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Really minor annoyances


Infinite Loop said:
Putting LETS GO on the SOL scoreboards before kick off. Who or what lets go? Where's the feckin' apostrophe?
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better off putting it on at 80 minutes.
DaveH said:
Or just drivers who are pointlessly aggressive.

I dropped my daughter off in the local high street last night, and pulled into a little dropping off area that is only wide enough for half the car. Dropped her off, and started signalling to pull out. Given the cars had to pull round me, I expected to be let out pretty quickly, but the first two cars did not. The third one was way down the street so I started to pull out. For having dared pull out in front of him, he roared up to me, lights flashing and still tried to rapidly overtake while by that time I had pulled out and was already doing 20 (it is a 20) limit. They nearly hit a parked car on the other side of the road and then continued to drive right in my bumper until I turned off a different way.

Given they were 100 yards back when I started to pull out, if they had just stayed driving as they were, it would have made zero difference to their life. He must have floored it to catch up and the roar of the engine made pedestrians turn to look.

Some people get a kick out of being a wanker I guess.
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what do you drive, a hummer?
 
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humbug said:
better off putting it on at 80 minutes.

what do you drive, a hummer?
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An ordinary family car, it is just the road widens slightly by a meter or so to allow some parking drop off but the street is not wide enough to have cars completely off the road.
 
DaveH said:
An ordinary family car, it is just the road widens slightly by a meter or so to allow some parking drop off but the street is not wide enough to have cars completely off the road.
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not arguing or anything but it sounds as though it's just a main road really. are there any markings for this drop off area?
there's a road near where i work where this happens and consistently causes problems with people dropping others off and it causes a fair bit of disruption.

edit, i'm just playing devils advocate btw, and we live in the uk so it's metre not meter.
 
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When you park your car to quickly nip into the shops to come out to find some fucker has parked right next to you, despite the car park being more or less empty.
 
humbug said:
not arguing or anything but it sounds as though it's just a main road really. are there any markings for this drop off area?
there's a road near where i work where this happens and consistently causes problems with people dropping others off and it causes a fair bit of disruption.

edit, i'm just playing devils advocate btw, and we live in the uk so it's metre not meter.
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I will take you a photo next time I am in town.
 
DaveH said:
There are two places near me where it really annoys me. One is pulling out at the t-junction on the main road and it is usually busy. You sit waiting for a gap, but there is a car coming. Then it slows down and you are tempted but if it is going straight on you will cause an accident. Eventually it turns in and half way though the turn the indicators click on. People don't know that an indicator is to indicate what you are about to do, not show what you are doing when it is obvious anyway.

Every time that happens, I could have been out but by the time you know they are not going to be a problem for you, there is other traffic.

The other is a t-junction where I cross the road to the local field with the dog. Almost everyone who comes up and turns right down the road just before I cross, doesn't bother indicating. You stand and wait looking right at them as they come up the road, and in they turn. I must see that at least 4 mornings per week.
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People who turn right into a junction and cross the centre line to do so. Then look at you weird if you protest as you might have hit them if you were going any faster.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
When I'm trying to use phone contactless to pass through public transport ticket barriers in rush hour and Google Pay does that f***ing moronic "verify that it's you" thing while a queue develops behind me and and I've no idea how much I'll be charged now that I've placed my payment method on the reader 12 f***ing times
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Frustrates me when I’m visiting London and get to the barriers, only to realise I’ve left my Oyster card back in the north east and have to go to the ticket machine.
 
People joining motorways assuming you've moved over to let them on. Even moreso when the junction they're coming on at is already a lane on the motorway so they don't need to actually join as such.

I had someone come on at Chester Le Street northbound last night almost drive straight into me. Nob.

Cool story bro. Niki Lauda to play me in the film.
 
HABA87 said:
People joining motorways assuming you've moved over to let them on. Even moreso when the junction they're coming on at is already a lane on the motorway so they don't need to actually join as such.

I had someone come on at Chester Le Street northbound last night almost drive straight into me. Nob.

Cool story bro. Niki Lauda to play me in the film.
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That junction has different rules. If you're joining northbound & you need to be in the next 2 lanes or, god forbid, the A194, you're entitled to head straight across. It doesn't matter if there's other traffic or you might even cause an accident, joining without checking mirrors, forcing everyone else to take avoiding action is actually de rigeur. Anything else would be silly...
 
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