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I saw some middle aged volvo driver, driving his car with a labrador on his lap whilst talking on his mobile. This was in Edinburgh outside the old Bonnington school at 11:20.
I suppose he was driving without due care and attention and it wasnt dangerous in anyway shape or form...
I've been listening to a lot of this recently. Highly recommended.
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I'd say about 2/3 of the commuters I see in their cars on my cycle to work are on the phone, although I don't see many dogs on laps, mainly on passenger seats....
baby robin?
Double pinch flats then ripping a massive hole in my tyre 👿
Two down and outs sleeping in the library doorway about 8pm this evening put my so called problems into perspective
Finally repairing some gutter and wondering in disbelief how snow had bent the rise and fall brackets so badly!
The randomness my HP laptop is coming up with. Body keyboard gremlin
If you ever get to see petrol forecourts over a long period of time, some of things people do really do make you wonder. One of my personal favourites was the guy topping up his oil, by pouring it down the dipstick tube, why because he had broken the filler cap, not recently but a couple of years ago. That's without the people keeping dogs in push along shopping trolleys (the tartan variety) taking them out to walk them, then putting them back in the shopping trolleys.
My neighbour carrying a mouse down the road.
Riding from Liverpool to Formby today and got caught in a serious prolonged downpour. Don't mind a good soaking but saw quite a few 'road' cyclists huddling under bridges, I did think WTF!!!?
Middle lane hogger... on her iPad!
Parking.
A baby with pierced ears and studs. 😐
The wooden fascia board I got today...it's barely fit for kindling, let alone for putting on the front of my house. It will be going back first thing tomorrow! 😡
Overtaking in the fast lane on the A3 through Steep/Liss in appalling downpoor doing at least 90....
1 white Audi A3 and a white Merc Conv bumper to bumper... 😯
Last week I saw a dozen magpies all in the same tree at the same time. WTF?
[i]If you ever get to see petrol forecourts over a long period of time, some of things people do really do make you wonder. One of my personal favourites was the guy topping up his oil, by pouring it down the dipstick tube[/i]
Had the same thing in the 80's with a lass in a little Fiat on my forecourt. Or the woman who pulled into the garage while her car was on fire. Or the woman who'd driven 4 miles on a flat tyre but 'only thought the wheel was loose'. Or the 2 women who asked if they were on the right road to Scarborough ( i'm in Durham, they'd driven from Harrogate. Check the map)
The list is endless.
I realised this evening that I'd being riding my whippet for 6 months with the brakes the 'wrong' , or US, way around. The avid lever is symmetrical and I must have swapped them when I changed the bars a while back.
Only realised as I was trying to fit a longer stem and cursing that the rear brake hose wasn't long enough 😳
The boy in Edinburgh who pavement-rides a Pitch to work in a Full Face, every day.
Ken there's some "hardcore urban" to be had in Auld Reekie but the rest of us manage in Features & Receptors.
Raining that hard in Macc today that I even considered sacking off riding, even had hail mixed in with it.
BUT I mtfu and went out anyway and had an Awesome ride round Bakewell.
An alaskan malamute out of the corner of my eye once I reached the top of a hill.. I had earphones in and never heard anyone. Just turned to see a 'wolf' beside me. Heart stopped! So that was my wtf moment.
Drove out of my road and a peacock jumped down off a neighbour's fence and ran along the road in front of my car. "Beep Beep". Me and my boy felt like Wylie Coyote.
That devinchi frame thread...
Someone locks up a new giant trance (well specced) outside my wife's office, in Liverpool city centre.
Asking for trouble...
There's a lad I sometimes see on my commute that rides a sustrans type trail (old railway) for about 15 miles into town, the opposite way to me, who wears full knee / shin guards. Now far be it from me to judge him for the protection he deems appropriate - I wear a helmet, but a lot of folks don't. Horses for courses.
What was a bit odd was when I saw him riding home wearing only one of his knee / shin pads...
The thread about restorative justice today 😯
The negativity on the thread I put up last night about the Donnington Cycle Night.... 🙄
Jens Voigt tweeting that he's scared of a frog.
I saw some Irish folk drinking in a regular run of the mill local boozer.
Wtf!!?
Darcy is still struggling with the whole humour thing. Someone help him out, please, he's floundering over there...
A Plasma cutter being used for cutting out patches for the back of my van, like magic 😀
Someone asking on a forum is they should wear a jumper or not.
Darcy is still struggling with the whole humour thing. Someone help him out, please, he's floundering over there...
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Genuine WTF there. (my other one was only made up...as a joke like...)
Got stuck behind a snow plough that was gritting the road this morning, and not early, about 11'ish ?
Council must know something that wasn't on the weather report, time to dig out the snow chains just in case 🙂
Well I went for a night ride up Cathkin Braes last night.
Lots of WTF moments when I got back to the car park 😯
Not today, but one morning last week on my commute, there was an Audi waiting at the lights, revving it's engine, with the Top Gear theme tune blasting out of the open window.
All of this odd bike stuff (some of which I quite like!):
Well I went for a night ride up Cathkin Braes
Is she a regular poster on here? She won't thank you for making that public!
A bottle full of urine on the side of the road between minera and worlds end this morning. You're in the middle of nowhere, why not just wazz into the bracken / heather in the many layby's instead of going to the effort of doing it in a bottle then chucking it?
An Eagle on vermin patrol around our outside office....
You're in the middle of nowhere, why not just wazz into the bracken / heather in the many layby's instead of going to the effort of doing it in a bottle then chucking it?
1) People are strange.
2) Also, you're in the middle of nowhere and you find a bottle by the side of the road. Why (and how?!?) would you investigate it closely enough to know if the contents were urine rather than cloudy lemonade?
3) See point 1)
The fact that I live in a small city in China (8 million people) with a small river running through it (Yangtze) with several bridges connecting both sides of the city, and of which I discovered today whilst on my bike, that non of them allows bikes to be ridden across.
The mess when I opened the airing cupboard door this morning, after hearing a loud bang...
Seemingly the entire contents of the heating system have been expelled under great pressure through the relief valve on the boiler...I did actually say WTF!!!
The wife's reply was FFS!!!
The kids were told to leave the scene.
Woke up this morning dreaming of burnt toast. As I came to I realized it was the smell of skunk wafting through the house (the animal, not the recreational substance). One got run over near the house and the a/c had been dragging the smell around the house for a few hours before we woke.
One of our cats had obviously been investigating, as he stinks too. Will have to wash him in tomato juice (for the second time this summer).
On the way to the gym I saw two more within a few miles. At 35mph, approaching the skunk in the road, I could smell it from 50ft away.
The house still stinks and I work from home. Yay!
GrahamS - Member2) Also, you're in the middle of nowhere and you find a bottle by the side of the road. Why (and how?!?) would you investigate it closely enough to know if the contents were urine rather than cloudy lemonade?
In fairness I didn't investigate beyond noticing it was an orange tango bottle, filled with something that definitely wasn't orange tango![/Gillian Mckeith]
I just opened my compost bin, that's a lot o' slugs...
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Wtf at how much food loddrick throws away.
Wtf at how much food loddrick throws away.
Innit? I never chuck my slugs away!
My WTF moment today consisted of 3 trips to an office 20mins bike ride away to sign some documents, quite why they weren't altogether at the same time is really quite beyond me.. 😛
The "24 hours left" thread.
WTF! Big orange slugs in Loddrick's photo above...
The running club I'm a member of does handicap races where we're all set off separately and run the route with the intention that we finish at roughly the same time. On one of these runs there was a "thing". As most of us were running on our own at the time no-one was quite sure whether the others had seen it or whether we were just imagining it. Some debate on facebook followed with no-one quite wanting to reveal what the thing was until it was confirmed.
I still have no idea how a giant rubber cock found its way onto that stretch of pavement, and on reflection I'm not sure I want to know.
Love locks appearing on a bridge in Worcester!
MoreCashThanDash - MemberThe negativity on the thread I put up last night about the Donnington Cycle Night....
The fact that someone can't accept that others might not find their source of enjoyment very thrilling - and is still upset about it 12hrs later....
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My father law take a big carrier bag of bottles to the recycling on my fixie. As he rode off I shouted "be careful and don't forget the pedals don't stop!"
He returned half an hour later with his jeans ripped and a bruised toe. Said he struggled to get off it!
I saw something listed as being in stock so I ordered it and was sent an email saying it was out of stock.
WTF?
Cancelled the order and bought it elsewhere for a tenner less.
I passed a house today with the name "Wenard 69"
Took me a while
I know it is some kind of sport for the uneducated to chuck empty bottles and cans from moving vehicles at cyclists, but who throws an apple?
-Uneaten?
-From an articulated lorry?
-At 60mph?
(I am double pissed off cos we were on a signposted diversion that spat us onto a dual carriageway we would never dream of planning to ride on normally...)
In hospital waiting room I saw a guy in 3/4 shorts with the Nike logo tattooed above his ankle. He was wearing Lonsdale trainers.
I know it is some kind of sport for the uneducated to chuck empty bottles and cans from moving vehicles at cyclists, but who throws an apple?
-Uneaten?
-From an articulated lorry?
-At 60mph?
He might not have been throwing at you. I've seen a lot of truckers who look like they don't like apples.
An austin maestro on the road being driven withn what looked like most of its own sills .....bar the holes and the bonnet from a red maesto on a blue car.
Adverts for payday loans and the proliferation of online bingo sites. WTF?!
The contents of the toilet bowl after this morning's urgent visit.. Looked like something from Sweeney Todd's nightmares.. Doctors tomorrow then.. 😯
miley cyrus licking a sledgehammer and swinging naked on a wrecking ball in her new video.
For the record, it's for work.
The fatist thread.
wwaswas+1 - Some right charmers on there!
The world through a vari-focal lens, especially stairs and a keyboard when you move your attention from the screen,