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paranoidandroid Mar 6th 2013 4:43 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 
[QUOTE=Sally Redux;10587610]The ****ed-up Quote Returns.[/QUOTE

What do you mean by that?

Sally Redux Mar 6th 2013 4:45 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 
[QUOTE=paranoidandroid;10587621]

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10587610)
The ****ed-up Quote Returns.[/QUOTE

What do you mean by that?

I have to run.

paranoidandroid Mar 6th 2013 4:47 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10587635)

I have to run.

Don't tell me, your dog needs a walk, or the kids have to go to hockey?
JG is going to have to get used to all these extra activities.

Jerseygirl Mar 6th 2013 4:53 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by paranoidandroid (Post 10587553)
If you're relocating to Canada, will you be changing your name to Torontogirl? ;)

Don'tbelonganywheregirl may be more appropriate. :D

paranoidandroid Mar 6th 2013 5:00 am

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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 10587657)
Don'tbelonganywheregirl may be more appropriate. :D

Good point. :lol:

jeffreyhy Mar 6th 2013 5:20 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Which reminds me of a satisfying experience I had a couple of months back when there was a guy on my tail when I was going 50 in a 45 mph zone. When we hit a short stretch of road where a second lane opens up on the right, to allow for heavily laden trucks coming out of a quarry at that point, the guy pulls to the right and accelerates past me - into a deer that had entered the road from the left and passed in front of me.

I did feel sorry for the deer.

Regards, JEff



Originally Posted by paranoidandroid (Post 10587381)
Sort of reminds me of a guy from work when I was in the UK.
As he was coming to work one frosty morning driving in one of the company cars, he overtook a lorry on a straight stretch of road, only to come round a bit of a bend about another mile up the road, hit a patch of ice and skid off into a ditch. As he's sitting there thinking about how he's going to have to call the office to get them to arrange a tow truck, the lorry he passed comes up the road, and the driver slows down and stops beside him. The driver winds his window down, and my work colleague thinks he's going to ask if he's okay, or wants pulling out, so he winds down his window too.
Instead of asking either of those things, the lorry driver looks at him and says "why did you think I was going so f***ing slow, you c***?", and drives away.


Anian Mar 6th 2013 6:08 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Thought of this one last night, so funny how there are a lot of driving ones today:
Driving in the middle lane, cars in front not going very fast and plenty of space in the left lane, so I move over into it. Car that was quite a way behind in the left lane suddenly decides that it wants to sniff my rear bumper and eventually backs off.

It's not like I cut him off or even forced him to slow down at all, he quite clearly accelerated towards me as some kind of weird territorial display. Happens every now and then, usually by a woman in an SUV (one of the most aggressive types of driver around here)

paranoidandroid Mar 6th 2013 7:08 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by jeffreyhy (Post 10587721)
Which reminds me of a satisfying experience I had a couple of months back when there was a guy on my tail when I was going 50 in a 45 mph zone. When we hit a short stretch of road where a second lane opens up on the right, to allow for heavily laden trucks coming out of a quarry at that point, the guy pulls to the right and accelerates past me - into a deer that had entered the road from the left and passed in front of me.

I did feel sorry for the deer.

Regards, JEff

Bet it made a decent mess of the car. My mate hit one back home in an almost brand new VW Polo, and it wrote it off.

jeffreyhy Mar 6th 2013 8:27 am

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It did indeed. Dead center of the front of the car. Hood (bonnet?) buckled up higher than the windshield, steam billowing from the radiator. For all his rush, that was the end of his trip. :rofl:

And it was an old-ish car, so I'm sure not worth repairing.

Regards, JEff



Originally Posted by paranoidandroid (Post 10587965)
Bet it made a decent mess of the car.


Jerseygirl Mar 6th 2013 8:31 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by jeffreyhy (Post 10588153)
It did indeed. Dead center of the front of the car. Hood (bonnet?) buckled up higher than the windshield, steam bellowing from the radiator. For all his rush, that was the end of his trip. :rofl:

And it was an old-ish car, so I'm sure not worth repairing.

Regards, JEff

He was very lucky. I knew someone who hit a stag...it went head first through the windshield and one of the antlers went straight through his heart. Quite a number of people around here come off worse when they hit a deer.

AmerLisa Mar 6th 2013 4:10 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by Anian (Post 10587845)
Thought of this one last night, so funny how there are a lot of driving ones today:
Driving in the middle lane, cars in front not going very fast and plenty of space in the left lane, so I move over into it. Car that was quite a way behind in the left lane suddenly decides that it wants to sniff my rear bumper and eventually backs off.

It's not like I cut him off or even forced him to slow down at all, he quite clearly accelerated towards me as some kind of weird territorial display. Happens every now and then, usually by a woman in an SUV (one of the most aggressive types of driver around here)

Just stay out of the fast lane! ;):D

Mr Weeze Mar 6th 2013 11:11 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Why is it beyond the wit of man to flush a bloody urinal? I do not need to walk into the men's at work in the morning and experience the nasal assault that is one gallon of pissy water that has taken on it's own foisty bouquet overnight. There is a lever. Pull it. Twuntbubbles.

joto Mar 7th 2013 12:23 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Weeze (Post 10589191)
Why is it beyond the wit of man to flush a bloody urinal? I do not need to walk into the men's at work in the morning and experience the nasal assault that is one gallon of pissy water that has taken on it's own foisty bouquet overnight. There is a lever. Pull it. Twuntbubbles.

Shouldn't that be in the "what pissed you off" section? :D

Englishtart Mar 7th 2013 1:27 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Weeze (Post 10589191)
Why is it beyond the wit of man to flush a bloody urinal? I do not need to walk into the men's at work in the morning and experience the nasal assault that is one gallon of pissy water that has taken on it's own foisty bouquet overnight. There is a lever. Pull it. Twuntbubbles.

I'm sure it cost a fortune to get it to 'smell' that way!:lol:

Yorkieabroad Mar 7th 2013 2:48 am

Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Weeze (Post 10589191)
Why is it beyond the wit of man to flush a bloody urinal? I do not need to walk into the men's at work in the morning and experience the nasal assault that is one gallon of pissy water that has taken on it's own foisty bouquet overnight. There is a lever. Pull it. Twuntbubbles.

Would that be a "leever" or a "levver"? If the latter, thats one of my pet peeves too!! I can just about handle tomaytoes, and damn foreigners that insist on calling it Home DePPot instead of Deepot may need a slap, but levvers just really get on my tits.


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