Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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davidphilips
Phil Pip
- Location
- Onabike
On a club run and third wheel on right on Saturday, ( Third back on right) the guys at the front changed, could not believe it the cyclist in front of me moved not to the front right but gone right past and pulled in front left waiting for me to come up beside him.
TBH did not know what to do and moved up beside the cyclist who was now behind him second wheel left and not at the front (they where quite upset) asked what happened all they said was that was a very ignorant thing to do and for me go up beside him.
When i went to the front the cyclist started giving off about how slow the pace was etc, always try not to react as anyone can have an off day but know this cyclist is not the fastest himself so really dont know if i should have stayed back, just done onto him what he done to the other cyclist (made it look like i thought wee where going single file or should i have cycled for a minute then said change or even upped the pace to a level he could not hold?
Sorry if this seems hard to understand but even 2 days latter i really dont know what would have been the best action to take and hope the cyclist that should have been at the front does not associate me with the ill manners of the guy that moved in front of them?
Thinking of having a quite word with both cyclists to let them know that i thought this to be one of the nastiest things i have seen on a club run?
TBH did not know what to do and moved up beside the cyclist who was now behind him second wheel left and not at the front (they where quite upset) asked what happened all they said was that was a very ignorant thing to do and for me go up beside him.
When i went to the front the cyclist started giving off about how slow the pace was etc, always try not to react as anyone can have an off day but know this cyclist is not the fastest himself so really dont know if i should have stayed back, just done onto him what he done to the other cyclist (made it look like i thought wee where going single file or should i have cycled for a minute then said change or even upped the pace to a level he could not hold?
Sorry if this seems hard to understand but even 2 days latter i really dont know what would have been the best action to take and hope the cyclist that should have been at the front does not associate me with the ill manners of the guy that moved in front of them?
Thinking of having a quite word with both cyclists to let them know that i thought this to be one of the nastiest things i have seen on a club run?
Jameshow
Veteran
Sounds like a pro race!!
What is the etiquette?
Do you drop off to left or right???
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It took me a while to work it out, but yes - that sounds like a really rude/ignorant/arrogant thing to do!
(If I understand it... Two parallel rows of riders. Right row moving forwards, left row moving backwards. The rider at the front right should do a turn then move in front of the left to do a second turn before drifting back. Once he has gone from the first right position, second right becomes first right, and back left moves over to become back right and start moving forwards again. Ignorant #2 right considered that former #1 right was so pathetic on the front right that he damn well wasn't going to give him a chance to be equally pathetic on the front left so immediately took his place, and then wanted David to move up and show the pathetic riders in the group how it should be done!)
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
It took me a while to work it out, but yes - that sounds like a really rude/ignorant/arrogant thing to do!
(If I understand it... Two parallel rows of riders. Right row moving forwards, left row moving backwards. The rider at the front right should do a turn then move in front of the left to do a second turn before drifting back. Once he has gone from the first right position, second right becomes first right, and back left moves over to become back right and start moving forwards again. Ignorant #2 right considered that former #1 right was so pathetic on the front right that he damn well wasn't going to give him a chance to be equally pathetic on the front left so immediately took his place, and then wanted David to move up and show the pathetic riders in the group how it should be done!)
That's how I see it too. Ignorant #2 right needs to be taken aside and reminded of group etiquette, and that if he's not willing to conform he's not welcome in the group.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
When you get a breakfast and they cook the beans separately in a small pot/ramiken thingy.
Why? All I am going to do is empty the beans onto my plate anyway, so... Ummm... 🤷
Why? All I am going to do is empty the beans onto my plate anyway, so... Ummm... 🤷
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Jameshow
Veteran
It took me a while to work it out, but yes - that sounds like a really rude/ignorant/arrogant thing to do!
(If I understand it... Two parallel rows of riders. Right row moving forwards, left row moving backwards. The rider at the front right should do a turn then move in front of the left to do a second turn before drifting back. Once he has gone from the first right position, second right becomes first right, and back left moves over to become back right and start moving forwards again. Ignorant #2 right considered that former #1 right was so pathetic on the front right that he damn well wasn't going to give him a chance to be equally pathetic on the front left so immediately took his place, and then wanted David to move up and show the pathetic riders in the group how it should be done!)
Never seen it work on your rides thou?!🤔🤣🤔🤣
Jameshow
Veteran
When you go into a pub and you ask for a beer and chips but say sorry £15 carvery when you know there will be chips for the kids...
Tourist traps like hawes
pint £5.50
Fish and chips £9.50...
Half cooked pasta for that night!!
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Or when they serve chips in those stupid metal basket things.
I'm sorry, but who are you trying to impress?
Kingfisher101
Veteran
Queue jumpers in any situation apart from a threat to life when then obviously it would be o.k just to push in to get help for people.
presta
Guru
Don't you just hate it when you have 500 GB worth of TV recordings going back 7 years and then your Freesat recorder arbitrarily decides that it will reformat its hard drive for you and throw them all away?!!!!
Every once in a while all the recordings disappear off my Humax PVR, and the recorder stops working. The first time it happened I tried a factory default reset which didn't work, so, resigned to having lost all the recordings anyway, I tried reformatting the disc, after which all the recordings reappeared in working order.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I never catch the rest to find out what they are doing!
After my reformat it said that the disc was blank!
It has been behaving itself since then. Hopefully it will carry on working for a while because I need to start saving for a new TV. (The old one has distributed LED backlights which are gradually changing from white light to white with a purple tinge! I have seen new backlight kits online but it would be fairly drastic electronic surgery which I would rather do on a spare TV rather than my only one!))
presta
Guru
That's my understanding, I thought reformatting cleared everything. Not that I'm complaining (apart from about the S/W bugs in the first place).
matticus
Guru
NASA: where did your pronunciation of Gemini* come from??
Nearly ruined "First Man" [2018 Movie] for me! More mind-boggling is in all the moon program(me) stuff I've read and watched over the years, I've never heard this before ...
(Thankfully there was no mention of the element with symbol Al, so that reduced the irritation quotient. Good film overall 👍)
*They say it like chimney in "Chim-chiminee" for anyone old enough to remember that ... )
Nearly ruined "First Man" [2018 Movie] for me! More mind-boggling is in all the moon program(me) stuff I've read and watched over the years, I've never heard this before ...
(Thankfully there was no mention of the element with symbol Al, so that reduced the irritation quotient. Good film overall 👍)
*They say it like chimney in "Chim-chiminee" for anyone old enough to remember that ... )
