Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

ballysmate

FishFish wrote:

All this blx about people who die. Singers, actors, professors of darning needle semantics, polar bears bleedin cosmonaughts - even some old people. Who cares. If its a problem then be immortal.

I thought Mavis Bingham had killed these RIP threads which seem to have been resurrected.

surrey_commuter

Ballysmate wrote:

FishFish wrote:

All this blx about people who die. Singers, actors, professors of darning needle semantics, polar bears bleedin cosmonaughts - even some old people. Who cares. If its a problem then be immortal.

I thought Mavis Bingham had killed these RIP threads which seem to have been resurrected.

Unless you really can not think of a better way, than the forum of a U.K. Based cycling website, of conveying your condolences to the bereaved then it can only be grief one-upmanship.

surrey_commuter

"What age did you take up road cycling?" why would anybody care? Why would anybody start a thread about it? Why would anybody make it sticky?

It's very presence puts me off going in Road Beginners.

FishFish

.....then don't even think of going to MTB beginners then.

FatTed

The gear lever is not a hand rest! And don't start me on people who do this in an automatic transmission car.

that would be me

BelgianBeerGeek

Men who wear hats indoors.

city_boy

FatTed wrote:

The gear lever is not a hand rest! And don't start me on people who do this in an automatic transmission car.

that would be me

And me :oops:

I think it's a vestige of driving manual cars for long periods in slow moving traffic...thereby proving the theory of evolution

pinno

I have my elbow on the door potrusion, hand on steering wheel. Left arm on central arm rest/cubby thing. It's an auto...





Ducks and runs.

ballysmate

Pinno wrote:

I have my elbow on the door potrusion, hand on steering wheel. Left arm on central arm rest/cubby thing. It's an auto...





Ducks and runs.

Default driving position.

pinno

Ballysmate wrote:

Pinno wrote:

I have my elbow on the door potrusion, hand on steering wheel. Left arm on central arm rest/cubby thing. It's an auto...





Ducks and runs.

Default driving position.

I'd say so sir. One can cruise but you have to know how.

Anonymous

CYCLING WEEKLY WEBSITE :evil:


Great magazine but why does it have so many ads on its website that have nothing to do with cycling ????

The type being :- " the cameraman didn't know what to expect next ""

Really bloody annoying !!

Pross

A bit like the ones on this page then?

Anonymous

YES !!

awavey

that new Alpecin ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-rGnvZvltc that rips off the Castrol ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_IImR6ajA from 30 years ago

you have to at least be over 35 to even remember it and get the link !!!

Bobbinogs

I still find the whole Alpecin thing baffling. It appears to be sold purely on the "caffeine for your hair" line...but no one ever explains why this might be a good thing! Even worse, what are the side effects? What if it keeps my hair awake at night???

First.Aspect

Bobbinogs wrote:

I still find the whole Alpecin thing baffling. It appears to be sold purely on the "caffeine for your hair" line...but no one ever explains why this might be a good thing! Even worse, what are the side effects? What if it keeps my hair awake at night???

This is true of substantially all skin/hair/dental product claims. The more animations there are, the less likely there is to be anything in it.

mrfpb

awavey wrote:

that new Alpecin ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-rGnvZvltc that rips off the Castrol ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_IImR6ajA from 30 years ago

you have to at least be over 35 to even remember it and get the link !!!

It put a smile on my face, but I wouldn't tell my kids why.

First.Aspect

mrfpb wrote:

awavey wrote:

that new Alpecin ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-rGnvZvltc that rips off the Castrol ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_IImR6ajA from 30 years ago

you have to at least be over 35 to even remember it and get the link !!!

It put a smile on my face, but I wouldn't tell my kids why.

Alpecin. Makes your head feel oily?

FishFish

The process for getting a replacement front door passes me off.

bbrap

FishFish wrote:

The process for getting a replacement front door passes me off.

Don't get that. Measure hole, buy door, fit in hole, seal round edge.

team47b

bbrap wrote:

FishFish wrote:

The process for getting a replacement front door passes me off.

Don't get that. Measure hole, buy door, fit in hole, seal round edge.

I think that you are indeed correct that this is the simple process for 'buying a new door', not the same thing as the process for 'getting a replacement door' though! Probably more likely to pass you off too

FishFish

Being told by employer that '...everything is on Whats App...' when I would not touch Whats App with a barge pole (nor, in truth, pay any attention to him in any incarnation) pokes me in the eye with a blunt stick.

mrfpb

Large dog on extending lead - owner staring at mobile phone.

mr_goo

Alfa Romeo.
The wife's car has been staring at me through the kitchen window for months now with that "I'm gonna get you" look....... and now it has. B4st4rd Italian automotive piece of........

mrb123

Mr Goo wrote:

Alpha Romeo.
The wife's car has been staring at me through the kitchen window for months now with that "I'm gonna get you" look....... and now it has. B4st4rd Italian automotive piece of........

Maybe he's angry because you spelt his name wrong.

k-dog

FishFish wrote:

k-dog wrote:

It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.

Well give us an example then. And billboards don't exist in this country. FACT!!!!!

Drove by that advert today - Warninks, whatever that is. Looked like a bottle with a jumper on.

bbrap

k-dog wrote:

FishFish wrote:

k-dog wrote:

It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.

Well give us an example then. And billboards don't exist in this country. FACT!!!!!

Drove by that advert today - Warninks, whatever that is. Looked like a bottle with a jumper on.

Not seen the advert, but Warninks used to make Advocaat, a sort of yellow snot like drink which used to be added to lemonade to make a snowball.

pinno

Food shopping (Royal Rant), new year's eve.

Arrive at car park. Tw@t in chopped VW sat in parent and child space with no child (thank fuk in a way), straddling two spaces, talking on phone whilst edging forwards slowly into 2 further spaces thereby occupying 4 slots but I am holding people up because I was expecting tw@t to move. I beep on horn and tw@t moves with a gesticulation suggesting I give myself pleasure with the hand. I have some nice steel toe capped boots on and for a moment I thought of re-arranging his bodywork but with toots in back seat, thought better of it. I park up.
The instant I park, some other tw@t in a filthy slurry coated stinking Nissoyota Pickup clone wagon parks adjacent to me in a parent and child space and he hasn't got a child either.
I enter supermarket but can't get a basket because two people with their two trolleys blethering are standing n the way. I decide not to approach either but grab one from the end of a till. I then try to go up an aisle but star worker has left a large cage full of cardboard and immediately beside it, there's yet another female perusing some cheap lager with an already over flowing trolley. So I go up another aisle but...
I go hither and thither weaving in and out of two 'classement typique':
The white knuckle variety and
The 'cannot make my my mind up' brigade.

The former, replete with blood shot eyes, horns, a tail and they grip the trolley whilst the teeth are clenched and you do not exist - do not get in their way. A loaded trolley being pushed by Nora Batty on a mission going at Mach 2 is a very dangerous thing and quite frankly, I am pretty peeved that the Geneva Convention doesn't acknowledge the proliferation of such combinations.
The latter simply serve as the opposite yet identical part of the vice - with you in between and God help you.

All the while, I am trying desperately to shield my 5 year old who is mesmerised by the cacophony, the lights, the sheer chaos of what is in front of her and whilst I am insignificant, she is a speck of dust and no one seems to care that she is there and her head is level with the front of a standard guided trolley missile.
One particular shopper parks her missile sideways whilst picking some article of shopping up and she is studying the label hard. I pass by and nudge her trolley gently so that I can get by but she is unaware and I decide to move the trolley a little. I stop and glance over my shoulder and she is still unaware now reading the label of some other article. I push the trolley around the corner (10 yds, if that), out of sight and add a few items which I thought she might need just in case and park it at a direct tangent 4 aisles down near the freezer section.
Toots is looking at me with utter bewilderment and despite not understanding my actions, smiles broadly when I smile and wink at her.
I presume some bloke watching the CCTV screens might have got a laugh too but I still hate shopping and despise the all consuming must have, want want want, army of plebs and inbreds that seems to prevail during the season of goodwill.

webboo

And to think I nearly agreed with the other halfs plan to move to Scotland.
Maybe that thought should be in trivial things that please you.

orraloon

Pinno. The internet is your friend. Online ordering and delivery to your door at your time of choosing. Tesco home delivery has reached Galloway, right?