@iamtheresurrection - have you reflected then? And are you one of the Apostrophes’?
I'm reflecting now, with alcohol as an emotional crutch.
I don't comment on grammar and spelling these days as without reading glasses, I can only hope I'm not making many mistakes...
The **** who overtook a cyclist and a runner on a blind uphill today and almost drove in to us. I gave him the classic ****er hand gesture and he slammed on the brakes which caused him to skid. I think he thought, because we were in a Fiat 500L, that I was an old chap and would be intimidated. He drove off when he got a closer look. Absolute selfish prick of a human being.
The set of dickheads all walking dogs off lead at Tittesworth Reservoir despite the dozens of signs asking them not to do so.
@iamtheresurrection Pleased my advice helped! Have a good evening, enjoy the beer/wine/spirit. Tomorrow is another day..
People who constantly sniff a runny nose on public transport.
And yes, I did offer him a disposable hankie, but he declined.
He wasn’t Japanese, was he? Seriously, it’s a cultural thing to sniff, and very definitely not seemly to use a tissue or hanky to blow your nose. As I have a cold at the moment, and going through tissues like they’re going out of fashion, keeping on sniffing would drive me nuts. 🤧
Cruise control is a pain if it’s busy unless everyone’s using it.
Even then it’s a pain, because unless all cars have adaptive cruise control, the speed of each car will vary slightly, as I frequently found on trips past Birmingham on the way to Manchester, through a 14-mile 50mph camera-controlled section of the motorway. Jeez, that was ******* tedious! 🥱😴
Outdoor bloggers who have their backs to the sun, whilst recording themselves.
The smug Tesla driving bell end who earlier today parked next to a pump at a busy petrol station and then proceeded to do 'very' leisurely grocery shop.
Just middle laners. Utter ****ers. Makes the world a much slower more polluted place. Pull the **** over.
Fiat 500L designers.
The 500 is a cool car, iconic even. And the modern version is a fabulous reboot of it. But it's a compromise, they're not big and they're not supposed to be. Making it into a four door enlarged mini-MPV ..... call it something else if you want but it's not a 500 any more.
It'd be like the Beatles reforming, but as a five piece because they didn't have a synth player in the original.
Fiat 500L designers.
Are you the guy from earlier today? 😀
Decent car to be given for free by your in laws though and handy for a small family too.
It’d be like the Beatles reforming, but as a five piece because they didn’t have a synth player in the original.
Lennon, Mccartney and Harrison all played synth. 🙂
It's a very decent car. I don't have a problem with the car, or the drivers.
It's not a 500 though; the 500 is not a mini-MPV and the designers / marketeers need to get in the sea.
Fiat 500 drivers - all variants
People that say they HATE -->> STW,have a big flounce,then come back with a new user name,the same attitude, and whine on in exactly same manner.
People who have intense jealousy over other happy family. Then they go all the way out to break them and succeed. The happy loving family falls apart. Hell fire is too good for these jealous people.
Sham celebrities.
You are crippling the next generation.
Go and burn slowly in a special place.
The lump of who knows what the size of a baked bean that I've finally managed to fire into a tissue at the tail end of a two-day sinus headache.
Thanks, body. Love you too.
The pricks on motorbikes riding all over and wrecking Hemlock MTB trails yesterday. They are official MTB trails and the trail association work hard to keep them in good nick.
People who commute on road bikes with full team kit who think that means they automatically know more about how to ride a bike safely than someone in jeans and a jumper hauling a trailer with two kids.
I've been doing this since before you were born, prick, so keep your ****ing opinions to yourself.
And yes, even if you are coming off a roundabout at 25mph you still have to be ready to stop at pedestrian crossings.
The inventor of the corned beef tin and its lethal key
Yes, but then I wouldn't have been found crying with laughter at my 18 year old daughter's attempts to open a tin of CB a few weeks ago. She got the can opener out, I shook my head and pointed to the key. She looked at the key and asked if she needed a hammer as well.. I let it drag on for a while while the guessing became even more ridiculous. 😀
4 lap Arena Games Super Sprint races at Crit City, typically 50-100 riders, all in one category.🤮🥵😵
Retired people who clog up shops at the weekend.
Retired people who clog up shops at the weekend.
And clog up the roads during commuting time. FFS
Anyone with a political interest. All news journalists, anyone who even mildly disagrees with me and those dimwits who when approaching from the left at the top of a T junction who flash you out when turning right to save doing the corner properly.
People who sit in their cars with the engine running while eating their lunch.
Rent-a-gobs who've been pulled from obscurity after a lifetime's mediocrity and are given air time thanks to their edgy and usually ill-informed views. Thus far we've had Lowri Turner exhumed to discuss extinction rebellion, Right Said Fred objecting to epidemiologists etc. That awful Durham student woman can get in the sea too.
People who record videos in portrait.
People who record videos in portrait.
LOL! That's true.
People with a bang and crackle map on their [s]1 litre shitebox [/s] car.
People who put their poorly secured recycling out the night before even though the forecast is very windy. Their stuff gets blown all over the place but they're too important to pick up their own litter afterwards 'cos they think the Wombles will do it for them. The rest of the street then has their plastic crap flying around for a day or two.
Parents who drive cars the size of Belgium and park them at jaunty angles blocking the road near the school but they live 5 mins walk away and it would be quicker to walk there. There's no wonder you and little Oliver and Savannah are obese. It's not your hormones it's because you're lazy idiots.
Guess who lives on a windy hill 100m from a school?
Whoever made the decision to use shrink wrap on sets of brake pads. When that stuff does its biz around the pad spring it can take longer to get it out of the packaging and clean than it does to fit the pads.
People who drop litter.
And a slightly hotter corner for those who actually make money out of fly tipping.
Priti Patel - although she probably already has a second job as a non-exec director of hell - and takes advantage of its offshore status for tax purposes.
Disposable barbecues. And coal.
Manchester City Council and British Cycling for building a cycle track around our local park, ruining all the quiet bits and building some lovely features in an SBI.
Class act I don't object to building infostructure but some level of environmental sensitivity would be nice.
Loving some of the pettiness here, great work.
I'd like to nominate people who sit in their car with the engine running, especially outside a school (there are always a few) and even more especially when it's perfectly pleasant outside anyway.
People who record videos in portrait.
Have you not used a smartphone?
Harley Davidson riders - we rode to the nice cafe in Feizor a couple of summers ago and some prick decided that he needed to warm his engine up (on a baking hot day) before departing.
The result was 5 mins of needless loud noise destroying the peace and quiet and the stench of unburnt fuel ruining the taste of the food. When an old lady told him he was ruining their lunch he got shirty, so I went over and had a not-very-quiet-nor-polite word with him
^^^^^
I believe this is the gold standard for dealing with such situations....
People who allow their children/dog/etc to break your X, know that their children/dog/etc have broken your X, then pretend it didn't happen, pretend the X was already broken, and don't own up or apologise or offer to fix it somehow.
People that ring up the office enquiring about a position that we are advertising for and say 'I know your advert says no recruiters, however...'
Ebay chancers / morons.
"will you take £xyz to end this auction early?"
the item that is currently at 5 times xyz?
no
"will you post it?"
what, the "collection only" item? no
"will you post to Greece / Kazakhstan / Bolivia?"
what, the "UK post only" item? no
etc.
^^^^
Pretty much everyone who uses FB Marketplace. I thought FleaBay was bad enough but FB Marketplace really is a dickhead magnet.
I reckon only about 1 in 10 people on FBM turn up on time, in a suitable vehicle, pay the agreed price and then **** off like you're supposed to. The other nine show up late, don't show up at all, bring a 2-seater to collect ladders etc or try to 'negotiate' the price at the end.
On one occasion I have actually been forced to say "the price you have agreed to is £50, if you don't want to pay £50, give me the stuff back and **** off, take it or leave it". I was then accused of being rude despite the fact that I had already made the same point about eight times in more diplomatic ways.
People who can’t keep to a consistent speed on a dual carriageway or Motorway, particularly those whose cars MUST have cruise control fitted.
This. This so much. I was taught that one of the basics of motorway driving is keeping a constant speed, so many people don't.
Cruise control is a pain if it’s busy unless everyone’s using it. On a busy m/way you’re forever fiddling about with the buttons to adjust your speed & braking anyway. Just need learn to keep their foot in the same place on the go pedal & watch the speedo.
Isn't the latter what cruise control is?
^^^ Not quite related but I quite like the American model (well Californian anyway - I don't know if it's the same everywhere) - only people with 2+ people in can use the outside lane and once you are in it you have to stay in it (apart from in certain zones before and after junctions) so you never have people undertaking and then pulling in. It makes it quite pleasant and easy to drive as you can set the cruise control with a decent gap to the cars in front and be happy in the knowledge nobody is suddenly going to fill the gap.
Outdoor vloggers who saunter about mountains with an selfie cam in one hand and a tescos carrier bag in the other.
Surely they can’t just rely on their teeth to break their fall?
People who substitute a sense of humour with a constant barrage of quotes from sitcoms, more specifically Friends and The Simpsons.
In unrelated news, I have a new colleague at work.
In unrelated news, I have a new colleague at work.
And plans to submit a request for a new outdoor communal space at work - like a patio, for example?