Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

surrey_commuter

4kicks wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

The rush to compare the other side in any argument to Hitler and the Nazis - have they never heard of Godwin's Law??

First person to compare another party to the Nazis automatically loses the argument.

Find another analogy for christ's sake - there's been enough of them.

If, as I suspect, this was about my likening what happened post Brexit to the Nazi party in the 1930s it was driven by a very interesting parallel - when I read Daniel Browns excellent "The Boys in the Boat", about the US rowing eights victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he commented that the locals in the town of Köpernick had started to hand out cards to all the Jews telling them "they were no longer welcome there"....
But nevertheless the general point you make is hard to disagree with

You are innocent. This is about accusing people of invoking Godwins Law as being no better than the Nazis

4kicks

Surrey Commuter wrote:

4kicks wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

The rush to compare the other side in any argument to Hitler and the Nazis - have they never heard of Godwin's Law??

First person to compare another party to the Nazis automatically loses the argument.

Find another analogy for christ's sake - there's been enough of them.

If, as I suspect, this was about my likening what happened post Brexit to the Nazi party in the 1930s it was driven by a very interesting parallel - when I read Daniel Browns excellent "The Boys in the Boat", about the US rowing eights victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he commented that the locals in the town of Köpernick had started to hand out cards to all the Jews telling them "they were no longer welcome there"....
But nevertheless the general point you make is hard to disagree with

You are innocent. This is about accusing people of invoking Godwins Law as being no better than the Nazis

IanWhite

Cyclist's who jump red light's and done take any notice of road safety

IAN

cornerblock

IanWhite wrote:

Cyclist's who jump red light's and done take any notice of road safety

IAN

Trivial?

homers_double

People who use the word "yous"

"Are yous two going out"

Feck off...

Pross

homers double wrote:

People who use the word "yous"

"Are yous two going out"

Feck off...

You mean the Irish? Harsh to class a whole nationality as trivial

homers_double

No, people who just can't speak properly.

mrfpb

Isn't 'yous' for 'you' a Manc thing though.

No issue with regional dialect, but I'm sure I've heard southerners affecting this, and that is annoying.

team47b

'You' is already the plural hence 'you are' not 'you is' to pluralise a plural is just ignorance of your own language (singular was ye)

So ignorant feckers can feck off

Anonymous

homers double wrote:

No, people who just can't speak properly.

I know how you feel. I also get annoyed by people who cannot talk proper.

team47b

Maglia Rosa wrote:

homers double wrote:

No, people who just can't speak properly.

I know how you feel. I also get annoyed by people who cannot talk proper.

especialmente aqueles 'british' pessoas que vivem naquela terra mítica chamada europa

team47b

People who assume that I too am a racist because I speak English!

why do they start a conversation with me about how much 'we' hate foreigners without first at least checking if I too am a foreigner, i am now telling everyone that I am Polish just to shut them up!

BelgianBeerGeek

team47b wrote:

People who assume that I too am a racist because I speak English!

why do they start a conversation with me about how much 'we' hate foreigners without first at least checking if I too am a foreigner, i am now telling everyone that I am Polish just to shut them up!

I'm not racist, but....
(t47, this may be fallout from the Brexit schit. It's interesting that being Polish is safer than English)
Shave off the moustache, and if anyone asks, you are a downed US airman from the war. Everyone loves a downed US airman.

team47b

...and another thing, people who assume I am old enough to have been around during the war

(BBG, How do you know about the moustache?)

BelgianBeerGeek

team47b wrote:

...and another thing, people who assume I am old enough to have been around during the war

(BBG, How do you know about the moustache?)

I didn't say which war.
I have a mental picture of you with a country farmhouse and enjoying an occasional duel. OK, you are Zorro. Deadly with an épée, but could probably handle yourself OK with a foil (the galumphing cavalryman' s turnip-chopper)

Giraffoto

team47b wrote:

'You' is already the plural hence 'you are' not 'you is' to pluralise a plural is just ignorance of your own language (singular was ye)

So ignorant feckers can feck off

The singular was "thou/thee", with separate subject/object forms. I'm not sure about the archaic plural - I think it was "ye" before it was "you", and there was a time when "thou" was for friends and family and "you" for being polite. If anything, "yous" is an attempt to bring back a distinction that English has lost.

team47b

The way people behave after a death, desperate to get a share of the money, criticizing the dead person for not leaving them more, actually this is not trivial at all, money grubbing scum, really glad that I am wealthy and intend spending it all before I go to pi55 off as many of them as possible

Just took a swig of stone cold tea, I hate cold tea

fatsmoker

Now that Ned and Dave are commentating on the tour on ITV4 I will have to change my in-head race commentary voice as I make a brave solo effort to break from the peloton in the last 15 miles of the race to work every morning.

pinno

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

team47b wrote:

...and another thing, people who assume I am old enough to have been around during the war

(BBG, How do you know about the moustache?)

I didn't say which war.
I have a mental picture of you with a country farmhouse and enjoying an occasional duel. OK, you are Zorro. Deadly with an épée, but could probably handle yourself OK with a foil (the galumphing cavalryman' s turnip-chopper)

The truth and nothing but the truth:

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cornerblock

Rings on the index finger or thumb. I've no idea why this annoys me but it just does. Now that's trivial.

prhymeate

The age old battle of housemates and cleaning. I wish living alone in London was even the remotest possibility.

capt_slog

Pross wrote:

It's certainly relatively cheap but it's not an alternative to a new surface (or at least it shouldn't be). It's a way of prolonging the life of the original surface. It's fine once it has settled down and had the second sweep.

It sounds like they do it a bit differently where you live, around me it's a disgrace. They appear to rely on the cars to make it flat, which is great on the main carriage way but of course the cars never run on the bit that is the cycle lane. It's rough there, often with waves and overlaps, and overlaps of overlaps from the time before.

As for sweeping it, I know of places where there is drifts of the stuff left for a couple of years after it's been done, it's like trying to cycle on shingle.

pinno

Capt Slog wrote:

Pross wrote:

It's...sweep[/b].

It...shingle.

Of 4 punctures in the last 3 years, 2 were on cycle paths. They never sweep them. I don't use them anymore and thankfully, due to my location, I don't have to.

bbrap

People who sit next to you in traffic and eat bogies. Amazing how many people seem to partake in this particular culinary feast. I think the bloke today must have had an itchy brain and was trying to scratch it. :?

finchy

bbrap wrote:

People who sit next to you in traffic and eat bogies. Amazing how many people seem to partake in this particular culinary feast. I think the bloke today must have had an itchy brain and was trying to scratch it. :?

They're sitting in a car, pumping all sorts of crap out into the atmosphere and that's what bothers you? :?

finchy

People who knock food off the shelf in a shop and then walk away, leaving it in the middle of the aisle. Seriously, how hard is it to bend over, pick it up and put it back on the shelf?

mrfpb

mrfpb wrote:

Pross wrote:

mrfpb wrote:

Road resurfacing of loose chippings (aka screed) that was put down on my route home yesterday and ensured the centre of the lane was a ridge of even deeper loose chippings this morning.

The annual Bike Radar complaint about surface dressing. I'm disappointed by this one though, the complaint usually suggests it's a cheapskate alternative to resurfacing which it isn't.

It was pretty firmly settled tonight, a really nice cycling surface. Am I allowed to say that on this thread?

Last night the surface had been tarred - shiny and black. So done properly. Though the pot holes are still there, just a little less deep. So I think I did the right thing putting it in "Trivial things" rather than "Rants"

pinno

Pross wrote:

mrfpb wrote:

Road resurfacing of loose chippings (aka screed) that was put down on my route home yesterday and ensured the centre of the lane was a ridge of even deeper loose chippings this morning.

The annual Bike Radar complaint about surface dressing. I'm disappointed by this one though, the complaint usually suggests it's a cheapskate alternative to resurfacing which it isn't.

So, it might not be cheap but it's carp. It does not last, it throws gravel everywhere and the road sweeper is sent around far too late after the event. You'll have to explain why it serves any purpose whatsoever.

RallyBiker

Blair

pinno

Drizzle - it's neither here nor there.