Pet Peeves?
Nov 9th 2011, 7:10 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
There's nothing twisted about it. I live in the US, and most of the things that peeve me are everyday things. Hence, more american things than anything else.
Maybe your rose tinted specs won't allow you to critique the US or see it's faults, but I'm perfectly happy to say what I see, and think, just as I would if I was in the UK.
Maybe your rose tinted specs won't allow you to critique the US or see it's faults, but I'm perfectly happy to say what I see, and think, just as I would if I was in the UK.
Actually I wear contacts...and they have no rose tints.
Nov 9th 2011, 7:18 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
An apparent lack of clear/critical thinking.
Evidence for the prosecution:
Herman Cain is contesting the Republican nomination for President. He starts to do well. Suddenly people come out of the wood work and claim various assaults etc that allegedly happened years and years ago... These may or may not be true, and I'm not condoning assault or berating the women involved...
... but blaming it on the Democrats? Come on Herman - the Democrats will wheel out their bucket of sh*t once the Republicans settle on a candidate... given the current state of affairs with the GOP field they can afford to sit back & wait - this is more likely to have come from another GOP candidate...
Sadly it seems the so-called 'Millennial Generation' are also bereft of critical thinking skills.
Me - I have them - I normally don't use them around people I despise or can't be bothered with - I save it for the weekend when I call myself Mandy...
Evidence for the prosecution:
Herman Cain is contesting the Republican nomination for President. He starts to do well. Suddenly people come out of the wood work and claim various assaults etc that allegedly happened years and years ago... These may or may not be true, and I'm not condoning assault or berating the women involved...
... but blaming it on the Democrats? Come on Herman - the Democrats will wheel out their bucket of sh*t once the Republicans settle on a candidate... given the current state of affairs with the GOP field they can afford to sit back & wait - this is more likely to have come from another GOP candidate...
Sadly it seems the so-called 'Millennial Generation' are also bereft of critical thinking skills.
Me - I have them - I normally don't use them around people I despise or can't be bothered with - I save it for the weekend when I call myself Mandy...
Nov 9th 2011, 7:46 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
It's nothing to do with superiority. 
We have 2 roundabouts in our area that have been there as long as I've been here, and they still can't work out how to use them. Using them is like playing a game of russian roulette with just 1 shell removed.
Why don't you bring your Harley over and try riding them for a laugh?
We have 2 roundabouts in our area that have been there as long as I've been here, and they still can't work out how to use them. Using them is like playing a game of russian roulette with just 1 shell removed. Why don't you bring your Harley over and try riding them for a laugh?
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
Nov 9th 2011, 7:50 pm
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There's a small stack of them in Augusta, Maine...generally not toooooo bad, but come summer holiday season, it becomes a nightmare.
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
Nov 9th 2011, 7:51 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
There's a small stack of them in Augusta, Maine...generally not toooooo bad, but come summer holiday season, it becomes a nightmare.
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
I'd like to see if they slapped a big off-centre oval shaped 4 lane one with 6+ exits (including one B-road, a dual carriageway and at least one motorway) and the classic 'part time' traffic lights outside a major city. That'd be good for a laugh
Nov 9th 2011, 7:51 pm
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I always thought it was so the DoE could use up their remaining budget and get full funding for the following year ...
Back where I used to live they put them at the end of almost every bloody street. Streets that didn't even need traffic lights
. How they thought that'd be better than a 'Give Way' sign I'll never know!
Now big roundabouts on main roads and motorway interchanges, those I understand.
Back where I used to live they put them at the end of almost every bloody street. Streets that didn't even need traffic lights
. How they thought that'd be better than a 'Give Way' sign I'll never know!Now big roundabouts on main roads and motorway interchanges, those I understand.
Anyway, my grumble for today...apart from all this road talk reminding me of jug handles and just how crap they really are, especially in PA and NJ.
Folks who respond to your shout out on freecycle, but then never get back to you about picking up. I put up a bunch of lowes 10% coupons because we didn't use them since we moved and they expire next week. Had loads of people ask about them, said I'd promised them top the first bunch who responded, only 2 have come to pick them up.
At this point I'll just move on to the next lot and tough shit.
Nov 9th 2011, 7:57 pm
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It's got to be better than a traffic light at every bloody junction, like there is here.
Pet peeve- having a traffic light that only ever stays green long enough to let two cars across the road, so you can sit there for 2 minutes at red light with a perfectly clear road either side of you, as you wait for the effing light to turn green again just so you can cross "safely". It's bollox.
Pet peeve- having a traffic light that only ever stays green long enough to let two cars across the road, so you can sit there for 2 minutes at red light with a perfectly clear road either side of you, as you wait for the effing light to turn green again just so you can cross "safely". It's bollox.
Nov 9th 2011, 7:59 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
There's a small stack of them in Augusta, Maine...generally not toooooo bad, but come summer holiday season, it becomes a nightmare.
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
There's a couple in the town I live in, been there for donkeys apparently, but there's still at least one half decent car crash a week if not more on them....though doesn't help that there's a cross walk going around the thing either
I say it's weird because in general the driving around here is completely and utterly shite, so this does seem like a strange anomaly.
Nov 9th 2011, 8:05 pm
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He spent more time in hospital afterwards.
Plus side, the bike actually faired up pretty well, only dented and scraped the paint on the tank.
Nov 9th 2011, 8:06 pm
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Staying on traffic lights:
People who have a complete disregard of crossroads on a busy road. Just because the light is green does not mean you have to drive through and block my way when my light turns green - thus resulting in me having to sit through two rotations. Bitches.
People turning onto a busy road at a T-junction with lights who, instead of waiting at the line like a normal, civilised, well mannered driver would, will go though the light and pile up 4 or 5 deep stacked up in the 'no-man's-land' part of the junction, thus (again) causing those of us waiting on the busy road who have been there for half an hour already to skip another two rotations of the lights. Double bitches.
Free of charge, non light related - lorries who go into the overtaking lane at a merge to try and completely fail to overtake another lorry, meaning you can't whizz by both lorries, thus making you stuck behind the ugly bastards.
People who have a complete disregard of crossroads on a busy road. Just because the light is green does not mean you have to drive through and block my way when my light turns green - thus resulting in me having to sit through two rotations. Bitches.
People turning onto a busy road at a T-junction with lights who, instead of waiting at the line like a normal, civilised, well mannered driver would, will go though the light and pile up 4 or 5 deep stacked up in the 'no-man's-land' part of the junction, thus (again) causing those of us waiting on the busy road who have been there for half an hour already to skip another two rotations of the lights. Double bitches.
Free of charge, non light related - lorries who go into the overtaking lane at a merge to try and completely fail to overtake another lorry, meaning you can't whizz by both lorries, thus making you stuck behind the ugly bastards.
Nov 9th 2011, 8:07 pm
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Older generation Italians can't do roundabouts - they spout out at all angles, stop in the middle for a look around and never indicate. I would dearly love to teach some of them what road rage means but all I can do in desperate proximity is blow my horn in the hope that they wake up.
Nov 9th 2011, 8:08 pm
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It's funny as it's only a token gesture, cars don't stop for pedestrians on a crossing at the best of times
Nov 9th 2011, 8:10 pm
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Are they all nice easy wee two lane jobs with 4 exits on them like the ones we encounter in cheeseland?
I'd like to see if they slapped a big off-centre oval shaped 4 lane one with 6+ exits (including one B-road, a dual carriageway and at least one motorway) and the classic 'part time' traffic lights outside a major city. That'd be good for a laugh
I'd like to see if they slapped a big off-centre oval shaped 4 lane one with 6+ exits (including one B-road, a dual carriageway and at least one motorway) and the classic 'part time' traffic lights outside a major city. That'd be good for a laugh
They're all a bit lopsided and a bit of a mess....the one nice thing about the summer, you can actually see the signs...they vanish in the snow banks in the winter