08:29:15 am
Everything these days has to be "supersize"-portions of food,TVs, & especially CAGES-The original Range Rover was a practical vehicle-but the "Evoque" version looks like a fashion statement gone wrong. As cars get bigger the side roads become more congested with dickheads parking every bloody place:blocking entrances,double yellows, zig-zags by schools.I HATE driving these days-my only compensation being the A44 to WALES when I get the FAZER singing :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bikemad on 05 October 2016, 09:10:40 am
In my van I often make them swerve back into their space cos I don't slow down or stop like some pussys do my road is classic enough room to have parked cars either side & still pass a bus but they will sit over white line 🙄
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 05 October 2016, 05:02:32 pm
In my van I often make them swerve back into their space cos I don't slow down or stop like some pussys do my road is classic enough room to have parked cars either side & still pass a bus but they will sit over white line 🙄
Just proves the point-they dont know the external dimensions of their vehicles-what is the thinking behind BIG cages in congested city conditions? Harder to park/drive/reverse/more polluting& just add to the frustration & misery of trying to get from A to B. Maybe someone should explain that if their door mirrors will go through a gap so will the bloody car :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 07 October 2016, 07:06:11 pm
Hospital gowns,  why do they fasten at back  and not the front and why don't they fit anyone?
Had to wear one for two hours today for an ultrasound scan and pre op assessment on my right leg , all I want them to do is stop a vein in my leg from leaking!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 October 2016, 01:15:04 pm
Microwave cooked scrambled egg
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 09 October 2016, 08:39:53 pm
good luck slappy, lucky you are in the uk.  great nhs.   other countries you prob wouldn't even have a gown..        then you could moan your nob was out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 09 October 2016, 09:14:31 pm
      then you could moan your nob was out.

Probably nobody would notice.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 October 2016, 10:33:04 pm
Hospital gowns,  why do they fasten at back  and not the front and why don't they fit anyone?
Had to wear one for two hours today for an ultrasound scan and pre op assessment on my right leg , all I want them to do is stop a vein in my leg from leaking!
A few years back I had regular kidney xrays as I had stones through not drinking enough beer (all sorted now  ;) ) and after the first couple of gown pointlessness I used to to on my bike and would have a pair of shorts under my leathers and so would just strip down the them --- after telling the clipboard person, there is no need to go in to a gown for a leg scan, its just the de-fault easy position for them. There was not any point in even taking off my leathers because they would replace them with a lead blanket over my knackers to stop them from getting radiated even though they had already been disconnected from the delivery chap .         
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 10 October 2016, 10:00:02 am
I wore shorts to see the consultant because I knew he'd have to examine my knees (arthritis problems). "Hop up on the couch" he said then drew the curtain round me. About a minute later "Are you ready Mr White?" -10 points for observation there I think.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: moffmeister on 10 October 2016, 02:30:16 pm
1) fucknumpties in cars who drive like they are in some kind of long trailer HGV combination and find it necessary to take a sweeping turn when turning either left or right and annoying the fuck out everyone (me).


The worst are the right turners who, whilst initially sat in what most would consider the correct positron (offside to the center of the road), then proceed with a little shimmy to the left before proceeding to turn right... :wall





Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 10 October 2016, 04:18:19 pm
Impatient Cockwombles that get right up your arse when you are having to take a turning slow due to slippery roads. More oftern than not it's some jumped up little shit in a clapped out 1.4 astra but thinks he is driving a supercharged beast, it might sound like one but that's because your exhaust is fucked  :2guns :grumble :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 10 October 2016, 05:17:26 pm
1) fucknumpties in cars who drive like they are in some kind of long trailer HGV combination and find it necessary to take a sweeping turn when turning either left or right and annoying the fuck out everyone (me).


The worst are the right turners who, whilst initially sat in what most would consider the correct positron (offside to the center of the road), then proceed with a little shimmy to the left before proceeding to turn right... :wall

Even worse are those who drive the 1/4 mile run up at 20mph before taking the sweep
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 10 October 2016, 08:33:37 pm
Twatty VW van drivers who ride your arse and then undertake you clipping your handlebar to then get stuck behind the five vehicles and one large lorry in front, and then scream blue murder as you overtake again and smash his wing mirror off. :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 11 October 2016, 08:03:24 am
People that can't keep their face out of their smart phone. I had to pop into town to see a mate and I got bumped into about 5 times by dumbass teens not looking where they are going as their faces were buried in their phones, no apologies either just blank looks like zombies and when I prompted them for an apologie they looked at me like I was speaking another language.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 11 October 2016, 11:42:04 am
Looking around for a new bike at the moment and peoples descriptions including:


"Tasteful mods" - your looking at a bike with gold chazzo leavers and a purple pro bolt kit.
"Massive Spec" - aforementioned "tasteful mods" and perhaps some semi fancy brake pads and/or a host of non performance related bolt-ons even going as far as listing the handlebar grips and spark plugs.
Listing the bike as a 2010 etc when it is in fact a late registered earlier model.  The seller knows this so why not list it as such.
"Wants for nothing" - then explains a small crack in the fairing or torn seat.
"First to see will buy" - you have seen the listing on for weeks...


and on...

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 11 October 2016, 12:18:24 pm
Looking around for a new bike at the moment and peoples descriptions including:


"Tasteful mods" - your looking at a bike with gold chazzo leavers and a purple pro bolt kit.
"Massive Spec" - aforementioned "tasteful mods" and perhaps some semi fancy brake pads and/or a host of non performance related bolt-ons even going as far as listing the handlebar grips and spark plugs.
Listing the bike as a 2010 etc when it is in fact a late registered earlier model.  The seller knows this so why not list it as such.
"Wants for nothing" - then explains a small crack in the fairing or torn seat.
"First to see will buy" - you have seen the listing on for weeks...


and on...


Yep, they're bloody dreamers on prices too.
I'm looking round for a bike too. Getting fed up of having my time wasted by going to look at bikes that turn out to be far from 'mint'  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 11 October 2016, 12:36:24 pm
Looking around for a new bike at the moment and peoples descriptions including:


"Tasteful mods" - your looking at a bike with gold chazzo leavers and a purple pro bolt kit.
"Massive Spec" - aforementioned "tasteful mods" and perhaps some semi fancy brake pads and/or a host of non performance related bolt-ons even going as far as listing the handlebar grips and spark plugs.
Listing the bike as a 2010 etc when it is in fact a late registered earlier model.  The seller knows this so why not list it as such.
"Wants for nothing" - then explains a small crack in the fairing or torn seat.
"First to see will buy" - you have seen the listing on for weeks...


and on...

Similar to this I hate it when you go to a dealers that you've had dealings with for many happy years, to then pop in and find that the normal person you deal with is on holiday, so you think OK! I'll speak with someone else as you feel that the standards of the normal person should be the same as everyone in the company, but the person you end up speaking with is full of crap and spins you a load of lies and tries to sell you something completely different to what you are enquiring about eg "I'm looking at buying an MT-10 whats the best finance deal you can do for me" "well sir on the Honda Goldwing we can offer you a Blar Blar % over Blar Blar months, how does that sound" "when is John back off his holiday as you're bloody useless"  :lol (that actually happen to me the other day, I don't think he works there anymore)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2016, 01:47:12 pm
People that know fec all about bikes but claim they do.

Have a look at this ad from Gumtree.
https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395)

to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 11 October 2016, 02:05:13 pm
People that know fec all about bikes but claim they do.

Have a look at this ad from Gumtree.
https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395)

to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc

That is FOCCING funny, it looks like it's been fished out of a swamp and they want £999 for it  :rollin
Also claims it is the same engine as the R6  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2016, 02:14:36 pm
:agree

When I emailed the womble he still didn't back down on the R6 part :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 11 October 2016, 02:44:46 pm
:agree

When I emailed the womble he still didn't back down on the R6 part :rollin

and he states that he used to be a motorcycle mechanic  :rollin :rollin

Quote from the advert: 'Yamaha fazer fzs600 has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now' Yeah! covered up at the bottom of the swamp in his back garden  :rollin

Also

Quote from the advert: 'This motorbike should pass an MOT without any advisory apart from front tyre ' A pointless comment as it will have an advisory (what a dick)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 11 October 2016, 03:28:21 pm
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back.....


That seems more than generous to me  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 October 2016, 09:40:02 pm
:agree

When I emailed the womble he still didn't back down on the R6 part :rollin

and he states that he used to be a motorcycle mechanic  :rollin :rollin

Quote from the advert: 'Yamaha fazer fzs600 has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now' Yeah! covered up at the bottom of the swamp in his back garden  :rollin

Also

Quote from the advert: 'This motorbike should pass an MOT without any advisory apart from front tyre ' A pointless comment as it will have an advisory (what a dick)

Pisses me off when people are trying to sell things for £1000+ without an MOT. I mean who are they trying to kid with all that 'it will pass first time' bollocks
They can use all the shitty excuses in the world but at the end of it if they honestly thought it would pass first time then they would fork out the 30 odd quid to help it sell.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 October 2016, 05:57:31 am
People that know fec all about bikes but claim they do.

Have a look at this ad from Gumtree.
https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1192890395)

to top it off, they know its shit so wont even give their phone number.
I did offer the guy £450 for it a few weeks back but he claims its worth every penny of the £999 he has it advertised for even with a knackered battery/tyre/paint etc


"...Has been resting covered up in my back garden for over a year now..."


Along with the other bodies?
Does he live in a cemetery perchance?  :lol


I was gonna say the engine had seaside salt air erosion, but Croydon certainly rules that out, and it would be more be likely fire damage from rioting.
I would imagine that a combination of neglect and jet washing is why the paint has flaked so badly, which is a shame on a low mileage bike. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 13 October 2016, 08:28:41 am
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 13 October 2016, 11:16:39 am
have a word with him, he may take it kindly if he's genuinely a learner...........if he tells you to foc off then grip the foccer and tell him he's giving you and bikers a bad name and other road users will look to squeeze you/force you off the road then give him a dig :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 13 October 2016, 11:41:06 am
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.

I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 13 October 2016, 12:01:38 pm
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.

I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers  :wall

I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 13 October 2016, 12:27:00 pm
The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.


I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers  :wall


I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?


I asked if Learners can carry passengers at the riding school where I got licence from and the head instructor stated that at no point can a rider on L plates carry a passenger, he did go into more detail about it but I can't remember the other stuff and the long and short of it is no they can't carry passengers at all.

also this link explains it in more detail: http://www.visordown.com/features/learners/can-i-take-a-passenger-on-my-motorbike (http://www.visordown.com/features/learners/can-i-take-a-passenger-on-my-motorbike)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 13 October 2016, 01:03:17 pm
Sod getting on the back of a bike with a learner riding it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 13 October 2016, 02:15:01 pm
Sod getting on the back of a bike with a learner riding it.

I think if I was to loose my mind and go on the back of a bike with Learner rider this would be my face under my helmet
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 13 October 2016, 03:16:01 pm


I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?

Yes - One of the many changes when the test rules all changed.
It may be in this case, as happened to me once, I was the qualified rider riding my friends bike that had L plates on with him on the back. We got stopped but the only thing that was potentially illegal was displaying L plates that were not needed.

I used to ride my Moped with my dad (usually when he was pissed) on the back to get home from the pub.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 13 October 2016, 03:22:10 pm
Well, you learn something everyday 😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 October 2016, 05:10:45 pm
Those antiques programmes where the experts buy items from shops to sell at auction.

Some of the discounts they haggle are way under half, or sometimes even almost a third of the ticket price. In a retail shop?? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 14 October 2016, 05:40:09 pm
they all know each other from the trade, its all for tv :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 October 2016, 06:55:16 pm
The problem with all that is that people now think they can do it too. I was in an antique place and the owners were getting pissed off with everyone saying  "will you take"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 October 2016, 07:17:10 pm
The problem with all that is that people now think they can do it too. I was in an antique place and the owners were getting pissed off with everyone saying  "will you take"

 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 15 October 2016, 05:55:37 pm
Arse holes who race upto and across mini roundabouts, because they have no right hand entry to give way to, believing it their god given right.   regardless of other users safety
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: NorthWestern on 15 October 2016, 09:00:45 pm
X factor...

Intentionally left blank

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 16 October 2016, 04:32:12 pm
We Apologise for the Delay signs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 October 2016, 06:52:54 pm
When you are in the bath, taps running, then discover the plug was only half in, by which time most of the hot has gone down the drain and you end up rushing in about 6" of tepid water >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 16 October 2016, 07:59:55 pm
Really really foccing stupid insurance quotes, searching around for insurance for Peugeot Boxer van got one for £27406.45, why do they even bother quoting?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 October 2016, 09:23:40 pm
Shops where the till is positioned so that you can't see the screen bit with the price to pay on it, and then they mumble the price so you have to ask again :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 17 October 2016, 10:54:41 am
daft emails

1st one.......email tarot card reading! WTF?

ah....(I see your name at the bottom, I'll go and google you/your family name etc)... its coming through, You are a male....I think you live in the North and you enjoy running and have done some charity stuff? blah blah blah......

2nd one.......own an acre of Mars for £9.99

who the foc owns Mars and if they ever do get to doing space flights, can you imagine the shit......excuse me but you're parked in my space, GET OFF MOI LAND!!!!

Some people really are too gullible to be true, a fool and his money is easily parted :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 17 October 2016, 07:03:08 pm
Piles  :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 17 October 2016, 07:19:08 pm
Spent over an hour on the phone today sorting out my log in details for my J Lewis partnership card. over the weekend they have updated!!!! their website so you now have to re-register, thought I had it done but no, if you put the wrong username or password three times it locks your account so you have to phone up customer services to reset your account. All I got was a message saying  "due to the high volume of calls all our agents are busy, we will connect you to the next available agent" After I eventually got through the young lady I spoke to put me on hold for another 5mins while she reset my account, if everybody has the same trouble as me it`s no wonder they are busy   :wall
 


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 17 October 2016, 07:24:45 pm
I bought a years subscription to something today that operates via Facebook.


I do NOT like Facebook, and that was before even using it.


Now i fucking detest it.  :( 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 17 October 2016, 08:31:13 pm
daft emails

1st one.......email tarot card reading! WTF?

ah....(I see your name at the bottom, I'll go and google you/your family name etc)... its coming through, You are a male....I think you live in the North and you enjoy running and have done some charity stuff? blah blah blah......

2nd one.......own an acre of Mars for £9.99

who the foc owns Mars and if they ever do get to doing space flights, can you imagine the shit......excuse me but you're parked in my space, GET OFF MOI LAND!!!!

Some people really are too gullible to be true, a fool and his money is easily parted :lol
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The word 'Gullible' officially no longer exists, July 2016 it was remove from both the Oxford English Dictionary and the Standardised English Dictionary.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 17 October 2016, 11:24:47 pm
Piles  :o

They're no fun are they!

Actually mine haven't given me any problems for over 12 months, just 1 simple rule.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 17 October 2016, 11:27:52 pm

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The word 'Gullible' officially no longer exists, July 2016 it was removed from both the Oxford English Dictionary and the Standardised English Dictionary.
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Was it really?

































LOL
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 18 October 2016, 08:52:03 am
He is persistent.
Re-advertised it again for the same figure. Maybe a few foccers could make him silly offers via email :rollin

https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 18 October 2016, 09:48:06 am
He is persistent.
Re-advertised it again for the same figure. Maybe a few foccers could make him silly offers via email :rollin

https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203)

 :wall he must be Fecking stupid. the more I view that piece of crap the more I see wrong with it. The bloody booster pack he is using would be worth more than the bike.

It's such a shame to see a cracking bike in such a shit state. I would make a silly offer but I wouldn't want him to then have my email.
The only way he stands any chance of getting that kind of dosh for it is to strip it and sell it for parts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 18 October 2016, 06:45:35 pm
Piles  :o

They're no fun are they!

Actually mine haven't given me any problems for over 12 months, just 1 simple rule.
Tell me the rule ? 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 18 October 2016, 09:56:19 pm
He is persistent.
Re-advertised it again for the same figure. Maybe a few foccers could make him silly offers via email :rollin

https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203 (https://www.gumtree.com/p/yamaha-motorbikes/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-for-sale.currently-sorn-and-no-mot.-will-service-the-motorbike-for-buyer-4-free/1194186203)

 the more I view that piece of crap the more I see wrong with it.




I have to agree the the opinion above that is a £400 to £500er at the most and to be honest I would not even pay that for it, it was probably not to bad before he slung a cover over it and left it in his garden for a long period.


I have to admit if I was trying to sell it I would have made some effort to make it look a bit better by cleaning it and making sure it was all together before taking pictures.
Looking at the photographs posted with his advert the fork bottoms have alloy oxidization growing out of them as does most of the engine, I love the horticulture growing on the top of the rear tyre.I believe the term is a 'Piece of Shit'  :nana



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 19 October 2016, 12:31:32 am
Piles  :o

They're no fun are they!

Actually mine haven't given me any problems for over 12 months, just 1 simple rule.
Tell me the rule ?


I have never suffered with Farmer Giles I am pleased to say, but, I know a few people that have and the general consensus is that they are very uncomfortable at best and bloody painful at worst. :'(
Does it make bike riding hard when they are bad? I guess it must do :eek

I have seen lots of posts on FOC-U where people put up  :useless   but please do refrain from posting any pics. Thanking you in advance as apposed to thanking you from BEHIND :rollin XX

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 19 October 2016, 08:17:32 am
Ha Ha, no wont post pics, yeah bloody pain, no riding the bike is ok. oh well never mind , worse things to have..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 19 October 2016, 02:12:50 pm
There are two kinds of people in this world, those with piles and those who are going to get them.
Did you get the PM Flooky ?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 19 October 2016, 04:34:23 pm
daft emails

1st one.......email tarot card reading! WTF?

ah....(I see your name at the bottom, I'll go and google you/your family name etc)... its coming through, You are a male....I think you live in the North and you enjoy running and have done some charity stuff? blah blah blah......

2nd one.......own an acre of Mars for £9.99

who the foc owns Mars and if they ever do get to doing space flights, can you imagine the shit......excuse me but you're parked in my space, GET OFF MOI LAND!!!!

Some people really are too gullible to be true, a fool and his money is easily parted :lol
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The word 'Gullible' officially no longer exists, July 2016 it was remove from both the Oxford English Dictionary and the Standardised English Dictionary.


well, if they can't be gullible then they're just plain old dickheads
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 19 October 2016, 07:20:26 pm
There are two kinds of people in this world, those with piles and those who are going to get them.
Did you get the PM Flooky ?
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Yeah did now .thanks..good advice
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 October 2016, 09:43:23 pm
BBC reporting,
Just seen tonight's outside source reporting from the EU summit pointing from the back of a crowd of journalists ( "look at all of them clamouring, hordes of them ) then shows a camera view of Merkel through a crowd of cameras and arms and heads. Next back to the studio and says "now lets look at what the Chancellor was saying" and they they are with a camera right up front and centre WTF ! after they were just pointing saying look at them all.
How many focing BBC hacks are over there on a right little lovey jolly at tax payers expense.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 20 October 2016, 11:32:02 pm
Bikers who keep going on and on and on about Screens. This one is no good , tired of getting my head knocked about. We ride motorcycles for fucks sake. If you don't like the wind in your face , buy one of these fucking things.
Title: Re: Today's &quot;What Gets My Goat&quot;
Post by: Exupnut on 20 October 2016, 11:45:37 pm
........or one of these..

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 October 2016, 10:40:27 am
BBC reporting,
Just seen tonight's outside source reporting from the EU summit pointing from the back of a crowd of journalists ( "look at all of them clamouring, hordes of them ) then shows a camera view of Merkel through a crowd of cameras and arms and heads. Next back to the studio and says "now lets look at what the Chancellor was saying" and they they are with a camera right up front and centre WTF ! after they were just pointing saying look at them all.
How many focing BBC hacks are over there on a right little lovey jolly at tax payers expense.

You should try the Daily Star, they know more about the worlds armed forces movements, World War 3, and meteor strikes that will end the world that you could ever imagine.
Add to that the younger "reporters" sole purpose on there is to highlight nipple slips, sideboob, underboob, booty and camel toe to any unsuspecting (or deliberate) woman they can shove a camera at.
And they couldn't predict a sandstorm in the desert, their weather predictions are simply consistently shocking beyond belief, so they have a tendency to do different reports on the same day of heatwaves, snowstorms, thunderstorms, drought and flooding in the hope that one of them will actually be correct.........and they still fuck it up.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 21 October 2016, 12:39:10 pm
GRRRRRRRR!!!!

In the car, entering a multi-storey carpark and I see a BMW approaching from the left on a right angle bend. Fortunately I stopped short of the bend as the beemer cut the corner (as expected) and pulled level with me,  DRIVER ON THE PHONE !!!!Of course he could not see me as his hand was up to his right ear.
I looked at him and shook my head. His response was..........."You F***king c**t !!!"

There was a temptation to jump out of my car and explain to him the error of his ways and actually show him what a c**nt looks like but sooner or later he will learn the hard way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 October 2016, 07:23:19 pm
Rival football supporters endless ribbing/banter on match-day evening in the pub :z :z :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 24 October 2016, 02:33:49 am
Had enough of these in my area
Kids 8-15 riding around the streets / pavements / grassy areas on mini mx bikes no helmets no insurance no licence no respect and no skill scaring the shit out of pedestrians , grannies , dog walkers etc , giving out abuse and threatening honest decent folk that have had enough of it
Plod not got enough man power to deal with it and never come out if they're called

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 24 October 2016, 07:37:27 am
Had enough of these in my area
Kids 8-15 riding around the streets / pavements / grassy areas on mini mx bikes no helmets no insurance no licence no respect and no skill scaring the shit out of pedestrians , grannies , dog walkers etc , giving out abuse and threatening honest decent folk that have had enough of it
Plod not got enough man power to deal with it and never come out if they're called

But I bet if an adult member of the public decided to make a stand against the little shits, the police would very quickly have man power available to arrest the adult  :stop :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 October 2016, 08:23:20 am
Had enough of these in my area
Kids 8-15 riding around the streets / pavements / grassy areas on mini mx bikes no helmets no insurance no licence no respect and no skill scaring the shit out of pedestrians , grannies , dog walkers etc , giving out abuse and threatening honest decent folk that have had enough of it
Plod not got enough man power to deal with it and never come out if they're called

Even if plod did have enough people to deal with the scumbags, they wouldn't do anything as the little cherubs aren't wearing a helmet so plod are not allowed to chase them incase they fall off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 24 October 2016, 10:20:12 am
Had enough of these in my area
Kids 8-15 riding around the streets / pavements / grassy areas on mini mx bikes no helmets no insurance no licence no respect and no skill scaring the shit out of pedestrians , grannies , dog walkers etc , giving out abuse and threatening honest decent folk that have had enough of it
Plod not got enough man power to deal with it and never come out if they're called

Even if plod did have enough people to deal with the scumbags, they wouldn't do anything as the little cherubs aren't wearing a helmet so plod are not allowed to chase them incase they fall off.

In that case just give them a good kicking and make out they had an accident on their motorbikes  :lol :evil :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 October 2016, 10:37:40 am
Rival football supporters endless ribbing/banter on match-day evening in the pub :z :z :z

 :agree

I've never been into football, so to say it becomes boring is an understatement.  :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 25 October 2016, 03:28:39 pm
Something's got to be done about the little shits on mini bikes ,all the elderly folks now think all bikers are dickheads and are gonna ride on the pavements or graffiti bike life everywhere
I think plod should nick the parents as they bought the foccing bikes and they know the only places they can ride em is on the roads or the local green, surely that makes them an accessory or something.
Being half term it's even worse at the minute.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 25 October 2016, 04:01:57 pm
Something's got to be done about the little shits on mini bikes ,all the elderly folks now think all bikers are dickheads and are gonna ride on the pavements or graffiti bike life everywhere
I think plod should nick the parents as they bought the foccing bikes and they know the only places they can ride em is on the roads or the local green, surely that makes them an accessory or something.
Being half term it's even worse at the minute.

Get as much evidence as you can: reg numbers, photos, videos, witnesses etc and just keep bombarding the police get others to do the same thing as I was informed by a mate of mine who is an ex copper, that if they get so many people make a complaint then their policy states that they have to act on it and if they don't then take it higher up the chain of command and give them some shit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 25 October 2016, 11:44:18 pm
That's sounds like a plan , I've rung them before a few times but they don't do sod all , not totally blaming plod they've got enough to do with less of em to do it with , what's really frustrating is that it'll take someone to get run down by these idiots then they'll flood the area with police ossifers.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 26 October 2016, 07:52:41 am
Cyclists with their flashing front light. Why the FOC does it need to be flashing your not at a FOCCING rave, had one this morning and nearly had a crash as it was messing with my sight and didn't see the car infront braking, luckly I had already slowed my speed due to my sight being thrown so I was able to stop without a bang.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 October 2016, 06:11:53 pm
Halloween.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 October 2016, 06:39:04 pm
Trick or treat.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 October 2016, 06:56:41 pm
Trick or treat.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


+1 to that.
I just don't get how people can just knock on your door, in a scary mask so you don't know who the fuck you're dealing with, and ask for stuff or they'll play a trick on you?
WTF.......do it any other day and it's demanding with menaces and you'd call the police!


And how is it you can get fined for dropping a cigarette on the floor, but it's absolutely fine to launch very high explosive rockets away from your own home to explode, possibly set fire to something, and litter someone elses property, or the street?
We live in a very fucked up world.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 October 2016, 07:11:21 pm
Trick or treat.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


+1 to that.
I just don't get how people can just knock on your door, in a scary mask so you don't know who the fuck you're dealing with, and ask for stuff or they'll play a trick on you?
WTF.......do it any other day and it's demanding with menaces and you'd call the police!


And how is it you can get fined for dropping a cigarette on the floor, but it's absolutely fine to launch very high explosive rockets away from your own home to explode, possibly set fire to something, and litter someone elses property, or the street?
We live in a very fucked up world.










parents teaching their kids to ask strangers for sweets       :wall       more sh*t from the good old US of A      :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 October 2016, 07:22:21 pm
I will have a rant at fireworks next.
But around my way trick or treat is actually ok, I took my kids around some 10 years ago and have seen how it has evolved.
Its mainly young kids with their parents waiting around the corner/ hedge/ end of the drive, we get chocolate in and sweets and dress the front of the house, its very rare to get teenagers because "trick or treat" oh yes treat ---"here's your chocolate eyeball and a jelly worm so not really very cool.
The way it works around here is that they only knock on the doors that have either a pumkin in the window or in some other way indicate trick or treaters welcome, even if you said "trick" the little ones wouldn't know what you were on about.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 October 2016, 07:23:09 pm
What a grumpy load of old foccers

 :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 October 2016, 07:32:13 pm
Fireworks, or more to the point rockets, or more to the point focing massive things that tossers send up without a care in the world where the foc the massive stick and hard plastic shell is going to fall ON MY CAR focing put a dent in the wing, anything over the size of a candy floss stick should be banned, these things are about 1/4 inch thick wood and 4 foot long. I also had one stuck in sharp halls gutter. We get it in october with de-wali and it seems that the bigger bang you can get means you are more respected in "your society"  ;) because it shows that you can afford the biggest.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 October 2016, 07:37:09 pm
You lot have set me off now

Putting the clocks back.
Every year people moan that we should not do it or go double in the summer so the effect in winter is not so bad. My goat get is that there is no point moaning on the day they go back as thats too late, there needs to be a concerted effort before hand. Same as the January rail fair increase they only moan on the day and not when it is announced some months befor     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 October 2016, 08:26:48 pm
What a grumpy load of old foccers

 :rolleyes










foccers telling me iam old and grumpy   :2guns                 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 28 October 2016, 12:10:14 am
What a grumpy load of old foccers

 :rolleyes


Bang your address up Tommy mate - we'll see if we can change your mind. 1500 kids to fork out for  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2016, 06:02:40 am
I will have a rant at fireworks next.
But around my way trick or treat is actually ok, I took my kids around some 10 years ago and have seen how it has evolved.
Its mainly young kids with their parents waiting around the corner/ hedge/ end of the drive, we get chocolate in and sweets and dress the front of the house, its very rare to get teenagers because "trick or treat" oh yes treat ---"here's your chocolate eyeball and a jelly worm so not really very cool.
The way it works around here is that they only knock on the doors that have either a pumkin in the window or in some other way indicate trick or treaters welcome, even if you said "trick" the little ones wouldn't know what you were on about.   


Trick or treat is okay?
What area do you live in?



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2016, 06:07:45 am
What a grumpy load of old foccers

 :rolleyes


And proud of it......

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 28 October 2016, 06:38:55 am
Going to work in the dark....coming home in the dark... :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2016, 07:10:38 am
Going to work in the dark....coming home in the dark... :(


I take it you're not enjoying your new mining job then?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 28 October 2016, 07:35:41 am
Work colleges putting an empty bottle of milk back in the fridge, lazy assholes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 28 October 2016, 07:55:50 am
Intolerance   :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 October 2016, 09:17:52 am
Going to work in the dark....coming home in the dark... :(


Oh! Retirement is so good, now what shall I do today? Mmmmm I think I will lay here for another hour then get up have a spot of brekkie, Oh! the wife just brought up a cup of tea and some toast, thank you dear.
Looks a nice day out there, might go fly fishing with my mate 'WildPlum' that would be nice, spot of lunch at the pub a pint or two then back for an afternoons fishing. :whip
Oh! is it dark in the mornings now? The sun seems to be shining when I get up.  :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2016, 11:43:12 am
I will have a rant at fireworks next.
But around my way trick or treat is actually ok, I took my kids around some 10 years ago and have seen how it has evolved.
Its mainly young kids with their parents waiting around the corner/ hedge/ end of the drive, we get chocolate in and sweets and dress the front of the house, its very rare to get teenagers because "trick or treat" oh yes treat ---"here's your chocolate eyeball and a jelly worm so not really very cool.
The way it works around here is that they only knock on the doors that have either a pumkin in the window or in some other way indicate trick or treaters welcome, even if you said "trick" the little ones wouldn't know what you were on about.   


Trick or treat is okay?
What area do you live in?


 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 28 October 2016, 02:56:54 pm
You still have time to make these
http://www.ollis-brown.co.uk/2008Halloweentreats.htm (http://www.ollis-brown.co.uk/2008Halloweentreats.htm)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2016, 03:18:00 pm
Some might actually think twiglets covered in chocolate would be quite nice, I dont like twiglets but covered in choc might just make them palatable
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2016, 06:37:23 pm
You still have time to make these
[url]http://www.ollis-brown.co.uk/2008Halloweentreats.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.ollis-brown.co.uk/2008Halloweentreats.htm[/url])



Marvellous stuff.
I'd probably get stabbed to death by some irate gypsy parent, but that is my way of thinking.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 28 October 2016, 10:23:46 pm
Going to work in the dark....coming home in the dark... :(


Oh! Retirement is so good, now what shall I do today? Mmmmm I think I will lay here for another hour then get up have a spot of brekkie, Oh! the wife just brought up a cup of tea and some toast, thank you dear.
Looks a nice day out there, might go fly fishing with my mate 'WildPlum' that would be nice, spot of lunch at the pub a pint or two then back for an afternoons fishing. :whip
Oh! is it dark in the mornings now? The sun seems to be shining when I get up.  :lol


Hmmmm.... now what's that word again............oh yeah
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwanka  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 November 2016, 09:25:11 am
Fireworks, or more to the point rockets, or more to the point focing massive things that tossers send up without a care in the world where the foc the massive stick and hard plastic shell is going to fall ON MY CAR focing put a dent in the wing, anything over the size of a candy floss stick should be banned, these things are about 1/4 inch thick wood and 4 foot long. I also had one stuck in sharp halls gutter. We get it in october with de-wali and it seems that the bigger bang you can get means you are more respected in "your society"  ;) because it shows that you can afford the biggest.     

So, last night I popped out to have a couple of beers with a mate, and I'm sitting outside and I feel what I thought was someone slapping me on the shoulder?
I looked around and there was nobody there then saw the remains of a firework that had landed on me.  >:

THEN, we were walking towards home, and my mate lives on the other side of the main road so said our goodbyes and I start walking up my road.
I heard a car pull into my road and slowly pull up just behind me, but didn't take too much notice, then I felt something hit my foot and heard a hissing noise.
Nope, it wasn't a snake, but when I looked down it did resemble a stick of dynamite.  :eek
The bastards in the car had broken the stick off a large firework then lobbed it straight at me, then put their foot down and sped off up my road, the cowardly bastards.
Meanwhile, sensing that maybe I should do something rather sharpish, I ducked down then ran towards a tree hoping to get behind it, but the rocket was luckily aiming the other way and screamed off in the opposite direction then exploded, but obviously showering me with sparks on its way.

So, that just about reinforces my views on fireworks, they serve no purpose whatsoever other than noise and danger, especially when in the hands of a bunch of c***s.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 01 November 2016, 09:40:46 am
When I was (much) younger, I lived in a village that had a monastery located nearby.
Being young and not so clever then, we used to regularly buy crow scarers from the local gun shop and then spend the odd evening lobbing individual crow scarers into the monastery car park, ducking down (or driving off) whilst all the monks came running out to see what the noise was.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 November 2016, 11:38:00 am
When you spend a good 45 minutes cleaning and lubing your chain then cleaning and polishing your wheels only for the chain oil to get thrown every foccing where the next time you ride it 😲😭
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 01 November 2016, 12:13:13 pm
When you spend a good 45 minutes cleaning and lubing your chain then cleaning and polishing your wheels only for the chain oil to get thrown every foccing where the next time you ride it 😲😭

That gets on my tits too. I'm trying to make an extention to the chain guard to protect the wheel from lube spray.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 November 2016, 02:44:05 pm
Something like this? haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 01 November 2016, 02:59:42 pm
When you spend a good 45 minutes cleaning and lubing your chain then cleaning and polishing your wheels only for the chain oil to get thrown every foccing where the next time you ride it 😲😭
I think I saw something recently, like a plastic guard, I think it was bolted on using the wheel spindle. looked like a small blue scoop thing. I will google it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 01 November 2016, 03:04:29 pm
Something like this? haha

Yeah! something like that but not as bulky  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 01 November 2016, 03:13:14 pm
it must have been in one of those free brochures you get in bike mags or I dreamt it.. I spos the scoop would just fill up with crud and be as bad..I will shut up now
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 November 2016, 10:04:56 am
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Honda-Passport-1982-C70-C90-chain-guard-I-have-more-parts-for-this-bike-others-/321046925252?hash=item4abfe34fc4:m:mGvQT_mZTYCLEGRb4zHDkDQ&vxp=mtr (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Honda-Passport-1982-C70-C90-chain-guard-I-have-more-parts-for-this-bike-others-/321046925252?hash=item4abfe34fc4:m:mGvQT_mZTYCLEGRb4zHDkDQ&vxp=mtr)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 02 November 2016, 11:40:27 am
Cagers who lean into left hand bends, presumably to counter g-force, but have not yet worked out that it is unnecessary as they can't lean into right handers.


Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 November 2016, 11:53:09 am
Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers
Cagers who swing out in the opposite direction before making a turn.
I was behind one dabber who was so bad I became convinced that the lights had an electrical problem
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 02 November 2016, 12:16:46 pm
Fricking police that don't do their job. On my way home last night a police car was waiting in the lane next to me at traffic light controled junction and a car comming from the right clearly jumped a red light (at high speed I should add) and the police did nothing, when I gave the officer a gesture to say 'well! go after them then' I just got a look as if to say what's your problem  :2guns :bobby :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 02 November 2016, 12:36:53 pm
Fricking police that don't do their job. On my way home last night a police car was waiting in the lane next to me at traffic light controled junction and a car comming from the right clearly jumped a red light (at high speed I should add) and the police did nothing, when I gave the officer a gesture to say 'well! go after them then' I just got a look as if to say what's your problem  :2guns :bobby :wall

What time of the day,change of shift coming up,
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 02 November 2016, 01:39:38 pm
Fricking police that don't do their job. On my way home last night a police car was waiting in the lane next to me at traffic light controled junction and a car comming from the right clearly jumped a red light (at high speed I should add) and the police did nothing, when I gave the officer a gesture to say 'well! go after them then' I just got a look as if to say what's your problem  :2guns :bobby :wall

What time of the day,change of shift coming up,

Would have been around 5pm, so yeah they were probably off the clock  :lol . Joking aside, the question is, if I had not seen the car comming at high speed when my light changed to green, pulled out as would have been my right to and got hit would they then do something? or are they still off the clock? as they were in a police car and in full uniform.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 02 November 2016, 02:45:57 pm
Plods shift patterns used to be 2pm till 10pm,10pm till 6am,6am till 2pm. Only know as used to maintain phone systems for the Met.Changeover times were the best times for all sorts of crimes especially forecourt petrol theft.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: scoobiemandan on 02 November 2016, 03:22:31 pm
Trying to find a job for my 16 year old daughter!  What experience is a question that's asked.......really, she's 16, what experience do you expect her to have eh?

I seem to recall in my days you used to walk into somewhere, ask if they had any jobs going, do a little on the job training and have a short 'chat' then a job!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 02 November 2016, 03:25:20 pm
Plods shift patterns used to be 2pm till 10pm,10pm till 6am,6am till 2pm. Only know as used to maintain phone systems for the Met.Changeover times were the best times for all sorts of crimes especially forecourt petrol theft.

So they should have been on the clock and done their job. I know it might seem like a little thing jumping a red light but it's the what could have happened and if they see the plod are not going to give a shit then there is the possibility that they will do it more often then increasing the risk of an accident.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: scoobiemandan on 02 November 2016, 03:33:30 pm
Fricking police that don't do their job. On my way home last night a police car was waiting in the lane next to me at traffic light controled junction and a car comming from the right clearly jumped a red light (at high speed I should add) and the police did nothing, when I gave the officer a gesture to say 'well! go after them then' I just got a look as if to say what's your problem  :2guns :bobby :wall

I witnessed just the thing on my way back from work a while ago.  The car in front of me shot through a red but the police sitting waiting at the adjoining lights blue'd and two'd it straight after her.  So amused was I at this that I laughed rather loud as I rode past her where she'd been pulled up.  Next thing I know is I'm getting pulled by the ol bill at the next set of lights.  I think they thought I was a young inbred as I was on my old 125 smoker.  Asked what I was laughing at, replying that I thought it amusing that an idiot had actually been pulled for a change.  I was asked to remove my helmet and their demeanour totally changed when they saw I was, lets say, more mature.  Asked if it was my bike and if I was insured.....no checks, let me on my way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 02 November 2016, 04:09:01 pm
Fricking police that don't do their job. On my way home last night a police car was waiting in the lane next to me at traffic light controled junction and a car comming from the right clearly jumped a red light (at high speed I should add) and the police did nothing, when I gave the officer a gesture to say 'well! go after them then' I just got a look as if to say what's your problem  :2guns :bobby :wall

I witnessed just the thing on my way back from work a while ago.  The car in front of me shot through a red but the police sitting waiting at the adjoining lights blue'd and two'd it straight after her.  So amused was I at this that I laughed rather loud as I rode past her where she'd been pulled up.  Next thing I know is I'm getting pulled by the ol bill at the next set of lights.  I think they thought I was a young inbred as I was on my old 125 smoker.  Asked what I was laughing at, replying that I thought it amusing that an idiot had actually been pulled for a change.  I was asked to remove my helmet and their demeanour totally changed when they saw I was, lets say, more mature.  Asked if it was my bike and if I was insured.....no checks, let me on my way.

 :rollin :rollin so they pulled you over for laughing  :rollin :rollin I didn't realise laughing was a crime
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: scoobiemandan on 02 November 2016, 04:27:41 pm
Exactly  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 02 November 2016, 11:47:49 pm
.

 :rollin :rollin so they pulled you over for laughing  :rollin :rollin I didn't realise laughing was a crime


My ex missus once got pulled on her bike for not speeding!  :eek  They said she was acting very suspiciously because they'd followed her (in an unmarked car) for several miles and she hadn't exceeded the speed limit!


She then proceeded to reprimand them for stopping her when "people like my husband and his mates are riding at ridiculous speeds and you don't pull them over!"  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 03 November 2016, 08:44:54 am
I can go one better, my hopefully soon to be ex mrs.

Many years ago we were doing the school run. Having dropped my boy off we were carrying onto Chester for shopping. Anyway a tractor was holding back traffic so on a straight stretch of road I floored it (40 limit) so maybe hit 50?(it was an old Astra). Out steps Plod and waves me down(he was a sargent). Produces his book and was about to write me. I explained I was only accelerating to get past the tractor. Well he says you are behind it again. My Mrs pipes up, go on book him!!!!!! I told him not to over take here as I know the police are here at this time of the morning, so throw the book at him. The guy looks at me and puts the book away and says I will let you off with a caution this time sir, take it easy eh!!

He had a look on his face that said it all really, I am married to a twat like that as well, and she is going to make your life hell all day, punishment enough me thinks. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2016, 09:25:27 am
I can go one better, my hopefully soon to be ex mrs.

Many years ago we were doing the school run. Having dropped my boy off we were carrying onto Chester for shopping. Anyway a tractor was holding back traffic so on a straight stretch of road I floored it (40 limit) so maybe hit 50?(it was an old Astra). Out steps Plod and waves me down(he was a sargent). Produces his book and was about to write me. I explained I was only accelerating to get past the tractor. Well he says you are behind it again. My Mrs pipes up, go on book him!!!!!! I told him not to over take here as I know the police are here at this time of the morning, so throw the book at him. The guy looks at me and puts the book away and says I will let you off with a caution this time sir, take it easy eh!!

He had a look on his face that said it all really, I am married to a twat like that as well, and she is going to make your life hell all day, punishment enough me thinks. ;)
:lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 03 November 2016, 10:25:29 am
I can go one better, my hopefully soon to be ex mrs.

Many years ago we were doing the school run. Having dropped my boy off we were carrying onto Chester for shopping. Anyway a tractor was holding back traffic so on a straight stretch of road I floored it (40 limit) so maybe hit 50?(it was an old Astra). Out steps Plod and waves me down(he was a sargent). Produces his book and was about to write me. I explained I was only accelerating to get past the tractor. Well he says you are behind it again. My Mrs pipes up, go on book him!!!!!! I told him not to over take here as I know the police are here at this time of the morning, so throw the book at him. The guy looks at me and puts the book away and says I will let you off with a caution this time sir, take it easy eh!!

He had a look on his face that said it all really, I am married to a twat like that as well, and she is going to make your life hell all day, punishment enough me thinks. ;)

What you did was not against the law as you were overtaking, unless you continued at 50 in a 40 after you cleared the slower vehicle/obstruction.

if my wife did that to me I would have told the plod that she was carrying a weapon then driven off when they drag her out of the car  :evil :lol

.

 :rollin :rollin so they pulled you over for laughing  :rollin :rollin I didn't realise laughing was a crime


My ex missus once got pulled on her bike for not speeding!  :eek  They said she was acting very suspiciously because they'd followed her (in an unmarked car) for several miles and she hadn't exceeded the speed limit!


She then proceeded to reprimand them for stopping her when "people like my husband and his mates are riding at ridiculous speeds and you don't pull them over!"  :rolleyes

is she blond and did she have a nice arse?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 November 2016, 12:46:49 pm

What you did was not against the law as you were overtaking, unless you continued at 50 in a 40 after you cleared the slower vehicle/obstruction.


Wrong. Exceeding the speed limit to overtake something is not mitigation.
The limit is the limit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 03 November 2016, 01:45:52 pm

What you did was not against the law as you were overtaking, unless you continued at 50 in a 40 after you cleared the slower vehicle/obstruction.


Wrong. Exceeding the speed limit to overtake something is not mitigation.
The limit is the limit.

It was the plod that informed me that it is not against the law, due to the fact that you need to get past the slower vehicle as quickly (but safley) as possible, if the vehicle is doing the speed limit then yes you shouldn't be overtaking any way but if it's a say 40 limit and you need to overtake a vehicle doing say 20 then you need to go faster to get past, it will put you in a danger zone for longer if you only go to the max limit for that road, as long as once you have cleared the slow moving vehicle you return to the speed limit for that road it is as I have been informed a legal manoeuvre.
The law is not black and white. If i'm wrong then I've been missinformed, but I've done it may times in the car and on the bike and never once have I been pulled for it, did it last night on my way home and the plod were right behind me and did nothing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: scoobiemandan on 03 November 2016, 02:42:02 pm
It's a very shady area but as I understand it, there is mitigation if you break the speed limit whilst overtaking to safely complete the maneuver.  If you were travelling at 60mph behind a car on a 60mph limit and overtook then you'd be breaking the law.  If you overtook a car doing 40mph on the very same road and went over the speed limit to complete the move then you'd most likely be okay!  However, it all depends on the actually amount you were over the limit I'd say. Don't think you'd have a leg to stand on if you were caught overtaking on the same road at 100mph!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: misterjayb1 on 03 November 2016, 02:46:56 pm
Never had an issue with the Police for this very same thing. Had great pleasure doing it recently with a mobile speed camera van. As long as its done in a reasonable manner then all's good with me.. I believe its described as "making progress"  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 03 November 2016, 03:04:53 pm
Don't think you'd have a leg to stand on if you were caught overtaking on the same road at 100mph!

Common sense is a big factor required as yes if you were going 100mph+ to overtake then thats a bit excessive, as the only reason I could see that kind of speed being needed to overtake is if they were doing say 60 in a 70 and if that was the case then I wouldn't even bother to even entertain the idea of overtaking. instead I would sit there swearing at them but make it look like I singing along to the radio  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2016, 04:47:28 pm
Rival football supporters endless ribbing/banter on match-day evening in the pub :z :z :z

 :agree

I've never been into football, so to say it becomes boring is an understatement.  :z

There's a regular down my local who is obsessed with test cricket  (:z, but each to his own).

One evening he overheard me and my mate discussing the Ken Fox Wall Of Death that we had visited earlier in the day at the Stafford classic bike show.

He's a classic Mr Grumpy and without a hint of irony he turned and said 'Huh, what's the point in that?!'  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 04 November 2016, 06:57:46 pm

Football fans who talk about a game as if they were actually playing in the team they support, and then they talk to other fans of different clubs as if they played in their own team. Stuff like "We beat the pants off you on Saturday", "Yeah but we were better in defence".
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 November 2016, 11:24:16 pm
Rival football supporters endless ribbing/banter on match-day evening in the pub :z :z :z

 :agree

I've never been into football, so to say it becomes boring is an understatement.  :z

There's a regular down my local who is obsessed with test cricket  ( :z , but each to his own).

One evening he overheard me and my mate discussing the Ken Fox Wall Of Death that we had visited earlier in the day at the Stafford classic bike show.

He's a classic Mr Grumpy and without a hint of irony he turned and said 'Huh, what's the point in that?!'  :lol


The classic pub bore, every pub has one.
"Been there, done that, but bigger, better and faster than you."


"Fuck off."
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 November 2016, 11:26:24 pm
Almost on par with "Oh, you ride a motorbike? My mate's got an R1."


"Fuck off."
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 06 November 2016, 07:58:07 pm
People who can't stay in their lane in roadworks. I was nearly sideswiped twice by a Mazda MX5 yesterday and the Porsche following him wasn't any better. Honestly you would have thought they were tacking into a headwind.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 November 2016, 09:13:08 pm
Almost on par with "Oh, you ride a motorbike? My mate's got an R1."


"Fuck off."


 :lol :lol


My current ball ache is bastard fog lights......."it's raining so better put those bad boys on"  :foc  I can't see now you cnut!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 06 November 2016, 09:21:12 pm
Almost on par with "Oh, you ride a motorbike? My mate's got an R1."


"Fuck off."


 :lol :lol


My current ball ache is bastard fog lights......."it's raining so better put those bad boys on"  :foc  I can't see now you cnut!


Almost as bad as day time running lights, which are bright enough to cast light forwards therefore the thick twat behind the wheel thinks they have there lights on as the dash is lite up, but black as night when you come up behind them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 November 2016, 10:22:40 pm
Almost on par with "Oh, you ride a motorbike? My mate's got an R1."


"Fuck off."


 :lol :lol


My current ball ache is bastard fog lights......."it's raining so better put those bad boys on"  :foc  I can't see now you cnut!


I've noticed a lot of newer cars with these mega bright strips of lights on the sides, as well as headlights.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 07 November 2016, 01:53:05 pm


Almost as bad as day time running lights, which are bright enough to cast light forwards therefore the thick twat behind the wheel thinks they have there lights on as the dash is lite up, but black as night when you come up behind them.
:agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 08 November 2016, 01:53:40 pm




Almost as bad as day time running lights, which are bright enough to cast light forwards therefore the thick twat behind the wheel thinks they have there lights on as the dash is lite up, but black as night when you come up behind them.
:agree




ye, the twat in the cage is probably thinking....who's this cnut behind me, why's he keep flashin me bruv?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 08 November 2016, 03:32:39 pm
This foccing weather 🌬🌦⛄😵😵
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 November 2016, 06:13:06 am
This foccing weather 🌬🌦⛄😵😵


It has been hammering it down with rain all night in NW London, and still going strong now  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 November 2016, 07:57:20 am
Same here in North Lincolnshire. And it's not supposed to stop all day 😭
Normally id stick the waterproofs on and go get wet but I've just fitted a pc3 to the bike and haven't had chance to ride it properly so I don't fancy learning the new power curve on slippery roads.

Tomorrow looks alright at least 🤔🤔
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 16 November 2016, 09:17:37 pm
xmas lights being turned on in town center,s .       what a waste of time and money :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 16 November 2016, 11:06:43 pm
Cagers who lean into left hand bends, presumably to counter g-force, but have not yet worked out that it is unnecessary as they can't lean into right handers.


Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers


Agrees when I started driving a car as a young man I used to try to lean into left handers, thinking it would somehow help, but in fact you become less stable as a body in the car as you are fighting a g force that is natural and inline wi.th what you are doing, and that in its self unsettles you and makes you feel as if the car is going to tip over. Flop against the drivers door and it's a much more stable feeling. In fact it is the exact opposite to what you would imagine.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 16 November 2016, 11:14:00 pm
Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers
Cagers who swing out in the opposite direction before making a turn.
I was behind one dabber who was so bad I became convinced that the lights had an electrical problem
Sort of agree with you Sharpie but van drivers have no rear side windows to look through so have to come share onto junctions to see to the right. Yep I'm a white van man as well. No rear side windows and no rear view either cos of solid back doors. Bikiers for foc sake think about that when you are up the arse of a van.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 November 2016, 11:38:53 pm
Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers
Cagers who swing out in the opposite direction before making a turn.
I was behind one dabber who was so bad I became convinced that the lights had an electrical problem
Sort of agree with you Sharpie but van drivers have no rear side windows to look through so have to come share onto junctions to see to the right. Yep I'm a white van man as well. No rear side windows and no rear view either cos of solid back doors. Bikiers for foc sake think about that when you are up the arse of a van.
I mainly see it from morons with all the tell tale signs, darkened windows, bucket seats, black chequer cloth on bonnet, blue side lights, wonky after-market led daylights (with at least 2 leds already blown), bean can exhaust, lowered suspension.
And the reason for the swing out is to go around the corner faster       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 November 2016, 11:49:43 pm
I was trying to explain to a car driver yesterday that said to me he swerves out the way of bikes to let them pass.
I said there was simply no need, just stay straight and the bike will pass whenever they feel it's okay to do so, then they're gone!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 November 2016, 01:27:07 pm
I was trying to explain to a car driver yesterday that said to me he swerves out the way of bikes to let them pass.
I said there was simply no need, just stay straight and the bike will pass whenever they feel it's okay to do so, then they're gone!

Yeah I hate that. I know they are trying to be courteous but sometimes your not looking to overtake but you feel the need to just because they've moved over. If not you just get that awkward few hundred metres until they give up and then act like your the knob
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 17 November 2016, 02:27:51 pm
If I am in the car and sat in a stream of slower moving traffic, I will move over to make sure the bike has seen that I have seen him. Sometimes if I am in the outside lane, I will turn on the rhs indicator too so he knows I wont be moving to the left.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 18 November 2016, 02:24:30 pm
bastards who tailgate you, on a single carriageway in a 40 through road works in the dark and wet and this twat was up my jacksie with fog lights on too. I very, very, nearly slowed it down to a complete halt and was going to have serious words with the twat but I was late for home and still had things to do en route.
It eventually opened upto two lanes and he pulled out to take me but I just opened her up and the goon had to go back into lane one

arsewipe
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 18 November 2016, 02:35:23 pm
I was trying to explain to a car driver yesterday that said to me he swerves out the way of bikes to let them pass.
I said there was simply no need, just stay straight and the bike will pass whenever they feel it's okay to do so, then they're gone!

Yeah I hate that. I know they are trying to be courteous but sometimes your not looking to overtake but you feel the need to just because they've moved over. If not you just get that awkward few hundred metres until they give up and then act like your the knob

Thing is, I've had someone do that to me before and nearly squash a scooter rider in the process that was stupidly undertaking on his inside, just because he was so focussed on me.
The scooter rider was just being a scooter rider.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 18 November 2016, 07:40:43 pm
Oh............ and brake pedal dabbers
Cagers who swing out in the opposite direction before making a turn.
I was behind one dabber who was so bad I became convinced that the lights had an electrical problem
Sort of agree with you Sharpie but van drivers have no rear side windows to look through so have to come share onto junctions to see to the right. Yep I'm a white van man as well. No rear side windows and no rear view either cos of solid back doors. Bikiers for foc sake think about that when you are up the arse of a van.
I mainly see it from morons with all the tell tale signs, darkened windows, bucket seats, black chequer cloth on bonnet, blue side lights, wonky after-market led daylights (with at least 2 leds already blown), bean can exhaust, lowered suspension.
And the reason for the swing out is to go around the corner faster       


I stand suitably chastised.  :rolleyes :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 18 November 2016, 10:44:09 pm


Almost as bad as day time running lights, which are bright enough to cast light forwards therefore the thick twat behind the wheel thinks they have there lights on as the dash is lite up, but black as night when you come up behind them.
:agree


Believe it or not a culprit of this was plod tonight - banging down the M4 around 6pm near jct 10 with the blues on but feck all showing up front or behind. Couldn't make out the car model due to his speed but FFS....is there any hope??

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 22 November 2016, 07:56:00 am
Fucking drivers that pull out of a junction infront of bikes when they don't really have the space to then they continue at a stupidly slow pace. If you're going to pull out infront of me dangerously then speed the Fuck up and increase the gap to make it a bit safer. Fucking bellend in a Mazda nearly had me this morning, I know it's really dark but I've got that much Hi-Viz on as well as reflective stickers I can be seen from bloody space.  :grumble :2guns :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 22 November 2016, 09:16:30 am
The knob who swerved into my car in the roadworks today. No need to cross between lanes but he nearly took my wing mirror off. Then he didn't want to stop so I had to chase him off the M5 onto the M42 and it was only when the traffic ground to a halt that I was able to get out and have words with him.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 26 November 2016, 08:18:23 am
Not sure if this has been posted before but this REALLY gets my goat


INCORRECTLY ADJUSTED HEADLIGHTS     :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall


both for oncoming traffic and the wanker behind whos right on my tail with no chance of overtaking.......arggggggggggghh   :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 26 November 2016, 09:56:12 am
Not sure if this has been posted before but this REALLY gets my goat


INCORRECTLY ADJUSTED HEADLIGHTS     :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall


both for oncoming traffic and the wanker behind whos right on my tail with no chance of overtaking.......arggggggggggghh   :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


Several angles to this:


There's Euro cars where the drivers simply don't give a fuck so the lights are just aiming the wrong way.....somewhere over there, at something other than the road.


The one up one down, as if someone's punched their car and made it boss eyed.


The blatant "I'm going to blind you!!!" where both lights are to make sure a plane can see them, so as not to accidentally land on them.


All of which does make you wonder what previous incident has occurred to cause any of these irregularities, as you'd think they would generally fail an MOT if tested correctly?


I'm still insanely jealous when i get totally blinded by an awesome looking headlight approaching me, which puts both of mine to shame.......then a 125 scooter goes past me. How could Yamaha get these lights so wrong?

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 November 2016, 01:22:05 pm
Its not just the nobs who have whacked out skew-wif lights or twats who fit supper bright almost blue lamps (actually not that bothered about bikers ) because they mostly only have one light and compared to a car there is just no need to fit super bright lights to a car.
What I have noticed is the likes of Audi and bmw with superbright leds they seem to be pointed down more at the road which is great but when the road is wet you are blinded by the reflection  which is brighter than the headlights, you can also see them coming out from underneath of the car in front.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 26 November 2016, 08:06:18 pm

What gets my goat? People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.. People who borrow tools and equipment from you and don't bring them back without you asking for them, but to do that you have to remember who you lent them to months ago. People who cant use roundabouts. People who don't fold over the end of the selotape so you can find the end. People who think is ok to park up at the side of the road, then fling the drivers door open as wide as possible to get out, oh for a landrover with Armco all around it! People who leave the top off the toothpaste. People who put butter in the fridge so its impossible to spread onto bread. Almost all women drivers, absolutely no idea about what is going on around them (sorry, but there you go) . Motorway roadworks with 50mph camera enforced limits with no one working on them.

I've got to stop, I can feel my blood pressure going up.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 November 2016, 09:04:13 pm
OOOOH Billy Boy and I thought I had a problem
BUT this bit
Quote
People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.
First off what the FOC are you doing with tweezers and secondly the only joy I get in life (apart from riding my Fazer) is NOT putting things back -just so to piss off Mrs Sharp
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 26 November 2016, 09:28:22 pm
When I'm in a shop looking at something on the shelf...you step back to let someone pass on the aisle...and they stop in front of you looking at what you were looking at!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 November 2016, 10:31:55 pm

What gets my goat? People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.. People who borrow tools and equipment from you and don't bring them back without you asking for them, but to do that you have to remember who you lent them to months ago. People who cant use roundabouts. People who don't fold over the end of the selotape so you can find the end. People who think is ok to park up at the side of the road, then fling the drivers door open as wide as possible to get out, oh for a landrover with Armco all around it! People who leave the top off the toothpaste. People who put butter in the fridge so its impossible to spread onto bread. Almost all women drivers, absolutely no idea about what is going on around them (sorry, but there you go) . Motorway roadworks with 50mph camera enforced limits with no one working on them.

I've got to stop, I can feel my blood pressure going up.


I hope I don't get reincarnated as you Billy, because I would come back as nearly the same person as I already am.
My kids and wife drive me mad, I purchase all the useful stuff that you mention and keep it in the cupboard in my home office, so I know where it is when I want it and knowing that I have it, no panic.
BUT Who the f--k has taken my sellotape, glue stick, postage stamps, ruler, tape measure, stapler, hole punch, pencil rubber, you can replace any of the former with almost anything else you might happen upon in a home office cupboard. Why Oh Why?  can't people put things back after they borrow them. :'( :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 November 2016, 10:35:16 pm
Please notice the absence of tweezers  :lol 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 November 2016, 12:24:51 am

What gets my goat? People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.. People who borrow tools and equipment from you and don't bring them back without you asking for them, but to do that you have to remember who you lent them to months ago. People who cant use roundabouts. People who don't fold over the end of the selotape so you can find the end. People who think is ok to park up at the side of the road, then fling the drivers door open as wide as possible to get out, oh for a landrover with Armco all around it! People who leave the top off the toothpaste. People who put butter in the fridge so its impossible to spread onto bread. Almost all women drivers, absolutely no idea about what is going on around them (sorry, but there you go) . Motorway roadworks with 50mph camera enforced limits with no one working on them.

I've got to stop, I can feel my blood pressure going up.


I hope I don't get reincarnated as you Billy, because I would come back as nearly the same person as I already am.
My kids and wife drive me mad, I purchase all the useful stuff that you mention and keep it in the cupboard in my home office, so I know where it is when I want it and knowing that I have it, no panic.
BUT Who the f--k has taken my sellotape, glue stick, postage stamps, ruler, tape measure, stapler, hole punch, pencil rubber, you can replace any of the former with almost anything else you might happen upon in a home office cupboard. Why Oh Why?  can't people put things back after they borrow them. :'( :grumble

😂😂This really tickles me because I'm the exact same. But I have hidden all my useful things in my tool box. I have a tray that's got my scissors, sellotape, super glue, batteries etc etc and the family don't have a clue it about it 😈

Strange how you change with age. Not too many years ago I would have been hiding porn in places like that. Now I just have a secret craft tray 😂👴🙈
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 November 2016, 01:15:16 am
Ha ha ha!
I love it Dude it's not just me then that is an old nag bag about tht sort of shit.
The only trouble is with me hiding things away is that I forget where the foc i have hidden them, and the end product is exactly the same as if some one takes them from my cupboard, I don't have them. :'(


I was up at my mate Terry's (Wild Plum) house this afternoon when he got a phone call on his mobile about PPI, he grinned at me and tapped his ear then switches his phone to speakerphone.
I nearly wet myself, man that guy thinks so fast on his feet.
He said to the girl what do you want to know? she said just a few things, do you have a bank account, Terry said yes its a 'Sandyair' or something like that the trouble is I don't have a very good memory. The girls said that's alright Sir I sure I can help, she than asked if he had any other bank accounts like Nat West or Barclay, Terry said sorry what was it you were ringing up about? she reminded him it was about PPi, Oh! yes he said what was it you asked? she said about your bank accounts Sir, also do you get benefits of any kind. Terry said benefits no,  but I think my wife, no my carer does to help look after me. What was it you were ringing up about again my memory is really bad, well I think it is, how can I help you, what do you want said Terry, the girl then asked if she could talk to the carer Terry said no because she is in hospital, Oh I'm really sorry to hear that said the girl, Terry said thank you but it is my fault really because I pushed her down stairs because she kept asking me questions and I got confused and then I get really angry 'CLICK' and she was gone.

I could hardly contain myself at that point I really wished the was such thing as a Tena Man pads with leak proof wings, tears were streaming down my face.
I really wish I could think on my feet like Wild Plum does.


He come out with so many funny things that you wonder what the foc is going on inside his head.

He was the first one i ever heard the Loaf of Bread joke from years ago now, he said to me Hey! Tommy I was shopping with her in doors yesterday in Tesco and I saw a loaf of bread with your name on it, but when I looked again I saw it said Thick Cut.  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 November 2016, 07:40:31 am

What gets my goat? People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.. People who borrow tools and equipment from you and don't bring them back without you asking for them, but to do that you have to remember who you lent them to months ago. People who cant use roundabouts. People who don't fold over the end of the selotape so you can find the end. People who think is ok to park up at the side of the road, then fling the drivers door open as wide as possible to get out, oh for a landrover with Armco all around it! People who leave the top off the toothpaste. People who put butter in the fridge so its impossible to spread onto bread. Almost all women drivers, absolutely no idea about what is going on around them (sorry, but there you go) . Motorway roadworks with 50mph camera enforced limits with no one working on them.

I've got to stop, I can feel my blood pressure going up.


I hope I don't get reincarnated as you Billy, because I would come back as nearly the same person as I already am.
My kids and wife drive me mad, I purchase all the useful stuff that you mention and keep it in the cupboard in my home office, so I know where it is when I want it and knowing that I have it, no panic.
BUT Who the f--k has taken my sellotape, glue stick, postage stamps, ruler, tape measure, stapler, hole punch, pencil rubber, you can replace any of the former with almost anything else you might happen upon in a home office cupboard. Why Oh Why?  can't people put things back after they borrow them. :'( :grumble

😂😂This really tickles me because I'm the exact same. But I have hidden all my useful things in my tool box. I have a tray that's got my scissors, sellotape, super glue, batteries etc etc and the family don't have a clue it about it 😈

Strange how you change with age. Not too many years ago I would have been hiding porn in places like that. Now I just have a secret craft tray 😂👴🙈




had a chuckle at that DUDE   :lol ............age sure is a funny thing   :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 November 2016, 09:45:46 am
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 27 November 2016, 09:51:52 am
OOOOH Billy Boy and I thought I had a problem
BUT this bit
Quote
People who take things from somewhere and then don't put them back, eg scissors, selotape, tweezers, etc.
First off what the FOC are you doing with tweezers and secondly the only joy I get in life (apart from riding my Fazer) is NOT putting things back -just so to piss off Mrs Sharp

So how do you get splinters out of your hands and fingers? Snipe/needle nosed pliers will do the job at a push, but tweezers are better.

If not putting stuff back is one of your only pleasures, I hope Mrs Fazersharp doesn't find out, you could end up eating some weird stuff without knowing if she did.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 November 2016, 01:54:19 pm
waiting....i dont like waiting   :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 27 November 2016, 03:39:24 pm
When you do loads of research on the net for decent sub £100 good comfy easily and quickly fitted pukka short waterproof boots that actually do keep the water out, and find some called prexport Passos which fit the bill brilliantly but then can't find anyone, anywhere who has them in stock in your size 47, and when you finally do, and you pay for them and order them you wait a week and they don't turn up and your feet are getting cold and wet every day in your leaky old bull sons and then you get an e mail saying actually we havnt got them in stock but will send them when we have in two months time...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 November 2016, 04:02:19 pm
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 November 2016, 04:03:21 pm
:lol


OOPs  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 November 2016, 04:04:11 pm
:lol


OOPs  :'(


No fuck it  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 27 November 2016, 06:12:36 pm
  :lol
you have to really, dont you..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 November 2016, 08:20:49 pm
Those new sweeping Audi indicators that light from one side of the unit across to the other.
I think they are focin stupid and distraction and harder to see. First off the daylight running lights go off and then this sweeping amber light flashes across. Maybe I would like them if I was 12 years old.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 November 2016, 08:36:21 pm
Those new sweeping Audi indicators that light from one side of the unit across to the other.
I think they are focin stupid and distraction and harder to see. First off the daylight running lights go off and then this sweeping amber light flashes across. Maybe I would like them if I was 12 years old.

 :finger  :lol :lol :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 November 2016, 08:41:51 pm
I was going to put it in your new post but thought it best to keep that for nice things as it was set up to be.
They are stupid though  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 27 November 2016, 08:59:01 pm
Those new sweeping Audi indicators that light from one side of the unit across to the other.
I think they are focin stupid and distraction and harder to see. First off the daylight running lights go off and then this sweeping amber light flashes across. Maybe I would like them if I was 12 years old.


They're better than the ones that you can't see because a) they're far too small, and b) the foccing blinding DRLs don't dim.
Usually found on the Far Eastern makes for some reason, but I guess they're built to a price  :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 28 November 2016, 02:09:29 pm
First of all AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Now thats out of my system, what is it with FOCKING Audi drivers thinking that they can pull out as soon as their indicator goes on 'it's not safe to go, SO FOCKING WAIT YOU COCKWOMBLE' just poped out to get some antifog spray as my new pinlock visor hasn't arrived yet and on my way back this Audi wanker flipped his indicator on and at the same time turned into the side of my bike  :2guns :car :grumble no contact made but but it was focking close.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 November 2016, 09:26:45 pm
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 28 November 2016, 10:03:48 pm
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   


you DO smell horrid though!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 29 November 2016, 11:36:44 am
that's why we were called grebo's and SMELLY'S :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 November 2016, 12:37:37 pm
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   

I lost my sense of smell about 5 years ago after a bout of flu, so NOTHING smells to me.  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 November 2016, 05:53:55 pm
 
 
People who crowd around the outside doors of a lift, then try to get in without thinking that there may be people inside who need to get out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 November 2016, 06:03:19 pm
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   

I lost my sense of smell about 5 years ago after a bout of flu, so NOTHING smells to me.  :'(
Kind of puts my goat getting into perspective really.  Does that also mean you can not taste.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 November 2016, 08:24:06 pm

 
People who crowd around the outside doors of a lift, then try to get in without thinking that there may be people inside who need to get out.

Ditto Tube trains.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 December 2016, 09:15:52 pm
People who say
Xenophobia
Zeitgeist
populism
diaspora
inclusion
Ring Fence
Remit
Tecronacts
Demographic
Annualised.

Any one who can put that lot into a sentence that makes sense does not belong on a motorbike forum.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 December 2016, 09:33:22 pm
Same as the January rail fair increase they only moan on the day and not when it is announced some months before     

There you go not a peep about it just been announced average 2.3% increase in Jan - no news reporters camped outside train stations asking commuters their opinions, just wait until the day in comes in force, so predictable every year I bet the journos have had it in their diary since Febuary. 

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 05 December 2016, 12:52:43 am
I've just watched a tv program with a bike chase scene in it , the bikes are clearly 4stroke mx machines yet the sound on the screen is of 2stroke machines !! Why the foccing hell would they dub the sound ??? I've seen/heard this on many tv/films before and it bugs the shit out of me as there's no reason for it , and the worst is when they dub the sound from a single cylinder 4stroke or 2stroke mx bike on the screen and replace it with a high revving in line 4 sports bike it's just daft
Why can't they just use the sound of the real bike ???

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 December 2016, 06:25:55 am
I've just watched a tv program with a bike chase scene in it , the bikes are clearly 4stroke mx machines yet the sound on the screen is of 2stroke machines !! Why the foccing hell would they dub the sound ??? I've seen/heard this on many tv/films before and it bugs the shit out of me as there's no reason for it , and the worst is when they dub the sound from a single cylinder 4stroke or 2stroke mx bike on the screen and replace it with a high revving in line 4 sports bike it's just daft
Why can't they just use the sound of the real bike ???


It's not always as straight forward as that, the sound simply wouldn't be as dynamic, the same as a lot of things, which is why they use a Foley Artist to recreate and enhance everyday sounds for cinema and tv purposes just to make things that little bit more exciting and over dramatic for the audience.
Things like fight scenes for example would all look and sound a bit odd if punching sounds weren't added because the actors/stunt people aren't actually hitting each other. Plus some noises either get drowned out during filming or just don't sound as great as they want them to so things like footsteps, slamming doors, smashing glass,etc, will all get a bit of a boost.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 05 December 2016, 08:21:32 am
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   


you DO smell horrid though!!


And his head smells of coconut anyway. ????? Actually his head isssssssssssssss cooooooocoooo
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 December 2016, 08:39:10 am
Mouthy other halfs who paint you a lovely shade of brown to the kids (8 & 12 ffs) and all their friends because they simply won't admit/remember that what they did or said is what actually caused you to lose your temper in the first place  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 05 December 2016, 09:52:44 am
Mouthy other halfs who paint you a lovely shade of brown to the kids (8 & 12 ffs) and all their friends because they simply won't admit/remember that what they did or said is what actually caused you to lose your temper in the first place  :wall

Oh! I know that one all too well, my wife is forever rattling my cage and then making me look like a nasty evil Foccer infront of my daughter. I do after a while get an apology out of her but it takes me a long while to really accept the apology  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 December 2016, 10:51:06 am
On the sound effects one just yesterday news footage of Westminster with added helicopter sound, not a chop chop but an electronic type of sound, I have been noticing it for some time 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 December 2016, 05:16:46 pm
Anything with a smell that does not need to smell.
Air fresheners, NO they don't they just add smell - that's not fresh air, I don't want my air to smell of focing lavender and silkwood, I want it to just smell of air.
Laundry detergents NO I don't want my clothes to smell of summer meadows -- that's what they smelt of before I washed them and that's the reason I washed them.
Washing up liquid NO, I don't want my plates to smell of lemon - that's what they smelt of before I washed them.
Shampoo NO I don't want my hair to smell of focing coconut   

I lost my sense of smell about 5 years ago after a bout of flu, so NOTHING smells to me.  :'(
Kind of puts my goat getting into perspective really.  Does that also mean you can not taste.

Literally can't smell anything at all, cigarette smoke, solvents, nothing, but the taste part is an odd one.
I have to spice up most of my food with hot stuff like chilli powder or chilli sauce, just to get the sensation of me actually eating something, and I do know right from wrong if something is bad as well.
But the really weird thing is that I CAN taste chocolate??? And I have no explanation why?
The ONLY thing strangely enough, which I s'pose could be a hell of a lot worse.  :lol

I reckon also that sometimes I think I can taste something, but it's just my memory of it kicking in.  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 06 December 2016, 11:43:44 pm
People who can't stay between the lane markings in roadworks. Not content with being hit last week 3 people tried to sideswipe me today. It's not rocket science is it?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 07 December 2016, 07:35:29 am
Fricking oncoming car drivers that that think that just because you're on a bike going through a narrow road (but still just big enough to fit 2 cars) that they can drive in the middle of the road forcing you to the curb. The next FOCKER that does it, they're losing a wing mirror  :grumble :2guns :car :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 December 2016, 12:15:16 pm
Reading answered questions on products in amazon where someone has asked a question and others reply, sorry haven't used that feature, not received mine yet, I don't own that model, why the Foc bother replying with nothing.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 10 December 2016, 07:16:47 pm
People who serve in take away shops and in the pub who ask you what you want and then 20 seconds later have to ask you again what you want, either don't ask me until you're ready to listen, or ask yourself if you are in the right job.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 January 2017, 02:08:52 pm
Been a while but......

The foccing placement of drain covers in the road!!!
I know it's no deliberate but it's almost as if the council went round and thought "hmm where can we put them that will be the most inconvenient to motorcyclists"?

It was slippery enough this morning but to make matters worse the route I had to take to work (because of foccing roadworks) must have had a drain on every corners apex and midway round every roundabout! Yet on all the straights there's wasn't a thing

It's almost like they are trying to kill us off!

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 05 January 2017, 01:04:24 am
The foccing placement of drain covers in the road!!!

[...]

It was slippery enough this morning but to make matters worse the route I had to take to work (because of foccing roadworks) must have had a drain on every corners apex and midway round every roundabout! Yet on all the straights there's wasn't a thing

It's almost like they are trying to kill us off!


High Grip Manhole Covers (http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/224754/new_high_grip_manhole_covers.html) have been around since at least 2008. Some councils have even tried them, but it seems that they're too expensive (or bikers' lives are too cheap) to make it worthwhile putting the damn things out on the roads :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 January 2017, 06:44:43 am
Reading answered questions on products in amazon where someone has asked a question and others reply, sorry haven't used that feature, not received mine yet, I don't own that model, why the Foc bother replying with nothing.


Like this you mean  :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 05 January 2017, 10:34:01 pm

Got to work yesterday and nearly dropped the bike (again) as my foot slipped, I assumed that was due to the recently painted, shiny concrete floor, gathered my belongings, both feet sliding around like mad, and trudged up into the office. And there I discovered what was lubricating my boots so efficiently had been a thick layer of canine excrement.
Ever had to clean dogshit out of the soles of TCX boots? Crap squishes into that ultra-fine tread pattern with the aim of staying there forever. Took me half an hour with a bottle of bleach and a bogbrush borrowed from one of the work loos. And then I took the brush and bleach down to the basement carpark and decontaminated the footrests, brake and gear levers... and the surrounding area which looked like Mr Hanky had paid a visit.
So, it's probably been listed here before, but what Gets My Goat is: dog owners who let their mutts shit anywhere. :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 06 January 2017, 09:13:28 pm

Got to work yesterday and nearly dropped the bike (again) as my foot slipped, I assumed that was due to the recently painted, shiny concrete floor, gathered my belongings, both feet sliding around like mad, and trudged up into the office. And there I discovered what was lubricating my boots so efficiently had been a thick layer of canine excrement.
Ever had to clean dogshit out of the soles of TCX boots? Crap squishes into that ultra-fine tread pattern with the aim of staying there forever. Took me half an hour with a bottle of bleach and a bogbrush borrowed from one of the work loos. And then I took the brush and bleach down to the basement carpark and decontaminated the footrests, brake and gear levers... and the surrounding area which looked like Mr Hanky had paid a visit.
So, it's probably been listed here before, but what Gets My Goat is: dog owners who let their mutts shit anywhere. :grumble


I'm with you on that one Fazerider.
Some owners know how to shovel cans full of Pedigree Chum in one end but not know how to deal with the stuff that emulates from the other end.


I have a small grassed area outside my house and for some reason someone, who I have not yet managed to catch, appears to take their dog to that patch every day and allow it to shit then walk or drive off and leave it there, The shit that is, not the dog. :lol  he! he!
But rest assured I will catch them, and will probably end up getting bitten by their dog.  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 06 January 2017, 09:16:34 pm
Reading answered questions on products in amazon where someone has asked a question and others reply, sorry haven't used that feature, not received mine yet, I don't own that model, why the Foc bother replying with nothing.


Like this you mean  :lol


How does oil look, if it actually does look the business. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 06 January 2017, 09:41:21 pm

Got to work yesterday and nearly dropped the bike (again) as my foot slipped, I assumed that was due to the recently painted, shiny concrete floor, gathered my belongings, both feet sliding around like mad, and trudged up into the office. And there I discovered what was lubricating my boots so efficiently had been a thick layer of canine excrement.
Ever had to clean dogshit out of the soles of TCX boots? Crap squishes into that ultra-fine tread pattern with the aim of staying there forever. Took me half an hour with a bottle of bleach and a bogbrush borrowed from one of the work loos. And then I took the brush and bleach down to the basement carpark and decontaminated the footrests, brake and gear levers... and the surrounding area which looked like Mr Hanky had paid a visit.
So, it's probably been listed here before, but what Gets My Goat is: dog owners who let their mutts shit anywhere. :grumble


I'm with you on that one Fazerider.
Some owners know how to shovel cans full of Pedigree Chum in one end but not know how to deal with the stuff that emulates from the other end.


I have a small grassed area outside my house and for some reason someone, who I have not yet managed to catch, appears to take their dog to that patch every day and allow it to shit then walk or drive off and leave it there, The shit that is, not the dog. :lol  he! he!
But rest assured I will catch them, and will probably end up getting bitten by their dog.  :'(
Follow them after and post the poop in their letterbox or smear it over their car windscreen or door handles
I'm a dog owner and it really pisses me off when people don't pick up their poop.
Although the other night me and the mrs took the dog out over the park it was pitch black and we've an all black dog we saw she was pooping but it was a bit away from us and by the time we got there couldn't see it despite 10 minutes with a torch and phone lights, when we got home it turned out the mrs was stood in it that's why we couldn't find it  :lol  took her 20 minutes of gagging to clean her boots while I loudly pissed myself laughing
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 January 2017, 09:05:19 am
Now a real gent would have done that for her :rolleyes
I agree though it would make me gag try to clean dog shit off my shoe, mind you cat shit is just as bad, that is why I have trained my cat not to shit in my garden, they learn very quickly when reminded by a 22 pellet from a Webley Raider. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 07 January 2017, 02:19:20 pm
Now a real gent would have done that for her :rolleyes
I agree though it would make me gag try to clean dog shit off my shoe, mind you cat shit is just as bad, that is why I have trained my cat not to shit in my garden, they learn very quickly when reminded by a 22 pellet from a Webley Raider. :lol
Yup a real gent would have done that but where's the fun in that  :lol  plus she would have pissed herself laughing at me gagging while I was being a gentleman so discretion was the better part of valour.
My neighbour has 6 ( yes  6 ) cats and they shit everywhere except her garden, especially the old Victorian sink the mrs put as a planter thingy in the front garden they think its a poop tray and crap on her plants or squash them when they squat . I suggested putting camouflaged wooden spikes or skewers in there so they get a surprise when they squat but she won't let me, she wouldn't let me get a Webley raider or equivalent either  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 January 2017, 02:53:26 pm
You should shovel up the cat shit and throw it back over the fence. Return of property :)



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 January 2017, 03:02:36 pm
I almost think I would rather people did NOT pick up the dog doo because that way hopefully I can see it and walk around it, in my book its not enough to scrape it up leaving a shitty smudge that you cannot see but will still walk in and then all over your house.
Dog walkers should also be made to spray disinfectant on the area and also spray a white circle around the area that would last for a week or so.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 07 January 2017, 03:19:23 pm
You should shovel up the cat shit and throw it back over the fence. Return of property :)
The neighbour is actually ok ( just a bit cat mad ) and it's a bit hard to train a cat to crap in its own garden unfortunately and there are so many other cats around you can't know who's it is although I think the mrs has secretly done that a few times although she won't admit it  :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 January 2017, 04:34:37 pm
You should shovel up the cat shit and throw it back over the fence. Return of property :)
The neighbour is actually ok ( just a bit cat mad ) and it's a bit hard to train a cat to crap in its own garden unfortunately and there are so many other cats around you can't know who's it is although I think the mrs has secretly done that a few times although she won't admit it  :rolleyes


Wot! shit in the neighbours garden, dirty mare.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 07 January 2017, 05:49:35 pm
I'm liking your style tommy.
I wondered what she was doing squatting in hedge the other day,
I really must get her house trained :lol 

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 08 January 2017, 12:40:35 am
Women ehh!  :rollin tut tut
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 08 January 2017, 05:02:32 pm
Twats that join this forum just to sell their shit, with no introduction, no nothing. Just plain rude!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 08 January 2017, 06:15:11 pm
 :eek   Look out! Robbo is going for the jugular   :eek 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 08 January 2017, 08:05:29 pm
Twats that join this forum just to sell their shit, with no introduction, no nothing. Just plain rude!

I really don't mind if people just join the forum just to sell their stuff, as long as its relevant to the site, e.g. Fazer stuff. Especially if we get a chance to get a bargain directly without having to battle with people on ebay. Would we really be bothered if someone joined up to sell a pair of good condition Gen 1 faring infills for £20, or a complete set of downpipes with working EXUP for £50? The people who join-to-sell are probably just getting rid of stuff they have ended up with and have no interest in joining in with discussions etc for a bike they haven't got. I think its jolly nice of them to give us the opportunity to buy them first.
Obviously its a bit different if they are just selling their X-Box, a Mk 5 escort 1.3 bonus or a knackered mini moto.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 08 January 2017, 08:27:38 pm
Still only takes a line or so of typing for someone to introduce themselves. I just see it as a plain courtesy. Some forums only allow access to the sales section after a requisite number of posts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 January 2017, 08:35:59 pm
Fancy dress. Every event everywhere  :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 09 January 2017, 07:38:54 pm
When a road widens with a turn right lane with chevrons leading up to it, and some people block the lane as they seem to fear putting a couple of wheels in the chevron area!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 09 January 2017, 08:19:28 pm
if its a solid white line around the chevrons then they can't enter the chevron, even with a broken line the caveat is that you can enter if needs must.....there's no given right of entry
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2017, 08:34:14 pm
12yr old kids that run out from between 2 transit vans in torrential rain then splat themselves all over your front fairing, bending your wing mirror totally inwards and nearly knocking you and the bike over.........then run off.


That got my goat tonight.
I felt like i'd just been Tango'd.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 09 January 2017, 08:37:31 pm
dressed in all black, at night?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 09 January 2017, 09:14:36 pm
12yr old kids that run out from between 2 transit vans in torrential rain then splat themselves all over your front fairing, bending your wing mirror totally inwards and nearly knocking you and the bike over.........then run off.


That got my goat tonight.
I felt like i'd just been Tango'd.
Maybe they thought they was going to get a good hiding , which they deserved
Bring back the green cross code man  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2017, 09:19:29 pm
dressed in all black, at night?


Of course, i was side swiped though so i literally never saw him anyway.
In fairness he was simply getting soaked, it was very heavy rain.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2017, 09:24:24 pm
12yr old kids that run out from between 2 transit vans in torrential rain then splat themselves all over your front fairing, bending your wing mirror totally inwards and nearly knocking you and the bike over.........then run off.


That got my goat tonight.
I felt like i'd just been Tango'd.
Maybe they thought they was going to get a good hiding , which they deserved
Bring back the green cross code man  :)


I do often wonder if kids are taught how to cross roads these days, it was drummed into us as kids yet all i tend to see is kids staring you out or slowing down deliberately to take the piss.
Dropping a gear and taking aim tends to wipe the smirk rapidly of their faces but in my day we were taught to be polite and look left and right before even contemplating crossing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 09 January 2017, 10:53:06 pm
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Bring back the green cross code man :)


We can't, he's gone to the Dark Side
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2017, 10:59:24 pm
When a road widens with a turn right lane with chevrons leading up to it, and some people block the lane as they seem to fear putting a couple of wheels in the chevron area!
Last time i went around a row of cars queuing like that O went on the cheveron side and got a 6 inch nail in my tryre for my efforts, I avoid doing that now, as the area is not used you get all kinds of shit washed in there.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2017, 11:05:08 pm
I just don't think that a bit (lot) of rain is enough reason to run out into the road to nearly get yourself killed, and worse still, mess my bike up, 'cos either way you're on a loser as far as i'm concerned.
I was barely moving luckily but he hit me full on from the side. If i'd have hit the deck i would not have been a happy man.  :(
Not even a fucking apology either.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 10 January 2017, 06:50:46 pm
When a road widens with a turn right lane with chevrons leading up to it, and some people block the lane as they seem to fear putting a couple of wheels in the chevron area!
Last time i went around a row of cars queuing like that O went on the cheveron side and got a 6 inch nail in my tryre for my efforts, I avoid doing that now, as the area is not used you get all kinds of shit washed in there.


A very good point.

Areas such as that are covered in tyre-puncturing junk.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 11 January 2017, 11:10:29 am
I am not talking about overtaking on chevrons, jsut tucking into a chevron area at a junction to not block cars going straight on.  Such as this:


(https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/746/32096384182_99edee5384.jpg)


rather than:




(https://c3.staticflickr.com/1/644/32096384122_42a55a6afd.jpg)


I find most people do tuck in, but you get the odd ones who don't...  I know you shouldn't really go on chevrons, SINNER!!

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 January 2017, 01:02:38 pm
Yep cheverons are there to separate traffic and you should not go in them, in your picture scenario its not so bad but the chevrons are used in all kinds of road situations, and its all well and good your first car doing it but the next one will still black the traffic if the first car is still there.
And you will get a puncture sooner or later.
I go my 6inch nail from overtaking stationary traffic that had a very long thin chevron area on the right in between two pedestrian refuges, whih is why the chevrons were there to protect the pedestrian refuge   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Wee Rocky on 11 January 2017, 01:32:33 pm
Going for a haircut and half way through it looks great then 5 mins later when they are finished  it looks fecking worse than when you first went in!! And the bastards charge you for it!! And you tell them it looks great when it's terrible!! I just shave my head now.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 January 2017, 02:22:20 pm
Yep cheverons are there to separate traffic and you should not go in them, in your picture scenario its not so bad but the chevrons are used in all kinds of road situations, and its all well and good your first car doing it but the next one will still black the traffic if the first car is still there.
And you will get a puncture sooner or later.
I go my 6inch nail from overtaking stationary traffic that had a very long thin chevron area on the right in between two pedestrian refuges, whih is why the chevrons were there to protect the pedestrian refuge   

"...•If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so..."

Looks safe enough to me, and it is necessary if you don't want to hold up every other poor sod behind you!  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 11 January 2017, 04:12:43 pm
Going for a haircut and half way through it looks great then 5 mins later when they are finished  it looks fecking worse than when you first went in!! And the bastards charge you for it!! And you tell them it looks great when it's terrible!! I just shave my head now.


Whats a haircut? If it isn't just blade one all over then you are just a ruddy hippie :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 11 January 2017, 05:20:24 pm
Going for a haircut and half way through it looks great then 5 mins later when they are finished  it looks fecking worse than when you first went in!! And the bastards charge you for it!! And you tell them it looks great when it's terrible!! I just shave my head now.


Whats a haircut? If it isn't just blade one all over then you are just a ruddy hippie :)

 
Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin eaddddd!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 11 January 2017, 05:42:16 pm

Property law in England


I have my apartment up for sale it was only on the market for a week. Two people enter into a bidding war and on the advice of the estate I accepted the higher offer as the buyer offered full asking price and no chain involved. The buyer insisted that I take the property off the market as he was a cash buyer and wanted to fast track the sale. So we agreed to do this. I get a phone call yesterday afternoon they have decided not to proceed. We are one month in to the process, fecking livid.
It is really time the law was changed.
In Spain and I think in France it works like this, you make an offer and if accepted the buyer puts down 10% deposit, you then have 10 days in which to change your mind. If after that date you change your mind you forfeit the 10%, also if the seller pulls out you have to pay the other party 10%. I believe in Scotland they have a sealed bid system and when an offer is accepted it is also binding. At least this is supposed to stop gazumping but still not perfect. Selling and buying property has to be one of the most stressful things in life.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 January 2017, 06:05:37 pm
:agree

Your thoughts about the French process are not too far off. The deposit is variable but once an offer is accepted it is binding. The downside to the French process is it takes about 4 months even as a cash buyer to complete.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: limax2 on 11 January 2017, 08:21:20 pm
Eating establishments that have a sign by the road side that says "FOOD NOW BEING SERVED" and after you have pulled in and stopped etc. you find they are closed. Why don't the lazy so and so's take the sign in when they shut up shop.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 11 January 2017, 08:26:05 pm
Going for a haircut and half way through it looks great then 5 mins later when they are finished  it looks fecking worse than when you first went in!! And the bastards charge you for it!! And you tell them it looks great when it's terrible!! I just shave my head now.


Whats a haircut? If it isn't just blade one all over then you are just a ruddy hippie :)

 
Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin eaddddd!!


Ģuilty as charged,  bald patches appearing so just got rid of most of my hair :) , prefer that to the balding arseholes at work putting gel in their hair to try force the remaining few hairs to hide their bald patch and throw a wobbly like a little girl when you take the piss out of them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 11 January 2017, 11:08:35 pm

:agree

Your thoughts about the French process are not too far off. The deposit is variable but once an offer is accepted it is binding. The downside to the French process is it takes about 4 months even as a cash buyer to complete.
Depends on what region you are buying in and how lazy the Notaire  is, my first place was 6 weeks in the Aude region and here in the lot et Garonne 3 months.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 12 January 2017, 06:26:55 pm
Today I have mostly been ranting to myself (no one else would listen) about the amount of lazy bastards who can't be arsed fixing their faulty headlights, so they just put their fog lights on.
It's not foccing foggy, stop being so idle and maintain your vehicle.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 13 January 2017, 06:30:29 am
Today I have mostly been ranting to myself (no one else would listen) about the amount of lazy bastards who can't be arsed fixing their faulty headlights, so they just put their fog lights on.
It's not foccing foggy, stop being so idle and maintain your vehicle.  :wall

You are very hopeful-I know quite a few drivers who never bother to check tyres(condition& pressure),fluid levels etc, so to expect them to check their lights are working is a bit optimistic.Manufacturers dont help by making it nigh on impossible to access said bulbs -some cars are particularly bad in this respect requiring removal of all sorts of stuff.
Was riding in fog/misty conditions last Sunday & lost count of the dickheads without adequate lights showing(DRLs give an illumination to dashboard on some cars). Then you get the idiots who put their high intensity rear foglights on at the first drop of rain!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 13 January 2017, 09:34:18 am

Agree with the previous post concerning the difficulty of replacing bulbs. I have a Renault Captur (ok no jokes) it is a cracking wee car. My dear wife 9sic)noticed as I attempted to reverse over her that the reversing light was not working.
Tried to change it , Well how is this for clever engineering consulted the owners manual, Take car to dealers it more or less says. I did doit myself in the end as the dealer wanted £55.00 for labour costs as they have to remove the rear panels and bumper to access the light fittings. Feck that did it myself in the end and it did take me over an hour to do, okay now I know what is involved could do it in 1/2 the time but what a stupid design.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 13 January 2017, 10:09:51 am
I think that's a feature on all modern Renault.  The old shape Megan was famous for having the hardest to replace headlight bulbs of any road going car. They blamed it on Euro Ncap safety saying their cars were designed to be safer rather than easy to work on.
Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.
Bludy French haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 13 January 2017, 10:47:19 am
The 2002 Renoooo Laguna had the following steps to change a headlight bulb

1. Jack up BOTH front wheels
2. Remove BOTH front wheels
3. Remove BOTH wheel arch liners
4. Remove front bumper
5 remove headlight
6 change bulb
7. put it all back together again.

No wonder people never change them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 13 January 2017, 11:20:10 am
The 2002 Renoooo Laguna had the following steps to change a headlight bulb

1. Jack up BOTH front wheels
2. Remove BOTH front wheels
3. Remove BOTH wheel arch liners
4. Remove front bumper
5 remove headlight
6 change bulb
7. put it all back together again.

No wonder people never change them.

2003 diesel Laguna you only have to remove the battery for the nearside bulb. But when you replace the battery you have to enter the radio code and calibrate the electric windows.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 13 January 2017, 01:39:28 pm
It's always worth a look on youtube to see if there's an easy way to carry out car maitenance tasks. It certainly helped me out in ths summer when a dipped beam needed changing on my Vectra.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 15 January 2017, 08:50:42 pm


Speaking about headlights and what gets my goat - I was at my squash club yesterday, went on my Honda, rode there in the light and by the time I'd played it was dark. Started bike and ...... no headlight. It's about 15 minutes to ride home mostly B roads then a couple of miles of A. So dilema, I could ride it or I could push it or I could walk back and collect it the next day. Club is a bit out in the sticks so bus is not an option. Decided to ride it. That's all well and good but pretty much every driver flashed their lights at me and yes, it did get my goat! It's not for want of maintenance, my bikes and van are extremely carefully looked after, it just decided to give up for that journey.


I know I know, I shouldn't have ridden home but, realistically, what would you have done?


Frustratingly I've checked headlight, fuses, relay and switch today and can't find the fault!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 15 January 2017, 09:01:47 pm


Speaking about headlights and what gets my goat - I was at my squash club yesterday, went on my Honda, rode there in the light and by the time I'd played it was dark. Started bike and ...... no headlight. It's about 15 minutes to ride home mostly B roads then a couple of miles of A. So dilema, I could ride it or I could push it or I could walk back and collect it the next day. Club is a bit out in the sticks so bus is not an option. Decided to ride it. That's all well and good but pretty much every driver flashed their lights at me and yes, it did get my goat! It's not for want of maintenance, my bikes and van are extremely carefully looked after, it just decided to give up for that journey.


I know I know, I shouldn't have ridden home but, realistically, what would you have done?


Frustratingly I've checked headlight, fuses, relay and switch today and can't find the fault!
So was it he bulb - in which case it would not of been both filaments so you could of ridden home on full beam
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 January 2017, 06:45:57 pm
It's always worth a look on youtube to see if there's an easy way to carry out car maitenance tasks. It certainly helped me out in ths summer when a dipped beam needed changing on my Vectra.

 :agree

I've looked up loads of really helpful youtube instructional videos.

I now can't believe I used to take watch bracelets in to the shop and pay to have links removed after finding how easy it was to do at home without any special tools from a youtube vid.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 16 January 2017, 11:18:05 pm
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Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.


Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 17 January 2017, 08:35:01 pm
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Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.


Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions  :rolleyes




 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 28 January 2017, 08:33:06 pm
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 28 January 2017, 08:44:09 pm
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .


Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 January 2017, 12:12:40 am
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .


Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped

I had one go in a Peugeot 307 I bought for £300, it behaved completely normally, i.e. Crap.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 29 January 2017, 05:47:41 pm
Was that the 307 or a new CAT for £300 lol you get what you pay for.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 January 2017, 06:59:07 pm

The £300 307 was a 2003 model 1.6 petrol 5 speed, leccy windows and working air con with 103000 miles on it, oh yes and 12 months MOT. It drove perfectly apart from it being a Peugeot, but it had an emissions warning on the display. It never made any difference to the drive. I paid more than £300 for a car that was in a lot worse state 30 years ago. We only bought it as a temporary car while we were finding the wifes new car. Sold the Peugeot after 6 weeks for £300 to a very grateful buyer.

As much as I hate the more modern Peugeots, I couldn't believe the value for money, I mean, a reliable car with a full MOT and working air con for £300.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 30 January 2017, 12:23:14 am
My mrs just picked up a 1996 Toyota Corolla 31k on the clock full Toyota service history every year from new 1 owner from new absolutely mint inside ( like a time capsule ) years mot, air con , leccy sun roof ,windows, mirrors, mot til sept 17 for the outrageous sum of £100
A lorry wrote off her 110k mileage Clio in Dec and she got weighed in a grand off the insurance less £250 Excess and got a £28 refund off the remaining on her insurance premium as this one is cheaper to insure.
The owners were emigrating and just wanted the money donated to charity.
Now that's what I call a bargain  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 30 January 2017, 01:09:59 am

Bloody hell, that should last her a while!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 30 January 2017, 02:17:22 am
She's loving it , drives nicer than her 54 plate Clio , she's got a couple of grand to get a new car but changed her mind after driving this one, its tatty on the outside, car park dints and that but then she's not bothered about parking it and worried it'll get scratched.
Weirdly it's got all the extras but not remote central locking , it's really pissing her off especially when it's raining  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 January 2017, 08:49:22 am
Fitting a remote central locking system is cheap and easy if it has central locking already.

Pick up a kit for under £20 on fleaBay
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 30 January 2017, 10:27:30 am
Fitting a remote central locking system is cheap and easy if it has central locking already.

Pick up a kit for under £20 on fleaBay
I'm not gonna tell her that she'll have me trying to fit it and probably foccing it up , everything mechanical I look at lately fucks up :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 January 2017, 10:56:38 am
I'm not gonna tell her that she'll have me trying to fit it and probably foccing it up , everything mechanical I look at lately fucks up :'(

You will be OK, its just a few wires and nothing mechanical :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 30 January 2017, 11:10:57 am
I've just had a look at a few on the bay and amazon.
If my shit Midas touch ends soon I'll get her one
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 February 2017, 07:43:17 pm
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 01 February 2017, 07:45:50 pm
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes
He could have been a dyslexic pig farmer  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 February 2017, 09:14:25 pm
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes

Probably cost him nearly as much as the porsche too  😂😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 01 February 2017, 10:50:21 pm
Am I missing something?  What is P80crs supposed to say? Porkers?? What's so good about that? It's not even close!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 February 2017, 06:40:39 am
Am I missing something?  What is P80crs supposed to say? Porkers?? What's so good about that? It's not even close!


That's because you've changed the numbers again, it was P80RCS, and that was my whole point......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 02 February 2017, 09:18:04 am
Ahhh, now the beer haze has cleared I can see that with squinty eyes and viewed from the back of a galloping horse, in a dim light, it might say something not unlike Porsche, if you really tried hard.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 February 2017, 09:45:08 am
There used to be some blonde bimbo around Frimley that drive a Mercedes cabriolet with the reg F1LLY

Not quite sure what it meant :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 02 February 2017, 10:50:53 am
I was down in the Keys in florida about 15 years ago and saw a plate that said WAS HIS. No ambiguity there.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 02 February 2017, 12:07:41 pm
One of the first personal plates I remember seeing was COM1C in 1966 on Jimmy Tarbucks 280SL Mercedes, although there was a wealthy MP named Nabarro who had a fleet of posh cars with NAB1,NAB2 etc. Often spotted around Belgravia in the 70's was Fiona Richmond's Radford Mini Cooper S which had FU2.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 09 February 2017, 08:29:29 am
I give my visor a nice clean this morning to get rid of last night's rain and grime, I get half a mile down the road and the car in front squirts their windscreen to clean it goes all over my visor..... well that was worth me cleaning it!  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 February 2017, 10:40:15 am
One of the first personal plates I remember seeing was COM1C in 1966 on Jimmy Tarbucks 280SL Mercedes, although there was a wealthy MP named Nabarro who had a fleet of posh cars with NAB1,NAB2 etc. Often spotted around Belgravia in the 70's was Fiona Richmond's Radford Mini Cooper S which had FU2.
Around here there are about 30 cars all with the number plate (in their minds ) RITESH
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 09 February 2017, 06:42:44 pm
I assume that's meant to read British, if so.....bellends 8)


my gripe is travel insurance for disabled people

looking to get away with the family so asked the DR to say she's fit to travel. He says I can't say that and no Dr would, all I can do is give a statement of fact (print out of medical history) and the Ins. Co. will have to say ye or nay based on that
rang the Ins. Co. (All Clear who are recommended by the Stroke Association) and ask for a quote for the Mrs

it then goes......

we'll save all the details and share them with others, so I ask who are you sharing them with....evasive answer given
I need your details.....I'm not asking for cover so why do you need mine.....answered policy
whats your phone number...... x directory mate you aint getting it
I need the Dr to say in writing she's fit to travel, I explain the Doc won't do that but I have a SOF

well its policy to have the Dr write so we cannot take this on unless.....

I say forget it.......All Clear? stay clear!!!



move onto 2nd Ins Co. (LV) a few questions and quote goes through with no dramas

wanted quotes on going to the US but being told its a non starter, if anyone's been the US can you give me details of Ins Co?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 February 2017, 10:46:30 am
Maddog - Hopefully I am trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs but........

Almost all insurance companies will exclude pre-existing conditions or events that could even be loosely related to that. Are you sure you want to travel so far, to a country currently run by a muppet, given the health history of your wife?
I can completely understand the desire to go somewhere for a break and for that place to be warm and sunny but if it was me I would look MUCH closer to home just in case there was an issue as the insurance wont cover everything.

Hopefully you will get that break soon though. I'm sure you need it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 February 2017, 11:37:44 am
I assume that's meant to read British, if so.....bellends 8)

Nope ------- Ritesh
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 10 February 2017, 12:59:40 pm
BB, the Mrs has done the US years ago and would like to go back with us. I'm not arsed about the Muppet but I can take it or leave it tbh. Surprisingly, there are Ins co's that will insure with pre existing conditions and they're not charging the earth which is a surprise though you're right, most won't.
I'll go the policy with a fine tooth comb though ;) the hol will do us all good wherever we end up


fazersharp.....spill the beans then
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 February 2017, 01:17:02 pm
 :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 February 2017, 01:23:26 pm
BB, the Mrs has done the US years ago and would like to go back with us. I'm not arsed about the Muppet but I can take it or leave it tbh. Surprisingly, there are Ins co's that will insure with pre existing conditions and they're not charging the earth which is a surprise though you're right, most won't.
I'll go the policy with a fine tooth comb though ;) the hol will do us all good wherever we end up


fazersharp.....spill the beans then
About what.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 10 February 2017, 04:37:48 pm

My Mrs really hit the roof today, she carries a donor card, like we all should. I thought I was doing her a favour as I attached a note to the donor card.
All it said was in the event of an accident DO NOT RESUSCITATE, Like why is she upset??? am I missing something here?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 10 February 2017, 04:58:59 pm
RITESH

WTF does it mean?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 February 2017, 05:22:10 pm
RITESH

WTF does it mean?


Its an Indian name.

http://www.indiachildnames.com/name.aspx?name=Ritesh (http://www.indiachildnames.com/name.aspx?name=Ritesh)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 10 February 2017, 06:23:35 pm

My Mrs really hit the roof today, she carries a donor card, like we all should. I thought I was doing her a favour as I attached a note to the donor card.
All it said was in the event of an accident DO NOT RESUSCITATE, Like why is she upset??? am I missing something here?


 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 18 February 2017, 07:57:48 pm
people who say money goes to money,       after a recent win.        not well done mate you deserve   that after working hard seven days a week for thirty years.    jealous wankers,. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 18 February 2017, 10:07:32 pm
people who say money goes to money,       after a recent win.        not well done mate you deserve   that after working hard seven days a week for thirty years.    jealous wankers,. ;)


Well let me be the first to say it
Well done mate .. you deserve it  :)
Good luck to ya
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 February 2017, 04:16:20 pm
people who say money goes to money,       after a recent win.        not well done mate you deserve   that after working hard seven days a week for thirty years.    jealous wankers,. ;)
Come on the what did you win and on what
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 19 February 2017, 05:42:16 pm
All these future planned increases in the state retirement age to 66..67..68..69..70.............

It's alright for people that sit at a desk all day and don't have to lift anything heavier than a pencil.

People that do hard manual labour pick up injuries and wear out quicker.

How are all the construction, road-workers or scaffolders meant to breeze along on to past 70? >:

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 19 February 2017, 06:34:58 pm
Because they hope we will die before we retire and they will not have to pay us any pension at all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 22 February 2017, 08:57:32 pm
 :lol :lol :lol :lol ;) , 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 February 2017, 09:47:59 pm
people who say money goes to money,       after a recent win.        not well done mate you deserve   that after working hard seven days a week for thirty years.    jealous wankers,. ;)


Well let me be the first to say it
Well done mate .. you deserve it  :)
Good luck to ya


Yeah Jammy bastard  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 23 February 2017, 10:49:04 pm
Stupid foccing neighbours  :wall 
For giving the job of replacing their back fence to pikeys who both turned up in clapped out transits registerd in Ireland, took 3 days to do 1 days work and completely focced up my back fence when they had to join their side to mine with a post decided that it was too late to do that and thought that 2 nails and a tin strip 3inches long would do instead and that the resulting 2inch gap my fence now has so that any tom dick or Harry can look into my garden through is alright.
After pointing out to my neighbour when I saw this which unknown to me was after pikey paddy and his stupid side kick had been paid and shot off in a cloud of diesel smoke, he says I'll call them and get them back ........what a surprise the phone number he had for them doesn't work, to which I ask "how did you contact them"? "Oh we didn't they knocked asking if we needed work doing and they were a reasonable price so they started there and then" "did you check their work before paying"I say "no it looked ok from inside the house" he says. Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh  :fish
There really is no cure for stooopid and I've got to sort out my side of the fence luckily my house is council and his isn't so they'll come and fix the fence and send him the bill for the lot  :deal
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 23 February 2017, 10:57:02 pm
FFS.  :foc There is no way that Pikeys in an Irish registered Transit would do a job like that. :eek
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They would have stolen your fence :lol
Are you try to give them a bad name or what :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 23 February 2017, 11:04:55 pm
Just found out when we walked the dog earlier instead of disposing of the old fence parts ( loads of it ) at the tip or whatever they've fly tipped it round the corner.
I really feel like pointing out to the council where it came from :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: downey on 23 February 2017, 11:14:20 pm
Ah now lads on me mothers life boss that fence fell out the back door of the van . Sure i could happen to anyone.
A 2 inch gap in your fence  :rollin
you got off very lightly .mind u its probably so they can keep an eye on you  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 23 February 2017, 11:37:20 pm
Ah now lads on me mothers life boss that fence fell out the back door of the van . Sure i could happen to anyone.
A 2 inch gap in your fence  :rollin
you got off very lightly .mind u its probably so they can keep an eye on you  :lol
Thanks that makes me so much better       👀
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 24 February 2017, 08:40:19 am
Banks that can lose 50 billion after a 45 billion tax payer bailout and their spokesman says the bank has still got great potential, the finance world is a truly focced up place.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 February 2017, 08:55:00 am
their spokesman says the bank has still got great potential to rip off the taxpayer even more to ensure that the fat bastards at the top of the bank can still get their bonuses.

Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 24 February 2017, 10:11:39 am

Banks don't get me started, well okay then. How about this. I moved from Spain about a year ago to France. I had to keep my Spanish bank account open as I still had a few bills to pay and also some funds to come in from the sale of the villa.
After all transactions were completed I tried to close the account. I tried emailing my local branch, No they said you need to call into the branch to close the account. I now live 1000kms away that is not feasible just close the account, NO you need to call in. Then they started to charge for managing the account. I contacted the head office (Banco Sabadell) explaining I wanted to close the account. Okay but you will need to call into your branch to close the account. But I live 1000kms away. Yes okay we understand, but you will need to call into your branch to close the account ffs. I contacted my Branch again by phone this time. If I let the account lie dormant will it be closed after say a year, NO it will remain open. Okay how about we run the balance down and then close the account, No and if you fail to maintain funds in the account it will go into arrears and as you do not have an overdraft facility we can charge you 29% per day interest against the increasing debt. I had about €300 in the account. I went down to Spain in November went to the ATM at the branch pulled the lot out and then went into close the account. It was worth the trip as obviously when they pulled the details up and I signed the forms to close the account they then presented me with a demand for €14.75 admin fee for closing the account. I advised then to re arrange this well known phrase off and fuck.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 24 February 2017, 02:08:34 pm
I advised then to re arrange this well known phrase off and fuck.

go on! tell us what their reply was?  :lol I'm finding this stoy wery entertaining
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 24 February 2017, 02:44:02 pm
I have a few friends that live in Spain and from what they have told me about that particular bank it probably would have been different outcome if he was Spanish  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 24 February 2017, 02:46:08 pm

they said something along the lines of ,


No te vayas a la mierda :lol


Seriously though they just looked at me dumb like.!!!!
There was a big German guy behind me in the queue , nosey bastard, but he nearly pissed himself trying not to  laugh. I was having a coffee in a bar beside the bank and he came in for a beer. He came over and said that was the best 5 minutes he has ever had in that bank
 
I did get a letter from the manager apoligising for the inconveince of having to travel all that way, but he said it was out of their hands as it was policy from the head office. He did however say that if I ever returned to Spain thy did hope I would make Banco Sabadell my bank of choice lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 24 February 2017, 03:00:32 pm

they said something along the lines of ,


No te vayas a la mierda :lol


Seriously though they just looked at me dumb like.!!!!
There was a big German guy behind me in the queue , nosey bastard, but he nearly pissed himself trying not to  laugh. I was having a coffee in a bar beside the bank and he came in for a beer. He came over and said that was the best 5 minutes he has ever had in that bank
 
I did get a letter from the manager apoligising for the inconveince of having to travel all that way, but he said it was out of their hands as it was policy from the head office. He did however say that if I ever returned to Spain thy did hope I would make Banco Sabadell my bank of choice lol

And I take it you filed that letter in the trash folder  :lol

This little story has cheered me right up after my little blip out and nearly being taken out by a FOCCING DICKHEAD IN A FOCCING BMW not using the mirrors or even just turning his head as I was right FOCCING next to him, no indication, no looking, just pulled the FOC out. I tried to lefthook his mirror off, but missed so had to quickly change it to a wanker hand signal so it didn't look like i missed  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 26 February 2017, 10:40:01 pm
lazy idiotic journo's

story in my local rag about a guy caught breaking into a shop through the back wall.....Police told the journo he was caught coz neighbours heard him using a stihl saw to do the brickwork and the reporter wrote STEEL saw


that's STIHL saw you thick journo cnut
did you think it was a steel saw as opposed to a wooden one FFS :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 February 2017, 04:28:25 am
lazy idiotic journo's

story in my local rag about a guy caught breaking into a shop through the back wall.....Police told the journo he was caught coz neighbours heard him using a stihl saw to do the brickwork and the reporter wrote STEEL saw


that's STIHL saw you thick journo cnut
did you think it was a steel saw as opposed to a wooden one FFS :'(


I'm forever correcting reporters spelling,i find it quite insulting sometimes when they get words so very wrong.
The thing i don't get though is how it even happens? If i misspell a word on my laptop then it tells me by putting a red squiggly line under it. Not only that, but you'd think you'd go back over and check your own work first before releasing it to millions of people to see anyway? I know i certainly would.
It really is just lazy and sloppy work.


On that note, i just read a story about some poor sod who got hit by a car that's wrecked his life, and on the headline it was a BMW, then in the main story it's turned into a Mercedes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 February 2017, 04:26:10 pm
Knobend council ground workers that have decided that it's gonna take the 4 weeks to dig up then re tarmac the 4 bus stops on the road around my cul de sac and in the process have covered the entire road (my only exit in both directions) with various gravel and mud debris, making it neigh on impossible to ride down. My front end slipped twice already today and that was thankfully only at about 10mph.
 I wouldn't mind but I'm gonna have this for a month because the lazy tossers only wanna work from 7am till lunchtime
I can't work out how they are making such a mess given they aren't even digging up the road, yet still manage to cover it all in shit.
I tell you what if I come off of my bike because of it then God help them!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 27 February 2017, 05:35:12 pm
Give then written notice that if they do not clean it up and as a result they will be sued, lawyers or us !!!!feel a claim coming on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 28 February 2017, 09:54:20 am
Knobend council ground workers that have decided that it's gonna take the 4 weeks to dig up then re tarmac the 4 bus stops on the road around my cul de sac and in the process have covered the entire road (my only exit in both directions) with various gravel and mud debris, making it neigh on impossible to ride down. My front end slipped twice already today and that was thankfully only at about 10mph.
 I wouldn't mind but I'm gonna have this for a month because the lazy tossers only wanna work from 7am till lunchtime
I can't work out how they are making such a mess given they aren't even digging up the road, yet still manage to cover it all in shit.
I tell you what if I come off of my bike because of it then God help them!!

I bet it's not the council, I bet it's Amey. They seem to have the road repair contracts for most of the country. And they're bloody useless.

 I've had to do battle with my council about the state of the roads. They resurfaced a road half a mile from my house about 4 years ago and it's fallen to pieces. So they came along and patched some of the holes, sometimes even stopping the repair halfway along a rut! Feckwits. They resurfaced the road outside my house. OK it needed doing but not as much as the bit of road half a mile away (same road). But apparently they can't be proactive and do the worst bit first. They are "working on being proactive". This same company underspent their budget by 4 million pounds the other year. Enough to feed the Calais camp for an entire year. Incompetant twats.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 February 2017, 12:01:18 pm
Well either one of them reads this forum or somebody has complained because today there are signs up saying "warning,  mud on road".
And to give the guys their due about 3 of them started flagging me down as I was approaching to warn me of the crap that's all over the place.
Still think it should be cleaned up after each day though
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 28 February 2017, 06:20:01 pm
When your mrs texts you to pick your kid up from nursery because she's stuck in traffic and won't get there in time, but she keeps the only key to the spare car on her key ring that's in her fucking pocket, so you're looking at a £90 'Late Collection Fee' for the second time this month because the staff have to keep the nursery open, and seeing how she ain't worked for three years the money sure as shit isn't coming out of her purse.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 28 February 2017, 06:23:09 pm
tell her to feccin walk so she doesn't get stuck in traffic.

Failing that, if shes not working, she could look after the kids herself :pokefun

Maybe set herself up as a childminder (just kidding)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 28 February 2017, 08:17:35 pm
When your mrs texts you to pick your kid up from nursery because she's stuck in traffic and won't get there in time, but she keeps the only key to the spare car on her key ring that's in her fucking pocket, so you're looking at a £90 'Late Collection Fee' for the second time this month because the staff have to keep the nursery open, and seeing how she ain't worked for three years the money sure as shit isn't coming out of her purse.

My missus rang me at work yesterday, having a go that she couldn't find her car keys. I said "they're on my desk - in front of me". "Why?" came the fired up response. "Cos we agreed I would use your car today to see if it was driving okay and that you would use mine to get around in"
Its amazing the effect a bottle of red has on their memory......  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 28 February 2017, 11:42:29 pm

Getting four seasons in one day, got up this morning jumped on the bike for a  blast wall to wall sunshine, an hour into the ride dark clouds and the heavens opened stuck in the middle of nowhere fecking drenched . Rain stops and sun comes back out. Wind starts to pick up like really scary shit and
more dark clouds and suddenly hailstones nearly the size of golf balls fecking sore. hide in a shop door way and this French  twat says you cannot stay there you must move on, I think the look on my face told him his wishes were not going to be full filled. They stopped and the sun comes out again. I arrive back in my local village and the Gendarmes pull me over and check my ID  and look the bike over. Perfect day out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Disorderlypunk on 01 March 2017, 12:02:03 am
in west cumbria they are replacing expansion joints on a bridge (the little gaps at each end)
its going to cost £500,000 and take nine weeks to cut out to strips of tarmac rebolt in plates and retarmac
they have 30mph average speed cameras at the bridge but only for 100yds before you get there each side
then no-one accelerates to the NSL once they get to the signs - thank god bikes are slim and the cameras are forward facing :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 01 March 2017, 04:01:08 pm
people blaming everyone else for their own Foccin Foc ups----what the Foc is that all about.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 01 March 2017, 08:00:53 pm
bang on old git.   I been thinking the same thing today,  ?ankers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 March 2017, 02:44:27 pm
Myopic, geriatric, deaf, blind, arthritic stupid old people that shouldn't be on the road.

Nipped up to the shop at lunchtime to grab some milk and having pulled into the car park behind someone, they decided that they wanted the space that they were now alongside. Instead of pulling further forwards and reversing in, they put the car in reverse and pulled straight back into my front bumper. she was about 6 feet in front of me when we initially stopped but as soon as I saw the reversing lights come on I was sounding the horn. Didn't make a blind bit of difference, she just kept coming. Her excuse? She's deaf. Didn't stop her hearing her son on the phone when she called him for the insurance details or me talking to here though.
I suggested she needs her eyes checked as she obviously didn't see the bloody great Audi behind her. Made her think a bit though when I suggested she was better off that it was my car rather than the young mum pushing the buggy that it could have been that she also wouldn't have seen!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 March 2017, 05:28:45 am
Myopic, geriatric, deaf, blind, arthritic stupid old people that shouldn't be on the road.

Nipped up to the shop at lunchtime to grab some milk and having pulled into the car park behind someone, they decided that they wanted the space that they were now alongside. Instead of pulling further forwards and reversing in, they put the car in reverse and pulled straight back into my front bumper. she was about 6 feet in front of me when we initially stopped but as soon as I saw the reversing lights come on I was sounding the horn. Didn't make a blind bit of difference, she just kept coming. Her excuse? She's deaf. Didn't stop her hearing her son on the phone when she called him for the insurance details or me talking to here though.
I suggested she needs her eyes checked as she obviously didn't see the bloody great Audi behind her. Made her think a bit though when I suggested she was better off that it was my car rather than the young mum pushing the buggy that it could have been that she also wouldn't have seen!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I've had 3 major occasions where cars that have started cutting across me have completely ignored the air horn that is now fully pressed on sounding like a British Rail train, yet they've carried on regardless putting me in serious danger before i've had to take emergency measures to avoid me being wiped out.
I never ever considered them being deaf before, i just thought they were evil cnuts?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 March 2017, 05:30:31 am
I've heard some bad ideas before, but what fucking planet is this woman from???  :grumble :grumble :grumble

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 03 March 2017, 08:15:00 am
I've heard some bad ideas before, but what fucking planet is this woman from???  :grumble :grumble :grumble
I can see that the government forcing the BBC to fund elements of social policy is a disgrace, but the BBC suggesting that those old folks who can afford to do so might like to contribute rather than leech off the younger citizens doesn't seem a bad thing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 March 2017, 08:45:19 am
A better idea would be to make the whole licence thing voluntary and tie it in with encryption of BBC channels.

You don't pay, they take it away. Will make the BBC realise how many people actually want their service and change the programming to suit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 March 2017, 09:04:02 am
rip off merchants.

Following the incident yesterday, I emailed photos of the damage to three of the online "chips away" type companies. the first one back with the quote had looked up the registration number online and found it was still linked to the Hyundai it came off of rather than the Audi its on now. Despite me telling them it was an Audi when asking for the quote, the quote came back for £221 mentioning the Hyundai. I asked them to correct the paperwork so they did and came back with a revised quote of £445!!!!!!!

Their excuse? Its a premium brand and materials cost more. FFS, we are probably just talking about 0.5 litres of paint which I am sure they mix themselves. Robbing bastards.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 March 2017, 09:55:50 am
I've heard some bad ideas before, but what fucking planet is this woman from???  :grumble :grumble :grumble
I can see that the government forcing the BBC to fund elements of social policy is a disgrace, but the BBC suggesting that those old folks who can afford to do so might like to contribute rather than leech off the younger citizens doesn't seem a bad thing.


No, i totally disagree.
Leave the over 75's well alone. They were younger citizens once too, but had it a damn site more difficult than in this day and age. If they want to chuck money at the BBC then more fool them, but i find it all a bit distasteful.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 03 March 2017, 10:30:21 am
the HMG ads all over the place for the workplace pensions

"don't forget to enrol......blah blah blah"

fuck off you slimy twats......you always move the goalposts and stitch us up like fuckin kippers. I signed up for a pension on ABC, now you're telling me I have to abide by XYZ
then you have cunts like MR GREEN(E) and MAXWELL

shower of cunts..........................rant over
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 03 March 2017, 11:30:54 am
very true,   then you become old and ill and that pays for the care costs.   thank you very much ker ching.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 03 March 2017, 11:54:50 am
Thinking about the TV licence debate that foccer's are talking about, I sort of fall down on the side of the voluntary payment should the pensioner choose, the thing is that choice is not being taken away but is actually being offered if you think about it.


I hit the grand old age of 70 in 7 days time (No presents please, Just Cash or Beer tokens) I have been fortunate throughout my life health wise, and as such have retained my mobility, and, apart from work related damage to both wrists (No don't even think it, or worse say it) that part of the damage happened a bit later in life :eek and because of good health and remaining fit I was able to continue laying bricks up until I hit 68.
No I'm not a rich guy, but I was sensible through my working life as self employed and paid money into a pension scheme as well as gaining some other private pension when I worked for the Government for about 9 years. 

I worked with a small team of builders (Mates) and we took on one off house builds, extensions and the like, I could still keep up with the 40 year old guys when the premix trucks turned up, but my grip was starting to cause me problems and at one point I almost dropped a 8 X 4 sheet of 3/4" ply on a workmate below me, my grip was going, the same week whilst climbing about on some scaffolding I lost my grip on an upright pole and fell backwards only to be grabbed by the iron like grip of Keith my labourer, had he not held me i would have fallen about 16 feet onto a load of hardcore, and at 68 we do not bounce. I put my tools away on that Friday and have not done any work since (almost 2 years now) I still keep up with the guys some are bikers and we ride out together occasionally.  Where the F--k am I going with this? we were talking about voluntary TV payments, Oh yeah! (Don't laugh it will happen to you) anyway I am comfortable financially, and, my wife (11 years younger than I) still works as a head of department in a college and gets paid very well for her endeavours. So come the time I will happily pay for my T.V licence, I refused a free bus pass, and I do not put any load on the NHS with free prescriptions (very often). So the upshot of my ramblings is, if someone is in the position financially and chooses (Remember it is a choice) to pay for this sort of thing good luck to them.
Out there in the real world are people who live in harder circumstances who are much younger than I, the T V may be their only comfort, so if by some of us old farts paying helps keep the price down just a little for the masses at large then it is a good thing.
OK! I'm out of the pulpit now.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 March 2017, 12:21:40 pm
Thinking about the TV licence debate that foccer's are talking about, I sort of fall down on the side of the voluntary payment should the pensioner choose, the thing is that choice is not being taken away but is actually being offered if you think about it.


I hit the grand old age of 70 in 7 days time (No presents please, Just Cash or Beer tokens) I have been fortunate throughout my life health wise, and as such have retained my mobility, and, apart from work related damage to both wrists (No don't even think it, or worse say it) that part of the damage happened a bit later in life :eek and because of good health and remaining fit I was able to continue laying bricks up until I hit 68.
No I'm not a rich guy, but I was sensible through my working life as self employed and paid money into a pension scheme as well as gaining some other private pension when I worked for the Government for about 9 years. 

I worked with a small team of builders (Mates) and we took on one off house builds, extensions and the like, I could still keep up with the 40 year old guys when the premix trucks turned up, but my grip was starting to cause me problems and at one point I almost dropped a 8 X 4 sheet of 3/4" ply on a workmate below me, my grip was going, the same week whilst climbing about on some scaffolding I lost my grip on an upright pole and fell backwards only to be grabbed by the iron like grip of Keith my labourer, had he not held me i would have fallen about 16 feet onto a load of hardcore, and at 68 we do not bounce. I put my tools away on that Friday and have not done any work since (almost 2 years now) I still keep up with the guys some are bikers and we ride out together occasionally.  Where the F--k am I going with this? we were talking about voluntary TV payments, Oh yeah! (Don't laugh it will happen to you) anyway I am comfortable financially, and, my wife (11 years younger than I) still works as a head of department in a college and gets paid very well for her endeavours. So come the time I will happily pay for my T.V licence, I refused a free bus pass, and I do not put any load on the NHS with free prescriptions (very often). So the upshot of my ramblings is, if someone is in the position financially and chooses (Remember it is a choice) to pay for this sort of thing good luck to them.
Out there in the real world are people who live in harder circumstances who are much younger than I, the T V may be their only comfort, so if by some of us old farts paying helps keep the price down just a little for the masses at large then it is a good thing.
OK! I'm out of the pulpit now.       


You honestly really think it'll stop them putting the price up???
I don't think so!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 03 March 2017, 07:43:07 pm
You honestly really think it'll stop them putting the price up???
I don't think so!



Dunno :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 04 March 2017, 12:08:57 am

Have you noticed every now and then a Politician when talking about the state pension and the triple lock that Osborne brought in may have to be reviewed as the country cannot afford this Benefit. THE STATE PENSION IS NOT A BENEFIT.
When they can find £360 million for repairs to Buckingham Palace & Parliament repair bill 'could top £3bn'
When I need a new roof on my house I pay for it myself, the queen is not short of a few bob , so dig deep betty, The house of lies and false promises just keep let it become a national monument and build a new one , or better still there is a perfectly good parliament building in N Ireland will become vacant very soon as yet again that lot over there are doing there best to fuck it up all over again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 March 2017, 07:44:11 am
People that can't handle their booze (or worse).....then try and bore the feck out of you at the end of the night in your local.
Go and jump in front of an ambulance or something, even more so if you're on drugs and generally talking like a complete tosser, because i'm seriously not interested in hearing your drivel when i'm trying to enjoy my own tipple.
I swear i seem to attract nutters as soon as it goes past midnight.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 04 March 2017, 09:05:55 am
Highways England or whatever they call themselves. There was an accident two weeks ago on the M5 just north of junction 4. Someone smashed into the concrete barrier on the central reservation. So they stuck a 40 limit up whilst they repaired it. 2 weeks later the limit is still in place. Nobody is obeying it so I emailed them. Now the limit is still in placed but now the overhead gantry signs say "Barrier repairs. 40 mph limit". There is no work happening at any time of day and the buggers won't answer any emails.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 04 March 2017, 10:24:37 am
On my route to work I have to pass through Tilbury--every road in is blocked by temporary traffic lights -One is getting new traffic lights and we are 4 weeks in? they haven't even put a pole up yet so guessing we'll get those along with xmas lights in Nov?

Why does every feckin thing in the UK take 4-10 times longer than any where else now?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 05 March 2017, 01:36:50 am

Tilbury feck me I used to sail into Tilbury port years ago, and people slag off Liverpool, at least we stopped eating our young years ago.
There used to be a pub just out side the dock gates , name escapes me just now. I was standing having a quiet pint and this big fecker says to me, your not local are you? a hush fell all around me. I thought here we go !!!were are you from? Belfast I says !!! oh a Paddy eh! No mate just a lad of a ship having a quiet pint do we have a problem here? not if you buy me a pint !!
I thought feck it regardless I am in for a kicking here. In 1972 and being from Belfast and in England there was not a lot down for me. Call it a pre-emptive strike but I decked the twat in one. I am not a hard case by any means, but before we had got to this I cast my eye around the bar , I had about 15 Filipino crew mates dotted around the bar so thought I was on pretty safe ground.
Some say the Irish are thick lol.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 05 March 2017, 08:55:10 am
Aint changed much except when they stopped eating the kids some grew up and instead of fighting old school they use blades.

Thankfully the dock gates have gone and been replaced with a new entry, everytime I go near it, there seems to be a new huge logistics hub going up, destroying the neighbourhood--there no place left to fight now.

And the big fella you met is known locally as deckie as he was always lying on it. hehe  :rollin

But seriously as a Glaswegian it aint nothing compared to the Gorballs or Drumchapell.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 05 March 2017, 12:00:45 pm
or Maryhill :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 05 March 2017, 12:19:40 pm
electrics

put a new battery on the bike and now the heated grips come on without even switching the box on, my digital gear indicator has stopped working and to top it all, so's the horn

I literally lifted the bolts/terminal connectors out dropped the new battery in and retightened the bolts so fucked knows why its gone tits up

I can live without the grips for now as summer approaches but the gear indicator was something I'd got used to....now having to think/remember what gear I'm in :lol

the horn may well have just packed in anyway
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 March 2017, 01:14:28 pm
electrics

put a new battery on the bike and now the heated grips come on without even switching the box on, my digital gear indicator has stopped working and to top it all, so's the horn

I literally lifted the bolts/terminal connectors out dropped the new battery in and retightened the bolts so fucked knows why its gone tits up

I can live without the grips for now as summer approaches but the gear indicator was something I'd got used to....now having to think/remember what gear I'm in :lol

the horn may well have just packed in anyway


A battery is only +/-, that sounds very iffy and you need to find the issue before it fries something.
Without sounding patronising, batteries either don't work, or mess things up when polarity is reversed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 06 March 2017, 12:53:24 pm
old bat was fooked mate spout the new one on and I'm at a loss to why things have fooked up, the LBS is going to have a look this week, everything has been disconnected from the bat for now so can still ride
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 06 March 2017, 12:56:25 pm

or Maryhill :lol


Glasgow haha try being the rear gunner on a milk float in Belfast  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 06 March 2017, 11:21:53 pm

or Maryhill :lol


Glasgow haha try being the rear gunner on a milk float in Belfast  :lol


  :lol  Great place Glasgow. Also known as Belfast-Lite by the Irish.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 March 2017, 02:03:38 pm
at least you had a gun :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 March 2017, 05:39:05 pm
Seems like the Paddys are taking a bit of a hammering in here.
So shut the fuck up and leave us alone :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 07 March 2017, 07:10:33 pm
Once again just proves what bunch of mongrels we are in the UK.

But I am sure we have every set of Temp Traffic lights in Europe here in Essex at moment!!

Happy to dig up roads but the repairs are feckin deadly.  :eek

Why do they have to spend 90% of their road repair budget in 1 month?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 07 March 2017, 08:18:29 pm
I can rip the arse outta Paddy's............I'm Scouse
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 07 March 2017, 09:45:46 pm
Scousers the only peeps poorer than the folks from the Gorbals you gotta love em, except John Bishop that is. Lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 March 2017, 06:44:10 am
Once again just proves what bunch of mongrels we are in the UK.

But I am sure we have every set of Temp Traffic lights in Europe here in Essex at moment!!

Happy to dig up roads but the repairs are feckin deadly.  :eek

Why do they have to spend 90% of their road repair budget in 1 month?


At least you're getting repairs, i had last week off then went back to work and saw holes in the road that had appeared on the way to work about a foot in diameter and 3 inches deep!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 08 March 2017, 06:11:08 pm
Thats what you get when you live in a war zone!! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 08 March 2017, 06:48:35 pm
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 09 March 2017, 07:43:14 am
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.

Next time you see Prince Charles could you please send him my way as the road I have to travel up and down everyday is getting that bad I should either be riding an off road bike or driving a monster truck. The road is steep, bendy and FOCCING full of pot holes deep enough to hide a body. I have complained so many times and when they do decide to do something all they do is shove a load of shit in some of the holes which lasts about 5 FOCCING minuets, I keep telling them that the road needs re-serficing not FOCCING bodging. Surley it costs more to keep going out and bodging a job rather than doing the job correctly in the first place.

SORRY I'M USING FOCCING LOGIC  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 March 2017, 10:22:18 am
Seems fair if Prince Charles is coming  :eek


Wot gets my goat is grumpy ole foccers that think it's unreasonable to have pot holes repaired when the future King of the United Kingdom is coming to bestow his Magnificence upon you lowly peasants in your humble towns and insignificant villages with their grotty little bumpy roads.  :rollin :rollin :rollin
 :grumble :pokefun Load of whingers   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 March 2017, 10:23:30 am
He he! ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 09 March 2017, 12:04:02 pm
Seems fair if Prince Charles is coming  :eek


Wot gets my goat is grumpy ole foccers that think it's unreasonable to have pot holes repaired when the future King of the United Kingdom is coming to bestow his Magnificence upon you lowly peasants in your humble towns and insignificant villages with their grotty little bumpy roads.  :rollin :rollin :rollin
 :grumble :pokefun Load of whingers   


When us peasants revolt we will use the guillotined heads of the sponging inbred "royals" and their lackeys to fill in the potholes, its about all they are useful for. :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 March 2017, 12:06:38 pm
no point Slappy. Being empty, they would compress too much :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 09 March 2017, 12:15:40 pm
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.

Next time you see Prince Charles could you please send him my way as the road I have to travel up and down everyday is getting that bad I should either be riding an off road bike or driving a monster truck. The road is steep, bendy and FOCCING full of pot holes deep enough to hide a body. I have complained so many times and when they do decide to do something all they do is shove a load of shit in some of the holes which lasts about 5 FOCCING minuets, I keep telling them that the road needs re-serficing not FOCCING bodging. Surley it costs more to keep going out and bodging a job rather than doing the job correctly in the first place.

SORRY I'M USING FOCCING LOGIC  :lol
Oddly enough I've tried the logical approach with our council. Doesn't work here either.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 09 March 2017, 12:50:23 pm
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.

Next time you see Prince Charles could you please send him my way as the road I have to travel up and down everyday is getting that bad I should either be riding an off road bike or driving a monster truck. The road is steep, bendy and FOCCING full of pot holes deep enough to hide a body. I have complained so many times and when they do decide to do something all they do is shove a load of shit in some of the holes which lasts about 5 FOCCING minuets, I keep telling them that the road needs re-serficing not FOCCING bodging. Surley it costs more to keep going out and bodging a job rather than doing the job correctly in the first place.

SORRY I'M USING FOCCING LOGIC  :lol
Oddly enough I've tried the logical approach with our council. Doesn't work here either.

I just hope that this increase in road tax is actually going to go towards fixing the poor state of the roads.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 09 March 2017, 01:09:31 pm
I just hope that this increase in road tax is actually going to go towards fixing the poor state of the roads.

 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 09 March 2017, 02:07:07 pm
I just hope that this increase in road tax is actually going to go towards fixing the poor state of the roads.

 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin

Cheers fazersharp I forgot to add the 'rolling on floor laughing' emoji's  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 March 2017, 03:20:03 pm
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.

Next time you see Prince Charles could you please send him my way as the road I have to travel up and down everyday is getting that bad I should either be riding an off road bike or driving a monster truck. The road is steep, bendy and FOCCING full of pot holes deep enough to hide a body. I have complained so many times and when they do decide to do something all they do is shove a load of shit in some of the holes which lasts about 5 FOCCING minuets, I keep telling them that the road needs re-serficing not FOCCING bodging. Surley it costs more to keep going out and bodging a job rather than doing the job correctly in the first place.

SORRY I'M USING FOCCING LOGIC  :lol
Oddly enough I've tried the logical approach with our council. Doesn't work here either.

I just hope that this increase in road tax is actually going to go towards fixing the poor state of the roads.

Remember it's not 'road tax' anymore,  it's 'vehicle excise duty'. Doesn't have to go towards roads at all. It's has to go to all the fairies as compensation for our vehicles dirty emissions 😒😒
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 09 March 2017, 03:42:42 pm
on about roads there is one by me that has had potholes for 12 months,   prince Charles visited last week, guess what  it,s done.

Next time you see Prince Charles could you please send him my way as the road I have to travel up and down everyday is getting that bad I should either be riding an off road bike or driving a monster truck. The road is steep, bendy and FOCCING full of pot holes deep enough to hide a body. I have complained so many times and when they do decide to do something all they do is shove a load of shit in some of the holes which lasts about 5 FOCCING minuets, I keep telling them that the road needs re-serficing not FOCCING bodging. Surley it costs more to keep going out and bodging a job rather than doing the job correctly in the first place.

SORRY I'M USING FOCCING LOGIC  :lol
Oddly enough I've tried the logical approach with our council. Doesn't work here either.

I just hope that this increase in road tax is actually going to go towards fixing the poor state of the roads.

Remember it's not 'road tax' anymore,  it's 'vehicle excise duty'. Doesn't have to go towards roads at all. It's has to go to all the fairies as compensation for our vehicles dirty emissions 😒😒

Doesn't matter what they call it as they would spend it on what the FOC they wanted any way. Who needs safe un pot holed roads any way, lets spend the extra money on a statue of a flower made from the most expensive material we can find and while we are at it lets add lighting to it and cost the tax payers even more money and to stop them complaining we'll call it a rememberance day memorial so it will make them feel really shit if they do complain  :thumbup :wall :finger :2guns :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 March 2017, 05:12:38 pm
Seems fair if Prince Charles is coming  :eek


Wot gets my goat is grumpy ole foccers that think it's unreasonable to have pot holes repaired when the future King of the United Kingdom is coming to bestow his Magnificence upon you lowly peasants in your humble towns and insignificant villages with their grotty little bumpy roads.  :rollin :rollin :rollin
 :grumble :pokefun Load of whingers   


When us peasants revolt we will use the guillotined heads of the sponging inbred "royals" and their lackeys to fill in the potholes, its about all they are useful for. :evil


Ahhhh! I love it.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 15 March 2017, 09:51:10 pm
 Every foccing review you read about anything, some idiot says 'it does exactly what it says on the tin' Stop it! You your bloody imagination and say something original. Please.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 15 March 2017, 11:32:11 pm
Every foccing review you read about anything, some idiot says 'it does exactly what it says on the tin' Stop it! You your bloody imagination and say something original. Please.


It is just like the twats that always say 'At the end of the day' after just about everything they say.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 16 March 2017, 07:06:08 am
But at the end of the day Ronseal DOES do exactly what it says on the tin......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 16 March 2017, 07:06:11 am
And people who precede each sentence with "So".
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 16 March 2017, 09:23:28 am
But at the end of the day Ronseal DOES do exactly what it says on the tin......




AHH[/size]H[/size]HHHH! Phew! that feels better[/font]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 16 March 2017, 01:37:44 pm

That line in the film where someone comforts someone else by saying "Everything's going to be OK."
Which film? Every damn one of them so far as I can tell.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Graham53 on 16 March 2017, 04:53:55 pm
Filthy horrid people who don't cover their mouth when sneezing 😡 Just like the twat who just as I was walking towards/past in town the other day sneezed right in front of me at head height without covering his germs spraying into my face and atmosphere meaning I've now got man flu and spent 24 hrs in bed coughing and spluttering feeling like crap 💩.
in what universe do these people think I want to breathe their bacteria
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 16 March 2017, 05:11:26 pm

To be honest, pretty much most things nowadays.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 16 March 2017, 09:31:04 pm

To be honest, pretty much most things nowadays.
No, no, no......the word is everything. ........Foccers!  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 16 March 2017, 09:39:19 pm

Well... yeah but I didn't want to come across as too much of a miserable old git :D

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 17 March 2017, 07:08:23 am
Its so like ,everything, at the end of the day :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: iamthearrison on 17 March 2017, 05:06:35 pm
just had a run in with a prick in a landrover. Id called at the vet for some antibiotics for my cat on the way home from work, parked the bike on a sidestreet. When I came out a 66 plate landrover evoque was sitting by the side of the bike blocking it in, driver still sat in it. Conversation went something like this:

Him - Are you going?
Me - Once ive got my gear on, yeah.
Him - Good, I want that parking space
Me - Well, let me get my helmet on and move your car so I can get out, and you can have it (puts helmet on)
Him - You shouldnt be parked there anyway
Me - Sorry?
Him - You shouldnt be parked there, its a car space
Me - No, its a parking space. Ive as much right to it as anyone
Him - You should have parked on the pavement and left space for a car
Me - Id get a ticket for that (takes helmet off and sits it on the tank)
Him - I thought you said you were going
Me - I was, now Im not. Fuck off and park somewhere else
Him - No need to be like that
Me - Theres every fucking need to be like that, you self entitled prick. Im going nowhere

and with that he drove off as fast as his chelsea tractor would let him, beeping his horn. Twat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 17 March 2017, 06:04:00 pm
just had a run in with a prick in a landrover. Id called at the vet for some antibiotics for my cat on the way home from work, parked the bike on a sidestreet. When I came out a 66 plate landrover evoque was sitting by the side of the bike blocking it in, driver still sat in it. Conversation went something like this:

Him - Are you going?
Me - Once ive got my gear on, yeah.
Him - Good, I want that parking space
Me - Well, let me get my helmet on and move your car so I can get out, and you can have it (puts helmet on)
Him - You shouldnt be parked there anyway
Me - Sorry?
Him - You shouldnt be parked there, its a car space
Me - No, its a parking space. Ive as much right to it as anyone
Him - You should have parked on the pavement and left space for a car
Me - Id get a ticket for that (takes helmet off and sits it on the tank)
Him - I thought you said you were going
Me - I was, now Im not. Fuck off and park somewhere else
Him - No need to be like that
Me - Theres every fucking need to be like that, you self entitled prick. Im going nowhere

and with that he drove off as fast as his chelsea tractor would let him, beeping his horn. Twat.


😂😂😂 10 out of 10 for that one 😂😂😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 17 March 2017, 07:00:41 pm

People (sorry it usually women) who get their trolley at the supermarket, then go through the door and STOP about 2 feet inside, while they check their handbag/shopping list/hair/shoes/all the pretty things which are displayed. Thus stopping anyone else from entering the store.

While we are on it, what happens to women when they go shopping, they turn from normal rational human beings (insert comment here) into a sort of zombie who wanders round with a vacant expression repeating the mantra "pretty things, pretty things, pretty things" occasionally abandoning their trolley in the middle of the aisle to go and stare at some shiny wrappings.

To give you an idea of what I'm on about, imagine a huge shop with beautiful naked women on every shelf, then get a load of blokes with trolleys and watch them walk about. Trolleys everywhere, blokes staring open mouthed, etc. Now just take notice the next time you go shopping and tell me if the women shopping haven't got the same expression as those blokes in the nuddy woman superstore.

And in addition, just Women, snakes with tits the lot of them. They're just not wired up right.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 March 2017, 07:42:59 pm

 Oops, that'll upset a few people :eek Not saying you're wrong, just saying it'll upset a few people. But I don't like to get involved, so I'll mind my own business  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 17 March 2017, 09:12:14 pm
Billy-- Sounds like someone pissed you off big time?

Know what you mean but my Mums a woman!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 March 2017, 09:25:47 pm
 So is everyone's :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 17 March 2017, 10:46:52 pm
My mums not.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 March 2017, 10:57:53 pm

 You know? There really is no answer to that. LOL

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 17 March 2017, 11:06:20 pm
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 17 March 2017, 11:22:20 pm

I suppose you're right, that last one was a bit harsh, not all of 'em are snakes with tits, just the ones that obviously are.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 March 2017, 11:35:43 pm
So... erm... anyone do anything nice this weekend?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 17 March 2017, 11:55:16 pm
On the subject of women....
Women who lose their daughter's swim suit and tell you at 11.00 the night before said daughter's lesson, and when you offer to help look tells you not to bother because she's looked everywhere, and then runs off the list of exactly where you needn't bother looking, but when you look in the very first place she said not to bother looking and find the swim suit (behind the radiator in the living room FYI), she gives you an almighty bollocking like it's your fault she lost it in the first fucking place.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 18 March 2017, 01:12:05 am

Obviously, you put it there!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 18 March 2017, 07:49:55 am

Obviously, you put it there!!


 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 18 March 2017, 01:05:15 pm
yeah funny blokes women, aint they ?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 18 March 2017, 01:07:54 pm
And on that shopping trolley note....People who have a little biff in their car and leave them where they are to sort out details, blocking the whole road...."MOVE EM OUT THE WAY...." the police aint coming, no one cares , just exchange names and addresses  and fuk off
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 18 March 2017, 02:40:51 pm
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And on that shopping trolley People who have a little biff in their car and leave them where they are to sort out details, blocking the whole road...."MOVE EM OUT THE WAY...." the police aint coming, no one cares , just exchange names and addresses  and fuk off









This bugged me untill a few weeks ago , I used to moan like foc at people having a little knock , stopping on the spot and exchange details whilst holding everyone up  :wall .........but a few weeks ago i had a minor knock in my cage , on a local junction that has just had its priority changed , i stopped to give way at the new juction and mr AUDI  :rolleyes  behind didnt realise the priority had changed and bumped Into me...the roads very narrow so i signaled to mr AUDI  :rolleyes  to pull into the car park opposite , i pulled in and mr AUDI  :rolleyes  shot of down a side road never to be seen again........so, in future iam going to be a right old foccer and stop on the spot......sorry FLOOKY
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 19 March 2017, 01:50:25 pm
Re -- "Anyone do anything nice..."

I went to see my Mum, Her first names Boa!! second name is C......  :lol

You know what I mean. Lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tex on 19 March 2017, 01:59:53 pm
[quotes quotes link=topic=17546.msg255883#msg255883date=1489842474]










This bugged me untill a few weeks ago , I used to moan like foc at people having a little knock , stopping on the spot and exchange details whilst holding everyone up  :wall .........but a few weeks ago i had a minor knock in my cage , on a local junction that has just had its priority changed , i stopped to give way at the new juction and mr AUDI  :rolleyes  behind didnt realise the priority had changed and bumped Into me...the roads very narrow so i signaled to mr AUDI  :rolleyes  to pull into the car park opposite , i pulled in and mr AUDI  :rolleyes  shot of down a side road never to be seen again........so, in future iam going to be a right old foccer and stop on the spot......sorry FLOOKY


 Happening a lot now, first thing I do get out of car take a pic of driver and number plate  then pull to side street.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 19 March 2017, 08:37:27 pm
Re -- "Anyone do anything nice..."

I went to see my Mum, Her first names Boa!! second name is C......  :lol

You know what I mean. Lol
Erm, no not really.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 March 2017, 08:41:35 pm
On the shopping trolley issue when people leave it in the middle of the isle and go off looking, I like to pop something random off the shelf into their trolley, or move it around the corner to teach them a lesson.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 20 March 2017, 06:07:54 pm


I'm pleased I'm not the only one. When people in front don't put dividers on the checkout conveyor I place a high value gift card in their goods before putting our lot ready for scanning....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 March 2017, 07:36:16 pm


I'm pleased I'm not the only one. When people in front don't put dividers on the checkout conveyor I place a high value gift card in their goods before putting our lot ready for scanning....
Ha
There thing s ding that, its you who has to wait whilst the till person has to faff about cancelling it.

Again on supermarkets - people who decide they now dont want an item half way around and just chuck it where they are so you find a chicken ontop of a packet of cornflakes     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 22 March 2017, 03:52:18 pm
automated telephone messages which say "you have been called by a person from your local council" and when you try to phone them back on the number you get the same message---that fucks me right off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 22 March 2017, 10:16:40 pm

CaptainCazador


 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 23 March 2017, 12:00:59 am


I'm pleased I'm not the only one. When people in front don't put dividers on the checkout conveyor I place a high value gift card in their goods before putting our lot ready for scanning....
Ha
There thing s ding that, its you who has to wait whilst the till person has to faff about cancelling it.

Again on supermarkets - people who decide they now dont want an item half way around and just chuck it where they are so you find a chicken ontop of a packet of cornflakes   


Mmmmmmm one of my favourites raw chicken and cornflakes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 23 March 2017, 08:53:06 am

CaptainCazador
:lol  Why's that then?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: greenman on 29 March 2017, 11:00:12 pm
People who pull out into the outside lane of dual carrageways whilst doing 45 mph because they are going to turn right sometime in the next 20 miles!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 07:24:55 am
People that pull out onto the roundabout when it's not FOCCING safe to. I wouldn't mind so much if they were in big powerful motors as they would probably have the power to get out the way quickly but, it alway's seems to be the little FOCCERS in crappy little shit heaps with as much power as a foccing snail but yet they drive them as if they are on a F1 Track  :2guns :car :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 30 March 2017, 09:29:15 am
  In my experience HGV drivers are the worst culprits for that. They absolutely hate having to stop. I've lost count of how many times I've had to to come to a complete stop in my car, on a roundabout cos some idiot in a truck just came straight out. Bizarrely though, never on a bike. But really though, don't get me started on HGVs, I could go on for hours.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 09:52:38 am
Adding to that, fecking massive lorries trying to overtake a string of other massive lorries blocking off 2 of the 3 lanes on the motorway when they have no fecking chance of getting to the front any time soon and also pulling out to do the 4 hour long overtake when it's not safe for them to do so, it's mainly foreign lorries.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 30 March 2017, 10:16:05 am
 I said don't get me started on HGVs. What about trying to climb into your boot when they don't thing you're going fast enough in 40 or 50mph speed limits?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 10:38:17 am
I said don't get me started on HGVs.

sorry just had to get it off my chest  :lol

What about trying to climb into your boot when they don't thing you're going fast enough in 40 or 50mph speed limits?

I find the fecking Chelsea Tracktor drivers are the worst for that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 30 March 2017, 11:00:26 am
I said don't get me started on HGVs.

sorry just had to get it off my chest  :lol

What about trying to climb into your boot when they don't thing you're going fast enough in 40 or 50mph speed limits?

I find the fecking Chelsea Tracktor drivers are the worst for that.
Had a bloke in a van do that to me in a 30mph suburban road. He failed to stop before the white line as he came out of a side road and stopped 3 ft into the carriageway. Then drives right up my arse for a couple of hundred yards jinking to the right to try and see if it's free to overtake. The at the roundabout cuts me up and nearly hits me. When I indicate a tad of frustration by hooting it is apparently me who is in the wrong as he spent 10 minutes chasing me across Birmingham to tell me he could drive right up my arse if he liked and he didn't care where I lived (??????). He did have one of those stupid beards under the chin and no moustache though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 11:48:38 am
I said don't get me started on HGVs.

sorry just had to get it off my chest  :lol

What about trying to climb into your boot when they don't thing you're going fast enough in 40 or 50mph speed limits?

I find the fecking Chelsea Tracktor drivers are the worst for that.
Had a bloke in a van do that to me in a 30mph suburban road. He failed to stop before the white line as he came out of a side road and stopped 3 ft into the carriageway. Then drives right up my arse for a couple of hundred yards jinking to the right to try and see if it's free to overtake. The at the roundabout cuts me up and nearly hits me. When I indicate a tad of frustration by hooting it is apparently me who is in the wrong as he spent 10 minutes chasing me across Birmingham to tell me he could drive right up my arse if he liked and he didn't care where I lived (??????). He did have one of those stupid beards under the chin and no moustache though.

I had it on Tuesday night as we were driving back from a Martial arts session, pitch black bendy country roads and trying to follow a satnav that was not working properly, Chelsea tracktor right up our arse to the point that it felt like rape, when our turning was in sight I indercate and gently apply the brake to slow for the bend then I get honked at as if to say what the FOC are you doing. I was hopeing they were going to chase us as I had a car full of weapons from training and people trained in how to use them properly  :lol

I can just imagine the headline "Ninja's defend against tailgateing twat in Chelsea Tracktor"  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 March 2017, 12:49:57 pm
Tail gating is the biggest driving thing that gets my goat, some people just can not bare it if i trundle along at a slow 30 IN A 30 ZONE and then they have the audacity to blat their horn at me  :rolleyes   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 02:10:53 pm
adding to my point about people pulling out when it's not safe to do so, the attached video is from part of the ride I have just done today to get some engine oil from halfords, the asshole wasn't even looking at all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 30 March 2017, 02:55:02 pm
adding to my point about people pulling out when it's not safe to do so, the attached video is from part of the ride I have just done today to get some engine oil from halfords, the asshole wasn't even looking at all.

the video went currupted so I tried to put a new version on but it will not let me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 March 2017, 09:23:39 pm
Two lane traffic in both directions 30 or 40 zone with a wide refuge in the middle for people turning, so my goat get is those people who dont know how long their front is and dont go in the refuge enough for fear of sticking out the front BUT they are sticking out the back leaving me to swerve out (if there is a gap )
MOVE IN YOU TWAT ther is plenty of room for you. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 30 March 2017, 10:57:07 pm
 Your doing 70-80mph in the outside lane overtaking the slower moving traffic and some tosser, usually in an Audi or similar comes flying up behind and starts flashing to try to get you out the way. so he can continue on his way at 100 mph+
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 March 2017, 11:29:47 pm
Quote
He did have one of those stupid beards under the chin and no moustache though.
Did he have a banjo? People who pretend mini roundabouts don't exist. Going straight on, treating it as a T junction and not even slowing at all
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 31 March 2017, 02:18:58 pm
The lying bastarding weather app on my phone. It told me that it was raining in the morning which it was and there will be on off showers throughout the day. Because it matched what the weather was in the morning I decided to wear my waterproofs that happen to be thermal, well since from about 10am it's been clear skies blazing sun and I'm there sweating my fecking goolies off looking like a right tit in Mitchelin man suit  :groan when I got back to the office I couldn't get my kit off quick enough, I was that quick it was like I was on a promise  :lol :sex :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 31 March 2017, 11:22:42 pm

Someone mentioned Tail Gating here in France it is a way of life I was in the car yesterday and got a nudge on the back. My son was with me and seeing as we were stopped at lights he got to have a look. The other guy says to my lad what the fuck did you brake for it was your fault. My Lad is 6'3" and speaks fluent French, Les feux étaient allumés rouge, the lights were on red dickhead. I kid you not this guy gets out of the car and decides he wants to take this further. As I said my lad is 6'3"Sean advised him to shut up and get back into his car, thankfully he did just that.
I don't understand the French in cars, they tailgate you but if you are  on the bike they will nearly put themselves into the ditch to let you past.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 31 March 2017, 11:43:26 pm
I will tell you what gets my goat:
It is when I order bits of bling or jewellery for my bike, even if it is none functional bling, like the parts I just bought, and I order the wrong size and the effort and cost of returning it make it almost not worth it.


So up for grabs see picture below first come first served, message me with a postal address and I will send off tomorrow.


They are preload adjusters (I know they will do nothing on the FZS600) and i think they look cool, bling I know, But I ordered 17mm ones by mistake when the fork top nut on the FZS600 is 19mm, don't know what else they will fit, but I know they fit the R6 whether they fit a thou I don't know. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 01 April 2017, 08:22:41 am
My mums not.
but you are  :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 01 April 2017, 09:27:45 am
My mums not.
but you are  :rollin :rollin


LOL touche :pokefun

A couple of pics of me going to a kids youth group party two years ago, I went as 'Dame Edna Everage' to give out prizes. Well that's my story anyway, he he.
I walked through my village like it to get to the local village hall, I received a few wolf whistles and some jaunty remarks, its funny though that those that shout out things like 'faggot' only do it when they are about 100 yards passed you, lol
Anyway it was a fun night and someone dared me to go into the local pub and buy a pint, I declined, cos, guys with beer inside them don't wait till they are 100 yards away to say something. lol :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 01 April 2017, 12:02:45 pm
I will tell you what gets my goat:
It is when I order bits of bling or jewellery for my bike, even if it is none functional bling, like the parts I just bought, and I order the wrong size and the effort and cost of returning it make it almost not worth it.


So up for grabs see picture below first come first served, message me with a postal address and I will send off tomorrow.


They are preload adjusters (I know they will do nothing on the FZS600) and i think they look cool, bling I know, But I ordered 17mm ones by mistake when the fork top nut on the FZS600 is 19mm, don't know what else they will fit, but I know they fit the R6 whether they fit a thou I don't know.




Why not drill them out to 19mm?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 01 April 2017, 01:49:25 pm
Today, it's cars.
Driving cars specifically.
Slow, boring, cramped shitty cars.
Last night it took me nine hours to get from Coventry to Haverfordwest due to heavy traffic, roadworks, my daughter shitting her nappy, then puking all over the place an hour later.
So with my car stinking of shit and puke I was stuck in roadworks by Carmarthen enviously watching all the bikers filtering past thinking "I fucking hate being here!"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 02 April 2017, 10:01:55 am
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17629633_1254434484605635_4334152935986009576_n.jpg?oh=0e0d5bbe524d3531611c79b1d7962482&oe=5998BDBC)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 02 April 2017, 06:43:39 pm
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17629633_1254434484605635_4334152935986009576_n.jpg?oh=0e0d5bbe524d3531611c79b1d7962482&oe=5998BDBC)

Dont forget "For fuck sake!!"
And (if you have kids) "shut the fuck up" ;-)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 02 April 2017, 07:33:34 pm
All true.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 April 2017, 05:40:25 pm
Job agencies advertising jobs that don't exist, managers who ask for your CV and  never contact you again,  jobs that are a standard 48 hours, whatever happened to the shorter working week? , job adverts that don't state the wage or core hours, employers who think £7.50 an hour is " competitive",  and foccing Ed Sheeran!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 April 2017, 06:40:45 pm
Job agencies advertising jobs that don't exist, managers who ask for your CV and  never contact you again,  jobs that are a standard 48 hours, whatever happened to the shorter working week? , job adverts that don't state the wage or core hours, employers who think £7.50 an hour is " competitive",  and foccing Ed Sheeran!

Sounds like a bad day 😅
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 April 2017, 07:32:05 pm
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 April 2017, 07:47:32 pm
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble

Yesterday me and my brother were refused fuel until we got off our bikes, tried to explain that it's the only way to fill them to the top but the guy wouldn't have none of it, started going on about how someone once covered themswlves in fuel doing it that way 😞 we left without fuel and went to the next station instead, can't be arsed with pedantic dicks ruining my ride haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 05 April 2017, 12:03:45 am

First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble


I wonder if you had been wearing a Burka would they dare to ask for it to be removed, doubt it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 April 2017, 06:48:34 am

First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble



I wonder if you had been wearing a Burka would they dare to ask for it to be removed, doubt it.



Believe me Lew that's all that was going through my mind, and i was standing behind this fella who was buying half the chocolate bars in the shop and i was starting to boil like a kettle about to mention exactly that then an old lady walked in the shop so i literally didn't say one word.  :tape


Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401105116229 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401105116229)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JoeyMcEssex on 05 April 2017, 08:36:35 am
Darrs,i do what I do, when I get in the shop take off helmet, then the facemask put then on his counter, then go through my pockets as slowly as I can, trying to find my wallet to pi** the focer off.

All done with a big smile on my face of course!!

I guess the first few miles disappeared quickly when you left the petrol station?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 05 April 2017, 10:25:15 pm

Childish I know, but when you pay and go out to your bike again, take the nozzle back out of the pump. Most likely the guy will zero the pump so it starts because he will not be paying attention.
But I expect the guy on the till is only being a pain as it is company policy now.
By any chance was it a Shell station? Curious as when I was down in Spain a few weeks ago twice at Shell stations I was told to remove my helmet and also this has happened here in France.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 April 2017, 06:44:31 am

Childish I know, but when you pay and go out to your bike again, take the nozzle back out of the pump. Most likely the guy will zero the pump so it starts because he will not be paying attention.
But I expect the guy on the till is only being a pain as it is company policy now.
By any chance was it a Shell station? Curious as when I was down in Spain a few weeks ago twice at Shell stations I was told to remove my helmet and also this has happened here in France.


Yeah it was a Shell station, but also right next door to a main police station so i can't misbehave too much 'cos the response time might be rather sharp for a change.
I did have a balaclava on as well, i should've tried that out first just for fun value.  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 06 April 2017, 11:08:59 am
my issues have been at Shell, I try point out that the propagation of a flame would be immediate,

in their terms...... it don't matter a flying fuck if I'm sat on the bike or stood next to it, if petrol goes whoosh then I ain't out running it

I just go and spend my hard earned elsewhere now, fuck'em
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 06 April 2017, 03:15:18 pm
FOCCING dickhead work colleagues who just don't FOCCING listen to what you are saying as they are too FOCCING busy either talking over you or picking holes in what you are saying as they haven't let you FOCCING finish. If it wasn't for the fact that (a) I'm not a violent person and (b) I can't afford to loose my job because of some FOCCING TWAT faced arrogant FUCKTARD who thinks he is just the best at everything, I'd knock him the FOC out.
 :grumble :2guns :pc :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 06 April 2017, 04:29:54 pm
People who own Zafira type cars, live less than a mile from local tip and leave a fridge freezer by the pavement so the pikeys could come and remove just the compressor ....... what a cock
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 06 April 2017, 05:04:49 pm
FOCCING dickhead work colleagues who just don't FOCCING listen to what you are saying as they are too FOCCING busy either talking over you or picking holes in what you are saying as they haven't let you FOCCING finish. If it wasn't for the fact that (a) I'm not a violent person and (b) I can't afford to loose my job because of some FOCCING TWAT faced arrogant FUCKTARD who thinks he is just the best at everything, I'd knock him the FOC out.
 :grumble :2guns :pc :grumble


Oh I'm with you on that one!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 April 2017, 06:11:24 pm
FOCCING dickhead work colleagues who just don't FOCCING listen to what you are saying as they are too FOCCING busy either talking over you or picking holes in what you are saying as they haven't let you FOCCING finish. If it wasn't for the fact that (a) I'm not a violent person and (b) I can't afford to loose my job because of some FOCCING TWAT faced arrogant FUCKTARD who thinks he is just the best at everything, I'd knock him the FOC out.
 :grumble :2guns :pc :grumble


Sounds like we share the same boss.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 April 2017, 09:02:29 pm
I get loads of phishing spam pretending to be from banks - amazon - ebay - apple and nearly all of them say Your account will be limited, ---------------- well so FOCing what even if it was for real. "limited" big deal, who was the first phishing cnut to come up with that wording and why are the phishing morons still using it. Its supposed to get me panicking and click their link to re input my details.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 07 April 2017, 01:54:39 am
I get loads of phishing spam pretending to be from banks - amazon - ebay - apple and nearly all of them say Your account will be limited, ---------------- well so FOCing what even if it was for real. "limited" big deal, who was the first phishing cnut to come up with that wording and why are the phishing morons still using it. Its supposed to get me panicking and click their link to re input my details.   
MrSharp!
I bet there's a bank load of cash waiting for you somewhere fella!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 07 April 2017, 07:35:28 am
FOCCING dickhead work colleagues who just don't FOCCING listen to what you are saying as they are too FOCCING busy either talking over you or picking holes in what you are saying as they haven't let you FOCCING finish. If it wasn't for the fact that (a) I'm not a violent person and (b) I can't afford to loose my job because of some FOCCING TWAT faced arrogant FUCKTARD who thinks he is just the best at everything, I'd knock him the FOC out.
 :grumble :2guns :pc :grumble


Oh I'm with you on that one!!!

I just don't understand what kick they get from being complete wankers.

FOCCING dickhead work colleagues who just don't FOCCING listen to what you are saying as they are too FOCCING busy either talking over you or picking holes in what you are saying as they haven't let you FOCCING finish. If it wasn't for the fact that (a) I'm not a violent person and (b) I can't afford to loose my job because of some FOCCING TWAT faced arrogant FUCKTARD who thinks he is just the best at everything, I'd knock him the FOC out.
 :grumble :2guns :pc :grumble


Sounds like we share the same boss.  :lol

if it was my boss then I would have just told him to shut the FOC up and stop being a dick as he is a really nice guy  :lol it's mainly the dickhead I have to sit next to, He is one of those people that if you say that you have been to tenerefe then he has been to elevenerefe  :lol and everything you are excited about he has to put it down because he has done better for example I had a race on my 600 Fazer against an R6 and I managed to wipe the floor with him (didn't happen but you get my drift  :lol ) he would have lapped him about 3 times in the time I completed the race because he is just sooooooo FOCCING amazing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 07 April 2017, 11:29:02 am
Here is your one liner for him

Its not that I don't like you, but I would plug out your life support to charge my phone  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 09 April 2017, 01:43:43 am
Just seen anorther new 'cillit bang' advert with Barry Scott. Soo annoying "Hi I'm Barry Scott, I've just fucked your wife etc".
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 10 April 2017, 07:57:53 am
Here is your one liner for him

Its not that I don't like you, but I would plug out your life support to charge my phone  :lol

 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Love it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 10 April 2017, 08:38:48 am
Just seen anorther new 'cillit bang' advert with Barry Scott. Soo annoying "Hi I'm Barry Scott, I've just fucked your wife etc".

What gets me annoyed are these companies that "sponsor" programs. What that means in practice is you get to see an advert for them at the beginning of the ad break, then another one at the end. I get so sick of it that I'm never going to  buy Admiral car insurance or what ever that flaming vacuum cleaner bloke is flogging.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JD-LincsUK on 10 April 2017, 10:27:54 am
Fekkin insurance companies and brokers.

I won't go into details, I'm sure you all have had your own hair-tugging experiences. Bunch of thieving tossers, imho, of course :)

Just got my renewal as well - gone up £4 from last year (when they just took the renewal money without so much as a "by your leave...") plus a tenner "renewal fee". No claims (ever on a bike in the UK) and actually added Datatag in the meantime, and it still goes up. I don't care if it's 4p - it's just taking us for a ride. And when it goes tits-up, well we know what happens then, don't we? Yup, shit on again.

I changed bikes previously and got slapped with an £80 admin fee. 80 friggin quid! The policy was £90 ffs. The new bike was cheaper to insure (£75) than the old one (GPZ500S to Fazer thou) as well - how the hell does that make sense?

My wife's car insurance will soon be more than the car itself is worth.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 April 2017, 10:59:08 am
:agree

Got my renewal through a week or two back. £201. Cheeky foccers even said on the renewal letter that I paid £155 last year. Nothing has changed. Bikes are a year older and worth less than before. I called them to tell them to fec off but before could even tell them anything they offered a reduction to £160. Still more than last year but Ogden has fecced all the insurance company customers with his new interest rate rules.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 10 April 2017, 11:42:40 am
Had my Renewal from Bennett's on Saturday morning. £7.23 more than last year plus a £20 arrangement fee. Just called them and told them to foc off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 10 April 2017, 11:11:37 pm
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble
Me too. the other day, I just lay the nozzle on the floor and ride off
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 April 2017, 06:41:57 am
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble
Me too. the other day, I just lay the nozzle on the floor and ride off


Crossed my mind too, but as i mentioned earlier, the large police station next door certainly paid a part in my final reaction.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 11 April 2017, 09:30:07 am
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble
Me too. the other day, I just lay the nozzle on the floor and ride off
Crossed my mind too, but as i mentioned earlier, the large police station next door certainly paid a part in my final reaction.

It’s frustrating, but acts of petulance aren’t going to improve matters… it’ll just add weight to the theory that bikers are a bunch of reprobates.
We need them more than they need us. If they average a couple of pence profit per litre, the cost of processing the transaction for your 15 litre top-up means they probably don’t break even on the deal.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 11 April 2017, 09:48:10 am
First time today in 30 years riding i had to remove my lid at a petrol station before the bastard would turn the pump on.
Kept my cool and didn't say a word to the fella behind the till.......deep breaths now.  :grumble
Me too. the other day, I just lay the nozzle on the floor and ride off
Crossed my mind too, but as i mentioned earlier, the large police station next door certainly paid a part in my final reaction.

It’s frustrating, but acts of petulance aren’t going to improve matters… it’ll just add weight to the theory that bikers are a bunch of reprobates.
We need them more than they need us. If they average a couple of pence profit per litre, the cost of processing the transaction for your 15 litre top-up means they probably don’t break even on the deal.

This is one of the reasons why I have a flip front helmet. Just makes life so much easier as I don't need to take my lid off when filling up or paying at the counter, I just flip the front up to reveal my fugly mug  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 11 April 2017, 07:53:31 pm
I've never got why some guys find it such a hassle to remove their helmet when filling up.
I like to do it then make the car drivers behind me wait. It's fun to watch them getting all wound up as I make sure my gloves and lid are fastened up properly.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 April 2017, 08:42:38 pm
I've never got why some guys find it such a hassle to remove their helmet when filling up.
I like to do it then make the car drivers behind me wait. It's fun to watch them getting all wound up as I make sure my gloves and lid are fastened up properly.  :lol
I find it a massive hassle. My helmet is a good fit and I have problems with earplugs as it is so when I pull the lid off - which as well as feeling like it is ripping off my ears it also dislodges the ear plugs which either fall on the floor straight away or roll off any surface I put them on - which is undoubtedly dirty.
Then there is also my glasses which have to come off first - now where do I put them.
So even without all of that where do you put your lid, defiantly not on the diesel soaked floor.
So yes it is a hassle and for that reason i only buy fuel at a pay at the pump.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 April 2017, 09:56:58 pm
Got to agree with sharpie, it's a ball ache taking your helmetoff and finding somehwere to balance it along with your gloves, glasses, earplug etc while you fill up then having to put it all down in the shop while you get your wallet out of lying to have to piss about putting it all back on, just silly. At the end of the day they are supposed to be offering you a service not doing you a favour so they should be trying to encourage you to spend money at their establishment, not make you feel victimised
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 12 April 2017, 08:53:45 am
I've never got why some guys find it such a hassle to remove their helmet when filling up.
I like to do it then make the car drivers behind me wait. It's fun to watch them getting all wound up as I make sure my gloves and lid are fastened up properly.  :lol

I wont remove mine unless my top box is empty and I can put it in there. I will not hang it from the bars or balance it on the tank as I don't want it falling off. Also NEVER put your lid on the ground or on top of the pump in a petrol station as there are too many fumes and spillages around that will damage your helmet.

Most of the time I wear a flip front anyway so its never a real issue for me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 12 April 2017, 09:57:42 am
The owl bastard in his big Merc yesterday in lane 4 of 4 which is a turn right only on the approach to the motorway. I'm between 2 and 3 filtering sat at the lights and beat them off the mark only for Merc man to floor it across but also partially comes into lane 2. Now, I'm dressed like plod so the dozy cunt cannot miss me with all the hi viz I'm wearing. I'm on the stebel horn blowing it for England as I'm moving across to lane 1 thinking I'm getting wasted. The cunt and his Mrs look at me like I'm in the wrong

sometimes I wish I was a real bizzy coz there would be some tickets dished out to these twats I tell yer........ggggrrrr
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 12 April 2017, 07:22:31 pm
what get my goat is these silly fuckers who over take you with in gnat whiskers  and I dont mean cars.
 fooking bikers ,some think they've got bigger bike they can over take you so close.
I almost followed one bastid but if it wasn't for my wife ,I would've done.
by this time it was near my home so all speed limit was 30.
.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 15 April 2017, 11:06:55 pm
 Bikers are some of the biggest idiots on the road nowadays.You can't go out on a nice day without seeing some fuckin' lunatic doing something bloody suicidal, splitting traffic at 50+mph, overtaking up to blind bends or the brow of a hill, undertaking and doing stupid speeds in totally inappropriate places. It surprises me that there are so few accidents involving motorcycles if I'm honest.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 16 April 2017, 12:57:52 am
Bikers are some of the biggest idiots on the road nowadays.You can't go out on a nice day without seeing some fuckin' lunatic doing something bloody suicidal, splitting traffic at 50+mph, overtaking up to blind bends or the brow of a hill, undertaking and doing stupid speeds in totally inappropriate places. It surprises me that there are so few accidents involving motorcycles if I'm honest.
C'mon, what else does the middle class fat balding priviledged white older male have to do with his time? "Get out of my way, I'm in management."
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 16 April 2017, 07:59:35 am
Bikers are some of the biggest idiots on the road nowadays.You can't go out on a nice day without seeing some fuckin' lunatic doing something bloody suicidal, splitting traffic at 50+mph, overtaking up to blind bends or the brow of a hill, undertaking and doing stupid speeds in totally inappropriate places. It surprises me that there are so few accidents involving motorcycles if I'm honest.
C'mon, what else does the middle class fat balding priviledged white older male have to do with his time? "Get out of my way, I'm in management."

What have Audi drivers got to do with this??
;-)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 16 April 2017, 08:09:37 am
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 16 April 2017, 10:55:16 am
Twats on Vespa type scooters now they really do piss me off. Weaving in and out of city traffic not content to just filter. Don't mention those twats in Lycra now they should be a legitimate target for any road user. Two days ago in Bordeaux at the lights a cyclists runs the red car hits him , thankfully not to hard a tap, but enough to knock him off. He picks himself up then starts to have a rant at the car driver. really funny the driver gets out only to be seen in his  full Gendarme uniform - the funny hat.  :lol 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 16 April 2017, 01:07:39 pm
Nothing wrong with cyclists in Lycra 😃
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 16 April 2017, 04:19:42 pm
mucky fox  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 16 April 2017, 08:59:11 pm

th6AN10XMO
th6AN10XMO
 You really think so Unfazed?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 17 April 2017, 01:34:25 am
Whatever floats your boat.

My picture is better than your picture  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 17 April 2017, 06:38:49 am
Whatever floats your boat.

My picture is better than your picture  :lol :lol :lol


He's absolutely right!
She may not quite of grasped the fact that it's way easier to ride the bike than carry it though, the length of her journey's could be rapidly improved and the protruding nipples could be so easily avoided with proper training.


ps: If you know who she is and she welcomes tuition then i could probably spare a day off work every other week.  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 April 2017, 07:14:01 am

th6AN10XMO
th6AN10XMO
 You really think so Unfazed?

To be honest I'm just surprised to see James Cordon on a bike
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 April 2017, 05:16:16 pm

Nothing wrong with cyclists in Lycra 😃
  Your quote not mine  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 17 April 2017, 05:36:40 pm
In reference to my picture yes , but definitely not your picture. :lol :lol :lol


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 17 April 2017, 10:22:24 pm
 You specified neither gender nor size, you just said that there's nothing wrong with cyclists in lycra and tried to prove your point by showing a single picture. I was merely making the point that sometimes there's an awful lot wrong with cyclists in lycra by posting another picture.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 18 April 2017, 01:53:21 pm
 Semantics   :'(
Semantics      :eek
Semantics      :rolleyes


 :lol


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 19 April 2017, 02:17:58 am
Doctors.

I bet I've been to see my doctor no more than twice in the last decade, had a sore throat yesterday which went straight to my ears, was painful enough for me to book an emergency appointment to hopefully have him prescribe some pain relief other than the usual over the counter sticky plasters you get for mild headaches etc

I don't care if it's only mild inflammation, if I haven't been to see him for years does this not tell him something.

Could have kicked him in the balls................'Don't worry Doc, its only mild inflammation...................'
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 19 April 2017, 10:18:27 am
 What did you actually want then? a throatectomy? Antibiotics are way overprescribed nowadays and doctors have been told to give them only when absolutely necessary.  That you haven't been to the doctors for ten years tells him that you're healthy enough to fight a mild infection without them. If it carries on or get's worse you can go back for further investigation. Sorry what's the issue? It's surely a better result than hearing you've got 3 days to live.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 19 April 2017, 04:23:58 pm

I think he just wanted some painkillers that were stronger than the over the counter ones you can get (which he presumably has tried with no results), to get him over the hump while his body's defence system kicked in and sorted out his problem. As you say, his absence from the Doc's kind of proves he isn't a snivelling hypochondriac, so why shouldn't the doc prescribe a limited amount of Co-Codamol or Co-proxamol? They must cost pennies to the NHS, and if not, a tender should go out to the drug companies for a new supply.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 April 2017, 05:17:33 pm
Mrs Sharp swears by panadol extra or any other with a paracetamol in combination with caffeine mix 500 mg/65 mg

next up you go too Ibuprofen and Codeine 200 mg/12.8 mg


And even better than that is Solpadeine Plus Tablets that has codine also caffeine

I am not a doctor, always consult a healhcare professional before taking medicines.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 19 April 2017, 05:35:06 pm
Declaring a general election and the £GBP surges against the €€€€, why did she not declare a general election last week. My pension is paid in €€€€€ and went into the bank the day she declared the election date. okay it is only cents but as Tesco's say every little helps.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 19 April 2017, 10:52:52 pm
 Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 20 April 2017, 12:10:34 am
What did you actually want then? a throatectomy? Antibiotics are way overprescribed nowadays and doctors have been told to give them only when absolutely necessary.  That you haven't been to the doctors for ten years tells him that you're healthy enough to fight a mild infection without them. If it carries on or get's worse you can go back for further investigation. Sorry what's the issue? It's surely a better result than hearing you've got 3 days to live.
3 days to live? Can you get refunds on prescription prepayment certs?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 20 April 2017, 04:46:15 am
Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes

No, billy was right, a few days worth of painkillers was what I was really after, like he said it's not like I'm always up there begging for pills.

As for your post, no problem, its a free world, just hope your balls rot and don't drop off  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 20 April 2017, 06:08:20 pm
Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes

No, billy was right, a few days worth of painkillers was what I was really after, like he said it's not like I'm always up there begging for pills.

As for your post, no problem, its a free world, just hope your balls rot and don't drop off  :b


Literally laughing my ass off, sat in the pub with people looking at me as if I've lost it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 20 April 2017, 09:06:03 pm
Arseholes on big torquey bikes who don't know how to overtake!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 20 April 2017, 09:21:21 pm
motorbike insurance companies and brokers. Thieving robdogs
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 20 April 2017, 09:27:47 pm
ALL insurance companies and brokers. Thieving robdogs


Fixed that for you  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 22 April 2017, 05:11:32 pm
A 2 parter.......

1. Foccing supermarkets that shut off the closest 50 spaces to make space to advertise cars!!! It's pissing down with rain and they are filling the car park with new Audis, (which in itself doesn't sound that bad u till you realise the Audi garage is foccing next door!!!). Seriously, how many people nip to tesco for a loaf of bread and think "oh I'll just buy a new Audi while I'm here!!"

2.
Coffin dodgers in cages who stop at every foccing roundabout regardless of if there's anything coming! 6 roundabouts in a row I was behind this foccing fossil and not one of them had anything coming yet she still decided to come to a full stop at every one!! Didn't help that I was trying to get to a meeting on time either!

Special mention for wankers who get up your arse on the motorway while your overtaking, theyre doing about 20 over the limit then flash their lights the moment your bumper is 2 inches in front of the vehicle your passing. Needless to say I didn't move across and forced the prick to undertake me just to prove a point. Not sure what that point was but felt better for inconveniencing him haha
I wouldn't have minded but I was already speeding myself
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 23 April 2017, 11:03:27 am
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 23 April 2017, 12:13:58 pm
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.


Just coz a battery goes flat doesn't mean it needs changing


bump it man bump it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 23 April 2017, 12:32:20 pm
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.


Just coz a battery goes flat doesn't mean it needs changing


bump it man bump it


Thing is, the bike was unused for a couple months in the winter, and I came out to find it completely dead. It charged up ok, and I had a couple of rides with no problems. But to find it flat a second time and not that long after it's last use...nope, not going to take the chance.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 25 April 2017, 12:12:58 pm
Dickhead HGV drivers.

Going up to London, approaching the Hindhead Tunnel, the traffic is all backed up and a 40mph limit is in effect, so I'm filtering up through it as always and I've just got most of the way past an artic when he starts indicating right and begins to try to push into Lane 2 because, up ahead, the sign for Lane 1 has a red X on it.

I brake, because I don't want him pulling over on me and I'm looking up at him in his mirror, he's waving and effing and blinding because I'm stopping him from moving over.

WTF? If he had a) checked his mirror before starting to manoeuvre or b) would wait about five seconds more, the vehicle on my right would move up, I could get past and he could move in, everyone wins.

But, no, he seems to want me to stop, let 40 feet of trailer go by and *then* proceed! Bugger that.

So I stay where I am, wait for the vehicle on my right to move, slip through and carry on, giving the guy a wave (and not with one finger!) to which he responds by flashing his lights repeatedly and waving his hand about.

Whatever.

So I go past the red X lane closed and there's a matrix sign saying "Pedestrian in road" and maintaining the 40 limit.

Next lane sign, however, has both arrows green. "Hmm, ok," I think, "I could move over to Lane 1, but nobody else has. The sign could be a mistake, so I'll wait for the next one." The next one is also both green, so I move over even though pretty much everyone else is staying in Lane 2.

I say "pretty much everyone", because guess who I see coming up behind me...

Now it's still a 40 limit, I'm not going to risk a ticket because of this idiot trying to tailgate me, so I keep my speed down, just tweaking the throttle to keep far enough ahead of him.

Finally we get out of the tunnel and past the second average speed camera, I kick it down a couple of gears and "Goodbye, asshole!"

I hope he feels better...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 26 April 2017, 07:21:27 pm

 Re: Dickhead HGV drivers
  A few weeks ago we were going through Elkesley on the A1. It's a 50 mph speed limit with cameras and occasionally police cars. The OH was driving and keeping to the speed limit in lane 1 with driver who were happy to risk a ticket going past in lane 2 and a Knobhead in a bloody great artic behind was trying to get into our boot 'encouraging' the wife to speed up a bit. She didn't. About 1/4 of a mile from the derestriction sign he forced his way into lane 2 and drove past, my wife pulled out to overtake the slower trucks ready to accelerate and this arsehole stayed in the outside lane at about 45 mph for about 5 miles cos we'd slowed him down through the 50mph speed limit. They think they own the bloody road.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 27 April 2017, 11:24:07 am
if you've got it all on dashcam report to the police. they are very obliging I must say.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 28 April 2017, 03:17:46 pm
The French language, there's a not unattractive woman sitting no more than 5feet away from me and for some strange reason I have the urge to tell her to shut the foc up
horrible language
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 28 April 2017, 03:23:51 pm
The French language, there's a not unattractive woman sitting no more than 5feet away from me and for some strange reason I have the urge to tell her to shut the foc up
horrible language

Try this

Ferme-toi et asseyez-vous sur mon visage

or

Obtenez vos gencives autour de ceci
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 28 April 2017, 11:40:45 pm

Shut yourself and sit on my face gold
Get your gums around this.


or , ferme la  bouche
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 29 April 2017, 12:33:32 am
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 April 2017, 08:15:31 am
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes


There was a German fella at my work yesterday, a really pleasant and decent bloke, but he had an accent that was comedy gold when he spoke English.
His real voice resembled something straight out of 'Allo Allo'.
If i was to mimic his voice he would've probably looked at me thinking "Why is he talking like that?"  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 29 April 2017, 08:19:32 am
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes


There was a German fella at my work yesterday, a really pleasant and decent bloke, but he had an accent that was comedy gold when he spoke English.
His real voice resembled something straight out of 'Allo Allo'.
If i was to mimic his voice he would've probably looked at me thinking "Why is he talking like that?"  :lol

One of our top managers is Irish, sounds just like farther Ted, really not easy to keep a straight face when he asks you something
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 29 April 2017, 09:01:15 am
Went to a dentist here in France yesterday, never been to this fella before. He was from Dublin and can talk more than my Mrs who talks for England. Turns out he is a biker has a string of classics his favourite being the CBX 6 cylinder. By the time we finished talking bikes he says I will be needing to make another appointment as my next patient is waiting, lol, ah well it was only for a descale and polish. :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 30 April 2017, 07:45:01 pm
lucky you I had to have my front feckers taken out,loose through gum disease .
so now I have a bigger knashers.lol :D

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 30 April 2017, 11:04:19 pm
Management, can't post what was said due to inflammatory topic but couldn't believe my focin ears. If she goes she goes. Focin Muppet thinks she can say anything and get away with it because of her position
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 May 2017, 07:54:34 am

 Re: Dickhead HGV drivers
  A few weeks ago we were going through Elkesley on the A1. It's a 50 mph speed limit with cameras and occasionally police cars. The OH was driving and keeping to the speed limit in lane 1 with driver who were happy to risk a ticket going past in lane 2 and a Knobhead in a bloody great artic behind was trying to get into our boot 'encouraging' the wife to speed up a bit. She didn't. About 1/4 of a mile from the derestriction sign he forced his way into lane 2 and drove past, my wife pulled out to overtake the slower trucks ready to accelerate and this arsehole stayed in the outside lane at about 45 mph for about 5 miles cos we'd slowed him down through the 50mph speed limit. They think they own the bloody road.



All that driving sends them stir crazy I reckon.

 I hate that 'Holier-Than-Thou' and bullying attitude some of them have.

 I stick to the speed limit rigidly through those sorts of places and they can sit as close as they like to my bumper, I ain't foccin speeding up  :thumbup




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 01 May 2017, 09:52:45 am
I stick to the speed limit rigidly through those sorts of places and they can sit as close as they like to my bumper, I ain't foccin speeding up

The closer anyone sits behind me the slower I go. If a suitable stop point arrives I calmly walk to the vehicle behind and ask very politely if they wouldn't mind not driving so close.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 09 May 2017, 03:04:50 pm
Dickhead HGV drivers.

Going up to London, approaching the Hindhead Tunnel, the traffic is all backed up and a 40mph limit is in effect, so I'm filtering up through it as always and I've just got most of the way past an artic when he starts indicating right and begins to try to push into Lane 2 because, up ahead, the sign for Lane 1 has a red X on it.

I brake, because I don't want him pulling over on me and I'm looking up at him in his mirror, he's waving and effing and blinding because I'm stopping him from moving over.

WTF? If he had a) checked his mirror before starting to manoeuvre or b) would wait about five seconds more, the vehicle on my right would move up, I could get past and he could move in, everyone wins.

But, no, he seems to want me to stop, let 40 feet of trailer go by and *then* proceed! Bugger that.

So I stay where I am, wait for the vehicle on my right to move, slip through and carry on, giving the guy a wave (and not with one finger!) to which he responds by flashing his lights repeatedly and waving his hand about.

Whatever.

So I go past the red X lane closed and there's a matrix sign saying "Pedestrian in road" and maintaining the 40 limit.

Next lane sign, however, has both arrows green. "Hmm, ok," I think, "I could move over to Lane 1, but nobody else has. The sign could be a mistake, so I'll wait for the next one." The next one is also both green, so I move over even though pretty much everyone else is staying in Lane 2.

I say "pretty much everyone", because guess who I see coming up behind me...

Now it's still a 40 limit, I'm not going to risk a ticket because of this idiot trying to tailgate me, so I keep my speed down, just tweaking the throttle to keep far enough ahead of him.

Finally we get out of the tunnel and past the second average speed camera, I kick it down a couple of gears and "Goodbye, asshole!"

I hope he feels better...

only thing to note is those average speed cameras are front facing so wouldn't get a ticket .... unless they can cross reference them with the other carriageways' (well that's what I'm hoping as went through them bit fast other week!!)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 17 May 2017, 04:16:15 pm
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 18 May 2017, 07:36:03 am
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.
As an OAP myself I agree entirely-perhaps some form of periodic driving capability test for us senior citizens?. I would add however that there are many other drivers of all age groups who cannot hold their vehicle stationary at eg traffic lights on an incline-after all this is classed as a serious error in the driving test which would be an automatic fail.
My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices in vehicle-even by so called "professional" drivers like LGV & PSV. I beleive the only deterrent would be an automatic 12 month disqualification. Similarly for use of alcohol/drugs. If the politicians are so concerned about RTCs why dont they do something positive to ease the carnage on the roads.
And dont get me started on F****n Brexit & General Elections :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 18 May 2017, 08:12:19 am
What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 18 May 2017, 08:19:13 am

My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices

mobile phones are bad enough but it's the vape device people that I find just as bad. It's bad enough that they look like they are sucking off C3-P0 from Star Wars but they spend more time focused on acting like a steam train than they do focusing on where they are fecking going, nearly got smashed into this morning because he filled the car with thick vaper he couldn't see out of his front screen 'FOCCING BELLEND'.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Gnasher on 18 May 2017, 08:22:03 am
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.

As an OAP myself I agree entirely-perhaps some form of periodic driving capability test for us senior citizens?. I would add however that there are many other drivers of all age groups who cannot hold their vehicle stationary at eg traffic lights on an incline-after all this is classed as a serious error in the driving test which would be an automatic fail.
My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices in vehicle-even by so called "professional" drivers like LGV & PSV. I beleive the only deterrent would be an automatic 12 month disqualification. Similarly for use of alcohol/drugs. If the politicians are so concerned about RTCs why dont they do something positive to ease the carnage on the roads.
And dont get me started on F****n Brexit & General Elections :eek



Check this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rare-anti-road-rage-moment-10354727 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rare-anti-road-rage-moment-10354727)


If only but it would have been a different story if she'd hot her............. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: joebloggs on 18 May 2017, 08:45:41 am
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.

As an OAP myself I agree entirely-perhaps some form of periodic driving capability test for us senior citizens?. I would add however that there are many other drivers of all age groups who cannot hold their vehicle stationary at eg traffic lights on an incline-after all this is classed as a serious error in the driving test which would be an automatic fail.
My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices in vehicle-even by so called "professional" drivers like LGV & PSV. I beleive the only deterrent would be an automatic 12 month disqualification. Similarly for use of alcohol/drugs. If the politicians are so concerned about RTCs why dont they do something positive to ease the carnage on the roads.
And dont get me started on F****n Brexit & General Elections :eek



Check this [url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rare-anti-road-rage-moment-10354727[/url] ([url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rare-anti-road-rage-moment-10354727[/url])


If only but it would have been a different story if she'd hot her.............


I had a very near miss where I ended up calming down the driver that tried to wipe me out.

This old driver decided to overtake a car on the inside of a 90 degree bend, luckily for me I saw it coming, I had to sit on the white line through the turn, lean enough to get round but miss both cars coming head on. Not a situation you want to find yourself in. I stopped, turned around and found this old man stood on the side of the road shaking so violently I figured there was no point having a go, he new he'd come so close to taking me out through his lack of observation.

Bet he never overtook on that bend again
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 18 May 2017, 06:09:57 pm
People who NEVER bother to get their eyes tested(i say smugly having been for my 2 yearly test today) Have a friend who is an Optometrist who says he can hardly believe how some of the people whose eyes he tests are in "control" of a motor vehicle. Sadly the person whose least likely to recognise diminishing ability etc is the same one who continues against family/friends advice to get behind the wheel., and will only stop when something serious happens.
As motorcyclists we all know how we need the sense of vision just like those WW2 fighter pilots who had to continually scan the sky. I wear rimless glasses-have done for years-since they provide the best peripheral vision.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 May 2017, 06:12:27 pm

As motorcyclists we all know how we need the sense of vision just like those WW2 fighter pilots who had to continually scan the sky. I wear rimless glasses-have done for years-since they provide the best peripheral vision.
Yep I have a pair of rimless just for use on the bike, and another pair of semi rimmed for all other use
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 May 2017, 09:11:29 pm
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.
As an OAP myself I agree entirely-perhaps some form of periodic driving capability test for us senior citizens?. I would add however that there are many other drivers of all age groups who cannot hold their vehicle stationary at eg traffic lights on an incline-after all this is classed as a serious error in the driving test which would be an automatic fail.
My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices in vehicle-even by so called "professional" drivers like LGV & PSV. I beleive the only deterrent would be an automatic 12 month disqualification. Similarly for use of alcohol/drugs. If the politicians are so concerned about RTCs why dont they do something positive to ease the carnage on the roads.
And dont get me started on F****n Brexit & General Elections :eek

Yeah you're right, it's not age specific.

It was the horrible witch flicking the V's that was the most shocking thing. I thought all old people were supposed to be nice :rolleyes



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 19 May 2017, 08:00:56 am
OAP's that can't detect that their car is rolling backwards towards yours at traffic lights and then stick their fingers up when you blast the horn to warn them before they smash the front of your car up.
 
Foccin idiots.
As an OAP myself I agree entirely-perhaps some form of periodic driving capability test for us senior citizens?. I would add however that there are many other drivers of all age groups who cannot hold their vehicle stationary at eg traffic lights on an incline-after all this is classed as a serious error in the driving test which would be an automatic fail.
My other pet hates are the continued use of mobiles & other distracting devices in vehicle-even by so called "professional" drivers like LGV & PSV. I beleive the only deterrent would be an automatic 12 month disqualification. Similarly for use of alcohol/drugs. If the politicians are so concerned about RTCs why dont they do something positive to ease the carnage on the roads.
And dont get me started on F****n Brexit & General Elections :eek

Yeah you're right, it's not age specific.

It was the horrible witch flicking the V's that was the most shocking thing. I thought all old people were supposed to be nice :rolleyes
Some of us use Victor Meldrew as our role model :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 19 May 2017, 01:06:18 pm
No, they just expect everyone else to be nice to them :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 May 2017, 01:19:47 pm
What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.


That struck a chord when i read that, i put a totally yellow banana into carrier bag with my lunch, which then sits on top of some other gloves and my wetproofs in my top box, so it's on a soft base, and sure enough by the time i get to work it looks like it's been ripening in a fruit bowl for over a week.
How odd?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 19 May 2017, 03:01:52 pm
What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.


That struck a chord when i read that, i put a totally yellow banana into carrier bag with my lunch, which then sits on top of some other gloves and my wetproofs in my top box, so it's on a soft base, and sure enough by the time i get to work it looks like it's been ripening in a fruit bowl for over a week.
How odd?  :lol




Its because bananas produce ethylene gas which is something to do with the riipenng process,  if they are in an enclosed space then there is no air for the gas to be diluted in so it causes the banana to ripen very quickly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 19 May 2017, 05:19:15 pm


Its because bananas produce ethylene gas which is something to do with the riipenng process,  if they are in an enclosed space then there is no air for the gas to be diluted in so it causes the banana to ripen very quickly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 19 May 2017, 05:20:58 pm
The same as if you keep bananas in the fridge.The skin will ripen but the inside of the banana is ok.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 May 2017, 10:12:52 pm
The same as if you keep bananas in the fridge.The skin will ripen but the inside of the banana is ok.


Talking about half an hour journey though!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: lew600fazer on 19 May 2017, 11:06:41 pm

What is it about a top box and bananas?!


I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc.  I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box...  At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.
Bananas ripen faster when wrapped in anything, the reason is they generate Carbon Dioxide CO2 which causes them to turn brown. If you have to put them in any kind of container make sure it is well ventilated.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 20 May 2017, 08:22:30 am
Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens. 

Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 20 May 2017, 09:37:55 am
Maybe bananas don't like going to work. Try buying a banana at work, then see what it's like when you get home :lol .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 20 May 2017, 11:04:08 am
Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens. 

Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...


More like its road rage at your riding...... :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 20 May 2017, 11:27:06 am
Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens. 

Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...


My journey averages 30 minutes, but my bike is black so that would explain the ripening time difference.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 20 May 2017, 06:20:54 pm
Maybe bananas don't like going to work. Try buying a banana at work, then see what it's like when you get home :lol .

Fucking brilliant 😂😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 21 May 2017, 01:12:53 am
Haha :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 26 May 2017, 08:00:49 am
Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch.  >:   Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 May 2017, 11:56:29 am
Quire right Harry.
Yeah up yours all you shit car drivers, I will be home long before you and out in the glorious sunshine to, Oh! hang on I'm a car driver too  :'(
Summers coming, as is the traffic jams, 40 or 50 cars waiting at the traffic lights, they changed 3 times and I'm still here.
I wonder what gets my goat. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 26 May 2017, 05:48:42 pm
Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch.  >:   Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again  :D

That's what your right wrist is for 😉 if yiu can't pull away quicker than a car then your doing wrong haha
Personally I always wait behind the first car when filtering up to a roundabout just because it's less stress haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 26 May 2017, 07:24:03 pm
Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch.  >:   Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again  :D

That's what your right wrist is for 😉 if yiu can't pull away quicker than a car then your doing wrong haha
Personally I always wait behind the first car when filtering up to a roundabout just because it's less stress haha


Thats what i tend to do, they are concentrating on the round about and not me, and cagers have little brains.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 26 May 2017, 07:46:22 pm
Yep , me too unless theres lots of room........harrys only a young'un , thinks his right hand only has one job to do   :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 26 May 2017, 10:25:55 pm
ACTUALLY Mr Red.... I always filter for up to the back of the first car for the same reasons you stated, in my eyes the front driver is more interested in pulling away and less in me so  :nana   :b  love you really.


But this morning was rush hour, busy 2 lane roundabout and the dick in the white van who it turned out when I got to the front had almost parked in the car in fronts boot so that didn't leave me a gap to pull in.  I had a car to my right too who also wanted to make a quick get away and cars on the roundabout that had just passed from the right.  It was pretty congested and because I have no idea which way any of the cagers are going to go (remember it's rush hour and they don't care about lane dicipline or signals) I don't like to sprint off too quick only to have a car turn across me, but turns out chap in white van wasn't going to let me filter in and it was a Fazer sandwich down the middle of a tightish roundabout.  Those seconds he saved squeezing me out must have been very precious to him.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 27 May 2017, 12:40:21 pm

I always filter all the way to the front if I can, and then make sure I'm away and clear of the cars around me as soon as the lights go green.

AS I always say, the best place for cars is behind me, once I'm there at least they should be able to see me because they are facing that way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 15 June 2017, 11:47:25 am
tell you what really grips my shit especially in hot weather are muppets riding round (mainly on mopeds) with shorts & t-shirts etc
ok I know it's down to personal choice & I subscribe to the all the gear all the time rule but around the pompy area just now must have only seen 2 out of 10 riders in what I class as correct gear  >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mrMoog on 15 June 2017, 01:20:57 pm
Yep I had one of those this morning whilst on my way into work. Young un on L plates on a honda cb125. 1st he comes flying down the bus lane which is legal only for buses and cycles in my town, I know other towns allow motorbikes in these lanes. Then  he tries to squeeze in between the car in front of myself and the one in front of that due to traffic lights up ahead on red but they don't let him in so slams brakes on and filters in next to me as I could see what was going to happen so had moved over for him to do so. Looked at me, no thanks no nod nothing. I looked him up and down, gear he had on was lid (well done) adidas tracky top (quite nice actually) combat shorts and to top it off was a pair of pumps with trainer socks. Few hundred meters down the road he continued on his reckless journey overtaking in the bus lane at madness speeds. I don't get it to be honest, I mean why is anyone in such a hurry to get to work that they'd happily risk becoming part of the road surface?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 15 June 2017, 01:30:58 pm
I'm always mixed on this issue. On yhe one hand I believe you should be allowed to wear (or not wear) whatever you like, helmet included, but I do get where your coming from. It doesn't bother me as much on a moped as that's just a given with that kind of bike but when you see some idiot on a gsxr/fireblade/zxr in a pair of shorts then does make me wonder what's going through  their heads. With the wide range of kit avaliable these days there's just not excuse. I personally wear a Mesh jacket and gloves with kevlar jeans and vented boots when it's warm and it's perfectly comfortable.
Another option I'm thinking of trying is motocross armour over a tshirt. Not complete protection but as good as you can get while keeping cool
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 15 June 2017, 03:45:55 pm
Over 30mph full kit every time. Tarmac does a very good impression of a grinding wheel or sandpaper when you slide along it.
Under 30mph (mopeds only really) I don't care. You can do, and I used to, practically the same speed on a pushbike which you may not even wear a helmet for let alone gloves or long trousers.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 15 June 2017, 03:58:52 pm
I subscribe to ATGATT when on my Fazer but it does make me giggle to myself and think as well when I'm out on my road bike with skinny tyres pumped up to 120psi, wearing lycra top and shorts flying down a  hill at 40mph.  I reckon I have more chance coming off the road bike at that speed than I do on the Fazer, but I think all the gear on the road bike would slow me down too much LOL
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 15 June 2017, 08:08:27 pm
Like others in here I was riding motorcycle before the helmet law came out and I was absolutely fuming that some 'Home Office' arsehole said 'From now on you will wear a bucket on your head whilst riding a motorcycle' (Unless your a Sikh).


That was back then, thinking about it now as a reasonably responsible adult (Mmmm I should have put a reasonabley just before the word adult in there) of course it was a good law, it has saved many, many lives and many 100's of thousands of pounds to the NHS and numerous families lots of grief and heartache.


I hanker back to my good old days when I was 16 to 40 so I still wear my old Punk/Brando style leather jacket with my old 59 Club badges on it and jeans, I often wear a white or blue silk scarf under the lapels of my jacket (Aviator scarf)


I have a LS2 Convert Helmet that open right up at the front and folds over the back of the helmet to make a open face helmet (Bright Yellow), my jeans a Kevlar jeans, sports boots and leather gloves
A fluorescent Frank Thomas waistcoat, sure when it get hot I wear a breathable Cordura jacket with the lining removed but still wear the waistcoat..
Like others in hear I live only a hard stones throw from Pompey and I have seen guys on 1000cc machines and bigger filtering much to fast on the road from Southsea up to the A3 wearing less than I would wear on the beach, thinking to myself if they loss the bike and throw it up the road or some one changes lane while they are filtering at 40 plus miles an hours there is going to be an awful lot of road rash in Pompey and QA hospital. :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 June 2017, 05:22:59 am
I saw the new CHiPs film last night, and the amount of times one of them crashed his bike wearing just a short sleeved shirt i'm amazed he had any skin left on his arms if it'd been real. But then in reality in the States that is their legit biker cop uniform.


So who's right or wrong?


Of course in the perfect world if we take a slide then it's wonderful if we have protection that will literally save our skin, but on the negative side could you imagine wearing full gear all day long in a consistently hot country with reliable weather, you would waste away and risk passing out from heat exhaustion.


The film was pants by the way, although it did have some nice bikes in it, and the credits at the end showed up the names of the most stunt men and women i've ever seen in a film, there must've been a couple of hundred of them at least!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 16 June 2017, 07:50:50 am
When I was at Squires cafe on Wednesday evening spotted half a dozen pulling in just  wearing  t-shirts, jeans and trainers.
I was envious in a way as I had full leathers on and even riding up there I was sweating , but I cannot bring myself to wear  anything else, just don't feel comfortable in anything less.
Thats my choice and what they wear is their choice, if all the gear all the time was made compulsary like crash helmets then we would all complain about rights and freedom of choice.


And I also watched that CHIPs movie last night, pants like Darrsi says.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 June 2017, 09:54:27 am
When I was at Squires cafe on Wednesday evening spotted half a dozen pulling in just  wearing  t-shirts, jeans and trainers.
I was envious in a way as I had full leathers on and even riding up there I was sweating , but I cannot bring myself to wear  anything else, just don't feel comfortable in anything less.
Thats my choice and what they wear is their choice, if all the gear all the time was made compulsary like crash helmets then we would all complain about rights and freedom of choice.


And I also watched that CHIPs movie last night, pants like Darrsi says.


I wasn't expecting much from the film anyway to be honest, but prefer to watch then comment.
I don't think the main two characters gelled too well, and the humour was kind of lame.
It was watchable, but not something you'd recommend to go and see, but it'll do as a Xmas tv film to pass the time.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 16 June 2017, 12:07:05 pm
tell you what really grips my shit especially in hot weather are muppets riding round (mainly on mopeds) with shorts & t-shirts etc
ok I know it's down to personal choice & I subscribe to the all the gear all the time rule but around the pompy area just now must have only seen 2 out of 10 riders in what I class as correct gear  >:

One of them might have been me :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 June 2017, 12:01:49 am
Here's my summer jacket and I have just got a new to the UK back protector here https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/296040 (https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/296040)
I also thought about buying a motocross armer outfit and just wearing something textile over the top but it hardly ever gets that hot enough here and the motocross stuff isnt made for sliding down the road 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 17 June 2017, 01:24:43 am
I am puzzled, Sharpie states that he is a racing snake at about 10 stones I believe he said, yet I note that his new bike jacket (looking rather feminine I feel the need to say) is  a 46 inch chest according to the label that is on show. Well a think a 10 stone man with a 46 inch chest is a little odd to say the least, unless of course he is only 18 inches tall. Come on Sharpie I think an explanation is in order and not leaving out the colour choice out of the explanation. :lol  You big tart X
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 17 June 2017, 09:11:53 am
The 46 is continental sizing as Spidi are an Italian make, so 46 would be around a 38 inch chest.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 June 2017, 10:19:01 am
The 46 is continental sizing as Spidi are an Italian make, so 46 would be around a 38 inch chest.
Correct robbo. nearer 36 and is a perfect fit, here is a fuller pic with the snake in it. A little thinner than I am because of the wide angle on the phone camera.
I went for lots of white for better visibility as in the winter I wear another jacket but also with a high vis top but dont want extra layers in the summer, the jacket lets in lots of air but I have yet to test the back protector but it is 40% open so hopflly should be cooler than a solid one. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 17 June 2017, 11:14:29 am
Lookin' sharp fazersharp.Wish I was that slim, it would give me another 25bhp :lol .You'll certainly be cool whilst looking cool.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 17 June 2017, 12:22:05 pm



I can see where you're going with this..... :smokin



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 June 2017, 03:07:40 pm
Lookin' sharp fazersharp.Wish I was that slim, it would give me another 25bhp :lol .You'll certainly be cool whilst looking cool.

This will help shave off a few lbs to gain that elusive HP.
Never gonna be too warm riding in this 😅😅😉
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 17 June 2017, 06:44:55 pm
Blimey Dude,where did you find that pic. On a bondage website? :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 June 2017, 07:16:40 pm
Blimey Dude,where did you find that pic. On a bondage website? :lol

To be honest I was looking for a picture of one of them American Harley riders in a mesh vest so Googled mesh motorbike vest and that was one of the pics haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 27 July 2017, 09:24:01 am
Roadworks on the M5.  :2guns

They spend nearly three years converting the section from Droitwich to the M42 into a variable speed limit. They take away the roadworks for just over a month and then they're back again round the M42 (J4A) junction until the end of December!!!! Because of road repairs. Why the Foc couldn't they have done the repairs whilst they were buggering around with the rest of the roadworks for crying out loud?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 July 2017, 02:49:38 pm
DAB radio.

Been a tiny bit of rearranging in my department at work, and whilst doing so my guvnor mentioned my hi-fi system on my bench "looks like it needs updating".
Admittedly it does look a bit dated, but it was also attached to a couple of two foot high Kenwood speakers so it sounded bloody great to me.

So when he came past a bit later I cheekily said "Why don't you order me a new system?" and he stared at me, rolled his eyes then said "Just order one."  :thumbup

So I ordered a new, much more compact system, which sounds (not as) good, but it comes with DAB+ radio channels, Bluetooth, etc.

Great, or so I thought, but I'm now getting to realize how difficult it is to master the DAB reception, even more so across all channels.
The footprint is so narrow per channel, and yesterday when it rained it sounded like it was raining indoors with interference.  :groan

Tried splitting it into the tv aerial socket on my bench and it didn't work at all, then got the cable type aerial it came with extended so I could get it up higher but today it's had a hissy fit again.  :wall
Just ordered a proper indoor DAB aerial to see if that helps at all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 July 2017, 03:16:59 pm
Yep dab is crap. I have a dab radio with an aerial (which is already big ) but found that I have to attach and extra piece wire to it to get any kind of non darleck speech across lots of channels. And although I have it plugged into the mains it eats 4 aa battery's in no time.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 27 July 2017, 04:35:47 pm
DAB is OK sometimes. In my car it sounds like a record is jumping sometimes as it flicks backwards and forwards between DAB and FM when the signal is marginal.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 July 2017, 07:44:22 pm
Well we all best get used to it as FM is going the way of the dodo soon then we'll be stuck with DAB. I personally just use internet radio through Wi-Fi. Crystal clear and any station in the world. In the car I run it via my mobile data
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 July 2017, 09:46:37 pm
Well we all best get used to it as FM is going the way of the dodo soon then we'll be stuck with DAB. I personally just use internet radio through Wi-Fi. Crystal clear and any station in the world. In the car I run it via my mobile data


Hmmm, wi-fi is not my friend at work either.
I have 50+ transmitter / receiver kits at work which i prep for hire, and it just so happens the company wi-fi is on the same bandwidth.


Some days are better than others but it can be very difficult to get things working some days.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 July 2017, 04:46:16 pm
They spend nearly three years converting the section from Droitwich to the M42 into a variable speed limit.

Are there actually any speed cameras in these motorway variable limit gantry's?.

Every time I go through the ones on the M25 everyone else is tearing through at least 20 MPH faster.

Do they all know something I don't? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 28 July 2017, 06:22:11 pm
They spend nearly three years converting the section from Droitwich to the M42 into a variable speed limit.

Are there actually any speed cameras in these motorway variable limit gantry's?.

Every time I go through the ones on the M25 everyone else is tearing through at least 20 MPH faster.

Do they all know something I don't? :rolleyes

Take it from me there are.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 July 2017, 06:24:33 pm
When one front brake pad is near the limit, and the rest still have a bit of mileage in them. All have worn evenly too. More expense  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 July 2017, 06:27:03 pm


Are there actually any speed cameras in these motorway variable limit gantry's?.

Every time I go through the ones on the M25 everyone else is tearing through at least 20 MPH faster.

Do they all know something I don't? :rolleyes


Some, and yes, they know something you don't (apparently). They have camera warnings enabled on their sat navs. Although I don't trust this to be foolproof.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 28 July 2017, 09:33:30 pm
When one front brake pad is near the limit, and the rest still have a bit of mileage in them. All have worn evenly too. More expense  :rolleyes
Sounds like one slightly sticky piston. Is it the inside left??
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 July 2017, 09:37:00 pm
When one front brake pad is near the limit, and the rest still have a bit of mileage in them. All have worn evenly too. More expense  :rolleyes
Sounds like one slightly sticky piston. Is it the inside left??


Inside right.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 July 2017, 10:18:43 pm
When one front brake pad is near the limit, and the rest still have a bit of mileage in them. All have worn evenly too. More expense  :rolleyes
Sounds like one slightly sticky piston. Is it the inside left??


Inside right.


It's where the rain gets in when on the sidestand parked up most likely.
Bloody nuisance but needs sorting.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 July 2017, 10:33:20 pm


It's where the rain gets in when on the sidestand parked up most likely.
Bloody nuisance but needs sorting.


I find that highly unlikely. I'm not quite as bad as fazersharp, but not far off. Rain? What's that then?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2017, 11:00:52 pm


It's where the rain gets in when on the sidestand parked up most likely.
Bloody nuisance but needs sorting.


I find that highly unlikely. I'm not quite as bad as fazersharp, but not far off. Rain? What's that then?  :lol
I heard that

(and you are right )
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 July 2017, 11:57:58 pm


It's where the rain gets in when on the sidestand parked up most likely.
Bloody nuisance but needs sorting.


I find that highly unlikely. I'm not quite as bad as fazersharp, but not far off. Rain? What's that then?  :lol


My bike sits outside in the rain at work, so had it myself at work.
Leaning to the left it does make sense, unless you are the Sharpster.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 July 2017, 12:02:15 am
Riding home tonight, and went past a little scrotebag parked up sitting on a scooter, hiding behind a car with no visible lid but wearing a balaclava with only eyes and nose cut outs AND wearing a hoodie.
These pricks need shooting.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 July 2017, 01:09:00 pm
Take it from me there are.

I used to work with a guy who set up the original cameras. But at that time, if you kept your bike on the white lines between the lanes, the cameras would never be activated. Film was too expensive to process and they didn't want two camera zones overlapping and getting twice as many pictures of the cars as they needed so there was actually an intentional blind spot between each of the lanes.

Of course, with the cameras all being digital now, that may have changed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 01 August 2017, 05:16:53 pm
Asda have installed cameras on the self service checkouts with the monitor at the right position for me to be staring at myself.
I'll be interested to see the staff reaction when I start hanging a cap on it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 August 2017, 05:27:53 pm
Asda have installed cameras on the self service checkouts with the monitor at the right position for me to be staring at myself.



Sue them for the distress caused?  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 August 2017, 09:44:45 pm
Whilst on the supermarket subject --- check out people who cough or sneeze into their hands and then handle your food with that hand
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Edmund on 13 August 2017, 09:14:40 am
Snot good
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 13 August 2017, 10:19:22 am
Or at the pizza deli counter where they make your custom pizza. They wear gloves but then never take off or change them between customers......yum
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 August 2017, 07:57:00 pm
People who add a "Make and offer" button on their ebay listing and then wont take any offer until its 20p off the asking price. If you don't want offers then don't ask for them  :wall     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 14 August 2017, 10:55:23 pm
Nothing cos some thieving bastard stole it of the allotment and probably ate it :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 14 August 2017, 11:06:01 pm

People who add a "Make and offer" button on their ebay listing and then wont take any offer until its 20p off the asking price. If you don't want offers then don't ask for them  :wall   
You need to elaborate, I'm curious now :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 August 2017, 11:25:54 pm
Item cost 10.99 I ffered 7.50 - said no
8.50  said no
9.50  said no but with it I said why dont you just tell me what you want
They said £10
Why don't they just sell it for £10 - buy it now and stop wasting every ones time
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 August 2017, 11:27:59 pm
Supermarkets again and people who just abandon their trolley in the carpark without bothering to put it in the trolley area so it can roll into your car.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 20 August 2017, 07:54:00 pm
Supermarkets again and people who just abandon their trolley in the carpark without bothering to put it in the trolley area so it can roll into your car.


Adding to that, there is a shopping centre near me that has a couple of motorcycle parking spaces and more often than not you find that they have been taken up by bastards dumping trolleys there, what makes it worse it that they have to go past the trolley shed to get to the motorcycle parking spaces  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 20 August 2017, 08:18:58 pm
Supermarkets again and people who just abandon their trolley in the carpark without bothering to put it in the trolley area so it can roll into your car.


Aaaaaaaaaaand those feckin lazy bastard BMW type drivers who park in the disabled or parent/child bays just to ensure their pride 'n' joy (lol) is safe.  :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 20 August 2017, 08:41:43 pm
Supermarkets again and people who just abandon their trolley in the carpark without bothering to put it in the trolley area so it can roll into your car.


Aaaaaaaaaaand those feckin lazy bastard BMW type drivers who park in the disabled or parent/child bays just to ensure their pride 'n' joy (lol) is safe.  :finger

To be honest I don't have a problem with folk parking in the parent/child bays (why should non-parents suffer just because some random bloke didn't pull his cock out soon enough?) but parking in a disabled bay is a cunt's trick alright. People have a choice about having kids, but no-one's ever chosen to have a disability.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 21 August 2017, 06:37:11 am
Drivers who use disabled badges that they have no right to use unless the disabled badge holder is in the vehicle to park in disabled spaces or on double yellow lines. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 21 August 2017, 07:34:30 am
People that can't decide what FECKING lane they want and think "FOC it, I'll just take up both of them, I indicated so I have the right to pull out even if it isn't safe to and I've not even looked" 😡 COMPLETE DICKHEADS 😡
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 August 2017, 08:59:44 am
Drivers who use disabled badges that they have no right to use unless the disabled badge holder is in the vehicle to park in disabled spaces or on double yellow lines. 

Even then, they are only meant to use them if the disabled person is getting out the car.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 21 August 2017, 07:43:23 pm
To be honest I don't have a problem with folk parking in the parent/child bays (why should non-parents suffer just because some random bloke didn't pull his cock out soon enough?) but parking in a disabled bay is a cunt's trick alright. People have a choice about having kids, but no-one's ever chosen to have a disability.
Totally agree with you, although there's plenty of folks who have chosen to have a disability to get them out of work!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 August 2017, 07:09:44 am
Doctors receptionists.


What is it with their high and mighty attitude?


I had 2 calls last Friday which i missed anyway as my phone stays in my bike jacket at work, and they were from a 'private number' so i couldn't reply anyway when i saw them.
Then last night, Monday 21st August, i get another call and the doctors receptionist tells me that a doctor (who knows which one i'll see next time?) needs to see me about blood test results.


Little bit concerned now, so i'm like "Okay, make me an appointment please."


"31st August."


"Hold on, you just called me saying i need to be seen, and you're making me wait 10 days, or 13 days if that's you that called me on Friday?"


"Erm, yes."


"What exactly is wrong then?"


"I can't discuss that over the phone."


"Can i speak to a doctor then?"


"Hold on a second.......the next doctors phone appointment is September 5th."  :wall


Are these people living in the real world or what??? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 24 August 2017, 08:13:19 am
When your on a motorway, in the outside lane doing 10/15 mph over the limit and some knob come flying up behind you flashing their lights and making noise to try and get to you move over!
I don't know who the fuck he thought he was with his blue lights and siren.... cock
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 24 August 2017, 09:01:29 am
When your on a motorway, in the outside lane doing 10/15 mph over the limit and some knob come flying up behind you flashing their lights and making noise to try and get to you move over!
I don't know who the fuck he thought he was with his blue lights and siren.... cock


 :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 24 August 2017, 09:44:46 am
 :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 25 August 2017, 02:26:59 am
Supermarkets again and people who just abandon their trolley in the carpark without bothering to put it in the trolley area so it can roll into your car.


Adding to that, there is a shopping centre near me that has a couple of motorcycle parking spaces and more often than not you find that they have been taken up by bastards dumping trolleys there,

Down here often you can't lock your bicycle to the cycle racks at ASDA because they're full of bloody trolleys :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 August 2017, 08:16:16 pm
Doctors receptionists.


What is it with their high and mighty attitude?


I had 2 calls last Friday which i missed anyway as my phone stays in my bike jacket at work, and they were from a 'private number' so i couldn't reply anyway when i saw them.
Then last night, Monday 21st August, i get another call and the doctors receptionist tells me that a doctor (who knows which one i'll see next time?) needs to see me about blood test results.


Little bit concerned now, so i'm like "Okay, make me an appointment please."


"31st August."


"Hold on, you just called me saying i need to be seen, and you're making me wait 10 days, or 13 days if that's you that called me on Friday?"


"Erm, yes."


"What exactly is wrong then?"


"I can't discuss that over the phone."


"Can i speak to a doctor then?"


"Hold on a second.......the next doctors phone appointment is September 5th."  :wall


Are these people living in the real world or what??? :rolleyes


So i took the day off work today so i could go to this doctors appointment this afternoon, after a 10 day wait, so thought i'll get the bike MOT'd in the morning as well and be resourceful (it passed).


Doc says "What can we do for you today?"


"Your receptionist called me in to see you about my blood test results?"


"Okay, let's have a look........yep, it's fine, totally normal."


"What?"


"All good, no problems at all."


"I just waited 10 days for this appointment, slightly concerned, because your receptionist insisted i needed to be seen?"


"Not sure why she did that, but they wouldn't really know anyway?"


 :groan



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 01 September 2017, 08:26:36 am
in my experience, Dr's receptionists want to know your illness so they can diagnose and see if you really need a Dr.......they can fuck right off (and before anyone says move Dr's....I raised it with the practice and next time I went, she was no longer there)

similar with bank clerks.....they think its their money (I moved bank's)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 01 September 2017, 10:15:27 am
when you buy something in a shop in the west of Scotland and the assistant says to you "is that you" that's their way of asking is that all, of course it's F***In me is it someone else buying this, so friggin stupid.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 September 2017, 10:33:21 am
Buying items like a nut and bolt, I want x y or z size and the assistant asks me what do I need it for always bugs me.
Go to the local tip (sorry it is a tip and not a recycling centre ) they ask "what have you got and I have to list everything and then they proceed to point out the skips I need - which are all sign posted - he is just making a job for himself. I once said fissile material and he said "bin 3 mate"  :rollin   

Also on the "is that you" one. My local wilco there is a woman who always counts your change like this. Say it cost £5 and you give £10 she counts your change as 6,7,8,9 and 1 is. What do do mean "and 1 is"  FFS     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 01 September 2017, 02:23:35 pm
The same as when you go to buy spark plugs.You tell them what you want and they always ask "What's it for". It always ends in a row. Just give me the foccing plugs, take my money, end of. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 September 2017, 04:14:45 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF
Alright since you asked, its a second hand but plug
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 September 2017, 06:34:58 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF
Alright since you asked, its a second hand but plug


Mateys spark plug in the other post looks like a 2nd hand butt plug.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 September 2017, 07:02:41 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF
Alright since you asked, its a second hand but plug


Mateys spark plug in the other post looks like a 2nd hand butt plug.  :lol
:rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 September 2017, 11:56:29 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF
Alright since you asked, its a second hand but plug


Mateys spark plug in the other post looks like a 2nd hand butt plug.  :lol
:rollin :rollin


Does also resemble a Chicken Jalfrezi, i thought as much when i was having lunch at work today  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 04 September 2017, 01:07:36 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF

They have to ask because of the requirements to ensure that you're not sending dangerous or prohibited items through the post.

Also if it's valuable, they should recommend that you send it Recorded or Special Delivery. If they've done that and there's a problem or it goes missing, they can say "We told the customer" and it avoids liability.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 September 2017, 01:12:26 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF

They have to ask because of the requirements to ensure that you're not sending dangerous or prohibited items through the post.

Also if it's valuable, they should recommend that you send it Recorded or Special Delivery. If they've done that and there's a problem or it goes missing, they can say "We told the customer" and it avoids liability.


Unless it's the courier firm Yodel, they ask what's inside to know if it's worth nicking or not.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2017, 05:13:39 pm
And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF

They have to ask because of the requirements to ensure that you're not sending dangerous or prohibited items through the post.

Also if it's valuable, they should recommend that you send it Recorded or Special Delivery. If they've done that and there's a problem or it goes missing, they can say "We told the customer" and it avoids liability.

And I imagine this people who send dangerous and prohibited items are always up front and honest about it 🤔😉

About as much use as the 'Are you over 18' button on a porn site 😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 September 2017, 12:48:45 pm
Modern household paints. Open the tin, use half of it. Reopen the lid 4 weeks later to do some more and the fekkin lid has rusted to the tin, the rust and crap drops into the rest of the paint so you then cant use it. And its not cheap. Why on earth dont they put it in plastic cans with screw lids
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 September 2017, 12:52:52 pm
Modern household paints. Open the tin, use half of it. Reopen the lid 4 weeks later to do some more and the fekkin lid has rusted to the tin, the rust and crap drops into the rest of the paint so you then cant use it. And its not cheap. Why on earth dont they put it in plastic cans with screw lids
To stop the rust and crap dropping down onto the paint try turning it upside down when opening  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 07 September 2017, 12:58:36 pm
Modern household paints. Open the tin, use half of it. Reopen the lid 4 weeks later to do some more and the fekkin lid has rusted to the tin, the rust and crap drops into the rest of the paint so you then cant use it. And its not cheap. Why on earth dont they put it in plastic cans with screw lids
To stop the rust and crap dropping down onto the paint try turning it upside down when opening  :lol


Put clingfilm loosely on top of the can then put lid on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 07 September 2017, 03:34:03 pm

And taking parcels to the post office you get asked "what's in it"  FOC OFF
...


I was asked what was in my package last week when I took it to the post office...
I said "Hobby Parts", however the mature old lady behind the counter heard "BODY PARTS" !!! ... She almost dived through the security glass screen! lol.  :eek

Her alarming response (upon "hearing" the latter) was priceless. Bless her. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 September 2017, 09:15:57 pm
Modern household paints. Open the tin, use half of it. Reopen the lid 4 weeks later to do some more and the fekkin lid has rusted to the tin, the rust and crap drops into the rest of the paint so you then cant use it. And its not cheap. Why on earth dont they put it in plastic cans with screw lids
To stop the rust and crap dropping down onto the paint try turning it upside down when opening  :lol


 :lol  Actually, you got me thinking. I could turn it upside down and get the tin opener on the bottom. Yeeaaahhh
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 September 2017, 09:33:41 pm
Online questionnaires from places I have brought from or services I have used. A few times now I have clicked ok yes I will do your servery about the (whatever it was ) it starts off all relevant to the product but then you get near the end and the it starts your age bracket - ok i will give you that, then later its your job and income and if you have kids or a house/hall NO FOC OFF and I just quit the servay when I was actually telling them how good the product was.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 07 September 2017, 09:58:52 pm
Online questionnaires from places I have brought from or services I have used. A few times now I have clicked ok yes I will do your servery about the (whatever it was ) it starts off all relevant to the product but then you get near the end and the it starts your age bracket - ok i will give you that, then later its your job and income and if you have kids or a house/hall NO FOC OFF and I just quit the servay when I was actually telling them how good the product was.     


I just think of it the same way as I would if I actually went into a shop and bought something. I wouldn't stop to fill out a survey then, so I'm not going to start doing it just because it's online.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 September 2017, 11:06:07 pm
Online questionnaires from places I have brought from or services I have used. A few times now I have clicked ok yes I will do your servery about the (whatever it was ) it starts off all relevant to the product but then you get near the end and the it starts your age bracket - ok i will give you that, then later its your job and income and if you have kids or a house/hall NO FOC OFF and I just quit the servay when I was actually telling them how good the product was.     


I just think of it the same way as I would if I actually went into a shop and bought something. I wouldn't stop to fill out a survey then, so I'm not going to start doing it just because it's online.
I actually wanted to give my feed back on a good service/product and to praise them so they missed out
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 08 September 2017, 08:27:32 am
The other thing about online product surveys is you go to great length and effort to describe the product and it's  good points and praise the supplier for their brilliant services and prices also their response times with free delivery.


You read it over before posting it, do a few final adjustments and spelling corrections, hit post and a dialogue box pops up say you must log in to post a review.


Fuck off I don't want to create an account with Shopaholic or Reviewmyshit or create a password with at least eight letters or more thay must include at least one number and one upper case letter.
I also have no desire to tell them my Mothers maiden name, or the name of the family pet.
Here is one grumpy old foccer that now fills in no surveys what-so-ever.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 08 September 2017, 08:46:12 am
It pisses me off even more when you buy something online then before it is delivered they send you an email asking for a review when you have not even got the bloody item.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazer99 on 08 September 2017, 09:28:57 am
It pisses me off even more when you buy something online then before it is delivered they send you an email asking for a review when you have not even got the bloody item.

That and the evilbay review where you have to make a comment in that little comment box otherwise it will not let you post a review.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 08 September 2017, 09:51:28 am
with Tommy on that one :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 September 2017, 09:00:01 pm
News reporting on the weather, yes it is shit over there in the Caribbean and Florida and I too have had some of Sharp Halls roof removed by the wind but my goat get is the way the news reports it.
Sky had a live reporter hardly audible over the wind and staggering saying how bad it is and how difficult it is to stay on his feet - when a jogger went by in shades.
Next the BBC (remember the inaudible Sky reporter ) only this time it was propper windy - but all the wind noise was cut out and you could hear them perfectly - so the sky report was consciously haming it up. I am not saying it is not bad but saying it was not that bad at that stage.
Now not content with sending reporters to an overwhelmed area the BBC have sent Shafanacker - the BBC weatherman to report as well FFS I would rather my licance money go to some aid than Shafanacker flying first class to tell me  its FOCing windy.         

EDIT ---- better yet spend that money on a few more computer RAM over here so we can get better predictions
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 10 September 2017, 09:20:33 pm
News reporting on the weather, yes it is shit over there in the Caribbean and Florida and I too have had some of Sharp Halls roof removed by the wind but my goat get is the way the news reports it.
Sky had a live reporter hardly audible over the wind and staggering saying how bad it is and how difficult it is to stay on his feet - when a jogger went by in shades.
Next the BBC (remember the inaudible Sky reporter ) only this time it was propper windy - but all the wind noise was cut out and you could hear them perfectly - so the sky report was consciously haming it up. I am not saying it is not bad but saying it was not that bad at that stage.
Now not content with sending reporters to an overwhelmed area the BBC have sent Shafanacker - the BBC weatherman to report as well FFS I would rather my licance money go to some aid than Shafanacker flying first class to tell me  its FOCing windy.         

EDIT ---- better yet spend that money on a few more computer RAM over here so we can get better predictions


There are some grumpy old foccers about
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 September 2017, 06:42:10 am
News reporting on the weather, yes it is shit over there in the Caribbean and Florida and I too have had some of Sharp Halls roof removed by the wind but my goat get is the way the news reports it.
Sky had a live reporter hardly audible over the wind and staggering saying how bad it is and how difficult it is to stay on his feet - when a jogger went by in shades.
Next the BBC (remember the inaudible Sky reporter ) only this time it was propper windy - but all the wind noise was cut out and you could hear them perfectly - so the sky report was consciously haming it up. I am not saying it is not bad but saying it was not that bad at that stage.
Now not content with sending reporters to an overwhelmed area the BBC have sent Shafanacker - the BBC weatherman to report as well FFS I would rather my licance money go to some aid than Shafanacker flying first class to tell me  its FOCing windy.         

EDIT ---- better yet spend that money on a few more computer RAM over here so we can get better predictions



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc29q3LJYDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc29q3LJYDA)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Edmund on 11 September 2017, 06:55:32 am
That's got to hurt!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 11 September 2017, 07:18:18 am
That's got to hurt!!


I think she is a very shit actress.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 September 2017, 07:46:47 am
Funny but smells fake to me, actually looks like a piss take out of the very reporting that gets my goat, glad that someone else's goat was got enough to make the spoof report. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 September 2017, 08:41:16 am
:rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 13 September 2017, 08:50:32 am
Using my motorcycle (:faz) to commute to/from work, only to find (even during the apparent 'rush hour') that there is infact minimal to zero traffic to filter through/overtake!
Then the following day I leave in the morning (or evening) in the CAR, at exactly the same time, and it's gridlock the moment I hit the main road! :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 16 September 2017, 11:18:35 pm

Does it ever end


http://japanesetoenailfunguscode.com/lpq_v/?subid4=lpq&subid5=i4&aff_id=44120&subid=dG04AFA1Q4G1QU981T8KLC06&subid2=OBdG04AFA1Q4G1QU981T8KLC06 (http://japanesetoenailfunguscode.com/lpq_v/?subid4=lpq&subid5=i4&aff_id=44120&subid=dG04AFA1Q4G1QU981T8KLC06&subid2=OBdG04AFA1Q4G1QU981T8KLC06)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 September 2017, 11:55:18 pm
I tried watching it but had more chance of losing the will to live than dying from a toenail infection.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 17 September 2017, 01:12:28 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 17 September 2017, 05:09:00 pm
Why is it whenever i queue to use a cash point i always seem to get a person in front of me that looks like they'd have trouble using a doorbell?
Yesterday i waited about 8 minutes i reckon, after the fella had called his mate over to discuss what button to try next.  :pc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 17 September 2017, 05:24:56 pm
Quote from: darrsi link=topic=17546.msg2682, that 53#msg268253 date=1505664540
Why is it whenever i queue to use a cash point i always seem to get a person in front of me that looks like they'd have trouble using a doorbell?
Yesterday i waited about 8 minutes i reckon, after the fella had called his mate over to discuss what button to try next.  :pc


 :lol :lol You're not alone, that happens to me all the time.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 September 2017, 08:24:09 pm
I was behind an old fella in the post office calling out his numbers as he entered them in the chip and pin machine.
Its a good job I was behind him and not some scrote   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 17 September 2017, 10:42:14 pm
I was behind an old fella in the post office calling out his numbers as he entered them in the chip and pin machine.
Its a good job I was behind him and not some scrote


LOL at your post Sharpie.
A few months ago I went into Halfords at Waterlooville and purchased about 40 quids worth of bits and bobs and was chatting to the very attractive girl at the pay point, she told me the price and I stuck my card in the machine and continued to have some friendly banter and she said your number, so, like a prat I stood there and told her my number, her reply was are you OK being out on your own? I left immediately with a red face. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 18 September 2017, 07:53:06 am
 :lol :lol Tommy, I been in there and had "bante / flirtin" with that young lady too, she is very nice lol!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 18 September 2017, 05:11:41 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall

People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 18 September 2017, 06:33:42 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall

People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
I've never heard of that rule. And besides, I used an escalator today and just stood there until it got to the top. Why would you walk up an escalator ? You might as well use the stairs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 18 September 2017, 06:56:04 pm
Dont start me off    :wall ...bad day at work , it wont take much to push me over the edge........ :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 18 September 2017, 07:01:04 pm
Dont start me off    :wall ...bad day at work , it wont take much to push me over the edge........ :lol
:lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 18 September 2017, 08:12:30 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall

People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
I've never heard of that rule. And besides, I used an escalator today and just stood there until it got to the top. Why would you walk up an escalator ? You might as well use the stairs.


I worked for a few years in Oxford Street, it's certainly a London thing, and very annoying when people stand still on the left when you're in a hurry as most London workers are.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 18 September 2017, 09:28:34 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall

People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
I've never heard of that rule. And besides, I used an escalator today and just stood there until it got to the top. Why would you walk up an escalator ? You might as well use the stairs.


I worked for a few years in Oxford Street, it's certainly a London thing, and very annoying when people stand still on the left when you're in a hurry as most London workers are.
Ah.. that would explain it. Very rarely see anyone walking up an escalator down here.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 21 September 2017, 11:17:20 pm
People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
I've never heard of that rule.

If you ever travel on the London Underground, you'll see signs saying that on all the escalators and it (sort of) carries over to other places.

Quote
And besides, I used an escalator today and just stood there until it got to the top. Why would you walk up an escalator ? You might as well use the stairs.

Because the escalator is moving, so you don't climb so many steps. Also you can climb as many or as few as you want and then rest if you feel like it and you'll still get to the top quicker than using the stairs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2017, 09:00:07 am
I stood on the left of the underground escalator the first time I travelled by train to London 25 years ago.

I soon got corrected by the happy commuters rushing up the steps 😄

Never did it again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 23 September 2017, 02:37:19 am
Bloody black Merc E series private taxis driven by colonials - nuff said  :grumble  Feckin twice today made contact in London. Lost a lot of front bumper clips when you kick down on  them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 September 2017, 12:42:12 pm
Feckin twice today made contact in London. Lost a lot of front bumper clips when you kick down on  them.

I take it L'Bob is tucked up nice and safe in the garage at the moment as you haven't had it MOT'd yet
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 23 September 2017, 01:23:00 pm
Feckin twice today made contact in London. Lost a lot of front bumper clips when you kick down on  them.

I take it L'Bob is tucked up nice and safe in the garage at the moment as you haven't had it MOT'd yet


Oh crap !!!!!!!!!!! Errrrrrr no.......  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 September 2017, 07:38:43 pm
 :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 24 September 2017, 12:01:41 am
Insurance companies who like to auto-renew your policy and then demand / take payment 😡
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 25 September 2017, 11:01:31 am
Insurance companies who like to auto-renew your policy and then demand / take payment 😡

Also their mad reimbursement rates, should you cancel an annual policy early (that you paid for upfront).
It doesn't follow the logic... divide your premium by 12 months, then you'll get the remaining unused months returned, if you cancelled early.

INSTEAD - it goes like this (did on my last bike policy). I basically got reimbursed just a few pounds, when I cancelled at about 4 months!..

Cancel by end of Month # : Premium amount returned.
Month 1: 70%
Month 2: 15%
Month 3: 10%
Month 4: 3%
Month 5: 2%
Month 6: 0%
Month 7: 0%
Month 8: 0%
...

daylight robbery!  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 25 September 2017, 11:22:21 am
my renewal from Bennetts came through at weekend and its gone up to £290 from £230!!
no points no accident in last 5 years...
going to find better / cheaper insurance!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 25 September 2017, 11:53:01 am

Insurance companies who like to auto-renew your policy and then demand / take payment 😡

Also their mad reimbursement rates, should you cancel an annual policy early (that you paid for upfront).
It doesn't follow the logic... divide your premium by 12 months, then you'll get the remaining unused months returned, if you cancelled early.

INSTEAD - it goes like this (did on my last bike policy). I basically got reimbursed just a few pounds, when I cancelled at about 4 months!..

Cancel by end of Month # : Premium amount returned.
Month 1: 70%
Month 2: 15%
Month 3: 10%
Month 4: 3%
Month 5: 2%
Month 6: 0%
Month 7: 0%
Month 8: 0%
...

daylight robbery!  :2guns

 That's why I pay monthly, It only costs a few quid extra over the year and if you cancel you just stop paying.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 25 September 2017, 12:33:59 pm

 That's why I pay monthly, It only costs a few quid extra over the year and if you cancel you just stop paying.

Very true. Some advantages to both. Live and learn.

Did I also mention I think I got zapped by a mobile speed van last Friday (that'll bump up my premium!) :oops
Saw the guy jump out of his van, run round the front in my direction... did he get a chance to snap the Plate on the rear of my :faz............................ Orrrrrr not!? :bobby

Then you start mulling over actually how fast you THINK you were going!  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 25 September 2017, 12:34:24 pm
Feckin twice today made contact in London. Lost a lot of front bumper clips when you kick down on  them.

I take it L'Bob is tucked up nice and safe in the garage at the moment as you haven't had it MOT'd yet


Oh crap !!!!!!!!!!! Errrrrrr no.......  :eek


It's all ok Bob - just checked. You paid extra and got a 2yr MOT  :deal . Many thanks for that - FYI Bobby is now sitting at 12,850 miles  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 September 2017, 12:48:12 pm
Trying to tear those silver foil seals that can only be removed by bursting a hole through them, off the top of oil/antifreeze/water containers without dropping a bit inside.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 September 2017, 08:59:33 pm
People who wont walk on escellators.......have they all the time in the world or are they really that foccin lazy     :wall

People who don't understand the rule about "stand on the right, walk on the left" on escalators!
I've never heard of that rule. And besides, I used an escalator today and just stood there until it got to the top. Why would you walk up an escalator ? You might as well use the stairs.


I worked for a few years in Oxford Street, it's certainly a London thing, and very annoying when people stand still on the left when you're in a hurry as most London workers are.
Ah.. that would explain it. Very rarely see anyone walking up an escalator down here.


Fuck off Grayo where you come from people are still swinging about on vines :rollin :rollin :rollin :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 26 September 2017, 08:16:55 pm
Chuffin garden strimmers. Strim for 30 seconds, the cord snaps. The so called "bump n feed" never works so you have stop and dismantle the chuffin head and pull some more out. Restart. 30 seconds later, same again. Ive had bosch, black an decker, and spear and jackson. All the same. All fucking useless
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 September 2017, 08:39:31 pm
Chuffin garden strimmers. Strim for 30 seconds, the cord snaps. The so called "bump n feed" never works so you have stop and dismantle the chuffin head and pull some more out. Restart. 30 seconds later, same again. Ive had bosch, black an decker, and spear and jackson. All the same. All fucking useless


Buy Stihl  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 26 September 2017, 09:48:28 pm
Chuffin garden strimmers. Strim for 30 seconds, the cord snaps. The so called "bump n feed" never works so you have stop and dismantle the chuffin head and pull some more out. Restart. 30 seconds later, same again. Ive had bosch, black an decker, and spear and jackson. All the same. All fucking useless


ha ha pmsl, exactly the same in our house. I've fucked the strimmer off now and find myself standing at daft angles using a pair of edge cutters to trim the grass
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 September 2017, 10:41:48 pm
Stihl FS40 lovely little strimmer light weight and easy to handle bump feed works a treat, very easy to reload with line takes 2 mm strimmer line, 50:1 2 stroke mixture, Highly recommended shop around and you can pick up one for £140.


Alternately the Hyundai 53cc 2 stroke strimmer is good value, quite a bit heavier, but fine for heavy grass and nettle and brambles.
It comes as a kit with a steel brush cutter blade and another steel blade that almost looks like a circular saw, also in the kit is a pair of heavy leather gloves, a head mask with mesh screen, ear defenders a tool kit and they even supply you with a spare Bosh spark plug and double shoulder strap. £124.99.
The only let down is that the bump feed is not intuitive to reload


The Stihl strimmer this size is about £350.


What I find quite funny is this Post was started by Hedgetrimmer and here we are on about strimmers :lol
     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 26 September 2017, 10:44:19 pm
The strimmer cord is too thin. Buy some heavy duty stuff (make sure it will still fit through the hole), it lasts for nearly two minutes before it breaks. Better still, buy a bush cutter. A bit more expensive as it uses metal blades. Be careful though cos when those metal blades snap...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 27 September 2017, 02:12:56 am
my renewal from Bennetts came through at weekend and its gone up to £290 from £230!!

Phone them up, tell them you're going elsewhere and I can almost guarantee that, magically, they'll suddenly find that they can do you a better deal!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 27 September 2017, 05:18:48 am
Do an on-line quote then ring up Bennetts and see if they'll match it.
I start the conversation with "I'd like to cancel the renewal please" as it gets their attention.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 September 2017, 06:41:26 am

 That's why I pay monthly, It only costs a few quid extra over the year and if you cancel you just stop paying.

Very true. Some advantages to both. Live and learn.

Did I also mention I think I got zapped by a mobile speed van last Friday (that'll bump up my premium!) :oops
Saw the guy jump out of his van, run round the front in my direction... did he get a chance to snap the Plate on the rear of my :faz ............................ Orrrrrr not!? :bobby

Then you start mulling over actually how fast you THINK you were going!  :rolleyes


Insurance firms aren't bothered by minor speeding fines or points, i've been done twice over the years and it never affected my premium.
I think they expect that nobody's perfect and it is easy to get 3 points for example so they tend to overlook it, as long as you're not doing some ridiculous OTT speed.


Insurance has generally gone up something stupid for most people this year, which i find very unfair.
My mum had a 1000cc car last year and paid around £340-£360 i think, but this year with an old 1200cc motor she got quoted £840?
I got it down to £690 in the end, and she's never claimed before, it literally is like being legally mugged.
Fuel still costs the same, the speed limits are still the same, so how do they justify such a price hike?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 27 September 2017, 08:29:44 am
Yes,exactly my thoughts. Why do they penalise good drivers for making the misguided assumption that "loyalty" should be rewarded?
My car insurance renewal came lthis month & they wanted an extra £63 to reinsure...fffs I am on the maximum no claims possible. A quick check on the comparison sites provided identical level of cover for £7 LESS than I paid a year ago. Why do we have to go to all this trouble every year? Is it because they only consider their shareholders? Why not bloody well nationalise the whole industry as its a legal requirement anyway-maybe link insurance more closely to MOT & VED to helpget the uninsured f*****s off the road?

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 27 September 2017, 09:53:43 am
Do an on-line quote then ring up Bennetts and see if they'll match it.
I start the conversation with "I'd like to cancel the renewal please" as it gets their attention.

I did a price comparison & got exactly same cover from RAC for £100 cheaper so I've gone with that
will ring Bennetts to cancel at weekend (insurance runs to 17/10) I doubt that they will drop down that far!


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 September 2017, 01:27:33 pm
Do an on-line quote then ring up Bennetts and see if they'll match it.
I start the conversation with "I'd like to cancel the renewal please" as it gets their attention.

I did a price comparison & got exactly same cover from RAC for £100 cheaper so I've gone with that
will ring Bennetts to cancel at weekend (insurance runs to 17/10) I doubt that they will drop down that far!


Always worth a try, you'd be amazed at some of the shite they can suddenly knock off pricewise to keep you as a customer.
My mate phones Kwik-Fit every year to cancel his renewal as he's found it cheaper online, and when they ask him who with he always replies "Kwik-Fit"  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 27 September 2017, 01:57:46 pm
Bloody students!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 27 September 2017, 02:53:21 pm
Yes the quote I got online was actually from Bennetts. I just knocked an extra fiver off when they asked what quote I'd got. They re quoted at the online price which I accepted "To save the hassle" as I said. £80 cheaper than the initial renewal price.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 September 2017, 05:06:10 pm
The strimmer cord is too thin. Buy some heavy duty stuff (make sure it will still fit through the hole), it lasts for nearly two minutes before it breaks. Better still, buy a bush cutter. A bit more expensive as it uses metal blades. Be careful though cos when those metal blades snap...

Some of the really cheap cord is plastic/pvc or some such material and is useless. Breaks almost instantly.

Nylon is best.

The only issue with using some of the petrol strimmers in domestic gardens (apart from your neighbours complaining about the two-stroke din :lol) is that they can be a bit overpowered.

Combined with the heavier gauge cord, you can quite easily go round stripping the bark off of all your shrubs and trees.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 27 September 2017, 05:24:29 pm
I start the conversation with "I'd like to cancel the renewal please" as it gets their attention.
I did this with Motorcycle Direct. They just said ok !! And cancelled the renewal.
I then went onto a price comparison site and renewewd with Motorcycle Direct !!  For £63 cheaper than their renewal quote.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 27 September 2017, 06:06:09 pm
I always check for cheaper quotes first cos you need some ammunition and if they just cancel like that (which is very rare) you've got another one to go to.


The only issue with using some of the petrol strimmers in domestic gardens (apart from your neighbours complaining about the two-stroke din :lol ) is that they can be a bit overpowered.


We've got an electric strimmer as I can't be faffing around mixing 2 stroke fuel up and it's good enough for what we need, the standard nylon/plastic cord is far too thin and snaps within seconds so I just buy some thicker stuff. I will also have an electric chainsaw soon for the same reason, the petrol tank is soon empty and like you say it is too noisy. My neighbours haven't said anything about it but I've got a lot of wood to saw up over the next few weekends and I don't want to annoy them. The electric one's aren't quite as powerful but they are a lot quieter.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 27 September 2017, 06:14:47 pm
https://www.tayna.co.uk/Yamaha-FZS-600-Motorcycle-Batteries-D2860.html (https://www.tayna.co.uk/Yamaha-FZS-600-Motorcycle-Batteries-D2860.html)

I should have checked the bike first I know, but they list the wrong battery for the FZS600 so now I have a battery that is no use to me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 27 September 2017, 06:27:56 pm
https://www.tayna.co.uk/Yamaha-FZS-600-Motorcycle-Batteries-D2860.html (https://www.tayna.co.uk/Yamaha-FZS-600-Motorcycle-Batteries-D2860.html)

I should have checked the bike first I know, but they list the wrong battery for the FZS600 so now I have a battery that is no use to me.
:wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 27 September 2017, 07:31:48 pm
I've done that. I relied on the sellers description which said "GT550 Battery". The one that arrived was massive. Their response is that I should have checked the dimensions which would have been ok if I'd had an old battery to measure in the first place. I ended up selling the battery to a mate for half price and made a mental note not to buy anything from that seller again.
I would have returned the battery but it weighed so much that it would have cost a tenner - and no courier or the Post Office would accept a battery as a parcel, even the couriers who delivered it in the first place refused to carry it!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 27 September 2017, 11:08:23 pm
Yes the quote I got online was actually from Bennetts. I just knocked an extra fiver off when they asked what quote I'd got. They re quoted at the online price which I accepted "To save the hassle" as I said. £80 cheaper than the initial renewal price.
Hastings !!! cheaper for the bike left on the drive than in a locked brick built garage !! I think insurance will be the new ppi con, in a few years people will be claiming what they have been mis sold
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 September 2017, 11:15:44 pm
Yes the quote I got online was actually from Bennetts. I just knocked an extra fiver off when they asked what quote I'd got. They re quoted at the online price which I accepted "To save the hassle" as I said. £80 cheaper than the initial renewal price.
Hastings !!! cheaper for the bike left on the drive than in a locked brick built garage !! I think insurance will be the new ppi con, in a few years people will be claiming what they have been mis sold


Wow, can you even imagine the windfall that everyone would get if that happened?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 September 2017, 11:05:59 am
The trouble with all this Miss sold shit is that the miss selling companies are all still doing well even after the have paid out compensation, so who at the final bell is paying for it? Foccing policy holders and there is yet another hyke in you premiums. I am afraid the policy holder is the end of the food chain.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 September 2017, 11:28:20 am
The trouble with all this Miss sold shit is that the miss selling companies are all still doing well even after the have paid out compensation, so who at the final bell is paying for it? Foccing policy holders and there is yet another hyke in you premiums. I am afraid the policy holder is the end of the food chain.


oops wrong miss /mis
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Spannerhands on 28 September 2017, 11:38:16 am
Photobucket P500 message. Grrrr! 😡
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 28 September 2017, 12:19:44 pm
Hastings !!! cheaper for the bike left on the drive than in a locked brick built garage !! I think insurance will be the new ppi con, in a few years people will be claiming what they have been mis sold

I found that with one company a few years ago. Just told them I kept it on the drive.

Another great one was them telling me that because my garage has a window, it doesn't count as a garage.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 September 2017, 05:00:46 pm
People that aren't ready.

When the light turns green...

When they get to the front of the post office queue...

When they're ordering at the bar...

When it's time to go out...

When it's time to go home...





Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 September 2017, 05:06:37 pm
The fact that lazy bastards are not honest about their reluctance to get off their fat arses and do what they are paid to do.


This for instance, how the f--k is a rubbish bin out of order? Should read don't use this facility as I can't be arsed to empty it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tex on 28 September 2017, 05:38:39 pm
People that aren't ready.

When the light turns green...

When they get to the front of the post office queue...

When they're ordering at the bar...

When it's time to go out...

When it's time to go home...


  😊 even worse at airport ques,  stand for 20 minutes get to the desk then start faffing about unzipping bags to get tickets and passport
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 28 September 2017, 07:23:46 pm
When your out in the pissing rain, fully kitted up for the weather, stop for petrol, go in to pay and the assistant says "Are you on the bike"
I says "No I'm driving the Merc and the sun roof is leaking". FFS :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 September 2017, 07:38:38 pm
When your out in the pissing rain, fully kitted up for the weather, stop for petrol, go in to pay and the assistant says "Are you on the bike"
I says "No I'm driving the Merc and the sun roof is leaking". FFS :rolleyes


I will have you know Merc sunroofs do not leak
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 28 September 2017, 08:33:38 pm
People that aren't ready.

When the light turns green...

When they get to the front of the post office queue...

When they're ordering at the bar...

When it's time to go out...

When it's time to go home...




I see you have met my wife then!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 28 September 2017, 08:40:00 pm
People that aren't ready.

When the light turns green...

When they get to the front of the post office queue...

When they're ordering at the bar...

When it's time to go out...

When it's time to go home...




I see you have met my wife then!


and my kids  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 September 2017, 09:37:11 pm
When your out in the pissing rain, fully kitted up for the weather, stop for petrol, go in to pay and the assistant says "Are you on the bike"
I says "No I'm driving the Merc and the sun roof is leaking". FFS :rolleyes

😂😂 God I love sarcasm
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 28 September 2017, 10:52:53 pm
 They've just given the Madeline McCann investigation another £154,000 FFS
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 September 2017, 11:16:18 pm
They've just given the Madeline McCann investigation another £154,000 FFS


Who-ever has that little girl or God forbid killed her needs f-----g with the rough end of a pineapple, my opinion is that if that money bring that person or persons to justice it is well worth spending.
FFS it is better than a politician spending that sort of money on a second home in Epsom or building a foccing duck house on his pond.  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 28 September 2017, 11:27:24 pm
 I don't think you need to look any further than the parents
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 29 September 2017, 05:20:11 am
I don't think you need to look any further than the parents


Not a good idea to post an accusation like that on an open forum.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 September 2017, 06:48:41 am
2 of my  workmates (brothers) had their younger brother go missing on his way to school i think in 1979, and one of them has made it his mission in life to try and find out what happened.
You wouldn't believe the bullshit, lies and red tape that has obstructed him, since it would appear it could be something to do with an elitist paedophile ring.
So basically we're on about police, judges, the rich and famous, the media, and a lot of politicians tying the case up into endless knots.
It's been a proper eye opener watching what's been going on, but i'm pretty sure he won't ever give up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 29 September 2017, 06:53:36 am
I don't think you need to look any further than the parents












Not a good idea to post an accusation like that on an open forum.   :eek









no , probably not a good idea posting , but leaving the kids alone away from home  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 29 September 2017, 08:00:51 am
I don't think you need to look any further than the parents












Not a good idea to post an accusation like that on an open forum.   :eek









no , probably not a good idea posting , but leaving the kids alone away from home  :eek

:agree

The parents have to share some of the blame, and probably do every day, just for leaving the kids unsupervised whilst they went off to have some fun on their own.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 September 2017, 10:25:51 am
When someone has finished using the cash point, but then remains stood at the machine whilst they spend 5 minutes fully reorganising their wallet/purse.....oblivious to the growing queue behind them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 29 September 2017, 07:12:25 pm
FRIGGIN Brexit.dragging on for to long .let get the f**kout and stop pissing about.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 29 September 2017, 08:13:36 pm
FRIGGIN Brexit.dragging on for to long .let get the f**kout and stop pissing about.
Yep, I agree. It didn't take us this long to get in FFS.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 29 September 2017, 08:30:57 pm
FRIGGIN Brexit.dragging on for to long .let get the f**kout and stop pissing about.
Yep, I agree. It didn't take us this long to get in FFS.


That's because they don't want us to leave. They didn't think we'd vote out and now the shits hitting the fan. The sooner they learn it's a democracy and that the vote of the many out weighs the vote of the few, the better
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 29 September 2017, 09:27:16 pm
Thats because they are shit scared that when we successfully leave the EU other member countries will follow us.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 30 September 2017, 06:37:12 am
Thats because they are shit scared that when we successfully leave the EU other member countries will follow us.


That and the fact that we pay them a very large chunk of money and they are going to have a massive hole in their budget.
They completely messed up the Greek economy causing misery for millions of people by cooking the books to get them in the EU, then they caused a war in the Ukraine by trying to get them in the EU.
I can't wait for the exit date as long as it is a proper exit but we've still got about 18 months of it being headline news nearly every day. It's gonna drive us nuts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 30 September 2017, 09:02:44 am
FRIGGIN Brexit.dragging on for to long .let get the f**kout and stop pissing about.
Ah! don't go, sure you're great fun  :lol :lol :lol It's even more fun watching Boris back tracking  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: cy8rm4n on 12 October 2017, 05:31:55 pm
 People ........ Yeah that's it really, everything that gets my goat involves people.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 13 October 2017, 06:24:09 am
Just Googled FZ1000, and one of the suggestions that came up was "FZ1000 vs FZ2000"  :eek


Thought there was a new creation i knew nothing about, but it turned out to be a digital camera.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 13 October 2017, 08:37:20 am
I was driving home last night and I was behind a police car in a line of traffic doing around 50 in a national speed limit single carriageway, all good.  We approach a village, 30 mph signs at the roadside, he dabs his brakes just as he hits the 30 mph sign and then pulls away from me as I slow down to 30 mph.  No blues, no sirens, no emergency just crap, double standards driving!  :thumbdown
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Cougar377 on 13 October 2017, 08:07:16 pm
People who wear nothing but sports gear but clearly couldn't run to a puddle if you set fire to them.   :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 13 October 2017, 08:45:54 pm
Those podium poser dancing retards on 1984 TOTP's re-runs who get all excited and prance about over exaggerated and completely OTT when the camera pans over to them......Really fucking winds me up and makes me cringe....They all need a good kicking.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 13 October 2017, 08:54:47 pm
Those podium poser dancing retards on 1984 TOTP's re-runs who get all excited and prance about over exaggerated and completely OTT when the camera pans over to them......Really fucking winds me up and makes me cringe....They all need a good kicking.  :lol












just watched that myself DAZZA.....bloody sure that was you i saw getting all excited   :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 13 October 2017, 09:30:03 pm
 :lol  Thing is, I like watching the 82/3 re-runs as it's all about the bands with the occasional pan to normal joe public who always looks awkward and embarrassed. I like that, it's entertaining, but by 1984 it all went to shit and they got all these wannabes in.
Anyway, it wasn't me you saw, I didn't get through the auditions. :D




Bring back legs and co I say  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 14 October 2017, 12:09:23 am
:lol  Thing is, I like watching the 82/3 re-runs as it's all about the bands with the occasional pan to normal joe public who always looks awkward and embarrassed. I like that, it's entertaining, but by 1984 it all went to shit and they got all these wannabes in.
Anyway, it wasn't me you saw, I didn't get through the auditions. :D




Bring back legs and co I say  :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url])



Ahhh Pans People
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 14 October 2017, 12:39:10 am
:lol  Thing is, I like watching the 82/3 re-runs as it's all about the bands with the occasional pan to normal joe public who always looks awkward and embarrassed. I like that, it's entertaining, but by 1984 it all went to shit and they got all these wannabes in.
Anyway, it wasn't me you saw, I didn't get through the auditions. :D




Bring back legs and co I say  :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url])



This is one of my favourite songs..........and Sue in the centre had lots of used tissues  :lol . DAMM she was fit and a great mover in this vid.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 October 2017, 06:47:10 am
A very entertaining video. I wonder what it's like with the sound on too...  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 14 October 2017, 08:52:24 am
:lol  Thing is, I like watching the 82/3 re-runs as it's all about the bands with the occasional pan to normal joe public who always looks awkward and embarrassed. I like that, it's entertaining, but by 1984 it all went to shit and they got all these wannabes in.
Anyway, it wasn't me you saw, I didn't get through the auditions. :D




Bring back legs and co I say  :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url])
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 14 October 2017, 08:56:25 am
[quotis  author=dazza link=topic=17546.msg269693#msg269693 date=1507926603]
 :lol  Thing is, I like watching the 82/3 re-runs as it's all about the bands with the occasional pan to normal joe public who always looks awkward and embarrassed. I like that, it's entertaining, but by 1984 it all went to shit and they got all these wannabes in.
Anyway, it wasn't me you saw, I didn't get through the auditions. :D




Bring back legs and co I say  :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4QQS6qNhs[/url])








yeh , good to see proper bands rather than the crap produced today....




thing Is though , they are limited on the shows they can play due to the history of the many presenters   :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 October 2017, 10:50:00 am
People who phone in to radio talk shows and start by saying...'As I said to your researcher...'
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 October 2017, 08:36:37 pm
People who phone in to radio talk shows and start by saying...'As I said to your researcher...'


Phone In's on the radio. Hate them. All of them. Should be banned!
ARRRGH,


Rant over.


(If you have been affected by any of the above please phone in to your local talk radio so someone else can take the piss out of you)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 15 October 2017, 05:19:08 pm
Celebrity.

So called celebrity specials. Ive never heard of the celebritys. Id never heard of the film director thats made headline news every day this week.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 15 October 2017, 06:53:29 pm
The "cult of celebrity", people famous for being famous!
And all the dickheads following them on (un)social media, foccing arseholes the lot of them, should be shot with shit  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 15 October 2017, 07:04:42 pm
Id never heard of the film director that's made headline news every day this week.
Me neither. Thought it was just me.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 15 October 2017, 07:39:49 pm
The "cult of celebrity", people famous for being famous!
And all the dickheads following them on (un)social media, foccing arseholes the lot of them, should be shot with shit  :2guns








best moan on this thread yet   :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 15 October 2017, 08:20:10 pm
In the supermarket buying eggs - you open and look - broken - try another - broken, finally find one all good. Why don't they provide an area to put boxes that contain a broken egg then a staff member can occasionally go through them and make up full good boxes again. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 15 October 2017, 09:11:29 pm
Id never heard of the film director that's made headline news every day this week.
Me neither. Thought it was just me.  :lol


You mean you honestly had never ever heard of Old............. What-is-name :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 15 October 2017, 09:13:21 pm
Id never heard of the film director that's made headline news every day this week.
Me neither. Thought it was just me.  :lol


You mean you honestly had never ever heard of Old............. What-is-name :lol

He's actually a producer, not a director..... Just saying 😉😁
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 October 2017, 06:08:47 am
Id never heard of the film director that's made headline news every day this week.
Me neither. Thought it was just me.  :lol


You mean you honestly had never ever heard of Old............. What-is-name :lol

He's actually a producer, not a director..... Just saying 😉😁


It's not looking too good for him now to be honest, and rightly so.
I couldn't believe the list of people that are speaking out against him, it seems to be endless, and i can fully understand their unwillingness to speak up at the time.
The problem is proving all of these accusations though, he'll no doubt have a defence liar that will have an answer for everything and tie each case up in knots, and because of the sheer volume of people involved it's all gonna be a very long drawn out process.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 16 October 2017, 08:08:49 am
Going into a certain German food mart to find 11 or more people waiting at the one open till with
a foccing Divvy/Dummkopf being trained on how to run the till, 6 other empty till lanes and staff around the store tidying shelves and chatting together.
Schnell Schnell  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 16 October 2017, 10:34:28 pm
f**K legs and co

there was a dance group on the Kenny Everett show (Sarah Brightman included) but I can't recall their name......they always had white suzzies on with white basques or leather kit..........oh yes!

PS please post if you know
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 October 2017, 10:38:48 pm
It gets my goat with those German low cost supermarkets -- (not really suppa - more of a Arian Kwik save] they shove your purchases off the end of a short check out in to your trolly and then you have to go over to a shitty thin shelf to then take it all out to then put it all into your bags.
The shelf stackers are also very rude, even in Asda if you are deciding which steak to buy they don't ask you to get out of the way like you are a hindrance.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 October 2017, 10:40:04 pm
f**K legs and co

there was a dance group on the Kenny Everett show (Sarah Brightman included) but I can't recall their name......they always had white suzzies on with white basques or leather kit..........oh yes!

PS please post if you know
-------------------------------- Googling now
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 October 2017, 10:42:04 pm
f**K legs and co

there was a dance group on the Kenny Everett show (Sarah Brightman included) but I can't recall their name......they always had white suzzies on with white basques or leather kit..........oh yes!

PS please post if you know
I now understand why my Dad liked watching Top of the Pops and Kenny Everert
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 16 October 2017, 10:45:12 pm
Hot Gossip

Arlene Philips.......what would the Strictly crowd say if they knew her past?

the fact we aint got these dancers today, gets my goat
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 16 October 2017, 11:11:37 pm
f**K legs and co

there was a dance group on the Kenny Everett show (Sarah Brightman included) but I can't recall their name......they always had white suzzies on with white basques or leather kit..........oh yes!

PS please post if you know
It was Hot Gossip.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 17 October 2017, 07:41:58 am
I quite fancied that women's dance act that we're regulars on Les Dawson's show. Now whatever was their name?........
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 17 October 2017, 08:40:28 am
I quite fancied that women's dance act that we're regulars on Les Dawson's show. Now whatever was their name?........


Here you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 17 October 2017, 09:37:24 am
That's them!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 17 October 2017, 10:21:50 am
2 of my  workmates (brothers) had their younger brother go missing on his way to school i think in 1979, and one of them has made it his mission in life to try and find out what happened.
....

My heart bleeds when I read of such things happening to children, their young and short innocent life wiped out (even if they remain alive... somewhere)!
At the hands of monsters! The Madeline case is also just as tragic.

Last week - teenage girl sexually assaulted THREE TIMES within one hour (by different men), while walking home alone at the end of the night - this country has gone to the dogs (and most of these "dogs" are NOT native to the UK / or of a certain ethnic minority - if you get my drift).  :foc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 18 October 2017, 06:20:27 pm

Those Next Base Dash cam adverts. "Supporting the fight against Tailgaters/middle lane drivers" etc.

What they should be saying is "Next Base dash cams, letting wa**kers pretend they are policemen"

These Dash Cams are perfect for a certain type of person, the type of person who, if they ever managed to get into the forces, would never have risen above the level of private, because their superiors recognise the fact that they should, in no circumstances, be in charge of anyone. So they usually went on to become Traffic Wardens, Gatehousemen, Storemen, Parking attendants, Speed Camera operatives, Health and safety or police officers, career security people, etc.

The people who want these cameras solely so they can report other peoples misdemeanours, should automatically be not allowed to have one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 18 October 2017, 07:04:45 pm

Those Next Base Dash cam adverts. "Supporting the fight against Tailgaters/middle lane drivers" etc.

What they should be saying is "Next Base dash cams, letting wa**kers pretend they are policemen"

These Dash Cams are perfect for a certain type of person, the type of person who, if they ever managed to get into the forces, would never have risen above the level of private, because their superiors recognise the fact that they should, in no circumstances, be in charge of anyone. So they usually went on to become Traffic Wardens, Gatehousemen, Storemen, Parking attendants, Speed Camera operatives, Health and safety or police officers, career security people, etc.

The people who want these cameras solely so they can report other peoples misdemeanours, should automatically be not allowed to have one.

Never heard of them? But I already hate any dickhead that owns one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 October 2017, 09:08:30 pm
Fine dash cams can be good to prove a fault in an accident like today a group of school boys on pushbikes coming in the oppisite direction one decides to show off to his mate by swerving out into my path and then back in. It the shit had fallen off during his swerve and I had ran over the nob - all his mates would of said it was my fault but I would have dash cam to prove what he had done.
That said I fully agree morons who go around purposefully and indeed orchestrating events so that they can get footage to put on their channel. What also get my goat i those who have the internal display showing a live feed WTF for.       
I read that some police force -Wales? have trialled a thing where you upload your footage and they follow it up. The only caveat being that you have to upload the whole journy so if you have been a dick which lead up to the footage then you incriminate yourself
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 18 October 2017, 09:25:08 pm
Hmmm, that reminds me, what ever happened to Streetbudgie ?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 October 2017, 10:51:13 pm
The words legs tail between spring to mind
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 19 October 2017, 12:17:27 am
I quite fancied that women's dance act that we're regulars on Les Dawson's show. Now whatever was their name?........


Here you go
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc[/url])



FFS you don't get many of them to the pound, all the meat and no taters.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 19 October 2017, 03:35:12 am
half price nextbase dash cam from halfords that takes longer to download than the real time it foccin videoed, shite, :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 19 October 2017, 06:57:35 am
There are a few things theft p**s me off like phone use map reading but currently there's a slew of people driving around with low tyre pressures or missing lights.
More than that, if you point it out to them they get all pi**y with you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 19 October 2017, 09:16:04 am
The youtube users who create a channel, then rip everyone else's videos, to make up their own "car crash compilation", or "best motorbike accident" videos, etc! This is illegal ripping to start (stealing other peoples artistic content). Also they are creating these videos for the views plus ultimately to monetarize (requiring no real effort on their part).

That's why it can be a good practice to add a permanent "stamp" in the corner of your videos - making it much less desirable to them (as you then have blatant evidence they ripped your video).
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 19 October 2017, 09:32:38 am
There are a few things theft p**s me off like phone use map reading but currently there's a slew of people driving around with low tyre pressures or missing lights.
More than that, if you point it out to them they get all pi**y with you.


I bet we all know someone who NEVER checks their tyres or, god forbid, lift the bonnet to check oil etc. so why would they worry about details such as blown bulbs?
Having said that some cars are designed to make it virtually impossible to change a bulb without dismantling half the front end of vehicle-I see them at my local Halfords store-they buy the bulb then have to pay the resident "mechanic"(fitter) to fit the b****y thing!
And why is it ALWAYS grey colour cars driving down the outside lane in POOR VISIBILITY conditions with little or no f****n lights on? :eek

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 19 October 2017, 10:29:31 am
I quite fancied that women's dance act that we're regulars on Les Dawson's show. Now whatever was their name?........


Here you go
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllH86e-DFc[/url])



FFS you don't get many of them to the pound, all the meat and no taters.


Yeah, forget Hot Gossip!.

These ladies are the real deal.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 19 October 2017, 11:58:10 am
There are a few things theft p**s me off like phone use map reading but currently there's a slew of people driving around with low tyre pressures or missing lights.
More than that, if you point it out to them they get all pi**y with you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 19 October 2017, 04:33:47 pm
I read that some police force -Wales? have trialled a thing where you upload your footage and they follow it up. The only caveat being that you have to upload the whole journy so if you have been a dick which lead up to the footage then you incriminate yourself

:thumbup I like that idea!

Although, at the moment on Facebook, Hampshire Police are asking if anyone was overtaken on the M27 by a blue bike and has dash cam footage.

They don't give any details, but, at a guess, someone was riding like a twat and they want evidence to find and nick him.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 19 October 2017, 05:27:44 pm
Errr, when was this?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 19 October 2017, 06:33:13 pm
"Has anyone been overtaken by a blue bike "         :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 19 October 2017, 06:42:56 pm
"Has anyone been overtaken by a blue bike "         :rollin :rollin :rollin
Obviously yes. Everyone has been overtaken by a blue bike.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 20 October 2017, 12:28:38 am
Errr, when was this?

Quote
M27 west junction 11-9 at 1246hrs Mon 16th Oct, where you overtaken by blue M/Cycle or have dashcam? Contact PC 21929@Havant. #1046

https://twitter.com/HantsPolRoads/status/920745761268273153?s=04 (https://twitter.com/HantsPolRoads/status/920745761268273153?s=04)

Why? Do you have something to confess...? ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 21 October 2017, 06:32:06 pm
Errr, when was this?

Quote
M27 west junction 11-9 at 1246hrs Mon 16th Oct, where you overtaken by blue M/Cycle or have dashcam? Contact PC 21929@Havant. #1046

https://twitter.com/HantsPolRoads/status/920745761268273153?s=04 (https://twitter.com/HantsPolRoads/status/920745761268273153?s=04)

Why? Do you have something to confess...? ;)

It was probably a red bike, which had been nicked and sprayed blue to fool everyone!  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 21 October 2017, 06:56:20 pm
Wot me guv? No not a thing.
Just wondering was all. Now I know I can say for sure that I wasn't and my mum and brother will confirm that. Cos I was down the pub with my mates.
Guv. 😎
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 22 October 2017, 06:01:11 pm
The civil servant responsible for increasing the state pension age to 67 is Retiring at 61 with a £1.8 million pension pot he will receive £85000 a year and lump sum of £245000 [/size]He's permanent secretary for Department for Works and Pensions. His name is Sir Robert Devereux., shows what the establishment think of ordinary people who can work till they drop while tossers like him just pen push and ruin people's lives.



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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 24 October 2017, 03:44:03 pm
Luxury fast cars (driving like they stole it) vs "Boy Racers" = Same thing.

The other day it was a TVR - undercutting everyone on the slip road, to get on to the dual carriageway!  :eek

You see a genuinely fast/expensive car speeding along the dual carriageway or motorway (Porsche / BMW M series / etc), undercutting, swerving around other cars, generally anti-social / wreckless speeding.

YET society tolerates them because "wow - they are driving an expensive sports car - its meant to be driven fast - that guy is cool !" ..... however in my eyes, still a menace on the roads - still a threat to our safety - no different to the 'boy racer' driving the same way in his loud, souped up... [insert typical cars here].

The fast car is usually being driven by a mid-life crisis (young/old) gentleman, trying to re-live his youth. But the shell the cager sit's in shouldn't give him immunity/an excuse to drive like he's just come off the set of 2Fast2Furious!  :finger

[/RANT over]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 24 October 2017, 08:50:04 pm
Ironically, people sticking to the right hand lane on the slip road, forcing me to undertake really gets my goat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 24 October 2017, 11:47:07 pm
The civil servant responsible for increasing the state pension age to 67 is Retiring at 61 with a £1.8 million pension pot he will receive £85000 a year and lump sum of £245000 He's permanent secretary for Department for Works and Pensions. His name is Sir Robert Devereux., shows what the establishment think of ordinary people who can work till they drop while tossers like him just pen push and ruin people's lives.






John! why Oh Why are you surprised.
That the way it is mate, you can keep working with your asbestos filled lungs till you hopefully drop dead, save the country some money then an MP can steal it and build a duck house (Quick check to make sure I spelt that right, Duck House, Yep that's right). Seems fair  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 25 October 2017, 07:49:13 am
Ironically, people sticking to the right hand lane on the slip road, forcing me to undertake really gets my goat.
And particularly those who fail to understand the purpose of the slip road which is to enable them to join the carriageway at an appropriate speed to allow them to "slot in" to the traffic flow without causing other motorists to brake or take evasive action. Followed an idiot down slip road who attempted to join lane 1 of M5 at 40mph ffs! :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 25 October 2017, 07:57:36 am
What Gets My Goat?......It would be easier to make a list of the few things that DONT!
Politicians,Religions, Brexit, The Media, Cagers, the moronic TV programmes designed to cater for the brain dead, "Celebrities", Spokespersons, Interviewers asking really stupid questions, Facebook,the general dumbing down of everything, the compensation culture, the willingness to blame others for ones own shortcomings etc etc. What a state of affairs :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 25 October 2017, 08:21:41 am
Ironically, people sticking to the right hand lane on the slip road, forcing me to undertake really gets my goat.

That was YOU in the TVR !?  :lol  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 25 October 2017, 11:44:34 am
Ironically, people sticking to the right hand lane on the slip road, forcing me to undertake really gets my goat.
And particularly those who fail to understand the purpose of the slip road which is to enable them to join the carriageway at an appropriate speed to allow them to "slot in" to the traffic flow without causing other motorists to brake or take evasive action. Followed an idiot down slip road who attempted to join lane 1 of M5 at 40mph ffs! :eek

I get that almost every day on the M5. I followed a BMW up the sliproad in my wife's Hyundai Matrix because I rashly assumed a BMW would accelerate. Nope. And then when they got onto the motorway they immediately get into the middle lane and sit at 65mph. FFS
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 25 October 2017, 02:53:07 pm
What Gets My Goat?......It would be easier to make a list of the few things that DONT!
Politicians,Religions, Brexit, The Media, Cagers, the moronic TV programmes designed to cater for the brain dead, "Celebrities", Spokespersons, Interviewers asking really stupid questions, Facebook,the general dumbing down of everything, the compensation culture, the willingness to blame others for ones own shortcomings etc etc. What a state of affairs :eek


You are me!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 25 October 2017, 04:07:45 pm
That was YOU in the TVR !?  :lol  :thumbup

Admittedly in an 80bhp Focus I rarely come across this problem! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 25 October 2017, 04:50:49 pm
What Gets My Goat?......It would be easier to make a list of the few things that DONT!
Politicians,Religions, Brexit, The Media, Cagers, the moronic TV programmes designed to cater for the brain dead, "Celebrities", Spokespersons, Interviewers asking really stupid questions, Facebook,the general dumbing down of everything, the compensation culture, the willingness to blame others for ones own shortcomings etc etc. What a state of affairs :eek


You are me!
 Desperately trying not to become like Victor Meldrew( At least I still have some hair on my head! :lol )
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 October 2017, 08:46:00 pm
The reason for poor driving is the lack of dedicated traffic police the politicians can pass all the laws they want but if there's no one to enforce them they are pointless. It appears that they just want to use speed cameras to collect revenue not enforce the laws they pass. Perhaps if they used that revenue to fund traffic officer we would all be safer on the roads.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 October 2017, 11:46:26 pm
Scooter twat slowly tried to overtake me this morning as i was doing a right turn?
Once the bastard made me jump, i put my right hand out right across his lid and he braked, luckily for him.
Then i glimpsed the 'L' plate as he undertook me.
It's not being drummed into people enough on real dangerous moves, even on a CBT.
I'm not blaming anyone in general, but some people need a lot more training on the road to avoid unnecessary shite.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 October 2017, 12:20:00 am
The reason for poor driving is the lack of dedicated traffic police the politicians can pass all the laws they want but if there's no one to enforce them they are pointless. It appears that they just want to use speed cameras to collect revenue not enforce the laws they pass. Perhaps if they used that revenue to terminate traffic officers we would all be safer on the roads to go much faster.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 26 October 2017, 08:24:33 am
Scooter twat slowly tried to overtake me this morning as i was doing a right turn?
Once the bastard made me jump, i put my right hand out right across his lid and he braked, luckily for him.
Then i glimpsed the 'L' plate as he undertook me.
It's not being drummed into people enough on real dangerous moves, even on a CBT.
I'm not blaming anyone in general, but some people need a lot more training on the road to avoid unnecessary shite.

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 26 October 2017, 11:08:51 am

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 26 October 2017, 11:23:18 am

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.

.... Probably don't even own a UK passport either!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 26 October 2017, 11:25:56 am

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.

.... Probably don't even own a UK passport either!  :lol
Once that helmet is on - nobody is going to know what they look like/who they are. Just like the London scooter "bike thieves" - the Police turn a blind eye.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 26 October 2017, 11:30:16 am

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.

They are licenced to ride (assuming they have done the CBT) with a provisional licence so it is legal even if it doesn't seem right.

If any of the riders get injured in an accident, their insurance company may throw a wobbly if the company has not done their own health and safety checks to confirm that the rider is capable though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 26 October 2017, 12:04:29 pm
I don't care whether the pizza boy is legal or not just so long as he gets here before the pizza goes cold.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 October 2017, 12:05:35 pm

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.

They are licenced to ride (assuming they have done the CBT) with a provisional licence so it is legal even if it doesn't seem right.

If any of the riders get injured in an accident, their insurance company may throw a wobbly if the company has not done their own health and safety checks to confirm that the rider is capable though.


Just thinking about your comments BB make me wonder if standard domestic and pleasure insurance would cover delivering pizza or any other commodity, as they are earning a living from the use of the bike and not just using it to get to and from your place of work.
Making deliveries sort of make it a commercial thing, I know Churchill will not insure my van I have to go to Budget Van insurance to insure that, I have my Fazer and my Merc insured with Churchill but they will not touch my van. (Commercial Insurance)   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 October 2017, 12:07:35 pm
I don't care whether the pizza boy is legal or not just so long as he gets here before the pizza goes cold.




Mmmmmmm Pizza  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 26 October 2017, 12:11:20 pm
Just thinking about your comments BB make me wonder if standard domestic and pleasure insurance would cover delivering pizza or any other commodity, as they are earning a living from the use of the bike and not just using it to get to and from your place of work.
Making deliveries sort of make it a commercial thing, I know Churchill will not insure my van I have to go to Budget Van insurance to insure that, I have my Fazer and my Merc insured with Churchill but they will not touch my van. (Commercial Insurance)   

Dominos etc will have business use insurance on their bikes that covers any rider.

My car (and bike) insurance has Class 1 business but both specifically exclude food delivery.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 26 October 2017, 12:21:00 pm

My car (and bike) insurance has Class 1 business but both specifically exclude food delivery.

So if you popped out in the evening, as you fancied bringing home a takeaway, you'd have to walk??
I now understand why you've been defending illegal pizza delivery (scooter) guys.  :lol 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 26 October 2017, 12:29:44 pm
no - That comes under pleasure unless I am being paid to deliver it.

I am not defending the moronic riders of those scooters, I was just saying that despite it being wrong on lots of levels, it is legal.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 October 2017, 12:41:34 pm
no - That comes under pleasure unless I am being paid to deliver it.

I am not defending the moronic riders of those scooters, I was just saying that despite it being wrong on lots of levels, it is legal.


Pizza is only illegal if you main line it :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 26 October 2017, 11:09:33 pm
Just thinking about your comments BB make me wonder if standard domestic and pleasure insurance would cover delivering pizza or any other commodity

Simple answer: No.

Pizza companies etc have their own insurance for their mopeds. To insure a regular bike for such work will probably cost several thousand quid!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 October 2017, 06:48:57 am

How about the fast food (usually pizza) delivery guys, on the scooters? It would be debatable if they even sat a CBT!
Absolutely ZERO consideration for other road vehicles (cars or bikes) or even traffic lights, etc - on off the pavements. "Helping" give motorcyclists a bad image.
I do wonder about the legality of employing someone to deliver stuff who hasn't got a full driving licence.

They are licenced to ride (assuming they have done the CBT) with a provisional licence so it is legal even if it doesn't seem right.

If any of the riders get injured in an accident, their insurance company may throw a wobbly if the company has not done their own health and safety checks to confirm that the rider is capable though.


Ever seen one that looks capable? 'Reckless' would be a better word, which seems to be a necessity when delivering a pizza.
I reckon if they get injured they end up as a "Meat Feast Pizza".  :look
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 October 2017, 07:25:37 pm
Passwords.
Have had an account set up with a well known retailer for years but not used for a while and went to buy something and NO I have to reset my password to something better so I enter a few more letters- not enough as I need some higher case letters, so I do that - no good as I still need some numbers, so I do that, great -now I have re enter it again to confirm and FOC me I have forgotten what I put in the first place so have to start over with a pen and paper at hand.
I know its for my own protection but there must be an easier way. I am going to have a chip implanted in my brain - it may even help with my everyday life.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 October 2017, 09:12:04 am

Those Next Base Dash cam adverts. "Supporting the fight against Tailgaters/middle lane drivers" etc.



The people who want these cameras solely so they can report other peoples misdemeanours, should automatically be not allowed to have one.


Someone posted a good one to my local paper about this.

They said that the dash cams are mostly used by people that drive everywhere limping along at half the speed limit and they have the device to film all those mad speeders overtaking them!😄.


I can see they they would be very useful in an accident though to establish the facts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 30 October 2017, 12:59:56 pm
Passwords.
Have had an account set up with a well known retailer for years but not used for a while and went to buy something and NO I have to reset my password to something better so I enter a few more letters- not enough as I need some higher case letters, so I do that - no good as I still need some numbers, so I do that, great -now I have re enter it again to confirm and FOC me I have forgotten what I put in the first place so have to start over with a pen and paper at hand.
I know its for my own protection but there must be an easier way. I am going to have a chip implanted in my brain - it may even help with my everyday life.     

We have a tomotherapy system here which has something like 20 different usernames and passwords! WTF! And those are just the official ones, let alone any user specific ones.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 30 October 2017, 05:52:48 pm
Passwords.
Have had an account set up with a well known retailer for years but not used for a while and went to buy something and NO I have to reset my password to something better so I enter a few more letters- not enough as I need some higher case letters, so I do that - no good as I still need some numbers,

Grr! Tell me about it!

I have a way of generating passwords that *I* can remember and which are secure, but there are still too many websites stuck back in the 1990s with the "got to have upper case, lower case, number and special character" BS which is a PITA to recall and isn't as secure at all :(

See correcthorsebatterystaple (https://xkcd.com/936/) for more details...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 November 2017, 09:41:12 am
People that think it's funny to creep up in order to surprise you. Especially when you're using power tools.

And Grumpy Eric at my local. The only person i know that is picking holes in Blue Planet 2.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 01 November 2017, 03:49:46 pm
Online news articles that tell you what was said in a twitter feed then put a picture of said twitter feed underneath.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 01 November 2017, 06:43:28 pm
Just like lectures and training instructors reading what they put on the Overhead Projector. FFS I can read it myself. Just explain/expand  whats written on it

 :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 01 November 2017, 07:30:51 pm
And that too. I've sat through quite a few of those sort of lectures.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 November 2017, 08:32:23 pm
I've slept through more than a few training sessions like that, and teaching your grandmother to suck eggs springs to mind.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mr self destruct on 02 November 2017, 09:33:53 am
Reading online reviews of new bikes like the MT10 and Z900, and in the comments below the article someone ALWAYS puts "it looks like a Transformer!"
That's the whole idea you fucking idiot! They wouldn't get to live peacefully among us if they disguised themselves as penny farthings now, would they?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 02 November 2017, 01:43:46 pm
Bikes that look like Transformers.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 02 November 2017, 02:05:24 pm
Bikes that look like Transformers.  :lol


or transformers that look like bikes! like these?

http://polaris.hs.llnwd.net/o40/vic/2013/img/model-archives/cory-ness-cross-country-tour.jpg (http://polaris.hs.llnwd.net/o40/vic/2013/img/model-archives/cory-ness-cross-country-tour.jpg)

or

http://www.robinsonsfoundry.co.uk/pages/used/used-bikes/2012-62-VICTORY-Cross%20Country%20Tour-1731cc/6569.htm (http://www.robinsonsfoundry.co.uk/pages/used/used-bikes/2012-62-VICTORY-Cross%20Country%20Tour-1731cc/6569.htm)
 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 November 2017, 06:39:06 am
Saw a car yesterday which was slightly wondering about in the road, then noticed a toothbrush in the drivers hand as he made a turn.
Can you really be that late to not do that at home before you leave?  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 03 November 2017, 08:44:17 am
Saw a car yesterday which was slightly wondering about in the road, then noticed a toothbrush in the drivers hand as he made a turn.
Can you really be that late to not do that at home before you leave?  :rolleyes


There is a guy at my work who I avoid going anywhere near, when on morning shift he will arrive at work unwashed,clothes looking like he slept in them and in the locker room spray himself with deoderant over the top of his clothes, some people are just dirty lazy twats.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 03 November 2017, 09:53:40 am
Worse when they smell like that when they are working in a food store or restaurant  :thumbdown
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 03 November 2017, 04:44:02 pm
Saw a car yesterday which was slightly wondering about in the road, then noticed a toothbrush in the drivers hand as he made a turn.
Can you really be that late to not do that at home before you leave?  :rolleyes

It’s usually lipstick and mascara application in the queuing traffic when i hit Leicester. Cretins!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 03 November 2017, 08:18:19 pm
Putting lippy mascara on with one hand while texting with the other.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 03 November 2017, 08:25:26 pm
Putting lippy mascara on with one hand while texting with the other.


Are you saying that you are adept at this?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 04 November 2017, 03:59:27 pm
When you loose your wallet!*!
It's not the little amount of cash that's in it, it's the hassle of phoning up the banks to get everything sorted out ffs!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 04 November 2017, 05:53:03 pm
When you loose your wallet!*!
It's not the little amount of cash that's in it, it's the hassle of phoning up the banks to get everything sorted out ffs!


I did that a number of years ago. Found my wallet the next day. Had to wait 3 days for all the new cards to arrive as I had cancelled the one's in my wallet. What a pain it is not to have access to cash for a few days.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 November 2017, 06:35:31 pm
Grown men who wear those ripped jeans that teenage girls wear, or a scarf with a t-shirt.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 November 2017, 06:49:51 pm
Grown men who wear those ripped jeans that teenage girls wear, or a scarf with a t-shirt.

Or......
'skinny' jeans,
shoes without socks,
Super low V neck t-shirts,
stringer vests,
oversized basketball shirts,
Polo shirts with the collar 'popped'
Sock hats

Just a few of the things you have to wear for me to blank you out if my existence

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 04 November 2017, 07:08:02 pm
 I read a couple of weeks ago that men over 40 shouldn't be wearing jeans at all, or hoodies or logo tee shirts or trainers. Looks like I'm going to have to change my entire wardrobe.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 04 November 2017, 08:16:08 pm
me and everyone in Liverpool, Vinnyb

I hate men wearing bib and brace....FFS :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 04 November 2017, 08:31:07 pm
Putting lippy mascara on with one hand while texting with the other.


Are you saying that you are adept at this?  :lol
Steve can do both of those things....... and change his panty liner at the same time  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 04 November 2017, 09:50:18 pm
Grown men who wear those ripped jeans that teenage girls wear, or a scarf with a t-shirt.

Or......
'skinny' jeans,
shoes without socks,
Super low V neck t-shirts,
stringer vests,
oversized basketball shirts,
Polo shirts with the collar 'popped'
Sock hats

Just a few of the things you have to wear for me to blank you out if my existence


People like the fella who just came into the pub with his jeans almost hanging round his knees!!!
What's all that about?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 04 November 2017, 11:17:04 pm
Grown men who wear those ripped jeans that teenage girls wear, or a scarf with a t-shirt.

Or......
'skinny' jeans,
shoes without socks,
Super low V neck t-shirts,
stringer vests,
oversized basketball shirts,
Polo shirts with the collar 'popped'
Sock hats

Just a few of the things you have to wear for me to blank you out if my existence


You sound like a right miserable old duffer,
I bet you wear a knitted cardigan, fawn coloured corduroy trousers or Calvery twill, brown brogue shoes a beige checked shirt and a foccing cravat. I also bet you sleep in PJ's with button flys with your hand crossed over your chest.
Basically a corpse, bet your Mrs don't let you out at Halloween.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 04 November 2017, 11:19:31 pm
Old Duffers that look and sound like they have given up lol! :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 November 2017, 11:24:41 pm
Grown men who wear those ripped jeans that teenage girls wear, or a scarf with a t-shirt.

Or......
'skinny' jeans,
shoes without socks,
Super low V neck t-shirts,
stringer vests,
oversized basketball shirts,
Polo shirts with the collar 'popped'
Sock hats

Just a few of the things you have to wear for me to blank you out if my existence


You sound like a right miserable old duffer,
I bet you wear a knitted cardigan, fawn coloured corduroy trousers or Calvery twill, brown brogue shoes a beige checked shirt and a foccing cravat. I also bet you sleep in PJ's with button flys with your hand crossed over your chest.
Basically a corpse, bet your Mrs don't let you out at Halloween.  :lol

I would but then why would I ever wanna dress like you Tom? 🤔 youve got that look down to a T.

Most of the time I wear jeans (that fit and without holes) and a fitted t-shirt and as any self respecting man should do.... i sleep how God made me 😉
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 05 November 2017, 07:19:30 am
Shops that sell jeans that don't fit me.


OK maybe I need to go back on the diet...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 05 November 2017, 07:22:18 am
darrsi the jeans hanging round their knees, is a thing that started in American prisons by prisoners advertising they were available and copied over here by idiots that had no idea what it meant.  I'll leave the rest to your imagination
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 05 November 2017, 07:27:06 am
tommyardin No not mastered that art yet can't figure out how to do with my helmet on, usually a bit busy trying to stay in one piece while the t**ts wander all over the road.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dave48 on 05 November 2017, 08:12:14 am
Thinking of starting a new thread......What DOESNT get my goat!
Top of my list lately has to be the sleaze bags allegedly running this country, closely followed by their financial backers & the b****y media! :eek
Personally not too worried about Tommys dress code & others use of cosmetics or other feminine products :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 05 November 2017, 11:31:33 pm
Shops that sell jeans that don't fit me.

OK maybe I need to go back on the diet...

Maybe I need to *stop* dieting, then!

My waist measurement is currently about 33". I tried on some 32" jeans which were too big. So then I got some 30" ones that would actually slide off my hips *without* needing to be undone!

WTF??
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 05 November 2017, 11:34:30 pm
darrsi the jeans hanging round their knees, is a thing that started in American prisons by prisoners advertising they were available and copied over here by idiots that had no idea what it meant.  I'll leave the rest to your imagination

Urban myth: https://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp (https://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 05 November 2017, 11:48:32 pm

That Nationwide Building society "I can share sunrises with you" advert.

So bloody twee it makes my teeth itch.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 06 November 2017, 06:41:42 am
Shops that sell jeans that don't fit me.

OK maybe I need to go back on the diet...

Maybe I need to *stop* dieting, then!

My waist measurement is currently about 33". I tried on some 32" jeans which were too big. So then I got some 30" ones that would actually slide off my hips *without* needing to be undone!

WTF??


I am not quite that extreme but half of my jeans no longer fit as I lost 3 stones early this year so had to buy a load more. My old jeans just fall off me now but it has been a very long time since I could even think of 32" waist jeans.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 06 November 2017, 04:21:21 pm
Foccin morons that can't follow lane directions in car parks! Some absolute twatcof a woman drove the round the whole of Tesco car park going in the wrong direction then had the cheek to shout and swear at me for pulling out in the right direction and blocking her path. Needless to say she got an expletive laden lesson in using her foccin eyes.

And while I'm on the subject of car parks...... them grade a Wankers that seem to think driving a nice car gives them the right to park in disabled and parent spaces. If you can afford to drive a bentley then you can afford to have a scratch repaired and if ya don't like it then buy a fucking focus to drive to Tesco you obnoxious prick!!

Anyway..... as you were
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 07 November 2017, 07:24:28 pm

there is a bloke that has been walking around Cardiff aged about 30,     weighs about 15 stone.    for the past two months in nothing but a pair of green football shorts and a ripped t shirt,      he looks like the only gay in the villiage lol,      a bit cold for it now.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 November 2017, 11:57:44 am
Have you noticed how postmen permanently wear shorts on their rounds nowadays?. No matter how freezing cold it is. Wonder why that started.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 November 2017, 12:03:36 pm
Do the self-service checkouts in the express supermarkets ever keep working for more than 5 minutes before they are either 'Card only No cash' or jammed up on a previous failed transaction.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 08 November 2017, 01:30:32 pm
 
 Post deleted to cover my arse at work.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 November 2017, 02:03:43 pm

 Post deleted to cover my arse at work.

Who's Phyllis?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 09 November 2017, 01:09:27 pm
Shhh. No-one's supposed to know.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 14 November 2017, 09:02:45 pm
When you get microwave meals and the film that you "peel back" never does, so you need to cut it. It's a microwave only meal! One job to do and it fails
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 14 November 2017, 11:43:53 pm
Complete fucktards who park on the opposite side of the road facing you and leave their headlamps on - FFS even the highway code has more sense than these idiots...............and why do they have the nerve to get pissed off when I hit my main beam. Years ago it was common sense.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 November 2017, 05:26:13 am
Complete fucktards who park on the opposite side of the road facing you and leave their headlamps on - FFS even the highway code has more sense than these idiots...............and why do they have the nerve to get pissed off when I hit my main beam. Years ago it was common sense.


Or hazard lights, so it looks like they're about to pull out on you as you approach them. There's a nursery on my way to work and the parents have obviously been ill advised to leave their hazards on when dropping their kids off so you get a whole load of them with indicators flashing but all parked on the wrong side of the road.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 15 November 2017, 06:35:51 am
Complete fucktards who park on the opposite side of the road facing you and leave their headlamps on - FFS even the highway code has more sense than these idiots...............and why do they have the nerve to get pissed off when I hit my main beam. Years ago it was common sense.


Or hazard lights, so it looks like they're about to pull out on you as you approach them. There's a nursery on my way to work and the parents have obviously been ill advised to leave their hazards on when dropping their kids off so you get a whole load of them with indicators flashing but all parked on the wrong side of the road.








or , off loading their offspring into the road rather than onto the path    :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 November 2017, 05:43:41 pm
Mud.

Why is it that you can stomp around all day on the pavement and it doesn't shift off you're boots, but the minute you walk indoors it's dropping off foccin everywhere!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 16 November 2017, 12:12:01 am
Or hazard lights, so it looks like they're about to pull out on you as you approach them.

Grr! Tell me about it.

Usually what it means is that "I can't be bothered to parallel park properly, so I'm going to be a complete cock and leave the car stuck half-way out into the road and put my hazard flashers on, so it looks like I'm trying to pull out, but actually I'm just a lazy cnut!"

 :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 19 November 2017, 07:44:10 pm
Booking fees. Just another rip off, booked 4 tickets to see Peter Kay and had to pay a booking fee of £4.50 per ticket, thats £18 for foc all. You cannot go to a booking office and buy them so you have a choice, pay up or no ticket.
I booked the tickets through the First Direct Arena website which takes you to Eventim UK to book and pay, and when the comfirmation email came through the location of Eventim UK is apparently Amsterdam NL, so a Dutch company not a UK company as implied in the booking site name, a nice little tax avoidance scheme maybe?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 21 November 2017, 07:48:10 pm
When you've got something for sale and you get asked to email some photos,which you do,and they can't even be bothered with a "thanks but no thanks".
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 November 2017, 08:32:58 pm
Breakdown Services


Just got renewal quote for 2 vehicles for £217 from RAC.
Same difference with AA was £139.


Let’s face it, if you break down you just want your vehicle sorted out at roadside, or taken home with it.
I’m not interested in all the other bollox they’re offering.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 21 November 2017, 11:53:18 pm
I just read right through this post from it conception. What a miserarable, whinging lot of foccers there are on this forum. It seems foc al is right for you, FFS cheer up and try and see the positive in some things it's not all doom and gloom. Should start a post called 'What makes me smile' the people of Zimbabwe are smiling now foccing great big smiles, I really wish Africa well, the people there for the best part (not all I know) are generous and kind people. My Daughter worked in South Africa for 6 months working with aids victims, and I use the word victims with full understanding of what a victim is. It is a person through no fault of their own find them self in an untenable position or situation. The full total of the aids baby's are innocent of any wrong doing, the majority of the woman are infected because of their husbands sewing wild oats while working away from home and infecting their wife on return.
Oh! hang on tommyardin is going off on one AGAIN.


What makes me smile: Laying the Fazer over in the twisties, looking at the Fazer after it has been cleaned and polished, wakeing the Fazer up after 5 months of hibernation. Receiving a letter telling me my £200 heating allowance has been deposited into my bank. My mechanic telling me the car or bike has gone through the MOT with no advisories. When the Mrs says Oh! All right if you must  :rolleyes :eek  to name but a few.
tommyardin. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 22 November 2017, 12:14:13 am
Foccers who make off-topic posts. :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 November 2017, 06:34:42 am
Foccers who make off-topic posts. :pokefun


 :agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 November 2017, 06:42:36 am
I just read right through this post from it conception. What a miserarable, whinging lot of foccers there are on this forum. It seems foc al is right for you, FFS cheer up and try and see the positive in some things it's not all doom and gloom. Should start a post called 'What makes me smile' the people of Zimbabwe are smiling now foccing great big smiles, I really wish Africa well, the people there for the best part (not all I know) are generous and kind people. My Daughter worked in South Africa for 6 months working with aids victims, and I use the word victims with full understanding of what a victim is. It is a person through no fault of their own find them self in an untenable position or situation. The full total of the aids baby's are innocent of any wrong doing, the majority of the woman are infected because of their husbands sewing wild oats while working away from home and infecting their wife on return.
Oh! hang on tommyardin is going off on one AGAIN.


What makes me smile: Laying the Fazer over in the twisties, looking at the Fazer after it has been cleaned and polished, wakeing the Fazer up after 5 months of hibernation. Receiving a letter telling me my £200 heating allowance has been deposited into my bank. My mechanic telling me the car or bike has gone through the MOT with no advisories. When the Mrs says Oh! All right if you must  :rolleyes :eek  to name but a few.
tommyardin.


Completely irrelevant post Tommy, read the title, this is exactly the place for people to harmlessly mention their daily gripes in life, which most people are all too familiar with.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 08:00:36 am
What gets my goat.
People who don't bite when you dangle a bait in front of them
This site never disappoints.It's a great feeling seeing the float dip under. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 08:09:43 am
So because there's much worse going on in the world, which there's always going to be and which I'm sure most people would acknowledge, everyone here should be disqualified from ever having a gripe about anything in their lives, even if it's in the generally light hearted manner I think was intended by this thread?.

By a similar token there would be little, if any, domestic news in the papers or on the telly if it was ranked purely by global seriousness.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 08:18:00 am
Missed that last post whilst I was still typing.

Didn't realise it was some sort of wind-up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 09:01:07 am
Seriously who the foc is going to do this: 

I just read right through this post from it conception. What a miserable, whinging lot of foccers there are on this forum. It seems foc all is right for you,
FFS cheer up and try and see the positive in some things it's not all doom and gloom. Should start a post called 'What makes me smile'



The bait was cast.... now the wait in eager anticipation.


The rest of the post i feel is accurate, yes, off topic as someone commented, but nevertheless a necessary rant. its called padding out.


Have a great day. :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 22 November 2017, 09:35:32 am
I take it from your posts Tommy that,"a miserable, whinging lot of foccers" gets your goat  :eek :pokefun :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 11:07:26 am
I'm suspecting this post wasn't a wind-up at 11:53pm last night😉 lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 12:52:49 pm
Be on your guard at all times.
Snipers do not stand out in the middle of fields, they hide so you can't see them, I'm told the recipient does not even hear the bang.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 November 2017, 12:55:21 pm
Seriously who the foc is going to do this: 

I just read right through this post from it conception. What a miserable, whinging lot of foccers there are on this forum. It seems foc all is right for you,
FFS cheer up and try and see the positive in some things it's not all doom and gloom. Should start a post called 'What makes me smile'



The bait was cast.... now the wait in eager anticipation.


The rest of the post i feel is accurate, yes, off topic as someone commented, but nevertheless a necessary rant. its called padding out.


Have a great day. :finger

Hmmmm.......I think this one could be for Jeremy Kyle, I reckon there's a small chance you could be related to The Chuckle Brothers.  :lol

Back at yer  :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 12:55:50 pm
I'm suspecting this post wasn't a wind-up at 11:53pm last night😉 lol


Then it worked as well as I wanted it to, mission accomplished.  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 01:05:11 pm
Seriously.
What get my goat is why Samsung built the Galaxy 6 Edge in a such away that you cannot remove or replace the battery.
Mine is 14 months old and the battery only holds its charge for about 8 hours, it seems every time I go to make a foccing call there is 3% left and it immediately shuts down.
Nearly £600 for 14 months use, £42+ a month without call costs or data.  :thumbdown


Contract next time
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 November 2017, 01:08:14 pm
What gets tommys goat is that other people have goats that get got.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 November 2017, 01:25:08 pm
Breakdown Services


Just got renewal quote for 2 vehicles for £217 from RAC.
Same difference with AA was £139.


Let’s face it, if you break down you just want your vehicle sorted out at roadside, or taken home with it.
I’m not interested in all the other bollox they’re offering.


So i just phoned the RAC to cancel my Direct Debit, and they then offered me not 12, but 15 months of the same cover for £163  :look


Would’ve been so much easier if they just offered me that in the first place.
When broken down (no pun intended) it even works out cheaper than the AA quote!


Worth knowing if you’re not too impressed with your own renewal price.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 01:43:40 pm
Churchill threw in free brake down and get you home recovery, Green Flag, dunno if its any good never had to use it.
Just checked £247 fully comp on a Mercecdes SLK Kompressor HairDresser inc brake down.




Now! is that true or another baited hook
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 01:47:52 pm
I'm suspecting this post wasn't a wind-up at 11:53pm last night😉 lol


Then it worked as well as I wanted it to, mission accomplished.  :rollin

I can't keep up now. This plot has got more bluffs and double bluffs than Where Eagles Dare😏
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 01:48:35 pm
 :lol  True
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 22 November 2017, 02:04:39 pm
Seriously.
What get my goat is why Samsung built the Galaxy 6 Edge in a such away that you cannot remove or replace the battery.
Mine is 14 months old and the battery only holds its charge for about 8 hours, it seems every time I go to make a foccing call there is 3% left and it immediately shuts down.
Nearly £600 for 14 months use, £42+ a month without call costs or data.  :thumbdown


Contract next time


It is possible to change the battery in a Galaxy 6 Edge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aFW2ec-XI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aFW2ec-XI)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 02:19:01 pm
Hah! You nearly got me again there Tommy, with the old 'Can't remove battery' bluff!😃 lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 03:36:27 pm
Hah! You nearly got me again there Tommy, with the old 'Can't remove battery' bluff!😃 lol


WATCH THIS SPACE     lol!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 November 2017, 05:59:36 pm
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 22 November 2017, 07:44:54 pm
You'll need a heat gun and a suction cup for the S6.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 22 November 2017, 07:50:05 pm
Churchill threw in free brake down and get you home recovery, Green Flag, dunno if its any good never had to use it.
Just checked £247 fully comp on a Mercecdes SLK Kompressor HairDresser inc brake down.

Now! is that true or another baited hook


People who have illusions of grandeur. 3rd party only required here Tomski - it's worth feck all. #justsaying
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2017, 08:00:16 pm
Churchill threw in free brake down and get you home recovery, Green Flag, dunno if its any good never had to use it.
Just checked £247 fully comp on a Mercecdes SLK Kompressor HairDresser inc brake down.

Now! is that true or another baited hook


People who have illusions of grandeur. 3rd party only required here Tomski - it's worth feck all. #justsaying


Yeah alright don't spoil my delusions, she is a 2002 model, but still only 56K on the clock, and it's amazing the speed it will go with that Reliant Robin lump in it. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 23 November 2017, 03:25:47 am
3rd party only required here Tomski - it's worth feck all. #justsaying


3rd party is ok until you 'meet' one of those uninsured drivers. A friends mum ended up paying out around £3,000 out of her own pocket because she 'saved' £50 on her insurance premium by going TPFT and not Comprehensive.


Oh yeah, the uninsured driver got a few points and a fine. Didn't have to repay the costs of the damage because that would have to be dealt with in a Civil case and no guarantee you'd actually get the money.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2017, 09:38:22 am
When you flash your headlamps and do the open palm gesture to let someone pull out of a side turning and they stare blankly at you.....so you repeat.....still blank stare.

Then just as you give up trying to help and move forward so do they and there's almost a collision.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 November 2017, 11:29:03 am
When you flash your headlamps and do the open palm gesture to let someone pull out of a side turning and they stare blankly at you.....so you repeat.....still blank stare.

Then just as you give up trying to help and move forward so do they and there's almost a collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 November 2017, 12:55:33 pm
When you flash your headlamps and do the open palm gesture to let someone pull out of a side turning and they stare blankly at you.....so you repeat.....still blank stare.

Then just as you give up trying to help and move forward so do they and there's almost a collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 November 2017, 01:05:50 pm
When you flash your headlamps and do the open palm gesture to let someone pull out of a side turning and they stare blankly at you.....so you repeat.....still blank stare.

Then just as you give up trying to help and move forward so do they and there's almost a collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness)
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then


I put two biker workmates to that test and neither saw it.  :look
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2017, 04:34:17 pm
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then


Yes as it happens I was on my way to a fancy dress party dressed as Gerald The Gorilla at the time ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 November 2017, 04:44:16 pm
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then


Yes as it happens I was on my way to a fancy dress party dressed as Gerald The Gorilla at the time ;)
Were you a wild gorilla 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2017, 05:06:15 pm
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then


Yes as it happens I was on my way to a fancy dress party dressed as Gerald The Gorilla at the time ;)
Were you a wild gorilla

Wild?..I was absolutely livid!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 November 2017, 05:12:58 pm
YamFazFan must of been wearing a gorilla suite then



Yes as it happens I was on my way to a fancy dress party dressed as Gerald The Gorilla at the time ;)

Were you a wild gorilla


Wild?..I was absolutely livid!!

And for everyone else -----------------http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2017, 07:56:36 pm
Brilliant :lol

Pamela Stephenson circa 1980...phwoar! :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 24 November 2017, 12:48:35 am
Brilliant :lol

Pamela Stephenson circa 1980...phwoar! :D


How did she end up with Billy Connolly . . . Then again she was originally from the colonies.  :sun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 November 2017, 08:25:35 am
Didn't they meet on Not The Nine O'clock News?.

Think it was when she did that spoof interview with him in character as Janet Street Porter.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 25 November 2017, 07:36:23 am
When you flash your headlamps and do the open palm gesture to let someone pull out of a side turning and they stare blankly at you.....so you repeat.....still blank stare.

Then just as you give up trying to help and move forward so do they and there's almost a collision.



hmmmm. Ever heard of flash for cash? Ever read the highway code regarding flashing of lights? Ever been filtering when the driver in front of you does this?


I was riding along the Eastern Road in Portsmouth a few years back. An oncoming driver slowed and flashed his lights, the young girl waiting at the side road to my right took this as an open invitation..... and t-boned the Mercedes estate immediately in front of me. It was not pretty or something I ever want to witness again.


When anyone flashes me I stare back at them. I'll go when the road is clear thanks, even if it means quite a long wait.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 November 2017, 08:31:13 am
I'm assuming that flash for cash is some sort of insurance swindle?.

Just checked The Highway Code and it states that you should not flash your headlamps for any other reason that to alert fellow road users of your presence.

There's a couple of notoriously difficult junctions to get out of round this way. You can sit for ages and ages waiting for a gap.

 Can't imagine I'm going to be very popular with the long queue behind me when I refuse to pull out next time someone gives way with a headlamp flash :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 25 November 2017, 10:43:15 am

When anyone flashes me I stare back at them. I'll go when the road is clear thanks, even if it means quite a long wait.
On the same note - people who move over for me and wonder why I haven't gone past them on the brow of a hill or a lorry coming the other direction or on the approach to a crossroads. Thanks but I will overtake when I want and I don't need you to move over for me.
Having said that it is nice when they do move over (on a safe bit ]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 November 2017, 11:17:43 am
If I was sat at the front of a queue waiting to pull out of a junction and I repeatedly ignored drivers on the main road giving way to allow me to pull out, I'd be worried that the irate and impatient driver behind would deliberately ram into the back of me.

Let's face it, be it right or wrong, you're just going to wind up everyone behind you aren't you :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 November 2017, 05:10:22 pm

When anyone flashes me I stare back at them. I'll go when the road is clear thanks, even if it means quite a long wait.
On the same note - people who move over for me and wonder why I haven't gone past them on the brow of a hill or a lorry coming the other direction or on the approach to a crossroads. Thanks but I will overtake when I want and I don't need you to move over for me.
Having said that it is nice when they do move over (on a safe bit ]


The good thing about someone moving over for you to pass actually tells you that they have seen you and have acknowledged your presence, rather than turning a sharp right whilst your along side them. :eek :bobby
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 25 November 2017, 07:14:00 pm
Car salesmen! My son had booked a test drive in a Fiesta ST200 at a local Ford main dealer and he asked me to go with him.
When we get there the car is not there, the salesman then tells us we cannot have a test drive in the ST200 as the finance manager has borrowed it to go on holiday, he then offered us a test drive in a 1.0 litre ecoboost as, according to him, there is not much difference, well only another 600cc and about 80bhp!
Told him to politely shove it and then he asked if we wanted to put a deposit down on the ST200 and sort out the finance, how my son refrained from very unpolitely telling him to f**k off I don't know,  at this point we just got up and walked out.
What a wanker!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 25 November 2017, 09:00:38 pm
Car salesmen! My son had booked a test drive in a Fiesta ST200 at a local Ford main dealer and he asked me to go with him.
When we get there the car is not there, the salesman then tells us we cannot have a test drive in the ST200 as the finance manager has borrowed it to go on holiday, he then offered us a test drive in a 1.0 litre ecoboost as, according to him, there is not much difference, well only another 600cc and about 80bhp!
Told him to politely shove it and then he asked if we wanted to put a deposit down on the ST200 and sort out the finance, how my son refrained from very unpolitely telling him to f**k off I don't know,  at this point we just got up and walked out.
What a wanker!
That was a very lucky escape, your son can now come to his senses and not buy a chavvy POS Ford.  :pokefun :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 26 November 2017, 09:11:17 am
Car salesmen! My son had booked a test drive in a Fiesta ST200 at a local Ford main dealer and he asked me to go with him.
When we get there the car is not there, the salesman then tells us we cannot have a test drive in the ST200 as the finance manager has borrowed it to go on holiday, he then offered us a test drive in a 1.0 litre ecoboost as, according to him, there is not much difference, well only another 600cc and about 80bhp!
Told him to politely shove it and then he asked if we wanted to put a deposit down on the ST200 and sort out the finance, how my son refrained from very unpolitely telling him to f**k off I don't know,  at this point we just got up and walked out.
What a wanker!
That was a very lucky escape, your son can now come to his senses and not buy a chavvy POS Ford.  :pokefun :lol


He is too far gone, their is no hope for him. He has had two Subaru Imprezas and now wants something cheaper to run. The colour of the ST is shit as well, listed as storm grey but looks like shiney grey primer.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 26 November 2017, 09:30:16 am
Car salesmen! My son had booked a test drive in a Fiesta ST200 at a local Ford main dealer and he asked me to go with him.
When we get there the car is not there, the salesman then tells us we cannot have a test drive in the ST200 as the finance manager has borrowed it to go on holiday, he then offered us a test drive in a 1.0 litre ecoboost as, according to him, there is not much difference, well only another 600cc and about 80bhp!
Told him to politely shove it and then he asked if we wanted to put a deposit down on the ST200 and sort out the finance, how my son refrained from very unpolitely telling him to f**k off I don't know,  at this point we just got up and walked out.
What a wanker!
That was a very lucky escape, your son can now come to his senses and not buy a chavvy POS Ford.  lol


He is too far gone, their is no hope for him. He has had two Subaru Imprezas and now wants something cheaper to run. The colour of the ST is shit as well, listed as storm grey but looks like shiney grey primer.

If he wanted something cheaper to run he should have bought the 1litre ecoboost :pokefun :
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 26 November 2017, 11:20:03 am
As I haven't had a good moan for a while, here are a few.................

1.  The current trend to start every sentence with "So"

2.  The current fashion to go everywhere clutching a mug of coffee. There is even a company selling "take-away" coffee cartons that you take home, pour in hot water and then take out with you?? I call these peeps "coffee mugs"

3.   The Americanisation of cutlery handling including ever more elaborate ways of incorrectly holding the simple knife and fork.

4.   Mobile phone users who have their calls on speaker so every call becomes a conference call involving all within earshot.

5.   The growing trend for drivers to park just wherever the FOC they like with absolutely no regard for the inconvenience of others. I left home recently to find a van parked across my drive, when there were ample marked spaces available. It is now quite common to see vehicles parked with all four wheels on the pavement, or right on the corner of busy road junctions.

Right........rants over time for happy hour.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 27 November 2017, 10:07:52 am
As I haven't had a good moan for a while, here are a few.................

1.  The current trend to start every sentence with "So"

2.  The current fashion to go everywhere clutching a mug of coffee. There is even a company selling "take-away" coffee cartons that you take home, pour in hot water and then take out with you?? I call these peeps "coffee mugs"

3.   The Americanisation of cutlery handling including ever more elaborate ways of incorrectly holding the simple knife and fork.

4.   Mobile phone users who have their calls on speaker so every call becomes a conference call involving all within earshot.

5.   The growing trend for drivers to park just wherever the FOC they like with absolutely no regard for the inconvenience of others. I left home recently to find a van parked across my drive, when there were ample marked spaces available. It is now quite common to see vehicles parked with all four wheels on the pavement, or right on the corner of busy road junctions.

Right........rants over time for happy hour.

You're me you are.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 November 2017, 12:14:49 pm
So, where did I put my coffee? I had it when I parked the van on the pavement and I'm sure that grumpy old foccer will not want to get his car out of his drive just yet.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 27 November 2017, 12:48:28 pm
"can I borrow you for a moment" No you foccin can't you cnut! If you want me to help you I'll help you. I really hate that phrase, usually mutter by some spotty Herbert of the snowflake generation.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 27 November 2017, 05:47:29 pm
"Can I get a coffee, tea, egg roll....." NO......you're not in feckin America so the phrase is "please may I have". You can't "get it", you can ask for it and they can get it for you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 27 November 2017, 07:45:23 pm
Seems like good manners have gone the same way as common sense with the snow flakes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 27 November 2017, 08:26:45 pm

"Can I get a coffee, tea, egg roll....." NO......you're not in feckin America so the phrase is "please may I have". You can't "get it", you can ask for it and they can get it for you.

A man after my own heart,
add the other ones that really annoy me
I done
I seen
Are you ok?  (when waiting to be served, of course I'm not)
using basically in a sentence,
people arriving late for meetings and expecting us to wait while they are being filled in on what they missed.  :wall




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 November 2017, 09:17:52 pm
Another one seen lots of times on utube instructions for things Amrican
"You are gonna wanna go ahead and "----
 But now I am seeing it from uk utube posters
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: taylor on 28 November 2017, 08:46:22 pm

the welsh rugby team,  they get my goat.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 28 November 2017, 10:23:49 pm
When anyone flashes me I stare back at them. I'll go when the road is clear thanks, even if it means quite a long wait.

:thumbup

If you pull out because someone has flashed you and then have a shunt, it's *you* who will be liable as you're responsible for checking to see if the road is clear.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 November 2017, 07:34:34 am
When anyone flashes me I stare back at them. I'll go when the road is clear thanks, even if it means quite a long wait.

:thumbup

If you pull out because someone has flashed you and then have a shunt, it's *you* who will be liable as you're responsible for checking to see if the road is clear.

Is it not possible to check the road the road is clear yourself before you pull out, even when someone flashes to give way to you?.

Just because they have flashed you it doesn't mean you're compelled to pull out does it?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 November 2017, 08:36:09 am
Is it actually a contravention of The Highway Code to, if you believe it safe to do so, pull out at a junction when another vehicle flashes to give way to you?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 November 2017, 09:32:01 am
The danger with flashing is that the flash may not always be aimed at you. I have been in the situation where I was waiting and a car flashed what I thought was for me but it was for something else.

Here is another one --- stupid auto on lights, you are waiting to enter a roundabout that has a bridge over it and a car with auto on lights is coming from the right and you think he is flashing you, but no its just his auto on lights turning on as he enters the dark area under the bridge. Yes they stay on but for that split second when its busy and they come on and you see it and look forward and go. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 November 2017, 10:12:53 am
The danger with flashing is that the flash may not always be aimed at you. I have been in the situation where I was waiting and a car flashed what I thought was for me but it was for something else.

Here is another one --- stupid auto on lights, you are waiting to enter a roundabout that has a bridge over it and a car with auto on lights is coming from the right and you think he is flashing you, but no its just his auto on lights turning on as he enters the dark area under the bridge. Yes they stay on but for that split second when its busy and they come on and you see it and look forward and go.

 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 29 November 2017, 10:42:43 am
The danger with flashing is that the flash may not always be aimed at you. I have been in the situation where I was waiting and a car flashed what I thought was for me but it was for something else.

Here is another one --- stupid auto on lights, you are waiting to enter a roundabout that has a bridge over it and a car with auto on lights is coming from the right and you think he is flashing you, but no its just his auto on lights turning on as he enters the dark area under the bridge. Yes they stay on but for that split second when its busy and they come on and you see it and look forward and go.

 :lol



Where the foc did you get that picture from Darrsi?   :eek     the police said it would only stay on my record and not be for general release
lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 November 2017, 01:57:29 pm
A young “lady” pulled out in front of me from a side turning this morning, i don’t really believe she cared whether she saw me or not, so i gave her a quick blast with the air horn to show my dismay, then by chance the traffic slowed down and i rolled up beside her.
No word of a lie, she went nuts.
You know when you see an Alasation trying to get out of a car to maul you, but all you get is a steamed up window and tongue marks and saliva all over the glass?
That was her!!!  :eek


Anyway she sped off round the corner but i was going that way as well and she got stuck in traffic.


If ever there was a time where i needed a Goldwing with big speakers blaring out the Jaws music as i slowly filtered between cars towards her......this would have been it.  :lol


As i got near her car she’d buried her head between the steering wheel and the door, a bit like covering your eyes hoping i would just disappear.


Then just as i rode past i saw her head look up to me in the wing mirror and i just managed to give her a polite wave before riding off laughing. :finger :lol


In fairness what she did was bloody dangerous but it all worked out okay in the end.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 November 2017, 07:38:13 am
That's a bit like the one I beeped at for constantly texting in traffic. She was 10 seconds behind everyone else moving off, even at light changes.

Her reaction was to fling her arms up in the air in that 'What IS your problem?!' kind  of way.

Idiot.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 November 2017, 01:20:12 pm
That's a bit like the one I beeped at for constantly texting in traffic. She was 10 seconds behind everyone else moving off, even at light changes.

Her reaction was to fling her arms up in the air in that 'What IS your problem?!' kind  of way.

Idiot.


There’s a bloke at my work who belongs to a different company who is ALWAYS on his phone, mainly texting
I reckon if you tried to take it off him he’d have your eyes out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 November 2017, 04:30:18 pm
I was in a hotel restaurant having breakfast last summer and a bloke and his partner were only putting their phones down long enough to take another forkful of food, then immediately continuing texting.

Now this got my goat, but why?.

It had no bearing on me and didn't affect my meal in any way.

So why was it so foccing irritating to watch??! 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 30 November 2017, 05:20:32 pm
I was in a hotel restaurant having breakfast last summer and a bloke and his partner were only putting their phones down long enough to take another forkful of food, then immediately continuing texting.

Now this got my goat, but why?.

It had no bearing on me and didn't affect my meal in any way.

So why was it so foccing irritating to watch??!


Because it is so foccing irritating thats why, too many people addicted to shit like facebook and twitter, they seem to have no idea how to have a real conversation with a real person.
When we take the grandkids out for a meal I have a rule, food or phone, choose one. So far they have always picked food :)





Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 November 2017, 06:21:52 pm
I was in a hotel restaurant having breakfast last summer and a bloke and his partner were only putting their phones down long enough to take another forkful of food, then immediately continuing texting.

Now this got my goat, but why?.

It had no bearing on me and didn't affect my meal in any way.

So why was it so foccing irritating to watch??!


Because it is so foccing irritating thats why, too many people addicted to shit like facebook and twitter, they seem to have no idea how to have a real conversation with a real person.
When we take the grandkids out for a meal I have a rule, food or phone, choose one. So far they have always picked food :)


Phones taste horrible, that’s why  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 November 2017, 08:12:21 pm
I was in a hotel restaurant having breakfast last summer and a bloke and his partner were only putting their phones down long enough to take another forkful of food, then immediately continuing texting.

Now this got my goat, but why?.

It had no bearing on me and didn't affect my meal in any way.

So why was it so foccing irritating to watch??!


Because it is so foccing irritating thats why, too many people addicted to shit like facebook and twitter, they seem to have no idea how to have a real conversation with a real person.
When we take the grandkids out for a meal I have a rule, food or phone, choose one. So far they have always picked food :)


Phones taste horrible, that’s why  :lol


They contain chips though don't they?.

Sorry, I'll get my coat...........
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 30 November 2017, 11:01:08 pm
I was in a hotel restaurant having breakfast last summer and a bloke and his partner were only putting their phones down long enough to take another forkful of food, then immediately continuing texting.

Now this got my goat, but why?.

It had no bearing on me and didn't affect my meal in any way.

So why was it so foccing irritating to watch??!


Because it is so foccing irritating thats why, too many people addicted to shit like facebook and twitter, they seem to have no idea how to have a real conversation with a real person.
When we take the grandkids out for a meal I have a rule, food or phone, choose one. So far they have always picked food :)


Phones taste horrible, that’s why  :lol


They contain chips though don't they?.

Sorry, I'll get my coat...........


They were probably on Foc-U   :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 December 2017, 10:49:30 am
Tea bags that are as weak as p*ss and taste less, and it doesn't seem to matter which brand you buy or how much you pay. Yes I do know how to make a good cuppa first thing I learnt as an apprentice brickie. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 01 December 2017, 01:01:22 pm
Tea bags that are as weak as p*ss and taste less, and it doesn't seem to matter which brand you buy or how much you pay. Yes I do know how to make a good cuppa first thing I learnt as an apprentice brickie.


Dave - try using 2 tea bags then.........

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 December 2017, 06:25:59 pm
That was my point you have to use 2 now to get a half decent cuppa were as a few years ago 1 would do the trick.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 December 2017, 07:02:59 pm
Asda hiding crap cuts of meat either behind labels or in this case under a nice looking piece that was on the top hiding a scag-end under it. 1st photo is the piece used to hide the crap one
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 December 2017, 07:08:02 pm
Tea bags that are as weak as p*ss and taste less, and it doesn't seem to matter which brand you buy or how much you pay. Yes I do know how to make a good cuppa first thing I learnt as an apprentice brickie.

Try loose leaf 'Yorkshire Tea' made in a teapot. Makes a perfect brew :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 December 2017, 07:09:58 pm
fazersharp....try a different supermarket :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 01 December 2017, 07:20:45 pm
Tea bags that are as weak as p*ss and taste less, and it doesn't seem to matter which brand you buy or how much you pay. Yes I do know how to make a good cuppa first thing I learnt as an apprentice brickie.
We love strong tea in our house and only use Marks & Spencer Extra Strong Tea Bags. A bit more expensive than other tea bags at £5 for 240 but well worth the extra.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 01 December 2017, 07:47:39 pm
fazersharp....try a different supermarket :thumbup
Well that doesn't work as I was in Waitrose today and brought 2 nets of satsumas and got them back to Sharp hall to find a rotten one in each net.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 01 December 2017, 08:25:12 pm
That was my point you have to use 2 now to get a half decent cuppa were as a few years ago 1 would do the trick.


We buy  catering teabags from Costco that are described as 2 cup, I find they make one nice strong mug of tea, brand names such as Tetley and Typhoo.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 01 December 2017, 09:48:17 pm
Tesco Original tea bags are the dogs bollocks, One in a mug and squish it a few time and squeeze the juice out of it, Lovely.
Ha Ha the Mrs just brought me one into the home office
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 01 December 2017, 11:25:21 pm
Tesco Original tea bags are the dogs bollocks, One in a mug and squish it a few time and squeeze the juice out of it, Lovely.
Ha Ha the Mrs just brought me one into the home office


Squishing and squeazing the juice out of dogs bollox......nah, not my cup of tea.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 04 December 2017, 05:04:17 pm
Dog wasn`t very happy about it either !!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 04 December 2017, 05:41:40 pm
No dog wasn't so chuffed about it, but you get twice as much in one of them Dogs Bollocks tea bags :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 05 December 2017, 08:01:22 pm
Thinking that you've just had a good day at work and then being told you're redundant (as of now) just as you're about to go home.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 06 December 2017, 09:19:01 am
Thinking that you've just had a good day at work and then being told you're redundant (as of now) just as you're about to go home.

What? Isn't that questionably legal?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 06 December 2017, 10:18:23 am
If that's just happened Mungus I'm really sorry to hear it, especially this close to Christmas.
I always try to give at least a week's notice and try to give a heads up a week before that if I can and never during the holiday period.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 06 December 2017, 12:24:25 pm
It is legal because I've only been there for 18 months - I think the official term is "Laid off" but it amounts to the same thing.
I'm being paid until the end of the week + my holiday entitlement.
Yep, it's crap but it's a small family business and I think he's going to go down the pan altogether before too long.
I liked the boss, he is also a biker, and I feel sad for both of us. He is facing a larger financial ruin than I am.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 06 December 2017, 02:05:53 pm
It is legal because I've only been there for 18 months - I think the official term is "Laid off" but it amounts to the same thing.
I'm being paid until the end of the week + my holiday entitlement.
Yep, it's crap but it's a small family business and I think he's going to go down the pan altogether before too long.
I liked the boss, he is also a biker, and I feel sad for both of us. He is facing a larger financial ruin than I am.


I guess no one will be taking on new staff now until after the New Year. :'(
Good luck with the job hunting.

What is it you do or did? Some shops are really busy up until Christmas you might get a job in a big store or Supermarket, even if its stacking shelves it would be some dosh coming in.

Help keep the wolves from the door.

Now he is going to tell me he is a Barrister or a Solicitor and has had people headhunting him for years. That's a Barrister as opposed to a Barista working at Costa Coffee.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 06 December 2017, 02:10:24 pm

I am a lorry driver. I would not make a very good Barista as I would be too tempted to drink the fine cuppa that I'd just made :rollin

I have spent the day hawking my CV to all and sundry. One definite maybe, one maybe, one maybe after xmas and plenty of nothing available.
Came home a bit dispirited but got on the internet. Several applications sent.One phone call asking me to attend interview on Friday   from one of the internet applications.Then I finally got through to a chap my boss had given me the phone number for and after a nice chat, where he said my boss had already rung him, I have been offered work for tomorrow and Friday - this may well lead onto full time work.So I'm going to have to email the nice lady in Edinburgh to say I can't attend the interview - I'm not going to miss out on the chance of full time work for a local firm (the chap lives at the other end of my lane).
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 06 December 2017, 03:13:21 pm
That was my point you have to use 2 now to get a half decent cuppa were as a few years ago 1 would do the trick.

Stick to PG Tips.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 December 2017, 04:57:04 pm

I am a lorry driver. I would not make a very good Barista as I would be too tempted to drink the fine cuppa that I'd just made :rollin

I have spent the day hawking my CV to all and sundry. One definite maybe, one maybe, one maybe after xmas and plenty of nothing available.
Came home a bit dispirited but got on the internet. Several applications sent.One phone call asking me to attend interview on Friday   from one of the internet applications.Then I finally got through to a chap my boss had given me the phone number for and after a nice chat, where he said my boss had already rung him, I have been offered work for tomorrow and Friday - this may well lead onto full time work.So I'm going to have to email the nice lady in Edinburgh to say I can't attend the interview - I'm not going to miss out on the chance of full time work for a local firm (the chap lives at the other end of my lane).

Fingers crossed fella  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 December 2017, 07:58:00 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 07 December 2017, 11:25:46 am
Highways England. Nuff said.
Yesterday a lorry broke down where the M5 Northbound joins the M42. Now being a good driver and due to the absence of a hard shoulder he tucked his lorry into the start of the cones which close off the fast lane (and that's another gripe). So what do the HE do? They have the signs for the preceding 5 miles saying fast lane closed due to obstruction. So everyone gets into the remaining 3 lanes which of course then grind to a halt. Why on earth couldn't they just have a 1 mile warning? It's not like he was causing an obstruction in any case.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 December 2017, 12:03:19 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes

I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 December 2017, 02:32:41 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes

I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.

I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.

Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.

This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).

That generation had the best of the lot.

Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).

Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 December 2017, 02:49:14 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes

I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.

I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.

Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.

This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).

That generation had the best of the lot.

Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).

Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.


Cheaper beer too  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 07 December 2017, 08:40:28 pm
Know it alls who criticise others for asking questions!!


See other thread!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 07 December 2017, 10:27:59 pm
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Don't think that was the case in 1967 ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])


1967 you could get something known as a council hoose.  But then the Tories got rid of em, or bought em up to rent out.

With variable interest rate of 15% or above all my money seemd to go on my mortgage in the early to mid 90's.

Anyway as the economy tanks due to the Brexit mess, you might find some bargains, that's if you are lucky to hold onto a decent job through this mess.

What gets my Goat? >: - fucking scum bag theiving bloody Tories
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 December 2017, 11:10:49 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes

I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.

I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.

Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.

This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).

That generation had the best of the lot.

Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).

Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.


I fear you have been mis-informed, and that the old witch has a point, to a degree. Secure jobs - I was made redundant 3 times in the 70s-80s-90s, I never had a pension scheme until 1990 let alone a final salary scheme, and lost a significant amount due to lack of government regulation. Affordable housing, it was called Council housing and properties were allocated to local people until the system was swamped by the failure to control immigration. I frequently walk the dog through one of those modern estates where the taxpayer part funds the cost of purchasing the property cos the owners cant afford it. The money saved by the occupants clearly goes on new audis and bmws, so they can drive the kids 200 yards to school, and the local nail bar and tattoo parlours weekly


We have never had anything that we didnt have to work for. Someone else on here calls todays lot the Snowflakes, and I think hes right
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 07 December 2017, 11:49:49 pm
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'

Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.

Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes

I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.


My house was 9 times my salary when i bought it 26 years ago.
Trouble is for first time buyer its not just the house its all the other stuff you need as well, like a bed, a certain amount of furniture, cooking pots, cutlery, curtains, carpets, lampshades, condoms, well you cant afford to have children for a few years.


Homeowners moving, upsizing or downsizing on do not have the same expenses, I feel sorry for young folk trying to get their foot on the house buying ladder today.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 08 December 2017, 12:09:52 am

Ive just had a think, and I bought my current house in 2001 for just over twice my salary. And I thought I was taking a massive risk!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 December 2017, 06:15:55 am
I fear you have been mis-informed, and that the old witch has a point, to a degree. Secure jobs - I was made redundant 3 times in the 70s-80s-90s, I never had a pension scheme until 1990 let alone a final salary scheme, and lost a significant amount due to lack of government regulation.


That was unfortunate and I wish that hadn't happened to anyone. Then or now.


But it still doesn't alter the case that a significant proportion of the home buying population did have those benefits and that house prices now are stratospheric by comparison.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 December 2017, 07:40:24 am
With variable interest rate of 15% or above all my money seemd to go on my mortgage in the early to mid 90's.

I'd have thought that you were opposed to home ownership.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 December 2017, 12:57:47 pm
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 08 December 2017, 01:11:37 pm
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.

Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 December 2017, 01:22:05 pm
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.

Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear


Or handlebar mounted machine guns.


“Coming through.....”  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 08 December 2017, 01:29:19 pm
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.

Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear


Or handlebar mounted machine guns.


“Coming through.....”  :2guns

Mad max.... 🤔🤔
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 December 2017, 01:56:35 pm
Don't get me wrong because I too am a pedestrian and if I see a gap in the traffic coming in the distance I don't press the button then some git comes along and presses it and needlessly stops the traffic   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 December 2017, 09:50:18 am
The irony of the 'Remainers' now advocating Parliamentary sovereignty and democracy in a last ditch hope of scuppering Brexit.

They were more than happy to see the loss of sovereignty and democracy over the last 40 years though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: crickleymal on 14 December 2017, 11:38:39 am
The irony of the 'Remainers' now advocating Parliamentary sovereignty and democracy in a last ditch hope of scuppering Brexit.

They were more than happy to see the loss of sovereignty and democracy over the last 40 years though.

What loss of sovereignty and democracy? I haven't noticed any.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 December 2017, 12:02:18 pm
The irony of the 'Remainers' now advocating Parliamentary sovereignty and democracy in a last ditch hope of scuppering Brexit.

They were more than happy to see the loss of sovereignty and democracy over the last 40 years though.

What loss of sovereignty and democracy? I haven't noticed any.

The referendum certainly was a shining example of democracy, I'll agree with you there.




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 December 2017, 11:28:58 pm
Dipshits so high on drugs they literally don't know what they're doing.
Just seen a fella, around 8 stone wet, try and take on a whole pub?
Angry bugger!!!  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 December 2017, 09:10:38 am
There's New Years Eve to look forward to yet darrsi ;)

All the once a year drinkers taking over the bar and going loopy on half a pint of shandy :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 December 2017, 10:05:37 am
There's New Years Eve to look forward to yet darrsi ;)

All the once a year drinkers taking over the bar and going loopy on half a pint of shandy :lol


Those ones normally throw up or pass out, especially if it's very cold outside.
A friend of mine got unusually very drunk when it was bitterly cold last weekend, but he went from being normal to off his nut in under a minute, and we reckon it was because he kept going outside for a cigarette and breathing in the ice cold air, it was like breathing pure oxygen but the mix with alcohol is a bad combination.


Joking aside, the worst culprits are whenever there's a full moon, i know it sounds weird but you ask any landlord and they'll back that up.
People get a bit unhinged and tend to go crazy, especially if it falls on a Friday.  :crazy
Others that get totally wankered are school teachers, but in fairness i think they deserve it every now and then. They'll be down my local next week from mid afternoon, then it's a guessing game of who can last the longest. But you reliably always have the one who gets in a complete mess, the crier, the funny one, the same teacher who gropes every bird he can, the teetotal one who's just disgusted by everyone's behaviour, the drunk singers, etc. Plus we normally have a game trying to guess which subject they teach by the way they're dressed, but we're getting a bit too good at that one.  :lol


What you really don't want is a group of teachers on a bitterly cold Friday when it's a full moon.
That's a recipe for disaster.  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 December 2017, 10:25:26 am
There's New Years Eve to look forward to yet darrsi ;)

All the once a year drinkers taking over the bar and going loopy on half a pint of shandy :lol



Joking aside, the worst culprits are whenever there's a full moon, i know it sounds weird but you ask any landlord and they'll back that up.
People get a bit unhinged and tend to go crazy, especially if it falls on a Friday.  :crazy
 
Never understood the full moon thing because its always full but just doesn't have the sun shining on all of it.
I think it comes from something deep down in our physice from the time before artificial light because a full moon meant that predators could see us, lots of other things in nature are also triggered by the extra light a full moon gives, so its not the full moon per-say but the extra light from it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 December 2017, 10:33:57 am
There's New Years Eve to look forward to yet darrsi ;)

All the once a year drinkers taking over the bar and going loopy on half a pint of shandy :lol



Joking aside, the worst culprits are whenever there's a full moon, i know it sounds weird but you ask any landlord and they'll back that up.
People get a bit unhinged and tend to go crazy, especially if it falls on a Friday.  :crazy
 
Never understood the full moon thing because its always full but just doesn't have the sun shining on all of it.
I think it comes from something deep down in our physice from the time before artificial light because a full moon meant that predators could see us, lots of other things in nature are also triggered by the extra light a full moon gives, so its not the full moon per-say but the extra light from it.


Sod all to do with that, we have electricity round our way, with streetlights.  :lol
I can't give you an exact scientific technical explanation, all i know is that whenever there's a full moon people act crazier than normal, that's just a fact that i see if i'm ever down the local on that particular night.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 December 2017, 10:39:44 am
This doesn't solve anything but does kind of back up what i'm saying, and is kind of interesting too.


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131029-does-a-full-moon-make-people-mad (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131029-does-a-full-moon-make-people-mad)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 December 2017, 11:20:41 am
What you really don't want is a group of teachers on a bitterly cold Friday when it's a full moon.
That's a recipe for disaster.  :rollin

...especially if they are drinking Teachers.

I'll get me coat :o.........
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 16 December 2017, 11:39:30 am
What you really don't want is a group of teachers on a bitterly cold Friday when it's a full moon.
That's a recipe for disaster.  :rollin

...especially if they are drinking Teachers.

I'll get me coat :o .........


I don't actually mind them at all, in fact i find them very entertaining, especially when they finish for the summer holidays, that's when they're on their worst behaviour.  :evil
I wouldn't wanna do their job, they deserve a bit of fun.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 December 2017, 01:46:17 pm
Grease guns that keep getting an air lock in them no matter how carefully you pack the grease in and you're constantly having to take the bleed screw in and out.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 December 2017, 08:12:00 am
Unsilenced 125's. There's one comes past every morning.

Foccin racket.

At least big bikes sound good loud.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 20 December 2017, 01:17:43 pm
Unsilenced 125's. There's one comes past every morning.

Foccin racket.

At least big bikes sound good loud.
There's an annoying foccer lives across the road from me with a YZF125 with the loudest exhaust you've ever heard.
He screams off down the road at 7.30 every morning, after sitting at the side of the road revving it while he waits for a gap in the traffic.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 20 December 2017, 01:29:26 pm

Unsilenced 125's. There's one comes past every morning.

Foccin racket.

At least big bikes sound good loud.
There's an annoying foccer lives across the road from me with a YZF125 with the loudest exhaust you've ever heard.
He screams off down the road at 7.30 every morning, after sitting at the side of the road revving it while he waits for a gap in the traffic.  :grumble
  Does anyone remember when they were kids annoying the old folk with their loud pipes on their 50s and 125s? :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 December 2017, 01:41:34 pm
There does seem to be an influx- fashion for pipes that sound like someone farting and they are very loud and always on bikes 125 and under
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 20 December 2017, 02:25:41 pm

  Does anyone remember when they were kids annoying the old folk with their loud pipes on their 50s and 125s? :lol :lol

Baffles officer? what are they? I just bought this bike of a mate's mate n it's always sounded like this!! kitemark? british standard? whats that then officers?
no never seen that that it says not legal for road use on it!!
 :lol :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 20 December 2017, 03:12:16 pm
Please see below the list of OLD Foccers that need to be annoyed
 
vinnyb :rolleyes   :pokefun

Freck  :rolleyes   :pokefun


YamFazFan  :rolleyes   :pokefun


fazersharp  :rolleyes   :pokefun


The list could go on with me at the very,very bottom AKA: 'Cheery tommyardin  :D
who loves little biker scrots with loud pipes, as it draws the attention off him and onto them. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 December 2017, 03:18:59 pm
Please see below the list of OLD Foccers that need to be annoyed
 
vinnyb :rolleyes   :pokefun

Freck  :rolleyes   :pokefun


YamFazFan  :rolleyes   :pokefun


fazersharp  :rolleyes   :pokefun


The list could go on with me at the very,very bottom AKA: 'Cheery tommyardin  :D
who loves little biker scrots with loud pipes, as it draws the attention off him and onto them. :lol
I am annoyed al right -------that I am on the bottom of the list
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 20 December 2017, 05:21:28 pm
Please see below the list of OLD Foccers that need to be annoyed
 
vinnyb :rolleyes   :pokefun

Freck  :rolleyes   :pokefun


YamFazFan  :rolleyes   :pokefun


fazersharp  :rolleyes   :pokefun


The list could go on with me at the very,very bottom AKA: 'Cheery tommyardin  :D
who loves little biker scrots with loud pipes, as it draws the attention off him and onto them. :lol
Damn, didn’t quite make it to the top of the list  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 December 2017, 05:23:22 pm
I'm just chuffed I made the list at all :woot
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 21 December 2017, 12:51:32 am
 Top of the list! Should I be pleased or offended? :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 December 2017, 01:41:34 pm
What is it with mainly scooter riders that have their high beam on at night?
Totally unnecessary and blinds the fuck out of you in the wing mirrors.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 21 December 2017, 10:52:14 pm

What is it with mainly scooter riders that have their high beam on at night?
Totally unnecessary and blinds the fuck out of you in the wing mirrors.
That's annoying but what really pisses me off is the idiots on bigger bike riding on main beam during the day. Even on the sunniest day it's dazzling and it's becoming an epidemic.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 21 December 2017, 11:02:52 pm

What is it with mainly scooter riders that have their high beam on at night?
Totally unnecessary and blinds the fuck out of you in the wing mirrors.
That's annoying but what really pisses me off is the idiots on bigger bike riding on main beam during the day. Even on the sunniest day it's dazzling and it's becoming an epidemic.

Waiting for the obligatory 'well at least you've seen them' comment......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 21 December 2017, 11:12:18 pm


What is it with mainly scooter riders that have their high beam on at night?
Totally unnecessary and blinds the fuck out of you in the wing mirrors.
That's annoying but what really pisses me off is the idiots on bigger bike riding on main beam during the day. Even on the sunniest day it's dazzling and it's becoming an epidemic.

Waiting for the obligatory 'well at least you've seen them' comment......
And that's fair enough but pissing off every other road user isn't particularly defensive is it?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 21 December 2017, 11:22:27 pm

What is it with mainly scooter riders that have their high beam on at night?
Totally unnecessary and blinds the fuck out of you in the wing mirrors.
That's annoying but what really pisses me off is the idiots on bigger bike riding on main beam during the day. Even on the sunniest day it's dazzling and it's becoming an epidemic.


.....with the GS boys leading by a mile.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 December 2017, 11:27:03 pm
Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 21 December 2017, 11:41:23 pm

Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one   
I don't think that would cause that kind of blinding brightness cos dipped beams point down rather than straight into your eyes and as Frosties said it's often the adventure tourers that do it, with their 5 foot high headlights and badly aimed spotlights.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 22 December 2017, 12:39:17 am
The many idiot users of this forum,

THEY really do not understand how and why sites such as this work

1 They do not know where the buttons are.
2 They are drunk or drugged
3 They were looking for Porn.

PS> I class myself in all of the above categories

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 22 December 2017, 12:44:40 am

The many idiot users of this forum,

THEY really do not understand how and why sites such as this work

1 They do not know where the buttons are.
2 They are drunk or drugged
3 They were looking for Porn.

PS> I class myself in all of the above categories
  Sorry Celticdog, was that aimed at me?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 December 2017, 07:29:46 am

The many idiot users of this forum,

THEY really do not understand how and why sites such as this work

1 They do not know where the buttons are.
2 They are drunk or drugged
3 They were looking for Porn.

PS> I class myself in all of the above categories
  Sorry Celticdog, was that aimed at me?


Drunk or drugged i reckon  :b :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 22 December 2017, 07:31:14 am

  Sorry Celticdog, was that aimed at me?


No fella, it's nothing more than my failed attempt at humour!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 December 2017, 07:32:03 am
Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one   


Eh?
Do you have European lights, is that what you're saying?

They're adjustable anyway, but the right light still shouldn't be aiming right at all, not if it's a UK spec headlight unit.

Note: As I'm typing this, the song on the radio strangely enough is "Blinded By The Light" by Manfred Mann  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 December 2017, 07:32:35 am

  Sorry Celticdog, was that aimed at me?


No fella, it's nothing more than my failed attempt at humour!


 :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 December 2017, 09:09:07 am
Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one     

Your wrong.
The headlight assembly for continental bikes has a different part number as it is designed to use the same (left hand ) bulb for dipped beam but kicks up to the right instead of the left.

If yours is kicking up on the right, you need to adjust the feccer.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 December 2017, 12:36:47 pm
Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one     

Your wrong.
The headlight assembly for continental bikes has a different part number as it is designed to use the same (left hand ) bulb for dipped beam but kicks up to the right instead of the left.

If yours is kicking up on the right, you need to adjust the feccer.
Just to be clear I am talking left and right as sitting on the bike
I have done the two lights on mod - both dipped and when you look from the front at the lights the left one looks brighter.
I always thought the continental units were exactly the same and it was just in this country we only used the left kerb side light and over there they only used the right -their kerbside light and in each case the light is biased to the kerb. Cars are the same and that is why a car sitting on the right (your left ) looks brighter cause the lights are pointing to the left and now at you.
I might be getting confused 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 December 2017, 01:22:32 pm
Now then I might be part of this problem because I have a boxeye with modded lights so both sides are on which means that the right side points to the right for continental riders so that it points to their kerb but when we mod the bike to get both lights on it means that the left light has a bias to the kerb but the right light also has its bias to the right ( for continental)  so even though it is not full beam the right light it is pointing at the on coming traffic and does look brighter than the left one     

Your wrong.
The headlight assembly for continental bikes has a different part number as it is designed to use the same (left hand ) bulb for dipped beam but kicks up to the right instead of the left.

If yours is kicking up on the right, you need to adjust the feccer.
Just to be clear I am talking left and right as sitting on the bike
I have done the two lights on mod - both dipped and when you look from the front at the lights the left one looks brighter.
I always thought the continental units were exactly the same and it was just in this country we only used the left kerb side light and over there they only used the right -their kerbside light and in each case the light is biased to the kerb. Cars are the same and that is why a car sitting on the right (your left ) looks brighter cause the lights are pointing to the left and now at you.
I might be getting confused


“Just to be clear....”  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 December 2017, 01:53:16 pm

Just to be clear I am talking left and right as sitting on the bike
So was I

I always thought the continental units were exactly the same and it was just in this country we only used the left kerb side light and over there they only used the right -their kerbside light and in each case the light is biased to the kerb. Cars are the same and that is why a car sitting on the right (your left ) looks brighter cause the lights are pointing to the left and now at you.
I might be getting confused 
you are confused. they use the left bulb for dipped just like we do. the reason it looks brighter is because it was never meant to be a dipped bulb in there which is why it is not cabled up from the factory.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 December 2017, 02:46:04 pm
Ok so you are saying that the right hand unit is angled up for when the full beam second filament in the two filament bulb lights up along with the left hand units full beam filament. Giving a two light full beam. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 December 2017, 03:15:46 pm
Left hand unit only has a single filament. It is for dipped beam only.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 December 2017, 09:49:01 pm
Stupid design in fairness, which i believe was corrected in later models with 2 x H4 bulbs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 December 2017, 01:29:35 pm
Over the top extravagant whistling in public. Usually some old boy that's really proud that he reproduce a dawn chorus at full volume.

And people who have a fag constantly hanging out of their gob whilst driving without appearing to ever take it out to tip the ash.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 23 December 2017, 06:56:43 pm


And people who have a fag constantly hanging out of their gob whilst driving without appearing to ever take it out to tip the ash.


Bloody vapers are worse, either they have windows down laying down a smokescreen like a WW2 destoyer or the windows are closed and it looks like a smoke bomb has gone off inside the car, people seem unable to let go of the foccing things!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 23 December 2017, 10:02:52 pm
They are unable to let go of them because they're worse than fags. At least you finish a fag whereas vapes go on all day.
People think they are less harmful than fags but we know virtually nothing about the effects of them.
I have a theory that they will be harder to kick than fags and in the long term will be more damaging - people are being fooled into believing that they are a clean substitute to smoking.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 23 December 2017, 10:29:11 pm
They are unable to let go of them because they're worse than fags. At least you finish a fag whereas vapes go on all day.
People think they are less harmful than fags but we know virtually nothing about the effects of them.
I have a theory that they will be harder to kick than fags and in the long term will be more damaging - people are being fooled into believing that they are a clean substitute to smoking.

Now I'm not and have never been a smoker (or 'vaper') but I can't honestly see how nicotine mixed with water vapour could be more harmful than a cigarette that's proven to contain nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic just to name a few.
The government are just pissed at the minute because they are losing shit tonnes of tax revenue from cigarettes so they are pushing these 'scientific' tests and reports that claim vaping is dangerous to try and dissuade people from doing it in the hope they'll then stop buying £5 bottles of oil that lasts a month and go back to spending £10 a day.
I'm sure they'll change their tune once they find a way to heavily tax vaping
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 23 December 2017, 10:58:28 pm
Used to smoke players number 6 plain leave them in your mouth till they burnt your lips ex smoker now of 30years and yes could still start again never a  non smoker always an ex smoker
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 23 December 2017, 11:09:25 pm
 :agree
You still get that urge when someone lights up.
Vapes, contrary to popular belief, are not water, they are propeleneglycol. The same stuff they are making antifreeze out of these days.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 24 December 2017, 08:36:32 am
Now I'm not and have never been a smoker (or 'vaper') but I can't honestly see how nicotine mixed with water vapour could be more harmful than a cigarette that's proven to contain nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic just to name a few.


It is the nicotine that is the addictive part of smoking - yes all the other parts of the tobacco contain all the filth.
Vapes contain nicotine + whatever the carrying agent is - People are vaping more than they were smoking, their nicotine intake is higher than when they were smoking because it doesn't end. When the vape goes wrong (and they haven't got another one) they are smoking fags within 5 minutes because they need the nicotine.
I have tried a vape. I am allergic to them as they make me choke (I can smoke fags easily) so there is something in the carrying agent that is not good for you - the fact that other people can withstand the effects doesn't make them better than fags. We just aren't aware of the long term effects yet.


The only substitute to smoking is quit anything that contains nicotine.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 24 December 2017, 09:02:55 am
Easy way to quit smoking ............grow some balls and stop buying the foccin things...... :rolleyes




























lights the fuse and stands well back           :2guns   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 24 December 2017, 10:46:05 am
What gets me is why they have to produce so much fake smoke - it just looks stupid
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 24 December 2017, 12:41:01 pm
I have a theory that they will be harder to kick than fags and in the long term will be more damaging - people are being fooled into believing that they are a clean substitute to smoking.


Michael Mosley took up vaping as part of a BBC Documentary and commented:

Quote
To be honest when I took up vaping I wasn't that worried about the short term health effects. What I was far more concerned about was getting hooked on nicotine. Yet as the weeks went by and I puffed away, nothing happened. When I leapt out of bed I didn't feel a longing to reach for my machine. If anything I found it a bit of a chore.

Chatting to experts I discovered, to my considerable surprise, that although cigarettes are highly addictive, nicotine alone may not be. Although no-one knows for sure, research in animals suggests that nicotine is far more addictive when delivered in combination with the other chemicals found in regular cigarettes.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36338280 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36338280)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 December 2017, 02:31:12 pm
What gets me is why they have to produce so much fake smoke - it just looks stupid


They don't, that's just an add on effect if you like the idea of resembling a steam train.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 24 December 2017, 08:31:39 pm
Michael Mosley took up vaping as part of a BBC Documentary

I can relate to some of the points but not all of them.


If he had been a smoker in the first place it would have given more weight to his views. As he wasn't already hooked on nicotine he didn't really have the desire for the vape as he had no withdrawal effects to relieve. Running the risk of becoming hooked for a documentary would be very silly and I wonder which level of nicotine he was using in his vape liquids, they can be very low or even contain no nicotine at all...


One of the reasons I believe vapes will be harder to quit is the fact that they taste nice - one of my mates said "It's like having sweets" (that is a direct quote) - most smokers want to quit fags because they taste foul. Don't worry about the health aspects, if smokers worried about it enough they'd have already quit.


Easy way to quit smoking ............grow some balls and stop buying the foccin things...... :rolleyes
lights the fuse and stands well back           :2guns   


Yep and the majority of smokers will agree with you - I certainly do. It's growing the balls that is the problem...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 December 2017, 09:10:53 pm
Anyone would think that smoking is already a crime altogether in this country. It's still a legal product.

The government is happy to collect the tax from them, but then they'd say that's to put people off buying them I guess.

I'd heard that the tax revenue from them would cover the whole NHS budget, but I don't know if that claim is verified or substantiated.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 24 December 2017, 09:20:01 pm
Don't worry about the goverment losing tax revenue from cigs, they are just replacing that revenue with plans to raise tax on alcohol, salty snacks, chocolate, sweets etc because they are all bad for you so they are just doing it for your own good.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 24 December 2017, 11:34:44 pm
Don't know how I quit smoking tried loads of times, quit several time for 6/9 months always started again. Got up 1st Jan 1990  throw 20 players number 6 in the bin along with my lighter not touched one since, never set out or had any intention to do it that day I'd smoked 30 a day for 18 years. Still don't know how or why I stopped that time and not the other times I'd tried. Still could strangle a smoke on the odd occasion, but never touched one since that day.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 December 2017, 11:50:26 pm
The thing I don't understand is why the UK government haven't already banned the sale of cigarettes.

It's been proven that they are harmful to health, as were a lot of other products which have been outlawed, but not fags?. Odd. I can't imagine it's the tax revenue?. Surely not? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 25 December 2017, 07:34:55 am
If they banned them for the dangers they would also have to ban alcohol and they ain't gonna do that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 09:24:49 am
If they banned them for the dangers they would also have to ban alcohol and they ain't gonna do that.

I agree, there's never going to be an alcohol ban.

But they've already outlawed smoking in the pubs that serve the booze.

I'd love to see the look on the treasury's faces if everyone suddenly packed in smoking overnight :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 December 2017, 09:27:19 am
Like others in here some people who Vape (I am assuming that a vape is the same thing as E cigarette) send out huge clouds of Smoke/Vapour that does look absolutely ridiculous, sit behind a car at a set of lights or a railway crossing and it looks like some sort of incendiary device has gone off in the car in front, clouds of smoke billowing out of the window, now on a freezing cold day or when its pissing down with rain and the driver has their window shut that has got to be a danger, with the car being full of that stuff vision had to be impaired get two people vaping in a car and it must be like driving in thick fog.


I stopped smoking (No moral high ground being taken here) 26 years ago (Last September) when my wife and I found out we were going to be parents, Oh! wife was never a smoker, just me.
It was not easy and I knew it would be a struggle, as I had tried many times before, occasionally with moderate success, about 6 months and other times with no success at all, but each time I quit I went back to it.
Pigs when they eat to much vomit it up but then go back and eat it again that is what I was like as a smoker, I knew it was bad for me and tried to quit but then went back and started again.
Anyone who says it is easy to quit is a fool and deluded and obviously have never been a smoker, so really has no voice.
I am really glad I stopped, it was the prospect of being a dad that enabled me to quit, I struggled for a couple of months with withdrawal symptoms, felt constantly tired, irritable, almost paranoid if i thought about never having another fag.


As I said that was all 25 years ago, I am probably one of the biggest hypocrites in the world now, I hate smoking with a passion, the smell of it, the look of someone smoking is ridiculous to me with smoke pouring out of their mouths  :'( I will never start again and I can say that with confidence because I struggled so much to quit and would never want to go through that again, plus I have no desire to have breath that smell like a dirty toilet pan or stained finger and teeth, sorry you smokers out there but that is the way it is, as a smoker you do not notice the smell because it is with you all the time it becomes the norm, but, it someone goes out of a restaurant or pub to have a ciggy then come back into the building they smell of it and when they talk to you the stench of their breath knocks your head back.
Sorry smokers it that sounds harsh but that is the way non smokers view and smell you, it is not easy giving up in fact it is almost impossible, it is an addiction and as such you are not the master of it, because it has already mastered you.

That was Tommy's Christmas Message,

Happy Christmas Foccers.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 10:44:19 am
When you watch old film footage it's amazing how many people smoked. It seems like almost everyone had a fag on the go.

You often see the bike and car racers from the past having an already lit fag passed to them immediately after crossing the winning line and pulling up. It was almost part of the culture back then wasn't it.

It just annoys me that all the things they tax most heavily such as cigarettes, petrol and alcohol, supposedly to put people off buying them so much, are all the things that they know people are going to carry on buying.

These taxes hit the poorest in society much harder. If you're life is crap it's understandable that you're going to want something that might alleviate it a bit, but they get disproportionately hammered for it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 25 December 2017, 02:19:15 pm
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 December 2017, 02:27:39 pm
Yep! Your not wrong YamFazFan,


The Government try to claim the higher ground by  saying that smoking is bad for your health, and to be honest not many people would argue, except the few who say I have been smoking for 30 years and it's never done me any harm or my Granddad smoked 30 Capstan Full Strength a day and he lived to 97 years old, but these people are the exception not the rule, there are thousands upon thousands that die prematurely each year from smoking related illnesses.


The Government infer that they are taxing this tobacco and related products to try to discourage people from harming themselves and costing the N.H.S millions a year on treatment for related illness.


The truth is (Well my version of it and I am a bit cynical here) tax/income on tobacco products far out weights the total cost of the whole of the N.H.S each year, and to be honest government are happy if 15% percent of our population die prematurely as the Pension System in this country is being pushed to the limit with us old farts living longer.
So tax the smokers heavily so that a not insignificant percentage of them struggle financially to buy 20 Fags at about £6-50 a pack, keep them taxed up to the limit and worried and the only outlet or relief that they feel they have is their smokes, and around we go again.


I retired a few years ago now and one guy I worked with smoked about 30 a day as did his wife, Kenny told me that they smoked an extra pack each each at the weekends making it 40 a day each for 2 days at the week ends, at that time fag were £5.50 a pack of 20. that equates to £126.50 a week that is at least £506 a month.  for a 28 day month plus another £33.00 for a 31 day month.
We are actually talking the cost of a moderate mortgage here, or £6,360 quid a year, or the price of a brand new car every two years.
Also bearing in mind those costs quoted per pack of fags is now 3 years out of date  :eek
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 December 2017, 02:28:45 pm
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.


Having a bad day Dazzer :lol 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 02:36:05 pm
Yep! Your not wrong YamFazFan,


The Government try to claim the higher ground by  saying that smoking is bad for your health, and to be honest not many people would argue, except the few who say I have been smoking for 30 years and it's never done me any harm or my Granddad smoked 30 Capstan Full Strength a day and he lived to 97 years old, but these people are the exception not the rule, there are thousands upon thousands that die prematurely each year from smoking related illnesses.


The Government infer that they are taxing this tobacco and related products to try to discourage people from harming themselves and costing the N.H.S millions a year on treatment for related illness.


The truth is (Well my version of it and I am a bit cynical here) tax/income on tobacco products far out weights the total cost of the whole of the N.H.S each year, and to be honest government are happy if 15% percent of our population die prematurely as the Pension System in this country is being pushed to the limit with us old farts living longer.
So tax the smokers heavily so that a not insignificant percentage of them struggle financially to buy 20 Fags at about £6-50 a pack, keep them taxed up to the limit and worried and the only outlet or relief that they feel they have is their smokes, and around we go again.


I retired a few years ago now and one guy I worked with smoked about 30 a day as did his wife, Kenny told me that they smoked an extra pack each each at the weekends making it 40 a day each for 2 days at the week ends, at that time fag were £5.50 a pack of 20. that equates to £126.50 a week that is at least £506 a month.  for a 28 day month plus another £33.00 for a 31 day month.
We are actually talking the cost of a moderate mortgage here, or £6,360 quid a year, or the price of a brand new car every two years.
Also bearing in mind those costs quoted per pack of fags is now 3 years out of date  :eek

20 fags average around £10 a pack now.

Can't disagree with a word of that though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 25 December 2017, 02:37:56 pm
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.


Having a bad day Dazzer :lol 
I'm having a great day Tommy, this was the other night, just sat here and thought about it.
Better lay off the wine......Now, where's that home made sloe gin  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 02:47:16 pm
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.


You'll be lucky to get a thank you nowadays dazza :lol. Some people really struggle with please and thank you. It's almost like they feel they're losing face somehow :rolleyes

I foccin hate the randomness of queuing/getting served in busy bars. I think they should have a ticketed system.

Good looking women always get served first, followed by all the rest of the women, then the tallest men and then those blokes who do that hanging half over the bar manoeuvre.

On a similar theme my local chose to rotor the worst barman in Britain to work last night.

This is the only barman I've ever come across who still ignores you when your holding a tenner out in front of him :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 02:51:08 pm
It's comforting to see that the moaning doesn't even let up for Christmas Day :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 25 December 2017, 03:08:55 pm
Well, you've got to keep the moaning up.
Actually, a young female bar woman saw what happened and immediatey came over and served me with an acknowledging smile which took the sting out of it.
As for the sour old hag, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest her gusset while she sleeps tonight. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 December 2017, 03:26:24 pm
As for the sour old hag, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest her gusset while she sleeps tonight. :lol

That's the best curse I've heard all year! :lol

Let us know if it works ( ;)), then maybe I could use that one next time if it's a runner :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 December 2017, 06:00:38 pm
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.


Having a bad day Dazzer :lol 
I'm having a great day Tommy, this was the other night, just sat here and thought about it.
Better lay off the wine......Now, where's that home made sloe gin  :lol


Ahhh! Where indeed
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 25 December 2017, 06:48:37 pm
Nice one Tommy. Took the sloes out of mine two days ago and spent a couple of hours yesterday putting it through some filter paper. It tastes divine.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 December 2017, 10:14:26 pm
Nice one Tommy. Took the sloes out of mine two days ago and spent a couple of hours yesterday putting it through some filter paper. It tastes divine.


I know I should run it through a fine paper element filter but I don't have time I am too busy drinking the stuff.


It is absolutely amazing how a pound or two of sloes and a few ounces of sugar completely change the flavour or gin, I love Gin & Tonic, but not neat Gin, with the sloes it changes the flavour completely and you you ask yourself who would want anything else in it.


Gin is from Juniper Berries so I would imagine it would be classed as a vine fruit, so it is no wonder it blends with sloes so well.
I have it on very good authority that it also works with Blackberries raspberries and strawberries.


Look out next year half a dozen bottles of cheap gin and world is my playground. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 26 December 2017, 02:51:35 am
Fair play, that's it, just drink it.
Actually took the best part of twenty-four hours to filter it having to regularly change the paper.
Went through a muslin too as Well as some fiinings and pectolase.
You're right, it's amazing how the taste is transformed. Might have to experiment with the blackberries next year.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 26 December 2017, 07:54:02 am
You can also transform Vodka by using Sloe's and other berries.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 December 2017, 10:25:59 am

You can also transform Vodka by using Sloe's and other berries.
Cheers Mr Mungus, three bottles of vodka added to next years doctored alcohol menu.
I knock up mine in 2 litre Kilmer Jars.
One and a half 1Ltr bottles of Gin into each Kilner Jar along with enough sloes to fill the jar then add [/size]a 1/4 lb of sugar in each jar.
[/size]Some say you should prick the sloes several times but what we do is freeze them for about 3 days so they are as hard as pebbles and when they rapidly thaw out when they go in the gin/ vodka :thumbup  the skins split, saves a lot of pricking.
The flavour of slow gin is amazing.
The other thing someone told me is that you should not wash the sloes before useing them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 26 December 2017, 03:50:36 pm
"Gin is from Juniper Berries so I would imagine it would be classed as a vine fruit, so it is no wonder it blends with sloes so well"

From Wikipedia.......

Distilled gin
Distilled gin is produced exclusively by redistilling ethanol of agricultural origin with an initial strength of 96% ABV (the azeotrope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotrope) of water and ethanol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol)) in stills traditionally used for gin, in the presence of juniper berries and of other natural botanicals, provided that the juniper taste is predominant. Gin obtained simply by adding essences or flavourings to ethanol of agricultural origin is not distilled gin.So, I suppose if you drink enough, you then must believe your bike takes on superpowers (and super acceleration qualities) as well  :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 December 2017, 08:50:50 pm
Russell Brand.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 26 December 2017, 11:42:28 pm
Russell Brand.


Wrote a book recently called 'My bookywook'
Not quite sue what YamFazFan is drinking but I don't want any.
Halfords Antifreeze I would not mind betting. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 December 2017, 06:33:38 am
Russell Brand.
Wrote a book recently called 'My bookywook'


I bet that's a riveting read :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 December 2017, 06:46:14 am
Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.


You'll be lucky to get a thank you nowadays dazza :lol . Some people really struggle with please and thank you. It's almost like they feel they're losing face somehow :rolleyes

I foccin hate the randomness of queuing/getting served in busy bars. I think they should have a ticketed system.

Good looking women always get served first, followed by all the rest of the women, then the tallest men and then those blokes who do that hanging half over the bar manoeuvre.

On a similar theme my local chose to rotor the worst barman in Britain to work last night.

This is the only barman I've ever come across who still ignores you when your holding a tenner out in front of him :rolleyes


The lazy fuckers down my local now order their drinks online, even if they're sitting right next to the bar because for some odd reason the online orders are s'posed to get priority and they also then avoid having to queue at the bar as well.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 December 2017, 08:01:41 am
I'd never heard of ordering drinks like that
That's cheating!.

To be honest it's getting so quiet down my local pubs now that you really don't often struggle to get served.

Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 27 December 2017, 08:04:55 am
I'd never heard of ordering drinks like that
That's cheating!.
I'd never heard of it either until last Saturday. I was in a local Weatherspoons and the Barmaids were walking around with trays of drinks. I asked a mate of mine what they were doing and he told me that you could order your drinks online and have them brought to you.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 December 2017, 09:37:49 am
Madness! ordering your drinks on-line, next it will be ordering your Pizza on-line or maybe your weekly shop. :lol


We are becoming a generation of lazy bastids can't even walk to the bar and carry your own drink to the table. FFS what is it coming to?

You see more and more gyms opening, more and more expensive memberships being taken out, people buying expensive watches that monitor how many steps you have done, your heart, how many calories you have burnt.
120 quid trainers get bought along with the fashionable tee shirts and shorts, not forgetting the white sports socks and their owners never jog or run, or see the inside of the gym.

I know folk who have spent an absolute fortune on training equipment for the conservatories, running machines, rowing machines, weights and there they sit after the first 3 weeks gathering dust and getting in the way by just taking up floor space. 

We are turning into a generation of sedentary people, kids no longer go out and play, but, are generally in isolation sat in front of a monitor in the corner of the lounge or worse still their bedroom, not only does this isolate them from others it also contributes to becoming an overweight unhealthy generation, games controller in one hand, crisps in another, large bottle of coke in another, pizza that they ordered on-line in an other  :eek  foc me this computer game has turned our kids into freaks with four hands.  :lol

I can understand buying/ordering drinks on-line and having them delivered to their table, I mean damn it you don't want to have to stand up and walk all the way over to the bar and get your drink and still have the chore of carrying it all the way back to your table, although it would not be quite so bad if you had remembered those 120 quid trainer that are sat out in the conservatory with the £3,000 worth of training equipment.


A game of 'Witcher 3' or Counter-Strike Global Offensive is not as healthy as a game of football or going out on your push bikes with 3 or 4 mates.

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with computer games they have certainly advanced home entertainment, but I can think of a couple of mates who's children (Young teenagers) have no social graces or skills what-so-ever they just grunt a greeting back to you without averting their eyes from the screen, you sit down chatting with your mate and then forget they are even in the same room sat playing Global Offensive with noise a cancelling headset on.
I dropped around to one mates place a couple of weeks before Christmas to chat about a bike related problem he was having, we sat in his kitchen mulling over a Haynes manual and drinking tea and coffee, we then spent about 3 hours in his shed chatting and checking stuff out on his bike, Gillian, Stevo's wife brought us out tea and bickkys (No we did not order them on-line) altogether I was at Stevo's for about 4 to 5 hours when I left his boy was still on the computer grunting at people.

Get a fucking life, get some fresh air, get out with friends, talk to someone, go for a ride on your bicycle, do the washing up for your Mum, go to the shops for her, tidy your bedroom you lazy, ignorant, antisocial, unhealthy, fat fucker  :eek   

Do you get the idea I am not really into computer games?
Sure computer games are fun, but not for 7 or 8 hours non stop, come on FFS, they cause frustration and angst, I will get past that river crossing without being blow..... Fuck it   :eek :'( :rolleyes       

That's my end of year rant done with.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 27 December 2017, 10:36:53 am
some pics for you Tommy!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 December 2017, 11:29:44 am
some pics for you Tommy!


So so true.  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 December 2017, 11:31:37 am
That's my end of year rant done with.[/size][/font]

Thank foc for that.

You very nearly rolled on into 2018 there.

I'm running late now!😄 lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 27 December 2017, 02:12:33 pm
AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed     :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 27 December 2017, 02:36:44 pm
AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed     :wall


The good thing about unsubscribing   :rolleyes  is that it confirms to the perpetrator of the email that the receiving email account is accessed and not just an account used for rubbish. they now know for certain that the address is alive. :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 27 December 2017, 05:05:34 pm
AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed     :wall


The good thing about unsubscribing   :rolleyes  is that it confirms to the perpetrator of the email that the receiving email account is accessed and not just an account used for rubbish. they now know for certain that the address is alive. :'(


And send you more from companies whose products  might be " of interest to you". :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 27 December 2017, 08:12:03 pm
Most companies do respect the unsubscribe button - those that don't just get added to my list of spammers and I never see anything from them again. It's quite a long list...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 28 December 2017, 09:47:01 am
I hate it all too, bloody tech crap, no one does real stuff anymore, and the e mail thing drives me mad, subscribe to this subscribe to that, and they ask you to fill in a survey before you have even received the goods/service !! I think it will go tits up soon, I think more and more people have had enough.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 28 December 2017, 04:44:34 pm
I went into Halfrauds a few weeks ago, got to the checkout and before i`d finished paying  they asked me for my email address. "what do you want that for? Oh I know, so you can flood my inbox with rubbish that is of no iterest to me whatsoever" The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 December 2017, 05:59:16 pm
I went into Halfrauds a few weeks ago, got to the checkout and before i`d finished paying  they asked me for my email address. "what do you want that for? Oh I know, so you can flood my inbox with rubbish that is of no iterest to me whatsoever" The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc
The trick they use is "!would you like us to email you the receipt"
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 28 December 2017, 08:49:14 pm
Most companies do respect the unsubscribe button - those that don't just get added to my list of spammers and I never see anything from them again. It's quite a long list...

I own my own domain name, so any time I sign up for something it's companyname@mydomain which means that if I ever start getting spam, I know a) who has been naughty with my details and b) I can then filter it straight to Junk! :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 28 December 2017, 08:56:03 pm
The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc


I usually reply with something like... I can't be arsed.
They get the message and I don't give a foc if they get shirty about it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 January 2018, 08:16:18 am
Companies and they're unnecessary crap plastic packaging! I finally got round to buying my new indicators yesterday. They are very nice and only about 9cm long yet Oxford in all their wisdom decided the best way to sell them is to vac pac them between 2 (more of less a4 sized) sheets of plastic!? What would have been the problem with a small cardboard box with them both side by side?

This is why it pisses me off with all this plastic in the ocean bollocks and all the shit we get for using too much plastic, it's not us it's the fucking greedy corporations who are far more interested in making their products look pretty and saleable on the cheap than helping look after the planet.
All this crap they give us about plastic bags.... why can't they go back to paper ones? (Cost too much profit money) same with plastic bottles why can't we go back to having glass ones? ( too much profit money). Too much emphasis on profit and sales then they have the cheek to tax us all to try and rectify it

Also with my purchase I read the returns terms from the company I bought them that state's that if I'm not happy with them they can only be returned if the packing is in damaged, so your bolloxed from the word go as theres no way to get into the bludy things without damaging the packaging 😥😥
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 11 January 2018, 08:27:29 am
Could of been in a smaller package but it's designed to look pretty on the shelf.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 January 2018, 08:54:36 am
What would have been the problem with a small cardboard box with them both side by side?



they aren't as obvious on the shelf then and you may buy a competitors product instead
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 11 January 2018, 10:19:19 am
send the packaging back to them, let them get rid of it!! (what is the return postage address? freepost?)

after Christmas Mrs Robbie took the plastic packaging we had accumulated back to the shops we had bought the stuff from (mainly Sainsbury's & Tesco). they accepted it and now they have to sort it out.
ps it was washed & cleaned out so they couldn't complain about it!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 January 2018, 10:33:01 am
send the packaging back to them, let them get rid of it!! (what is the return postage address? freepost?)

after Christmas Mrs Robbie took the plastic packaging we had accumulated back to the shops we had bought the stuff from (mainly Sainsbury's & Tesco). they accepted it and now they have to sort it out.
ps it was washed & cleaned out so they couldn't complain about it!

What a great idea 👍😂 it's even more annoying given that out local council has recently switched to fortnightly collections so not only are we paying extra for all this shitty packaging it's now also filling our house/garden up 😡


And I know it's all packaged to be pretty but maybe instead of moaning at us lot the government would be better to force these companies to sell their products in basic plainer packaging (like cigarettes) then as consumers we would buy a product based on its merit rather than how shiney its box is 🤔

Besides I (like many people) buy most of my stuff online from a website with professional photos etc so the fanciness of the packaging is already rendered moot.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 January 2018, 11:35:37 am
send the packaging back to them, let them get rid of it!! (what is the return postage address? freepost?)

after Christmas Mrs Robbie took the plastic packaging we had accumulated back to the shops we had bought the stuff from (mainly Sainsbury's & Tesco). they accepted it and now they have to sort it out.
ps it was washed & cleaned out so they couldn't complain about it!
So you used 40 litres of water 10 2m of gas to heat the water opened your front door and let the heat out  then petrol to drive to Sainsburys, - opened sainsburys door let their heat out in and then out.
It would of done less harm to just throw it in the sea  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 11 January 2018, 12:00:20 pm
 :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 11 January 2018, 12:52:03 pm
good point Fazersharp and we passed the sea front enroute to Sainsbury's
will mention that to Mrs Robbie later.. . may not be online tomorrow as I'll be recovering in hospital!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 11 January 2018, 06:45:39 pm
A favourite of mine, albeit a slightly different subject, is to return all junk mail if they provide a freepost envelope. I scrawl ‘no thanks’ on it, and stuff it all (including the original envelope). Seems to prevent them sending me shite again! 😀
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 11 January 2018, 08:42:30 pm
Typically, the govt sees the solution to a national problem as justification for introducing another tax. Having decreed that deisel engine manufacture and presence on our roads must end, it is not beyond the wit of govt to decree that a similar fate should befall on plastic packaging, rather than use it as a tax raising excuse. I would rather see an expansion of local authority wardens with powers to administer minimum fines of £1,000 for litter droppers. How did we get to a stage where young folk cant walk 200 yards without having to stuff their faces with fast food/takeaways/coffee and chuck whats not edible on the floor. Round here, they come out the school and into the local shop just round the corner, buy a million platisc drinks bottles, swig it, then stuff the bottles into the front garden hedges
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 12 January 2018, 11:36:20 pm
Talking of rubbish, some foccer decided this evening, that, rather that stick their gum in the bin that was about 10 feet away, they'd stick it in the middle of my bike's saddle!

Fortunately, because it's plastic, it didn't adhere, but what is it with the mentality of some people...???

 :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 January 2018, 09:39:18 am
Talking of rubbish, some foccer decided this evening, that, rather that stick their gum in the bin that was about 10 feet away, they'd stick it in the middle of my bike's saddle!

Fortunately, because it's plastic, it didn't adhere, but what is it with the mentality of some people...???

 :2guns


It provides them with self-satisfied validation. It translates as.....'I'll show them that I'm here and important'.

It's the same mentality that performs the vandalism usually termed 'Graffiti'.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 January 2018, 02:06:55 pm
Parents that don't control their children from running riot in places such as supermarkets.

And the public who basically endorse it by cooing and laughing at it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 13 January 2018, 06:07:53 pm
Parents that don't control their children from running riot in places such as supermarkets.

And the public who basically endorse it by cooing and laughing at it.


Whadda ya mean? goddammit and I only went out to git me sum chewin baccy.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 January 2018, 06:31:00 pm
 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 10:52:11 am
The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 14 January 2018, 12:46:47 pm
The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it :rolleyes

People who think that the Right of Freedom of Speech includes the Right to a platform to express it wherever they like...

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 01:23:12 pm
The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it :rolleyes

People who think that the Right of Freedom of Speech includes the Right to a platform to express it wherever they like...

Good point.

Funny how that platform nearly always appears to be open to The Left, but is often closed to anyone that disagrees with them :rolleyes

I read an article in the paper the other day which said they are going to stop the university's from closing down debate by 'no-platforming' speakers that hold views the majority of students don't agree with.

There's talk that it could be illegal.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 01:45:36 pm
 
Quote
Funny how that platform nearly always appears to be open to The Left, but is often closed to anyone that disagrees with them ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/garet/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/url])



With freedom of speech comes responsibility.  If ‘you’ say something dumb, stupid, dangerous, racist or offensive, it’s anybody and everybody’s right to express their disproval and/or protest ‘your’ comments.


The fact is, it is usually those who detest real freedom of speech, as we increasingly have today, who complain that their freedom of speech is being infringed.  And lets face it, it’s easier to scream – you are infringing my freedom of speech – than address the substance of debate or to defend unreasonable comments.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 02:02:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsGxnDmtf4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsGxnDmtf4)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 02:07:47 pm
I see some of the university's  'debating society's' even tried to stop Germaine Greer from speaking.

 You couldn't make it up! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 02:17:50 pm
Quote
I see some of the university's  'debating society's' even tried to stop Germaine Greer from speaking.

 You couldn't make it up! ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif[/url])


I think you just did.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 02:24:11 pm
Quote
I see some of the university's  'debating society's' even tried to stop Germaine Greer from speaking.

 You couldn't make it up! ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif[/url])


I think you just did.


I think not ;)

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/23/petition-urges-cardiff-university-to-cancel-germain-greer-lecture (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/23/petition-urges-cardiff-university-to-cancel-germain-greer-lecture)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 02:28:00 pm
From your link;

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The petition on Change.org was started by Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the university’s students’ union

Thank-you for proving my point.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 02:38:57 pm
From your link;

Quote
The petition on Change.org was started by Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the university’s students’ union

Thank-you for proving my point.


Oh alright! :rolleyes. I was close tho :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 02:55:53 pm
Quote
Oh alright! ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url]). I was close tho ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif[/url])


A mile off.  If that's close.



 
Quote
The petition on Change.org was started by Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the university’s students’ union, and alleges that Greer has “demonstrated misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether”.


  So Ms Melhuish finds Germaine Greer’s views deeply offensive, and as such is exercising her democratic right to object to Ms Greer having been invited by the University to speak.
 
Quote
The petition ([url]https://www.change.org/p/cardiff-university-do-not-host-germaine-greer?recruiter=59862098&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive&rp_sharecordion_checklist=control[/url]) urging the university to cancel the event had been signed by more than 300 people by early Friday afternoon. The university has more than 30,000 students.

 
The lecture went ahead.






 

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 03:09:06 pm
I was chuffed to bits for a minute there. I thought I'd defeated foc-u's political editor :lol. Might have known the elation would be short lived :'(

I would dispute it being 'A mile off' though. She is associated with the university isn't she?.

I'm sure there's been similar cases elsewhere also.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 04:02:36 pm
 
Quote
I'm sure there's been similar cases elsewhere also.


 But what is it that you are objecting to?  A student’s right to object to views that they find offensive?

Quote
There's talk that it could be illegal.

Make what illegal?  People objecting to what they consider offensive views.
Isn’t this whole non-story actually the real attack on freedom of speech.

Meanwhile ;
according to the Mail Germaine Greer was nearly stopped from speaking at a lecture at Cardiff University” when she was nothing of the sor[/font]t[/font] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4334776/Johnson-orders-universities-protect-freedom-speech.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4334776/Johnson-orders-universities-protect-freedom-speech.html)

And,
The Telegraph states that Germaine Greer has been blacklisted by student groups.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12008763/Revolting-students-are-nothing-new.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12008763/Revolting-students-are-nothing-new.html)[/font]
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All bull shite.  Certain news papers make stuff up daily.

 
Quote
The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/garet/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/url])

So, isn't that actually the wrong way round. 

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 14 January 2018, 05:02:27 pm
People who complain that someone else earns more than them (for the same/similar role). Take a leaf from my book. Whenever I become unhappy with my earnings, I asked for an increase. If I didnt get it, I left and went somewhere the pay was better.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 05:26:50 pm
 
Quote
I'm sure there's been similar cases elsewhere also.

 But what is it that you are objecting to?  A student’s right to object to views that they find offensive?

No, most definitely not.

I'm objecting to that student attempting to stop the person who holds the view that they don't agree with from attending a debate.

I don't think that's a healthy attitude in a democracy....' I don't agree with you so you're not coming'

I find that childish, slightly sinister and it implies that they are correct with no debate.

It's the same with Sadiq Khan's showboating saying that Donald Trump isn't welcome here. He won a free and fair election. Perhaps the democrats should have fought a better campaign?.

Let him come and debate. If the people hear all the views they can make their own minds up can't they.

I'd of thought The Mayor of London would be better off concentrating his efforts on reducing knife crime in the capital.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 05:55:04 pm
 
Quote
I'm objecting to that student attempting to stop the person who holds the view that they don't agree with from attending a debate.
Quote
I find that childish, slightly sinister and it implies that they are correct with no debate.
Once again you are getting it all wrong.  Debate is not the issue, it’s speeches, lectures or addresses.  These little details are very important when you are making bold statements, such as claiming that freedom of speech is under threat in our universities.
Quote
It's the same with Sadiq Khan's showboating saying that Donald Trump isn't welcome here. He won a free and fair election. Perhaps the democrats should have fought a better campaign?.

Quote
Let him come and debate. If the people hear all the views they can make their own minds up can't they.
Donald Trump is not, never was and would not come to the UK to debate.  He was coming to open the new US embassy in London.  Donald Trump has snubbed the UK.  So much for our special relationship :lol   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 06:05:53 pm
Once again you are getting it all wrong. 

Foc I'm having bad day today aren't I ;) :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 06:25:28 pm
I read an article in the paper the other day which said they are going to stop the university's from closing down debate by 'no-platforming' speakers that hold views the majority of students don't agree with.



Here it is, from my local newspaper......

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/universities-should-stop-no-platforming-14081735 (http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/universities-should-stop-no-platforming-14081735)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 07:14:46 pm
 OK.  But I don't think, or at least I most certainly hope that Mr Johnston will not get far with that. 
What Mr Johnson seems to be saying is that Universities will be fined for the actions of its Students Union.  The Students Union is of course independent of the Universities.

My Johnson, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel,  in any case seems to be just a little selective when it comes to free speech.  Here’s a letter he’s already sent to the head of Universities UK.

http://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Jo-Johnson-antisemitism-on-campus.jpg (http://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Jo-Johnson-antisemitism-on-campus.jpg)

And according to the Jewish News - http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ucl-jo-johnson/#comments (http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ucl-jo-johnson/#comments) – Mr Johnston wants to “wipe out anti-Israeli scourge” 
Mr Johnston is not a man who believes in free speech.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 14 January 2018, 07:27:05 pm
For focs sake YamFazFan what did you wake VNA up for! Another thread filled up with political shite.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 07:38:55 pm
OK.  But I don't think, or at least I most certainly hope that Mr Johnston will not get far with that. 
What Mr Johnson seems to be saying is that Universities will be fined for the actions of its Students Union.  The Students Union is of course independent of the Universities.

My Johnson, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel,  in any case seems to be just a little selective when it comes to free speech.  Here’s a letter he’s already sent to the head of Universities UK.

[url]http://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Jo-Johnson-antisemitism-on-campus.jpg[/url] ([url]http://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Jo-Johnson-antisemitism-on-campus.jpg[/url])

And according to the Jewish News - [url]http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ucl-jo-johnson/#comments[/url] ([url]http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ucl-jo-johnson/#comments[/url]) – Mr Johnston wants to “wipe out anti-Israeli scourge” 
Mr Johnston is not a man who believes in free speech.


Well I believe in free speech and long may it continue, whatever ones political colours may be.

Politically I'm a bit of an everyman really. I agree with some of the policies of both the main parties. I don't feel totally comfortable voting for any one party to be honest.

 :thinkVote  :faz
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 07:39:52 pm
For focs sake YamFazFan what did you wake VNA up for! Another thread filled up with political shite.


 :lol :lol :lol :lol sorry :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 January 2018, 07:45:48 pm
Donald Trump is not, never was and would not come to the UK to debate.  He was coming to open the new US embassy in London.  Donald Trump has snubbed the UK.  So much for our special relationship :lol


I don't give a foc whether Trump turns up here or not. It's not really a snub as he may be expecting lots of protesters etc and doesn't want to face it and we don't really need him here as we've got more important things to get sorted. The special relationship (if it really exists) will outlive one president of the USA. Talking of outliving... How long before someone shoots him?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 14 January 2018, 07:49:39 pm
The amount of folk ive heard say that aswell hugh you cant make it up, ones things for sure its best political entertainment ive ever seen all this twitter pish aswell he does :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 08:06:42 pm
 
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Well I believe in free speech and long may it continue, whatever ones political colours may be.
Here, here YamFazFan.  But beware of people like Jo Johnson who want to tell us what we can and cannot say.
 
Hugh, the opening of a new US embassy in the UK, and President is not coming?  Ms May held hands with that pussy grabbing racist misogynistic bigoted ignorant bastard, and now it looks as if he’s not going to even set foot in this country, state visit or no state visit.   Our Prime Minister may be licking Donald’s shoes and letting him grab her, umm, hand, but Donald clearly ain’t interested in her or the UK. Oh yes it's a fucking snub, an almightly big fucking snub.

 
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It's not really a snub as he may be expecting lots of protesters etc and doesn't want to face it.
 
It’s a bit of a disappointment to be honest, I like many people were looking forward to it, but we’ve won without even trying.  A bit boring.  But you are right, as a narcissist he doesn’t like criticism or the thought of mass protests of his visit to the UK being beamed around the globe.  Best just staying in  bed with a big mac.
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How long before someone shoots him?
And will it be a member of The Republican Party?
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 08:22:08 pm
Can you stop beating about the bush and tell us what you actually think about Trump?! :lol

I know you probably didn't intend it too be, but that assessment was actually funny as foc :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 09:19:08 pm
  Meanwhile those great defenders of ‘free speech’ UKIP seem to be in a bit of a quandary relating to the’ free speech’ tweets by the 25 year old girlfriend of their 54 year old leader Henry Bolton.
Gotta love twitter.
Could be time for yet another UKIP leadership election.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 January 2018, 10:06:18 pm
Oh yes it's a fucking snub, an almighty big fucking snub.


It's only a snub if you give a foc about it. I'm sure that after some choice tweets by Trump that Mrs May isn't too bothered either.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 January 2018, 10:18:09 pm
  Meanwhile those great defenders of ‘free speech’ UKIP seem to be in a bit of a quandary relating to the’ free speech’ tweets by the 25 year old girlfriend of their 54 year old leader Henry Bolton.
Gotta love twitter.
Could be time for yet another UKIP leadership election.

I bet that relationship will last 😄 lol

Not seen those tweets, but surely UKIP is irrelevant now?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 January 2018, 10:28:03 pm
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I hope this quote is true and not some made up crap with Churchill's name tacked on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2018, 11:03:27 pm
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes - Winston Churchill
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 14 January 2018, 11:59:14 pm
I read an article in the paper the other day which said they are going to stop the university's from closing down debate by 'no-platforming' speakers that hold views the majority of students don't agree with.

And who is saying that? Oh, yes, it's the rich, privileged, white, right-wing elite who don't like the idea of people holding them responsible for what they say!

Note all the fuss at the moment about Virgin Trains stopping selling the Daily Mail and them claiming it's an "assault on Freedom of Speech" and "censorship".

When Liverpool newsagents stopped selling The S*n because of the lies it printed after Hillsborough, was that an "assault on Freedom of Speech" or just a desire not to have anything to do with a gutter rag that spreads lies and foments hatred and division?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 15 January 2018, 12:05:20 am
I see some of the university's  'debating society's' even tried to stop Germaine Greer from speaking.

Yes, after she used her "feminist" platform to attack the (women only) Murray Edwards College, Cambridge for allowing transsexual women to join.

She has also claimed in the past that Transgender women "are not women" saying “Just because you lop off your d**k and then wear a dress doesn’t make you a f***ing woman”.

Her atttitude belongs in the past and should be left there.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 15 January 2018, 12:21:03 am
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes - Winston Churchill

Bit hard on the French :rolleyes :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 January 2018, 06:45:07 am
 You've won me over Grahamm ;)

Censor the lot of 'em :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 January 2018, 08:04:22 am
  Meanwhile those great defenders of ‘free speech’ UKIP seem to be in a bit of a quandary relating to the’ free speech’ tweets by the 25 year old girlfriend of their 54 year old leader Henry Bolton.
Gotta love twitter.
Could be time for yet another UKIP leadership election.

I bet that relationship will last 😄 lol

Just heard on radio they have split up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 January 2018, 09:51:43 am
I read an article in the paper the other day which said they are going to stop the university's from closing down debate by 'no-platforming' speakers that hold views the majority of students don't agree with.

And who is saying that? Oh, yes, it's the rich, privileged, white, right-wing elite who don't like the idea of people holding them responsible for what they say!

I can't imagine Labour would make much of a fuss about 'no-platforming' as most students appear to be really left wing......until they get to middle age with a house and money at which point they convert to the Tories 😄 lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 January 2018, 06:20:02 pm
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Not seen those tweets, but surely UKIP is irrelevant now?Not seen those tweets, but surely UKIP is irrelevant now?

  Apparently, they were texts to a friend.  Though you don’t have to do much digging to find a whole host of small minded nasty racist tweets by Ms Marney.


Nigel Farage has stated there is “no chance” of him returning to UKIP.  So yeah UKIP is pretty much finished.  But UK is still left with their nasty hangover - BREXIT.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 January 2018, 07:44:45 pm
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Not seen those tweets, but surely UKIP is irrelevant now?Not seen those tweets, but surely UKIP is irrelevant now?

  Apparently, they were texts to a friend.  Though you don’t have to do much digging to find a whole host of small minded nasty racist tweets by Ms Marney.


Nigel Farage has stated there is “no chance” of him returning to UKIP.  So yeah UKIP is pretty much finished.  But UK is still left with their nasty hangover - BREXIT.

Yeah I read those messages in today's paper.

She sounds like an idiot to me.

 It's odd how people will say things in messages that they probably wouldn't dream of saying person to person isn't it.

Mind you, I doubt he'll do better than that for totty from now on in  :lol



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 January 2018, 07:54:46 pm
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It's odd how people will say things in messages that they probably wouldn't dream of saying person to person isn't it.

Like much o the pish spouted (anonymously) on this forum.

Twitter seems to exist as much as anything as a vechicle for people to make a complete arse of themselves.

 As for Henry Bolton - what a dick - he's still yet to figure out that his political career has already ended.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 15 January 2018, 08:23:17 pm
The only nasty hangover left by Nigel Farage and UCIP is the remoaners, but unlike a hangover a couple of asprin won't make the whinging bar stewards go away.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 January 2018, 08:49:01 pm
Like much o the pish spouted (anonymously) on this forum.


 :thumbup :woot if I'm not included in that statement.

 :finger :foc if I am.

 :lol :lol :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 January 2018, 09:30:23 pm
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The only nasty hangover left by Nigel Farage and UCIP is the remoaners, but unlike a hangover a couple of asprin won't make the whinging bar stewards go away.

  BREXIT is the first trade deal where the two parties want to move further apart.  It's idiotic.

And fuck knows where it's going.  May tells us there will be no border in Ireland, but then states we are leaving the single market and customs union.  I've yet to hear how that is achievable.

Meanwhile instead of £350 million a week for the NHS, it’s a bill of somewhere between 40 and 60 billion quid to be paid to Brussels.

Of course it’s understandable why a disaffected population in England and Wales (cos the UK has not voted for it, only England and Wales) given a ball to kick have kicked it.  The problem is it’s the wrong ball – what they have actually voted for is to be poorer – and that’s what they will get.

Except of course – the referendum is not legally binding – nor is article 50 – and the final deal needs the approval of parliament – which means it’s probably not going to happen at the end of the day.


Is that nasty enougth for you Steve.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 16 January 2018, 06:19:22 am
No been insulted by experts :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 16 January 2018, 06:17:29 pm
You cannot have freedom without discipline
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 16 January 2018, 06:24:53 pm
Except of course – the referendum is not legally binding – nor is article 50 – and the final deal needs the approval of parliament – which means it’s probably not going to happen at the end of the day.


I am waiting for this to become a reality.


I'm not sure whether the politicians are making a mess of the negotiations or it will be a good deal... I guess we won't know anything until long after the event and then we can all whinge about it  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 January 2018, 07:01:50 pm
You cannot have freedom without discipline


.....hollered the Dominatrix to her latest client :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 16 January 2018, 07:31:26 pm
 
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I'm not sure whether the politicians are making a mess of the negotiations or it will be a good deal.

The referendum was offered to the public as a means to unite the Tory party in order to win an election and also to weaken UKIP.  The politicians never for one minute throught the public would vote for it, so they never gave a split seconds thought to the implications of actually leaving. 

That’s why we have this make it up as you go along situation.  Nobody started doing any real work on this until the day after the referendum.  So certain Tory politicians begin to realise there are serious obstacles, such as Ireland and trying to avoid a second Indy ref in Scotland.

Then there’s the fact that the EU  is the biggest single open trading market in the world through which we have trade deals with most significant markets around the globe.  Not to mention employment rights, environmental protection, the rural development fund (which has been fantastic for Scotland)……………….I could go on and on and on.

Meanwhile as bikers, here’s what you need to know;

Before the EU referendum a new MT10 was £9999.00
Today a new MT10 is £11299.00

That because thanks to that referendum our money is worth less.

The only good deal to be had is tearing up Article 50 and throwing it in the bin. 

So yeah, BEXIT really gets my goat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 16 January 2018, 07:55:56 pm
……………….I could go on and on and on.


  :'( :'(

  :pokefun   :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 16 January 2018, 08:16:18 pm
It more than gets my goat, it fucks me off big time.

When we had our Indy Ref we were told by 'Better Together' that to guarantee continued membership of the EU we needed to vote NO!  Also ‘Better Together’ kept banging on that an Independent Scotland would be left outside of the EU (conveniently that we were and still are members).
Lying bastards.

That cost the YES campaign votes.

And now what’s happened – the guarantee turns out to be nothing of the sort.  We voted to remain but England is telling us we must leave.
Yes it gets ma goat blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

It’s a monumental foc up.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 January 2018, 08:08:31 pm
People that attend a major professional snooker final without turning their mobile phone off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 21 January 2018, 08:27:59 pm
And also falling a sleep  :rollin :lol, whats that all about? stay at home and watch it laid out on the sofa
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 January 2018, 08:54:50 pm
Yeah crazy :rolleyes

Up until a couple of years ago I used to go to a lot of airshows and you'd be amazed how many people are lying flat out on their back with their eyes shut snoring as the Vulcan/Lancaster/Harrier does a display overhead! :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 22 January 2018, 12:49:41 am
 :lol  yeah that will be the 2 1/2" hours queuing to get it yam, Waddington was my last my own fault saw the chinook giving it what for from the car, but sure as hell yeah and how can someone sleep when a Vulcan flies past awesome a bit like the FZ1 :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 January 2018, 06:36:53 am
Yeah crazy :rolleyes

Up until a couple of years ago I used to go to a lot of airshows and you'd be amazed how many people are lying flat out on their back with their eyes shut snoring as the Vulcan/Lancaster/Harrier does a display overhead! :wall


I remember years ago when a group of fellas all piled out of a coach at our local pub at around 8pm at night after a days trip at the Epsom Derby.
About 8 of them never even saw a horse during the whole day, they just sat near their coach with crates of booze getting absolutely bladdered!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 22 January 2018, 11:14:38 am
Still on the snooker, mugs who pay £100+ for a ticket then spend the whole time watching the overhead monitors to see if their stupid grinning faces are on TV.

Take a selfie and grin at that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 22 January 2018, 11:17:27 am
Oh and just like to add that I thought Kieran Wilson gained a lot of fans by pleading for the "mobile" offender be allowed back to his seat.

If that were me, on the backstroke of what may be a £200,000 stroke, I would have used his balls for practice.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 January 2018, 12:14:45 pm
😄 lol yeah that's the exact incident that I was alluding to in post #2003.

Do you remember when Stephen  Hendry kept beating Jimmy White in all those finals.

Hendry wasn't exactly popular at the time and someone played the Chas n Dave "Snooker Loopy" ringtone just as he was getting down to play a shot!.

That must have been in the early days of mobiles.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 22 January 2018, 03:35:44 pm


When we had our Indy Ref we were told...


You mean, you believed what politicians said?! With all the thousands of years of political history to go by? Mug!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 22 January 2018, 06:35:56 pm
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You mean, you believed what politicians said?! With all the thousands of years of political history to go by? Mug!

Umm, no, I voted YES.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 January 2018, 07:28:39 pm
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You mean, you believed what politicians said?! With all the thousands of years of political history to go by? Mug!

Umm, no, I voted YES.

Touche'  :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 24 January 2018, 11:09:36 pm
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You mean, you believed what politicians said?! With all the thousands of years of political history to go by? Mug!

Umm, no, I voted YES.

Touche'  :lol


Not really. Was the "yes" campaign led by politicians? So he still believed politicians  ;)
When will people learn, it doesn't matter what side they are on, what party or beliefs they represent, they're all a bunch of lying toe rags?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 January 2018, 11:25:01 pm
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Not really. Was the "yes" campaign led by politicians? So he still believed politicians  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url])


 

Well no.  It wasn’t matter of listening to the arguments and making up my mind.  My mind was already make up, nor will it change.



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When will people learn, it doesn't matter what side they are on, what party or beliefs they represent, they're all a bunch of lying toe rags?



Well no, not really.  But there is an exceptionally high proportion of lying toe rags in the Tory party, not t mention narcissists, sociopaths, opportunists and upper-class twits who just simply don’t have a clue about anything. 



English people vote Tory and Scots who don’t vote Tory get a Tory government.  I don’t want to be ruled over by Tories – ever.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 January 2018, 07:51:38 am
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You mean, you believed what politicians said?! With all the thousands of years of political history to go by? Mug!

Umm, no, I voted YES.

Touche'  :lol


Not really. Was the "yes" campaign led by politicians? So he still believed politicians  ;)
When will people learn, it doesn't matter what side they are on, what party or beliefs they represent, they're all a bunch of lying toe rags?


Which is exactly why i've never voted.
I refuse to vote for the best of a bad bunch just for the sake of voting for someone, and to this day i can't name a single politician let alone an actual party that i've ever had any confidence in or even liked. As the years go by i don't think such a party can or ever will exist.
They lie their way in with their bullshit campaigns, then just do whatever they fancy once the foot is in the door.
I appreciate the fact that you can't please everyone as everyone has their own ideas in life, but nobody's even got close to even grabbing my attention in a positive way, it's normally their seedy past that hits the headlines first whilst they're slinging shit at each other during the smear campaigns.
There's a politician who i've seen down my local about 3 times in the last few years, and he gets chatting to you quite openly telling you about his job and what party he represents.
I just think he could come across so much better if he didn't literally spill his pint all down his top and trousers as he talks to you. Not just the once, but every time i've seen him. Totally off his nut, yet still insists on giving everyone his business card in the process. Actually, i s'pose that could be classed as entertaining so although he's not worthy of a vote he is worth chatting to for a laugh.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 January 2018, 08:42:29 am
My local is full of  'Politicians' :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 January 2018, 07:18:41 pm
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Which is exactly why i've never voted.
I refuse to vote for the best of a bad bunch just for the sake of voting for someone, and to this day i can't name a single politician let alone an actual party that i've ever had any confidence in or even liked. As the years go by i don't think such a party can or ever will exist.
They lie their way in with their bullshit campaigns, then just do whatever they fancy once the foot is in the door........................

Well I think of myself as a socialist and a trade unionist.
But what I find today is the youngsters at work (and some of the older uns) moan about the Union.  They say "What has the union ever done for us?"
My answer to them, and in a roundabout way to you, is what have you done for the Union?

At the end of the day, it's a democracy, and love it or loath it, the people will get what they deserve.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 January 2018, 07:22:32 pm
Not doubt this has been mentioned many times already.

It's time for VNA to renew his motorcycle insurance.  As my premium has been creaping up for a few years it's time to move.
If nothing else it's the principle of getting a deal that is something like the going rate.
But fuck me is it hard getting a quote.
Why do so many companies in the bike insurance market seem to have no clue about the market they are in? :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 25 January 2018, 11:49:14 pm
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English people vote Tory and Scots who don’t vote Tory get a Tory government.
O no we didn't! London is Labour, so is Manchester, Liverpool etc. It depends on how you draw the borders and decide majorities. That bloke who owns Sealand has got the right idea. Draw a line around the house and declare yourself independent. I'd be the majority and in charge, but the wife won't let me  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 26 January 2018, 05:55:01 am
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Which is exactly why i've never voted.
I refuse to vote for the best of a bad bunch just for the sake of voting for someone, and to this day i can't name a single politician let alone an actual party that i've ever had any confidence in or even liked. As the years go by i don't think such a party can or ever will exist.
They lie their way in with their bullshit campaigns, then just do whatever they fancy once the foot is in the door........................

Well I think of myself as a socialist and a trade unionist.
But what I find today is the youngsters at work (and some of the older uns) moan about the Union.  They say "What has the union ever done for us?"
My answer to them, and in a roundabout way to you, is what have you done for the Union?

At the end of the day, it's a democracy, and love it or loath it, the people will get what they deserve.


I'm not here to do anything for any union?
What i have done though is put money into the country by getting a job 2 weeks after leaving school and never being out of work since.
As far as my interest can stretch on this subject, it would appear that Labour is the immigrants friend, and Tories are the rich mans friend.
I'm neither.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 26 January 2018, 08:11:20 am
I'm not here to do anything for any union?
What i have done though is put money into the country by getting a job 2 weeks after leaving school and never being out of work since.
As far as my interest can stretch on this subject, it would appear that Labour is the immigrants friend, and Tories are the rich mans friend.
I'm neither.

totally agree with you Darrsi, since 1982 I have had 6 months unemployed but only claimed dole for 3 months
when I say I don't do politics people ask why and I say who I vote for is my business and don't impose my views on anyone else!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 26 January 2018, 09:24:39 am




I'm not here to do anything for any union?
What i have done though is put money into the country by getting a job 2 weeks after leaving school and never being out of work since.
As far as my interest can stretch on this subject, it would appear that Labour is the immigrants friend, and Tories are the rich mans friend.
I'm neither.
 


 + 1 darrsi.
  I left school at 15 in 1971 left on the Friday started as apprentice brickie the following Monday and never been unemployed since. Retired at 55 after sorting own pension out so claim nothing from the state and pay tax on the pension I have.  I wont get my state pension till 2020
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 09:26:27 am
At the end of the day, it's a democracy

Try telling that to some of the hardline Remoaners and anti-Trump virtue signallers and see how far you get.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 09:48:04 am
What makes you think anti-trump is a minority in this country? And anyway, any vote is only valid on the day it is held. It is invalid the following day as people change their minds.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 26 January 2018, 11:12:47 am
At the end of the day, it's a democracy

Try telling that to some of the hardline Remoaners and anti-Trump virtue signallers and see how far you get.

Try telling that to the Brexiteers whose idea of "democracy" is "We won, you lost, so shut up, we can do whatever we want now..."

And, of course, whose cause is being lead by Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 12:09:34 pm
Boris has only one cause..... Boris.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 12:17:38 pm
And anyway, the question on the paper was to 'leave the European Union', not 'leave the Single Market and the Customs Union'. It's some politicians who have taken that decision. That's not democracy  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 26 January 2018, 12:21:22 pm
Hang on a minute, I thought this was Today's 'What gets my goat' not Question Time  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 12:21:38 pm
What makes you think anti-trump is a minority in this country? And anyway, any vote is only valid on the day it is held. It is invalid the following day as people change their minds.

And I'm sure that's what the Remainers would have said if they'd won😉 lol.

Nothing wrong with being anti Trump/Brexit/ whatever. They're as entitled to their views as anyone.

It's all these underhand attempts to try to reverse democratic decisions that gets my goat.

I don't like Corbyn, but if he won a free and fair election I would defend his right to travel freely, be heard and represent the office of Prime Minister.

I wouldn't start chucking all my toys out of the pram just because it didn't go my way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 26 January 2018, 12:31:08 pm
I don't remember all this wining from those that voted against joining the common market back in the 1970s. What we are in now was not what the majority voted for then, certainly not to be ruled by a dictatorship in Europe.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 01:14:06 pm
At least you'd get an opportunity to vote on Corbyn. I don't remember us having a vote on Trump?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 26 January 2018, 01:20:45 pm
Anyway nowadays what gets my goat today is that I don't read newspapers and avoid news programmes on tv so that all this political, religious, whats on trend today shite passes me by but my favourite motorcycle forum is infested by these subjects so please can you all shut up or :foc .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 01:59:07 pm
OK. Back to bikes  8)


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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 02:21:35 pm
At least you'd get an opportunity to vote on Corbyn. I don't remember us having a vote on Trump?

If you've not got American citizenship I don't suppose you're going to are you?.

I don't understand why all the champagne socialists etc... tell Trump he shouldn't come here.

If he comes and makes a fool of himself that's all power to their cause isn't it.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 26 January 2018, 02:38:46 pm
Trump I can put up with, :o but I draw the line at that piece of Harley sh*te he's sat on :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 26 January 2018, 02:55:07 pm
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I don't understand why all the champagne socialists etc... tell Trump he shouldn't come here.


Don't get me wrong. I want Trump to come here so that the mass demonstrations embarras him and our government. The point of the campaign is to build up the embarrassment.


I don't think you understand socialism. The point of socialism is to enable everybody to drink champagne. Whereas working class Tories think that because they can't afford to drink champagne, other people shouldn't be allowed to  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 04:39:57 pm
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I don't understand why all the champagne socialists etc... tell Trump he shouldn't come here.


Don't get me wrong. I want Trump to come here so that the mass demonstrations embarras him and our government. The point of the campaign is to build up the embarrassment.


I don't think you understand socialism. The point of socialism is to enable everybody to drink champagne. Whereas working class Tories think that because they can't afford to drink champagne, other people shouldn't be allowed to  :pokefun


Oi who's you calling working class?!! >:


 :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 January 2018, 06:00:30 pm
 
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I'm not here to do anything for any union?
 What i have done though is put money into the country by getting a job 2 weeks after leaving school and never being out of work since.
 As far as my interest can stretch on this subject, it would appear that Labour is the immigrants friend, and Tories are the rich mans friend.
 I'm neither.


Democracy is what it is.  The people will only get out of it what they put into it.  As I say the people will get the government they deserve.


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Try telling that to some of the hardline Remoaners and anti-Trump virtue signallers and see how far you get.


People do not necessarily change their views or their outlook because of the result of a referendum or election. 



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I don't like Corbyn, but if he won a free and fair election I would defend his right to travel freely, be heard and represent the office of Prime Minister.


Thanks to many MP’s in the Labour Party, the Labour party has lost the last two elections.  They refused to accept the democratic will of the membership and undermined first Ed Miliband and then Jeremy Corbyn.  Such was the arrogance of these MPs that they even held and won a vote of no confidence in their leader Jeremy Corbyn.  Corbyn was then re-elected with an even bigger majority.


It is because of those anti-democratic MPs, who thought that they knew better than the membership of the party that the UK is in the current mess that it is today.  Those MP’s along with their supporters in the Trade Union Movement denied the people of this country a Labour government twice over. 



There never should have been a referendum on the EU.
But what we need now is a second referendum on the EU.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 January 2018, 06:02:24 pm
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If he comes and makes a fool of himself that's all power to their cause isn't it.

Just waiting for the details now.  I wanna be there to give him a big welcome.  I am sure Mr Trump will not forget his visit to the UK in a hurry.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 06:51:07 pm
But what we need now is a second referendum on the EU.


..............and if we lose that one also, then a third  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 26 January 2018, 07:20:39 pm

And keep going until we decide to stay in, then give Scotland referendums on independence until they vote to leave, then ban referendums forever.

Come on, the referendum was held, we voted to leave, politicians SHOULD be running this country according to the will of the people, and they are still arguing. Theres no argument for ANY political party, they should all be working together to find the best deal for us. The people who they should be SERVING.

Self serving - I'm all right Jack - Cheating - lying - Bastards the lot of them.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 January 2018, 08:09:46 pm
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If he comes and makes a fool of himself that's all power to their cause isn't it.

Just waiting for the details now.  I wanna be there to give him a big welcome.  I am sure Mr Trump will not forget his visit to the UK in a hurry.

Just checking......you're not planning on wearing an Uncle Sam costume as well are you?.

I'm worried we're going to clash :'(

 ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 January 2018, 08:18:45 pm
 
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..............and if we lose that one also, then a third  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/garet/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/url])



Or don’t bother – just stick Brexit in the bin.  We don't need a second, never mind a third.  It was a consultative referendum, it is not legally binding.  We are after all a representative democracy, and if the MP’s voted in the best interests of their constituents and the country as a whole it would be binned.


The leave campaign was driven on the back of bare faced lies, such as the 350 million a week for the NHS, right through to Turkey joining the EU and the whole population of Turkey moving to the UK.  Not to mention UKIP breaking point immigration poster.  Is this democracy?  I don't think so.


As Mtread points out, the referendum didn’t even define what leaving the EU meant.  Indeed, many BREXIT campaigners assured us we would still have access to the single market after leaving the EU!


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Theres no argument for ANY political party, they should all be working together to find the best deal for us.



The best deal for the UK is to stay in the EU. 



Not to mention my country voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, only England and Wales voted to leave.   Surely Scotland and Northern Ireland should remain - we voted to remain.


 
Meanwhile the UK is going nowhere politically, we are stagnating, whilst our idiotic leaders figure out how we are going to achieve what nobody ever thought would happen - what nobody made any plans for or even thought seriously about for one minute.  Let’s face it, they still ain’t even sure it’s even possible aside from the fact it is most certainly not desirable.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 26 January 2018, 08:53:13 pm
VNA I have just realised why you spout so much crap you ride a Honda C90 and you have been on the loosing side of 2 referendums grew up and suck it up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 26 January 2018, 09:14:02 pm
VNA I have just realised why you spout so much crap you ride a Honda C90 and you have been on the loosing side of 2 referendums grew up and suck it up.


That will never happen, VNA is like all political arseholes, if you don't agree with all their shite then you are wrong because they know what is best for you,the sooner people all over the world realise that ALL  political and religious ideoligies are just a system invented for a few people to control the masses, without politics and religion people get on just fine, imagine a world with no political or  religious arseholes telling you what to do.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 26 January 2018, 09:29:02 pm
VNA I have just realised why you spout so much crap you ride a Honda C90 and you have been on the loosing side of 2 referendums grew up and suck it up.
VNA is like all political arseholes, if you don't agree with all their shite then you are wrong because they know what is best for you.

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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 27 January 2018, 01:23:53 am
...imagine a world with no political or  religious arseholes telling you what to do.

^ This
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 27 January 2018, 04:42:30 am
Order Order Order I say  :rollin

what gets my goat is that I have to pay national for another 18 years even thou ive now past the 30 year mark, oh well the children are our future, yeah god help us
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 12:00:47 pm
  Ah the joys of foc-u. :D   Point out a few facts and you get called every name under the sun. :lol


Here’s some more shit to cheer up you daft BREXITEERS; ;)


Yesterday the chancellor of the Exchequer in a speech delivered at DAVOS stated that there would only be "very modest" changes to relations between the EU and the UK after Brexit.   He praised a call by the CBI group of business leaders for Britain to have the “closest possible relationship between the EU and the UK post-Brexit.”


Meanwhile an ICM/Guardian survey finds that Britons favour a second referendum on the EU by a 16 point margin. :) :)


And here’s a final wee though for the anti-foreigner angry Brexit brigade.  It is well known that the older you are the more likely you are to favour or have voted for Brexit.  By the time we have actually BREXITED (that is making the big assumption that we actually do) enough older folks will have died off to suggest that a Brexit majority would no longer be possible. :thumbup


Anyway, VNA is off to dig oot his trusty flack jacket.  I anticipate mare name calling.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 January 2018, 01:18:04 pm
Why does VNA want scotland to breakaway from the UK
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 01:34:03 pm
 
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Why does VNA want scotland to breakaway from the UK


Let me put it this way, would you like the English government to be decided by the French?



So why would I want England to decide what government Scotland has.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 27 January 2018, 02:13:47 pm
VNA you have finally got it! Us British/English don't want  French, German, or any other European  country making our laws or telling  our elected government which ever party that might be what they can and can't do. Just the same as you don't want Scotland being ruled by a British government who's parliament building happens to be in London. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 02:39:55 pm
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VNA you have finally got it! Us British/English don't want  French, German, or any other European  country making our laws or telling  our elected government which ever party that might be what they can and can't do. Just the same as you don't want Scotland being ruled by a British government who's parliament building happens to be in London. 


  Umm no.  What the EU does is, work on and decide common standards and laws.  If you want to have a single market, all the advantages that go with it, then the reality is that you need common standards.  I don't have a problem with that - it's advantageous both economically and in terms of humanity plus good for our environment.



I don’t want to be ruled over by the English aristocracy, ie the Tory party.  I don’t want to be part of a country whose major export is arms and is active in fuelling conflict around the globe.  I don’t want to be part of a country that supports the apartheid state of Israel.  I don’t want to be part of a country that invests billions upon billions of pounds on illegal weapons of mass destruction.  I don’t want to be part of a country that doesn’t give a shit about ordinary people, no longer collects corporation tax and that thinks food banks are a welcome development.


And as for the EU, if the UK successfully leaves, the EU will remain to be our biggest trading partner, we will still need to abide by it’s rules (many of which are being adopted round the globe outside of the EU) but have no say in those rules and standards. 



Of course, the laugh is that if the UK does successfully leave the EU, that may well bring about the end of the UK.


What I want is an Independent Scotland with full EU membership.  Scottish first, EU second and Britain no thanks.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 27 January 2018, 03:45:16 pm
Foc’s Sake, are there no moderators around here?
If you want to have a political debate then can you please either start a new thread on the subject or foc off and go to a politics forum.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 03:51:43 pm
 Does political discussion get your goat Freck? :lol
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 27 January 2018, 04:17:07 pm
VNA another gormless twit who doesn't want to be ruled by the Engrish but quite happily but governed by the unelected.
doesn't make sense at all same thoughts as the little fat tea pot..


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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 27 January 2018, 04:27:04 pm
My apologies Freck should have there's no reasoning with a bigot  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 04:29:48 pm
 I’m an arsehole and gormless twit, who spouts crap.
Wondering if I’m the bigot too, and if so how the foc I qualified for that?
 :D :D :lol :lol
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 27 January 2018, 04:33:58 pm
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quite happily but governed by the unelected.
Funny, I seem to remember voting for a Member of the European Parliament in 2014
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 27 January 2018, 05:13:34 pm
Foc’s Sake, are there no moderators around here?
If you want to have a political debate then can you please either start a new thread on the subject or foc off and go to a politics forum.  :rolleyes


I've also had enough of VNA and his soapbox so please VNA, be a good chap and start another thread in "General Chat" for your Brexit?trump rants.


What gets MY goat - VNA!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 27 January 2018, 05:30:33 pm
On a point of order Frosties, this was the post that started it


YamFazFan
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The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 January 2018, 05:32:38 pm
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quite happily but governed by the unelected.
Funny, I seem to remember voting for a Member of the European Parliament in 2014

Do you mean the one who can be overruled time and time again by qualified majority voting on laws that were proposed by the unelected commission? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 January 2018, 05:33:58 pm
On a point of order Frosties, this was the post that started it


YamFazFan
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The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it


Ooops :o

 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 27 January 2018, 05:34:56 pm
I think you've just made VNA's point for him  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 27 January 2018, 06:13:36 pm
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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 January 2018, 06:15:43 pm
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Why does VNA want scotland to breakaway from the UK


Let me put it this way, would you like the English government to be decided by the French?


So why would I want England to decide what government Scotland has.
 
I cant believe you fell for such an obvious trap, its like a massive trap door with ACME TRAP DOOR written on it with a grand piano dangling over it and a big weight saying 1TON
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 27 January 2018, 06:15:56 pm
discussions on political matters will always cause riffs between members.
that is why most forums wont accept  political discussions.
I'm surprise its allowed on here so far. :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 January 2018, 06:23:19 pm
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 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 06:23:45 pm
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I'm surprise its allowed on here so far. ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/shocked.gif[/url])


They always have been.

VNA has never started a politcal thread.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 January 2018, 06:24:31 pm
discussions on political matters will always cause riffs between members.
that is why most forums wont accept  political discussions.
I'm surprise its allowed on here so far. :eek

Fazer owners don't follow the crowd ;)

 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 27 January 2018, 07:56:08 pm
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VNA you have finally got it! Us British/English don't want  French, German, or any other European  country making our laws or telling  our elected government which ever party that might be what they can and can't do. Just the same as you don't want Scotland being ruled by a British government who's parliament building happens to be in London. 


  Umm no.  What the EU does is, work on and decide common standards and laws.  If you want to have a single market, all the advantages that go with it, then the reality is that you need common standards.  I don't have a problem with that - it's advantageous both economically and in terms of humanity plus good for our environment.



I don’t want to be ruled over by the English aristocracy, ie the Tory party.  I don’t want to be part of a country whose major export is arms and is active in fuelling conflict around the globe.  I don’t want to be part of a country that supports the apartheid state of Israel.  I don’t want to be part of a country that invests billions upon billions of pounds on illegal weapons of mass destruction.  I don’t want to be part of a country that doesn’t give a shit about ordinary people, no longer collects corporation tax and that thinks food banks are a welcome development.


And as for the EU, if the UK successfully leaves, the EU will remain to be our biggest trading partner, we will still need to abide by it’s rules (many of which are being adopted round the globe outside of the EU) but have no say in those rules and standards. 



Of course, the laugh is that if the UK does successfully leave the EU, that may well bring about the end of the UK.


What I want is an Independent Scotland with full EU membership.  Scottish first, EU second and Britain no thanks.


But you want to be a subject in state that encourages other nations to join (Ukraine), then fucks off sharpish when the Russian Bear rattles its sabre, leaving hundreds dead along with its failed plan. And Germany and France arent too shy of selling weapons the world over are they.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 27 January 2018, 07:57:09 pm
On a point of order Frosties, this was the post that started it


YamFazFan
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The sections of The Left that try to oppress free speech just because they don't agree with it


I warned YamFazFan about waking VNA up from his hibernation! This is what happens when you do , he infests the forum like a virus and once started does not know when to shutup. Just like every pub has a pub bore he is the forum bore.


Please moderators can you make it a ruling that all political / religious debate is in separate threads and titled as such so that the subject is clear instead of them hijacking other threads.


Like most people I use this forum for motorcycle related subjects coupled with a bit a banter, and I have had enough of being preached at by political zealots.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 27 January 2018, 08:04:22 pm
Peugeot 1.3 diesel engine engine in a car, £30 a year road tax. Same engine in a van, £240 a year road tax, same as my Discovery 2 td5 2.5 litre diesel smoker. No logic, but still bought the van
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 January 2018, 08:52:10 pm
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I warned YamFazFan about waking VNA up from his hibernation! This is what happens when you do , he infests the forum like a virus and once started does not know when to shutup. Just like every pub has a pub bore he is the forum bore.


Please moderators can you make it a ruling that all political / religious debate is in separate threads and titled as such so that the subject is clear instead of them hijacking other threads.


Like most people I use this forum for motorcycle related subjects coupled with a bit a banter, and I have had enough of being preached at by political zealots.


  Slappy, you won’t find a political thread started by VNA. 



I agree with you it’s a bike forum, but I’m not minded to tolerate populist right wing political propaganda or bull shite, bigoted nonsense or racist crap.  And Christ almighty do we hear the bigots squeal when their views are challenged. 
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 January 2018, 12:22:18 am
Do you disagree with any of the content in this report on how The European Union decision making functions VNA?


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/matthew-ellery/eu-referendum_b_9514608.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/matthew-ellery/eu-referendum_b_9514608.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 28 January 2018, 02:43:37 am
 :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall


'You started it. No I didn't. Yes you did. No I didn't. Yes you did, you invaded Poland'.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 January 2018, 06:15:53 am
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I warned YamFazFan about waking VNA up from his hibernation! This is what happens when you do , he infests the forum like a virus and once started does not know when to shutup. Just like every pub has a pub bore he is the forum bore.


Please moderators can you make it a ruling that all political / religious debate is in separate threads and titled as such so that the subject is clear instead of them hijacking other threads.


Like most people I use this forum for motorcycle related subjects coupled with a bit a banter, and I have had enough of being preached at by political zealots.


  Slappy, you won’t find a political thread started by VNA. 



I agree with you it’s a bike forum, but I’m not minded to tolerate populist right wing political propaganda or bull shite, bigoted nonsense or racist crap.  And Christ almighty do we hear the bigots squeal when their views are challenged. 
 


Christ what?
Now you're just making shite up!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 January 2018, 06:23:51 am
:wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall :wall


'You started it. No I didn't. Yes you did. No I didn't. Yes you did, you invaded Poland'.


 :lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 28 January 2018, 10:04:06 am
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I warned YamFazFan about waking VNA up from his hibernation! This is what happens when you do , he infests the forum like a virus and once started does not know when to shutup. Just like every pub has a pub bore he is the forum bore.


Please moderators can you make it a ruling that all political / religious debate is in separate threads and titled as such so that the subject is clear instead of them hijacking other threads.


Like most people I use this forum for motorcycle related subjects coupled with a bit a banter, and I have had enough of being preached at by political zealots.


  Slappy, you won’t find a political thread started by VNA. 



I agree with you it’s a bike forum, but I’m not minded to tolerate populist right wing political propaganda or bull shite, bigoted nonsense or racist crap.  And Christ almighty do we hear the bigots squeal when their views are challenged. 
 


 No you don't start them you just fill other threads up with your views because once you start you don't know when to shut up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 28 January 2018, 11:24:15 am
Peugeot 1.3 diesel engine engine in a car, £30 a year road tax. Same engine in a van, £240 a year road tax, same as my Discovery 2 td5 2.5 litre diesel smoker. No logic, but still bought the van


Yes, of course there is a logic. It starts with the premise that the government wants to maximise revenue / cost to the populace. A van is a commercial vehicle, likely used to make money, money makers can pay more so let's rinse them. A 1.3 diesel in a car - poor sod, let them have cheap tax.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 January 2018, 11:32:33 am
I’m not minded to tolerate political propaganda or bull shite, bigoted nonsense or racist crap.

Scottish first, EU second and Britain no thanks.

Hmm
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 11:50:41 am
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Do you disagree with any of the content in this report on how The European Union decision making functions VNA?
 
 
 [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/matthew-ellery/eu-referendum_b_9514608.html[/url]  ([url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/matthew-ellery/eu-referendum_b_9514608.html[/url])


 
Focs sake YamFazFan, are you trying to start a foccing riot.

 
That’s not a report, it’s the views Mathew Ellery a researcher at Get Britain Out and a member of Conservative Home.  He seems to favour generalisation and meaningless sweeping statements.



 As for bureaucrats, you could argue that our government is run by unelected bureaucrats.  I certainly didn’t elect Boris Johnston to the Cabinet, never mind bleedin Foreign Secretary.  We even had, until recently, an unelected Prime Minister – but I wouldn’t necessarily call any of it undemocratic. 



Why not try the London School of Economics if you want to understand the EU.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/06/21/is-the-eu-really-run-by-unelected-bureaucrats/ (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/06/21/is-the-eu-really-run-by-unelected-bureaucrats/)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 January 2018, 12:09:21 pm
Focs sake YamFazFan, are you trying to start a foccing riot.

 :lol :lol

No! I'm genuinely interested in the subject :book
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 12:23:57 pm
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No! I'm genuinely interested in the subject ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/book.gif[/url])



Poor slappy's gonna have a fit if ye didnae stop  :lol :lol


  Umm, err, well, the LSE account of how the EU operates, as you can see, is just a wee bit different from the sensationalist accounts as promoted by Get Britain Out, the Daily Mail et all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 January 2018, 02:11:53 pm



Poor slappy's gonna have a fit if ye didnae stop  :lol :lol



  Umm, err, well, the LSE account of how the EU operates, as you can see, is just a wee bit different from the sensationalist accounts as promoted by Get Britain Out, the Daily Mail et all.

Interesting account.

I don't think it's wildly different from the one in my link though. I'm still not comfortable with the way it operates.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 02:49:58 pm
 
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Interesting account.


It’s more fact than biased opinion and distortion.


Eg,
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The EU Commission is the guardian of the treaties and enforces EU law. More importantly, this means it is the Government of Europe which has the sole right to propose the laws which increasingly encroach on our lives here in Britain.  -  Matthew Ellery of Get Britain Out

Which yes is similar to Professor Simon Hix of The London School of Economics, expect that the Professor explains what can be proposed;


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The Commission can only propose laws in those areas where the EU governments have unanimously agreed to allow it to do under the EU treaty. Put another way, the Commission can only propose EU laws in areas where the UK government and the House of Commons has allowed it to do so.


So what’s the big issue?  What the foc is the problem?


28 states in one single market right on our door step.  Now BREXITEERS of course want the whole EU to collapse.  Can you imagine dealing with 27 separate governments, 28 separate manufacturing standards, 27 sets of tariffs and duties.   



Anyway there is an EU team working to come up with a solution to allow the UK to remain as full members of the EU.  The solution is to work out a means to restrict and control free movement, of which it just so happens quite a number of EU members would like to see.


But the question remains, why would we want to leave the single biggest genuinely free trade zone in the world that we have full and open access to, which just so happens to be on our doorstep. 



Meanwhile, here we are coming on two years after that idiotic referendum and nobody can yet tell us what leaving the EU means, what shape the deal will take, or for that matter even if a deal is possible.  In the meantime, inward investment is on hold and numerous businesses and manufactures who are based here to access the single market are finalising their contingency plans – that is their plans to leave the UK if there is not single market access.


The whole thing is bonkers, potentially hugely damaging to our economy, will saddle us with a massive divorce bill and has our parliament grid locked.  Not to mention only England and Wales voted for it.  But they think they have the right to impose it on the other members of the Union.  >: >: >:


So yeah, like I said BREXIT gets my foccing goat!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 January 2018, 04:25:49 pm
The solution is to work out a means to restrict and control free movement, of which it just so happens quite a number of EU members would like to see.

And if they'd done that prior to the referendum I bet you the result would have been 'Remain' ;)

Everyone I spoke to post referendum that voted 'Leave' said that broadly the same things had influenced their decision, such as the health service being at breaking point and a lack of affordable housing and yet still they encourage free movement.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 28 January 2018, 04:39:56 pm
But the health service is staffed with the help of free movement..... Which goes to show that the referendum result was fuelled by misinformation. Time for a second referendum  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 January 2018, 05:25:25 pm
But the health service is staffed with the help of free movement..... Which goes to show that the referendum result was fuelled by misinformation. Time for a second referendum  :D
That's the point the brexiters voted for CONTROLLED movement - not free movement as you put it so that the UK can have the freedom to chose who it lets in - so of course we will let in qualified nursed and doctors.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 05:43:10 pm
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Everyone I spoke to post referendum that voted 'Leave' said that broadly the same things had influenced their decision, such as the health service being at breaking point and a lack of affordable housing and yet still they encourage free movement.

  Most of those who voted leave that I spoke to came up with a list of reasons that had nothing to do with the EU.  Most of what pissed em off is the policies of various UK governments over the last 30 odd years or so.  Understandably peeved off, as am I, and given a ball to kick, well they kicked.  Wrong ball though.  Leaving the EU will only make things worse.


As mtread has stated the health service is staffed with the help of free movement.  For example, currently there is a serious shortage of nursing staff in the NHS.  There are a number of reasons for that, but one is a heck of a lot of EU citizens are heading home.  The two reasons for that are, the weakness of the pound, combined with uncertainty of their status plus a general feeling of feeling unwelcome in England and Wales. 



The NHS is chronically underfunded.  The reality is that the Tories foccing hate the NHS, they’d love an American insurance based system.  Proper funding for the NHS is not difficult.  We need to make sure companies pay their corporate income tax.  Some estimates of the amount of unpaid corporation tax put it high enough to fund the whole NHS in England and Wales.  The Tories have no intention of making all corporations pay their taxes, plus working across the EU to close the corporation tax loop holes is the way forward.  The Tories however have plans to turn the UK into a tax haven.


Foc me, Tories get my foccing goat.  The foccing self-serving dirty thieving stinking  scum bags that they are.   >: >: >: >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 05:47:30 pm
 
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That's the point the brexiters voted for CONTROLLED movement - not free movement as you put it so that the UK can have the freedom to chose who it lets in - so of course we will let in qualified nursed and doctors.


 
Didn’t see that on the ballot slip.  What leaving the EU meant was not defined.  I mean we could have left the EU but paid to be in the single market for example – that as things stand would mean free movement.


As it is people are dying in our hospitals and the fruit will rot in the fields come the summer, cos the Europeans are heading hame – and who can blame them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 28 January 2018, 06:03:57 pm
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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 28 January 2018, 08:41:00 pm
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That's the point the brexiters voted for CONTROLLED movement -

What on earth mak
[/size]es you think they would want to work here under 'controlled movement' when they can work in 27 other countries unrestricted? It's not even as if we are any good controlling workers from non EU countries.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 28 January 2018, 09:04:21 pm
The Donald is on ITV at 10pm tonight in an interview with Piers Morgan :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 January 2018, 09:49:12 pm
For example, currently there is a serious shortage of nursing staff in the NHS.  There are a number of reasons for that, but one is a heck of a lot of EU citizens are heading home.  The two reasons for that are, the weakness of the pound, combined with uncertainty of their status plus a general feeling of feeling unwelcome in England and Wales. 
The pound is at highest point against the euro since the vote to leave the EU in 2016.
Thats 3, but you missed the 4th which is that the economy in their own country has improved so they can now find well paid jobs there.

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What on earth makes you think they would want to work here under 'controlled movement' when they can work in 27 other countries unrestricted? It's not even as if we are any good controlling workers from non EU countries.
24 as Poland, Hungary, Astria and Czech Republic have closed their doors and said no to free movement.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 January 2018, 10:06:40 pm
 
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The pound is at highest point against the euro since the vote to leave the EU in 2016.
 Thats 3, but you missed the 4th which is that the economy in their own country has improved so they can now find well paid jobs there.

 Ok ah cannae count  :o , but the poond is still a significantly down on pre BREXIT vote levels.  Honest. :'(



 
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24 as Poland, Hungary, Astria and Czech Republic have closed their doors and said no to free movement.



 I think you are confusing refugees with free movement.  Poland, Hungary, Astria and Czech Republic have not closed their doors and said no to free movement.
 
 
 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 January 2018, 12:15:24 am
I think the pound drop has got more to do with traders interference, use the excuse/cover of brexit - manipulate the pound lower -- then buy then manipulate it back up and sell. Done it before with LIBOR
Funny the pound went down even though nothing yet (brexit ) had happened - funny how now brexit still not happened and yet the pound gos up again. Or is it the silly excuse "uncertainty" which is an even more frighting prospect that rigging in that the whole financial sector is run by frightened little children.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 29 January 2018, 12:34:37 am
 
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I think the pound drop has got more to do with traders interference, use the excuse/cover of Brexit



It’s confidence.  Or lack of it rather.  UK’s credit rating has also been downgraded.  The pound in your pocket is worth less because of the BREXIT vote.


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Funny the pound went down even though nothing yet (brexit ) had happened - funny how now brexit still not happened and yet the pound gos up again.

The pound is up on the week.  That’s it. 
The pound 22-06-16 = 1.30562 Euro
The pound 22-06-17 = 1.13720 Euro
The pound 29-01-18 = 1.13771 Euro
http://www.xe.com/ (http://www.xe.com/)
It's going nowhere.  It will sink if it becomes apparent that the UK will leave the single market. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 29 January 2018, 12:41:19 am
I think it's more likely the value fell after the referendum because of fear that the economy would get much worse, and it has recovered slightly because they are expecting a soft Brexit. With the current state of the Tory party I expect it to bounce up and down like a knackered original Fazer shock.


(Note bike reference to keep the post police happy)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 29 January 2018, 06:51:48 pm
 Recovered so slightly it’s hardly noticeable.
Certainly tensions are rising in the Tory party, I think they are about ready to implode like a thrashed thou starved of oil.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 January 2018, 10:09:14 pm

I'll tell you what gets my goat (apart from political discussions, please, please VNA, start another thread for your diatribe), when you lose the good set of EXUP cables that have been poking you in the eye every time I go anywhere near the garage shelving, and have to buy some new ones. Knowing full well that the old ones will turn up within a month.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 29 January 2018, 10:46:52 pm
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I'll tell you what gets my goat (apart from political discussions, please, please VNA, start another thread for your diatribe),

Not my diatribe Billy.  And VNA has never, and has no intention of ever starting any politcal thread, or political discussion. 

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 January 2018, 11:22:43 pm

Well please get off your soap box and stop spoiling this one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 29 January 2018, 11:30:08 pm
You seem to be the one trying to start an arguement Billy.

Like I say I don't start political threads and I don't start political discussions.




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 29 January 2018, 11:45:53 pm

Nope, just trying to stop this thread being so boring. I'm not even going to bite about being accused of trying to start an argument. I don't care, i'm just fed up with political comment taking over a thread I previously liked.

You can come up with any clever political answer to my comment above you like, but the fact still remains, you are spoiling this entertaining thread, and i'm not going to respond to any more of your comments on this subject.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 January 2018, 12:14:24 am
What would the baby Jesus say?  :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 January 2018, 12:18:00 am

when you lose the good set of EXUP cables that have been poking you in the eye every time I go anywhere near the garage shelving,
:lol :lol
Have to laugh I have done that kind of thing with stuff too. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 January 2018, 12:22:12 am
Hands up - I have been part of prolonging the political debate but even I am getting bored with it all now, after all
"we get the forum we deserve"  ;) :rollin   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 January 2018, 12:29:18 am
 You know what gets my goat, folks complaining about me starting political discussions on foc-u when I’ve never done any such thing.


What I do do, is step on right wing, fascist, racist and bigoted views whenever they pop up, and VNA (Very Nasty Andy) has a very bad habit of hammering his points home.


And of course, before I upset anybody with those comments, when you have slick operators like Jo Johnson MP (abusing his position of power) teaming up with the fascist Daily Mail (whom people don’t take seriously expect somehow, they soak up the bull shite) well you can understand that people can be taken in.


The other thing that gets my foccing goat is those slanting fruit and veg displays in supermarkets.  What the foc is that all about.  You pick up one tomato, and six others foccing roll off all over the aisle.  And as for fruit and veg in plastic packaging……………………………

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 January 2018, 12:33:30 am
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Hands up - I have been part of prolonging the political debate but even I am getting bored with it all now, after all
"we get the forum we deserve"  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url]) ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rollin.gif[/url])   



It'll all your foccing fault fazersharp.


But hey VNA'll take the bullets for you, cos ma views ain't populist.  Not that I foccing care.  :lol


You know what else gets my foccing goat - people who get upset about internet forums - get a life - and also............................................
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 January 2018, 09:17:41 am
What I want to know is when are the English going to be given a referendum on our independence from Scotland :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 30 January 2018, 09:36:10 am
What I want to know is when are the English going to be given a referendum on our independence from Scotland :eek

Fuck that, can you imagine the cost of rebuilding Hadrians wall 😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 January 2018, 10:22:32 am
What I want to know is when are the English going to be given a referendum on our independence from Scotland :eek
Exactly we should have a vote if we want to kick them out of the UK------- finally- a racist bigoted populist view that VNA will agree with.

And forget paying for the wall because we get the scotts to pay for it of course !
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 January 2018, 10:32:29 am
It'll all your foccing fault fazersharp.

According to mtread it was mine.

If I did indeed start it then I shall now end it.

.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 January 2018, 10:35:48 am
It'll all your foccing fault fazersharp.

According to mtread it was mine.

If I did indeed start it then I shall now end it.

.


That's debatable  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 January 2018, 11:06:14 am

Oh well in that case!.........


 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 January 2018, 11:09:45 am
I'm a brickie I'll rebuild that wall for free just supply the materials  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 30 January 2018, 11:11:13 am
What gets my goat is BREXIT...what do you lot think ? :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 30 January 2018, 11:12:46 am
sorry couldn resist..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 January 2018, 02:31:42 pm
Not getting into that mine field Flooky
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 January 2018, 06:35:36 pm
  Focs sake, look at this shit.  You foccers just can’t help yerselfs when it comes tae politics.
 
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Exactly we should have a vote if we want to kick them out of the UK------- finally- a racist bigoted populist view that VNA will agree with.

Well no I don’t agree.  Though, England could have a vote to leave the UK itself, which would be fine.


But I’m not sure it would make sense for you.  One, today’s leaked government BREXIT report suggests that the only good BREXIT deal is to bin BREXIT and remain in the EU.  Every possible other option, just as I’ve said from the start will leave the UK, or in your scenario, England (and Wales?  You will take them with you, won’t you?) worse off.  Economic growth will stagnate with possible recession.


And on top of that if you break away from Scotland, well Scotland has been subsidising England for years. 



Anyway, no need for a border, well that is as long as ye come to yer senses and bin BREXIT, as Scotland will be staying in the EU.


Ach, whatever, we’ll bung you some cash under oor foreign aid budget.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 January 2018, 07:49:22 pm
VNA your not even a challenge to get a bite from, so thank you and good night.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 30 January 2018, 08:06:10 pm

 


And on top of that if you break away from Scotland, well Scotland has been subsidising England for years. 


Ach, whatever, we’ll bung you some cash under oor foreign aid budget.
  Taken from an article in the Spectator
Had the SNP achieved its stated ambition of ‘independence day’ in the spring of 2016, what would it be doing now? We don’t have to imagine. This week, the Scottish government published figures for its national finances. They show that the Scottish government spends £127 for every £100 it raises in tax — a ratio unequalled anywhere else in the developed world. It can do this because so much extra money is sent up from England. For every £100 spent per English head, £120 is spent on a Scottish one.
  Not being argumentative, just saying.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 January 2018, 08:47:24 pm
 
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Taken from an article in the Spectator
 Had the SNP achieved its stated ambition of ‘independence day’ in the spring of 2016, what would it be doing now? We don’t have to imagine. This week, the Scottish government published figures for its national finances. They show that the Scottish government spends £127 for every £100 it raises in tax — a ratio unequalled anywhere else in the developed world. It can do this because so much extra money is sent up from England. For every £100 spent per English head, £120 is spent on a Scottish one.
 [/color]  Not being argumentative, just saying.


 
The Spectator!  A Conservative magazine on politics.   Hmmm.   Nor I am sure what they are trying to say.  Until recently Scotland did not raise any taxes for it’s own government, it gets a grant from the UK, ie we get a % back of the money we pay to the exchequer.   But we now have control over income tax raised in Scotland, so our budget is a combination of Barnett formula grant plus the income tax we raise.


Note also the figures The Spectator quotes exclude North Sea Revenue.  In fact, all the figures quoted in the English press magically exclude oil revenues, that is until the recent collapse in the oil price!



 The reason we can spend more per head than the rest of the UK is because Scotland raises more tax per person than the rest of the UK.   We subsidise the UK. Naturally we have remote communities to look after, so it does actually cost more to run services across the whole of Scotland. 



Meanwhile of course, we are still funding nuclear weapons, funding warships and paying for England’s foreign adventures.   We wouldn’t be doing much or any of that as an Independent nation.   Being tied to the UK costs us a flaming fortune.


But of course, Scotland voted decisively to remain in the UK.  The BREXIT government’s own reports show that the only option that makes sense is to bin BREXIT.  So what are we to do.


A second Independence Referendum may well be on the cards.

[/color]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 31 January 2018, 01:11:47 am
On Sunday I was on a Group Ride (about 20 participants) and about a dozen bikes were stopped up ahead at traffic lights.

There's a car behind them and about 12 feet of clear space between it and the bikes, so I filter past and slot in.

The next thing I know, the foccing twat driving the car has pushed up alongside me (his wing was actually touching my leg!!) and shouting at me that it's illegal for me to go past him like that!

For foc's sake. I was out with the foccing Solent Advanced Motorcyclists. We're all at least Green Badge holders (ie passed our Advanced Tests) and we had at least three Observers on the Ride and this pillock who probably passed his test about 50 years ago and has never looked at a Highway Code since is trying to tell me that filtering is illegal!

I also notice that his car is bending my indicator back and, if it wouldn't have made everyone else have to stop and wait, I considered demanding his registration and insurance details, since he had, effectively, struck my vehicle with his.

As it was, I really couldn't be bothered to deal with this focwit, but incidents like this are just another reason why I'm in favour of compulsory re-tests

 :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 January 2018, 08:37:00 am
I bet he's anti-bike all the time.

I think blokes that enthusiastically dislike motorbikes are foccin weirdos.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 31 January 2018, 08:55:15 am
Oh Jesus is this still going on???
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 January 2018, 09:02:28 am
Oh Jesus is this still going on???

Errm no.

Grahamm's post isn't about Brexit/politics is it?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 31 January 2018, 11:46:37 am
Oh Jesus is this still going on???

Errm no.

Grahamm's post isn't about Brexit/politics is it?.

Just wait for it........... :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 31 January 2018, 04:46:40 pm
Oh Jesus is this still going on???

Errm no.

Grahamm's post isn't about Brexit/politics is it?.


If we were to embrace the French rules, filtering would be illegal.

Bring on Brexit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 31 January 2018, 05:37:16 pm
Oh Jesus is this still going on???

Errm no.

Grahamm's post isn't about Brexit/politics is it?.


If we were to embrace the French rules, filtering would be illegal.

Bring on Brexit.

Owning a motorbike is all but illegal I'm France isn't it haha I've never bothered myself but I hear driving/riding there is more hassle than it's worth with all the petty rules they keep bringing in.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 31 January 2018, 07:04:20 pm
The solution is simple "Keep voting until you get it right"  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 31 January 2018, 09:18:31 pm
The solution is simple "Keep voting until you get it right"  :lol :lol :lol


and believe it or not, the leader of my local authority actually spoke those same word to me back in the late nineties, regarding a referendum to dispose of council houses or not. "Whats if the result's is a NO". "We'll keep balloting until we get a yes" was the reply.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 31 January 2018, 09:28:39 pm
Foc all this brexit bo**ocks can any one answer this great mystery of life why do your leathers/bike clothes shrink in the cupboard if you don't ride through the bad weather of winter. Some of us of more senior years don't do the cold and wet as well as we used to, plus it hurts more if/when we bin it. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 31 January 2018, 09:38:00 pm
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Foc all this brexit bo**ocks can any one answer this great mystery of life why do your leathers/bike clothes shrink in the cupboard if you don't ride through the bad weather of winter. Some of us of more senior years don't do the cold and wet as well as we used to, plus it hurts more if/when we bin it. 

Indeed foc BREXIT!  :D

Have you noticed how leather seems to shrink with age?  Every spring I find my lovely Scott leathers have gotten that wee bit tighter. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 31 January 2018, 09:41:40 pm
Dam we agree on some thing at last best we keep to bike subjects. I have 3 pairs of leather trousers that have shrunk over the years. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 31 January 2018, 10:40:40 pm
Foc all this brexit bo**ocks can any one answer this great mystery of life why do your leathers/bike clothes shrink in the cupboard if you don't ride through the bad weather of winter. Some of us of more senior years don't do the cold and wet as well as we used to, plus it hurts more if/when we bin it.

Perhaps it's because the oils in the leather dry out, especially if the leathers have been soaked. An application of a leather treatment before storing may help.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 31 January 2018, 10:55:16 pm
If we were to embrace the French rules, filtering would be illegal.


In typical French style, however, whilst it may be illegal, they still do it. And now:

"It’s only taken the best part of thirty years but finally the French have realised that not only do all motorcycle riders ride in between the lanes of stationary traffic but there really isn't much that can be done to stop them."

http://www.drive-france.com/blog/new-motorcycle-rules-2016/ (http://www.drive-france.com/blog/new-motorcycle-rules-2016/)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 February 2018, 06:40:54 am
The cause of problem with my leathers is my feet, can't keep them out the pantry/fridge.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 01 February 2018, 08:31:23 am
The cause of problem with my leathers is my feet, can't keep them out the pantry/fridge.

 :agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 04 February 2018, 03:28:25 pm
just bought a new toaster and the lead is barely long enough to get the toaster past the overhanging shelf. As it is, I cannot have the toaster controls facing me, the whole toaster has to be side on


which gobshite decides on short cables?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 04 February 2018, 05:44:08 pm
just bought a new toaster and the lead is barely long enough to get the toaster past the overhanging shelf. As it is, I cannot have the toaster controls facing me, the whole toaster has to be side on


which gobshite decides on short cables?

The government I think.

I believe it's a safety feature to stop the appliance being placed too close to a sink full of water and possibly tipping in when it's turned on.

The power sockets have to be a certain distance away and if the toaster has a titchy lead it can't reach the sink.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 04 February 2018, 07:28:29 pm
The cause of problem with my leathers is my feet, can't keep them out the pantry/fridge.

 :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 February 2018, 12:16:06 am
Who is that person that always plays the piano with one finger on all the sad sections on every pet or zoo tv program
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 February 2018, 06:15:08 pm
It's a shame the pot-hole filling budget isn't as flush as the grit/salt one.

The spreader's been past my house 4 times already tonight.

Even though most of that ended up in the front gardens the road is beginning to resemble Brighton Beach :rolleyes

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 06 February 2018, 08:45:50 pm
Don't complain not seen a gritter or even grit laying on roads spread by the grit fairy in Market Harborough yet this winter. Still on the bright side the local car body repairers are doing a roaring trade. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 February 2018, 08:54:17 pm
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the road is beginning to resemble Brighton Beach

Not the best time of the year for nudism!  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 February 2018, 09:32:14 pm
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the road is beginning to resemble Brighton Beach

Not the best time of the year for nudism!  :eek


Yeah that's what I thought!

If they'd asked nicely I could have chucked a few bags of sharp sand down for them in the summer lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 February 2018, 03:24:18 pm
Celebrity culture. TV is full of non descript wanabees non one has heard of off claining to be famous, former soap "stars" who left the series and never worked again (cos they cant act) trying to get back in the limelight, blokes trying to make a career out of the fact they are gay, folk we are supposed to empathise with cos theyve had trouble passing a stool. Im fucked off with it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 07 February 2018, 06:19:53 pm
Well bloody stop watching it then!  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 08 February 2018, 12:11:51 pm
 James Bulger killer  Jon Venables getting yet another conviction for possessing child abuse images, and still his identity is protected. I would like to know how much he costs the tax payer a year to keep his identity protected. The sentence seems very lenient considering his previous convictions are the authorities going to wait till god forbid another child looses their life before he is locked up for life.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 February 2018, 02:12:57 pm
:agree
He is an adult now. These offenses took place as an adult so his name should be in the public domain. That said, his name was changed due to his earlier office when he was a child. The trouble is they cannot publish that name.

Time to send him down for life with no chance of parole. He has proven he cannot be trusted too often and as such does not deserve to go free.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 08 February 2018, 02:31:03 pm
How can they possibly release his name? The lynch mob would be on the streets straight away. He has committed this crime as an adult and he will get a sentance appropriate to an adult. Interesting that Robert Thompson has not put a foot wrong since.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 08 February 2018, 02:46:34 pm
Would be interesting if under the freedom of information act they would the release the figures of life sentenced prisoners released on parole that go on and commit further murders.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 February 2018, 03:05:40 pm
Interesting that Robert Thompson has not put a foot wrong since.

I may be wrong (I usually am) but I thought he got relocated to the prison colony and may have had an issue or two there. We will never know if he has put a foot wrong there as they don't know his background!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 February 2018, 03:08:25 pm
Would be interesting if under the freedom of information act they would the release the figures of life sentenced prisoners released on parole that go on and commit further murders.

Go on  -  Give it a go. Word your question correctly though so there's no reason to decline it.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 08 February 2018, 06:00:59 pm
I'm not that clever with words, I think we might all be horrified by the number.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 08 February 2018, 06:38:45 pm

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I may be wrong (I usually am) but I thought he got relocated to the prison colony and may have had an issue or two there. We will never know if he has put a foot wrong there as they don't know his background!!

You are wrong


https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/robert-thompson-where-is-now-11993032 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/robert-thompson-where-is-now-11993032)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 February 2018, 08:23:56 pm
and he will get a sentance appropriate to an adult.

I wouldn't bank on it.

Whoever could have imagined that John Worboy's release was imminent?.

Not his many victims I should imagine.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 08 February 2018, 10:16:34 pm
Worboys' release won't happen. They'll prosecute on the extra charges they should have done first time round. If the CPS hadn't cocked it up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 09 February 2018, 09:47:47 am
Worboys' release won't happen. They'll prosecute on the extra charges they should have done first time round. If the CPS hadn't cocked it up.






Better to leave some charges on file so he can be charged at a later date. That's why they have charges taken into account before they are sentenced they can't later be charged with them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 11 February 2018, 09:05:34 pm
The word " olympian"  when used as a prefix before a persons name because they have taken part in an Olympic games, don't know why but it just bugs the hell out of me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 11 February 2018, 11:21:15 pm
The word " olympian"  when used as a prefix before a persons name because they have taken part in an Olympic games, don't know why but it just bugs the hell out of me.


Grumpy people is 'What Gets My Goat' :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 February 2018, 09:03:53 am
The word " olympian"  when used as a prefix before a persons name because they have taken part in an Olympic games, don't know why but it just bugs the hell out of me.


Grumpy people is 'What Gets My Goat' :pokefun

"Athlete" when referring to sports like clay pigeon shooting  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 12 February 2018, 10:06:20 am
The word " olympian"  when used as a prefix before a persons name because they have taken part in an Olympic games, don't know why but it just bugs the hell out of me.


Grumpy people is 'What Gets My Goat' :pokefun

"Athlete" when referring to sports like clay pigeon shooting  :rolleyes


Lol!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 12 February 2018, 07:22:26 pm
The word " olympian"  when used as a prefix before a persons name because they have taken part in an Olympic games, don't know why but it just bugs the hell out of me.


Grumpy people is 'What Gets My Goat' :pokefun


Not grumpy but certain words bug me, like blogger, vlogger, activist etc. Seems like everybody these days needs a title before their names  to make them feel validated,  I don't put engineer before my name and I bet you don't put bricklayer before your name. What I do for a living does not make me who I am, my personality does.
Okay so I hold my hand up , I might be a bit grumpy sometimes :) , so I should have as my title grumpy engineer.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 12 February 2018, 10:10:27 pm
 Now there’s a thing that pisses me off.  All the folks who call themselves Engineers but are nothing of the sort.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 13 February 2018, 05:06:31 am
Now there’s a thing that pisses me off.  All the folks who call themselves Engineers but are nothing of the sort.


Is that aimed at me?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 13 February 2018, 08:49:06 am
Now there’s a thing that pisses me off.  All the folks who call themselves Engineers but are nothing of the sort.

I am an engineer, not an artist
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 13 February 2018, 09:30:53 am
'Software Engineers' =glorified name for programmers, aka 'coding monkeys'  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 13 February 2018, 10:31:12 am
Another one - the army and when ranks retire they are always referred to as "Colonel Mustard-retired"  "wing Commander Bird - retired"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 13 February 2018, 06:45:24 pm
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Is that aimed at me?

 I have no idea what you are Slappy, that is other than a little sensitive and maybe a wee bit paranoia.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 13 February 2018, 06:46:53 pm
Another one - the army and when ranks retire they are always referred to as "Colonel Mustard-retired"  "wing Commander Bird - retired"


How far down the ranks does that go. Are there any "Private Tommy Atkins-retired"?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 15 February 2018, 08:18:33 am
Another one - the army and when ranks retire they are always referred to as "Colonel Mustard-retired"  "wing Commander Bird - retired"


How far down the ranks does that go. Are there any "Private Tommy Atkins-retired"?

I could be wrong. (often am!), but I thought it was that you had to have held a field rank i.e Major or above (or equivalent i.e Lt Commander / Sqn Ldr) if it was Captain RN that's equivalent to Colonel /Group Captain!

most of us rank & file just use Veteran!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 15 February 2018, 05:53:12 pm
Another one - the army and when ranks retire they are always referred to as "Colonel Mustard-retired"  "wing Commander Bird - retired"


How far down the ranks does that go. Are there any "Private Tommy Atkins-retired"?

I could be wrong. (often am!), but I thought it was that you had to have held a field rank i.e Major or above (or equivalent i.e Lt Commander / Sqn Ldr) if it was Captain RN that's equivalent to Colonel /Group Captain!

most of us rank & file just use Veteran!


Thats what I thought as well, I guess like everything now its getting watered down.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 15 February 2018, 10:41:40 pm
How about, "Hedgetrimmer, RG500 rider (ret'd)?  Or, "Hedgetrimmer, Mini Metro killer (ret'd)? Or....jeez, come to think of it, I could have hundreds of titles. Most wouldn't be very complimentary though. Still, I'd be dumb enough to be proud of them  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 17 February 2018, 09:23:07 am
Whats gets my goat today ?    That old chessnut ........car insurance........gets my renewal quote of £269 which I know is cheap compared with a lot of you on here but iam an old foccer who dosnt do many cage miles , limited to 4000 per year....but why is it that when I phone them up to cancel so I can switch to a better deal they can suddenly reduce the premium to £200 ...why not offer that to me in the first place   :wall




happy with £200 though   ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 February 2018, 10:26:18 am
New cars being fitted with with LED main lights - they are so focing bright and "glarey", compared to normal bulbs theres even that advert with the car making the fox squint - like its a feature that sels the car to nobheads cause it makes everyone squint   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 17 February 2018, 01:36:29 pm
New cars being fitted with with LED main lights - they are so focing bright and "glarey", compared to normal bulbs theres even that advert with the car making the fox squint - like its a feature that sels the car to nobheads cause it makes everyone squint


Don't get me started, and it means that said knob heads forget to turn there actual lights on in the dark.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 17 February 2018, 02:16:49 pm
New cars being fitted with with LED main lights - they are so focing bright and "glarey", compared to normal bulbs theres even that advert with the car making the fox squint - like its a feature that sels the car to nobheads cause it makes everyone squint


Don't get me started, and it means that said knob heads forget to turn there actual lights on in the dark.


Never mind lights, these automatic braking  / collision avoidance systems that some new cars have, the knob heads think they don' t even have to brake or look where their going.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 17 February 2018, 05:02:08 pm
New cars being fitted with with LED main lights - they are so focing bright and "glarey", compared to normal bulbs theres even that advert with the car making the fox squint - like its a feature that sels the car to nobheads cause it makes everyone squint


Don't get me started, and it means that said knob heads forget to turn there actual lights on in the dark.





Never mind lights, these automatic braking  / collision avoidance systems that some new cars have, the knob heads think they don' t even have to brake or look where their going.


Ive a feeling these systems are going to create a legal minefield in future years
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 17 February 2018, 07:45:30 pm
Today, riding behind a line of cars, suddenly the rear passenger opens the window and tosses all his rubbish out.
Makes me fucking boil.
I wait for a safe moment, pull alongside, make a pointing gesture to the rear and shake my head.
A few miles along at a junction, I pull over and as they pass, the passenger window unwinds and a young lady calls me a fucking tosser.
I am now like a heat seeking misile, right up their chuffer  when they pull off the main road into another country lane.
I again wait for the right moment, overtake and bring them to a stop.
I realised that the driver and young lady didn't know what the retard in the back had done and although I felt like I was doing an impression of street budgie  :D  I had to unload and let them know what just happened and what I thought about it.
People who think it's acceptable to throw their litter out the window truly gets my goat.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 17 February 2018, 08:53:36 pm
New cars being fitted with with LED main lights - they are so focing bright and "glarey", compared to normal bulbs theres even that advert with the car making the fox squint - like its a feature that sels the car to nobheads cause it makes everyone squint


Don't get me started, and it means that said knob heads forget to turn there actual lights on in the dark.


It's become an annoying possibly dangerous obsession which even bikers are getting into.....
Not to mention the light obsessed cyclists out there
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 18 February 2018, 12:52:03 am
I had to take evasive action a couple of weeks ago on the A3 Southbound heading towards Petersfield, along the cycle path heading North on the Southbound side came two cyclists with LED headlights on I swung hard over into the fast lane as I thought it was a car on the wrong side of the carriageway, thankfully I was in the car, had I been on the bike it could have been a brown smudge moment.
Some of the bike lights are so bright now with a hint of blue just like the modern cars.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 18 February 2018, 07:18:11 am
Bright day running lights on cars If other drivers can't see a dirty great lump of metal hurtling towards them day running lights will make no difference, but they did to bikers when we first started using them now every ones got lights on so we have become invisible again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 February 2018, 10:16:15 am
Bright day running lights on cars If other drivers can't see a dirty great lump of metal hurtling towards them day running lights will make no difference, but they did to bikers when we first started using them now every ones got lights on so we have become invisible again.
:agree Yep another stupid EU ruling we did not need
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 18 February 2018, 10:38:03 am
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([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/agree.gif[/url]) Yep another stupid EU ruling we did not need



Perhaps one advantage of BREXIT is that we wouldn't have had to wait till 2011 for the EU to legislate on daylight running lamps.  Volvo first fitted them in 1984! 


 
  What are the benefits of daytime running lights?
Studies have shown that DRLs can reduce the risk of road accidents.
A Canadian report from 1997 showed a 5.7 per cent fall in crashes for cars with DRLs fitted, while an American study from 2000 put the figure at seven per cent. The EU didn’t investigate the issue until 2003, but suggested a likely reduction of between five and 15 per cent.
Many new cars have instruments that are always illuminated, making it harder to notice when the headlights are switched on.
Daytime running lights are a useful failsafe in such cases, ensuring the car is always clearly visible.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 18 February 2018, 11:33:48 am

 
  What are the benefits of daytime running lights?
Studies have shown that DRLs can reduce the risk of road accidents....ensuring the car is always clearly visible.


Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I wonder what kind of situations those studies were carried out in? If there were only a few cars around, I might be more inclined to believe it, but when there are millions of the things everywhere, I think they might have less effect. Same with hi-viz. It has to have something to stand out against. If everyone is wearing it, surely that effect is reduced?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 18 February 2018, 11:46:04 am
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Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I wonder what kind of situations those studies were carried out in? If there were only a few cars around, I might be more inclined to believe it, but when there are millions of the things everywhere, I think they might have less effect. Same with hi-viz. It has to have something to stand out against. If everyone is wearing it, surely that effect is reduced?


  Let’s remove lights from all road vehicles and see what happens.
 
One key thing of daylight running lights is that nobody can drive off at night without any lights whatsoever. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 18 February 2018, 12:09:35 pm
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Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I wonder what kind of situations those studies were carried out in? If there were only a few cars around, I might be more inclined to believe it, but when there are millions of the things everywhere, I think they might have less effect. Same with hi-viz. It has to have something to stand out against. If everyone is wearing it, surely that effect is reduced?


  Let’s remove lights from all road vehicles and see what happens.
 
One key thing of daylight running lights is that nobody can drive off at night without any lights whatsoever.


Removing all lights from road vehicles could possibly have a positive effect, people would drive slower and with more care.
There have been moves in the Netherlands and a few other places on a small scale, inlcuding the UK, to remove all road markings, signs and even traffic lights from areas creating a shared space, and the result was fewer accidents and less traffic stoppages as people were concentrating on actually driving rather than being distracted by all the road signs etc.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 February 2018, 12:14:32 pm

  What are the benefits of daytime running lights?
Studies have shown that DRLs can reduce the risk of road accidents.
A Canadian report from 1997 showed a 5.7 per cent fall in crashes for cars with DRLs fitted, while an American study from 2000 put the figure at seven per cent. The EU didn’t investigate the issue until 2003, but suggested a likely reduction of between five and 15 per cent.
I actually agree with you BUT we are not talking about car on car accidents we are talking about bike lights that we used run and stand out in the daytime cause we were the only thing on the road in the daylight with a light (apart from volovos which were dim and yellowy ) but now our lights are lost in the sea of very bright LED DRL.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 18 February 2018, 05:53:15 pm
talking about bike lights that we used run and stand out in the daytime cause we were the only thing on the road in the daylight with a light (apart from volovos which were dim and yellowy ) but now our lights are lost in the sea of very bright LED DRL.


Yup, that used to be the argument when no cars ran with daytime headlights, except the aforementioned Volvos, which were heartily despised by motorcyclists anyway  :lol
And motorcyclists used to get upset when daytime lights on cars did start to become more widespread, especially when a car had a faulty bulb so only had one light on: "yeah, but you might mistake it for a bike and misjudge distances in the dark!" Er, that's in the dark...
Far more dangerous imo are these super-bright LED (or whatever) headlamps, and ALL headlamps if they're improperly adjusted, grrrrr!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 18 February 2018, 06:17:04 pm
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([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/agree.gif[/url]) Yep another stupid EU ruling we did not need



Perhaps one advantage of BREXIT is that we wouldn't have had to wait till 2011 for the EU to legislate on daylight running lamps.  Volvo first fitted them in 1984! 


 
  What are the benefits of daytime running lights?
Studies have shown that DRLs can reduce the risk of road accidents.
A Canadian report from 1997 showed a 5.7 per cent fall in crashes for cars with DRLs fitted, while an American study from 2000 put the figure at seven per cent. The EU didn’t investigate the issue until 2003, but suggested a likely reduction of between five and 15 per cent.
Many new cars have instruments that are always illuminated, making it harder to notice when the headlights are switched on.
Daytime running lights are a useful failsafe in such cases, ensuring the car is always clearly visible.



Except they are not because most DRL's are only iliimunated on the front of the vehicle, which is fuck all use when you come up behind a dark coloured vehicle in fog. This has happened to me on several occasions.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 18 February 2018, 09:00:13 pm
talking about bike lights that we used run and stand out in the daytime cause we were the only thing on the road in the daylight with a light (apart from volovos which were dim and yellowy ) but now our lights are lost in the sea of very bright LED DRL.


Yup, that used to be the argument when no cars ran with daytime headlights, except the aforementioned Volvos, which were heartily despised by motorcyclists anyway  :lol
And motorcyclists used to get upset when daytime lights on cars did start to become more widespread, especially when a car had a faulty bulb so only had one light on: "yeah, but you might mistake it for a bike and misjudge distances in the dark!" Er, that's in the dark...
Far more dangerous imo are these super-bright LED (or whatever) headlamps, and ALL headlamps if they're improperly adjusted, grrrrr!

Totally agree.. Half my riding is at night and I’m sick to the back teeth of being blinded by the foccing things.
They’re far too bright and if that wasn’t bad enough, they’re blue… 6000K is far too hot. Anyone who’s been in the military, or stargazes, or hunts will say that it takes far more time to regain some night vision from blue light rather than longer wavelengths.
It’s high time the DOT caught up with the technology and introduced sensible limits for brightness and colour temperature.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 February 2018, 06:40:04 am
talking about bike lights that we used run and stand out in the daytime cause we were the only thing on the road in the daylight with a light (apart from volovos which were dim and yellowy ) but now our lights are lost in the sea of very bright LED DRL.


Yup, that used to be the argument when no cars ran with daytime headlights, except the aforementioned Volvos, which were heartily despised by motorcyclists anyway  :lol
And motorcyclists used to get upset when daytime lights on cars did start to become more widespread, especially when a car had a faulty bulb so only had one light on: "yeah, but you might mistake it for a bike and misjudge distances in the dark!" Er, that's in the dark...
Far more dangerous imo are these super-bright LED (or whatever) headlamps, and ALL headlamps if they're improperly adjusted, grrrrr!


That's what i notice a lot of nowadays, cars parked up on the level at the side of the road and these brighter lights seem to be aimed straight into my eyes, i dunno how they get through MOT's.
There was a woman at work a few months back whose car failed its MOT with incorrectly adjusted lights and was moaning about it but i pointed out how bloody dangerous they can be at night for other road users, but are also not doing a decent enough job for her to see the road clearly either, and when there are so many potholes about it's very important to see ahead of you.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JonnyFoxtrot on 19 February 2018, 11:47:55 am
As a recent victim of a seized EXUP valve, today its the gall of Yamaha to charge £450 for a new replacement!!!  :eek


And so the price of used ones are extortionate as well. £100+ unless you get lucky. Madness. When they know its a weak point and that its never officially called for to be serviced. Bastards. Least they could do is get a few thousand more made up and then sell them off cheap.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 19 February 2018, 03:22:27 pm
Agree about the bright led lights. Of course a lot of the newer cars they are fitted to won't get MOT'd for 3 years, so they'll be driving round in a dangerous state until then. Also saw a TV programme suggesting a lot of the replacement bulbs are cheap fakes and the beam spread is all wrong.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 19 February 2018, 05:08:35 pm

 :agree

Add to that the ones that the average Halfords assistant monkey fits upside down for the princely sum of £5 (or whatever it is) making the reflector unable to even try to do its job properly and the focwits who badly fit HID's to their cars because "they look good" or the cnuts that have a blown headlight bulb so drive around with their fog lights on as well (often only one fog light as the other has blown too)


Just on a short drive after dark I reckon 20%-25% of cars have misaligned headlights and a further 20-25% (may be the same ones) have at least one brake light that doesn't work. Often with the brake lights, its 2 out of 3 that don't work.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 19 February 2018, 05:33:01 pm
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Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I wonder what kind of situations those studies were carried out in? If there were only a few cars around, I might be more inclined to believe it, but when there are millions of the things everywhere, I think they might have less effect. Same with hi-viz. It has to have something to stand out against. If everyone is wearing it, surely that effect is reduced?


  Let’s remove lights from all road vehicles and see what happens.
 
One key thing of daylight running lights is that nobody can drive off at night without any lights whatsoever.
No but the tail lights are not illuminated so the vehicle is not visible from the rear.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 19 February 2018, 06:06:23 pm
No but the tail lights are not illuminated so the vehicle is not visible from the rear.

There is a MAJOR design flaw on some cars with DRL's that illuminates the dashboard lights at all times. Illuminated dashboards with some semblance of illumination at the front means people think they have their lights on. My Mrs has done it in her FIAT 500L.

for other muppets, it just shows how often they look at their speedo. Complete darkness = no lights on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 19 February 2018, 07:44:44 pm
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There is a MAJOR design flaw on some cars with DRL's that illuminates the dashboard lights at all times. Illuminated dashboards with some semblance of illumination at the front means people think they have their lights on. My Mrs has done it in her FIAT 500L.

for other muppets, it just shows how often they look at their speedo. Complete darkness = no lights on.

More and more cars like mine have daylight running lights and auto lights.  So no problem - unless.....  The only problem is it's switchable, so if you do move the switch from Auto to off or, well you know what's gonna happen - but hey daylight running lights save you from total catastrophe.

  What I will foccing moan about is the wash wipe.  Whenever the HID headlamps are on and you hit the wash wipe – it sprays shit loads of water at the headlamps.

As it can get cold round here, I’m now going through shit loads of concentrated screen wash.  Now it’s no longer dark driving to and from work, I’ll tend to bump the lights off for a second to hit the wash wipe.

At least the darn thing has a warning light to tell me it needs topped up – which it frequently does.
Then there’s the dealer who switched the car from variable to fixed service intervals at the last service to suit themselves.  VNA will be having words with em boot that.   >: Stealers indeed.
 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 19 February 2018, 07:57:34 pm
Arse hole with mobile phone stuck on windscreen and facing driver playing episode of Mrs Brown while driving in heavy traffic
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 19 February 2018, 08:06:00 pm
More and more cars like mine have daylight running lights and auto lights.  So no problem - unless.....  The only problem is it's switchable, so if you do move the switch from Auto to off or, well you know what's gonna happen - but hey daylight running lights save you from total catastrophe.
 

My Audi is like that but the dash lights only come on (well stay on) when its dark if the lights are actually on (auto or manual). If you leave the lights switched off, the dash lights get dimmer when it gets darker.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 20 February 2018, 10:19:50 am

Politicians in Scotland agreeing to make us pay more tax than the rest of UK--what the F*** is that about???????

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 February 2018, 11:17:46 am
My Audi is like that but the dash lights only come on (well stay on) when its dark if the lights are actually on (auto or manual). If you leave the lights switched off, the dash lights get dimmer when it gets darker.

Has you're Audi also got Stop/Start?. If so what do you think to it?. Do you switch it off at all?.

All the cars I'm currently looking at are equipped with it.

I've heard that they have bigger starter motors, higher capacity batteries and modified engine bearings that retain oil cover better when the pressure drops.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 20 February 2018, 11:37:39 am
Keyless entry, stop start systems and electric handbrakes in cars.

Was going to change the car but cannot get a one without all that crap. :grumble


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 20 February 2018, 11:58:42 am
Keyless entry, stop start systems and electric handbrakes in cars.

Was going to change the car but cannot get a one without all that crap. :grumble

The only one of them I have on my Hyundai i40 is start/stop and that doesn't work so all good haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 February 2018, 12:27:44 pm
Keyless entry, stop start systems and electric handbrakes in cars.

Was going to change the car but cannot get a one without all that crap. :grumble

:agree
And totally a LCD second dash I was looking at a picasso and the radio -air con - heating controls are on one LCD dash if the radio is on you have to "navigate" to the heating section to change that and then navifocinggate back taking your eyes off the road --stupid.   
Also push button start WTF - it actually takes longer than putting a key in and turning - all one action, but a push button you first push the keyfob in a hole in the dash and then press the start button -stupid.
AND i want a CD player please !!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 20 February 2018, 02:41:38 pm
Has you're Audi also got Stop/Start?. If so what do you think to it?. Do you switch it off at all?.

Yes. It does have the stop/start. Seems to be OK but doesn't always turn the engine off when you think it might. I turn it off sometimes just for peace of mind that the battery wont die on me (I know its meant to be intelligent) when it has been on/off/on/off too many times for my linking. There is a trick on the A6, keep your foot lightly on the brake pedal and the engine stays running. Push harder and it turns off (if it feels like it). My wifes 500L only has the button on the dash to prevent it turning off.

The electric handbrake works well enough but I do prefer a manual one.
The start button works well. Climb in the car. Hit the start button (you don't need to keep it pressed) and do your seatbelt up whilst the glow plugs and then starter motor do their job. As soon as you have the belt on you can drive away. When I had a Renooooo Laguna, it had a starting problem towards the end. The start button was good because I could press the button then nip round in front of the car whilst it was cranking away by itself and squirt the easy-start into the intake :) Couldn't do that with a key start.

The big LCD screen looks good but you have to go through 1,000's of button presses and menus to get to certain things like "Adjust the bass" on the radio. Also, its a single point of failure for multiple systems if it fails.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 February 2018, 06:56:39 pm
Has you're Audi also got Stop/Start?. If so what do you think to it?. Do you switch it off at all?.

Yes. It does have the stop/start. Seems to be OK but doesn't always turn the engine off when you think it might. I turn it off sometimes just for peace of mind that the battery wont die on me (I know its meant to be intelligent) when it has been on/off/on/off too many times for my linking. There is a trick on the A6, keep your foot lightly on the brake pedal and the engine stays running. Push harder and it turns off (if it feels like it). My wifes 500L only has the button on the dash to prevent it turning off.

The electric handbrake works well enough but I do prefer a manual one.
The start button works well. Climb in the car. Hit the start button (you don't need to keep it pressed) and do your seatbelt up whilst the glow plugs and then starter motor do their job. As soon as you have the belt on you can drive away. When I had a Renooooo Laguna, it had a starting problem towards the end. The start button was good because I could press the button then nip round in front of the car whilst it was cranking away by itself and squirt the easy-start into the intake :) Couldn't do that with a key start.

The big LCD screen looks good but you have to go through 1,000's of button presses and menus to get to certain things like "Adjust the bass" on the radio. Also, its a single point of failure for multiple systems if it fails.



I didn't know you could press and release the start button. I'd assumed you had to hold like with a key ignition until the engine fires up.

All good info ta :thumbup

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 20 February 2018, 07:54:51 pm
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Politicians in Scotland agreeing to make us pay more tax than the rest of UK--what the F*** is that about???????

You might be paying more tax, and I might be paying more tax, but,

70% of Scots will pay less tax next year than this year.

Not to mention that overall, even higher income earners like myself, pay less tax than those in England when all taxes are taken into account. 

Just saying.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 February 2018, 09:04:41 pm
I dont like the electric hand brake and prefer a little bit of control and feed back. When I am on the Sharp Hall flat gravel driveway I only put it on a bit but wen I am on a steep slope I like to crank it up another notch. And how do hill starts work because a normal one you can let it off slowly and even yank it back up if you get it wron but an electric one is either on or off.
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 20 February 2018, 09:38:05 pm
Regarding the electric handbrake, another piece of modern electronic wizardry comes in to play, "hill start assist". Slowly all the skill of driving,and riding for that matter, is being taken care of by magic bits of kit. Look at what's available on high end bikes nowadays. ABS, 3 or 4 engine maps, quickshifters,anti wheely, traction control, autoblippers etc. The list is becoming almost endless.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 20 February 2018, 09:53:02 pm
I dont like the electric hand brake and prefer a little bit of control and feed back. When I am on the Sharp Hall flat gravel driveway I only put it on a bit but wen I am on a steep slope I like to crank it up another notch. And how do hill starts work because a normal one you can let it off slowly and even yank it back up if you get it wron but an electric one is either on or off.
   

As said above, hill start assist comes into play. Basically the brake stays on until the car detects you trying to move then releases.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 20 February 2018, 10:55:58 pm
Ha, my focus has all that and more, speed limit recognition, lane assist, this is wear it either warns or actively diverts you if you start wondering out of a lane.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 February 2018, 11:01:27 pm
As said above, hill start assist comes into play. Basically the brake stays on until the car detects you trying to move then releases.

Is it still possible to stall with hill start assist, or does the system provide an anti-stall feature?.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 February 2018, 11:17:59 pm
Ha,  actively diverts you if you start wondering out of a lane.
WTF - like when I am avoiding a plank. brick. wheel trim ( Insert your obstacle here) i actively steers you back into it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 February 2018, 11:20:55 pm
People who have their dash cam playing back the actual recording live to the back of the camera lcd screen WTF for !!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 February 2018, 07:51:03 am
Keyless entry, stop start systems and electric handbrakes in cars.

Was going to change the car but cannot get a one without all that crap. :grumble

:agree
And totally a LCD second dash I was looking at a picasso and the radio -air con - heating controls are on one LCD dash if the radio is on you have to "navigate" to the heating section to change that and then navifocinggate back taking your eyes off the road --stupid.   
Also push button start WTF - it actually takes longer than putting a key in and turning - all one action, but a push button you first push the keyfob in a hole in the dash and then press the start button -stupid.
AND i want a CD player please !!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of these features are becoming pretty much standard across the ranges now tho.

If you want a new car you're probably going to have to accept some of these things.

I'm not hankering for an electric handbrake and an engine that keeps cutting out, but what choice is there now?.

They lay half an inch of salt on the roads round this way nearly every night, so cars only have a limited life span I guess.

At least most of the new large saloon cars are stunning to look at unlike most of the new bikes where there now appears to be a competition to see who can come up with the most ugly disjointed look possible.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 February 2018, 08:51:50 am
Is it still possible to stall with hill start assist, or does the system provide an anti-stall feature?.

No idea, mines an auto
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 21 February 2018, 09:10:04 am
The hire car we had on holiday last year had an electric handbrake. The only way it would stall on a hill start would be if you naused up your clutch control, just the same as having a regular manual handbrake. As has already been mentioned it releases as soon as forward motion is detected. No point in having a hill start on the driving test, maybe they don't anyhow as I passed mine in the dark ages :lol .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 February 2018, 11:47:30 am
Fly by night builders that leave the road caked in mud and churn up the grass verge outside everyone's house for good measure.

They're always boasting how much money they've got, you'd think they'd chip in for a sweeper.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 21 February 2018, 06:07:11 pm
YamFazFan,


 
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People who have their dash cam playing back the actual recording live to the back of the camera lcd screen WTF for !!!!!!!!


 
How aboot, people who moan and get upset about insignificant mince that nobody else has either noticed or thought aboot. :lol




 I just thought that’s what it does.  I don’t notice it or look at it, it sits more or less behind the rear view mirror so I can’t see it anyway.  Never given it any thought.



 Oh one reason for getting it was I stupidly thought it might improve my driving (one friend complained it’s like being in an episode of the Sweeney – and I was trying to take it easy!)
 
But naw the stupid thing just sits there gathering endless evidence of my bad driving.  A rolling two hours of highly incriminating evidence.  I should bin the stupid thing.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 21 February 2018, 06:15:22 pm
  Car dealers.

Two years ago I got a pre reg new motor deal.  All good.   But now for only the second time in my life I’m taking a car for a service, the first was last year.  So;
Me – Can I bring it in at 09:00hrs.

Dealer – Sure – no problem.

Me – When will I get it back?

Dealer – Oooo, should be ready before 15.00hrs.

Me – What the fuck?  Is it getting a full engine strip down and re-build or something?  I’d like it back for 10.00 if you don’t mind.  Can I have it back at 10.00 please?

Eventually agreed to bring it in at 08:15 and they guaranteed it would be ready by 11:00 at the latest.

Presumably this is just a bit of kidology to make you think they are actually doing lots of stuff to your car for that small fortune of cash you are handing over, when in fact they are just robbing you blind for an oil and filter change. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 21 February 2018, 06:44:10 pm
A rolling two hours of highly incriminating evidence.  I should bin the stupid thing.
Or learn to drive properly and responsibly.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 February 2018, 06:52:17 pm
YamFazFan,


 
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People who have their dash cam playing back the actual recording live to the back of the camera lcd screen WTF for !!!!!!!!


 
How aboot, people who moan and get upset about insignificant mince that nobody else has either noticed or thought aboot. :lol

Errm...not my post :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 February 2018, 06:56:07 pm
  Car dealers.

Two years ago I got a pre reg new motor deal.  All good.   But now for only the second time in my life I’m taking a car for a service, the first was last year.  So;
Me – Can I bring it in at 09:00hrs.

Dealer – Sure – no problem.

Me – When will I get it back?

Dealer – Oooo, should be ready before 15.00hrs.

Me – What the fuck?  Is it getting a full engine strip down and re-build or something?  I’d like it back for 10.00 if you don’t mind.  Can I have it back at 10.00 please?

Eventually agreed to bring it in at 08:15 and they guaranteed it would be ready by 11:00 at the latest.

Presumably this is just a bit of kidology to make you think they are actually doing lots of stuff to your car for that small fortune of cash you are handing over, when in fact they are just robbing you blind for an oil and filter change.


Now you see I wouldn't have done that because you're encouraging them to rush the job and maybe cut corners ;)

Plus you've probably already pissed them off to start with :lol
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 21 February 2018, 07:33:55 pm
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Errm...not my post ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])


Foc Sorry!  :o :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 21 February 2018, 07:59:07 pm
Keyless entry, stop start systems and electric handbrakes in cars.

Was going to change the car but cannot get a one without all that crap. :grumble

:agree
And totally a LCD second dash I was looking at a picasso and the radio -air con - heating controls are on one LCD dash if the radio is on you have to "navigate" to the heating section to change that and then navifocinggate back taking your eyes off the road --stupid.   
Also push button start WTF - it actually takes longer than putting a key in and turning - all one action, but a push button you first push the keyfob in a hole in the dash and then press the start button -stupid.
AND i want a CD player please !!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of these features are becoming pretty much standard across the ranges now tho.

If you want a new car you're probably going to have to accept some of these things.

I'm not hankering for an electric handbrake and an engine that keeps cutting out, but what choice is there now?.

They lay half an inch of salt on the roads round this way nearly every night, so cars only have a limited life span I guess.

At least most of the new large saloon cars are stunning to look at unlike most of the new bikes where there now appears to be a competition to see who can come up with the most ugly disjointed look possible.


+1 with the ugly motorcycles on offer today. They look unfinished, and what is it with the seat heights. I couldnt throw a leg over most of em (29" inside leg) without putting my spine out
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Post by: YamFazFan on 21 February 2018, 08:36:08 pm
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Errm...not my post ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])


Foc Sorry!  :o :o


No worries :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 21 February 2018, 08:48:26 pm
Ha,  actively diverts you if you start wondering out of a lane.
WTF - like when I am avoiding a plank. brick. wheel trim ( Insert your obstacle here) i actively steers you back into it


Basically yes, although the intervention isn't strong enough to override the human, it just feels like resistance. What it does do which would be great for about 50% of road users is make them use there indicators as that is how the system knows that you are deliberately crossing the marked line.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 22 February 2018, 06:50:50 am
Not if it makes them use them like most HGVs on the A14 indicate pull out no use of mirrors or they don't give a foc if there,s anything on the outside of them. Might buy the excuse of blind spot on my bike but how do you miss a foccing great 4x4
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 February 2018, 08:55:56 am
Not if it makes them use them like most HGVs on the A14 indicate pull out no use of mirrors or they don't give a foc if there,s anything on the outside of them. Might buy the excuse of blind spot on my bike but how do you miss a foccing great 4x4

They think they've got superior roadcraft to all the rest of us.

All that driving sends them stir-crazy I reckon.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 February 2018, 09:03:18 am

Presumably this is just a bit of kidology to make you think they are actually doing lots of stuff to your car for that small fortune of cash you are handing over, when in fact they are just robbing you blind for an oil and filter change. 

Usually they wont know what is still in the workshop from the previous day blocking a ramp because of spares availability. As a result they don't know when they can actually start the work.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: johnakay on 22 February 2018, 10:36:42 am
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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 February 2018, 12:18:21 pm
I doubt you'll have to wait for a postcard.

I'm sure VNA will provide all the answers you require in a post later lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 22 February 2018, 03:01:32 pm
 Back of a postage stamp would do and still have room for the lords payer.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 February 2018, 04:05:34 pm
the lords payer.

Please give us Lords shite loads of money for doing fec all.
Amen.


Yep. Doesn't take much room
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 February 2018, 07:01:38 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 22 February 2018, 08:04:02 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.


Overcompensation. Quotas. Positive discrimination


And ive just seen a telly programme advertised for tonight which describes 70, yes 70, different genders which people can assign to themselves. I wont be watching that thnaks
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 22 February 2018, 08:48:18 pm
BBROWN meant the original lords payer the one us old b*uggers used to have to say every morning in school assembly  not the lord kinnocks prayer 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 22 February 2018, 08:57:43 pm

What gets my goat at the moment?

Just about everything that would be a very mild irritation or even less, is making me absolutely bloody livid.

I need to calm down a bit, a very large G+T is in order.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 22 February 2018, 09:08:30 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.
Nah. They're just cheaper to employ. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 23 February 2018, 01:46:14 am
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.
Nah. They're just cheaper to employ. :lol
He he!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 February 2018, 11:36:38 am
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.

Every time I've tuned in It's been an England women's speed skater blaring her eyes out because she's crashed again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 February 2018, 07:02:06 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.

Every time I've tuned in It's been an England women's speed skater blaring her eyes out because she's crashed again.


The blubbing one is Scottish.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 February 2018, 07:52:41 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.

Every time I've tuned in It's been an England women's speed skater blaring her eyes out because she's crashed again.
All that funding money - give it me I could slip over on my arse for half the money
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 23 February 2018, 08:47:54 pm
It's easy to crash speed skating there's not much more grip than riding a bike on ice. I crashed speed skating many many years ago nowhere near the level or speed they are doing and broke my femur in 3 places. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 February 2018, 09:42:43 pm
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.

Every time I've tuned in It's been an England women's speed skater blaring her eyes out because she's crashed again.


The blubbing one is Scottish.

Well I nearly got it right.

As did she lol




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 February 2018, 07:01:31 am
Is the winter Olympics women only this year because every time i turn on the tv there are all women hosts and reporters and I only ever see women's events, its almost like the BBC on a guilt trip.

Every time I've tuned in It's been an England women's speed skater blaring her eyes out because she's crashed again.
All that funding money - give it me I could slip over on my arse for half the money


That would be more Dancing On Ice  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 February 2018, 08:32:30 am
Why is it that when small shops short-change you it's always in their favour?.

My local takeaway swindled me again last night.

First they tried to give me a £5 instead of a £10, then I found I was a £1 short in the coins.

A couple of months ago they spent 10 minutes interrogating me as to whether or not I'd paid, even though it was the same person that took my order and money at the start!.

Foc 'em, I'll go to McDonalds next time where they know good customer service.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 26 February 2018, 09:57:01 am
Weather forecasters dramatizing the up and coming weather--complete nonsense
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 26 February 2018, 10:23:34 am
Why is it that when small shops short-change you it's always in their favour?.

My local takeaway swindled me again last night.

First they tried to give me a £5 instead of a £10, then I found I was a £1 short in the coins.

A couple of months ago they spent 10 minutes interrogating me as to whether or not I'd paid, even though it was the same person that took my order and money at the start!.

Foc 'em, I'll go to McDonalds next time where they know good customer service.

Yeah, that gets me too.  :(

Unfortunately it is endemic even in big organisations. Sometimes it's a genuine error and other times it is intentional, and as you say, it is odd that the error is always in their favour.

A really blatant case for me was last year at a bike meet. In a well know coffee chain the girl tried to give change for a £10 note rather than a £20 note.

It is best if you can pay with the exact value, but that means carrying around a load of notes and change, or pay by card.

Of course, when you have had a few pints of Butcombe it is not so easy to keep a check on things. :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: focced_off on 26 February 2018, 01:53:23 pm
Yeah, that gets me too.  :(

Unfortunately it is endemic even in big organisations. Sometimes it's a genuine error and other times it is intentional, and as you say, it is odd that the error is always in their favour.

A really blatant case for me was last year at a bike meet. In a well know coffee chain the girl tried to give change for a £10 note rather than a £20 note.

It is best if you can pay with the exact value, but that means carrying around a load of notes and change, or pay by card.

Of course, when you have had a few pints of Butcombe it is not so easy to keep a check on things. :\

If I'm stood there believing I've been short changed, I intentionally ask for a receipt.

Then I will stand there looking at what's been put through the till with what they've given me in change - gives you that extra few seconds to work it out, without the initial pressure, after getting over that initial shock of being short changed. :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 26 February 2018, 06:57:22 pm
Now that is a good idea 8)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 February 2018, 07:32:46 pm
Have you noticed also, when you say 'That was a twenty' they never argue and say 'No it wasn't it was a ten!'.

If they genuinely thought it was a ten to start with surely they'd disagree? :rolleyes





Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 26 February 2018, 07:42:19 pm
Yeah, that's right.

Some retailers have clip on the till where they put your note until they have given you the change, which I think is a great idea.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 26 February 2018, 07:43:09 pm
Today has been one of those days when everything turned to dust.

One of the incidents was when I tried to mow the lawn. The mower fired up but the whole cord came away in my hand. But I did manage to mow the lawn in one go by keeping my hand on the throttle bar. It was a bit bit difficult around the twiddly bits but I made it.

So I strip the mower only to find that the starter mechanism is held on by four incredibly small hex bolts which none of my allen keys would fit. What an idiotic design I thought.

Anyway, after a day of further disasters I got home and checked YouTube on how to change lawnmower pull cords. It turns out the allen bolts are just rivets and it is necessary to remove a whole load of cowling, fuel tank, dipstick housing, and throttle cable support to get to the pull start mechanism. What an idiotic design I thought.

The original B&S pull cord lasted years but an aftermarket pull cord put on by a mower service shop only lasted three years and looked more like one of the Mrs pajama pull cords.

So on to Google- just the job B&S pull cord £4 but what is this PP £12.50 P/P (it came from the US)

Similar thing from Amazon but they only wanted around £3 P/P

After further searching, at last a company with the genuine cord for £4 and their T&Cs say free postage for orders under 25kg weight- at last. I hit the buy button and was presented with a bill. Sure enough no postage so I hit the pay button. Then I was asked to log in or register.

Reluctantly, I registered: name, address, mobile phone number, do you want to buy an eastern child bride for £20 deposit, would you like special delivery, would you like to take out insurance on the product... and on and on.

Finally I got back to the buy button. Would you believe it: now the bill had £7 P/P.

So that's what pees me off- companies that don't show P/P up front.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 February 2018, 08:10:59 pm
Today has been one of those days when everything turned to dust.

One of the incidents was when I tried to mow the lawn. The mower fired up but the whole cord came away in my hand. But I did manage to mow the lawn in one go by keeping my hand on the throttle bar. It was a bit bit difficult around the twiddly bits but I made it.

So I strip the mower only to find that the starter mechanism is held on by four incredibly small hex bolts which none of my allen keys would fit. What an idiotic design I thought.

Anyway, after a day of further disasters I got home and checked YouTube on how to change lawnmower pull cords. It turns out the allen bolts are just rivets and it is necessary to remove a whole load of cowling, fuel tank, dipstick housing, and throttle cable support to get to the pull start mechanism. What an idiotic design I thought.

The original B&S pull cord lasted years but an aftermarket pull cord put on by a mower service shop only lasted three years and looked more like one of the Mrs pajama pull cords.

So on to Google- just the job B&S pull cord £4 but what is this PP £12.50 P/P (it came from the US)

Similar thing from Amazon but they only wanted around £3 P/P

After further searching, at last a company with the genuine cord for £4 and their T&Cs say free postage for orders under 25kg weight- at last. I hit the buy button and was presented with a bill. Sure enough no postage so I hit the pay button. Then I was asked to log in or register.

Reluctantly, I registered: name, address, mobile phone number, do you want to buy an eastern child bride for £20 deposit, would you like special delivery, would you like to take out insurance on the product... and on and on.

Finally I got back to the buy button. Would you believe it: now the bill had £7 P/P.

So that's what pees me off- companies that don't show P/P up front.
Let me be the first to say WTF are you doing mowing the lawn in February  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: stet on 26 February 2018, 09:09:46 pm
The grass has been growing because of all the wet mild weather in the SW this winter. Besides, before that, the last mowing was October 2017.  :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 February 2018, 09:44:02 pm
Let me be the first to say WTF are you doing mowing the lawn in February  :eek

If the weather is mild it does no harm if you just take a bit off, but it sure ain't mild today!. My lawn is frozen.

Sports grounds keep topping all through winter if conditions alow.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 February 2018, 06:58:59 pm
Quote
Let me be the first to say WTF are you doing mowing the lawn in February  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/shocked.gif[/url])


Indeed, what the fuck?  You just trmming the snow and ice? :eek :eek :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 February 2018, 10:00:01 pm
Weather forecasters dramatizing the up and coming weather--complete nonsense
Here you go a brilliant one from the BBC tonight -picture.
Also where do all the global warmers go, because when its cold and snowing you never see them, same gos for polarbears of footage of icebergs melting
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 28 February 2018, 08:56:55 am
Yeah, bloody scientists… who needs facts when you’ve got opinions?  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 March 2018, 06:45:47 pm
When little scrote bag wastes of oxygen decide to break into my car and steal stuff!!
They took the spare sat nav (I understand that) about 56p worth of change 😒 and a box of fucking chewing gum!! What the fuck wrong with people.
Stupidly (luckily) is left the car unlocked overnight so I didn't have to suffer a broken window.
Still sucks though 😥
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Nemesis on 01 March 2018, 06:54:21 pm
When little scrote bag wastes of oxygen decide to break into my car and steal stuff!!
They took the spare sat nav (I understand that) about 56p worth of change 😒 and a box of fucking chewing gum!! What the fuck wrong with people.
Stupidly (luckily) is left the car unlocked overnight so I didn't have to suffer a broken window.
Still sucks though 😥

Weve got that sort round by us, local opportunist, neighbour had left keys in such a crappy old car not worth scrap value yet still gets stolen. Thats why i like my cctv
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 02 March 2018, 04:43:09 pm
Only just realised the absolutely prices have taken my little boys present that was in the boot too!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 04 March 2018, 11:58:20 am
Passengers who leave all their luggage sat on the seat beside them on packed trains to try to stop anyone using it.

Passengers who put their feet up on the train seat opposite.

Passengers who spill food and drink everywhere in the carriage.

Passengers with bicycles.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 March 2018, 02:31:15 pm
People

People

People

People

There ya go I've corrected that for ya 👍
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 04 March 2018, 04:21:21 pm
People

People

People

People

There ya go I've corrected that for ya 👍

Ah nice one. Cheers :)

Although I had forgot to add the fare dodgers pointlessly arguing for hours with the inspectors and the passenger hollering into a mobile at full volume...

People

People
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 March 2018, 07:06:35 pm
Over indulgent utube log intros that go on too long
And then the reviewer holds the camera with one hand waving it around whilst trying to "unbox" the gadget also with one hand 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Wharfe on 05 March 2018, 07:05:21 pm
Foccin' insurance companies. Very VERY slow to pursue what they claim are "no fault" cases (like - if it ain't my fault, then get on it and sort the case out for me?). And seemingly, wilfully stupid too.
Confusing to the point of screaming frustration, as in... ACME insurance* claims dept - "we believe this is clearly NOT YOUR FAULT"; renewals dept of same company -"sorry sir we won't cover you because of your outstanding claim situation." Eh?
And then, I go to a different broker who gets me cover WITH THE SAME FIRM THAT DECLINED ME HALF AN HOUR AGO. Didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Course I now have to contact ACME insurance to get my proof of NCB to send to the broker who will send it on to.... ACME insurance. For Foc's sake...
Lots of people are making lots and lots and lots of money out of this bollox. Tch...

*no names, no pack drill... ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Wharfe on 05 March 2018, 07:39:46 pm
Oh and another thing.. How come with two clear "not my fault" accidents (one on bike one in car) still being argued about -as the other parties' insurer, the  same very large commercial vehicle / fleet insurer in both cases, is stonewalling all the way -  my two bike policy goes up by about £60 for the year, (boooo!) refundable once both are settled in my favour, (yaaay!) but my car insurance a month later goes up 510 foccin quid (WTF???) From £290 to £800!!!! they better had refund me the £510 once it all gets settled..... meanwhile as obviously I need a car for eleventeen different things and have to renew they have me by the cohones. Insurance companies.... shower of b&st&rds.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: moffmeister on 06 March 2018, 01:11:55 pm
trying to fill 30 fucking bunks at the Spring Meet from over 6000 members   :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 06 March 2018, 08:35:20 pm
Oh and another thing.. How come with two clear "not my fault" accidents (one on bike one in car) still being argued about -as the other parties' insurer, the  same very large commercial vehicle / fleet insurer in both cases, is stonewalling all the way -  my two bike policy goes up by about £60 for the year, (boooo!) refundable once both are settled in my favour, (yaaay!) but my car insurance a month later goes up 510 foccin quid (WTF???) From £290 to £800!!!! they better had refund me the £510 once it all gets settled..... meanwhile as obviously I need a car for eleventeen different things and have to renew they have me by the cohones. Insurance companies.... shower of b&st&rds.


Agreed. My previous insurer settled up fraudulent clain against me because it was cheaper to do that than risk losing in court. Although my NCB was protected, my policy escalated at renewal. I have never been so angry and bitter, particularly as the insurance industry claim to to rooting out false claims. Theyre crooked

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 06 March 2018, 08:40:03 pm
Bought an exhaust system from a major uk supplier. Advertised as available, but if not in stock 2 to 5 days for delivery. Got a call the same afternoon telling me its 29 days. Gutted co theyve sent the dcat link pipe, so I either do the job twice or wait for the back order, and I wanted befoe the end of march cos ive a trackday booked at Donny and i wanted to gauge any performance improvement
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 17 March 2018, 01:45:36 pm

People who insist on standing at a busy bar drinking so you have to order through or over them, even when there's plenty of tall tables to stand around chatting with their 4 mates who are also blocking the bar. Pisses me right off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 March 2018, 09:49:50 am

People who insist on standing at a busy bar drinking so you have to order through or over them, even when there's plenty of tall tables to stand around chatting with their 4 mates who are also blocking the bar. Pisses me right off.

That's one of my pet hates too.

You have to squeeze in-between two people having a conversation just to get hold of you're pint, which you then try to carry away without spilling any down their trousers.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 18 March 2018, 10:15:23 am
Airport drop off charges, I dropped my wife and two of her cronies off LeedsBradford airport this morning at 5.45am and to get out of the official drop off area I had to pay £3!


And another thing,  there was about 3"  of snow and I was following my mate in his car who had his wife and another crony on board, my Focus struggled like hell up two of the hills, traction control kept kicking in and his shitty Kia Rio with no traction control and little skinny tyres just powered up, he arrived at the airport 5 minutes before me the smug git.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 18 March 2018, 12:31:24 pm
Airport drop off charges, I dropped my wife and two of her cronies off LeedsBradford airport this morning at 5.45am and to get out of the official drop off area I had to pay £3!
And another thing,  there was about 3"  of snow and I was following my mate in his car who had his wife and another crony on board, my Focus struggled like hell up two of the hills, traction control kept kicking in and his shitty Kia Rio with no traction control and little skinny tyres just powered up, he arrived at the airport 5 minutes before me the smug git.
Forget drop off fees what about the extortionate cost of parking actually at the airport it costs more to park for a week than the flight cost.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 18 March 2018, 11:13:31 pm
been said many times on here but twats with dodgy headlights.................one dim and one on full beam (or one light out and the other on full/dim). seen it loads lately, rozzers in front of me but not arsed. I'm getting sick to death of being blinded by these foccers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 March 2018, 10:44:10 am
I hit a pothole yesterday, and whilst still cursing i then hit a bigger one straight afterwards that really lamped my front tyre.
What the hell are they making roads out of these days?
I'm even scared to ride over a puddle now because these potholes are appearing so quickly and seem to be really deep within a day!


One thing i will say though is if you do see potholes that are just taking the piss then go online to the council and report them, because we all whinge about them and presume someone else has reported them but that is most likely not the case.
It only takes 5mins to do and you'd be surprised how quickly they put a temporary fill in once they know about it, and that's better than nothing.
I reported one near work the other day and it was fixed in two days.
Just make sure you write NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION when describing it. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 March 2018, 12:59:32 pm
People who keep doing that Homer Simpson 'Woohoo!' thing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 March 2018, 04:21:05 pm
Lots of potholes near me with red rings drawn round them. Which means they have been noticed/reported, but they've been like that for months. Budgets have been so tightly squeezed that road repairs have been completely  neglected, and that was before the recent ice. A national disgrace, and motorcyclists and cyclists will get seriously injured, or worse.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 30 March 2018, 04:50:55 pm
Lots of potholes near me with red rings drawn round them. Which means they have been noticed/reported, but they've been like that for months.
Exactly the same here too. Where, exactly, is our road tax being spent ? Surely it's supposed to be being spent on the roads !!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 March 2018, 05:12:36 pm
It goes into the Treasury central pot, who then decide not to give it to local and county councils.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grayo on 30 March 2018, 07:08:27 pm
It goes into the Treasury central pot, who then decide not to give it to local and county councils.
Ah, so they use it to line their own pockets as usual. Thieving twats !!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 March 2018, 08:33:54 pm
Road Tax (Vehicle Excise Duty) raised £6 billion in 2016
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 March 2018, 10:16:56 pm
been said many times on here but twats with dodgy headlights.................one dim and one on full beam (or one light out and the other on full/dim). seen it loads lately, rozzers in front of me but not arsed. I'm getting sick to death of being blinded by these foccers
One of the reasons could be to do with the following posts all about pot holes - knocking the lights out of alignment - that or road humps. I would much rather average speed cameras than road humps
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 30 March 2018, 11:20:19 pm
Exactly the same here too. Where, exactly, is our road tax being spent ? Surely it's supposed to be being spent on the roads !!

Not since the "Road Fund Licence" was replaced by "Vehicle Excise Duty" around the time of the Second World War.

All the money goes to HM Treasury and the Government is then supposed to pass that on to the Councils to pay for road repairs.

Except the Conservative Government have been cutting and cutting and cutting even further so that the Councils can't afford to fix all the damage, but the Tories want you to blame them for it, instead of their ruinous Austerity programme which just makes the rich buggers richer and screw the little people.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 March 2018, 01:20:24 pm
Exactly the same here too. Where, exactly, is our road tax being spent ? Surely it's supposed to be being spent on the roads !!

Not since the "Road Fund Licence" was replaced by "Vehicle Excise Duty" around the time of the Second World War.

All the money goes to HM Treasury and the Government is then supposed to pass that on to the Councils to pay for road repairs.

Except the Conservative Government have been cutting and cutting and cutting even further so that the Councils can't afford to fix all the damage, but the Tories want you to blame them for it, instead of their ruinous Austerity programme which just makes the rich buggers richer and screw the little people.


Rich people hit potholes too, nobody's a winner on this one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 March 2018, 01:23:55 pm
I bet their chauffeur complains!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: JD-LincsUK on 15 April 2018, 04:12:47 pm
I've mentioned this one before a year or so ago, but just for the hard of hearing... insurance brokers!

Just got my renewal through. It's £12 cheaper than last year's cover, but due to their £25 renewal charge, it actually ends up being more expensive!

Are these people really so retarded? So they say "Yay! it's cheapert his year!" and then expect me to still renew with them after they make it more expensive with their OTT charge?

Needless to say, I'm back on to MCN for a few quotes.  :rolleyes

What makes me laugh in addition, is that only a handful of insurers will cover the Fazer thou - yet my quotes from those that will cover it are in the £75 - £100 range. You'd think it would be really expensive if it's such a bad boy that most won't touch it, but no - it's the cheapest insurance I've ever had, including my previous GPZ500S, considered a cheapo beginner bike. It's just bonkers!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 April 2018, 04:23:39 pm
I hit a pothole yesterday, and whilst still cursing i then hit a bigger one straight afterwards that really lamped my front tyre.
What the hell are they making roads out of these days?
I'm even scared to ride over a puddle now because these potholes are appearing so quickly and seem to be really deep within a day!


One thing i will say though is if you do see potholes that are just taking the piss then go online to the council and report them, because we all whinge about them and presume someone else has reported them but that is most likely not the case.
It only takes 5mins to do and you'd be surprised how quickly they put a temporary fill in once they know about it, and that's better than nothing.
I reported one near work the other day and it was fixed in two days.
Just make sure you write NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION when describing it.


This is one of the holes i reported over 2 weeks ago, i took this photo four days ago and it's getting deeper every day.
Whilst taking the photo a car smacked into it with a massive thud, no doubt one of hundreds.
Talk about take the piss.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 17 April 2018, 11:57:54 am
When people who meet members of the royal family start laughing histericaly at something they've just said.

Charles appears to be the most amusing. Virtually every time you see him meeting people on telly they are doubled-up with tears of laughter.

Surely they're not THAT funny are they?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 17 April 2018, 12:19:30 pm
When people who meet members of the royal family start laughing histericaly at something they've just said.

Charles appears to be the most amusing. Virtually every time you see him meeting people on telly they are doubled-up with tears of laughter.

Surely they're not THAT funny are they?.

Charlie has a very dry sense of humour!
Andrew's is in the gutter
and both William & Harry have brilliant senses of humour

what's the common denominator... they all served in the forces!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 17 April 2018, 02:41:37 pm
And Harry's not even related.......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 18 April 2018, 07:33:18 am
 :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 18 April 2018, 08:27:46 am
been said many times on here but twats with dodgy headlights.................one dim and one on full beam (or one light out and the other on full/dim). seen it loads lately, rozzers in front of me but not arsed. I'm getting sick to death of being blinded by these foccers
One of the reasons could be to do with the following posts all about pot holes - knocking the lights out of alignment - that or road humps. I would much rather average speed cameras than road humps


Think it is something to do with price speed hump £200 set of Speed averaging cameras  £Quite a lot. Both have the same effect.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 18 April 2018, 04:26:20 pm
Think it is something to do with price speed hump £200 set of Speed averaging cameras  £Quite a lot. Both have the same effect.

Not quite. One generates revenue
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 19 April 2018, 07:35:26 am



Speed bumps get my goat generally. For me the whole idea of a road is to ease travel from one destination to another - so why go and make traversal more difficult? Nobody ever seems to consider the environmental impact of speed bumps either - noise, fuel use, heat pollution, vehicle wear and brake dust emissions are all increased and for what? To reduce accident risk slightly. I'll take the increased risk and do away with the lot every time.


It's a good job I'm not supreme leader.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 April 2018, 08:38:53 am
There is a road I HAVE to go on everyday but it is also used as a short cut rat run so they put in speed bumps those bolt on square ones two side by side. I don't want to foc up my car so I go very slow down that road and turn right at the bottom after the bumps. People still use it as a short cut and are right up my arse and when I turn off at the bottom they usually spin the wheels as they go straight on. The annoying thiing is I have to use that road and they don't, they could go round and it would take an extra 4 mins with no bumps and no slow twat infront. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 19 April 2018, 09:08:42 pm
living in a 24hr society but HMG's own online websites end at 7pm..................FUCK OFF
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 19 April 2018, 11:20:16 pm
Think it is something to do with price speed hump £200 set of Speed averaging cameras  £Quite a lot. Both have the same effect.

Not quite. One generates revenue


Both generate revenue but for different benefactors, Cameras generated for the Government/Council/Police.
Speed bumps generate for garages and the spares department after you have shagged you shockers, or focced your alloy rim.
There are speed bumps going  into a business/trade park in 'Waterlooville' Hampshire (That's where the Southern Bastards live) that I could not drive into when I had a MR2 Spider, she would ground out, front spoiler on hitting the bump and brake pipes and air con pipes when the front wheel dropped off the bump, the joys of a Mid-engine car.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 23 April 2018, 09:30:18 pm
tsb tsb online banking was shutdown on Friday afternoon at 4pm until Sunday at 6pm,  was it foc it still had not come back on at 7pm today. Are we the only country in the world that can`t do an upgrade???? to  a website without making a complete balls up of it    :wall :wall :pc :pc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 April 2018, 08:49:35 am
Are we the only country in the world that can`t do an upgrade???? to  a website without making a complete balls up of it    :wall :wall :pc :pc

:agree but ......

TSB almost certainly use a 3rd party supplier to host and manage their systems and another to do application support and upgrades and both of these are probably in some far flung country using staff that also work for many other companies around the world. This weekend was to do their final split from Lloyds Bank. Splitting the companies takes years (I work for a similar organisation) and isn't a simple website update. The biggest issue we find is the customer (TSB in this case) generally want things done quickly, with the full testing required (but skip bits) and as cheaply as possible. You can guess the rest.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 24 April 2018, 09:22:00 am
 :agree  Yep, been there, done that, got the t-shirt
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 24 April 2018, 06:09:26 pm
Insurance. I dont think Ill ever understand how the system works. As a result of a no fault accident when someone ran into the back of my motor car, my premuim has gone up. Surely all costs should be borne by the responsible party. And theres a long list of additionals fees for amendments/cancellations etc.

Modern day highwaymen
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 April 2018, 06:19:18 pm
Insurance. I dont think Ill ever understand how the system works. As a result of a no fault accident when someone ran into the back of my motor car, my premuim has gone up. Surely all costs should be borne by the responsible party. And theres a long list of additionals fees for amendments/cancellations etc.

Modern day highwaymen

Believe it or not, its because (in their warped minds) you have proven you are a higher risk as you park where people can hit your car.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: HarryHornby on 24 April 2018, 06:29:28 pm
Are we the only country in the world that can`t do an upgrade???? to  a website without making a complete balls up of it    :wall :wall :pc :pc

 :agree but ......

TSB almost certainly use a 3rd party supplier to host and manage their systems and another to do application support and upgrades and both of these are probably in some far flung country using staff that also work for many other companies around the world. This weekend was to do their final split from Lloyds Bank. Splitting the companies takes years (I work for a similar organisation) and isn't a simple website update. The biggest issue we find is the customer (TSB in this case) generally want things done quickly, with the full testing required (but skip bits) and as cheaply as possible. You can guess the rest.


Mr Brown it's the old Cheap, Quick, Quality triangle....... the most you can ever have is two of them together....
sadly most companies go for Cheap and quick and sacrafice quality as a result.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 24 April 2018, 08:48:30 pm
You pay peanuts you get monkeys  :eek :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: pete786.u on 25 April 2018, 08:46:03 am
TSB Back up again (sort of) some bits work OK others not working at all. Not all transactions showing particularly deposits, have to keep my eye on this. :pc :pc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 25 April 2018, 08:57:45 am
the most you can ever have is two of them together....
sadly most companies go for Cheap and quick and sacrafice quality as a result.

My experience says you only normally get one of the three :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 25 April 2018, 10:30:28 am
Banks, back doing the same thing that fcuked us all up 10 years ago :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: J_Dub on 25 April 2018, 01:03:48 pm
Current wind ups to get me going are TheShitBank and Talkbutnotsofuckingmuchtalk. Tossers.  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 April 2018, 05:09:19 pm
Seems there's 2 types of racism in this country 1 for those from the rest of the world that the establishment is all over like a bad rash, and 1 for Jewish people which appears to be acceptable to the powers that be, well to me they should all be treated the same
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 25 April 2018, 05:38:07 pm
A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 26 April 2018, 12:45:38 am
Mr Brown it's the old Cheap, Quick, Quality triangle....... the most you can ever have is two of them together....
sadly most companies go for Cheap and quick and sacrafice quality as a result.

AKA "On Time, On Budget or Works" - Pick any two...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 26 April 2018, 02:26:57 pm

A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
I must admit I wont take mine off, helmet off , ear plugs out, its a faf, I will take mine off when everybody has to have their head and face exposed in petrol stations. I am all for fairness, same for all is no prob. If they wont turn the pump on til I remove my helmet I just lay the nozzle on the ground and ride off, they have to come out and put it back.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 April 2018, 02:36:49 pm

A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
I must admit I wont take mine off, helmet off , ear plugs out, its a faf, I will take mine off when everybody has to have their head and face exposed in petrol stations. I am all for fairness, same for all is no prob. If they wont turn the pump on til I remove my helmet I just lay the nozzle on the ground and ride off, they have to come out and put it back.
I too find it a real faff I also wear glasses and the lid is a tight fit to get on my head and dislodges my earplugs. So you are at the pump wehre the feck am I supposed to put my lid when I take it off- certainly am not putting it on the floor covered in diesel.
But yes those lads were just being dicks for dicks sake.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 26 April 2018, 03:46:09 pm


AKA "On Time & On Budget or Works" - Pick one.

corrected that for you
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 26 April 2018, 07:22:02 pm

A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
I must admit I wont take mine off, helmet off , ear plugs out, its a faf, I will take mine off when everybody has to have their head and face exposed in petrol stations. I am all for fairness, same for all is no prob. If they wont turn the pump on til I remove my helmet I just lay the nozzle on the ground and ride off, they have to come out and put it back.
I found out recently that Shell garages have made it ‘policy’ for bikers to get off their bike before allowing them to refuel, because of the risk of spilt fuel setting alight on exhausts. The patronising pr**k behind the counter made it clear to everyone on the forecourt that I was doing it wrong by still being sat on my bike, over the PA system.  :foc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 26 April 2018, 07:36:52 pm

A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
I must admit I wont take mine off, helmet off , ear plugs out, its a faf, I will take mine off when everybody has to have their head and face exposed in petrol stations. I am all for fairness, same for all is no prob. If they wont turn the pump on til I remove my helmet I just lay the nozzle on the ground and ride off, they have to come out and put it back.
I found out recently that Shell garages have made it ‘policy’ for bikers to get off their bike before allowing them to refuel, because of the risk of spilt fuel setting alight on exhausts. The patronising pr**k behind the counter made it clear to everyone on the forecourt that I was doing it wrong by still being sat on my bike, over the PA system.  :foc
FFS !
So I now have to risk slipping over in the shity forecourt putting on the centre stand.
Also how likely is it that a hot bike exhaust would set alight to petrol. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 26 April 2018, 08:38:32 pm

A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.
They eventually did.  So I pay and exit, the bikers are now sat on a nearby wall smoking fags while one said "Geoff won't be long he is only coming from widnes".  So they were clearly intending to wait anyway and just wanted an excuse to argue with the garage guy...
I must admit I wont take mine off, helmet off , ear plugs out, its a faf, I will take mine off when everybody has to have their head and face exposed in petrol stations. I am all for fairness, same for all is no prob. If they wont turn the pump on til I remove my helmet I just lay the nozzle on the ground and ride off, they have to come out and put it back.
I found out recently that Shell garages have made it ‘policy’ for bikers to get off their bike before allowing them to refuel, because of the risk of spilt fuel setting alight on exhausts. The patronising pr**k behind the counter made it clear to everyone on the forecourt that I was doing it wrong by still being sat on my bike, over the PA system.  :foc
FFS !
So I now have to risk slipping over in the shity forecourt putting on the centre stand.
Also how likely is it that a hot bike exhaust would set alight to petrol.
Apparently there is video footage of a bike setting alight, or so the patronising pr**k claimed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 26 April 2018, 09:46:54 pm
Petrol on a hot bike wont light. (30 yrs London fire brigade ) you need a spark. you could throw a bucket of petrol on a hot exhaust and it wont light
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 26 April 2018, 09:58:48 pm
Isn't it static electricity that starts most of the refueling fires?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 May 2018, 11:55:10 am
The yearly stupidly overpriced insurance renewal, paid Bennets £124 last year for fully comp on my FZ1s, this year they want £298 plus £20 " arrangement fee" for the MT09.
Phoned them up, told me thats the price and could not do it any cheaper, onto the usual compare sites, £168 with MCE including helmet and leathers cover.
I get so pissed off at having to do this every year for bike and car insurance.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: focced_off on 04 May 2018, 01:32:24 pm
A gauntlet of fair weather boys in the petrol station this evening.  Went in the shop just before me and made a predictable, lengthy, and frankly embarrassing scene when asked to remove their helmets.

...

Ironically I was asked recently to remove my helmet walking in to a Sainsbury petrol station, while there was a young woman working there (behind the counter) with her head and neck covered with a muslim head scarf !! One rule for them, another rule for us "TRUE" Brits!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: focced_off on 04 May 2018, 01:39:01 pm
Petrol on a hot bike wont light. (30 yrs London fire brigade ) you need a spark. you could throw a bucket of petrol on a hot exhaust and it wont light

Mobile phones also don't cause petrol fumes to ignite. :) I watched a lengthy Mythbusters episode where they had a sealed Perspex case (about 2 metre square) that was FULL of nasty petrol fumes (much greater level than any open air environment of a petrol station forecourt). They tried LOADS of different brand mobile phones inside, switched on, ringing, etc. Nothing will ignite, zero spark! It's all public scaremongery.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 May 2018, 03:26:59 pm
Petrol on a hot bike wont light. (30 yrs London fire brigade ) you need a spark. you could throw a bucket of petrol on a hot exhaust and it wont light

Mobile phones also don't cause petrol fumes to ignite. :) I watched a lengthy Mythbusters episode where they had a sealed Perspex case (about 2 metre square) that was FULL of nasty petrol fumes (much greater level than any open air environment of a petrol station forecourt). They tried LOADS of different brand mobile phones inside, switched on, ringing, etc. Nothing will ignite, zero spark! It's all public scaremongery.

I also watched that episode, if I remeber right they showed it's more likely to start a fire from static build up and wearing one of them old fashioned shell suits the chavs like was the most likely way to ignite petrol while your filling up.

But Im pretty sure they also said that technically there is something like a 0.000001 odd chance that it can happen therefore the rule is more of a better safe than sorry kind of thing. The same reason your not allowed to use your mobile phone on a plane.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 04 May 2018, 10:46:53 pm
Quote
Ironically I was asked recently to remove my helmet walking in to a Sainsbury petrol station, while there was a young woman working there (behind the counter) with her head and neck covered with a muslim head scarf !! One rule for them, another rule for us "TRUE" Brits!  [/quote]
I think it very unlikely she was going to rob you  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 May 2018, 08:10:40 am
Isn't it static electricity that starts most of the refueling fires?.


Fella at work calls me 'Magneto'.
There are are certain bits of equipment that i literally get a buzz from, as in a mild shock, which NOBODY else gets, and when we were in our previous building there was a lift on a mezzanine floor and i used to have to touch the button with my elbow otherwise there'd be a 2 inch spark if i used my finger. Never hurt so much with the elbow.
I hate shocks.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 May 2018, 10:48:50 am
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I think it very unlikely she was going to rob you  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif[/url])



Nope just doing her job serving all customers, including racists and bigots.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 05 May 2018, 11:45:28 am
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I think it very unlikely she was going to rob you  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif[/url])



Nope just doing her job serving all customers, including racists and bigots.
:lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 07 May 2018, 03:42:07 pm
As far a the mobile phone ban whilst filling up concerned,  I always thought that the mobile phone signal interfered with the pricing counter on the pumps. But they told everyone that it was likely to start a fire so no one would have the phones near the pumps.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 07 May 2018, 04:56:59 pm
You mean you can't check grindr for a few mins while filling up? How very dare they!

People who insist on staying on the phone while being served at the till, fumbling with one hand to pay...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 08 May 2018, 05:54:56 am
I must be in the minority here.
Most times I stop at the petrol station I just take my helmet off. It gives my head a chance to breathe and let some fresh air into the helmet. It takes two seconds and is no hassle to me at all.
Sometimes I just flip the front part up but it is rare for me to do that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 08 May 2018, 08:10:48 am
 :agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 May 2018, 10:05:10 am
Isn't it static electricity that starts most of the refueling fires?.


Fella at work calls me 'Magneto'.
There are are certain bits of equipment that i literally get a buzz from, as in a mild shock, which NOBODY else gets, and when we were in our previous building there was a lift on a mezzanine floor and i used to have to touch the button with my elbow otherwise there'd be a 2 inch spark if i used my finger. Never hurt so much with the elbow.
I hate shocks.




That will be your nylon underpants and/or socks that cause that
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 May 2018, 12:54:43 pm
Isn't it static electricity that starts most of the refueling fires?.


Fella at work calls me 'Magneto'.
There are are certain bits of equipment that i literally get a buzz from, as in a mild shock, which NOBODY else gets, and when we were in our previous building there was a lift on a mezzanine floor and i used to have to touch the button with my elbow otherwise there'd be a 2 inch spark if i used my finger. Never hurt so much with the elbow.
I hate shocks.




That will be your nylon underpants and/or socks that cause that


Ha, yeah, i've had to stop wearing the Superman outfit to work these days.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 11 May 2018, 07:47:45 pm
women drivers

I'm not sexist but in the space of 30 seconds today, 3 women drivers really made me shake my head in amazement

two x 2 lane carriageway, with standing traffic on the left side, but in lane 2 a wagon has broke down and has his hazards on......I'll come back to this

an ambo on a shout approaches from behind and crosses the centre line to pass the traffic......at the lights is a 90 degree bend to the left and a van comes around that bend and pulls over to lane 1 to allow the ambo through who's in lane 2 but going against the flow

a woman decides to overtake the van even though she must've seen/heard the ambo. The ambo holds position as he has nowhere to go (+ on a shout) and the woman in the car takes evasive action at the last minute......

I look across at the broken down wagon and two female drivers are now sat in lane 2 behind him, traffic moves in lane 1 and they're left sitting behind him whilst the rest of lane 2 changes to lane 1 to progress

even my dog was shaking his head at the 3 women
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 May 2018, 08:49:38 pm
women drivers

I'm not sexist but in the space of 30 seconds today, 3 women drivers really made me shake my head in amazement

two x 2 lane carriageway, with standing traffic on the left side, but in lane 2 a wagon has broke down and has his hazards on......I'll come back to this

an ambo on a shout approaches from behind and crosses the centre line to pass the traffic......at the lights is a 90 degree bend to the left and a van comes around that bend and pulls over to lane 1 to allow the ambo through who's in lane 2 but going against the flow

a woman decides to overtake the van even though she must've seen/heard the ambo. The ambo holds position as he has nowhere to go (+ on a shout) and the woman in the car takes evasive action at the last minute......

I look across at the broken down wagon and two female drivers are now sat in lane 2 behind him, traffic moves in lane 1 and they're left sitting behind him whilst the rest of lane 2 changes to lane 1 to progress

even my dog was shaking his head at the 3 women
may its the beer but I could not follow ANY of that. I would say though about women drivers that gets my goat - every traffic light they come to they are flicking their hair or looking in the mirror at them selves - maybe the hair flicking is the unconscious picking of nose that fellas do, but it does make me think they are not really concentrating on the road constantly fidgeting.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 12 May 2018, 06:00:43 am
A few years ago the gearbox in my lorry was playing up. I was going up the hill on Stratford Upon Avon bypass and gradually getting slower which meant lots of downshifts. There was a car directly behind me despite there being an overtaking lane which was built specifically so traffic could pass slow lorries. My lorry gearbox decided at this moment it wasn't going to engage low range and I ground to a halt. The car stayed behind me, sitting there while other cars passed by. It wasn't that busy with traffic and he could have pulled out to overtake at any time. I sat there for a good twenty minutes while fiddling with the low/high range button until I heard it click into low range and could set off again. Maximum speed was 10mph going up this hill from a standing start and he still sat behind me. When I really got going and my speed got up to 50mph the car driver then decides to overtake in the most stupidist place possible.
Yeah, it was a bloke. I find that most of the really dangerous and thoughtless manoeuvres are done by blokes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 May 2018, 07:08:33 am
women drivers

I'm not sexist but in the space of 30 seconds today, 3 women drivers really made me shake my head in amazement

two x 2 lane carriageway, with standing traffic on the left side, but in lane 2 a wagon has broke down and has his hazards on......I'll come back to this

an ambo on a shout approaches from behind and crosses the centre line to pass the traffic......at the lights is a 90 degree bend to the left and a van comes around that bend and pulls over to lane 1 to allow the ambo through who's in lane 2 but going against the flow

a woman decides to overtake the van even though she must've seen/heard the ambo. The ambo holds position as he has nowhere to go (+ on a shout) and the woman in the car takes evasive action at the last minute......

I look across at the broken down wagon and two female drivers are now sat in lane 2 behind him, traffic moves in lane 1 and they're left sitting behind him whilst the rest of lane 2 changes to lane 1 to progress

even my dog was shaking his head at the 3 women
may its the beer but I could not follow ANY of that. I would say though about women drivers that gets my goat - every traffic light they come to they are flicking their hair or looking in the mirror at them selves - maybe the hair flicking is the unconscious picking of nose that fellas do, but it does make me think they are not really concentrating on the road constantly fidgeting.       


I reckon you may be misinterpreting the signs me old mucker!
They're not looking at themselves......they've suddenly seen some knight in shining body armour on some gleaming black steed, thinking "Wow, look at that bad boy!"  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 12 May 2018, 07:28:53 am
Male or female, lots of bad drivers... Why can't they be exceptional at it like me...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 12 May 2018, 09:25:52 am
yeah, lots of bad drivers but the thread is called Today's "What Gets My Goat"

emphasis on "Todays"

fazersharp.......its the ale.

a road with two lanes on each side, the ambo passes standing traffic on the opposite carriageway like you'll have seen loads of times. Oncoming van pulls over only for a goon behind the van to overtake and plays chicken with ambo

the other carriageway has a broken down lorry in lane 2 with goons sat up his arse for ages

all goons in the story are women

THE END :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 12 May 2018, 05:14:25 pm
What about tomorrow!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 12 May 2018, 06:05:47 pm
yeah, lots of bad drivers but the thread is called Today's "What Gets My Goat"

emphasis on "Todays"

fazersharp.......its the ale.

a road with two lanes on each side, the ambo passes standing traffic on the opposite carriageway like you'll have seen loads of times. Oncoming van pulls over only for a goon behind the van to overtake and plays chicken with ambo

the other carriageway has a broken down lorry in lane 2 with goons sat up his arse for ages

all goons in the story are women

THE END :lol


Mad forgot his meds again this morning
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 12 May 2018, 06:54:29 pm
eh darrsi......magneto man

since I read your post I've been the same......getting buzzed off everything I touch :rolleyes

last two days have been interesting to say the least :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 May 2018, 09:16:41 pm
eh darrsi......magneto man

since I read your post I've been the same......getting buzzed off everything I touch :rolleyes

last two days have been interesting to say the least :lol


I got given a free rugby top at work the other day, but it's made of polyester for strength purposes.
I swear i was waiting to spontaneously combust when i put it on, you could hear the crackling of static, absolutely no way i could wear it.
All my boots have to be anti static as well, otherwise i get shocks between my toes when i walk, which is even worse in winter. Can only wear 100% cotton socks as well otherwise it just makes things worse.
Sounds funny, but it really isn't.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 13 May 2018, 10:13:55 am
I know what you're saying bro :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 May 2018, 10:30:49 am
When you get a weekend of lovely weather like this one and some complete arse in the vicinity decides to light a bonfire.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 20 May 2018, 10:48:48 am
When you get a weekend of lovely weather like this one and some complete arse in the vicinity decides to light a bonfire.

Usually 5 minutes after you’ve hung the washing out to dry!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 20 May 2018, 10:46:11 pm
nuisance neighbours eh?

in a garden or on wasteland.........if garden

ring 999 get fire to attend, tell operator you think its a house job........upon arrival Fire may let it go as a controlled burn but the proviso will be that if further calls come in, we'll have to extinguish

so if it isn't put out first go................multiple calls from you and the neighbours :lol

there's more than one way to skin a cat ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 21 May 2018, 10:28:13 am
If it's a regular problem by the same person report them to your environmental health department they will take action. We had the same problem where I used to live the idiot had a gardening business and rather than pay tipping charges for his business waste he used to burn it most evenings in summer burning weeds and grass stinks and the smoke hung on wind lass nights. I spoke to the t**t but no change so reported him to environmental health along with several of the neighbours. He was served with an enforcement notice to stop the fires he had no choice but had to comply. Best do these things the legal way rather than the way most of us would like too.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 21 May 2018, 12:32:52 pm
I was under the impression it's perfectly legal to have a bonfire in your own garden?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 May 2018, 01:04:53 pm
I was under the impression it's perfectly legal to have a bonfire in your own garden?
Depends on your local by-laws

Where I am in the UK, it is after dusk only.
At my French place, none are allowed from April to October
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 21 May 2018, 02:32:54 pm
They might have acted because there were a fair few reports about the same person and it was commercial garden/waste he was burning. He stopped and that was all the people that lived with a square mile of him was bothered about.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 21 May 2018, 05:04:37 pm
As BB said it depends on the local authorities. Some areas you are not allowed to burn ordinary household coal but it has to be smokeless, not sure about logs.
We retained one open fireplace in my house in our front sitting room (Posh people call it a lounge) the open fire makes a real focal point and creates a nice warm atmosphere.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 May 2018, 06:50:24 am
If it's a regular problem by the same person report them to your environmental health department they will take action. We had the same problem where I used to live the idiot had a gardening business and rather than pay tipping charges for his business waste he used to burn it most evenings in summer burning weeds and grass stinks and the smoke hung on wind lass nights. I spoke to the t**t but no change so reported him to environmental health along with several of the neighbours. He was served with an enforcement notice to stop the fires he had no choice but had to comply. Best do these things the legal way rather than the way most of us would like too.


Burning weeds and grass could be classed as a vegetarians BBQ.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 22 May 2018, 07:11:05 am
Could also depend on the type of grass that was burning. :eek 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 22 May 2018, 08:03:36 pm
As BB said it depends on the local authorities. Some areas you are not allowed to burn ordinary household coal but it has to be smokeless, not sure about logs.     


Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner - we also burn smokeless coal as we had a multi-fuel stove installed but when we bought the house it had an open fire and I used the coal that was in the tumbled down coal bunker and OMG did it smoke! I had to mix it in with smokeless stuff to get rid of it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 23 May 2018, 06:42:14 am



Clear as mud  :lol


https://www.gov.uk/garden-bonfires-rules (https://www.gov.uk/garden-bonfires-rules)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 May 2018, 08:25:57 am
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner

They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 May 2018, 10:26:51 am
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner

They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.

At home we had an open fire and some wood - I think it was ash used to spit like mad, you would be watching some mothers do ave em and suddenly a red hot meteorite would come flying at you.
Thanks to constant colds as a kid I am now a perfect shot at living room distance from throwing the tissues into the fire from the sofa.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 23 May 2018, 06:00:57 pm

people who are at traffic lights, and when the light sequence turns to green they are never ready to pull away, most annoying.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 23 May 2018, 08:18:33 pm
Car drivers that slow down for speed cameras when they are already going 20mph less than the limit!!!!
The one that did it tonight nearly had 44 tonnes of lorry to help speed him back up again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 23 May 2018, 08:47:27 pm

people who are at traffic lights, and when the light sequence turns to green they are never ready to pull away, most annoying.


people who are at traffic lights, and when the amber light comes on, theyre on the horn straightaway, most annoying  :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 23 May 2018, 09:24:28 pm
Car drivers that slow down for speed cameras when they are already going 20mph less than the limit!!!!
The one that did it tonight nearly had 44 tonnes of lorry to help speed him back up again.
Also the idiots who slow down for a Gatso camera which is on the opposite side of the road......even  when they are already going 20mph less than the limit!!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 23 May 2018, 09:51:15 pm
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner

They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.

At home we had an open fire and some wood - I think it was ash used to spit like mad, you would be watching some mothers do ave em and suddenly a red hot meteorite would come flying at you.
Thanks to constantly masturbating as a kid I am now a perfect shot at living room distance from throwing the tissues into the fire from the sofa.   
:eek :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 May 2018, 10:14:19 pm
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner

They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.

At home we had an open fire and some wood - I think it was ash used to spit like mad, you would be watching some mothers do ave em and suddenly a red hot meteorite would come flying at you.
Thanks to constantly masturbating as a kid I am now a perfect shot at living room distance from throwing the tissues into the fire from the sofa.   
:eek :lol
:lol
Took me a while to spot it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 24 May 2018, 09:26:35 pm
I spotted it but didn't want any further info thank you...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 May 2018, 09:29:25 am
Preposed £2000 extra tax per household to properly fund the NHS when they are giving £15 billion pounds of our hard earned money in foreign aid away every year. It's about time those supposedly running this country looked after there own people first. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 25 May 2018, 09:59:43 am
Preposed £2000 extra tax per household to properly fund the NHS when they are giving £15 billion pounds of our hard earned money in foreign aid away every year. It's about time those supposedly running this country looked after there own people first. 
They do look after their own people ------- the ones sitting right next to them in the commons
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: focced_off on 25 May 2018, 01:58:28 pm
Preposed £2000 extra tax per household to properly fund the NHS when they are giving £15 billion pounds of our hard earned money in foreign aid away every year. It's about time those supposedly running this country looked after there own people first.

Why are they giving it all away to other countries as "foreign aid" when it feels like half the population of those (3rd world) countries are already IN the UK anyway!  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 May 2018, 02:49:32 pm
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner

They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.

At home we had an open fire and some wood - I think it was ash used to spit like mad, you would be watching some mothers do ave em and suddenly a red hot meteorite would come flying at you.
Thanks to constant colds as a kid I am now a perfect shot at living room distance from throwing the tissues into the fire from the sofa.   
Logs are now 'green' if you burn them in an approved log burner
They are trying to implement that but for existing log burners/fires, dry wood is OK anyway. Its the damp stuff that spits, farts and smokes a lot.
At home we had an open fire and some wood - I think it was ash used to spit like mad, you would be watching some mothers do ave em and suddenly a red hot meteorite would come flying at you.Thanks to constantly masturbating as a kid I am now a perfect shot at living room distance from throwing the tissues into the fire from the sofa.   
:eek :lol



You notice Sharpie distances himself from his habits by saying as a kid
I heard tail he is still and dab hand at tissues into the fireplace.  :o :guitar :pokefun
LOL


Well I guess they have grand fireplaces at Sharp Hall



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: vinnyb on 31 May 2018, 06:25:52 pm

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-pitiful-arctic-foxes-that-shame-the-fashion-world-beautiful-creatures-are-cramped-in-tiny-cages-and-deliberately-bloated-to-produce-two-million-fur-pelts-for-britain-each-year/ar-AAy2PVA?ocid=spartandhp (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-pitiful-arctic-foxes-that-shame-the-fashion-world-beautiful-creatures-are-cramped-in-tiny-cages-and-deliberately-bloated-to-produce-two-million-fur-pelts-for-britain-each-year/ar-AAy2PVA?ocid=spartandhp)
 Fashion and vanity.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 01 June 2018, 10:15:09 pm
Jodie Kidd, her monotonous voice on the  ITV4  TT programs.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 02 June 2018, 07:09:37 am
Just be thankful one channel has bothered to cover the TT at all. As for Joidie kidd just how tall is that girl she's head and shoulders taller than the other presenters. She's apparently is one of the front runners to take over lead presenter of Top Gear.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 02 June 2018, 07:47:43 am
I see she has bought the obligatory brand new leather jacket to present the shows...


She is apparently 6' 1" tall - most of the other presenters are ex riders and they tend to be about 5' tall.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 02 June 2018, 10:26:56 am
I wondered how long it would be before a woman took over on the show :rolleyes

She's done a bit of car racing hasn't she, but I didn't know she was an expert on bike racing too! :eek

A new production company has taken over the coverage.

 I guess that would explain why the brilliant intro music and the fantastic Steve Parrish & co aren't on it this year.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 02 June 2018, 12:10:03 pm
Yeah, I liked that music. One of the very few theme tunes I actually turned up the volume for.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: NorthWestern on 04 June 2018, 07:34:11 pm
Yoot who talk with that "urbanized" London accent. Ya get me?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 June 2018, 09:52:33 pm
Yoot who talk with that "urbanized" London accent. Ya get me?

Nah fam
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 06 June 2018, 06:44:19 am
Been recording a tv series on the London Live channel, and the other day this fella had been kidnapped and gone missing, then the next episode it looks like instead of going forward in sequence they just decided to go back to a random earlier episode?  :rolleyes 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 June 2018, 09:54:56 am
Are you sure you're not watching 'Babestation' :-)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 June 2018, 11:37:33 pm
I write a big reply to something and then press a wrong key and the whole lot is gone  :pc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 09 June 2018, 10:59:24 pm
Being told by Vauxhall dealer that a single spark plugs for my DDs Astra is almost 20 quid!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 13 June 2018, 11:03:46 am
Nodding to another biker and then realising its a copper  :rollin
(they do normally nod back though!)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2018, 08:21:39 pm

Nodding to another biker and then realising its a copper  :rollin


....or a chopper
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 13 June 2018, 08:42:31 pm

Nodding to another biker and then realising its a copper  :rollin


....or a chopper
I did that to a chop once and he nodded back -------------I bout fell off  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 13 June 2018, 08:53:45 pm

Nodding to another biker and then realising its a copper  :rollin


....or a chopper
I did that to a chop once and he nodded back -------------I bout fell off  :lol


He probably did it by mistake too  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 13 June 2018, 10:50:55 pm

Nodding to another biker and then realising its a copper  :rollin


....or a chopper

Or a moped! :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 June 2018, 04:13:06 am
Granny on a step-thru
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 June 2018, 01:29:30 pm
People who spam ebay with 100 listings of the same thing so you have to scroll through pages and pages
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 June 2018, 05:20:54 pm
Foccin bridges in wind!! Went out for a ride today and obviosuly its quite windy, went from south to north over the humber bridge (tolls of the north side) with no issues, tried to come back 30 mins later only to be told at the toll that its closed to high sided vehicles which for some mad reason includes motorbikes!!
I was told to pull up in the car park to the left and either wait or make the 1 hour detour to drive round. It was 2.40 and I needed to be at school to pick my kids up at 3.30, I tried to explain that to no avail and then argued as to why there were motorbikes (and lorrys, caravansn trailers etc) coming across the northbound route and was just told they had ignored the signs..... so I ignored the moron employee and just rode across anyway. I might have a fine coming through the post soon but I wasn't the only person ignoring their stupid advice so hopefully nothing will come of it.
Just really winds me up, could understand it if I was an arctic or something but I'm on a bludy bike!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 14 June 2018, 05:34:36 pm
Foccin bridges in wind!! Went out for a ride today and obviosuly its quite windy, went from south to north over the humber bridge (tolls of the north side) with no issues, tried to come back 30 mins later only to be told at the toll that its closed to high sided vehicles which for some mad reason includes motorbikes!!
I was told to pull up in the car park to the left and either wait or make the 1 hour detour to drive round. It was 2.40 and I needed to be at school to pick my kids up at 3.30, I tried to explain that to no avail and then argued as to why there were motorbikes (and lorrys, caravansn trailers etc) coming across the northbound route and was just told they had ignored the signs..... so I ignored the moron employee and just rode across anyway. I might have a fine coming through the post soon but I wasn't the only person ignoring their stupid advice so hopefully nothing will come of it.
Just really winds me up, could understand it if I was an arctic or something but I'm on a bludy bike!
If an artic or a caravan tower ignored the sign then they are completely mad.

As for motorbikes being classed as "high sides" no, they are vulnerable to cross winds though so you should have listened. One gust blowing you into the central reservation (or worse) and your insurance company would have blown you away too.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 14 June 2018, 08:01:13 pm
I have been across the Humber Bridge in high winds on a motorbike. Pretty scary. Obviously I was leaning into the wind quite a bit, then I went by one of the bridge supports and even though I was ready for a sudden lack of wind I didn't get my reactions right and nearly swerved into the barrier. By the mid-point of the crossing I was thinking "shit, shit, shit" as I was hanging on for dear life.
So sometimes it may be wise not to ignore the road closure - and I know you were in a tight spot by needing to get to school etc - the other problem is when they also shut Goole bridge on the M62, the last time I got caught in that jam it took about 5 hours to get from Hull to Goole (I was in a lorry so unable to filter) so the diversion may or may not take an hour...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 June 2018, 08:20:47 pm
Yeah I know what your both saying but at the end of it is already made the crossing once so i knew what to expect, it just takes a bit of common sense. I slowed down to 25mph and the wind barely effected me. It was no windier that it had been on the open stretches of the a18 leading up to it.

I understand it's a safety thing and if they had something on the south bank to stop you going over in the first place then that would be fine but to let you cross then tell you that you cant return because its 'too dangerous' is just a piss take
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 15 June 2018, 08:30:14 am
Yeah I know what your both saying but at the end of it is already made the crossing once so i knew what to expect, it just takes a bit of common sense. I slowed down to 25mph and the wind barely effected me. It was no windier that it had been on the open stretches of the a18 leading up to it.

I understand it's a safety thing and if they had something on the south bank to stop you going over in the first place then that would be fine but to let you cross then tell you that you cant return because its 'too dangerous' is just a piss take


Are you saying you ignored the signs on the first crossing? If so, youre a muppet.
It may be that between you crossing the first and the second time the wind gusts had increased and you got lucky with lower gusts when you crossed the second time.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 18 June 2018, 10:23:29 am

I would doubt that they've got a system for issuing fines in such a situation where it's still open to some traffic.







Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 19 June 2018, 08:10:20 pm



I'll tell you what gets my goat. You don't log on here for about a week because you're busy, and instantly people crawl out of the woodwork selling stuff you have been looking for, for bloody ages, for cheap money. Bikes, Carbon race cans, someone wanting to swap a loud blue flame can for a standard can, yes yes and yes again.


Bloody typical.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 19 June 2018, 09:59:54 pm
Paint - emulsion paint the worst culprit leaves you panicking that the colour is not what you hoped until it drys the right colour - usually darker than when wet.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 August 2018, 10:56:43 pm
When you book an MOT 6 days in advance, take the day off work, drop the bike off first thing in the morning, only to return at the end of the day to be told that they were too busy to do it :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Wharfe on 14 August 2018, 10:39:18 am
Yeah I know this is well covered but - using phones at the wheel. Yesterday I couldn't believe my eyes - some stupid young girl in the next lane slowed to some lights (which quickly changed) and then sped up, all without lifting her head from the phone she was gawping at. I was close enough  to see it was pictures not text she was looking at. Presumably she is an emergency heart surgeon and was Skyping a colleague in order to save a life, or something equally immediate and important. FFS....
When I gave her a blast of the horn and pointed at the phone she looked proper embarrassed. That should stop HER from using a phone at the wheel. For at least ten minutes...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 14 August 2018, 11:49:22 pm
Yeah I know this is well covered but - using phones at the wheel. Yesterday I couldn't believe my eyes - some stupid young girl in the next lane slowed to some lights (which quickly changed) and then sped up, all without lifting her head from the phone she was gawping at. I was close enough  to see it was pictures not text she was looking at. Presumably she is an emergency heart surgeon and was Skyping a colleague in order to save a life, or something equally immediate and important. FFS....
When I gave her a blast of the horn and pointed at the phone she looked proper embarrassed. That should stop HER from using a phone at the wheel. For at least ten minutes...
I had a similar thing recently, mid 20s guy driving a transit van at about 60mph whilst texting. I came alongside (dual carriageway) and looked across shaking my head.
His girlfriend sees me and nudges him as he’s not seen me and he quickly puts the phone down on the dash looking all embarrassed and sheepish, and starts apologising. I just give him the ‘dickhead’ signal and blast off down the road.  :rolleyes
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 August 2018, 08:29:35 pm
They're now saying that the woman who fell overboard the cruise ship allegedly may have jumped off following a drunken row with her boyfriend :rolleyes

Because the boat was so delayed getting to Venice at least one family claim that they are thousands of pounds out of pocket due to missed flights and having to rearrange travel arrangements. They say their insurance won't cover all these losses.

If it is indeed the case that she jumped off I sincerely hope that the dopey bird is going to reimburse everyone.

I'd be fuming >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 August 2018, 09:08:58 pm
They're now saying that the woman who fell overboard the cruise ship allegedly may have jumped off following a drunken row with her boyfriend :rolleyes

Because the boat was so delayed getting to Venice at least one family claim that they are thousands of pounds out of pocket due to missed flights and having to rearrange travel arrangements. They say their insurance won't cover all these losses.

If it is indeed the case that she jumped off I sincerely hope that the dopey bird is going to reimburse everyone.

I'd be fuming >:


Probably not as clearcut as that, but i did read that his ex missus said she would jump off if she was stuck on a ship with him as he can be a right horrible bastard.
She may have simply been really fearful of him and at her wits end, but too scared to say anything.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 22 August 2018, 09:41:39 pm
They're now saying that the woman who fell overboard the cruise ship allegedly may have jumped off following a drunken row with her boyfriend :rolleyes

Because the boat was so delayed getting to Venice at least one family claim that they are thousands of pounds out of pocket due to missed flights and having to rearrange travel arrangements. They say their insurance won't cover all these losses.

If it is indeed the case that she jumped off I sincerely hope that the dopey bird is going to reimburse everyone.

I'd be fuming >:


Probably not as clearcut as that, but i did read that his ex missus said she would jump off if she was stuck on a ship with him as he can be a right horrible bastard.
She may have simply been really fearful of him and at her wits end, but too scared to say anything.



She was soon back with him afterwards I notice.

They aren't married and have no kids.

 If you're speculation regarding the boyfriend is correct darrsi then she's even more dopey than I first suspected for sticking with him.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 22 August 2018, 11:54:36 pm
They're now saying that the woman who fell overboard the cruise ship allegedly may have jumped off following a drunken row with her boyfriend :rolleyes

Because the boat was so delayed getting to Venice at least one family claim that they are thousands of pounds out of pocket due to missed flights and having to rearrange travel arrangements. They say their insurance won't cover all these losses.

If it is indeed the case that she jumped off I sincerely hope that the dopey bird is going to reimburse everyone.

I'd be fuming >:


Probably not as clearcut as that, but i did read that his ex missus said she would jump off if she was stuck on a ship with him as he can be a right horrible bastard.
She may have simply been really fearful of him and at her wits end, but too scared to say anything.



She was soon back with him afterwards I notice.

They aren't married and have no kids.

 If you're speculation regarding the boyfriend is correct darrsi then she's even more dopey than I first suspected for sticking with him.


I hear you, but i've seen it before where women are literally too scared to leave them.
We just can't tell what goes on behind closed doors, it's quite sad really.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 23 August 2018, 07:37:38 am

They're now saying that the woman who fell overboard the cruise ship allegedly may have jumped off following a drunken row with her boyfriend :rolleyes

Because the boat was so delayed getting to Venice at least one family claim that they are thousands of pounds out of pocket due to missed flights and having to rearrange travel arrangements. They say their insurance won't cover all these losses.

If it is indeed the case that she jumped off I sincerely hope that the dopey bird is going to reimburse everyone.

I'd be fuming >:


Probably not as clearcut as that, but i did read that his ex missus said she would jump off if she was stuck on a ship with him as he can be a right horrible bastard.
She may have simply been really fearful of him and at her wits end, but too scared to say anything.



She was soon back with him afterwards I notice.

They aren't married and have no kids.

 If you're speculation regarding the boyfriend is correct darrsi then she's even more dopey than I first suspected for sticking with him.


I hear you, but i've seen it before where women are literally too scared to leave them.
We just can't tell what goes on behind closed doors, it's quite sad really.




I'd be mightily sad if the antics of this pair had ruined my holiday and left me thousands of pounds out of pocket.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 23 August 2018, 08:00:31 pm
I met the exact opposite a couple of years ago when I started a new job driving lorries.
The bloke was quite well built and looked tough. His Mrs was also a lorry driver who worked for the same firm, quite small and thin.
I noticed that every so often he turned up to work with bruises on his face and one day a real good black eye.
Turned out that his Mrs was hitting him. She was also very good at verbal abuse too.
Despite the rest of us telling him to leave (and he agreed that he needed to) he just never took the plunge.


She wasn't anything special. I didn't like her at all. We just couldn't see why he stayed. He's still with her now.
Thankfully I don't work with them now.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 August 2018, 08:56:25 am
I met the exact opposite a couple of years ago when I started a new job driving lorries.
The bloke was quite well built and looked tough. His Mrs was also a lorry driver who worked for the same firm, quite small and thin.
I noticed that every so often he turned up to work with bruises on his face and one day a real good black eye.
Turned out that his Mrs was hitting him. She was also very good at verbal abuse too.
Despite the rest of us telling him to leave (and he agreed that he needed to) he just never took the plunge.


She wasn't anything special. I didn't like her at all. We just couldn't see why he stayed. He's still with her now.
Thankfully I don't work with them now.


Sounds like they have a fruity love life....each to their own.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 27 August 2018, 11:58:15 pm
When you're about to have a piss in the sink and some dirty bastard hasn't washed the crocks up.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 28 August 2018, 08:44:32 am
people who start to talk and open with...
So......(reminds me of chavs)
Look....(reminds me of power tripping twats who think they're right)

watched a female officer the other month at the trooping of the colour, tv interviewer began by asking why and how she'd won her medal. Her first word was....So

FFS even officers have become chavs
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 August 2018, 09:17:16 am


FFS even officers have become chavs


Some might say it's an improvement  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 28 August 2018, 09:24:04 am

Look, so I must stop starting every sentence with so, see :lol




Sorry couldn't resist it.  Really gets get my goat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 August 2018, 09:36:10 am
people who start to talk and open with...
So......
I have noticed that to. Also there was a stage a while ago where any Americans were interviewed that would either start or end the sentence with "right now"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 28 August 2018, 12:50:42 pm
people who start to talk and open with...
So......(reminds me of chavs)
Look....(reminds me of power tripping twats who think they're right)

Well...

;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 28 August 2018, 01:05:44 pm
Uuhhmmmmm........... :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 28 August 2018, 05:42:58 pm



It's worse than starting sentences with 'so' - notice how many (answering questions as well!) start with 'okay, so'...



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 28 August 2018, 06:20:57 pm
Like , kinda , do you know what I mean.......................NO   :wall :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 28 August 2018, 08:22:51 pm
Look, at the end of the day it's gonna be so worth it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 28 August 2018, 09:51:07 pm
Yeah, It used to be the same with "basically" you'd talk to someone and basically they'd be basically talking basically in riddles basically.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 28 August 2018, 09:53:44 pm
It is what it is..........
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 28 August 2018, 10:06:22 pm
you know what I mean
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 28 August 2018, 10:24:09 pm
Basically,no
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 August 2018, 05:21:24 pm
 French fisherman intimidating and ramming UK fleet that's fishing perfectly legally.

 Typical shoddy behaviour.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 29 August 2018, 05:39:25 pm
Quote
French fisherman intimidating and ramming UK fleet that's fishing perfectly legally.

 Typical shoddy behaviour.
Except that the French are not allowed to harvest these stocks at this time of year, in their own waters, in order to preserve the stocks. 
The law doesn’t apply to British vessels so they sail into French waters and hoover up the stocks.
So yeah, one can understand the French fishermen’s frustration.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 29 August 2018, 07:04:11 pm
Gotta agree VNA, our fleet shouldn't be there while the French have a self imposed ban to preserve stocks.
They'd soon be moaning if it were the other way round.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 29 August 2018, 07:27:52 pm
Agreed. Can you imagine the outrage here, if it was the other way round!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 29 August 2018, 08:16:24 pm
I thought the EU was all about sharing. We're sharing the scallops :lol

Very tasty they are too :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 29 August 2018, 09:25:04 pm
in their own waters,

14 miles out is international waters
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 29 August 2018, 09:52:11 pm
.... but still nowhere near the UK
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 29 August 2018, 09:58:33 pm
Everyone's for preserving stocks but EU fishing laws are all a bit mental. So we can fish just outside the french waters when they're not allowed BUT, Spanish and Portuguese are free to fish in the Hebrides but UK boats are subject to quotas and can only fish for certain species. Have you ever been to Portugal, they love them little fish, they must use old ladies 60 denier tights as nets, no wonder they can't get the smell off the fish.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 29 August 2018, 10:13:49 pm
All a bit immaterial anyway. Once we leave the EU and the common fisheries policy, we won't be allowed to fish there ...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 August 2018, 09:12:34 am
I used to live in south Devon  I've been fishing Slapton beach and there has been French and Spanish trawlers less than 200mtrs from  the beach ripping the bottom of the Skerris up with drag nets when they have run through the sea bed is completely destroyed for a couple of months. don't feel sorry for the EU  they buy up all the fish quoters  stopping the British fishermen earning a living. I think if look at commercial fishing in general, there's EU rules what boats can fish for and when but as a rule only the British skippers obey them. For those of us old enough to remember this smacks of the cod wars with Iceland. Only difference is we had a Royal navy with enough sea worthy ships to protect them.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 August 2018, 09:21:07 am
Other difference is that Iceland were not, and are still not part of the EU. Once we leave it's going to be a 'free for all' with no rules, and no fish left anywhere.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: F4celess on 30 August 2018, 12:54:23 pm
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French fisherman intimidating and ramming UK fleet that's fishing perfectly legally.

 Typical shoddy behaviour.
Except that the French are not allowed to harvest these stocks at this time of year, in their own waters, in order to preserve the stocks. 
The law doesn’t apply to British vessels so they sail into French waters and hoover up the stocks.
So yeah, one can understand the French fishermen’s frustration.

Could this all change with Brexit !?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 06:04:42 pm
 
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For those of us old enough to remember this smacks of the cod wars with Iceland. Only difference is we had a Royal navy with enough sea worthy ships to protect them.   


The Icelanders were protecting their stocks from British vessels that were determined to fish the stocks to extinction.  Iceland stood it’s ground against the UK.  Iceland eventually secured a 200 mile Icelandic exclusive fishery zone and in doing so was able to preserve and maintain it’s stocks and fishing industry. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 06:09:11 pm
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Could this all change with Brexit !?
BREXIT?  BREXIT?  Did somebody say BREXIT? :lol
Dunno F4celess, but what I do know is this.  Before the BREXIT referendum the price of a brand new MT10 was £9999.00The price today is £11,499.00
Expect the price to rise further if there is a no deal BREXIT.
The best EU deal is of course the deal we already have.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 August 2018, 06:11:09 pm
It was the same.  Iceland claimed/wanted control over international waters same as the French are now trying with the Scallop fishing. Try talking to local Cornish and Devon skippers it would really open your eyes to the stunts being pulled, and not to the benefit of local trawlers and inshore boats. No I'm not involved with commercial fishing in any way just used to fish on angling boats and occasionally crewed one when the skipper was short of a crew.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 06:38:48 pm
I have to say I love fish.  I eat much more fish than I do meat.

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Iceland claimed/wanted control over international waters same as the French are now trying with the Scallop fishing.

Not gonna argue with that steve. 


But let's not forget that North Sea Cod stocks fell some 84% from 1970 to 2006.  We almost wiped out our fish stocks.

About 90% of the cod consumed in the UK in recent years comes from guess where? - Iceland.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2018, 07:09:53 pm

But let's not forget that North Sea Cod stocks fell some 84% from 1870 to 2006.  We almost wiped out our fish stocks.

Not sure about the "WE" remark unless the "we" are humans.I was in Porto last year and was amazed to see so much cod -rows of it, salted and stacked up in boxes waist high with most of it about the size of a fazer seat - some bigger, that was in the equivalent size shop of a tesco express or Co-op. But smaller side street shops also sell it so that you can find it everywhere.
I don't see how the uk should feel so guilty about a shitty piece of cod once a fortnight from the local chippy.
Their love of salted cod comes from pre refrigeration days where they would have to salt it to survive the journey back to Portugal from the north sea.   
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2018, 07:14:42 pm
In other countries they eat Roach and Perch - so should we.I believe Monk fish used to be caught by accident and thrown back, it now costs a small fortune.   

Edit to say --- It gets my goat that--Monk fish used to be caught by accident and thrown back, it now costs a small fortune. As this is a GET MY GOAT THREAD --- cough !   

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 08:24:12 pm
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Not sure about the "WE" remark unless the "we" are humans.
We the UK.  Oh I've corrected my dates, 1970 - not 1870 - DOH.

We’ve still got a significant fishing and seafood industry here in Scotland.  It’s a big export industry for Scotland.  But of course, the export side of it is under threat by BREXIT.

With the rising price of fish Pollock is another recent addition, it’s dirt cheap.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 August 2018, 08:28:20 pm
Fazersharp you've hit the nail on the there our fishermen for the most part follow the rules to the letter, not all other trawlers are so diligent in there applying or the rules. Dumping tons of fish because they have caught their quota of cod etc it's dead by the time it gets on the deck how does that protect the fish stock, all it achieves is to protect the high prices the large trawler fleet owners get for the fish they land, As for Iceland bet Scotland, Shetlands and other countries with the north sea on their shores would like a 200mile exclusion zone for foreign trawlers.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 August 2018, 08:42:40 pm
Rumour has it that as the last commissioned war ship seaworthy available HMS VICTORY is be being made ready for sea to protect the British trawlers from the French. She will be putting to sea if/when they can find a crew that can sail her.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2018, 09:31:40 pm
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Not sure about the "WE" remark unless the "we" are humans.
It’s a big export industry for Scotland.  But of course, the export side of it is under threat by BREXIT.
As wide as you do open your mouth about brexit at every opportunity I would of thought you could get by on swimming around for plankton  :pokefun   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 August 2018, 09:33:33 pm


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Not sure about the "WE" remark unless the "we" are humans.
We the UK.  Oh I've corrected my dates, 1970 - not 1870 - DOH.

We’ve still got a significant fishing and seafood industry here in Scotland.  It’s a big export industry for Scotland.  But of course, the export side of it is under threat by BREXIT.

With the rising price of fish Pollock is another recent addition, it’s dirt cheap.


I shall be sampling some fine Scottish sea produce at The Green Seafood Shack in Oban on holiday next week.


Staying at Fort William, but Oban is worth a visit for that alone :b


(It's the shack that's green, not the seafood  ;) )
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 09:50:15 pm
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Rumour has it that as the last commissioned war ship seaworthy available HMS VICTORY is be being made ready for sea to protect the British trawlers from the French. She will be putting to sea if/when they can find a crew that can sail her.
:lol :lol :lol :lol
What's HMS Victory going to do?   Sink a few French trawlers?  Show em who's boss?
It's bollocks.
The situation should and can be solved by a little diplomacy.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 09:53:13 pm
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I shall be sampling some fine Scottish sea produce at The Green Seafood Shack in Oban on holiday next week.
Enjoy.
You could also try https://www.lochfyne.com/ (https://www.lochfyne.com/) expensive but enjoys an excellant reputation for first class sea food.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 30 August 2018, 10:06:26 pm

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I shall be sampling some fine Scottish sea produce at The Green Seafood Shack in Oban on holiday next week.
Enjoy.
You could also try https://www.lochfyne.com/ (https://www.lochfyne.com/) expensive but enjoys an excellant reputation for first class sea food.


I've eaten at the Cambridge branch where I live.


You do a bit of walking don't you?.


I'm hoping to climb Ben Nevis next week.


I've done Snowdon and Scafell Pike this year and hoping to complete the 3 peaks.


Happy to receive any tips regarding route etc.. :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 30 August 2018, 10:54:42 pm



Happy to receive any tips regarding route etc.. :)

Stick some nobblies on the Fazer..... that'll be the best way up 🤣
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2018, 11:14:00 pm
Not done Ben Nevis yet.When I get round to it I'll be following this route - https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/carnmordeargarete.shtml (https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/carnmordeargarete.shtml)
Which if you like walking that's an excellant web site https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ (https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/)
The above Ben Nevis route has quite a bit of ascent and could make for a long day.
I would suggest there are better walks than taking the goat track up Ben Nevis.
Where ever you walk do check - http://www.mwis.org.uk/ (http://www.mwis.org.uk/) - before you set off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 31 August 2018, 12:18:02 am
road junction "creepers" edging out, makes my arse go  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 August 2018, 06:31:16 am



Happy to receive any tips regarding route etc.. :)

Stick some nobblies on the Fazer..... that'll be the best way up 🤣

Top Tip. Cheers :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 August 2018, 06:31:59 am
Not done Ben Nevis yet.When I get round to it I'll be following this route - [url]https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/carnmordeargarete.shtml[/url] ([url]https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/carnmordeargarete.shtml[/url])
Which if you like walking that's an excellant web site [url]https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/[/url] ([url]https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/[/url])
The above Ben Nevis route has quite a bit of ascent and could make for a long day.
I would suggest there are better walks than taking the goat track up Ben Nevis.
Where ever you walk do check - [url]http://www.mwis.org.uk/[/url] ([url]http://www.mwis.org.uk/[/url]) - before you set off.


Ta for links :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 August 2018, 06:45:52 am
road junction "creepers" edging out, makes my arse go  :eek


I find people doing that a lot more frequently these days, and it's nearly always the same type of person who does it, who i will refrain from mentioning so as not to upset anyone.
And as you say, it never gets any easier, it's still a brown trouser moment, even more so when they approach the junction at speed then slam the brakes on.


Another i seem to be getting a lot more of, mainly in the mornings, is people tailgating me.
If people are thick enough to drive that close to a bike, then i simply don't trust their ability to slam the brakes on if i have to in front of them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 31 August 2018, 09:09:01 am
I'm getting this one in very early.......about 2 years early :)

the price I was quoted at the chippy last night for fish and chips for the family.........£327.78




glad I never asked for peas :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 31 August 2018, 10:48:45 am
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Ta for links ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/thumbup.gif[/url])

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ (https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/)
 No worries.  Loads of routes on that site.  If you scroll down and click on the maps you’ll get lots of routes by area. 
Another handy feature is, from the drop-down menu at the top of the page, click on hills, the category of hill you are interested in, then the hill map.  Great way to find routes where you are.
On the route notes you can click on a map of the route and print it out if you want.  If you sign up (free) when you zoom in it’ll switch to 1/25,000 OS map.  Bing maps also have an OS feature.
Pay attention to the weather forecast, go prepared, take a compass and know how to use it.
Have fun.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 01 September 2018, 12:52:55 am
What's HMS Victory going to do?   Sink

Excuse me for editing your post, but if they tried anything with the Victory, it most certainly would sink!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/hms-victory-collapsing-under-own-weight/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/hms-victory-collapsing-under-own-weight/)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 September 2018, 06:28:14 am

Perhaps some of the foreign aid budget wasted over seas should be used to restore HMS VICTORY before it's to late to save an important part of our history that helped to keep this country free from French tyranny.


 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hugh Mungus on 01 September 2018, 08:35:49 am
Perhaps some of the foreign aid budget wasted over seas should be used


to restore many things in our own country that have been neglected due to "lack of funding."
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 September 2018, 11:25:51 am
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Excuse me for editing your post, but if they tried anything with the Victory, it most certainly would sink!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/hms-victory-collapsing-under-own-weight/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/hms-victory-collapsing-under-own-weight/)
Ah.  Ta.  That clearly went right over the top of ma heid. :o :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 01 September 2018, 11:45:54 am
Perhaps some of the foreign aid budget wasted over seas 

You mean our money that Theresa May is using to try to bribe African countries with to get them to give her some crappy trade deals so she can claim that Brexit is a success?

Oh, and when she's talking about helping them with "security", she really means they'll be buying British weapons...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 September 2018, 12:08:06 pm
What really gets my goat about that foreign aid budget is our clever political elite borrow the money it's us taxpayers that have to pay it and the interest back. Let the scrounging  f****s borrow there own money.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 September 2018, 01:53:23 pm
 
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You mean our money that Theresa May is using to try to bribe African countries to get them to give her some crappy trade deals so she can claim that Brexit is a success?


Usually bribing them to buy shit they don’t need.  We are just as shitty, grubby and corrupt as they are.


But why all the fuss about foreign aid anyway?  What about the billions upon billions of pounds of un paid corporation taxes.  Endless companies from Starbucks, to Amazon through to Vodaphone etc, who do millions or billions of pounds in trade in the UK yet pay next to nothing in the way of UK corporation tax.


The Tories and the establishment in general ain’t interested in doing anything about it as they profit from it. 



Meanwhile we subsidise many of these non-tax paying companies with tax credits for their underpaid employees.  I call it socialism for the rich.


BREXIT.  The UK will become a low pay, low tax economy with hire and fire employment policies, with a growing arms sector selling to blood thirsty Wahhabist IS supporting regimes such as our good Saudi friends.


BREXIT just means the toffs are going to fuck you harder.


Meanwhile few of you will notice what’s really going on as you will be continued to be fed a diet of shit, such as rants about foreign aid and/or anti-Semitism in the Labour party by the establishment owned so called news papers as The Sun and the emerging alt-right on the internet. 



Yeah it all fucks me right off.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 01 September 2018, 03:23:05 pm
Oh, and when she's talking about helping them with "security", she really means they'll be buying British weapons...

.... usually to attack the neighbouring African country. The one Theresa is visiting next.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 September 2018, 03:29:29 pm
 Yup selling weapons for the precision bombing of school buses full of school kids on their way to school.  All blown to bits.


Doesn’t it just make you so proud to be British!
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 01 September 2018, 04:48:13 pm
when we walk from Brexit with foc all......and believe me we will, no matter how good the Tories try and dress things up..........sooner or later the people will have enough and I predict riots

I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But if things pan out to the point about we're being told....lack of certain foods/drugs etc then I cannot see people standing for it anymore

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 September 2018, 08:27:55 pm
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when we walk from Brexit with foc all......and believe me we will, no matter how good the Tories try and dress things up
There should be a vote on the deal.

If the polls are correct a majority no longer wish BREXIT.

Further, moving forward, the demographic will increasingly be pro EU.

Not to mention bike prices have already risen some 15% since the referendum, and could easily rise another 15% post BREXIT.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 02 September 2018, 06:46:53 am

VNA It doesn't take you long, no matter the subject to turn it round to your views the evils of Brexit, Tory politicians, big business/corporations, Well here's some news for you most ordinary working men/women are well aware of the rubbish churned out by the afore mentioned and the Bearded wonder and his cronies but don't get on their soap box and preach about it. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 02 September 2018, 10:35:23 am
I think from its very title, this thread is for moaning about things, and politicians and particularly government policies are fair game. If the thread was entitled 'wobbly mirrors and how to fix them' and it strayed onto Brexit, you may have a point. Anyway, you started it  😁
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 September 2018, 10:53:49 am
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VNA It doesn't take you long, no matter the subject to turn it round to your views the evils of Brexit, Tory politicians, big business/corporations, Well here's some news for you most ordinary working men/women are well aware of the rubbish churned out by the afore mentioned and the Bearded wonder and his cronies but don't get on their soap box and preach about it. 

 So here’s something else that gets my goat.  People who offer political opinions, for example about foreign aid, then blow their fuses when their opinion is challenged.


Anyway you started it Steve.  And you like most people, as you say, moan about what Tory politicians, big business/corporations etc want you to moan about.


 
Oh and BREXIT.  Did I mention how much BREXIT gets my goat, it really does. :D


 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 02 September 2018, 10:56:25 am
when we walk from Brexit with foc all......and believe me we will, no matter how good the Tories try and dress things up..........sooner or later the people will have enough and I predict riots




I'm in it for the chaos. Too many people have been trying to foc up my world, so this is my retaliation. It's why I back Trump too  :evil


Besides, riots? I could do with a new telly  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 September 2018, 11:16:05 am
I see this thread AS THE TILLITE says --Today's What Gets My Goat. Its not a thread for debating, I think there should be a separate thread for debating politics.
So as not to incriminate myself ------- What gets my goat is threads that get taken off track with political arguments. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 02 September 2018, 11:24:49 am
Foccers moaning about yesterdays moans   :pokefun


















 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 September 2018, 11:27:55 am
BREXIT is yesterdays, todays and tomorrows moan.
Did I just say BREXIT :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 02 September 2018, 03:28:24 pm
Wankers that think an amber light means make an emergency stop!!
By the time I'd performed an emergency swerve and come to a stop my front tire was in line with his rear wheel 😳😳
I was following a little closer than I should of been but he managed to come to complete stop from 30mph just in one of the cycle areas!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 02 September 2018, 03:58:13 pm
Wankers that think an amber light means make an emergency stop!!
By the time I'd performed an emergency swerve and come to a stop my front tire was in line with his rear wheel 😳😳
I was following a little closer than I should of been but he managed to come to complete stop from 30mph just in one of the cycle areas!
 
You was lucky not to get one of them up your arse at the same time,it happened to me on an old cg125 going to work.I thought he was a bit to apologetic turns out he'd got no licence and he took me to an ATM and drew out 60£ for a broken number plate and cracked mudguard,didn't think I did to bad there, by the time the old bill had sorted it out a year later I wouldn't have been any better off, ay?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 02 September 2018, 07:29:44 pm

Never said where my politics lie, but I don't support, trust, or like any of them. As for the foreign aid budget it does not make any financials sense to me first borrow the money, give it away, then have to pay it back with interest. Politicians of all parties are equally to blame for the homeless numbers rising, NHS collapsing round our ears for lack of funding, the streets of London and other cuties like a butchers yard with all the shootings and stabbings due to lack of funding for the police. care for the elderly in the community struggling lack of funding leading to bed blocking in hospitals. So instead of all the parties blaming and bickering about who's to blame,  they got there heads together and sorted this mess out, they have all been party to creating in equal measure.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 September 2018, 08:40:04 pm
 
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Never said where my politics lie, but I don't support, trust, or like any of them. As for the foreign aid budget it does not make any financials sense to me first borrow the money, give it away, then have to pay it back with interest. Politicians of all parties are equally to blame for the homeless numbers rising, NHS collapsing round our ears for lack of funding, the streets of London and other cuties like a butchers yard with all the shootings and stabbings due to lack of funding for the police. care for the elderly in the community struggling lack of funding leading to bed blocking in hospitals. So instead of all the parties blaming and bickering about who's to blame,  they got there heads together and sorted this mess out, they have all been party to creating in equal measure.


 
We are a wealthy nation so of course we should contribute to foreign aid.  And particularly so considering that historically we have raped and plundered all round the globe.  More recently we have played major roles in destroying Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  We are indirectly involved in conflict across the globe through our arms trade.  The UK is a major exporter of death and destruction right round the world.


 
As for funding.  I’d refer you back to my post #2469 Some estimates suggest that the amount of missing tax (unpaid corporation tax/tax dodging) would be enough to fund the whole NHS in England and Wales.  Whatever the true figure it's massive.


But if you are waiting for people like Boris Johnston, Theresa May and Jacob Rees Mogg to, as you say, get their heads together and sort out your concerns, well I think you could be in for a long wait.  They don’t give a fuck.  BREXIT, they don’t care, they’ll become richer and more powerful on the back of it as we all get screwed.   







 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 September 2018, 09:33:08 pm
VNA -- I think we all agree that politicians are all in it for themselves and that they are all brilliant at providing distractions for the masses to argue over while the real shit gos on. nhs not funded  etc etc.I think some may come on here and perhaps quote the money spent on foreign aid (to pick one ) because they know the system is Foced up and they are trying to do something about it - make suggestions to make things better.Whereas you just mouth off about everything being sh1t - its everyone's fault--we get the government we deserve, along with standard rhetoric and sound bites such as Alt right/ far right/ tories/ Westminster but you never seem to put forward any ideas as how to fix it all, so please tell us who you think we should vote for at the next election as you are so much better informed.       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 September 2018, 10:26:13 pm
 
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VNA -- I think we all agree that politicians are all in it for themselves and that they are all brilliant at providing distractions for the masses to argue over while the real shit gos on.
Perhaps you do, but I don’t.
As for distractions – try anti-Semitism.   Seems to be the big favourite at the moment.


 I’ve just watched Gordon Brown jumping up and down on the telly and shouting at everybody.  His usual verbal diarrhoea.  This man was the worst chancellor the UK ever had.  We are still paying billions out every year to his PFI projects.  This is man who was friends with and took advice from Fred Goodwin.  This is a man who contacted out our public services to foreign companies. These pricks get my goat >: 


 
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I think some may come on here and perhaps quote the money spent on foreign aid (to pick one ) because they know the system is Foced up and they are trying to do something about it - make suggestions to make things better.


 No they say it because they buy into the lies printed in The Sun and The Daily Mail.  It’s another distraction.


 
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Whereas you just mouth off about everything being sh1t - its everyone's fault--we get the government we deserve, along with standard rhetoric and sound bites such as Alt right/ far right/ tories/ Westminster but you never seem to put forward any ideas as how to fix it all,


 
Of course the people will get the government they deserve – we live in a democracy.  I don’t put forward ideas?  Seriously?




 

 



 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 September 2018, 11:11:25 pm
So there you go again throwing distractions around perfectly mimicking the politicians of which you lambast.I refer you to the question I made some moments ago
At the next election whom in your eyes do we need I vote for to fix it all. 

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 03 September 2018, 07:04:32 am
You VNA are assuming wrongly that I am a Tory supporter  as I said I don't support any party and don't believe what I see in papers or on the TV news. Only what I know from personal experience Kids laying knifed/shot in the streets of our cities  Come on give us the answers because I like most can see the problems but are at a loss how to deal with them. as our political elite take absolutely no notice of most of the general publics wishes unless it makes them money. There isn't an answer what ever your politics while the human race is ruled by greed and avarice and to a greater or lesser degree we are all guilty of that.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 September 2018, 09:25:09 am
Wankers that think an amber light means make an emergency stop!!
By the time I'd performed an emergency swerve and come to a stop my front tire was in line with his rear wheel 😳😳
I was following a little closer than I should of been but he managed to come to complete stop from 30mph just in one of the cycle areas!
I failed my first driving test for going through an amber light. There was someone very close behind me and I took the decision to continue rather than stop quickly as I didn't fancy explaining to my dad why his brand new car had been remodelled at the back end. By the time the examiner turned around in his seat to look, the car behind had stopped at the line.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 September 2018, 11:04:24 am
 
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So there you go again throwing distractions around perfectly mimicking the politicians of which you lambast.I refer you to the question I made some moments ago
 At the next election whom in your eyes do we need I vote for to fix it all.


Who do we need to vote for, or who do you need to vote for?


Let me deal with you.  I assume you are in England, but I don’t what constituency or for that matter who the likely candidates would be.  I don’t know how well you feel you have been served by your current MP or what his/her voting record is etc.  I have enough problems figuring out who to vote for myself without figuring out who you should vote for.


 
What I would say, again, is that voting is just one aspect of politics and democracy. 

 
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You VNA are assuming wrongly that I am a Tory supporter
I haven’t assumed anything Steve.
 
 



 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 03 September 2018, 08:05:55 pm
We cannot have freedom without discipline. We should not be sending aid to nations that are so wealthy that they support their own space/nuclear programmes. Crime increases when we stop pursuing the criminals. Payday lenders (sharks) prosper when gambling is allowed to spiral out of control, and the bars are allowed to open 24/7. Obesity becomes more prevalent when we fill our streets with fast food outlets. Most of the problems ailing our society today are solvable. Government lacks the intelligence and the will. Things will get worse
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 03 September 2018, 09:18:09 pm
Of course it’s up to the individual if they drink, overeat and gamble 😂
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 September 2018, 11:33:24 pm
ALL overseas aid to these countries should be stopped and aimed at our own NHS system.
Not like they'll still not benefit from it anyway!!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 04 September 2018, 12:20:03 pm
When you think of something really nice or important to do and then forget what it was.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 01:36:15 pm
Like when you get up off the sofa and head through to the kitchen.  Then once in the kitchen a few seconds later, you cannae remember why you came through to the kitchen.  It's not until you return to and sit down on the sofa that you remember why you went through to the kitchen.
.Or is it just me.  Or am I just getting old.  Or do I have early onset.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2018, 02:18:20 pm
Like when you get up off the sofa and head through to the kitchen.  Then once in the kitchen a few seconds later, you cannae remember why you came through to the kitchen.  It's not until you return to and sit down on the sofa that you remember why you went through to the kitchen.
.Or is it just me.  Or am I just getting old.  Or do I have early onset.

Don't worry too much I'm only 30 and have been doing that for years.
Or my other favourite one is putting things back in silly places. Tv remote in the fridge, milk in the glass cupboard etc etc  I've even took off my t-shirt once and threw it down the toilet, instead of the washing basket 😳🙃
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 04 September 2018, 02:48:31 pm
VNA it's known as having a senior moment it's when they all roll into one you have to worry, trouble/or good thing is you can't remember what about. We may joke about going senile but it's the one thing that really gets my goat seen some of my family suffer from that or the one I can't spell it's a cruel way to end your days.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 03:52:08 pm
Like when you get up off the sofa and head through to the kitchen.  Then once in the kitchen a few seconds later, you cannae remember why you came through to the kitchen.  It's not until you return to and sit down on the sofa that you remember why you went through to the kitchen.
.Or is it just me.  Or am I just getting old.  Or do I have early onset.
I've even took off my t-shirt once and threw it down the toilet, instead of the washing basket 😳🙃
OMG  :eek what then went in the washing basket
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 05:39:32 pm
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I've even took off my t-shirt once and threw it down the toilet, instead of the washing basket 😳🙃
Was alcohol per chance involved in that particular incident?
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 05:42:52 pm
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We may joke about going senile but it's the one thing that really gets my goat seen some of my family suffer from that or the one I can't spell it's a cruel way to end your days.
My father died from alzheimer's in 2016 and my mother a year tomorrow from vascular dementia.  No it’s not much fun.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2018, 06:43:53 pm
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I've even took off my t-shirt once and threw it down the toilet, instead of the washing basket 😳🙃
Was alcohol per chance involved in that particular incident?

Sadly not haha
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 06:47:01 pm
Drugs?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2018, 07:36:32 pm
Drugs?

I'm afraid not..... Just plain old brain fart
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 08:15:28 pm
Sorry to get political again :lol , but this seriously gets my goat.
Just seen a tweet by Corbyn;
Amazon has just become the second ever £1 trillion company after tripling its UK profits. But it paid £2.8 million less tax in the UK this year compared to last year. Does that sound right to you?
Does that not get your goat?  Seriously.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 04 September 2018, 08:55:40 pm
Yes no if's or but's
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2018, 09:06:22 pm
Sorry to get political again :lol , but this seriously gets my goat.
Just seen a tweet by Corbyn;
Amazon has just become the second ever £1 trillion company after tripling its UK profits. But it paid £2.8 million less tax in the UK this year compared to last year. Does that sound right to you?
Does that not get your goat?  Seriously.

It does get my goat..... but at the same time there's sweet foc all we can do about it..... so getting my knickers in a twist will help nothing.
These super companies are becoming untouchable as nobody has the money or influence to stand up to them?
They have more money then entire countries so how can even a government hope to fight them?

All we could do is refuse to let them trade here but who will that help? Certainly not us little guys. It would just result in the price of everything we buy going up and nobody wants that.
Besides they aren't the only ones.... hardly any of the richest 10% in this country pay their share. From the premier league footballers to CEOs of the banks..... they all fiddle their way out of it while Joe public gets shafted if they take cash in hand payments.

But nothing will ever change the way things are, the peiole that running the show be it Labour, Tories, Lib Dems.... no matter the name they are all the same. They are all in it to line their own pockets, not ours.

And although I dream of the day that we all unite and overthrow the lot of um.... I sadly realise that even our sense of unity has been quashed. Not enough people would dare stand united enough to make a difference

 So I'm afraid it seems to be a case of put up and shut up.... there's little to be done.
Sit back crack open a cold one and enjoy what you can in life..





Oh and do every lotto possible ( in the hopes you can join the top 10% and stop paying tax 🤪)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 September 2018, 09:30:43 pm
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It does get my goat..... but at the same time there's sweet foc all we can do about it..... so getting my knickers in a twist will help nothing.
These super companies are becoming untouchable as nobody has the money or influence to stand up to them?
They have more money then entire countries so how can even a government hope to fight them?
The EU is looking at various options.  It's matter of closing down loop holes or creating an alternative way of collecting the tax.One proposal is an online retail transaction tax, which it is hoped will create a level playing feild for all retailers, online and high street.
But then we are leaving the EU.
But EU or not, it's still up to us.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 04 September 2018, 10:19:19 pm
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It does get my goat..... but at the same time there's sweet foc all we can do about it..... so getting my knickers in a twist will help nothing.
These super companies are becoming untouchable as nobody has the money or influence to stand up to them?
They have more money then entire countries so how can even a government hope to fight them?
The EU is looking at various options.  It's matter of closing down loop holes or creating an alternative way of collecting the tax.One proposal is an online retail transaction tax, which it is hoped will create a level playing feild for all retailers, online and high street.
But then we are leaving the EU.
But EU or not, it's still up to us.

But a retail tax will just be passed onto the consumer..... thus making everything more expensive for us. Amazon's profits will not suffer.

And I don't believe it should be a level playing field to be honest. I like the fact that online things are cheaper... and so they should be, there are less overheads running a website compared to a store. And at the same time I expect to pay a little more in store purely because there's an element of customer service being provided.

All these taxes brought in by governments just end up making things worse for us, just look at the sugar tax..... because some people have no self control the rest of us have to pay more. Same with alcohol and tobacco. They pitch it under the guise of public health but that's bollocks and they know it.

If Jonny fatfuck wants to eat 3 bags of Maltesers with his 20 fags and pint of ale then he will, wether that costs £10 or £30. The only difference is the amount of profit that retailers make
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 04 September 2018, 10:47:23 pm
A large part of the problem is that online companies get to choose where they pay their tax, and of course they pretend all their profit is made in the country with the lowest rates. There are EU directives relating to VAT to ensure all EU countries broadly follow the same rules, but not so for Corporation Tax. It becomes a race to the bottom, which Ireland and Luxembourg in particular, have followed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 04 September 2018, 11:36:27 pm
Amazon has just become the second ever £1 trillion company after tripling its UK profits. But it paid £2.8 million less tax in the UK this year compared to last year. Does that sound right to you?
Does that not get your goat?  Seriously.


Jeff Bezos is possibly the richest person in the world, yet his employees have to piss in bottles to avoid getting the sack...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have-to-pee-into-bottles-2018-4 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have-to-pee-into-bottles-2018-4)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 04 September 2018, 11:56:41 pm
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I've even took off my t-shirt once and threw it down the toilet, instead of the washing basket 😳🙃
Was alcohol per chance involved in that particular incident?

Sadly not haha

 years ago I was cleaning windows on a ledge on a tall building in town,we'd stopped for a fag and I took a nub out and asked my mate for a light then proceeded to give him my nub and threw his lighter off the ledge,and I'd have been about 18 then. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 05 September 2018, 10:12:59 am
Closing down loopholes just aint gonna happen. Ever. In the EU or out of it. As i tried to point out in a previous post, the politicians simply couldn't care less, any requirement for additional govt incomes will be met by new taxes/increases applied to the plebs. Ie sugar tax/alcohlo tax/vat increases/national insurance/income tax/travel taxes/ etc etc etc. politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 05 September 2018, 03:55:13 pm
They're not 'loopholes' they are major flaws. Corporation Tax was never designed to deal with multinationals, let alone those with no fixed base at all. But it will change. VAT on services (such as film streaming) are already taxed in the country where it is consumed, not where the supplier is (allegedly) based. Profit taxes need to be the same. Things are already changing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/05/ireland-reaches-deal-with-apple-to-collect-13bn-in-back-taxes (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/05/ireland-reaches-deal-with-apple-to-collect-13bn-in-back-taxes) Amazon, you're next 😀
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 September 2018, 06:19:40 pm
 
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As i tried to point out in a previous post, the politicians simply couldn't care less, any requirement for additional govt incomes will be met by new taxes/increases applied to the plebs.

Well yeah, we’ve had a few decades now of self-interested self-serving governments, umm, that of course we elected. 

.


Your current Tory government ain’t too keen to resolve these issues, despite our massive deficit, as they invest in a lot of these companies, further they are looking towards their consultancies, or board positions when they retire from government.  They don’t want to rock the boat and miss out on their personal millions.
 
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politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.
Elected by us.  We get what we deserve. 
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Amazon, you're next 😀
Lets hope so.
 



 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 05 September 2018, 08:33:39 pm

. politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.








WOW WHAT A GREAT APT DESCIPTION
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 06 September 2018, 04:49:01 pm

. politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.




why don't you say what you're thinking :lol



WOW WHAT A GREAT APT DESCIPTION
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 06 September 2018, 04:58:14 pm
was talking to someone and they said that when you receive a cold call for whatever subject they're on about PPI,accident,etc, you pay for the call,we had a bit of an argy/bargy about this but he was adamant he was right. Surely not ?If he is then that will really get my goat. :foc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 September 2018, 09:02:06 pm

was talking to someone and they said that when you receive a cold call for whatever subject they're on about PPI,accident,etc, you pay for the call,we had a bit of an argy/bargy about this but he was adamant he was right. Surely not ?If he is then that will really get my goat. :foc


And I heard that Bob Holness played the sax on Baker Street :eek


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 06 September 2018, 11:48:52 pm

was talking to someone and they said that when you receive a cold call for whatever subject they're on about PPI,accident,etc, you pay for the call,we had a bit of an argy/bargy about this but he was adamant he was right. Surely not ?If he is then that will really get my goat. :foc

 
 what!!! you mean it was someone else ? :eek

And I heard that Bob Holness played the sax on Baker Street :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 07 September 2018, 08:22:33 am
politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.


Yes, accurate. Quite easily solvable however...


It is my opinion that politicians should be stripped of all money and assets once elected, given a (say) £1500 relocation fee in order to rent somewhere to live and then paid the national average wage monthly in arrears with no expenses added or allowed for the duration of their membership of the house. Then we would see only those that really want to improve our society making decisions for us with a vested interest in raising living standards for the masses. I suspect that affordable housing and transport would suddenly move up the political agenda.


All the time our 'leaders' are on a 85k basic salary the majority don't stand a chance of being helped very much.


It won't happen though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 08 September 2018, 09:28:17 am
Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 08 September 2018, 12:20:03 pm
Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere


Or just stop caring about how much tax they pay, and get on with your life.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 09 September 2018, 12:20:30 pm
 
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Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere


 
Don’t see what that has to do with it.  I don’t use Vodaphone but I still think they should pay the usual corporation tax in the UK – but they don’t.


Further Amazon isn’t just an online store, it’s a market place.  It’s getting to the point where it is almost unavoidable. 



Finally, if companies don’t pay their taxes the revenue needs to be collected elsewhere, that means you and I.  So that gets my goat. 

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 09 September 2018, 08:24:42 pm
VNA I rarely agree with much you say or believe but your spot on here no if or buts if we agree on one thing with no argument there's hope for us all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 11 September 2018, 08:51:44 pm

How ridiculously competitive the vintage car racing had become at the Goodwood Revival.
Just watched a Lotus Cortina roll over about 5 or 6 times. What's the point in that?. Those cars have nothing to prove anymore.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 September 2018, 08:57:16 pm
But their drivers do.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 September 2018, 12:58:15 pm
There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 September 2018, 08:24:47 pm
There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.


You are totally right of course, but i managed to catch it by chance and was in total awe of some of the cars being chucked about, rather than being a show car all the time.
I'm not a car person at all but know a bit of class when i see it, and the sounds coming out of them was such a privilege to hear.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 September 2018, 09:49:05 pm

I sound like a bit of a killjoy curmudgeon don't I :lol
But I do enjoy watching them, just dread seeing these classic racers smashed up.


I guess there's a lot of historic racing taking taking place all the time, but I don't normally get to see it.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 14 September 2018, 09:00:33 am
There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.


You are totally right of course, but i managed to catch it by chance and was in total awe of some of the cars being chucked about, rather than being a show car all the time.
I'm not a car person at all but know a bit of class when i see it, and the sounds coming out of them was such a privilege to hear.

:agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 14 September 2018, 12:57:14 pm

I think its great that the old cars are getting an outing, if you got the money better spent like that than keeping them in a heated garage.
What gets my goat is....people who don't indicate going round roundabouts if they are going right..traffic would flow loads better if they did.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 14 September 2018, 02:24:09 pm



And then not indicating left to leave the roundabout. In fact any failure to indicate correctly at roundabouts gets my goat, there's no excuse for not giving the correct indication at the correct times - all roundabout users are sat there and shouldn't be doing anything else other than negotiating the roundabout and indicating correctly.


While on road habits that get my goat there's these:


- coming to halt in a traffic queue then randomly creeping forward some time later before the queue has started moving. What's that all about anyway?
- creating a second lane when one is not marked, particularly approaching a roundabout
- sitting on the brakes in a traffic queue, dazzling drivers behind, particularly modern Mercedes that have very bright brake lights
- indicating right to pass parked vehicles - oh really you're going to pull out? I thought you'd plough into the back of that parked car... (similarly indicating right to join a main road at the end of a slip road - wasted information, nobody ever ploughs into the nearside verge instead of joining the main road.)
- using hazard lights when (badly) parked, particularly when the nearside lights are obscured
- slowing to 18mph and creeping around the outside edge of a clear roundabout. For crissakes, have you not seen and dealt with a roundabout before? Just straightline it and clear it....
- not merging in turn when two lanes become one, instead accelerating and closing the gap to make life difficult, slowing everyone behind


and finally the worst that's pretty much endemic in the UK:
- slowing and holding up a line of traffic behind to let in a vehicle, often slowing 20 cars (with all the ensuing brake dust emissions etc.) to enable one vehicle - that was waiting quite happily - to join a traffic flow. Extremely bad practice.


All these are covered by the Highway code but nobody seems to take a blind bit of notice.




Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 14 September 2018, 03:08:04 pm
- indicating right to pass parked vehicles - oh really you're going to pull out? I thought you'd plough into the back of that parked car... (similarly indicating right to join a main road at the end of a slip road - wasted information, nobody ever ploughs into the nearside verge instead of joining the main road.)


I have to object to this one. My youngest son recently passed his driving test and follows the instructors brief of not indicating. My view is that they are wrong.

The reason is simple. Imagine you are following a large van in a smaller car / bike and the van didn't indicate but you didn't see the parked car and tried to overtake just as he pulled out without indicating.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: bludclot on 14 September 2018, 03:31:26 pm



It's all about giving and taking information. Yes in the case you outline indication is useful, perhaps vital information. When there's nobody else around or within striking distance of an overtake it's unnecessary.


I missed one out:


- drivers that leave a massive nearside gap in tight situations pushing them into the path of oncoming traffic....

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 14 September 2018, 03:47:27 pm

It's all about giving and taking information. Yes in the case you outline indication is useful, perhaps vital information. When there's nobody else around or within striking distance of an overtake it's unnecessary.



I agree with that. The problem is, for new drivers, its black and white. They get  in to a van having passed their car test and treat it exactly the same. They are not taught to drive differently or even the fact that if they do have to drive a van things like speed limits are lower.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 14 September 2018, 04:08:31 pm


Where does it all end?  :grumble


https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/senior-met-officer-could-face-the-sack-for-using-whiter-than-white-phrase-a3936041.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/senior-met-officer-could-face-the-sack-for-using-whiter-than-white-phrase-a3936041.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2018, 05:41:35 pm
I had to check it wasn't April 1st after reading that one darrsi :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 14 September 2018, 05:56:56 pm


Where does it all end?  :grumble


https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/senior-met-officer-could-face-the-sack-for-using-whiter-than-white-phrase-a3936041.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/senior-met-officer-could-face-the-sack-for-using-whiter-than-white-phrase-a3936041.html)


I guess washing powder manufacturers will find themselves in court over the invention and use of the phrase too. :wall

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 14 September 2018, 06:01:36 pm
You can't have some politically correct prick change the English language overnight.
It's a phrase that's even in the dictionary.
These people make me really fucking angry.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2018, 08:15:13 pm
Yup that's the height of stupidity.  Though right now I only see that story on the Daily Mail, The evening standard and RT.  I can't say, but one wonders if there is maybe an element of creative journalism.

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The reason is simple. Imagine you are following a large van in a smaller car / bike and the van didn't indicate but you didn't see the parked car and tried to overtake just as he pulled out without indicating.

 What I find disappointing, which is similar, is the amount of people who don’t indicate when pulling out to pass a cyclist.  Cyclists can easily be hidden by cars never mind vans.  You get two or three cars not indicating to pass, then the next is right on top before they see them.    Even on the Fazer in traffic I indicate when passing them. 
 
Which is another thing, I always try to give cyclists plenty of room.  If it’s a quiet road and I’m blasting along, I ease up a bit or slow right down so as not to give em a fright. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 14 September 2018, 08:35:27 pm
It's difficult to give cyclists plenty of room even on the bike when they ride 3 and 4 abreast down country lanes where I live, idiot lycra louts even the horse riders are p****d off with them. Sorry no time for them think they are above the law and common courtesy on the roads.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 14 September 2018, 09:39:47 pm
Yup that's the height of stupidity.  Though right now I only see that story on the Daily Mail, The evening standard and RT.  I can't say, but one wonders if there is maybe an element of creative journalism.

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The reason is simple. Imagine you are following a large van in a smaller car / bike and the van didn't indicate but you didn't see the parked car and tried to overtake just as he pulled out without indicating.

 What I find disappointing, which is similar, is the amount of people who don’t indicate when pulling out to pass a cyclist.  Cyclists can easily be hidden by cars never mind vans.  You get two or three cars not indicating to pass, then the next is right on top before they see them.    Even on the Fazer in traffic I indicate when passing them. 
 
Which is another thing, I always try to give cyclists plenty of room.  If it’s a quiet road and I’m blasting along, I ease up a bit or slow right down so as not to give em a fright.


You can't say......but you did anyway?  :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 September 2018, 10:36:41 pm
Horses  :rolleyes . Get my goat, all that faff and expense and they are ony 1HP
Why is it on the side and back of all horse transport "HORSES" - am I supposed to give a sh1t.Horsey people - how come any that you meet for the first time within 5 mins they will let you know they have a horse, --- I don't care !And then they go into ASDA/Sainsburys wearing shity clothes and wellies covered in horse shit -its just so everyone can see and they are going "OOH look at me I have got a Horse".Burgers on 4 legs. 
       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tex on 15 September 2018, 08:40:10 am
Horses  :rolleyes . Get my goat, all that faff and expense and they are ony 1HP
Why is it on the side and back of all horse transport "HORSES" - am I supposed to give a sh1t.Horsey people - how come any that you meet for the first time within 5 mins they will let you know they have a horse, --- I don't care !And then they go into ASDA/Sainsburys wearing shity clothes and wellies covered in horse shit -its just so everyone can see and they are going "OOH look at me I have got a Horse".Burgers on 4 legs. 
     
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Post by: darrsi on 15 September 2018, 08:41:31 am
Horses  :rolleyes . Get my goat, all that faff and expense and they are ony 1HP
Why is it on the side and back of all horse transport "HORSES" - am I supposed to give a sh1t.Horsey people - how come any that you meet for the first time within 5 mins they will let you know they have a horse, --- I don't care !And then they go into ASDA/Sainsburys wearing shity clothes and wellies covered in horse shit -its just so everyone can see and they are going "OOH look at me I have got a Horse".Burgers on 4 legs. 
     


Similar to car stickers with "Baby On Board".
I often wonder if the baby is actually doing the driving, 'cos there does seem to be a pattern that the owners of these car stickers all drive like newborn kids.
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Post by: red98 on 15 September 2018, 08:47:20 am
Horses  :rolleyes . Get my goat, all that faff and expense and they are ony 1HP
Why is it on the side and back of all horse transport "HORSES" - am I supposed to give a sh1t.Horsey people - how come any that you meet for the first time within 5 mins they will let you know they have a horse, --- I don't care !And then they go into ASDA/Sainsburys wearing shity clothes and wellies covered in horse shit -its just so everyone can see and they are going "OOH look at me I have got a Horse".Burgers on 4 legs. 
     


Similar to car stickers with "Baby On Board".
I often wonder if the baby is actually doing the driving, 'cos there does seem to be a pattern that the owners of these car stickers all drive like newborn kids.
















and another thing , why dont horse riders when on the road , clear up the mess left behind ?......like dog owners should.......
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Post by: fazersharp on 15 September 2018, 09:10:58 am
I think the baby on board is in case of an accident and the baby is flung somewhere in or out the car and the services know -- something like that is the thinking.
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and another thing , why dont horse riders when on the road , clear up the mess left behind ?......like dog owners should.......
Yes it should be law that if you take a horse on the road it should wear a horse nappy - looks like a nose bag but fits on the other end. On a bike you come round a bend and hit that stuff you are in the sh1t literally. If I see it when I am out and on a straight bit I am always extra vigilant at the upcoming bends. The joys of riding in the Shires of middle earth.   















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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 September 2018, 11:09:43 am
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You can't say......but you did anyway?  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/z.gif[/url])

Well no I didn't.  I simply don't know.

So far, after the Evening Standard - owned by former KGB agent and now Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev - the story has only been picked up by The Daily Mail, The Express, The Sun, Daily Star and The Telegraph, oh and Russia Today.  ie The usual suspects.   Just about everyone of them reports the story as quote - Evening Standard.

Again, I don't know, but if I had to place a bet, I'd say fake news.

But hey how dare I question a free London rag owned by an ex KGB agent. :eek

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Post by: YamFazFan on 15 September 2018, 01:10:19 pm
But the left wouldn't bother to report it because to them that's how life should be and they wouldn't be at all upset or outraged by it.

They'd probably agree that the copper intended to be racist (even though deep down they know he didn't). They're always looking for offence where it doesn't exist. Consumed by the notion that everybody other than them is bigoted, nasty and hates everyone else when actually the far left are the most nasty intolerant lot there is.

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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 September 2018, 01:45:32 pm
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But the left wouldn't bother to report it because to them that's how life should be and they wouldn't be at all upset or outraged by it.

They'd probably agree that the copper intended to be racist (even though deep down they know he didn't). They're always looking for offence where it doesn't exist. Consumed by the notion that everybody other than them is bigoted, nasty and hates everyone else when actually the far left are the most nasty intolerant lot there is.

Which is pretty much pure alt right spin.  More fake news.
 
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I had to check it wasn't April 1st after reading that one darrsi ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])

We've all been had at some time YamFazFan.  Just some folks have a hard time admitting it.
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 17 September 2018, 09:41:48 am
When 2 people being interviewed on a news or discussion programme, and 1 of them continually interrupts and shouts down the other person, totally ignorant and ill mannered.
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Post by: F4celess on 17 September 2018, 10:40:07 am
It's difficult to give cyclists plenty of room even on the bike when they ride 3 and 4 abreast down country lanes where I live, idiot lycra louts even the horse riders are p****d off with them. Sorry no time for them think they are above the law and common courtesy on the roads.

^ This. Cyclists that ride side by side, effectively blocking the lane for vehicles coming up behind - yet they are quick to hold the car driver accountable, for overtaking too closely. Cyclists are most likely car drivers too, so you'd imagine they'd have more understanding and maintain a single line, behind the wheel infront.

Plus I don't want to be forced to stare at their rear ends in lycra for a prolonged period of time, while waiting for a suitable opportunity to overtake, as they are also forcing the car/van/truck to overtake completely into oncoming traffic, to get past (due to taking up the whole width of the lane).
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Post by: F4celess on 17 September 2018, 10:46:02 am
Add to the above LYCRA !!

Cyclists or runners (of any age/sex), it looks vile.  :eek Only appropriate for world class athletes competing in professional competition, where wearing lycra actually serves some performance benefit - usually from a streamlined perspective. It really doesn't matter if you cut 10 seconds from your Sunday cycle/run, as you believe you can move through air faster, by letting it all hang out in Lycra!  :bobby
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Post by: coffee on 17 September 2018, 10:04:48 pm
ooh! ducky you are awfull ! but I like you :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 18 September 2018, 12:47:01 pm
Drivers who for some unknown reason can't predict that the big red bus up ahead of them in their lane is going to pull over and stop .....quite frequently actually.
Then they think it's okay to swerve out in front of other traffic when their indicator has just about done half a blink.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 18 September 2018, 04:22:18 pm
When 2 people being interviewed on a news or discussion programme, and 1 of them continually interrupts and shouts down the other person, totally ignorant and ill mannered.


What I find worse is when the interviewer doesn't let an interviewee get a word in edgeways, often seemingly because what they try to say doesn't fit with a program or channel's own agenda. If you won't let them speak, don't invite them on in the first place.


Three culprits come to mind. Two from the BBC's Newsnight: Emily 'indignant' Maitless*, and Evan 'hysterical' Davis. And Jon 'high and mighty' Snow from Ch.4 news.


*which autocorrect always wants to change to Meritless - the one time I think it's right  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 19 September 2018, 06:36:45 am
When 2 people being interviewed on a news or discussion programme, and 1 of them continually interrupts and shouts down the other person, totally ignorant and ill mannered.


What I find worse is when the interviewer doesn't let an interviewee get a word in edgeways, often seemingly because what they try to say doesn't fit with a program or channel's own agenda. If you won't let them speak, don't invite them on in the first place.


Three culprits come to mind. Two from the BBC's Newsnight: Emily 'indignant' Maitless*, and Evan 'hysterical' Davis. And Jon 'high and mighty' Snow from Ch.4 news.


*which autocorrect always wants to change to Meritless - the one time I think it's right  :lol


If i could just interrupt you right there.........Kay Burley seemed to be a specialist at that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 19 September 2018, 09:54:34 am
Interrupting and talking over other people is just plain pig ignorant and bad manners who ever is doing it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 19 September 2018, 10:25:44 am

Interrupting and talking over other people is just plain pig ignorant and bad manners who ever is doing it.


Not when it comes to Roger down at my local it's not. If you don't interrupt him you'll be there until sunrise. He can make a 3 second story last 3 hours :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 19 September 2018, 03:39:31 pm
I bow to your superior knowledge yamfaz
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 19 September 2018, 04:20:34 pm
I bow to your superior knowledge yamfaz


It was intended as a light hearted response to your post :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 20 September 2018, 08:34:37 am
Sorry you took it the wrong way,  it was meant as a light hearted reply not a pop Yamfaz
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 September 2018, 10:26:30 am

Ooops my apologies :o . I can see what you meant now.


Roger's the only bloke I know who can drink a pint, breathe and talk all at the same time...for hours and hours.... :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 September 2018, 10:39:53 am
Gets my goat just recently is I am seeing more than you would expect, cars without a number plate on the front but it is sitting in the window. Now, I am pretty sure it is intentional and a permanent mod (until mot time) because the cars that do it all seem to be spammed up, overly dark windows aftermarket LEDs - audi or VW with the badge painted black -thats another gets my goat.
Anyone else noticed this. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 20 September 2018, 11:52:07 am
Gets my goat just recently is I am seeing more than you would expect, cars without a number plate on the front but it is sitting in the window. Now, I am pretty sure it is intentional and a permanent mod (until mot time) because the cars that do it all seem to be spammed up, overly dark windows aftermarket LEDs - audi or VW with the badge painted black -thats another gets my goat.
Anyone else noticed this.


I drive into that shithole Bradford 4 times a week and have come to realise that the locals just regard that as  standard trim.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 September 2018, 11:53:05 am
Yep. There's an Audi round this way with the number plate on the dashboard. He's modified the front of the car somehow. It's all a massive grill at the front now and I reckon he doesn't want to spoil the look with a plate :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 20 September 2018, 12:52:25 pm
Not so much cars but I'm seeing more and more mopeds and crossers without plates.
I'm guessing the local scum has taken a note from the vermin in that there London and realised that that they can pretty much do what they like as the police are unlikely to chase them.
See at least 1 a week these days
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 20 September 2018, 12:54:31 pm
Heres one https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/15167265.Owner_of_car_with_no_licence_plate_told_police__it_would_spoil_the_look_/I (https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/15167265.Owner_of_car_with_no_licence_plate_told_police__it_would_spoil_the_look_/I) think its a fad among petrol heads to paint the whole grill area black which then makes it look massive - and IMO crap.Another one I am seeing is 80% of transit type vans with black cloth on the bonnet.Both of these "mods" are a good sign that the driver will be driving like a twat.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 20 September 2018, 06:13:36 pm
 Or how about touch screens in cars.  Not so much that they have touch screens but that touch screens are now eliminating so many buttons.  Touch screens work by eye hand coordination, so you have to take your eyes off the road to use them.  Further when the vehicle is moving eye hand coordination becomes so much harder and time consuming – so eyes off the road longer.  It’s dumb and it’s gonna cost lives. 





AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! :'(
 
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Post by: midden on 20 September 2018, 07:03:29 pm
Not so much cars but I'm seeing more and more mopeds and crossers without plates.
I'm guessing the local scum has taken a note from the vermin in that there London and realised that that they can pretty much do what they like as the police are unlikely to chase them.
See at least 1 a week these days



Cyclists have been doing pretty much what they like for years.  I think there must be a set quantity where Police suddenly say  If we stopped/chased every one we'd never get our KFC bucket. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 September 2018, 05:17:27 pm
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I had to check it wasn't April 1st after reading that one darrsi ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])

We've all been had at some time YamFazFan.  Just some folks have a hard time admitting it. 


If the story is actually fabricated then yep I've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 21 September 2018, 07:45:17 pm
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If the story is actually fabricated then yep I've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
Well it seems to have sunk as a story.  And I suspect if there is any truth in it, it’s out of context.  So no I don’t believe it for one minute. 



Don’t believe all you read in the press. :\
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 21 September 2018, 11:12:56 pm
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If the story is actually fabricated then yep I've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
Well it seems to have sunk as a story.  And I suspect if there is any truth in it, it’s out of context.  So no I don’t believe it for one minute. 



Don’t believe all you read in the press. :\


So who do we believe then.....you?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 22 September 2018, 10:33:53 am
I believe some people want to believe what they want to believe irrespective of whether it is true or there is any basis to do so.

I also believe I am off on holiday for a week now.
See you foccers later. :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 22 September 2018, 11:35:04 am
Oh, and of course people love to be outraged.  Newspapers know that, and outrage sells.
So youse later.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 September 2018, 12:02:25 pm
We get the newspapers we deserve  :pokefun
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 22 September 2018, 12:21:15 pm
To true these new smaller papers are a b*stard to wrap your fish and chips in  :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2018, 01:33:18 pm
To true these new smaller papers are a b*stard to wrap your fish and chips in  :lol

And they tasted better wrapped in newspaper :b. People used to sell bundles of newspapers to the fish and chip shops.
If you were lucky you'd get an interesting bit to read while you ate them.

I can almost hear the Hovis music playing in the background now :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2018, 01:33:46 pm
We get the newspapers we deserve  :pokefun

 :lol
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Post by: slappy on 22 September 2018, 05:21:02 pm
To true these new smaller papers are a b*stard to wrap your fish and chips in  :lol

And they tasted better wrapped in newspaper :b . People used to sell bundles of newspapers to the fish and chip shops.
If you were lucky you'd get an interesting bit to read while you ate them.

I can almost hear the Hovis music playing in the background now :lol


We used to take clean newspapers to the chippie when I was a kid and get a bag of chips with scraps on in payment, the good old days before all these shitty sell everything from pizzas, burgers, chinese, indian, thai all in one shop takeaways took over every street.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2018, 05:53:38 pm
We used to get a frozen fishcake each from the chippy when we were kids and knaw away at it on the way home in the car. :lol

Haven't had scraps for years. We called them fritters. My local chippy sells them in bags as bird food.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 22 September 2018, 06:11:53 pm
scratchings round here. i am guessing everone knows that wrapping them in newspapers was considered unhygienic and so stopped  -probably by the eu who don't eat fish and chips. so now we have to cut down trees grown in the eu no doubt just to make chip paper.i remember once back in those days when you would also sell your stuff in the adds at the back. 6 moths after my car was sold i got a call from someone reading the paper that their chips came in.Anyway i dont like em wrapped cause it makes em soggy       
im sure vna will be along shortly to tell me my cod is alt right and i get the soggy chips i deserve.   
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Post by: YamFazFan on 22 September 2018, 06:58:01 pm
scratchings round here. i am guessing everone knows that wrapping them in newspapers was considered unhygienic and so stopped  -probably by the eu who don't eat fish and chips. so now we have to cut down trees grown in the eu no doubt just to make chip paper.i remember once back in those days when you would also sell your stuff in the adds at the back. 6 moths after my car was sold i got a call from someone reading the paper that their chips came in.Anyway i dont like em wrapped cause it makes em soggy       
im sure vna will be along shortly to tell me my cod is alt right and i get the soggy chips i deserve.

 :rollin :rollin

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 23 September 2018, 08:30:38 am
VNA shouldn't along for a week he's gone on holiday. So fill your boots boy's NO POLITICAL CLAP TRAP FOR A WEEK
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 23 September 2018, 10:22:45 am
VNA shouldn't along for a week he's gone on holiday. So fill your boots boy's NO POLITICAL CLAP TRAP FOR A WEEK

Holiday?? Didn't think the Scottish could afford them?
 I bet he's gone to Brussels to argue his Brexit points for the good of us all 🤣
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 23 September 2018, 02:44:39 pm
VNA shouldn't along for a week he's gone on holiday. So fill your boots boy's NO POLITICAL CLAP TRAP FOR A WEEK

Holiday?? Didn't think the Scottish could afford them?
 I bet he's gone to Brussels to argue his Brexit points for the good of us all


Tbh, that's the problem with political folk. They all think they know what's best for us. Then, as soon as they get into power, they all seem to do what's worst for us  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 September 2018, 07:39:25 pm
VNA shouldn't along for a week he's gone on holiday. So fill your boots boy's NO POLITICAL CLAP TRAP FOR A WEEK

Holiday?? Didn't think the Scottish could afford them?
 I bet he's gone to Brussels to argue his Brexit points for the good of us all 🤣
hmm - holiday you say, funny that, just as the labour party conference has started 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 24 September 2018, 12:07:16 am



Been catching up on this thread -


Horses - Dangerous animals that can be spooked by a crisp packet in the hedge, never mind a bike or car, crap all over the road, the owners seem to think that we will be grateful and will shovel it up for our roses  - Shouldn't be allowed on the road.


Newspapers - The only one i read is MCN, and then get angry when the try to whip up reactions by quoting the thoughts of some loony who wants all motorcyclists to wear a flashing beacon on their heads or something. The "proper" newspapers just aren't worth reading. I dont really want to know about a fooballer's latest indiscretion, or if they scored a goal, or if one team of overpaid dickheads beat some other dickheads in the only professional game where cheating is actually condoned - Winning a penalty by throwing yourself on the floor when no one touched you. NO, ITS CHEATING, THE CHEAT SHOULD BE BANNED FOR THE SAME PERIOD AS THE CHEATS IN ATHLETICS!! The rest of the papers are just full of the latest "celebrity" who has been shopping and bought a new dress and biased political opinion. I wouldnt read them if i was given them for free.



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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 September 2018, 10:42:15 am

Horses - Dangerous animals that can be spooked by a crisp packet in the hedge, never mind a bike or car, crap all over the road, the owners seem to think that we will be grateful and will shovel it up for our roses  - Shouldn't be allowed on the road.



I had the misfortune of driving the roads around the back of Gatwick airport in rush hour one evening last week and came to the back of a queue of slow moving cars. Not too surprising in rush hour but the queue was doing about 15mph because two feccing horse wankers decided rush hour was the time to take their walking dog food for a walk along the roads.

There are acres and acres of fields to use but these muppets use the roads. Why?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 September 2018, 12:36:39 pm

their walking dog food


 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 24 September 2018, 03:32:35 pm
It's not the horses that are to blame, it's the t*****s that ride them, and that's from someone that does not like horses. They bite you from one end kick you from the other
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 24 September 2018, 05:06:19 pm
They bite you from one end kick you from the other

That's why the guy with the bolt gun approaches from the side :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 September 2018, 04:02:31 pm
 There’s a chippie in my town that still uses newspaper, though there’s a sheet of plain paper between the newspaper and the actual food.
 
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the good old days before all these shitty sell everything from pizzas, burgers, chinese, indian, thai all in one shop takeaways took over every street.

People will get the takeaways they deserve. :)


Anyway why is it that 9 out of 10 chippies are shit.   A good chippy is a rare thing these days. There's something that gets my goat, shit chippies charging good money for crap.  There should be an EU standard they have to meet before being allowed to trade.  CE marked fish and chips 8)
 
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VNA shouldn't along for a week he's gone on holiday. So fill your boots boy's NO POLITICAL CLAP TRAP FOR A WEEK
VNA never starts anything political.  I just finish what others start.
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Holiday?? Didn't think the Scottish could afford them?
My fourth this year.
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hmm - holiday you say, funny that, just as the labour party conference has started 
Wrong country. 
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The "proper" newspapers just aren't worth reading. I dont really want to know about a fooballer's latest indiscretion, or if they scored a goal,…………………………blah blah blah………………
Those are called comics. 



Anyway I’m back hame.  I didnae think youse wid miss me sae much!
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 September 2018, 08:07:43 pm
We didn't but my roses did
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 October 2018, 07:25:35 pm
 So called hunters in military camouflage posing for selfies, monster rifle in hand, with their prey – err in this case goats and sheep.


Really I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.  “We hunted hard”  Really?  “for a big one for two days”  What?  You hunted a fucking goat for two days?  Seriously.


I am struggling to think of any photos I’ve ever seen that are so utterly dumb and stupid.  These people are pure and utter total absolute fuds. 

https://twitter.com/LSwitlyk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (https://twitter.com/LSwitlyk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)




 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 25 October 2018, 07:46:47 pm
I am struggling to think of any photos I’ve ever seen that are so utterly dumb and stupid. 


Here's one ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 October 2018, 07:49:52 pm
I for once agree with you VNA, I don't have a problem with culling done humanely, but do have a problem with idiots killing animals for sport/leisure. I have to question how many of these animals have to be shot with multiple rounds before they die.   
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 October 2018, 08:06:08 pm
 
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I for once agree with you VNA, I don't have a problem with culling done humanely, but do have a problem with idiots killing animals for sport/leisure. I have to question how many of these animals have to be shot with multiple rounds before they die. 
Wow Steve :kiss    We agree!  :agree


I mean look at these idiots.  They are dressed as if they are about to go on a special forces mission, perhaps deep inside Afghanistan.  They are gun toting deluded fantasists, absolute utter fuds, creeping up on sheep (yes sheep fucking sheep!) blowing their brains out and boasting of their hunting prowess. 



I have never ever heard before of sheep hunting. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 25 October 2018, 08:17:43 pm
How does it work, do they have to pay the land owner / game keeper to "hunt" and then the kill has to be handed over to the land owner who then sells it in the farm shop.If so then great I see no problem in removing lots of money from rich Americans.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 25 October 2018, 08:26:53 pm
I for once agree with you VNA, I don't have a problem with culling done humanely, but do have a problem with idiots killing animals for sport/leisure. I have to question how many of these animals have to be shot with multiple rounds before they die.
Why not just cull the idiots, problem solved  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 25 October 2018, 10:02:52 pm
It appals me too. One of twats was pictured last year after hunting a giraffe. A giraffe for fucks sake! If it s the thrill of the hunt they want, then how about hunting great white sharks armed only with a knife of the coast of the south african cape. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 October 2018, 10:03:15 pm
 
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How does it work, do they have to pay the land owner / game keeper to "hunt" and then the kill has to be handed over to the land owner who then sells it in the farm shop.If so then great I see no problem in removing lots of money from rich Americans.

It’s a private arrangement.  However, in the highlands for the deer they’d need to be guided and the gamekeeper would select the target.  Apparently, the goats and the sheep were shot on Islay.  I get the impression they were left to it.   You don’t hunt sheep, you round em up.


If you fancy it yourself -  [url=https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/deer-stalking/best-places-stalk-red-stags-scotland-72515]https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/deer-stalking/best-places-stalk-red-stags-scotland-72515 (https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/deer-stalking/best-places-stalk-red-stags-scotland-72515)[/url]

 
No they don’t just get chopped up and sold in the estate shop (an estate shop is a rare thing)


Best Practise in Venison Supply –  [url=https://www.bestpracticeguides.org.uk/carcass-preparation/venison-supply/]https://www.bestpracticeguides.org.uk/carcass-preparation/venison-supply/ (https://www.bestpracticeguides.org.uk/carcass-preparation/venison-supply/)[/url]

 
Google is your geek.


Fazersharp their behaviour is obnoxious and moronic.  This is not how we wish our country to be portrayed.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 October 2018, 10:04:12 pm
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It appals me too. One of twats was pictured last year after hunting a giraffe. A giraffe for fucks sake!
They are fucking morons.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 25 October 2018, 10:10:28 pm
What is it with kids today. They cant stand up. Three at the bus stop today, two sat on a blokes garden wall, the other lay down on her back with her feet up the wall. Yesterday, half way up the street, two girls sat in the middle of the pavement talking. They sit on the kerb with their legs in the road, chatting. Snowflakes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 26 October 2018, 12:05:24 am
I think there motto must be "get blown up,never work ,ticket to the idle life" :foc
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 October 2018, 08:43:43 pm
Ebay gets my goat,
How does this work.I search for something by "nearest" it says 10 miles from Sharp Hall -- I click and read
It says london.
I scroll to the bottom for sellers info it says ZHENGLV XU  Shenfang Building, #100, Zhenhua Road, Futian Shenzhen China.
WTF - is that China as in China Town or actual fecking Shenzhen Provence PRC.
And like foc is it going to be delivered next Thursday !   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 27 October 2018, 10:59:00 pm

When 2 people being interviewed on a news or discussion programme, and 1 of them continually interrupts and shouts down the other person, totally ignorant and ill mannered.


It was an episode of  the BBC's 'Question Time', with I think 4 other pannelists, when Eddie Izzard excelled himself at this :z :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 27 October 2018, 10:59:28 pm
Ebay gets my goat,
How does this work.I search for something by "nearest" it says 10 miles from Sharp Hall -- I click and read
It says london.
I scroll to the bottom for sellers info it says ZHENGLV XU  Shenfang Building, #100, Zhenhua Road, Futian Shenzhen China.
WTF - is that China as in China Town or actual fecking Shenzhen Provence PRC.
And like foc is it going to be delivered next Thursday !   


It will, they'll have a business unit, garage or even sell from their home over here.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2018, 11:00:33 am
I get the feeling that whoever the people are that create town council websites must have had previous jobs in puzzle shops or cut hedges to make maze's, whilst off their nut on LSD.
All i'm trying to do is report a road defect which is becoming very dangerous, and i am being sent round and round in circles ending up back where i begun, and then asks me to Log In even though i am clearly very much already Logged In.  :grumble :wall


It even says "Sign In" at the bottom of the page and "Log Out" at the top at the same time.  :look :pc 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 28 October 2018, 11:09:55 am

The new doctor who series focs me off tremendously. It is utter BBC PC championing shite now. It was bad enough when it went gayer than gay a few years back. im not homophobic btw but ffs, Doctor who? It was a fantasy scary sci fi when I was a kid, not whatever the hell it is now.
BTW rich yanks that love killing stuff and posting photos (particularly whole families of primates that look disturbingly human) want abducting, putting on an island, then hunting down by equally sick even richer yanks..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 28 October 2018, 01:02:31 pm

The new doctor who series focs me off tremendously. It is utter BBC PC championing shite now. It was bad enough when it went gayer than gay a few years back. im not homophobic btw but ffs, Doctor who? It was a fantasy scary sci fi when I was a kid, not whatever the hell it is now.


I understand they're considering changing the title to Dr. What  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2018, 01:49:15 pm
I get the feeling that whoever the people are that create town council websites must have had previous jobs in puzzle shops or cut hedges to make maze's, whilst off their nut on LSD.
All i'm trying to do is report a road defect which is becoming very dangerous, and i am being sent round and round in circles ending up back where i begun, and then asks me to Log In even though i am clearly very much already Logged In.  :grumble :wall


It even says "Sign In" at the bottom of the page and "Log Out" at the top at the same time.  :look :pc



I've even downloaded their "Easy To Use 24/7" app, and it doesn't work either. It just opens up a map and if you touch a location nothing happens, no pin drop or anything.
No wonder the streets of Ealing Council are so ropey, nobody can report anything.  :groan 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 28 October 2018, 03:49:32 pm
I get the feeling that whoever the people are that create town council websites must have had previous jobs in puzzle shops or cut hedges to make maze's, whilst off their nut on LSD.
All i'm trying to do is report a road defect which is becoming very dangerous, and i am being sent round and round in circles ending up back where i begun, and then asks me to Log In even though i am clearly very much already Logged In.  :grumble :wall


It even says "Sign In" at the bottom of the page and "Log Out" at the top at the same time.  :look :pc



I've even downloaded their "Easy To Use 24/7" app, and it doesn't work either. It just opens up a map and if you touch a location nothing happens, no pin drop or anything.
No wonder the streets of Ealing Council are so ropey, nobody can report anything.  :groan


Ha ha!
That is what comes of living in Ealing, was born there and lived there in South Ealing for number of years before moving to Isleworth.
I lived at 4 North Road South Ealing just off Gunnersbury Avenue and Popes Lane, near the main gate to the park.
4 North Road disappeared many years ago when they re-developed that part of South Ealing.
I even bet the old Anderson Shelter that was in my back garden has gone along with the outside shitter. 


They were the days Darrsi 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2018, 05:29:56 pm

The new doctor who series focs me off tremendously. It is utter BBC PC championing shite now. It was bad enough when it went gayer than gay a few years back. im not homophobic btw but ffs, Doctor who? It was a fantasy scary sci fi when I was a kid, not whatever the hell it is now.


I understand they're considering changing the title to Dr. What  :lol
Agreed we gave it a try as we have enjoyed them in the past but really is total shit now.
How about Non Doctor
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2018, 05:32:16 pm
Ebay gets my goat,
How does this work.I search for something by "nearest" it says 10 miles from Sharp Hall -- I click and read
It says london.
I scroll to the bottom for sellers info it says ZHENGLV XU  Shenfang Building, #100, Zhenhua Road, Futian Shenzhen China.
WTF - is that China as in China Town or actual fecking Shenzhen Provence PRC.
And like foc is it going to be delivered next Thursday !   


It will, they'll have a business unit, garage or even sell from their home over here.
I wonder if so all the time as when I read the bad reviews they all say it came late.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 28 October 2018, 08:14:57 pm
Ebay gets my goat,
How does this work.I search for something by "nearest" it says 10 miles from Sharp Hall -- I click and read
It says london.
I scroll to the bottom for sellers info it says ZHENGLV XU  Shenfang Building, #100, Zhenhua Road, Futian Shenzhen China.
WTF - is that China as in China Town or actual fecking Shenzhen Provence PRC.
And like foc is it going to be delivered next Thursday !   


It will, they'll have a business unit, garage or even sell from their home over here.
I wonder if so all the time as when I read the bad reviews they all say it came late.


The lights i ordered today were  touted as from London, but with a Chinese address for the seller.
I'll let you know how long they take to arrive.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 October 2018, 08:21:22 pm
Ebay gets my goat,
How does this work.I search for something by "nearest" it says 10 miles from Sharp Hall -- I click and read
It says london.
I scroll to the bottom for sellers info it says ZHENGLV XU  Shenfang Building, #100, Zhenhua Road, Futian Shenzhen China.
WTF - is that China as in China Town or actual fecking Shenzhen Provence PRC.
And like foc is it going to be delivered next Thursday !   


It will, they'll have a business unit, garage or even sell from their home over here.
I wonder if so all the time as when I read the bad reviews they all say it came late.


The lights i ordered today were  touted as from London, but with a Chinese address for the seller.
I'll let you know how long they take to arrive.
That would be interesting. I sometimes think they get away with it because the uk address is the arrival port ! and not everyone scrolls all the way down to to the bottom of the listing to reveal the true address. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 October 2018, 06:06:10 pm
Today what gets my goat - moron journalist shouting stupid glib questions across the street to MPs as they come out of number 10 Philip Hammond today was one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 29 October 2018, 07:41:52 pm
Who was Phillip Hammond shouting at?  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 October 2018, 08:01:36 pm
Who was Phillip Hammond shouting at?  ;)
:lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 October 2018, 09:10:31 pm
Today what gets my goat - moron journalist shouting stupid glib questions across the street to MPs as they come out of number 10 Philip Hammond today was one.


That's standard for journalists asking ridiculous questions, but then watching politicians debating in Parliament is no better either.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 October 2018, 09:38:53 pm
They are all in the same bubble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 30 October 2018, 02:37:36 pm
what gets my goat (not just today bit for the past two years)...MPs from every political party finding themselves unable to unite and do whats best for the country instead of bitching about all their own personal agendas and petty grievances. The UK got the Brexit vote, and it was to leave. Its a done deal. So whether its what those that run the country wanted or not, for focs sake pull together, put personal differences and pride aside, do whats best for us, our children and their children and sort it out....or at the very least (yes you blair,) shut the foc up and stick to raking in money you made of the back of dead british soldiers..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 30 October 2018, 05:48:31 pm
But (most politicians) are arguing about how to leave, not whether to. Unfortunately the 'great British public' had no idea on the answer to that one. Perhaps we should ask them that question?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 October 2018, 06:03:32 pm
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Today what gets my goat - moron journalist shouting stupid glib questions across the street to MPs as they come out of number 10 Philip Hammond today was one.
But wait a minute.  What is all that pish.  The chancellor going through the archaic practise of standing on the steps 11 downing street holding up Gladstone’s little red box.
What a load of pish.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 October 2018, 06:20:33 pm
 
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what gets my goat (not just today bit for the past two years)...MPs from every political party finding themselves unable to unite and do whats best for the country instead of bitching about all their own personal agendas and petty grievances. The UK got the Brexit vote, and it was to leave.

Well yeah.  I want my politicians to so the best for my country, and my country voted overwhelmingly to REMAIN.  The UK may well have voted to leave, but two countries within that union voted to REMAIN.

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Its a done deal.


Far from it.  And let us not forget why we were given this referendum.  It wasn’t for the good of the people, it wasn’t for the benefit of the public.  It was offered in a Tory manifesto, purely in order to temporarily pull together a divided Tory party in order to win a general election.  Of course on the basis, that well, we’ll worry about the referendum after we win the election.  And they didn’t worry about it too much cos they didn’t think people would be dumb enough to pay too much attention the fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists of UKIP.
Doh! :'(   Doh doh doh!  :'( :'( :'( :'(
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do whats best for us
Phillip Hammond has already stated that yesterdays budget was based on a good deal BREXIT, ie continued tariff free access to the single market.  If there is no deal, he will tear yesterday’s budget up and pull out the emergency budget he’s already working on.  Could make the financial crash of 2008 look like a storm in a tea cup.


As for really doing the best for us.  The best deal is the deal we already have.


Oh and if there isn’t full single market access or a customs union – where is the border going to go.  Where do we put the border? 

Further, if there is no single market/customs union deal, there will be a second Scottish referendum.
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So whether its what those that run the country wanted or not
I would argue that we are a representative democracy.  Our members of parliament must, or they should act in the public interest.  They need to grow a few pairs and ditch BREXIT.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 October 2018, 06:21:50 pm
BREXIT?  Foccing BREXIT?   Did somebody mention BREXIT.
Yes BREXIT gets my fucking goat big time. :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 October 2018, 08:19:42 pm
He's definitely back from his holiday fully refreshed and spouting his usual clap trap
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 October 2018, 08:48:02 pm
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He's definitely back from his holiday fully refreshed and spouting his usual clap trap
Somebody definately mentioned BREXIT :eek     And it really foccin does gets my fecin goat. >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 30 October 2018, 09:00:43 pm
Why do people keep telling me how cold i’m s’posed to apparently be?


“Ooohh, you must be freezing on that bike?”


Erm, no, i’ve not felt cold once yet actually.
I wear a bike jacket, balaclava, helmet......in fact i feel bloody hot with the heated grips on.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 30 October 2018, 11:43:50 pm
Why do people keep telling me how cold i’m s’posed to apparently be?


“Ooohh, you must be freezing on that bike?”


Erm, no, i’ve not felt cold once yet actually.
I wear a bike jacket, balaclava, helmet......in fact i feel bloody hot with the heated grips on.


 :thumbup :thumbup :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 12:04:37 am
Well yeah.  I want my politicians to so the best for my country, and my country voted overwhelmingly to REMAIN.  The UK may well have voted to leave, but two countries within that union voted to REMAIN.
In the 2014 independance referendum Scotland also voted by just over 55% to REMAIN in the UK union ;) .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 12:28:44 am
Any referendum is only valid for the date it is taken. The following day the result would be different. That's why we have governments...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 08:19:55 am
.....unless the result of the EU referendum had been Remain. In which case the issue would have been declared settled in perpetuity :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 31 October 2018, 09:42:06 am
and what should have happened is everyone pulling together to deliver what the majority voted for. Instead, those opposed to Brexit have conspired to weaken our position through constant sniping. When we originally voted to join the Common Market, we all accepted the decision and tried to make the best from it, no sniping/bitching/most people on our street voting against etc etc.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 09:50:30 am

When we originally voted to join the Common Market


There's never been a vote to join.


On both occasions the government had already taken us in and the referendum was about deciding to remain or leave.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 10:05:27 am
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unless the result of the EU referendum had been Remain. In which case the issue would have been declared settled in perpetuity


Like there was in 1975?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 10:39:27 am

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unless the result of the EU referendum had been Remain. In which case the issue would have been declared settled in perpetuity


Like there was in 1975?


That was a referendum regarding remaining or leaving the EEC.


The more recent one concerned remaining or leaving the European Union which had been formed in 1993.




The EU is significantly different to the old EEC. As I believe was reflected by the different result.



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 31 October 2018, 10:42:18 am
Why do people keep telling me how cold i’m s’posed to apparently be?


“Ooohh, you must be freezing on that bike?”


Erm, no, i’ve not felt cold once yet actually.
I wear a bike jacket, balaclava, helmet......in fact i feel bloody hot with the heated grips on.
You also hear it in the summer -"oooh I bet your hot on that aint you"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 31 October 2018, 10:51:57 am

and what should have happened is everyone pulling together to deliver what the majority voted for. Instead, those opposed to Brexit have conspired to weaken our position through constant sniping. When we originally voted to join the Common Market, we all accepted the decision and tried to make the best from it, no sniping/bitching/most people on our street voting against etc etc.
that's all im trying to say too.
our politicians used to be able to do it, but it seems they aren't capable now
When Neville Chamberlain became pm in '37, his premiership was dominated by his foreign policy towards an ever aggressive Germany under Adold Hitler. When he realised  his "appeasement" policy (for which he will always be remembered for sadly), wasn't working and Germany invaded Poland in '39 bringing us into the war he stuck it out a bit longer then resigned in early 1940 as the allies were being forced to retreat from Norway because (and this is all im asking for from all governing parties now) he believed that a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a Government headed by him. Although succeeded by Churchill, he remained vey well thought of,especially by tories, and became an important member of churchills war cabinet.
And that's what gets my goat.
that ministers cant do the same today..recognise we have made a decision, and whether they are happy with it or not, pull together to get the best outcome for the people they represent, us.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 11:22:38 am
Thee EEC evolved into the EU. The EU is constantly evolving. Do Brexiters really know what the future is? It doesn't seem like it at the moment. Other than blue passports and a 50p coin, of course.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 31 October 2018, 11:29:45 am
It's funny really. I think quite a few folks voted for Brexit as a kick in the nuts to the politicians who'd lost sight of the majority of people's experience and hopes. Some Remainers might say that was a suicidal thing to do, yet the same Remainers are quite willing to destroy a UK that is outside of the EU just to be able to say "told you so."


Personally, they can all go to hell. I'm just tired of political types entirely; "we know what's good for you"; breathtaking arrogance, just like VNA - trouble is, none of them seem to be able to deliver on "what's good for us"  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 11:58:27 am

Thee EEC evolved into the EU.


It required the Maastricht Treaty to be signed off by member states before it could be implemented.
John Major wielded the pen on behalf of all of us.


If it had stayed as the EEC, or something broadly similar we'd probably still be in it. :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 01:53:06 pm
Thereby lies the problem. What do Brexiteers want? Some want to stay in EFTA, some don't. Some want Financial Passporting, , some don't. There is no Brexit plan until the government publishes it, and then some Brexiteers will like it and some won't. All Remainers won't like it. How does that represent 'the will of the people' and that's why we are currently in the shit (or merde depending on your allegiance)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 04:50:24 pm
But there wasn't about 10 different versions of 'Leave' available as options on the ballot paper :rolleyes . Just a basic leave or remain. The majority voted Leave.

Short of compulsory genuflecting to the unelected European Commision I can't imagine you'd ever satisfy most of the Remainers :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 05:12:32 pm
Remain was stay with the status quo. A simple choice which they all agreed on. In a referendum you can only have two choices. Perhaps the alternative to Remain should have been a clear and honest 'No deals with the EU at all'. Then we might of got a different result, as voters might have been more cautious. Instead the Leave campaigns gave us a load of lies, false promises and intentional confusion. Which of course they can't deliver.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 05:34:13 pm
Instead the Leave campaigns gave us a load of lies and intentional confusion.
And Remain didn't/aren't?! :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 05:44:07 pm
Nope. All their predictions are coming true. £ has dived, manufacturers and finance are planning to leave the UK, we're being thrown out of European joint ventures. Meanwhile Farage's 2 children have got German passports, and that 'patriot' Dyson is going to build his new car in..... Singapore. Which has incidentally just signed a trade deal with the EU.


Sounds like 'project fear' is 'project true' to me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 06:12:47 pm
Nope.
:rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 31 October 2018, 06:35:53 pm
 
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In the 2014 independance referendum Scotland also voted by just over 55% to REMAIN in the UK union ;) .

Putting aside that Better Together broke The Edinburgh Agreement cheated in the closing weeks of the referendum;


We were told by Better Together that if we wished to guarantee, I repeat GUARANTEE continued membership of the EU then people of Scotland must reject the YES campaign and vote no.  They told us the only way Scotland could GUARANTEE continued EU membership was by remaining in the UK.

This is what is known as a major material change.   The result of the Scottish referendum is no longer valid.


Further those who did vote NO voted to remain in the UK, not for Scotland to become some sort of minor region of England and to be ignored on every single issue, major or minor.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 31 October 2018, 06:36:17 pm
So.
Me and the missus were sat in Costa (upstairs in Next) having a lovely coffee together. Sat in a window seat with with a view out over the car park (not the greatest view in the world) but enjoying watching the world go by at the end of the working day, pointing out different cars we like or dislike, what we'd buy if we could afford it and, if we're lucky, get to see the odd motorbike or two.
So far so good.
And then, one of my REAL pet hates, a 40 something woman turns up in a Ford KA and jumps out in her velour tracksuit, obviously nothing wrong with her, and dashes into Next to buy herself something nice, after making a foccin' awful attempt at parking her car in between the bay lines, in a disabled space, which is really wide to allow genuinely disabled people enough room to exit and get back into their cars - see pic a.
To top it all off she's got a disabled badge on the dashboard which obviously isn't hers so she has probably borrowed the car & its badge off a relative or someone she knows.
Really grips my sh!t  :thumbdown :stop


Then a few minutes later, just after I've finished venting my spleen to the missus, another 40 something woman does exactly the same by parking next to the first one but this one doesn't even have the courtesy to display a disabled badge FFS!!!! - see pic b.


It's not as if the car park was anywhere near full either - just pure laziness and not giving a foc about others.


I hate it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 31 October 2018, 06:52:28 pm
 
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And Remain didn't/aren't?! ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/garet/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/url])([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/garet/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/url])

 
Sadly what REMAIN gave you was fear.  They pursued a similar agenda as Better Together did in 2014.  What they should have done was run a positive campaign and they would have won.


But no, whilst REMAIN was hopeless LEAVE was just down right dishonest.  There is no 350 million a week extra cash. The negotiations have not turned out to be a piece of cake.  The lie that the EU needs us more than we need them has been exposed – they don’t really give a shit if we leave.


And whatever deal we get, or no deal we will still have to tow the line with the EU.  It’s the biggest single trading market in the world that is right on our doorstep.  Once out of the EU we will continue to comply with their rules and regulations (unless that this we want commit suicide and stop trading with the EU) but we will no longer have any say or influence.  And don’t forget that EU standards and practises are now being adopted by other countries outside the EU as best practise.


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that ministers cant do the same today..recognise we have made a decision, and whether they are happy with it or not, pull together to get the best outcome for the people they represent, us.

But again, two countries in this union voted to REMAIN.  Only England and Wales voted to Leave.

Why is it that one member of this union thinks it has the right to dictate to all other members?

Further did people vote to trash the economy?  Did people vote to devalue the pound?  Did people vote to become poorer?  Did people vote to make trade harder?  Did people ask to be lied to?  Did people vote to loose their jobs?

Ogri you cannot ask ministers to vote like turkeys voting for Christmas. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 31 October 2018, 07:01:03 pm
Why is it that one member of this union thinks it has the right to dictate to all other members?


Military conquest. You were weaker. Fancy another go?  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 October 2018, 07:55:39 pm
So.
Me and the missus were sat in Costa (upstairs in Next) having a lovely coffee together. Sat in a window seat with with a view out over the car park (not the greatest view in the world) but enjoying watching the world go by at the end of the working day, pointing out different cars we like or dislike, what we'd buy if we could afford it and, if we're lucky, get to see the odd motorbike or two.
So far so good.
And then, one of my REAL pet hates, a 40 something woman turns up in a Ford KA and jumps out in her velour tracksuit, obviously nothing wrong with her, and dashes into Next to buy herself something nice, after making a foccin' awful attempt at parking her car in between the bay lines, in a disabled space, which is really wide to allow genuinely disabled people enough room to exit and get back into their cars - see pic a.
To top it all off she's got a disabled badge on the dashboard which obviously isn't hers so she has probably borrowed the car & its badge off a relative or someone she knows.
Really grips my sh!t  :thumbdown :stop


Then a few minutes later, just after I've finished venting my spleen to the missus, another 40 something woman does exactly the same by parking next to the first one but this one doesn't even have the courtesy to display a disabled badge FFS!!!! - see pic b.


It's not as if the car park was anywhere near full either - just pure laziness and not giving a foc about others.


I hate it.


I agree with what you say, but not everyone "looks" disabled.
They may have a breathing condition that is worse some days than others for example.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 08:08:08 pm
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Nope.


 



Noting your lack of detailed response  :rolleyes
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Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 08:20:08 pm
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Military conquest. You were weaker. Fancy another go? 
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Wrong! It was a voluntary union, because Scotland was broke. And we'd already taken on their King. So call it a reverse take over :evil
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 31 October 2018, 08:21:13 pm
Fair point about not all disabilities being visible Darrsi but the way these two jumped out of their cars and were rushing into Next, I don't think either of them had any breathing difficulties  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 31 October 2018, 08:54:26 pm
When people scribble notes on the top dozen or so pages of a note pad without tearing said pages off >: .
 You then daren't rip them out in case it's something important.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 31 October 2018, 09:04:24 pm
Fair point about not all disabilities being visible Darrsi but the way these two jumped out of their cars and were rushing into Next, I don't think either of them had any breathing difficulties  :lol
The one Dynspud pointed out probably has one for a relative who’s disabled, I used to have one for ferrying around the MIL who had terminal cancer but I’d never have used it if she wasn’t with me. That’s just foccing bone idleness!
It’s a joke how easily some people get a blue badge though, unlike my mum who’s got osteoporosis and a pinned and plated leg after a bicycle accident which saw her retired early on medical grounds. She can’t walk very far at all but was turned down for a badge  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 31 October 2018, 09:32:58 pm

and what should have happened is everyone pulling together to deliver what the majority voted for. Instead, those opposed to Brexit have conspired to weaken our position through constant sniping. When we originally voted to join the Common Market, we all accepted the decision and tried to make the best from it, no sniping/bitching/most people on our street voting against etc etc.
that's all im trying to say too.
our politicians used to be able to do it, but it seems they aren't capable now
When Neville Chamberlain became pm in '37, his premiership was dominated by his foreign policy towards an ever aggressive Germany under Adold Hitler. When he realised  his "appeasement" policy (for which he will always be remembered for sadly), wasn't working and Germany invaded Poland in '39 bringing us into the war he stuck it out a bit longer then resigned in early 1940 as the allies were being forced to retreat from Norway because (and this is all im asking for from all governing parties now) he believed that a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a Government headed by him. Although succeeded by Churchill, he remained vey well thought of,especially by tories, and became an important member of churchills war cabinet.
And that's what gets my goat.
that ministers cant do the same today..recognise we have made a decision, and whether they are happy with it or not, pull together to get the best outcome for the people they represent, us.


Yes, absolutely. If the result had been the other way, those who voted out would have buckled down and got on with it, and it would have been Italy, or Spain, or Greece, perhaps Poland or Hungary, that would be the first to leave
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 31 October 2018, 09:47:35 pm
So.
Me and the missus were sat in Costa (upstairs in Next) having a lovely coffee together. Sat in a window seat with with a view out over the car park (not the greatest view in the world) but enjoying watching the world go by at the end of the working day, pointing out different cars we like or dislike, what we'd buy if we could afford it and, if we're lucky, get to see the odd motorbike or two.
So far so good.
And then, one of my REAL pet hates, a 40 something woman turns up in a Ford KA and jumps out in her velour tracksuit, obviously nothing wrong with her, and dashes into Next to buy herself something nice, after making a foccin' awful attempt at parking her car in between the bay lines, in a disabled space, which is really wide to allow genuinely disabled people enough room to exit and get back into their cars - see pic a.
To top it all off she's got a disabled badge on the dashboard which obviously isn't hers so she has probably borrowed the car & its badge off a relative or someone she knows.
Really grips my sh!t  :thumbdown :stop


Then a few minutes later, just after I've finished venting my spleen to the missus, another 40 something woman does exactly the same by parking next to the first one but this one doesn't even have the courtesy to display a disabled badge FFS!!!! - see pic b.


It's not as if the car park was anywhere near full either - just pure laziness and not giving a foc about others.


I hate it.       




 :thumbdown   Agree with everything you've said,maybe bikers have more of a thing about this because they can sometimes end up disabled and more than likely it's someone like these wankers that have pulled out on you or whatever,hate 'em
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 31 October 2018, 10:05:14 pm
 
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Yes, absolutely. If the result had been the other way, those who voted out would have buckled down and got on with it, and it would have been Italy, or Spain, or Greece, perhaps Poland or Hungary, that would be the first to leave.

Really?  The fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists of UKIP would have just shrugged their shoulders and said “Oh well, that’s that.” 
Perhaps another country would try to leave if we hadn’t started the process of trying to do so first.  But whatever, the way things stand, we will be the first and the last.  The other countries can now see clearly what BREXIT means.


Of course, a great many of those who believe in BREXIT want to see the EU dissolve, with country after country leaving.  But think what that means.  What is the EU?


The EU is 28 counties, trading freely without any restrictions.  If they were 28 separate countries, you would have 28 separate trade laws, 28 separate legal systems to deal with, 28 separate governments to deal with.  As a manufacturing business for example, if you wished to trade with all, you might need 28 different versions of your product to pass 28 different safety standards.  You also need 28 separate trade deals.


 
In other words, every country that is currently a member of the EU would end up poorer if the EU was dissolved.


It is not just fundamentally stupid to leave the EU, not to mention doing so after investing 40 years building it, but incredibly selfish. 



So we will not get a better deal than we have right now.  And if we leave, the UK will suffer economically.


But don’t forget that the Jacob Rees Moggs etc of the Tory party would like nothing more than to the see the ordinary people of this country down on their knees begging for their next fucking meal.  These people intend to become even richer and even more powerful through BREXIT.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 October 2018, 10:34:29 pm
On the very night of the referendum, when Farage thought he had lost, he was on television saying the fight wasn't over, and he wanted another vote.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 01 November 2018, 08:04:34 am

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Nope.


 



Noting your lack of detailed response  :rolleyes



We're unlikely to agree on virtually anything regarding this topic even given a million years. It would just go on forever. At least it's good natured debate.


At the end of the day the indisputable facts are that Leave won, Remain lost and we're coming out :woot
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 01 November 2018, 08:28:59 am
So.
Me and the missus were sat in Costa (upstairs in Next) having a lovely coffee together. Sat in a window seat with with a view out over the car park (not the greatest view in the world) but enjoying watching the world go by at the end of the working day, pointing out different cars we like or dislike, what we'd buy if we could afford it and, if we're lucky, get to see the odd motorbike or two.
So far so good.
And then, one of my REAL pet hates, a 40 something woman turns up in a Ford KA and jumps out in her velour tracksuit, obviously nothing wrong with her, and dashes into Next to buy herself something nice, after making a foccin' awful attempt at parking her car in between the bay lines, in a disabled space, which is really wide to allow genuinely disabled people enough room to exit and get back into their cars - see pic a.
To top it all off she's got a disabled badge on the dashboard which obviously isn't hers so she has probably borrowed the car & its badge off a relative or someone she knows.
Really grips my sh!t  :thumbdown :stop


Then a few minutes later, just after I've finished venting my spleen to the missus, another 40 something woman does exactly the same by parking next to the first one but this one doesn't even have the courtesy to display a disabled badge FFS!!!! - see pic b.


It's not as if the car park was anywhere near full either - just pure laziness and not giving a foc about others.


I hate it.


I agree with what you say, but not everyone "looks" disabled.
They may have a breathing condition that is worse some days than others for example.

:agree

I know several people with blue badges. Some are obviously disabled as they need walking frames/whatever to get about. The 2 closest to me in terms of family however are less obvious. My father-in-law looks a bit frail when he is walking but make him walk 100m and he is just about ready to collapse due to heart issued. My niece, who is only 20 years old has a degenerative condition that some days she can seem to be running around. Give it 20 minutes though and she will be a wheelchair for the next few days. Similarly, make her walk 200m and her legs give up. She would love to not have to use the disabled spaces but if she didn't...…..


It does p!$$ me off though when I see the gits at the local shops pull into a car park with loads of spaces and just go straight to the 2 disabled bays because they are closer to the shops.


A lot of people don't realise that its illegal to use a blue badge to park you car if the owner of the badge isn't in the car, or if they are, is not getting out of the car. After all, why do you need the disabled spaces if the disabled person can just as easily sit in the car at the far end of the car park?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 01 November 2018, 10:12:25 am
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At the end of the day the indisputable facts are that Leave won, Remain lost and we're coming out

Yep we are indeed coming out. If only somebody had a map of where we're going. It's like leading a bike ride and you lose 48%  of the riders at the first roundabout, and  find yourself ending up in some dead end industrial estate  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 01 November 2018, 01:38:33 pm

Yep we are indeed coming out. If only somebody had a map of where we're going. It's like leading a bike ride and you lose 48%  of the riders at the first roundabout, and  find yourself ending up in some dead end industrial estate  :D 



Blimey. That sounds just like the last LOFO day out to David Silvers.
:rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 November 2018, 01:58:18 pm

Really?  The fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists of UKIP would have just shrugged their shoulders and said “Oh well, that’s that.”


So 52% of the electorate are UKIP members? Hmmm.


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The EU is 28 counties, trading freely without any restrictions.  If they were 28 separate countries, you would have 28 separate trade laws, 28 separate legal systems to deal with, 28 separate governments to deal with.  As a manufacturing business for example, if you wished to trade with all, you might need 28 different versions of your product to pass 28 different safety standards.  You also need 28 separate trade deals.


That's looking at it from a Remain "shoot down Brexit" point of view. The point is, some things about the EU are good - trade agreements across the membership for instance. Some not so good - the Franco/German dictatorship that says we must have this much migration, must accept these many immigrants from outside (and look how Merkel fucked that up. You said yourself you want Scottish independence so at least your mistakes will be your own - not going to be the case within the EU though, is it?  ;) ),  must standardise all laws, must eventually become a single super state etc. Personally, I think the EU should ONLY be about trade, as it once was supposed to be. Or rather, I fail to see why independent nations can't work out advantageous systems together on other things too, where it benefits all - security in the face of modern threats for instance. Cooperation yes, Brussels sovereignty? Fuck off! The only thing that gets in the way of such cooperation is self-interested politicians.


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It is not just fundamentally stupid to leave the EU, not to mention doing so after investing 40 years building it, but incredibly selfish.


It's not just the UK that is being selfish, and never mind EU protectionism in the face of Brexit.
Look at Germany's behaviour towards Greece - bribery and corruption to force Greece to buy German arms, tanks etc, which kind of behaviour largely contributed to the Greek economic collapse in the first place.


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And if we leave, the UK will suffer economically.


Perhaps. Perhaps not. You can't prove one way or the other. Even the top economic heads say they don't know for sure - how could they, when a deal has yet to be worked out? I know we're not there yet, but your lot were predicting economic meltdown as the immediate aftermath of the referendum, and that hasn't happened. Sure, we've lost in some ways, but we've gained in others, and I suspect that will be the true result of Brexit when we look back on it in years to come. The EU will have its own problems, as will everywhere else. The ones who will lose face are the current sensationalists, like yourself. You should relax about it more. Have another spliff!  :lol  Oh, wait, you can't - as a political animal, you think spliffs are bad, very, very baaad! :lol


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But don’t forget that the Jacob Rees Moggs etc of the Tory party would like nothing more than to the see the ordinary people of this country down on their knees begging for their next fucking meal.  These people intend to become even richer and even more powerful through BREXIT.


All politicians intend to become richer and even more powerful off the back of whatever happens, Brexit or Remain, Labour or Tory, or SNP for that matter. And that certainly goes for the politicians of the EU, with their own corporate connections and interests.
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Post by: mtread on 01 November 2018, 01:59:21 pm
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Blimey. That sounds just like the last LOFO day out to David Silvers.

Well spotted!   ;)  But unlike Brexit, we all made it home in one piece  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 01 November 2018, 06:18:00 pm
And we did all get to where we wanted to go.......
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 November 2018, 06:55:33 pm
 
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That's looking at it from a Remain "shoot down Brexit" point of view.
No it’s simple economics.  If there was no EU and you were a UK manufacturer, the fact is you would more than likely have to choose which countries within Europe you wished to trade with, as very few but the biggest companies would be able to handle the complexities of trading with all.
It’s a simple economic fact that if there was no EU, there would be less trade across Europe.  Less trade means smaller economies = less wealth.
Obviously, the EU requires standardisation of laws relating to trade.  That’s an advantage not a disadvantage.  The EU will never become a single super state – that’s just nonsense.
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Or rather, I fail to see why independent nations can't work out advantageous systems together on other things too, where it benefits all - security in the face of modern threats for instance.
Perhaps you mean the EU counter-terrorism strategy that BREXIT will take us out of.
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Perhaps. Perhaps not. You can't prove one way or the other. Even the top economic heads say they don't know for sure - how could they, when a deal has yet to be worked out?
Well yes you are right here.  Because 1 – we may not actually leave or 2 – we may remain in a customs union or as continuing members of the single market.  But what we do know is that a no deal BREXIT crash out of the EU will have a substantial and immediate economic impact on the UK.

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The ones who will lose face are the current sensationalists, like yourself. You should relax about it more. Have another spliff!  :lol  Oh, wait, you can't - as a political animal, you think spliffs are bad, very, very baaad! :lol
My employer has a policy of random drink and drug testing.  Not an option for me I’m afraid.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was educated at Eton.  He is a hedge fund manager.  His net worth is estimated at in excess of 100 million pounds.  He’s in parliament to look after his own interest. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 November 2018, 06:56:52 pm
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Yep we are indeed coming out. If only somebody had a map of where we're going. It's like leading a bike ride and you lose 48%  of the riders at the first roundabout, and  find yourself ending up in some dead end industrial estate  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/cheesy.gif[/url])
That sounds about right.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 November 2018, 07:08:30 pm
 
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Yep we are indeed coming out.
Well I’m not sure.  I notice nobody wants to have a stab at where the border will go.
As I understand it the current situation is;
The EU wants to keep NI in the customs union, and therefore there will be no border between NI and EIRE. 
But that's no good for May, as the DUP will bring down the government and Scotland will in turn demand the border be moved from between us and NI to between us and England. 
So May has proposed a backstop, which seems to be we sort of leave the EU, but have some extra time to figure out how to leave the single market. 
And I suspect, at the end of the day, particularly as the EU is now prepared to compromise on free movement, we’ll sort of jump on a roundabout and jump off at a later date where we got on.
So are we leaving the EU?  Possibly not.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 01 November 2018, 07:41:28 pm
I don't think the EU cares whether NI is in the Customs Union or not. What they are saying is that Eire definitely is, so if UK is leaving the Customs Union, then there has to be a border somewhere. Either an Irish Border, or a GB border. It's totally our problem, and Theresa and Co say neither is OK in the long term (short term backstop is a smokescreen).
I think we will leave the EU, but will join the Customs Union and the Single Market. Just like Norway and Switzerland. We'll get some concessions on how much we pay and what rules we take.
So what's the point? It will please neither side of the voting halves. I'd rather be in the tent pissing out, rather outside pissing into the wind  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 01 November 2018, 07:54:57 pm
I know where the border should go right where the Romans built a long wall badly not high enough or focing sound proof. then we would have to read/listen the clap trap coming from the other side of it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 November 2018, 08:14:36 pm
I know where the border should go right where the Romans built a long wall badly not high enough or focing sound proof. then we would have to read/listen the clap trap coming from the other side of it


 :lol   :thumbup


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more piff and drivel


You continue to demonstrate why politicians are a despised class: "I know what's good for you"  :rolleyes
You know no better than the next man.


Just to take one point, where you say about Brexit pulling us out of security cooperation. How come we can work just fine with the security services of Australia, Canada, the US, when it's mutually beneficial? Once again, it's politicians, people with minds like your own, who prevent these things from happening.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 01 November 2018, 08:57:42 pm
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I know where the border should go right where the Romans built a long wall badly not high enough or focing sound proof. then we would have to read/listen the clap trap coming from the other side of it[/quote]
[size=78%]Hadrian's Wall was built across Northumberland. You've just lost most of Newcastle and some of Carlisle, not to mention Berwick. That may or may not have been your intention. [/size] :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 November 2018, 09:00:01 pm
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    more piff and drivel

Did I say piff and drivel? 
 
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You know no better than the next man.
 
No but I think you are just trying to insult and bait me rather than address my main points.
 
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How come we can work just fine with the security services of Australia, Canada, the US, when it's mutually beneficial?

 
There is a difference between working separately and choosing what to share, and more to the point what not to share, and indeed choosing who else you might share or not share with, than a co-ordinated operation with shared data between all members.  It’s a big difference.



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I don't think the EU cares whether NI is in the Customs Union or not. What they are saying is that Eire definitely is, so if UK is leaving the Customs Union, then there has to be a border somewhere. Either an Irish Border, or a GB border. It's totally our problem, and Theresa and Co say neither is OK in the long term (short term backstop is a smokescreen).
I think we will leave the EU, but will join the Customs Union and the Single Market. Just like Norway and Switzerland. We'll get some concessions on how much we pay and what rules we take.
So what's the point? It will please neither side of the voting halves. I'd rather be in the tent pissing out, rather outside pissing into the wind  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif[/url])



Yeah I think the EU cares first about it's members.  LEAVE told us that the EU needs us more than we need them.  That myth has been busted.  At the end of the day they would like us in, but if we wanna leave, well then their attitude is - you know where the door is...............


So I think mtread sums it all up quite nocely.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 November 2018, 09:01:18 pm
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Hadrian's Wall was built across Northumberland. You've just lost most of Newcastle and some of Carlisle, not to mention Berwick. That may or may not have been your intention.
Well it did used to be ours.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 November 2018, 09:10:46 pm

Did I say piff and drivel?


Yes, here:

 
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There is a difference between working separately and choosing what to share, and more to the point what not to share, and indeed choosing who else you might share or not share with, than a co-ordinated operation with shared data between all members.  It’s a big difference.


 :rollin


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Yeah I think the EU cares first about it's members.


No. The EU cares about the political construct of the EU. It cares nothing for member states, or worse still, for the people of Europe. Greece, again.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 01 November 2018, 09:14:19 pm
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Hadrian's Wall
Well it did used to be ours.



It used to be Hadrian's. That's why they call it Hadrian's Wall  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 01 November 2018, 10:06:28 pm



What a surprise! This thread has been hi jacked again by political verbal masturbation.


I'll be back when this has all died down.

If you want to show how much you remember from your crap grade A level Politics exam, start your own thread and leave this formerly interesting thread alone.


Please?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 01 November 2018, 11:16:07 pm
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It used to be Hadrian's. That's why they call it Hadrian's Wall 

Depends which side the fence panels face. Or so I'm told
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 02 November 2018, 08:21:00 am
Well said Billy.
Please feel free, everyone, to start a separate Brexit thread where anyone can go if they feel the need to.
It is a very emotive subject and deserves its own discussion.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 02 November 2018, 08:33:36 am
Radio DJ's who love the sound of their own voice so much that they fade records out barely half way through in order to continue prattling on again :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 11:52:43 am
Radio DJ's who love the sound of their own voice so much that they fade records out barely half way through in order to continue prattling on again :z


You mean like that twat Dave Berry who took over from Johnny Vaughan at Capitol Radio a few years back. Berry has the most annoying voice ever whilst I used to piss myself at Vaughan. Dave Berry now at Absolute radio so says it all - and glad that Johnny Vaughan walked the day he was told Berry was taking over.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 02 November 2018, 01:01:27 pm
Why, are you still recording the latest hits from the radio onto your cassette player?  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 November 2018, 01:39:24 pm
Radio DJ's who love the sound of their own voice so much that they fade records out barely half way through in order to continue prattling on again :z


You mean like that twat Dave Berry who took over from Johnny Vaughan at Capitol Radio a few years back. Berry has the most annoying voice ever whilst I used to piss myself at Vaughan. Dave Berry now at Absolute radio so says it all - and glad that Johnny Vaughan walked the day he was told Berry was taking over.


I have Absolute on at work, he is rather annoying.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 November 2018, 03:22:14 pm
Why, are you still recording the latest hits from the radio onto your cassette player?  :(
Pressing Rec and Play at the same time, those were the days
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 02 November 2018, 03:37:48 pm
Pressing Rec and Play at the same time, those were the days


How can I live without that?!  :'(


It's the little things  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 04:24:56 pm
Why, are you still recording the latest hits from the radio onto your cassette player?  :(
Pressing Rec and Play at the same time, those were the days


 :lol :lol  Trying to time it right before they started talking...then rewind, play, hold record and hope you catch the next one in time lol

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 05:01:16 pm
it's the different lengths of lead in tape that used to piss the foc off me, BASF one length, Maxell another, TDK, Sony and Philips, all different lead in times.......................................................... :eek :thumbdown :2guns :grumble   


Miss the first 4 seconds of Buddy Holy and the Crickets and Shaking Stevens soooooooo many times

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 02 November 2018, 05:15:29 pm
When  one side of a C90 didn't match an album length, used to annoy me. For years, I never heard the last couple of minutes of Rory Gallagher's Bullfrog Blues from Live In Europe  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 02 November 2018, 05:22:55 pm
it's the different lengths of lead in tape that used to piss the foc off me, BASF one length, Maxell another, TDK, Sony and Philips, all different lead in times.......................................................... :eek :thumbdown :2guns :grumble   


Miss the first 4 seconds of Buddy Holy and the Crickets and Shaking Stevens soooooooo many times


Buddy Holly, must have been reel to reel, very posh. I had to rely on the local caffs jukebox, great days though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 02 November 2018, 05:32:54 pm
it's the different lengths of lead in tape that used to piss the foc off me, BASF one length, Maxell another, TDK, Sony and Philips, all different lead in times.......................................................... :eek :thumbdown :2guns :grumble   


Miss the first 4 seconds of Buddy Holy and the Crickets and Shaking Stevens soooooooo many times


Buddy Holly, must have been reel to reel, very posh. I had to rely on the local caffs jukebox, great days though.
I a normal cassette I used to twist a pencil in to wind it past the lead tape before I put it in the machine 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 05:43:22 pm
it's the different lengths of lead in tape that used to piss the foc off me, BASF one length, Maxell another, TDK, Sony and Philips, all different lead in times.......................................................... :eek :thumbdown :2guns :grumble   


Miss the first 4 seconds of Buddy Holy and the Crickets and Shaking Stevens soooooooo many times


Buddy Holly, must have been reel to reel, very posh. I had to rely on the local caffs jukebox, great days though.
I a normal cassette I used to twist a pencil in to wind it past the lead tape before I put it in the machine


That's cos you are a cleaver foccer Sharpie
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 05:47:04 pm
Here is something you whipper Snappers might not know Shane Fenton was later know as Alvin Stardust, but my fav was still Marty Wilde :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 02 November 2018, 06:03:15 pm
Why, are you still recording the latest hits from the radio onto your cassette player?  :(

What's that then?. Some new fangled version of the wireless or gramaphone or summat?? :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 November 2018, 06:09:36 pm
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That's cos you are a cleaver foccer Sharpie
Aye, takes a few brain cells tae figure that one oot - eh?   :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 06:41:25 pm
people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: robbo on 02 November 2018, 07:04:04 pm
Here is something you whipper Snappers might not know Shane Fenton was later know as Alvin Stardust, but my fav was still Marty Wilde :rollin :rollin :rollin
Nah, Billy Fury...all day long. Mind you Marty is still out there having a go. His daughter Kim was a bit of a sort as well.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 02 November 2018, 07:20:00 pm
Wow; that reminds me.
I saw Marty Wilde live in the old Double Diamond Club in Caerphilly in 1982 I think it was.
Didn't know anything about him; was there for some beers wit a couple of mates while home on leave from the army.
He was really great.
Fantastic live act and the crowd loved it.


Frankie Vaughan was there a few weeks later and we bottled him off stage within 5 minutes!!!


Aahhh, the good old days  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 07:30:58 pm
people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..


We all did it when we were kids....even laying rockets on the road and sending them after cars, cyclists  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 07:33:04 pm
lol I used to fire bangers out of my garelli tiger cross eexhaust, til one went off in me hand as I was popping it in! couldn't feel my fingers for a coupla days..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 07:34:28 pm
anybody remember "jumping jacks"? fireworks that chased you...now they were the days.. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 07:36:30 pm
You stopped moaning now you old git ?

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 02 November 2018, 07:37:14 pm
Banger guns!!!!


A small length of copper tube where you bashed one end flat with a hammer, bent it around, and then stuffed lit bangers down the open and and fired them at your mates!!


Classic stuff  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 07:40:18 pm
You stopped moaning now you old git ?

briefly..… ;) :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 07:52:40 pm
Go buy some fireworks and let them off - especially the rockets down the road......you'll piss yourself

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 08:02:04 pm
I think already pissed myself enough tonight... :'( :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 02 November 2018, 08:37:33 pm
people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..


I think you'll find the phrase is, "it's like downtown Beirut out there!"  :lol


It's not just kids around here. At first, I used to think people were getting halloween mixed up with Guy Fawkes night. But now I just think it's as soon as fireworks become readily available in all the shops. Actually, if a few trick-or-treaters get shot to bits by rockets, I'm all for it [/grumpy old git]  :lol


It doesn't really bother me much. It's just that if these folks can afford to literally burn their money like that, can't they spare me a few quid?  :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 08:40:25 pm
lol showing me age nick, I was actually at the somme… :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 02 November 2018, 09:34:20 pm
Here is something you whipper Snappers might not know Shane Fenton was later know as Alvin Stardust, but my fav was still Marty Wilde :rollin :rollin :rollin

I saw Mr Stardust a few years back at a fundraising gig for prostate cancer. He still had the same style... one glove and his hand curled around the mic.
Sadly the disease killed him a few months afterwards.


Also at that event was most of The Who, Roger Daltrey advising the audience to 'check yer balls" thereby demonstrating his poor understanding of anatomy. :D

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 10:58:39 pm
Wow; that reminds me.
I saw Marty Wilde live in the old Double Diamond Club in Caerphilly in 1982 I think it was.
Didn't know anything about him; was there for some beers wit a couple of mates while home on leave from the army.
He was really great.
Fantastic live act and the crowd loved it.


Frankie Vaughan was there a few weeks later and we bottled him off stage within 5 minutes!!!


Aahhh, the good old days  :lol
Frankie foccing Prawn eh! Behind the green door
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 02 November 2018, 11:35:25 pm
My RAC cover was up for renewal and it had gone up by £30!

After waiting 10 minutes on hold, I finally got through to them and, after a fair bit of back and forth, I finally got them to a) renew it for the same price I paid last year AND b) got them to guarantee that price for next year's renewal too :D

It just pisses me off that we keep having to do this sort of thing to stop them ripping us off :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 03 November 2018, 05:36:34 am
people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..


Not so much for Bonfire Night anymore, it's all about Diwali around my area, and it was the same last night for me, it sounded like the fireworks were going off inside my house as i was trying to watch telly.
All that money going up in smoke, think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2018, 08:27:46 am
I know some places are banning the big public event bonfires now. They still have a fire here, but I think the tradition of burning the stuffed Guy effigy's on it has been stopped.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 03 November 2018, 08:43:29 am
Talking to a primary school teacher the other day, apparently the old nursery rhyme " baa baa black sheep" is now " baa baa rainbow sheep". Anybody ever seen a rainbow sheep? You couldn't make it up could you...when I was a kid there was a telly programme ( and accompanying song) called "white horses". Do you think if they remade it it would be called "rainbow horses"? People who see the word " black" as a racist slur when used in a perfectly normal context are surely the ones making it so. And that's what's gets my goat today.. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2018, 08:50:13 am
Most of those people don't genuinely see it as a slur when it's being used in a perfectly normal context. They make out they do in order create divisions amongst people and communities.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 03 November 2018, 09:01:15 am

All that money going up in smoke, think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.  :lol













or gallons of fuel they could buy............... :rolleyes          :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2018, 05:07:07 pm
We used to open up the bangers and collect the contents to make bigger explosions.What gets me is the size of rockets going up in small back gardens with no concern as to where that massive stick and big lump of plastic is going to fall back down - on my car- on my roof and then in my gutter. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 03 November 2018, 05:48:06 pm
Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty,  while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 03 November 2018, 05:57:01 pm
We used to go o the local gun shop and buy crow scarers as the bangers you could buy then were crap. They are even worse now!

Once we had the crow scarers, it was a trip to the local monastery to let them off. It was fun watching the monks come running out to try to find us as we drove off up the road :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 03 November 2018, 06:21:27 pm
Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty,  while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!  :groan



Yeah, get of my way! Me, me, me, me, me!  :rolleyes Demanding little foccer, aren't you  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 03 November 2018, 06:29:56 pm
Yep. Problem solved post Brexit. The supermarkets will be empty  :nana
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2018, 06:32:25 pm
Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty,  while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!  :groan
And people who leave their trolly at one end of the isle whilst they go off up the rest of the isle --- I like to put random things in their trolly for them 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 03 November 2018, 06:33:01 pm
Yep. Problem solved post Brexit. The supermarkets will be empty  :nana


Oooh, you naughty boy, you're not allowed to use the B word in here!  :lol


I was very careful not to say you're a typical selfish Remainer, but...  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 November 2018, 06:38:41 pm
 
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think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.  :lol

 
There’s something else that gets my goat.  Smoking.  Why is it so foccing hard to give up?
Two weeks in (again) cold turkey.  Still craving. 
Could murder a smoke.
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Yep. Problem solved post Brexit. The supermarkets will be empty  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/nana.gif[/url])

Ah BREXIT.  Supermarkets will be full of food but devoid of people.  The foodbanks will be full of people but devoid of food.
Maybe the EU will step in with humanitarian aid.
Did somebody say BREXIT?  :eek




 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Millietant on 03 November 2018, 07:01:39 pm
And the puffins will be extinct.....and we won't be able to find aspirin in the shops, let alone any real drugs........and the sky will fall in (again?).........

Lets get back on topic  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Millietant on 03 November 2018, 07:05:44 pm
I'll tell you what's getting my goat right now.....whenever I start a new paragraph in a post, there always seems to be two empty lines in my posts between the paragraphs after I've hit the "Post" button, even though I only hit the "return" button to add one empty line each time. Then I have to go to "Modify" and back-space out the extra blank lines.

Ooohhhh, it makes me sooooo mad !

......and there we go, I've had to do it again....................................... :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 03 November 2018, 07:07:40 pm
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Oooh, you naughty boy, you're not allowed to use the B word in here! 



Sorry, I couldn't resist  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2018, 07:12:00 pm
I'll tell you what's getting my goat right now.....whenever I start a new paragraph in a post, there always seems to be two empty lines in my posts between the paragraphs after I've hit the "Post" button, even though I only hit the "return" button to add one empty line each time. Then I have to go to "Modify" and back-space out the extra blank lines.

Ooohhhh, it makes me sooooo mad !

......and there we go, I've had to do it again....................................... :lol
The opposite is happening also. It's taking out intended empty lines and closing paragraphs up together. I tried modifying but it made no difference.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 03 November 2018, 07:15:28 pm
Talking to a primary school teacher the other day, apparently the old nursery rhyme " baa baa black sheep" is now " baa baa rainbow sheep". Anybody ever seen a rainbow sheep? You couldn't make it up could you...when I was a kid there was a telly programme ( and accompanying song) called "white horses". Do you think if they remade it it would be called "rainbow horses"? People who see the word " black" as a racist slur when used in a perfectly normal context are surely the ones making it so. And that's what's gets my goat today.. ;)



Can you imagine coming out with a song"young gifted and white" ? bet it wouldn't even get published :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Millietant on 03 November 2018, 07:17:18 pm
I'll tell you what's getting my goat right now.....whenever I start a new paragraph in a post, there always seems to be two empty lines in my posts between the paragraphs after I've hit the "Post" button, even though I only hit the "return" button to add one empty line each time. Then I have to go to "Modify" and back-space out the extra blank lines.

Ooohhhh, it makes me sooooo mad !

......and there we go, I've had to do it again....................................... :lol
The opposite is happening also. It's taking out intended empty lines and closing paragraphs up together. I tried modifying but it made no difference.


LOL....makes life interesting, doesn't it   :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 November 2018, 02:58:42 pm
Foccing BT Sport, sat down to watch the MotoGP and halfway through the second lap the result came up on the bottom of the screen and the results for the Moto2 and Moto3 races. Unbelievable, and the presenters get worse every race and the claptrap they spout , bring back Parrish and Cox, at least they made me laugh sometimes.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 November 2018, 05:09:21 pm
Foccing BT Sport, sat down to watch the MotoGP and halfway through the second lap the result came up on the bottom of the screen and the results for the Moto2 and Moto3 races. Unbelievable, and the presenters get worse every race and the claptrap they spout , bring back Parrish and Cox, at least they made me laugh sometimes.
Sounds like you had a nightmare in a bubble car
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 04 November 2018, 05:32:52 pm
Foccing BT Sport, sat down to watch the MotoGP and halfway through the second lap the result came up on the bottom of the screen and the results for the Moto2 and Moto3 races. Unbelievable, and the presenters get worse every race and the claptrap they spout , bring back Parrish and Cox, at least they made me laugh sometimes.
Sounds like you had a nightmare in a bubble car


Yeah, I needed that like I need a third armpit. :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 07:12:16 pm
You know what's getting my goat right now?
BREXIT?  Well yeah.  But something else is getting my goat right now, and its being doing so this time each year since 2011..............
Poppy fascism..
Why does anybody have to explain not wearing a red poppy?  I mean what the fuck?.
Apparently a footballer I’ve never heard of has had to explain why he does not wear a top with a poppy printed on it. His name is Nemanja Matic.  I’m thinking – mmmmm – interesting name.  And guess what he’s Serbian.  Why would a foccin Serbian wear a red poppy.  How stupid can people get?
.
No, frankly I can't think of anything more tacky than premier league footballers with red poppies printed on their shirts.  This demeans and trivialises remembrance.   Quiet contemplation at at an English premier league football game – really? 
.
No longer is it good enough just to remember, but people today are more interested in being seen to remember.
Rant over.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 07:13:31 pm
WhoopsFoccing forum gets my goat too! >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 07:57:43 pm
You know what's getting my goat right now?
BREXIT?  Well yeah.  But something else is getting my goat right now, and its being doing so this time each year since 2011..............
Poppy fascism..
Why does anybody have to explain not wearing a red poppy?  I mean what the fuck?.
Apparently a footballer I’ve never heard of has had to explain why he does not wear a top with a poppy printed on it. His name is Nemanja Matic.  I’m thinking – mmmmm – interesting name.  And guess what he’s Serbian.  Why would a foccin Serbian wear a red poppy.  How stupid can people get?
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No, frankly I can't think of anything more tacky than premier league footballers with red poppies printed on their shirts.  This demeans and trivialises remembrance.   Quiet contemplation at at an English premier league football game – really? 
.
No longer is it good enough just to remember, but people today are more interested in being seen to remember.
Rant over.

You ask them what they actually know about either of the 2 World Wars and see what gems of knowledge are forthcoming ;) .
I choose to wear a poppy. I want to remember. After all it was that sort of freedom to choose which was one of the things they were fighting for surely?.
I don't just wear one because I feel intimidated to do so by some dumb footballer that knows nothing about the war and has just jumped on the bandwagon '' 'Cos it's a respect fing ain't it guv?" or because someone else demands to know why I haven't.
To be meaningfull Remebrance has to be a concious, personal choice doesn't it?. Surely if it's just been printed on a shirt and handed to you without your request or knowledge it's meaningless isn't it??
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 08:27:22 pm
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To be meaningfull Remebrance has to be a concious, personal choice doesn't it?. Surely if it's just been printed on a shirt and handed to you without your request or knowledge it's meaningless isn't it??
Agree.  It's nonsense.  It's not just nonsense, it's stupid nonsense, which I find offensive.
And fair play to Nemanja Matic, who has worn such a shirt in the past, to stand up and say no.  It does not make sense for a Serbian to wear a red poppy.

Personally I choose to wear a white poppy.  I don't want to wear Lady Haig's poppy, but I do want to remember.  And in terms of ww1, I want as much as anything to remember those who were sacrificed, and all who lost their lives
People should be free to remember as they wish, that is if they wish.  It's a personal thing.  Poppies, red, white, purple or whatever, should not be subject to group think, peer pressure or the mob mentality.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 08:34:48 pm
Yes. Well said.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 05 November 2018, 08:43:19 pm
Got my poppy from the local chemist the other day, poppies on display in a box on counter but no where to put any money for them. I asked where to leave my donation the lady produced the collection box from under the counter apparently they have to keep it there as the last one was stolen 2 days before. The chemists is next to the doctors surgery approx. 1/2 mile out side the town. There are some real sad ba**ards about   stealing from a charity. Really p*ss*d me off  scumbags
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 November 2018, 09:14:11 pm
I think the BBC have a dedicated person who is in charge of making sure that every single person is wearing one
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 09:31:16 pm
They actually do have a box full in the studio that they keep ready to offer presenters/guests on the way in though don't they?.
Surely if you genuinely, sincerely wanted to wear one and remember you'd have your own on before you got there.
No one would just put one on for the benifit of the cameras would they? :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 09:42:37 pm
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They actually do have a box full in the studio that they keep ready to offer presenters/guests on the way in though don't they?.
Surely if you genuinely, sincerely wanted to wear one and remember you'd have your own on before you got there.

Indeed.  Absolutely. 


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No one would just put one on for the benifit of the cameras would they? ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])

Oh yes.
 I believe it is an unofficial expectation that presenters wear one.  And it appears to be spreading to other channels.  Officially it’s their choice.  If you are in TV and you value your career you will wear one.  That gets my goat.  It’s plain wrong.


The other thing is we now have presenters and reporters abroad wearing red poppies.  How stupid is that?  The whole thing is becoming a joke.  It devalues what remembrance is supposed about.
 
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 November 2018, 09:43:29 pm
They actually do have a box full in the studio that they keep ready to offer presenters/guests on the way in though don't they?.
Surely if you genuinely, sincerely wanted to wear one and remember you'd have your own on before you got there.
No one would just put one on for the benifit of the cameras would they? :rolleyes
Sure -don't display one its your choice But you will not be coming on air or invited (paid) to come back again.
Go ahead count the number of guests on BBC news / News-night / ect not wearing one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 05 November 2018, 09:53:40 pm
Nemanja Matic has chosen not to wear a poppy because at the age of 12 he was bombed by NATO forces. He probably knows more about war than most.
I buy a poppy but don't wear it all the time. Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 November 2018, 10:00:42 pm
Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.


What has that got to do with remembering the sacrifices of those who died? It's not about remembering the generals, the politicians, who sent these men to the slaughter.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 05 November 2018, 10:03:38 pm
I completely agree. But it seems that some quarters use the poppy to celebrate nationalism.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 10:13:37 pm
Nemanja Matic has chosen not to wear a poppy because at the age of 12 he was bombed by NATO forces. He probably knows more about war than most.
Errr, isn't that pretty much what VNA was saying?. Or have I missed something?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 November 2018, 10:15:56 pm
I completely agree. But it seems that some quarters use the poppy to celebrate nationalism.


They're only deluding themselves.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2018, 10:16:23 pm
Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.


What has that got to do with remembering the sacrifices of those who died? It's not about remembering the generals, the politicians, who sent these men to the slaughter.


To be honest I agree with Mtread - you need to experience being led by a donkey to appreciate it. Tens of thousands would have been saved if promotion was within the ranks.


Personally I wear a poppy, not just for WW1 but for ALL of our military conflicts.


And agree with the Serbian footballer comments....you either want to remember or you don't. Agree with BBC comments also which is a complete joke implemented for appearance sake - false / forced wearers can go get fucked.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 10:20:03 pm
Aparently a number of Irish football players in the English premier league have been booed.  Such behaviour is replusive.  It just the same stupid patriotic mob mentally that leads to war in the first place. 

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I buy a poppy but don't wear it all the time. Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.
Indeed, I used to wear a Red Poppy.   Some of the stuff you mention there is why I now wear a white poppy.  Though no I don’t wear it all the time.  Just now and again in the lead up to remembrance, simply because the white poppy is very much mis-understood. 



 And as for those who refused to fight.  Well I also have a great respect for them.  Those who objected during the first world war were treated appallingly.  And there were many who didn’t want to go, but you could say it was easier to go than to say no.


Aye and spare me the ultimate sacrifice pish when it comes to ww1, most were simply and needlessly slaughtered, even told to walk towards the enemy machine guns.


Aye soldiers shot at dawn.  And for a variety of reasons.  Some picked at random and shot just as an example to the troops.  Gee then up a bit with a random execution.   What what.


 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 05 November 2018, 10:21:39 pm
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Errr, isn't that pretty much what VNA was saying?. Or have I missed something?.
Just adding what he actually said.....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 05 November 2018, 10:23:44 pm
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<blockquote>Nemanja Matic has chosen not to wear a poppy because at the age of 12 he was bombed by NATO forces. He probably knows more about war than most.
</blockquote>Errr, isn't that pretty much what VNA was saying?. Or have I missed something?.


Umm no.  But that is a very valid point, an import point indeed.  My point is he is Serbian.  The Red Poppy Appeal represents 'our' war dead.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2018, 10:35:33 pm
Aparently a number of Irish football players in the English premier league have been booed.  Such behaviour is replusive.  It just the same stupid patriotic mob mentally that leads to war in the first place. 

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I buy a poppy but don't wear it all the time. Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.
Indeed, I used to wear a Red Poppy.   Some of the stuff you mention there is why I now wear a white poppy.  Though no I don’t wear it all the time.  Just now and again in the lead up to remembrance, simply because the white poppy is very much mis-understood. 



 And as for those who refused to fight.  Well I also have a great respect for them.  Those who objected during the first world war were treated appallingly.  And there were many who didn’t want to go, but you could say it was easier to go than to say no.


Aye and spare me the ultimate sacrifice pish when it comes to ww1, most were simply and needlessly slaughtered, even told to walk towards the enemy machine guns.


Aye soldiers shot at dawn.  And for a variety of reasons.  Some picked at random and shot just as an example to the troops.  Gee then up a bit with a random execution.   What what.


Well said sir

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 10:39:20 pm
led by donkeys.

That's mostly untrue. In the main they were experienced proffesional generals used to fighting small colonial wars. They had to adapt to a conflict on this scale fast.


https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/453259/The-lions-were-not-led-by-donkeys (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/453259/The-lions-were-not-led-by-donkeys)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2018, 10:50:50 pm
led by donkeys.

That's mostly untrue. In the main they were experienced proffesional generals used to fighting small colonial wars. They had to adapt to a conflict on this scale fast.


https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/453259/The-lions-were-not-led-by-donkeys (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/453259/The-lions-were-not-led-by-donkeys)


It still exists to this day - it's called Sandhurst ! No different to a Graduate Engineer who's thought process is "I can't do your job but my book says you're doing it wrong". Educated idiots the lot of them
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 November 2018, 10:55:28 pm
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<blockquote>Nemanja Matic has chosen not to wear a poppy because at the age of 12 he was bombed by NATO forces. He probably knows more about war than most.
</blockquote>Errr, isn't that pretty much what VNA was saying?. Or have I missed something?.


Umm no.  But that is a very valid point, an import point indeed.  My point is he is Serbian.  The Red Poppy Appeal represents 'our' war dead.

 
Yeah I missed something then :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 November 2018, 11:08:44 pm

It still exists to this day - it's called Sandhurst ! No different to a Graduate Engineer who's thought process is "I can't do your job but my book says you're doing it wrong". Educated idiots the lot of them


You served under all of them?!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2018, 11:11:38 pm
Perfect time to take the piss - NOT!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 November 2018, 11:14:06 pm
Perfect time to generalise - NOT!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 05 November 2018, 11:15:02 pm
Experience is not generalisation
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 05 November 2018, 11:15:37 pm
So did you serve under all of them?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 06 November 2018, 07:32:40 am
So did you serve under all of them?

I have! I  served under officers straight out of BRNC Dartmouth that have joined a ship with NO experience and have tried telling Leading hands Petty Officers & Chiefs that they are doing something wrong! I found that a quiet word in there ears have directed them nicely!

& to add to the debate I wear my red poppy all year, but mine is for the lads (& Lasses) I have left behind during my 28 years & time since I left, not just during conflicts but at any of them that have died in Service!

Gone but not Forgotten!!

Mine is for me to remember don't care what anyone else does!  if an individual doesn't want to wear one that's their belief not mine!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 07:54:01 am

I haven't served in the armed forces so I can't comment from personal experience like those of you who have.


Is that like tongue in cheek army banter about all of the officers?.


We stood next to a group of ex-soldiers during the couple of hours wait for the service to begin at The Cenotaph last year and they were ribbing and bantering each other about regiments etc...


All good natured stuff.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 10:09:39 am


Is that like tongue in cheek army banter about all of the officers?.


Other Ranks always take the piss out of officers. The joke was that to make an officer, you remove a person's brains. It seems some took it literally.
Of course some officers, especially junior officers, are incompetent. But take any group and that will be the case. And if you're just out of Sandhurst, of course you don't have experience. But some will then use the experience of their veteran NCOs until they gain the necessary experience to be the leaders of men. That, in my book, is how an officer can be good right from the start. We can't all be born a Caesar or an Alexander.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 06 November 2018, 10:27:00 am
But some will then use the experience of their veteran NCOs until they gain the necessary experience to be the leaders of men. That, in my book, is how an officer can be good right from the start. We can't all be born a Caesar or an Alexander.

totally agree if a baby officer has a good NCO for his first few postings then they will be moulded in the right way!

yes and banter in the armed forces is good,
it goes something like inter department rivally then inter ship then inter service then inter nation! but at he end of the day you stand next to the bloke you just been scrapping with and share a pint or 2 and ask how did that start lol!!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 11:09:34 am

It's interesting hearing about careers and lives that have probably been so different to mine.


I take it you served in the navy Robbie8666?.


What about you others?.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 11:35:35 am


yes and banter in the armed forces is good,
it goes something like inter department rivally then inter ship then inter service then inter nation! but at he end of the day you stand next to the bloke you just been scrapping with and share a pint or 2 and ask how did that start lol!!


Oh, this is so true!
Ex-RAF here, Air Communications, and latterly Avionics Tech. We were called fairies by other trades! We were equally disdainful of sooties and riggers etc, although on helicopters, riggers were in the majority and so had an unfair advantage in numbers.
Whilst in Germany, I served on a Puma helicopter squadron on a base that also had a Chinook and two Harrier squadrons. The Harriers were 3, and 4(F) squadrons. "F" standing for "Fighter". We used to call ourselves 230(F) squadron in a piss take of that Harrier squadron. Some called us "half-past-two" squadron.
And the RAF looked upon squaddies as little more than walking sand bags, and the less said about the Navy the better!  :lol  I'm sure Robbie and others will tell you what they thought of us!  :eek
And there were always, of course, "those bloody Yanks". Couldn't help but be impressed by their sheer military might if you visited one of their bases though.
And the banter between Scots, Irish, Welsh, English and those who originated from other countries within our own services - well, even then it would have seemed extreme to outsiders*, but banter is all it was, and we all worked, played and drank together on good enough terms - most of the time!  :lol
So has it always been...


Otoh, just for balance, when in Germany one of my best mates was on 3 sqn (he had a GSXR1100, I had my FZR1000), and another one I used to drink with a bit was a squaddie based there - I had never met anyone else with such a wide knowledge of military history at the time!


*You know, thinking about it, I think that's one reason I like the biking world so much (generally speaking of course!). There is much of that same kind of banter. Maybe it has something to do with that thing about the black sense of humour which comes from being in a community who have a level of danger involved in what they do? I've never been a mountaineer/climber (perhaps in the next life), but I'll bet it's the same within their 'ranks'.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 01:42:16 pm

public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns.


The officers certainly didn't escape the slaughter on the battlefield either.


17% of officers died compared with 12% of the regular soldiers.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 02:05:08 pm

public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns.


The officers certainly didn't escape the slaughter on the battlefield either.


17% of officers died compared with 12% of the regular soldiers.


And in some cases I think many of those public schoolboy officers formed a solid bond with their men, learned to understand where the ordinary working man came from, his hopes, his fears. Some went home and campaigned for their interests. Some wrote very eloquently in poetry and prose about the horrors they had seen, and the wrong of it all.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 02:16:33 pm

....and over 200 Generals were either killed, captured or wounded. Apparently they visited the front line pretty much daily and were based significantly closer to it than nowadays when in battle.


Yes there was bad decisions made and some weren't up to the position, but the 'General Melchet' type character as portrayed in Blackadder Goes Forth is largely fiction.


Also a lot of people seem to think WW1 ended in a kind of stalemate. It didn't. It was a decisive victory for the allies .


Oh and yes I am looking these figures up. Thanks for the motivation mtread, I'm learning a lot of new stuff here.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 November 2018, 03:37:09 pm
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It was a decisive victory for the allies .
Which led to over punitive reparations, which unfortunately led to you know what....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 06 November 2018, 04:49:43 pm
it also led to the freedom of speech you are exercising here, along with the rest of us.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 04:54:46 pm
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It was a decisive victory for the allies .
Which led to over punitive reparations, which unfortunately led to you know what....

Not according to number 9 on this list by the telly historian Dan Snow they weren't. Apparently it was Hitler who made out they were over punitive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25776836 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25776836)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 06 November 2018, 06:00:11 pm
 
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Also a lot of people seem to think WW1 ended in a kind of stalemate. It didn't. It was a decisive victory for the allies .

UK population estimated at 45.4 million. 
UK combat dead and missing in action ww1 – 744,000
UK total military deaths from all causes – 887,858
% population killed military and civilian – approx. 2%


Imagine that.


That’s just the UK.  Yup a decisive victory – what what – well worth the effort – what what – well done boys! – what what. 
I suppose at least by the 1900’s they’d stopped shipping the bodies home, grinding them up and spreading them on the fields as fertilizer. 
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it also led to the freedom of speech you are exercising here, along with the rest of us.
That’s a thought eh?  Millions of men firing lumps of metal at each other, blowing each other up, cutting each other’s throats.  Millions of dead.  Men, indeed whom history shows, one Christmas put down their weapons down to play football, share cigarettes and have a drink together.  Men with more in common with each other than they ever had apart.  Why?  They were simply told to kill each other by their rich political masters – that was all.


As for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, well, the mob mentality of war still exists to this day, just ask Nemanja Matic. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 November 2018, 06:04:47 pm
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it also led to the freedom of speech you are exercising here, along with the rest of us.
Don't quite get why?


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Not according to number 9 on this list by the telly historian Dan Snow they weren't. Apparently it was Hitler who made out they were over punitive.
Good point. Goes to show how easy it is to create populism out of perceived depravation, and scapegoat others.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 06:06:29 pm
They were simply told to kill each other by their rich political masters – that was all.


Yeah, bloody politicians again! (and I ain't laughing).
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 November 2018, 06:07:31 pm
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UK population estimated at 45.4 million.  UK combat dead and missing in action ww1 – 744,000 UK total military deaths from all causes – 887,858% population killed military and civilian – approx. 2%

Total WW1casualties 37 million. As usual the Russians took the brunt.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 06 November 2018, 06:17:10 pm
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Yeah, bloody politicians again! (and I ain't laughing).
Well no.  Not as we know them today.  Politicians back them were strictly the ruling elite. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 06:38:52 pm
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Yeah, bloody politicians again! (and I ain't laughing).
Well no.  Not as we know them today.



Pfft. They still say, "we know what's good for you", then proceed to do anything but. And they still take us into wars we don't want or agree with. I don't see much change.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 06 November 2018, 06:54:37 pm
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Pfft. They still say, "we know what's good for you", then proceed to do anything but. And they still take us into wars we don't want or agree with. I don't see much change.

The differenece is today that we elect them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 06 November 2018, 07:08:26 pm
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Pfft. They still say, "we know what's good for you", then proceed to do anything but. And they still take us into wars we don't want or agree with. I don't see much change.

The differenece is today that we elect them.


Oh well, that's ok then. Take us into all the wars you want.  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 November 2018, 07:21:17 pm
Gosh that reply #2778 was tasteless and bordering on the unhinged in places VNA.

I've no more to add to this topic except to say that I shall be paying my respects to all the allied fallen this Armistice Day.






Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 06 November 2018, 07:39:18 pm
I'm with you on that one YamFaz  ref 2778. and I'll add offensive to those of as who had relatives fight and die in both world wars. So think VNA before you post such an offensive post.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 06 November 2018, 07:40:21 pm
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Oh well, that's ok then. Take us into all the wars you want.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif[/url])


We are now a democracy.  And indeed after Tony Blair took the UK into Afghanistan and then Iraq - what did we do - we re-elected him.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 November 2018, 07:46:41 pm
Changing the subject back to the thread title......


What gets my goat is the way women wrap up the cords on irons, hoovers or anything with a plug on it. Who's ever tried to straighten out the cable on an iron ??? Me...I end up rewiring the bloody things.


They just won't be told or  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 06 November 2018, 07:47:18 pm
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I'm with you on that one YamFaz  ref 2778. and I'll add offensive to those of as who had relatives fight and die in both world wars. So think VNA before you post such an offensive post.

I am sorry if I have offended anybody.  I find war offensive.   I detest the glorification of war.

And indeed, it is hard to find a family in the UK which has not been touched by war, and mine is no exception.

I'll leave it at that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 November 2018, 08:07:41 pm
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Changing the subject back to the thread title......What gets my goat is the way women wrap up the cords on irons, hoovers or anything with a plug on it. Who's ever tried to straighten out the cable on an iron ??? Me...I end up rewiring the bloody things.

Wars have been started for less...  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 06 November 2018, 08:22:23 pm
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Changing the subject back to the thread title......What gets my goat is the way women wrap up the cords on irons, hoovers or anything with a plug on it. Who's ever tried to straighten out the cable on an iron ??? Me...I end up rewiring the bloody things.

Wars have been started for less...  ;)



It starts wars in my household I can tell you - drives me mad.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 06 November 2018, 09:05:44 pm
Changing the subject back to the thread title......


What gets my goat is the way women wrap up the cords on irons, hoovers or anything with a plug on it. Who's ever tried to straighten out the cable on an iron ??? Me...I end up rewiring the bloody things.


They just won't be told or  :wall


Its better than just leaving the cord unwound on the floor with the plug sticking up ready for me to tread on. My missus thinks its my duty to coil up the hoover and iron leads. Gets my foccing goat it does.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Billy Balthorpe on 06 November 2018, 09:11:56 pm



While i'm at it,


Some other stuff -


Bottles of shampoo left in the shower tray because my family cant be arsed to put them back in the rack


Wet towels strewn around the upstairs, and for some reason on my side of the bed.


Tops left off toothpaste tubes (Old one that)


People nicking my moisturiser out of the bathroom and not putting it back (dry skin on my legs see). I do get revenge though, i just go around turning all the lights on when they are asleep until i find it.


Not hanging towels up to dry.


Foccing lego all over the floor!!!!


Strictly come foccing dancing, X Factor, and any reality TV show.





















Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 06 November 2018, 09:26:22 pm
Changing the subject back to the thread title......


What gets my goat is the way women wrap up the cords on irons, hoovers or anything with a plug on it. Who's ever tried to straighten out the cable on an iron ??? Me...I end up rewiring the bloody things.


They just won't be told or  :wall


Ill include the garden hose into the list of things a female shouldnt be allowed to roll up
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 06 November 2018, 09:37:33 pm
And they record every piece of shit they can find on tv, soaps, anything with a "celebrity" in, roayal family crap 😡
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 07 November 2018, 08:17:26 am
You're sooo right there Slappy.
And then she says "We never watch anything together on TV any more"!!!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 November 2018, 06:20:34 pm
Candidates for elections. It seems that we are now expected to vote for people selected by their parties from female only/black only etc lists. How far do they go with this. LGBTG lists? Left handed lists? I think this cheats the population of the opportunity to select the best candidate.

The two main parties here have not fielded a male candidate for 25 years, and all apart from one have been absolute drips
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 November 2018, 08:27:06 pm
Wedding/Birthday disco DJ's who only play records that they personally like and which no one else has heard of or can dance to.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 07 November 2018, 10:10:10 pm
Candidates for elections. It seems that we are now expected to vote for people selected by their parties from female only/black only etc lists. How far do they go with this. LGBTG lists? Left handed lists? I think this cheats the population of the opportunity to select the best candidate.

The two main parties here have not fielded a male candidate for 25 years, and all apart from one have been absolute drips

Totally agree. Same with them moaning about companies needing an equal amount of females as males.... why?? If it take 12 people to run a company then I don't want the best 6 men and the best 6 women.... I want the best 12 people for the job, be they black, white, gay, straight, piss standing up or sitting down.
'Equality' will be the downfall of the human race if they carry on
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 November 2018, 08:25:34 am
:agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 08 November 2018, 09:12:45 am
Totally agree with you on that Dudeofrude  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 November 2018, 09:22:13 am
I am sure some of the practices carried out by the company I work for must be illegal in some way or another. For example, if we recommend someone for a job, we get paid a recruitment bounty when they start working for us. The company saves a fortune in agency fess through doing this and no problem so far. The problem a couple of months ago was they were offering to pay double the bounty if the person taken on was female. I am sure this could be construed as discrimination in some way.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 08 November 2018, 09:54:29 am
I am sure some of the practices carried out by the company I work for must be illegal in some way or another. For example, if we recommend someone for a job, we get paid a recruitment bounty when they start working for us. The company saves a fortune in agency fess through doing this and no problem so far. The problem a couple of months ago was they were offering to pay double the bounty if the person taken on was female. I am sure this could be construed as discrimination in some way.

I suppose it depends on the industry you work in, as in certain professions they are trying to encourage more females to take it up i.e building trades, or engineering!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 November 2018, 10:36:28 am
I suppose it depends on the industry you work in, as in certain professions they are trying to encourage more females to take it up i.e building trades, or engineering!

I work for an IT company where we already appear to have a disproportionate amount of female senior management when compared toe the lower ranks. I have no issues with the people they have in place but do agree with Dudeofrude, it should be the best person for the job, not the best woman/man/dog/cat or whatever is the flavour of the month.

My point was, as a company, they were apparently positively discriminating but getting their employees to put women forwards for jobs rather than a (possibly better qualified/experienced) man because you would get double the bonus.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 08 November 2018, 11:00:48 am

Not sure how many females would want to be working on a building site middle of January, freezing cold, wet, with freezing rain running down the crack of your arse. After saying that there's not many males want that either.   
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 November 2018, 12:22:00 pm
Funny - there are no questions asked in parliment or quotas or male only adverts for Nurses, primary/nursery school teachers. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 08 November 2018, 12:30:48 pm
That's probably our fault since when did any male get a word in edge ways. Most of us have perfected the art of repeating their last sentence word for word,  adding the right yes dear, no dear in the right place, on the odd occasion they take a breath.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 08 November 2018, 05:30:28 pm
The "equal" in equality should mean equal opportunities, not equal numbers.
As has already been said, you want the best person for the job regardless of gender, colour, faith, height, weight, etc  :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 08 November 2018, 07:06:23 pm
I am sure some of the practices carried out by the company I work for must be illegal in some way or another. For example, if we recommend someone for a job, we get paid a recruitment bounty when they start working for us. The company saves a fortune in agency fess through doing this and no problem so far. The problem a couple of months ago was they were offering to pay double the bounty if the person taken on was female. I am sure this could be construed as discrimination in some way.


Isnt that called "positive discrimination"?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 08 November 2018, 07:14:28 pm
Candidates for elections. It seems that we are now expected to vote for people selected by their parties from female only/black only etc lists. How far do they go with this. LGBTG lists? Left handed lists? I think this cheats the population of the opportunity to select the best candidate.

The two main parties here have not fielded a male candidate for 25 years, and all apart from one have been absolute drips

Totally agree. Same with them moaning about companies needing an equal amount of females as males.... why?? If it take 12 people to run a company then I don't want the best 6 men and the best 6 women.... I want the best 12 people for the job, be they black, white, gay, straight, piss standing up or sitting down.
'Equality' will be the downfall of the human race if they carry on


Absolutely. And if men wish to wear make and go to Hairdressers, wear womens clothes, and have their nails done etc etc, thats up them, but is it me are are we seeing more of this particular type taking up positions as tv presenters/disc jockeys? I cant stand those whining high pitched voices
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 08 November 2018, 08:35:06 pm
my brains' frozen :z
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 November 2018, 09:36:23 pm

Antisocial pistachio nut consumption.


Ie: people who leave foccin great heaps of the empty shells on the floors of buses, shopping centres, pubs, errm lifts etc...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 08 November 2018, 10:42:44 pm
The "equal" in equality should mean equal opportunities, not equal numbers.
As has already been said, you want the best person for the job regardless of gender, colour, faith, height, weight, etc  :wall


I agree.....but what if it was a hairy, smelly, sweaty Betty who smelt worse than a prop forward's old jockstrap and cracked a fart every 2 mins whilst chomping doughnuts and talking???? Sometimes unfortunately the face has to fit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dynspud on 09 November 2018, 07:54:27 am
...and the arse  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 09 November 2018, 08:54:56 pm
AAAAAARGH! When you've got ten minutes to go on ebay and your jackets made £102 plus fifteen quid postage and you realise the buyer is in spain and you have unwittingly agreed to send it to any country.... :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 09 November 2018, 08:56:36 pm
please god someone outbids him.. :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 November 2018, 09:54:59 pm
I'm sure eBay do some jig of scheme where you send it to them and they post it abroad 🤔 that way you only pay local postage
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Post by: ogri48 on 09 November 2018, 10:03:28 pm
ah ta mate!
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Post by: Grahamm on 10 November 2018, 12:28:24 am
AAAAAARGH! When you've got ten minutes to go on ebay and your jackets made £102 plus fifteen quid postage and you realise the buyer is in spain

Check out https://www.parcel2go.com/ (https://www.parcel2go.com/) you can send it UPS Euro for about £14
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Post by: darrsi on 10 November 2018, 12:32:08 am
The "equal" in equality should mean equal opportunities, not equal numbers.
As has already been said, you want the best person for the job regardless of gender, colour, faith, height, weight, etc  :wall


I agree.....but what if it was a hairy, smelly, sweaty Betty who smelt worse than a prop forward's old jockstrap and cracked a fart every 2 mins whilst chomping doughnuts and talking???? Sometimes unfortunately the face has to fit.


I will politely ask you to stop frivolously mentioning my wife, otherwise me and you are gonna fall out!
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Post by: Frosties on 10 November 2018, 10:37:19 am
please god someone outbids him.. :o


Throw a link up for the jacket - I'm looking  :thumbup
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 10 November 2018, 10:53:12 am
Your a very brave man darrsi :eek :eek
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 10 November 2018, 11:14:55 am
I have more faith in the majority young people of today, maybe not in some their politics, and views on life, but if needed I'm sure they would stand up and  fight as did the majority of the young generation in 1914 and 1939.   
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 November 2018, 11:31:13 am
 
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I have more faith in the majority young people of today, maybe not in some their politics, and views on life, but if needed I'm sure they would stand up and  fight as did the majority of the young generation in 1914 and 1939.   


To quote one German soldier;


But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?


Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet On The Western Front)


 
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 10 November 2018, 11:46:13 am
VNA, what should we have done in the face of Hitler and the nazis?
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Post by: Frosties on 10 November 2018, 02:09:42 pm
 :lurk
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Post by: ogri48 on 10 November 2018, 02:41:52 pm
…..And its all quiet on the FOC-U front...…….
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 November 2018, 09:12:44 pm
 
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VNA, what should we have done in the face of Hitler and the nazis?


I don’t want to get too deeply drawn into such matters on the eve of Remembrance Day, as I am aware that my views may offend.


But yes I do remember, and yes my family like many, or maybe most was very much effected by the great war.


I also remember the forgotten International Brigades, of which there were many volunteers for from Scotland.  Perhaps our then governments should have paid the attention that these men, socialists, anarchists and communists, paid to the sick perversion of nationalist fascism that was creeping across Europe at that time.



And yes, I also remember the bravery of the 1914-18 conscientious objectors.  One thing they were not was cowards.


Whilst I think of our crimes recently in Afghanistan and Iraq.  I think too of the arms companies whom will call on their employees to stop for a 2-minute silence before they resume working on Saudi’s next order. The resulting children in Yemen, whom if they have dodged the British made missiles now face starvation.  Starvation, one hellish death.


And if you’ve read All Quiet On the Western Front, can I suggest you seek out another controversial and long buried foreign title – FEAR by Gabriel Chevallier.


It’s a funny question you ask me Hedgetrimmer, as if I am not mistaken many here expressed horror at my suggestions in the past as to how to deal with the BNP and EDF. 



 
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 10 November 2018, 09:18:25 pm
So you are saying it was right that we went to war to stop Hitler and the nazis?
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Post by: coffee on 11 November 2018, 01:18:04 am
Don't you think it's this kind of I'm right your wrong attitude that kicks these things off,some folks just can't agree with others' opinions and won't let it lie,that's when the trouble starts. :'(
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Post by: slappy on 11 November 2018, 09:00:47 am
Br**it got booted off this thread as it took over the thread and now the subject of war has taken over!


Rememember the people who fought and died in all wars in the way you want ,but please stop posting your political views and opinions, at best it is boring but too many times it is done just to cause division and argument.


And by the way, even though the author drew on his experiences during the war, "All Quiet On The Western Front" is historical fiction, not fact.


Now for focs sake ,the whole lot of you, shut up and go polish your bikes or something.
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Post by: Frosties on 11 November 2018, 09:18:03 am
Slappy - do you or anyone fancy polishing my work donkey Bandit....it's hanging  :lol :lol
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 11 November 2018, 09:32:07 am

The only time we have any chance of stopping wars is when the first to fight and die are those that cause the wars the politicians and those who make a fortune from conflict.
Back to Brexit which ever why you or I think is right  it will be the same people making a fortune and come out of it doing very nicely thank you, and the s**t that happens will only hit the ordinary hard working people same as all wars.
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Post by: ogri48 on 11 November 2018, 09:40:37 am
walking my dog in the rain this morning for an hour. again....if it gets any wetter im gonna be very glad I live on top of a mountain I reckon.
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Post by: Frosties on 11 November 2018, 01:20:27 pm
walking my dog in the rain this morning for an hour. again....if it gets any wetter im gonna be very glad I live on top of a mountain I reckon.


Get you love with your feckin mountain. Me I live on a slight slope.
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Post by: coffee on 11 November 2018, 05:49:46 pm
Br**it got booted off this thread as it took over the thread and now the subject of war has taken over!


Rememember the people who fought and died in all wars in the way you want ,but please stop posting your political views and opinions, at best it is boring but too many times it is done just to cause division and argument.


And by the way, even though the author drew on his experiences during the war, "All Quiet On The Western Front" is historical fiction, not fact.


Now for focs sake ,the whole lot of you, shut up and go polish your bikes or something.





Yeah, let's talk about bikes and sex and music and films and women and pets anything but war and politics.  :kiss :guitar
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Post by: mtread on 11 November 2018, 11:56:55 pm
..... and goats   :eek
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Post by: coffee on 12 November 2018, 08:58:00 pm
and sheep  ;)
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Post by: Frosties on 12 November 2018, 10:02:54 pm
And mouth gags - you never know with Sheep :lol
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 12 November 2018, 10:55:41 pm
😅
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 12 November 2018, 11:00:04 pm
Foccin hell. Can we go back to Brexit and war?  :lol
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Post by: midden on 13 November 2018, 12:48:05 am
[quote authority=mtread link=topic=17546.msg286934#msg286934 date=1541980615]
..... and goats   :eek
[/quote]
 :b :b
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Post by: mtread on 13 November 2018, 09:18:52 am
I thought this thread was meant to be about goats. Have I been missing the point?
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Post by: coffee on 13 November 2018, 08:41:01 pm
Naaaaaa
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Post by: Fazerider on 13 November 2018, 11:44:01 pm

Mtread, meet Goatee McGoatface.   :lol

(https://i.postimg.cc/90f7zrDX/Goatee.jpg)
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 November 2018, 09:51:57 am
Foccing skanking petrol stations that charge you for air! I've been away for 3 weeks so the bike hasn't been ridden for around 1 month. Got her out yesterday, checked the pressures (which were both a little low) so thought I'd nip to a petrol station on the way to work and top them up. Get there and the cheeky bastards not only charge for air.... they want £1!!! One foccing pound for free air!
Out of principle i refused to do it. Couldn't believe the cheek of it
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Post by: Freck on 15 November 2018, 07:53:05 pm
Foccing skanking petrol stations that charge you for air! I've been away for 3 weeks so the bike hasn't been ridden for around 1 month. Got her out yesterday, checked the pressures (which were both a little low) so thought I'd nip to a petrol station on the way to work and top them up. Get there and the cheeky bastards not only charge for air.... they want £1!!! One foccing pound for free air!
Out of principle i refused to do it. Couldn't believe the cheek of it
The petrol station down the road from me was recently refurbished and they’ve got a new air machine. It’s gone up from 20p to 50p. I thought that was daylight robbery but a pound!  :eek
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 15 November 2018, 08:05:21 pm
Some joker made a fair few pounds out of selling jars of fresh sea air to tourists in the south west a few years ago. There's one born every minute.
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Post by: coffee on 15 November 2018, 08:58:54 pm
I bought some of that air and also some sand off an arab to go with my checkered paint and spirit level bubble collection. :smokin
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Post by: Frosties on 15 November 2018, 09:48:29 pm
I bought some of that air and also some sand off an arab to go with my checkered paint and spirit level bubble collection. :smokin


I bought some of those bubbles and was robbed - feck all in the box when I opened it.
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 16 November 2018, 11:02:38 am
Frosties your mistake was you opened the jar and it escaped so they could rebottle directly :eek and sell it again to grockles and emmets not daft these west country boys  :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol 
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Post by: Robbie8666 on 19 November 2018, 09:16:37 am
 :agree

 :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 12:04:15 pm
Inconsiderate parking ! I couldn't go out on the Fazer yesterday due to this, as my bikes are kept at the rear of the house and I couldn't get past the car. It's not the first time this has happened but the people involved are not the sorts that you can have a polite conversation with. Unless you have the backing of a biker gang !  To make matters worse, they have done the same thing today.
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 November 2018, 12:41:08 pm
You can call the police for that. Blocking you out is legal, but blocking you in is not.
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 01:09:21 pm
Cheers BBROWN1664. I have just attempted to speak to the driver. He is from Moldova, hardly speaks a word of English. He's moved the car now, but only because he was going somewhere. Regarding the Police : Last year we had a group from Mozambique arrive opposite us. Within a week they had got hold of a car. The following morning I heard a bump, looked out of the window and one of the group had reversed this car into a neighbour's vehicle. He had bounced off it and was now heading towards another car. I went out, opened his door and stopped him. He couldn't speak any English so a neighbour  rang the Police. They gave us an incident number but would not come out. In the meantime he had rung his mates to come round. One of them spoke a bit of English and was laughing and told me that his friend didn't know how to drive. I rang the Police myself and told them this and said that he was a danger to himself and others. All I got was an incident number and a refusal to come out.In the weeks following, he scraped many cars in the street as he couldn't even steer the vehicle. Thank goodness he and his group have pissed off somewhere else. Funnily enough the bloody Moldovans have moved into the house they were living in.
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 21 November 2018, 01:42:13 pm

One of them spoke a bit of English and was laughing and told me that his friend didn't know how to drive.


Hilarious isn't it :rolleyes
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 01:48:37 pm
It makes you wonder how many others are driving with no licence and no knowledge of how to drive.
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Post by: Flooky on 21 November 2018, 03:52:37 pm
Bloody hell !   the way to get the police out is say hes hit your car and your going to kill him...they come then.
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 21 November 2018, 03:58:19 pm
Say something accidently racist in the heat of the moment, and they will be there before you finish the sentence.
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 04:35:10 pm
You are so right in what you say. They come to the UK to take advantage of all that we have to offer and show no respect to the people that have lived here all their lives. We have lived in this house for 36 years. At that time all the houses were owner/occupier and our children grew up together. We knew all our neighbours and respected each other. There were no problems at all with noise, drugs, parking, violence, such as we have now.The problems started when landlords started buying houses when they came up for sale. They didn't care who they rented them to. Our lives have been made a misery in the past five years, to the point that we may be forced to leave this house. This Summer has been hell. We have been unable to open a window at night in the hot weather due to groups of East Europeans out in the back gardens, drinking, shouting, playing music, often until 3 or 4 am.
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Post by: fazersharp on 21 November 2018, 05:44:40 pm
You are so right in what you say. They come to the UK to take advantage of all that we have to offer and show no respect to the people that have lived here all their lives. We have lived in this house for 36 years. At that time all the houses were owner/occupier and our children grew up together. We knew all our neighbours and respected each other. There were no problems at all with noise, drugs, parking, violence, such as we have now.The problems started when landlords started buying houses when they came up for sale. They didn't care who they rented them to. Our lives have been made a misery in the past five years, to the point that we may be forced to leave this house. This Summer has been hell. We have been unable to open a window at night in the hot weather due to groups of East Europeans out in the back gardens, drinking, shouting, playing music, often until 3 or 4 am.

keep an eye on how many are living in the house and it may be an illegal HMO. (house in multiple occupancy) meaning that the landlord is renting out each bedroom and the living room to different people with out doing all the extra works necessary or registering the house as an HMO. The local council will then have do something.       
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 07:11:46 pm
Thanks, fazersharp. That is good advice. There have been a few raids on houses in the area for this reason. I have seen transit vans arriving here from other countries. The back doors are opened and out jump half a dozen people carrying rucksacks and bags, who then enter one property.
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Post by: ogri48 on 21 November 2018, 07:38:48 pm

its a story you hear more and more.  My son had to move my grandson out of his (Peterborough) city school as at ten years old he could barely read or write. Problem was, they spoke 44 languages at (less than ten percent white/british kids per class) that school, so he spent most of his time waiting for translators. Dare to question that with the liberal left and its the usual racist/xenophobe/ Nazi shite chucked at you and your family.
grandson is now sixteen, and having attended a school out in the sticks for six years, actually has done pretty well and caught up. I will never, ever understand the way the indigenous population of this country have become the last on the list for the benefits of living here, and have to accept that their way of life, fought for by so many previous generations, is now deemed by so many to be an acceptable casualty for the great multiculturism project. Well, fuck them...
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Post by: Anquetil on 21 November 2018, 08:53:07 pm
Well said ogri48 . I couldn't agree more.
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Post by: Frosties on 21 November 2018, 10:06:48 pm
 :agree
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Post by: fazersharp on 22 November 2018, 12:00:14 pm
Last night I saw a car (old audi ) that had his phone in a cradle in the air vent --- so far so good but he was watching/had playing some sort of music video whilst driving. WTF  :eek   He first got my attention because he under took me on a 30mph dual carriageway he too was going to be turning right further up the road but my 30mph was not fast enough for him.
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Post by: darrsi on 22 November 2018, 01:28:09 pm
Bloody hell !   the way to get the police out is say hes hit your car and your going to kill him...they come then.


Or mention you think he’s got a gun  :evil
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Post by: F4celess on 22 November 2018, 02:25:20 pm

I will never, ever understand the way the indigenous population of this country have become the last on the list for the benefits of living here, and have to accept that their way of life, fought for by so many previous generations, is now deemed by so many to be an acceptable casualty for the great multiculturism project. Well, fuck them...

The problem is we are a country afraid to speak out, instead turn a blind eye. We are getting walked all over, by multi culturism.

Plus those now settling in the UK are sucking every last penny and resource out of our public services (NHS, Council homes, just to start), to support themselves plus their families with many children, while they sit around on these benefits. Oh plus most of the time they also refuse to integrate into our society that is supporting them with open arms (effectively).  <<<EDIT: Well at least a particular 'ethnic group' who actually are the worst culprits - bringing their 3rd world mentality and 500 yr old rules with them (rejecting those already set out in this country). It's a takeover.

Anyone seen the new TV advert against "hate crimes"?? You see flashes of young adults, all appearing diverse in their image, most young women wearing head scarves. Then you see a flash of one "white" man sat in a wheelchair (weak)!! Likely filmed and pushed onto our TV screens by an equally diverse group of individuals who have got themselves into high places, TV, government etc, now they have become influential !

It's a plague - my deepest sorrow goes to our (native BRITISH) young generations of children who will grow up into what will be an even more diverse and wicked country, compared to what we see today.
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Post by: tommyardin on 22 November 2018, 05:25:58 pm
Oh dear! It does not bode well  :'(
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Post by: fazersharp on 22 November 2018, 10:07:01 pm
I like to watch the sky at night but for a long time now I cannot help noticing that almost every scientist/ expert they have on is a woman, the last episode there were 3 women and one man. I am sure that when they turn up at a place they insist on them putting forward a woman and its only through gritted teeth that they allow a man to come on when they really cannot come up with a women expert enough.Total discrimination, but its doing more harm than good because people see that and get a false impression that the scientific community is full of women when it is not as they are massively under represented.     
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Post by: mtread on 23 November 2018, 12:10:43 am
I am happy to watch Doctor Hannah Fry and Prof Alice Roberts any time they come on TV  :D
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Post by: fazersharp on 23 November 2018, 12:17:20 am
I am happy to watch Doctor Hannah Fry and Prof Alice Roberts any time they come on TV  :D
I couldn't tempt you with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock then.
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Post by: tommyardin on 23 November 2018, 12:37:08 am
I am happy to watch Doctor Hannah Fry and Prof Alice Roberts any time they come on TV  :D
I couldn't tempt you with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock then.
,


Not me you couldn’t  :\
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Post by: F4celess on 23 November 2018, 10:09:58 am
I couldn't tempt you with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock then.

 :lol You guys set the bar high!

I'd just be happy to cosy up with Rachel Riley or Carol Vorderman.  :b
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Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2018, 10:21:40 am
....or Susie Dent from dictionary corner  :b
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Post by: Robbie8666 on 23 November 2018, 10:26:29 am
I'm Ex-navy so if she has a pulse, any holes a goal! lol

yes I really do have low standards!  :lol :lol
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Post by: F4celess on 23 November 2018, 04:07:00 pm
....or Susie Dent from dictionary corner  :b

:) A bit 'lanky', although sweet. I like them a little more curvy (in the right places).

Robbie - "if she has a pulse, any holes a goal" becomes applicable for all guys, once they've reached "maturity" (about 40+). No longer fussy. :)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 23 November 2018, 04:59:06 pm
....or Susie Dent from dictionary corner  :b


 I like them a little more curvy (in the right places).
If we're sticking with the word quizzes then Sandi Toksvig it is for you then ;) :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 24 November 2018, 10:49:10 pm
This...............Really don't want to know about anybody's dry vagina...... :crazy .......arrrrrrhhhhhhh........fuck off !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GtlS41j20 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GtlS41j20)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 November 2018, 12:22:34 am
My local is shutting an hour early just because there's a group of travellers that have turned up and are being a nuisance!
Why the fuck does everyone else have to suffer?
Why not shunt them out of the door instead?
They can barely talk in any comprehensive language and are drunk and drugged off their nut.
Really pisses me off.  :(
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Post by: dazza on 25 November 2018, 12:58:31 am
Darsi, years ago, we had the same problem in my local.
Irish travellers turned up, four or five at first,then after about two or  three weeks, around twenty or more.
Started causing trouble, picking fights and smashing glasses.
One night the whole pub got together, old enemies buried the hatchet and joined forces.
They got the fuck kicked out of them..... I'll always remember the doors were locked with split second timing,then everone steamed them.......
The only thing they understand...unfortunately.
Those were the days....before CCTV   :lol 🔨🔫⚒🔪⚔☠
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Post by: coffee on 25 November 2018, 01:00:51 am
I'd be a bit careful with those fuckers,especially the young 'uns,they leave enough shit behind 'em wherever they land and they revel in scrapping,ain't to bothered about laying into you mob handed,and they can just disappear to another area if they need to,can't stand the fuckers. :foc
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Post by: tommyardin on 25 November 2018, 01:09:07 am
This...............Really don't want to know about anybody's dry vagina...... :crazy .......arrrrrrhhhhhhh........fuck off !
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GtlS41j20[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GtlS41j20[/url])



Well TFFT, she did not give the full frontal view applying her pussy cream, but it would have looked like a couple of dry old leather Harley D saddle bags. :eek

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 25 November 2018, 08:25:11 am
What gets me is Ebay sellers not replying to questions - all I asked was "what is the range of the bike" (very long, comprehensive, boring reply) and " Is The Chicken Chaser a special Edition or import model" - no reply, bastid couldn't be feckin asked  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 November 2018, 10:23:34 am
What gets me is Ebay sellers not replying to questions - all I asked was "what is the range of the bike" (very long, comprehensive, boring reply) and " Is The Chicken Chaser a special Edition or import model" - no reply, bastid couldn't be feckin asked  :rolleyes


Errrm!
The main problem with eBay questioners that I find is that they are often time wasters that never check their messages because it was not a genuine inquiry.
But we all have to deal with people like that throughout our lives.


Oh!
Please see images of my replies through the eBay messaging service sent from my computer to the questioner, and, note the dates of the two replies. Also in the 3rd image note the date of the initial enquires.
I think you will find that I responded with an hour or so of receiving said enquiries.
Have a nice day.




Many thanks for you enquiry 'sticka_v8_init'   :fish
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 November 2018, 10:33:31 am
So as you can see my replies were prompt and comprehensive, so, I am not quite sure what else you expected?
Oh do me a favour 'sticka_v8_init' don't waste peoples time, I bet you go around kicking tyres when NOT looking for a vehicle.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 25 November 2018, 10:45:03 am
I'd be a bit careful with those fuckers,especially the young 'uns,they leave enough shit behind 'em wherever they land and they revel in scrapping,ain't to bothered about laying into you mob handed,and they can just disappear to another area if they need to,can't stand the fuckers. :foc


I know exactly what they're all about, i've had dealings with them spanning decades.
As far as pubs are concerned it's all about how the staff take a stand against them, some are just way better at handling matters than others. The problem these days is that as soon as you make any refusal towards them they immediately pull the race card on you, which everyone knows is nothing to do with anything. The reason they're not welcome is because they constantly seem on the brink of causing a fight, normally amongst themselves, they have zero respect for anyone else whatsoever, they're not potty trained, they nick anything not tied down with a large fondness for the big toilet rolls, and they are always smashed out of their heads on drugs and booze.
What really fucks me off is that if anyone else behaved like this they'd be instantly ejected, but when they turn up the whole pub has to leave?
Several times we suggested that we just get the police in to fuck them off but they wouldn't do it.
One of them looked about 14yrs old but was downing pints like he was in some sort of competition, a couple of the older ones must've been on cruise control because we really don't know how they were still standing, they were so bad they couldn't even keep their heads up straight, they looked like their necks were broken.
And one bloke standing at the bar let out what i can only describe as the dirtiest wet fart anyone has ever heard before, then had the audacity to look round afterwards to see if anyone was behind him. We are 100% convinced that he shat himself, it was a noise that i will simply never forget.
Then as we were outside waiting to move on, one of their lovely women turns up in a people carrier to pick some of them up, swerving all over the road, cutting people up, and with no lights switched on. She had quite obviously had a skinful as well.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 25 November 2018, 01:23:41 pm
So as you can see my replies were prompt and comprehensive, so, I am not quite sure what else you expected?
Oh do me a favour 'sticka_v8_init' don't waste peoples time, I bet you go around kicking tyres when NOT looking for a vehicle.


Errr nope....I just don't turn up  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 25 November 2018, 01:27:31 pm
So as you can see my replies were prompt and comprehensive, so, I am not quite sure what else you expected?
Oh do me a favour 'sticka_v8_init' don't waste peoples time, I bet you go around kicking tyres when NOT looking for a vehicle.


Errr nope....I just don't turn up  :lol
Say no more
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 26 November 2018, 12:45:08 pm
I never knew an oil change could be so frustrating. Youngest daughters Peugeot Bipper 1.3 deisel van. Oil light came on, so I changed the oil and fitted a new filter. Took it out for a run to leak check etc, oil light stayed on. Search on the web as to why, turns out it has an oil degradation counter which checks oil quality and triggers the oil light to come on after a set period. Can I fuck as find a way to reset the counter and also turn off the light, and apparantly the counter will limit the engine to 2k rpm if its not reset, then disable it altogether. Looks like I may have to go to a main stealer, who may also refuse to do that because they havent changed the oil. Purchased from the internet a set of service/repair discs for the van, but they have to set up a windows xp virtual disc on my windows 10 pc, and that has failed to happen for a number of reasons that are gobbledegook to me. So, fished the old windows xp out the loft, plugged it all in, and thats fucked too, just cycling the startup screen then switching off. I have a feeling this is going to turn into a most expensive oil change. Technology making life easier eh!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 26 November 2018, 06:45:11 pm
I never knew an oil change could be so frustrating. Youngest daughters Peugeot Bipper 1.3 deisel van. Oil light came on, so I changed the oil and fitted a new filter. Took it out for a run to leak check etc, oil light stayed on. Search on the web as to why, turns out it has an oil degradation counter which checks oil quality and triggers the oil light to come on after a set period. Can I fuck as find a way to reset the counter and also turn off the light, and apparantly the counter will limit the engine to 2k rpm if its not reset, then disable it altogether. Looks like I may have to go to a main stealer, who may also refuse to do that because they havent changed the oil. Purchased from the internet a set of service/repair discs for the van, but they have to set up a windows xp virtual disc on my windows 10 pc, and that has failed to happen for a number of reasons that are gobbledegook to me. So, fished the old windows xp out the loft, plugged it all in, and thats fucked too, just cycling the startup screen then switching off. I have a feeling this is going to turn into a most expensive oil change. Technology making life easier eh!


Have you tried this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Amy1AJDGkI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Amy1AJDGkI)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 26 November 2018, 08:20:18 pm
I never knew an oil change could be so frustrating. Youngest daughters Peugeot Bipper 1.3 deisel van. Oil light came on, so I changed the oil and fitted a new filter. Took it out for a run to leak check etc, oil light stayed on. Search on the web as to why, turns out it has an oil degradation counter which checks oil quality and triggers the oil light to come on after a set period. Can I fuck as find a way to reset the counter and also turn off the light, and apparantly the counter will limit the engine to 2k rpm if its not reset, then disable it altogether. Looks like I may have to go to a main stealer, who may also refuse to do that because they havent changed the oil. Purchased from the internet a set of service/repair discs for the van, but they have to set up a windows xp virtual disc on my windows 10 pc, and that has failed to happen for a number of reasons that are gobbledegook to me. So, fished the old windows xp out the loft, plugged it all in, and thats fucked too, just cycling the startup screen then switching off. I have a feeling this is going to turn into a most expensive oil change. Technology making life easier eh!


Have you tried this?

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Amy1AJDGkI[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Amy1AJDGkI[/url])



Not applicable to our model of van, no service buttons. I checked some of the utoob cures, none work
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 26 November 2018, 08:52:54 pm
I'd be a bit careful with those fuckers,especially the young 'uns,they leave enough shit behind 'em wherever they land and they revel in scrapping,ain't to bothered about laying into you mob handed,and they can just disappear to another area if they need to,can't stand the fuckers. :foc


I know exactly what they're all about, i've had dealings with them spanning decades.
As far as pubs are concerned it's all about how the staff take a stand against them, some are just way better at handling matters than others. The problem these days is that as soon as you make any refusal towards them they immediately pull the race card on you, which everyone knows is nothing to do with anything. The reason they're not welcome is because they constantly seem on the brink of causing a fight, normally amongst themselves, they have zero respect for anyone else whatsoever, they're not potty trained, they nick anything not tied down with a large fondness for the big toilet rolls, and they are always smashed out of their heads on drugs and booze.
What really fucks me off is that if anyone else behaved like this they'd be instantly ejected, but when they turn up the whole pub has to leave?
Several times we suggested that we just get the police in to fuck them off but they wouldn't do it.
One of them looked about 14yrs old but was downing pints like he was in some sort of competition, a couple of the older ones must've been on cruise control because we really don't know how they were still standing, they were so bad they couldn't even keep their heads up straight, they looked like their necks were broken.
And one bloke standing at the bar let out what i can only describe as the dirtiest wet fart anyone has ever heard before, then had the audacity to look round afterwards to see if anyone was behind him. We are 100% convinced that he shat himself, it was a noise that i will simply never forget.
Then as we were outside waiting to move on, one of their lovely women turns up in a people carrier to pick some of them up, swerving all over the road, cutting people up, and with no lights switched on. She had quite obviously had a skinful as well.  :grumble


It's a joke ay? and you talk about the cops!!?? they're to shit scared to front them,if they ever got 'em down the nick the amount of bullshit they'd give would take forever and they know it,that's why they take ages to arrive at the scene if at all,fuckin' wankers. :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 27 November 2018, 11:07:17 am
what gets my goat is whenever anyone wants to put a negative spin of something they describe it in terms as  "The Rise of"-------And it seems now that everything has to br described as a "movement"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2018, 09:37:55 am

When a complete stranger says something like 'Smile it might never happen!' to you in street. That's so rude. For all they know you may have just received some awful news. What business is it of theirs anyway.


These are usually the same sort of idiots that think it's amusing to break wind and belch in front of everyone and turn up to formal events in trainers and a trackie. Tossers.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 02 December 2018, 10:13:46 am
I'd be a bit careful with those fuckers,especially the young 'uns,they leave enough shit behind 'em wherever they land and they revel in scrapping,ain't to bothered about laying into you mob handed,and they can just disappear to another area if they need to,can't stand the fuckers. :foc


I know exactly what they're all about, i've had dealings with them spanning decades.
As far as pubs are concerned it's all about how the staff take a stand against them, some are just way better at handling matters than others. The problem these days is that as soon as you make any refusal towards them they immediately pull the race card on you, which everyone knows is nothing to do with anything. The reason they're not welcome is because they constantly seem on the brink of causing a fight, normally amongst themselves, they have zero respect for anyone else whatsoever, they're not potty trained, they nick anything not tied down with a large fondness for the big toilet rolls, and they are always smashed out of their heads on drugs and booze.
What really fucks me off is that if anyone else behaved like this they'd be instantly ejected, but when they turn up the whole pub has to leave?
Several times we suggested that we just get the police in to fuck them off but they wouldn't do it.
One of them looked about 14yrs old but was downing pints like he was in some sort of competition, a couple of the older ones must've been on cruise control because we really don't know how they were still standing, they were so bad they couldn't even keep their heads up straight, they looked like their necks were broken.
And one bloke standing at the bar let out what i can only describe as the dirtiest wet fart anyone has ever heard before, then had the audacity to look round afterwards to see if anyone was behind him. We are 100% convinced that he shat himself, it was a noise that i will simply never forget.
Then as we were outside waiting to move on, one of their lovely women turns up in a people carrier to pick some of them up, swerving all over the road, cutting people up, and with no lights switched on. She had quite obviously had a skinful as well.  :grumble


It's a joke ay? and you talk about the cops!!?? they're to shit scared to front them,if they ever got 'em down the nick the amount of bullshit they'd give would take forever and they know it,that's why they take ages to arrive at the scene if at all,fuckin' wankers. :wall


What the majority of people don't know is that these arseholes are off their nut the majority of times, but come the weekend they are as high as a kite.
Add to that the constant flow of booze, and they will drink until they literally drop.
This is why they like to fight, they're so smashed most of the time they're full of bravado and don't feel a thing when they get injured.
This is also why your average person cannot try and reason with them, it's not a language they understand or respond to.
Trying to be nice and polite to them, as is the normal and decent route to take, will fall on very deaf ears, and will also make you seem weak to them, but for some very shit reason they seem to get away with all sorts of blatant crimes and harassment that the average person would get immediately arrested for?
And if you do have the 'nads to stand up for yourself you get called a racist.
So fucked up.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticbiker on 02 December 2018, 12:27:12 pm
This annoys the hell out of me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 03 December 2018, 12:08:23 pm

When a complete stranger says something like 'Smile it might never happen!' to you in street. That's so rude. For all they know you may have just received some awful news. What business is it of theirs anyway.


These are usually the same sort of idiots that think it's amusing to break wind and belch in front of everyone and turn up to formal events in trainers and a trackie. Tossers.

Hey! Leave my mother out of this 🤣
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 03 December 2018, 05:57:53 pm

When a complete stranger says something like 'Smile it might never happen!' to you in street. That's so rude. For all they know you may have just received some awful news. What business is it of theirs anyway.


These are usually the same sort of idiots that think it's amusing to break wind and belch in front of everyone and turn up to formal events in trainers and a trackie. Tossers.

Hey! Leave my mother out of this 🤣
:lol
There's an extremely irritating little man that's at the local car boot sale each week who says this. He drives a crappy old Reliant 3-wheel car with about 6 Jack Russell terriers running amok inside it.
Next time I'm going to tell him that I've just recieved some dreadfull news, see if that takes the wind out of his sails ;) .
If that fails I'll just take the piss out of his clown car :lol .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dickturpin on 07 December 2018, 09:26:53 pm
VED or road tax as we like to call it....why don't they just add a few pence to fuel then we wouldn't get an annual bill, it would catch all the dodgers and also get some income from all the foreign tourists!
And, those of us who only do a few miles a year would pay proportionally for the use of the roads.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 December 2018, 09:38:37 pm
VED or road tax as we like to call it....why don't they just add a few pence to fuel then we wouldn't get an annual bill, it would catch all the dodgers and also get some income from all the foreign tourists!
And, those of us who only do a few miles a year would pay proportionally for the use of the roads.


Agreed - Richard Turpin - for chancellor of the exchequer will get my vote.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 08 December 2018, 10:56:55 am
Another bloody tax in the offing, the Social Care Tax, payable by those over 40
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 December 2018, 09:54:35 pm
When people use "ers" notably when talking about football and used like this. ---
 "The likes of your Manchester's Leicester's"
 "Yeah you've got your Keegan' s and lineker's"

 Gets my goat when they do that
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 09 December 2018, 12:30:45 pm

where I live (im a foreigner here, a fen weasel) everything to the foresters (the indigenous natives of the forest of dean) seems to be a bloke in disguise. They leave the H off of "Him" too to further compound the irritation... :lol
ie
 " car needs servicing. 'ims running terrible.."
"you want to sell that motorbike and get a car. 'im looks dangerous to me.."
"Arm aches. 'Im needs to see the doctor"
"watch that hole by rocks. 'Im looks deep...."
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 09 December 2018, 06:05:47 pm
When you move to a new area and people see you're a biker and for some reason think you know everything about bikes,"oh my lads got an old bike which hasn't run for years maybe you'd have a look at it"etc.It makes you feel like saying "drive a car do you? in that case mines running a bit rough,I'll bring it round for you to look at",pisses me off :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 10 December 2018, 10:00:39 pm
Football fans who seem to think that they can hurl racist abuse at players and get away with it just because they're at a match. It's as unacceptable there as it is anywhere else.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 December 2018, 11:07:19 pm
Me too hashtag. Its cold outside song being banned as a date rape song
What about the advert for malteasers.Two female health workers talking on a break

 "Jamie the really fit one"
 "snogged him though"

"just a snog"

WTF imagine an advert featuring two men having the same reversed conversation.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 10 December 2018, 11:50:00 pm
Football fans who seem to think that they can hurl racist abuse at players and get away with it just because they're at a match. It's as unacceptable there as it is anywhere else.


Same as kicking the legs off someone on a football pitch!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 10 December 2018, 11:55:43 pm
Me too hashtag. Its cold outside song being banned as a date rape song
What about the advert for malteasers.Two female health workers talking on a break

 "Jamie the really fit one"
 "snogged him though"

"just a snog"

WTF imagine an advert featuring two men having the same reversed conversation.
Yes total hypocrisy of course. You see that sort of thing all the time though.
Apparently there's one of those all male 'dance'/semi strip type troupes touring here at the moment. There's been reviews of it in some of the press. Imagine the reaction if that situation was reversed :rolleyes .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 11 December 2018, 11:29:58 am
Me too hashtag. Its cold outside song being banned as a date rape song
What about the advert for malteasers.Two female health workers talking on a break

 "Jamie the really fit one"
 "snogged him though"

"just a snog"

WTF imagine an advert featuring two men having the same reversed conversation.
Yes total hypocrisy of course. You see that sort of thing all the time though.
Apparently there's one of those all male 'dance'/semi strip type troupes touring here at the moment. There's been reviews of it in some of the press. Imagine the reaction if that situation was reversed :rolleyes .


Apparently he says! LOL! He is at their gig every foccing night  :foc :fish
LOL! 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 11 December 2018, 11:43:43 am



Apparently he says! LOL! He is at their gig every foccing night  :foc :fish
LOL!


Sussed!. Foc it :o
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 December 2018, 10:34:30 am
This bloomin cold I've got. Cough, sneeze, blow, cough, sneeze, blow, cough...... :'(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 20 December 2018, 12:34:01 pm
This bloomin cold I've got. Cough, sneeze, blow, cough, sneeze, blow, cough...... :'(

I woke during the night with a horrible sore throat, which is getting progressively worse throughout today.  :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 20 December 2018, 12:52:15 pm
I've never had a cold as bad as this one before. Been dragging on without improvement all week. Of course it's one of those weeks when I've got loads of things on. Typical. Seems to be people everywhere with it at the moment.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 20 December 2018, 05:11:14 pm
I've never had a cold as bad as this one before. Been dragging on without improvement all week. Of course it's one of those weeks when I've got loads of things on. Typical. Seems to be people everywhere with it at the moment.


Yeah, i'm in London but spoke to a colleague in Manchester earlier and she sounded much rougher than me but exactly the same symptoms, so it's certainly spreading well.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 21 December 2018, 02:03:46 am

Drones. I've never liked them sneaky, spying things. Those poor people stuck at Gatwick. I'd ban the foccin things.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 21 December 2018, 07:18:21 am

Why have they not shot that drone down on the first day. There would have been plenty of forensic evidence left on the wreck to convict the idiot with if they can catch them. There,s plenty of army snipers that would have dropped it with one shot and no danger to any persons. 























Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 21 December 2018, 08:08:10 am
Office Christmas meals...

some may call me bah humbug but ..
I don't normally go out drinking with my colleagues, I work with them 8 hours a day but that doesn't mean I want to socialise with them, spending £30 on a shite turkey dinner, then another £30-40 on drinks talking about work!

so when they all pissed off yesterday for the meal I went home got on my bike and went for a blast! 120 miles along A27-A26 to A22 lol felt great  & oh what a surprise I'm only one in work this morning feeling great whilst NOT 1 has turned to yet!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 December 2018, 10:49:13 am
Office Christmas meals...

some may call me bah humbug but ..
I don't normally go out drinking with my colleagues, I work with them 8 hours a day but that doesn't mean I want to socialise with them, spending £30 on a shite turkey dinner, then another £30-40 on drinks talking about work!

so when they all pissed off yesterday for the meal I went home got on my bike and went for a blast! 120 miles along A27-A26 to A22 lol felt great  & oh what a surprise I'm only one in work this morning feeling great whilst NOT 1 has turned to yet!
Good for you. Those mas-catering events are always crap food, overpriced.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 December 2018, 10:49:42 am
Why have they not shot that drone down on the first day. There would have been plenty of forensic evidence left on the wreck to convict the idiot with if they can catch them. There,s plenty of army snipers that would have dropped it with one shot and no danger to any persons. 

My Mrs works at Gatwick and when she told me about the problem at 6am yesterday, I offered ny services with my shotgun but was turned down.
Shame, they coild have opened 24 hours earlier. There are enough people with shotguns in this area we could have spaced out around the perimiter and covered the whole thing
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 December 2018, 10:50:41 am

Drones. I've never liked them sneaky, spying things. Those poor people stuck at Gatwick. I'd ban the foccin things.
They should not even be elevated to Drone - they are quad copters. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 December 2018, 10:59:18 am
Why have they not shot that drone down on the first day. There would have been plenty of forensic evidence left on the wreck to convict the idiot with if they can catch them. There,s plenty of army snipers that would have dropped it with one shot and no danger to any persons. 

My Mrs works at Gatwick and when she told me about the problem at 6am yesterday, I offered ny services with my shotgun but was turned down.
Shame, they coild have opened 24 hours earlier. There are enough people with shotguns in this area we could have spaced out around the perimiter and covered the whole thing
I thought they could get one of those drone racer chaps to smash into it the way they fly them they could easily do it.
I dont think they wanted either lead or drone bits all over the runway.
I can't believe that no one has spotted where it is disappearing to each time or even where it comes from when it returns.
I think it is being operated from a remote position by a relay and when it flys off it lands and a ready to go charged up replacement takes its place, I dont think a person is there swapping battery's.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 21 December 2018, 11:48:34 am
Its not a drone, its a probe from Mars trying to find out where that lander came from thats stopping all the Martians from walking about on the surface.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 21 December 2018, 11:53:48 am
Its not a drone, its a probe from Mars trying to find out where that lander came from thats stopping all the Martians from walking about on the surface.


Bull shit we all know the truth of it
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 21 December 2018, 12:06:15 pm
Why have they not shot that drone down on the first day.

Snipers don't tend to deal with fast moving targets and if you can't guarantee a hit, where is that bullet going to come down?

Also shotguns have an effective range of maybe 100 metres (depending on load), so the chances of being in the right place are pretty slim.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 December 2018, 12:10:46 pm
Its not a drone, its a probe from Mars trying to find out where that lander came from thats stopping all the Martians from walking about on the surface.
:lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 December 2018, 01:49:32 pm

Also shotguns have an effective range of maybe 100 metres (depending on load), so the chances of being in the right place are pretty slim.


With enough people around the perimeter of the airport, spaced at say 75m apart, we could get it :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 21 December 2018, 02:25:54 pm

Also shotguns have an effective range of maybe 100 metres (depending on load), so the chances of being in the right place are pretty slim.


With enough people around the perimeter of the airport, spaced at say 75m apart, we could get it :pokefun


Make a nice change from clays
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 21 December 2018, 05:42:04 pm
:agree

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 21 December 2018, 06:41:26 pm

Also shotguns have an effective range of maybe 100 metres (depending on load), so the chances of being in the right place are pretty slim.


With enough people around the perimeter of the airport, spaced at say 75m apart, we could get it :pokefun
If it was that easy I'm sure they'd have done it. Drones can reach many thousands of feet in altitude and fly for miles: projectile weapons don't stand much chance of shooting it down unless you happen to be near the launch or landing area.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 21 December 2018, 08:25:47 pm
Just borrow a goalkeeper from Robbie, that'll sort it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 December 2018, 12:51:14 pm
I see the news is saying that the couple that have been arrested have been released without charge.Looks like it was not them
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 December 2018, 01:26:19 pm
:agree

though the blokes alibi has a strange smell to it. His "boss" who claims he was working all day, is also his ex and the mother of his child.

I am sure that the police have checked it properly though and they do have the wrong people. Just some nosy neighbour who doesn't like the bloke fingering him as a suspect because he has a big drone.

There is a report now that the police have found a damaged drone near the airport so, if that is the drone concerned, it will have some clues to the real culprit.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 23 December 2018, 01:37:21 pm
I see the news is saying that the couple that have been arrested have been released without charge.Looks like it was not them

And certain members of the media *cough* Piers Morgan *cough* are now desperately rowing back on comments they've made about these people being "morons" who caused so much disruption, having plastered their names and faces all over the place, presumably in the hope that they can somehow avoid a massive defamation lawsuit...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 December 2018, 02:06:18 pm
I see the news is saying that the couple that have been arrested have been released without charge.Looks like it was not them

And certain members of the media *cough* Piers Morgan *cough* are now desperately rowing back on comments they've made about these people being "morons" who caused so much disruption, having plastered their names and faces all over the place, presumably in the hope that they can somehow avoid a massive defamation lawsuit...

I expect to see the couple now on a paid interview on Victoria Derbyshire --otherwize it would of been This Morning
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 23 December 2018, 02:16:09 pm
:agree

though the blokes alibi has a strange smell to it. His "boss" who claims he was working all day, is also his ex and the mother of his child.

I am sure that the police have checked it properly though and they do have the wrong people. Just some nosy neighbour who doesn't like the bloke fingering him as a suspect because he has a big drone.

There is a report now that the police have found a damaged drone near the airport so, if that is the drone concerned, it will have some clues to the real culprit.
Why were they held for 36 hours, surely the cops would of found out quicker that is was not them. Seems the tip off came from a neighbour who did not like the chap flying helicopters then drones and cars down the street.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 23 December 2018, 02:58:14 pm
Just got a glimpse at the high tech equipment used by the army to combat rogue drones.....Quite impressive I must say.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2225592997687704&id=2176078545955316
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 December 2018, 03:56:32 pm
Just got a glimpse at the high tech equipment used by the army to combat rogue drones.....Quite impressive I must say.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2225592997687704&id=2176078545955316 (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2225592997687704&id=2176078545955316)

If you have seen the picture of the roof of Gatwick Police station, you can see one of these there
https://www.janes.com/article/82347/uk-signs-for-drone-dome-c-uas-system (https://www.janes.com/article/82347/uk-signs-for-drone-dome-c-uas-system)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 23 December 2018, 06:43:40 pm
Just got a glimpse at the high tech equipment used by the army to combat rogue drones.....Quite impressive I must say.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2225592997687704&id=2176078545955316 (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2225592997687704&id=2176078545955316)

If you have seen the picture of the roof of Gatwick Police station, you can see one of these there
https://www.janes.com/article/82347/uk-signs-for-drone-dome-c-uas-system (https://www.janes.com/article/82347/uk-signs-for-drone-dome-c-uas-system)


Really? Works very well doesn't it.

Reading the gumph on it makes it sounds a bit like the Snooper Radar and Lazer camera detector that I have the displeasure of owning.
The manufacturer say it detects 100 percent of traffic cameras, all the different types and all the bands they use, it does all the fixed cameras, Gatso and Truvelo plus the new Muti Directional Truvelo and the even newer the Yellow Vulture camera.

The problem is it detects the cameras on temporary traffic lights, the camera on the automated doors at service stations, shops, Boots the Chemists or any automated doors on industrial estates that you happen to pass, it even detects the doors on my local doctors surgery. in fact its a cacophony of alarms every few yards along the road because it even picks up the proximity cameras that fitted to modern cars to warn the driver that someone is in their blind spot.
You get so many warnings you either ignore it completely, shut it down, or silence it, In fact I think I might hit it with a hammer.
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.          
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 23 December 2018, 07:12:40 pm
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.     [/font][/color]     
the latest statement from the police says that there may never have been a drone as all they have to work with are witness statements from the general public, police and airport workers.

Sounds like they dont believe themselves :pokefun
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 23 December 2018, 08:21:50 pm
Really? Works very well doesn't it.

Reading the gumph on it makes it sounds a bit like the Snooper Radar and Lazer camera detector that I have the displeasure of owning.
The manufacturer say it detects 100 percent of traffic cameras, all the different types and all the bands they use, it does all the fixed cameras, Gatso and Truvelo plus the new Muti Directional Truvelo and the even newer the Yellow Vulture camera.

The problem is it detects the cameras on temporary traffic lights, the camera on the automated doors at service stations, shops, Boots the Chemists or any automated doors on industrial estates that you happen to pass, it even detects the doors on my local doctors surgery. in fact its a cacophony of alarms every few yards along the road because it even picks up the proximity cameras that fitted to modern cars to warn the driver that someone is in their blind spot.
You get so many warnings you either ignore it completely, shut it down, or silence it, In fact I think I might hit it with a hammer.
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.          


What gets my goat is people who use different sized fonts in their replies  :pokefun


I thought my eyesight was getting even worse as I read it  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 December 2018, 05:17:05 am
Really? Works very well doesn't it.

Reading the gumph on it makes it sounds a bit like the Snooper Radar and Lazer camera detector that I have the displeasure of owning.
The manufacturer say it detects 100 percent of traffic cameras, all the different types and all the bands they use, it does all the fixed cameras, Gatso and Truvelo plus the new Muti Directional Truvelo and the even newer the Yellow Vulture camera.

The problem is it detects the cameras on temporary traffic lights, the camera on the automated doors at service stations, shops, Boots the Chemists or any automated doors on industrial estates that you happen to pass, it even detects the doors on my local doctors surgery. in fact its a cacophony of alarms every few yards along the road because it even picks up the proximity cameras that fitted to modern cars to warn the driver that someone is in their blind spot.
You get so many warnings you either ignore it completely, shut it down, or silence it, In fact I think I might hit it with a hammer.
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.          


What gets my goat is people who use different sized fonts in their replies  :pokefun


I thought my eyesight was getting even worse as I read it  :lol


That's normally the result of trying to find the right size font after it's gone all Chocolate Factory on you again and shrunk your last sentence.  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 December 2018, 05:24:20 am
I see the news is saying that the couple that have been arrested have been released without charge.Looks like it was not them

And certain members of the media *cough* Piers Morgan *cough* are now desperately rowing back on comments they've made about these people being "morons" who caused so much disruption, having plastered their names and faces all over the place, presumably in the hope that they can somehow avoid a massive defamation lawsuit...

I expect to see the couple now on a paid interview on Victoria Derbyshire --otherwize it would of been This Morning


Then onto Celebrity Big Brother, then I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here............then before you know it they'll be starring in a pantomime, before doing something silly and ending up in rehab with Katie Price, then singing a Christmas duet with her on release.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 December 2018, 09:05:55 am
My mum bought this handy racking system, as i already have it and it works well for clothes, shoes, etc, so my mum decides to go out and buy the same.
Taken me a while to find the time to put it together for her, so i opened one of two kits she bought yesterday and i knew straight away the contents didn't look right from memory.
Then after realizing that some very clever camera trickery has been applied on the box, i felt positively mugged off.


The side panels (height) were just over 7 inches long each.
This would mean that the handle on that room door is approximately 15 inches high!!!


Now unless this house belongs to a very short troll with really big feet, this is a fabricated model home designed purely for the photo shoot only.
Then i realized that the angle of the racking, pulled out to the left to get closer to the camera, is so unnaturally out of place, rather than flat against the wall, that i know it is deliberate misrepresentation.


I then found in the corner of the packaging a very small diagram with measurements which confirmed everything.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 31 December 2018, 09:35:03 am


Think i've found who's house it is anyway.  :lol



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 03 January 2019, 08:11:27 pm
Waiting for a bus at Chiswick Station for absolutely ages and ages and ages  then two come along at once
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 03 January 2019, 08:58:51 pm
Waiting for a bus at Chiswick Station for absolutely ages and ages and ages  then two come along at once

Don't be tempted to take one for a drive...

Men jailed after streming joyride in bus (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-46751872)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Flooky on 04 January 2019, 06:33:55 pm
The amount of weed smoke coming out of cars and vans driving along ! In the morning too ..you can smell it while on the bike. I get fukin done for 53mph in a 50 !!  we are easy targets...( insured, registered etc )
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: maddog04 on 04 January 2019, 06:42:28 pm
HERMES COURIERS
The cunts have my parcel and I've tracked it each day. should've been delivered on Jan 1stthen every day since.....but no!

finally had a live chat that ended up with me demanding a manager so he comes on and then says the wrong courier has it...WTF?
Its still with them but probably down sarf instead of oop north!!!
I tell him to ring the depot but they can't as they don't have phones.......its 2019 yer twat!!What a fucking wank firm

outcome is they will email me within 24 hours (if they can) to tell me when I will get it (probably in a week if I'm lucky)

probes going to outer space, Chinese taking pics of the dark side of then moon and Hermes cant fucking ring their depots. what a wank firm
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 January 2019, 12:41:14 pm
More and more trucks on the roads covered in banks of LEDs and quite a of them are blue. I thought it was illegal to have blue lights on a vehicle.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 05 January 2019, 12:57:28 pm
More and more trucks on the roads covered in banks of LEDs and quite a of them are blue. I thought it was illegal to have blue lights on a vehicle.


Hear hear!
Trucks with F------g great blue Logos in the cab behind the driver's back, you can see them a long way off on the motorways at night have have caused me to slow down several times before realising it not the old bill,.
I thought that for general traffic white lights only on the front with the exception of indicators and red lights only on the rear with the exception of indicators, number plate lights and reversing lights.
I have seen lorries with blue and green lights along the sides and on the rear corners, others with blue reflective strips across the back  WTF   :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Skippernick on 05 January 2019, 01:50:22 pm
More and more trucks on the roads covered in banks of LEDs and quite a of them are blue. I thought it was illegal to have blue lights on a vehicle.


Hear hear!
Trucks with F------g great blue Logos in the cab behind the driver's back, you can see them a long way off on the motorways at night have have caused me to slow down several times before realising it not the old bill,.
I thought that for general traffic white lights only on the front with the exception of indicators and red lights only on the rear with the exception of indicators, number plate lights and reversing lights.
I have seen lorries with blue and green lights along the sides and on the rear corners, others with blue reflective strips across the back  WTF   :eek


Don't speed then! ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 05 January 2019, 01:59:16 pm
More and more trucks on the roads covered in banks of LEDs and quite a of them are blue. I thought it was illegal to have blue lights on a vehicle.


Hear hear!
Trucks with F------g great blue Logos in the cab behind the driver's back, you can see them a long way off on the motorways at night have have caused me to slow down several times before realising it not the old bill,.
I thought that for general traffic white lights only on the front with the exception of indicators and red lights only on the rear with the exception of indicators, number plate lights and reversing lights.
I have seen lorries with blue and green lights along the sides and on the rear corners, others with blue reflective strips across the back  WTF   :eek


Don't speed then! ;)


Speed me! I was just being a dutiful citizen slowing down and moving out the way to allow the enforcement office clear passage.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 05 January 2019, 02:10:40 pm
Really? Works very well doesn't it.

Reading the gumph on it makes it sounds a bit like the Snooper Radar and Lazer camera detector that I have the displeasure of owning.
The manufacturer say it detects 100 percent of traffic cameras, all the different types and all the bands they use, it does all the fixed cameras, Gatso and Truvelo plus the new Muti Directional Truvelo and the even newer the Yellow Vulture camera.

The problem is it detects the cameras on temporary traffic lights, the camera on the automated doors at service stations, shops, Boots the Chemists or any automated doors on industrial estates that you happen to pass, it even detects the doors on my local doctors surgery. in fact its a cacophony of alarms every few yards along the road because it even picks up the proximity cameras that fitted to modern cars to warn the driver that someone is in their blind spot.
You get so many warnings you either ignore it completely, shut it down, or silence it, In fact I think I might hit it with a hammer.
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.          


What gets my goat is people who use different sized fonts in their replies  :pokefun


I thought my eyesight was getting even worse as I read it  :lol


That's normally the result of trying to find the right size font after it's gone all Chocolate Factory on you again and shrunk your last sentence.  :lol


I am really glad that it is not just me that this problem happens to
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 05 January 2019, 02:43:26 pm
Quote
I thought that for general traffic white lights only on the front with the exception of indicators and red lights only on the rear with the exception of indicators, number plate lights and reversing lights.
Seen quite a few new cars with small orange side lights recently on the front. Really difficult to tell whether they are indicating.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 January 2019, 02:53:42 pm
Stupid stupid design and positioning of some cars indicators making them harder to see, one in particular I noticed is the Qashqai.Look at this

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 05 January 2019, 03:02:18 pm

It appears almost all the boy racers around this way are removing the front number plate and laying it up on the dash inside the windscreen. It's the latest craze amongst them.


Surely that's illegal?. I'd love to see them getting done for it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 January 2019, 03:17:02 pm
Another car with crap indicators is the 2017 VW beetle. The rear ones are tiny tiny about the size of a matchbox - side on. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 05 January 2019, 03:18:52 pm

It appears almost all the boy racers around this way are removing the front number plate and laying it up on the dash inside the windscreen. It's the latest craze amongst them.


Surely that's illegal?. I'd love to see them getting done for it.
Yes I too have seen that around here along with using fog lights. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 05 January 2019, 04:41:10 pm
Took a different route to work recently and had the pleasure of seeing those painted fake speed bumps on the road.
They make you instantly swerve when you think you're about to hit it, even when you know that it's not real, it's just a natural reaction.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 05 January 2019, 11:34:13 pm
Stupid stupid design and positioning of some cars indicators making them harder to see, one in particular I noticed is the Qashqai.Look at this
Yes, I’ve nearly had a prang on a couple of occasions because of this. The DRLs don’t help either, being so bright.
Then again, it does make it slightly easier to see the indicators if the lazy, useless foccers actually switch them on when changing direction. A rare occurrence around these parts!  :lol
I noticed in your picture too fazersharp, that the indicator on the mirror doesn’t seem visible either. Another bit of crap design.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 January 2019, 12:29:25 pm
I took the screenshot from a vid as its almost impossible to find a photo with an indicator on. You can just see a faint glow on the mirror, I think it may of been one of those stupid moving ones and the snapshot has caught it just at its start. Or tits a normal one just slightly out of sinc. Or normal bulb in the mirror and quicker LED-on in the main one   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 January 2019, 12:30:57 pm
Just yesterday after mentioning blue lights on lorries I saw an Audi with the front rings back-lit in blue  :rolleyes   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 06 January 2019, 01:49:09 pm
I've only had a quick look, but the law seems to hinge on whether the blue lights are being operated as warning lamps. I guess that means flashing lights.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 January 2019, 02:55:46 pm
Too many houses round here with outside blue flashing Xmas lights  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 06 January 2019, 03:58:24 pm
I've only had a quick look, but the law seems to hinge on whether the blue lights are being operated as warning lamps. I guess that means flashing lights.


Be quite interest to know precisely what the law is on vehicle lighting.
if as it seems likely white light only emitting from the front of a vehicle with the exception of flashing indicators of Orange or White, all those Led blazoned logos that are in the truck cabs might be illegal, most seem to have a high percentage of blue in them. If there is no rule as to the correct colour for flashing indicators on a vehicle why not LED blue/white? Can you imagine hundreds of cars stuck in a motorway jam with their blue/white hazards going.


3 truck logo pics and a Foreign truck logo,  :pokefun  often seen blazing out of the front of truck cabs     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 06 January 2019, 04:04:14 pm
I've only had a quick look, but the law seems to hinge on whether the blue lights are being operated as warning lamps. I guess that means flashing lights.
But then it go's on to say - working or not. So would that cover a static blue which is a non working flashing blue  :book As well as the audi logo I have seen other cars with doghnut blue lights on the front, I just don't know why they don't get pulled -they stand out a mile at night.Maybe the coppers don't even know the law as they are too busy going on "gender diversity inclusion" courses
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 06 January 2019, 04:25:17 pm
The construction and use regulations state that the only colour emitted from the front can be white or amber. From the rear its red or amber (plus white for the reversing light)
Any other colour is prohibited.

A lot of teh chavs get away with teh blue bits under their cars becasue it is reflected off the road etc and not actually visible from the source. The truck lights are illegal but you would need to find a copper (first) that gives a toss (second) before anyone gets done for having them
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 06 January 2019, 05:36:15 pm
The construction and use regulations state that the only colour emitted from the front can be white or amber. From the rear its red or amber (plus white for the reversing light)
Any other colour is prohibited.

A lot of teh chavs get away with teh blue bits under their cars becasue it is reflected off the road etc and not actually visible from the source. The truck lights are illegal but you would need to find a copper (first) that gives a toss (second) before anyone gets done for having them


So my little SLK has white indicator lens on the front, with a amber bulbs fitted. If I shoved a blue/white LED in there would I be breaking the law and would anyone care a toss. Back lens are Orange with white bulbs.
Hey what do I know? I just went outside to check and the back indicator lens are white with amber bulbs   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Wharfe on 06 January 2019, 06:03:29 pm
My workplace is leased from the local council - they have responsibility for maintenance of the fabric of the building. Some months ago we noticed an intermittent leak in the main lounge - water dripping through the ceiling. The council sent contractors out several times but they "couldn't find a leak" (Oh, all 18 of us working here must have imagined it then... ) Eventually a great chunk of ceiling caved in followed by the niagara falls.. turns out a badly laid (18yrs ago) sprinkler system pipe had worn, split and slowly ruptured.
The contractors did a temporary repair and we were assured a full repair to the ceiling and the floorboards in the room above would be imminent. Finally after about three months waiting for this, the contractors finally rocked up to do the do a few days ago - so far so good.... soon after they finish and leave, water is spotted gushing through the ceiling in the room next to the lounge they were repairing the ceiling in. It turns out one of the contractors had put a nail through a central heating pipe. Aaand off we go again..
COULDN'T.  MAKE. IT. UP... :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 January 2019, 05:08:27 pm
Quote
I thought that for general traffic white lights only on the front with the exception of indicators and red lights only on the rear with the exception of indicators, number plate lights and reversing lights.
Seen quite a few new cars with small orange side lights recently on the front. Really difficult to tell whether they are indicating.


and when the brake lights are on, you cant see the indicators
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 January 2019, 05:18:35 pm
Yesterday I saw a taxi with a 10x8 panel in the window saying "taxi" in very bright blue leds. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 08 January 2019, 04:13:28 pm
Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 08 January 2019, 04:19:46 pm



Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(


^^^^
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypochondria (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypochondria)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 08 January 2019, 04:29:00 pm
Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(
I can't recall another year where there's been so many people with stinking colds/flu/coughs/throats etc...Seems everyone's had it at one point or another. I had the worst cold I've ever had the week before Christmas.
Shingles can be a nightmare.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 08 January 2019, 05:34:42 pm
Quote
I can't recall another year where there's been so many people with stinking colds/flu/coughs/throats etc...Seems everyone's had it at one point or another. I had the worst cold I've ever had the week before Christmas.
I don't usually get the cold, but that one was a stoater.  And it sure is doing the rounds.
Quote
Shingles can be a nightmare.
It's murder, it really is.  Feels like somebody is trying to give me two dental injections into my skull simultaniously, plus my ear aches and my neck is killing me due to a badly swollen lymph node or two.
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 08 January 2019, 08:06:14 pm
Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(



Hope it doesnt turn into Bells Palsey
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 08 January 2019, 08:46:27 pm
 :eek
Bleedin hope not!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 08 January 2019, 10:30:05 pm
'kin hell !!!  I hope I never get them,I've known a couple of elderly folks who had them but I thought they may have been exaggerating a bit,now I don't think so. :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2019, 06:03:47 am
Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(
I can't recall another year where there's been so many people with stinking colds/flu/coughs/throats etc...Seems everyone's had it at one point or another. I had the worst cold I've ever had the week before Christmas.
Shingles can be a nightmare.


I was rough over most of the Xmas holidays i had, about 10 days, then thought it was all getting better about 2 days before returning, then as soon as i'm back at work i'm ill again.
On two separate days, a week apart, i was at home watching telly then just randomly felt queasy then unexpectedly threw up, about 3 or 4 times?
Now i'm on antibiotics for a chest infection, and have a tickly cough i simply cannot get rid of that is making me cough so much i've strained the odd stomach muscle a few times. Plus the coughing at night in bed is keeping me awake at all hours making me knackered during the day.
The thing is i was talking to 3 people at work yesterday and they've all had the same problems as i've described too, so it's still doing the rounds.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 09 January 2019, 11:30:57 am
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I was rough over most of the Xmas holidays i had, about 10 days, then thought it was all getting better about 2 days before returning, then as soon as i'm back at work i'm ill again.
On two separate days, a week apart, i was at home watching telly then just randomly felt queasy then unexpectedly threw up, about 3 or 4 times?
Now i'm on antibiotics for a chest infection, and have a tickly cough i simply cannot get rid of that is making me cough so much i've strained the odd stomach muscle a few times. Plus the coughing at night in bed is keeping me awake at all hours making me knackered during the day.
The thing is i was talking to 3 people at work yesterday and they've all had the same problems as i've described too, so it's still doing the rounds.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])



 Cos I have a touch of asthma, whenever I get a cold I often get a hellish cough.  That last cold was bad, I tweaked a couple of muscles in my chest coughing and I can still feel them two weeks later.
You could try pholcodine linctus bp cough mixture.
Not recommended if you are still bringing up lots of phlegm.  And maybe check with Doctor or chemist as you are on anti-biotics. (VNA is not a doctor and I do not accept any liability if this shit kills you – consult medical pros etc etc)
There has been talk of banning the stuff (readily available, drinkable and addictive), and I’ve found chemists will try and recommended all sorts of other products rather than sell this old fashioned stuff.  As the name suggests it contains an an opioid which handily acts as a cough suppressant. It can make you drowsy.
You can get it over the counter for less than 3 quid a bottle.
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc (https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc)
   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Anquetil on 09 January 2019, 01:07:11 pm
Sitting here having my dinner, trying to watch television, as yet another newly arrived Moldovan/Romanian sits outside our house in his car with his music turned up full blast, to the point where it is shaking our windows. Inconsiderate bastard ! Since he arrived and got hold of a vehicle we know when he is turning into the street, two hundred yards away, as we can hear the racket. It makes me wonder what the Romanians in Newtownabbey did to receive the sorting out that they received.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 January 2019, 04:35:28 pm
Quote
I was rough over most of the Xmas holidays i had, about 10 days, then thought it was all getting better about 2 days before returning, then as soon as i'm back at work i'm ill again.
On two separate days, a week apart, i was at home watching telly then just randomly felt queasy then unexpectedly threw up, about 3 or 4 times?
Now i'm on antibiotics for a chest infection, and have a tickly cough i simply cannot get rid of that is making me cough so much i've strained the odd stomach muscle a few times. Plus the coughing at night in bed is keeping me awake at all hours making me knackered during the day.
The thing is i was talking to 3 people at work yesterday and they've all had the same problems as i've described too, so it's still doing the rounds.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])



 Cos I have a touch of asthma, whenever I get a cold I often get a hellish cough.  That last cold was bad, I tweaked a couple of muscles in my chest coughing and I can still feel them two weeks later.
You could try pholcodine linctus bp cough mixture.
Not recommended if you are still bringing up lots of phlegm.  And maybe check with Doctor or chemist as you are on anti-biotics. (VNA is not a doctor and I do not accept any liability if this shit kills you – consult medical pros etc etc)
There has been talk of banning the stuff (readily available, drinkable and addictive), and I’ve found chemists will try and recommended all sorts of other products rather than sell this old fashioned stuff.  As the name suggests it contains an an opioid which handily acts as a cough suppressant. It can make you drowsy.
You can get it over the counter for less than 3 quid a bottle.
[url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url] ([url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url])
 


I had a 5 minute coughing episode just now at work, simply caused by a tickly cough, but it's uncontrollable, and I swear It feels like I'm about to fracture a rib from coughing so hard.
Very annoying.
Might look into that cough medicine, even though I'm not normally a fan of stuff that makes you drowsy. No way I could take it during the day, but I was up at 3am again this morning having a coughing fit, and I'm getting very bored with it all now. Looks familiar so have probably used it before anyway.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 10 January 2019, 12:15:22 am
Quote
I was rough over most of the Xmas holidays i had, about 10 days, then thought it was all getting better about 2 days before returning, then as soon as i'm back at work i'm ill again.
On two separate days, a week apart, i was at home watching telly then just randomly felt queasy then unexpectedly threw up, about 3 or 4 times?
Now i'm on antibiotics for a chest infection, and have a tickly cough i simply cannot get rid of that is making me cough so much i've strained the odd stomach muscle a few times. Plus the coughing at night in bed is keeping me awake at all hours making me knackered during the day.
The thing is i was talking to 3 people at work yesterday and they've all had the same problems as i've described too, so it's still doing the rounds.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])



 Cos I have a touch of asthma, whenever I get a cold I often get a hellish cough.  That last cold was bad, I tweaked a couple of muscles in my chest coughing and I can still feel them two weeks later.
You could try pholcodine linctus bp cough mixture.
Not recommended if you are still bringing up lots of phlegm.  And maybe check with Doctor or chemist as you are on anti-biotics. (VNA is not a doctor and I do not accept any liability if this shit kills you – consult medical pros etc etc)
There has been talk of banning the stuff (readily available, drinkable and addictive), and I’ve found chemists will try and recommended all sorts of other products rather than sell this old fashioned stuff.  As the name suggests it contains an an opioid which handily acts as a cough suppressant. It can make you drowsy.
You can get it over the counter for less than 3 quid a bottle.
[url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url] ([url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url])
 


I had a 5 minute coughing episode just now at work, simply caused by a tickly cough, but it's uncontrollable, and I swear It feels like I'm about to fracture a rib from coughing so hard.
Very annoying.
Might look into that cough medicine, even though I'm not normally a fan of stuff that makes you drowsy. No way I could take it during the day, but I was up at 3am again this morning having a coughing fit, and I'm getting very bored with it all now. Looks familiar so have probably used it before anyway.






I seriously think you need some steroid treatment with your antibiotics.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 11 January 2019, 01:38:32 pm
Quote
I was rough over most of the Xmas holidays i had, about 10 days, then thought it was all getting better about 2 days before returning, then as soon as i'm back at work i'm ill again.
On two separate days, a week apart, i was at home watching telly then just randomly felt queasy then unexpectedly threw up, about 3 or 4 times?
Now i'm on antibiotics for a chest infection, and have a tickly cough i simply cannot get rid of that is making me cough so much i've strained the odd stomach muscle a few times. Plus the coughing at night in bed is keeping me awake at all hours making me knackered during the day.
The thing is i was talking to 3 people at work yesterday and they've all had the same problems as i've described too, so it's still doing the rounds.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/groan.gif[/url])



 Cos I have a touch of asthma, whenever I get a cold I often get a hellish cough.  That last cold was bad, I tweaked a couple of muscles in my chest coughing and I can still feel them two weeks later.
You could try pholcodine linctus bp cough mixture.
Not recommended if you are still bringing up lots of phlegm.  And maybe check with Doctor or chemist as you are on anti-biotics. (VNA is not a doctor and I do not accept any liability if this shit kills you – consult medical pros etc etc)
There has been talk of banning the stuff (readily available, drinkable and addictive), and I’ve found chemists will try and recommended all sorts of other products rather than sell this old fashioned stuff.  As the name suggests it contains an an opioid which handily acts as a cough suppressant. It can make you drowsy.
You can get it over the counter for less than 3 quid a bottle.
[url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url] ([url]https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/4921/smpc[/url])
 


I had a 5 minute coughing episode just now at work, simply caused by a tickly cough, but it's uncontrollable, and I swear It feels like I'm about to fracture a rib from coughing so hard.
Very annoying.
Might look into that cough medicine, even though I'm not normally a fan of stuff that makes you drowsy. No way I could take it during the day, but I was up at 3am again this morning having a coughing fit, and I'm getting very bored with it all now. Looks familiar so have probably used it before anyway.






I seriously think you need some steroid treatment with your antibiotics.



I got hold of some of the above mentioned cough linctus yesterday.
Took some about half hour before going to bed last night, and woke up 1 minute before my alarm went off this morning, which is very rare for me, i normally wake up well before it goes off.
No coughing during the night, and my first uninterrupted nights kip in at least a month, plus i don’t feel knackered at work.
Cheers VNA, credit where credit is due.  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 11 January 2019, 10:50:59 pm
Some filthy bugger decided to take a crap in the alleyway that leads to my shed. I didn't notice, ran over it, then, when I wheeled the bike back into the shed, smelled something revolting :(
I then had to spend 10 minutes hosing their crap off the wheel, then mixing up a load of bleach and water to clean the concrete floor of the shed.  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: celticdog on 12 January 2019, 12:13:04 am
Some filthy bugger decided to take a crap in the alleyway that leads to my shed. I didn't notice, ran over it, then, when I wheeled the bike back into the shed, smelled something revolting :(
I then had to spend 10 minutes hosing their crap off the wheel, then mixing up a load of bleach and water to clean the concrete floor of the shed.  :2guns



pmsl! nowt worse than a phantom shitter  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 12 January 2019, 12:52:26 am
Some filthy bugger decided to take a crap in the alleyway that leads to my shed. I didn't notice, ran over it, then, when I wheeled the bike back into the shed, smelled something revolting :(
I then had to spend 10 minutes hosing their crap off the wheel, then mixing up a load of bleach and water to clean the concrete floor of the shed.  :2guns
I'm disappointed, as an advance rider, you should've predicted that. :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 January 2019, 04:53:07 am
Some filthy bugger decided to take a crap in the alleyway that leads to my shed. I didn't notice, ran over it, then, when I wheeled the bike back into the shed, smelled something revolting :(
I then had to spend 10 minutes hosing their crap off the wheel, then mixing up a load of bleach and water to clean the concrete floor of the shed.  :2guns


Does make you reminisce back to the good old days when you'd be lucky to go a week without stepping in dog shit, or biting into fruit that didn't have a maggot in it.  :lol


You sure it wasn't a fox, those screaming kinky bastards have a bad habit of leaving large turds near my house. I swear it sounded like someone being murdered outside my bedroom window again last night, but as it's their sex party season at the moment i've kind of got used to the sudden blood curdling shrieking.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 January 2019, 09:37:47 am

quote author=dazza link=topic=17546.msg290459#msg290459 date=1547254346]

I'm disappointed, as an advance rider, you should've predicted that. :lol



 :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 12 January 2019, 10:06:33 am
There’s a cat near me that is in the habit of taking a dump on paths and lawns rather than burying its turds in my garden like most of its kind. I’ve trodden in it or put the lawnmower through it on about a dozen occasions and they are the most revolting faeces I’ve ever encountered.
Christ knows what the bastard eats… ripe Parmesan cheese and diarrohea to judge by the stench.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 January 2019, 10:29:50 am
We have an unwanted cat that visits Sharp Hall and I keep a few small old soft potatoes by the backdoor to throw at it. I have little chance of hitting the cat so I throw them at the fence to make a bang and they fall down into the ornamental border on the East lawns.  An unexpected bonus last year was that I ended up with a little crop of potatoes that had grown from the ones that I had launched.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 January 2019, 11:42:02 am
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 12 January 2019, 12:10:27 pm
You sure it wasn't a fox

I hope to hell not, it would have been a bloody big fox...!

There used to be a couple of urban foxes who would jump on the roof of a neighbour's shed and set off their security lights and they'd just sit there in the spotlight going "look at us", but I haven't seen them for years.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 January 2019, 01:05:11 pm
You sure it wasn't a fox

I hope to hell not, it would have been a bloody big fox...!

There used to be a couple of urban foxes who would jump on the roof of a neighbour's shed and set off their security lights and they'd just sit there in the spotlight going "look at us", but I haven't seen them for years.


They do seem to have a vast amount of food to scavenge these days so i wouldn't be surprised if they had an oversized dump.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 January 2019, 01:09:26 pm
We have an unwanted cat that visits Sharp Hall and I keep a few small old soft potatoes by the backdoor to throw at it. I have little chance of hitting the cat so I throw them at the fence to make a bang and they fall down into the ornamental border on the East lawns.  An unexpected bonus last year was that I ended up with a little crop of potatoes that had grown from the ones that I had launched.


What you need is one of these.  :)

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 12 January 2019, 02:40:45 pm

Watching that snowflake twat Murray greetin on the telly, whit a mammies boy and spoilt brat to boot.
Grow a pair you stupid arse and get yer mammy oot yer life , in case you didn't remember you have a wife and kids you wanker.
You can at least cry into your multimillion pound bank accounts you twat, unlike the poor Knuts at Jaguar, you self pitying twat that you are---boy do I feel better getting that off my chest
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 January 2019, 02:47:32 pm
Already got one  :lol
 (http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17546.0;attach=34276;image)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 12 January 2019, 04:06:41 pm
We have an unwanted cat that visits Sharp Hall and I keep a few small old soft potatoes by the backdoor to throw at it. I have little chance of hitting the cat so I throw them at the fence to make a bang and they fall down into the ornamental border on the East lawns.  An unexpected bonus last year was that I ended up with a little crop of potatoes that had grown from the ones that I had launched.


What you need is one of these.  :)












Haven't seen one of them since I was a kid , its a wonder they are still allowed to sell them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 12 January 2019, 04:45:39 pm
We have an unwanted cat that visits Sharp Hall and I keep a few small old soft potatoes by the backdoor to throw at it. I have little chance of hitting the cat so I throw them at the fence to make a bang and they fall down into the ornamental border on the East lawns.  An unexpected bonus last year was that I ended up with a little crop of potatoes that had grown from the ones that I had launched.


What you need is one of these.  :)












Haven't seen one of them since I was a kid , its a wonder they are still allowed to sell them.



You probably have a higher chance of being shot by a police sniper these days by using one, but they're still about  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Northern Biker on 13 January 2019, 11:16:41 pm
Shingles.  It's really getting ma goat.
Had that nasty cold that was going roond before Christmas - what a stoater it wis - though I managed to struggle through without calling in sick to work.  Just got over it before the new year.  Did notice we had loads of folks off with it.  But then maybe my determination to soldier on is why I now have shingles.
Started feeling odd on new years day.  Just knackered - falling asleep and for unusally long periods of time.  Then the pain started.  Seems to be in my throat, ear and rhs of my face.  Saw the doc on the 4th.  I've had this before so I figured what was happening.  Halfway through the course of anti-virals.

The weekend was absolute hell there.  Still foccing hellish.  Really foccing getting my goat. :(


Had shingles myself, not nice! Get well soon dude  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 January 2019, 02:13:54 pm
Quote
Had shingles myself, not nice! Get well soon dude  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/thumbup.gif[/url])

Cheers NB.  Can you remember who long it took for the pain to start to noticeable ease?

 It appears I have Zoster Sine Herpete as opposed to the usual herpes zoster.  Basically, I have shingles without the rash.  Also, sometimes known as internal shingles.  This is something I get the impression my GP has not heard of.  Twice I’ve been to the surgery, and each GP has spent ages trying to find a rash and scratching their heids.  I had to go back a second time for a sick line – he gave me a one week – which kinda makes me think he has doubts as to it being shingles.  So back to the GP tomorrow.


The good news is I got my course of anti-virals within 4 days of the first symptoms, so I’m hoping I avoid any long term complications.


 
But I seem to have gone backwards since finishing the course.  Can’t help thinking the course was too short.


I did have shingles before about 20 years ago.  I got the classic rash on the lower back.  It was pretty nasty, but I don’t think it was anything as bad as I have now.


I’ve had a serious splitting headache for coming on two weeks now.  My neck is killing me too.  Eating is difficult as it’s painful opening my mouth wide.  Though I have no rash, but I have the exact same super sensitivity across the rhs of my scalp and down my face just like I had on my back all those years ago.  Plus my right hand and lower arm are slightly numb.


Worst of all I can’t get a decent sleep.  During the day I’m OKish but night time I wake up with the rhs of my face on fire and the headache off the scale.  It’s only on waking up at night that I take some pain killers.  So, some Tramadol which I keep in the house for my kidney stones gets me some sleep at night but not much.  Don’t take anything during the day.  Too many painkillers just make me constipated :eek .  Anti-inflammatories are supposed to work well with shingles but they wreck ma guts :rolleyes .


So pretty much grinning and bearing it.  The internet says the worst of it lasts 3-5 weeks.  So I’m a good solid two weeks in, so sure I should turn the corner soon.


But hey, big moan over, I’m alive and within a few weeks this should all pass.
 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 16 January 2019, 12:02:27 am
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes








 :thumbup  I absolutely love birds. Cats are evil,couldn't hurt one though,I'm as soft as shit when it comes to any animals. :\
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 24 January 2019, 09:11:50 am
Can't believe the stupid of some people!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6624369/Motorbike-smashes-woman-sends-flying-London.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6624369/Motorbike-smashes-woman-sends-flying-London.html)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 24 January 2019, 12:23:09 pm
Can't believe the stupid of some people!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6624369/Motorbike-smashes-woman-sends-flying-London.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6624369/Motorbike-smashes-woman-sends-flying-London.html)


Typical  '  my needs are more important than yours ' London  arsehole,  wouldn't be surprised if she sued the biker  for nearly making her miss her bus.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 24 January 2019, 02:46:52 pm
The bus will have an even better video of that, although that one was pretty conclusive. I get that sort of stupidity nearly every day near my work when people pile off the buses then walk straight out in front of me to cross the road to the tube station.
Zero manners or common sense whatsoever.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 24 January 2019, 10:39:50 pm
Nicholas Witchell  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 January 2019, 12:17:03 pm
People do stupid things.
Another thing to bear in mind, people often behave very oddly directly after an accident.
But bloody hell, she must be sare.  That bike sent her flying. 


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 28 January 2019, 09:01:01 pm
cops who pull you up at a check point,then go through the cars as if you're not there then when you want to know what's going on they say"we've only got one who does bikes!"so then when you say why piss about pulling bikes up then they come back with "if sir doesn't like the way we're doing things we can soon keep him here longer and make sure his machine fails on something" one rule for them and one for us. :finger
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 28 January 2019, 09:10:34 pm
Lesson one... always be polite to the policeman who pulls you over. You'll get home quicker that way  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 28 January 2019, 09:22:42 pm
And that's a FACT ! My son's a cop but I can't say I've got to much time for 'em,they know they've got you by the bollocks from the start and if you show a bit of attitude which I think I'm a bit guilty of it goes against you straightaway. ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 28 January 2019, 09:23:45 pm
Were they checking if you were smuggling in any illegal immigrants, or if you were using red diesel, or wearing your seat belt, or on the phone    :lol   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Trebus on 29 January 2019, 07:14:19 am
People do stupid things.
Another thing to bear in mind, people often behave very oddly directly after an accident.
But bloody hell, she must be sare.  That bike sent her flying.

Love the headline. ‘Motorbike smashes into woman...’

How about, ‘Stupid person runs out into road without looking causing innocent motorcyclist to crash!’
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 29 January 2019, 10:34:04 am
People do stupid things.
Another thing to bear in mind, people often behave very oddly directly after an accident.
But bloody hell, she must be sare.  That bike sent her flying.

Love the headline. ‘Motorbike smashes into woman...’

How about, ‘Stupid person runs out into road without looking causing innocent motorcyclist to crash!’


And left the scene of an accident that she blatantly caused!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 29 January 2019, 10:58:10 am

Most accidents involving bike start by blaming the rider, too fast, too slow, not alert, riding like a demented idiot, heard most of them trotted out over 40 odd years even heard the rider was speeding even though he was laying dead in the road turned out the driver was pissed out his brains when he pulled out the side road. Bet all of you on here has heard some beauties over the years. Non of us are perfect we all make mistakes but I think riders are more aware of the painful and sometimes fatal out come of the lapses.
 What's the best, worst reason you've heard when your laying in a big heap in the road why it was your fault?
 I'll start it off  sorry mate I didn't see you your headlight blinded me unfortunately for the driver the police officer who had witnessed the accident heard the remark he had his day in court. and a large fine 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 29 January 2019, 11:16:29 am

Not to worry, soon there will be no cars etc on the road if government has it's way, polluting machines all off the road--then the country will be really Focced up, can't wait for it.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 31 January 2019, 09:07:04 pm
Another bad indicator on a car I have just seen is a new rangerover that had two very long and thin and very bright brake lights and sandwiched between them was the indicators - the same very long and thin and they were almost drowned out by the brake lights --- stupid as a lot of turning also includes braking. Unless you are in a BMW or an Audi because then you neither slow down or indicate.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 31 January 2019, 11:04:31 pm
Agreed. A bit like those cars with amber side lights.
How do these designs pass type approval?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 31 January 2019, 11:52:06 pm
Were they checking if you were smuggling in any illegal immigrants, or if you were using red diesel, or wearing your seat belt, or on the phone    :lol






You mentioning red diesel,must be 30yrs ago now I got a pull for using it,they take 3 samples in wirelocked canisters,the ministry have one ,you have one and I can't remember who has the other,at that time if it was your first time and you wasn't running a business they settle out of court with a fine,but leave you with no doubt if you're caught again it's a big deal and sometimes can lead to a stretch!Anyway I'd got away with it for some time which was just as well because I was racing at the time and going up and down the country in the roughest trannie you could imagine,it had a York engine which used to crack heads at will,I'm sure the block was warped because I had an older one with a perkins lump in which was o.k. I remember picking it up in 45 gallon drums and snaking it out into degreaser drums which were all over the place from Croft to Lydden because I never wanted to pay for diesel if I was running short.Halcyon days :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 01 February 2019, 01:05:55 am
Agreed. A bit like those cars with amber side lights.
How do these designs pass type approval?

Tell me about it!

There are times I've been fractions of a second away from making a rapid avoidance move or emergency stop because one of these has suddenly appeared in my peripheral vision and I think someone's about to cut across my line! :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 01 February 2019, 07:55:37 pm

Most accidents involving bike start by blaming the rider, too fast, too slow, not alert, riding like a demented idiot, heard most of them trotted out over 40 odd years even heard the rider was speeding even though he was laying dead in the road turned out the driver was pissed out his brains when he pulled out the side road. Bet all of you on here has heard some beauties over the years. Non of us are perfect we all make mistakes but I think riders are more aware of the painful and sometimes fatal out come of the lapses.
 What's the best, worst reason you've heard when your laying in a big heap in the road why it was your fault?
 I'll start it off  sorry mate I didn't see you your headlight blinded me unfortunately for the driver the police officer who had witnessed the accident heard the remark he had his day in court. and a large fine


"The car just suddenly turned right, on its own and he (me) ran into the side of me". The self turning car was perfectly positioned for a right turn into the council refuse amenity site, and his boot was full of rubbish. I was coming the opposite way, the self guiding car turned when I was less than spitting distance away. I was lying in the gutter fearing my back was broken, unable to move, the driver got into a fight with someone who objected to being held up, and to cap it all, I had to wait an hour and three quarters for the ambulance, even though the A&E was only a mile and a half away. Bike written off, four months off work. Hilarious.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 06 February 2019, 07:24:33 pm
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats got my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 06 February 2019, 11:00:23 pm
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thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices
Make sure you do it before ULEZ kicks in, or you'll get another bill  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 07 February 2019, 06:57:04 am
MTREAD       :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble               




























 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 February 2019, 09:38:56 am
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats got my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


How have they got your details, and how have they worked out a bill if you don't use their services?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 07 February 2019, 11:41:48 am
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes

 :thumbup  I absolutely love birds. Cats are evil,couldn't hurt one though,I'm as soft as shit when it comes to any animals. :\
What about Rats? :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 07 February 2019, 05:33:41 pm
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes











 :thumbup  I absolutely love birds. Cats are evil,couldn't hurt one though,I'm as soft as shit when it comes to any animals. :\


Repairing a window at eldest daughters house, a tree rat(grey squirrel) walked up the drive with a blackbirds egg in its mouth. Five minutes it went back down the drive, then re-appeared again with another egg in its mouth. I have heard people say they also take chicks from nests, but cant confirm that. Reminds me, when we were kids we used to collect birds eggs (yes, shame on me) and pretty much every hedgerow was full of bird nests of all types. About 15 years ago, I built a smashing bird table to see what we could attract into the garden. Over the ensuing months, pretty much all of the food was consumed by tree rats, when I opened the blinds in the morning, there'd be 3 or 4 of them jumping on and off the table, and they found there way into the lofts in the house and garage. I decided that if we were going to get birds here, then the squirrels have to go. So I bought a.22 air rifle with telescopic sight. Fuck me if I didn't shoot at least 80 of the fucking things over the next couple of years. At one point I almost gave up, as the numbers never seemed to diminish, but over time, they appeared less and less, until maybe 3 or 4 years ago, we had a spell where none were seen, so I must have got them down to an unsustainable number. As of then, the increase in birds visiting has been nothing short of sensational, and includes birds on the red list, with several now nesting in the garden. The occasional squirrel visits, but I can live with that until it becomes any more significant.


Its not just the cats that have impacted on bird numbers
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 07 February 2019, 06:41:54 pm
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me via an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 February 2019, 07:09:43 pm
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me via an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
I fear that this will go on and on and the next thing you find is they have passed the "outstanding amount" on to a dept collector.To end it quicker I would advise that you join the talktalk forum and put your problem up there because it is run my talktalk staff who can and do get stuff done. But dont expect a reply from official staff for a few days as they answer by the oldest first and if you add to it again asking "why no help" then it gets pushed back to the bottom again.Do not bother ringing and talking to India.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 07 February 2019, 07:44:30 pm
Thanks SHARPIE...great advise   :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 07 February 2019, 08:54:39 pm
I had problems with an online book supplier just before Xmas. No reply to my emails. Phone line permanently on hold etc etc. So I posted my complaint on their Facebook page and put it in the public domain. Instant reply and resolved  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 07 February 2019, 11:42:00 pm
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me via an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


Yeah, that's pretty messed up.


Similar to some office numpty who phoned up my mum just over a year ago telling her she owed 2p on her rent.
Some people just make you sick.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 08 February 2019, 12:10:10 am
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes

 :thumbup  I absolutely love birds. Cats are evil,couldn't hurt one though,I'm as soft as shit when it comes to any animals. :\
What about Rats? :eek








believe it or not apart from wheals disease etc they are supposed to be cleaner than squirrels! :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 08 February 2019, 12:34:23 am
I have a large Scotts Pine Tree that overhangs my patio and it has two Squirrels dreys in it, I am shocked by the amount of shit that emanates from the, I call the biggest one of them VNA.

Every twice in a while I go out into the garden and give them a taste of this, 4 rounds up through the bottom of the Drey, funny enough they don't care for that.   :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 08 February 2019, 12:40:57 am
Very cruel,couldn't do that myself  :(   it's  a shame about the birds eggs though I suppose that's life............... or death  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 08 February 2019, 01:07:05 am
Very cruel,couldn't do that myself  :(   it's  a shame about the birds eggs though I suppose that's life............... or death  :(


If you saw the squirrel poo om my patio 3 hours after I hosed it off you would not say that, they are dirty things and they kick up one hell of a row when that start fighting each other.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 February 2019, 06:09:55 am
Went to a friends funeral on Tuesday, and another mate was finding a place to park in the grounds and we pulled up next to this huge oak tree which had more squirrels underneath it than i think i've ever seen before in one place.
I must admit i'm not a fan of them although i do admire the fact that they're ingenious little bastards.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 February 2019, 06:29:14 am
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me via an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


So it would appear this shit has been going on for many years now, you'd think they'd have resolved this by now.


 https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/ (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)


I would be inclined to try and have an online chat with them, as long as you don't need passwords to get through to them.
And i would also contact your bank and tell them to block any activity from TalkTalk with a brief explanation why just to be safe.


https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Our-live-chat-team/ta-p/2230529 (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)




I had a similar scenario the other day when i got a totally random text on my phone suddenly saying they will take money from my account each month for something i never knew about or even ordered?
Then they said text the word "STOP" to a phone number which was a premium rate number, so i was immediately fucked either way!
I did text STOP but also phoned my bank to make sure no Direct Debit's suddenly started without my knowledge, and my phone company said they couldn't do anything as it was a 3rd party source?
I just checked as it was around Xmas time and i never did get charged anything with that, but worth knowing anyway.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 08 February 2019, 06:55:29 am
Quote from: darrsinto  link=intresopic=17546.msg292117#msg292117 date=1549607354
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me it coia an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


So it would appear this shit has been going on for many years now, you'd think they'd have resolved this by now.


 https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/ (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)


I would be inclined to try and have an online chat with them, as long as you don't need passwords to get through to them.
And i would also contact your bank and tell them to block any activity from TalkTalk with a brief explanation why just to be safe.


https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/ (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)




I had a similar scenario the other day when i got a totally random text on my phone suddenly saying they will take money from my account each month for something i never knew about or even ordered?
Then they said text the word "STOP" to a phone number which was a premium rate number, so i was immediately fucked either way!
I did text STOP but also phoned my bank to make sure no Direct Debit's suddenly started without my knowledge, and my phone company said they couldn't do anything as it was a 3rd party source?
I must check and see if i ever did get charged for anything with that?






















thats Interesting DARRSI , thanks for taking the time searching and posting  :thumbup ......need to look Into this a bit more , never beena customer of TALKTALK but i was once with tiscalli , must be something like 20 ish years ago , got a confirmation email from TALKTALK saying my mail has been passed onto the complaints dept and It could take upto 3 days to get a reply , makes me think about what SHARPIE said about chasing them up and then being put at the back of the que ,
  targetting the elderly for a 2p bill is an absolute discrace , had simular trouble with my 85 year old dementure suffering mum a couple of months ago , started with a knock on her door , she lives on her own , 30 mins later shes signed up for £1800 worth of loft insulstion she dosnt need  , would of been nice meeting the lowlife so i could sort that one out face to face  ;)
  that really did get my goat....... :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 February 2019, 07:24:50 am
Quote from: darrsinto  link=intresopic=17546.msg292117#msg292117 date=1549607354
The bill is £0.00 ....and £3.98 to send it too me , they have being trying to contact me it coia an old email address I stopped using 20 odd ish years ago....I got a letter a couple of weeks ago asking me to update my email so they could send me a bill for nothing and if I didnt they would send it by post and charge me postage ...I ignored it thinking they would spot their mistake but then got the bill....emailed them this morning but not heard anything yet , so they have my old email and address , keeping a close eye on my bank account , if they have my bank details I think they would of helped themselves by now but if they do take anything you can expect ww3 ..........tried phoning but all I get is a link to a text service .........TALKTALK ....the people who dont like to talk   :wall ..........now iam wound up again


 :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble


So it would appear this shit has been going on for many years now, you'd think they'd have resolved this by now.


 https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/ (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)


I would be inclined to try and have an online chat with them, as long as you don't need passwords to get through to them.
And i would also contact your bank and tell them to block any activity from TalkTalk with a brief explanation why just to be safe.


https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/ (https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/ofcom-blasts-talktalk-for-billing-ex-customers/)




I had a similar scenario the other day when i got a totally random text on my phone suddenly saying they will take money from my account each month for something i never knew about or even ordered?
Then they said text the word "STOP" to a phone number which was a premium rate number, so i was immediately fucked either way!
I did text STOP but also phoned my bank to make sure no Direct Debit's suddenly started without my knowledge, and my phone company said they couldn't do anything as it was a 3rd party source?
I must check and see if i ever did get charged for anything with that?






















thats Interesting DARRSI , thanks for taking the time searching and posting  :thumbup ......need to look Into this a bit more , never beena customer of TALKTALK but i was once with tiscalli , must be something like 20 ish years ago , got a confirmation email from TALKTALK saying my mail has been passed onto the complaints dept and It could take upto 3 days to get a reply , makes me think about what SHARPIE said about chasing them up and then being put at the back of the que ,
  targetting the elderly for a 2p bill is an absolute discrace , had simular trouble with my 85 year old dementure suffering mum a couple of months ago , started with a knock on her door , she lives on her own , 30 mins later shes signed up for £1800 worth of loft insulstion she dosnt need  , would of been nice meeting the lowlife so i could sort that one out face to face  ;)
  that really did get my goat....... :grumble :grumble :grumble


Seems like you are most certainly not alone, if they can't locate an email address they convert you to paper billing by default, and i would hazard a guess that their system is to this day tied up in knots from a not very clean handover from Tiscali.
I reckon once you get to speak to the right person they will have dealt with this type of complaint before and will resolve it for you.
Use the online chat service to start with and simply make it clear that you're not a customer and need your name and address removed from their mailing list and any associative bills need to be quashed.
I don't think getting the hump with them will help in this particular case, it's just a matter of them clearing things up at their end so just give them all the details they need to sort things out.
How you want them to confirm things with you is another problem though, because i would begrudge giving them my current email address.
Maybe a text will do.  :lol


https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Billing-Your-account-MyTalkTalk/You-can-t-access-my-email-address/td-p/2202794
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 08 February 2019, 08:30:47 am
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I had a similar scenario the other day when i got a totally random text on my phone suddenly saying they will take money from my account each month for something i never knew about or even ordered?
Then they said text the word "STOP" to a phone number which was a premium rate number, so i was immediately fucked either way!
The whole idea of the scam is to tell you bulshit that you will be charged and get you to call the premium rate number.

 RED98 yes try the online chat the good thing about that is that after the chat you can have the transcript emailed to you so you have proof of what was said or to be on the safe side copy and past it in to word or something yourself near the end of the chat.But again these chats are to a call centre in India and they are good at saying and promising everything and doing nothing.
  The talk talk "community" as they call the forum is monitored by uk talk talk staff here is the section that may be best to post into    https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Billing-Your-account-MyTalkTalk/bd-p/45 (https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Billing-Your-account-MyTalkTalk/bd-p/45)  you will see post by people that look like this OCE_KARL or other names after OCE and the OCE stands for online community executive and they are the ones who work for talktalk. You may also get replys from other know-it-alls but they do not work for talktalk, only the OCE's are the official peeps. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 09 February 2019, 09:06:44 pm
Modern light bulbs. Claimed to last 100,000 hours. Foccin tosh. Barely last as long as the old filament lamps, and 10 times the foccin price too boot. Sat reading, and the glass section fell from the ceiling light and shattered on the floor, leaving the screw base still screwed in to the fitting.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 09 February 2019, 09:26:26 pm
take it back :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 09 February 2019, 09:48:59 pm
Van drivers who advertise their business by sign writing their vehicles and then drive like idiots   :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 09 February 2019, 09:51:20 pm
Parents with "baby on board" on their cars and then drive like idiots   :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 09 February 2019, 09:54:24 pm
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Modern light bulbs. Claimed to last 100,000 hours. Foccin tosh. Barely last as long as the old filament lamps, and 10 times the foccin price too boot. Sat reading, and the glass section fell from the ceiling light and shattered on the floor, leaving the screw base still screwed in to the fitting.
That seems odd.  Just about every light in my house is now LED.  Started changing over in 2015, pretty much everything LED by 2017 and not one failure yet.  I always buy Phillips, Osram or Sylvania.  Still on old fashioned fluorescent tubes in the garage though.
 
At work all the basic lighting is now LED, but I don’t recognise the brands they supply us with.  The LED ceiling panels are excellent but the power supplies that come with them are crap.  The LED fluorescent replacement tubes are not very bright and they don’t seem to last any longer than fluorescents, though at least the fittings last almost forever as it’s 240 straight onto the LED tube.   But what I notice at work is when they try to save on price by buying cheap, the reality is it costs them a fortune.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 09 February 2019, 11:06:09 pm
[... The LED fluorescent replacement tubes are not very bright and they don’t seem to last any longer than fluorescents, though at least the fittings last almost forever as it’s 240 straight onto the LED tube.   But what I notice at work is when they try to save on price by buying cheap, the reality is it costs them a fortune.

That’s surprising. I replaced the two 4’ fluorescents in my kitchen with LED tubes a few weeks ago and feel like I need sunglasses in there.


The cheap bulbs are downright dangerous as well as short-lived. Some I got off ebay had fake CE markings (spacing between the letters wrong) so I took a look at the circuit and realised that if one of the LEDs went open-circuit the capacitor which was rated at 35V would have about 10x that across it. Sure enough, a few months later the lamp died and a minute later there was a bang which blew the top off leaving exposed mains dangling out.


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Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 February 2019, 03:09:50 pm
 
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That’s surprising. I replaced the two 4’ fluorescents in my kitchen with LED tubes a few weeks ago and feel like I need sunglasses in there.

You sure.  The ones they give us a work, which I think are cheapies, are nowhere near as bright as conventional tubes.  They do sometimes fool people into thinking they are quite bright as they tend to have a cold blue colour temp, rather then the warm yellow of conventional. 



I thought about them for my garage.  But just looking at what screwfix have.  A 5ft Philips 20w LED pumps out 2000lm.  A 58w 5ft Sylvania fluorescent pumps out 5200lm.  So naw sticking with the fluorescent in the garage.


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The cheap bulbs are downright dangerous as well as short-lived. Some I got off ebay had fake CE markings (spacing between the letters wrong) so I took a look at the circuit and realised that if one of the LEDs went open-circuit the capacitor which was rated at 35V would have about 10x that across it. Sure enough, a few months later the lamp died and a minute later there was a bang which blew the top off leaving exposed mains dangling out.
Nasty.  I take it you have binned them all.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 February 2019, 08:40:10 pm
"Look at me""How dare you""Close your eyes"Is it just me that is sick of hearing and seeing this clip
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 10 February 2019, 09:36:46 pm

"Look at me""How dare you""Close your eyes"Is it just me that is sick of hearing and seeing this clip


Yep it's had a fair old airing hasn't it. She's the darling of the moment. I expect it'll clean up at the Bafta's. Awards ceremonies mean little to me, but the Queen film was excellent. Watched it in Imax when it came out. Recommended :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Fazerider on 10 February 2019, 09:51:54 pm
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That’s surprising. I replaced the two 4’ fluorescents in my kitchen with LED tubes a few weeks ago and feel like I need sunglasses in there.

You sure.  The ones they give us a work, which I think are cheapies, are nowhere near as bright as conventional tubes.  They do sometimes fool people into thinking they are quite bright as they tend to have a cold blue colour temp, rather then the warm yellow of conventional. 


Thinking about it, you’re probably right. Though I went for a 2700K colour temperature the 18W LED tubes do only claim 1800 lumens and the old fluorescents appear to be 3000.
The difference in brightness is doubtless because the old tubes are getting on a bit… they’re the originals I installed shortly after moving in, so are about 28 years old.
Also, it’s winter so my kitchen is usually pretty cold when I turn the lights on and fluorescents are famously dim until they warm up. I’m probably comparing 1800 lumens with about 800 as a result.   :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 February 2019, 10:09:30 pm
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The difference in brightness is doubtless because the old tubes are getting on a bit… they’re the originals I installed shortly after moving in, so are about 28 years old.
Foc me!  That must be a record.  Yeah tubes do lose a bit of brightness over time.  Plus the modern fluorescents are much brighter these days. 

The LED might be nicer light, if it's not too blue, as they don't have the flicker which can make fluorescents tiring.

I put phillips LED downlighters in my kitchen.  I like them a lot. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 10 February 2019, 10:10:56 pm
Quote
That’s surprising. I replaced the two 4’ fluorescents in my kitchen with LED tubes a few weeks ago and feel like I need sunglasses in there.

You sure.  The ones they give us a work, which I think are cheapies, are nowhere near as bright as conventional tubes.  They do sometimes fool people into thinking they are quite bright as they tend to have a cold blue colour temp, rather then the warm yellow of conventional. 


Thinking about it, you’re probably right. Though I went for a 2700K colour temperature the 18W LED tubes do only claim 1800 lumens and the old fluorescents appear to be 3000.
The difference in brightness is doubtless because the old tubes are getting on a bit… they’re the originals I installed shortly after moving in, so are about 28 years old.
Also, it’s winter so my kitchen is usually pretty cold when I turn the lights on and fluorescents are famously dim until they warm up. I’m probably comparing 1800 lumens with about 800 as a result.   :rollin
2700k is IMO nasty yellow, I go for 6000k or 65000k and have I have 62 LED bulbs in Sharp Hall. So far I have been lucky with them not blowing early but there are the odd duffers, and I am having particular trouble with GU9 fitting bulbs. I get most of mine now from CPC       
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 February 2019, 12:12:07 am
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2700k is IMO nasty yellow
Is perfect for domestic use.  Warm and relaxing.

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I go for 6000k or 65000k
Ideal for industrial use.  What we use at work.  Cold blue, or direct summer light.  It can seem brighter than it really is as it is very harsh.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 February 2019, 10:57:03 am
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2700k is IMO nasty yellow
Is perfect for domestic use.  Warm and relaxing.

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I go for 6000k or 65000k
Ideal for industrial use.  What we use at work.  Cold blue, or direct summer light.  It can seem brighter than it really is as it is very harsh.
The problem with scotland though is that you are not used to daylight  :pokefun There is a middle ground widely available which is 4000k.
A tip to others is not to go by the colour description apart from when they say warm yellow because I have seen 4000k described as daylight when it is still on the yellow side.So always go by the k value.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 11 February 2019, 11:09:20 am
If you owned a dog that kept dumping in everyone elses garden there'd be hell to pay.
Also cat owners always claim to be animal lovers, yet their pets go around killing all the songbirds :rolleyes

 :thumbup  I absolutely love birds. Cats are evil,couldn't hurt one though,I'm as soft as shit when it comes to any animals. :\
What about Rats? :eek

believe it or not apart from wheals disease etc they are supposed to be cleaner than squirrels! :eek
Yes, that may be true, but there are a lot more of them to contend with.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: unfazed on 11 February 2019, 11:12:48 am
A thread in a motorcycle forum on Brexit, when we all know which ever way it falls it will be a disaster up for some one or some group.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 February 2019, 08:11:45 pm
Foccin wankers councils and their approach to gritting!!
Had 2 weeks worth of cold weather and icy mornings.... not a bit of salt in sight. Today 10 degrees, beautiful sunshine..... low and behold at 6 o clock the fucking gritters are out!?
So now tomorrow the maim roads will be covered in dry slippery salt. It's almost like there is someone deliberately gunning for bikers 🤯🤯🤯
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 11 February 2019, 08:44:00 pm
Foccin wankers councils and their approach to gritting!!
Had 2 weeks worth of cold weather and icy mornings.... not a bit of salt in sight. Today 10 degrees, beautiful sunshine..... low and behold at 6 o clock the fucking gritters are out!?
So now tomorrow the maim roads will be covered in dry slippery salt. It's almost like there is someone deliberately gunning for bikers 🤯🤯🤯

They cannot send the gritter drivers out in the ice. Its a H&S issue.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 February 2019, 09:18:02 pm
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A thread in a motorcycle forum on Brexit, when we all know which ever way it falls it will be a disaster up for some one or some group.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])

It was Steve1062cc what done that.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 11 February 2019, 09:32:44 pm
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A thread in a motorcycle forum on Brexit, when we all know which ever way it falls it will be a disaster up for some one or some group.  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/url])

It was Steve1062cc what done that.

What a grass  :lol
That's like the kid who started something naughty, then someone else told him to go somewhere else and do it, then despite being the main culprit and contributor, when it comes on top, he points the finger at the one who told him to go elsewhere....... You just keep getting better and better.... Keep em coming  :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 February 2019, 09:50:06 pm
BREXIT gets ma foccin goat >:
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 12 February 2019, 08:36:08 am
YES guilty as charged and I bitterly regret it, never has the same arguments been used by so few to bore so many 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 February 2019, 11:12:52 am

It's clearly titled as being a thread about Brexit. If people find it so distressing why are they clicking on it and reading it? :rolleyes


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 12 February 2019, 02:48:48 pm
Not aimed at you Yamfazfan but guess you knew that
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 February 2019, 04:16:16 pm
YES guilty as charged and I bitterly regret it, never has the same arguments been used by so few to bore so many 
It was a good idea to set it up to stop brexit stuff

     INVADING OTHER THREADS  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 12 February 2019, 08:27:27 pm
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YES guilty as charged and I bitterly regret it, never has the same arguments been used by so few to bore so many 
You are the proud creator of the most popular thread on the foc-u forum so far thus year. :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 14 February 2019, 04:02:16 pm
Wonderful sorry about that it's nothing to be proud of.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 14 February 2019, 05:24:06 pm

Wonderful sorry about that it's nothing to be proud of.


Why's it so shameful to start a thread about the biggest topic of the moment?.













Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 February 2019, 05:56:35 pm
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Why's it so shameful to start a thread about the biggest topic of the moment?.
What is shameful is Steve stuck my name in the title.  Shocking.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 14 February 2019, 08:36:06 pm
People who went to fight for or support Is/Isis and now want to come back to the UK so their children can be brought up in a non caliphate state, at UK citizens expense, while having no regrets and without changing their views
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 February 2019, 09:21:49 pm
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People who went to fight for or support Is/Isis and now want to come back to the UK so their children can be brought up in a non caliphate state, at UK citizens expense, while having no regrets and without changing their views   
I understand your view and have some sympathy for it.


However, the UK  has long sucked up to the Wahhabist Saudi state.  ISIS practises Wahhabism and sourced much of it’s funding from Saudi.  And of course, with our illegal and immoral wars we created the vacuum that led to the rise of ISIS.  We have also sat back and let our Saudi ‘friends’ spread their sick depraved interpretation of Islam around the world, and indeed across Europe and the UK. 



I would therefore argue that Shamima Begum is just another victim of our own shear and utter ignorance and stupidity. 
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 February 2019, 11:24:03 pm
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People who went to fight for or support Is/Isis and now want to come back to the UK so their children can be brought up in a non caliphate state, at UK citizens expense, while having no regrets and without changing their views   
I understand your view and have some sympathy for it.

However, the UK  has long sucked up to the Wahhabist Saudi state.  ISIS practises Wahhabism and sourced much of it’s funding from Saudi.  And of course, with our illegal and immoral wars we created the vacuum that led to the rise of ISIS.  We have also sat back and let our Saudi ‘friends’ spread their sick depraved interpretation of Islam around the world, and indeed across Europe and the UK. 
I would therefore argue that Shamima Begum is just another victim of our own shear and utter ignorance and stupidity. 
 
Could you tell us who IYO we should vote for to stop all this.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 February 2019, 11:41:39 pm
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Could you tell us who IYO we should vote for to stop all this.
Can you tell us, IYO, how it is you think we can change the world by placing a vote once every 5 years or so.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 14 February 2019, 11:45:58 pm
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Could you tell us who IYO we should vote for to stop all this.
Can you tell us, IYO, how it is you think we can change the world by placing a vote once every 5 years or so.

I haven't got the foggyest. Do you have any solutions.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 15 February 2019, 12:21:24 am
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Could you tell us who IYO we should vote for to stop all this.
Can you tell us, IYO, how it is you think we can change the world by placing a vote once every 5 years or so.

I haven't got the foggyest. Do you have any solutions.






break into the White House on election day ,kidnap the current president and put a bullet in his head as polling stops. Repeat every 5 years or so.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 15 February 2019, 08:31:46 am
Your right again VNA I shouldn't have put your name on it just foccing encouraged you and your side kick. Still on the bright side not long till it's all over one way or another. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 15 February 2019, 10:25:07 am
We will bring her back probably on a private plane at taxpayers expense. She will get feted by the bbc and the guardian as the victim of this country that so many who live here hate. Then she will get all the nhs help she needs for her and her baby and be fast tracked into a council house on full benefits. And the liberal left will rejoice whilst those who want to join Isis and cut the heads off aid workers in the fight against the evil of the west will think it’s not just ok to do so but they will get rewarded for it when they get back.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 15 February 2019, 10:27:17 am
Oh and no doubt she will sue the government. And win.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 15 February 2019, 11:09:22 am
Oh and no doubt she will sue the government. And win.


Just about sums things up.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 February 2019, 06:06:52 pm
 
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We will bring her back probably on a private plane at taxpayers expense. She will get feted by the bbc and the guardian as the victim of this country that so many who live here hate. Then she will get all the nhs help she needs for her and her baby and be fast tracked into a council house on full benefits. And the liberal left will rejoice whilst those who want to join Isis and cut the heads off aid workers in the fight against the evil of the west will think it’s not just ok to do so but they will get rewarded for it when they get back.

I think not.   You need to stop reading the Daily Mail Ogri. :lol


I think the fact is that she has a legal right to return.  However, she will have to find her own way back.  She will be detained on arrival in the UK.  She may face charges and ultimately possibly imprisonment.  Though there will also have to be a health assessment including a full mental health assessment.  It also has to be noted that she was 15 when she left the UK. 



Due process will take its course.  Shockingly I seem to be in 100% agrement with the extreme right - Jacob Rees-Mogg has said much the same. :eek
I need to take some pills and lie down.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 15 February 2019, 06:23:40 pm
I guess that her eturn is inevitable. The govt has already allowed some 300 to 400 ISIS fighters back in without much of fuss, and the taxpayer will have to pay to keep tabs on them for the rest of their lives, not to mention their benefits cos you just cant see them working for a livivng

I think I recall saying in a previous post elsewhere, the cost of keeping tabs on these scum sucking pond lifes cannot be considered value for money, and its value for money that the govt considers priority when it spends taxpayers cash. £2,000,000 a year just to keep tabs on the hate preacher Choudry and keep him safe and sound. If he lives another 40 years, thats £80,000,000 thrown onto the fire, with at least another 6,000 of the hatemongers to be watched 24/7.

They're pissing on us
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 February 2019, 07:17:46 pm
 But it’s perfectly OK to destroy Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and indeed Syria.
I wonder how much that little lot cost.
What about the hundreds of thousands or is it now in the millions dead as a result of our foreign policy?  The millions upon millions displaced.  Countries laid to waste.
Meanwhile we continue to be best pals with the no.1 ISIS funders Saudi Arabia.  The UK sucks up to the biggest scum in the world. 
So, tell me, who are the real fucking terrorists?
But no Agricola, you don’t give a flying fuck do you.  So, lets all get our knickers in a twist over some two-bit preacher and a 15-year-old school girl.
Keep reading the Daily Mail folks.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 15 February 2019, 07:39:05 pm
Go back to the Brexit thread I started for you. You spout the same bile and rubbish when ever you open your mouth. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 February 2019, 08:47:29 pm
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Go back to the Brexit thread I started for you. You spout the same bile and rubbish when ever you open your mouth. 
Yup sure it's OK to spout racist xenophobic Daily Mail pish.
And indivduals can post facist material without complaint.
That's all fine with you.

And, yes, how dare anybody object.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: dazza on 15 February 2019, 09:56:03 pm
VNA....I'm sensing that you're very angry about something again. :lol
I think there are underlying issues here that need to be addressed.
Have you considered therapy or medication ?  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 February 2019, 10:43:09 pm
 
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VNA....I'm sensing that you're very angry about something again. :lol

No, just expressing my view. :)   Though Daily Mail type views and rants do get ma goat. :lol
 
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I think there are underlying issues here that need to be addressed.
Have you considered therapy or medication ?  :D

That’s weird, that’s exactly what ah wis thinkin aboot you Dazza. :D
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 16 February 2019, 09:46:04 am
VNA....I'm sensing that you're very angry about something again. :lol
I think there are underlying issues here that need to be addressed.
Have you considered therapy or medication ?  :D


Fucking Euthanasia.  :eek

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 16 February 2019, 10:10:46 am

What about the hundreds of thousands or is it now in the millions dead as a result of our foreign policy? 
Who's policy - its not mine
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 21 February 2019, 07:39:32 pm
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats gotive also asked them to my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble












got an email today , bill has now been canceled , thought this would take a while to sort. Thanks to FAZERSHARP and DARRSI for links n things ..........ive also asked them to delete my details from their system which is a lot harded tham putting them on their system      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 21 February 2019, 08:03:33 pm
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats gotive also asked them to my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble












got an email today , bill has now been canceled , thought this would take a while to sort. Thanks to FAZERSHARP and DARRSI for links n things ..........ive also asked them to delete my details from their system which is a lot harded tham putting them on their system      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Which was the best route that worked. The forum admins, online chat or telephone conversation.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 24 February 2019, 07:02:38 pm
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 24 February 2019, 07:12:03 pm
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.
Yeh - violently yanking the bars left and right.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazerscotty on 24 February 2019, 07:28:01 pm
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.
Yeh - violently yanking the bars left and right.
Its because they can't put their feet down - the feet are strapped/held into the pedals!How can they retain control (legally)?When I see them in this condition - I get in the way, just for the laugh..... :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 24 February 2019, 07:29:47 pm
driving in London. did it yesterday. god I hate that place..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 08:01:36 pm
The traffic can be murder up here too.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2168/2093619805_e026bf4b77.jpg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: slappy on 24 February 2019, 08:01:58 pm
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.


Saw one doing that about a year ago, just as the light  went to  green  he lost it  and just fell over to the left. My 15 year granddaughter  was in the passenger, seat,  wound down her window as we drove past and shouted  " that'll teach you for trying to be a clever git " . I  didnn"t know which was funniest, him falling over or her remark.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 24 February 2019, 09:27:18 pm
The traffic can be murder up here too.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2168/2093619805_e026bf4b77.jpg)
lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 09:46:40 pm
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lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..
What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 24 February 2019, 09:56:59 pm
theres parkin bays in kings cross, with phone numbers to pay for four hours parking. you phone up and thats the charge. and there are foccing cameras everywhere. you nip in a bus lane, your fined. you stop on double red lines to drop someone off or pick them up, your fined. Couldn't take my bike coz its to old. id get fined for that....I foccing hate the place..
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 24 February 2019, 10:00:24 pm
should have took the train/tube really mate, but I didn't wanna get blown up or stabbed. you pays your money...
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 10:39:29 pm
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should have took the train/tube really mate, but I didn't wanna get blown up or stabbed. you pays your money...
Not been to London fae donkeys years, but when I was last there I thought public transport was fantastic.  Got me everywhere nae bother.

   


Talking of getting blown up or stabbed, I was supposed to be at Glasgow airport the day of the terrorist attack.  There was to be a NO to ID protest, right around the time the slightly incompetent terrorists struck, and I was to take some snaps, but they switched it at the last minute to the Glasgow Passport Office.  If I’d have been there, I’d have made a mint, or maybe sods law would have intervened and I’d have got blown tae bits.

 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 10:41:22 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1014/1338707162_5861b638c1_z.jpg)


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 24 February 2019, 11:18:43 pm
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lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..

What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.
VNA have you been to Edinburgh recently!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 11:35:22 pm
 Funnily enough last time I took the train.
Glasgow, I park the car in Govan and take the tube.  Cheaper and quicker than driving into the centre.  And if you do try driving in Glasgow city centre, yup plenty of cameras automatically issuing fines.  City centre is a nightmare now.  Been a while since too since I parked the thou up in the city centre too.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 February 2019, 11:39:22 pm
A few miles out of town though;
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4033/4651091856_0045cdd1d9_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 24 February 2019, 11:39:35 pm
Well at least in Edinburgh they've got the extensive tram system  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 February 2019, 08:43:54 am
Only 2 good things to come out of London the A1 & M1 heading north.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 25 February 2019, 09:43:39 am
Only 2 good things to come out of London the A1 & M1 heading north.

 :agree
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 25 February 2019, 10:20:32 am
Yep, also have the advantage of getting you through Yorkshire as quickly as possible  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 February 2019, 11:10:04 am
What's wrong with Yorkshire other they have short arms and deep pockets. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 25 February 2019, 11:51:08 am
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.

Because it means that they can pull away without needing to waste time getting their foot back into a toe clip.

How many bikers keep the bike in gear at the lights and hold the clutch in, instead of putting it into neutral as you're advised to do?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 25 February 2019, 12:11:17 pm
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.
How many bikers keep the bike in gear at the lights and hold the clutch in, instead of putting it into neutral as you're advised to do?

Don't know if any do. But I will if I know the lights are about to change
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 25 February 2019, 12:54:46 pm
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What's wrong with Yorkshire other they have short arms and deep pockets.
They keep ferrets down their trousers  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 25 February 2019, 01:13:01 pm
No they don't to afraid the ferrets would nick his small change.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 25 February 2019, 06:58:11 pm
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lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..
What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.


It's quite cheap - you go round some areas and it's pushing £40-45 for 4-8 hours. Add to that the congestion charge at £12.50 plus double the fuel that a bike uses and you can see why I bike it to London every day....2 gallons and that's all. Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 25 February 2019, 08:02:48 pm
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Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.
And if you're very lucky, it's still there when you get to go home  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Frosties on 25 February 2019, 09:00:36 pm
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Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.
And if you're very lucky, it's still there when you get to go home  :(


A 650 Bandit that hasn't been washed in 2 yrs will still be there (mechaically spot on )- it looks like shit for a reason. Even added yellow/green electrical tape here n there. If anyone nicks it they'd get a kicking from their Fagin  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 08 March 2019, 10:42:21 am
Riding into work this morning and couldn't help but notice the car behind tailgating me for quite a while.
On closer inspection looking at my wing mirror I noticed a woman with her sun visor down so she could carry on doing her make-up in her mirror while she was driving.  :grumble
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 09 March 2019, 01:39:49 am
Riding into work this morning and couldn't help but notice the car behind tailgating me for quite a while.
On closer inspection looking at my wing mirror I noticed a woman with her sun visor down so she could carry on doing her make-up in her mirror while she was driving.  :grumble





and if she did hit you up the arse she'd be extremely annoyed if you'd caused her to smudge her lipstick!  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 09 March 2019, 06:34:02 am
Riding into work this morning and couldn't help but notice the car behind tailgating me for quite a while.
On closer inspection looking at my wing mirror I noticed a woman with her sun visor down so she could carry on doing her make-up in her mirror while she was driving.  :grumble





and if she did hit you up the arse she'd be extremely annoyed if you'd caused her to smudge her lipstick!  :lol


She was doing it for so long if she had hit me i would've expected the doors to fall off the car then see Ronald McDonald get out.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tommyardin on 09 March 2019, 06:46:09 pm
Only 2 good things to come out of London the A1 & M1 heading north.


Err! Excuse me Steve you are forgetting the A3
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: ogri48 on 09 March 2019, 07:47:55 pm

meghan and harry
whats a pair of sanctimonious cu..... :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: coffee on 09 March 2019, 09:39:17 pm

meghan and harry
whats a pair of sanctimonious cu..... :)






say what you feel mate, don't beat around the bush! :lol    I hope you're not talking about Harry Hewitt by any chance?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: red98 on 10 March 2019, 08:28:06 am
Quote from: fazersharp lnk=topic=17546.msg293044#msg293044 date=1550779413
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats gotive also asked them to my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble












got an email today , bill has now been canceled , thought this would take a while to sort. Thanks to FAZERSHARP and DARRSI for links n things ..........ive also asked them to delete my details from their system which is a lot harded tham putting them on their system      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Which was the best route that worked. The forum admins, online chat or telephone conversation.




















hi SHARPIE , sorry i missed your reply , i tried the email address on the bill to start with but that was not available for some reason , so i googled TALKTALK EMAIL and fired one off , took a while to get a reply but after a couple of prompts bill was cancelled and i even had a small apology.....


had a laugh on saturday morning , i get another bill in the post from TALKTALK , showing the previous balance , the refund and the amount due £0.00.........the original bill was the cost of posting the bill for £0.00 as they didnt have my email address and now they have done the same again  :lol ......it wont surprise me In the slighest if i get another bill for the refund bill , this could go on for some time   :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: darrsi on 10 March 2019, 09:51:43 am
Quote from: fazersharp lnk=topic=17546.msg293044#msg293044 date=1550779413
Getting a bill from TALKTALK when iam not even a customer......yep , thats gotive also asked them to my goat today , just a tiny bit annoyed at that , a bit niggled , a little bit  rattled.........thinking of jumping on the FAZER and paying them a visit at thier posh london offices and ramming the bill  right up their a*s      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble

got an email today , bill has now been canceled , thought this would take a while to sort. Thanks to FAZERSHARP and DARRSI for links n things ..........ive also asked them to delete my details from their system which is a lot harded tham putting them on their system      :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble
Which was the best route that worked. The forum admins, online chat or telephone conversation.




















hi SHARPIE , sorry i missed your reply , i tried the email address on the bill to start with but that was not available for some reason , so i googled TALKTALK EMAIL and fired one off , took a while to get a reply but after a couple of prompts bill was cancelled and i even had a small apology.....


had a laugh on saturday morning , i get another bill in the post from TALKTALK , showing the previous balance , the refund and the amount due £0.00.........the original bill was the cost of posting the bill for £0.00 as they didnt have my email address and now they have done the same again  :lol ......it wont surprise me In the slighest if i get another bill for the refund bill , this could go on for some time   :lol


I got a 4 page statement from Vodafone years ago telling me i didn't owe them anything, seeing as i cancelled my contract in under 24hrs as their customer service was appalling when i needed help at the time and phoned them.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 17 March 2019, 05:49:33 pm
Once I noticed at tax office had under charged me and so I told them only for them to reply the "THEY have noticed an underpayment" and due to the underpayment I now also have to pay interest on the difference WTF :eek :wall
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 07 May 2019, 09:41:53 pm
All new cars that seem to be grey --- they look crap.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 07 May 2019, 09:59:00 pm

All new cars that seem to be grey --- they look crap.


Yeah I've noticed that. Especially that shade of grey primer :thumbdown .
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 29 May 2019, 10:23:08 pm
Here I am doing my bit for the environment shuffling around the house bumping into things with inadequate low energy lighting - not that I can move around much due to the the 15 layers of woolly jumpers ( heaven forbid I turn the heating above 4 degrees ) save the washing up water to flush the loo, walk 8 miles to the farm market to buy veg covered in shit. All this and then 2 football clubs and fans who are 10 miles apart fly 3,000 miles for a 90 min game.  :rolleyes . Anyway off to bed - after I have brushed my teeth rinsed with a cup of my own piss that I have saved.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 30 May 2019, 07:34:38 am
Nice one fazersharp your spot on with that comment
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: agricola on 30 May 2019, 10:39:59 am
Here I am doing my bit for the environment shuffling around the house bumping into things with inadequate low energy lighting - not that I can move around much due to the the 15 layers of woolly jumpers ( heaven forbid I turn the heating above 4 degrees ) save the washing up water to flush the loo, walk 8 miles to the farm market to buy veg covered in shit. All this and then 2 football clubs and fans who are 10 miles apart fly 3,000 miles for a 90 min game.  :rolleyes . Anyway off to bed - after I have brushed my teeth rinsed with a cup of my own piss that I have saved.


 :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Oldgit on 01 June 2019, 12:57:26 pm

An here's me doing my bit for the environment with ma sandals on, complete with socks, my hair shirt and the family huddling around a seriously strong mint which is heating the house at the moment.

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: midden on 01 June 2019, 01:03:19 pm
Here I am doing my bit for the environment shuffling around the house bumping into things with inadequate low energy lighting - not that I can move around much due to the the 15 layers of woolly jumpers ( heaven forbid I turn the heating above 4 degrees ) save the washing up water to flush the loo, walk 8 miles to the farm market to buy veg covered in shit. All this and then 2 football clubs and fans who are 10 miles apart fly 3,000 miles for a 90 min game.  :rolleyes . Anyway off to bed - after I have brushed my teeth rinsed with a cup of my own piss that I have saved.



Have you not set up a rain water system for your toilet yet.  You can even set it up for washing machines you know ;)

Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: tex on 01 June 2019, 04:21:51 pm
Out for a nice ride and half the roads in hertfordshire have been resurfaced leaving all the loose stones on top  😈
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 04 June 2019, 10:53:46 am
(Sorry if this has been posted already but I can't scroll back through 126 pages to check)
So, my latest hackle raiser is people who like to sit in a crowded place and watch bollox on their smartphones, at full volume and don't give a FOC about those in earshot. I remember when people would use earphones ?????
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: steve 10562cc on 04 June 2019, 12:55:26 pm
Leicestershire the same, resurfaced the county roads couldn't be bothered to sweep the loose grit up. Still on the bright side it's filled some of the pot holes they haven't bothered to repair first.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 04 June 2019, 01:02:20 pm
Really gets my goat when they do a dual carriageway, some tosser who does not give a sh1t about their car speeds past in the outside lane showering my car in stones  :lmao2   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 June 2019, 06:35:54 pm
Right now my foccing glasses.  I just popped them off to rub my eye whislt posting in the ZXthou thread.  I dropped em, they bounced off ma desk and fell on the carpet.
Now one leg has gone loose.  Found my reading glasses and had a look.  A wee clip on bit has gone astray that keeps the leg in line.
It cannot have gone far.  It must be here.  But can I find the foccing thing.
Yes dropping small items on the floor and not being able to find me.  It cannot be far away but I can't find it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 10 June 2019, 06:43:41 pm
Needing to wear your glasses to see what's wrong with your glasses :)


What doesn't get on my goat - riding through Glencoe, Rannoch Moor, Rest and Be Thankful, and more. Just got back after 1500 miles round trip. Awesome  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 June 2019, 06:51:48 pm
Yeah I know.  I can't find it.  I can't believe it.  Driving me nuts.And if I can't find it, well I guess all the optician will want to do is sell me a new pair. >:
Nice weather fae a change.  Ideal for a wee trip.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 June 2019, 07:10:03 pm
Must have been vapourised.  Foc me. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 10 June 2019, 07:10:41 pm
Pis*ed down all the way through England to home  :(
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 10 June 2019, 07:39:16 pm
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Pis*ed down all the way through England to home  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/sad.gif[/url])

Well nowt tae look at doon there anyway.
I still cannae find ma wee bit fae ma goggles.  I cannot foccin believe it.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Freck on 11 June 2019, 06:00:49 pm
This site on my iPad  :\
For some reason whenever I go back a page the screen resets to the top of the page rather than where I was, so I have to scroll down and find where I was again.
Foccing annoying it is, and it’s the only site that seems to do it to me.  :groan
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2019, 11:12:48 pm
Now one leg has gone loose.  Found my reading glasses and had a look.  A wee clip on bit has gone astray that keeps the leg in line.
It cannot have gone far.  It must be here.  But can I find the foccing thing.

If you have a vacuum cleaner with hose attachment, put a J-Cloth or similar over the end of the hose, then push the "hard floor" brush (the rectangular one) over the end of it.

Run this over the area where the bit was lost and it will be sucked up into to the tube, but it'll stop at the J-cloth which will let the air through, but not the bit, then switch off, holding the end of the tool over a bowl or similar.

Sorted :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 11 June 2019, 11:35:01 pm
Now one leg has gone loose.  Found my reading glasses and had a look.  A wee clip on bit has gone astray that keeps the leg in line.
It cannot have gone far.  It must be here.  But can I find the foccing thing.

If you have a vacuum cleaner with hose attachment, put a J-Cloth or similar over the end of the hose, then push the "hard floor" brush (the rectangular one) over the end of it.

Run this over the area where the bit was lost and it will be sucked up into to the tube, but it'll stop at the J-cloth which will let the air through, but not the bit, then switch off, holding the end of the tool over a bowl or similar.

Sorted :thumbup
Women's weakly 1969  :lol Actually there is also an attachment you can get which is a bunch of straws that convert the one big hole into 30 smaller ones. Here you go https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223203117001 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223203117001)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Robbie8666 on 12 June 2019, 07:34:34 am
Ferrys!
ok so first time ever I have been over to France on a ferry (Brittany ferry Plymouth to Roscoff & return)
why do bikes get loaded first then unloaded last?
ok I understand we go on upper car deck as lower is for trucks etc but to let all those cars off before the bikes is mental.. the car deck was full of fumes choking bikers that don't have any air filtration whilst cagers sit there happily revving their engines!
yes it was good how they had all the straps ready etc but surely they should be on an inside lane so unloading would be quicker..

but it was nice to meet lots friendly bikers / motorcyclists 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Grahamm on 12 June 2019, 10:33:52 am
Women's weakly 1969 

Actually I learned that one from Railway Modeller back in the early 1980s when I built my own model layout as a kid :)

It's a quick way to put ballast under the track, you mark out where the track is to go, spread PVA glue on the base board, pin down the track, then just pour the ballast along the length.

Wait for the glue to set and use the J-Cloth trick to vacuum up any that hasn't stuck :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 12 June 2019, 11:15:51 am

Now one leg has gone loose.  Found my reading glasses and had a look.  A wee clip on bit has gone astray that keeps the leg in line.
It cannot have gone far.  It must be here.  But can I find the foccing thing.

If you have a vacuum cleaner with hose attachment, put a J-Cloth or similar over the end of the hose, then push the "hard floor" brush (the rectangular one) over the end of it.

Run this over the area where the bit was lost and it will be sucked up into to the tube, but it'll stop at the J-cloth which will let the air through, but not the bit, then switch off, holding the end of the tool over a bowl or similar.

Sorted :thumbup


Either that or the rest of the forum can just sit back and have a giggle :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: fazersharp on 12 June 2019, 09:51:10 pm
So there I am watching u tube presentations of professors of ancient sumerian cultures and the cuniform tablets. The epic of gilgamesh no less, which leads me to the flood story that pre dates the one in the book - that book. So then I search flood stories and bring up loads - so I filter by most watched. And what comes up with most watched ----- focing Evan Almighty 13M views FFS  :eek -- may as well just drink beer and be stupid.     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 12 June 2019, 10:03:38 pm
may as well just drink beer and be stupid.   


I've picked up on Joe Rogan's podcast for some interesting discussions: scientists, philosophers, comedians, sportsmen (mostly martial arts with Joe), and not heavily pc like tv stuff. Then I go off and look at some of the podcasts and stuff by Joe's guests. Plenty to keep me thinking. Wouldn't mind finding a good history one though - must have a trawl through.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2019, 09:53:59 am

Jo Brand and that "joke".


If it were a right wing comedian there'd be hell to pay. The hypocrisy of the left is staggering.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 13 June 2019, 10:34:13 am
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Jo Brand and that "joke".
I thought Nigel was all in favour of free speech?
The hypocrisy of the right is staggering  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 13 June 2019, 06:14:43 pm
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Jo Brand and that "joke".
 
 
If it were a right wing comedian there'd be hell to pay. The hypocrisy of the left is staggering.

You mean a right-wing comedian like Nigel;
 
Yes Nigel Farage, addressing an audience of supporters stated that if BREXIT is not delivered, he would be forced to
Quote
“don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines”

He’s not funny though – is he.
 
Quote
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
  Jo Brand
For focs sake – she’s a comedian!
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: mtread on 13 June 2019, 06:58:31 pm
This is hypocrisy....
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 13 June 2019, 07:14:01 pm
Quote
This is hypocrisy....
Yup and he's already bought his votes - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-tax-cut-wealthy-tory-leadership-contest-conservative-party-a8951631.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-tax-cut-wealthy-tory-leadership-contest-conservative-party-a8951631.html)

A 10 billion pound pay off.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2019, 07:24:09 pm
NO POLITICS! it now says :deal
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 13 June 2019, 08:18:17 pm
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NO POLITICS! it now says
But you started it  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2019, 08:26:22 pm

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NO POLITICS! it now says
But you started it  :b


The thread title hadn't been modified when I posted this morning :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 13 June 2019, 08:29:29 pm
Neither for us. It was changed after 7.14 this evening  :b
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2019, 08:57:52 pm

Yep which is when I flagged it up with the first post after the title alteration.

Try to keep up :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 13 June 2019, 09:21:29 pm
So what happened to the thread started for those who wished to talk bikes and politics - doh! :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 13 June 2019, 10:38:52 pm
Quote
Yep which is when I flagged it up with the first post after the title alteration. Try to keep up

I've lost the plot  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2019, 11:56:33 pm

Quote
Yep which is when I flagged it up with the first post after the title alteration. Try to keep up

I've lost the plot  :rolleyes



Pre 7:14 pm...Politics OK :thumbup


Post 7:14pm...Politics Nay :thumbdown



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: darrsi on 14 June 2019, 05:23:26 am
Quote
Yep which is when I flagged it up with the first post after the title alteration. Try to keep up

I've lost the plot  :rolleyes



Think people have been trying to give you and VNA hints for months now, but you're so both wrapped up in your own warped little worlds that you've simply not acknowledged anything whatsoever.
Good of you to finally admit it though.  :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 14 June 2019, 10:16:28 am
Ha ha :lol


Can't you read NO POLITICS  :2guns
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 June 2019, 06:50:48 pm
 
Quote
Think people have been trying to give you and VNA hints for months now, but you're so both wrapped up in your own warped little worlds that you've simply not acknowledged anything whatsoever.

I think firstly darrsi you should speak for yourself.
Quote
His general attitude has consistently always been a piece of shit,
I think at the end of the day, you have made it clear that you are sympathetic to extremist and unsavoury views   You say you dislike political threads yet insist on repeatedly posting insults as you are unable to accept that others may not share your views, and of course insults is all you can manage as you are incapable of any intelligent and reasonable discussion.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: darrsi on 15 June 2019, 10:22:33 am
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Think people have been trying to give you and VNA hints for months now, but you're so both wrapped up in your own warped little worlds that you've simply not acknowledged anything whatsoever.

I think firstly darrsi you should speak for yourself.
Quote
His general attitude has consistently always been a piece of shit,
I think at the end of the day, you have made it clear that you are sympathetic to extremist and unsavoury views   You say you dislike political threads yet insist on repeatedly posting insults as you are unable to accept that others may not share your views, and of course insults is all you can manage as you are incapable of any intelligent and reasonable discussion.


Yeah, 'cos you've always been so tolerant of other peoples opinions.
My word, you are so full of yourself it's quite unbelievable. 



Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 June 2019, 11:43:25 am
 
Quote
Yeah, 'cos you've always been so tolerant of other peoples opinions.

If I disagree with another’s opinion, I’ll state why, put forward an argument and make my position clear.


On the other hand you darrsi, can only express outrage that not everybody agrees with you, and being unable to address the substance of any debate you resort to insults and name calling, just as you are doing right now.
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: darrsi on 15 June 2019, 12:25:36 pm
Quote
Yeah, 'cos you've always been so tolerant of other peoples opinions.

If I disagree with another’s opinion, I’ll state why, put forward an argument and make my position clear.


On the other hand you darrsi, can only express outrage that not everybody agrees with you, and being unable to address the substance of any debate you resort to insults and name calling, just as you are doing right now.


You WILL state why, but still totally disregarding whatever anyone else has said.
I don't need to prove my point, you have done it over and over and over again yourself.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 June 2019, 12:45:34 pm
 
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You WILL state why, but still totally disregarding whatever anyone else has said.
If I have stated why I disagree, clearly, I have considered what another has said.  Doh!
Quote
I don't need to prove my point,
You don’t have a point – you never do.  All you do is take offense at those who disagree with you and call them names.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: darrsi on 15 June 2019, 01:31:03 pm
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You WILL state why, but still totally disregarding whatever anyone else has said.
If I have stated why I disagree, clearly, I have considered what another has said.  Doh!
Quote
I don't need to prove my point,
You don’t have a point – you never do.  All you do is take offense at those who disagree with you and call them names.


Other than your ally mtread, you disagree with EVERYONE on here.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 June 2019, 01:40:46 pm
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Other than your ally mtread, you disagree with EVERYONE on here.
I think a wise person speaks for themselves. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: darrsi on 15 June 2019, 03:11:50 pm
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Other than your ally mtread, you disagree with EVERYONE on here.
I think a wise person speaks for themselves.


And that is exactly what i am doing.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 June 2019, 03:16:44 pm
 
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Think people have been trying to give you and VNA hints for months now

Quote
Quote
 
    Other than your ally mtread, you disagree with EVERYONE on here.
 
I think a wise person speaks for themselves.

Quote
And that is exactly what i am doing.

Really :lol
 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 15 June 2019, 04:05:54 pm
Quote
Other than your ally mtread, you disagree with EVERYONE on here.


So what?


Since when did a bunch of old fat bald blokes represent this country?  :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Dudeofrude on 15 June 2019, 06:43:21 pm
What gets my goat.....You lot fucking bickering!!
It's like a playground in here 🙄
Stop hijacking threads to argue in and go for a ride or something... honestly
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 15 June 2019, 06:48:44 pm
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What gets my goat.....You lot fucking bickering!!
I’M NOT FOCCING BICKERING!

Honestly some people.


 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: dickturpin on 15 June 2019, 07:16:58 pm
Foccin advert breaks on the TV... anyone else think there are more and more adverts each break.. especially on some of the lesser channels.  ☹️☹️
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Frosties on 15 June 2019, 07:39:17 pm
Foccin advert breaks on the TV... anyone else think there are more and more adverts each break.. especially on some of the lesser channels.  ☹️☹️


With you on that one fella. Some seem to be every 10 mins. Grrrrr
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 June 2019, 07:39:48 pm
Foccin advert breaks on the TV... anyone else think there are more and more adverts each break.. especially on some of the lesser channels.  ☹️☹️
Yep and why is it that no matter when you change over it's ALWAYS on the advert break. Can they tell you've just switched?!.

Next time I'm going to leave the set on in the kitchen and run out to see if that's on the ads at the same time on the same channel :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Frosties on 15 June 2019, 07:41:19 pm
Foccin advert breaks on the TV... anyone else think there are more and more adverts each break.. especially on some of the lesser channels.  ☹️☹️
Yep and why is it that no matter when you change over it's ALWAYS on the advert break. Can they tell you've just switched?!.

Next time I'm going to leave the set on in the kitchen and run out to see if that's on the ads at the same time on the same channel :D


Thought it was just me  :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: YamFazFan on 15 June 2019, 07:51:46 pm
the set
That really makes me sound "with it" doesn't it :o :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 15 June 2019, 08:01:19 pm
The adverts are defiantly co coordinated so that they are all on at the same time for when you start switching the remote - or in Yamfazfan's case a long stick poking his set buttons.AND they are louder that the program you was watching. But glad to see that they have now banned gender stereotype adverts most of which seem to be about men being stupid.     
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Post by: Grahamm on 15 June 2019, 09:46:59 pm
Foccin advert breaks on the TV... anyone else think there are more and more adverts each break.. especially on some of the lesser channels.  ☹️☹️

That's why I record (or, now, use Catch Up to download programmes) and fast-forward through them! :thumbup
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Post by: Grahamm on 15 June 2019, 09:49:32 pm
Yep and why is it that no matter when you change over it's ALWAYS on the advert break. Can they tell you've just switched?!.

Next time I'm going to leave the set on in the kitchen and run out to see if that's on the ads at the same time on the same channel :D

Most of the smaller channels run their advert breaks at exactly the same time simply to stop people flipping to see if there's anything else on another channel!

Also if you watch US programmes, note when there's a "fade to black" between scenes, that's when the US channels would put in a break.
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Post by: darrsi on 15 June 2019, 10:49:12 pm
On a similar note, when you get a really annoying advert on the radio that is repeated non stop all day.
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Post by: Steve3351 on 15 June 2019, 10:56:46 pm
Good God..!!!  R U still watching TV...????..get out and work on yer chicken strips :rolleyes
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Post by: Frosties on 15 June 2019, 11:12:04 pm
Good God..!!!  R U still watching TV...????..get out and work on yer chicken strips :rolleyes


11pm fella, I'm half cut - no chance of riding when pissed  :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 16 June 2019, 10:12:16 pm

or in Yamfazfan's case a long stick poking his set buttons


The bit I really get fed up with is waiting for them bloomin valves to warm up :lol
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Post by: darrsi on 20 June 2019, 01:45:59 pm
Some gobshite spat out of his van window this morning as he was sitting in still traffic and i was slowly going past him.
Basically he spat on the front of my bike.
It was a transit type van and he was leaning on the door with the window down so could clearly see me in the mirrors.....if he looked.


Whether it was deliberate or not, i don’t know, but........no need.  :rolleyes
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 20 June 2019, 06:44:48 pm
Some gobshite spat out of his van window this morning as he was sitting in still traffic and i was slowly going past him.
Basically he spat on the front of my bike.
It was a transit type van and he was leaning on the door with the window down so could clearly see me in the mirrors.....if he looked.


Whether it was deliberate or not, i don’t know, but........no need.  :rolleyes

Cant say I've had anyone spit but the majn one is get is fag ash. Happens all the time around town when some idiot is smoking while driving but instead of using an ashtray they just flick the ash out their half open window... drives me mad
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Post by: darrsi on 20 June 2019, 07:04:22 pm
Some gobshite spat out of his van window this morning as he was sitting in still traffic and i was slowly going past him.
Basically he spat on the front of my bike.
It was a transit type van and he was leaning on the door with the window down so could clearly see me in the mirrors.....if he looked.


Whether it was deliberate or not, i don’t know, but........no need.  :rolleyes

Cant say I've had anyone spit but the majn one is get is fag ash. Happens all the time around town when some idiot is smoking while driving but instead of using an ashtray they just flick the ash out their half open window... drives me mad


Been spat at a few of times before, by kids and by a lorry driver who emptied a full flask of coffee in the air out of his window before he started spitting, even though i was about 3 car lengths behind him sitting in line with his wing mirror just so he could see i was there.
Had apples thrown at me, and fireworks aimed at me.
Oh, and had a woman deliberately swerve in traffic and run over the edge of my boot.


Maybe it’s just me  :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: Trebus on 20 June 2019, 08:55:23 pm
I was cycling in Devon a few years ago and some scrotes lobbed a McDonald’s coke out the window at me as they passed in the car. Hadn’t done anything to them but hope natural selection will take care of them in due course!
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Post by: coffee on 20 June 2019, 11:50:54 pm
On a similar note, when you get a really annoying advert on the radio that is repeated non stop all day.



I phoned a radio station about this and the bloke said they have to do this because of the fees these advertisers pay,without which they couldn't keep going,but what a fucking ball ache,ay? :finger
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Post by: darrsi on 21 June 2019, 05:42:25 am
On a similar note, when you get a really annoying advert on the radio that is repeated non stop all day.



I phoned a radio station about this and the bloke said they have to do this because of the fees these advertisers pay,without which they couldn't keep going,but what a fucking ball ache,ay? :finger


I'm fortunate enough to have a choice of radio stations on my bench which i either find using DAB, which is unreliable in my area dependent on the weather, or i can use the internet stations on my iPad Bluetoothed through my sound system.
I like to mix it up occasionally so as not to get too repetitive, but some stations can be far worse than others for adverts, over talking, crappy fake sounding pop music, etc.
Other days i'll use Spotify with my own music played randomly, but i only have the free version so they can be one of the worst culprits for constant advertising breaks, using the same ads over and over again, especially the video ads.
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Post by: Frosties on 21 June 2019, 07:55:03 am
Cars who park on the opposite side of the road facing you with their headlamps left on full. Why don't they have the common sense to turn them to side lights. Can't see much past them.


No amount of main beam (in car) from me makes them realise -they either flash back or give you finger salutes. Happening more and more these days...Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Post by: fazersharp on 21 June 2019, 10:25:23 am
Cars who park on the opposite side of the road facing you with their headlamps left on full. Why don't they have the common sense to turn them to side lights. Can't see much past them.


No amount of main beam (in car) from me makes them realise -they either flash back or give you finger salutes. Happening more and more these days...Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
:agree
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Post by: Freck on 21 June 2019, 05:33:26 pm
Cars who park on the opposite side of the road facing you with their headlamps left on full. Why don't they have the common sense to turn them to side lights. Can't see much past them.


No amount of main beam (in car) from me makes them realise -they either flash back or give you finger salutes. Happening more and more these days...Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
:agree
Me too  :agree
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Post by: YamFazFan on 12 July 2019, 02:25:50 pm

Car parks which are either 100% card payment, or only 1 in about 6 machines accepts coins in an attempt to force you into paying by card.







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Post by: Dynspud on 12 July 2019, 02:53:02 pm
....or, as is the case with the car park next to the Premier Inn in Lichfield, it only takes cash and it doesn't give change so you have to put in the exact amount, which is something silly like £5.80 for 24 hours.
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 14 July 2019, 12:13:56 pm
This one is perennial I would guess but, fucking idiot cyclists in london -
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 July 2019, 12:40:37 pm
This one is perennial I would guess but, fucking idiot cyclists in london -
  • jumping red lights when your going in the same directly is annoying, but when they are traveling perpendicular to you and then then have to slam on the fucking anchor's to avoid and collision and then they have the fucking cheek to tell you to fuck off when you pull them on it - I have lost count of the amount of times I have to restrain myself from beating someone into a comma. Or worse you grab a cop and the cunt could not care less.
  • not doing shoulder checks or heck just being fucking aware of whats around them - again slamming on the anchor's when I haven't been able to predict where the fuck there were going.
  • riding in groups at peeks times, against the highway code and common sense - cops don't care, the royal parks service don't care, the cyclists don't care - so I just blast right through the middle of the bunch when they refuse to move over and the gap is big enough.
  • just utterly failing to have any sort of basic riding skill or road awareness - these people are either literately too stupid and shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
  • Having rear and front lights are blinding - I wish there was some sort of legal requirement that prevented cyclists and retailers from allowing the use and sale of these types of lights. The lights are so bright that they are brights than the HID/LED lights I have fitted the the Fazer.

Next time just pull up 50 feet ahead of them, get out your car and start staring at your mobile phone then jump in front of one of the fuckers..... if you take him to court in London youll be able to sue him for everything he owns 🤣
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Post by: fazersharp on 16 July 2019, 11:44:56 am
Gets my goat as witnessed every sunny morning before 7 am people driving wearing sunglasses. Low sun very long shadows means those shadows are virtually black, how can they see me as they turn right. Have to say that it is all women wearing them, I think its more of a fashion item rather than practical.   
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Post by: YamFazFan on 16 July 2019, 02:02:44 pm
The fashion amongst the Chelsea Tractor women is to have a pair of those enormous sunglasses perched up on top of their head. They wear them over the eyes early morning then raise them up for the rest of the day :lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 16 July 2019, 02:18:05 pm
The fashion amongst the Chelsea Tractor women is to have a pair of those enormous sunglasses perched up on top of their head. They wear them over the eyes early morning then raise them up for the rest of the day :lol
Yeh - that's them and the reason I have noticed it cause they are focing MASIVE ! and can see them coming from the opposite direction at 1/2 mile
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Post by: Oldgit on 19 July 2019, 09:51:48 am
These so called Celebs on Celebrity Gogglebox, I don't know who the half of them are, maybe they are celebs in their own minds??????
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Post by: Freck on 19 July 2019, 04:54:27 pm
Bloody roundabouts!
Since when has it become correct to have the right of way at a roundabout if you’re going straight across?
Mini roundabouts are the worst, many cars don’t even slow down at all on the approach as they think they’ve got right of way and can just carry on without giving way to anyone.  :wall
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Post by: mtread on 19 July 2019, 07:41:19 pm
 :agree  Nearly got taken out twice yesterday.


Every roundabout is a roundabout.
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Post by: coffee on 19 July 2019, 08:58:26 pm
:agree  Nearly got taken out twice yesterday.


Every roundabout is a roundabout.




yes,and the older you get the less you bounce,I got knocked off a couple of weeks ago and was pleased I got away with it but I had a bruise on my leg which seemed to take ages to stop hurting and I didn't even realise I'd done anything at the time.
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Post by: Oldgit on 20 July 2019, 02:12:43 pm
Me's had the same thing happen to me on the way to the Spring meet this year , rammed up the ass by a stupid driver coming off the M6, ended up in hospital and luckily just very badly bruised, bike being repaired as of now, Insurance companies can take a long time to get things sorted out. I bounced reasonably well for a Seventy year old after flying through the air for 10 feet.
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Post by: slappy on 20 July 2019, 02:27:42 pm
:agree  Nearly got taken out twice yesterday.


Every roundabout is a roundabout.




yes,and the older you get the less you bounce,I got knocked off a couple of weeks ago and was pleased I got away with it but I had a bruise on my leg which seemed to take ages to stop hurting and I didn't even realise I'd done anything at the time.


Too true, it took two months for my left knee to feel ok again after getting rammed off on a roundabout last October, still doing the exerxises from the physio now just to keep it  right.


As for roundabouts, I see people every day who have no idea what to do and on some roundabouts I can fully understand why. Too many are not really a roundabout as such, they have give way road markings halfway round the roundabout so you come to a stop, might as well be a normal T junction,
And who thought it was a good idea to have two mini roundabouts adjacent to each other!
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Post by: mtread on 20 July 2019, 03:47:49 pm
The law says, you have to drive/ride around the painted circle unless your vehicle is too wide to make it impossible to do that.
It doesn't say 'drive as fast as you like in a straight line pretending the roundabout doesn't exist'  >:
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Post by: Dave48 on 23 July 2019, 07:57:05 am
there is a mini roundabout near me and it consists of a painted white circle with no centre bollard to allow buses to negotiate the junction turning left or right.
Over the 25 years I have lived here there have been many RTCs on this junction(was going to say accidents but most of them have been caused by outright stupidity or careless/dangerous driving).
Lately I approach said junction with EXTREME CAUTION as more and more drivers simply dont even slow let alone look right or left  but sail across without showing any sign that they recognise they are crossing a junction.
I used to think it was too many distractions in cars like satnavs,infotainment centres and "danglies" from the rear view mirror. Now I believe that many drivers simply dont give a s**t ! After all who is going to pick them up on their errors?-we only see police vehicles on rapid response work-often unmarked- travelling at high speed. Tailgating and lane hogging are 2 other classic instances of moronic behaviour I witness daily.
Dont know what the answer is-its probably me getting old and cynical but there seems to be so much selfish behaviour generally these days-I think it has something to do with the narcissistic cult of celebrity s**t that pours forth from our tv sets unless we remember the on/off switch!
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 23 July 2019, 09:35:05 am
there is a mini roundabout near me and it consists of a painted white circle with no centre bollard to allow buses to negotiate the junction turning left or right.
Over the 25 years I have lived here there have been many RTCs on this junction(was going to say accidents but most of them have been caused by outright stupidity or careless/dangerous driving).
Lately I approach said junction with EXTREME CAUTION as more and more drivers simply dont even slow let alone look right or left  but sail across without showing any sign that they recognise they are crossing a junction.
I used to think it was too many distractions in cars like satnavs,infotainment centres and "danglies" from the rear view mirror. Now I believe that many drivers simply dont give a s**t ! After all who is going to pick them up on their errors?-we only see police vehicles on rapid response work-often unmarked- travelling at high speed. Tailgating and lane hogging are 2 other classic instances of moronic behaviour I witness daily.
Dont know what the answer is-its probably me getting old and cynical but there seems to be so much selfish behaviour generally these days-I think it has something to do with the narcissistic cult of celebrity s**t that pours forth from our tv sets unless we remember the on/off switch!

👏👏👏

Now THAT'S a proper 'gets my goat' rant right there haha

And couldn't agree more about the so called 'celebrity' BS that's spewed out of the tv sets and today's youth. Between that and social media 'influencers' I'd say they have very few good role models to base themselves off.
Having all this 50th anniversary of the moon landing stuff going on just highlights how much society has changed.
Back then kids looked up to extraordinary people. People with skill and dignity, they aspired to be great and reach for the stars..... now days they look up to gender confused sados that have the highest score on a video game or the most likes on a picture of their toast 🤯🤯


If anything all this makes me glad for the advancement in self driving cars because at least they will pay more attention than the idiots riding in them
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Post by: fazersharp on 23 July 2019, 12:00:15 pm

Lately I approach said junction with EXTREME CAUTION as more and more drivers simply dont even slow let alone look right or left  but sail across without showing any sign that they recognise they are crossing a junction.
Yep I have got one of those near me and its even worse because it is an "aftermarket" mini roundabout, painted to create traffic calming it used to be a t junction with the top of the t being the through road, they scrubbed out the stop line and moved it back up the side road to make room for the roundabout, so that when you approach from the old side road you have no visibility from the right due to house fences and that view from the right is the old though road of the junction and cars fly straight over without even slowing. Its actually safer at night because you can see the lights before the car.   
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Post by: fazersharp on 23 July 2019, 12:03:10 pm
And another thing - if I am approaching from the left of the picture and turning right as I go around the paint other cars behind me and going in the same direction as me cut the roundabout out and seem to get angry with me for going around it and so remain right up my arse the whole distance of the remaining street.
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Post by: coffee on 23 July 2019, 07:09:50 pm
And another thing - if I am approaching from the left of the picture and turning right as I go around the paint other cars behind me and going in the same direction as me cut the roundabout out and seem to get angry with me for going around it and so remain right up my arse the whole distance of the remaining street.





I've had this a few times and it's right intimidating :eek you're scared to brake to sharply 'cause without a doubt they'll ram you and then probably smash the bike up afterwards and you with it! nasty foccers  :finger
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 23 July 2019, 07:38:08 pm
And another thing - if I am approaching from the left of the picture and turning right as I go around the paint other cars behind me and going in the same direction as me cut the roundabout out and seem to get angry with me for going around it and so remain right up my arse the whole distance of the remaining street.

We must have vastly different riding styles as one thing that has never been an issue for me on a motorbike is a car being too close behind me, it's the fuckers in front holding me up that are my issue  :rollin
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Post by: fazersharp on 23 July 2019, 08:05:25 pm
And another thing - if I am approaching from the left of the picture and turning right as I go around the paint other cars behind me and going in the same direction as me cut the roundabout out and seem to get angry with me for going around it and so remain right up my arse the whole distance of the remaining street.

We must have vastly different riding styles as one thing that has never been an issue for me on a motorbike is a car being too close behind me, it's the fuckers in front holding me up that are my issue  :rollin
Should of made it clear that I was referring to when I am in the car
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Post by: mtread on 23 July 2019, 10:46:17 pm
If someone's right up my chuff, I just go slower and slower until they get the message. Then I take off  :)
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Post by: Grahamm on 23 July 2019, 11:32:21 pm
Mini roundabouts are the worst, many cars don’t even slow down at all on the approach as they think they’ve got right of way and can just carry on without giving way to anyone.

Three rules of riding:

1) Don't assume they've seen you.

2) Don't assume they'll respect your priority.

3) Do assume they'll do something stupid.

There's no point in thinking "I was in the right!" as you're flying through the air, because it won't make it hurt any less when you hit the ground :(

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Post by: coffee on 24 July 2019, 12:22:48 am
There's some crazy bastards out there and if they're on the gear they won't think twice about wiping you out and fucking off,chances are the cars nicked anyway,no, I try not to upset anyone now,round by us half of 'em are fucking nutters and the other half are in the nick  :lol
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Post by: darrsi on 24 July 2019, 06:39:31 am
And another thing - if I am approaching from the left of the picture and turning right as I go around the paint other cars behind me and going in the same direction as me cut the roundabout out and seem to get angry with me for going around it and so remain right up my arse the whole distance of the remaining street.

We must have vastly different riding styles as one thing that has never been an issue for me on a motorbike is a car being too close behind me, it's the fuckers in front holding me up that are my issue  :rollin


Really? I can't stand it, and find that it is almost guaranteed to happen to me on the way to work on a Monday morning, and it also really pisses me off as i use a couple of roads with speed bumps and again cars tend to handle them better so end up tailgating me in angry frustration.
I'm of the belief that if you're that stupid to drive that close to me then if i really do need to slam the brakes on for whatever reason then they simply won't be competent enough to stop in time.
Plus you'll get the real arsewipes who'll tailgate you in really bad weather when you can barely see what's in front of you, it's just bad manners, arrogance and a lot of the time deliberate to be intimidating.
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Post by: fazersharp on 24 July 2019, 09:28:40 am
Don't get me started on speed bumps, when in the car I HAVE to go down a particular street that has them - I have no choice but that same street is used as a rat run and a short cut (which is why the bumps were put there in the first place)
Every day I have to go over them and I don't want my car suspension knackered so I go over them slowly and every time I get people right up my arse cause they are using the rat run / company car / tractor waggon / shitty car. We come to the end and I turn right and they straight on and I hear the wheels screech in frustration as they speed off.
My advice to you is if you don't like me going slow over the speed bums FOCING go around and don't use the rat run.     
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Post by: agricola on 24 July 2019, 10:39:43 am


👏👏👏


And couldn't agree more about the so called 'celebrity' BS that's spewed out of the tv sets and today's youth. Between that and social media 'influencers' I'd say they have very few good role models to base themselves off.
Having all this 50th anniversary of the moon landing stuff going on just highlights how much society has changed.
Back then kids looked up to extraordinary people. People with skill and dignity, they aspired to be great and reach for the stars..... now days they look up to gender confused sados that have the highest score on a video game or the most likes on a picture of their toast 🤯🤯





Well said that man :thumbup
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Post by: Oldgit on 26 July 2019, 10:01:14 am

People moaning about the great weather we are having at the moment--Oh give us all a break and enjoy the great weather.

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Post by: YamFazFan on 26 July 2019, 10:13:39 am

People who moan when it cools down and rains for a day or 2.


My garden/allotment is parched. I hope it's cold and pisses down all weekend :)
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Post by: agricola on 26 July 2019, 12:03:30 pm
RESCUED. Over used word, like many in the English language these days. Celebrity, Legend, Star etc etc. Rescued? Two dozen kids stuck a mile underground, yes. Sailors pulled from a sinking ship in a gale, yes. People held hostage against their will by crackpot religious fanatics, yes. People asked to get off a train which has broken down and onto another one which has been readily provided? For fucks sake!!!
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 26 July 2019, 12:05:24 pm
RESCUED. Over used word, like many in the English language these days. Celebrity, Legend, Star etc etc. Rescued? Two dozen kids stuck a mile underground, yes. Sailors pulled from a sinking ship in a gale, yes. People held hostage against their will by crackpot religious fanatics, yes. People asked to get off a train which has broken down and onto another one which has been readily provided? For fucks sake!!!

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Post by: darrsi on 26 July 2019, 02:21:16 pm
Yet again, I just received another phone call by some dipshit telling me I've been involved in a car accident.
Who in their right mind would advise someone to say that to a random person on the phone, it's just sick and twisted?  :grumble
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Post by: mtread on 26 July 2019, 04:58:42 pm
Quote
People who moan when it cools down and rains for a day or 2.My garden/allotment is parched. I hope it's cold and pisses down all weekend

It's not raining in Tokyo, apparently   ;)
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 July 2019, 12:10:01 am
What gets my goat is that global warming doesn't happen when the weather is cold and raining - or at least the global warming believers only come out when its hot and point to the sky shouting see-- see.There was so much pressure placed on breaking the UK record it looks like they are doing a recount because it failed to beet 2003 :rolleyes .
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Post by: mtread on 27 July 2019, 12:20:56 am
I think you will find that 'weather' and 'climate' are two different things :rolleyes
In fact climate change leads to increased rainfall, not less.
The newspapers don't seem to understand that
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 27 July 2019, 10:58:34 am
 We have just recorded the highest ever temperature recorded in the UK.  38.7 degrees at Cambridge University's Botanic Gardens.  That temperature has to be verified by the Met Office.


The 8 hottest years globally, since records began, have occurred in the last ten years.


At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 



Oh global warming will see increased rainfall in the UK, and in particular more flash flodding.


Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change.
 
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Post by: coffee on 27 July 2019, 11:55:48 am
When you meet people you haven't seen for 10years or so and because they're stuck in there mundane existence they take great delite in remarking "getting a bit old for that caper now aren't you,?about time you grew up, you're not 16 anymore" FUCK OFF  :finger go back to your firms tin box and regulation bullshit and leave us alone to enjoy one of the few pleasures left,Moron. :foc
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Post by: coffee on 27 July 2019, 11:59:12 am
And another thing, if I choose to fuck about like a kid again that's my business. :nana :nana :nana
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Post by: coffee on 27 July 2019, 12:01:55 pm
Now find that 50s style diner for the picture challenge or I'll get really mad! :lol
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Post by: red98 on 27 July 2019, 12:11:50 pm
Well said COFFEE.......one life ,bike it   :thumbup



mmmmmmmm 50's diner......i'll fill the thou up In the morning , and burn the foccin lot in a couple of hours that should help control global warming    ;)
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 July 2019, 12:40:19 pm
Well said COFFEE.......one life ,bike it   :thumbup



mmmmmmmm 50's diner......i'll fill the thou up In the morning , and burn the foccin lot in a couple of hours that should help control global warming    ;)
Well I ain't cause global warming means its now raining. Funny when people just blindly reiterate what the gov funded scientists say.     
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Post by: agricola on 27 July 2019, 01:29:56 pm
We have just recorded the highest ever temperature recorded in the UK.  38.7 degrees at Cambridge University's Botanic Gardens.  That temperature has to be verified by the Met Office.


The 8 hottest years globally, since records began, have occurred in the last ten years.


At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 



Oh global warming will see increased rainfall in the UK, and in particular more flash flodding.


Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change.


Just enough to melt the ice caps, then we can extract the reserves underneath ;)
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Post by: mtread on 27 July 2019, 04:20:58 pm
Scientists - pah. The doomsters and gloomsters. We've had enough of people who know what they're talking about.  :eek
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 July 2019, 09:44:39 pm

We have just recorded the highest ever temperature recorded in the UK.  38.7 degrees at Cambridge University's Botanic Gardens.  That temperature has to be verified by the Met Office.


The 8 hottest years globally, since records began, have occurred in the last ten years.


At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 



Oh global warming will see increased rainfall in the UK, and in particular more flash flodding.


Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change.


You ride a C90 and a Gen1 Fazer 1000 (+ driving a car).


You ought to be one of the last people to lecture everyone about increasing CO2 emissions and global warming :lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 July 2019, 09:48:45 pm
Scientists - pah. The doomsters and gloomsters. We've had enough of people who know what they're talking about.  :eek
These people "who know what they are talking about" receive their funding - livelihood - pension from the very government who then use that "evidence" to #1 Control you #2 Tax you (also a very good method of control ).
All of science is not in agreement despite what the gov controlled MSM tells you. The whole global warming (sorry climate change ) push by governments is motivated by tax. Its brilliant really and working, as we are the witnessing the first time in history where the population are asking for more tax.
Think about it, that tax people are willing to pay be it - climate levy / fuel tax / green tax /Congestion Charge  doesn't all go into saving the planet it go's into building more roads and weapons and chemicals - all not renown for their green credentials.
Its heart warming really the child like quality that some people portray when they believe what they are told by their "caring green governments". Carry on believing what you are told -- carry on asking for more tax but rest assured that tax will not benefit the poor which are so often used as the flag bearer for the liberal champagne socialist elite.
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 July 2019, 09:55:55 pm

We have just recorded the highest ever temperature recorded in the UK.  38.7 degrees at Cambridge University's Botanic Gardens.  That temperature has to be verified by the Met Office.


The 8 hottest years globally, since records began, have occurred in the last ten years.


At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 



Oh global warming will see increased rainfall in the UK, and in particular more flash flodding.


Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change.


You ride a C90 and a Gen1 Fazer 1000 (+ driving a car).


You ought to be one of the last people to lecture everyone about increasing CO2 emissions and global warming :lol
Yep classic liberal elite. As the great philosopher Mark Almond once said in his non stop erotic cabaret thought piece 

I'll talk about famine
While cooking my dinner
While my head gets fatter
And the starving get thinner.
Misery
Complaints
Self pity
Injustice   
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Post by: mtread on 27 July 2019, 11:16:04 pm
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Think about it, that tax people are willing to pay be it - climate levy / fuel tax / green tax /Congestion Charge  doesn't all go into saving the planet it go's into building more roads and weapons and chemicals - all not renown for their green credentials.
I think you will find that the intended purpose of these taxes is to change behaviour :)
London Congestion Charge
Climate Change Levy
Air Passenger Duty
Vehicle Excise Duty variable rates
etc


Never heard of the 'Green Tax'? Something to do with cabbage?  :rolleyes
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 12:31:36 am
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Think about it, that tax people are willing to pay be it - climate levy / fuel tax / green tax /Congestion Charge  doesn't all go into saving the planet it go's into building more roads and weapons and chemicals - all not renown for their green credentials.
I think you will find that the intended purpose of these taxes is to change behaviour :)
London Congestion Charge
Climate Change Levy
Air Passenger Duty
Vehicle Excise Duty variable rates
etc


Never heard of the 'Green Tax'? Something to do with cabbage?  :rolleyes
You really believe the spin the of "the intended purpose of these taxes is to change behaviour" then good for you that is totally your choice and right to believe what you need to. Who's behaviour do you think these regressive taxes in the name of the environment  will change -- the rich which the left (you) hate or the poor who can not afford the fuel tax - brand new low co2 cars and haven forbid they treat their family to a little holiday via a plane or even put in a little extra fuel in their old cars to drive to the coast for a few days . Typical left champagne socialist liberal elite attitude. Those policies are  not going too well for Macron right now. And the London congestion charge is just accelerating the economic cleansing of the capitol but maybe that's your plan.       
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Post by: coffee on 28 July 2019, 01:14:05 am
Well said COFFEE.......one life ,bike it   :thumbup



mmmmmmmm 50's diner......i'll fill the thou up In the morning , and burn the foccin lot in a couple of hours that should help control global warming    ;)



Just be careful Red,don't be a statistic. :'(
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 July 2019, 09:29:57 am
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Think about it, that tax people are willing to pay be it - climate levy / fuel tax / green tax /Congestion Charge  doesn't all go into saving the planet it go's into building more roads and weapons and chemicals - all not renown for their green credentials.
I think you will find that the intended purpose of these taxes is to change behaviour :)
London Congestion Charge
Climate Change Levy
Air Passenger Duty
Vehicle Excise Duty variable rates
etc


Never heard of the 'Green Tax'? Something to do with cabbage?  :rolleyes

I know that's the official line but surely you can't honestly believe that's the governments intention?

What do you think they would do if (hypothetically) not a single person drove their car into London today and used public transport instead? You think theyd be happy with the lost the millions in revenue?
Would they release a press statement thanking us for helping the planet.... or do you think the price of public transport would suddenly triple overnight?

It's the same reason alcohol and smoking arent banned.... nothing to do with public interest, just lining the right people pockets
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 12:28:57 pm
 
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All of science is not in agreement
Indeed, there are those who believe the earth is flat and that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.  So beware what the gov controlled msm tells you. ;)
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Would they release a press statement thanking us for helping the planet.
It’s not about helping the planet.  It’s about survival.  The planet will regulate itself – ultimately anything that upsets the balance of the planet will be eliminated, and therefore balance will be restored. 
 
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 12:53:50 pm
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All of science is not in agreement
Indeed, there are those who believe the earth is flat and that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.  So beware what the gov controlled msm tells you. ;)
Yes there are those people - and they are nutters. So you are saying that all the climate experts who do not tow the line and conform are also nutters, its that attitude that suppresses some climate scientists from speaking out for fear of not having their research grant renewed.
Anyway remind us Mr environment what fuel does that power station that you work in burn.       
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Post by: mtread on 28 July 2019, 01:18:33 pm
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I know that's the official line but surely you can't honestly believe that's the governments intention?
Well I know at least one of them to be a fact  :)
Alcohol and tobacco are a bit different. Taxes that have been around since the 18th century.
However.....
High Strength Beer Duty is designed to stop people wrecking themselves on Special Brew and Tennants Extra.
The Scottish Government's minimum pricing policy is to stop the Scots doing the same on White Lightening, and
The Tobacco Excise Duty Escalator is to make people cut down on smoking.
Otherwise don't you think there would be extra tax on vaping?
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 01:37:59 pm
The Tobacco Excise Duty Escalator is to make people cut down on smoking.
Otherwise don't you think there would be extra tax on vaping?
There will be once the tax income on cigs reaches a certain low level. Just like what has happened with car tax too many people were taking up the option of buying low co2 cars and only paying £30 tax, the tax revenue went down so they had to move the goal posts so that those same co2 cars now pay £145. The same will happen with electric cars which at the moment are £0, according to your logic in the near future we will all be driving around in £0 tax rated electric cars.
The idea that tax is to change behaviour is just a spin to make the implementation of it more aggregable to the population.High strength beer duty will do nothing to stop those intent on wrecking them selves - do you think they care for how much it costs, with that you are just taxing the already vulnerable -now that's not a very socialist attitude to care is it.         
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 01:41:58 pm
 
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The Scottish Government's minimum pricing policy is to stop the Scots doing the same on White Lightening, and
Scots drinking – no surely not. :lol
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Yes there are those people - and they are nutters. So you are saying that all the climate experts who do not tow the line and conform are also nutters,
Some searches on google estimate that climatologists are somewhere between 97-98% in agreement on the manmade climate change theory.


And there is nothing new about the greenhouse co2 effect. Joseph Fourier in 1824 first argued that the earth’s atmosphere acted as insulation holding heat in and sustaining life.  From here others worked out the various properties of the gases that make up our atmosphere.


By 1896 Svante Arrhenius had precited that man’s use of fossil fuels would lead to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere in turn leading to a rise in temperature. 
 
 
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 02:34:21 pm

 By 1896 Svante Arrhenius had precited that man’s use of fossil fuels would lead to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere in turn leading to a rise in temperature. 
 
Others have pointed out that in older earth history the earth Co2 level has been higher and yet had lower temperatures. There is an argument that points out the reluctance of climate predictions to take any notice of the main source of our heat - the Sun and its 11-12 year cycle or its even longer cycle ontop of that one, evidence has shown that there have been much warmer periods without the help of the industrial revolution. The statement that the climate science is settled is simply not correct. That is the BBC's stated position on the subject (the climate science is settled ) and they are refusing to air anyone with an opposite view, they are supposed to be neutral. Proof of their misinformation can be seen when ever they cover a story about global warming and show a glacier "melting" when infact it is doing exactly what glaciers do - which is flow to the sea just like a river. IMO that can be justifiably classed as fake news.       
I remember in the early 80s being taught that we were heading for another ice age and indeed the records show that we are over due for one. At that time there was serious talk by governments to control climate to prevent the onset of an ice age by using aircraft to spray in the atmosphere, could it be that it worked too well and Co2 has been used as a cover story. What about if it has run out of control and they are now using aircraft to spray to try and cut down the sunlight and your Co2 tax is funding it.   
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 03:26:54 pm
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Others have pointed out that in older earth history the earth Co2 level has been higher and yet had lower temperatures. There is an argument that points out the reluctance of climate predictions to take any notice of the main source of our heat - the Sun and its 11-12 year cycle or its even longer cycle ontop of that one, evidence has shown that there have been much warmer periods without the help of the industrial revolution. The statement that the climate science is settled is simply not correct. That is the BBC's stated position on the subject (the climate science is settled ) and they are refusing to air anyone with an opposite view, they are supposed to be neutral. Proof of their misinformation can be seen when ever they cover a story about global warming and show a glacier "melting" when infact it is doing exactly what glaciers do - which is flow to the sea just like a river. IMO that can be justifiably classed as fake news.       
I remember in the early 80s being taught that we were heading for another ice age and indeed the records show that we are over due for one. At that time there was serious talk by governments to control climate to prevent the onset of an ice age by using aircraft to spray in the atmosphere, could it be that it worked too well and Co2 has been used as a cover story. What about if it has run out of control and they are now using aircraft to spray to try and cut down the sunlight and your Co2 tax is funding it.   
You are quite mad - bonkers :lol
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Post by: mtread on 28 July 2019, 03:47:13 pm
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.High strength beer duty will do nothing to stop those intent on wrecking them selves - do you think they care for how much it costs, with that you are just taxing the already vulnerable -now that's not a very socialist attitude to care is it.   
Oi, NO POLITICS! ;)
It depends how high you raise the tax. Do you honestly think that raising tobacco taxes extortionately has had no affect on reducing smoking?
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 04:03:33 pm
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o you honestly think that raising tobacco taxes extortionately has had no affect on reducing smoking?
The problem is it has literally become extortionate.  Smoking is an addiction, and addiction that is extremely hard to overcome.  The more chaotic your life, or the less money you have, the more likely you are to smoke.


The price is no longer a deterrent but simply extortion, and sadly taking money often from those who can least afford it.


I am not saying tobacco should ever be cheap – but ten quid a pack or more?  It’s madness.


 
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 July 2019, 04:16:27 pm
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o you honestly think that raising tobacco taxes extortionately has had no affect on reducing smoking?
The problem is it has literally become extortionate.  Smoking is an addiction, and addiction that is extremely hard to overcome.  The more chaotic your life, or the less money you have, the more likely you are to smoke.


The price is no longer a deterrent but simply extortion, and sadly taking money often from those who can least afford it.


I am not saying tobacco should ever be cheap – but ten quid a pack or more?  It’s madness.

You hit the nail on the head there VNA... its extortion of the poor. The people that make these decisions are on 100s of thousands of pound a year, they don't care what their cigarettes cost but the people only earning £8 a hour who smoke a pack a day have a real dent in their wages for something they struggle to live without.

Sugar tax is another one... gonna charge me an extra 20p on a small bottle of coke because its 'bad' for me... but still sell me a 4 pack of Mars bars for £1??
These taxes are only good for one thing and that's lining the wrong peoples pockets
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 04:42:28 pm
 
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The people that make these decisions are on 100s of thousands of pound a year,
Well if you take our new PM, or most of his cabinet ministers, what they earn at work is peanuts – their income comes from investment.  I don’t think people realise how rich many of these people are.


Also what luxuries can people afford on the minimum wage, or worse still a zero hours contract?  Maybe 10 or 20 fags a day is in reality, as extortionate as they are, still an affordable luxury. 



And of course, the millions on the minimum wage are often working for companies that don’t pay their corporation tax.  On top of that, they claim tax credits etc in order to survive.  So, I effectively get taxed to provide the tax credits in order to subsidise the mega companies that don’t pay tax or even pay their employees a living wage.


 
But hey I’m just a typical left champagne socialist liberal elite wanker.  Oh and politics is banned on this site.
 
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 06:32:42 pm
I think we need a dedicated politics thread BUT with some ground rules - remain polite - no name calling or swearing
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 28 July 2019, 06:42:30 pm
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I think we need a dedicated politics thread BUT with some ground rules - remain polite - no name calling or swearing
Foc off :lol
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Post by: mtread on 28 July 2019, 07:20:08 pm
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The problem is it has literally become extortionate.  Smoking is an addiction, and addiction that is extremely hard to overcome.  The more chaotic your life, or the less money you have, the more likely you are to smoke.
I don't disagree, but unless you ban something how can you help people stop damaging themselves. Putting pictures of diseased lungs on packets, banning advertising etc doesn't seem to work.
In our society these activities are regarded as acceptable social pleasures - smoking, alcohol, gambling, but all can be an addiction. Five cigarettes a day, you'll probably not do much harm, but 60 every day? Same with the other 'pleasures'. The more you do it the more you pay. How can you get people to reduce, other than making it financially prohibitive?


BTW I've never been a smoker, so perhaps I don't get it  :D
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Post by: Flooky on 28 July 2019, 08:14:16 pm
You lot just cant leave it alone..find a political forum and talk shit on that..what gets my goat is bikers that aint really bikers..when we meet for a fry up and a ride no one I know talks about this shit..
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 July 2019, 09:54:57 pm
You lot just cant leave it alone..find a political forum and talk shit on that..what gets my goat is bikers that aint really bikers..when we meet for a fry up and a ride no one I know talks about this shit..
Go on get it off your chest -- that is what this thread is all about and what makes this forum so good is that its not talking about bike shit all the time.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 July 2019, 10:08:13 pm

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People who moan when it cools down and rains for a day or 2.My garden/allotment is parched. I hope it's cold and pisses down all weekend

It's not raining in Tokyo, apparently   ;)



Yes I'd heard that on my elaborate radio set earlier ;) :lol
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Post by: mtread on 28 July 2019, 11:18:02 pm
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Yes I'd heard that on my elaborate radio set earlier

On May Day no doubt  ;) :lol
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Post by: coffee on 29 July 2019, 12:46:57 am
You lot just cant leave it alone..find a political forum and talk shit on that..what gets my goat is bikers that aint really bikers..when we meet for a fry up and a ride no one I know talks about this shit..
Go on get it off your chest -- that is what this thread is all about and what makes this forum so good is that its not talking about bike shit all the time.








Variety is the spice of life. :think :lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 29 July 2019, 03:26:55 pm
Normal service now resumed  :lol
What gets my goat a car in front with cameras and wires in the front - cameras sticking out the back window recording everything I do and THEY are the ones who do not appear to be able to drive and also flicking fag butts out the window at the same time they have the audacity to be recording me
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Post by: ogri48 on 29 July 2019, 08:23:34 pm
ditto mate. apparently the old bill can use theirfootage against you can't they? I mean how the fuck can that be legal?
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Post by: ogri48 on 29 July 2019, 08:27:30 pm
also pricks whose washer/wipers are set too high so they go over the roof of the car and hit you if your coming up behind them slowly in traffic. See, this is where wearing my old mans pisspot and riding an old Harley pays you back in spades...you can pull alongside the fuckers, bang on their drivers door glass and then gob on it, and they just stare straight fixedly ahead as if your not there. its even funnier when they have their missus with them :)
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Post by: coffee on 30 July 2019, 12:34:56 am
 :lol wouldn't have the balls for that,knowing my luck they'd drag me off the bike,give me a pasting and leave me covered in gob with my pisspot covered head sticking out of the front wheel. :lol
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 July 2019, 12:36:30 am
ditto mate. apparently the old bill can use theirfootage against you can't they? I mean how the fuck can that be legal?

If you record evidence of yourself breaking the law, you've only yourself to blame...!!
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 August 2019, 09:32:58 am

Anyway remind us Mr environment what fuel does that power station that you work in burn.     


 :eek It gets worse!.


Rides a C90 + a Gen1 Fazer 1000, drives a diesel car and works in a power station :eek


What do you run the BBQ on?. Shredded car tyres? :lol
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 August 2019, 06:48:21 pm
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([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/shocked.gif[/url]) It gets worse!.


Rides a C90 + a Gen1 Fazer 1000, drives a diesel car and works in a power station ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/shocked.gif[/url])


What do you run the BBQ on?. Shredded car tyres? ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif[/url])

 I’m am at a loss as to the point you are trying to make.
 
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Post by: fazersharp on 02 August 2019, 07:13:01 pm
At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 
Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change.
 
Cough ----- and don't forget Mrs VNA also has a car  ;) .
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 August 2019, 08:14:42 pm
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Quote from: VNA on 27 July 2019, 10:58:34 AM ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,17546.msg300983.html#msg300983[/url])<blockquote> At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 
Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change. </blockquote>
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Cough ----- and don't forget Mrs VNA also has a car  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url]) .


 Firstly Mrs VNA does not have a car.


Secondly, how am I to get to my carbon neutral place of work?  It’s is relatively remote, there is no works bus and no public transport.


Thirdly, I need to get about, public transport is poor round here.  There is currently no real practicable viable alternative my current modes of transport.


Fourthly, do you think that any personal changes that I make, or you for that matter, will have any impact on global temperatures?


There has to be collective change.  It has to be global change. 



Though at the end of the day, the new energy market is without any doubt is going to be about both efficiency and carbon neutral energy sources alongside solutions to absorb CO2.


The winners economically in this new world are going to be those who grasp the nettle and find the solutions. 
 
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Post by: Frosties on 02 August 2019, 11:25:44 pm
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Quote from: VNA on 27 July 2019, 10:58:34 AM ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,17546.msg300983.html#msg300983[/url])<blockquote> At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 
Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change. </blockquote>
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Cough ----- and don't forget Mrs VNA also has a car  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url]) .


 Firstly, Mrs VNA does not have a car.


Secondly, how am I to get to my carbon neutral place of work?  It’s is relatively remote, there is no works bus and no public transport.


Thirdly, I need to get about, public transport is poor round here.  There is are currently no real practicable viable alternatives to my current modes of transport.


Fourthly, do you think that any personal changes that I make, or you for that matter, will have any impact on global temperatures?


There has to be collective change.  It has to be global change. 



Though at the end of the day, the new energy market is without any doubt is going to be about both efficiency and carbon neutral energy sources alongside solutions to absorb CO2.


The winners economically in this new world are going to be those who grasp the nettle and find the solutions.



FTFY -  :D
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 August 2019, 09:41:26 am
Firstly Mrs VNA does not have a car.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 August 2019, 10:31:49 am
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  • Firstly   the above is how you correctly insert a quote so that the name of who you are quoting is included.
  • Secondly   You do the quotes without any names
  • Thirdly    It can look like you said what is in the quote
  • Fourthly  I was mistaken when I said Mrs has a car.
  • Fifthly    It was because you quoted it.
  • Sixthly   I refer you to Secondly.
  • Seventhly  Co2 is a red herring - in fact the earth almost does not have enough Co2 the sustain current plant life 
Ah Fazersharps usual tactic, attack the individual one way or another rather than addressing the substance.


Meanwhile,


The hottest July the world has seen since records began;
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/july-weather-hottest-month-ever-climate-change-heatwave-global-warming-wmo-a9035356.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/july-weather-hottest-month-ever-climate-change-heatwave-global-warming-wmo-a9035356.html)

 
The earth has lost more than half it’s trees since we started cutting them down;


https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-has-lost-more-than-half-its-trees-since-humans-first-started-cutting-them-down-10483189.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-has-lost-more-than-half-its-trees-since-humans-first-started-cutting-them-down-10483189.html)

 
It’s pretty simple really.  CO2 is an insulating greenhouse gas.  We have increased the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere whilst at the same time reducing natures ability to absorb that gas.  Rising temperatures will naturally increase the amount of CO2 and other insulating gases in the atmosphere further increasing temperature on top of man-made temperature increases. 



We have the ability to reverse this.  But not to save the planet, as it will be just fine, but to save ourselves.  If we don’t change our ways the human race faces extinction.  This will be different from previous events, in that we will be the first species not only to predict our own extinction, but to understand why and have the means to stop it.  The question today is – will we?


   
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 August 2019, 11:42:59 am
The data quoted in the independent comes from organisations directly funded by the EU. Its all part of agenda 21 to control and reduce populations "  sustainable population" also from their own words "Strengthening the Role of Major Groups includes the roles of children and youth, women, and NGOs. - You only have to look at the news and see this is action "the rolls of children ". Its shameful how governments are using Children to facilitate their wider agenda.

NGO's - biggest con there is because many are partly if not wholly funded by governments.
Also from their own words " Means of Implementation to include science, technology transfer education, international institutions, and financial mechanisms. Read it again and see that all of their agendas aims are being carried out right under our noses with our taxes, without ever consulting the public.
Also the phrase "since record began" only covers the temperature since 1873

There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 August 2019, 12:13:57 pm

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We have the ability to reverse this.  But not to save the planet, as it will be just fine, but to save ourselves.  If we don’t change our ways the human race faces extinction.  This will be different from previous events, in that we will be the first species not only to predict our own extinction, but to understand why and have the means to stop it.  The question today is – will we?


 


Not if everyone follows your example :lol


Just remember....If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem ;)
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Post by: mtread on 03 August 2019, 02:58:35 pm
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There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.
And remember, just because you're not a conspiracy theorist, doesn't mean they're not out to get you  :)
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 August 2019, 09:41:02 pm
 
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There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.


Aye, right, climatologists right across the globe are all engaged in a hoax.  Mmmm.


Meanwhile, VNA got caught in a flash flood on Thursday.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots.  Took the car to work on Friday cos everything was soaking.


Whet oot fae a spin today down through the borders.  Coming back towards Glasgow on the way hame, another bleedin flash flood.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots again.


Ah wis thinking today that my boots felt a wee bit mare spacious than usual.  Then I noticed the insoles still sitting in the conservatory when I got back.  Doh!
 
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Post by: vinnyb on 03 August 2019, 09:43:39 pm
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There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.


Aye, right, climatologists right across the globe are all engaged in a hoax.  Mmmm.


Meanwhile, VNA got caught in a flash flood on Thursday.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots.  Took the car to work on Friday cos everything was soaking.


Whet oot fae a spin today down through the borders.  Coming back towards Glasgow on the way hame, another bleedin flash flood.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots again.


Ah wis thinking today that my boots felt a wee bit mare spacious than usual.  Then I noticed the insoles still sitting in the conservatory when I got back.  Doh!

  Have you got spell check switched on? :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 August 2019, 10:13:49 pm

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There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.


Aye, right, climatologists right across the globe are all engaged in a hoax.  Mmmm.


Meanwhile, VNA got caught in a flash flood on Thursday.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots.  Took the car to work on Friday cos everything was soaking.


Whet oot fae a spin today down through the borders.  Coming back towards Glasgow on the way hame, another bleedin flash flood.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots again.


Ah wis thinking today that my boots felt a wee bit mare spacious than usual.  Then I noticed the insoles still sitting in the conservatory when I got back.  Doh!

  Have you got spell check switched on? :lol


It's Tartan check ;)
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Post by: Frosties on 03 August 2019, 11:42:56 pm
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There is far more hidden behind the climate hoax if you only remove yourself from your own confirmation bias.


Aye, right, climatologists right across the globe are all engaged in a hoax.  Mmmm.


Meanwhile, VNA got caught in a flash flood on Thursday.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots.  Took the car to work on Friday cos everything was soaking.


Whet oot fae a spin today down through the borders.  Coming back towards Glasgow on the way hame, another bleedin flash flood.  Got home and poured the water oot o ma boots again.


Ah wis thinking today that my boots felt a wee bit mare spacious than usual.  Then I noticed the insoles still sitting in the conservatory when I got back.  Doh!


What gets my goat is people who type how they speak - utter bollocks. Never met anyone who does this.


I think you meant to say....


"Aye, reit, climatologists reit athwart th' globe ur aw engaged in a hoax. mmmm. meanwhile, vna got caught in a flash fluid oan fuirsday. got haem an' poored th' water it o ma bitts. took th' motur tae wark oan friday cos everythin' was soakin'. whit it fae a spin the-day doon ben th' borders. comin' back towards Glasgee oan th' way ham, anither bleedin flash fluid. got haem an' poored th' water it o ma bitts again. ah wis thinkin' the-day 'at mah bitts felt a wee bit maur spacioos than usual. 'en Ah noticed th' insoles still sittin' in th' conservatory when Ah got back. doh!"


Please correct me.............
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Post by: mtread on 04 August 2019, 12:17:16 am
For those of us darn sarf, here's a translation :


No currant bun and I decided to go up the frog and toad but it was coming down cats and dogs. My daisy roots leaked and my plates of meat got soaking wet. Next day when I came down the apples and pears, my daisies seemed bigger. When I had a butchers at them I'd left the insole out. I couldn't believe my mincies. Would you Adam and Eve it.


Hope that helps.








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Post by: Frosties on 04 August 2019, 01:09:19 am
For those of us darn sarf, here's a translation :


No currant bun and I decided to go up the frog and toad but it was coming down cats and dogs. My daisy roots leaked and my plates of meat got soaking wet. Next day when I came down the apples and pears, my daisies seemed bigger. When I had a butchers at them I'd left the insole out. I couldn't believe my mincies. Would you Adam and Eve it.


Hope that helps.


Nope, still typing as you speak  :lol :lol
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Post by: darrsi on 04 August 2019, 09:42:11 am
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Quote from: VNA on 27 July 2019, 10:58:34 AM ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,17546.msg300983.html#msg300983[/url])<blockquote> At the end of the day if you keep increasingly the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere, then you will get temperature rises. 
Once again, all the predictions are coming true, but still there is little sign of any willingness to change. </blockquote>
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Cough ----- and don't forget Mrs VNA also has a car  ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url]) .


 Firstly Mrs VNA does not have a car.


Secondly, how am I to get to my carbon neutral place of work?  It’s is relatively remote, there is no works bus and no public transport.


Thirdly, I need to get about, public transport is poor round here.  There is currently no real practicable viable alternative my current modes of transport.


Fourthly, do you think that any personal changes that I make, or you for that matter, will have any impact on global temperatures?


There has to be collective change.  It has to be global change. 



Though at the end of the day, the new energy market is without any doubt is going to be about both efficiency and carbon neutral energy sources alongside solutions to absorb CO2.


The winners economically in this new world are going to be those who grasp the nettle and find the solutions.



Maybe have a chat with these people, they seem to manage just fine.  :lol

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Post by: fazersharp on 04 August 2019, 10:02:48 am
Where I live I mainly get by with
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Post by: YamFazFan on 04 August 2019, 11:01:09 am


What gets my goat is people who type how they speak - utter bollocks. Never met anyone who does this.


I think it's intended as a way of expressing national/regional pride. It's a bit cringy though isn't it :o .


On a similar theme, I used to work with a Brummie who travelled home every other weekend for the football. By Friday afternoon his accent was almost incomprehensible :lol
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 August 2019, 02:24:28 pm
 
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What gets my goat is people who type how they speak - utter bollocks. Never met anyone who does this.
Foccin philistines. :lol


I suppose it’s a wee bit different in England as you only have one language.
I don’t speak or write in Gaelic, and it’s an entirely different language to English in any case. So I don’t understand it.
However, Scots is very similar to the dead language known as Old English which is in turn broadly similar to English.  Which is hou ye Sassenachs unnerstaund whit a am sayin.
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I think it's intended as a way of expressing national/regional pride. It's a bit cringy though isn't it :o .
Ah cannae see hou tha writin in ma mither tongue is in ony wey “cringy”. :(
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 04 August 2019, 02:43:16 pm

Which is hou ye Sassenachs unnerstaund whit a am sayin.
Ah cannae see hou tha writin in ma mither tongue is in ony wey “cringy”. :(


Foc me I wish I hadn't said anything now, It's made it worse :'(
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 04 August 2019, 03:01:21 pm
 :lol
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Post by: mtread on 05 August 2019, 12:15:36 am
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On a similar theme, I used to work with a Brummie who travelled home every other weekend for the football. By Friday afternoon his accent was almost incomprehensible

Geordie - Alan Partridge got it right - 'it's just noise'
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Post by: Oldgit on 05 August 2019, 10:16:51 am

and no one local accent is more trustworthy than any other, these tv ad people have a lot to answer for.

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Post by: coffee on 06 August 2019, 12:53:01 am
When you buy something from a shop and next day it's reduced in a fuckin' sale and they never tell you,WANKERS  :finger
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Post by: Oldgit on 09 August 2019, 11:06:16 am

another one is buying something and finding it cheaper next day when your not looking to buy it, and just stumble across it online or in a shop--that really f**s with my mind.

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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 12 August 2019, 04:40:46 pm
When you buy something from a shop and next day it's reduced in a fuckin' sale and they never tell you,WANKERS  :finger

I'm not saying you should do this but...…………

Buy it again at the cheaper price, wait an hour or two then return the cheaper one with the previous (more expensive) receipt and get the money back.
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Post by: coffee on 13 August 2019, 12:53:41 am
How cool is that. :woot :woot
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Post by: YamFazFan on 13 August 2019, 12:10:48 pm


another one is buying something and finding it cheaper next day when your not looking to buy it, and just stumble across it online or in a shop--that really f**s with my mind.


Ha that's what happened when I'd just bought my Clarke Jump Start. Really handy bit of kit, but soon after I got it Machine Mart reduced everything by the VAT equivalent amount for a limited time.
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Post by: robbo on 13 August 2019, 06:24:24 pm
When I used Machine Mart quite a lot, every now and then they'd send an invite to vat free days. Was handy when I bought my compressor and hydraulic bike lift, for sure.
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Post by: fazersharp on 13 August 2019, 09:35:14 pm
What gets my goat today is that its August 13th and I am back to wearing my winter leather jacket. :lmao2
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Post by: coffee on 13 August 2019, 10:11:58 pm
It's my birthday and I spent 2hours of it at Mutt Motorcycles in Brum drinking coffee and chilling with some cracking people and their dog George,if you're ever in Brum go and have a mooch around,great bikes,great gear and a great atmosphere. :thumbup Don't know what that's got to do with "getting my goat"but thought I'd post it anyway, :lol well it is MY birthday !
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 August 2019, 10:25:51 am
What gets my goat today is that its August 13th and I am back to wearing my winter leather jacket. :lmao2

You mean you managed to get the summer one out at some point already this year? :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 August 2019, 11:52:30 am

What gets my goat today is that its August 13th and I am back to wearing my winter leather jacket. :lmao2


Blimey you must be absolutely frozen in winter time :eek


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Post by: fazersharp on 14 August 2019, 12:35:23 pm

What gets my goat today is that its August 13th and I am back to wearing my winter leather jacket. :lmao2
Blimey you must be absolutely frozen in winter time :eek
Its mainly because my summer jacket is so good at letting the air in as its very perforated - see picture and also white which helps reflect the sun. In hot weather its just that and a t shirt underneath (on the top) but for winter its a hi vis long sleeve stretch top over the non perf jacket with a short sleeve mirano T shirt then under that a wind block long sleeve mirano wool top under that and also a kidney belt.Oh and a buff neck scarf - but I wear that all year around as it keeps out any Kamacazi bees or wasps. Got stung once after one hit my neck and fell down the front - very angry.   
By the way 46 is actually 36 in UK measurements and fits perfect with just a T shirt under. My winter jacket has more room for loads of layers.
 
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Post by: agricola on 14 August 2019, 05:33:52 pm
TV, and the made up, white toothed, pompous, reality tv dullards that currently populate the screens
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Post by: coffee on 14 August 2019, 11:57:52 pm
'ere,'ere, :thumbup
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Post by: darrsi on 15 August 2019, 12:14:15 am
People who cross the road diagonally walking away from you with their back turned.


My air horn gives them an unexpected dance lesson....but....fuck off.


Bring back the Green Cross Code adverts, and drum it into people's awareness.


It worked!
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Post by: Oldgit on 16 August 2019, 11:18:52 am

people who are never ready to go at traffic lights when they change from red and get to green.

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Post by: Freck on 16 August 2019, 06:38:00 pm

people who are never ready to go at traffic lights when they change from red and get to green.
Yes, they’re usually in front of me in the outside lane when I’m in the car.  :rolleyes
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Post by: coffee on 16 August 2019, 09:43:28 pm
I got hit up the arse years ago through this and hurt my back and legs and buckled the back wheel (I had spoked wheels then!) I've never hesitated since !!!
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Post by: darrsi on 17 August 2019, 08:36:48 am

people who are never ready to go at traffic lights when they change from red and get to green.


You just know that they're glancing at their phone, or using it. It's so damn obvious because there is no reason to look downwards, or anywhere other than the lights really, unless you are completely preoccupied.
Like when i saw a learner car once that was literally bouncing off the road kerb and swerving all over the place, but i thought maybe it's just the first time ever out on the road. THEN i noticed there was no passenger, and it was the instructor on the phone texting.  :groan
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Post by: YamFazFan on 17 August 2019, 09:33:20 am
Other peoples cats shitting in my garden again and then me treading in the vile stinking stuff :wall
If I had a dog that did this there'd, rightly, be hell to pay. And why are cat owners nearly always regarded as 'Animal Lovers'?. Cats will kill anything they can get their claws into. Baby birds are a favourite.
They should ban the foccin things.

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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 17 August 2019, 09:52:51 am
Highways England. Allowing the complete closure of the M20 for the whole weekend this weekend. With this weekend being one of the busiest of the year for travellers to Dover/Eurotunnel, it is mad.

http://www.trafficengland.com/?evtID=2458628 (http://www.trafficengland.com/?evtID=2458628)
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Post by: fazersharp on 17 August 2019, 10:26:15 am
People who foc about at petrol stations, go's like this.I - at last take my turn bang in £5 and I am gone, overtake them 1/2 mile down the road - still flicking hair and focing with sat nav.   
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 17 August 2019, 11:25:18 am
£5?  What?
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Post by: fazersharp on 17 August 2019, 11:59:32 am
£5?  What?
Splash and dash.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 17 August 2019, 12:42:51 pm
 :eek :eek
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Post by: coffee on 17 August 2019, 04:12:24 pm
£5?  What?
Splash and dash.




"splash and dash"? it used to be called being a tight arse. :lol
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Post by: darrsi on 17 August 2019, 04:43:30 pm
Last time i put £5 of fuel in was in the 90's in a 125  :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 17 August 2019, 09:20:20 pm
I put a fiver in the other day. It's going in for service & MOT on Monday and I didn't want to weigh the tank down too much :think
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Post by: YamFazFan on 17 August 2019, 11:02:34 pm

Geordie - Alan Partridge got it right - 'it's just noise'

Apparently he's just had a 6 month driving ban reduced to 2 months because it would interfere with production for his new show.
Shame they didn't impose a lifetime ban. His Partridge character is one of the most unfunny, boring creations I've ever had the displeasure of viewing :z
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/13/steve-coogan-escapes-lengthy-driving-ban-alan-partridge-character/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/13/steve-coogan-escapes-lengthy-driving-ban-alan-partridge-character/)

 
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Post by: coffee on 18 August 2019, 12:08:43 am
FFS!! talk about one rule for them and one for us. :wall imagine the response if you told the beak you'd just started a job after being out of work for a while and your new employers wouldn't be to happy about it,after he'd stopped laughing he'd probably do you for contempt. :finger
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Post by: darrsi on 18 August 2019, 09:26:56 am
You would put the car on a trailer and film him, rather than him being filmed talking/acting and driving, which is not much different to being on a mobile.
A lot of these judges get totally suckered in by defence liars.  :rolleyes
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Post by: mtread on 18 August 2019, 10:41:06 am
As Partridge would say 'Back of the net' 😁
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Post by: coffee on 18 August 2019, 10:46:53 am
As Partridge would say 'Back of the net' 😁




"result"
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 18 August 2019, 11:21:30 am
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His Partridge character is one of the most unfunny, boring creations I've ever had the displeasure of viewing ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/z.gif[/url])

Foc me, one of the best English comedy characters ever.  Superb.
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Coogan was caught driving his Porsche at 36mph in a 30mph zone, which merits a three-point penalty. He already had nine points from previous motoring offences and faced an automatic six-month ban under the ‘totting-up’ procedure.

Whoops.  He needs to be more careful.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 18 August 2019, 02:06:48 pm

Foc me, one of the best English comedy characters ever.  Superb.


Compared with Mrs Brown/Mrs Brown's Boys agreed.


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Post by: fazersharp on 18 August 2019, 04:54:24 pm
£5?  What?
Splash and dash.

"splash and dash"? it used to be called being a tight arse. :lol
Remember - I don't commute on it and sometimes it can be up to 5 weeks in-between rides so I like to keep the petrol fresh and only fill up with roughly what I need for the blat I am about to do, £5 will cover 50 miles thereabouts. Otherwise a with a full tank the last bit of petrol could be 2 or 3 months old. And besides a full tank of petrol weighs about the same as me. 
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Post by: coffee on 19 August 2019, 12:14:30 am
Doctors' and Dentists' jumped up receptionists who think they're nurses "Oh! doctors' very busy but I'LL see what I can do,you really should make an appointment earlier" Sorry,next time I'll try and book when I'm going to be fucking ill you TWAT" :finger
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Post by: fazersharp on 24 August 2019, 12:17:00 am
How come hot sunny weather normally is regarded as global warming - death - disaster UNLESS it comes on a bank holiday in which case its "glorious" "beautiful"   "warm and sunny for many" - "just in time for the weekend". ."Five million drivers hit the roads for holidays and day trips as the weather brightens up"Not one negative remark - even the global warming fans have gone to the beach 
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 August 2019, 10:08:41 pm
Nae bank holiday up here.Way too warm though, silly warm again.  Murder.
The joys of global warming.
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Post by: fazersharp on 24 August 2019, 10:10:36 pm
Nae bank holiday up here.Way too warm though, silly warm again.  Murder.
The joys of A NORMAL UK SUMMER.

Fixed that for you
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 August 2019, 12:05:26 am
Nothing normal about this summer's weather.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 August 2019, 08:12:08 pm
 Cars with aftermarket tinted rear lights.  Right now they really get my goat.


VNA just avoided a trip to A&E this evening.  Out on the bike.  Just come round a corner onto a big long straight.  The low sun is in my eyes but not really impeding visibility.   Passed a couple of cars, and zipping along the straight.  It leads eventually into a long sweeping bend with a minor road junction on the right.


I’m approaching the bend.  There’s a car ahead which was moving at a fair rate but suddenly I’m gaining on it rapidly, then it dawns on me it’s maybe going to take the junction and I’m on the brakes like foc – full on emergency stop.


I fail.  Foc foc foc.  As I pass the car I notice the heavily smoked rear lights and a dull blink from the indictor.  I’m at least lucky the young dude checked his mirror and didn’t turn on me.


I stop inches in front of his car.  I turn and chase after him. Find him turning into a farm driveway a few hundred yards down the road he turned off into.


Seriously his lights were blacked out.  Young boy has VNA raging at him.  I’m screaming at him like a madman. 
I mean why black out perfectly good lights.  Why would you not want people to see your brake lights and indicators.  Foccin why?
And why would you want to invite people to drive/ride straight in the back of you.  I didn’t see his brake light or indicator.


Of course, VNA also needs to slow down and pay more attention. :o   That was way too close. :eek
 
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Post by: ogri48 on 25 August 2019, 08:15:39 pm
its a fucking jungle out there mate. Just glad you didn't become another statistic. stay safe dude...ps we agree on summat...Alan Partridge is genius...DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 August 2019, 08:44:04 pm
Foccin ragin at that kid. 

Pissed off with myself.  When will I learn.
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Post by: ogri48 on 25 August 2019, 08:50:36 pm
 I hit a kid in Leicester once who fetched me off my zx12r on his scooter. still feel shite about it now, he was piss thin and only about seventeen and I was mid forties, but what can you do. These things happen mate.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 August 2019, 09:54:25 pm
I'm pissed off for not seeing it coming.

It's a big long very fast sweeping bend.My first thought was I was going to pop past him, then a split second later it dawned on me he was braking and going to make the turn. 


Obviously if he hadn't blacked out his lights......... but then we've still gotta read everything that's happening even if the usual clues are missing.


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Post by: Oldgit on 26 August 2019, 11:16:42 am

Lucky there VNA, the two guys that got killed outside Lanark were not so lucky, I believe it was two foreign bikers turned on to the wrong side of the road after crossing the Hyndford Bridge over the river Clyde--RIP to them both --so sad.

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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 August 2019, 07:14:39 pm
Jesus Oldgit, that's dreadful.I've read it was a bike on bike head on. 
You just never know.
Have to say I've had a handful of frights with folks on the wrong side of the road.
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Post by: mtread on 27 August 2019, 07:23:12 pm
Just come home after two weeks holiday. Everything in the garden is burnt to a crisp. Why does it never rain at home when I go away?
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 August 2019, 07:37:27 pm
Just come home after two weeks holiday. Everything in the garden is burnt to a crisp. Why does it never rain at home when I go away?

I'm not sure but if you could kindly foc off away more often I'm sure the rest of us would greatly appreciate the good weather :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 August 2019, 07:40:10 pm

Everything in the garden is burnt to a crisp.


Judging by the aroma wafting in through my open windows this Bank holiday weekend, you weren't alone :b
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Post by: mtread on 27 August 2019, 08:27:54 pm
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'm not sure but if you could kindly foc off away more often I'm sure the rest of us would greatly appreciate the good weather
Brilliant idea. I'll crowdfund my next holiday, if you could all chip in. I'm thinking Maldives?  :thumbup
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Post by: Oldgit on 28 August 2019, 05:19:06 pm

Knowing this lot the crowdfunding might stretch to a day out in Cleethorpes.

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Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 August 2019, 07:31:01 pm

Knowing this lot the crowdfunding might stretch to a day out in Cleethorpes.

Hey! Theres worse places out there..... probably 🤔😅
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 28 August 2019, 07:43:23 pm
As for what's getting my goat...... the foccing weather predictions in this country!! How in this day and age can the met office still not have a damn clue what the weather will be like more than 10 minutes ahead??
I'd have better lick flipping a coin than listening to the weather report.

Tonight for example all day we have been forecast 'heavy showers' from 5 till 11. So cancelled our planned ride out with my mates but here I am sat home and not a foccing drop of rain to be had!?

And this is about the 5th or 6th time this month I've either cancelled planned rides for no reason or been caught out in tropical typhoons on 'sunny' days

Honestly.... they couldn't predict night time at sunset the bunch of useless twats
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Post by: mtread on 28 August 2019, 11:43:10 pm
Cleethorpes? Call that a pier?


Now this is a pier, and it's got Jamie Oliver  :pokefun

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Post by: Dudeofrude on 29 August 2019, 07:07:50 am
Cleethorpes? Call that a pier?


Now this is a pier, and it's got Jamie Oliver  :pokefun

Haha I know mate..... that's where I'm from :lol

Used to be a lot longer before several fires and boat accidents
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 29 August 2019, 07:09:29 am
Cleethorpes? Call that a pier?


Now this is a pier, and it's got Jamie Oliver  :pokefun

Haha I know mate..... that's where I'm from (Southend) :lol

Used to be a lot longer before several fires and boat accidents
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Post by: fazersharp on 31 August 2019, 09:46:02 am
Car indicators that are on the inside of the headlights as opposed to the outside. Always seemed a bit odd to me especially at night 
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Post by: Grahamm on 31 August 2019, 08:47:20 pm
Car indicators that are on the inside of the headlights as opposed to the outside. Always seemed a bit odd to me especially at night 

Or the ones that are a ring around a brake light which can often be bloody hard to see if someone's braking and going to turn... :(
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Post by: fazersharp on 31 August 2019, 08:50:40 pm
Car indicators that are on the inside of the headlights as opposed to the outside. Always seemed a bit odd to me especially at night 

Or the ones that are a ring around a brake light which can often be bloody hard to see if someone's braking and going to turn... :(
Exactly - how unbelievably stupid are these designers, think about it you moron designers - when you are braking you are very likely to also be indicating too (unless you are in a BMW or Audi )
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Post by: Skippernick on 02 September 2019, 09:54:44 pm
As for what's getting my goat...... the foccing weather predictions in this country!! How in this day and age can the met office still not have a damn clue what the weather will be like more than 10 minutes ahead??
I'd have better lick flipping a coin than listening to the weather report.

Tonight for example all day we have been forecast 'heavy showers' from 5 till 11. So cancelled our planned ride out with my mates but here I am sat home and not a foccing drop of rain to be had!?

And this is about the 5th or 6th time this month I've either cancelled planned rides for no reason or been caught out in tropical typhoons on 'sunny' days

Honestly.... they couldn't predict night time at sunset the bunch of useless twats


Don't get me started with that lot.
BUT use their app it has a 6 hour historical rain radar so you can make your own weather forecasts with reasonable accuracy and no super computers in sight.
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Post by: Grahamm on 03 September 2019, 12:20:46 am
BUT use their app it has a 6 hour historical rain radar so you can make your own weather forecasts with reasonable accuracy and no super computers in sight.


I use http://meteoradar.co.uk/ (http://meteoradar.co.uk/) which gives a 3 hour prediction of rainfall.

It's never 100% accurate (it can't be) especially with the light stuff, but it's very useful if there's a likelihood of heavy rain :thumbup
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 September 2019, 10:01:22 am
BUT use their app it has a 6 hour historical rain radar so you can make your own weather forecasts with reasonable accuracy and no super computers in sight.


I use [url]http://meteoradar.co.uk/[/url] ([url]http://meteoradar.co.uk/[/url]) which gives a 3 hour prediction of rainfall.

It's never 100% accurate (it can't be) especially with the light stuff, but it's very useful if there's a likelihood of heavy rain :thumbup
Similar kind of thing but I find this useful https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar. (https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar.) Turn on the animations which help you see what may be heading your way
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Post by: dazza on 03 September 2019, 01:49:26 pm
I just call the dog in and see if it's wet.  :b
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 03 September 2019, 03:03:08 pm
As for what's getting my goat...... the foccing weather predictions in this country!! How in this day and age can the met office still not have a damn clue what the weather will be like more than 10 minutes ahead??
I'd have better lick flipping a coin than listening to the weather report.

Tonight for example all day we have been forecast 'heavy showers' from 5 till 11. So cancelled our planned ride out with my mates but here I am sat home and not a foccing drop of rain to be had!?

And this is about the 5th or 6th time this month I've either cancelled planned rides for no reason or been caught out in tropical typhoons on 'sunny' days

Honestly.... they couldn't predict night time at sunset the bunch of useless twats


Don't get me started with that lot.
BUT use their app it has a 6 hour historical rain radar so you can make your own weather forecasts with reasonable accuracy and no super computers in sight.


Yeah I use their app..... that's the bludy problem Haha but to be honest I only use the hourly forecast widget on my homescreen, I rarely open up the full app and use all of the functions.

Just annoys me they cant be a bit more accurate with it for at least the same day. I've literally been stood out in biblical grade rain while the met office app is predicting sun with a hint of cloud 😅
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Post by: mtread on 03 September 2019, 03:56:23 pm
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I just call the dog in and see if it's wet. 
Wow a talking dog! Ask him 'what's the weather like' and he says 'rough'  ;)
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Post by: Frosties on 03 September 2019, 09:00:34 pm
Car indicators that are on the inside of the headlights as opposed to the outside. Always seemed a bit odd to me especially at night 

Or the ones that are a ring around a brake light which can often be bloody hard to see if someone's braking and going to turn... :(
Exactly - how unbelievably stupid are these designers, think about it you moron designers - when you are braking you are very likely to also be indicating too (unless you are in a BMW or Audi )


Now this winds me up no end. You have as much chance of seeing the ring indicators on VW's as VNA had with the smoked rear lights. Add to that the now "stylish" tiny front indicators buried in the corner of the front LED running lights and you certainly need your wits about you - nearly caught out a few times now.


Style over safety - When the feck was this a priority ?

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Post by: fazersharp on 03 September 2019, 09:22:53 pm
Car indicators that are on the inside of the headlights as opposed to the outside. Always seemed a bit odd to me especially at night 

Or the ones that are a ring around a brake light which can often be bloody hard to see if someone's braking and going to turn... :(
Exactly - how unbelievably stupid are these designers, think about it you moron designers - when you are braking you are very likely to also be indicating too (unless you are in a BMW or Audi )


Now this winds me up no end. You have as much chance of seeing the ring indicators on VW's as VNA had with the smoked rear lights. Add to that the now "stylish" tiny front indicators buried in the corner of the front LED running lights and you certainly need your wits about you - nearly caught out a few times now.


Style over safety - When the feck was this a priority ?


Yep nissan qaqui - whatever, has them in the corner of v shaped running lights. Also some are no bigger than a matchbox. I think mine are bigger on the bike. What are the regs for them- are there even any I wonder. 
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 September 2019, 09:28:13 pm
Thought I would have a google to see if it was just us moaning idiots but no this chap at least has the same issues https://drivetribe.com/p/stop-putting-car-indicators-in-CpSdsa-lSB6paC3Dm74hSw?iid=Uc-9yUZnR0yD87Ik3ufNmw
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Post by: Robbie8666 on 05 September 2019, 07:13:54 am
Been the first one in the office everyday and make myself a brew & my oppo who comes in 5 mins later.
one of the officers comes in today early (normally in at 8 ) flashes up his computer & says wheres my brew?
in the kettle was the reply..
apparently I have a bad attitude! ffs 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 08 September 2019, 10:00:04 am

When you park in a virtually empty car park and the next car in squeezes right up beside you making it difficult to even open your door properly.


WTF is that all about!?. I bet a psychologist could explain that one :rolleyes
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Post by: mtread on 08 September 2019, 07:56:56 pm
It's to give your car someone else to talk to
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Post by: darrsi on 09 September 2019, 06:21:05 am

When you park in a virtually empty car park and the next car in squeezes right up beside you making it difficult to even open your door properly.


WTF is that all about!?. I bet a psychologist could explain that one :rolleyes


Some woman did that to my mum once, then waited for her to come out of the supermarket to then suggest my mum had damaged her car with hers.
When my neighbour who was with her, a mechanic, asked to be shown the damage he was shown yellow marks on the bodywork.
My mums car was red  :rolleyes
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Post by: Anquetil on 19 October 2019, 09:13:09 am
Pop Up adverts recently appearing on the Met Office Weather website. I use this site many times a day to plan my outings and they are very annoying !
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Post by: coffee on 20 October 2019, 12:45:35 am



Promoted Coppers, sergeants upwards. :finger
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Post by: Oldgit on 20 October 2019, 11:27:06 am

documentary programmes on telly where the speaker tries to make it more dramatic than it really is--that's just running off at the mouth, and is a real piss off.

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Post by: Grahamm on 21 October 2019, 01:18:13 am
Pop Up adverts recently appearing on the Met Office Weather website. I use this site many times a day to plan my outings and they are very annoying !

Download the uBlock add on for your browser :thumbup
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Post by: coffee on 21 October 2019, 08:31:45 pm

documentary programmes on telly where the speaker tries to make it more dramatic than it really is--that's just running off at the mouth, and is a real piss off.








100%
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Post by: darrsi on 01 November 2019, 06:10:17 am
Trick Or Treating


I've never ever been a fan, and irrespective of the thought process behind it, why the fuck would my 80yr old mum want to answer the door to someone like this, which could quite easily be a scene from the film The Purge?


Note: That is her door by the way. 

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Post by: Anquetil on 01 November 2019, 07:32:01 am
I totally agree, darrsi. A real pain in the neck. Demanding money or treats with menaces ! Yesterday evening we had three different groups hammering the front door. One of these groups was 9 strong, 4 adults hiding in the shadows, and 5 brats presenting at the door. We don't answer the door but after a full days work all my wife wants is peace and quiet. My nervous cat is not impresssed either, especially with the bloody fireworks exploding at the same time !
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Post by: Anquetil on 01 November 2019, 08:14:38 am
Thanks for the tip Grahamm. I have just bought a new computer and it is not happening on this one for some reason.
Pop Up adverts recently appearing on the Met Office Weather website. I use this site many times a day to plan my outings and they are very annoying !

Download the uBlock add on for your browser :thumbup
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Post by: fazersharp on 01 November 2019, 09:35:50 am
Around here there seems to be an unwritten code that if you dress up your house or even just a plastic pumpkin in the window then you accept trick treaters but no pumpkin house means don't knock.
Darrsi I think you have a point with your nan. But Anqetil I think you are being a "tad" over the top "Demanding money or treats with menaces hammering the front door / 4 adults hiding in the shadows / brats" Those adults hiding are supervising their children at a distance.Next year get some fun size milkyways in and stick a plastic pumpkin in the window.  :pokefun
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Post by: mtread on 01 November 2019, 11:06:07 am
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Around here there seems to be an unwritten code that if you dress up your house or even just a plastic pumpkin in the window then you accept trick treaters but no pumpkin house means don't knock.
Same round here. No decorations for us, and previous years bought loads of chocs just in case, which I ended up eating myself
 :evil
Anyway it's another bleeding American invention. What's wrong with the good old British tradition of begging with effigies of Catholic conspirators.
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Post by: Anquetil on 01 November 2019, 11:09:47 am
I'm getting more like Victor Meldrew every day !  Must be my advanced age.
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Post by: Grahamm on 01 November 2019, 12:50:11 pm
I just stuck a sign on the door saying "No Trick or Treaters, please" and, although I heard groups out in the street, everyone respected it.
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Post by: darrsi on 01 November 2019, 01:43:22 pm
Around here there seems to be an unwritten code that if you dress up your house or even just a plastic pumpkin in the window then you accept trick treaters but no pumpkin house means don't knock.
Darrsi I think you have a point with your nan. But Anqetil I think you are being a "tad" over the top "Demanding money or treats with menaces hammering the front door / 4 adults hiding in the shadows / brats" Those adults hiding are supervising their children at a distance.Next year get some fun size milkyways in and stick a plastic pumpkin in the window.  :pokefun


*mum  :lol
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Post by: celticdog on 03 November 2019, 10:34:44 am
Our street and the surrounding area is now littered with smashed up pumpkin carcasses!
the little scrotes have taken them from the front doors and kicked them up and down the streets.
Little foccers! At least the crows and magpies are having a feed on them.
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Post by: Fazerider on 03 November 2019, 03:45:24 pm

From mid-October we get three months of whining, complaining and outraged demands to ban fireworks from pet owners whose world revolves around their neurotic inbred “fur baby” and don’t see why the rest of us don’t share their view.
Fuck ‘em, miserable sanctimonious killjoys. I have to clean dog crap off my boots dozens of times a year, so if their pooches shit on their carpets that’s fine by me. :D


(https://i.postimg.cc/xdC104x3/832.jpg)
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Post by: agricola on 03 November 2019, 05:16:39 pm
Digital TVs. Nothing but trouble. Havin to re-tune every other week cos they change the channels. When you re-tune, you cant get half the friggin channels that you had before. Cant even find them when tuning manually, is like they've just been deleted. Picture pixelates and disappears then comes back. The sound goes up for the adverts then goes down for the programmes. Never had this shit with analogue
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2019, 05:17:23 pm

From mid-October we get three months of whining, complaining and outraged demands to ban fireworks from pet owners whose world revolves around their neurotic inbred “fur baby” and don’t see why the rest of us don’t share their view.
Fuck ‘em, miserable sanctimonious killjoys. I have to clean dog crap off my boots dozens of times a year, so if their pooches shit on their carpets that’s fine by me. :D



(https://i.postimg.cc/xdC104x3/832.jpg)
:lol Legend post :lol . Great pic too BTW.
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2019, 05:32:12 pm
Digital TVs. Nothing but trouble. Havin to re-tune every other week cos they change the channels. When you re-tune, you cant get half the friggin channels that you had before. Cant even find them when tuning manually, is like they've just been deleted. Picture pixelates and disappears then comes back. The sound goes up for the adverts then goes down for the programmes. Never had this shit with analogue
Yeh it is annoying constantly having to retune. But I have a tv that picks up the wrong signal so I manually retune and find this website useful https://ukfree.tv/maps/uhfchannel (https://ukfree.tv/maps/uhfchannel)   
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2019, 05:39:54 pm
Go to
Maps -Every Mast- Find your transmitter name (if you know it) - click TV in blue - scroll down and you will get a list of all the channels for all the broadcasts. I use that when I manually retune. Sometimes the tv retunes most channels but they are not on the tv guide info so I have to retune to the correct channel Mghz
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2019, 05:44:40 pm
Apparently there was still over 7000 black and white TV licences issued last year :eek
I love the image of people plugging on a digital to analogue convertor in order to watch the snooker in monochrome :lol .
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 03 November 2019, 06:27:32 pm
Apparently there was still over 7000 black and white TV licences issued last year :eek
I love the image of people plugging on a digital to analogue convertor in order to watch the snooker in monochrome :lol .

That's got to be at least 6800 people lying about their TVs 😆😆
Not only can I not see any TV that is old enough to be black white still working but even if they do... what are they watching? They turned off the analogue signal years ago? And those tvs dont even have scart ports to plug in a sky box or anything??
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2019, 07:08:00 pm

You just connect a digital to analogue signal convertor box with an AV aerial lead output into the old telly. The TV then just acts as a monitor. The box is the tuner and you receive all the Freeview channels, but with a slightly inferior picture quality.


I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 November 2019, 07:27:23 pm

You just connect a digital to analogue signal convertor box with an AV aerial lead output into the old telly. The TV then just acts as a monitor. The box is the tuner and you receive all the Freeview channels, but with a slightly inferior picture quality.


I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 November 2019, 07:50:14 pm
 :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: agricola on 04 November 2019, 07:47:25 pm

You just connect a digital to analogue signal convertor box with an AV aerial lead output into the old telly. The TV then just acts as a monitor. The box is the tuner and you receive all the Freeview channels, but with a slightly inferior picture quality.


I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.


Do you still keep pigeons in your outside loo?  :lol
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 04 November 2019, 07:57:29 pm


I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.

Probably spent more on electricity in the first two years powering up that combo than a new TV would have cost.
Your heating bill would have been lower then though :pokefun
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Post by: YamFazFan on 04 November 2019, 08:19:05 pm


You just connect a digital to analogue signal convertor box with an AV aerial lead output into the old telly. The TV then just acts as a monitor. The box is the tuner and you receive all the Freeview channels, but with a slightly inferior picture quality.


I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.


Do you still keep pigeons in your outside loo?  :lol


Not a lot of choice. It's all we've got. Keeping them inside isn't an option. They come in handy when you run out of newspaper I must say ;) .
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Post by: YamFazFan on 04 November 2019, 08:23:01 pm



I kept an analogue CRT colour TV going after digital switch over in this way.

Probably spent more on electricity in the first two years powering up that combo than a new TV would have cost.
Your heating bill would have been lower then though :pokefun


 :lol
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Post by: mtread on 04 November 2019, 11:35:31 pm
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Digital TVs. Nothing but trouble. Havin to re-tune every other week cos they change the channels. When you re-tune, you cant get half the friggin channels that you had before.
Have they moved Babestation again?  ;)
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Post by: darrsi on 05 November 2019, 06:42:48 am
Digital TVs. Nothing but trouble. Havin to re-tune every other week cos they change the channels. When you re-tune, you cant get half the friggin channels that you had before. Cant even find them when tuning manually, is like they've just been deleted. Picture pixelates and disappears then comes back. The sound goes up for the adverts then goes down for the programmes. Never had this shit with analogue


If your picture is pixelating then your aerial could be the issue. If it's a rooftop aerial have a look and make sure it's aiming in the same direction as everyone else's on your street, they can get moved by strong weather or birds landing on it or even flying into it.
If you use an internal aerial it needs to be aiming in the same direction but looking out of a window rather than aiming at a brick wall. Once the digital signal was turned on full power it became a very strong signal so there's no real excuse for a ropey picture these days.
Tuning your tv with a bad aerial signal is a pointless exercise which won't help matters at all. When you do an Auto Tune it should give you a rough idea of signal strength from 1 to 10, and these days you should really be getting a level of 8 to 10 unless you're in a built up area like flats, etc, which could have a greater chance of added interference.


Also have a flick through the audio settings on your tv and see if there's an option to balance or level your audio at all, which would stop adverts becoming annoyingly loud.
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Post by: Trebus on 05 November 2019, 08:28:00 am
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Digital TVs. Nothing but trouble. Havin to re-tune every other week cos they change the channels. When you re-tune, you cant get half the friggin channels that you had before.
Have they moved Babestation again?  ;)

😂😂
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Post by: fazersharp on 16 November 2019, 05:00:28 pm
 I dabble every now and then in the lottery mainly if its a big win on offer so I don't keep much of an eye on it. Gets my goat is when shops do not change the card display on the lottery plinth and leave the one in that says that is an £xxxxxx jackpot then I find out its only 7.5m  :rolleyes
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Post by: YamFazFan on 16 November 2019, 05:11:12 pm
only 7.5m  :rolleyes

 :rollin :rollin
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Post by: fazersharp on 16 November 2019, 06:37:23 pm
I'm so tight I think that if you win you should also get your original stake back
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Post by: YamFazFan on 16 November 2019, 07:25:52 pm

 :lol :lol :lol   :rollin :rollin :rollin

Well why not?, the bookies do don't they.
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Post by: Oldgit on 18 November 2019, 11:03:27 am

The way the sound level on the telly varies with each and every programme, sometimes it's ok and other times you can't hear FA unless you turn the volume way up, and then when the ads come on it deafens you..

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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 18 November 2019, 11:14:59 am
Maybe time you changed yer hearing aid battery ya oldgit. :lol
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Post by: Grahamm on 18 November 2019, 01:06:56 pm

The way the sound level on the telly varies with each and every programme, sometimes it's ok and other times you can't hear FA unless you turn the volume way up, and then when the ads come on it deafens you..

Use a box with Live Pause and wait 15 minutes after the programme starts or just record the programme and then fast-forward through the ads, sorted! :thumbup
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Post by: Fazerider on 18 November 2019, 01:57:31 pm

The way the sound level on the telly varies with each and every programme, sometimes it's ok and other times you can't hear FA unless you turn the volume way up, and then when the ads come on it deafens you..

Completely agree.
I rarely watch anything HD because the sound is so shit. I suspect it’s something to do with 5+1 surround sound/Dolby encoding, but my telly doesn’t have any of that and it means dialogue is almost impossible to follow. It’s fine on standard def though.
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Post by: Oldgit on 19 November 2019, 05:57:52 pm

Just purchased a sound bar--problem solved--can hear everything great.

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Post by: fazersharp on 19 November 2019, 09:22:24 pm
I think the main problem is the flat tvs as there is just not enough room to get decent speakers in. So yes the answer is a sound bar or a subround system
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Post by: mtread on 19 November 2019, 10:04:46 pm
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Just purchased a sound bar--problem solved--can hear everything great.
That was my solution too. Some of them you can tune to amplify speech over background noise.
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Post by: darrsi on 20 November 2019, 06:27:44 am
Have you seen how cheap you can pick up decent televisions for these days?
I ordered a 43" Panasonic UHD 4K Smart TV the other day for our rest room at work, and it was only £347, plus i could've gone even cheaper if i wanted to.
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Post by: coffee on 20 November 2019, 08:42:50 pm
We bought one like that and apart from being good value I didn't realise 'till my lad came round you can get U/tube and loads of apps in with the telly! brill !! :thumbup
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Post by: coffee on 20 November 2019, 08:58:33 pm
Had to do one of those speed awareness courses yesterday,it was obviously boring taking 4hrs but I learnt a few things so not a complete waste of time and at least the insurance won't get the chance to kick me in the bollocks like they would if I'd took the points.My gripe is there's always a couple of mouthy fuckers who think they're comedians in these things,like when asked for a reason why you were speeding one shouted "cause I'm a tosser"and the other one was trying to be as "funny" ? by coming out with snidy remarks all through the course.If these had have been coppers I wouldn't have bothered I suppose but they're civvies just doing a thankless job and don't really deserve that shit. :finger
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Post by: fazersharp on 20 November 2019, 09:22:29 pm
We bought one like that and apart from being good value I didn't realise 'till my lad came round you can get U/tube and loads of apps in with the telly! brill !! :thumbup
I have a 7 year old LG tv that had different apps including bbc iplayer and one by one the apps were dropped and no longer supported so to get the bbc iplayer I now have to use a now tv box. Don't do sky or anything.
55inch Tv cost almost a grand when I brought it - 3d which has also been dropped by broadcasters 
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Post by: coffee on 21 November 2019, 12:12:01 am
'kin ell I didn't know they could take them off! I thought they was there indefinately  :(
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Post by: mtread on 21 November 2019, 12:33:53 am
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Had to do one of those speed awareness courses yesterday,it was obviously boring taking 4hrs but I learnt a few things so not a complete waste of time and at least the insurance won't get the chance to kick me in the bollocks like they would if I'd took the points.My gripe is there's always a couple of mouthy fuckers who think they're comedians in these things,like when asked for a reason why you were speeding one shouted "cause I'm a tosser"and the other one was trying to be as "funny" ? by coming out with snidy remarks all through the course.If these had have been coppers I wouldn't have bothered I suppose but they're civvies just doing a thankless job and don't really deserve that shit.

I did one a year ago, and that was my experience too. Patronised for about 4 hours, but learned a few things,and better than taking the points.
Apparently, if you don't take the course seriously and piss off the presenters, they will report back to the police you have 'failed' and you get the points after all  :)
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Post by: fazersharp on 21 November 2019, 10:14:47 am
'kin ell I didn't know they could take them off! I thought they was there indefinately  :(
I think how it happens is that some of the apps are on the tv through a deal with the app owners and they get dropped with the contract ending - or something. The other way which is what happened with the bbc iplayer is that the platform changed and LG did not update the tv, I think that samsung support their tvs much better     
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Post by: darrsi on 21 November 2019, 03:11:14 pm
We bought one like that and apart from being good value I didn't realise 'till my lad came round you can get U/tube and loads of apps in with the telly! brill !! :thumbup

Open up YouTube and do a search for 4K or 8K videos, then you'll really see how good your tv picture is.
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Post by: coffee on 22 November 2019, 06:19:10 pm
Looked at some of these last night,I'd never heard of these 4and 8 k videos,they really are exceptional compared to the norm.
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Post by: darrsi on 24 November 2019, 05:47:47 pm
Looked at some of these last night,I'd never heard of these 4and 8 k videos,they really are exceptional compared to the norm.


Yeah, they certainly make a tv picture spring to life.

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Post by: fazersharp on 24 November 2019, 08:30:58 pm
Will the 4k 8k thing take off because I remember 3d, bbc were starting to broadcast stuff in it and then dropped it. There were lots of showcase vids on utube that were amazing but it seems to of died. I did not buy my tv because it had 3d but at the time big 55 inch tvs - you could not buy one without 3d. 
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 24 November 2019, 09:32:55 pm
Will the 4k 8k thing take off because I remember 3d, bbc were starting to broadcast stuff in it and then dropped it. There were lots of showcase vids on utube that were amazing but it seems to of died. I did not buy my tv because it had 3d but at the time big 55 inch tvs - you could not buy one without 3d.

I think 4k is already becoming the norm when buying a new TV and I've no doubt 8k will be next.
3d was different as that was more of a gimmick, it also required people to wear glasses and actively seek out 3d shows. Where as 4k, 8k, 16k are all just natural progressions in high definition.
Normal people wont have to do anything (other than upgrade their tvs eventually), itll be down to the broadcasters to start commissioning programmes filmed in the higher definition (as they did back when 720p hd first became a thing).
It wont be an overnight change, after all it's taken about 10 years for the majority of channels to be HD but I do think it'll be the future.

It's amazing how much difference it makes now that there used to it. I cant watch old programs in standard definition anymore... it's like watching through milk bottles haha
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Post by: Trebus on 24 November 2019, 10:04:51 pm
Meanwhile the BBC still don’t broadcast local news on HD and you have to switch over to SD....
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Post by: fazersharp on 24 November 2019, 10:08:17 pm
Meanwhile the BBC still don’t broadcast local news on HD and you have to switch over to SD....
Yeh good point but I actually prefer to listen to the bird song than switch over to watch the local news 
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Post by: darrsi on 25 November 2019, 07:03:36 am
Will the 4k 8k thing take off because I remember 3d, bbc were starting to broadcast stuff in it and then dropped it. There were lots of showcase vids on utube that were amazing but it seems to of died. I did not buy my tv because it had 3d but at the time big 55 inch tvs - you could not buy one without 3d.


The majority of jobs we supply cameras for at work are 4K or above for HD cameras. Film has always been very high detailed resolution anyway, they always have, but we never had the tv's to show it off in the past.
Now we do, which is why we can see really old feature films on tv that more or less look like they were shot yesterday.
So from a viewing point of view, and to future proof yourself (for a while anyway) then if you're buying a new telly then buy a 4K one, even more so as they're so damn cheap right now.
People must understand too that not everything is shot using the highest quality available due to budget, whether that be a simple switch from 35mm film to 16mm, or to save money people will change a cameras pull down rate from 4 perforations per frame of film, to 3 perf, and occasionally even 2 perf, to save money on film stock. The result, obviously, is a drop in quality, which will get noticed on a tv screen, especially the over sized ones.
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 November 2019, 10:12:33 am
Probably cant even get a non 4k tv now when looking at 55 size and above like back when I brought my 3d one. Actually on the subject of 3d i have a few bulerays in 3d but if I were needing to replace it, could I even get one.     
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 25 November 2019, 10:19:08 am
:agree

We bought a 3D TV a few years ago when my son worked in Currys and was convinced it was the next big thing. What a waste of money that was. Especially as my Mrs cannot watch 3D stuff due to eye issues
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 November 2019, 05:14:54 pm
:agree

We bought a 3D TV a few years ago when my son worked in Currys and was convinced it was the next big thing. What a waste of money that was. Especially as my Mrs cannot watch 3D stuff due to eye issues
Passive or active. Does the glasses need Battery 
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Post by: darrsi on 25 November 2019, 07:14:58 pm
There were too many issues involved with shooting in 3D, it was a nightmare setting the gear up and was extremely time consuming, plus there were limitations at what you could actually do.
Some things did look quite good, but in general it was very gimmicky and having to wear the glasses was a nuisance.
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 November 2019, 07:19:14 pm
There were too many issues involved with shooting in 3D, it was a nightmare setting the gear up and was extremely time consuming, plus there were limitations at what you could actually do.
Some things did look quite good, but in general it was very gimmicky and having to wear the glasses was a nuisance.
I noticed when bbc showed Wimbledon in 3d but they used a low lower angle for effect and it was not as good viewing than the normal position which was higher.
On the other hand its the only time I watched tennis. 
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 25 November 2019, 08:02:31 pm
Passive or active. Does the glasses need Battery 

No batteries required for ours but the Mrs has tried both types of TV (at the time) and neither worked for her
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Post by: F4celess on 27 November 2019, 02:30:21 pm
Some terrestrial Playback TV and Film channels, now offer (at extra cost) the option of watching in 4K.

We were shopping for a new TV quite recently and it wasn't the max resolution but another technology in the makeup of the TV that made the clarify absolutely superb. There was a demo playing of some fire up the screen and it almost looked like it was lapping out at you. The colours were SO crisp and vivid.

Alot of new Action cameras (such as GoPro), also Drones, will record in 4K video as standard. Some upto 5.7K. However the storage requirements, recording at such a resolution is massive compared to the popular 1080p. Also post editing, its far easier and quicker working with a smaller 1080p clip over a 4K equivalent (that requires a high performance computer also).

Plus producers (on youtube) know 4K TV isn't (yet) the norm, so no reason recording in 4K when its just a guy riding down the road with a camera on the side of his helmet, or a sporting event etc.

Later Playstation consoles offer 4K games. Which is the opposite to scaling down a real piece of footage (for the above reasons) - instead wanting to play in 4K+, to enhance the lifelike effects and realism in games.
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Post by: darrsi on 27 November 2019, 02:40:55 pm
There were too many issues involved with shooting in 3D, it was a nightmare setting the gear up and was extremely time consuming, plus there were limitations at what you could actually do.
Some things did look quite good, but in general it was very gimmicky and having to wear the glasses was a nuisance.
I noticed when bbc showed Wimbledon in 3d but they used a low lower angle for effect and it was not as good viewing than the normal position which was higher.
On the other hand its the only time I watched tennis.


It wasn't "for effect", one of the drawbacks is 3D didn't work at certain angles, and also no good for wide angle shots.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 November 2019, 11:19:16 am
People offloading their family heirlooms on 'Flog It' for tuppence ha'penny, who when asked why on earth are they selling the cigarette case that deflected the bullet from Grandad during WW1, come out with tosh like.... "It's just sitting in a drawer doing nothing" :groan
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Post by: mtread on 28 November 2019, 12:29:51 pm
It's when they sell grandad because 'he's sitting in a chair doing nothing' we need to worry  :lol
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 November 2019, 01:41:27 pm

It's when they sell grandad because 'he's sitting in a chair doing nothing' we need to worry  :lol


 :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: YamFazFan on 01 December 2019, 04:48:57 pm

Restaurants that have those poxy salt & pepper grinders filled with rock salt and pepper corns.


There's nothing worse than crunching down on a foccin great boulder of salt when you're tucking in to your steak and chips :wall


Whatever's wrong with shakers? :rolleyes
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 December 2019, 06:48:49 pm
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Restaurants that have those poxy salt & pepper grinders filled with rock salt and pepper corns.
That's proper.  :thumbup
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Post by: YamFazFan on 01 December 2019, 07:01:45 pm
I just KNEW when I posted it you'd be the one to come out with that! :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: mtread on 01 December 2019, 07:19:15 pm
Rock salt? At least they put it in those handy bins at the side of the road. Often pop out to fill up the salt cellar  :)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2019, 04:05:46 pm
Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 December 2019, 04:51:02 pm
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Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
A bus?  Really.  A bus?
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Post by: robbo on 02 December 2019, 05:05:40 pm
Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
Bus travel is cashless dahn sarf.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2019, 06:03:46 pm

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Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
A bus?  Really.  A bus?


Yeah a bus. It's a big red box on wheels full of people. Boris likes making cardboard models of them :lol

Transport for the masses. Got a problem with that? ;)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2019, 06:08:39 pm

Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
Bus travel is cashless dahn sarf.


It might be, but I'm not :lol . I try to use cash wherever possible otherwise it just gives them an excuse to do away with it.


I still insist on taxing all my fleet at the Post Office as well so that have to keep them open ;)
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 December 2019, 06:56:31 pm
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Transport for the masses. Got a problem with that?

I tend to use my automobile, or if it’s a nice day one of my motorcycles.
I suppose somebody has to use the bus.
 
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 December 2019, 07:02:40 pm
 
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I try to use cash wherever possible otherwise…………………..
I’ve noticed now and again when I’m paying for stuff, the person operating the till or whatever will exclaim “oh cash!”
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it just gives them an excuse to do away with it.
I was at the dentist the other day.  It was 11.40 for my check up and polish (nhs prices), so I pulled out a 20 spot as I was low on change.  Oh she said, you couldn’t pay by card could you – just we don’t have any change.  It won’t be long coming.
 
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Post by: agricola on 02 December 2019, 07:25:53 pm
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I try to use cash wherever possible otherwise…………………..
I’ve noticed now and again when I’m paying for stuff, the person operating the till or whatever will exclaim “oh cash!”
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it just gives them an excuse to do away with it.
I was at the dentist the other day.  It was 11.40 for my check up and polish (nhs prices), so I pulled out a 20 spot as I was low on change.  Oh she said, you couldn’t pay by card could you – just we don’t have any change.  It won’t be long coming.


I'll miss it when that day finally arrives. I love to try to go with cash when buying


How much is that for cash then?
Do you want a receipt?
No.
Then i'll let you have it for xxxx


Doesnt always work though, but I have to confess that the wife is ace at it
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Post by: agricola on 02 December 2019, 07:31:50 pm
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Bus drivers who pull a face when you try to pay with any denomination note or anything other than the exact coinage.
A bus?  Really.  A bus?


Cant beat it. You can talk with people, strangers even. Socialise, observe others, smile at people. Bumped into a n old school pal a few weeks ago, not seen him for 50 years but he recognised me instantly I got on the bus. Turns out he only ever moved half a mile away. Its even better now I'm on oldie and its free between 9.30 am till 11pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 December 2019, 07:35:48 pm
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I love to try to go with cash when buying
The world is changing Agricola.  Was recently in one of these new gold-plated palaces that pass for bike shops these days.
I was drooling over some bike or other, the sales man was trying to run me through his deal, ‘.......so then it’s just 150 quid a month......... blah blah blah blah'.
How much fae cash mate, I asked.
I’m sorry he replied. 
You’ll do me a nice number for cash pal – yeah?   
Oh, hmmm, cash, I see, err don’t get many of em now, and he started back on his PCP deal.


I figured every single punter that walks in the door of that gold plated palace is, to them, a potential new bike buyer – just get em singed up on the PCP.  But when some bugger walks in that can actually afford to buy what they are selling they ain’t foccin interested. 
 
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Post by: robbo on 02 December 2019, 07:44:17 pm
No wonder you've got cash if you only pay 11.40 for a dental checkup. It's almost 3 times that here and you'd pay extra for a polish.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2019, 07:44:39 pm

I’ve noticed now and again when I’m paying for stuff, the person operating the till or whatever will exclaim “oh cash!”


Yep, on occasion they've had to restart the transaction because I've pulled out notes and they'd automatically assumed it was going to be card.


I'm not totally dogmatic about it. I'll pay for big items with card because it makes sense to have the extra protection that provides in the event of an issue and obviously everything online is card + garage bills etc...


It's just for the day to day stuff I still like good old cash.


I was at the dentist the other day.  It was 11.40 for my check up


I thought you were going to say 2:30 for a minute there :lol . Sorry, that's an old one. I'll get my coat :o .....
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Post by: YamFazFan on 02 December 2019, 07:49:27 pm

No wonder you've got cash if you only pay 11.40 for a dental checkup. It's almost 3 times that here and you'd pay extra for a polish.


Yeah I pay about double that NHS. Why so cheap VNA?
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Post by: fazersharp on 02 December 2019, 08:28:02 pm

No wonder you've got cash if you only pay 11.40 for a dental checkup. It's almost 3 times that here and you'd pay extra for a polish.


Yeah I pay about double that NHS. Why so cheap VNA?
Cause he only has 3 teeth  :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: dazza on 02 December 2019, 09:32:40 pm
 :lol
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 December 2019, 10:10:38 pm
 
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Cause he only has 3 teeth  :rollin :rollin
Ho foccin ho – bloody comedian.


Foc off Dazza.   :finger



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Yeah I pay about double that NHS. Why so cheap VNA?
Scottish NHS standard rates.  See loads of the stuff in the Labour manifesto – like free personal care etc etc – it’s just following what we have already implemented up here.
             
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Ops.  Say no more. :lol
 
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Post by: mtread on 02 December 2019, 11:31:09 pm
There's a 'craft beer' Micropub near us that only takes cards. Lots of punters arriving, ordering, then turning round and going back out again.


Mind you, fairly soon you'll be able to spot the crims. They'll be the ones paying in cash.
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Post by: darrsi on 03 December 2019, 06:25:32 am
There's a 'craft beer' Micropub near us that only takes cards. Lots of punters arriving, ordering, then turning round and going back out again.


Mind you, fairly soon you'll be able to spot the crims. They'll be the ones paying in cash.


In my local, in the past 5 or 6 weeks, the card machine has failed 3 times during busy nights.
It was quite clear that there are a lot of people who don't carry cash anymore, including myself.
Luckily for everyone there's a bank only a few doors up the road, so it wasn't too much of an issue.
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Post by: agricola on 03 December 2019, 09:20:44 am

No wonder you've got cash if you only pay 11.40 for a dental checkup. It's almost 3 times that here and you'd pay extra for a polish.


Yeah I pay about double that NHS. Why so cheap VNA?


Subsidised by the English ;)
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Post by: agricola on 03 December 2019, 09:29:17 am
:lol


Wow. Childhood memories. OMO, VIM, bathing in the kitchen sink. Friday night after school, the old copper would be boiling up, water bucketed into the sink, youngest in first
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 December 2019, 10:56:33 am
 
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Subsidised by the English
Umm NO. 
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Keep kidding yourself.  The truth is Scotland has been subsiding England for decades.  And that graph doesn’t quite show the true picture as Westminster redrew the maps in 1999 moving some 6000 square miles of Scottish sea to England. 



Anyway you lot are voting Tory, so youse are gonna get fucked even more than you are just now :lol
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 December 2019, 11:06:37 am

:lol


Wow. Childhood memories. OMO, VIM, bathing in the kitchen sink. Friday night after school, the old copper would be boiling up, water bucketed into the sink, youngest in first


Bathing in't kitchen sink?! :eek . A luxury. We were so poor we had to hope it'd been raining and rely on't puddle in't gutter using dead pigeon as sponge. Aye we were poor, but happy mind :)
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Post by: fazersharp on 03 December 2019, 11:20:35 am

:lol


Wow. Childhood memories. OMO, VIM, bathing in the kitchen sink. Friday night after school, the old copper would be boiling up, water bucketed into the sink, youngest in first


Bathing in't kitchen sink?! :eek . A luxury. We were so poor we had to hope it'd been raining and rely on't puddle in't gutter using dead pigeon as sponge. Aye we were poor, but happy mind :)
A GUTTER - you were rich - we didn't even have a gutter
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 December 2019, 11:38:16 am


:lol


Wow. Childhood memories. OMO, VIM, bathing in the kitchen sink. Friday night after school, the old copper would be boiling up, water bucketed into the sink, youngest in first


Bathing in't kitchen sink?! :eek . A luxury. We were so poor we had to hope it'd been raining and rely on't puddle in't gutter using dead pigeon as sponge. Aye we were poor, but happy mind :)
A GUTTER - you were rich - we didn't even have a gutter


Well I say 'gutter'. It were down in't sewer actually.
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Post by: mtread on 03 December 2019, 02:59:24 pm
We used to dream of a sewer!
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Post by: YamFazFan on 03 December 2019, 03:11:21 pm
By sewer I meant it were in't a big pile of shite. Grateful to have that too was we :)
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Post by: coffee on 03 December 2019, 08:00:54 pm
Pure luxury,we'd 'ave shite for t' christmas treat.
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Post by: agricola on 03 December 2019, 08:25:12 pm
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Subsidised by the English
Umm NO. 
(https://i1.wp.com/fraserofallander.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chart-2.png?resize=900%2C588&ssl=1)



Keep kidding yourself.  The truth is Scotland has been subsiding England for decades.  And that graph doesn’t quite show the true picture as Westminster redrew the maps in 1999 moving some 6000 square miles of Scottish sea to England. 



Anyway you lot are voting Tory, so youse are gonna get fucked even more than you are just now :lol


Oi. No politics  :lol
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 13 March 2020, 07:38:48 pm
Lets revive a none political thread for a change haha

What gets my goat today is wankers that feel they have the right to stop their vehicles wherever the foc they choose regardless of other road users!!

Was nearly hit by a cage today because some inconsiderate fucktard had double parked their van about 10ft from a blind junction. I approached cautiously and on the wrong side of the road when somebody came straight out of the side road because they couldnt see around the van 🙄
I managed to brake in time but if I hadnt been being cautious then I wouldn't have stood a chance.

On the plus side it was helpful to practice a genuine emergency stop
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 22 March 2020, 09:12:37 pm
Pricks on motorbikes :pokefun

Over the last 48 hours, through a faceache group I am in, I have heard about 3 bikers not too far from me that have died. I have no idea if the accidents were their fault or not (at least one was a car at fault) but this afternoon whilst in my garden I could hear bikes treating the dual carriageway near my house as if it was santa pod.
Normally I wouldn't have an issue with this but with teh way that the NHS is being stretched at the moment, why do we push our luck?
My insurance is due soon on my bikes along with the MOT on one of them and I am seriously considering SORN both bikes for now.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 22 March 2020, 09:53:34 pm
It's been like that all weekend here. I've not seen so many bikes in one weekend for years. Most of them as loud as foc and being ridden flat out.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 22 March 2020, 10:07:42 pm
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Over the last 48 hours, through a faceache group I am in, I have heard about 3 bikers not too far from me that have died. I have no idea if the accidents were their fault or not (at least one was a car at fault) but this afternoon whilst in my garden I could hear bikes treating the dual carriageway near my house as if it was santa pod.
Normally I wouldn't have an issue with this but with teh way that the NHS is being stretched at the moment, why do we push our luck?
My insurance is due soon on my bikes along with the MOT on one of them and I am seriously considering SORN both bikes for now.
You don't think it's a good time to splash out on a new bike then. :\   Oh foc! :(
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Post by: steve 10562cc on 23 March 2020, 06:43:16 am
Perhaps a good time to wait VNA there is going to be some bargains in the stealerships when this is all over for those of us who avoid the grim reaper
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 23 March 2020, 10:52:29 am
Too late;
(http://www.photoecosse.net/fazerforum/r1250r/P1003000.jpg)

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Post by: steve 10562cc on 24 March 2020, 06:24:27 am
Nice very nice bike and I'm no BMW fan.
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Post by: Dynspud on 24 March 2020, 08:20:24 am
I'm with Steve.
Not a BMW fan but that is a really nice bike.
Best use, and look, with the boxer engine I think.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 24 March 2020, 11:08:08 am
 Cheers foccers.
 
I know what you mean.  I’ve never been a BMW fan, but then again, I’ve always had grudging admiration for the boxer, and also that BMW doesn’t follow the crowd, they do their own – often weird – thing.  But I didn’t think I’d ever buy one.


I’ve ridden an early 00’s air head, and whilst it had a nice big bit of low down grunt, it was overall a bit asthmatic compared to the Fazer thou. But this new water-cooled boxer with the ‘shift cam’ valve technology is something else.


Looks wise – it’s not weirdly and wonderfully gorgeous like the R Nine T’s, it’s an odd looking thing.  But remember the SAABs of the 70’s and 80’s into the 90’s, you know the 99, 90, 900’s?  When I first saw one I thought they were mingin, but then I couldn’t stop looking at them – they were different but they grew on you.


Anyway, what a time to take delivery of a new bike.  To and from work – and that’s it.  Maybe I can get away with the long way home – though if the NHS is in total melt-down I’ll probably just use the car – gotta reduce all risks however small I guess.


I ever come to sell it – it will be advertised as a rare limited edition Covid19 20 plate. 



Plenty more snaps in “ What did you do with whatever else you've got? “
 
 
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Post by: coffee on 25 March 2020, 12:24:26 am
When I'd got tired of the weight of 12 years of Pan europeans I bought a BMW  GT800, I really tried to like it but to no avail,it was ok on fuel and fairly comfy one up but put any luggage and my beloved on the back and it had to work sooo hard to get anywhere,we'd been spoiled with the Pans and in the end I'd have welcomed the weight for the speed and comfort of those beauties but we'd come to the end of touring on bikes after nearly 20 years and I've never been so glad to get rid of a bike without losing to much dough. I think it would have been a different story if we'd gone for a RT1200 but I thought the 800 was the way to go but that's a lovely looking bike you've got there,when you get to ride it ;) .Then again I have such an enjoyable time on my FZ it's really all I want. :thumbup
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 March 2020, 12:19:54 pm
 Cheers coffee.  It’s no light weight at 240kg.  On the test ride I never noticed the weight.  So, it’s gonna be interesting how I find manoeuvring it about day to day.  My drive is on a slope, and there’s a gentle ramp into my garage.  But I’m hoping I soon get used to backing her out of the garage etc - hopefully will be easy enough – never found it a problem on the thou.
 
The side stand is heavy duty but surprisingly long, the bike seems very upright on the side stand. 
 
But the big frustration is once the salt and grit is washed away, well I’m still left with not much more than the 7 miles to work, and 7 miles home.  Presumably I’m allowed to ride the additional 7 miles to my favourite butcher.   Unlike the horders I'll be buying less, to justifie mare trips. And if restrictions continue will I be able to get the 600 mile service?
 
Oh for two up riding and luggage, I think you would love the torque of the boxer.
 
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 March 2020, 12:26:02 pm
 Check that torque curve.  That 100 ft lbs at the rear wheel. :)



(https://shop.sc-project.com/Images/Products/Zoom/Grafico_BMW_R1250R-RS_my2019_SC1R.jpg)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 25 March 2020, 03:07:03 pm
  Presumably I’m allowed to ride the additional 7 miles to my favourite butcher.   Unlike the horders I'll be buying less, to justifie mare trips.
Mare??. Surely we're not down to eating the horses just yet? :eek
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 March 2020, 03:17:23 pm
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Mare??. Surely we're not down to eating the horses just yet? ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/shocked.gif[/url])

Nothing wrong with eating the odd horse.
But ah meant mare as in lots mare beef and lamb and stuff.
   
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Post by: Grahamm on 25 March 2020, 05:53:09 pm
Check that torque curve. 

Looks like it has the same problem as the FZ6, they've detuned it around the 5,500 to 6,000 revs range, because that's where the emissions testing is done.

Hopefully you can get it remapped or get the equivalent of a Power Commander to smooth that hole out.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 March 2020, 06:37:28 pm
 
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Quote from: VNA on Today at 12:26:02 PM ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?topic=17546.msg311097#msg311097[/url])<blockquote> Check that torque curve. 
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Looks like it has the same problem as the FZ6, they've detuned it around the 5,500 to 6,000 revs range, because that's where the emissions testing is done.

Hopefully you can get it remapped or get the equivalent of a Power Commander to smooth that hole out.

 Or it might be that's where it switches cams.  But whatever, the torque is just nuts.
 
Remap?  Well I’ve only ridden a demo for two hours, but I thought the engine was stunning. I sure wasn’t thinking this thing needs a re-map.
     
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Post by: coffee on 25 March 2020, 08:57:47 pm
"switches cams"? is it a form of V-Tech ?
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 25 March 2020, 09:42:49 pm
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"switches cams"? is it a form of V-Tech ?

Yeah, but BMW style;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8IqAjSWGPE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8IqAjSWGPE)
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Post by: Grahamm on 26 March 2020, 12:38:25 am
Or it might be that's where it switches cams.  But whatever, the torque is just nuts.

Interesting, I've never seen that before.
 
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I sure wasn’t thinking this thing needs a re-map.

A lot of people ride the stock FZ6 with the OEM engine map too.

But look at that torque: At 5250rpm you have around 130Nm

At around 5600rpm it's dropped to 125Nm and then stays there until around 6000 rpm where it starts to rise again, getting to about 135Nm at 6750rpm

That's not smooth power delivery.

Still, your bike, your choice :thumbup

(Edited because I read it wrong!)
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 March 2020, 11:04:41 am
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That's not smooth power delivery.
The proof is in the pudding.
I'm guessing you've no had a bite.

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Post by: Dynspud on 26 March 2020, 11:17:14 am
That gets my goat too, incorrect use of a saying.


"The proof of the pudding is in the eating" is the correct saying  :pokefun
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 26 March 2020, 12:37:51 pm
 
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That gets my goat too, incorrect use of a saying.
 
 
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating" is the correct saying  :pokefun.

I apologise.  But trust me, wack the throttle open, release that torque and hang on.  It’s an impressive engine.  I’ll quote MCN,


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At gentle throttle openings and below 5000rpm the boxer engine sits on its mild, low-lift cams and delivers flawless grunt from as low as 2000rpm. Ask for more power and the camshafts obey by snapping across the top of the engine, in just five milliseconds, delivering the kind of hairy cam acceleration that makes the roadster think it’s a mono-wheeling S1000R.
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It has the seamless thrust of a blueprinted race engine and a growling, rhythmic chocolatey exhaust growl to match. Throttle pick-up is flawless, even at town speeds and there’s enough oomph from the motor to stick it top gear and leave it there all day. Or, you can slice through the gears and visit the motor’s dark and angry side.
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 March 2020, 08:16:19 am
Click bait. Like this
Kirstie Allsopp 'would sleep with Davina's hubby like a shot' [/font]The actual story
Davina, 47, married to Pet Rescue host Matthew Robertson, recently said wives should agree to sex with their husbands even if they’re not in the mood.And Kirstie, 43, declares: ‘I agree with Davina’s comments about making an effort with your partner. I would have sex with her husband Matthew like a shot.’
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Post by: robbo on 30 March 2020, 12:49:27 pm
Oldies like me, have been told, stay at home and get your shopping on line. For the last 10 days we've got up early trying to arrange a time slot for either a Tesco or Asda delivery. They're aren't any, which forced us out today to shop at Tescos during the oldies 9 till 10am period. All nice and organised queuing outside with your trolley at 2 metres distancing. Once inside the store social distancing goes out the window, and only resumes when eventually you find the end of the checkout queue.
The only upside was that all the shopping items that we wanted, other than hand sanitizer, were available. Still, ok for a couple of weeks now :thumbup [size=78%], providing I haven't caught the lurgy from someone today[/size] :eek .
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 30 March 2020, 02:31:05 pm
Oldies like me, have been told, stay at home and get your shopping on line. For the last 10 days we've got up early trying to arrange a time slot for either a Tesco or Asda delivery. They're aren't any, which forced us out today to shop at Tescos during the oldies 9 till 10am period. All nice and organised queuing outside with your trolley at 2 metres distancing. Once inside the store social distancing goes out the window, and only resumes when eventually you find the end of the checkout queue.
The only upside was that all the shopping items that we wanted, other than hand sanitizer, were available. Still, ok for a couple of weeks now :thumbup [size=78%], providing I haven't caught the lurgy from someone today[/size] :eek .

Yeah I've found the same in my local Tesco. Everything is by the book until you actually get in the nit s a free for all. Also added to the mix are a load of power mad "security guards" (out of work bouncers) that feel the need to try and pretend that they are actually in charge and occasionally block an aisle off because there are 3 people down it 🙄🙄
The other thing that gets my goat about the whole thing is that tesco has designated an hour to the elderly yet hardly any bastard has the decency to actually abide by it.
 I got to mine at around 9.45 last friday and realised that it was the 'elderly hour' so I refrained from doing my shopping for 15 minutes and just browsed the clothes department (out of the way) but while I was there I noticed plenty of younger people just barging around with their trolleys, grabbing what they wanted and huffing when some older people were taking their time.
Honestly makes me feel sick how selfish some people can be
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Post by: mtread on 30 March 2020, 04:55:08 pm
Our Asda has a 'one way system' with arrows on the floor of each aisle, and no overtaking. It's a bugger when you realise you've missed something on your list 2 yards back, and have to go round all over again!
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 March 2020, 07:18:42 pm
A few days ago the local Asda superstore was enforcing a "maximum 25 people in store" policy.
The thing was, the local Co-op, which is about a quarter of the size, was using the same policy...
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Post by: fazersharp on 19 May 2020, 10:33:49 pm
Easy jet cyber attack, what gets my goat is that no one seems bothered. I hate doing anything on line because gaurented sooner or later its going to be hacked. Then the regulators may fine the company but who gets compensated >> no one and the regulator's pocket all the cash to pay their bonuses.
Your data is safe with us>>bull crap. And that is why the gov Corona virus app will never be trusted.
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Post by: Oldgit on 20 May 2020, 10:56:07 am
the increase in power /torque comes in on a BMW R1200R because of the exup type valve in the exhaust system which is timed to come fully open once you reach a certain rev when accelerating
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 20 May 2020, 11:46:16 am
 
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the increase in power /torque comes in on a BMW R1200R because of the exup type valve in the exhaust system which is timed to come fully open once you reach a certain rev when accelerating
It would appear to be for low rpm noise control.  Nothing to do with torque or power.
(https://www.r1200rforum.com/attachments/exhaust-flap-reponse-png.107509/)   
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Post by: vinnyb on 26 June 2020, 10:05:44 pm
 Why is it that wherever people gather in large numbers they leave mountains of rubbish behind them? They reckon they collected over 2 tons of rubbish (including burger boxes with human shit in) just from Bournemouth beach yesterday. There was an illegal rave in Manchester last week an the aftermath looked like a fucking land fill site. People are just fucking disgusting.
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Post by: Dynspud on 27 June 2020, 08:08:01 am
+1 Vinny
What some people do defies belief sometimes.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 08:23:08 am
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Post by: darrsi on 27 June 2020, 10:13:00 am
Why is it that wherever people gather in large numbers they leave mountains of rubbish behind them? They reckon they collected over 2 tons of rubbish (including burger boxes with human shit in) just from Bournemouth beach yesterday. There was an illegal rave in Manchester last week an the aftermath looked like a fucking land fill site. People are just fucking disgusting.


Think it was more like 40 tons.
People should take the example of the Japanese fans at the last World Cup and leave their area as they found it by picking up every scrap of rubbish.
It's not asking much, if everyone picked their own shit up as they leave you'd have a clean beach in minutes. And take it with you, don't start dumping it in nearby bins, they simply can't handle the volume.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 10:29:27 am
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 June 2020, 11:12:12 am
  (including burger boxes with human shit in)
What's the difference, pretty much how I see a burger anyway. 

 Glastonbury - thats another one full of environmental preaching hypocrites.  You can actually get into glastenbury for free - as a litter picker
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 June 2020, 11:19:12 am
Thursday (hottest day ) went for a walk along the canal at 2 pm and there were 3 or 4 groups of at least 25 each kids gathered on foot path bridges jumping off - these are the kids the parents and teachers and their unions don't want to go back school because they cannot social distance  :eek .  Then there were also big groups of adults - all seemed to be Polish, blocking the path wont step back to give a social distance space for you to pass. Ignorant.     
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Post by: darrsi on 27 June 2020, 11:45:46 am
Wait until the pubs open again next Saturday. Everyone that's not set a foot inside a pub for ten years will want to go the minute the doors are unbolted :rolleyes .
There's pleas now to delay the opening until a weekday in order to avoid a 'Carnival Atmosphere'. Can't see that making much difference. Everyday is carnival day to this lot.


I've been saying this for days now. Opening pubs back up, with a load of new rules in place, on a Saturday is going to cause a surge.
It would make much more sense to open on the Monday so that they can iron out any problems that arise.


I'm friends with some of the staff at my local and they've been telling me if there's a sudden downpour of rain then you either stay outside under an umbrella or you drink up and leave. But on no accounts can everyone just steam inside for shelter because all safety guidelines will be broken.
How they actually police that if they all do surge in will be interesting to watch?
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 11:54:10 am
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Post by: mtread on 27 June 2020, 12:12:50 pm
Same here in Southend, a mountain of rubbish. All those bloody eastenders coming down. If the bins's full, take it home.
I blame Johnson for telling everyone the pandemic is over  :pokefun
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Post by: Gnasher on 27 June 2020, 12:18:56 pm

Also I'm sick of hearing how the lock down has affected the younger generation the most. What a load of bollox. As far as I can see they're nearly all disregarding it and enjoying 24/7 party time.


It's the elderly folk that have have been trapped indoors on their own for 14 weeks, frightened to go out that have suffered the most.

That's true, however, we need to take into account that the older and those shielding, are the one's dying the most and form a much smaller proportion of the population.  The young (below 40) are the ones going to suffer going forward, it's them that will be the highest proportion who lose their jobs, for something that will have had little or no direct effect on them.

While I'm not in support of recent beach invasions, party's and the obvious idea that to many now the virus has been defeated, is in retreat and you know who said that clap trap!  It's not and nothing like we've got absolutely no defence other than hide at present, which is what we've all been doing.  It's a balance and one you know who has got utterly wrong, mixed messages, U turns, lies etc etc, it's really no wonder the young really couldn't give a toss.  I think it's fair to say we will be seeing large areas of the country back in lockdown it's just a matter of time.   

 
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Post by: vinnyb on 27 June 2020, 12:21:07 pm

I blame Johnson for telling everyone the pandemic is over  :pokefun
Johnson has never once said that the pandemic is over and you know it and even if if had, it's not his fault that all these filthy fucking scumbags are crowding onto the beaches and leaving their shit behind them.
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 June 2020, 12:44:41 pm
Same here in Southend, a mountain of rubbish. All those bloody eastenders coming down. If the bins's full, take it home.
I blame Johnson for telling everyone the pandemic is over  :pokefun

Didnt realise you were in Southend? That's where I'm from. Moved away in the early 2000s back when it was nice but a bit rough. These days I'm told its nothing short of a shithole 😔☹


As for the matter at hand. I personally believe the lockdown came to an end the day they let the riots/protests continue. Regardless of what their purpose was or what views anyone holds, they should not have been allowed.
Mass gatherings were/are banned but with the government letting them go ahead (for political gain as usual) that signalled to everyone that they could do what they liked.
Now we have raves, football celebrations as well as a few crowded beaches. And if anyone tries to say say anything the only response is.... well there aren't hundreds of BLM protesters dying of Covid so it must be alright 🙄

And to be fair it hard to argue against that logic at the minute 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 June 2020, 12:48:04 pm
Sorry.... just realised this is the no politics thread 😬😬

I'll hold myself in contempt 😔
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Post by: mtread on 27 June 2020, 01:00:05 pm
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Didnt realise you were in Southend? That's where I'm from. Moved away in the early 2000s back when it was nice but a bit rough. These days I'm told its nothing short of a shithole 😔☹
Well I'm in Rayleigh, posh Southend  :)


Yep true Johnson hasn't said it's over.
Unfortunately, a lot of stupid people have interpreted it that way. Noticeable lack of distancing, masks etc. Queuing up outside supermarkets 2 metres apart, then climbing all over each other when inside.
We will get second spikes, and people will take it very badly being retold 'Stay Home'.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 01:02:01 pm
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Post by: Gnasher on 27 June 2020, 03:13:49 pm
High time they stopped treating it all like a big joke then, for their own sakes if no one else's.

Unless you've been living under a rock or just being your usual 'say whatever is the opposite' utter bollocks, think it's the latter myself  :rolleyes :groan

The fact they're young, going out and potentially spreading the virus around has little to no effect on them, unlike being lockdown where they lost their liberty and now many are losing their jobs and will be the ones who shoulder to the greater extent paying for it.  All because a certain group of idiots have done and not done what I stated earlier, it's they who are now treating it as a big joke.   
     
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 June 2020, 03:19:11 pm
Seeing comments about the Liverpool idiots - they point at the beach idiots and say look they do it, and the beach idiots point at the black lives riots and say look they do it and the government look at the black lives riots --- and look away.
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Post by: Gnasher on 27 June 2020, 03:25:57 pm
Seeing comments about the Liverpool idiots - they point at the beach idiots and say look they do it, and the beach idiots point at the black lives riots and say look they do it and the government look at the black lives riots --- and look away.

I totally agree mate, some people are just idiots and sadly we've got idiots sending, mixed idiotic mixed messages to these idiots, you couldn't make it up :rolleyes  It would be funny only its not, but the idiots telling the idiots clearly think it is :\ they'll reap what they sow. I guess ;)
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Post by: vinnyb on 27 June 2020, 03:35:24 pm
Seeing comments about the Liverpool idiots - they point at the beach idiots and say look they do it, and the beach idiots point at the black lives riots and say look they do it and the government look at the black lives riots --- and look away.
  Unfortunately the authorities had to look away from the BLM demonstrations. How would it have read in the left wing media if a right wing government had tried to prevent or stop them?
 
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Post by: vinnyb on 27 June 2020, 03:44:24 pm
 What is odd, is that those who want to understand the messages sent from the government don't seem to struggle to. The virus is still out there and still killing people. I don't consider myself to be especially clever but i get it.
 It's about personal responsibility, some have it, others it seems don't. Pointing at other people and saying 'well they did it' is only a valid excuse if you're pre-school age.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 03:49:33 pm
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 June 2020, 03:51:06 pm
Moved my response to the COVID post 😊
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 04:05:20 pm
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 June 2020, 04:19:37 pm
Sorry.... just realised this is the no politics thread 😬😬
Also there's a specific Covid-19 thread already. A few of us withdrew from it because it got hijacked by the far left posters' on here to push their own radical agenda.
 Can't those members go back to that thread with their Coronavirus posts and leave this one to the normal people please?

Fair point, I've moved my post over to that thread so the lefties can all tell me I'm wrong there instead 😜
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Post by: mtread on 27 June 2020, 04:37:16 pm
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It's about personal responsibility, some have it, others it seems don't. Pointing at other people and saying 'well they did it' is only a valid excuse if you're pre-school age.
Yep, absolutely. There are sensible, responsible people and irresponsible, self serving idiots in every generation, every walk of life, and of every political persuasion.
That's the human race.
(Avoided politics altogether there)  ;)
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Post by: Gnasher on 27 June 2020, 06:04:13 pm
Yep, that reaction proves I'm right. Thank you :)

Wrong just proves
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your usual 'say whatever is the opposite'
Just more utter bollocks.  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin

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No wonder that bloke who asked about his pilot jet issue said you'd driven him away after only a couple of visits to the forum. Congratulations on that one Gnasher :woot

Dragging some other completely off topic utter bollocks into justify your already utter bollocks is again just typical of you.  As I've said many times to you previously "I'm sorry I can't help you" but what I will do and did with your constant attempts to get the 'B' subject in Covid thread, I'll just ignore anything you post going.   There you can happily talk utter bollocks without fear of being challenged be me :D ;)   

It's a real shame you wasn't around in the early days, you'd have been an object of many an old members fun, that said you wouldn't be around now if you had been  :lol ;)

As for the chap who couldn't string together a coherent sentence, on a technical bike forum, I can't help him either, although he did get his question answered.  As for him coming back on bleating like a child 'I'm being chased away because I can't write properly'  :'(, rather than just saying sorry about, that I meant, it X or Y and thank you, quite frankly his loss.

I shall now leave you to the utter bollocks world of YamFazFan  :finger :foc :pokefun 

P.S. thats the first time I've ever used the finger in almost 20yrs, but you're a special case and I feel it's warranted  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin     
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Post by: YamFazFan on 27 June 2020, 06:27:05 pm
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Post by: slappy on 27 June 2020, 07:47:55 pm
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As for the chap who couldn't string together a coherent sentence, on a technical bike forum, I can't help him either, although he did get his question answered.  As for him coming back on bleating like a child 'I'm being chased away because I can't write properly'  :'( , rather than just saying sorry about, that I meant, it X or Y and thank you, quite frankly his loss.




That is just what this forum needs, new members being ridiculed for grammar and spelling, just another nail in the coffin.
Another example from Gnasher that his opinion matters more than others just because of the length of time he has been a member, for all you know he could of been dyslexic but that does not matter, you tried to humiliate him instead and just drove him away. Well done , you must feel so proud of yourself.
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Post by: Grahamm on 27 June 2020, 11:59:15 pm
What gets my goat...?

The deafening sound of axes being ground in this thread...  :rolleyes
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Post by: Gnasher on 28 June 2020, 07:55:26 am
What gets my goat...?

The deafening sound of axes being ground in this thread...  :rolleyes


 :lol :lol :lol  fear not mate  ;)
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Post by: Gnasher on 28 June 2020, 07:56:16 am
That is just what this forum needs, new members being ridiculed for grammar and spelling, just another nail in the coffin.
Another example from Gnasher that his opinion matters more than others just because of the length of time he has been a member, for all you know he could of been dyslexic but that does not matter, you tried to humiliate him instead and just drove him away. Well done , you must feel so proud of yourself.


Oh look who's popped up  :z as for opinions oh my god :rolleyes pot, kettle and black springs to mind, or are you still playing BAME card I wonder  :lol

I do like the attempt at playing the caring card, but it won't wash with me or many others. You've got little apparent care or regard when it comes to voicing your opinions on the 'B' subject and attacking anyone who dares challenging your view, not to mention how you enjoy to single out other members when it suits, even encouraging others to join in.

No, none of that is you, is it :rolleyes

Quite honestly I couldn't give a toss what you think or say fella 
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 June 2020, 01:36:32 pm
What gets my goat is that when its hot weather the forecasters always say something like "I know some of you do not like it hot. Or then when it cools down "good news for those that have not liked the hot weather".  But they never seem to do that for when its cold or raining.   
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 June 2020, 03:28:39 pm
I'd say it's good news all round that it has cooled down a bit, as judging by the news it seems the last few days of boiling hot weather has driven the Great British public completely off their rockers :rolleyes
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Post by: mtread on 28 June 2020, 06:20:53 pm
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I'd say it's good news all round that it has cooled down a bit, as judging by the news it seems the last few days of boiling hot weather has driven the Great British public completely off their rockers

Is always thus. Just look at previous pre Covid-19 years. The Spanish know what to do, have a snooze.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 June 2020, 07:20:18 pm

The Spanish know what to do, have a snooze.


Whereas over here it's have a booze...and another and another...........

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Post by: mtread on 28 June 2020, 11:27:54 pm
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Whereas over here it's have a booze...and another and another...........
..... usually followed by some sort of fight  :(
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Post by: YamFazFan on 01 August 2020, 10:47:45 pm

Foccin bonfires :wall


Anyone else noticed that ever since Covid started people have gone bonfire mad?. I'm guessing they're burning everything the charity shop/tip won't take anymore. I'm forever going round shutting the windows because some inconsiderate twat's stinking us out again >:
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Post by: Trebus on 02 August 2020, 12:34:52 am
Agreed! The old codger next door has been burning about 3 nights this week! Always when the washing is out!
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Post by: mtread on 02 August 2020, 12:41:05 am
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Foccin bonfires
Anyone else noticed that ever since Covid started people have gone bonfire mad?. I'm guessing they're burning everything the charity shop/tip won't take anymore. I'm forever going round shutting the windows because some inconsiderate twat's stinking us out again

It's Prince Andrew..... burning the evidence  :lol
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Post by: coffee on 02 August 2020, 01:35:16 am
Along with his old collection of Fergies' used knickers. :lol
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Post by: Gnasher on 02 August 2020, 08:45:56 am
It's Prince Andrew..... burning the evidence  :lol 
Along with his old collection of Fergies' used knickers. :lol 


 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 02 August 2020, 11:14:43 am
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Anyone else noticed that ever since Covid started people have gone bonfire mad?. I'm guessing they're burning everything the charity shop/tip won't take anymore. I'm forever going round shutting the windows because some inconsiderate twat's stinking us out again >:
I went for a wee spin on the Beemer yesterday.  Exploring around Kingairloch and Morvern, looking out for old phone boxes.  Anyway on my way back hame I couldn't but help notice the number of so called wild campers, and yes their fires.  I headed down Glen Orchy (heading to Dunoon to avoid Loch Lomond), which often has a few folks camped at the side of the road, well it was just stuffed with campers - most of them with camp fires.  Which is fine, as long as its not during a dry spell (its been suitably wet recently), they have brought or built a proper fire pit and have their own firewood etc - all that seems doubtful going by the thick rancid smoke drifting down the glen.  I wouldn't be surprised if the whole shoreline down the River Orchy has been trashed.  Glen Etive will be the same, along with countless other beautiful spots across Scotland.  We've got a real problem now with so called wild camping now. 
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 03 August 2020, 10:43:37 am
The deafening sound of axes being ground in this thread...  :rolleyes
:lol
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Post by: mtread on 03 August 2020, 12:54:15 pm
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We've got a real problem now with so called wild camping now. 
Did the North Coast 500 a couple of years ago, camping at official sites. So I follow the Facebook group.
This year it seems to have gone bonkers. Everybody is doing it. Lots of sites either full, or not opening toilet blocks.
So the result is masses wild camping (legit in most of Scotland) all round the route. Problem is the mess left behind. Do campers shit in the woods? They certainly do  :look
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 03 August 2020, 05:01:30 pm
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This year it seems to have gone bonkers. Everybody is doing it. Lots of sites either full, or not opening toilet blocks.
The country seems to be going crazy.  The Cumbrae ferry was suspended at the weekend due to extreme passenger volume.   70 parking tickets were issued on the road up Rowardennan, the single track road was effectively blocked.
As for camper vans etc, it doesn't help that councils have been penny pinching and closing numerous public toilets.
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So the result is masses wild camping (legit in most of Scotland) all round the route. Problem is the mess left behind. Do campers shit in the woods? They certainly do 
Hard won freedoms.  The rule of wild camping is to leave nothing but footprints - literally take your shit with you.  If you are camping for several days then bury your personal waste well away from waterways, and bag and take out any toilet paper you use.
Sadly I suspect many beauty spots will have been trashed at the weekend right across the country.  And it cannot continue like this.
As for those who 'wild camp' at the side of the A82, A84 and other busy roads - I just don't see the attraction. 
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Post by: 7omly on 27 August 2020, 10:36:54 pm
Arseholes who don't understand the terms 'Mask' and 'face covering' The idiots who use a face mask as a chin hammock. Your feckin' great hooter is not supposed to be poking over the top of it.
Mankind will end with a whimper, not a bang.

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Post by: fazersharp on 28 August 2020, 09:39:17 am
Arseholes who don't understand the terms 'Mask' and 'face covering' The idiots who use a face mask as a chin hammock. Your feckin' great hooter is not supposed to be poking over the top of it.
Mankind will end with a whimper, not a bang.

I see people walking around like that outside (looks stupid) but not like that in the shops. It's like they ar too lazy to take it of their ears and just slide it up for the next shop. The thing is they are scraping a wet mask up and down their face. Mine comes off the second I am out the shop.
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Post by: mtread on 28 August 2020, 10:12:39 am
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'
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Post by: Gnasher on 28 August 2020, 10:17:22 am
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'


 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: Grahamm on 28 August 2020, 12:37:01 pm
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'
:agree
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Post by: coffee on 28 August 2020, 04:30:18 pm
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'






I have 13 children now but neither them or my wife and me understand what's wrong with that statement.
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Post by: darrsi on 29 August 2020, 09:28:02 am
And another.....

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Post by: Oldgit on 29 August 2020, 05:58:40 pm
What really annoys me now is people coming into shops with no masks on--FFS the world is really full of flockingbankers
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 August 2020, 12:15:28 am
What really annoys me now is people coming into shops with no masks on--FFS the world is really full of flockingbankers

My GF has severe asthma.

Today she was going to visit her sister and had to pop into Asda to pick up some stuff. She was wearing her mask *and* a Sunflower Lanyard (https://hiddendisabilitiesstore.com/) meaning that she has a hidden disability.

There were many idiots not wearing masks and some, when she asked them to Social Distance from her were abusive, swore at her or even *deliberately* moved closer to her!

The utter selfishness and disrespect for others that some people have is beyond belief  :wall
 :2guns
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Post by: red98 on 30 August 2020, 07:40:25 am
as usual its the idiots who wont be told what to do or are too dim to understand the situation, that`s why we have a second wave...this virus is still alive and kicking and as we all know if it continues into the winter season we will be in trouble...just because of those idiots thinking they know best  :wall




GRAHAMM....not heard of the SUNFLOWER scheme before,thanks for bringing it to my / our attention...website down at the moment but i will look another day  :thumbup




i`ve learnt a lot during this virus about people,two classic examples above , the idiots who cant even be bothered to wear a mask and then there`s the people running the sunflower scheme to help others and no doubt most of them doing it in their spare time...




 "selfishness and disrespect"....well put GRAHAMM...two words that dont cost us anything but are worth so much...
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2020, 10:57:27 am
Its Asda for you- try Sainsbury's and you will get less of that or better still go to Waitrose or Marks and Spencer.

I know that there are some who can not wear a mask for whatever reason but I was in asda and a whole family of 3 were without masks - wonder if they all had the same condition.
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Post by: mtread on 30 August 2020, 11:16:48 am
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I know that there are some who can not wear a mask for whatever reason but I was in asda and a whole family of 3 were without masks
Under 12s are exempt of course. Actually our local Asda is pretty good.
Went shopping in Chelmsford yesterday. A pretty well off town, but I was surprised how many illiterates there were. I'm presuming they were illiterate as so many were ignoring 'keep left' and 'exit only'.
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Post by: darrsi on 30 August 2020, 11:24:01 am
There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax.


If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why!  :grumble
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2020, 11:36:45 am
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There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax. If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why! 
But then we live in a world of fake news and alternative facts.  Where extremists, lies and damned lies, are to be tolerated under the name of 'freedom of speech'.

Just look at the shite that has been spouted and tolerated on this forum over the years.  So why the surprise?


When I go in shops etc I wear my mask - I comply.  But frankly who does and who does not ain't my buisiness.
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2020, 01:03:22 pm
Under 12s are exempt of course. Actually our local Asda is pretty good.
Forgot to mention they were all adults - the youngest being - my guess about 25.I have been noticing under 12s wearing masks and I get the impression that it is almost a fashion thing for them - or they are trying to look older, keep up with their older siblings.   
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Post by: darrsi on 30 August 2020, 01:17:07 pm
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There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax.


If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why! 

But then we live in a world of fake news and alternative facts.  Where extremists, lies and damned lies, are to be tolerated under the name of 'freedom of speech'.
Just look at the shite that has been spouted and tolerated on this forum over the years.  So why the surprise?


When I go in shops etc I wear my mask - I comply.  But frankly who does and who does not ain't my buisiness.


In fairness though, it's been you that has spouted most of it.  :b
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 30 August 2020, 01:22:58 pm
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In fairness though, it's been you that has spouted most of it. 
And that my dear fella, is your opinion, it is not fact.
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2020, 01:23:21 pm
Well done the mods for quick action and nipping it in the bud.  ;) But you removed the wrong post.

 
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 30 August 2020, 01:29:55 pm
And another.....
Yep, all the time. There are even images used in news articles seemingly oblivious to it.


These are the same Imbeciles I have have to firmly tell, "to walk the other way around"  with an outstreewtch arm,  instead of trying to squeeze past me. It has worked thus far as I am always wearing my crash helmet at the time  :biker


@Graham, wasnt aware of the Sunflower scheme specifically. Just to make her life easier should could wear a face sheild - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=face+sheilds&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=face+sheilds&ref=nb_sb_noss_2)
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 August 2020, 01:47:49 pm
I too have never heard of the sunflower scheme ~ why aren't these things widly publisised.
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 August 2020, 08:46:42 pm
According to this article (https://www.familyfund.org.uk/blog/the-sunflower-lanyard) he Sunflower Lanyard scheme started at Gatwick Aiport in 2016 so staff could identify passengers with special needs that weren't physically obvious.

Various charities have been supporting this and they've got eg a Facebook page etc, however unless you're in touch with those organisations, there hasn't been much covering in national media to make everyone else aware of it :(
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Post by: coffee on 30 August 2020, 11:54:28 pm
Bunches of lycra clad cyclists riding 5 abreast reliving their youth or pretending they're on the tour -de-france  :finger
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Post by: Grahamm on 31 August 2020, 12:50:34 am
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 31 August 2020, 08:44:05 am
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc

Or worse yet when they 'resurface' them by scrapping off the tarmac and throwing loose stones everywhere. The amount of my favorite back roads I've had to avoid recently down to that.... absolutely boils my piss because its so dangerous to bikers 🤬🤬
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 31 August 2020, 09:21:37 am
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.
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Post by: Grahamm on 31 August 2020, 11:48:41 am
Or worse yet when they 'resurface' them by scrapping off the tarmac and throwing loose stones everywhere. The amount of my favorite back roads I've had to avoid recently down to that.... absolutely boils my piss because its so dangerous to bikers 🤬🤬

Oh gods, yes :(

I didn't mention that, but there was a section of the B2150 around Hambledon that had had bloody tar and chip top dressing done recently.

What really pi$$es me off is that they just leave the chippings there to be pressed into the tar or swept to the side of the road by vehicle tyres, except, of course, they also end up in the middle of the lane and the carriageway, right where a bike often wants to be...

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Post by: Grahamm on 31 August 2020, 11:54:30 am
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.

"its a cheap [...] road surface."

You've already answered your own question.

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Post by: Skippernick on 31 August 2020, 06:53:13 pm
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.


Trust me, as a parish councillor it wouldn't of been them. Speed limits are set at county level. But it is all to do with road surfaces. When a limit is reduced from national speed limit to a 50, the level that the road has to be maintained too is reduced, therefore saving money. Look at how many 50's sprung up after 07 economic crash.
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 31 August 2020, 08:03:29 pm
In thiis instance it was my village high st, so its a 30. No reason I can see for resurfesing when there was nothign wrong with the old surface that required a complete resurface.
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Post by: Oldgit on 01 September 2020, 10:05:03 am
Probably a local council contractor getting a wee hand up from a senior council officer, know what I mean.

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Post by: mtread on 01 September 2020, 10:08:55 am
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[size=78%] No reason I can see for resurfesing when there was nothign wrong with the old surface that required a complete resurface.[/size]

Quarterly budgets to be spent. 'Use it or lose it'.


We've just had a big  4 inch deep pothole repaired on one of our busiest streets. It was so famous, drivers would all steer round it in convoy. They had to keep renewing the red circle around it. Finally repaired with a tarmac patch after about 3 years.
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Post by: darrsi on 01 September 2020, 10:55:09 am
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc


Since i've been back to work on one of the routes i take on the way home they've made THREE of the roads 20mph  :eek


Most days there is rush hour traffic so it doesn't affect you too much, but riding at 20mph on a clear road just feels wrong.
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Post by: Grahamm on 01 September 2020, 01:13:36 pm
Most days there is rush hour traffic so it doesn't affect you too much, but riding at 20mph on a clear road just feels wrong.

In the past I've come out of London on the A3 and there's a long 40mph section.

That's fair enough if it's busy, but trundling along at 40 on an empty road at 2am is ridiculous :(

As I've said many a time before, speed limits are such a blunt instrument and often the people who were the cause of them being imposed in the first place are going to ignore them *after* they were imposed, knowing there's virtually no chance of them being caught or punished for doing so...
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 September 2020, 05:18:18 pm
I've come across yet another average speed camera zone up here in bonnie Scotland.

A few weeks ago I discovered a stretch running fae Tyndrum doon tae Crianlarich.  And by the way, blink and you'll miss the warning sign and camera.

On Saturday I was up early and heading fae the hills.  I was heading for Glen Lyon, and I found another stretch running from Crianlarich to the junction for Killin.   Road was still quiet being still early when I reached that bit - so stuck at 60mph.
I get the feeling they are gonna end up all over the trunk road network.
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Post by: Oldgit on 09 September 2020, 10:36:55 am
lock down --no lock down, it's like the grand old duke of York--ahm gettin pissed off wi the lot o it.

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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 September 2020, 02:43:46 pm
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Post by: mtread on 09 September 2020, 03:03:27 pm
The 'Boomer Removers'  :eek
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 September 2020, 03:57:36 pm
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Post by: agricola on 09 September 2020, 06:29:35 pm
The youngsters in school are masked outside of the classroom, 2 metres apart in it. Once beyond the school gates, theres a mask perhaps one in a hundred and no social distancing whatsoever. Second wave imminent.
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 09 September 2020, 08:00:26 pm
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Keep hearing them on the telly and radio bleating that it's not them spreading it and then in the same sentence whinging about how they only want to enjoy themselves
The youth of today!
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 September 2020, 08:35:46 pm
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2020, 08:38:16 pm
The youth of yesterday.


:thumbup :thumbup :thumbup
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 September 2020, 08:51:11 pm
Aperantly the term "household" has had to be clarified to ethnic groups as they have been interpreting it as meaning all of their family ~ as in all the sharps as they are all the sharp household ~ as in "the house of Saud.
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Post by: mtread on 09 September 2020, 08:56:01 pm
On the other hand, reducing it to 6 (in England) is too few. Two families cannot meet together, if one family has one child and the other has two  :rolleyes
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 09 September 2020, 09:05:04 pm
 
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Quote from: YamFazFan on Today at 08:35:46 PM ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?topic=17546.msg319889#msg319889[/url])<blockquote>The youth of yesterday.


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Aye, ah mean we were all angels.
     
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 September 2020, 09:11:25 pm
On the other hand, reducing it to 6 (in England) is too few. Two families cannot meet together, if one family has one child and the other has two  :rolleyes

Just means the wives and kids meet together in the house/back garden while the blokes talk bollocks in the garage :pokefun
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Post by: mtread on 09 September 2020, 11:06:58 pm
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All at the same 'premises'. £100 fines all round  :b [/size]
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 September 2020, 09:49:41 am
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Post by: mtread on 10 September 2020, 10:13:04 am
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Post by: fazersharp on 10 September 2020, 10:32:43 am
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All at the same 'premises'. £100 fines all round  :b [/size]

everyone or just the host ?
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Post by: fazersharp on 10 September 2020, 10:36:42 am
6 from multiple households indoors or out is actually an upgrade for me, because before it was only 2 households indoors, but up to 30 people which I never understood how they came to that number
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 10 September 2020, 12:36:47 pm
6 from multiple households indoors or out is actually an upgrade for me, because before it was only 2 households indoors, but up to 30 people which I never understood how they came to that number

You just have to be careful... if you and your 5 friends sit in a pub next to me and my 5 friends then thats fine, because the virus will know that we don't know each other and therefor can't spread. But if by some chance one of your mates is actually friends with one of mine then we will be knackered because they will be an illegal meeting and we will all be spreading the virus 😔

So just make sure that when you and your 5 other friends meet up in a pub that there isn't anyone in there that you know.... or that will be dangerous 🙄🙄

Also its worth noting that you can't catch the virus at work when there are more than 6 of you because it knows your at work so it will leave you alone. It will wait until your at the park to get you instead

Stay safe and remember... head shoulders knees and toes 👮‍♂️
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Post by: mtread on 11 September 2020, 09:45:55 am
Lots of half term holidays in the UK now cancelled, as two families with children cannot share the same accommodation.
Apart from sensible Scotland, where under 12s don't count towards the '6'.
So in England, it's OK for 30 kids to spend weeks on end together in class, because it's 'safe',  but not OK to spend a week in a cottage with 2 other friends, because they might catch the virus.
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Post by: fazersharp on 11 September 2020, 09:51:55 am
It does sound sensible to exclude under 12s, just the same as they are exempt from wearing masks
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 September 2020, 12:24:02 pm
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Second wave imminent.
Maybe yes, but what impact will it have?

 I've been looking at the stats on worldometer.

Firstly new cases.  Remember all countries are most likely doing much more testing, and better testing, than they were back in march.  So we will see more cases, so its difficult to compare with march and april.

I just looked at a few Euro countries, you know countries that are similar (ish) to us.  Spain shows the biggest spike.  The number of cases they are detecting each day looks worrysome.

But then back in march they had almost 1000 deaths a day at one point.  The last few days they have ranged between 15 and 184. 
There is a clear delay between infection increase and recorded deaths.  Spain is worth watching.  The thing that really counts over the next few weeks/couple of months, is hospital admissions and deaths. 


Bear in mind in Scotland, around half our deaths were in care homes.  That was a fuck up.  That shouldn't happen again.  I think the same mistake was made in England.

It is probably the right thing to do to be cautious at this time, but could it be that this virus, for whatever reason has lost its bite?  Lets hope so.

Of course my worry is that we won't learn the lessons.  The world needs to figure out how it can minimise the possibility of another pandemic.
 
And oh to be young and foolish again. :\
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Post by: darrsi on 11 September 2020, 01:28:55 pm
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Second wave imminent.
Maybe yes, but what impact will it have?

 I've been looking at the stats on worldometer.

Firstly new cases.  Remember all countries are most likely doing much more testing, and better testing, than they were back in march.  So we will see more cases, so its difficult to compare with march and april.

I just looked at a few Euro countries, you know countries that are similar (ish) to us.  Spain shows the biggest spike.  The number of cases they are detecting each day looks worrysome.

But then back in march they had almost 1000 deaths a day at one point.  The last few days they have ranged between 15 and 184. 
There is a clear delay between infection increase and recorded deaths.  Spain is worth watching.  The thing that really counts over the next few weeks/couple of months, is hospital admissions and deaths. 


Bear in mind in Scotland, around half our deaths were in care homes.  That was a fuck up.  That shouldn't happen again.  I think the same mistake was made in England.

It is probably the right thing to do to be cautious at this time, but could it be that this virus, for whatever reason has lost its bite?  Lets hope so.

Of course my worry is that we won't learn the lessons.  The world needs to figure out how it can minimise the possibility of another pandemic.
 
And oh to be young and foolish again. :\


India has some very serious figures right now.
Averaging 95,000 Positive tests a DAY, and in the last 3 days there have been 1000, 1100 & 1200+ deaths, so is still rising rapidly.
Obviously they have a massive population in comparison, but their curve is skyrocketing.
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Post by: Grahamm on 11 September 2020, 05:50:46 pm
India has some very serious figures right now.

Obviously they have a massive population in comparison, but their curve is skyrocketing.

They also have much higher population density and less ability for people to self-isolate.
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 11 September 2020, 06:24:12 pm
India has some very serious figures right now.

Obviously they have a massive population in comparison, but their curve is skyrocketing.

They also have much higher population density and less ability for people to self-isolate.

I believe this is also they're "first wave" so it is going to be bad. Those of you that have been will also know its not the cleanest place in the world so I imagine there are many more people there with various other hygiene related illnesses that are going to make things much worse. Same with the slums in Brazil.... not great places to be at the beat of times
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 September 2020, 07:37:29 pm
India has some very serious figures right now.
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Averaging 95,000 Positive tests a DAY, and in the last 3 days there have been 1000, 1100 & 1200+ deaths, so is still rising rapidly.
Obviously they have a massive population in comparison, but their curve is skyrocketing.
No its not good.  They do have a population of around 1.35 billion though.  At the moment in terms of deaths per 1 million they lie in 72th place in the world.

The graph I am looking at shows a steady rise, it is not spiking, though that doesn't mean it won't.  Same deaths.

It is the USA that I find interesting.  Yesterday almost 40,000 new cases recorded.  Plus they seem to be running at just short of a thousand deaths a day.  They sit 11th in the world for deaths per 1 million, but they are moving up the chart.  UK is in 7th place.

Not sure where this is all going.

Anyway I had a stinking cold last week.  How the heck did I catch a cold with social distancing, face masks, constant hand washing etc etc.  I'm still wheezing.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 September 2020, 08:05:37 pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 11 September 2020, 09:54:58 pm
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Not being funny, but you always seem to have something wrong with you. I've lost count of the number of maladies you've reported and detailed on here.
If it helps you, I don't think I've seen or contacted my GP for over a year now.  And its only the common cold I've had in the last week, well I think it was/is.
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Post by: darrsi on 12 September 2020, 12:01:59 pm
India has some very serious figures right now.
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Averaging 95,000 Positive tests a DAY, and in the last 3 days there have been 1000, 1100 & 1200+ deaths, so is still rising rapidly.
Obviously they have a massive population in comparison, but their curve is skyrocketing.
No its not good.  They do have a population of around 1.35 billion though.  At the moment in terms of deaths per 1 million they lie in 72th place in the world.

The graph I am looking at shows a steady rise, it is not spiking, though that doesn't mean it won't.  Same deaths.

It is the USA that I find interesting.  Yesterday almost 40,000 new cases recorded.  Plus they seem to be running at just short of a thousand deaths a day.  They sit 11th in the world for deaths per 1 million, but they are moving up the chart.  UK is in 7th place.

Not sure where this is all going.

Anyway I had a stinking cold last week.  How the heck did I catch a cold with social distancing, face masks, constant hand washing etc etc.  I'm still wheezing.


Was watching a few videos on YouTube the other day, and they pointed out that over half the population in India don't even have a toilet.
I doubt that really helps matters either with lung infections.


https://youtu.be/4MK5o9Vhiqk
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Post by: YamFazFan on 12 September 2020, 01:13:55 pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 12 September 2020, 01:24:58 pm
Yeah, looks a bit crap tae me.
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Post by: Grahamm on 12 September 2020, 05:26:02 pm
I'm amazed people want go on holiday there. It sounds like just about one of the last places I'd wish to go to. I'm guessing it's because it's cheap.

Because of places like these: https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions/india-ind.htm (https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions/india-ind.htm)

For the same reason people go to London to see Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the museums etc, not some of the less salubrious areas...
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Post by: YamFazFan on 12 September 2020, 06:40:21 pm
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Post by: fazersharp on 13 September 2020, 07:06:33 pm
Not political as they are Ex PM's and one labour and one conservative. But just seen them on the news walking shoulder to shoulder ( unless it was archive footage ) where's the social distancing.
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Post by: mtread on 13 September 2020, 11:15:13 pm
Archive stuff I think. Blair is a lot greyer now. Almost as grey as Major  :D
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 14 September 2020, 09:43:35 am
So yet another misguided waste of public money, lowering speed limits in the name of pollution reduction (NO2) -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54130862 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54130862)

Just waiting for the other shoe to drop, you know the one where its part of a money making ponzi scheme to fleece the motorist, aka ULEZ.

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Post by: darrsi on 14 September 2020, 10:41:20 am
Not political as they are Ex PM's and one labour and one conservative. But just seen them on the news walking shoulder to shoulder ( unless it was archive footage ) where's the social distancing.


Maybe they're a couple now?  :lol
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Post by: Grahamm on 14 September 2020, 11:13:52 am
So yet another misguided waste of public money, lowering speed limits in the name of pollution reduction (NO2) -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54130862 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54130862)

If they don't have any cameras, people will ignore the limit. If they have gantry cameras, people will do 80 and then slam on their brakes just before each one. If they have average speed cameras for the whole motorway, people may well start looking for alternative routes instead eg A Roads, just moving the pollution elsewhere

Also, for example, the M27 is currently being upgraded to a "Smart" (not really) motorway with long sections being 50mph with average speed cameras.

Trying to keep to a constant 50mph or lower on a virtually empty road on my motorbike for mile after mile of straight road is actually very difficult and it's very easy for the concentration to drift. I've seen other vehicles sometimes start to veer across lanes and then suddenly swerve back as the driver's brain catches up with what's happening.

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Post by: fazersharp on 14 September 2020, 12:11:53 pm
Ive been along that section of M6 and would love to go 60mph, its usually going 40. 

 So yes the experiment will show that 60 reduces pollution on that section - cause people have used another route.
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Post by: mtread on 14 September 2020, 12:21:08 pm
It's overnight when the lower limit becomes silly. No traffic and no pollution.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 01:59:54 pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 04:04:32 pm
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All these gimmicks are silly unless every country in the world does it's bit too.


We're racheting everything down whilst others are pumping it out like there's no tomorrow. Which there probably won't be the way they're carrying on
Remember, no politics :evil
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 05:27:04 pm
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Post by: mtread on 14 September 2020, 06:14:56 pm
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All these gimmicks are silly unless every country in the world does it's bit too.


We're racheting everything down whilst others are pumping it out like there's no tomorrow. Which there probably won't be the way they're carrying on


Remember, no politics



Don't think that's political  :rolleyes
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 06:21:15 pm
 
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Moderators', can we have every post back to and including #3619 removed due to infringement of the no politics ruling please?. That includes one by each of yourselves @Grahamm & @b1k3rdude BTW.
How do you figure that?


It is a discussion on speed limits.


But you have steered it onto a political discussion.  You seem to be claiming, not for the first time, that the UK need do nothing about climate change. I think your argument is that we are too small, whilst other bigger countries, who emit more, but less in terms of emissions per person, need to do more to reduce their emissions.


Obviously, we have been over this before, and it is clearly a political discussion, whereas speed limits and their effectiveness in reducing pollution/emissions need not be.


I disagree strongly with the point you are, not for the first, making, but to respond to it would be to engage in a political discussion.


So, if you would kindly delete your post number 3626, I will in turn delete my post 3627 pointing out your mistake.
 
 
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 06:32:51 pm
 
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We're racheting everything down whilst others are pumping it out like there's no tomorrow. Which there probably won't be the way they're carrying on
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Don't think that's political  :rolleyes
Well OK. :eek




Look the UK in terms of CO2 emissions per person is one of the biggest polluters and contributors to global warming.




But of course the biggest emitter of all, per person, is the USA.  But whilst the USA is currently on fire due to rising temperatures, their president Donald Trump is in denial of climate change and refuses to take any action, in fact he is on course to continue to increase CO2 emissions in the USA.




But the reality is that man made climate change is happening and we need to reduce our emissions.




There already is demand for solutions, that demand will increase rapidly over the next decade.  Many complain the cost of reducing emissions  is too high and will damage our economies – whereas the clear reality is that not doing anything will cost many times more.




Where there is demand there is opportunity.  The smart thing to do is to develop the solutions and implement them, in turn becoming world leaders in emission reduction on the road to a carbon neutral economy.  The big economic growth over the next two to three decades will be in the new energy and recycling markets.  Those who have the solutions will sell them round the globe.
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 06:58:20 pm
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 14 September 2020, 08:09:50 pm
Why doesn't one of you just start a political thread in 'the naughty corner'? It will on be visible to members, be out of sight of the those who really don't wish to see it, and providing it doesnt turn into a slagging match full of personal insults then can be relatively un moderated?

Just an idea as some of you seem to really want to get your points across (nothing wrong with that) but seems to spill into every other thread that it can. Least with a dedicated out of the way thread you can all get it out of your system 😄👍


As for this thread... what gets my Goat, when the fucking Council decide to dig up 10 different parts of a road at once instead of working on 1 at a time but still only have 3 blokes working on it 🙄
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 08:35:49 pm
 
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Failing that can you just delete posts #3630 & #3631 as they're the most blatantly political.
You have to PM the moderator(s) if you are not happy.


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Don't think that's political 
But in any case, moderator mtread has declared discussing climate change not political. 



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Why doesn't one of you just start a political thread in 'the naughty corner'?
The naughty corner even exist?  It should be deleted.


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As for this thread... what gets my Goat, when the fucking Council decide to dig up 10 different parts of a road at once instead of working on 1 at a time but still only have 3 blokes working on it 🙄
They have just resurfaced a couple of the streets I ride along to the centre of town.  Done a nice job too.  But that just means the gas/leccy/water company will be along to dig it up any day soon.
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 08:47:52 pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 09:38:44 pm
 
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Yeah I know. You don't need to tell me that. I've already had some of your previous posts deleted after reporting them to the admin in the past ;)

I’ve only ever contacted the mods once –  I was probably a bit hasty (sorry Ogri) but I was upfront and honest about it.  I expressed my displeasure (again perhaps in haste) and was 100% open and upfront about contacting the mods.
 
I’m not even aware of any of my posts being deleted.  I am aware that one post – that was not political – was altered on the back of an anonymous complaint. 
 
I in turn complained that my post has been edited – something that should not, in my view, ever happen.


However I did caution the moderator, whom I have no doubt was trying to their level best, to be wary of potentially doing the bidding of others.


Your statement above demonstrates why we cannot have political discussion here – some people just cannot behave – it is not a discussion for you YamFazFan – it is a game and a competition.
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 11:00:31 pm
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 14 September 2020, 11:07:21 pm
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Your lame attempt to feign chivalry doesn't fool me. That I can guarantee you ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/wink.gif[/url]) .

The 'Report to moderator facility' is open to all. Feel free to use it. I certainly have where you're concerned ([url]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif[/url]) .

Well I will say no more.  I think your last couple of posts speak clearly of you.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 14 September 2020, 11:13:24 pm
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Post by: YamFazFan on 15 September 2020, 08:58:51 am
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Post by: Grahamm on 15 September 2020, 11:26:26 am
What's getting my goat right now?

People using this thread to grind personal axes...  :rolleyes
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Post by: YamFazFan on 15 September 2020, 12:00:28 pm
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 15 September 2020, 09:02:59 pm
Yes, but we are not here to deal with people acting like 12yr olds and using this as their personal sandbox.

If bollox like this keeps appearing in threads, people will find themselves on the end of a temp ban.

Keep it up and be banned period.
 
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Post by: Gnasher on 17 September 2020, 08:34:45 am
Yes, but we are not here to deal with people acting like 12yr olds and using this as their personal sandbox.


 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: coffee on 19 September 2020, 11:18:40 pm
I know it's been going on forever but drivers who snear at you as if you're a piece of shit as you filter past them.I noticed one wanker in his door mirror yesterday . :finger
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 20 September 2020, 10:00:51 am
 
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I know it's been going on forever but drivers who snear at you as if you're a piece of shit as you filter past them.I noticed one wanker in his door mirror yesterday .
Most drivers are cool and give you room, but there’s always a handful of wankers and you gotta be careful with them.
 
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 20 September 2020, 12:26:40 pm
I know it's been going on forever but drivers who snear at you as if you're a piece of shit as you filter past them.I noticed one wanker in his door mirror yesterday . :finger

I gave the coffee bean sign to a biker today (well a scooter rider) who, despite there being an empty fuel pump behind me, pulled in front and parked across my front bumper as I was getting into my car. Impatient focwit that didnt have two braincells to rub together.
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Post by: Gnasher on 20 September 2020, 01:33:25 pm
I gave the coffee bean sign to a biker today (well a scooter rider) who, despite there being an empty fuel pump behind me, pulled in front and parked across my front bumper as I was getting into my car. Impatient focwit that didnt have two braincells to rub together.

Sadly we live in a world of "foc you I'm alright jack" and they know there's little that will happen to them nowadays.  Back in the day the scooter would have been thrown out of the way and he'd have got a slap had he said anything, so it wouldn't have happened. 

Just another example of the PC world, it's someone else's fault, I'll take no responsibility for actions etc.   :'( :'( as you say just another focwit  :evil



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Post by: b1k3rdude on 20 September 2020, 04:18:47 pm
Two sports bikes overtaking and undertaking me as I came off a round about. First came around my outside, but I blocked the second when it tried to under take me. Both Cnuts were on euro plates and mistakenly think they are untraceable...
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Post by: coffee on 21 September 2020, 12:16:00 am
On the subject of fuel pumps,what about the twats who,even though the place is busy decide to do some shopping while leaving their pratmobile on the pump. :foc
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Post by: darrsi on 21 September 2020, 01:49:27 pm
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I know it's been going on forever but drivers who snear at you as if you're a piece of shit as you filter past them.I noticed one wanker in his door mirror yesterday .
Most drivers are cool and give you room, but there’s always a handful of wankers and you gotta be careful with them.


Maybe he knows you?  :rollin
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 21 September 2020, 02:03:55 pm
Hah, I had a Porche pull out on me once, gave him the wanker sign, turned out to be my cousin.. :rollin
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Post by: fazersharp on 21 September 2020, 04:11:08 pm
Had, I had a Porche pull out on me once, gave him the wanker sign, turned out to be my cousin.. :rollin
Proof it runs in the family  :lol
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 21 September 2020, 08:40:59 pm
Could be worse, I could be a wiseguy who doesn't quite know when to quit while he is ahead.
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Post by: fazersharp on 21 September 2020, 11:39:35 pm
Could be worse, I could be a wiseguy who dosent know when to quite while he is ahead.
You are quit right I will quite.
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Post by: coffee on 21 September 2020, 11:53:10 pm
Abowt tim if you arsk me.
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Post by: fazersharp on 27 September 2020, 11:28:51 am
Today's what gets my goat is hearing students whinging about having to isolate in their halls of residence saying they feel imprisoned, moaning they cannot get food delivered, feeling scared. Well tough focing sh1t !!!! that is exactly what the adult / old population of the whole country has has to go through while the young carried on with their lives as normal.           
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 27 September 2020, 02:19:52 pm
Today's what gets my goat is hearing students whinging about having to isolate in their halls of residence saying they feel imprisoned, moaning they cannot get food delivered, feeling scared. Well tough focing sh1t !!!! that is exactly what the adult / old population of the whole country has has to go through while the young carried on with their lives as normal.           

My youngest started at Kent uni last week. I would hope he has the sense to know how home delivery services work if, or rather when, they get locked down.

On the plus side, if they cannot come home for Christmas, I will have a nice peaceful Christmas :rollin
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Post by: darrsi on 27 September 2020, 03:52:13 pm
Today's what gets my goat is hearing students whinging about having to isolate in their halls of residence saying they feel imprisoned, moaning they cannot get food delivered, feeling scared. Well tough focing sh1t !!!! that is exactly what the adult / old population of the whole country has has to go through while the young carried on with their lives as normal.           

My youngest started at Kent uni last week. I would hope he has the sense to know how home delivery services work if, or rather when, they get locked down.

On the plus side, if they cannot come home for Christmas, I will have a nice peaceful Christmas :rollin


The trick is, kill the turkey, then have 30 people round for the funeral.
Sorted  :lol
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 27 September 2020, 04:59:36 pm
The trick is, kill the turkey, then have 30 people round for the funeral.
Sorted  :lol

That would suggest I want him home for Christmas :rollin

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Post by: b1k3rdude on 28 September 2020, 09:12:22 pm
Well tough focing sh1t !!!! that is exactly what the adult / old population of the whole country has has to go through while the young carried on with their lives as normal.
Only in name, the major difference is there are substantiated reports of the private security guards (sorry Nazis) physically blocking students from leaving thier dorms.

These security drones clearly have delusions of grandeur, they have no business, no legal jurisdiction what so ever. The police should be arresting these cnuts, not allowing them to act with impunity.
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 September 2020, 09:56:06 pm
Well tough focing sh1t !!!! that is exactly what the adult / old population of the whole country has has to go through while the young carried on with their lives as normal.
Only in name, the major difference is there are substantiated reports of the private security guards (sorry Nazis) physically blocking students from leaving thier dorms.

These security drones clearly have delusions of grandeur, they have no business, no legal jurisdiction what so ever. The police should be arresting these cnuts, not allowing them to act with impunity.

"The police should be arresting these cnuts, not allowing them to act with impunity." -- what do you mean the students  :rollin

I agree the security guards are acting way beyond their remit. I had to complain about one outside Morrisons - strutting about barking at people confused as to where to queue if you have a trolley or basket as at the time shoppers with baskets were fast tracked     
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 September 2020, 09:34:09 am
I know it's been going on forever but drivers who snear at you as if you're a piece of shit as you filter past them.I noticed one wanker in his door mirror yesterday . :finger

I've just got back from a surfing holiday in Devon, both on the way down and the way back there was heavy traffic on the roads, but the vast majority of drivers would move over and let me filter past :thumbup
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 September 2020, 09:38:02 am
On the way back from Devon, I stopped off in Salisbury for a pi$$.

The car park was full and some twat was sat in his car in the space marked "Motorcycles Only", so I parked up to one side then, as I rode off, shouted across "Nice bike, idiot!"  :2guns
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2020, 10:18:35 am
as I rode off, shouted across "Nice bike, idiot!"  :2guns
Brave of you  :lol
I would of had words with the idiot when I pulled up --------------- errr or maybe after I had returned after having a p1ss just in case he did something to my bike when I was not there and then drove off.
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 30 September 2020, 10:25:15 am
I would of had words with the idiot when I pulled up --------------- errr or maybe after I had returned after having a p1ss just in case he did something to my bike when I was not there and then drove off.
Uncharacteristically a good point, better to keep your bike safe. I would have either bamped the horn and then had a word. Or better, avoid any conflict what so ever and just directed a Salisbury employee and got them to move the fcukwit.
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2020, 10:26:27 am
When filtering in stop start / stationary traffic duel carriageway some move to the centre to deliberately try and block you. ---IDIOTS, I just around them on the other side  :lol :faz :smokin
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2020, 10:33:10 am
I would of had words with the idiot when I pulled up --------------- errr or maybe after I had returned after having a p1ss just in case he did something to my bike when I was not there and then drove off.
Uncharacteristically a good point, better to keep your bike safe. I would have either bamped the horn and then had a word. Or better, avoid any conflict what so ever and just directed a Salisbury employee and got them to move the fcukwit.
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Uncharacteristically a good point,
No need for that, it was a perfectly civil conversation.  You are supposed to be a MOD, act like one.
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 September 2020, 06:55:56 pm
directed a Salisbury employee and got them to move the fcukwit.

I should have taken a photo and forwarded it to the Council, but I didn't think of that until I was on my way again :(
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Post by: fazersharp on 30 September 2020, 10:12:55 pm
directed a Salisbury employee and got them to move the fcukwit.

I should have taken a photo and forwarded it to the Council, but I didn't think of that until I was on my way again :(
I really really doubt that they would do anything. Private land. The only thing you can do is what you have done --- go on to a bike forum and moan, and we will all moan with you - it helps  :)   
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 01 October 2020, 08:41:13 am
What fazersharp said, its private land, next time just find Sainsbury employee etc.
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Post by: Grahamm on 01 October 2020, 09:43:58 am
I should have taken a photo and forwarded it to the Council, but I didn't think of that until I was on my way again :(
I really really doubt that they would do anything. Private land.

Err, that's *Salisbury*, not Sainsburys!

It's a council owned car park...!

https://www.salisburycitycouncil.gov.uk/responsibilities/car-parks-responsibilities (https://www.salisburycitycouncil.gov.uk/responsibilities/car-parks-responsibilities)
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 October 2020, 09:35:41 pm
Fast food chains - they get ma foccin goat.

However, Ireland's highest court has just ruled that Subway sandwiches are not made with bread.  It appears that Subway is actually a cake shop and will be taxed as such.  Yes!
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 October 2020, 09:48:38 pm
Fast food chains - they get ma foccin goat.

However, Ireland's highest court has just ruled that Subway sandwiches are not made with bread.  It appears that Subway is actually a cake shop and will be taxed as such.  Yes!

That sounds a bit Irish 🤔 of course they are made with bread?
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Post by: VNA - BMW Wank on 01 October 2020, 10:27:31 pm
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That sounds a bit Irish 🤔 of course they are made with bread?
Bread that is so stuffed with sugar that it cannot be classed as bread.  Subway is a cake shop - love it :)
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Post by: Oldgit on 05 October 2020, 02:32:50 pm
(http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?action-media;sa=media;in=3454;preview)this is the soda bread I make.

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Post by: coffee on 08 October 2020, 03:10:58 pm
When you're about to have a piss in the sink and some dirty bastard hasn't washed the crocks up. :groan
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Post by: mtread on 08 October 2020, 04:10:27 pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Kz0e3Tq30


 :D
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Post by: coffee on 25 October 2020, 12:40:01 am
people who not only make a foccin' row when they're eating but like to show you the contents as well. :finger :finger :foc :foc :finger
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 October 2020, 07:13:21 pm
How the FOC can BBC get away with strictly come dancing and covid. Apparently half have formed bubbles with their dancing partners of which have moved into a hotel to become a "single person"
The whole social bubble thing was to help the mental well-being of those living alone, IMO the BBC are circumventing the law, what kind of a public message is being given out.
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Post by: mtread on 25 October 2020, 07:26:23 pm
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How the FOC can BBC get away with strictly come dancing and covid. Apparently half have formed bubbles with their dancing partners of which have moved into a hotel to become a "single person" The whole social bubble thing was to help the mental well-being of those living alone, IMO the BBC are circumventing the law, what kind of a public message is being given out.

90 or so football teams in close physical contact every week. What's the difference?
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 October 2020, 07:34:08 pm
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How the FOC can BBC get away with strictly come dancing and covid. Apparently half have formed bubbles with their dancing partners of which have moved into a hotel to become a "single person" The whole social bubble thing was to help the mental well-being of those living alone, IMO the BBC are circumventing the law, what kind of a public message is being given out.

90 or so football teams in close physical contact every week. What's the difference?

No argument from me on that one either.
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Post by: mtread on 25 October 2020, 07:47:54 pm
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No argument from me on that one either.
No me neither, but both are 'opening up the economy'.
Money talks...
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 October 2020, 07:51:42 pm
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No argument from me on that one either.
No me neither, but both are 'opening up the economy'.
Money talks...
Yeh but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk. :guitar
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Post by: fazersharp on 25 October 2020, 07:58:17 pm
Money Talks was an AC/DC number from 'The Razor's Edge' wasn't it?. You were at Donnington Monsters Of Rock 1991 weren't you?. I didn't manage to catch one of those dollar bills they released unfortunately :'( .
Neil Diamond. Forever in blue jeans  :rollin
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Post by: Oldgit on 01 November 2020, 11:07:01 am
Enjoy your Lockdown boys and girls.

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Post by: Dudeofrude on 17 November 2020, 04:04:45 pm
Little W*nkers on mopeds!! I was in the car today driving down one of our main roads, its sort of a 30mph duel carriageway (except one lane either side is a bus lane) and is separated by a central reservation, well anyway there were 2 kids on mopeds coming the opposite way who decided last minute to perform a U-turn by riding over the pedestrian crossing right in front of me! Then as I followed them down the road one of them actually got his phone out of his pocket and started to text while he was riding!! He was all over the road, frequently driftng in and out of the bus lane then when the upcoming traffic lights turned amber they both gunned it (with no hope of making them in time) and managed to run the light at a main junction a good 5 seconds after it had turn red 🤯🤯
To top it all off they were both wearing trainers and tracksuit bottoms, some kind of puffer jacket type things and no gloves.
God forbid they had been hit by a car ... they wouldn't have stood a chance and worse some poor innocent driver would have had to deal with the guilt of disabling or possibly killing a 16 year old through no fault of their own.
Not only that their parents would have been the first one at the front of the lynch mob blaming car drivers for not looking out for bikers

I know the CBT system has it benefits but I honestly think its time they scrapped it and forced these young kids to do some kind of lessons/test before they are let loose on the road. 2 hours in a carpark the 3 hours on the road just seems like madness when you think about it 😳😳
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Post by: snapper on 17 November 2020, 04:46:51 pm
well feck me side ways

Today for the first time in over 15 yrs I applied for a personal loan

Not just of any bank but the one we have our mortgage with

santan or should I call them satan der

 what a feck waste of time that was
 I spent over an hour on the phone going over more details then you could imagine

 they already have all the details and nothing has changed  but still need to do it

Then they say we may need to have our house valued  WTF I want a 11k loan for a car !!!!

then to top it all off

At the end he says hopefully we can have all this sorted in two to three weeks ! I said what !

 two to three weeks ? yep that long

 bloody car I want to buy will be rusty by then


 
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Post by: agricola on 17 November 2020, 06:15:15 pm
Little W*nkers on mopeds!! I was in the car today driving down one of our main roads, its sort of a 30mph duel carriageway (except one lane either side is a bus lane) and is separated by a central reservation, well anyway there were 2 kids on mopeds coming the opposite way who decided last minute to perform a U-turn by riding over the pedestrian crossing right in front of me! Then as I followed them down the road one of them actually got his phone out of his pocket and started to text while he was riding!! He was all over the road, frequently driftng in and out of the bus lane then when the upcoming traffic lights turned amber they both gunned it (with no hope of making them in time) and managed to run the light at a main junction a good 5 seconds after it had turn red 🤯🤯
To top it all off they were both wearing trainers and tracksuit bottoms, some kind of puffer jacket type things and no gloves.
God forbid they had been hit by a car ... they wouldn't have stood a chance and worse some poor innocent driver would have had to deal with the guilt of disabling or possibly killing a 16 year old through no fault of their own.
Not only that their parents would have been the first one at the front of the lynch mob blaming car drivers for not looking out for bikers

I know the CBT system has it benefits but I honestly think its time they scrapped it and forced these young kids to do some kind of lessons/test before they are let loose on the road. 2 hours in a carpark the 3 hours on the road just seems like madness when you think about it 😳😳


Likely to be without any sort of licence, tax, or insurance. Unlikely to take whatever form of test is in place. Ever. Part of the Lost Generation. No respect, for anyone, anything. But likely to breed.
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Post by: Grahamm on 18 November 2020, 12:20:16 am
Today for the first time in over 15 yrs I applied for a personal loan

Have a look on Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert site here: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/loans/ (https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/loans/)

There's a good calculator for how likely you are to get a loan.

Also, look at the credit card page for 0% deals, there are some which let you take almost  the maximum credit limit and put it into your bank (eg if the limit is £5,000 you can put about £4,800 from that into your bank). You only need to pay off the minimum amount on the card every month (DO NOT spend on the card or fail to make the payments!) and then, when the 0% deal is due to end, just do a balance transfer to another 0% card deal :thumbup


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Post by: b1k3rdude on 18 November 2020, 11:43:14 am
Thread cleanup - removed a bunch of posts that have no text in them.
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Post by: coffee on 26 November 2020, 10:54:03 am
People who haven't got the patience to wait for their dog to have a piss or a sniff and take some kind of warped pleasure in pulling the lead as hard as they can,yanking his/her neck.  :finger :foc
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Post by: fazersharp on 26 November 2020, 12:43:00 pm
People who haven't got the patience to wait for their dog to have a piss or a sniff and take some kind of warped pleasure in pulling the lead as hard as they can,yanking his/her neck.  :finger :foc
What gets my goat is dog owners who think its ok to let their dog cock its leg up and piss on Sharp Halls gate post. Wonder how they would react if I followed them home and Fazersharp had a piss on their gate post. Filthy dog owners.
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Post by: Grahamm on 26 November 2020, 05:26:12 pm
What gets my goat is dog owners who think its ok to let their dog cock its leg up and piss on Sharp Halls gate post.

It's a dog doing what dogs do!

Is it *really* causing you that much of a problem? If it is, clean the gate post off with bleach, but they'll keep doing it until you do, because they're smelling other dogs' scent on it.
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Post by: mtread on 26 November 2020, 05:28:56 pm
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Wonder how they would react if I followed them home and Fazersharp had a piss on their gate post
If you're lucky, they might throw a stick for you  ;)
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Post by: b1k3rdude on 26 November 2020, 09:49:54 pm
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?
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Post by: coffee on 27 November 2020, 12:07:18 am
Don't know but you still can't relax to much while riding :\  nothing changes there. :thumbdown
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Post by: Grahamm on 27 November 2020, 10:36:55 am
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?

I don't know, what's your standard of driving...? :pokefun
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Post by: agricola on 27 November 2020, 05:09:50 pm
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?


Its not just the last 6 months, I think its been declining for years. Millions of vehicles out on the roads these days without tax/insurance/mot/licence
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 27 November 2020, 06:14:54 pm
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?


Its not just the last 6 months, I think its been declining for years. Millions of vehicles out on the roads these days without tax/insurance/mot/licence

I'm sorry but I just can't believe that's true. With all the ANPR camera about these days and the DVLAs  ability to check and fine you digitally I find it hard to believe there are too many on the road compared to the late 80s early 90s.
My old man for one was driving since before I was born but never took his test until I was around 10, and he wasn't you only one. Back then we all knew plenty of people that just drove without anything as you had to be caught by the police and physically checked out.
These days the only people that drive about like that are the delinquent criminals and foreigners who pretend they have no clue.

I think (as with most things) you are all getting older and therefore everything that comes after you isn't as good in your opinion (just like the music)😉 but the truth being I doubt many of you would pass a modern driving test without extra training 😜
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Post by: agricola on 28 November 2020, 10:52:51 am
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?


Its not just the last 6 months, I think its been declining for years. Millions of vehicles out on the roads these days without tax/insurance/mot/licence

I'm sorry but I just can't believe that's true. With all the ANPR camera about these days and the DVLAs  ability to check and fine you digitally I find it hard to believe there are too many on the road compared to the late 80s early 90s.
My old man for one was driving since before I was born but never took his test until I was around 10, and he wasn't you only one. Back then we all knew plenty of people that just drove without anything as you had to be caught by the police and physically checked out.
These days the only people that drive about like that are the delinquent criminals and foreigners who pretend they have no clue.

I think (as with most things) you are all getting older and therefore everything that comes after you isn't as good in your opinion (just like the music)😉 but the truth being I doubt many of you would pass a modern driving test without extra training 😜


Yes, 2008, and the Mail. But cant see that much has changed since then
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084574/Five-million-rogue-drivers--foreigners--putting-lives-risk-police-crackdown-reveals.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084574/Five-million-rogue-drivers--foreigners--putting-lives-risk-police-crackdown-reveals.html)
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Post by: coffee on 29 November 2020, 01:17:18 pm
Is it me of has the general standard of driving gotten noticeably worse in the last 6 months..?


Its not just the last 6 months, I think its been declining for years. Millions of vehicles out on the roads these days without tax/insurance/mot/licence

I'm sorry but I just can't believe that's true. With all the ANPR camera about these days and the DVLAs  ability to check and fine you digitally I find it hard to believe there are too many on the road compared to the late 80s early 90s.
My old man for one was driving since before I was born but never took his test until I was around 10, and he wasn't you only one. Back then we all knew plenty of people that just drove without anything as you had to be caught by the police and physically checked out.
These days the only people that drive about like that are the delinquent criminals and foreigners who pretend they have no clue.

I think (as with most things) you are all getting older and therefore everything that comes after you isn't as good in your opinion (just like the music)😉 but the truth being I doubt many of you would pass a modern driving test without extra training 😜


Yes, 2008, and the Mail. But cant see that much has changed since then
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084574/Five-million-rogue-drivers--foreigners--putting-lives-risk-police-crackdown-reveals.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084574/Five-million-rogue-drivers--foreigners--putting-lives-risk-police-crackdown-reveals.html)






I think you're dead right there pal,I would hate to have to take my car or bike test again,you actually thought it was hard back in the day but when I tell my kids what was required in either they can't believe how easy it was! I know we can't compare decades but with no theory/CBT etc it really was a piece of piss.I'd gladly take the old tests though. :lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 29 November 2020, 01:43:10 pm
The theory tests are a joke and some questions are hilarious with a 3 choice answer. Something along the line s of an old man is slow at a pedestrian crossing and the lights have turned to flashing amber do you.
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Post by: Grahamm on 30 November 2020, 10:41:20 am
I would hate to have to take my car or bike test again,you actually thought it was hard back in the day but when I tell my kids what was required in either they can't believe how easy it was!

It was a bit before my time, but I recall a friend describing the "Ride around the block and stop when the examiner sticks his hand up" Test!

TBH I'd be interested in doing the modern "cone course" test simply to see if my skills are up to scratch.
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 30 November 2020, 10:55:51 am
I would hate to have to take my car or bike test again,you actually thought it was hard back in the day but when I tell my kids what was required in either they can't believe how easy it was!

It was a bit before my time, but I recall a friend describing the "Ride around the block and stop when the examiner sticks his hand up" Test!

TBH I'd be interested in doing the modern "cone course" test simply to see if my skills are up to scratch.

When I took my test they had just bought in the part 1 / part 2 test. Part 1 was a ride around the car park and part 2 was the figure of 8 route around the test centre with the examiner stepping out in the road 100m away from you for you to do the emergency stop.
Having been riding for several years off road by the (I was only 17) I borrowed my dads XS750 which I was insured on through my car insurance (Imagine that today) and with a sidewinder bolted on the side I was able to skip the Pt1 and just do the Pt2 test. It was great in teh 80's you could ride any size bike on L plates if it had a side car and no instructor was required. Take your test with that on that, unbolt the sidecar and ride home. All legal.

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Post by: coffee on 01 December 2020, 12:29:27 am
The theory tests are a joke and some questions are hilarious with a 3 choice answer. Something along the line s of an old man is slow at a pedestrian crossing and the lights have turned to flashing amber do you.
  • wait patiently until they have safely crossed the road
  • rev your engine to encourage them to be quicker
  • ride around the old bastard




I could hardly read this for laughing. :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: Grahamm on 01 December 2020, 01:15:18 am
It was great in teh 80's you could ride any size bike on L plates if it had a side car and no instructor was required.

Yep, I knew people in Sixth Form who had the Sidewinder (for those who don't know, it was a plastic tray with a little wheel on the side that fulfilled the definition of "a side car"  :eek )

They would also have a bungee attached to it, so they could pull it up and out the way when they weren't in danger of getting pulled over by the Police!
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Post by: Oldgit on 01 December 2020, 12:54:12 pm
Sat my test on a Tiger cub, the examiner walked along side me at walking pace to determine my ability to control the bike at that pace, then it was a solo ride on a route he dictated to me with the emergency stop included when he stepped off the pavement as I was returning from the test route, then a short ride round various corners and roundabouts using hand signals, plus stopping at the side of the road and then taking off again then back to the test centre. Passed first time.
Got the same examiner for my car test several months later (Morris 1000), and when exiting from a side road (with Hand Signals) I stalled it, then the usual handbrake on , out of gear, restart engine, observations left , right and rear , signal  turn , another stall, there was an old man leaning against his fence with his Jack Russell dug at his feet, and he turned round to face the car and said "where hiv ye been gettin awe the drink son" I died internally then and finally managed to move off and complete the test, I nearly fainted when the examiner said I had passed, and as for the stalling he said I was always in full control of the car and did the correct procedure each time it happened, passed 1st time.
It seems that the younger drivers nowadays are less aware of the rules of the road than we were at the same age, and tend to speed more.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 01 December 2020, 02:21:48 pm
The theory tests are a joke and some questions are hilarious with a 3 choice answer. Something along the line s of an old man is slow at a pedestrian crossing and the lights have turned to flashing amber do you.
  • wait patiently until they have safely crossed the road
  • rev your engine to encourage them to be quicker
  • ride around the old bastard




I could hardly read this for laughing. :lol :lol :lol :lol
It really is not far off the mark though with some of the questions
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 01 December 2020, 05:50:03 pm
It really is not far off the mark though with some of the questions

And yet:

The 2019/20 pass rate is 47.7%*, which means just over half of all people who sit their Theory Test fail it. (https://www.drivingtestsuccess.com/blog/theory-test-pass-marks-and-pass-rates-2020)!!  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Dudeofrude on 01 December 2020, 06:18:45 pm
It really is not far off the mark though with some of the questions

And yet:

The 2019/20 pass rate is 47.7%*, which means just over half of all people who sit their Theory Test fail it. (https://www.drivingtestsuccess.com/blog/theory-test-pass-marks-and-pass-rates-2020)!!  :eek

I think that's because while there are plenty of questions like the one fazersharp mentioned (I think I genuinely had that one on my bike theory 😅) there are also lots of either obscure ones about road signs you never see in real life or ones that have very similar answers that seem like they are almost deliberately designed to trip you up 🤔

As with most DVLA related things its all BS and not relevant to actual real world driving. I've been driving around 15 years but I still couldn't tell you what colour cats eyes are anywhere on a road 🤷‍♂️ tbh I think they've removed most of them from the roads now anyway 🙄
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 01 December 2020, 08:38:15 pm
I didn't actually take the test as I am way older that that :lol but it was a while ago and it was going around the forum to see if we could pass it.
 At first go I completely messed up the hazard perception test as I was clicking everything, ooh no leaves on trees - winter - shade from hedge - possible frost -"click". Manhole cover "click" road tar line repairs - "click" blind brow of hill - "click"- pidgin in field I guarantee it is going to take off and fly in front of me - "click"-,  focing audi just pulled up at a junction on my left "click click click" !. Bus up ahead --- well of course he is going to pull out or a twat just got off and cross the road in front of the bus so I "click" oooh I am right it is a hazard in the test but I have spotted the bus hazard far too early for the test and it thinks I am clicking for nothing :wall    and all "my" other hazard clicks were not hazards ----- fail     :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 02 December 2020, 01:27:46 am
while there are plenty of questions like the one fazersharp mentioned (I think I genuinely had that one on my bike theory 😅) there are also lots of either obscure ones about road signs you never see in real life or ones that have very similar answers that seem like they are almost deliberately designed to trip you up 🤔

I agree that some of them are ridiculously obscure. Every now and again, someone posts one of those mock theory tests and some have questions that, as you say,really aren't particularly relevant.

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I still couldn't tell you what colour cats eyes are anywhere on a road 🤷‍♂️ tbh I think they've removed most of them from the roads now anyway 🙄


White down the middle of the carriage way, green for slip roads, red for the left edge, amber for the central reservation, green/yellow for lane adjustments/ contraflows etc when there's roadworks and blue for emergency services  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 December 2020, 08:08:40 am
I didn't actually take the test as I am way older that that :lol but it was a while ago and it was going around the forum to see if we could pass it.
 At first go I completely messed up the hazard perception test as I was clicking everything, ooh no leaves on trees - winter - shade from hedge - possible frost -"click". Manhole cover "click" road tar line repairs - "click" blind brow of hill - "click"- pidgin in field I guarantee it is going to take off and fly in front of me - "click"-,  focing audi just pulled up at a junction on my left "click click click" !. Bus up ahead --- well of course he is going to pull out or a twat just got off and cross the road in front of the bus so I "click" oooh I am right it is a hazard in the test but I have spotted the bus hazard far too early for the test and it thinks I am clicking for nothing :wall    and all "my" other hazard clicks were not hazards ----- fail     :rolleyes

When my eldest was learning to drive I did an online hazard perception test and failed too. I was clicking on things I took as hazards earlier than the test took them. For example, a child walking along the street. To me that is a hazard as they tend to move diagonally into the road without looking. For the test though, they only became a hazard when they turned towards the road. Another was a bus driving along. A hazard to me as it will stop and disgorge passengers so you need to be more aware f it slowing down etc. No, to them, its only when it is stationary. etc etc.

Riding a bike makes you more aware of potential hazards earlier but take the test in bike mode and you will fail.

For the theory test, i had a go at that too. 100% on one attempt and got one question wrong on another go. Cant remember what he questions were though.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 December 2020, 08:10:21 am
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I still couldn't tell you what colour cats eyes are anywhere on a road 🤷‍♂️ tbh I think they've removed most of them from the roads now anyway 🙄

White down the middle of the carriage way, green for slip roads, red for the left edge, amber for the central reservation, green/yellow for lane adjustments/ contraflows etc when there's roadworks and blue for emergency services  :D

Standard question when I took my bike and car test in the 80's.

Another favourite that nobody knows (well I do) the answer to is "When can you stop in a yellow box junction?"
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 02 December 2020, 10:53:24 am
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I still couldn't tell you what colour cats eyes are anywhere on a road 🤷‍♂️ tbh I think they've removed most of them from the roads now anyway 🙄

White down the middle of the carriage way, green for slip roads, red for the left edge, amber for the central reservation, green/yellow for lane adjustments/ contraflows etc when there's roadworks and blue for emergency services  :D

Standard question when I took my bike and car test in the 80's.

Another favourite that nobody knows (well I do) the answer to is "When can you stop in a yellow box junction?"
Promise I did not look it up but you can stop when you are turning right and prevented so by on coming traffic. Its either that or you can go ahead and block the road so long as you are on foreign plates or you are in a van,bmw, or audi
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 December 2020, 11:15:35 am
You can only enter a yellow box junction if your exit is clear EXCEPT when turning right and your exit is blocked by oncoming traffic (or you drive a van, BMW, Audi or are aged under 40 or aged over 60)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 02 December 2020, 01:52:27 pm
Easy peasy.
When can you cross a solid white line in the middle of the road?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Dudeofrude on 02 December 2020, 02:29:32 pm
Easy peasy.
When can you cross a solid white line in the middle of the road?

Easy... when your wither drunk or texting? Or when you drive a hot hatch and the car in front of you is doing less than 10mph over the speed limit 🤔
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 02 December 2020, 05:01:13 pm
I was clicking on things I took as hazards earlier than the test took them.

[...]

Riding a bike makes you more aware of potential hazards earlier but take the test in bike mode and you will fail.

Yes, same here.

Fortunately I bought one of those CDs with a whole load of Hazard Perception tests on, so I got used to clicking for a "Developing Hazard" as it wants, ie when something would actually cause you to have to adjust speed or direction, insted of identifying the hazard *before* it actually becomes a problem, so you're already prepared to do something when it "develops".

It's ridiculous, because it effectively teaches you to drive or ride reactively, rather than proactively...  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 02 December 2020, 05:02:24 pm
Another favourite that nobody knows (well I do) the answer to is "When can you stop in a yellow box junction?"

If you're turning right and the exit is clear, but there is oncoming traffic which you have to wait for :thumbup
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 02 December 2020, 05:10:57 pm
When can you cross a solid white line in the middle of the road?

Presuming you mean "When can you cross a solid white line in the middle of the road on your side of the carriageway"? ;)

When you are turning right into an exit or a driveway etc.

When you need to overtake a cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle (with its amber light on) which are doing less than 10mph

If it is necessary to pass a stopped vehicle.

If directed to do so by a Police Officer or Highways Agency Traffic Officer in uniform.


Interestingly it *is* legal to filter past stopped vehicles by crossing a solid white line, because there's no actual definition of "necessary"(!)

However if the front part of your vehicle passes the front part of another vehicle which starts moving when you're on the wrong side of the white line, then you're committing an offence!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Grahamm on 02 December 2020, 05:13:27 pm
Aston Martin in row over 'sockpuppet PR firm' pushing anti-electric vehicle study (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/02/aston-martin-pr-firm-anti-electric-vehicle-study)

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Aston Martin is at the centre of a climate lobbying controversy after a study co-commissioned by the company that cast doubt on the green credentials of electric vehicles was found to have been attributed to a PR company registered to the wife of a director at the luxury carmaker.

The study, which has since been widely debunked by experts, was presented as “groundbreaking” third-party research and appeared to show that electric cars would have to travel as far as 50,000 miles before matching the carbon footprint of a petrol model.

After "Dieselgate", now this...!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 02 December 2020, 05:25:13 pm
Riding a bike makes you more aware of potential hazards earlier but take the test in bike mode and you will fail.
Interesting, as I will be doing some lessons and a test just so I have a car license, I think I would fall fowl of the same topics you did.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 December 2020, 05:29:21 pm

Aston Martin in row over 'sockpuppet PR firm' pushing anti-electric vehicle study (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/02/aston-martin-pr-firm-anti-electric-vehicle-study)


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Aston Martin is at the centre of a climate lobbying controversy after a study co-commissioned by the company that cast doubt on the green credentials of electric vehicles was found to have been attributed to a PR company registered to the wife of a director at the luxury carmaker.


The study, which has since been widely debunked by experts, was presented as “groundbreaking” third-party research and appeared to show that electric cars would have to travel as far as 50,000 miles before matching the carbon footprint of a petrol model that has done 500,000 miles when you take battery manufacture into account.


After "Dieselgate", now this...!


I have corrected the original quote now.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 28 December 2020, 04:06:03 pm
What gets my goat - those people who plaster their cars in cameras filming the front and back and yet it is THEY who's driving is totally SH1 T :rolleyes
Was behind one the other day - crappy car, not flash or anything and in place of the rear view mirror was a bigger version but it was showing a split screen of the front camera and the back and then it would scroll through a full view of the back then front and back to split again, and then some text started scrolling down WTF ! surly that has to be illegal.
It was dark and this thing was so bright it was distracting me.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: coffee on 02 January 2021, 12:37:44 am
And if you'd rear ended him you'd have been the biggest twat walking. :\
Title: VAT on overseas goods sold to UK customers: Economic sucide
Post by: b1k3rdude on 08 January 2021, 10:41:26 am
 So regarding the HMRC tax rule -
Who the actual Fuck! do the HMRC think they are? Clearly they are on some post brexit power trip and are suffering from delusions of grandeur. In what reality will ANY company (that isn't a large corp) or individual outside the UK pay UK tax, news flash they wont. It will be a case of, well fuck the UK then.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 08 January 2021, 11:41:50 am
So regarding the HMRC tax rule -
  • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021)
  • https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/brexit-to-boldly-go-where-no-vat-inspector-has-gone-before/ (https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/brexit-to-boldly-go-where-no-vat-inspector-has-gone-before/)
Who the actual Fuck! do the HMRC think they are? Clearly they are on some post brexit power trip and are suffering from delusions of grandeur. In what reality will ANY company (that isn't a large corp) or individual outside the UK pay UK tax, news flash they wont. It will be a case of, well fuck the UK then.   
I respectfully refer and remind you to the thread title What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! Perhaps you would like to start a politics thread.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 11:53:56 am
I respectfully refer and remind you to the thread title What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! Perhaps you would like to start a politics thread.


It's not politics just a statement of fact on just one of the many hidden consequences of your favorite typic, the B word enjoy  :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 08 January 2021, 12:35:18 pm
I respectfully refer and remind you to the thread title What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! Perhaps you would like to start a politics thread.
It's not politics just a statement of fact on just one of the many hidden consequences of your favorite typic, the B word enjoy
Its not a topic about Brexit, but as Gnasher said yet another bloody consequence of it.

For example if you or I try to buy something (NOT off ebay/amazon), let say a motorcycle part that's over £135 from the US. That seller would then be faced with having to pay the UK vat on that which is bad enough, but also have to pay £1000-1500 per year for an accountant over here. The logical and right assumption will be the seller will say, er terrible sorry sir, but we cannot and will not sell anything to any UK buyers period. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 01:00:04 pm
but we cannot and will not sell anything to any UK buyers period.

Already happening and the same the other way around UK sellers into the EU or NI or Ireland getting hit with tariffs, M&S being only one of the big boys who've suspended sales  ;)

Apparently there's a get around but it's pertracted and probably beyond smaller business, added cost which make their products more expensive and possibly unviable.  It's one of the hundreds of things that still need negotiating :rolleyes  Fear not it's all oven ready :rolleyes :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 01:13:01 pm
Today's "What Gets My Goat" -NOT POLITICS
NO POLITICS!
Why do you have to contaminate every thread with your politics. Start a politics thread and I will see you there.



 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 03:08:09 pm
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Who the actual Fuck! do the HMRC think they are? Clearly they are on some post brexit power trip and are suffering from delusions of grandeur. In what reality will ANY company (that isn't a large corp) or individual outside the UK pay UK tax, news flash they wont. It will be a case of, well fuck the UK then.   
HMRC do what Ministers tell them to do. The government of the day decides tax policy. HMRC merely implement it.
The change in VAT rules is a direct consequence of withdrawal from the EU's Single Market and VAT harmonisation.
Those are not political statements, they are facts.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 03:49:29 pm
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Who the actual Fuck! do the HMRC think they are? Clearly they are on some post brexit power trip and are suffering from delusions of grandeur. In what reality will ANY company (that isn't a large corp) or individual outside the UK pay UK tax, news flash they wont. It will be a case of, well fuck the UK then.   
HMRC do what Ministers tell them to do. The government of the day decides tax policy. HMRC merely implement it.
The change in VAT rules is a direct consequence of withdrawal from the EU's Single Market and VAT harmonisation.
Those are not political statements, they are facts.


 :agree   :)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 04:33:01 pm
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For example if you or I try to buy something (NOT off ebay/amazon), let say a motorcycle part that's over £135 from the US. That seller would then be faced with having to pay the UK vat on that which is bad enough, but also have to pay £1000-1500 per year for an accountant over here. The logical and right assumption will be the seller will say, er terrible sorry sir, but we cannot and will not sell anything to any UK buyers period.
As I've read it, it's the other way around. If the value of the individual package is under £135, then the EU (and non-EU) exporter is required to register for UK VAT, and charge you 20%. So you the UK customer doesn't have any more to pay. The problem is that the exporter is saying 'why should I bother to register for UK VAT, I'll just stop sending to UK'.
If the value is more than £135 then they do not charge VAT, but they do need to complete a Customs Declaration, and the VAT will be collected from you by the shipping company (Royal Mail etc) plus a handing fee. That's always been the case with imports from non EU countries, and now it applies to the EU as well. The only difference is that there are no Customs Duties to collect, as we have a Free Trade deal.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 08 January 2021, 05:44:57 pm
Ah interesting, its not they made this shit is clear and easy to understand... that would be too much to ask for a little common sense.

So I guess one question is, if we buy fazer parts from the US, what charges will be still get hit with..? atm as I understand it, its a excise duty, import tax and vat?
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 06:03:29 pm
Ah interesting, its not they made this shit is clear and easy to understand... that would be too much to ask for a little common sense.

So I guess one question is, if we bike fazer parts from the US, what charges will be still get hit with..? atm as I understand it, its a excise duty, import tax and vat?


Things from non EU country's haven't changed, it's just EU for imports into the UK.  Where there's a catch is UK sellers get hit by a tariff if the whole thing isn't supplied and made within the UK.  Anything that has parts supplied by or work done (I believe) by any non EU or UK, there is a tariff raised on the product, as it could well far cheaper and undercut any EU country.  That's how it's been since we were part of the EU, as part we where exempt as is any EU country trading with another EU country.  Now we're are non EU we have non EU tariffs to pay on any part/s which aren't made by us the UK, as the deal we have with the EU only covers us the UK, when trading with the EU. 


The other sting is this include NI as they're considered EU for trade  ;)


Welcome to Brexit   :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:23:46 pm
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So I guess one question is, if we bike fazer parts from the US, what charges will be still get hit with..? atm as I understand it, its a excise duty, import tax and vat?
No Excise duties, unless your bike parts are bourbon  :lol  'Import tax' is otherwise known as 'Customs Duties', unless it is something that has a zero tariff.


Nothing has changed for US imports, apart from that for items less than £135, rather than do the above, the US business will need to register for UK VAT, just like an EU one.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:28:38 pm
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Where there's a catch is UK sellers get hit by a tariff if the whole thing isn't supplied and made within the UK.  Anything that has parts supplied by or work done (I believe) by any non EU or UK, there is a tariff raised on the product, as it could well far cheaper and undercut any EU country.
I think they are still debating what proportion can be sourced from non UK parts. Otherwise Triumph Motorcycles are up shit street  :eek
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:30:08 pm
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just waiting for a proper MOD to come along and delete these political posts from a thread that specifically says no Politics. Or move them to a political thread.   
Nothing political to see here...  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:32:52 pm
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The other sting is this include NI as they're considered EU for trade 

Doesn't include NI for GB/NI VAT, as we're both in the same VAT system.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 06:45:36 pm
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The other sting is this include NI as they're considered EU for trade 

Doesn't include NI for GB/NI VAT, as we're both in the same VAT system.



Oh yes it does, M&S and other retailers have stopped supplying online goods, check it out mate.  NI albeit part of the UK isn't treated as such for trade as the line is in the Irish Sea and they NI have seamless (pre Brexit) conditions to stop there being a physical border.  As far as NI is concerned trade wise they're still in the EU.   ;) 



As I mentioned earlier, apparently there is a get around but it complex at present and will prove difficult for small businesses, this is one of the areas that are still to be negotiated.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 06:51:48 pm
I think they are still debating what proportion can be sourced from non UK parts. Otherwise Triumph Motorcycles are up shit street  :eek


Yep, but this area is in with the hundreds of other areas of trade, the financial sector being one and the UK biggest contributor to our GDP.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:52:04 pm
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Oh yes it does, M&S and other retails have stopped supplying online goods, check it out mate.  NI albeit part of the UK isn't treated as such for trade as the line is in the Irish Sea and they NI have seamless (pre Brexit) conditions to stop there being a physical border.  As far as NI is concerned trade wise they're still in the EU.   

Well yes, but it doesn't mean there's any change to the VAT situation on GB /NI goods. It's more to do with paperwork and checks on origin and health (trust me)  :D
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 06:54:54 pm

Well yes, but it doesn't mean there's any change to the VAT situation on GB /NI goods. It's more to do with paperwork and checks on origin and health (trust me)  :D



They still have to pay tariffs if the whole thing isn't made in the UK, as well as the paperwork which is the same if sending goods to France, NI is as far as trade is concerned the EU  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 08 January 2021, 06:55:40 pm
just waiting for a proper MOD to come along.
You have been told what the post is about and what is isn't, any further posts like this will be removed.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 06:56:47 pm
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Yep, but this area is in with the hundreds of other areas of trade, the financial sector being one and the UK biggest contributor to our GDP.
We will be negotiating with the EU for years to come. This isn't a divorce, we've just moved out and are arguing about the CDs  ;) [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 07:02:13 pm
We will be negotiating with the EU for years to come. This isn't a divorce, we've just moved out and are arguing about the CDs  ;)


Yep, just wait till pension investments cop it, via an EU tax hit or such like.  Many funds are invested in EU areas of trade and companies, any non EU investors I think could well be hit with a tax on dividends, which means less in the coffers.  Hopefully not but, I wouldn't put it past them now, neither would i blame them.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: mtread on 08 January 2021, 07:21:00 pm
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They still have to pay tariffs if the whole thing isn't made in the UK, as well as the paperwork which is the same if sending goods to France, NI is as far as trade is concerned the EU 

True, no tariffs if the components are made elsewhere in the EU of course.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 08 January 2021, 07:21:12 pm
We will be negotiating with the EU for years to come. This isn't a divorce, we've just moved out and are arguing about the CDs  ;)
heh, both funny and depressing at the same time.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 08 January 2021, 08:15:32 pm
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They still have to pay tariffs if the whole thing isn't made in the UK, as well as the paperwork which is the same if sending goods to France, NI is as far as trade is concerned the EU 

True, no tariffs if the components are made elsewhere in the EU of course.



I believe so yes  ;)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 12:44:05 pm
Twats who think lockdown rules don't apply to them and have scant regard for their relatives or others :finger :evil

I live in a very quiet area in the countryside, I'm the easily the youngest by at least 15 yrs or so.  My road/cul-de-sac is mainly just drive ways with the odd bit of parking on the road leading to it, the road is normally empty save the odd car.  This morning it's full I mean rammed, 12 cars, driven by 40 - 60yrs olds who don't live here, some with kids visiting mum/dad etc, I know a good few live in London and East Anglia, which are between 120 - 170 miles away one way :eek :eek :eek

WTF, they're just not getting it no wonder this thing is spreading like wildfire, when mum/dad/nan/grandad catch it and die they'll be saying "I don't know how he/she got it we were so careful" TWATS absolute C*^ts  :evil     
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 09 January 2021, 12:47:09 pm
Indeed.
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 01:46:10 pm
Twats who think lockdown rules don't apply to them and have scant regard for their relatives or others :finger :evil

I live in a very quiet area in the countryside, I'm the easily the youngest by at least 15 yrs or so.  My road/cul-de-sac is mainly just drive ways with the odd bit of parking on the road leading to it, the road is normally empty save the odd car.  This morning it's full I mean rammed, 12 cars, driven by 40 - 60yrs olds who don't live here, some with kids visiting mum/dad etc, I know a good few live in London and East Anglia, which are between 120 - 170 miles away one way :eek :eek :eek

WTF, they're just not getting it no wonder this thing is spreading like wildfire, when mum/dad/nan/grandad catch it and die they'll be saying "I don't know how he/she got it we were so careful" TWATS absolute C*^ts  :evil     
If you are the youngest in the area by 15 years and the people visiting are 40-60 it sounds to me like your neighbours are all 60-80.  How do you know that they are not in a support bubble.
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Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 01:59:10 pm
If you are the youngest in the area by 15 years and the people visiting are 40-60 it sounds to me like your neighbours are all 60-80.

Correct ish 90 plus too.


  How do you know that they are not in a support bubble.

Support bubbles are for people in single households only, only one is on his own, he's not getting these visits as we support him and he has no family.  These visiting are in groups, haven't been here for weeks or months, not to mention the distances they travelled, no not support bubbles, just twats.   
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 02:05:01 pm
If you are the youngest in the area by 15 years and the people visiting are 40-60 it sounds to me like your neighbours are all 60-80.

Correct ish 90 plus too.

  How do you know that they are not in a support bubble.

Support bubbles are for people in single households only, only one is on his own, he's not getting these visits as we support him and he has no family.  These visiting are in groups, haven't been here for weeks or months, not to mention the distances they travelled, no not support bubbles, just twats.   
I see. Call the police then.

As for support bubbles there is no limit on the distance to go and support a single person or the single person to go to them, but there is advice to try and keep your support local.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 02:58:02 pm
I see. Call the police then.

Not my way.


As for support bubbles there is no limit on the distance to go and support a single person or the single person to go to them, but there is advice to try and keep your support local.

A support bubble is where you support someone on a regular bases 1 -2 time per week, be on call available to help at short notice etc.  These live 3 - 4 hours drive away bringing kids.  It's your sort of 'playing around in the grey areas' i.e. what is local, it doesn't say I can't etc, admittedly the law isn't written well and needs more definition, but when you consider who's written it, it's hardly surprising  :rolleyes  that allows these sorts to take the piss.  The 2 women yesterday and others caught in Derbyshire springs to mind, it's my right and I'm going to do it etc etc  :thumbdown fine under normal circumstances, but during a world pandemic, just thick, selfish twats  :finger   

This wave of the pandemic is out of control in many areas of the country, experts are now saying unless it's brought under control fast, any gain from the early vaccine role out will be lost :(  All that will happen if it continues more will get infected, hospitalised, die and the NHS will be overrun (it already is in some areas) this will also cost non Covid deaths, not just delayed cancer/out patience but RTC's, work accidents etc, to say nothing of the NHS staff who're standing on the front line.  The government will be forced to increase restrictions and that's already being called for and I'm fairly certain that will happen, all thanks to twats who play around in the grey areas.    :finger   

 
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 03:22:38 pm

A support bubble is where you support someone on a regular bases 1 -2 time per week, be on call available to help at short notice etc.
 
Wrong. Go and read the Government website on the rules of support bubbles. Also there are no restrictions on the on the size of the supporting bubbled household. And no restriction on the distance needed to travel to do the support Go and read the Government website there is no grey - its all in black and white.
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Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 03:28:39 pm
Wrong. Go and read the Government website on the rules of support bubbles. Also there are no restrictions on the on the size of the supporting bubbled household. And no restriction on the distance needed to travel to do the support Go and read the Government website there is no grey - its all in black and white.


There's is no way two family members and kids turning up, after driving well over a 100 miles is a support bubble, grey areas :rolleyes


If the cap fits wear it  :lol :lol :lol :lol  twats
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 03:43:58 pm
Wrong. Go and read the Government website on the rules of support bubbles. Also there are no restrictions on the on the size of the supporting bubbled household. And no restriction on the distance needed to travel to do the support Go and read the Government website there is no grey - its all in black and white.

There's is no way two family members and kids turning up, after driving well over a 100 miles is a support bubble, grey areas :rolleyes

If the cap fits wear it  :lol :lol :lol :lol  twats
Go and read the Gov website - any size of household can be a support bubble and the only thing it says about distance to go and support is " it is best if this is with a household who live locally".So yes of course its best if they can live locally but what about if they don't.
 Also support is not limited to providing physical help or doing the shopping like you do for your neighbour but was also introduced as a recognition of those living alone and needing mental health support. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 January 2021, 03:49:01 pm
Wrong. Go and read the Government website on the rules of support bubbles. Also there are no restrictions on the on the size of the supporting bubbled household. And no restriction on the distance needed to travel to do the support Go and read the Government website there is no grey - its all in black and white.

Any size household can be a support bubble but the bubbleeeee must be a single person house hold. Single person households include households that have a single parent with children under 18 or where you have older people and one is a carer for the other.



There's is no way two family members and kids turning up, after driving well over a 100 miles is a support bubble, grey areas :rolleyes

If the cap fits wear it  :lol :lol :lol :lol  twats
Go and read the Gov website - any size of household can be a support bubble and the only thing it says about distance to go and support is " it is best if this is with a household who live locally".So yes of course its best if they can live locally but what about if they don't.
 Also support is not limited to providing physical help or doing the shopping like you do for your neighbour but was also introduced as a recognition of those living alone and needing mental health support. 
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: b1k3rdude on 09 January 2021, 04:11:24 pm
From the government website (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household) -

What is a support bubble?
"If you form a support bubble, it is best if this is with a household who live locally. This will help prevent the virus spreading from an area where more people are infected." 
You cant fix stupid, turns out you can't quarantine it either. But moving on, this thread is bordering on getting political. Find something else to discuss chaps.
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 January 2021, 04:25:29 pm
The full write up is here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household)

Who can make a support bubble
Not everybody can form a support bubble. However, on 2 December the rules changed to widen eligibility for forming one.

You can form a support bubble with another household of any size if:

you live by yourself – even if carers visit you to provide support
you are the only adult in your household who does not need continuous care as a result of a disability
your household includes a child who is under the age of one or was under that age on 2 December 2020
your household includes a child with a disability who requires continuous care and is under the age of 5, or was under that age on 2 December 2020
you are aged 16 or 17 living with others of the same age and without any adults
you are a single adult living with one or more children who are under the age of 18 or were under that age on 12 June 2020
You should not form a support bubble with a household that is part of another support bubble.
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 04:37:42 pm
More twats https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55601600 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55601600)


Or rather C*&ts  :evil


Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 04:38:53 pm
From the government website (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household) -

What is a support bubble?
"If you form a support bubble, it is best if this is with a household who live locally. This will help prevent the virus spreading from an area where more people are infected." 
  • This reinforces what Gnasher has said - in order words use common sense, don't be traveling 100+ miles. Also these kinds of distances will potentially run afoul of Teir travel restrictions/guidelines.
  • And to counter the 'its all there in black and white' statement,  the above "it is best" statement above completely shuts that argument down. Clearly the government are completely incapable of being black and white about the rules, so how can they expect the population to?
  • Regarding the number of people allowed in a support bubble, again the government have been unclear. But common sense should take over here. For example you could logically interoperate the pre-existing 'rule of six'. If both support bubbles combined is over six then, then don't be turning up with with the wife and kids. Then when you do have to do a support visit, don't be getting withing 2m of the person your doing the support visit for.
You cant fix stupid, turns out you can't quarantine it either. But moving on, this thread is bordering on getting political. Find something else to discuss chaps.
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Also these kinds of distances will potentially run afoul of Teir travel restrictions/guidelines.
Will put aside the fact that there are no tiers right now but when there were tiers there was no restrictions on a support bubble moving between tiers.     
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"Regarding the number of people allowed in a support bubble, again the government have been unclear."
Wrong - its perfectly clear from the gov.uk site ---You can form a support bubble with another household of any size
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Then when you do have to do a support visit, don't be getting within 2m of the person your doing the support visit for
.Wrong also

from the gov.uk site you do not need to maintain social distance with people in your support bubble
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 04:42:10 pm
More twats https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55601600 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55601600)


Or rather C*&ts  :evil

Yes idiots. And while I was reading it on the same page was a link to explain how support bubbles work  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52637354 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52637354)
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 05:00:32 pm
Wrong - its perfectly clear
from the gov.uk site ---You can form a support bubble with another household of any size
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Then when you do have to do a support visit, don't be getting within 2m of the person your doing the support visit for
.Wrong also

One person living alone can yes, as said my previous these I'm referring to aren't living alone, they're are living with their wife/husbands or partners. With family mum/dad and the kids turning up after driving a 100 miles plus.  Not a support bubble just selfish twats  :finger


from the gov.uk site you do not need to maintain social distance with people in your support bubble

Who mentioned anything about this?

I appears as always you don't read things fully before, going off half cocked  :lol

As said if the cap fits wear it  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: fazersharp on 09 January 2021, 05:16:29 pm

Who mentioned anything about this?

I appears as always you don't read things fully before, going off half cocked  :lol

As said if the cap fits wear it  :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Tiz you not reading things fully  before, going off half cocked. I was replying to B1k3rdude - he mentioned it - I even included his quoted post in my post.

Yes your neighbours seem to be breaking the law -- do the right thing and report them.
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 January 2021, 05:21:18 pm
You can also have both a support bubble and a childcare bubble. So for instance we have my wife's best friend for a support bubble as she is a single mum of a 7 year old and has no family (except a Dad who's in a care home with dementia) then we are also in a child car bubble with the in laws so that they can have the kids over at theirs every now and again (their choice not ours)

But on the note of the lockdown, I took my kids down the seafront for our daily walk and it was packed! May aswell gave been the middle of the summer. Roads aren't really any emptier either.
I read on the news about how the Gov is moaning that more and more people are bending the rules but honestly what do they expect. After nearly a full year of restrictions People are sick to death of it all. I honestly don't know anyone that supports these restrictions or think they work and the vast majority of people would rather just be left to get on with it.

I think the disillusion is starting to set it with even the strictest of people because it feels like you can't win. You follow the rules, don't see your family, lose all your savings... and yet you still get locked down. So you may as well have ignored it all and did what you wanted.... you'd be in the same position now either way 🤷‍♂️

On the plus side if the infection keeps spreading the way it is we will have all had it by the end of winter. Heard immunity achieved and the government can make some money sleeing off all the vaccines to poorer countries 😅😉
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 January 2021, 06:08:04 pm


One person living alone can yes, as said my previous these I'm referring to aren't living alone, they're are living with their wife/husbands or partners. With family mum/dad and the kids turning up after driving a 100 miles plus.  Not a support bubble just selfish twats  :finger


They probably are just selfish twats but the defnition of alone includes households of more than one where the people are ill, acting as carers etc. My dad doesnt live alone. HE lives with my step mum who is undergoing cancer treatment so he is her carer. Under the rules he can form a bubble with another household. Being sensible though, he is keeping himself to himself and myself/brother are just meeting him on his driveway once or twice a week for a socially distanced beer to keep his spirits up. Its feccin cold this time of year though!!
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 January 2021, 06:08:57 pm
and we take our own beer to keep distanced!
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 06:16:06 pm
You can also have both a support bubble and a childcare bubble. So for instance we have my wife's best friend for a support bubble as she is a single mum of a 7 year old and has no family (except a Dad who's in a care home with dementia) then we are also in a child car bubble with the in laws so that they can have the kids over at theirs every now and again (their choice not ours)

Yep if it's them looking after your kids while you work etc, fine but only you or your Mrs should drop them off or collect them individually.  If it's just for them to see your kids, it shouldn't be happening and they/you are running a risk of them catching it, from your kids or you.  Remember under 16s mainly don't have any symptoms what's so ever, but pass it either to you or your older family members, it's also possible you or your Mrs is asymptomatic too.  The virus is spreading because people are spreading it, it's not spreading it's self, many are just in denial of this fact.  Someone known to me, was doing what your doing, his mums now sadly died  :( Not a risk worth taking in my book.   

But on the note of the lockdown, I took my kids down the seafront for our daily walk and it was packed! May aswell gave been the middle of the summer. Roads aren't really any emptier either.
Yep twats
 
I read on the news about how the Gov is moaning that more and more people are bending the rules but honestly what do they expect. After nearly a full year of restrictions People are sick to death of it all. I honestly don't know anyone that supports these restrictions or think they work and the vast majority of people would rather just be left to get on with it.

Sure and more, possibly someone you know or care about will die or be seriously buggered for sometime or the rest of their life.  I totally support these current restrictions, I for one think there not strong enough.  I want this virus beat, to achieve that we've got to step up and get on with it.
 
I think the disillusion is starting to set it with even the strictest of people because it feels like you can't win. You follow the rules, don't see your family, lose all your savings... and yet you still get locked down.

We can win and would be if twats didn't keep bending and breaking the rules.  That said, the government hasn't and isn't helping, with too little, too late and mixed messaging.  If you're one of the 3m ish that went self employed less than a year before this started, then yes it's hard, unfair and the government should be doing far more to help you/them.  If you're just furloughed you should be fine, providing you wasn't living beyond you means and not declaring income.  Not seeing our families is disappointing but a necessary tool to fight the virus. I've not seen my lads for well over 8 months and if it keeps going probably another 8 months, but the longer I do the safer they and I am and if we all had the same attitude this virus will get beat sooner rather than later.  We have a 2 choices, both are different levels of a shit sandwich, one ends got a lot more shit, i.e. give in more die, NHS get flattened, it goes on longer and longer, economy crashes lot of shit end or follow the advice and we get out of it little shit end?  All the winging, complaining, rule bending is futile the virus doesn't care and will kill regardless. 

Like it or not there's is no other choices, take your pick.           

So you may as well have ignored it all and did what you wanted.... you'd be in the same position now either way

But alive and not possibly damaged  ;)

On the plus side if the infection keeps spreading the way it is we will have all had it by the end of winter. Heard immunity achieved and the government can make some money sleeing off all the vaccines to poorer countries

As far as they know you don't get any immunity, herd or otherwise many have had the virus multiple times.  I know people who work NHS front line who have and they tell me colleges of theirs have died or were/are seriously ill after catching it a second/third time.   

Yes it's crap, yes it's unfair, yes I don't like it, but none of us have much choice beyond the 2 stated above.   
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 06:18:19 pm
They probably are just selfish twats but the defnition of alone includes households of more than one where the people are ill, acting as carers etc. My dad doesnt live alone. HE lives with my step mum who is undergoing cancer treatment so he is her carer. Under the rules he can form a bubble with another household. Being sensible though, he is keeping himself to himself and myself/brother are just meeting him on his driveway once or twice a week for a socially distanced beer to keep his spirits up. Its feccin cold this time of year though!!


Yes, but they are both at risk and need support.  The law/rules allow for this as you rightly point out mate and I'm guessing you're not driving 200 plus miles round trip  :)
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 January 2021, 06:37:56 pm
You can also have both a support bubble and a childcare bubble. So for instance we have my wife's best friend for a support bubble as she is a single mum of a 7 year old and has no family (except a Dad who's in a care home with dementia) then we are also in a child car bubble with the in laws so that they can have the kids over at theirs every now and again (their choice not ours)

Yep if it's them looking after your kids while you work etc, fine but only you or your Mrs should drop them off or collect them individually.  If it's just for them to see your kids, it shouldn't be happening and they/you are running a risk of them catching it, from your kids or you.  Remember under 16s mainly don't have any symptoms what's so ever, but pass it either to you or your older family members, it's also possible you or your Mrs is asymptomatic too.  The virus is spreading because people are spreading it, it's not spreading it's self, many are just in denial of this fact.  Someone known to me, was doing what your doing, his mums now sadly died  :( Not a risk worth taking in my book.   

But on the note of the lockdown, I took my kids down the seafront for our daily walk and it was packed! May aswell gave been the middle of the summer. Roads aren't really any emptier either.
Yep twats
 
I read on the news about how the Gov is moaning that more and more people are bending the rules but honestly what do they expect. After nearly a full year of restrictions People are sick to death of it all. I honestly don't know anyone that supports these restrictions or think they work and the vast majority of people would rather just be left to get on with it.

Sure and more, possibly someone you know or care about will die or be seriously buggered for sometime or the rest of their life.  I totally support these current restrictions, I for one think there not strong enough.  I want this virus beat, to achieve that we've got to step up and get on with it.
 
I think the disillusion is starting to set it with even the strictest of people because it feels like you can't win. You follow the rules, don't see your family, lose all your savings... and yet you still get locked down.

We can win and would be if twats didn't keep bending and breaking the rules.  That said, the government hasn't and isn't helping, with too little, too late and mixed messaging.  If you're one of the 3m ish that went self employed less than a year before this started, then yes it's hard, unfair and the government should be doing far more to help you/them.  If you're just furloughed you should be fine, providing you wasn't living beyond you means and not declaring income.  Not seeing our families is disappointing but a necessary tool to fight the virus. I've not seen my lads for well over 8 months and if it keeps going probably another 8 months, but the longer I do the safer they and I am and if we all had the same attitude this virus will get beat sooner rather than later.  We have a 2 choices, both are different levels of a shit sandwich, one ends got a lot more shit, i.e. give in more die, NHS get flattened, it goes on longer and longer, economy crashes lot of shit end or follow the advice and we get out of it little shit end?  All the winging, complaining, rule bending is futile the virus doesn't care and will kill regardless. 

Like it or not there's is no other choices, take your pick.           

So you may as well have ignored it all and did what you wanted.... you'd be in the same position now either way

But alive and not possibly damaged  ;)

On the plus side if the infection keeps spreading the way it is we will have all had it by the end of winter. Heard immunity achieved and the government can make some money sleeing off all the vaccines to poorer countries

As far as they know you don't get any immunity, herd or otherwise many have had the virus multiple times.  I know people who work NHS front line who have.   

Yes it's crap, yes it's unfair, yes I don't like it, but none of us have much choice beyond the 2 stated above.

But the problem is that there will never be a 100% compliance around the general public. And of this virus spreads in the way they say it does then it only takes a few people not to comply and the whole thing goes tits up. Not to mention the amount of people that just don't care about the risk. They aren't worried about getting it or worried about giving it to anyone.
So the point being this asking everyone to behave approach isn't ever going to work. If everyone did exactly as they were told then there wouldn't be any crime would there 🤷‍♂️

Add to the fact that every man and his dog is a 'key worker' these days and you realise that this isn't really any kind of lockdown. The only people that are at home are the ones that work in pubs, gyms, hotels, shops or personal care. Around here between the supermarkets, factories, hospitals and docks I'd say well over 60% of people are still going about daily life as normal. In fact I dont actually know another person that has to stay at home like me.

So really the only options are a 100% lockdown of everyone (as done in other countries) ,keep faffing about like they are (which is getting us nowhere), or just don't bother. And I think we know which one its going to be
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Dudeofrude on 09 January 2021, 06:39:00 pm
And as a side note I think maybe this conversation would be better moved over to the "Will you take the Vax" convo as seems to have gone a bit off topic here
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 09 January 2021, 06:53:22 pm
I'm guessing you're not driving 200 plus miles round trip  :)

Not after 4 pints :rollin
Title: Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
Post by: Gnasher on 09 January 2021, 07:40:58 pm
But the problem is that there will never be a 100% compliance around the general public.

Quite right, we don't need 100% we need the a healthy majority, the same we get with crime.  There always going to be a small % who'll will commit crime no matter what but its small and we manage it.   

And of this virus spreads in the way they say it does then it only takes a few people not to comply and the whole thing goes tits up.
It's not what I'm saying it's what's happening.  If the government got test and trace sorted out properly as they were told i.e locally and not via private company's and all the other failed crap they've been doing we'd keep on top of it as other countries have done.     

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Not to mention the amount of people that just don't care about the risk. They aren't worried about getting it or worried about giving it to anyone.

Like the % that commit crime we sort them, end of.

So the point being this asking everyone to behave approach isn't ever going to work.

Nobody wanted WW2 other than those that started it, but they like we had/have no choice it got to be done.   

If everyone did exactly as they were told then there wouldn't be any crime would there

Mentioned above some will always commit crime that's why we have laws.  But like crime any law has to be written so it's enforceable and proportionate to the situation and has to be seen to be enforced, then it will be followed by the vast majority. 

Add to the fact that every man and his dog is a 'key worker' these days and you realise that this isn't really any kind of lockdown.

Yes I agree there's is too many classed as 'key workers' but that is the government trying to appease their mates and save money to some extent .  The list now needs really looking at, trimed and those that aren't and caught working, the above applies.   

The only people that are at home are the ones that work in pubs, gyms, hotels, shops or personal care. Around here between the supermarkets, factories, hospitals and docks I'd say well over 60% of people are still going about daily life as normal. In fact I dont actually know another person that has to stay at home like me.

Most I know are working from home, my 2 lads are both lost their jobs, both got new ones, one lost his new job, the other is still working from home.  Areas of the country will be very different, factory work mostly can't be done from home, but the owners should be following the rules.  I grant you some aren't, forcing workers in when they shouldn't be, but that's due to government turning a blind eye and money etc.

So really the only options are a 100% lockdown of everyone (as done in other countries) ,keep faffing about like they are (which is getting us nowhere), or just don't bother. And I think we know which one its going to be

Yes, we need to do what we did in Mar, had we stayed locked for longer, sorted out test & trace etc we'd be in a very different position, we didn't but that's a whole new topic.

Sadly there's just 2 choices as mentioned earlier, both are crap but one is less crap and with a light at the end of the tunnel, the other utter chaos.   
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Post by: Gnasher on 15 January 2021, 05:29:32 pm
Twats who think lockdown rules don't apply to them and have scant regard for their relatives or others :finger :evil

I live in a very quiet area in the countryside, I'm the easily the youngest by at least 15 yrs or so.  My road/cul-de-sac is mainly just drive ways with the odd bit of parking on the road leading to it, the road is normally empty save the odd car.  This morning it's full I mean rammed, 12 cars, driven by 40 - 60yrs olds who don't live here, some with kids visiting mum/dad etc, I know a good few live in London and East Anglia, which are between 120 - 170 miles away one way :eek :eek :eek

WTF, they're just not getting it no wonder this thing is spreading like wildfire, when mum/dad/nan/grandad catch it and die they'll be saying "I don't know how he/she got it we were so careful" TWATS absolute C*^ts  :evil   


Little and very sad update on the above.  This week we've had a few more doctors cars and an ambulance or two which is way more than normal.  While at work today, we've had two more ambulances turn up I'm told, 3, people from 2 households have now been taken into hospital, you can guess what with, oh yes Covid, all are in the late 70's with health issues. 

Both houses had visits last Sat from relatives who come from London or the East of England.   Less than a week and now they're in serious trouble by TWATS  :finger I really hope they make it back out.   

Really pisses me off, it's not a bloody game  :evil :evil


   
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Post by: fazersharp on 15 January 2021, 05:41:21 pm
While at work today, we've had two more ambulances turn up I'm told, 3, people from 2 households have now been taken into hospital, you can guess what with, oh yes Covid, all are in the late 70's with health issues. 
Both houses had visits last Sat from relatives who come from London or the East of England.
   
Like I said 7 days ago - you should of informed the police. Could just of been the thing that saved them.
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Post by: Gnasher on 15 January 2021, 05:48:48 pm
Like I said 7 days ago - you should of informed the police. Could just of been the thing that saved them.

Oh it's my fault, really, how dare you you're a complete TWAT   :finger


 
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Post by: Dudeofrude on 15 January 2021, 10:00:41 pm
Twats who think lockdown rules don't apply to them and have scant regard for their relatives or others :finger :evil

I live in a very quiet area in the countryside, I'm the easily the youngest by at least 15 yrs or so.  My road/cul-de-sac is mainly just drive ways with the odd bit of parking on the road leading to it, the road is normally empty save the odd car.  This morning it's full I mean rammed, 12 cars, driven by 40 - 60yrs olds who don't live here, some with kids visiting mum/dad etc, I know a good few live in London and East Anglia, which are between 120 - 170 miles away one way :eek :eek :eek

WTF, they're just not getting it no wonder this thing is spreading like wildfire, when mum/dad/nan/grandad catch it and die they'll be saying "I don't know how he/she got it we were so careful" TWATS absolute C*^ts  :evil   


Little and very sad update on the above.  This week we've had a few more doctors cars and an ambulance or two which is way more than normal.  While at work today, we've had two more ambulances turn up I'm told, 3, people from 2 households have now been taken into hospital, you can guess what with, oh yes Covid, all are in the late 70's with health issues. 

Both houses had visits last Sat from relatives who come from London or the East of England.   Less than a week and now they're in serious trouble by TWATS  :finger I really hope they make it back out.   

Really pisses me off, it's not a bloody game  :evil :evil


 

Sad news but at the end of the day the people being visited are just as bad as the one visiting. They obviously didn't think the rules applied to them or that they just weren't going to catch it 🤷‍♂️
As I've said to my friends that have caught it......you can only get it by not following the guidance 🤡👮‍♂️
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Post by: Gnasher on 16 January 2021, 09:58:53 am
Sad news but at the end of the day the people being visited are just as bad as the one visiting. They obviously didn't think the rules applied to them or that they just weren't going to catch it

Yes to some extent, but I know from past they get pressurised or they just turn up!  The visitors, their children bring grandchildren should not be putting them at risk and know better, the problem appears to be they think it's just something that happens to someone else!     

As I've said to my friends that have caught it......you can only get it by not following the guidance

Yep the idiot deniers and those flouting utterly selfish twats :evil  I wonder how they feel now, my guess is Oh a wonder how they got it we'll were so careful................... twats   
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Post by: Oldgit on 17 January 2021, 11:10:41 am
I wonder if after this pandemic recedes will we see more people relocating from the big cities in UK to the countryside area's of the urban environment, not only for their body health but their mental health.
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Post by: agricola on 17 January 2021, 03:50:03 pm
I wonder if after this pandemic recedes will we see more people relocating from the big cities in UK to the countryside area's of the urban environment, not only for their body health but their mental health.


I wouldn't be surprised. I've been a runner for 50 years, all over the local fields and footpaths, I only have to go a mile then I'm out of the urban area. Normally, I would see the same one or two dog walkers. Since this all kicked off, its now all in reverse, and I'm running on the streets. The footpaths are crammed, and rather than a metre or so wide, they've all tried to avoid the mud and they are now several metres wide, and the hedges are full of dog shite bags. Though most will revert back, I reckon some will have found something they wish to retain
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Post by: darrsi on 18 January 2021, 06:22:59 am
I wonder if after this pandemic recedes will we see more people relocating from the big cities in UK to the countryside area's of the urban environment, not only for their body health but their mental health.


I wouldn't be surprised. I've been a runner for 50 years, all over the local fields and footpaths, I only have to go a mile then I'm out of the urban area. Normally, I would see the same one or two dog walkers. Since this all kicked off, its now all in reverse, and I'm running on the streets. The footpaths are crammed, and rather than a metre or so wide, they've all tried to avoid the mud and they are now several metres wide, and the hedges are full of dog shite bags. Though most will revert back, I reckon some will have found something they wish to retain


Bit more space for us townies then.  :lol
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Post by: coffee on 25 January 2021, 05:12:49 pm
Vets and doctors' receptionists who think they're doing you some kind of favour letting you see them and then in the case of the vet charging you a fortune for the privilege . :finger
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Post by: Oldgit on 03 February 2021, 10:43:45 am
Safer going to the vet's than your local surgery--that's for sure. :D

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Post by: fazersharp on 24 February 2021, 06:28:27 pm
Politicians and other Spokes-people when interviewed just recently have starting saying "We Know" or "We Know that" -- you see I can almost guarantee they will say it.
 I noticed this also a while ago and the word used was " Clearly" its as though they are all listening to each other and all start talking the same.       
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Post by: agricola on 24 February 2021, 08:09:53 pm
Politicians and other Spokes-people when interviewed just recently have starting saying "We Know" or "We Know that" -- you see I can almost guarantee they will say it.
 I noticed this also a while ago and the word used was " Clearly" its as though they are all listening to each other and all start talking the same.     


So.


Followed by a breath.


Then they answer the question (or not)


More and more people are starting a sentence with "so", just as if they are talking down to someone


Annoying, but appears to be a modern trend
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Post by: coffee on 24 February 2021, 11:52:19 pm
You're dead right there mate. :wall :wall :wall :finger
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Post by: agricola on 04 March 2021, 08:41:47 pm
People who move away to live elsewhere to be out of the public glare, then do everything they can do keep themselves in it and make a fortune doing so
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Post by: fazersharp on 22 April 2021, 10:44:49 am
What gets my goat is greedy people buying patio heaters from Aldi with no intention of using themselves but just to flog on at a profit. Aldi sold out instore and online and now they are all over facebook and 834 on ebay look here https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Gardenline+2000W+Patio+Heater&_sacat=0&_sop=16 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Gardenline+2000W+Patio+Heater&_sacat=0&_sop=16) some idiot is asking £10,000  :eek for a £39 patio heater.
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Post by: coffee on 28 April 2021, 05:27:10 pm
I had to except £9500 in the end. ;)
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Post by: agricola on 30 April 2021, 04:31:50 pm
It just sounds so unnatural. Thuu east midlands, thuu elephant, the apple. News readers are doing it now, weren't we all taught that its pronounced "thee" before a vowel?
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Post by: fazersharp on 10 May 2021, 09:50:44 am
Heres what gets my goat. Taken from the what did you do with your fazer today tyre debate.  These supa silica synthetic compounds. Innovative Enhanced Exceptional technology optimum performance innovative compound composition, blah blah. And yet get a few hours sunshine on them ant they fall to bits.
 Why cant they just make them more resistant to sunlight. :rolleyes
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Post by: agricola on 10 May 2021, 03:00:59 pm
Saving the planet/reducing emissions etc. So why doesn't govt legislate to make housebuilders build all homes with south facing rooves? And incorporate solar panels into the build, rather than have owners have to have them retro fitted?
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 10 May 2021, 04:00:38 pm
Saving the planet/reducing emissions etc. So why doesn't govt legislate to make housebuilders build all homes with south facing rooves? And incorporate solar panels into the build, rather than have owners have to have them retro fitted?

A lot of new builds have that in their planning approval.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 13 May 2021, 11:49:02 am
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Post by: agricola on 13 May 2021, 03:35:57 pm
Saving the planet/reducing emissions etc. So why doesn't govt legislate to make housebuilders build all homes with south facing rooves? And incorporate solar panels into the build, rather than have owners have to have them retro fitted?

A lot of new builds have that in their planning approval.


Should be inbuilt in the national planning system.


Along with a new minimum standard for road width. These new estates have roads that two cars cant pass each other on without one driving up the kerb, let alone the bin wagons. Might have been alright years ago when cars like the A35 were common, but todays cars are massive. Suppose its a case of developers maximising the number of properties they can squeeze onto a postage stamp
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 13 May 2021, 06:38:00 pm
Should be inbuilt in the national planning system.

Along with a new minimum standard for road width. These new estates have roads that two cars cant pass each other on without one driving up the kerb, let alone the bin wagons. Might have been alright years ago when cars like the A35 were common, but todays cars are massive. Suppose its a case of developers maximising the number of properties they can squeeze onto a postage stamp

:agree

My son lives in a new build and I looked at new builds a couple of years ago. Government guidelines/rules are that each house must have 2x parking spaces. This can include the garage. Unfortunately the garage is way too small even for a modern Mini/Polo so never gets used and the driveways are so small that only the smallest cars can fit on without overhanging the path as this means the developer can get more shoeboxes on their plot of land. As most houses have 2 cars (or more) all the roads are clogged with cars. Add to that the narrow winding nature of the new roads to try to slow traffic down and you actually create a danger to anyone trying to cross the road or anyone living in the bowels of the estate that needs an ambulance or a fire engine. Because of this, he has to take his bins to the end of the road where the developer has built a bin area to save the bin lorry having to squeeze through.

Shame they didnt give it more thought though. Due to the width of the road and all the parked cars, the planned bus route allowing people to use public transport instead of cars has had to be binned as they cannot get a bus through safely.
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Post by: mtread on 13 May 2021, 06:43:18 pm
I thought garages were reserved for motorbikes ?  :rolleyes
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Post by: BBROWN1664 on 13 May 2021, 06:50:35 pm
I thought garages were reserved for motorbikes ?  :rolleyes
They are where I live :)
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Post by: mtread on 13 May 2021, 08:10:25 pm
And beer stocks  :)
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Post by: fazerscotty on 16 May 2021, 05:02:03 pm

The way Steve Wright (R2) insists on joining in with singing the last line of nearly every song he plays :grumble


I bet that upsets the taping................ :lol
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Post by: Grahamm on 16 May 2021, 05:32:47 pm
I bet that upsets the taping................ :lol

Showing your age there!

(There again, so am I, because I understand the reference...  :eek )
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Post by: fazerscotty on 17 May 2021, 03:13:39 pm
I bet that upsets the taping................ :lol

Showing your age there!

(There again, so am I, because I understand the reference...  :eek )


 :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Post by: agricola on 17 May 2021, 05:31:55 pm
I bet that upsets the taping................ :lol

Showing your age there!

(There again, so am I, because I understand the reference...  :eek )


Still got this old relic. Early 80s I think, still working too
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Post by: YamFazFan on 17 May 2021, 06:08:25 pm
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Post by: fazersharp on 17 May 2021, 06:26:08 pm
I must of spent hours winding it back in with a pencil  :lol
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Post by: fazersharp on 28 May 2021, 10:14:17 am
What gets my goat today. Dirty dog owners who think its ok to put their dog shit in my dustbin when it's out for collection. It was put in there after it was emptied meaning its going to be stinking in there for 2 weeks.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 28 May 2021, 11:33:27 am
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Post by: mtread on 28 May 2021, 01:58:19 pm
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What gets my goat today. Dirty dog owners who think its ok to put their dog shit in my dustbin when it's out for collection. It was put in there after it was emptied meaning its going to be stinking in there for 2 weeks.
Yep same here. We're next to a country park, so there's a endless procession of dog+owners all day long. I wouldn't mind, but there's a purpose built poo bin at the entrance to the park, less than 50 metres away.
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Post by: Streetbudgie on 04 June 2021, 01:21:06 pm
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What gets my goat today. Dirty dog owners who think its ok to put their dog shit in my dustbin when it's out for collection. It was put in there after it was emptied meaning its going to be stinking in there for 2 weeks.
Yep same here. We're next to a country park, so there's a endless procession of dog+owners all day long. I wouldn't mind, but there's a purpose built poo bin at the entrance to the park, less than 50 metres away.

I'm going to third this as I also live in residential road that has a country park at one end.

Bloody dog owners allowing their pooches to crap everywhere on route to the park then make a half arsed attempt to pick it up and promtly throw it down the private property alleyway at the side of my house.

I was so pissed off with this after collecting 21 bags of dog shit one weekend from the alleyway, I installed CCTV and posted videos of the offenders who in more than one video turned out to be a neighbour's teenage kids (a few doors along so I had no clue who they were) and said neighbour promptly called the Police to complain that I had put videos of the teenage kids dropping dog shit bags in the alleyway and guess what - the Police actually knocked on my door to investigate the complaint!!!

As you can imagine I asked them what they were going to do about the offence of dropping the dog shit bags, to which they replied "they were not here to deal with that" so I politely told them the law on Domestic CCTV in the UK is non existent and they couldn't ask me or force me to remove it or take the posts down from Youtube and eventually told them to bugger off if they weren't going to enforce an actual criminal law of dropping dog shit.


Plod obviously fed that back to the parents of the dog shit droppers as the mad woman then went after me on Youtube postng all sorts of abuse and accusations of being a paedo on my Youtube channel (get it right, the kids were 15 and 17 so hardly looked like kids) - guess what? When I reported her on line abuse to Plod they weren't interested, fucking typical!

Even after several years the whole family are still obsessed and everytime the dad walks down the alleyway he sticks two fingers up at the cameras or sticks his tongue out.

I told them via Youtube to come and speak to me in person if they had a problem with me shaming their family members for droping dog shit as I had no idea which house they lived in at the time, Plod wouldn't tell me.

As always with bullys they wouldn't face me so carried on their ridiculus sheenanigans ever since.

They've stopped dropping their dog shit bags in the alleyway though.
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Post by: agricola on 04 June 2021, 05:29:09 pm
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What gets my goat today. Dirty dog owners who think its ok to put their dog shit in my dustbin when it's out for collection. It was put in there after it was emptied meaning its going to be stinking in there for 2 weeks.
Yep same here. We're next to a country park, so there's a endless procession of dog+owners all day long. I wouldn't mind, but there's a purpose built poo bin at the entrance to the park, less than 50 metres away.

I'm going to third this as I also live in residential road that has a country park at one end.

Bloody dog owners allowing their pooches to crap everywhere on route to the park then make a half arsed attempt to pick it up and promtly throw it down the private property alleyway at the side of my house.

I was so pissed off with this after collecting 21 bags of dog shit one weekend from the alleyway, I installed CCTV and posted videos of the offenders who in more than one video turned out to be a neighbour's teenage kids (a few doors along so I had no clue who they were) and said neighbour promptly called the Police to complain that I had put videos of the teenage kids dropping dog shit bags in the alleyway and guess what - the Police actually knocked on my door to investigate the complaint!!!

As you can imagine I asked them what they were going to do about the offence of dropping the dog shit bags, to which they replied "they were not here to deal with that" so I politely told them the law on Domestic CCTV in the UK is non existent and they couldn't ask me or force me to remove it or take the posts down from Youtube and eventually told them to bugger off if they weren't going to enforce an actual criminal law of dropping dog shit.


Plod obviously fed that back to the parents of the dog shit droppers as the mad woman then went after me on Youtube postng all sorts of abuse and accusations of being a paedo on my Youtube channel (get it right, the kids were 15 and 17 so hardly looked like kids) - guess what? When I reported her on line abuse to Plod they weren't interested, fucking typical!

Even after several years the whole family are still obsessed and everytime the dad walks down the alleyway he sticks two fingers up at the cameras or sticks his tongue out.

I told them via Youtube to come and speak to me in person if they had a problem with me shaming their family members for droping dog shit as I had no idea which house they lived in at the time, Plod wouldn't tell me.

As always with bullys they wouldn't face me so carried on their ridiculus sheenanigans ever since.

They've stopped dropping their dog shit bags in the alleyway though.


I believe that the offence of failing to pick and and dispose appropriately of dog crap comes under the control of the local authority, many have specific Dog Wardens to deal with the problem. Try contacting them
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Post by: fazersharp on 06 June 2021, 09:07:09 pm
Man you have had a shit time street budgie. No pun intended. Well done you for making a stand. Dirty lazy bastards.


Could you and your neighbours who have access to that allyway
get together and put a locked gate up.
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Post by: Streetbudgie on 08 June 2021, 12:49:29 pm
Man you have had a shit time street budgie. No pun intended. Well done you for making a stand. Dirty lazy bastards.


Could you and your neighbours who have access to that allyway
get together and put a locked gate up.
I tried that but out of all the houses that abut the alleyway (it goes down th eside of my house and along th eback of all the others) there was only 2 other households that have an actual garage and discussing it with them it seems that gates were asked about before and the people with no garage who don't use the alleyway objected as they thought they would be denied access in the future.
In our deeds it states that each household is responsible for maintaining the alley along the length of their property but I'm the only one who does it.
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Post by: fazersharp on 08 June 2021, 04:00:01 pm
Man you have had a shit time street budgie. No pun intended. Well done you for making a stand. Dirty lazy bastards.


Could you and your neighbours who have access to that allyway
get together and put a locked gate up.
I tried that but out of all the houses that abut the alleyway (it goes down th eside of my house and along th eback of all the others) there was only 2 other households that have an actual garage and discussing it with them it seems that gates were asked about before and the people with no garage who don't use the alleyway objected as they thought they would be denied access in the future.
In our deeds it states that each household is responsible for maintaining the alley along the length of their property but I'm the only one who does it.

If I was a neighbour I would want a gate to stop scumbags using it as an entry to my garden/ back of the house.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 June 2021, 10:21:32 am
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Post by: mtread on 09 June 2021, 10:42:05 am
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Even The Queen's been cancelled by the warriors of woke now

And the populist dictatorship tells you what you can and cannot do on your own premises  :rolleyes
That's after they've finished picking the England cricket team of course....
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 June 2021, 10:48:30 am
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Post by: mtread on 09 June 2021, 11:09:37 am
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And that statue in Bristol wasn't their property, but it didn't stop them tearing it down without consulting the owners did it
The elected Mayor seems quite happy with the outcome  :)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 June 2021, 11:39:54 am
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Post by: mtread on 09 June 2021, 12:26:53 pm
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I wouldn't recommend they rely on that defence when they're next due in court on charges of criminal damage

Speaking of criminals..... :)


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/covid-contract-for-firm-run-by-cummings-friends-was-unlawful-judge-rules (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/covid-contract-for-firm-run-by-cummings-friends-was-unlawful-judge-rules)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 09 June 2021, 01:40:56 pm
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Post by: Grahamm on 09 June 2021, 08:02:22 pm
Even The Queen's been cancelled by the warriors of woke now :rolleyes

Students decide to change the decorations in their Common Room: Headline news that everyone piles in on.

Oh, and the Government was found to have broken the law by giving COVID-19 contracts to their mates, but that's not important...
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Post by: mtread on 09 June 2021, 11:39:09 pm
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I was going to remind you it says 'No Politics', but BLM is a political movement isn't it, so I won't

While busy picking the England cricket team, government has nothing at all to say about fans booing the England football team.
One is news, the other obviously isn't.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 05:58:10 am
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 06:02:35 am
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Post by: mtread on 10 June 2021, 09:23:12 am
What a strange question to ask a retired law enforcement officer  :rolleyes
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 09:47:22 am
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Post by: mtread on 10 June 2021, 10:00:38 am
Obviously it's a no :rolleyes


It's the government that break the law. Perhaps the police should start with them


Score so far. Good Law Project 2 Government 0  :)
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Post by: Grahamm on 10 June 2021, 10:03:40 am
Yes it's a bit like all that fuss there was about the size of the Union Jack flags that government ministers have in the background during interviews isn't it?.

Just another Dead Cat to distract people from paying attention to the important stuff :(
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 10:13:22 am
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 10:16:23 am
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Post by: Grahamm on 10 June 2021, 05:52:11 pm
Eh?. It was that ultra-woke BBC news presenter who set that one off when she took the mickey out of the Union Jack behind Robert Jenrick wasn't it?. 
Within minutes the Twitter mob were having a field day and it was all over the papers :rolleyes

Having flags behind you any time you're on TV is an American thing to show how "patriotic" someone is. Jenrick decided to "make a statement" and deservedly got the piss taken out of him.

Of course the "anti-woke" brigade (nb "woke" is pretty much now a term only used by the political right to deride anyone who points out their hypocrisy, cf "cancel culture") immediately used this as an excuse to whip up a media frenzy over a trivial issue because, of course, that would distract people from the serious issues that are affecting this country that Jenrick and co are responsible for.

So, whether or not it was a deliberate Dead Cat, it certainly became one because the Tories then decided to up the ante by declaring that *all* Government buildings should fly the Union Flag *every day*, something which has never been considered necessary before now.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 07:18:17 pm
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Post by: agricola on 10 June 2021, 08:49:58 pm
I'm really focced off with all the fuss over historical comments, suddnely dug up and brought to the fore. I'll wager theres not a manjack amongst us thats not made some sort of comment in the past that may now be considered to be offensive to/by any number of other sections of the community, be they multi gender/black/non white/left handed/gay/disabled/bmw audi drivers and on and on and on. I know I have
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Post by: YamFazFan on 10 June 2021, 09:38:21 pm
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Post by: mtread on 11 June 2021, 12:23:39 am
I think there's a difference between having flags (EU or UK) behind you at an official function on government premises, and having whopping Union Jacks behind you during a Zoom interview in your converted loft space :lol
Yes the flag shaggers rightly deserve the piss taken
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Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2021, 12:38:27 am
I assume you apply the same set of principles to the EU flag then?.

Oh dear.

There's a difference between someone appearing at a government/ EU press conference and sticking a bloody great flag behind them in their home just to show how "patriotic" they are.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 04:11:30 am
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 09:04:09 am
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Post by: fazersharp on 11 June 2021, 09:22:15 am

Yes the flag shaggers
I find this trope perticually offensive. And find it perticually odd thing to say by someone who was paid by and continues to be paid by the crown.
 The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
 
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 10:00:47 am
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Post by: mtread on 11 June 2021, 10:15:00 am
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I find this trope perticually offensive. And find it perticually odd thing to say by someone who was paid by and continues to be paid by the crown.
I find lots of things offensive, and who I'm paid by is none of your business  :finger
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Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2021, 12:18:46 pm
Hang on, you said 'having flags behind you any time you're on TV' earlier.

Yes, *any* time, not simply when it's appropriate, but ANY TIME!

I trust that's clear now, but please enjoy some more pedantic nit-picking if it makes you feel better.

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Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2021, 12:20:31 pm
The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.

"Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.
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Post by: fazersharp on 11 June 2021, 12:59:02 pm
The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.

"Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson ---himself a politically committed Tory. So you now agree with the Right.
Left leg in  :guitar left leg out  :guitar 
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Post by: mtread on 11 June 2021, 01:32:46 pm
'Patriotism' is nothing to do with being left or right. The highest levels exist in communist North Korea.
It's the pathetic wing of the far right who think that every judge who rules against the government, every lawyer who brings them to court, in fact all of the 48% who voted against Brexit, is an '' enemy of the people ''.
That's not patriotism, that's tyranny.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 02:01:03 pm
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Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2021, 03:50:29 pm
Samuel Johnson ---himself a politically committed Tory. So you now agree with the Right.

"Johnson was a devout, conservative Anglican and a compassionate man who supported a number of poor friends under his own roof, even when unable to fully provide for himself." Bate 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson#CITEREFBate1955)

If more right wingers behaved like Johnson by giving a damn about others poorer than themselves, I might be more amenable to agreeing with them.

Oh and, PS, since this is getting political, I'll leave you to get the last word in (again).
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 04:11:51 pm
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Post by: mtread on 11 June 2021, 04:47:20 pm
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Ordinary working class folk who enjoy getting out the Union Jack bunting on The Queen's Jubilee and having a good old knees-up with their neighbours whilst singing God Save The Queen don't want to hear all that student union debating society bollox though do they?
You lot really have lost touch with base haven't you.
You've insulted one half of your electorate by branding them a load of racist bigots, and then sit there all puzzled and het-up because they've gone over to the other side.

It's not about the 'flag'. It's about how it's used. I've got several on my Triumphs, and are quite proud of them :)
I'd find it very difficult to insult half of the electorate. That's all in your imagination. Or more likely, the usual ultra right baiting trap
So like Graham, I'll duck out of this 'political' shitstorm, and leave the last word to you....... again  :D
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Post by: fazersharp on 11 June 2021, 05:32:24 pm
What gets my goat is when people say "re double our efforts" when they were not doubled in the first place so how can they be re doubled.
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 05:33:21 pm
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 05:37:27 pm
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 05:38:25 pm
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 05:42:18 pm
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Post by: agricola on 11 June 2021, 08:42:30 pm

I believe that the offence of failing to pick and and dispose appropriately of dog crap comes under the control of the local authority, many have specific Dog Wardens to deal with the problem. Try contacting them


That doesn't apply to cats also does it?. I'm sick of other people's pussy's dumping in my garden :'(




Sadly, no it doesn't, we have the same problem with them here. Oh, and foccin Wood Pigeons shitting everywhere, absolutely everywhere. In the bird bath, on the patio table and chairs, the pavements under most lamp posts, telegraph poles and trees are covered in the stuff, and I believe it can pass a virus onto humans. They appear to have vacated the woods and become Street Pigeons. I started shooting them some years back (along with the grey tree rats) but shot that many I was having trouble disposing of all the bodies
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 08:57:54 pm
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Post by: Grahamm on 11 June 2021, 09:51:18 pm
...just waiting for someone to mention Spinal Tap :guitar

I heard a story once (it might be apocryphal) that it was actually based on real life.

If you were playing alongside Lemmy from Motorhead, it didn't matter what guitar and amp you had, somehow he was *always* louder, so apparently the joke was that your amp might go up to 10, but his went up to 11 !
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Post by: mtread on 11 June 2021, 10:12:50 pm
Did you read that the reintroduction of pine martens is culling grey squirrels? Red squirrels are genetically aware that pine martens are to be avoided, but the grey has no prior knowledge
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Post by: YamFazFan on 11 June 2021, 11:04:02 pm
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Post by: robbo on 12 June 2021, 07:39:28 am
Motörhead headlined the first Bol d’Or at Magny Cours in 2000. Yep, they were loud :lol :thumbup
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Post by: mtread on 12 June 2021, 01:07:26 pm
Birds currently nesting in my chimney pot. If you thought Motorhead were loud and irritating.....  ;)
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Post by: mtread on 12 June 2021, 10:10:52 pm
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One of the most genuine rock stars that ever lived
As someone whose teenage listening included Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, Motorhead were.... so so
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Post by: YamFazFan on 12 June 2021, 10:47:11 pm
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Post by: mtread on 12 June 2021, 11:50:49 pm
Was he? That explains a lot.
Never was a fan of that 'prog rock' stuff
It had to be the blues  :)
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Post by: YamFazFan on 13 June 2021, 07:36:42 am
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Post by: agricola on 13 June 2021, 08:03:56 am
Did you read that the reintroduction of pine martens is culling grey squirrels? Red squirrels are genetically aware that pine martens are to be avoided, but the grey has no prior knowledge


No I didn't. But that could the case. I recall on holiday on the Scilly Isles perhaps 10 years ago, sat on a beach eating a picnic, a song thrush suddenly appeared right next to, then jumped onto my hand and started to eat whatever it was I was holding. The wife sprinkled a few crumbs onto my other palm, and the bird swapped hands and tucked in. The same happened with some House Sparrows. Apparently, its common there, because the birds have no natural predator on the islands
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Post by: agricola on 06 October 2021, 04:57:19 pm
Turn 70 towards the end of this year, so the DVLA has notified me that I need to renew my licence. You can do it easily on line, but if you wish to retain all of your categories, then you need to send off for the forms. Renewing on line means you loose C1 and D1 entitlement. That means a medical examination and an eye test in order for those two to be able to sign the forms. The Opticians charged me £10 for the privilege, the Doctor is charging £180  :eek
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Post by: robbo on 06 October 2021, 05:45:40 pm
£180 for your medical isn’t bad. Mine was going to be £250 :eek  , and that was 5 years ago. Needless to say I don’t have those categories anymore.
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Post by: agricola on 26 November 2021, 08:27:46 pm
Its the daftest things that set me off.

Guardian new item: French Fishers blockade ports.

Sky News item: French Fishermen blockade ports.

A batsman has become a batter, no doubt Third Man has disappeared too, and no one will be bowling a Chinaman anytime soon I'd guess. Will Humans just become Hu, and how long before some jobsworth asks me how I identify?
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Post by: mtread on 26 November 2021, 11:20:15 pm
Because the Guardian report includes Fisherwomen, and the Sky one doesn't?  :b
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Post by: Captain Haddock on 27 November 2021, 02:14:25 pm
And there's only one name for a fisherwoman, Annette.  :)
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Post by: mtread on 27 November 2021, 03:07:17 pm
 :lol


.…. who's married to Rod.
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Post by: Captain Haddock on 28 November 2021, 10:47:24 am
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who's married to Rod.
Only when the viagra kicks in.