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You've seen right through my cunning planQuote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
People walking in the wrong direction in IKEA should be shot. People like I saw today pushing a double buggy in the wrong direction in IKEA need to be boiled alive.
IKEA probably sell a pot for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
With a suitable Scandi name 😄
KannibalQuote:
Originally Posted by Saturday Boy
I’d delete that before someone claims it’s racist 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
OK, Hannibal 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Saturday Boy
Commies........Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Ive got to admit I do that..but in my defence I get lost easily and that shops a nightmare for me, its beyond me :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Jesus woman! They've got big arrows on the floor pointing in the direction you need to walk!!!! What else do they have to do, conveyor belts? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
That's a great idea! Id manage that. What kinda shop makes you walk in one direction anyway? Its a bit too controlling for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I cant manage to follow wee dots on Google maps, ive no chance with arrows :rolleyes:
The effin Playhouse. Nine pounds for a glass of wine. I live ten miles from the border with England and if I go south I can get three bottles for that!
Black bin bags rolled up the wrong way by the manufacturer... Aargh!
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Idiots who drive far too fast along residential streets where children can be playing.
And slow down then rev up like a lunatic from one speed bump to the next. Just go at a steady pace and you'll get there around the same time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
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Car drivers on the A9 who don't understand the 50mph signs are for hgv drivers not everybody. Overtook an eejit in a Jeep just north of birnam today and got filthy looks from the driver
The 50mph limit for lorries slowing everyone else down...Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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At least the price hasn't increased in 3 years! That was what they charged me for a large Pino Grigio back in 2016 at Let It Be. Couldn't quite believe it. A few months later I was charged £6.50 at a theatre in Covent Garden. Mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Wrong. Any single carriageway road has a 40mph limit for hgvs, the A9 has an experimental 50 mph for hgvs to speed traffic up.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Any hgv over 40 mph is speeding and breaking the law except on the A9.
Kinda missing the point. I can go 60 but not pass safely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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Kinda missing the point. Hgvs are going 10mph faster so everything is moving at a better pace than before. It's car drivers that don't know the laws that slow everything down.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
There are more lorries driving the road intentionally than people misreading the signs though. If everything was the same speed there'd be less braking and frustration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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How often do you drive the A9? I'm on it every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Slightly naughty motive to this question but it's for a friend... Do you know if the dual carriageway bits are covered by the average speed cameras?Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
All of it? Not on it every day but frequently have to drive from Edinburgh to Thurso and points in between for work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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Dual carriageway is a race track. 8km of single carriageway North of Perth has 40mph average speed cameras currently while work is going on. Dual carriageway is not covered by the cameras.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky
So you will know that the 50mph for hgvs has improved the average speed of traffic and made the road safer due to less idiots trying to overtake.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Not sure I ever denied it or disgreed with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
My peeve is two types of vehicle with different limits on the same road. One where trucks outnumber cars mostly. Why you felt Alan Partridge like to "force me smell your cheese" - I've no idea . That might even be my next one :wink:.
Tell your friend he can put his foot down. Occasionally there may be police van cameras on these stretches of road but not often. The average speed cameras DO NOT cover the dual carriageway sectionsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rocky
People who don’t use the driving pet peeves section.
Pedants
Different speed limits apply to different vehicles on every road in the UK not just the A9. On other A roads it is 40mph for hgvs.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
I have no idea what you are on about Alan Partridge.
Charity shop staff.
I had a garage clear out fairly recently and donated 3 golf clubs to a local shop. A few days later I donated a **** load of other stuff which was worth a lot of money.
I’ve visited the shop regularly since then and have seen about 0% of the things I have donated offered up for sale on the premises.
On asking, you get some flim-flam about stock having to be rotated but I know exactly what goes on. The good stuff, like my forged irons worth roughly £50 each, get picked off by the internal vultures and are taken for free or for some daft, token amount.
so sell them and donate the money? you handed them over at which point they were given to the charity shop. if you 'knew' what goes on and it angered you, why do it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
I have no connection to any charity shop or staff, I just think it's daft to moan about something you committed to.
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Originally Posted by Pete
That is exactly what goes on, as a close family member told me.
Some incredible bargains, if you work in a charity shop in a good location.
I don't like being called Buddy.
I don’t like being called son, it was acceptable to be called it by my Dad no one else. I am nearly 52 yet still get called son mostly by other bowlers who are often just a couple of years older than me!
I've not got a particularly complimentary nickname although it's justified 😁 If "my mates" call me it I don't bat an eyelid, anyone else, it really annoys me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
Ditto. My nickname was (and still is to some) Doughnut - a play on my surname, McDonaugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Same goes for my Edinburgh accent when I'm speaking French. My mates take the crap out of me but I don't mind as I can give out as much as I take, but with othrt people it comes across as a cheap shot, sometimes verging on racism.
I dont mind at all. It seems to be common amongst my North of England workmates even though I'm considerably older than them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
I got called love today in subway by a twenty year old. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
What did you buy? 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
A six inch honey oat with turkey ham and cheese - toasted. :na na:Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
And he said "is that all for you love? No cookies crisps or drinks? " and i gave him the stare and growled that was all thank you.
Honey, love or doll, how do they rank? Maybe chuck a hen or darling in there too. I'm actually being reasonably serious, I've witnessed an interesting range of reactions to these labels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
I don't use any but, I've always found hen particularly weird. 😏
I can ban you. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
International Guinness marketing day.
A day for Scottish and English students to stagger about, force down a pint of Guinness and use words like 'craic' for no apparent reason.
That's my take on it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Child proof bottle tops.
I know they are important. I just cant work them :rolleyes:
Guinness is all over the place these days. It's a triumph of marketing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I like a well-kept pint of it myself but I have to say that despite its hearty, Irish rugby-playing image it's not actually very strong. Five pints of Stella or whatever will knock you flat but Guinness drinkers stay upright. Perhaps that's why it's a good session drink.
Drinking lager from the neck: a brewer's delight. By the time you reach the bottom the beer is flat so buy another etc etc.
After two or three swigs it's a goner.
Why do every single ad for bottled lager show young men drinking from the bottle.
Clever brainwashing?
Can't say I've noticed that, maybe German beer is different. What I have noticed is that some beers taste better from the bottle rather than out of a glass and vice versa.Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
Automatic toilet flushers :grr:. You sit on the pan and then the thing starts randomly flushing while your in the middle of doing your business :grr:.
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Originally Posted by DH1875
Makes room for more meaning the toilet won't get blocked. :greengrin
All to do with the shape of the bottle/glass in your hand and nowt to do with the beer if you watched inside the factory a couple of weeks ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
They are all pretty condescending but if he had called me darling i think id have jumped the counter and slapped him a shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
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Originally Posted by Mrs. S
You ok hun?
Did you just call me a hun? :hilarious:hilariousQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
That peg just got shooglier :greengrin
I always thought you were a Hibee!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
I am..and i have tattoos to prove it! Someone called me a hibby spoon burner the other day :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Strangely wasnt quite as insulted as i was by being called love :greengrin
PM me babes. [emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
Nothing worse than a shoogly peg, love 🤭Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
If you Google pegging THAT will solve your problem in a single search 🤣
Babes :tee hee: the most ridiculous thing anybodys ever been called.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
I'll be googling nothing!Quote:
Originally Posted by brianmc
When you get a plastic bag in the supermarket and you can’t get it separated to open it.
Folk in an open plan office who put their phone on loudspeaker when on a call. Put a headset on or get a meeting room, ignorant gits!
People who seem incapable of showing the appropriate respect, formality and social graces at social events. I thought it may be a generational thing but it seems it's not endemic to one group.
A lady in my work just stated she doesn't want to attend a funeral of a relative so rather than simply not attend or make a phone call or write a letter expressing sympathy and explain she can't attend she has decided to turn up at the crematorium just long enough so a few people see her outside then sneak away before they enter the building. I'm actually stunned anyone thinks that is acceptable behaviour.
I was at another funeral recently where a couple of people were filming the Minister during the eulogy. I was also at a wedding last summer where the celebrant asked at the start of the service that people please refrain from taking photos at the request of the couple and don't post anything on social media that day. Within seconds of the service starting there was a sea of phones covering faces and the wedding was all over Instagram and Facebook within the hour.
Finally we had a Baptism during Mass recently and one women swanned in slurping a Costa coffee, a couple of people in front of me spent the whole Mass alternating between laughing, yawning and sighing and another group thought it was ok to take selfies throughout.
I accept in all instances people have different beliefs and place differing levels of importance on such things but on each occasion it's obviously important to the people who are the focal point of the service. Is it really too much to ask to show a bit respect for somewhere between 20 minutes and an hour?
Those are all massively embarrassing! I'm not a Facebook/Twitter person and I find the invasion of personal privacy particularly galling, I've got no interest in seeing what state I'm in over the course of a night out, particularly when I've not even been asked if I mind being in the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Currently sitting in quite a quiet bar where some arse is speaking loudly on his mobile to I think his wife. Family business too. You cant help hearing this no matter how much you try to not listen. Why?
The pronunciation of "Edinburgh" by Kelly Ann Woodland on the 6 o'clock stv news.
Correct. Why do we have to listen to phone conversations on the bus? I've been on the point of wresting the phone out of some moron's grasp and chucking it out of the window.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Another pet hate is folk who eat food - often garlicky - on the bus. And they always sit in the seat behind me!
People that don’t appear to understand how phones work.
I seem to be seeing more and more people talking into the speaker but not having the earpiece to their ear. I don’t get it, what if the other person is trying to say something?
Perhaps the phones are on handsfree?Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
I do that when I am video calling people. I dont do it whilst walking though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
Many people from other countries do this using the handsfree function.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
Keep an eye out next time you're abroad, once you see it, you'll see it all the time.
When mobiles became popular there was a fear of health risks due to ionising radiation. In the UK this was dismissed through relatively aggressive public info campaigns. We were told there was more radiation leaking from a microwave then the average mobile phone(I don't know anyone that places their head against a micro for the length of a phone call?).
On the continent however they adopted a slightly more conversative approach so many many folk hold the phone away from their head (and the skulls parabolic effect).
Not a pet peeve but a bit of reading that the folk posting regularly on this thread may enjoy .......... The Grumpy Old Git's Guide to Life by Geoff Tibballs. :greengrin
People who post pictures of their hotel bathrooms on social media. Usually followed by a 'looks amazing babe' type comment. Why?
It's some tiles, folded towels and soap in a plastic bottle. Genuinely amazed.
Folk that post pictures of their kids report cards or well done stickers etc because they got 5+5 = 10 question right at school... No cant gives a flying. :greengrin
FB ads. Ive just had one telling me id left a babyshark backpack in my basket.
I have never clicked on a babyshark backpack! Im grateful my kids are too old and my grandson too young for babyshark.
People who think Europe is an organisation and not a continent :fuming:
Actually disturbing my happiness today.
Airports
1) At security, people who wait until they are right at the rollers and then start taking belts off, coats off, rummaging about in bags, being told they’ve got a bottle of water in their hand and a bottle of shampoo in their bag and that’s not permissible and act astonished.
2) At luggage pick-up, people who stand right by the carousel. As soon as the person at the front does it, everyone else has to follow suit, like falling dominoes. What it means is you have a couple of seconds’ notice when your bag passes as you can’t see down the line. If everyone stood a couple of feet back then everyone would surely be able to see the length of the carousel
People who queue up to an hour before a flight, must be tiring standing for so long and frustrating when the priority tickets walk past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
I was on a flight yesterday with a budget airline. Went through security, gate was called and went through passport control and was sitting in the departure lounge waiting for the gate to actually open. No sign of anything happening but a couple sidled their way around the fencing to get to the position closest to the gate.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
Within five minutes there were around sixty people behind them and still no sign of any staff at the gate. It was classic herd mentality. It was half an hour before the staff showed up and started shuffling people through. Best thing was, once everyone had their boarding passes swiped and passports checked there was another half-hour standing wait in a holding area before walking onto the plane! That's maybe the only thing that puts me off taking priority boarding - it doesn't stop you being stuck in the holding area
Calf and foot cramps. Iyaaaa!!!! Especially in the middle of the night
I will never understand this, went to Cuba a couple of years ago and we were waiting in Manchester airport, pint in hand, just up from the gate. Gate gets called, literally a full plane load of people start queuing. I went and got another drink - what's the point in queuing like sheep to wait for a queue to move?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
The only reason I can think of is that sometimes due to space restrictions, the last few passengers will have their hand luggage placed in the hold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
That's fair, especially for connections etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
People who just don’t listen, to an instruction or information that is important to what they need to achieve. They then usually call you mystified as to why they can’t:
Get in
Get something to work
Complete the job
Only to have to be told, I have already told you...........XYZ
It does my nut in.
I fly a lot and am continually amazed and amused by the vast majority of plane passengers who, on landing, before the seat belt signs have been switched off, jump up to get their bags out the overhead lockers then stand in the aisle waiting for the doors to open.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I flew back from from London to Edinburgh a couple of years ago, and it’s exactly this. I boarded after about half the passengers, the overhead lockers were already getting full. There was the usual people bringing on massive suitcases, suit carriers, laptop bags and bags (saw quite a few with all of those things). With about 25% of the seats left to be filled, the cabin crew had to start stopping everyone else coming on with almost any hand luggage and tell them their bags etc would need to be checked into the hold as there was no storage room left.
That wasn't with BA was it? They have a fairly decent carry-on allowance and aren't that strict compared to some low-cost carriers, BUT, some passengers take liberties. 1 carry-on and one small personal bag soon becomes a case with wheels better suited in the hold and a rucksack/Kipling bag that takes up as much overhead bin space as the regular carry-on.Quote:
Originally Posted by McD
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Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
:agree: Spot on
definitely some folk taking liberties, quite a few with 3,4 or 5 carry on items unchallenged at check in or boarding.
Pub bouncers.
After the match on Saturday I found myself in Kitty O'Shea's on Frederick St and when I got there it was about 15:20 the bouncer outside said to me, been to the game have we? I said yes and I'm just meeting my mates here to watch the scores come in as well as the national and the Man City game and the bouncer was like thats fine mate.
Inside it was full of Hibbys all having a good time and the heckys at the wheel song was sung a few times and then the bouncers appeared from nowhere grabbing people and threatening to throw people out for singing and it did threaten to get quite ugly until they realised they were vastly outnumbered and backed off.
Now within 10 minutes a CD was put on in the pub of Celtic "party" songs. Here we go again song with the Oh Ahh up the Ra bit as well and there were folk belting it out and not a word was said to them about that. Guess we just supported the wrong team. No need for the reaction from the bouncers in the first place and it would have been their fault entirely if it had kicked off.
This is the song Celtic Symphony with lyrics
Brutal patter from the bouncers. That boozer has advertising on the west stand I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Certainly does. I make it my business to avoid "Irish" pubs like the plague when there's an alternative and that kind of story only solidifies that custom.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
One wonders what their own homes are like if a hotel bathroom is seen as the acme of comfortable living.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Sub-titles on English speaking films or tv and I don’t know how to switch them off. I can’t stop reading them and end up missing the action. Alternatively there’s a telly in my works restaurant and when the sound is turned down on the news channel the sub-titles are 30 seconds behind what’s happening on the screen.
I've had this with hotel room TVs before. If you go into the TV menu, there should be an option to go into Settings (or something similarly-worded) and then Accessibility (or something similarly-worded). There should be an option there to remove the subtitles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfiembra
Last couple of times it happened to me it wasn't subtitles, it was where a narrator described the scene in between the characters' dialogue.
The last paragraph, audio description, same problem, sometimes it gets switched on by mistake and I never remember how to switch it off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Repeat of an earlier peeve but only because it’s alarmingly on the increase.......... young (mainly) females self harming by having their lips filled with silicone. Do they really think it improves their attractiveness or do they harbour regrets that they weren’t born as a trout?
Looks horrendous. And is incredibly dangerous apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
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Originally Posted by Jim44
This is seemingly quite an unregulated thing at the moment so it is relatively easy to set up a business and do this. Sure I did read somewhere that the government want to tighten it up so that only qualified professionals can do it. At the moment its a license to print money for these private botox nurses.
Talking of hotels, ones that have showers that are too "cool" or "design-y" to indulge the paying guest in some clear red/blue indicator of which way is hot and which way is cold, leaving you to play the "oooh ya *******" game when you either scald or freeze your nads inadvertently.
Also, in general, countries where the cold water doesn't get properly cold, especially in summer when it's just what's needed.