Because pedestrians only have right of way if they have started to walk behind your car before you have reversed otherwise they should give way to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by beensaidbefore
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Because pedestrians only have right of way if they have started to walk behind your car before you have reversed otherwise they should give way to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by beensaidbefore
Driving in town last night, saw three cyclists (at different locations) on the road with no lights.
Get a grip, FFS.
Nigella Lawson.
Seriously just a ****ing waste of space. Watching a programme with her in it at the moment prancing about dropping double entendres that would have been embarrassingly dated in the 70s. Add to that her ridiculously out of touch concept about what 'store cupboard essentials' are (preserved lemons and amaretti biscuits anyone?).
Her Dads a **** as well
Should they? The law might disagree with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I generally operate on common sense,,,, but it's not that common these days.
So the default position is the highway code (a guidebook for road users) that doesn't apply to private off road situations like car parks,,,, then there's the actual LAW.
Now, if a car is reversing, and a pedestrian walks behind them, the car MUST stop. I wouldn't walk behind a car with reversing lights on, you might not also, but some idiots do, it's a dick move, the law protects the vulnerable, the stupid and quite obviously the dicks!
Of course otherwise the law would be advocating you not stopping and running them over lol. My point is that pedestrians should give way to a vehicle that has already begun a manoeuvre. On another note I have often sped up when a hardman with a swagger has deliberately walked slowly across my path. Doesn't half make them move quicker :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
I was coming out of a junction the other day, when 3 student lay about types decided they had something important on that meant they must cross that junction at that exact time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I waited until twat A was level with front of the car and blasted my horn, he promptly dropped his frappa, cappa, pretentious twat coffee and shat himself. Running for the safety of the kerb.
I missed the gap in the traffic due to struggling to catch my breath laughing at him. Worth it.
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Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
That's the big problem with the law it has to cover everything for the lowest intelligence of the species.
e.g. Having to put a sign on a camper van stating that changing the vehicle to 'cruise control' means you have to stay at the wheel. Some numptie did this and went into the back to make a cup of coffee. The camper crashed and the company was forced to replace it because there was nothing to explain what cruise control actually meant.
I mean, FFS - where do you stop accommodating the gormless?
Hahaha.....you might want to start with those who believe urban myths. 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20...lawsuit-claims
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:greengrin I suspected that the story was a myth, CWG but the truth is, it wouldn't surprise me one iota if it had actually happened. Such is my faith in my fellow human beings, e.g. just think 'Trump'. I'm sure him being the new Prez could well just be another hoax. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
How many at a time though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Worse are parents who let young kids run free in car parks. Madness!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
It's like people forget it's still a road!
Text messages,the sender signs off with their first initial. Just why? It's not cool and believe it or not, I actually do know who sent it.Even if you insist on it take another 5 seconds to write your full name. Naff as ****.
Colleagues who request a read receipt with every single e-mail they send you.
Folk who don't reply to emails.
Folk who send emails rather than talk to you direct.
Having to send 2 emails as you forget the attachment with the first.
Folk who put milk in with the tea bag before they pour in the boiling water.
My boss who writes the entire email in the subject bar so when you open the email it looks blank
Kevin Bacon and other low key celebrities in those EE adverts.......
I'm no fan of the adverts but is Kevin Bacon a low key celeb?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
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Originally Posted by easty
Well I kind of think he must be struggling for gigs if he's game for dressing up as Britney Spears to advertise a British mobile phone company. He's better than that surely?
The lost art of putting your hand over your mouth when you cough. No one seems to do it anymore
Folk who keep interrputing me when I'm busy when they could simply e-mail me :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Actors do strange things. Robert De Niro has made some proper **** films. Then there's all the weird Asian adverts, or Stallone in a Warburtons advert.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
He's made some rash career choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
But that's rasher.
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Agree with you about celebs doing ads however, I must admit I liked the one a couple of years ago with Jennifer Aniston trying to reach the beer on the top shelf in a store.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Mind you, I like Jennifer Aniston :wink:
Whoosh?[emoji48]Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
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Duh! Pig ignorant I am :greengrin.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Broadband dropouts, I swear its been doing it every ten minutes for the last 4 hours, Talk Talk are a disgrace and they say there is nothing wrong with the connection or cables. :grr:
Agree, that does my head in. Basic manners.Quote:
Originally Posted by jodjam
S h i t e lager, I was at a doo last night in a golf club and the Tenents was the worst I've ever tasted. £3.35 a pint too for this flat mess in a glass. Went with Carling instead which was a much better gassier pint full of life.
For everyone's benefit, can you tell us which golf club has Carling as its "good pint" as that's one of the worst beers man can buy.Quote:
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Originally Posted by lyonhibs
It was a good pint in my opinion and it was also cheaper than tenents lager. It was a golf club it Edinburgh.
Carling is piss water - Terrible pint. Tennents is just the bog standard up here, although I can't stand the stuff these days. Fosters takes the biscuit as the worst lager with carlsberg not far behind imo.
My favourite draughts are Innes & Gunn or Peroni. Bit more expensive than most but worth it.
People who think lager's a proper drink.
Or folk who twist what was said in a telephone or face to face conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
I learned a long time ago in my work that a lot of people are habitual liars so I get as much in writing as I possibly can because I know suppliers, customers and colleagues will all twist what was said if I don't.
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Originally Posted by Caversham Green
People who think lager is not a drink.
Crap draught lager.
The only place I drink draught lager is in my local Winstons. Heverlee is a great pint. Otherwise I'm a Guinness or Best drinker.
Yeah, depends who you can trust. A lot of the time you just have to get the message in an email otherwise you're putting your arse on the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Hangovers.
Seriously battling one of the worst I've ever had today. Haven't left my bed all day with the exception of going to fetch juice and food. Self inflicted injury of course but a little bit sympathy from Mrs PB would have been nice.
On the positive side I have watched the best part of 2 NFL games and The Mask so not a totally terrible day.
Getting manky fingers opening and closing my boot in this weather.
"Good good"
Eh? eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I've only been in there once with a few guys I know despite having lived in the area most of my life. I won the £100 jackpot out the fruit machine and I kid you not I thought I was going to get lynched by the locals. Their eyes burning into me as I left the pub. Never been back since.
Hahaha they're a friendly bunch really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Winston's aka Gods waiting room. Worryingly, I've started going there myself on the odd occasion. In all seriousness though, it's a nice little pub. Good pints and staff all very friendly, never usually any dickheads drinking in there like every other pub in the area.
If you went on and on about it, waving the cash in their faces like you pretty much do with your away season ticket on here then I'm not surprised :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Im sure they are, they just didn't like me scooping the jackpot that night!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
By the way you're not wrong, The Oak, White Lady, The Corrie and the likes seem to have right dafties drinking in them nowadays. I tend to avoid these places and head into town for a pint.
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Originally Posted by Mr White
Thats just to wind up the day trippers and those who think they should get a ticket for big games just because they've been to the odd game. Doesn't work like that.
I know. Did you give it a GIRUY when the machine started spitting out coins though? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Workmen who drive their vans/lorries at 20mph back to the depot so they can max out their travel time and minimise their actual working time.
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Originally Posted by Mr White
Just a wry smile was that was needed. :greengrin
And a quickening pace as you approached the door breaking into a sprint once outside to escape the pitchforks :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
The phrase: There's nothing worse than...(insert some kind of banal, trivial pish here)
When my girlfriends hair clogs up and the plug hole of the bath and doesn't bother her arse to take it out herself.
People who show off about their wonderful lives on social media. If you feel you need to show off that much, then it probably means you're miserable.
Drink served in a warm glass and the attitude of bar staff when you give them it back.
Corstorphine pubs. They're the worst in Edinburgh.
Full of fat old fascists drinking rubbish beer and losing on the horses.
I'm no fascist and I don't lose money on horses :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Me neither!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I used to work with a guy who, no matter the degree of severity, would react to a negative story by simply saying, "there's nothing worse". Someone in the team would say they'd just received a papercut and he'd say "nothing worse". All the time I'm thinking, "there is, she could have lost her arm in a combine harvester"...however unlikely that scenario may have been in our office.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greentinted
Or when these balls of hair are left as "presents" stuck on the wall of the shower cabinet. I'm amazed my girlfriend hasn't gone bald.Quote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
Realising in the bathroom mirror only when you're brushing your teeth 30 seconds before you must leave the house that the shirt you've carefully selected for the day has some hitherto unseen clarty stain of some sort on it.
I had to read the "balls of hair" bit twice! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Folk who serve takeaway coffee and seal the lid with their fingers or even worse , with the palm of their hand.
Folk who don't know what a white coffee is.
"Do you mean Latte , cappucino , frothy..."
No !!
Coffee and milk FFS.
FFS
People who change what eye they are looking at when talking to me.
It's like watching someone watching tennis.
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Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Absolutely this!! Disgusting.
Being unable to browse round a shop without being pounced on by an over eager shop assistant who asks if you want help every few minutes.
That is brutal. I had an argument with the woman making the Costa coffee in Tesco about that. I always have a latte but the wife likes a white coffee, I ordered that and she said a latte was a white coffee, I said no, and tried to explain it as an americano with milk (which is what you press on the Costs vending machines to get it).Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
She told me there was no such thing. In the end I took a black coffee and lot the milk in myself.
Xmas jumper day at work, the work version of a fun run, bunch of fannies showing how "wacky" and "im mental me" they are, if I get through today without being charged with GBH I will have done well
That "opportunities Fife" advert on local radio.
The blatant lying and deception in the media and advertising.
The total lack of basic morality that is now accepted as the norm.
Everything right down to buying a packet of cornflakes, washing powder, etc and finding it's only 2/3 full.
Lawyers charging £200/hr. For what?
I better stop here or this will end up as long as 'War & Peace' :wink:
Was just about to post the exact same I'm working near Liverpool st in the city today and the number of people wearing them and they all look like ****s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Local radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Just Xmas jumpers in general, or more specifically when used - as you say - as some kind of "look at how wacky and festive I am" benchmark and then splattered all over Facebook in posing selfies, often by grown men.
I got one as an absolute joke last year, but I'm acutely aware I look like a fanny wearing it so would only ever dream of wearing it for a bit of a piss take around the house.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
They've organised a charity fundraising Christmas jumper day at work. Buy and wear a £10-20 jumper and donate £2 to charity. I suggested not bothering with the jumper and everybody donate £5 and apparently I've got no sense of fun.
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Originally Posted by Geo_1875
2 years ago my work did a 'make your own Christmas jumper day', and I got told I was a humbug etc because I said I wasn't going to ruin a jumper by sewing tinsel and stapling baubles on it.
Just use an old one was the response, until I pointed out that having paid money for something, it was up to me what I chose to do with it, and that I didn't have the money at this time of year to buy another just for the 'banter'.
Maybe you haven't however, you've got a far more sense on how to give money to charity rather than a knitwear manufacturer or their like.Quote:
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I'm with you all the way on this one, Geo_1875 :aok:
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Originally Posted by lyonhibs
:agree:. Complete roasters!
Celebrities wanting us to donate our hard earned cash. How about they dip their hands in their pockets instead.
I saw a young lady wearing one with 2 Xmas puddings on the front yesterday at Glasgow airport. The puddings were perfectly placed and shall we say......oversized. I liked it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
What a dumplin'Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Originally Posted by snooky
Paying for my car parking on Ringgo and then realising I have paid using my parking history for Rutland Street where I was two days ago instead of Brunswick Street where I am parked! £9.20 lost😣
People who touch you when talking to you, be it an hand/arm or knee/leg when sitting down. Just no 😟
People on here who refuse to click on a link because it's from the sun, Scotsman etc. But then ask for the content to be posted anyway. They probably make about 2 pence from your click, not a huge deal really.
It's the half-truths that irritate me. Saw an ad from British Gas yesterday saying how much they were helping us at Christmas by not putting their prices up.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
That's right, they're bragging about doing absolutely nothing.
And why do Freeview feel the need to advertise on TV? If you're watching the ad you've either already got Freeview or you don't want or need it.
There's too much hugging going on also. Sometimes people you've only met ten minutes ago feel free to grab you. It's down to the EU of course. All this pawing and pecking will stop once Brexit takes hold.Quote:
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Did they have sauce drizzled over them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Olives the food of the devil,I hate the taste of them.
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Black olives. Yum yum.
Love olives but can understand why some people don't. I wasn't a fan myself until a couple of years ago.
TV adverts for the next 'must have' game (normally some sort of was / shoot 'em up game). You watch all the footage and, in small writing at the foot of the screen, it says 'not actual game footage'. What's the point in that?
Multiply that by a few hundred though... it's not the personal cost but the cumulative. I've no problem if people choose to buy or read any paper. Copying content doesn't seem difficult if the reader wants to post the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
Surely you would be peeved if it took hold? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
People who dismiss every new idea as "it won't work" "takes too long" "why change". It does my nut in and happens regularly at management meetings. What the objectors really mean is they can't be ersed if it means they might have to work for a change and suffer a little disruption as something new is implemented. Some of the reasons for objection are laughable and one person has the stock answer for every single suggestion that has ever been put forward "tried that at my last work"
"You're setting yourself up to fail"Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
"When I was at (insert old job here) we did......"
I've got 2 folk in my office who seem to think the last week at work before Christmas is like being back at school. Just turn up and piss about until it's the holidays.
I could half understand it if they were teenagers, but they're both over 50.
I've lost track of how many times I've been asked what I'm doing, or told I should just leave that til January. Naw...I'll have other work to do in January!
People who park in a legitimate parking space, then put their hazard lights on!! Someone then comes along and parks behind them leaving one of their lights hidden. You then get polite drivers slowing down to let them out of the space as they can only see the one indicator.
It's mental isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
You just know they will be the same erseholes mumping and moaning about their workload and passing it off onto other people in January because they are 'too busy' as well.
The contrary is just as bad. New bosses that come in and change a method of operation that has been honed for years. They think they know a better way even though it was tried before and didn't work. Worst of all, they don't listen when told this fact because they are the boss and they know best.Quote:
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