WAMT....what annoyed me today!

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Rings doorbell and then immediately starts trying to ram my package through the letter box because he couldn't be arsed to actually wait for me to answer the door
 
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Today during the 1940s event in Ramsbottom i decided to take a few photos of the signal box and the lines leading away. i was on public land using an x100t, not doing any harm as loads of other people where doing the same thing. 5 minutes later im walking up the road and a policeman stops me and asks me why i was taking photos of the signal box. i asked why and was told the woman in the signal box had reported me as looking suspicous. I've been taking photos at 1940s events for years and never once have i been pulled up for taking photos. i was with another photographer but nothing was said to him. I dont get out that often due to disability but i was absolutely furious and it ruined my day out.
 
Why be furious? We live in a world with regular terrorist attacks and both the signal box woman and the policeman would be guilty of a serious dereliction of their respective duties if they just ignored suspicious activity. Cost you nothing to both identify yourself and xplain yourself.
 
john.margetts said:
Why be furious? We live in a world with regular terrorist attacks and both the signal box woman and the policeman would be guilty of a serious dereliction of their respective duties if they just ignored suspicious activity. Cost you nothing to both identify yourself and xplain yourself.
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Devil's advocate? (That was your 666th post! ;) :D)
 
Not me, but Snakes have been annoying my parents, or rather one particular snake that has taken up residence in Mum's potting shed. Dad is currently trying to catch it and dispatch it to pastures new and has been sealing up various holes in the walls to keep the slithery nuisance out to no avail.
 
Picture this, a dual carriageway, the inside lane doing around 60-65 mph.
the outside line doing around the legal limit, heavy traffic, but moving along nicely that is until, some plonker decides to turn right, onto the carriageway, diving between the two lanes and then slows to a crawl in the
nearside lane.
It was obvious what was about to happen, so I was braking hard as were others in the off side lane.
A woman ( why am I not surprised) swerved violently from the near side to the off side, in front of me, into a gap that wasn't there.
Now although she had technically been "cut up" by the car that came across the duel [sic] carriageway.
That doesn't give her the right to cut up other traffic.

It was a bloody close thing, TBH, my mirror spider doesn't scare easily ( as he's been with me awhile :D ) but even he looked worried!

I never reacted in any shape or form, to the Kamikaze woman driver I was far too busy braking.
But at least she said thank you in the time honoured fashion, by raising her middle finger out of the window of her car.
 
Cobra said:
It was a bloody close thing, TBH, my mirror spider doesn't scare easily ( as he's been with me awhile :D ) but even he looked worried!

I never reacted in any shape or form, to the Kamikaze woman driver I was far too busy braking.
But at least she said thank you in the time honoured fashion, by raising her middle finger out of the window of her car.
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Damn van drivers, never give way to a damsel in distress, I know you wanted to offer your personal assistance if anything happened :p
 
Gremlin said:
never give way to a damsel in distress,
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If I'd have hit her, it would have cause one hell of a pile, up, from the angle she came in at she most likely would have spun across two lanes.
It would have been one hell of a mess,all because Ms silly knickers couldn't wait !
 
Cobra said:
If I'd have hit her, it would have cause one hell of a pile, up, from the angle she came in at she most likely would have spun across two lanes.
It would have been one hell of a mess,all because Ms silly knickers couldn't wait !
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It used to be boy racers that were a menace, these days the younger generation of girls are just as bad. Driving like they own the road, flicking the V or worse. They seem to think they are indestructible when they are sat in their small metal box. I had a young "lady" flick the V at me yesterday, then at the next junction the lights turned red... by did she look sheepish when I pulled alongside her.
 

Grass snake, but it still puts the fear of god into mum every morning, it's become very partial to its shelf in the sun! :D
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Grass snake, but it still puts the fear of god into mum every morning, it's become very partial to its shelf in the sun! :D
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Its fine they don't bite, its just hoovering up frogs, toads / the occasional; small mammal and young birds :thumbs:

Just a word of warning though, if your dad decides to pick it up and relocate it, their defence mechanism is to "Play dead"
and emit one of the most foul smelling fluids you have ever come across!
 
Bloody pigeon trying to fly off from the pavement. It hit the top of my windscreen as it flew across. It's alive.
No idea about damage to car - it's been pouring down so have been unable to adequately assess.
 
omens said:
Bloody pigeon trying to fly off from the pavement. It hit the top of my windscreen as it flew across. It's alive.
No idea about damage to car - it's been pouring down so have been unable to adequately assess.
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Pigeons aren't really heavy or solid enough to do any damage, they usually just disintegrate into a mass of feathers, which then have a habit of finding their way into every available orifice in the car and you'll be finding them for months on end.
 
Burglar alarm going off as I set it, then couldn't turn it off this is at 6.30am so my neighbours love me today. Had to basically destroy the box on the outside of the wall to kill the noise!!! Grrrr then I get to site today only to find the cleaners haven't been so I can't work.
Should of stayed in bed.
 
facebook, esp on PC, 'most recent' is a complete lie, it's showing me things from 3 days ago. what have they done to the algorithm!
 
nilagin said:
That must have been one heavyweight pigeon
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We breed them big around here :D

Thankfully it was a firms van so "not my problem" :)

nilagin said:
Mind you if it had made it any higher you'd likely have a dent in the leading edge of the roof
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It was right in my line of vision and as you can see it was p***ing down, how impressed was I? :rolleyes:
 
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dan_yell said:
facebook, esp on PC, 'most recent' is a complete lie, it's showing me things from 3 days ago. what have they done to the algorithm!
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Their check in seems a bit off at times too. Bank holiday weekend I was at Lydden Hill in Kent, yet according to Facebook I was in Hockenheim. A few weeks back I was at Thruxton and Facebook claimed I was at Donington. (n)
 
Suddenly the sky went very dark and then started peeing it down - This is not what annoyed me


The thunder that was so loud it scared the sh!t out of me - This is what annoyed me
 
nilagin said:
Pigeons aren't really heavy or solid enough to do any damage, they usually just disintegrate into a mass of feathers, which then have a habit of finding their way into every available orifice in the car and you'll be finding them for months on end.
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A few years ago I was driving a car with the aerial on the front wing, very frosty morning and a suicidal pigeon flew up and caught the front of the bonnet,
feathers everywhere and a well decorated aerial with feathers stuck to it :D
 
WAMT....back spasm. :(
 
Hope you get it under control, Ruth. Not fun. :(
 
Been a fair few years since mine went and they gave me Valium and a painkiller (whose name escapes me - but which worked!)
 
viv1969 said:
WAMT....back spasm. :(
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b****r! :(
I hope it "relaxes" soon :)

WAMT?
I laid a strip of concrete and a few edging blocks, 20 mins before the heavens opened :rolleyes:
 
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Tarp it and it should be fine.
 
Cobra said:
b****r! :(
I hope it "relaxes" soon :)

WAMT?
I laid a strip of concrete and a few edging blocks, 20 mins before the heavens opened :rolleyes:
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Thanks Chris.
 
Should be set by now but anything to stop the rain "pressure washing" the top layer of concrete away will be fine.
 
WAMT is the bus being 45 minutes late. Thankfully, Mrs Nod had built in an hour's cushion in case of a problem. Still meant sitting in a bus stop for an hour (15 minute cushion in case the taxi was late.) Never mind, ouzo will dull the pain this evening!
 
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