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Last night took dog for a walk in park. Ahead of me a couple (of the big boned variety) waddled past the rubbish bin and out of the side gate and heading to their car. On continuing past them I reach the park bench that they had recently vacated, where I discover the pizza boxes and polystyrene chip boxes that they had left there, the scruffy bastards. I looked back to see if they had driven off so I could 'have a word' but they had gone. The lazy, lazy ****ers. Grrr.
The other one that boiled my piss yesterday was getting overtaken by a woman in a silver Nissan Micra for the second time in a few weeks. She never deviates from her kerb hugging line so passes me within inches of my elbow. FFS!!
Before you start, I know I've typed without random Caps and the grammar is reasonably accurate so it's crap rant. My tyre logo's line up with valve caps and the garden isn't in too much of a mess though.
Been told how best to keep my kids safe this morning though it's been coming a while!
Riding to school, rather than taking the kids (5 and 8 ) on a narrow pavement next to a really busy road we take a small shortcut down a wide one way street (pavements on both sides and about 100m long). Every day an old guy in a people carrier shakes his head at us and this morning he stopped next to me to tell me that what we were doing was illegal. I'm not stupid but I also know I'd rather risk them riding the 10m of road without a pavement in the wrong direction where they can be clearly seen by incoming cars than risk getting wiped out by a wagon on the other road.
Needless to say this has only made me want to piss him off even more.
isitafox: speak to the council, state your case and get them to sign it as a cycle contraflow. That'll piss him off 😀
we live on a very quiet cul de sac, a yoof who lives with his parents over the road and down a bit, in early 20s, doesn't work but somehow affords to run a newish mini. Parks it outside someone else's house and without fail leaves the house at 12.10am to give his gf a lift home, both of them talking and laughing loudly in the street, loud music in the car and engine noise. Then the same loud music and engine noise 10 mins later when he comes back, often sits with the engine running for several minutes or sometimes conducts loud phone conversations in the car with the engine running. His dad looks the sort who'd lamp you for suggesting his son conducts himself otherwise so I don't ever mention it and just carry on moaning to my wife and wishing he'll see sense and chuck his son out.
First world problems and all that.
Cycling home the other night and my nose was streaming, to the point where it was running back down my throat (nice eh?!). It is something i don't like doing and have probably only ever done about 3 times in my life, but i stopped on the quiet country lane i was on and spat into the hedgerow, basically i needed to breathe.
A lady pulled over and gave me a right rollocking, but couldn't see the irony that she was driving a D-reg Volvo estate with more pollution coming out of the back than Sizewell B
We park on the street outside the house , when there is a space, only for some numb nuts to park soo close it makes getting out In the morning a PITA ... Yet behind their car is loads of space.. Knew there was a good reason to have a towbar fitted.
I never get why people who park on the road just bung it in the middle of a gap, rather than park it so that 2 cars could park comfortably in there.
People who drive through pedestrian precincts which are ped only except for deliveries and disabled between 08:00-18:00.
One oaf had a go at me for daring to walk through it at 17:15, when it was pointed out that it was no vehicles until 18:00 he just said "so?". The red mist descended, I dragged him out of the car and shut the door on his head several times until he lost conciousness. That showed him!
*not really, but in my head thats what should have happened*
Driving to work this morning, off the M8 and onto the Clydeside Expressway (for any interested locals). Car is front is dethering at 40mph in the 'fast' lane, nobody to their left, nobody for a distance in front, they seem to be unaware of what's happening in the world around them. After a shortish distance they pull over, I make progress past and notice the reason for the dithering - a ****ing dog on the drivers lap!!
What really grated on me is that I wasn't able to get a decent look at the reg plate before they left the dual carriageway, otherwise I was up for giving the Police a call
Not being able to find the owner of the cat that shits on my lawn.
The longer it takes to track him down the more I'm going to kill him when I do.
Joking aside are you sure it's a cat? We have wild rabbits that shit on the lawn at our place. The cats normally shit in the flower beds of gardens.
First there was the close pass from a lorry this morning. Then he used the bus and cycle lane to get a jump on the traffic onto a big 3 lane roundabout.
Then there was the knob on a Planet X bike at the same roundabout, weaving through the traffic who nearly weaved under the trailer of a van which he hadn't noticed.
And then there was the bastard on an Orange Crush who drafted me for a good mile and a half, who wouldn't be dropped without me having to make it very obvious I was really having to work hard to do it.
It's a cat. I've seen it do it.
Harry_the_Spider - MemberNot being able to find the owner of the cat that shits on my lawn.
The longer it takes to track him down the more I'm going to kill him when I do.
I am able to find the owner of the one who does it on mine. It's me (technically Mrs V)...
Stupid cat, doesn't it know that that's what other people's lawns are for...
😉
Another shit one I'm afraid... there's a path that goes past my house, kids use it, people walk their dogs down it, I walk or ride down it to get to the local shop... on Sunday I went down it and there's bits of dog shit strewn all over the path! Who the bollocking hell leaves their dog's crap on a public path?? I scooped it into a bag and walked the all of 20metres to the nearest dogcrap bin.
Wanted to put up a sign "If you leave dog shit here YOU ARE SCUM" but seethed instead.
The person who walks their dog by letting it loose in QECP. WTF? - random massive hound loose about the place with no owner in sight.
And it likes to chase bikes, especially those with kids on them - oh joy. Perfect for our kids club nights 😕 😈
The wee fanny in the red audi last night who overtook me and several mates on the wrong side of the road just as I was about to turn right.
My boss, when I say I am going to do something and then they come back after a week of me having discussions with outside agents and say "I thought I made it clear I didn't want that" - No. You didn't. Your opportunity to do so was last week immediately after I said the words - "Right, I'll get onto that and start the ball rolling."
Yesterday the fannies on the train complaining about the suicide on the tracks which disrupted one morning of their lives.
These rants are piss poor. All of them. I was recently unable to sort out my bike's gear changing issues. New cranks, chain and cassette.
I've done this 100s of times and after trying a new mech hanger I gave up and cycled the three miles to my LBS.
Three days later I get the call. Bike's all ready, come and pick it up.
The whole thing's still slipping, slopping and generally being crap. I EVEN TOOK ****ING BISCUITS!
For the second time in the last 12 months or so: A dog owner grabs his dog when I'm running past and then asks why I don't thank him. For what? preventing his dog attacking me? Grrrr. This country is overrun with bloody dogs. I'm sick of them.
i went to try and get one of those cheap Aldi stove fans on sunday, and they'd sold out!
It was only 11.45!
FFS, what kind of loser is up and out of the house buying stove fans before 11am on a Sunday? 😡
I was riding down a track with my trailer on the back of my bike, passed a woman with a small kid and a buggy. Also with them was a Rottweiler, which took a look at my trailer and ran along next to me growling. I stopped, called it over and petted it. Lovely thing. I likes dogs me.
(not a rant)
Five of the parent and child spaces at Tesco this morning taken up by selfish pricks lazy pricks who couldn't be bothered to walk an extra 20 or 30 yards.
"lifes to short an all that" sent on an errand last night full of cold for lots of fresh fruit to Asda at 9.30pm in the van(newish), so I park in an empty row away from the store so no one parks next to me just incase I might get doored. I come back 20 minutes later and an big grubby volvo is parked right next to so much so I could not load the shopping in the side door!!!!! WHYYYYYY
The inability of humanity to a) get along collectively and b) agree with me, pisses me off every day.
I'm designing a new project at work but need to do a load of data analysis to do it properly. Boss rocks up at my desk asking why i haven't got the plan for him.
"I'm doing the analysis needed"
"Why are you doing that? Just do the project"
"I can't do the project without knowing exactly where to target it"
"Yeah you can, you just do it. Get on with it"
"It doesn't work like that, the project is to specifically target wastefullness and needs to be precise"
"Well i just want it to happen now"
"It can't happen without the analysis or it'll just be a waste of time and money"
"Just start the work" - Turns his back and buggers off 🙄 👿
Morons who park with three-quarters of their car (usually a SUV of some sort) across the pavement, making it impossible for parents to get past with prams.
Couple of offenders on roads near me, but most often happens near the school as mums and dads cause other parents to have to walk in the road to get round their Range Rover or Nissan Juke.
Personally I always used to make a point of trying to get through the gap, even if it looked a bit tight and there was a chance the pram might scuff their paintwork. And of course folding their wing mirror in, for safety.
Any given car park, anywhere in the country on a Saturday morning: rammed to the gunnels, except for the rows of empty disabled spaces right outside the shop door!
Why are there so flippin many of them?? Whoever did the maths, did it wrong.
I used to start ramming the push chair into the gap that was clearly too small.
Was ace when they were actually sitting in the car scratching their big fat arse.
I was having an easy ride in along the canal, and caught up with/ passed a couple of people. One of them then sped up and stayed about 10m behind for the next 5-6 miles.
FFS don't make me pedal hard when I'm trying to chill out and enjoy the scenery for once! (I did manage not to, but it took a lot of effort)
Joking aside are you sure it's a cat? We have wild rabbits that shit on the lawn at our place
Not that I'm a poo expert* or anything, but cat poo and rabbit poo look very very different. Goat/Sheep/Rabbit I could excuse you getting them mixed up, but not cat!
* really really not
Passed a young girl this morning on her way to school and in one hand she had a can of Red Bull and a bag of crisps in the other.
Jesus wept, we are doomed, when are folk going to stop slowly killing themselves by eating/drinking crap, it's not unusual to see women over 20 stone waddling with their kids to school.
Come on folk get a bloody grip, your on this earth for a short time, why would you want to spend the last third of it in dreadfully poor health.
I know a guy who has type 2 diabetes, even the risk of losing limbs can't stop him eating cakes..... and relax.
"It doesn't work like that, the project is to specifically target wastefullness and needs to be precise"
"Well i just want it to happen now"
On the plus side, you now know where the wastefulness is 😉
People who like to moan really annoy me. Like the people who come along to community meetings about our local park, but refuse to make any suggestions, dislike anyone else's suggestions, don't volunteer for anything, and seem to think that if they sit on their far arses and whine then magically everything will somehow happen.
Companies that make you fill in a ridiculously detailed application form on their own website, which keeps going flakey while you're trying to do so.
Do they only want really desperate people to work for them or something?
Getting a group bollocking from the manager during a team meeting at work because of the abusive practice of one member of staff, who WASN'T AT THE BLOODY MEETING!!!
It wouldn't be so bad, but the only reason he knew about this person being abusive was because WE had told him, so his answer was to tell US not to be abusive!
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't help thinking that Legoman's oversupply of disabled parking spaces might be related to twinw4ll's worries about the forthcoming obesity/diabetes/limb-loss crisis. 😐
"[i]Do they only want really desperate people to work for them or something?[/i]"
A job I applied for last year, the salary on offer had dropped twice by the time an interview date was agreed, and then again when they rescheduled the interview to a really inconvenient time (knowing it was a two hour drive for me, they rescheduled it from 1pm to 8am). So I withdrew my application, fully expecting a further drop in the salary if I got a job offer.
Your point ^^^^^ was my conclusion.
People smoking/eating crap in front of/feeding crap to their kids. If you want to smoke or get fat then fine, but don't pass the habit on to your kids.
Drivers who say speeding isn't a problem, it is.
People who get off the train then stop immediately to faff. Get out of the way you moron.
People who are late. If we agreed to meet at 11am, you arrive at or before 11am. If you're going to be late send a text or call. Don't just turn up late without apology. And if you start faffing when you do get here words will be had.
People who who are homophobic. Who I, or anyone else chooses to sleep with has nothing to do with anyone else. As long as the person is old enough to consent it is no ones business but theirs.
People who just like to moan (yes, I do see the irony). If there is a problem either try to fix it or at very least suggest ideas on how it can be fixed.
And breathe.
People who are late. If we agreed to meet at 11am, you arrive at or before 11am.
People who are early. If I agree to meet at 11 and you arrive 10 minutes early don't expect me to drop my sh1t and start to look after you just because you can't tell the time.
I'm designing a new project at work but need to do a load of data analysis to do it properly. Boss rocks up at my desk asking why i haven't got the plan for him.
"I'm doing the analysis needed"
"Why are you doing that? Just do the project"
"I can't do the project without knowing exactly where to target it"
"Yeah you can, you just do it. Get on with it"
"It doesn't work like that, the project is to specifically target wastefullness and needs to be precise"
"Well i just want it to happen now"
"It can't happen without the analysis or it'll just be a waste of time and money"
"Just start the work" - Turns his back and buggers off
Honestly, this boils my piss! ****ing rude bastards and my inability to not tell them to **** off!
I'd probably be loaded if I could keep my gob shut and let aresholes be arseholes!!
Legoman - MemberAny given car park, anywhere in the country on a Saturday morning: rammed to the gunnels, except for the rows of empty disabled spaces right outside the shop door!
Why are there so flippin many of them?? Whoever did the maths, did it wrong.
All the disabled drivers are parked in the parent and child spaces. Wish I was joking.
My rant is quite appropriate for the title of this thread.
Took a day off from work to attend my yearly visit to the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Unit Spinal Clinic outreach appointment at my local hospital (35 miles away) to get the results of my 3 thoracic x-rays and Kidney/Ultrasound scan along with urology/renal results which took place at above local hospital two weeks prior. I've had repeated kidney/bladder infections since the start of the year and despite 14 weeks of various antibiotics i'm still suffering from it so i was keen to get the results.
Nope...no results as they cannot find them, no x-rays, no ultrasound report, no urology or renal report either so i will have to continue to dribble rancid piss and generally feel like shite till they get their ****ing finger out and find them.
As a cherry on top of the above i am waiting on an appointment to see a biomedical/bio-mechanical consultant that was initially set in motion March 2015 by the Spinal Clinic, despite two letters written by my doctor, two letters written by my spinal consultant from the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Unit (glasgow) and 3 emails written by myself i am still awaiting an appointment, I raised the issue with Spinal Outreach clinic earlier today and their response was as follows (as close as i can can remember anyway).
It's extremely disappointing that you have not heard from Dr Henrik Gollee but we in the spinal clinic/NHS [i](the ****ing national spinal clinic of Glasgow non the less!)[/i] have no means of measuring power output nor analysing your gait so i can only raise this issue with him again and take it from there.
My response was rather abrupt and may have contained a few choice words so i'll continue to wobble/wobble/fall down (no i'm not a weeble) for the few hours a day that i can stand and support myself, 3 hours a day at work is about my limit before i don't have the strength to place one foot in front of the other, by this time i'm absolutely ****ed and pedalling the 4 miles back home on my Scott E-bike is a real struggle to get my legs to turn round, even on "Turbo" mode which my bike seems to live in these days.
Rant over, hey ho.......Guess i'll be going private for Bio-Mechanical assessment, i already attend a private physio up in Ayr and she's done brilliant/effective work on me (unlike the previous 7+years of utter shite NHS physio's) and i've had a few appointments with the team at Hampden Sports Clinic who are also very good and recommended the Ayr Physio so i'll probably get in touch Hampden to arrange a full assessment. Spent £1000+ on treatment sessions so far this year so what's another few ££, another few ££ is actually quite a lot considering my current pitiful earnings but i hope it will be worth it.
EDIT : just read that through, wow!.....that was quite a rant!. Feel much better now 😀
The woman who took the last parent & child space @ Morrisons a couple of weekends ago.
I parked on the next row, struggled to get the kids out and when I mentioned to her that it was a P&C space, she proceeded to have a right go at me because her mother (with her) was elderly and unwell. Not too unwell, however, to have a fag between getting out of the car and walking 50ft to the store 👿
I have my health, and after reading somafunk's post it will all sound trite & pointless.....
Hope things improve, somafunk...
steviedThe woman who took the last parent & child space @ Morrisons a couple of weekends ago.
... Not too unwell, however, to have a fag between getting out of the car and walking 50ft to the store
They will always have a ready made excuse. Always. The main offenders seem to be men in their late 50s or early 60s. Women of a similar age too, but slightly less so. The usual excuse is "aye, the wife's inside with the kids". Yeah, so that's why you've got one carrier bag in your hand.
I challenged a taxi driver a few weeks back. "I'm picking up my daughter" was his response. You left a toddler in Tesco alone? I asked.
"No, she's disabled". He was getting apoplectic at this point.
"Oh right so you're entitled to use her blue badge and park in the disabled spaces".
By this stage he was ready to have a stroke. Informed me he will NEVER use the disabled spaces. That his daughter, had her daughter with her......then he said he knew where I lived, I should be careful....I was a dickhead etc. Of course five minutes later I see him walking around the shop on his own with a basket 🙄
Another good one, a cheeky bitch in an A6. As I loaded the kids into the car I couldn't help but notice how immaculate the child seat in the back of the car was. Impossible. Of course along she comes, looking like 65 year old hooker on a Tuesday morning pushing a trolley full of booze. No kids of course. Puts the booze into the car, then doesn't even bother to push the trolley back one inch. Leaves it right there in the bay 👿
The insanely selfish parking at the Forest of Dean cycle centre, gets me every time even though I generally arrive by bike.
People who are early. If I agree to meet at 11 and you arrive 10 minutes early don't expect me to drop my sh1t and start to look after you just because you can't tell the time.
If you arrive at 11 then the meeting will start late.
"[i]They will always have a ready made excuse. Always.[/i]"
I confronted a woman for parking in the disabled bay at nursery. Normal spaces available literally two car lengths away. She said it was OK to park there because there's no disabled people. Plenty of mouth on her. And then the next day she went crying to the nursery manager playing the victim and saying I had threatened her 🙄
My boy has been at school for two weeks.
He now pronounces "no" as "nooooooaaaaaaaaah".
senor j - MemberMy boy has been at school for two weeks.
He now pronounces "no" as "nooooooaaaaaaaaah".
Ours has developed the Coventry "Ya" instead of "You" almost overnight. I don't know how, it's the same classmates as playgroup last year... unless it's the teachers.
I can't in good conscience correct him when I'm prone to the equally appalling black country "Yow". When he starts saying "youse" though I'm stepping in.
Could be worse:
Then the same loud music and engine noise 10 mins later when he comes back, often sits with the engine running for several minutes or sometimes conducts loud phone conversations in the car with the engine running.
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People who are early. If I agree to meet at 11 and you arrive 10 minutes early don't expect me to drop my sh1t and start to look after you just because you can't tell the time.
Practically everyone arriving early would reasonably expect to sit quietly until the person they're supposed to meet has finished whatever it is they're doing and can then deal with them.
I always attempt to arrive pretty much on time, allowing for traffic or other transport issues, but if everything flows perfectly and I happen to arrive ahead of time, I don't expect the person I'm meeting to act like a whiny bitch just 'cos I'm early!
I sodding well know I'm early, because I exercised due diligence and made sure I wasn't late to avoid inconveniencing the person I'm meeting, so suck it up, cupcake!
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Every time I see a McDonalds bag/wrapper/cup laid by the side of the road makes me want to nuke the company from orbit. There's so much of it I reckon every single customer of theirs is a complete & utter cretin. I even saw some of their crap between Reeth & Gunnerside once, which makes me think that their peabrained, arsebuiscuit, tossers of customers must've saved it up just to piss me off! Dickwipes, the lot of them.
Approaching a traffic island on the commute home this evening. Heard a car behind me which didn't appear to be willing to wait until I was past the island, so I moved out a little to discourage stupidity. Car still started to squeeze past and I prepared to give it a whack with my right foot, but turned and noticed a young child in the passenger seat, so didn't follow through, just made an "are you thick" gesture into his rearview mirror. He made a '****er' sign back at me.
Poor kid has an asshole for a Dad.
Stevet1 - Member
People who are late. If we agreed to meet at 11am, you arrive at or before 11am.People who are early. If I agree to meet at 11 and you arrive 10 minutes early don't expect me to drop my sh1t and start to look after you just because you can't tell the time.
People who get wound up by any of this. Start the meeting without them, cancel the meeting each time until they get the point or in 99% of cases don't schedule the meeting as it wasn't required in the first place and everyone would be better off spending their time actually doing some work.
A bloke living round the corner from me, after selfishly causing a road block because "this is my front" garden/driveway calling the delivery driver who couldn't move his van, a ****ing black **** after he had the temerity to point out his selfishness. Didn't enjoy that. The driver of the van stopped in the middle of the road and ran round to the front of the car, thankfully didn't chin the bloke but wrote down his reg. Hope he followed through on calling the police later. Can't even blame Brexit for that type of racism.
My daughter saying 'off of' instead of simply 'off'. Also saying 'I done it' instead of 'I did it'.
FFS.
The bloody supermarket having a fire alarm practice this morning at 0815 when I needed to get coffee to get me through the morning.
Oh the humanity.
Companies that make you fill in a ridiculously detailed application form on their own website, which keeps going flakey while you're trying to do so.
Do they only want really desperate people to work for them or something?
This plus 100 painfull applications.
I'm sure some of these forms must be borderline illegal. I know data protection laws exist but some asked for more than my passport application! Yes for a sucessfull candidate you need a photo, NI number, dob, and all that jazz. But before you've even screened the CV's?
Other drivers. This could go in the "indicators" thread but it's all encompassing. Too much to list. Just other drivers.
Every time I see a McDonald's.
Planet raping orangutan killing deforesting desertifying worker oppressing c***s
South West Trains for late trains and some cock womble this morning putting a wheelie bin in the bike rack area. Do they do it just to piss us ofF? Its hard enough when there are too many bikes, or luggage dumped or prams.....
And...... then there is never a guard around to ask why?
langley - Member
And...... then there is never a guard around to ask why?
They're busy pressing buttons to open and shut the doors. Could be worse and SWT follow Southern's lead, then they'll be on strike for removing that button pressing power.
People with mucky old knackered oil burners that spew black shite oot the back of them every time they look at the accelerator. Like the Jag X Type on this mornings commute that overtook me. I thought I was going to howk up a * lung or two. It's alright though the tit in the fiesta seen all this and thought the appropriate response (as we were going over the A1 on a windy fly over) was to close pass me and then just hang around alongside for a bit as I wobbled around in the wind choking on a black cloud of Nox, until we both arrived at a traffic island at which point had to brake to let her back in. The * shite I need to go through just to cycle to the office. **** sake.
Privatised railways. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be sent to a gulag, right now.
PJM1974 - Member
Privatised railways. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be sent to a gulag, right now.
Thinks back to the 70s... oh yeah, that's right, public railways were shit and everyone was on strike all the time. That's why private railways 😉
Weren't railways a byproduct of the industrial revolution
Every time I see a McDonald's.
Planet raping orangutan killing deforesting...
Top tip: It's not just McD's. The orangutan-killing deforesting Palm Oil is in almost everything. It's pretty hard to avoid, especially as it is often just labelled as "vegetable oil". 👿
(I've been a supporter of https://www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk/ for 14 years since visiting the sanctuary at Sepilok in Borneo)
Went to get the bus out to the airport after my conference, sat in traffic for an hour but that's OK as the flight is an hour late, because the boss was dithering about me going I'm on the crap budget airline with no lounge, so expensive crap dinner at the airport then finally trundle down to the gate as instructed, plane has only just landed but they have got us to queue up 10 mins ago S there is about 1 seat for every 20 passengers at the gate (brand new terminal which manages to capture the depressing style of the shed it's replaced. If I don't join the queue early there will be no room for my way undersized hand luggage as they don't seem to bother stopping the big trolley cases (luggage is extra on a flight costing 3x what I normally pay) still should be home by 11pm where it will be pissing it down. So in summary today is pissing me off
Dancemums - i can choose not to turn up the road with the dance school in it when driving home but sometimes I forget - so if cars are parked both sides of the narrow road (because of the dance school) its fine for you to do an unexpected stop in the middle of the road and push the little darling out to run between the parked cars - but what gets me is after setting off again its apparently essential to do a sort of half unexpected but expected 3 point turn at the first gap in the parked cars to then end up facing me in the middle of the road and wonder what to do next as there are parked cars either side and I'm sat in the middle of the road....and your time is so precious
BREXIT.
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END OF THREAD.
People who stop in doorways, exits or whatever and do whatever it is they need to do "right there". No, thanks, it's fine, I'll just squeeze past you, you inconsiderate £$&^%$ er
Calderdale rubbish collection...
Another vote for the abuse of parent and child spaces.
Had a total meltdown at some rude little sh*t last November who nicked the last P+C space despite having a disabled badge and their being empty disabled spaces available.
When I challenged him he just said he had a bad leg and told me to **** off.
Had it not been remembrance weekend, and him 80+ and wearing a poppy I swear I'd have put him back in the car and made him move.
Little c**t. I hope he never made it through the winter.
Normally I'm totally laid back and passive about everything but this just flicked the kill switch.. I was thoroughly embarrassed afterwards having lost my rag in front of my kids, as it never happens.
I feel better for getting it out - thanks for the opportunity.
People driving on the phone also infuriate me.
[quote=ulysse ]Every time I see a McDonald's.
Planet raping orangutan killing deforesting desertifying worker oppressing c***s
McDonalds use 95% CSPO according to the WWF.
http://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/check-the-scores/food-service/mcdonalds
Taking part in an "adventure race" at the weekend and this sort of bollocks boils my piss
Stage 3 - please note that this short stage involves running alongside your bike on the canal towpath before the main ride, it is a technique that is worth practicing! Admittedly this is an unconventional format, it has been introduced as a result of feedback from canal towpath pedestrians from the 2015 event and safety best practice.
So some NIMBY Daily Telegraph reading arseholes have clearly objected to "their" canal being used for a race for maybe a whole hour one day a year.
Rather then telling them to jog on or reach a sensible compromise like, I don't make it an untimed transistion so no one "races" they've come up with this steaming pile of shite. And then use elfin'safety as a justification.
AAAARRARRAGGGH!!
How is running along side a bike - making yourself twice as wide as a result better? How is it safer? The space beside the canal is now more restricted because each competitor now takes up more space? Rather then just running or cycling you now have to worry about tangling up in your bike or someone else's bike.
What a lot of shit. If the must do it this way at least have the decency to acknowledge it has nothing to do with "SAFETY BEST PRACTICE"
Privatised railways. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be sent to a gulag, right now.
People who think everything was better back in the day. The railways were shite under British Rail and are much, much better now. Take the rose tinted glasses off.
retro83 - Member
ulysse » Every time I see a McDonald's.
Planet raping orangutan killing deforesting desertifying worker oppressing c***s
McDonalds use 95% CSPO according to the WWF.http://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/check-the-scores/food-service/mcdonalds
I'd say that's a result for pressure groups but theres still some work to do, Sustainable beef farming, antibiotics, employee conditions etc...i'd best peruse that and see if Coca cola are getting their act together yet
Cheers for the link Retro
People who think everything was better back in the day. The railways were shite under British Rail and are much, much better now.
Yep and massively, massively more expensive. I'm old enough to remember the inefficiencies of British Rail first hand.
Under privatisation, when I have a complaint, my rail provider blames the government for setting the service guidelines, but my MP blames my rail provider.
[quote=richmtb ]Taking part in an "adventure race" at the weekend and this sort of bollocks boils my piss
Which race?
I agree that sort of thing is rubbish, but having been involved in event organisation sometimes that sort of cobblers is the only way to get an event on - because it's not the event organisor who decides what to do.
mrlebowski - Member
BREXIT.END OF THREAD.
just the end of the page actually
I was in a KFC the other day (I was picking up food for someone else, don't hate me). Pretty rammed, and it doesn't help that their system is to take an order and then complete it before starting on the next one, massively inefficient but that's another rant.
Took about ten minutes to be served. I step aside waiting for my order and the customer behind, a couple with two or three of their spawn in tow gets to the till, turns to the kids, "right, what do you want?" FFS HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN STANDING THERE ZOMG ELEVENTYONE!!1! If I'd have been behind them I'd have dragged them into the kitchen and made them go bobbing for chips.