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Because traffic conditions never change do they? They only "generate cash" if people go faster than the limit, pretty straightforward.
Back on topic, entitled car drivers. 🙂
Vegans
I dont mind vegetarians, but vegans are the fundamentalists of the veggie crowd and i cannot stand them for that alone.
*Live and let live I say.
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* Ok, admittedly I eat my fair share of what are effectively vegans.
Why would you dislike someone for what they choose or choose not to eat?
You make a fair point! 😁
Online IQ tests.
You do the test, and it says congratulations, you are strongest in visual perception, scoring higher than 99% of participants, click here see your full score!
You are then presented with a screen to enter your credit card details!
Presumably if you then immediately close the browser and clear your cookies you get 100% in cognative perception?
But I'll never know!
Swear filters.
Big speed bumps on bus routes. Buses are not Tonka Toys and the discomfort of the ride on some roads are a real deterrent to travelling by bus. Looking at you Lothian No. 4. Poor drivers and their fillings.
Arguments.
Why would you dislike someone for what they choose or choose not to eat?
I dont, which is what I clearly said.
I have the problem with the militant who do care about what other people choose to or not to eat.
TV reporters (especially on the BBC, because they're supposed to know better) using words they don't understand, like 'exponentially' (they mean 'rapidly'), 'epicentre' ('centre', unless you're actually talking about an earthquake) and 'mathematically' ('arithmetically').
I have the problem with the militant who do care about what other people choose to or not to eat.
I completely agree.
But the "militant" broadly aren't the vegans, they're the meat-eaters.
See all the vegans complaining on this thread? On any thread, even? Me neither, yet here you are whining about it.
Militant vegans exist of course, but they are vanishingly rare. Militant carnivores on the other hand, they're free with Tiger Tokens. Maybe all that red meat does something to their brains.
People who re-write the hierarchy of road users and Highway Code norms and requirements as they want to let a car out / wave a cyclist over a pedestrian crossing / do a good deed for the day.
FFS, a wave of your hand could mean you are deep in conversation with someone, it means everyone else has to suddenly play 'guess the rule they just changed to be 'nice'" and 'read the mind of another road user / pedestrian.
Just stick to the norms and rules and we are good.
Militant vegans exist of course, but they are vanishingly rare. Militant carnivores on the other hand, they’re free with Tiger Tokens. Maybe all that red meat does something to their brains.
Maybe it's just a pavlovian response to being told what to eat by militant/evangelical vegans?
Maybe it’s just a pavlovian response to being told what to eat by fictional vegans?
Maybe all that red meat did something to our brains.
fify 😉
Speak for yourself.
I haven't eaten red meat in forever, the closest I came was probably a chilli in 1991. Prior to that maybe the odd can of oxtail soup, sieved to get all the bits out.
People riding their expensive bikes with an unlubricated squeaking chain.
It isn't my problem that they're torturing their drivetrain components to a premature death, yet it still makes me angry as to why they'd do such a thing.
Prior to that maybe the odd can of oxtail soup, sieved to get all the bits out.
I believe those bits are actually bits of rubber.
They have that texture 😕
Dual pricing in supermarkets - ie a fine for not having their card.
TBH, i've never met a single militant* omnivore. But i have been harangued for eating meat. By several people.
Simply doing it in their presence was enough to trigger them. Hey ho.
They no longer associate with me, but did spend several months trying to get my girlfriend to go to the green(?) side and get rid of me.
*OK, i probably have, but not for years, decades.
Maybe all that red meat did something to our brains.
Well according to the authorities here, i've got mad cow disease...
TBH, i’ve never met a single militant* omnivore. But i have been harangued for eating meat. By several people.
Vegans
I dont mind vegetarians, but vegans are the fundamentalists of the veggie crowd and i cannot stand them for that alone.
🤷♂️
Confirmation bias?
Confirmation bias?
Never met him in my life.
I meant *actual people*, not random disembodied voices on a forum.
I don't invite random disembodied voices on forums out for a meal (or round to mine for food).
Also, you know what? I'm disproportionately cross about this. It's untrue, and it's unfair.
You say you've been harangued "several times" for eating meat. Whilst I'm not wholly convinced that's not an exaggeration,
I've been harangued on a near-daily basis for thirty years for not eating meat. A vegan said something to you once, well cry me a ****ing river. I can can count the number of annoying vegans I've met on the fingers of one hand, but vegan-bashing (and I'm not even vegan) is commonplace.
It is literally self-evident on this thread. Dina-ti popped up unprovoked whining about vegans. How many vegans do you see here bitching? How many vegans do you EVER see on STW being preachy, as popular as it is for the usual suspects to bleat on about the place being full of leftie woke yogurt-knitting snowflakes? It just doesn't happen. Preachy meat-eaters OTOH, you can't move for the bastards.
I meant *actual people*, not random disembodied voices on a forum.
Plot twist, random disembodied voices on a forum are actual people too.
I don’t invite random disembodied voices on forums out for a meal (or round to mine for food).
You invite vegan friends round for dinner and are shocked when they tell you they're vegan?
Saying 'underestimate' when the correct word to use is 'overestimate'.
People riding their expensive bikes with an unlubricated squeaking chain.
It isn’t my problem that they’re torturing their drivetrain components to a premature death, yet it still makes me angry as to why they’d do such a thing.
On a similar note; people on bikes which cost many thousand pounds but have a 50p 3mm led rear light that is so dim it's near impossible to see.
Just buy a decent light you cheapskates as you clearly have the money to do so.
How many vegans do you see here bitching?
er...um... 😆 😆
Fun over. Was meant to stir the pot as the thread was waning a bit.
You say you’ve been harangued “several times” for eating meat. Whilst I’m not wholly convinced that’s not an exaggeration,
I can name some of them if you'd like?
The last two or three times i can probably tell you what the occasion was.
I’ve been harangued on a near-daily basis for thirty years for not eating meat.
Change who you associate with.
That's what i've done, indirectly and not through choice, Simon, Daniel, Sara and Pete are either no longer associate with us (their choice, not ours) or tend not to get invited out (or if they do, they turn the invites down).
No one else in our circle is that aggressive about anyones food choices. And FWIW we conform to their food standards if we eat with them/at theirs and ensure they are properly catered for wherever else we may go to eat.
People who don't understand how trousers work.
It is literally self-evident on this thread. Dina-ti popped up unprovoked whining about vegans.
People are trolls.
Fun over. Was meant to stir the pot as the thread was waning a bit.
Oh, look.
You invite vegan friends round for dinner and are shocked when they tell you they’re vegan?
Wait? What? Where did you get that from? Last time (Midsummer BBQ) they were invited round and i prepared about a dozen different dishes to cater to Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous diets (Gluten free as well) i like cooking.
Then got insulted for serving and eating meat. Christ, i even borrowed a *second grill* so i wouldn't have to cook the vegan stuff on the same surface as the meat.
Plot twist, random disembodied voices on a forum are actual people too.
No they aren't. They're just random disembodied voices on a forum who i don't know. So they are unlikely to sit down to break bread with me. (Though, admittedly, some of the random voices on here i do actually know IRL.)
I've been a veggie for 35 years and I've never harangued anyone for eating meat. I might have occasionally said that I didn't eat dead animals when such a dish was suggested. But I've been called a weirdo, had my sexuality questioned, asked how I can get enough protein or why don't I get bored with eating plants, and loads of other daft questions and comments.
Anyway, have we done people who move over to block both lanes when there is a merge point coming up? Even when there is a sign that says 'Use both lanes'? Utter twunts.
er…um… 😆 😆
Still not a vegan.
Fun over. Was meant to stir the pot as the thread was waning a bit.
AKA, "trolling."
Change who you associate with.
It's not always that easy though, is it. Again, case in point, this very thread.
Eg, one attack amongst many a few years ago, I was out with work. Down south with a team I didn't really know, everything was fine until my boss suddenly went "where's your meat?" I said I didn't eat meat. Cue a cross-examination from the entire table for the next half an hour rolling out every cliché under the sun.
It happens, it happens consistently and continually, and it is incredibly tedious. Shut the **** up and eat your bacon, I really don't care. Just leave me alone.
Then got insulted for serving and eating meat. Christ, i even borrowed a *second grill* so i wouldn’t have to cook the vegan stuff on the same surface as the meat.
Then what you have there is what we non-meat eaters tend to call "idiots" and as I've said before it's a vocal minority who give the rest a bad name whatever the demographic.
That said you lost me at "even," that should be a baseline rather than an exception. Go you for not coating vegetarian food in pig grease.
*haven't read whole thread...people driving who turn left by swinging out onto the opposite side of the road; people driving who turn left so wide they're on the wrong side of the road they're entering. (all for no reason). Rant over.
Also,
Four people, wow. How do you possibly cope? That's double my count, yet no-one complains about preachy meat-eaters and those I've interacted with are easily in their hundreds.
You likely won't see it. It's relentless.
Any chance you can give us a fuller picture of Simon, Daniel, Sara and Pete, I'd like to get to know them a little better, please?
haven’t read whole thread
Probably for the best 😉
Probably for the best 😉
Erm...I'm a Simon... What have I done now??? 😬
I did go to a vegaterian eatery once, but the hostile anti meat menu left me with little choice. Although there was the paella.
Blimey, a bit of a light hearted comment on a thread of light hearted piss taking suddenly blew up.
Gluten free fashionistas. Making a fuss about needing gluten free food then necking beers/lagers or deciding they'll have the apple crumble because they've sacrificed on their main course. My wife is coeliac for christ's sake, and gets genuinely ill if she eats gluten. These arseholes just cause restaurant staff to roll their eyes and go yeah yeah, another pita here. Really grinds my gears. Looking at you brother in law and wife.
Its the texture I think Cougar. I do potatoes, love them, and maybe turnip, but as a kid i wasnt forced to eat the green stuff so never got into it. Quite the limited diet really. But seems to work for me.
Blimey, a bit of a light hearted comment on a thread of light hearted piss taking suddenly blew up.
Nah, this is just a bit of friendly banter. Nothing more.
Even when there is a sign that says ‘Use both lanes’?
That's what they're doing. The sign should really say "use either lane".
It would be a lot less stressful for everybody if there were also signs saying "merge in 100m", "merge in 50m", "merge HERE".
Film lids on food packaging that won't peel off, despite teasing you with a little lift up corner suggesting it will be effortless.
Results in me getting stabby with a vegetable peeler or nearest similar implement. Or if it does start to peel off, it's just the strip around edge because the bit where it touches the container has been welded on with some industrial death ray laser.
See also hard plastic blister packs that stuff like torches and multitools come in. You need an angle grinder to open them, or in a pinch a multi tool - except it's inside the effing force field packaging!
Men that urinate in the toilets when there are urinals available
Men that urinate in the toilets when there are urinals available
And can't be bothered to lift the seat.
Film lids on food packaging that won’t peel off, despite teasing you with a little lift up corner suggesting it will be effortless.
Results in me getting stabby with a vegetable peeler or nearest similar implement. Or if it does start to peel off, it’s just the strip around edge because the bit where it touches the container has been welded on with some industrial death ray laser.
See also hard plastic blister packs that stuff like torches and multitools come in. You need an angle grinder to open them, or in a pinch a multi tool – except it’s inside the effing force field packaging!
All of this. How hard is it to make food-safe glue which is slightly weaker than the film it's retaining?
I was once in Lakeland or some other pretentious 'lifestyle' shop. They were selling special cutters for opening blister packs... packaged in a blister pack. Turtles all the way down, man.
The reason I have a numb patch on my finger is due trying to ram a table knife into a plasic food package and slipping, and then gouging a chunk out of my finger.
I'd say that's legitimately angry rather than disproportionately angry!
Still got the scar two years later, although if anyone asks, I got it from fending off an aggressive barracuda whilst snorkeling.
Weetabix boxes and the detritus they leave in their wake no matter how carefully you try to get a Weetabix out of said box.
Car insurance renewal email just come through, insurance has gone up by £122 (approx 25%!) that’s made me cross (not disproportionately). What has made me disproportionately cross is this that was in the email:
”Flow will always provide its best price first time, based on your individual details. Flow doesn’t haggle on renewal price or respond to emails about renewal price matching.”
Now I’ve got to faff around looking at those irritating insurance comparison websites.
Now I’ve got to faff around looking at those irritating insurance comparison websites.
At least you can get some cashback though with a new policy. Normally saves another £40 or so on top. We use topcashback's own comparison site normally
Trades that come out to have a look at the thing you want doing and tell you they'll send a quote "in the next couple of days" and then radio silence. If you don't want the work, then just ****ing say so on the phone, don't bother coming out - that means I have to be home and take time out of work, and then neither of us has to bugger about with this shit.
Anyone know a good roofer and a fencer in South Manchester who actually wants the work?
Potential customers who after visiting their houses to see what they want doing, and then spending parts of your evenings researching what is needed for the job in parts, materials and likely labour costs, all at the best prices, doing them careful presentation drawings to give them a good idea of what it might look like and providing them with a quote in a couple of days, then radio silence. They never get back to you. Not even to pay you the courtesy of saying that it's outside of their budget currently. Nothing...
😡
When there is right turn box on a straight road and then some numpty leaves the arse end of the car hanging into the live lane so any cars behind have to stop.
Potential customers who after visiting their houses to see what they want doing
They're probably still in shock that someone turned up.
Window cleaners for me. Like, how hard can it be to find a goddamn window cleaner? I hired a national company who had a revolutionary technique of using "water," three visits later I had wet windows rather than clean ones. I collared a liveried van on the double yellows outside my house whilst they were going ("I'll only be a minute") to the chippie three doors down, they came once and never again. I saw them a second time, went "where were you" and they said I hadn't paid them, which was a lie but I paid them again anyway, haven't seen them since. Then when my mum died I called her cleaner, he said he'd either come round or send a mate in the area, nothing.
Gods help me if I ever need a big job doing.
🤣
From this morning…
Fully able people who park in the disabled spots right outside my gym, get the lift to the first floor where the equipment is, and then go walking on the running machines.
Just go for a bloody walk!
To answer the OP - ****ing everything! 😂
People who block the pump at the petrol station when they aren't buying fuel, just a crap take-away coffee and some fags.
Honestly, we need to rethink that as a system. "Oh, I can't park my car up after buying fuel, they might think I'm stealing it." So they leave their car at the back pump blocking off several others whilst they go and do their weekly shop in a goddamn petrol station.
Just.
****.
The ****.
Off.
Fully able people who park in the disabled spots right outside my gym, get the lift to the first floor where the equipment is, and then go walking on therunning machines.Just go for a bloody walk!
FTFY. Running sucks, I don't know why people do it for fun. It is great exercise though so, if you're going to do it, why not do it outside where it's nice instead of on a machine inside a room full of sweaty muscle bros.
FTFY. Running sucks, I don’t know why people do it for fun. It is great exercise though so, if you’re going to do it, why not do it outside where it’s nice instead of on a machine inside a room full of sweaty muscle bros.
Because, well - reasons!! I'm trying to ease my way back into running after an ACL op and for the time being, a treadmill is just easier. More cushioned, predicable, stable surface to run on. It's hilly in every direction by me were I to run from the door, with poor surfaces and I'm not ready for that yet. I'm getting there though and I agree, I much prefer running outdoors and my goal is to get back to it as soon as I can.
I’m trying to ease my way back into running after an ACL op and for the time being, a treadmill is just easier.
That I can understand. Otherwise, the idea of gyms just boils my piss.
My colleague eats a banana every morning.
He peels the entire thing out of its skin.
The first few chews make it sound like its a stick of rock. really crunchy. its not. its a soft banana.
upon completion he will then lick and suck the end of each finger, removing the banana residue.
Boils my urine. How do you make a crunch sound? If you didnt remove the whole thing from its skin, you wouldnt get need to suck on each finger tip, then wipe your spitty fingers on your trousers to dry them off..... GRRRRRrrrraaaaugggghhhhhhaaaaaaaayouidiot!
Lovely bloke mind!
My colleague eats a banana every morning.
Years ago as a student, I had a part-time job in a chip shop and every morning break we were treated to a choice of a pastry from the local bakers. The lovely old lady who worked with me would sit down at the staff table, take out her false teeth, put them on the table beside her then proceed to eat things like vanilla slices and chocolate eclairs, mouthing at them like a cod whilst trying to bite into them. It is making me shiver just recalling this in writing.
Stuff that makes other people disproportionatly cross (apparently)
The bloke this morning in his tatty Astra coming the wrong way up a one-way residential street and expecting me to pull over to let him by, by shouting at me to "Just ****ing pull over mate" You know what dude, if you'd have asked nicely, or even just reversed straight away, you wouldn't have wound yourself up into a frothing rage this morning.
****.
The lovely old lady who worked with me would sit down at the staff table, take out her false teeth, put them on the table beside her then proceed to eat things like vanilla slices and chocolate eclairs, mouthing at them like a cod whilst trying to bite into them. It is making me shiver just recalling this in writing.
Just think what she might've done with your willy.
You're welcome.
The bloke this morning in his tatty Astra coming the wrong way up a one-way residential street and expecting me to pull over to let him by, by shouting at me to “Just **** pull over mate” You know what dude, if you’d have asked nicely, or even just reversed straight away, you wouldn’t have wound yourself up into a frothing rage this morning.
Ah yes. The old "you've gone out of your way to be a self-entitled git and now this is somehow my problem to resolve" manoeuvre. I keep a book in the glovebox for such scenarios.
Just think what she might’ve done with your willy.
She was a pro.
The lovely old lady who worked with me would sit down at the staff table, take out her false teeth, put them on the table beside her then proceed to eat things like vanilla slices and chocolate eclairs, mouthing at them like a cod
Slight thread diversion (and I may have regaled this before), but this reminds me of a similar experience. It didn't make me disproportionately cross though. It had a much more physical effect. Mid 1980s, I was on the Liverpool to Douglas IOM ferry. In those days the Manx Steam Packet boats didn't have stabilisers. It was December, the boat was packed and the sea was very, very rough. The ship was pitching and rolling violently. I was congratulating myself on my sea legs and cast iron stomach as chaos ensued all around. Plates smashing, stuff flying off tables, crying, groaning and vomiting. Lots and lots of vomiting - everywhere you looked. I went to the heads and it was ankle deep in spew with a little tidal wave going back and forth as the boat pitched. Every trap, urinal and sink had someones head in it, hurling their intestines into the void.
I was still holding it together and sat down at a table and the bloke opposite me also seemed unperturbed by the seas. He glanced at me. There was a kinship I thought, two hardy sailors in the midst of all this mayhem. He was an old geezer and he took his metal sandwich tin out and opened it. I knew immediately what was on the sandwiches as I could smell it. Fish paste. I don't like fish paste. The smell of this mixed with the all pervading smell of vomit and a faint whiff of diesel was quite distinctive. I watched in horror, seemingly in slow motion as his lifted his fishy sarnie to his toothless gob and began sucking at it. Noisily, with a little bit of drool at the corner of his mouth. This image is etched in my brain. In that very instant, the contents of my stomach decided they needed to vacate my body with unseemly haste. I was so completely taken by surprise at this rapid turn of events, that I only just managed to turn my head a fraction and avoid hosing the bloke from head to foot with diced carrots and tomato skins.
Not my proudest moment.
One thousand replies. Blimey, we are a frustrated bunch aren't we?
FTFY. Running sucks, I don’t know why people do it for fun. It is great exercise though so, if you’re going to do it, why not do it outside where it’s nice instead of on a machine inside a room full of sweaty muscle bros.
You’re assuming I was running.
I was picking things up and putting them down again.
I completely agree with you on running outdoes and that’s where I do it.
I was getting disproportionately angry at people using disabled spaces when they shouldn’t, being too lazy to walk up a single flight of stairs in the gym, and then walking on a running machine.
When they could have just gone for a walk in the great outdoors.