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Sinuses. AIUI they're just holes in your skull to make it a bit lighter, so why did we evolve a mechanism to fill them with the stickiest mankiest snot that the body can produce? I'd trade a heavier skull & a thicker neck for the joy of never having crappy sinuses ever again.
See also decongestants. The name would imply that they are capable of tackling the aforementioned manky sticky snot, so why have I been completely crammed full of the stuff for the last week?
The Powersheds advert with "here's to all the mountain bike hoarders" with a pic of a wall of road bikes.
Sinuses.
I can relate to that. I spent a night in hospital having had mine scraped out with a spoon. The procedure wasn't enough to require a night stay, but they wouldn't let me home until I could pee. That made me very cross. Disproportionate? Maybe. Having a stranger shove a tube up your todger can affect your perspective.
Imagine what its like doing the tube shoving🤣
Cross, but with a happy ending...
Went down into the basement to rummage for something and could hear a subtle noise that sounded like an electrical cracking/buzzing.. couldn't narrow down where it was comming from.
Ear to the strip light, the electric meter, chest freezer, pipe work etc. and couldn't pin down where it was coming from.
I could feel my stress levels rising until the penny dropped...
The noise was the sound of the bubbles popping in the freshly poured pint of lemonade I was holding, the lack of ambient sound down there made it sound quite loud.
Epic fail. 🙃
Having read the post above I've now got a hankering for a pint of freshly poured lemonade and am disproportionally cross that I have none and the shops are shut.
Tailgating by HGVs. It says 40 on the gantry, I'm doing 44 on my speedometer. Overtake if you want, I don't care, just don't sit on my bumper flashing your lights. It makes me rage.
See also: HGV drivers straddling two lanes in the run-up to roadworks because of a moronic sense of both their own self-importance and how traffic should queue.
Maybe. Having a stranger shove a tube up your todger can affect your perspective.
You have sinuses up your todger?
See also: HGV drivers straddling two lanes in the run-up to roadworks because of a moronic sense of both their own self-importance and how traffic should queue.
I have a fond memory of owning a Triumph GT6 that was so narrow that when a lorry tried to do that to me there was still space for me to go around him. I like to think the driver was disproportionally cross about that.
You have sinuses up your todger?
I'm not the only one wondering about that!
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
You have sinuses up your todger?
I'm not the only one wondering about that!
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
And disproportionately cross-eyed too!
Massive self-important ends of bells that push their way past everyone who patiently takes their turn into roadwork lane closures so they can barge in just at the end and make everyone else who isn't an R-sole and is being courteous add more time to their journey and then have the audacity to complain when people in lorries try to help them not spend their whole lives as dicks.
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
That’s odd. I feel sure I wrote something about being unable to pee. Maybe tj will explain it to you. I’m trying to blot out the memory.
People who when entering the average speed controlled section of the motorway feel that the 50mph isn't marked by where the signs are, rather it only actually starts where the first camera is about 400m further on. More specifically, those that when I slow down in a controlled way so when I reach the signs I'm going at 50mph, feel the need to tailgate me with full beam and horn to express their displeasure. More specifically, those that do it when there's a whole lane next to me where they could overtake me if they feel that the 5s or so* they would save by maintaining their 70-odd mph for the 400m before dropping anchors is vital.
* Also, detail pedants that have to calculate the 5s above rather than just go with a quick guesstimate. It's 5.14s to be strictly accurate.
People who do not understand the "zipper merge" thus creating longer delays and tailbacks 🙂
Zipper merging works if everyone cooperates for the greater good. Not gonna happen in the UK.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
People who can't follow advice in the Highway Code or from the Police....
Arriving 5 minutes early at the station to find the train (unusually to be fair) is running 6 minutes late.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
Lols
People who bang on about the Highway code which we all know is deeply related to actual reality on the roads. 😊👍
* Also, detail pedants that have to calculate the 5s above rather than just go with a quick guesstimate. It's 5.14s to be strictly accurate.
Peeve: That I had to do the calculation and consider the assumptions, rather than just go with what @theotherjonv said.
When boarding a busy commuter train and the passenger in front of you can't decide where to sit and so stands there blocking the aisle, swivelling left and right like a ****ed robot, as the carriage steadily fills up from the other end.
When boarding a busy tube train & the people in front stop just beyond the doors, oh just move down the aisle will you or that isn't within your capability at least stop blocking the ****ing doors.
That’s odd. I feel sure I wrote something about being unable to pee. Maybe tj will explain it to you. I’m trying to blot out the memory.
Yes, being unable to pee because of blocked sinuses or something... it was very late at night I was overtired and unwell so brain wasn't up to understanding much, hence the confusion and bad reading 🙃
People who bang on about the Highway code which we all know is deeply related to actual reality on the roads
The point is that if everyone did follow the Highway Code, the roads would be a much nicer place and with more efficient driving leading to less congestion and lower fuel consumption.
Perhaps some people would need to drive a little slower, which leads me to my next point: that it's somewhat ironic to complain of someone overtaking you due to 'making progress' when the only real reason for complaining is that they're now in front of you, therefore marginally impeding your own progress 😜
I once heard an album described as "all killer no filler."
Was it the album 'All Killer No Filler' by Sum41 perchance?
Speaking of Highway Code, this reminds me of another thing - dunno about cross but I get disproportionately flabbergasted at the amount of people who seem to find it difficult to drive and tell the time at the same time. There are lots of bus lanes around here that are only active during busy times (mon-fri, 7-10am & 4-7pm) with plenty of repeater signs along their length, and they're almost always empty at any time of day. It's weird to see all the cars swerve into the second lane when the bus lanes start, at 2pm or something.
Driving home from B&Q on a lunchtime or Sunday always amuses me, pootling up Cheetham Hill Road at a steady speed*, merrily undertaking the long queue of traffic sitting pointlessly in the middle lane 🙄
I can understand this happening sometimes, it's the fact that it's just so common which is what amazes me.
*(yes yes, only when safe, clear visibility, etc)
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
it's literally what you're supposed to do.
See solid white line and bus lane, avoid it. Sit in traffic for a bit, read the time restrictions, pull across to part time bus lane, which then ends with a full time bus lane, rejoin original lane.
Speaking of Highway Code, this reminds me of another thing - dunno about cross but I get disproportionately flabbergasted at the amount of people who seem to find it difficult to drive and tell the time at the same time. There are lots of bus lanes around here that are only active during busy times (mon-fri, 7-10am & 4-7pm) with plenty of repeater signs along their length, and they're almost always empty at any time of day. It's weird to see all the cars swerve into the second lane when the bus lanes start, at 2pm or something.
As for Zipper merging, there is often a sign too! Use both lanes when queuing, merge in turn etc.
Wait in a long single line and you increase the length of the queue and risk blocking roads further back unnecessarily.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
Now that I'm back at a real keyboard,
Two lanes going to different places, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute (unless you're genuinely lost and screwed up) is a total dick move.
Two lanes going to the same place where they merge into one, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute is totally fair game because that is what the road is there for. If you were supposed to merge half a mile back, it would have been coned off half a mile back. Leaving unused space is achieving nothing other than increasing the length of the queue, potentially causing wholly avoidable issues back down the line. Well done to anyone who's the type to create a rolling roadblock, they might just have gridlocked a roundabout a mile behind them.
To be fair, this is the 'disproportionately' cross thread, so it qualifies. 😉
And what the chuff is going on with this website? lol
I think it's forcing everyone into one lane...or something?
Anyway i'm struggling to get past an email i've received on a Class Action. At the top it says:
"Confidential and subject to legal professional priviledge"
How am I supposed to trust a legal firm that can't spell!
How am I supposed to trust a legal firm that can't spell!
Plot twist - you don't.
Phishing emails are worded badly for a reason - if anyones dumb enough to reply to it then they know they have found a victim ripe for further fun.
On the off chance it's legit, and an actual typo, then they have serious problems with quality control and you'd have to question how competent they are as a legal firm.
It's definitely legit. It's related to a pension fund class action that i'm registered with... and it's a very big legal firm that specialises in these things. It's not just a typo in the text, either, but within an embedded image (which in my mind means it should have been reviewed even more closely!)
Anyway, we've 'won' $67m ..."This amount includes legal costs and represents a full and final resolution of the claims brought by the applicant and group members." I anticipate my cut will be tiny.
I watched an Ep of Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix, it's obviously stupid - I note here the inclusion of Keanu Reeves as [presumably] willing patsy, but I don't understand* why an organisation like Netflix would promote such obvious bullshit in an environment like we experience today where trust in orthodoxy and science is failing and sliding away. It's at best irresponsible, at worst deceitful. It would maybe be OK if it was labelled as fiction, or pseudoscience, but they promote it as if it's an actual alternate view of ancient history. What next? Sovereign Citizens and the Law? The Truther guide to Architecture?
*well, I do, but you know what I mean.
Desserts! Or shall we call them sticky stuff in tubs? Why are they so damn small? What is the point in something tasty that fits in a sherry glass. Surely that Milky Bar mousse thing I ate last night should be in a 2 litre ice cream tub at least. 500 ml of honey yoghurt FFS. That's a small portion not a family pack. Where is the fun in a fun sized Mars bar or a mini Magnum ice cream? Same actually with pork scratchings. Over 40 years ago I had to wait for a train at some station in Brum and downstairs was an indoor market. A stall was flogging pork scratching from big black dustbins. I bought a carrier bag full for a few pence. By god I was thirsty by the time I got to Gloucester!
Driving home from B&Q on a lunchtime or Sunday always amuses me, pootling up Cheetham Hill Road at a steady speed*, merrily undertaking the long queue of traffic sitting pointlessly in the middle lane 🙄
I can understand this happening sometimes, it's the fact that it's just so common which is what amazes me.
*(yes yes, only when safe, clear visibility, etc)
People qualifying statements so as to avoid starting an argument.
I mean, WTF, this is STW, are you new here? [/rant]
are you new here?
No, which is why I know what to expect 😀
...and yes, I did suspect someone would jump on that anyway for some reason 🤣
When you're introduced to someone and you go to shake their hand, but they do that macho 90⁰ to the handshake hand-grabby shoulder bump bullshit. Clowns.
On that note: serial huggers. It's the first time I've ever met you and I'm Aspie, get off me and get out of my space. Hugs are reserved for close friends.
As for macho handshakes, it's a handshake not a "who can squeeze the hardest" competition.
On the other hand (ha), damp limp fish handshakes are just as annoying.
Reach out to shake and you just manage to grab their floppy fingers, which hang there and slip out of your hand like all their arm muscles just failed. Ugh.
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong.
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong.
"How to instantly make everyone reading very nervous" 🤣