Things that get on my wick...

SteveOBHave

SteveOBHave

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Why can't the English figure out that queuing at an ATM on the street works better if you DON'T do it across the footpath??? Queue along the walls you muppets!

I have another one - you drive on the left hand side of the road, why don't you try walking on the left hand side of the footpath??? Walking down Oxford street is a nightmare because everyone walks anywhere!

And another - umbrellas - they make you wider and some smart cookie put pointy things on the outside of them - why can't pedestrians keep it in mind when walking down the road - the number of times I have almost lost an eye...

Cyclists - riding on the footpath is illegal*! Oh and running a red light is too - red is not that ambiguous a colour. *prohibited by Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835

Amber lights at traffic lights - Why is it that drivers think that it's their god given right to go at the mearest hint of an amber light - the road rules state that if there is no-one crossing you can go - it doesn't mean stamp on the gas as hard as possible regardless of who happens to be crossing.

OK I'm done for now :D
 
Yeah that's a definite agree ^^^ Meaning the high beam stuff.

Running a red on a bike can still get you a ticket regardless of the direction of the corner.
 
"I hate it when I have come down stairs to make something quick to eat, eat it, go upstairs 2 minutes later I need a pee, go downstairs a take a pee, come back upstairs, 2 minutes later I need a poo"

Haha toilet humor - makes the world go round.
 
Evangelion said:
Ever since arriving in the UK four years ago, I have remained perpetually bemused by the British penchant for the queue. Poms will happily join an extraordinarily long queue and sit in it for what seems an eternity. Back home (Australia) if we see a long queue, we simply go off to do something else and come back later when the queue is either short, or gone.

And yes, we queue against the wall. I have no idea why Poms queue across the footpath. In a country the size of a teaspoon, surely it makes sense to use public space efficiently? :confused:
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Yeah - it's a definite oddity - much like the need to build semi-detached houses in the middle of the countryside :)
 
Yeah I never got the whole Hollyoaks thing either. Drunk people really set me on edge as well - I'm a sympathy hurler, and I'm always waiting for inebriated people to chuck.
 
wolvers69 said:
If I had a pound for every Aussie or Kiwi I've heard start a sentence with 'back home' I'd be a very rich man by now!

If it's that much better 'back home' then may I suggest you **$$ off back there!! :mad:
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LOL the only reason we're here is that 'back home' is too far away to see the rest of the world. To be fair the only reason we're here is to earn the pound and use the UK as a launch pad :) That was the original reason anyway, strangely I actually quite like this city (London) and the country.

You are a bitter one aren't you... It was a comparative statement not a qualifier that 'home' is better than here, chill it's all light hearted.
 
Deadly Ferret said:
Where I live it's not we English who do that, it's all the foreign knobs!

You think you have problems? What about all the foreigners who mill about aimlessly at my local shopping centre? They block doorways as they yap at each other in gobbledygook, congest the streets, and I have to continually sidestep the unaware berks or even walk in the road to get past them! :mad:
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How do you know they are foreigners? Id it because they speak a different language? I know what you mean but standing around in annoying places seems to be a national past-time in most countries.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
People who drive in the middle lane of a motorway.

You pricks should learn to move over. The middle lane is not a cruising lane. It is not your god given right to stay there. You slow everyone down in rush hour by refusing to move. You hog it needlessly when the roads are empty. It is NOT safer to use that lane when it is quiet you friggin muppet.

I drive a 40 year old Morris Minor. It is bloody ridiculous that I have to cross two lanes of traffic and use the fast lane every thirty seconds to overtake you muppets in a car that does a top speed of 70mph - simply to avoid undertaking you and your one brain cell. You people are complete idiots.

(This also applies to idiot BMW/ Audi/ <pointless high powered car> owners who believe it is their god given right to only use the fast lane. Learn to drive you muppets.)
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LOL and deep breath :D
 
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