The most unnecessary beeping, beat this.

PostieJohn

I did the Tour de Weald on Sunday.
We were on a dead straight, really really straight climb.
It was a country road but regular size, ie 2 lanes, no pavement or any other 'furniture'.

As it was a climb, the 10 or so of us on it, were all single file.
2 cars could still have past all of us, they really honestly could.

I'm struggling to state just how 'normal' we were on this road, with NO cars behind us.

None of this stopped a bloke in a Porsche coming the other way, tooting and gesticulating at us, all the way down.

How can you be that angry at 9am on a Sunday morning?

Bozman

When my washing machine finishes its cycle!

Will.C

I've had my fair share of opposite lane beepers. I don't think you really need to do anything to piss them off but be on a bike. You gotta be pretty pathetic to be that pissed off by a cyclist.

que sera sera

freehub

I know how to piss people off.

VERY hilly route. Set garmin to tell me to speed up at 9mph.

STFU GARMIN

SCR Pedro

Will.C wrote:

I've had my fair share of opposite lane beepers.

I only get this when I'm out walking (on the pavement!).

Pedro

Zachariah

My bloody microwave has a snooze-type feature. When it's done, it beeps, which is fine. But then it beeps again every thirty seconds.

SHUT UP MICROWAVE I KNOW YOU HAVE FINISHED! DOES IT NOT OCCUR TO YOU I MIGHT WANT TO LEAVE THE FOOD IN THERE TO STAY WARM? HMM?

I might be letting this get to me more than it should.

Lagavulin

Probably a self-loathing Boxter driver.

I've encountered a couple of these oncoming lane beepers though and on both ocassions they felt the need to point to the so-called cycle lane (half the pavement stolen and filled with glass, flexi-lead shod dogs and people walking five/six/seven abreast). No thank you.

Ben6899

Lagavulin wrote:

Probably a self-loathing Boxter driver.

Yep, he probably wishes he'd bought the 911 rather than the base model Boxter that a tricked out MX5 could outrun!

dgstewart

Zachariah wrote:

My bloody microwave has a snooze-type feature. When it's done, it beeps, which is fine. But then it beeps again every thirty seconds.

SHUT UP MICROWAVE I KNOW YOU HAVE FINISHED! DOES IT NOT OCCUR TO YOU I MIGHT WANT TO LEAVE THE FOOD IN THERE TO STAY WARM? HMM?

I might be letting this get to me more than it should.

My new microwave does this too - it annoys the f*&k out of me. Like you, I end up shouting at it to STFU! I'm honestly close to binning it or giving it to charity just to get one that doesn't do this.

It's the little things that get to you sometimes...

Pross

PostieJohn wrote:

I did the Tour de Weald on Sunday.
We were on a dead straight, really really straight climb.
It was a country road but regular size, ie 2 lanes, no pavement or any other 'furniture'.

As it was a climb, the 10 or so of us on it, were all single file.
2 cars could still have past all of us, they really honestly could.

I'm struggling to state just how 'normal' we were on this road, with NO cars behind us.

None of this stopped a bloke in a Porsche coming the other way, tooting and gesticulating at us, all the way down.

How can you be that angry at 9am on a Sunday morning?

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

CyclingBantam

PostieJohn wrote:

How can you be that angry at 9am on a Sunday morning?

Absolutely no idea but at least we get the satisfaction that they are so angry whilst we are out on our bikes. It is a win, win situation.



That doesn't stop me being amazed at the odd persons stupidity on the road!

shockedsoshocked

PostieJohn wrote:

How can you be that angry at 9am on a Sunday morning?

I had a fella jump out on me at 8 30am in the North Yorks Moors one day. I was still have asleep having raced the night before and not slept well, but I remember he was extremely angry. Properly red in the face and everything.

ihazon303

Lagavulin wrote:

Probably a self-loathing Boxter driver.

Love it...

I was rounding a roundabout, as is the custom, and a van pulled out in front of me, towing another van on a rope. Obviously that halted my progress, but the driver looked at me for quite a while before sounding his horn.

Could have been a warning, or in anger, either way it was quite unnecessary.

bompington

Pross wrote:

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

But I have a graph...


Just thought I'd, errr, stick up for the marrieds

Ben6899

Nice graph!

You could spend hours postulating theories for the area between the "men" and "women" lines.

UncleFred

My toaster has 6 beeps when the toast pops up. The noise of the toast popping up is louder than the beeps.

Pointless.

One Man And His Bike

Bozman wrote:

When my washing machine finishes its cycle!

*1

& mobile phones when they have a low battery that beeps every 5 minutes, retarded or what, low on power so make it use more grrrr.

verylonglegs

bompington wrote:

Pross wrote:

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

But I have a graph...


Just thought I'd, errr, stick up for the marrieds

It just says frequency of sex, not whether it's actually with their spouses.

Aggieboy

bompington wrote:

Pross wrote:

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

But I have a graph...


Just thought I'd, errr, stick up for the marrieds

I assume the 'Frequency Index' refers to per week?

guinea

This graph say that men either lie about how much sex they have, or a lot more of them are doing each other than I imagined.

Pross

Aggieboy wrote:

bompington wrote:

Pross wrote:

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

But I have a graph...


Just thought I'd, errr, stick up for the marrieds

I assume the 'Frequency Index' refers to per week?

I assumed year based on personal experience (and being married)? So as married men are having more than married women and a lot more than unmarried women who are they having it with? Surely it must be either other married men or themselves - in which case I won't complain about lack of frequency anymore :shock:

Stewie Griffin

guinea wrote:

This graph say that men either lie about how much sex they have, or a lot more of them are doing each other than I imagined.

If you removed the hundreds of professional footballers and the small handful of Women that seem to being shared around them then the figures might even out a bit.

guinea

My car beeps when I open the door and they keys are still in it.

It really really bugs me. I don't know why it does it, I can't lock the car without the keys, so it seems pointless.

If I want to clean the car with the radio on I have to bring my little battery radio out or keep the doors closed so I can't hear it.

Aggieboy

Pross wrote:

Aggieboy wrote:

bompington wrote:

Pross wrote:

Probably married so didn't get any on Saturday night when all his mates did.

But I have a graph...


Just thought I'd, errr, stick up for the marrieds

I assume the 'Frequency Index' refers to per week?

I assumed year based on personal experience (and being married)? So as married men are having more than married women and a lot more than unmarried women who are they having it with? Surely it must be either other married men or themselves - in which case I won't complain about lack of frequency anymore :shock:

A year!!! :shock: I'm no Casanova but that has to be wrong. Who did they speak to, John Bobbit?

Pross

The year assumption is based purely on personal experience lol

MountainMonster

Or maybe he was a cycling fan, and was beeping and waving his arms about as encouragement. You see people doing that at the tour de france alot. Not from cars though on the side of the road, everywhere.

Maybe you just mis-interpreted what he was doing.