Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
The pumps are set to cut off when the fuel reaches the nozzle. The filling station can't account for people who only stick the nozzle an inch or two into the fuel pipe.
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
- Thread starter PaulB
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figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
This is why I am always cautious on roundabouts near a filling station, particularly on my motorbike.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Walkers on shared paths who when you sound your bell in plenty of time and if they take any notice at all who react by grabbing the person they are with to move them out of harms way on a two metre wide plus path. Also numpties who let their dog wander right across the path on an extending lead and those who let the dog run about making no effort to control them in a busy environment. Dog strollers! Isn't that why dogs have legs? When did they become a thing? Must have seen fifteen today!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Walkers in single track roads who walk on your side of the road facing you, and wonāt step to the other side expecting you to ride across puncture causing debris and gravel in the middle.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Or a group that helpfully parts and stands on both sides of the narrow road/track, opposite each other, giving you a needle to thread.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
As opposed to?
"Batsman" no longer acceptable, apparently...
Chief Broom
Veteran
Discarded tissues....ok this is a drop in the ocean compared to someone flytipping a fridge/sofa and a ton of garbage but it ****es me off! Said tissues are usually found at scenic locations by the sea etc probably by people who like to get outraged by fly tippers and have the ability to perform the mental gymnastics to deny that there littering. Its just a matter of scale.
***Could be worse though..here in the Highlands in summer theres heaps of turd and bogroll
***Could be worse though..here in the Highlands in summer theres heaps of turd and bogroll
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
People who insist on talking about a subject you have shown you have zero interest in, in the initial exchanges.
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Two Brompton dealers near me don't have a rim and a set of spokes to build me a new rear wheel using my existing hub, and the lead time on ordering them from Brompton is apparently 5-6 weeks.
So I've ordered them from Brilliant Bikes (who had 10+ of each in stock) and will take all the parts in myself for them to build a new wheel.
So I've ordered them from Brilliant Bikes (who had 10+ of each in stock) and will take all the parts in myself for them to build a new wheel.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
People ask you what you do, then get upset when you refuse to discuss or even say what your job is. If you reply ācycle a lotā, they go no butā¦ Look I am not defined by my job and have no interest in discussing it with you. Find something else to talk about.
Tim Bennet.
Entirely Average Member
- Location
- S of Kendal
I tell myself I'm pretty tolerant of the English language evolving and new words and phrases that come into common uses are all part of that process. But somehow weather presenters who keep using the phrase 'nighttime hours or daylight hours' really irks me. Surely we have a collective noun for both - it's just night and day!
matticus
Guru
Yes, but did you expect to be annoyed by that?
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Pumps that 'click off' after you've put one nano-penny's worth in the tank and have Ā£50 to go......
