My pet hate has to be.....

James J said:
My pet hate is liars
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Mine too I've had a few in my life they just don't seems to realise they will get caught out as they contradict their lies :bang:
Won't tolerate it these days, once I find out they are history :thumbs:
 
antihero said:
Fair do's I misread.

Although as I have both a moustache and a "scrotum tickler" as you so eloquently put it, I must offer my thanks for making me aware that I like men :clap:
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Best to be made aware sooner rather than later!:p;)
 
wippers said:
People who don't use their indicators when driving!
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Or drivers who use them as an afterthought as they send pedestrians scattering when they turn a corner. "Oh these people had to jump out the way...better indicate."
 
Dunno if this has been said as I haven't read every post in the thread ( prob someone's pet hate right there! Sorry) I hate it when you go into a shop and ask a "technical" question. And the shop assistant takes the box off you and reads what is on the packaging..........I always feel like yelling I CAN READ IT!! Whatever happened to shop assistants actually knowing the products they are supposed to be selling!!
 
Peeps that go to a Tesco Express with petrol pumps, fill up their car then go in and do a weekly shop for an hour with the car still parked on a pump, and the queue half way to Glasgow.
Had to give a lady a proper hard stare the other day when she came back to her car with a shopping trolly, she knew......oh she knew all right.:boxer:
Proper div magnets those petrol and shopping places.
 
wippers said:
People who don't use their indicators when driving!
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Drives me mad! Especially as a cyclist when an impatient driver overtakes only to cut across directly in front of me to make a left hand turn. Wait 30 more seconds and it can be done without cutting me up and forcing me to slam on my brakes!
 
cyclists who wear dark clothing at night and don't feel the need for lights... or to abide by the highway code, and cyclists who cycle on the road when there is a perfectly good cycle lane...
 
I hate all pets.

And I also hate parking attendants.
 
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Lynton said:
perfectly good cycle lane...
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Very few cycle lanes I'd describe as 'perfectly good' most are littered with the crap that vehicles have flicked/blown to the edges of the road making them an absolute liability for punctures. You spend most of your time watching a metre in front of your tyre picking your way through the sticks, stones and litter. It's also worth noting that cycle lanes are optional not obligatory and cyclists are just as entitled to use the road as other vehicles.

There's no excuse for cyclists not to make themselves visible at night. Lights are a legal requirement and it's a fool who doesn't wear something bright or reflective to make their presence known.
 
Lynton said:
...... and cyclists who cycle on the road when there is a perfectly good cycle lane...
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I will use a cycle lane if it offers any advantage, but most cycle lanes are not safe at speeds over about 15mph, due to poor sightlines and other hazards, such a debris, side roads, driveways etc.
 
antihero said:
the wife isn't best pleased though :help:
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I should suggest turning around in bed. That way, what can tickle scrota will be tickling the parts that other beer(d)s cannot reach! :p (Actually, they can and do but that rather spoils the misquote!)
 
Drivers who refuse to accelerate to a decent speed on slip roads ready to join a dual carriageway or motorway. Drivers who hog the middle lane and travel at 50 in a 70, all because they know it will become the inside lane around 4 or 5 miles further down the road.
Lorries on 4 lane sections of the M25 now taking up 3 lanes trying to creep past each other.
Idiots that get in the right hand lane of either of the two Dartford Tunnels and refuse to travel at the 50mph limit, causing congestion, just once I'd like to be able to drive through without having to brake.
 
All cyclists that wear lycra.

You're on the way to work, not in a velodrome in the olympics, get a grip.
 
Another driving one is people who think they have right of way when joining a motorway coming off the slip road I always move over when I can but if its busy its not possible but they still try to force you over instead of matching their speed to the traffic already on the motorway
 
Camera bags no matter how hard I look the perfect one doesn't exist!
 
LCPete said:
Another driving one is people who think they have right of way when joining a motorway coming off the slip road I always move over when I can but if its busy its not possible but they still try to force you over instead of matching their speed to the traffic already on the motorway
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Ditto...when will they learn that it's thier business to join the existing traffic on the motorway at the appropriate speed?
 
LCPete said:
Another driving one is people who think they have right of way when joining a motorway coming off the slip road I always move over when I can but if its busy its not possible but they still try to force you over instead of matching their speed to the traffic already on the motorway
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There was a long thread a while back, iirc people were moaning about people not moving over to let them join and using the hard shoulder if slip road ran out, total nuts, I have never run out if slip road or not been able to join the motorway by varying my speed accordingly. Also to add to this, the knobs who go straight across all three lanes causing everyone to brake, just so they can get 20 feet in front of where they were when they joined. Makes my blood boil.
 
Thought of another driving related one. People who decide it's an ideal time to move left back into the inside lane next to a slip road where there are people trying to join.
 
New one.....Anyone who thinks it's thier god given right to knock on my door on a Sunday (or ay other) evening trying to sell me...well, anything. (That includes...especially....anyone trying to sell me thier chosen deity).
 
god botherers of any variety usually get the Monty Python line - "I already got one and it very nice!"

Sales persons and charities get told to go away and political canvassers get told the same but far less politely!
 
God botherers get the door in thier face...end of.
 
Nod said:
god botherers of any variety usually get the Monty Python line - "I already got one and it very nice!"

Sales persons and charities get told to go away and political canvassers get told the same but far less politely!
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:D
 
Davec223 said:
There was a long thread a while back, iirc people were moaning about people not moving over to let them join and using the hard shoulder if slip road ran out, total nuts, I have never run out if slip road or not been able to join the motorway by varying my speed accordingly. Also to add to this, the knobs who go straight across all three lanes causing everyone to brake, just so they can get 20 feet in front of where they were when they joined. Makes my blood boil.
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yes exactly all you have to do when joining the motorway or dual carriageway is match your speed and drop in but some people seem to find it difficult
 
Thank you thank you thank you to all the above people who made me realise I am not alone in being irritated by the small inconveniences of modern life.

BUT (and after listening to two grown men on a train last week having a schoolboy type argument about who was standing where) I realise that MOST of us should know better than to complain about these things.

The 2 guys on the train, I assume from the location, time of day and their appearance that they were going to paid work, having left a warm dry house with food in the cupboard, electricity and running water. Something a lot of the worlds population don't have. And they were arguing about standing space on a train (and it wasn't that crowded!)

Having said that my current pet hate is people who cannot walk up stairs without slamming their feet onto each step as if their life depended on it. Watch carefully and you will see there are always one or two foot stampers in any group of people going up stairs - probably need to be doing the busy commute thing to get a good sample going.

Opps - shut up now David

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nilagin said:
Drivers who refuse to accelerate to a decent speed on slip roads ready to join a dual carriageway or motorway. Drivers who hog the middle lane and travel at 50 in a 70, all because they know it will become the inside lane around 4 or 5 miles further down the road.
Lorries on 4 lane sections of the M25 now taking up 3 lanes trying to creep past each other.
Idiots that get in the right hand lane of either of the two Dartford Tunnels and refuse to travel at the 50mph limit, causing congestion, just once I'd like to be able to drive through without having to brake.
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the speed limit is just that, a limit - not a target.
 
The ****** who threw his McDonald's pop at my car as I drove by tonight.... Spaco!
 
Cyclists who seem to think that the red light doesnt apply to them
 
trencheel303 said:
the speed limit is just that, a limit - not a target.
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Please tell me that was meant in jest :)
Seriously, if people don't want to drive at the speed limit then fine, but for petes sake move over and let those that do get past.
 
Phil1974 said:
Please tell me that was meant in jest :)
Seriously, if people don't want to drive at the speed limit then fine, but for petes sake move over and let those that do get past.
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Actually unless its dangerously slow you can pretty much drive at whatever speed you like upto and including the speed limit.
 
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