but I now find myself becoming irritated and I don't really know why
Perhaps try a different brand? hth 😀
Then yesterday when they went out they bloody dragged their bin onto the road to reserve their space. Hanging is too good.
Round here the council will chase and/or fine you if your bin is out and it's not bin day.
Though I'd be tempted to just hide the bin.....
Idiot neighbour who a few days ago posted in the streets WhatsApp group asking whose car it was that had been parked outside their house for a couple of days. YOU DON’T OWN THE BIT OF STREET OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE YOU CRETIN.
A long time ago I wanted to park in the road near my work but a householder had put cones the road to prevent people. In a self-righteous strop I moved the cones and parked, and when I got back in the evening I found a note on my car saying that the householder had been unable to park near their house, and had had to carry their disabled child a long way from the car. I felt about one inch tall. I felt even smaller the next day when the householder came out and apologised for leaving a rude note.
DrJ - are you saying you moved the cones the next day as well? 😀
Further to my it's / its ire previously on this thread -
The editor of 10 years of a well known cycling website using it's wrongly twice really wound me up.
The editor of 10 years of a well known cycling website using it's wrongly twice really wound me up.
Also unable to spell Frankenstein, apparently
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe?pli=1
The demise of usenet makes me sad, if not disproportionately cross. UK.rec.cycling was a precursor to STW, and usenet humour had a geeky weirdness all of its own.
Tortoise Media's destruction of the Observer, one of the few remaining reliable newspapers. Tragic.
The editor of 10 years of a well known cycling website using it's wrongly twice really wound me up.
More crossmaking on that photo is the branding on the wheel and the branding on the tyre being the opposite war around from each other.
Signing up for a SIM only deal with European roaming then after a few days on holiday get a text saying you have used 80% of your ‘fair usage’ allowance and you need to buy a data plan for £10.
Oh, I got bitten by that one, Three by any chance? Their roaming charges (at the time, in the US) were the best of the four primary carriers but once you'd bought credit you then had to do something on your account to convert that credit to some sort of add-on. It didn't cost any more (I don't think), but if you didn't do the conversion the standard data allowance was miniscule.
EE @Cougar. Doesn’t tell you what fair usage is but showed I had 166MB of roaming data left out of ? and 47GB of uk data out of 50GB.
Forgetting to do my Wordle and blowing a 182 day winning streak.
Forgetting to do my Wordle and blowing a 182 day winning streak.
I did the very same thing 2 weeks ago blowing a 389-day streak 🙁
Work intranet.
Used to have a somewhat usable site.
Recently redesigned.
Now looks like something a 5 year old would reject.
Idiot neighbour who a few days ago posted in the streets WhatsApp group asking whose car it was that had been parked outside their house for a couple of days. YOU DON’T OWN THE BIT OF STREET OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE YOU CRETIN.
Then yesterday when they went out they bloody dragged their bin onto the road to reserve their space. Hanging is too good.
Help them out by lying their full bin down 😉
but I now find myself becoming irritated and I don't really know why.
Cetirizine works for me
EE @Cougar. Doesn’t tell you what fair usage is but showed I had 166MB of roaming data left out of ? and 47GB of uk data out of 50GB.
That's a bit crap then.
It seems there's various add-ons you can get (log in and we'll tell you) but they don't appear to be particularly cheap even then. £3/500MB within the EU and presumably considerably more outside it.
I'm with Smarty, EU data roaming is free (well, it's part of your regular UK data plan) subject to a 'fair use' policy of 12GB/month. Plus of course my number stays the same, which may or may not be desirable if you're on holiday. 😁
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
When those indicators first came out, I thought "that's unnecessary", but then thought "oh but actually, maybe they do a different pattern for hazards, so that you can tell from just one light whether they're about to pull out, or whether they're just sitting there believing that hazards cancel out double yellows etc." But they don't. That's really dumb.
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
I don't care how they flash as long as people use them. Riding home last night I approached a roundabout and had a funny feeling the car approaching from the opposite side was going to do something daft. He wasn't indicating but went 180 degrees around the roundabout and went back the way he came from. Mouth breather of the highest order.
Yeah, that gets me quite badly here in Sweden. People just do not seem to understand how/why indicators are good, especially on roundabouts.
The worst is the 'token blink' monce they have actually turned off, as though to say "See? I did indicate for this exit!".
The worst is the 'token blink' once they have actually turned off, as though to say "See? I did indicate for this exit!".
I was taught 'Mirror - Signal - Manoeuvre', no doubt like a lot of people on here. These days it's 'Manoeuvre - maybe Mirror - perhaps Signal' if you're lucky. Knobs.
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
I'll expand this to indicators that aren't on the corner of a car.
When processing multiple things as you approach a junction, you want the indicators to be on the corner, not embedded within the light cluster somewhere.
While we're on indicators.
We can all generally relate to how insanely bright and dazzling and poorly aimed modern headlights are. Now modern indicators on the other hand. Current trend seems to be making them the size of pinheads.
So many cars from behind, if they bother indicating at all, their indicators are barely visible.
Seen it on buses too where they have a big circle for the tail light and the indicator surrounds it. Really not easy to see.
I think Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre was replaced by look at mobile, puff on vape, f*ck everyone else.
maybe they do a different pattern for hazards
I've been saying this for years. If a car is pulled over with hazards on, and the near-side indicator is obscured, it would be helpful to other road users if it were clear that they are indicating a hazard, not indicating to pull out.
Despite having lots of clear work surfaces in the kitchen to prepare and serve food on, everyone seems to think it is easier to do it on the gas hob, leaving bits of food and sauce behind. Of course, this is much harder to clean than wiping a surface down. But guess who ends up cleaning the hob every time...
He wasn't indicating but went 180 degrees around the roundabout and went back the way he came from.
<pedant> No he didn't. </pedant>
<pedant> No he didn't. </pedant>
<double pedant> If he got 180deg around the roundabout then *went back the way he came from*, you could argue that he didn't go all the way around in a circle – just did 180deg then doubled-back on himself and came back anti-clockwise </double pedant>
😎
Oh balls, he went 360 degrees didn't he. I was so outraged I forgot how degrees work.
He turned 180 degrees by going 360 degrees.
At this point on a hot afternoon, my brain does not want to think about such things. I feel like it risks melting and running out of my ears.
Anyway, here's mine for the day:
Why??? A few garlics together in a bag I can understand (still annoys me!), but individually wrapped? Not only is it a completely pointless waste of plastic, they're also bloody hard to get into. I had to hunt down the scissors.
The charging LED on my earbud case is the wrong way round - it's static when it's charging then flashes green when it's finished.
People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
FIFTY QUID for a baseball cap?
https://www.slamcity.com/collections/cap?sort_by=price-descending&page=1
What the actual ****? 😯
Looks like I'll be buying a BNWT Carhartt one from Vinted for a tenner.
Hobson's Choice shit like this:
You appear to have missed off an option here. If you can't bring yourselves to include "I don't work in sales, gwan **** yourself and don't ask me again" as an alternative response then a simple "no" button will suffice.
Airport parking charges. Not only did I have to get up at quarter to five this morning to drop wife and daughter off at East Midlands for them to go on a jolly I wasn't invited on, it cost me £6 for the privilege.
Airport parking charges. Not only did I have to get up at quarter to five this morning to drop wife and daughter off at East Midlands for them to go on a jolly I wasn't invited on, it cost me £6 for the privilege.
There is a free option at most airports, although it's probably worth the ££ for P&Q 🙂 https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/airport-drop-off-charges/
"The Venga bus is coming" being today's earworm.
Damn you. Nooooooooooooooooo make it stop
Thinking "christ, there's been a lot of traffic in this thread since I was last here!" before realising that rather than looking at page 88 I was looking at page 1.
Going for an easy "kill or cure" ride yesterday and feeling like it didn't go the way I hoped....
This thread has been going so long I can't remember if this has been done, but FB defaulting to 'most relevant', which is nothing of the sort and hides almost everything you'd like to see.
The Anus driving at 50ish mph on the M25 in lane 3 of 4, who as I passed was clearly looking down at his phone.
He caused a lump of traffic, undertaking, sharp braking, near misses etc, whilst some of that was also poor driving, that utter useless Cyst of a man was the catalyst. I hope he dies early and painfully.
Gavin Emmet’s commentary on TNT’s Moto GP coverage. He’s what my late mum would have called “mouth almighty”. Just. Take. A. ****ing. Breath.
but FB defaulting to 'most relevant', which is nothing of the sort and hides almost everything you'd like to see.
On the web browser bookmark
Dunno about the app, I rarely use it.
Let's try that again.
facebook dot com/?sk=h_chr
This new editor really doesn't want you to paste URLs as unembedded text.
- Tree roots lifting the surface of cycle paths when cycle touring, though I really appreciate trees 🤔
- Bike racks out of sight of cafes but next to where the scrote with his van can get away from quickly
- I’m on a roll, best stop now 😀
"there was literally maybe 20 or 30 cars in the whole car park" (taken from CyB thread)
It's been done to death but literally being thrown about with gay abandon. Literally has no place in that sentence. Stop it please.
Neighbour two doors away filling my green bin when I'd invited my nextdoor neighbour to use it in our absence. She got found out and hopefully will squirm when she politely rolls off the end of my tongue. Kin cheek.
"when she politely rolls off the end of my tongue"
I think I am imagining something very different to you with this sentence.
People who's hobby appears to be moaning about the hobby that they do.
A lot of TDF supporters at the top of the big climbs, muppets.
there was literally maybe 20 or 30 cars in the whole car park
Leaving aside the word 'literally' (not disagreeing, btw) it's the use of the incorrect verb form that makes me cross. Should be 'were' rather than 'was' in this instance, but this problem is becoming increasingly commonplace in Internet journalism too. One example I saw the other day said "...20700 hectares of new woodland was created..." Once you see one example, you realise it's everywhere.
"...20700 hectares of new woodland was created..."
I figure this to be more as a contraction of an area of X hectares was created, but generally agree. The one that bugs me is "may you please". which I'm seeing more and more frequently used as a way to phrase a polite demand.
@wordnumb - yes, in theory, that might be the case for that one, but it's not what the written words actually said. However, I've just found some of my other recent examples:
- "Five van-loads of speakers & equipment was seized from the site" - BBC news article reporting on a rave at a disused quarry in Somerset.
- "A series of focus groups have been arranged to hear..." - different BBC article.
- "...the promise of good coffee and fine pastries kick off proceedings..." Bikepacking.com article about a route.
- "The use of Artificial Intelligence in these scams are making it even harder to detect" - message from my bank about phishing scams and the like.
As I say, all over the place now. You'd expect better from Auntie Beeb at the very least, so-called professional journalists without a basic command of the language. Grrrr.
"when she politely rolls off the end of my tongue"
I think I am imagining something very different to you with this sentence.
She gets the use of the green bin and a happy ever after - that will teach her.
Amazon just sent me an advert offering to sell me an ebook I already bought from amazon, based on my browsing habits which I'm 100% sure was me typing the exact name of this ebook into amazon and then immediately buying it. Oh and it's "discounted" to the exact price I paid for it 2 weeks ago.
The "you bought a toaster so now we will send you a thousand adverts for toasters because clearly you are a toaster guy" thing was annoying enough but somehow they've refined it.
Against my better judgment, at OHs request, adding a streaming service to our Sky package. It’s ok she says she’ll cancel after binge watching something.
No actually I’ll have to ring them up won’t I because she won’t and it’s a load easier to add a service than remove it.
Has anyone else noticed other drivers when approaching slip roads off motorways slowing down extraordinarily early and to a way lower speed than necessary recently?
This morning, trundling along in lane 1 with the cruise control set to 60, (I'm only going to work, so why rush) and a big van in front of me goes down to about 45mph a good half mile before the slip-road starts. I assumed there was traffic ahead of him I couldn't see, so pulled into late 2 when there was a gap and no - nothing there, totally clear. And it's a massive lazy curve off, not one that ends in an abrupt T junction. This is not an isolated incident over the last few months, noticed it loads.
I may have to start hammering down lane 3 at 90 with the Sprinters and Land Rover Defenders. 😊
Not really noticed that one, but have noticed when it's one of those junctions where eg lane 1 goes somewhere and lanes 2/3 go somewhere else, drivers will sit in lane 2 at least a mile before it's actually signposted.
Completely pointless. It's just middle lane hogging at that point. Just because Mr Lorry Driver is familiar with the road and knows he has to be in lane 2 later, doesn't mean he needs to trundle along lane 2 at 59mph for several miles before the actual split 😡
It's not a recent thing either.
Has anyone else noticed other drivers when approaching slip roads off motorways slowing down extraordinarily early and to a way lower speed than necessary recently?
Corollary: 40mph is not usually a desirable speed to be joining a free-flowing motorway. Particularly common on leaving service stations.
Many times I've slowed to a crawl or simply stopped at the Services exit in order to create space between me and granny up ahead (who will usually dive straight into the second lane without looking and stay there for the next 100 miles anyway), then I can accelerate up to a speed matching the existing traffic and merge sensibly rather than have a 30-40mph speed differential.
Having a Spitfire fly over the village 4 times with 2km to go on the Tour stage....
Has anyone else noticed other drivers when approaching slip roads off motorways slowing down
Yes! I've been complaining about it for a while to Mrs.10. The drivers who start to slow down significantly before leaving the highway.
I don't have a great answer for why, maybe they are concerned about being able to slow down adequately on the off ramp? What it does is create ripples around junctions causing the right lane to speed up and slow down.
What interests me is how we complain about similar driving habits between the US and UK. I don't remember anything in drivers ed taking about slowing down on the highway before the off ramp, and one of the reasons people use for raising speed limits is the improvements in modern brakes compared to when the roads/limits were made. I certainly don't have an issue reducing speed on the off ramps. I'm not usually 'making progress' though, 😉.
Corollary: 40mph is not usually a desirable speed to be joining a free-flowing motorway. Particularly common on leaving service stations.
I absolutely agree with that one too!
What interests me is how we complain about similar driving habits between the US and UK. I don't remember anything in drivers ed taking about slowing down on the highway before the off ramp
My experience of driving any distance in the US is that quite often on the major highways the rightmost (ie, first) lane is the off-ramp. You typically don't pull off the 'motorway' onto a slip road as you would here, rather you're taken off it unless you move out into second lane. On-ramps are the same, there's no merging to be had because a new first lane just appears next to you.
Depends on the off ramp. Some would require hard braking at 70 mph. I would normally be in the left lane nice and early, indicator on at the 300m to go board and then lift off the throttle so probably doing 55 ish as I hit the slip road.
People who email screenshots of information instead of the actual information, bunch of ****ing morons.
People who email screenshots of information instead of the actual information,
... attached as a screenshot of their laptop screen taken with their phone camera.
My experience of driving any distance in the US is that quite often on the major highways the rightmost (ie, first) lane is the off-ramp.
Depends on the highway and state. Highways in CO have regular off ramps, right lane and second to right lanes going off and left lane turn offs. I think the aim is to be as confusing as possible for out of state folks. Nothing as good as the Magic Roundabout levels of shittery though.
Other than that ****ing annoying ad just now I'm not in the shop still in the loo having a crap
These pre fab holiday houses where they expect you to drive on the verge as the lorry wings it past you at 40mph
Why not make them 3' less wide
Subtitles in movies from the UK/America. No it doesn't make it feel more authentic or immersive. It just means my eyes are glued to the bottom of the screen so miss what's going on and have to keep rewinding to read the bits I've missed while I was watching the movie. really spoils a lot of good shows.
When quoting prices it's "pounds", not "pounds". Unless it's one pound. Then it's okay.
There's a glut of adverts on the radio with stupid people giving the prices like this ("nine pound") and they just sound thick. Same as "them" instead of "those", or "what" instead of "that".
It's almost - but nor quite - as irritating as reading the prices out as single digits. Looking at you, Currys.
"it's "pounds", not "pounds""
People who can't type right until you think at it and figure out what was meant. I'm kidding. But maybe Burroughs was right [word virus stuff].
Films where someone thought it was a good idea to give Ed Sheeran a part.
Fake or Fortune.
Partly disproportionately cross because I only found it recently and now I've become disproportionately invested in watching it. I love the way that the chase down of provenance and science together to make a picture (badoom tish!) of the artwork then can be rejected in gallic shrug, Python style..."I don't sink so, 'ee already 'as wurn"
But then also disproportionately cross about the chase across the UK to various stately homes, galleries, looking at other works by the same (or is it?) artist..... only for the scientist to stick it on an XRF scanner, and a few seconds later pronounce that the pigments in the picture weren't developed until 30 years after the artist died and so it can't be genuine.
Don't get me wrong, I know it's entertainment first and foremost but there's this slow build up of excitement followed by the collapse of the case over an obvious discrepancy that could have been uncovered for comparative buttons compared to the price of the show and 2 minutes after someone has discovered this unknown Renoir that makes me feel it's - well, a bit fake?
When someone says "Go on, have some fun and be yourself" and they mean get drunk and dance around, or be loud and shout. No, not everyone's idea of fun is the same.
