Pet Peeves IV

[Pretty Boy]

***** short term weather forecasts.

According to the BBC and Met Office websites Edinburgh has been battered by heavy snow all morning. A quick look out the window would confirm a 5-10 minute flurry was about our lot.

Fake news.

[Pretty Boy]

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***** short term weather forecasts.

According to the BBC and Met Office websites Edinburgh has been battered by heavy snow all morning. A quick look out the window would confirm a 5-10 minute flurry was about our lot.

Fake news.

And right on time.....

[Scouse Hibee]

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***** short term weather forecasts.

According to the BBC and Met Office websites Edinburgh has been battered by heavy snow all morning. A quick look out the window would confirm a 5-10 minute flurry was about our lot.

Fake news.

Really PB? I am on Corstorphine Hill and it's still falling.

[Gatecrasher]

We were supposed to get snow from 18:00 last night come 23:00 no snow, there is now.

[Hibbyradge]

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I hate films that whenever there’s a scene in a garage or a building site or an adventure/spy type film when everyone’s getting kitted up for a mission at night there’s always somebody with a grinder making sparks. Does my head in.

Ah, movie clichés.

This deserves a thread of its own.

[Hibbyradge]

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And right on time.....

[snooky]

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Ah, movie clichés.

This deserves a thread of its own.

Good idea - I'll start one now.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Ru Paul's Drag Race : All-stars on The Comedy Channel - wtf?

[Scouse Hibee]

People who don't adopt their driving to suit the conditions.

[HibbyAndy]

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***** short term weather forecasts.

According to the BBC and Met Office websites Edinburgh has been battered by heavy snow all morning. A quick look out the window would confirm a 5-10 minute flurry was about our lot.

Fake news.

Here in Penicuik it's like a winter wonderland , I'd say we have about 8 inches

[Pretty Boy]

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Here in Penicuik it's like a winter wonderland , I'd say we have about 8 inches

Aye it’s reached us now about 12 hours later than forecast. Hope the games ok on Sunday, wouldn’t put it past those clowns to ‘forget’ to put the undersoil heating on.

[snooky]

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Here in Penicuik it's like a winter wonderland , I'd say we have about 8 inches

The norm for July up in them thar hills is it not?

[Danderhall Hibs]

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Here in Penicuik it's like a winter wonderland , I'd say we have about 8 inches

Good effort - especially in this cold weather.

[heretoday]

People talking in public libraries, especially when it's the library staff themselves who are the culprits. Chats about health matters, personal finance, mutual acquaintances, family etc. How can folk talk out loud in public about such things? It seems to me the height of ignorance, quite apart from the disturbance to those trying to read or study in peace.

[Eaststand]

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Good effort - especially in this cold weather.

Very good reply that :-)

GGTTH

[snooky]

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People talking in public libraries, especially when it's the library staff themselves who are the culprits. Chats about health matters, personal finance, mutual acquaintances, family etc. How can folk talk out loud in public about such things? It seems to me the height of ignorance, quite apart from the disturbance to those trying to read or study in peace.

... and throw in a few unsupervised pre-teens in the corner just for good measure.

[heretoday]

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... and throw in a few unsupervised pre-teens in the corner just for good measure.

Yup, although I kind of approve of kids going to the library in this philistine age. They might be tempted to pick up a book all of a sudden, if that doesn't sound too patronising.

I appreciate that libraries - especially local ones - are more than just for reading these days. They are "hubs" for various media and for local information. If they were just full of books, they'd all have been closed down years ago.

But when the staff are the ones making the racket...............! It's a volte face of the old Silence Please era!

[snooky]

Ball point pens that work sporadically.

Only good for writing pidgin morse.

[pollution]

Hysterical weather warnings slapped about that are over cautious to cover the forecasters' backs.

[WeeRussell]

Folk opting to take-on a drive when there have been clear and early weather warnings, and then blaming everyone else for them being stuck on a motorway and not getting home until the next day. Some boy on the news last night no happy about the "lack of information"... do you want someone to helicopter out and tell you you're going to be stuck another few hours because it's still p1shing of snow?

If you're going to make the decision to drive knowing how severe the weather is...take a pair of wellies and a coat, and shut the **** up.

[Carheenlea]

Snow pictures on social media. A picture of your back garden covered in snow looks just the same as the ones in your back garden covered in snow posted following previous accumulations. And everyone else's garden.

[Geo_1875]

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Snow pictures on social media. A picture of your back garden covered in snow looks just the same as the ones in your back garden covered in snow posted following previous accumulations. And everyone else's garden.

It's the only time my garden looks tidy.

[Hermit Crab]

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Snow pictures on social media. A picture of your back garden covered in snow looks just the same as the ones in your back garden covered in snow posted following previous accumulations. And everyone else's garden.

Chronic, also these doughnuts on facebook who ask if schools are closed in Edinburgh due to the snow? Look hen, we've had a dusting of snow, pack the kids off to school, this isn't Alaska!

[lord bunberry]

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People talking in public libraries, especially when it's the library staff themselves who are the culprits. Chats about health matters, personal finance, mutual acquaintances, family etc. How can folk talk out loud in public about such things? It seems to me the height of ignorance, quite apart from the disturbance to those trying to read or study in peace.

You would hate portobello library then. I used to take my daughter there for a class that involved singing nursery rhymes and banging instruments

[Alfiembra]

People that have no awareness of their surroundings and people nearby. Particularly ones that walk towards you, and you are Mr or Mrs invisible and you end up having to avoid them or give way to them.
We have a keep left policy at work, on the stairs and corridors but there’s always somebody that doesn’t know their right from their left or walks two abreast with their mate and is oblivious to anyone coming towards them.

In my old age I just stand still and and block their way now with the hope that they might actually realise their is more than just them on the planet.

[Smartie]

I get really hacked off when fans sing songs to the tune of "This is how it feels" by the Inspiral Carpets and get the actual tune wrong.

We seem to have adopted it too and it boils my piss every time I hear it.

It should be a bit bit higher at the end of the first line.

Can we at least get it right FFS?

[heretoday]

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You would hate portobello library then. I used to take my daughter there for a class that involved singing nursery rhymes and banging instruments

At Corstorphine there is a regular mums and tinies group who sing the same songs all the time. I stomp about murmuring If You're Happy and You Know it despite myself.

[snooky]

Unlocking my car and having to press the button on the key twice (maybe three, maybe four, maybe five times) to unlock the boot and/or passenger door.

[speedy_gonzales]

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Unlocking my car and having to press the button on the key twice (maybe three, maybe four, maybe five times) to unlock the boot and/or passenger door.

That can be changed in the settings menu of most cars, even crappy Corsas for example have "secret" settings menus. Always a good gag to set a low "high speed alert" on your mates car

[Pretty Boy]

The advertising hoardings for the new St James Centre get right on my nerves every time I pass them. They apparently represent 'diverse' Edinburgh and they certainly do that if Edinburgh's diversity is limited to being very white and very middle class.

Amelia the student thinks it will be a feast for the senses, Crawford the Edinburgh gentleman thinks it will be a social hub for the man about town, Max the quantity surveyor muses it will be a great addition to the fashion scene and stay at home mummy and daughter Pippa and Sophia believe it will be enchanting.

Firstly who talks like that about a shopping centre and hotel? Of all the people I know from various backgrounds, cultures and levels of wealth I can't think of a single one who would describe either of those types of locations as 'enchanting' or a 'sensory feast'. Secondly where is Tam the sparky who 'hopes there is still a Greggs', Lauren the call centre operative who 'might pop in on a Saturday afternoon but does most of her shopping online now if she's honest' or Bill from Standard Life who 'can't afford to live in Edinburgh anymore so doesn't really give a ****'.