Forum menu
Names on Coke cans.
Enough now.
Unnecessary road features -
White lines painted on roundabouts or whathaveyou suggesting that the area is not for use when it's obviously somewhere that should be used.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times, wear and tear and pollution from slowing down/speeding up.
Both seen (kind of) at the newish Innsworth roundabout on the A40 east of Gloucester.
Multipack confectionary being smaller than their single purchase equivalents.
Coffee / pasta / rice packets that rip vertically, dumping their contents all over the floor.
Unnecessary road features -
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times, wear and tear and pollution from slowing down/speeding up.
Is this not quite deliberate and aimed at avoiding the 'A Pillar' blind spot issue where a motorist can not actually see a cyclist / motorbike who is moving at a speed where they are continuously in that blind spot? Forcing the motorist to slow right down then brings the cyclist / motorbike into view.
So yes, somewhat annoying but actually safer for you as a cyclist.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times
username checks out 😉
and as above - I think they are put there deliberately to make you slow/stop, rather than a quick side glance & gun it.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic.
The sign on the exit from McDonalds between Otley and Ilkley that reminds you to look out for traffic whilst the very same sign completely blocking the view of oncoming traffic as soon as you stop at the give way line. Unfortunately it's too new to be on streetview to grab an image.
If you know you know. Well I don't know wtf is it?
I propose this:
IYSKBCR - if you should know but can't remember <memory prompt here>.
nb thanks Couger for inspiration 😉 I shall do reverse image search shortly...
Bummer stickers that claim the driver is a wolf or lion among sheep. Especially when seen with church and/or dementia don related stickers.
Multipack confectionary being smaller than their single purchase equivalents.
Ah yes, "fun size." Who has fun with a Mars bar? The only application I can think of here would necessitate a regular sized one at least.
So yes, somewhat annoying but actually safer for you as a cyclist.
In XKCD fashion, "there's a Tom Scott video about this."
(There's also a follow-up video from after they fixed it.)
The buttons disappearing from the bottom of the page that took you back to Overview.
Anyone from Apple standing up and saying "it's our best/thinnest/lightest thing ever" You're unlikely to release something that's worse than the previous thing or "new Apple thing it's a bit meh".
Local news talking about a car "breaking the 200 mph barrier". What barrier is that then? The speed of sound is a barrier because of physics and shock waves but 200 mph is just a number on a speedo, there's no actual "barrier". Is there another barrier at 201mph or 250 or 273.6?
See also lazy reporting about many other barriers eg stock market prices, football transfer fees etc etc etc
Anyone from Apple standing up and saying "it's our best/thinnest/lightest thing ever" You're unlikely to release something that's worse than the previous thing or "new iPhone it's a bit meh".
Apple has been dining out for years on:
Today: "This new thing is exactly what you already have, only bigger!" - "yay, fantastic, that's just what we wanted!!"
Tomorrow: "This new thing is exactly what you already have, only smaller!" - "yay, fantastic, that's just what we wanted!!"
25 years later, people are still dropping a grand every other year on an iPod that can make phone calls. It's not just aluminium, it's battleship aluminium, they make rockets in this colour of grey don't you know. Granted both phones and nukes are equally ****ed if you drop them four feet, but that's what aftermarket Peppa Pig cases are for.
Other people's dishwashers, currently staying in a holiday cottage and it's impossible to keep glasses from falling over. The cereal bowls won't stack next to each other and the cutlery box is far too big. You could get about 50 small plates next to each other, but that's about it. I dread the day my own dies because I have loading it down to a fine art and worry I won't be able to find an equivalent.
The entire world for some reason starting to pronounce the letter "u" as "oo", not "you".
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Difficult to disagree here to be fair, my apologies. I shall desist forthwith from adding another steed to my quiver.
"Where's my favourite really expensive and highly fragile glass which I just took my eye off for literally about 10 seconds?"
"Oh, I put it in the wash, underneath the 9 pint cast iron farmhouse pan."
Gets a STW ban for swear filter avoidance
Supplier: We'll deliver this item to you on Friday. It is with our courier
Fedex: We are awaiting your parcel
24 hours later
Fedex: We are awaiting your parcel
*engage chatbot to enquire politely about the delay
Fedex chatbot : We are waiting your parcel.
Check with supplier: Still here, Fedex van has driven past a few times.
You have one job....
2 minutes after I post
"Hi it's Fedex here, we've got your parcel and shall be delivering on schedule, aren't we great?"
Now I'm disproportionately cross that I wasted crossness on something I didn't need to be cross about.
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Not to mention my pet hate which is “picking up” something, suggesting a casual approach to buying something that may cost several months salary.
Outwith - I fail to see the need for such a word and I hate it as a word. It feels all backwards.
I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger
Also likely to use other military-esque phrases, euphemisms and the such like.
I'd very much like to drop something on them of the HE variety.
We were away on holiday in Scotland while the whole "put up flags and spray the roundabouts" thing started. We got back to find ourselves bemused by the flags lining the roads near our area.
Immediate reaction was: Why are they all at half-mast?
Followed quickly by: Why are most of them upside down?
They've obviously been put up by someone on a not-long-enough ladder. If you're going to put up flags on the lampposts, get hold of a cherry picker and do it properly! The whole thing just looks kind of sad, as it is. Upside down and half-mast? Is this some kind of subtle commentary on modern Britain and a sly dig at the right-wingers? Or just a bunch of local anti-immigrants patriots? It annoys me every time I drive past.
Here's a news article which shows them clearly. In both photos, they're upside down. 🤦♂️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd0mdzze21o
Edit: Oh, also, bbc, Union Jack should be capitalised.
people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Nah. I have to disagree. Dropping a grand ( or whatever amount) is pretty ok, as it makes a modicum of sense.
Pulling the trigger however is a ****erism of the highest order.
Edit: Oh, also, bbc, Union Jack should be capitalised.
Isn’t it a Union Flag unless it's on a ship?
Isn’t it a Union Flag unless it's on a ship?
No, I used to think that but it's been ok to say Jack for quite a while without it being on a jack staff.
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/uk-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
People who just post a link to a YouTube video with no word of explanation. You think I’m going to invest my time clicking that just to see if there’s something interesting or entertaining without some indication that we’re on the same wavelength? I think not.
Names on Coke cans.
Enough now
If seeing your name on a coke can hacks you off, spare a thought for my friend Matt White who can no longer visit B&Q
Elon Musk stirring up racial hatred at the Tommy Robinson rally.
Take a good look at your own cultural background before interfering with other peoples way of life.
When one person has enough net worth to change the lives of pretty much every person crossing the channel for the better , and not even notice. I find it repulsive that the same man can try to stir up as much hate as he can by saying 'Fight back or Die'
Yeah , because that Afghan family who helped the UKAF by working as cleaners and interpreters are being pursued by ISIS really want to be beheaded and the UK turned our backs on lots of locals who saved our servicemans lives during the invasion.
Makes me rather cross, like the local FB lemmings wanting to meet up in the pub for a post rally report from those who who went as they couldn't attend.
Stupid burgers. Like,
... what's the ****ing point? Are you going to pick it up and eat it, this being the entire raison d'etre of a burger? You are not. Unless you're Diana from V you're going to have to take it to bits - sorry, "deconstruct" it again anyway. Surely what you want there is a big plate and cutlery.
Elon Musk stirring up racial hatred at the Tommy Robinson rally.
Wrong thread mate, it's proportionate and completely understandable to be angry about this.
I've just seen my first Christmas commercial on TV. In September.
The temperature controls buttons the the VW T-Roc that I've just been driving. Never mind the fact that they are touch sensitive rather than proper buttons (I'm guessing that's already been done). But why do the arrows on the right hand side point the wrong way? Make it colder should be pointing down and make it hotter pointing up. They've managed it on the left side but then tried to make it symmetrically opposite on the other side. Except it's not symmetrically opposite becuase they're different bloody colours! And to top it off the up/down bit on the image is completely irrelevant because it's whether you touch it on the left of right that changes the temperature. Shit ergonomics/anthropometrics/whatever it's called that cause dangerous and unnecessary distraction.
My internet at home is down so I am using my mobile as a hotspot. Not that annoying in itself but the thing that's made me cross is this set up is quicker than my Sky broadband.
But why do the arrows on the right hand side point the wrong way?
Oh, that's properly piss-boiling alright.
There's a generation of Ford Fiesta which has buttons on the centre console with the print excitingly angled towards the driver... in a left-hand drive model, it was never changed for RHD. I felt like leaving a dirty protest every time I got out of one.
... this. Look at this bullshit.
The text is arguably forgivable if you don't want the hit of completely redesigning buttons but WTF is going on with the numbers?
WTF is going on with the numbers?
Looks like they're angled for LHD
You don't say.