Guy on the train this afternoon who appeared to take a big strop because I sat in my reserved seat other side of table where he had all of his paperwork spread out.
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29-01-2017 04:41 PM #2341
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29-01-2017 05:05 PM #2342
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29-01-2017 05:14 PM #2343
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29-01-2017 10:42 PM #2344
People who insist on standing near the front of the bus rather than taking a seat. They cause a bottleneck and obstruct folk getting on and off
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30-01-2017 07:16 AM #2345
Trying to find your mates in a busy pub. I never wear my glasses when I'm out so I usually spend 5 minutes squinting around when they're right there in front of me pishing themselves laughing
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30-01-2017 07:49 AM #2346This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I hate when when sitting opposite a person on a train when they think they can stretch their legs out and you end up having to straddle their feet to sit comfortably.
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30-01-2017 08:08 AM #2348This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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30-01-2017 11:58 AM #2350
When you're reversing out a parking bay and someone drives into the vacant bay next to you as you pull out.
FFS, the no. of times it nearly causes a collision due to the lack of brains of the incomer.
I don't think it's arrogance on their part. It's more a lack of ability to read and understand the situation.
I'm sure other netters will have experienced this.
ps Hate to be sexist here, but most times this has happened to me, the incoming driver has been female.
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30-01-2017 12:49 PM #2351
The dog poo preservation society. As a dogless person, I applaud the habit of dog owners depositing poo into plastic bags. Recently however, I've noticed an increased number of them leaving the bags in the gutter, at the foot of trees or even hanging on lower branches of trees or on fences for some other mug to pick up and deal with. I've come across wee black bags full of crap lying in the same spot for weeks on end. It would sometimes be more environmentally friendly to leave the poo lying where it is to decay naturally.
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30-01-2017 05:37 PM #2356
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30-01-2017 05:59 PM #2357
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02-02-2017 03:58 AM #2358
Elderly tourists from the far east (and indeed anywhere) with all the technology at their disposal but a lack of manners and scooby in how to actually use the aforementioned technology appropriately.
On a side note, anyone taking a photo on an iPad should be summarily executed without trial.
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02-02-2017 06:39 AM #2359
Having to get up on a work day and wishing I could have a long lie.
Alternatively waking up too early and can't get back to sleep at the weekend.
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02-02-2017 02:51 PM #2360This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was eating on koh san road in Bangkok a couple of days ago. A large Chinese family came in, one of them, a women of about 60 I'd say, just reached from behind me and picked up my beer and started examining it. A younger girl in her group tried to take it from her to give me it back, and she was just shoo'd away. I asked for it back, and she gave me a pure death stare before giving it to me!
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02-02-2017 04:22 PM #2361This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-02-2017 04:29 PM #2362
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Avoid the suit shops if you can!
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02-02-2017 04:31 PM #2363This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I asked a mate of mine from China (a friendly lad) about it and he said it harks back to the days of scarcity. Basically for the older generation if you weren't 1st you were last when it came to food and other 'luxuries'. In some rural areas of China, away from the showpiece cities, it's still the case to an extent.
He said it's just an ingrained part of their nature and will change with time. I suppose the same could be said of Russians.
Don't get me started on the Japanese and their love of taking photographs of absolutely ****ing everything with no regard for those around them. I worked part time as a porter in a hotel when at uni and one guy was stopping literally every 3 steps on the way to his room to take pictures of the carpet, curtains, vases, a handrail, pictures on the wall etc.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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02-02-2017 04:46 PM #2364This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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06-02-2017 01:04 PM #2367
This is a second rant at the increasingly wrong use of the word 'so' at the start of a sentence, especially in a reply to a question. It appears I'm not the only person who cringes at this. I came across this bit from John Humphries, radio and TV presenter :
SO wrong! Why John Humphrys is in a rage at such a little word after it invades everyday speech
The Today programme presenter declared war on the use of the word 'so'
He is seeking to ban it from being used at the beginning of a sentence
Mr Humphrys branded it a ‘noxious weed’ that invades everyday speech
With the task of informing the nation from his seat on the Today programme, John Humphrys’ language has reason to be precise.
It may therefore be little surprise that the Radio 4 presenter, 71, is determined to hold the rest of the population to the same exacting standards.
He is seeking to ban the word ‘so’ from being used at the beginning of a sentence, branding it ‘irritating’, ‘absurd’ and a ‘noxious weed’ that has invaded everyday speech.
Writing in his column in Waitrose Weekend magazine, he said: ‘So I am beginning this sentence with a word that is so irritating when it’s used at the start of a sentence that I would understand if you were to rip out this column, screw it into a tight ball and hurl it at the radio the next time you hear my voice coming from it.
'But better to horde your anger and unleash it against the growing band of linguistic vandals, who use this absurd construction routinely – especially when they are asked a question’.
He blamed the rise of ‘so’ on bumbling academics who use it ‘perhaps to buy a bit of time when they’re not quite sure how to answer the question’. However, he lamented that: ‘Now the misplaced “so” has invaded everyday speech like some noxious weed in an untended garden’.
He can also count on the backing of Dr Bernard Lamb, president of the Queen’s English Society, who said: ‘I think [the use of ‘so’ at the beginning of a sentence] is a sign of someone who is not particularly fluent, it’s fulfilling the function of ‘ummm’ and ‘errrr’ and giving the person a bit longer. It’s not being used as a conjunction to join things up, which is how it should be used. I think someone started doing it and then other people have begun slavishly copying it, it becomes fashionable. It’s just carelessness, it doesn’t have any meaning when used this way’.
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06-02-2017 01:46 PM #2369
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