Things We Hate

[mistermagic]

Pavements are often dual cycle paths/pavements. What they aren't is car parks. It's not really safe to cycle anywhere due to the attitude of many car drivers. But I know of many places where cycling on the road is safer than the cycle paths next to them due to the number of drives and junctions that cross the cycle path.

I've never fully understood the hatred for cyclists. I drive 99% of the time and I see so much more bad driving than cycling. Just this morning I had someone overtake me in a 30mph area. Significantly more dangerous than anything I've ever seen a cyclist do.

You're making junctions sound very dangerous when reallly you just have to look left and right and then you can cross the road. It really isn't that complicated. I actually had British drivers more civilised than French ones but it doesn't seem the case reading your posts.

 

[JJH]

Nosebleeds.

Bastard hayfever - been getting 3 or 4 a day lately because of it.

 

[spireite]

When someone sends you an email and puts 'catch' on it. fuckin

 

[RavenBish]

Take the hint bud.

Just got it. In your face hater.

I realise this is the hate thread so I shall add something in. Food when it's hot. I of course, as a currently unemployed graduate, live at home and my parents *insist* on stocking the fridge and freezer with BBQ stuff whenever it's hot over the summer for 2+ days. So tonight I can either have a burger, brisket or chicken wings - bear in mind that the last 3 days I have had those things in reverse order. Why is this acceptable? Why because it is hot do we suddenly have to drastically change our dietary habits. I've had pasta and various other carbohydrates in 40 degree heat in Italy before. Does anyone else have this issue? Kids might be starving in various parts of the world but at least they aren't fed an M&S beefburger for 3 consecutive nights.

 

[spireite]

Nah, spoke to them on the phone this morning. I've got a call at 9.30am tomorrow (nine thirty for a call, just gonna do it lying in bed) but I need to read the email beforehand. I don't think I could ever work in HR, the bureaucracy is astounding.

I don't know if that's a joke or not, but I wouldn't do that. Get up, get showered and then do it. You'll be in a better frame of mind

 

[Saddlerrad]

Just got it. In your face hater.

I realise this is the hate thread so I shall add something in. Food when it's hot. I of course, as a currently unemployed graduate, live at home and my parents *insist* on stocking the fridge and freezer with BBQ stuff whenever it's hot over the summer for 2+ days. So tonight I can either have a burger, brisket or chicken wings - bear in mind that the last 3 days I have had those things in reverse order. Why is this acceptable? Why because it is hot do we suddenly have to drastically change our dietary habits. I've had pasta and various other carbohydrates in 40 degree heat in Italy before. Does anyone else have this issue? Kids might be starving in various parts of the world but at least they aren't fed an M&S beefburger for 3 consecutive nights.

Take it out on the BBQ population mate, not me.

 

[RavenBish]

When someone sends you an email and puts 'catch' on it. fuckin

At my last place of work we had an afternoon of 'e-mail training' where we were taught eye-catching ways to send emails and boost morale. A funny note like 'catch' was one of the suggestions for the subject, as was 'writing a daily joke under your signature'. There were loads of awkward laughing mixed with 1 or 2 middle-aged women who thought it was 'fun' - after I went into the kitchen and the boss of the office, some old bloke on big money, walked in and, bearing in mind I'd been there like 3 weeks at this point and barely spoken to him, said to me; 'I can't wait to fucking retire' .

 

[mnb089mnb]

You're making junctions sound very dangerous when reallly you just have to look left and right and then you can cross the road. It really isn't that complicated. I actually had British drivers more civilised than French ones but it doesn't seem the case reading your posts.

You have to stop or slow down at every junciton/driveway on many cycle paths. If you're on the main road you don't.

 

[merseyboyred]

Aggressive drivers - those who will speed off as soon as a traffic light turns green, a willingness to overtake others despite the other car going at the speed limit, driving right behind somebody else and those who slam the brakes at the last second despite seeing the danger well in advance.

I'm currently learning, and so far I've found by far the worst for aggressive behaviour on the roads are those who drive as a major part of/for their living. Taxi drivers, van/delivery drivers etc. Seemingly an attitude of them being better than everyone else because they ahave, when in fact they're making the roads more dangerous.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I don't know if that's a joke or not, but I wouldn't do that. Get up, get showered and then do it. You'll be in a better frame of mind

Bish is too mother-fucking cool to do that. He just don't give a shit.

Yet lives at home with mummy & daddy.

 

[spireite]

I'm currently learning, and so far I've found by far the worst for aggressive behaviour on the roads are those who drive as a major part of/for their living. Taxi drivers, van/delivery drivers etc. Seemingly an attitude of them being better than everyone else because they ahave, when in fact they're making the roads more dangerous.

I find bus drivers can be bad too. They just start pulling out in a 'well, you'll do more damage to your car mate..' kind of way. Taxi drivers can be bad but I tend to think in that situation it's more a case of them just knowing what they can get away with because they do so much driving. It's rare I see a taxi at the side of the road having been in a big smash

 

[TomPNE94]

Honestly, the amount of taxi's that are involved in crashes is ridiculous. At least 60% of the claims we deal with are taxi related, be it fraudulent or not.

 

[spireite]

Honestly, the amount of taxi's that are involved in crashes is ridiculous. At least 60% of the claims we deal with are taxi related, be it fraudulent or not.

Shit, I didn't know that. It's rare that I see it I guess

 

[RavenBish]

Bish is too mother-fucking cool to do that. He just don't give a shit.

Yet lives at home with mummy & daddy.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I guess bus drivers "just pull out" because the highway code says you should give way to buses when they pull out.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

When someone sends you an email and puts 'catch' on it. fuckin

What does this mean?

 

[spireite]

What does this mean?

Here's an illustrated visualisation for you.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Why would someone email you with a random word depicting Kevin Keegan getting shot with an arrow by a cricket ball?

 

[SALTIRE]

Idiots who don't indicate at roundabouts.

 

[Dave-Vale]

Idiots who don't indicate at roundabouts.

Or at all?

 

[SALTIRE]

Or at all?

True I've known a few who don't indicate whatsoever.

 

[G.B]

Taxi drivers drive so aggressively because their wage depends on them getting from A to B as quickly as possible. Taxi driving is an incredibely over saturated profession nowadays. Same probably goes for delivery drivers. Not that that excuses them like. I've noticed a lot of Royal Mail drivers are fucking mental on the roads too, kerbing their vans at 30mph and stuff.

 

[Cas]

Taxi drivers drive so aggressively because their wage depends on them getting from A to B as quickly as possible. Taxi driving is an incredibely over saturated profession nowadays. Same probably goes for delivery drivers. Not that that excuses them like. I've noticed a lot of Royal Mail drivers are fucking mental on the roads too, kerbing their vans at 30mph and stuff.

My last taxi driver ran two red lights. Mental bastard.

 

[The Hand of Dom]

I used a taxi today. The driver managed to do a 20 minute journey in 19 minutes. Mental fuck.

 

[mnb089mnb]

What does this mean?

Yeah, what's the catch?

 

[Red]

Just got it. In your face hater.

I realise this is the hate thread so I shall add something in. Food when it's hot. I of course, as a currently unemployed graduate, live at home and my parents *insist* on stocking the fridge and freezer with BBQ stuff whenever it's hot over the summer for 2+ days. So tonight I can either have a burger, brisket or chicken wings - bear in mind that the last 3 days I have had those things in reverse order. Why is this acceptable? Why because it is hot do we suddenly have to drastically change our dietary habits. I've had pasta and various other carbohydrates in 40 degree heat in Italy before. Does anyone else have this issue? Kids might be starving in various parts of the world but at least they aren't fed an M&S beefburger for 3 consecutive nights.

This is what you get when you vote for a Tory government. A government YOU voted for.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Use of the word 'wife' as a verb.

 

[spireite]

Use of the word 'wife' as a verb.

Come to think of it, yeah, that is shit

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Regarding taxi drivers, I've had some right fucking mental ones, used to have to get a taxi to work on a Sunday morning at my old place as the busses didn't run to get me there for 8am. The one time this bloke turns up and if he wasn't high or drunk then god help the man, goes flying out of the cul-de-sac I lived in at the time, flew through 4 red lights, overtook about 8 people on a road with speed cameras, going about 90 in a fucking 40 zone, the speed cameras down the road evidently didn't work. Got me to work which was a 10-15 minute drive in 4 minutes flat. I got out of the car and I was fucking shaking. Never went with that firm again in fear of getting that prat again, thought I was going to fucking die.

 

[SALTIRE]

Regarding taxi drivers, I've had some right fucking mental ones, used to have to get a taxi to work on a Sunday morning at my old place as the busses didn't run to get me there for 8am. The one time this bloke turns up and if he wasn't high or drunk then god help the man, goes flying out of the cul-de-sac I lived in at the time, flew through 4 red lights, overtook about 8 people on a road with speed cameras, going about 90 in a fucking 40 zone, the speed cameras down the road evidently didn't work. Got me to work which was a 10-15 minute drive in 4 minutes flat. I got out of the car and I was fucking shaking. Never went with that firm again in fear of getting that prat again, thought I was going to fucking die.

Had a similar experience in the mid-Nineties. I was at a concert in Paris which finished in the wee small hours and there was over a million of us trying to get back home, the metro was shut down by then and you couldn't get a taxi for love nor money immediately. Eventually after about an hour wandering through central Paris we get one, and this guy was a nutter, speeding around, we had to hold on to the straps as we were getting flung about! I was happy enough with it as I was into driving fast back then, but my other half wasn't and she felt sick when we got back to our hotel. We went through those tunnels at high speed too, the ones that killed Diana - every time that gets mentioned I think of that nutcase taxi driver of ours!