Pet Peeves IV

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

What is it with idiots wearing shorts in this weather. Especially during the storm. Seen a bunch of idiots last night at with virtually nothing on except shorts and T shirts. Laddies and Lassies. :crazy:

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About half 5ish?

I think there must have been some sort of gig on, because there was about 20 odd of them around haymarket, all wearing fluorescent colours etc... replete with bumbags etc...

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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy

To add a bit of balance to my rant, the below is from Lochaber Mountain Rescue and casts a bit of a different light on the whole incident:

Thanks to everyone for their messages of support to the Team - very much appreciated. The incident has created a huge amount of media/public/government and international interest and comment.
The casualties admit that they made a significant error of judgement and are extremely sorry for the results of their actions. The guys were just members of the public who perhaps were unaware of what they were getting into. Not being from the UK and with very limited English, a lot of the information available to mountaineers and hill walkers would not have been accessible to them, so perhaps there is an element of mitigation in respect of their actions, clothing and lack of equipment.
At present money from the Scottish Government is channeled, via Sportscotland, quite rightly so, into the Avalanche Information Service and for training and education through centers like Glenmore Lodge and agencies such as Mountaineering Scotland. Most of this will be targeted at people who are either engaged in the sport or have an interest in taking it up. Perhaps more thought needs to be given into how to inform the general public/casual tourist about how dangerous our small mountains are and how severe our weather can get and how it will catch-out the unwary and uninformed at any time of the year.
Unfortunately it takes incidents like yesterdays to raise the profile in the media and the message has definitely got out. So there is a positive from the incident. Therefore, let us just cut the guys a little bit of slack. For those who call for charging and insurance for mountaineers/hill walkers, be careful for what ask for, as where do you stop, insurance for fishing, rugby, football all of which have more incidents and injuries than mountaineering.
Mountain rescuers are all mountaineers who volunteer their services at absolutely minimal cost to the public purse. Insurance would lead to a professional service, which, for yesterdays incident would have required about 30 full time paid people on one single shift plus equipment etc to have been able carry out and then you have the admin, health and safety, bean counter et al - all funded by tax payer. Leave as is, as we have a world class voluntary mountain rescue service which delivers via public donations.
To ensure it is sufficiently funded, we need public donations so please give to a mountain rescue team. Not all mountain rescue is about mountains and many teams outwith the Highlands, and even those in the Highlands, do provide resilience cover at times of severe weather/flooding and when the full time agencies cannot cope with scale of an incident. This is also significantly funded by donations for mountain rescue but we are sure our supporters would not grudge some of their money going back to the communities which we live in and allow access to our mountains and countryside.
Finally, we would like to thank the guys from yesterday's rescue for making the donation shown in the picture attached. These were very young guys who without any prompting made a very generous gesture which is very much appreciated. Not everyone rescued appreciates that we are not full time or not paid to be at their beck and call.
Stay safe.

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Lessons learned

BBC News - Ben Nevis tourists thank rescuers with 'generous' gifts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-51473800

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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy

To add a bit of balance to my rant, the below is from Lochaber Mountain Rescue and casts a bit of a different light on the whole incident.

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Thanks for posting this. It makes me feel a wee bit proud to live in a country where such a balanced and generous response can be made by the Mountain Rescue team.

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Originally Posted by grunt

Thanks for posting this. It makes me feel a wee bit proud to live in a country where such a balanced and generous response can be made by the Mountain Rescue team.

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Agreed, but what else would you expect from folk who voluntarily risk their lives to save others. :top marks

Ryanair bookings.

Whenever i book flights and take the option for priority and 2 cabin bags (disgusing but thats another matter),
I get emails before my flights titled Important info regarding your flights.
I open it to discover an option to add priority and cabin bags even though I have already booked them.
I then have to dig out my original booking to check if i have booked cabin bags or not.
Drives me nuts.

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Originally Posted by sleeping giant

Ryanair bookings.

Whenever i book flights and take the option for priority and 2 cabin bags (disgusing but thats another matter),
I get emails before my flights titled Important info regarding your flights.
I open it to discover an option to add priority and cabin bags even though I have already booked them.
I then have to dig out my original booking to check if i have booked cabin bags or not.
Drives me nuts.

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I am flying Ryanair on Friday to Rome for the rugby. Only used them once before and said I'd never do it again. Wish I'd kept that promise to myself. Complete nightmare, cancelled the original flights a few weeks ago, charging us more now, having to go via Warsaw there and Dublin back, had an argument with them about costs for luggage. Like you we had paid for priority but with the change of flights they wanted to charge us £200 for two for the priveledge. Robbing *******s. After many calls now down to £40 which is what it should have been in the first place. Never ever again

Cashiers that run you through exactly what you have to do when paying with card as if only they know the secret magic of how card machines work.

Sure it’s been posted a few times, but folk that write the way they talk. Speak any way you choose, but in written form it must take longer than typing the words properly and looks ridiculous IMO.

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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg

Cashiers that run you through exactly what you have to do when paying with card as if only they know the secret magic of how card machines work.

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Tbf, the general public need talked through most simple stuff.

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When the entire street puts out the wrong bin for that week which makes you doubt yourself and your calendar entries.

At least I was the only one that got my recycling uplifted this week.

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Originally Posted by overdrive

When the entire street puts out the wrong bin for that week which makes you doubt yourself and your calendar entries.

At least I was the only one that got my recycling uplifted this week.

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😂

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Originally Posted by overdrive

When the entire street puts out the wrong bin for that week which makes you doubt yourself and your calendar entries.

At least I was the only one that got my recycling uplifted this week.

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I sometimes put ma brown bin out on the wrong day to see how many copy it 😇😇

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Originally Posted by The Modfather

Sure it’s been posted a few times, but folk that write the way they talk. Speak any way you choose, but in written form it must take longer than typing the words properly and looks ridiculous IMO.

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Irvine Welsh manages to get it over OK😄
Totally get what you mean though. I have Aberdonian friends who's online ramblings would be gibberish to many. Fit's and fa's FFS! I'm afraid it's just another example of correctly written English going down the pan.
Its shan, ken whit ah mean? 😄

People that wear neck pillows while walking around the airport.

Guaranteed to be the biggest ****s on the plane without fail.

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Originally Posted by CloudSquall

People that wear neck pillows while walking around the airport.

Guaranteed to be the biggest ****s on the plane without fail.

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Add to that construction workers/scaffolders who wear their hard hats or tool belts at lunchtime whilst going to the shops.

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

Add to that construction workers/scaffolders who wear their hard hats or tool belts at lunchtime whilst going to the shops.

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Add to that people who wear work ID badges on the bus,train, at lunchtime etc. I don't care where you work and it doesn't make you look important.

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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz

Add to that people who wear work ID badges on the bus,train, at lunchtime etc. I don't care where you work and it doesn't make you look important.

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I agree with this, the last thing you want is to be identified as a council employee. 😉

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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz

Add to that people who wear work ID badges on the bus,train, at lunchtime etc. I don't care where you work and it doesn't make you look important.

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I don't wear a work ID, but if I had to I'd probably wear it on those occasions. I don't really see the issue.

I imagine people are just doing the most convenient thing rather than thinking they look important.

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Originally Posted by danhibees1875

I don't wear a work ID, but if I had to I'd probably wear it on those occasions. I don't really see the issue.

I imagine people are just doing the most convenient thing rather than thinking they look important.

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It can easily go in a pocket. Usually they're computer cards or door passes on neck lanyards. I have been in jobs that require them and wouldnt dare wear them to bar or shops at lunchtime as you absolutely look a twat.

Edit...just realised this doesn't fit well with learning to be non judgemental 🤨🤨🤨..a work in progress obviously

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

It can easily go in a pocket. Usually they're computer cards or door passes on neck lanyards. I have been in jobs that require them and wouldnt dare wear them to bar or shops at lunchtime as you absolutely look a twat.

Edit...just realised this doesn't fit well with learning to be non judgemental 🤨🤨🤨..a work in progress obviously

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I have one for work that stays in my bag or pocket when I'm not in the office. Agreed it takes a second to remove it and put it away. I don't think people need to know I work for......whoever, and going by my photo I'm not sure I'd want people to see it. Ha ha.

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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz

I have one for work that stays in my bag or pocket when I'm not in the office. Agreed it takes a second to remove it and put it away. I don't think people need to know I work for......whoever, and going by my photo I'm not sure I'd want people to see it. Ha ha.

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To be fair that vast majority of work passes don’t identify the company you work for, nor do they make people look important.

But I get the point re not getting why people wear them outside the office.

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Originally Posted by RyeSloan

To be fair that vast majority of work passes don’t identify the company you work for, nor do they make people look important.

But I get the point re not getting why people wear them outside the office.

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The bank my son works for instructs their staff not to wear them in public, only when in a bank building.

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

I agree with this, the last thing you want is to be identified as a council employee. 😉

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I work for the NHS and never wear my ID anywhere except work. A magnet for people complaining or maybe get mistaken for a medic where I would be of no use whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz

Add to that people who wear work ID badges on the bus,train, at lunchtime etc. I don't care where you work and it doesn't make you look important.

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My ID badge is also a key card that allows me to go between landside and airside as well as enter restricted areas at the airport. To lose it would not only be a severe pain in the arse but also a security risk. For that reason it stays attached to a lanyard and secured around my neck from the moment I take it out of the drawer at home until I put it back there after getting home. There's no way I'm putting it anywhere else, even if people think it's stupid. I do however wear it under my top layer of clothing on my way to and from work.

Uber drivers that accept a request and then don't seem to bother their arse to move or seem to drive in every direction other than the one towards your pick up spot.

People that reply to all unnecessarily.

I’m not even talking in a professional sense as I get it sometimes good to cover your back by including people, even if they don’t want included. Im talking about things like Last Man Standing emails, everybody is letting the organiser know who they want privately but there’s always one or two that feel like they have to include everyone!

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Originally Posted by bingo70

People that reply to all unnecessarily.

I’m not even talking in a professional sense as I get it sometimes good to cover your back by including people, even if they don’t want included. Im talking about things like Last Man Standing emails, everybody is letting the organiser know who they want privately but there’s always one or two that feel like they have to include everyone!

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Similarly, group chats on WhatsApp or whatever. When my daughter was born my wife went to the usual classes etc and every one of them was a new group chat and now it’s a prison. Constant messages about “does anyone know when Tesco shuts”, just google it like a normal person ya mutant.

Viewing events through your mobile is already covered but I was at the Rio carnaval parade and while these amazing floats went past there were umpteen clowns who turned their back to it in order to take a selfie.

It wasn't even a quick 5 second turnaround, they had their back turned the entire time the float was passing while looking at themselves in their phone to ensure the best selfie.

Instead of experiencing things now half the world is obsessed with Instagram likes and nothing more.

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Originally Posted by bingo70

People that reply to all unnecessarily.

I’m not even talking in a professional sense as I get it sometimes good to cover your back by including people, even if they don’t want included. Im talking about things like Last Man Standing emails, everybody is letting the organiser know who they want privately but there’s always one or two that feel like they have to include everyone!

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This happens occasionally at my work when there is a company wide email, you always get the muppet who replies to all to ask to be removed from the distribution list, instead of the author directly. Which in turn all the muppets of the organisation join in and reply all, also asking to be removed from the distribution list. Then their counterpart muppets reply all telling everyone to stop replying to all. And it goes on.

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Originally Posted by Alfiembra

This happens occasionally at my work when there is a company wide email, you always get the muppet who replies to all to ask to be removed from the distribution list, instead of the author directly. Which in turn all the muppets of the organisation join in and reply all, also asking to be removed from the distribution list. Then their counterpart muppets reply all telling everyone to stop replying to all. And it goes on.

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Yes, used to happen a lot when I worked in the Scottish Government. Someone sends an email to the whole Department by mistake, loads of folk reply to all saying they shouldn't have received it, some reply to all to tell everyone to stop replying to all, then this daftie replies to all with the message "Let's all go for a pint!" followed quickly by a very stern warning from the Minister's Private Secretary (to all!) telling everyone to stop :greengrin

Floated corners.

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Originally Posted by SaulGoodman

Floated corners.

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Or just floaters.

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

Or just floaters.

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Anything that floats is bad news. See Witches for example.

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Originally Posted by Alfiembra

This happens occasionally at my work when there is a company wide email, you always get the muppet who replies to all to ask to be removed from the distribution list, instead of the author directly. Which in turn all the muppets of the organisation join in and reply all, also asking to be removed from the distribution list. Then their counterpart muppets reply all telling everyone to stop replying to all. And it goes on.

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:agree: It's times like this you question why you are not higher up (further away in the chain from these people) in your company.

There are 2 adverts on the telly that really annoy me just now -

The Wickes one where the guy says "Let Wickes clear your housebarressment". What clown sat down and thought "housebarressment...that'll work"?

The advert for Alexa. Wee lassie comes home and storms up to her room, she's been beat at football that day. It cuts to night time and the mum wakes up as there's some banging noise, she asks Alexa the time, it's 4-40am. Mum looks out the bedroom window and the girl is in the garden playing football, taking shots into goals that are painted on a wall. It's 4-40am. The mum then asks Alexa to turn the garden lights on, which are brighter than the actual sun. It's 4-40am! Get they lights off, get her telt to stop kicking the ball about and get to bed. Then in the morning get her dragged round each of the neighbours houses to apologise.

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Originally Posted by easty

There are 2 adverts on the telly that really annoy me just now -

The Wickes one where the guy says "Let Wickes clear your housebarressment". What clown sat down and thought "housebarressment...that'll work"?

The advert for Alexa. Wee lassie comes home and storms up to her room, she's been beat at football that day. It cuts to night time and the mum wakes up as there's some banging noise, she asks Alexa the time, it's 4-40am. Mum looks out the bedroom window and the girl is in the garden playing football, taking shots into goals that are painted on a wall. It's 4-40am. The mum then asks Alexa to turn the garden lights on, which are brighter than the actual sun. It's 4-40am! Get they lights off, get her telt to stop kicking the ball about and get to bed. Then in the morning get her dragged round each of the neighbours houses to apologise.

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That Alexa one annoys me too! 😠

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Originally Posted by easty

There are 2 adverts on the telly that really annoy me just now -

The Wickes one where the guy says "Let Wickes clear your housebarressment". What clown sat down and thought "housebarressment...that'll work"?

The advert for Alexa. Wee lassie comes home and storms up to her room, she's been beat at football that day. It cuts to night time and the mum wakes up as there's some banging noise, she asks Alexa the time, it's 4-40am. Mum looks out the bedroom window and the girl is in the garden playing football, taking shots into goals that are painted on a wall. It's 4-40am. The mum then asks Alexa to turn the garden lights on, which are brighter than the actual sun. It's 4-40am! Get they lights off, get her telt to stop kicking the ball about and get to bed. Then in the morning get her dragged round each of the neighbours houses to apologise.

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That Alexa advert does my nut in too. The first time I seen it I thought that the family in it would be absolute ****s to live next to.

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Originally Posted by easty

There are 2 adverts on the telly that really annoy me just now -

The Wickes one where the guy says "Let Wickes clear your housebarressment". What clown sat down and thought "housebarressment...that'll work"?

The advert for Alexa. Wee lassie comes home and storms up to her room, she's been beat at football that day. It cuts to night time and the mum wakes up as there's some banging noise, she asks Alexa the time, it's 4-40am. Mum looks out the bedroom window and the girl is in the garden playing football, taking shots into goals that are painted on a wall. It's 4-40am. The mum then asks Alexa to turn the garden lights on, which are brighter than the actual sun. It's 4-40am! Get they lights off, get her telt to stop kicking the ball about and get to bed. Then in the morning get her dragged round each of the neighbours houses to apologise.

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The Wickes one is similar to the Money Supermarket one with Matt Berry which is currently on the radio with the noise "aaaah" inserted randomly into words. Grinds my gears.

Moan about adverts all you like, but you're all talking about them and know the product.

Buying it might be another issue!


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Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy

Moan about adverts all you like, but you're all talking about them and know the product.

Buying it might be another issue!


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I've witnessed people making this point a lot, surely a **** advert is less likely to make you buy/use a product whether you know what is or not. Go Compare being a prime example.

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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY

I've witnessed people making this point a lot, surely a **** advert is less likely to make you buy/use a product whether you know what is or not. Go Compare being a prime example.

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Spot on and a great example. If they spend their money on really irritating ads that make me change channels then I'm not using them, simple as that.

Hearts fc. :rolleyes:

People that state their opinion as a fact. Really does my head in.

ITV Player.

Wanted to binge watch Flesh and Blood, but it wasn't available on the ITV Player in Scotland for some reason. Changed my location to a West Yorkshire postcode and it becomes available.

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

ITV Player.

Wanted to binge watch Flesh and Blood, but it wasn't available on the ITV Player in Scotland for some reason. Changed my location to a West Yorkshire postcode and it becomes available.

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You have to download the STV player to watch ITV1 content in Scotland. I actually prefer the STV one, if you’re watching it live, you can go back to the start of the program which you can’t do on the ITV one.

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Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby

You have to download the STV player to watch ITV1 content in Scotland. I actually prefer the STV one, if you’re watching it live, you can go back to the start of the program which you can’t do on the ITV one.

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Cheers for the tip. :aok:

Folk who play content on a bus with their mobile phone without headphones. Oblivious.

Does my nut in.

Imagine if the whole bus was as selfish. 70 people all loudly playing different content.

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Originally Posted by Hibby Bairn

Folk who play content on a bus with their mobile phone without headphones. Oblivious.

Does my nut in.

Imagine if the whole bus was as selfish. 70 people all loudly playing different content.

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My wee girl loves the sound on her jigsaw app. I hate it but I refuse to let her use headphones. She is learning to just play the games and we will work on it to let others enjoy their commute in peace. She thinks everyone enjoys it (she's 4)

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Originally Posted by wpj

My wee girl loves the sound on her jigsaw app. I hate it but I refuse to let her use headphones. She is learning to just play the games and we will work on it to let others enjoy their commute in peace. She thinks everyone enjoys it (she's 4)

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Out of interest, why do you refuse to let her use headphones? I don't think a wee kid fiddling about on a parent's phone is the likely target of this pet peeve though. It's when the adults or teenagers themselves treat the whole bus or carriage to whatever ***** they're listening to (also, they never have a decent taste in music) that wrecks my head.

Not sure if this has been said but something you see a lot online these days...People Who Capitalise Every Word In A Sentence...why????

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

Not sure if this has been said but something you see a lot online these days...People Who Capitalise Every Word In A Sentence...why????

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Even worse is the current fashion of randomly using a mix of upPerCaSE AnD LowEr caSe

Probably been done to death but hate public toilets and especially hate folk who used them and don't clean up after themselves. Their houses must be bogging.

Anyway, just been for a pee and want to wash my hands. No soap, seriously in this day and age and all the advice about coronavirus.

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

Even worse is the current fashion of randomly using a mix of upPerCaSE AnD LowEr caSe

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SpongeBob SquarePants is to blame for this, apparently.

#memelife

(Personal pet peeve,,,, irony & hashtags!)

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

Even worse is the current fashion of randomly using a mix of upPerCaSE AnD LowEr caSe

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Yep, that's very annoying.

I think it's meant to suggest a lack of intelligence in the person they're mimicking but it's just bizarre.

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Originally Posted by DH1875

Probably been done to death but hate public toilets and especially hate folk who used them and don't clean up after themselves. Their houses must be bogging.

Anyway, just been for a pee and want to wash my hands. No soap, seriously in this day and age and all the advice about coronavirus.

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No soap just like Easter Road.

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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns

Even worse is the current fashion of randomly using a mix of upPerCaSE AnD LowEr caSe

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It'S nOt RaNdOm. It's every second word.

It's to denote a daft opinion. And it belongs to a sponge on meme.

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Originally Posted by lyonhibs

Out of interest, why do you refuse to let her use headphones? I don't think a wee kid fiddling about on a parent's phone is the likely target of this pet peeve though. It's when the adults or teenagers themselves treat the whole bus or carriage to whatever ***** they're listening to (also, they never have a decent taste in music) that wrecks my head.

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Purely the volume of headphones, she doesn't put them in her ears but doesnt know how to adjust the volume yet safely. As I say, we agree to lower the volume on the phone and she understands others dont need to hear it. Work in progress.

People desperate to get off public transport first. Sit on a bus in Edinburgh and as soon as the driver has closed the doors at a stop someone is pushing the bell and up on their feet for the next stop. People will form a queue even if the bus is stuck at lights.
Trains the same, queuing at the door miles before the stop. And worst of all...planes!

You can guarantee that once I've just finished the weekly shopping and am on my way back to the car with everything on the shopping list, the wife will text me asking for something else. Does my head in.

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

People desperate to get off public transport first. Sit on a bus in Edinburgh and as soon as the driver has closed the doors at a stop someone is pushing the bell and up on their feet for the next stop. People will form a queue even if the bus is stuck at lights.
Trains the same, queuing at the door miles before the stop. And worst of all...planes!

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Years ago I got the ferry to France and folk were heading back to their cars long before the boat docked.

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

People desperate to get off public transport first. Sit on a bus in Edinburgh and as soon as the driver has closed the doors at a stop someone is pushing the bell and up on their feet for the next stop. People will form a queue even if the bus is stuck at lights.
Trains the same, queuing at the door miles before the stop. And worst of all...planes!

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Why does that bother you? Planes I understand, that annoys me too, but people on buses?

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

People desperate to get off public transport first. Sit on a bus in Edinburgh and as soon as the driver has closed the doors at a stop someone is pushing the bell and up on their feet for the next stop. People will form a queue even if the bus is stuck at lights.
Trains the same, queuing at the door miles before the stop. And worst of all...planes!

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What about the thousands that are desperate to be first out of Easter Road every home game, they get up from their seats well before the final whistle.

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Originally Posted by Peevemor

Why does that bother you? Planes I understand, that annoys me too, but people on buses?

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Do you know it doesn't bother me at all. Other than internally laughing at them and a wee shake of the heid that's about it. More a comment on strange human behavior, so probably the wrong thread.

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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee

What about the thousands that are desperate to be first out of Easter Road every home game, they get up from their seats well before the final whistle.

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Indeed, another example of this (for me) slightly strange behaviour.

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

Do you know it doesn't bother me at all. Other than internally laughing at them and a wee shake of the heid that's about it. More a comment on strange human behavior, so probably the wrong thread.

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So not a peeve - more bemusement than anything else. That I can understand.

Why, when you’re transporting the washing from the laundry basket to the washing machine, do you always find a wee lonely smelly sock lying nearby, once the machine has been started.?

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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby

People desperate to get off public transport first. Sit on a bus in Edinburgh and as soon as the driver has closed the doors at a stop someone is pushing the bell and up on their feet for the next stop. People will form a queue even if the bus is stuck at lights.
Trains the same, queuing at the door miles before the stop. And worst of all...planes!

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Yeah, seems strange to me on trains and planes, but I've started to do it on buses just because getting to the front uninjured can be difficult with the way the buses are driven and the state of the streets in Edinburgh.

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Originally Posted by StevieT

Years ago I got the ferry to France and folk were heading back to their cars long before the boat docked.

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Not only that but they start their engines five or ten minutes early. You can't drive off until the doors are open, clowns!

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Originally Posted by wpj

Purely the volume of headphones, she doesn't put them in her ears but doesnt know how to adjust the volume yet safely. As I say, we agree to lower the volume on the phone and she understands others dont need to hear it. Work in progress.

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Ah OK, fair enough.

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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee

Not only that but they start their engines five or ten minutes early. You can't drive off until the doors are open, clowns!

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Not only that, the cars are offloaded in a particular order

People who walk into Starbucks and ask for 100 modifications to a drink they want as if they are a majority shareholder.

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Originally Posted by CloudSquall

People who walk into Starbucks and ask for 100 modifications to a drink they want as if they are majority shareholder.

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Similarly was behind a woman at Morrison’s cafe in the Gyle, she ordered a big breakfast then spent the next five minutes or so making alterations to it which included leaving the till point to check with her partner who was seated wether he wanted ****** haggis or not!

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Originally Posted by CloudSquall

People who walk into Starbucks and ask for 100 modifications to a drink they want as if they are majority shareholder.

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Ha ha good point well made!

I was in a Starbucks a while ago and I’m sure someone ordered a decaf skinny oatmeal latte or something like that...I remember shaking my head wondering why they were ordering a coffee then applying everything possible to make it resemble a drink as far removed as possible from it actually being a coffee! There surely had to be something that didn’t start out as a coffee that they would actually prefer! [emoji2957]

The erseholes who are causing a shortage on the shelves by panic stock piling, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee

The erseholes who are causing a shortage on the shelves by panic stock piling, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

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I was in Sainsbury’s yesterday and expected to see empty shelves. They had everything though.

I didn’t look for hand sanitiser though, I think that’s a favourite of the panic merchant just now.

A mate who’s a brickie was saying today that there’s barely any toilet paper on his site just now, he thinks folk are nicking it!

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Originally Posted by easty

I was in Sainsbury’s yesterday and expected to see empty shelves. They had everything though.

I didn’t look for hand sanitiser though, I think that’s a favourite of the panic merchant just now.

A mate who’s a brickie was saying today that there’s barely any toilet paper on his site just now, he thinks folk are nicking it!

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The shelves in Asda at Leith we’re bare today of toilet roll.

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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee

The erseholes who are causing a shortage on the shelves by panic stock piling, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

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Entirely rational to want to visit busy supermarkets less frequently in a time of epidemic, and so entirely rational for people to bulk buy. Unless supermarkets employ more people to constantly re-stock shelves, there will be more spaces on them than usual.

The bogroll obsession does seem a bit weird though. Simply pop out to the countryside and find a dock leaf!

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Entirely rational to want to visit busy supermarkets less frequently in a time of epidemic, and so entirely rational for people to bulk buy. Unless supermarkets employ more people to constantly re-stock shelves, there will be more spaces on them than usual.

The bogroll obsession does seem a bit weird though. Simply pop out to the countryside and find a dock leaf!

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Bulk buy! Some folk won’t have to buy hand wash soap or toilet roll for months going by the amount they are taking, it just causes everyone else to panic in case they can’t get any and you get the domino effect, ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee

Bulk buy! Some folk won’t have to buy hand wash soap or toilet roll for months going by the amount they are taking, it just causes everyone else to panic in case they can’t get any and you get the domino effect, ridiculous.

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Supermarkets too slow to introduce rationing then? Maybe Hancock should have suggested that to them during the extensive preparatory conversations they had? :dunno:

Apparently, they're nicking the hand sanitisers out of hospitals now.

People! Dontcha just love 'em?

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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee

The shelves in Asda at Leith we’re bare today of toilet roll.

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I don't understand why folk don't understand the toilet roll shortage.

Men, representing approximately half the population of the country, are aware they may soon have to spend two weeks in "self-isolation".

What did people think they were going to go out and buy?!?

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I don't understand why folk don't understand the toilet roll shortage.

Men, representing approximately half the population of the country, are aware they may soon have to spend two weeks in "self-isolation".

What did people think they were going to go out and buy?!?

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It's funny because it's true.

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I don't understand why folk don't understand the toilet roll shortage.

Men, representing approximately half the population of the country, are aware they may soon have to spend two weeks in "self-isolation".

What did people think they were going to go out and buy?!?

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Socks?

Referring to the Prime Minister by his first/second name as if he's some cuddly friend.

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Referring to the Prime Minister by his first/second name as if he's some cuddly friend.

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Or his nickname 'BoJo' like a crap pantomime villan.

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The paranoia of stocking up on toilet paper was highlighted by Chris Evans yesterday. His solution was to talk up the use of bum guns. Very popular in Asia apparently.

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The paranoia of stocking up on toilet paper was highlighted by Chris Evans yesterday. His solution was to talk up the use of bum guns. Very popular in Asia apparently.

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By far the cleanest way of wiping your backside. Smearing **** over your butt with dry paper is manky. No wonder Asians call us dirty.

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By far the cleanest way of wiping your backside. Smearing **** over your butt with dry paper is manky. No wonder Asians call us dirty.

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If you're doing it right, you shouldn't be smearing, but I know what you mean.
Any truth in the urban myth this is why many cultures eat only with their right hand (wipe with their left?)?

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If you're doing it right, you shouldn't be smearing, but I know what you mean.
Any truth in the urban myth this is why many cultures eat only with their right hand (wipe with their left?)?

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Not sure about all cultures, but without checking I'm sure there's something in Islamic law which dictates you should eat with right hand only. Whether that is because the left hand is considered unclean I'm not sure. 99.9% of bum guns I've seen are all plumbed so you can only hold it with your right hand therefore the left is for cleaning.

Panic buying.

I heard a woman on the phone in Morrisons saying to all and sundry that this was the third supermarket where there were no chickens.

She was on the verge of panic, really. As it was, there was no fresh meat on the shelves at all. Ditto pasta.

One woman had 6 packs of morning rolls. A Chinese man filled his trolley with frozen chickens, about 12 of them.

People who revel in overreacting on social media.

I can understand people who are genuinely concerned and fearful over the coronavirus (even if I'm one of those that is rather blasé about it) but there seems to be a section of society that can't wait to get on Twitter and get off on screaming to anyone and everyone about how the world is ending and you are Judas reincarnated if you dare walk outside.

The type of ****s that type "MUST READ��", "THREAD ��" as if they are super important.

Twitter has been a good source of info from actual organisations like embassies, FCO travel advice etc, but the rest of it is horrendous.

Perpetrators of fake news, especially in the current climate. There's lots of fake news reports doing the rounds that appear to be from trustworthy sources but are forged fakes. One that spread like wildfire over here yesterday and today was claiming that supermarkets were being closed by government decree with the exception of 2 hours on Mondays and Fridays. This kind of **** has serious consequences and I don't see what people get out of it, unless there's another malicious source behind this kind of thing like Russian mischief making.

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Perpetrators of fake news, especially in the current climate. There's lots of fake news reports doing the rounds that appear to be from trustworthy sources but are forged fakes. One that spread like wildfire over here yesterday and today was claiming that supermarkets were being closed by government decree with the exception of 2 hours on Mondays and Fridays. This kind of **** has serious consequences and I don't see what people get out of it, unless there's another malicious source behind this kind of thing like Russian mischief making.

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I feel sorry for young people nowadays, especially the impressionable. Who to trust from the point of view as to what is fact.

Just something is in print does not make it true. The BBC are reliable overall but as for social media it is a jungle out there.

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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg

Perpetrators of fake news, especially in the current climate. There's lots of fake news reports doing the rounds that appear to be from trustworthy sources but are forged fakes. One that spread like wildfire over here yesterday and today was claiming that supermarkets were being closed by government decree with the exception of 2 hours on Mondays and Fridays. This kind of **** has serious consequences and I don't see what people get out of it, unless there's another malicious source behind this kind of thing like Russian mischief making.

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A woman on one of my wife’s many mum group chats declared the three day that “kids cannae catch it, I work in a hospital so I ken”.

Honestly.

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Perpetrators of fake news, especially in the current climate. There's lots of fake news reports doing the rounds that appear to be from trustworthy sources but are forged fakes. One that spread like wildfire over here yesterday and today was claiming that supermarkets were being closed by government decree with the exception of 2 hours on Mondays and Fridays. This kind of **** has serious consequences and I don't see what people get out of it, unless there's another malicious source behind this kind of thing like Russian mischief making.

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I came across an example last night: a typical I know what is about to happen spread by the most ignorant bar staff member, really stupid.

He told every customer, enjoyed delivering his inside information and felt as proud as a peacock.

An empty man with no friends , limited intelligence and interests. Quite typical of the sort, loving the power he thought he had.

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A woman on one of my wife’s many mum group chats declared the three day that “kids cannae catch it, I work in a hospital so I ken”.

Honestly.

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Refreshing candour from a doctor. :wink:

The new attention seeking trend of posting videos titled "quarantine day 10" that consist of yourself being a total knob at home

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The new attention seeking trend of posting videos titled "quarantine day 10" that consist of yourself being a total knob at home

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I dont mind that. People are bored and trying to keep themselves and others entertained . Its way better than the false information quotes i was seeing last week.

"Ramping up".

If you've failed to do something on time, or at all, just go on TV and insist that you're ramping it up.

Couples who walk straight towards you down the centre of the pavement so you have to move into the road if you want to keep a safe distance. All they have to do is move to one side of the pavement while you move to the opposite side and there would a safe gap.

There's a word for people like that. Can you guess what it is?