Pet Peeves IV

[O'Rourke3]

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Drum Brae by any chance?
Seen some shocking driving there over the last week.
Coming down Drum Brae heading over towards Meadow Place Road, car two lanes over to my left decides as St John's is closed he is now going to go right and head towards Maybury,,,no idea how there wasn't an accident as he cut EVERYBODY up regardless of what lane they were in!

Close - Calder Road. Fair play though. Bloke today (clearly a Hibby) not racing but gesturing me through correctly

Transmitted mentally from my cortex

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

The Wahanda tv ad with the daft cow with the guitar.

Dave the weirdo on the moneysupermarket advert, excuse my French but, wtf?

[Dav1986]

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People who let their kids run riot in a pub or restaurant!

As someone who has worked in restaurants for years as a manager and a waiter, this. A hundred times this.

They also tend to be the families that leave their table and surrounding area an absolute state and say 'sorry for the mess' without even leaving a tip. Makes it easier to stomach cleaning up such a mess when you are left a tip at least.

Also on restaurants... people who come in and try to seat themselves even though there is a host, host stand and sign saying please wait to be seated 👊👊 usually trying to walk past the queue aswell!!

[snooky]

Pre-recorded telemarketing ads on the phone.
How utterly rude.

[Keith_M]

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Not a peeve but a favourite,shoplifters who thought you couldn't stop them as they hadn't left the store.

Tales from the hometown, Scouse?

[matty_f]

Folk who do something wrong and then complain about getting pulled up for it, like it's the person pulling them up that's the bad guy.

[Gatecrasher]

Elephant Racing on the motorway (a lorry taking an age to overtake)

[Scouse Hibee]

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Tales from the hometown, Scouse?

Nope the Edinburgh institution that was Jenners before HOF ruined it.

[Geo_1875]

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Elephant Racing on the motorway (a lorry taking an age to overtake)

Even worse when they do that on the overtaking lanes on the A9 and no-one else gets past.

[Pretty Boy]

Walking poles. Seriously they do absolutely nothing but erode paths.

Nothing worse than seeing someome trying use poles to balance whilst going over a tricky bit of ground and leaning all their weight on them. 1st of all it's dangerous, if that poles gives you are hitting the deck with nothing to break your fall. Secondly the way you are standing makes you look like a 13 year old dancing with a pretty girld trying to hide the fact he has a semi.

[Jim44]

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Elephant Racing on the motorway (a lorry taking an age to overtake)

Yesterday on the M8 round about the Showcase Cinema area, I was in the inside lane doing about 50 mph. A lorry leading the stream of traffic in the outside lane was doing about 45 mph and getting no faster, annoying the traffic behind. No way I could move out to allow traffic to merge from the slip road aheaad and I wasn't going to break violently to let them come on ahead of me or to allow the outside lane traffic to pass me so I could move to the outside lane, so I accelerated a bit to get passed quickly. Obviously, I had to overtake the lorry on the inside, but it was chugging slowly with no indication of moving into the inside lane. The lorry driver blasted his horn for about ten seconds and flashed his lights like a maniac. OK I had to perform an illegal action but it was a reaction to a situation that seemed the right thing to do. I thought the 'professional' driver was out of order to react like he did and not read the situation. If I'd taken his ground, I could have understood his reaction.

[DH1875]

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Not a peeve but a favourite,shoplifters who thought you couldn't stop them as they hadn't left the store.

I always thought that was the case

[liamh2202]

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Yesterday on the M8 round about the Showcase Cinema area, I was in the inside lane doing about 50 mph. A lorry leading the stream of traffic in the outside lane was doing about 45 mph and getting no faster, annoying the traffic behind. No way I could move out to allow traffic to merge from the slip road aheaad and I wasn't going to break violently to let them come on ahead of me or to allow the outside lane traffic to pass me so I could move to the outside lane, so I accelerated a bit to get passed quickly. Obviously, I had to overtake the lorry on the inside, but it was chugging slowly with no indication of moving into the inside lane. The lorry driver blasted his horn for about ten seconds and flashed his lights like a maniac. OK I had to perform an illegal action but it was a reaction to a situation that seemed the right thing to do. I thought the 'professional' driver was out of order to react like he did and not read the situation. If I'd taken his ground, I could have understood his reaction.

I don't actually think its illegal to 'undertake' mate .. As long as it can't be classed as dangerous and you aren't speeding

[liamh2202]

From Highway Code - 268
Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions, you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake. -

[Just Alf]

So Jim, reading the actual rule shows you're in the clear :D

[lyonhibs]

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Walking poles. Seriously they do absolutely nothing but erode paths.

Nothing worse than seeing someome trying use poles to balance whilst going over a tricky bit of ground and leaning all their weight on them. 1st of all it's dangerous, if that poles gives you are hitting the deck with nothing to break your fall. Secondly the way you are standing makes you look like a 13 year old dancing with a pretty girld trying to hide the fact he has a semi.

I've got a group of mates here in Switzerland and we go relatively often on group hikes. Nothing excessive, just nice hikes.

There's these 2 girls who INSIST on these stupid walking poles. Going downhill especially, it's completely illogical. If you take a fall you'll need your hands to break it, right? Not if they're holding on to some dickhead poles you won't.

They also think there's some sort of science behind them, like they've bought North Face poles and that justifies them moaning like little girls.

Suffice to say I am not shy in hiding my utter disdain for them.

[Pretty Boy]

Sticking with my walking gripes:

People who hack away at live wood to build a fire. It's disrespectful, it's unnecessary and it won't burn.

People who litter and try to justify it. Yes I know an Apple core will degrade eventually but it's a Munro summit in March, it's cold and it's going to look unsightly for some time. Take it away with you and put it in the bin you manky barsteward.

Competitive walkers. The guys who try to race you up mountains or along paths or bore you to death with how many Munros they have climbed, walks they have completed etc etc. Or who mouth off about how 'commercialised' the Southern Highlands has become and how they won't even entertain the notion of venturing south of Torridon these days. Or how it simply has to be North Face gear for us. Bore off.

[Scouse Hibee]

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I always thought that was the case

Nope,if you've concealed the item and passed all till points making no attempt to pay and are on your way through or at the door you're fair game. We used to weigh up the offender first,far easier to contain someone before they leave if you think they will give you bother. The PF had no problem with it.

[Mikey09]

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I don't actually think its illegal to 'undertake' mate .. As long as it can't be classed as dangerous and you aren't speeding

But i would imagine you WOULD be charged with driving without due care and attention...

[Aldo]

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From Highway Code - 268 Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions, you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake. -

Anything you read in the Highway Code could be classed as 'Best' or 'Safe' practice advice.

It's not law.

[Aldo]

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Nope,if you've concealed the item and passed all till points making no attempt to pay and are on your way through or at the door you're fair game. We used to weigh up the offender first,far easier to contain someone before they leave if you think they will give you bother. The PF had no problem with it.

This.

[Cropley10]

The taxi rank at Edinburgh station - which is on Market Street.


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[stoneyburn hibs]

Orange bands waking me up at 8:15 this morning. I'd like to shove their flutes and drumsticks up their...

[Jim44]

Folk who use the same knife for butter and then straight into jam. The bits of butter left in the jam go mouldy quicker. The same folk also leave toast crumbs in the butter itself.

[Nazz]

Folk in my house who use the jam-covered knife in the margarine. I hate jam-flavoured margerine. Haha!

[Scouse Hibee]

Real ale that is too warm.

[jabis]

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Folk who use the same knife for butter and then straight into jam. The bits of butter left in the jam go mouldy quicker. The same folk also leave toast crumbs in the butter itself.

Are you two related

[jabis]

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Folk in my house who use the jam-covered knife in the margarine. I hate jam-flavoured margerine. Haha!

See above

[McD]

Folk who ask your opinion on something as a recognised expert, then go completely against your advice.

folk who ask you a question, then proceed to ask the same question in slightly different formats because they don't believe you.

which leads to this...

you get pissed off answering the question, and it shows, so they get arsey with you for getting annoyed.

TV shows with mid season breaks.

[Scouse Hibee]

Used to be a snooker table fitter, would get called out to a club to re-level a table,more often than not would check all round with the level and find nothing wrong. Then a couple of the so called "expert" players would arrive and tell you how it was running out blah,blah,blah. A quick trip to the van to get the jack and another 10 minutes spent making noise and actions without actually lifting or re-levelling the table would result in them testing the table and finding it was now perfect! Used to do my nut in.