Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    As above, surface dressing!Argh! A blight this time of year. Did my local TT loop, had to go slowly through loads of gravel. So next time I try my usual hilly training loop, the fast descent is knee deep in gravel!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    There's an endless list of expressions, but I'll start with "reach out" and "skin in the game".
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,695
    verylonglegs wrote:
    Reminds me, I made a lame attempt at reading the Myth of Sisyphus a few weeks ago, must get back to it. Started with The Stranger a couple of months ago and it really did resonate with me.

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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    People that keep pushing pedestrian crossing buttons repeatedly, thinking it will make the lights change quicker.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Can I add?: People who press the button and then they walk across as soon as there is a gap and you have to stand there like a twit at a red light and no one is crossing the road.




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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Pedestrian crossings that only give a Green man when there is no traffic coming. I can manage to cross a road with no traffic without the benefit on an expensive set of motion detecting lights , thanks.
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Pinno wrote:
    Can I add?: People who press the button and then they walk across as soon as there is a gap and you have to stand there like a twit at a red light and no one is crossing the road.

    This, x100. I cannot stand it when people press without looking to see what is coming.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    mrfpb wrote:
    Pedestrian crossings that only give a Green man when there is no traffic coming. I can manage to cross a road with no traffic without the benefit on an expensive set of motion detecting lights , thanks.

    yeah and all the kids and old people can just get run over for all I care!
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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Chris Bass wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Pedestrian crossings that only give a Green man when there is no traffic coming. I can manage to cross a road with no traffic without the benefit on an expensive set of motion detecting lights , thanks.

    yeah and all the kids and old people can just get run over for all I care!

    Most kids and old people know to wait until there is no traffic before crossing. What is the point of a pedestrian crossing that gives no priority to pedestrians.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    TheBigBean wrote:
    There's an endless list of expressions, but I'll start with "reach out" and "skin in the game".
    OK BB. "Skin in the game". Already sounds hellish (I have come to trust the opinions of those on here, except Pinno :oops: ), please explain.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    There's an endless list of expressions, but I'll start with "reach out" and "skin in the game".
    OK BB. "Skin in the game". Already sounds hellish (I have come to trust the opinions of those on here, except Pinno :oops: ), please explain.

    :D

    Now, back to that effing surface dressing. Went out for a lovely evening ride but hit surface dressing that the tar was melting through like molasses that had been spilled on the road (due to the temperatures, I presume).
    Up hill for 3 miles at 6 miles an hour. Some of you may have noticed that is not a lot below my average so i'll save you the bother of an insult. That bloody Pross bloke, i'll have him.
    Upside at the end of the section was "Road closed... Follow Diversion". Did I bollox; 6 miles of empty road. Only a tar spreading machine thingy and some fencing to navigate. Left hand 'lane' (it's only a narrow road) was steel mesh on the tarmac for the duration. What's all that about?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Disappointed you weren't carrying a handy copy to the Code of Practice I linked to earlier, you could have stopped and pointed out to the hairy ar$ed road workers that they were doing it wrong and shouldn't be laying in those temperatures ;)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Pross wrote:
    Disappointed you weren't carrying a handy copy to the Code of Practice I linked to earlier, you could have stopped and pointed out to the hairy ar$ed road workers that they were doing it wrong and shouldn't be laying in those temperatures ;)

    What's with the steel mesh? 30mm x 30mm squares pegged down?

    I would have pulled the hairy arises up but it was 8.45pm and not a soul to be seen.
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  • Flâneur
    Flâneur Posts: 3,081
    Chris Bass wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Pedestrian crossings that only give a Green man when there is no traffic coming. I can manage to cross a road with no traffic without the benefit on an expensive set of motion detecting lights , thanks.

    yeah and all the kids and old people can just get run over for all I care!

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    There's an endless list of expressions, but I'll start with "reach out" and "skin in the game".
    OK BB. "Skin in the game". Already sounds hellish (I have come to trust the opinions of those on here, except Pinno :oops: ), please explain.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase)

    For example, if you get a 100% mortgage on your house, you are said to have no skin in the game. The best thing to do, I understand, is to reach out to your mum and dad, and borrow from them as well.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Why door handles are all shit in the UK? They either not work, get jammed, engage the mechanism only at the very last millimeter of a 4 inch swing or are the type that lock you out when you forget the keys inside... why the hell they have to be so shit?
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  • Secteur
    Secteur Posts: 1,971
    The expression "full gas".

    Has bugged me since I first got into watching professional cycling, somewhat irrationally, especially when English riders say it. It's such a euro term. Completely irrational but bugs the hell out of me.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Secteur wrote:
    The expression "full gas".

    Has bugged me since I first got into watching professional cycling, somewhat irrationally, especially when English riders say it. It's such a euro term. Completely irrational but bugs the hell out of me.

    your bike shop

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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    I get super-bugged by full gas.
  • jimnm
    jimnm Posts: 29
    The wife, nuff said :)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pinno wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Disappointed you weren't carrying a handy copy to the Code of Practice I linked to earlier, you could have stopped and pointed out to the hairy ar$ed road workers that they were doing it wrong and shouldn't be laying in those temperatures ;)

    What's with the steel mesh? 30mm x 30mm squares pegged down?

    I would have pulled the hairy arises up but it was 8.45pm and not a soul to be seen.

    Not a clue, I've never seen that done!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    That binary options ad on Eurosport
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Garry H wrote:
    That binary options ad on Eurosport

    I think Eurosport broadcasts ads that are pan-European, hyper-generic 'one ad fits all cultures' and they're generally carp.

    That damn food App is mind crunchingly cheesy and annoying.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSaFPMsRVAU
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    That binary options ad on Eurosport

    I think Eurosport broadcasts ads that are pan-European, hyper-generic 'one ad fits all cultures' and they're generally carp.

    That damn food App is mind crunchingly cheesy and annoying.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSaFPMsRVAU

    And did I ever mention "Kenny from Stockholm"?
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Pinno wrote:
    Can I add?: People who press the button and then they walk across as soon as there is a gap and you have to stand there like a twit at a red light and no one is crossing the road.

    That's the fault of the lights. At the ones near me they work on sensors in the road, so if you push the button it will basically stay on green the entire time there's any traffic at all, only giving red to traffic if there's a massive gap, which of course I'm going to walk across anyway.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,817
    "I don't me to moan, but..."
    Well don't then.
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Garry H wrote:
    That binary options ad on Eurosport

    It is a tad disappointing that no one thought to mention in the pre-prod reviews that we don't actually use terms like "let your talent burst". Big long expensive adverts that somehow manage to avoid saying exactly what a binary option is...not that it would make any difference to the long line of compulsive gamblers queuing up because, at the end of the day, it really is just a shiny gambling app.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    That binary options ad on Eurosport

    It is a tad disappointing that no one thought to mention in the pre-prod reviews that we don't actually use terms like "let your talent burst". Big long expensive adverts that somehow manage to avoid saying exactly what a binary option is...not that it would make any difference to the long line of compulsive gamblers queuing up because, at the end of the day, it really is just a shiny gambling app.
    Yeah but, Juventus say it's good...
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    People.
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Picture the scene: a near empty car park. A car, sat on its own. No shade. Me in it, quietly reading and waiting for my lad.
    So why FFS do you park right next to me, window down, engine running, jabbering away like a moron?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.

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