Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Pross wrote:Shortfall wrote:Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
There is a lovely Mk1 Golf round our way and it always amazes me at just how small it is compared to everything else on the road.
But yes, we design parking bays @ 4.8 x 2.4m and have been since I started in 2001.0 -
Pinno wrote:HaydenM wrote:Idiots with a weird respect for self made, 'lord of the manor' style rich people as if it was the 1800s
I watched the billion pound hotel prog on C4 last night. The opulence and extravagance was nauseating.
The wife loves shitty programs like that and most expensive Christmas etc. I just sit there wanting to throw the TV through the window disgusted at the pricks.
2 people stick in my mind...someone was paying thousands a day to have fresh flowers everyday in a house they used a few days a year, but they never knew when they'd drop in.
The other was someone who saw a house (mansion) they loved, said they had to have it so set their solicitor on the case to find out who owned it. Turns out she already did, had bought it 10 years earlier and had totally forgotten about it.0 -
Not something your car will need.team47b wrote:Special Obesity spaces?
I had some young kids ask why the Mini was so small a while back, I told them it didn't need to be any bigger.Dinyull wrote:Pross wrote:Shortfall wrote:Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
There is a lovely Mk1 Golf round our way and it always amazes me at just how small it is compared to everything else on the road..
There was an article recently about diagonal spaces in a station car park that were the recommended width at the opening, but the geniuses hadn't measured the width perpendicular to the white lines so even a smallish car couldn't fit between the lines.Dinyull wrote:But yes, we design parking bays @ 4.8 x 2.4m and I have been since I started in 2001.0 -
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The local Lidl was revamped and the car park recently. The spaces have been enlarged and the Parent and Child spaces are hoog.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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team47b wrote:
It was a discussion about cars, not a cockpit on wheels. The mention of the orginal Golf reminded me of something I read probably around 5 years ago, that the Polo released at that time was the same dimensions as the first Golf from the seventies. Everyt other model above has grown accordingly.0 -
Some cars are far too big nowadays.
BMW - is it the X5? and some of the demi 4 x 4's like the Volvo, hang on... XC90 are massive. I'd ban them if I were president of the world or if they weren't covered in mud or pulling a horse box.
Mind you, I could stick that Teutonic blip in the boot of my car. Handy.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Down ere in Hampshire oi think... Chap measured the lines and they were'nt parallel. Won his case an all. Not bad, eh, nipper? You gotta watch'm loine painters...Veronese68 wrote:
Not something your car will need.team47b wrote:Special Obesity spaces?
I had some young kids ask why the Mini was so small a while back, I told them it didn't need to be any bigger.Dinyull wrote:Pross wrote:Shortfall wrote:Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
There is a lovely Mk1 Golf round our way and it always amazes me at just how small it is compared to everything else on the road..
There was an article recently about diagonal spaces in a station car park that were the recommended width at the opening, but the geniuses hadn't measured the width perpendicular to the white lines so even a smallish car couldn't fit between the lines.Dinyull wrote:But yes, we design parking bays @ 4.8 x 2.4m and I have been since I started in 2001.Ecrasez l’infame0 -
Talkin' bout loiyne painters...
I knew a shop keeper in Eeeestbawn that parked on some double yellow lines for 2 weeks and clocked up umpteen parking tickets. Right on Grove Rd. Same road as the Police Station until the car got towed away. I know all this because I used to deliver papers to him and I mentioned the parking tickets. When I did, he just smiled.
The long and the short of it was, that after paying for his car to be recovered he went to court, stated the rules about the standard width of each yellow line and pointed out that they were not proper yellow lines within the Bylaws of Sussex as they were too narrow etc etc and the tickets were over turned and he got his money and some expenses refunded.
It was in the Argus and suffice to say, within weeks of the case, all the yellow lines were re-painted. IIRC, the bylaws were also amended.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Dinyull wrote:Pross wrote:Shortfall wrote:Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
There is a lovely Mk1 Golf round our way and it always amazes me at just how small it is compared to everything else on the road.
But yes, we design parking bays @ 4.8 x 2.4m and have been since I started in 2001.
Yep, although when I was doing a lot with Tesco they were starting to look at 2.5m wide in some areas where there was a high elderly population. I don't think it caught on when they realised they were losing half a metre per space that could give them another 100sqm or more of floor space!0 -
Yes cars getting bigger and wider so that fat and unhealthy people can actually get in them (disclaimer, irrational prejudice alert). Really helpful on narrow cornish country lanes when you have to try and pass something the width of a combine harvester...0
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The main issue down there is people from the SE who have cars without a reverse gear.Mikey23 wrote:Yes cars getting bigger and wider so that fat and unhealthy people can actually get in them (disclaimer, irrational prejudice alert). Really helpful on narrow cornish country lanes when you have to try and pass something the width of a combine harvester...0 -
Yes, the you must go back because i'm in a BMW and you are just a pleb mentality. And besides that i dont really know how to...0
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First Aspect wrote:
The main issue down there is people from the SE who have cars without a reverse gear.Mikey23 wrote:Yes cars getting bigger and wider so that fat and unhealthy people can actually get in them (disclaimer, irrational prejudice alert). Really helpful on narrow cornish country lanes when you have to try and pass something the width of a combine harvester...
Brings up another for me - drivers who go down narrow lanes but are too worried about their precious car to pull into the hedge and allow oncoming vehicles to pass. There's a lane by my house that acts as a bit of a cut through to the motorway with plenty of other wider options but most days you sit there waiting while someone causes a blockage when tucking into the hedge would allow everyone to get where they're going.0 -
An arrogant, swivel eyed B.Wiggins on The Jump. Spat his dummy out at being roundly stuffed on all events.0
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The Oscars. Or rather the fawning coverage of them I suppose.
Bah!CS7
Surrey Hills
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Veronese68 wrote:
Not something your car will need.team47b wrote:Special Obesity spaces?
I had some young kids ask why the Mini was so small a while back, I told them it didn't need to be any bigger.Dinyull wrote:Pross wrote:Shortfall wrote:Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
There is a lovely Mk1 Golf round our way and it always amazes me at just how small it is compared to everything else on the road..
I was sitting in my GF's mini countryman yesterday behind a proper mini which had been lowered and spaced out, along with a lot of other stuff presumably. Looked incredibly tiny in comparison, I want one but I also want a fast car and I'm not prepared to waste time engine swapping...Dinyull wrote:Pinno wrote:HaydenM wrote:Idiots with a weird respect for self made, 'lord of the manor' style rich people as if it was the 1800s
I watched the billion pound hotel prog on C4 last night. The opulence and extravagance was nauseating.
The wife loves sh!tty programs like that and most expensive Christmas etc. I just sit there wanting to throw the TV through the window disgusted at the pricks.
2 people stick in my mind...someone was paying thousands a day to have fresh flowers everyday in a house they used a few days a year, but they never knew when they'd drop in.
The other was someone who saw a house (mansion) they loved, said they had to have it so set their solicitor on the case to find out who owned it. Turns out she already did, had bought it 10 years earlier and had totally forgotten about it.
A guy I know here has a lot of money, drives a Rolls Royce and turns up to meetings in a tracksuit. Have some bloody class you moron. Also can be heard talking loudly in the pub about lending some football player £1m.
The guy I met last week runs a very successful business which he started from scratch (largely run by his two managers because he is mental and seems to flit in and out). Obviously very talented to get where he is from a farmer's son but I do not need to hear how much his new offices cost, or how much the prize bulls were, or how many range rovers he has, all within about 30 seconds of meeting the guy.
The thing that connects the two are their band of merry followers who fawn over them as if they were gods. I know some people would say I am jealous, and I am jealous of the money but it's not the money that annoys me. Money can't buy taste.0 -
Being the only person who buys the milk in our officeGET WHEEZY - WALNUT LUNG RACING TEAM™0
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I took the tiny person swimming yesterday at our local pool and the seemingly trivial thing that annoyed me was some people blatantly using it as a bath.
Dirty dirty ****ers.Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
When the scouts go on camp the leaders try to take them swimming at least once, they know getting the kids to wash properly is an uphill struggle.homers double wrote:I took the tiny person swimming yesterday at our local pool and the seemingly trivial thing that annoyed me was some people blatantly using it as a bath.
Dirty dirty ****ers.0 -
The people from the block of flats (tenement) next door who come down and smoke at their front door and the stink comes in our window, despite how many times (and to whom) we say ... The fact tnat as soon as they hear the slightest movement from our front door they scarper up to the park 10 meters away makes it even worse ...Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.0
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type:epyt wrote:The people from the block of flats (tenement) next door who come down and smoke at their front door and the stink comes in our window, despite how many times (and to whom) we say ... The fact tnat as soon as they hear the slightest movement from our front door they scarper up to the park 10 meters away makes it even worse ...
Keep a bucket of water handy.
I had an 'employee who got very shirty with me once. I chucked a bucket of water over him. He called the police! Police turned up and were stifling their giggles. Couldn't do me for anything. Later he turned up pretending to have a knife in his pocket and threatened me. I didn't know it wasn't. I called the police.
They said "Do wish to press charges?" I said that I didn't and suggested that he take the week off and come back on Monday once he's cooled off or if he doesn't want to, I can supply him with his p45.
He came back on the Monday all apologetic and was from then on, one of the most loyal and hard working staff at that organisation.
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Jacob Rees-Moggseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
The Cyclist?!seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Yup. In a certain light.0
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Yeah, come to think of it. I can see the resemblance: :roll:
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Garry H wrote:Yup. In a certain light.
Yeah and my missus looks like Liz Hurley in a certain light
ie the fcuking dark.
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Ballysmate wrote:Garry H wrote:Yup. In a certain light.
Yeah and my missus looks like Liz Hurley in a certain light
ie the fcuking dark.
He's Welsh remember. Sheep look like Liz Hurley in the dark to that lot.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
