Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[So… Howard Philips]

Senior management who now doubt still have their jobs, I'm guessing.

The unions get criticised for their part in poor labour relations in the 1970s but crap management, both in terms of union relations and general organisation, continue to get off lightly for their part in the decline of British industry.

[Kop307]

When you're driving, approaching a roundabout, and you can fucking see the road is clear from every way, and the car in front stops to look.

You should be legally allowed to fucking plow through the back of someone for it.

[SP]

When you're driving, approaching a roundabout, and you can fucking see the road is clear from every way, and the car in front stops to look.

You should be legally allowed to fucking plow through the back of someone for it.

People temperamentally unsuitable to drive.

[Medellin]

I got this virus/chill last weekend,chest is now fucked..hurts when i cough..
Thing is,i barely cough all day but as soon as i lay down to sleep at night..i get an uncontrollable cough which keeps me up all night.

[paulrazor]

Yeah whenever I had chest infections it was always worse at night and first thing in the morning for some reason

[Kenny's Jacket]

People temperamentally unsuitable to drive.

[Kenny's Jacket]

I got this virus/chill last weekend,chest is now fucked..hurts when i cough..
Thing is,i barely cough all day but as soon as i lay down to sleep at night..i get an uncontrollable cough which keeps me up all night.

Yeah whenever I had chest infections it was always worse at night and first thing in the morning for some reason

Im not a trained Dr, but isn't it to do with lying down and the mucus coming back up when you do so.

[Medellin]

Im not a trained Dr, but isn't it to do with lying down and the mucus coming back up when you do so.

Solution here..

[rob1966]

When you're driving, approaching a roundabout, and you can fucking see the road is clear from every way, and the car in front stops to look.

You should be legally allowed to fucking plow through the back of someone for it.

M58 Junction in Skem where the little chef used to be, back in 2008, I'm on my bike following a Mondeo, massive roundabout, you can see as we pass the petrol station there is nothing coming on the roundabout. As we approach, speed is under 30, I can see he can go and he appears to be going,so I turn my head to the right to confirm nothing is coming. Because of the curve of the road on the approach to the roundabout, I lose sight of the car. Look forward, the fucker has gone and stopped and I'm about to hit him!!! Hits the brakes, massive stoppie (bike is on the front wheel with the back in the air) due to shell grip and super sticky tyres and weight pitching forwards. Trying my hardest to ease the pressure on the brakes but cant stop, so brakes harder, comes to a stop but gone past the point of no return so goes over the bars. Bike misses the car but I hit it and damaged the bumper. Bike landed on me and jammed my leg. 

[Kop307]

M58 Junction in Skem where the little chef used to be, back in 2008, I'm on my bike following a Mondeo, massive roundabout, you can see as we pass the petrol station there is nothing coming on the roundabout. As we approach, speed is under 30, I can see he can go and he appears to be going,so I turn my head to the right to confirm nothing is coming. Because of the curve of the road on the approach to the roundabout, I lose sight of the car. Look forward, the fucker has gone and stopped and I'm about to hit him!!! Hits the brakes, massive stoppie (bike is on the front wheel with the back in the air) due to shell grip and super sticky tyres and weight pitching forwards. Trying my hardest to ease the pressure on the brakes but cant stop, so brakes harder, comes to a stop but gone past the point of no return so goes over the bars. Bike misses the car but I hit it and damaged the bumper. Bike landed on me and jammed my leg. 

Mate, the amount of times I've nearly gone in the back of people because of this. I did it not long ago.

Approaching a roundabout, I can see nothing is coming whatsoever from any direction, reach down to adjust the climate control taking my eyes off the road for a split second, look up, stopped car at an empty roundabout. Nearly smashed straight through them. It's so so so annoying.

[rob1966]

You'd fail your test for stopping at an empty roundabout, I've no idea why people are not looking earlier.

[CraigDS]

When you drive the supermarket and the car park in empty, only to come out to find someone has parked so fucking close to your car (their drivers side next to my car) that unless they were skinnier than Peter Crouch or crawled out the sun roof that they almost certainly opened their door onto your car.

Just park in one of the many empty spaces you useless wanker.

[SP]

Mate, the amount of times I've nearly gone in the back of people because of this. I did it not long ago.

Approaching a roundabout, I can see nothing is coming whatsoever from any direction, reach down to adjust the climate control taking my eyes off the road for a split second, look up, stopped car at an empty roundabout. Nearly smashed straight through them. It's so so so annoying.

Then you are driving too close, too fast to both. If you do not leave enough gap to cope with erratic behaviour from the car in front, you are at fault. Basic defensive driving.

[SP]

You'd fail your test for stopping at an empty roundabout, I've no idea why people are not looking earlier.

If you are unsure, you stop and make sure. Better than just risking it every time.

[rob1966]

If you are unsure, you stop and make sure. Better than just risking it every time.

The whole point of roundabouts is to keep traffic flowing.At a roundabout you give way, you don't have to stop unless you will come into conflict with another road user.  As both me and Kop307 are saying, this is happening at roundabouts where you can see clearly there is no traffic and any good driver will know its safe to proceed. If you drive up to the give way line, stop, then look, that is very poor driving, its showing no forward planning, observational skills and you're not making progress. On the approach to a roundabout, you should be looking to see if it is clear and making the decision if you can safely go or if you need to stop well before you get to the give way line..

[SP]

The whole point of roundabouts is to keep traffic flowing.At a roundabout you give way, you don't have to stop unless you will come into conflict with another road user.  As both me and Kop307 are saying, this is happening at roundabouts where you can see clearly there is no traffic and any good driver will know its safe to proceed. If you drive up to the give way line, stop, then look, that is very poor driving, its showing no forward planning, observational skills and you're not making progress. On the approach to a roundabout, you should be looking to see if it is clear and making the decision if you can safely go or if you need to stop well before you get to the give way line..

Ideally yes. But anticipating that someone will go and not leaving yourself enough reaction time to stop if they don't is really poor driving. There are many legitimate reasons why the driver in front may pause. Failing to account for those is your failing.

[Elmo!]

Ideally yes. But anticipating that someone will go and not leaving yourself enough reaction time to stop if they don't is really poor driving. There are many legitimate reasons why the driver in front may pause. Failing to account for those is your failing.

Rule #1 of driving - assume all other drivers are idiots and prepare for their idiocy.

[rob1966]

Ideally yes. But anticipating that someone will go and not leaving yourself enough reaction time to stop if they don't is really poor driving. There are many legitimate reasons why the driver in front may pause. Failing to account for those is your failing.

With my one, due to the way the road went I lost sight of the car as I turned my head, no peripheral vision in a full face helmet. I was bimbling along on the bike as my wife was pregnant so I was on my best behaviour and I'd left more than the 2 second gap, by the time I saw him again and realised he'd stopped, the gap had closed up too much.  There was absolutely no reason for him to stop, he could see around the roundabout for at least 100 yds before it.

[Barneylfc∗]

"If we can't beat xxxx then we don't deserve Champions League"

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[paulrazor]

When you drive the supermarket and the car park in empty, only to come out to find someone has parked so fucking close to your car (their drivers side next to my car) that unless they were skinnier than Peter Crouch or crawled out the sun roof that they almost certainly opened their door onto your car.

Just park in one of the many empty spaces you useless wanker.

yep. I hate that. I had an avensis for a few years and at least 10 times I came out into a car park to see marks on my doors and bumpers from wankers hitting my car and fucking off.

I'd have loved to have caught someone. Only revenge I got was in the gym one day. I parked. Then came out to find a big gold scratch on my car (silver) . it was very obviously the car next to me given it was there after me and they had marked their own bumper.

When the coast was clear I scratched my key down the side of his door.

[Billy The Kid]

When you drive the supermarket and the car park in empty, only to come out to find someone has parked so fucking close to your car (their drivers side next to my car) that unless they were skinnier than Peter Crouch or crawled out the sun roof that they almost certainly opened their door onto your car.

Just park in one of the many empty spaces you useless wanker.

Similar to going to the gym and sitting in an empty locker room until some weirdo walks in and starts getting undressed right next to you.

I'm not homophobic or anything, but I could do without the sight of another mans hairy ball sack dangling before my eyes first thing in the morning

[Billy The Kid]

"If we can't beat xxxx then we don't deserve Champions League"

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Who said that? Al555?

[Barneylfc∗]

People that call in and don't have their security details ready. You already fucking know you are going to be asked for them, yet you call and spend ages rummaging around in a drawer to find them. Fucking wankers. 

[Barneylfc∗]

Who said that? Al555?

Loads of people mate. Bugs the fuck out of me

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

People that call in and don't have their security details ready. You already fucking know you are going to be asked for them, yet you call and spend ages rummaging around in a drawer to find them. Fucking wankers. 

But isn't that time they're rummaging in the drawers then basically free time for you to browse RAWK? Yet you're still on the line so technically working...

[rob1966]

When you drive the supermarket and the car park in empty, only to come out to find someone has parked so fucking close to your car (their drivers side next to my car) that unless they were skinnier than Peter Crouch or crawled out the sun roof that they almost certainly opened their door onto your car.

Just park in one of the many empty spaces you useless wanker.

Oh I hate that too. I've got a really clean x type jag now, so I now park as far as I can from where the majority park, my step-dad had over £600 of damage done in car parks.

 I once had to get in the passenger side release the handbrake and push the car forward to get in some c*nt was that close, they must have been skinny as anything to get out their car. Gobbed a massive greeny on their window.

[So… Howard Philips]

Similar to going to the gym and sitting in an empty locker room until some weirdo walks in and starts getting undressed right next to you.

I'm not homophobic or anything, but I could do without the sight of another mans hairy ball sack dangling before my eyes first thing in the morning

This reads just like an extract from Last Exit to Brooklyn.

[Barneylfc∗]

But isn't that time they're rummaging in the drawers then basically free time for you to browse RAWK? Yet you're still on the line so technically working...

I did actually post this while they were looking 

[rob1966]

I did actually post this while they were looking 

[paulrazor]

Oh I hate that too. I've got a really clean x type jag now, so I now park as far as I can from where the majority park, my step-dad had over £600 of damage done in car parks.

 I once had to get in the passenger side release the handbrake and push the car forward to get in some c*nt was that close, they must have been skinny as anything to get out their car. Gobbed a massive greeny on their window.

did that to someone's window recently when they nicked a car park spot on me

[Medellin]

Supermarket car parks..

It's crazy how we get worked up over the smallest things, i had a similar experience when my mrs went into the supermarket to pick up a few bits..i was completely whacked after a tough day at work & stayed in the car,seat back & was claiming some overdue zzz's when the car door next to me whacked my car that hard i near shit a brick.
Got out the car & there was an elderly lady stuffing groceries on the back seat coz the boot was chocker..
I said she'd just whacked my car & showed her the dent & even the colour of her car paint was visible..
Her reply?

"Prove it"!

Cue the red mist,i am one of the most tolerant & respectful  there is out there towards ladies & also the elderly but she got & deserved both barrells off me that day.
She drove off middle finger wagging..

[So… Howard Philips]

Supermarket car parks..

It's crazy how we get worked up over the smallest things, i had a similar experience when my mrs went into the supermarket to pick up a few bits..i was completely whacked after a tough day at work & stayed in the car,seat back & was claiming some overdue zzz's when the car door next to me whacked my car that hard i near shit a brick.
Got out the car & there was an elderly lady stuffing groceries on the back seat coz the boot was chocker..
I said she'd just whacked my car & showed her the dent & even the colour of her car paint was visible..
Her reply?

"Prove it"!

Cue the red mist,i am one of the most tolerant & respectful  there is out there towards ladies & also the elderly but she got & deserved both barrells off me that day.
She drove off middle finger wagging..

She sounds like Catherine Tate's nan.

[Kenny's Jacket]

"If we can't beat xxxx then we don't deserve Champions League"

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Exactly

If we get more points than 16 other teams we deserve it.

[Medellin]

She sounds like Catherine Tate's nan.

Yep but not the accent you would expect,posh accent..southern posh..'be quiet,piss orf'..defo a mrs bucket.

[J_Kopite]

This new internet trend of calling dogs "doggos"

[Sir Harvest Fields]

Birds

[CraigDS]

Birds

Birddos?

[ToneLa]

Those wacky selfies with superimposed cheetah ears and nose.

I bet every person doing it thinks they are showing a wacky and zany individual sense of humour!

[Sir Harvest Fields]

Birddos?

Nah them fucking pigeons and shit. i have loads near my flat. I have the most annoying , attractive russian girl living above me and i woke up and thought she was enjoying herself so i thought id join along. It was the damn birds...

[Medellin]

Standing on an upturned plug bare-footed.