My pet hate has to be.....

Reverse parking assistance - both electronic and the old fashioned type :lol:

My mirrors are set up so I can see all around me and I know exactly where the end of my car is.
If I'm manoeuvring a large car into or out of a fairly small place, somebody please tell me . . .

. . . in what way, shape or form is either an irritating electronic beeping in my ear or some idiot standing in my way and waving his arms in circles supposed to actually help?
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SarahLee said:
Reverse parking assistance - both electronic and the old fashioned type :lol:

My mirrors are set up so I can see all around me and I know exactly where the end of my car is.
If I'm manoeuvring a large car into or out of a fairly small place, somebody please tell me . . .

. . . in what way, shape or form is either an irritating electronic beeping in my ear or some idiot standing in my way and waving his arms in circles supposed to actually help?
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Tell you what a while ago I was absolutely speechless at what I saw outside the shop - a Honda Jazz fitted with FRONT parking sensors, seriously, how much of a tool do you need to be to consider them a necessity, let alone use them?

I could actually use rear ones on my Civic, it is a trigonometrical impossibility to give me line of sight on the rear bumper of my car from my driving position with the wing mirrors. best I can get is roughly in line with the rear seats, which is naturally too late and has caused a few scuffs on said rear bumper by my hand. :thumbsdown:
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Tell you what a while ago I was absolutely speechless at what I saw outside the shop - a Honda Jazz fitted with FRONT parking sensors, seriously, how much of a tool do you need to be to consider them a necessity, let alone use them?

I could actually use rear ones on my Civic, it is a trigonometrical impossibility to give me line of sight on the rear bumper of my car from my driving position with the wing mirrors. best I can get is roughly in line with the rear seats, which is naturally too late and has caused a few scuffs on said rear bumper by my hand. :thumbsdown:
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Actually, I had a car with front detectors and it was pretty useful for getting nice and close when parking in short spaces :thumbs:
 
i've got loads of pet hates.. but the newest addition to my list is 'other people's inboxes' on their email.

I know it's none of my business and it really shouldn't bother me.. but i've seen 4 or 5 this last week that have almost made me want to sit down and spend a day deleting all the cr*p! My missus is the first culprit.. not looked at her email for ages and when i looked the other day there was something like 1800 emails in there... what the hell do you want with all this crap? Don't you delete them as they come in and then respond to the ones you need and then tidy them up into their relevant folders which you should have already prepared so that everything is easily traceable should you need to refer back to it in the future..... FFS!! Honestly, the screen nearly got put through! :lol:
 
Funny that, one of my pet peeves is people who use folders to manage their emails! Well, mainly because they initially laugh at my 1 extra folder (not important auto populated by a rule). When I question what the benefit of folders are they maintain they can always easily find an email or group of emails (and faster) than without folders... Well, the amount of times they can't find an email or even multiple emails I have sent them isn't funny. I can start a search, locate all of them in seconds, resend, and it's back in their inbox before they find it in their organised folders!
 
Proven fact is that folder people take longer to find emails than those that just leave them in the inbox! It's quicker just to use the search function rather than messing around in folders.

My pet hate is SPAM. It should be a capital offence to send it.

Spamassassin is crap though as it marks loads of things as spam which aren't and ignores blatantly spammy rubbish.
 
karmagarda said:
Funny that, one of my pet peeves is people who use folders to manage their emails! Well, mainly because they initially laugh at my 1 extra folder (not important auto populated by a rule). When I question what the benefit of folders are they maintain they can always easily find an email or group of emails (and faster) than without folders... Well, the amount of times they can't find an email or even multiple emails I have sent them isn't funny. I can start a search, locate all of them in seconds, resend, and it's back in their inbox before they find it in their organised folders!
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i agree to a point... no point in having folders if they don't actually sort anything. My inbox has 18 folders.. and every single one does it's job... web enquiries, accounts, marketing, POD's, insurance etc... just been through my inbox again because at 66 emails in there i was sure there must be some dead wood to get rid of... and there was.. back down to 39 emails again now :geek:
 
Drivers who last read the highway code the day they passed their test and have no clue as to right of way and/or have no lane discipline on roundabouts.

I take the same route home from work every time and every time I come to a busy roundabout and turn right onto exit three, I drive round the inside lane and move across the outside lane to enter the left lane on my exit road and three times in the last few weeks I've had some ****wit come out of exit one and try to force their way in front of me, hooting and gesturing to say wtf are you doing?

I'm going to make a laminated sign I can hold up saying "Read the Highway Code" on one side and "f***wit* on the other for those more deserving :)
 
Living out in the sticks, the droves of budding Bradley Wiggins' we suffer at weekends - lycra clad arses in the air, heads down, blissfully unaware of all other road users, secure in their little self-righteous bubbles and the knowledge that their noddy helmets confer immortality.....Get a bally mirror, and use it!:cool:
 
Organnyx said:
Living out in the sticks, the droves of budding Bradley Wiggins' we suffer at weekends - lycra clad arses in the air, heads down, blissfully unaware of all other road users, secure in their little self-righteous bubbles and the knowledge that their noddy helmets confer immortality.....Get a bally mirror, and use it!:cool:
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We have loads of them - I find them quite amusing :D
 
Organnyx said:
Living out in the sticks, the droves of budding Bradley Wiggins' we suffer at weekends - lycra clad arses in the air, heads down, blissfully unaware of all other road users, secure in their little self-righteous bubbles and the knowledge that their noddy helmets confer immortality.....Get a bally mirror, and use it!:cool:
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Yes, riding two or three abreast, they get shirty if you give them a toot.
 
People who go walking in the country with bright clothing on, there they are strolling around in the certain knowledge that they can be seen from space should they stub their toe and in the meantime spoiling the view for others across the valley with a florescent snake ten strong with their stupid ski sticks, for god's sake get a real stick as well.
 
crofter said:
People who go walking in the country with bright clothing on, there they are strolling around in the certain knowledge that they can be seen from space should they stub their toe and in the meantime spoiling the view for others across the valley with a florescent snake ten strong with their stupid ski sticks, for god's sake get a real stick as well.
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I'm kind of of the opposite view there, the times in Winter that I've come close to knocking down some pedestrian wearing dark clothing on a dark night make me shudder.
 
There aren't many things I hate. But these are what comes to mind:

Despite not having British TV, being subjected to x-factor, the Essex thing, get the celeb out thing, news on Facebook and/or twitter. One of the benefits of moving overseas is not being subjected to that tripe on TV.

Rude tourists.

Shops closing for siesta and not opening on Sundays.

American foreign policy.

The Daily Mail's vile, xenophobic editorial stance.

Corruption in politics.

The crimes against humanity and 45 years of failure to abide by UNSC resolutions perpetrated by Israel.

The global economic structure that sees the rich getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

Patriotism.

Racism.

John Terry.
 
BMW, Audi and white van drivers. Why the h**l do they insist on racing up to within two inches of the rear of other vehicles in the right hand lane of motorways when overtaking?

When you buy such a vehicle, is it compulsory to have a lobotomy?
 
Yellowbelly said:
BMW, Audi and white van drivers. Why the h**l do they insist on racing up to within two inches of the rear of other vehicles in the right hand lane of motorways when overtaking?

When you buy such a vehicle, is it compulsory to have a lobotomy?
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I'm an Audi driver, and I can assure you I drive like a Grandma (my mpg will reflect that too)
 
Generalise? Me?



Well maybe sometimes. No offence intended.;)
 
viv1969 said:
I'm an Audi driver, and I can assure you I drive like a Grandma (my mpg will reflect that too)
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I hate people who drive like grandmas. My car has 6 gears, most modern cars have at least 5 yet when I get stuck behind someone driving like a grandma, my mpg suffers as I can't generally get out of 4th even though the speed limit allows.:cuckoo:

I generally find people who drive like grandmas will be those who never accelerate to a decent speed on slip roads to merge with traffic on the main roads, or like the one I encountered yesterday who pulled out in front of me on a roundabout having already seen me and then proceed to drive across the front of me at about 5mph, when I'm doing at least 30.:nono:

My mate told me a tale of when he was a kid and the old girl next door. When ever she started her car and prepared to reverse off her drive, she used to rev the engine so hard, they thought she was getting ready for take off.
 
nilagin said:
I hate people who drive like grandmas. My car has 6 gears, most modern cars have at least 5 yet when I get stuck behind someone driving like a grandma, my mpg suffers as I can't generally get out of 4th even though the speed limit allows.:cuckoo:

I generally find people who drive like grandmas will be those who never accelerate to a decent speed on slip roads to merge with traffic on the main roads, or like the one I encountered yesterday who pulled out in front of me on a roundabout having already seen me and then proceed to drive across the front of me at about 5mph, when I'm doing at least 30.:nono:

My mate told me a tale of when he was a kid and the old girl next door. When ever she started her car and prepared to reverse off her drive, she used to rev the engine so hard, they thought she was getting ready for take off.
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Well then all I can say is you're a bit of a **Not nice**

I can assure you, being a motorway commuter of 12 years, I join the traffic at the appropriate speed, and maintain the appropriate speed for the duration of my journey.

What I do NOT do it force my way into the stream of traffic at a speed which suits ME; so your merging theory is full of poop.

What I also do is adhere to the speed limit (and yes it's a limit, not a target). Drivers like you who assume the road is meant purely for you, drive me mental.

The cars we drive are irrelevant. The attitude is not. I treat the roads as a means to get me home / to work. You would seem to treat them as your own personal rights of way.
 
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viv1969 said:
Well then all I can say is you're a bit of a **Not nice**.

I can assure you, being a motorway commuter of 12 years, I join the traffic at the appropriate speed, and maintain the appropriate speed for the duration of my journey.

What I do NOT do it force my way into the stream of traffic at a speed which suits ME; so your merging theory is full of poop.

What I also do is adhere to the speed limit (and yes it's a limit, not a target). Drivers like you who assume the road is meant purely for you, drive me mental.

The cars we drive are irrelevant. The attitude is not. I treat the roads as a means to get me home / to work. You would seem to treat them as your own personal rights of way.
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You are the one who said you drove like a granny, which is generelly blinkers on, make slow progress and get in everyones way. You can cause accidents just as easily by driving too slow as you can by going too fast

So you are telling me that it is perfectly ok to drive like a granny at 30 mph in a 50, braking for every bend regardless that the car can happily drive around it at 50, brake everytime a car comes towards you when they have plenty of room to drive in the opposite direction.
So you think it's perfectly acceptable to drive onto a motorway or dual carriageway at 40mph when the slowest traffic is likely to be travelling at 50-56mph, please explain how you'll safely merge with that at the speed that a granny drives at.
I prefer sharing the road with people who drive according to the highway code, make progress, mutually respect other road users and don't hold up people needlessly especially by pulling out in front of them when they don't have right of way.
Oh and I've also encountered alot of the older generation who will drive completely on the wrong side of the road when overtaking parked cars on their side of the road and will also make such manouvres when there is oncoming traffic with the right of way.

Not one thing that I mentioned in my previous post was outside of the highway code, so please explain how you think I'm a *not nice*.:shrug:
 
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Mine is motorists. All of them. As a pedestrian all they seem to do is try their hardest to kill me. They creep the lights, go round corners without indicating, chat on their phones whole driving. So yes. I hate motorists. They ALL do these things. All of them.

On a related note. Sweeping generalisations are stupid and pretty offensive
 
I loathe pedestrians. How ignorant of them to be walking near were I drive my car.
 
People who describe food as "moreish". As soon as I hear that word my fists clench. Don't know what it is but something about it makes me really angry.
 
norters said:
Mine is motorists. All of them. As a pedestrian all they seem to do is try their hardest to kill me. They creep the lights, go round corners without indicating, chat on their phones whole driving. So yes. I hate motorists. They ALL do these things. All of them.

On a related note. Sweeping generalisations are stupid and pretty offensive
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Lol!!!
 
gm43uk said:
People who describe food as "moreish". As soon as I hear that word my fists clench. Don't know what it is but something about it makes me really angry.
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Ha I have one like this. When someone says that it's a "big sky". It makes me angry. Just how exactly is it a big sky? My parents always say it as they return to Northumberland as though it's somehow magically got bigger now they're back to where they grew up. Sure, if you stand on top of a hill you will see more sky than you would if you were stood at the foot of a steep valley but a "big sky"? :rage:
 
TriggerHappy said:
Ha I have one like this. When someone says that it's a "big sky". It makes me angry. Just how exactly is it a big sky? My parents always say it as they return to Northumberland as though it's somehow magically got bigger now they're back to where they grew up. Sure, if you stand on top of a hill you will see more sky than you would if you were stood at the foot of a steep valley but a "big sky"? :rage:
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Interesting! When I went to the Maldives I was struck by the big sky, in fact it was huge! Because the land is so low, I think the highest part of the land is about 1.3 metres you get to see much more of the sky than you're used to.
 
Just reallised (once more) how much I hate boasty, self-congratulatory Christmas letters, written by what feels like a marketing department. Its not a ****ing competition (is it...?)
Good God - by the sound of things little Tarquin should be on for a Knighthood and Young Sportsman (and Musician) of the Year, all rolled into one. Pity I have never met the sod.
 
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People at work who send you an email with a line at the bottom saying
"Please consider the environment before printing this email "

and who then go home on friday for 2 weeks off and leave their work PC's switched on. Lazy ****ers.

(I do hold the power button down on the front to shut it off if I notice, then if they whinge when they get back in I say we had a power cut one day. If you dont save any work before disappearing for weeks you're an idiot anyway.)
 
Being CCd rather than BCCd on mass mailings, If I wanted every Tom, Dick and Harriet I (or rather the sender) know(s) to have my e-mail address, I'd tell it to them myself!
 
People in supermarkets walking around with those stupid red hats with a bell on the top.
 
pepi1967 said:
People in supermarkets walking around with those stupid red hats with a bell on the top.
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The quintessential christmas bell-end :lol:
 
Pet hates:

People chewing with their mouth open. Utterly disgusting and infuriating.

People who bring fast food onto busses/trains. What makes them think I want to spend my journey smelling their dinner?

People who play music on mobile phones on busses/trains. They should be shot, it's that simple.

I'll think of more to add at some point! :lol:
 
PMN said:
Pet hates:

People chewing with their mouth open. Utterly disgusting and infuriating.

People who bring fast food onto busses/trains. What makes them think I want to spend my journey smelling their dinner?

People who play music on mobile phones on busses/trains. They should be shot, it's that simple.
I'll think of more to add at some point! :lol:
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Try not to hold those those feelings in....let it all out :lol:
 
People who seem to spend their whole careers being obstructive, uncooperative, belligerant and constantly interfering in matters that don't concern them. Or janitors to give them their proper name. :bang:
 
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