On parking spaces, folk who can't find a space so they block you in. When they return they are perplexed at your frustration as they've only been ten minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geo_1875
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On parking spaces, folk who can't find a space so they block you in. When they return they are perplexed at your frustration as they've only been ten minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geo_1875
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Originally Posted by Geo_1875
:agree: Agree with all of your points, I'd also add the folk who can't reverse into a space without causing havoc
People who insist on reversing into parking spaces on George Street! You can drive straight out the other side, there's no need to hold everyone up while you take an eternity to reverse your car in there.
When did the West Indies start being formally called the Windies?
Taxi drivers in Edinburgh, ****wits of the highest order.
Better with an Uber, imho.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
All vehicles really. And their drivers.
Let's face it they're all crap.
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Guys that stare at other guys wife's or daughters when the husband or father is with them.
People who don't realise how much better red wine can taste slightly chilled. On the same vein as those who go through the whole wine tasting pose from a screw top bottle.
When socks come off inside your wellies :-)
The wee ****s that are terrorising west pilton, drylaw and muirhouse. Nearly kill a wee laddie then back out on the bikes. Little pricks deserve to be lynched. Thats my current pet peeve!!!
When I worked as a barman and waiter I used to always smile to myself when someone made a big show of commenting on the taste of wine when checking it. A simple nod of the head or 'fine thanks' is all a waiter needs. The whole process is to check you have the right wine and it isn't corked or spoiled in another way. One guy demanded to see a manager because one of the waiters had 'shown bad form' by placing a cork on the table. It was explained to him that placing a cork in front of the person who ordered for inspection is standard etiquette. He made a proper scene until one of his very embarrassed companions assured him we were spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
There really are a few Oil Tankers out there. Your story would fit perfectly into the "Small Victories" thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Bar staff who listen to my selection for a premium gin and then attempt to put tonic in it from the gun! FFS if I'm buying a premium gin I want a premium tonic to compliment it. Have sent two gins back recently when the barman filled them with gun tonic before I realised.
Lorry drivers who take it upon themselves to block the inside lane of a dual carriageway by straddling both lanes when approaching roadworks coz he doesn't want cars getting past him.
I like when they do that to stop folk blatantly taking the pish with cutting in.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
I know that folk are meant to merge in turn but you get some folk who take the pish with it, and the lorry drivers don't usually do the old blocking the lane routine until they're close to the lane merge.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/think-you-know-how-merge-8888838Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Find it strange that they use the US as an example when it's been used in Germany for years. If a trucker does what you suggest and gets caught he'd end up with points on his licence.
Like I said, I know what's meant to happen but at the same time in practice you see most people recognising that there's a queue and every try to get in lane early, and then you get folk who see that happening and cut in at the last minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I don't have a huge issue with it, if there are two lines merging in turn then it's all good, but I'm not going to lie - there something satisfying about a lorry driver deciding that they'll get the folk who have already queued and let people in get to where they are going a bit quicker.
I poured someone a glass of expensive whisky I'd been given as a present and they put lemonade in it - :grr: :brickwall. :timebomb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
White folk with dreadlocks. Really, aye???
Look how it worked out for Drexl.
I'm guilty of that and can see how it might be annoying but seemingly it formally happened in June this year!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
http://indianexpress.com/article/spo...ndies-4685387/
Drexl? Whats a Drexl? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
Sorry Matty don't agree especially in this instance. It was the M90 roadworks at the weekend, southbound. He was straddling the carriageways at least a mile before the merge in turn signs. He was at it and lets be honest he's causing an obstruction on a motorway. Mores the pity for him coz he was driving a Fife council lorry so very easy for someone to report him...... :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
A mile away is taking the piss, to be fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
The new road layout at the top of Easter Road. What a joke.
In preparation for Leith Street closure.Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
I guessed it was something to do with that. I don't see how it's going to help anything though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
As long as he's behind me, he can be as far back as he likes :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Ha ha, aye he was well pissed off when i squeezed through in my wee car. Tried to cut me off but i was too quick for him. ****er.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonty
****ING Caravans ****ING ****ING caravans should be banned from driving between the hours of 00.01-23.59. Swedes love them everywhere in the summer all driving along pulling out in juctions round abouts etc forgetting that they have about 12m of ****ty fibre glass following after them!!!!
Showing my age but I remember them being called that in the seventies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Websites where a capital letter automatically starts your password, when it's case sensitive. I always drop to lower case whether I need to or not but it's bloody infuriating.
Caravaner pulled out in front of me today at a roundabout. Didn't give a toss that I had to brake to miss his portable living room. What annoys me most is they are on holiday and have all the time in the world, so it's two fingers to poor old Joe who is trying to get to work on time.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRC
I'm 100% behind you on this, at least until May 2018 when I'm due to take delivery of my brand new 8m long caravan. At that point I become a ****ing caravan ****er and look forward to pissing you off. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by TRC
Not formally though. Mibbes Aye has found the article though where it says they've now changed their name.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperAllyMcleod
Then you'll probably be 100% in front of me, driving 6mph looking for the perfect spot 😠Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
The different pronunciations of the name Dalziel.
1. Dalzeeel
2. Dee El
Which one is correct?
And Menzies.
Is it Menzeeees or Mingis?
2 & MingisQuote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzies
Taken from that link re the name Menzies ....
This Scottish name is traditionally pronounced, as it still is in Scotland, /ˈmɪŋᵻz/ (About this sound listen) MING-iz, since the English letter <z> was used as a substitute for the now obsolete letter <ȝ> (yogh) in the Scots language (Menȝies). However, many now do not know this, and today it is often pronounced as if it were an English word and hence it is often pronounced /ˈmɛnziːz/ MENZ-eez. A Scottish limerick plays on the traditional pronunciation:
There wis a young lassie named Menzies,
That askit her aunt whit this thenzies.
Said her aunt wi a gasp,
"Ma dear, it's a wasp,
An you're haudin the end whaur the stenzies!"
People cutting through queues.
Makes me rage so it does .
People that sit next to you on the bus when there are free seats further up the bus. Just weird.
Did you buy your records and magazines from John Mingis? 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
My folks always called it John Mingis, but my pals and I called it men-zies.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
Use of the word "starlet" to describe young untried footballers.
This word should be banned from all football discussions.
Must be an age thing, my dad calls it Mingis as well. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Actors eating when they're meant to be acting. I can see there's food there - I just don't need to hear you chomping it when you're attempting to deliver your lines.
The word "bae" WTF even is that?
It's old cricket jargon.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperAllyMcleod
They're all correct. It just depends on personal taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
Dal-zeel? I don't think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Words like Mansplaining and Manspreading - would this kind of stuff be tolerated if the shoe was on the other foot? some folk are fannies regardless of gender ffs.
Not a peeve but related to what you say and I found it funny on facebook there was a caption of 3 female officers with a tag along the lines of not just a pretty face. I think the message was about equality in the police force or something, and the tweet was actually written by female PC's. Que the comments about sexisim etc etc etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Gatecrasher
a few posts down I seen another picture thing with a cat stuck up a tree and a rubbish caption about why woman have cats and calling the firebrigade........que all the comments form the woman fawning over the thought of ripped firemen coming to their rescue. Gotta love the double standards
Is that you Manuel? ;-)
Neil Oliver.
Watching a repeat of Coast, which should be must watch TV for me, but he's such an insufferable bellend it becomes almost unwatchable.
I have to turn it over when he comes on. I really like the show, but I can't stand him. I get the impression that he's the same in real life as he is on tv, a twat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Neil Oliver has cropped up on this thread before and will again. A monstrous twat. That thick, affected and totally exaggerated "Scooooootish" accent grates my very soul.
Met him once in a Premier Inn at Kings Cross. Most folk aren't at their best first thing in the morning but I distinctly got the impression he's a dour grumpy fart no matter the time of day.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
I'd like to say something nice about Neil Oliver.
Neil Oliver is in Australia.
For some unfathomable reason his napper is the one I picture as Jack Parblane when reading Christopher Brookmyre's novels. If the books weren't so good I'd have given up years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My current tour of Scotland is with a lady who has read all his books and watched his tv work. I'm trying to be polite about the man but it's toughQuote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
It's an acronym for before anyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Gala days.
I absolutely hate them. Can't think of a worse thing to do on a Saturday.
I've been dragged along.
Totally agree with this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
It's ****ing brutal, is what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
I always saw Parlabane as Dougie Henshall...and definitely not Jimmy Nesbitt!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
The Edinburgh Festival and the gridlock it brings. Not to mention the pissheads who step out in from of your car at 5am on lothian road when driving home from work.
Before anyone else. You're just no down with the kids. 😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
What ticks me off are kids who are in their twenties talking about the sixties on TV progs. You weren't even born ffs.
Paddy Power ads, what a lot of *****!
Ceramic frying pans.
Never, ever buy one.
Biggest pile of crap ever in a kitchen
Likewise the Reading Festival. It's been pretty much impossible to drive anywhere in Reading for the last week and the disruption will continue until about Thursday with the stages and stuff being dismantled and taken away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Not just that, I live close enough to the venue to hear the music, but far enough away that it's not clear so I don't even get a decent free concert out of it.
Probably doesn't bother you guys too much though.
Baby talk between adults or to pets makes me puke.
People signing cards and including the pets names too! My sister sent me a birthday card once and actually added the rabbit,hamster and dogs name WTF is that all about.
Try living in the Borders. Sodding common ridings! Same **** every year, but it's all they live for from one year to the next. I should sit at the Christmas night out wittering on about the Clerrie gala day or the Fringe and see how they like that 😡Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
My mum does this, she actually goes the extra step and buys a separate card from the pets :hilariousQuote:
Originally Posted by Sleeping Scouse
Dogs (of the four legged variety) that are allowed to run about unrestrained in boozers, particularly if its been raining.
When you buy an electric toothbrush or razor and the charging cable has a two pronged plug, has anyone ever actually had one of those sockets in their house ever, just give me a proper plug
The new craze for parents on Facebook. Posting pictures of their babies with cards saying they are 3 weeks old, 1 month old or 7 weeks old etc. GTF as nobody is interested. My absolute favourite. A card saying "my first pee on daddy today". Seriously!! :grr:
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
With new builds you get the option of having one installed in your bathroom. I agree though, a normal plug is fine.
People in queues who get distracted by chatting, using their mobile or looking at the floor. I was in a massive queue at Gatwick train station yesterday and there was at least 3 ticket machines not being used at any one time because people had their heads up their *****.
Day trippers heading for the Queensferry Crossing.
It was apparently chaotic there this morning, usual slow approach to the bridge plus a breakdown. Is the new bridge now the default road or do you have the option of either bridge? If not what's happening with the older bridge meanwhile?Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
The new bridge will close again tomorrow for the official opening and open for real next week. I think the old bridge is closed at the moment and will re-open when the new bridge closes. Longer term only buses pedestrians and emergency vehicles can use the old bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
It's the new bridge only for a few days, then back to the old bridge when the walking/official opening is on. Then the new bridge only for two months, before opening both in November.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Apparently we have approximately the next 150 years to cross the new bridge. What's the hurry, folks?Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
I love my ceramic set - although its the ceramic/titanium mix which might be different.Quote:
Originally Posted by HappyAsHellas
You can get adaptors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
2 fat ladies, mid 20's and sitting 4 tables away talking about their recent holiday sexual conquests. Why do they have to shout? My fish pie is going back to the kitchen.
My house is full of them. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Edinburgh Airport again, just dropped maw and paw off at the airport, well within the 5 minutes before the price jumps up and what happens? An effing private hire taxi driver makes a complete shop front of it at the barriers, I have no idea what he was trying to do. It looked like he was trying to feed a bank note into the card reader or something!!! Anyway by the time he pissed about and got out the machine said I owe them £3. Two things wrong with that:
1. I was finished long before the 5 minutes had lapsed and had been stuck the queue due to Mr Fud of a taxi driver.
2. I only had £2 on me as I didn't take my wallet as I didn't think I'd need it, plus they were not getting a penny more.
I had to press the buzzer and tell the boy I only had £2 on me and that I'd been stuck in the bloody queue behind that daft taxi driver. He hummed and hawed then said his system was playing up. Eventually after about 3 minutes of being on hold the barrier finally opened and I got away. I'm betting everyone behind me was in the same boat as they'd been stuck as well.
A terrible system at Edinburgh Airport and its nothing but a cash cow that pickup/drop off area. I wonder how much a year that place alone rakes in. :grr:
Cyclists who cycle down the cycle lane on North St Andrews Street without stopping or even slowing down as they cross over the lane. I almost had one of them cycle into me last night, he had the cheek to give me a dirty look as well.
Two fat ladies is high eighties, not mid-twenties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Originally Posted by Andy74
Ceramic only is about as non stick as manure on an army blanket.
How long before the price for drop off increases "to improve the facilities"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
'Greed' is the appropriate word these days not 'profit'.
Pedestrians who think every road is a pedestrianised area.
Glasgow airport already charges £2 for drop off - won't be long until Edinburgh catches up I'm sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
As an additional peeve: the price to get into the 'pick up' point at Edi airport is £3.90(for 15 mins, before it jumps to £6.90 for the next 15).
Suddenly the pound drop off seems ok....
The cretin of a cyclist who decided to ignore a red light at temporary traffic lights today and found himself heading straight for me and the 2 cars behind. I managed to swerve out the way (and into a couple of cones) but the guy behind clipped him. He then had the cheek to accuse us of 'having no respect for cyclists' before cycling off.
Of course because he has no requirement for any identification similar to a number plate or any insurance obligations the damage to the guys car is going to hit him in the pocket despite the cyclist being 100% at fault.
There are a few particularly annoying ads on tv just now. The purple bricks ones are awful and the PPI one with arnie's head on cat tracks is perhaps the worst there's ever been.
Arnie's head advert doesn't look good. It's got us talking about it though so job done I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr White