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.
I used to not give a foc, then I discovered Red Bull and now I don't give a flying foc !!!
(26-11-17, 12:20 PM)DILLIGAFF link Wrote: 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.
27-11-17, 01:14 PM (This post was last modified: 27-11-17, 01:15 PM by tommyardin.)
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.
"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.
Treat everything in life the way a dog would- if you can't eat it or foc it, forget it.
"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.
Those are my principles...if you don't like them I have others.
(27-11-17, 06:47 PM)Frosties link Wrote: "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
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
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(25-11-17, 08:36 AM)bludclot link Wrote: 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.
(28-11-17, 11:23 PM)Grahamm link Wrote: [quote author=bludclot link=topic=17546.msg271632#msg271632 date=1511595383]
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.
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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?.
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?.
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.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(29-11-17, 10:32 AM)fazersharp link Wrote: 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
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
(29-11-17, 11:12 AM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg271775#msg271775 date=1511947921]
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
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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
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.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
(30-11-17, 08:38 AM)YamFazFan link Wrote: 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.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
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.
(30-11-17, 05:30 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: 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
