I missed a memo yesterday. It was evidently "lurch to the left just as you've nearly finished your overtake" day on the M4.
So many people doing it, when the usual thing is to stay in Lane 2 all the way to Wales.
Posted : 21/02/2025 1:23 pm
Topic starter
People who open all the upstairs windows "to let some air in".
... with the heating going full chat because it's cold.
Posted : 21/02/2025 1:38 pm
I'm cross that the term "****panzer", which was formerly for SUVs, has been pre-purposed specifically for Tesla Cyber Trucks.
Posted : 21/02/2025 2:10 pm
You know what boils my piss - these bloody lids that stay attached to bottles! F those guys!
Posted : 21/02/2025 3:10 pm
lids that stay attached to bottles
Twist 'em they break off. Just remember to recycle the top as well as the bottle.
Posted : 21/02/2025 3:37 pm
Topic starter
You know what boils my piss - these bloody lids that stay attached to bottles! F those guys!
You can rip them off. I like it for the simple reason that they're not going to skitter off under the fridge or car seat.
Related though, I bought a cheap store own-brand bottle of cola that had the tethered cap and the retaining ring was sloppy. Every time you try to pour it'd flap round under the stream so it'd fill up the cap. That was crossmaking.
Posted : 21/02/2025 3:55 pm
You arrive in person to see someone for business or whatever, and just as you're starting a sentence, some knobber rings them, usurping you and you have to stand about like a div until they've got off the phone after an age, leaving you time to reflect and add to this here thread.
Posted : 25/02/2025 3:24 pm
Maybe not disproportionately cross but I was fuming when I saw a mass balloon release in my local park on Saturday. It's 2025, there has to be a better way of marking someone's life than littering the countryside.
Posted : 25/02/2025 3:39 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
stand about like a div until they've got off the phone after an age, leaving you time to reflect and add to this here thread.
The very last bit of that should make you at least a little bit happy, please? The rest, I'd wholly agree with you.
Posted : 25/02/2025 4:48 pm
First day in the office on a phased return after 2 months off with anxiety and depression, and all my colleagues want to ask me what to do on my cases they've been allocated.
Guys, if I knew the answer, I wouldn't have been off!
Posted : 25/02/2025 4:54 pm
funkmasterp reacted
Pricks reading messages on their smart watch in meetings. Rude ****s.
Posted : 25/02/2025 7:58 pm
C5 and the absolute bollocks they keep churning out about the royals. Just the adverts for the programmes make me want to smash my telly.
Posted : 25/02/2025 8:54 pm
Maybe not disproportionately cross but I was fuming when I saw a mass balloon release in my local park on Saturday. It's 2025, there has to be a better way of marking someone's life than littering the countryside.
Yeah. I took one for the team recently and went to see the new Bridget Jones film with Mrs kayak23. Was really not happy to see a scene in the film where they release some balloons for the deceased husband/father. Very sad of course, but yeah, not an ideal thing to have in a film I thought.
Posted : 25/02/2025 9:22 pm
Bloody NZ sandflies. They may not form clouds like the highland midge but they are persistent and very bitey. Horrid little things. I had my morning coffee walking in circles this morning.
Arrgghhhhhhhhh
Posted : 25/02/2025 10:37 pm
People that call non electric bikes "acoustic bikes" and people who call eBikes "eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
Entirely electric? Evidently electric? No idea.
Posted : 25/02/2025 11:09 pm
funkmasterp and timmys reacted
eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
We've done this multiple times. It doesn't stand for anything.
Say ebike. Now say it again but leave out the 'ike'.
Any problems, call Sam Pilgrim. 👍
Posted : 25/02/2025 11:17 pm
The MOT tester leaving my wipers on intermittent for the entire test today.
Also leaving a 39 year old car idling the entire time. Can’t see how it’s necessary.
Seems like unnecessary pollution and the tester risking a sudden hot shower from such an old vehicle
Surely if the fans come on and off a couple of times and it doesn’t piss coolant, it’s all good.
Posted : 26/02/2025 11:40 pm
Youtube. You gits. You sucker me in with the promise of utopian bliss by taking advantage of a free trial of Premium. Now, I'll concede, ad-free YouTube is a thing to be enjoyed. I'll admit to being impressed.
But, no, wait one flaming moment...the second the free trial expires, you now subject me to pre-video ad breaks of a mind numbing, non-skippable, 45 seconds, then, as if that wasn't enough dross, you interrupt my video viewing with another 28 second slot, and further intermittent ad-breaks thereafter. Oh, the horror if it...gits.
Posted : 28/02/2025 3:52 pm
Cancelling British Cycling renewal.
No simple link on dashboard, have to phone in or email.
Gold/Silver/Bronze membership has gone since last year's renewal, cheapest riding membership with the discounts but not insurance is going up to £50 for the year... My Bronze was ~£25 iirc! 😮
And while I'm moaning about British Cycling, why are ebike discounts limited to just Tredz from what I can see, but you can get 10% code for non-e bikes at the likes of Halfords and Decathlon?
Posted : 28/02/2025 4:14 pm
Has anyone mentioned hotel beds that are made so tightly that you cannot get in to tbem and then when you do manage to untuck it enough to get in the bottom sheet is untucked as well?
Boils my urine as there is no need at all.
Posted : 01/03/2025 8:29 am
Murray reacted
This forum. Sorry, STW. New threads don't appear, the pages load no quicker than the old forum, and the new anti-adblock tool is making false accusations.
Posted : 01/03/2025 10:12 am
jamesoz reacted
Yeah. I took one for the team recently and went to see the new Bridget Jones film with Mrs kayak23.
Wandered into the cinema the other week with my wife to see Paddington 3. Ticket checker looked surprised - "oh, you look like the sort of people going to see Bridget Jones". My wife saw the funny side. I didn't.
Posted : 01/03/2025 10:26 am
Topic starter
Candle wax.
That gets right on my wick.
Posted : 01/03/2025 5:48 pm
Badly trained dogs.
Well trained ones are fine and don't need a lead even. Badly trained ones are an antisocial menace
Posted : 01/03/2025 7:39 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
😡
Posted : 01/03/2025 8:36 pm
"eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
Electrically essisted bicycle of course.
Posted : 01/03/2025 9:13 pm
Well trained ones are fine and don't need a lead even. Badly trained ones are an antisocial menace
I’ll have to take your word for that. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such a dog myself.
Posted : 01/03/2025 11:19 pm
Ive met several. A chap on a mixed use path with half a dozen collie type dogs. I rang my bell. He called down and all tbe dogs just sat down out of the way.
My pal had a lurcher that would run down pavements while we rode on tbe road. It waited at every side road to be told to cross and ignored everyone else.
Posted : 02/03/2025 3:00 am
"Zelenskiy has no political nous," says anonymous English IT manager on mountain biking forum.
Posted : 03/03/2025 9:50 pm
MoreCashThanDash and Murray reacted
People repeatedly calling paddles, oars.
Posted : 05/03/2025 10:52 am
Zwift 'Coffee Breaks'.
I know the Big Spin events aren't a race, I'm very aware of that. However, I do like to challenge myself to try and not lose too many places from my starting point in the peloton. Monday night saw me starting the London loop in around 750th place and I held onto that reasonably well around the flat London loop, always in the knowledge that I'd start going rapidly backwards when I hit the Box Hill climb. What I wasn't expecting was the fairly significant number of people passing me on the steepest section of the climb who were off having a 'Coffee Break' and were getting towed up the climb at the speed of whoever they'd been closest to when they hit the button. My eyeballs were bleeding and people were cruising up the climb without pedalling. That made me a wee bit cross.
Finished around 860ish from 1150ish riders, bu I was robbed I tells thee, robbed!
Posted : 05/03/2025 11:13 am
People who respond to threads just to be an arse.
e.g. OP: Can anyone recommend a decent place to eat in < insert town here>?
Someone will invariably reply along the lines of "I went to <insert town here> once in 1985 and it was a shithole. Why would anyone go there. <insert different town here> is better."
If someone asks a straightforward question, just answer it.
People who respond to threads just to be an arse.
e.g. OP: Can anyone recommend a decent place to eat in < insert town here>?
Someone will invariably reply along the lines of "I went to <insert town here> once in 1985 and it was a shithole. Why would anyone go there. <insert different town here> is better."
If someone asks a straightforward question, just answer it.
People's gonna people lol
Posted : 05/03/2025 11:56 am
MoreCashThanDash reacted
Topic starter
If someone asks a straightforward question, just answer it.
The thing here is,
Sometimes people ask the wrong question. If someone asks "what hammer to drive in screws?" then the answer isn't to debate relative merits of a Draper ball-peen vs a Stanley claw hammer, it's to suggest that what they actually want there is a screwdriver.
This happens more often than you might think (beggared questions, not people hammering screws).
Posted : 05/03/2025 2:44 pm
There's a graffiti artist whose work I see around "The City Of Roundabouts" quite a bit, goes by the name of Silent Monkey. Someone pointed it out last night that it's an anagram of Milton Keynes. I was quite cross that I hadn't worked that out for myself.
Posted : 05/03/2025 2:55 pm
The washing machine not pumping out due to hair bands in the pump. Then not pumping out due to gunk in the sink u-bend. Then not pumping out due to gunk stuck behind a ring pull in the drain hose.
On the plus side I'm very quick now at emptying the washing machine full of water without making a mess.
Posted : 05/03/2025 5:30 pm
Topic starter
That would explain why my washing machine plays Unskinny Bop every time I use it.
Posted : 05/03/2025 6:41 pm
rockbus reacted
Topic starter
Stuff that makes me disproportionally cross is my abject inability to remember whether portmanteau words like someone, everywhere, anytime, every time and a supporting cast of thousands is one word or two. How is anytime one word but everytime gets the Wiggly Red Line Of Disapproval? It annoys me alot. [sic]
Posted : 05/03/2025 6:47 pm
Murray reacted
Has anyone mentioned hotel beds that are made so tightly that you cannot get in to tbem and then when you do manage to untuck it enough to get in the bottom sheet is untucked as well?
Yep. But, while we're on the subject of hotels, and beds: hotels that are too tight fisted to get sheets that even fit their beds.
Posted : 05/03/2025 9:47 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
1.5 hour YouTube videos.
Come on guys! I'm low on me-time and I've got a short attention span! That's why I watch YouTube. 😂
Stop with the feature films.
Posted : 06/03/2025 2:43 pm
Sometimes people ask the wrong question. If someone asks "what hammer to drive in screws?" then the answer isn't to debate relative merits of a Draper ball-peen vs a Stanley claw hammer, it's to suggest that what they actually want there is a screwdriver.
Well, now there is such a thing as a screw nail. They are pretty good for fixing decking boards to joists. I've only ever used a claw hammer to drive them home, but now you've got me thinking.
Scrails on the other hand, well they don't work with hammers.
Posted : 07/03/2025 5:26 am
I've been known to utilise my cordless impact driver as a mallet before.
Makes you think
Posted : 07/03/2025 11:55 am
fazzini reacted
My side gate. Seems like every time I approach said gate with it open wheeling my bike on its back wheel towards it, it swings shut!! I then have to reverse back into the garden to reopen it.
I know, why don't I open it and put something in front of it to stop it happening......no idea
Posted : 07/03/2025 2:06 pm
fazzini reacted
Daughter complains house is cold.
Same daughter, happy to leave bathroom window and bathroom door wide open letting out all the heat from the house.
Posted : 07/03/2025 2:22 pm
fazzini reacted
Car drivers who have absolutely no spatial awareness, thus thinking their vehicle requires both lanes at a 2 lane roundabout whilst trying to go to their right, blocking all traffic wanting to turn left...this is aimed at today's mahoosive cars...BMW X5, Range Rover, some sort of lego-esque pick up, Toyota Aygo, Kia picanto, Ford Fiesta - literally one after the other... I could go on...
Posted : 07/03/2025 10:13 pm
Zedsdead reacted
All these folk that slag off charity shop clothing or vintage as they've been pre worn yet when on holiday do they insist on unused virgin bedding
Posted : 08/03/2025 11:00 am
