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Really minor annoyances

DaveH said:
Swimming pools really annoy me for that. I like swimming but it always ends up being a pain in the arse.

I do breast stroke and I'm fairly quick, but not fast enough to go in the fast lane with the people doing front crawl at speed. We have a slow lane for the people just hoping to drift on the current and then the anything goes lane, which includes people who swim side by side, not wanting to get their hairdo wet chatting as they go. Usually the really slow ones, for some reason don't swim right to the ends, so you can't hope to overtake them on the turn.

Worse was the pool near where I used to work. They used to rope off all but one lane every lunch time for pensioner aquarobics. Those sessions didn't used to use more than half the pool so there was just a lot of wasted space and all lane swimmers crammed into one lane. Everyone had to go the speed of the slowest. I was only going for fitness when I had a couple of broken bones and swimming was all I could do, but I give it up as a waste of time. I don't know why they didn't do the sessions either side of lunch.

All I want is to be able to go to a pool and swim at a medium/fast pace. Not tread water behind a really slow person. I've not found a way to do that in years.
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There's absolutely no difference between the slow and medium lanes at any pool I've ever been to .

I swim front crawl at a decent pace but there's always some semi-pro swimmer in their breaking world records in the fast lane.

But the medium lane is just owl biddies barely moving . There's no in-between.

I just wish the life guards would police it a bit better. If you've got time to talk as you swim, then your not meant to be in the medium lane
 

tunstallhill said:
There's absolutely no difference between the slow and medium lanes at any pool I've ever been to .

I swim front crawl at a decent pace but there's always some semi-pro swimmer in their breaking world records in the fast lane.

But the medium lane is just owl biddies barely moving . There's no in-between.

I just wish the life guards would police it a bit better. If you've got time to talk as you swim, then your not meant to be in the medium lane
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There was one fairly quiet pool near where I worked for a year when I was 20, and they had 4 wide lanes, slow, medium slow, medium fast and fast. All the pools I have been to have space to do that, but it is the only one that does.

That was great, me and a couple of mates would go in the medium fast lane and be able to knock out 64 lengths well within an hour lunch break, which works out as about a mile. People used to stick to the lanes appropriate to their speed.

My local pool has a high dive board and is 3m deep. Some slow women got the arse with me one day because I was stuck behind their weekly float, so with about a third to go, I just dived down, swam well underneath, turned and came up again about half way down the pool well ahead and it took a few more lengths before I was back behind them again and I repeated. They couldn't say why it was wrong, but it was apparently wrong.
 
People driving at about 15+ miles an hour in a rammed supermarket car park. A few times, I've had to slowly edge out with limited visibility due to being parked next to a van and some daft twat has come flying past. Not a minor annoyance though, it really pisses me off and I usually feel like hunting them down and ramming them off the road.
 
I was gonna say you could do a whole thread about the gym / exercising but it looks like thread has morphed into it.
I built a gym in our garage so I no longer have to deal with that shite but the worst for me was women thinking the bench press bench was a convenient place to put their phone, water bottle, all-important chap stick, towel, sunglasses etc, while they were nattering on to their mate, and then try to give you the stink eye when you ask them to move it all.
 
VenisonsMullet said:
People who cannot use the English language correctly.

Listened to podcast yesterday where Malcolm Crosby talked about how Denis Smith installed confidence in the team. Malcolm, you're not a windows PC, you get things instilled in you.
On a call right now where the speaker asked people to ear on the side of caution. 'sake man
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My wife has always said "Air on the side of caution". I'm surprised how long i tolerated it before politely pointing out the error.
 
S.S.R.. said:
BBC website constantly posting 'news' stories of some doylum not being able to manage money and whining about it.

Latest was some wet wipe who still lived with his parents and only paid them £160 a month, complaining he lived paycheck to paycheck. What's the worst that's going to happen, you adult child, you have to not buy the Funko Pop you wanted that month?

Flow chart:

Do you have enough money? No

Do you work 40hrs a week? No

Is there anything stopping you working 40hrs a week? No

Well either graft like the rest of us or take a long tall drink of 'shut the fuck up' juice. Keep your failure to yourself.
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Completely wrong

Read that yesterday.

He's a teaching assistant looking for a different career because he's on minimum wage almost and he wants to move in with his partner

Highlighting how hard it is for young people and how we'll lose people from working in areas like eduation

Anyone who doesn’t recognise that is seriously out of touch

Your post doesnt surprise me given that many older people exist in a bubble and couldn't give a toss about younger generations so long as they're alright

All that being a minor annoyance on a forum like this
 
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AmblerThorn said:
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Completely wrong

Read that yesterday.

He's a teaching assistant looking for a different career because he's on minimum wage almost and he wants to move in with his partner

Highlighting how hard it is for young people and how we'll lose people from working in areas like eduation

Anyone who doesn’t recognise that is seriously out of touch

Your post doesnt surprise me given that many older people exist in a bubble and couldn't give a toss about younger generations so long as they're alright

All that being a minor annoyance on a forum like this
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He spends £500 a month on a car. 😆

Imagine giving your folks buttons then doing that. Id be ashamed.
 
Becs said:
Used to get irritated at the gym by women on the treadmill who had it on walking pace so they could have a natter to each other while they were exercising.

Also women in the pool who alternate between swimming slow widths and standing nattering in the middle of the pool.

Probably went home thinking they'd done a great workout when they probably burned about 2 calories.
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That's reminded me, last Saturday night, may have been Wed night, me and her get on the Metro and sit in one of the 3er side seats. 4 women get on at the next stop. One sits next to me, and three are opposite. Wearing almost nothing. I've never been in such close proximity to so much, in your face, attractive female flesh since, ever. My wife says, is that a bit distracting ? It was okay for her, but it's not easy to not look at stuff like that.
That was a tad annoying.
 
S.S.R.. said:
He spends £500 a month on a car. 😆

Imagine giving your folks buttons then doing that. Id be ashamed.
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It was costing that much to run (fuel, insurance, hire purchase payments?) and was a necessity for him in terms of his job. Not sure what you’d want him to do.
 
Tex said:
I was gonna say you could do a whole thread about the gym / exercising but it looks like thread has morphed into it.
I built a gym in our garage so I no longer have to deal with that shite but the worst for me was women thinking the bench press bench was a convenient place to put their phone, water bottle, all-important chap stick, towel, sunglasses etc, while they were nattering on to their mate, and then try to give you the stink eye when you ask them to move it all.
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There is one in the fitness forum . Gym annoyances .
 
Going in a pub toilet with no urinals and only one toilet and someone has put the seat down meaning you have to touch the pissy seat to lift it up.
 
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