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Really minor annoyances


ned_werby said:
People who start a thread, post some inanity and end it with "discuss".
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But never give their opinion in the entire thread, often they will not contribute further to it..

Similarly people who jump on a thread about a band, tv show, film, etc and just say something like "that is shit, only wrong uns like that", but will never state what they are into, afraid someone might say similar about them.
Copacabana said:
Drivers that can barely see over the steering wheel but obviously refuse to raise the height of the seat !!
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Usually someone tiny in a massive SUV.
 
DaveH said:
But never give their opinion in the entire thread, often they will not contribute further to it..

Similarly people who jump on a thread about a band, tv show, film, etc and just say something like "that is shit, only wrong uns like that", but will never state what they are into, afraid someone might say similar about them.

Usually someone tiny in a massive SUV.
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Hew! Leave our lass out of this!😁
 
watching the council gardeners outside cutting the grass and the blades must be far too low so it''s basically down to the soil. bloody wimmen drivers.
i'm not a gardener mind so perhaps that's how they do it.
 
humbug said:
watching the council gardeners outside cutting the grass and the blades must be far too low so it''s basically down to the soil. bloody wimmen drivers.
i'm not a gardener mind so perhaps that's how they do it.
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Where I used to work, one team would be out with leaf blowers all day shifting leaves into piles. But nobody would come and collect them for days, so it it got windy, they would be back to square one and repeat.

I suppose it kept people in a job.
 
The people on a Place in the Sun

"Well it's everything we want. It's our dream etc. Etc."

We want to offer 20% below asking and won't budge from that
 
Stupid people and unreasonable sales people.

Someone has been badgering to meet me for ages. This week they have been nagging me to meet them on site this afternoon, because they are also meeting other people. It took them a long time to accept that I would not come to site for just them and I have the afternoon off anyway.

Then when I suggested a remote chat on Friday afternoon (except 2pm-2:30), they replied great I'll send an invite for 10am. Is afternoon really that hard to understand?
 
Shouldn't annoy me but it does.

Teens who sit on the ground in random locations at any opportunity, eg in the middle of the pavement, in bus shelters etc.

Stand up you lazy bastards. How dirty are bus shelters, man? Full of hockle and piss and chewing-gum.
 
Went into lidl hylton castle, took longer to get out the carpark than I was in the bastard shop, 3 learners practising their parking ffs, one on each bend. 5pm, busy as owt, small carpark like that, if I was management I'd be kicking them out.
Last time I gan there.
 
marsey said:
Shouldn't annoy me but it does.

Teens who sit on the ground in random locations at any opportunity, eg in the middle of the pavement, in bus shelters etc.

Stand up you lazy bastards. How dirty are bus shelters, man? Full of hockle and piss and chewing-gum.
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I remember some students getting the arse with me and my colleagues, because they were sitting "working" on the floor outside my outwards opening office door. Some were propped up leaning against it. "But you have just left, make your mind up" was said when I returned with a cup of tea. Weird lack of awareness.
 
Hawkings Boots said:
The amount of cyclists that seem to have sprung up that cycle on the road, in the dark, in dark clothes and with no lights on their bikes (yes I have just nearly killed one)
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Not just cyclists, either - in my local area there are loads of teenagers riding electric scooters on the roads in the dark. Dark clothes, no helmet, no lights, and sometimes on a really busy dual carriageway, near where I live. It's only a matter of time before one of them's seriously injured or killed. It worries me every time I see one of them.
 
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Steel_Straight said:
Not just cyclists, either - in my local area there are loads of teenagers riding electric scooters on the roads in the dark. Dark clothes, no helmet, no lights, and sometimes on a really busy dual carriageway, near where I live. It's only a matter of time before one of them's seriously injured or killed. It worries me every time I see one of them.
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Yep and kids who seem to like playing chicken with cars. One day they will pick the car where the driver isn't paying attention/on their phone etc. and be killed
 
Really trivial one for this, and im sure theres a logical reason for it... but

Airport baggage reclaim.
You get to the belt. Its not moving. The siren goes off, the belt moves. No bags appear for 10minutes. The abandoned bag from the previous flight does 5 or 6 loops

Now I get that at a big airport the belt might possibly be that long that it takes 10mins for a bag to travel the length of the belt, but at Newcastle? Or Leeds?

At some airports you can even see through those rubber flaps and see where they put the bags on. its just the other side of the wall! But they still start the belt 10mins before the first bag.
 
Hawkings Boots said:
Yep and kids who seem to like playing chicken with cars. One day they will pick the car where the driver isn't paying attention/on their phone etc. and be killed
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Yep, the trouble is they think they're immortal at that age - "Nothing will happen to me."

When I was at school we used to have a community police officer, who came into school to give us talks on road safety. They used to make it deliberately frightening, by showing us videos of children who'd ended up in hospital after playing chicken, and even interviews with parents whose children had died in road accidents. I don't know if there are any statistics to show how effective that approach was, or if they do anything like that these days, but it certainly worked with me and my mates.
 
Steel_Straight said:
Yep, the trouble is they think they're immortal at that age - "Nothing will happen to me."

When I was at school we used to have a community police officer, who came into school to give us talks on road safety. They used to make it deliberately frightening, by showing us videos of children who'd ended up in hospital after playing chicken, and even interviews with parents whose children had died in road accidents. I don't know if there are any statistics to show how effective that approach was, or if they do anything like that these days, but it certainly worked with me and my mates.
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When I think about it I think we had the police in most terms, to talk about cycling safety, road safety, railway safety, etc. At assemblies

Also had some people come to talk about reservoir dangers. No one ever came to talk about the dangers of quicksand though, which i grew up thinking was a real threat.
 
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