Really minor annoyances

[glendvd100]

Yeah, if I try to do it the accepted way I just can't get through it

mad that isn't it how the brain works.

 

[DaveH]

This isn’t a minor annoyance but I don’t know where else to put it.

Driving in North Yorkshire. Sign says “Road Ahead Closed”. By which time we’re already on the road. We’re not alone. Cars going in both directions. We’re travelling down this road for a short distance before turning off. But there is no indication of how far up the road it is closed. Still cars moving in both directions. No diversion signs.

So we keep going in the hope that our junction is one that appears before the road is closed. There actually ARE junctions on the road as we drive down it but none are marked ‘diversion’. Presumably this is where some of the cars going in the opposite direction originate.

Along with about four other cars we keep going until we actually see where the road is actually closed. Then we all do three point turns.

We drive to the small town where we originally saw the first ‘road closed’ sign. Pull over, look on the map for an alternative route. Drive to the road where such a route starts and just along that road we see a ‘diversion’ sign. It’s totally invisible and well distant from anyone approaching the junction with the ‘road closed’ sign on it

I rant for five minutes because no matter what government is in charge, no matter who leads the council, no matter who is in charge of the road repairs, no matter who manages the road repair gang, there’ll always be some numpty who hasn’t got a scooby where a sign should be placed.

Same here, major annoyance.

Road Ahead Closed means that at some point either the road you are on or a turn off somewhere in that rough direction might be closed. It should always say where the road is closed, it is just incomplete information. I've had the same as you so many times. Worse when it is a turn off somewhere that is closed because the signs are on a major road and it doesn't affect 90% of the traffic.

 

[Mousehold Mackem]

People who give you their mobile number in the wrong format when they say it, like, 0765 521 8973, absolute idiots of the highest order.

Is there a right format? Asking for a friend.

Having to keep an eye for out for mindless zombies bumping into you because they are absorbed in their phones.

And people on bikes absorbed by thier phones

 

[Tex]

mad that isn't it how the brain works.

Phone numbers always used to be read out XXX XXX XXXX

Then mobiles came out with a four digit prefix and buggered all that up.

Over here land lines and mobiles still have a 3 digit prefix so all phone numbers are written and read out in the 3 - 3 - 4 manner above. Which is how it should be.

 

[humbug]

Phone numbers always used to be read out XXX XXX XXXX

Then mobiles came out with a four digit prefix and buggered all that up.

Over here land lines and mobiles still have a 3 digit prefix so all phone numbers are written and read out in the 3 - 3 - 4 manner above. Which is how it should be.

the first 'phone number i remember was thornley 859. simpler days.

 

[Snugster]

Not minor and it has just happened so I need to vent:

Settling down late afternoon for a couple of quiet pints in my local (Plough, Cramlington).
Into my second pint when all of a sudden somebody ramps up the TV volume/Changes channels and the place becomes infested with twunts wearing B&W shirts.
So I've left and am back home now.

 

[glendvd100]

Is there a right format? Asking for a friend.


And people on bikes absorbed by thier phones

5 then 6. Standard.

 

[chriswallace85]

Thick people who don't know where anywhere is making the excuse that they weren't good at or didn't do geography in school.

Geography had absolutely frig all to do with where anywhere is. It was all bloody long shore drift, cloud formations, glaciation and the various types of precipitation.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

People who give you their mobile number in the wrong format when they say it, like, 0765 521 8973, absolute idiots of the highest order.

Didn't know there was a correct format, but that way sounds plausible to me.
I will now do it that way just to noise up pricks who think it's the wrong way.

Yeah, if I try to do it the accepted way I just can't get through it

What is this "accepted way" marra?

 

[glendvd100]

Didn't know there was a correct format, but that way sounds plausible to me.
I will now do it that way just to noise up pricks who think it's the wrong way.

You’ll just end up confusing yourself.

Didn't know there was a correct format, but that way sounds plausible to me.
I will now do it that way just to noise up pricks who think it's the wrong way.

What is this "accepted way" marra?

5 and 6.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

5 and 6.

And whom has decreed that this is the accepted way?
Just asking for a friend.

 

[glendvd100]

And whom has decreed that this is the accepted way?
Just asking for a friend.

My head.

 

[ned_werby]

Thick people who don't know where anywhere is making the excuse that they weren't good at or didn't do geography in school.

Geography had absolutely frig all to do with where anywhere is. It was all bloody long shore drift, cloud formations, glaciation and the various types of precipitation.

Loved geography at school. And history for that matter.

 

[glendvd100]

My head.

I’m guessing most the minor annoyances in here are 1 person being annoyed, and not an entire movement joining forces to make 1 post on smb.

 

[HoxtonMackem]

People who constantly switch lanes in traffic jams and thereby actually make the jams last longer

And single walkers who somehow manage to still block a 10 foot wide path walking in zigzags along the middle of it

Boils my **** that. Especially when they weave across lanes last second at a junction, joining the shortest queue of traffic at lights as if it's going to result in a substantial saving of time. Usually doesn't.

Also - drivers who don't realise that they don't have right of way whilst on a slip road joining a dual carriageway / A road / motorway. Amount of braindead simpletons who just brazenly pull onto the road not realising that they don't have right of way is infuriating. Also dangerous as ****, especially on sections of the A1 down lincolnshire/nottinghamshire with those very short entry sliproads. Genuinely needs to be a public awareness campaign to remind people of it. Amount of near misses I've seen over the last few years is frightening. Such a basic yet forgotten rule.

 

[glendvd100]

Also the internet says.

 

[BiG]

Thick people who don't know where anywhere is making the excuse that they weren't good at or didn't do geography in school.

Geography had absolutely frig all to do with where anywhere is. It was all bloody long shore drift, cloud formations, glaciation and the various types of precipitation.

Not in 1965 at Annfield Plain Secondary Modern School it wasn’t. It’s about the Wheatfields of Canada, the Gauchos and Pampas of Argentina and memorising the capital cities of South America.

Similarly if you were born, like me, 10 years after the end of the war, WW2 wasn’t ’History’. It was usually a film on a Saturday afternoon or something your Dad or Grandad told you about.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

Landline numbers are 11 digits, as are mobile numbers so if you were quoting a landline number from our region would you say 0191X-XXX-XXX ? Almost certainly not

I would say 0191-XXX-XXXX and the same format for mobiles. And yeah, I know some regions have five-digit STD codes in which case I'd adopt that method.

I remember when the Sunderland STD code was 0783. The house phone landline was then a 6 digit number.
IIRC - the Sunderland STD code was changed to 191 and then onto 0191 in the 80's/90's.

 

[Hawkings Boots]

Boils my **** that. Especially when they weave across lanes last second at a junction, joining the shortest queue of traffic at lights as if it's going to result in a substantial saving of time. Usually doesn't.

Also - drivers who don't realise that they don't have right of way whilst on a slip road joining a dual carriageway / A road / motorway. Amount of braindead simpletons who just brazenly pull onto the road not realising that they don't have right of way is infuriating. Also dangerous as ****, especially on sections of the A1 down lincolnshire/nottinghamshire with those very short entry sliproads. Genuinely needs to be a public awareness campaign to remind people of it. Amount of near misses I've seen over the last few years is frightening. Such a basic yet forgotten rule.

You can add to that people who see a car coming down a slip road and just blindly move over into your lane to let them in without checking or even indicating

Had countless near misses over the years because of people like that

 

[chriswallace85]

Loved geography at school. And history for that matter.

When we had the choice after year 9, I went for geography over history. Not entirely sure why - I think geography was just the more popular choice, especially with the lasses, so I followed suit.

Always wished I'd taken history.

I was good at both but had a greater interest in history.

Mind you, the history teachers were nobs and the geography department much more likeable.

Not in 1965 at Annfield Plain Secondary Modern School it wasn’t. It’s about the Wheatfields of Canada, the Gauchos and Pampas of Argentina and memorising the capital cities of South America.

Similarly if you were born, like me, 10 years after the end of the war, WW2 wasn’t ’History’. It was usually a film on a Saturday afternoon or something your Dad or Grandad told you about.

Surely 1066, Magna Carta, Thomas Beckett, Ollie Cromwell and the English Civil War was though?

And wharrabout the Industrial Revolution?