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The New Grumpy Old Man Thread.
We had a grumpy thread a while back, I couldn't find it so I decided to start another.
What really ticks you off? Here's a starter.
Mobile 'phones.
I hate the buggers. When I used to own one they always rang at the most inopportune moments. Like when I was negotiating a roundabout on the North Circular.
Then there is those bloody polyphonic ringtones. What's all that about? What's wrong with a simple bell sound? Another thing is the owners. Why oh why do they have to shout into the damn things? I don't want to hear what you're saying to 'Baz' or 'Shaz' or whatever twonk your connected to. I feel like grabbing them out of their hands, jump up and down on them (ala Basil Fawlty) and then handing them back to their owners. Bastards.
If that aint enough. they're not just 'phones anymore, are they? No they play music, videos, take pictures, tell the time and generally just irritate the hell out of me.
I'd take a leaf out of Nu-Labs book and ban 'em.
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I'm with you on that one IA. It is a useful tool but too many people are discourteous in its use. Without getting into a massive rant, my pet peeves are (in order):
1) Talking on the phone when you are with others. I see this a lot in the teenage crowd locally. A group of 8-10 kids at least half of whom are talking on the phone to some else. I guess the friends who took the time to actually BE with them aren't as important as those who didn't. I put the rap on the young but I experienced it with my best friend too. We hadn't seen each other in a few months so getting together was a big deal. He'd gotten a new fancy schmancy cell phone and was reaching for his phone every couple of minutes to check a text message or email he received. I felt like I was talking to the wall after a while. I finally said something to him and he's been good about it ever since. But man was that frustrating!
2) Walkie talkie style phones where you get the bonus of hearing both sides of the conversation.
3) Transacting business (restaurant, store, etc) while talking on the phone.
4) Watching someone walk to their car, hop in, and then call someone before they drive off (one-handed).
5) The Borg: those wearing the Bluetooth ear pieces (do they wear them to bed too?) who walk around apparently talking to themselves until you see the headset. On the bright side, at least they can drive with both hands if needed.
Better stop there - I got a call on my cell phone.
Edit: yes, I forgot to second your motion on the ringtones. 95% of them are just stupid ringtones. I will admit to hearing one or two that were alright. My son cracked me up though. He recorded our toilet flushing and set it up as his ringtone when a text message comes in. It is rather funny to hear.
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Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Then there is those bloody polyphonic ringtones.
They are the one redeeming aspect of mobile phones. Some are brilliant. Mobile phones as such are a pest. And Gregoshi, a flushing lavatory was the last thing my mobile heard. That's because I literally flushed it down the John in some fancy restaurant last year. I felt extremely satisfied, just like I did at the office about eight years back when I threw a no-good, persistently malfunctioning office chair out the window (four storeys high) onto the pavement, accidentally before the feet of our janitor and a health & safety inspector who happened to be making his round of the premises. I have never seen management replace the old chairs on our floor so fast.
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What really ticks you off?
Grumpy old men .
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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Grumpy old men .
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Don't know if this is an old fart thing to say, but I'm pretty annoyed at all the coverage sub-sports are getting on the TV. I'm sick of seeing adverts about rugby, marathons, an the Olympics (GAH!). No-one cares!
Football and a little tennis should be the only sports allowed.
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Originally Posted by Adrian II
just like I did at the office about eight years back when I threw a no-good, persistently malfunctioning office chair out the window (four storeys high) onto the pavement, accidentally before the feet of our janitor and a health & safety inspector who happened to be making his round of the premises. I have never seen management replace the old chairs on our floor so fast.
Reminds me when someone at my school threw a chair out a window down onto a group of people from the second floor. A teacher happened to see him at the time, and he got chased all the way up to the top floor. :laugh4:
And afterwards... :whip:
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Originally Posted by Caledonian Rhyfelwyr
Football and a little tennis should be the only sports allowed.
And only at night.
*grumping on*
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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Grumpy old men .
Welcome to the club. :laugh4:
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People with iPods or MP3 players on WAY TOO FREAKING LOUD on public transport. There is no way to escape, barring turing up my own iPod. It is a perpetual cycle...
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Sunshine makes me grumpy.
If I go out in the sun I burn, I can't concentrate on my work if it's too hot (and my office has no AC), it causes all the morons who would normally be safely locked away in their houses to meander around on the cyclepath I ride to work on, getting angry at me when they brainlessly wander into my path, it causes fat hairy men to walk around topless, and it causes annoying smug people to wonder aloud at me why I could be so grumpy when it's so sunny.
And worst of all, just as I retreat into my dark cave to hide from all the smug cheerful morons it shines on my computer screen, meaning I can't see it well enough to play TW anymore :furious3: :wall: .
I hate the sun. If I had my way every day would be suitably sombre and grey.
On the subject of ringtones, anyone remember the Crazy Frog? A good argument for extrajudicial execution in my opinion.
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Sunshine makes me grumpy.
Thats easily solved , move to Ireland .
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Gift vouchers make me grumpy, why in gods name would you force someone to spend thier money at only one shop (or a few depending on voucher) to start with they had a currency accepted for goods and services all over the country but what do they send me ? a currency which is limited to a small range of goods i don't really want and a currency which i can only use at shops miles away!
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The Australian Federal Government. Increasing taxes on alcohol! It's so damned hot all the time, and everything is so damned expensive too, and we can't even get cheap booze to ease our pain and cool us down!!!
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Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. Who do these saggy, wind socks think they are? I'm tired of them going door to door trying to sell me Prohibition. Yeah, I'm really sorry you never kept an eye out on your son when he was 17... but stop being Kyle's Mom about it. Then if that weren't enough, they harass you over the phone if you don't give them a donation. If I seriously have to see one more of those scraggly hat wearing cows walk through my neighborhood, I may very well join Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Thats easily solved , move to Ireland .
:laugh4: You'd have thought moving to Wales would be sufficient!
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Edit: yes, I forgot to second your motion on the ringtones. 95% of them are just stupid ringtones. I will admit to hearing one or two that were alright.
I hate the 110% of the ringtones. I have those generic Motorola that only can play monophonic sounds and they suck big time, thats why I use it in vibration all the time.
Oh, I'm sorry mum, I didnt receive the call because I didn't notice, ma. Its confortable, but unnoticeable at the same time.
And I'm tired of cellphones, and you wanna know whats the best use I can make of it?
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Another thing that annoys me (and I'm a young guy, but well, I have things to complain too!) is about how girls wear. Yes, instead of thanking God of that, I complain about it. Why? Because its a contradiction of them.
The only thing they do is use sexy clothes. They use a short skirt, and a sexy shirt. Now, whats the real purpose about wearing revelative clothes? I think it is for to catch the attention of the members of the opposite sex, and hell, they can do it. The thing that surprises me is that when you tell them that she looks very well, its ok, three aren't any problems. The problem is when you tell them something else. They get annoyed and say things like : You pervert!
Then, damn, why the hell do they wear with those kind of clothes?
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Originally Posted by Rythmic
The Australian Federal Government. Increasing taxes on alcohol! It's so damned hot all the time, and everything is so damned expensive too, and we can't even get cheap booze to ease our pain and cool us down!!!
Damn right! Considering that I pretty much only drink the stuff that is taxed now I have to pay more for the few times when I actually do drink.
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Originally Posted by Caius
Another thing that annoys me (and I'm a young guy, but well, I have things to complain too!) is about how girls wear. Yes, instead of thanking God of that, I complain about it. Why? Because its a contradiction of them.
The only thing they do is use sexy clothes. They use a short skirt, and a sexy shirt. Now, whats the real purpose about wearing revelative clothes? I think it is for to catch the attention of the members of the opposite sex, and hell, they can do it. The thing that surprises me is that when you tell them that she looks very well, its ok, three aren't any problems. The problem is when you tell them something else. They get annoyed and say things like : You pervert!
Then, damn, why the hell do they wear with those kind of clothes?
Hahahaha
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US coverage of the Olympics. Thank goodness I get CBC (being somewhat close to Canada) which airs more sensible footage.
The thing is, the stupid US tv networks seem to think everyone wants to watch emotional background features on Olympic athletes instead of the darned sports themselves! *rips out hair*
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Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
US coverage of the Olympics. Thank goodness I get CBC (being somewhat close to Canada) which airs more sensible footage.
The thing is, the stupid US tv networks seem to think everyone wants to watch emotional background features on Olympic athletes instead of the darned sports themselves! *rips out hair*
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Yes exactly. It's fine when the people are actually winning but usually it's just really boring. I like getting a bit of background on michael phelps for example just because he was in just about everything the first week.
I also hate that they only show events that have americans.
Beach volleyball has absolutely no place in the olympics. It's a terrible sport. Extremely predictable. Regular volleyball is more fun to watch. Get your hot girls elsewhere :verymad:
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The one thing I appreciate about Montana, is although for the most part are food isn't necessarily to die for, we can cook a Steak Dammit! Rare, Extra Tender (you could cut it with a fork), and a dash of salt. Thats it, thats all thats needed. I've been to local restraunts, and somehow they muck it up, and I've been to some of the Finest Bistro's in LA, New York City, and Montreal and I walked away with the notion that (who the hell bakes a steak anyway?) I've even went to a high dollar Texas BBQ thinking this is the one thats gonna beat us, and no... disappointment as usual. I don't know if it's something in the Cattle that makes ours taste so much better than the rest, but now I'm convinced that I'll never eat a steak that for one isn't home-made, and two, doesn't come out of Montana. :furious3:
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Oh where would I start?
First has got to be TV adverts, 99% of them are crap, I mean, I don't need pile cream, yet, and you never see me jumping up in the air when I have to take Gaviscon and doing so while directing traffic is just plain negligence.
Next has to be the news on TV, how thick do you think we are "Let's go to the news in your area" complete with a map in the background, I KNOW WHERE I LIVE. Not to mention the guy pressing down on a lift to show that Christmas sales were down, someone should have pushed him down the shaft and then preseed the damn button.
As for mobiles, the new craze here is to use them to play music, not through ear phones, but at full volume in the street or on the bus, bloody weans. Oh, ny ringtune is House of Pains Jump, when its not on silent.
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Oh, that reminds me, the anti-smoking ads they run in Washington (and perhaps other places) that feature a bunch of sanctimonious twenty-somethings who act like the fact that cigarettes are unhealthy is some incredible breaking news, and the commercials often seem to be visually disgusting and revolting.
On the other hand, at my dorm this past school year the ************* smokers would throw their butts on the ground, when a trashcan especially for cigarettes was less than a dozen feet away! Oh, how I loathe those lazy ass jerks.
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Originally Posted by Caius
Because its a contradiction of them.
Girls, eh? :yes:
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The only thing they do is use sexy clothes.
Huhhuh! Yes sir! It's as if they have nothing else on their pretty little minds. :dizzy2:
Terrible, terrible. :no:
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They use a short skirt, and a sexy shirt.
How can they? I feel your pain, brother Caius. They have no business wearing these kinda clothes. They should take em off immediately, so help me God! :yes:
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And I'm tired of cellphones, and you wanna know whats the best use I can make of it?
I think I gave you a clue earlier in the thread. :mellow:
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People entering the train before everyone is out. I mean it isn't going to leave any faster, always place a shoulder or an ellbow a tiny bit more firmly then is really needed, laptop vs coffee resulting in clothes-catastrophy is a nice bonus when I get the chance.
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Originally Posted by Fragony
People entering the train before everyone is out. I mean it isn't going to leave any faster, always place a shoulder or an ellbow a tiny bit more firmly then is really needed, laptop vs coffee resulting in clothes-catastrophy is a nice bonus when I get the chance.
:laugh4:
I knew it, we do have something in common.
Only I think the situation is far worse than you depict. The Neds is the only country where passengers descending from a train, tube or bus are physically pushed back in by those wanting to board. It's a defect in our gene pool that seems hard to mend.
Since I am tall and broad-shouldered [insert affable smile here] I simply block their entry, step on as many toes as I can whilst getting out, take the path of maximum resistance (preferably straight through a bunch of gum-chewing teenagers or headset-talking salesmen) and in the process elbow as many cups of coffee, sensitive electronic gadgets and flabby waists as I can manage. Expressions of hurt and ignominy ensue, but my rather imposing frame [insert modest wink here] is usually enough to deter overt hostilities.
I love doing this. :yes:
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Originally Posted by Adrian II
:laugh4:
I knew it, we do have something in common.
Only I think the situation is far worse than you depict. The Neds is the only country where passengers descending from a train, tube or bus are physically pushed back in by those wanting to board. It's a defect in our gene pool that seems hard to mend.
Since I am tall and broad-shouldered [insert affable smile here] I simply block their entry, step on as many toes as I can whilst getting out, take the path of maximum resistance (preferably straight through a bunch of gum-chewing teenagers or headset-talking salesmen) and in the process elbow as many cups of coffee, sensitive electronic gadgets and flabby waists as I can manage. Expressions of hurt and ignominy ensue, but my rather imposing frame [insert modest wink here] is usually enough to deter overt hostilities.
I love doing this. :yes:
You are now my hero.
Wakizashi, if you want a steak, come to Australia :laugh4:
"Reminds me when someone at my school threw a chair out a window down onto a group of people from the second floor. A teacher happened to see him at the time, and he got chased all the way up to the top floor"
My Dad told me a story about him at school. For some unknown reason, him and his friends decided to throw all the chairs in the classroom out the window, from the second floor. One chair hit the headmaster.
They all spent 6 weeks in the basement of the school, building new chairs! Suspension etc. He had a hard time after a few weeks lieing to make up for the lack of homework.
I forget what the moral of the story was...
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Wakizashi, if you want a steak, come to Australia
That brings me to another, New Zealand has somehow usurped the beef quality crown. I bought some New Zealand steak the other day, because I noticed it was cheaper than Aussie beef, and it tasted better! Injustice I say. ~;p
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Scantily clad, yet ugly, young women shoving their way onto public transport whilst shouting into their mobile phones?
And I never thought I'd hate sunshine, but I'm getting there. Why? Because at the sight of a ray of sun every bloody yahoo gets on his boat and potters around aimlessly, without a thought for keeping to starboard and enjoying making big, big waves... :wall:
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:furious3: Those idiots that don't think the white lines down the road have anything to do with them, especially on roundabouts. Yep, poor lane discipline really :daisy:s me off big time. After all, why get in lane good and early and stay put if you can gain a few yards by dodging and weaving and cutting someone up at the last moment.... gah! (Yes, I am having anti-tank grenades cross-wired to my horn :devil:)
Caius, you don't know how lucky you are - you live in the land where the REAL best steak can be found, and las chicas argentinas look much, much, much better in scanty clothes than what we have to put up with in England :2thumbsup:
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I'm with the sun-haters here. I'm a pretty pale guy and I do not take well to the heat. Plus it means I look stupid with my jacket on but I hate going anywhere without it.
Also its just annoying looking out at 7 and its still light outside. It should be pitch black by half five every day!
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Oh, I don't hate the sun - just some of the people it brings to the outdoors.
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And I never thought I'd hate sunshine, but I'm getting there. Why? Because at the sight of a ray of sun every bloody yahoo gets on his boat and potters around aimlessly, without a thought for keeping to starboard and enjoying making big, big waves... :wall:
That is punishment for not waving back, you rowers think you are better then us huh??
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I love the sun. I don't know about you guys, but I get to enjoy the serenity of the outdoors, especially early morning as the rays are just peaking over the hills, Ms. Waki is snoring like a chainsaw, I climb out of bed, make a pot of coffee, fill up the thermos, grab my fishing gear, and a jacket, and walk down to bank of the Blackfoot River, and caste out my line, reeling in slowly, taking in the fresh cool, damp morning air, watching the snow capped mountains slowly illuminate in gold and then working their way down into the tall forested canopy. as an Osprey circles around in the clear skies, diving every once and awhile into the cold river, in hopes of catching the same five pound rainbow trout I've been teased by on seemingly several occasions. And the fish leap out of the rapids, eating the water nymphs or mayflies that lazily hover over patches of sunlight casting their long fingers through the trees. I have no problem with sunlight whatsoever. :beam:
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and another thing, I hate angling and anglers.....
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That is punishment for not waving back, you rowers think you are better then us huh??
Well, you ever seen what happens when a rower does wave?
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Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
Well, you ever seen what happens when a rower does wave?
Nodding or a wink is entirely possible, it should be me foaming at you because I can't stand these rowing vultures, my boat is bigger then your canoe so move it already. But no, they are doing sports and won't move for anyone.
By the way, I do know what happens when a wave hits a rower. Now that isn't possible with my boat but my friend has a V8 and well heheheomglol. Yes I am the enemy.
Oh, and to add a pet-peeve, flashy dvd menu's that take way to long, and most of all unskippable thou shalt not steal adds. I didn't. Shut up.
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Yeah I know , they seem like a good idea and there are some really good ones ...
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul...tanar/p-ex.htm
.....but they just end up folding wrong or getting torn .
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People that feel the urge to keep pressing the button for the crosswalk light. Pressing it once is fine! The light does not change faster because you keep pressing it!
People that do not return my phone call when I really need to speak with them. I left a message and a number so please call me back damn it! I would rather not nag but urgent business requires quick response time!
Applications on facebook. I use this to keep in touch with people, not play stupid werewolf games, do pointless quizes, and other such stuff!
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Teh sun is awesome, but it shouldn't stay up that long at night. Nigh impossible to fall at sleep with that giant spotlight hanging on the horizon.
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Teh sun is awesome, but it shouldn't stay up that long at night. Nigh impossible to fall at sleep with that giant spotlight hanging on the horizon.
Then move closer to the equator you northern barbarian.
Oh, and for what really ticks me off:
https://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?...gesaspxyn1.jpg
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Facebook/Bebo, they should just rename it to Paedo's Menu
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Facebook/Bebo, they should just rename it to Paedo's Menu
Facebook must be destroyed, its inventor maimed beyond all recognition. :brood:
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Oh, and for what really ticks me off:
Now you're talking , them miserable bastards with their brass and drums on a Sunday morning marching past your door making a godawful racket when any civilised person should only just be crawling into bed:furious3:
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Im not an old fogie but whatever
Those :furious3: twats that play there Drum and Base :disguise: so loud you can here the wind screen vibrate! :stars:
another thing:
Internet tough guys,
Me: you can't hit me, you don't even know where I live, then they reply: Yea a :furious3: box
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Im not an old fogie but whatever
Those :furious3: twats that play there Drum and Base :disguise: so loud you can here the wind screen vibrate! :stars:
another thing:
Internet tough guys,
Me: you can't hit me, you don't even know where I live, then they reply: Yea a :furious3: box
Good grumps. :bow:
You and I could start a movement.
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Now you're talking , them miserable bastards with their brass and drums on a Sunday morning marching past your door making a godawful racket when any civilised person should only just be crawling into bed:furious3:
Teh Sally Army? :inquisitive: :laugh4:
Cyclists. If it wasn't bad enough that they completely ignore road signals, bypassing them via the pavement, they go and wear fluorescent lycra, so loud it frightens people of a sensitive disposition and horses. :furious3:
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Teh Sally Army? :inquisitive: :laugh4:
Cyclists. If it wasn't bad enough that they completely ignore road signals, bypassing them via the pavement, they go and wear fluorescent lycra, so loud it frightens people of a sensitive disposition and horses. :furious3:
Worse: unwashed, fat, ugly, screaming kids on bicycles with those [bleeping] helmets on their repulsive little heads and the [bleeping] orange safety flags wagging above them.
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Well at least now they're getting noticed in stead of being scraped of the pavement.
I'm constantly enervated with other people though, especially grumpy old men.
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I'm constantly enervated with other people though, especially grumpy old men.
Good!
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Nah the Sallys were not that loud and only played at the end of the street once a month , plus it wasn't till around 10 , this was the bloody boys brigade every Sunday at 7 .:thumbsdown:
Things like that should be included in a surveyors report
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You see, this is why sunshine is such a bad thing.
Even if it wouldn't deter them completely, a good downpour as they're marching past would at least deaden the sound.
And in response to the cyclist-haters, I would have to say the same about dim-witted pedestrians who cannot grasp the concept of a cyclepath, feel the need to meander across my path without so much as a cursory glance, and then have the nerve to get annoyed at me when I ring my bell at them as I swerve wildly to avoid them.
With you on the lycra though, no one should have to look at that.
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Speaking of pedestrians...
I've had an ongoing battle with the bastards for over a year now. Where I lived(moved now), there was a university. With lots of students. Who of course walked. And they had to cross the road that I had to use to get through the town to get where they wanted to be. Now here's when the problem starts: where they crossed the road. It was at a roundabout, like this:
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The large red slash would be the crossing. I would be driving from the road at the bottom to the road at the top(never mind the arrows, I got the pic from wiki). The crossing is all fine, signs and everything. BUT, none of the students EVER looked to see if a car was coming or not. They simply assumed that "Hey, this is the pedestrian crossing, the cars should stop for us!" All very true, of course, if you ignore the fact that our country has weather. Cold weather. And lots of it. Which turns into snow and ice in the winter. And places like these will be particularly slippery, since that's where the cars are standing still with engines running... Snow + heat = water, water + cold = ice.
And now for the great bit; if a car slips on the ice one day, he will hit the pedestrians, since they're high on their Ipods they won't know it's coming, and the blame will be COMPLETELY on the driver, since the pedestrian is a soft target in traffic, even though they could have avoided the accident easily by just doing what mommy told them to at 5...
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Grumpy people and not just for the sake of irony...
My friend was parked up earlier at least 300m from the nearest house, one of our friends went into a bowls centre nearby so he beeped twice to get his attention, he didn't notice so he beeped at him twice as he was leaving and got his attention. 10 minutes later some guy drives up in a jeep and has a go at my friend for loads of beeping.. wtf?! this guy made the effort to stop what he was doing get in his car and drive to my friend to have a whinge.
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Bastards who beep their horns outside my house. ~:pissed:
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Bastards who beep their horns outside my house. ~:pissed:
The honkies drive you wonky?
IA, is it okay if your King/Queen beeps their horn? I ask because some of them were Tootors as I recall.
<Gregoshi runs for it...>
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IA, is it okay if your King/Queen beeps their horn? I ask because some of them were Tootors as I recall.
That right was taken away after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 because the celebrations had given many of the neighbours Hanovers.
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That right was taken away after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 because the celebrations had given many of the neighbours Hanovers.
:embarassed:
Awesum. :2thumbsup:
Historical puns FTW!
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:wall: ... but it was all blown away by the Windsor change...
:creep:
okay, back to cyclists, as an occasional one myself, I get really hacked off when I have to crawl along beside a cyclist I can't overtake when he's riding in the road - alongside a perfectly good, empty cycle lane. I don't mind paying a bit of extra tax for cycle lanes to be built, so USE THE :daisy: THING, YOU IDIOT!!!!!
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Mopeds, what an annoying whiny little noise they make, i can appreciate thier fuel effeciency and cheapness but the noise is horrible, like a whiny little kid struggling to reach full volume because of a cold or something.
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Re: The New Grumpy Old Man Thread.
:yes: :yes: :yes: Quite agree!
I have no problems with real bikes - a big, deep, throaty, throbbing roar as a Harley goes by is fine, but I really hate those little piddly things that sound like a mosquito farting. They only seem to have two modes - idle or full throttle - it just sounds ridiculous, and it's always some callow youth who thinks he's king of the road, as well....
Oh, dear, I'd better sit down, all this bile is going to my head :clown: