Harry Gates
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Where good footwork comes in.
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Really minor annoyances
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BiG
Winger
Ah. We’re doing swimming pool etiquette now. I could chunter meaninglessly about this for hours.
My wife and I frequent a golf club pool, which is all that’s available nearby but is great because it also has a gym and a great cafe and guest passes for family members are often available. If only I played golf it’d be perfect. There’s a sauna, a steam room and a jacuzzi anarl
The pool attendance is typically retiree apart from the pre-workday youngsters in their 40s
I’m not exactly a human torpedo in the water and I avoid the fast lane. But it’s a single depth pool which can accommodate the schedule for aquarobics and kiddies sessions too
But the chatty walking up and down brigade are a minor annoyance. I attended later that I normally do one day and discovered that the post-nine-o-clock (coz it’s cheaper) brigade congregate in larger groups than the two or three chatters who stroll up and down when I’m usually in.
They are just as oblivious to the space they’re filling but it’s like a wall of flesh and liver spots trundling towards you that you to weave your way around.
The bloke swimming in the fast lane next to me referred to them as ‘the white walkers’ in the locker room afterwards.
My wife and I frequent a golf club pool, which is all that’s available nearby but is great because it also has a gym and a great cafe and guest passes for family members are often available. If only I played golf it’d be perfect. There’s a sauna, a steam room and a jacuzzi anarl
The pool attendance is typically retiree apart from the pre-workday youngsters in their 40s
I’m not exactly a human torpedo in the water and I avoid the fast lane. But it’s a single depth pool which can accommodate the schedule for aquarobics and kiddies sessions too
But the chatty walking up and down brigade are a minor annoyance. I attended later that I normally do one day and discovered that the post-nine-o-clock (coz it’s cheaper) brigade congregate in larger groups than the two or three chatters who stroll up and down when I’m usually in.
They are just as oblivious to the space they’re filling but it’s like a wall of flesh and liver spots trundling towards you that you to weave your way around.
The bloke swimming in the fast lane next to me referred to them as ‘the white walkers’ in the locker room afterwards.
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BMX Bandit
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When a rug corner went go flat
Ageing Grey Mackem
Striker
I live in Wokingham where lots of groups of people come for pub crawls as there's a ton of decent boozers in a small town, where you can do a loop from the (crap) station pub, around town and back in an afternoon / evening. As a result, you can frequently observe groups of twats staggering about in golfing outfits or worse, as they go from pub to pub.
We moved last week, finally, getting away from our scumbag neighbour Natalie. She had SO many kids it was hard to keep track, and her eldest daughter (16) had also knocked her first evil spawn out too. Their most recent kids were Rayleigh, which as far as I recall is a shit town in Essex, Ivory and Navy. I'm wondering if she found a Dulux colour chart in a skip and was just stabbing her fat finger at it blindly every time she got knocked up and didn't have the mental agility to think of a proper name.
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I nearly got knocked over on the zebra crossing in Sainsburys Washington car park last week as someone floored it down the car park. I had to jump back out the way and the trolley man came over to make sure I was ok.
My neighbour does that. She doesn't work and has all week to mow the lawn, but she does it at 8am on a Saturday morning.
It makes me want to shout "f off, I'm having a leisurely coffee" over the fence, but I just sit and seethe instead.
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Ageing Grey Mackem
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Reminds me of when we had some lovely and far-away living relatives up the first time we were able after lockdown all finished. We were sat out under our nice pergola thing and just opened up the first bottle and settled in for a relaxing evening, and the bloke over the back decided that was the time to fire up his belt sander. Not during the months of isolation and solitude, oh no, he HAD to sand his f***ing door frame or whatever it was on a balmy evening when everyone was emerging, blinking out of the social desert. Wanker.
seahamstar
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Yes, As a non-swimmer i feel so blessed
BMX Bandit
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Threads being pulled
seahamstar
Striker
The dogs on beaches thread?
Aye i was enjoying the differing 'points of view', which (as an owner of multiple dogs) i could see both sides of it.
Select coaches
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When the wife buys posh new carpets and now none of the bedroom doors open properly with out putting your shoulder out.
BMX Bandit
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Aye what a minor annoyance.
Surely somebody in the household was a teeny weeny bit suspicious about clearance? I was fortunate to already have an electric planer when I did the same.
Hawkings Boots
Striker
Its the British way
I've nearly knocked over a few times in the Wessington Way Sainsbury's, each time by a speeding elderly driver with tunnel vision in a massive car, looking to the side for a space.
Georgewhitt
Winger
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Geras
Midfield
The new build estate 5.00 rush . 30 somethings in leased BMWs tearing home from work around the estates, no give way as if their life depended on being in for 5.15 . Soft sods dont seem to recognise theyre full of kids
Also the 9.00 saturday morning rush , same lot tearing around to get kids to football or swimming, do the big shop etc
Leisure centre car parks 9.00 am saturday and Sunday have to be the most dangerous places on the roads outside Mumbai as Emma gets Harry to swimming 5 mins late in the Kia suv ,
Also the 9.00 saturday morning rush , same lot tearing around to get kids to football or swimming, do the big shop etc
Leisure centre car parks 9.00 am saturday and Sunday have to be the most dangerous places on the roads outside Mumbai as Emma gets Harry to swimming 5 mins late in the Kia suv ,
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DaveH
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I remember being at the Tesco at the north end of York on a zebra crossing and on the little 15mph exit road, a big range rover came tearing around the corner. We were half way across the zebra crossing and he sped up horn blearing aiming straight for us, doing about 40. We jumped back and I put my hands out in a wtf gesture. He responded with the Vs and a wanker sign. His wife and young daughters were in the car.
We continued across the way to the other bit of the retail park to Argos and noticed this car that was in such a hurry was parked outside. When we were in the long slow queue I suddenly realised he was in front. He was a little fat bloke, about 5”6 and premature balding. The rage and range rover was clearly compensation. I towered over him,so started talking loudly about the incident, saying things like it is funny people being so hard in a car but would never challenge anyone my size face to face. The bloke stood visibly shaking and practically ran out the store when his stuff arrived. I smiled nicely at him.
Top notch passive aggressive behaviour. I'd do it myself after seeing this as I am shite at directly resolving things, but I don't really tower over anybody
Making enough food in the evening so you have leftovers to take to graft. And then forgetting it the next morning.
I do this every time without fail.
I do this every time without fail.
