Stupid little things that bug you

[Silva Citizen]

I was at Stalybridge tip yesterday. There's 20 bays for different things. Does the person at the front of the queue go to the first available bay? Does he fuck. He waits for a spot right outside the exact bay he wants while the bays 11-20 are empty and there's a queue of cars waiting behind him.

"Where shall I put this cardboard mate?"
How about that great big fucking skip that's full of cardboard. With a great big sign at the front saying cardboard

Oh for the good old days when you could turn up at the tip whenever you liked and chuck your crap either into any skip or the incinerator (depending which tip you went to).
If I let people carry heavy objects around amongst moving traffic without a hi vis, helmet and steel toecaps in my workplace the council would be all over me, yet it’s ok at one of there recycling centres.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Evergreen plants like holly, ivy and mistletoe are symbols of life and fertility in the face of the bleak winter months which can be a metaphor for death. They have been brought into homes in Britain in the Winter for thousands of years.
Anything with lights on are a nod to the Sun coming back to give us longer and warmer days in a new year. They are fake versions of us burning things to symbolise the Sun’s light, like the burning of the Yule Log, a custom brought to us by Scandinavian invaders and settlers.
Christmas trees were from the Holy Roman Empire, where they’d have them in the home for the same reason we had holly, ivy and mistletoe. The earlier Roman Empire had tree branches and wreaths in the home for Saturnalia.

Prince Albert popularised Christmas trees in Britain during the 19th century, following on from Queen Charlotte (wife of George 111) who imported her native German custom back in the 1700s.

 

[Penfold the Duke]

It's the ones who aimlessly pace about who get on my tits. Are they going to lurch l/r stop dead, do an about turn?
Who knows?

What

Morons who walk slow whilst on their phones. Gormless

Also the idiots who walk into a busy shop entrance, stop, then swivel. Usually muttering to their other half "What are we in here for?"

 

[Southern KK]

When I arrive by train in an unfamiliar city and use Google maps directions, particularly in London, and the voice says "head west down such and such a street". Oh, hang on, I'll just get my astrolabe out and work out which direction is west.

much better App for moving around London and other cities is Citymapper. It even tells you when to get off the bus!

 

[Kinkladze 1]

When you stop to let someone through in your car and by way of saying thanks they flash their full beam at you and burn your retinas out. Thanks pal.

 

[noseve]

Christmas trees and Xmas decorations, what’s the point?

Bah, and, indeed, Humbug!

 

[heslops barnet]

Bah, and, indeed, Humbug!

Ebenezer my best mate

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

The algorithms keep sending me cremation adverts ? a nice song about cremation on Sky news ?

 

[Franny 1234]

I live on a housing estate of approximately 400 houses and several of them have their Christmas lights up flashing away already

 

[Grassland Blue]

I live on a housing estate of approximately 400 houses and several of them have their Christmas lights up flashing away already

Elton John has a very simple and traditional Christmas decoration, a candle in the wind(ow)..

 

[.db.]

I live on a housing estate of approximately 400 houses and several of them have their Christmas lights up flashing away already

In some European countries, they keep their Christmas decorations up until 2nd February. We used to do the same in England n’all.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

In some European countries, they keep their Christmas decorations up until 2nd February. We used to do the same in England n’all.

That’ll be Candlemas.

On Miseryside they celebrate all year round.

 

[.db.]

Clothes companies who do tracksuit bottoms (which I like to wear around the house) where the inside leg length is only 31” whether they’re S/M/L/XL/XXL.

If the waist measurement goes up with each size up, why doesn’t the leg length?

 

[DrBlueBob]

Clothes companies who do tracksuit bottoms (which I like to wear around the house) where the inside leg length is only 31” whether they’re S/M/L/XL/XXL.

If the waist measurement goes up with each size up, why doesn’t the leg length?

Because when someone eats too much and becomes rather more rotund, their legs tend to remain the same length.

Same annoying reason that waist sizes jump up in two inch increments.

 

[Fourinarow]

Morons who walk slow whilst on their phones. Gormless

This is really getting on my tits at the moment, especially when they're walking in the bike lanes during my commute. I've just bought a bigger bike bell this evening and was tempted to get a horn.

 

[mexico1970]

This is really getting on my tits at the moment, especially when they're walking in the bike lanes during my commute. I've just bought a bigger bike bell this evening and was tempted to get a horn.

To be fair these so called pedestrian town center's have become anything but, in the good old bad old days you expected traffic to be there and coming from one direction but now it's like a game of asteroids.

 

[Fourinarow]

To be fair these so called pedestrian town center's have become anything but, in the good old bad old days you expected traffic to be there and coming from one direction but now it's like a game of asteroids.

This is a stretch of a wide pedestrian footpath with cycle/bike lanes that I travel along daily near the Trafford Centre and without doubt, every morning and evening phone zombies are walking in the cycle lanes, not watching where they're going. I got into an argument with someone a few weeks ago who claimed I should have been watching where I was cycling, while he was looking at his phone while walking towards me, in the cycle lane. Fuckin tool.

 

[mexico1970]

This is a stretch of a wide pedestrian footpath with bike lanes that I travel along daily near the Trafford Centre and without doubt, every morning and evening phone zombies are walking in the cycle lanes, not watching where they're going. I got into an argument with someone a few weeks ago who claimed I should have been watching where I was cycling, while he was looking at his phone while walking towards me, in the cycle lane. Fuckin tool.

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People with phones and drinking coffee at the same time get right on my tits mate :)

 

[Fourinarow]

People with phones and drinking coffee at the same time get right on my tits mate :)

Haha, yep. It does feel like there's a generation or more of the type of person who doesn't think it's their responsibility or a shared responsibility to watch out for other people. "They'll move out of the way for me" attitude.

A shame that twat on your gif didn't knock himself out.

 

[Cellarite]

When the urinal starts to clean itself the very second you get your knob out and begin to release the piss.