36 minutes ago, Tdci-Peter said:

I hope your car wiring is eaten by Marders

My curse may be worse than I thought. Just seen this photo of Marder (Marten)

But as for Tom's "Phantom Brakers", I thought I was the only one who really detested them. Glad to hear they wind someone else up (No, I don't mean I am glad that Tom is being wound up, oh, you know what I mean!)

You can't tell whether they are stopping, slowing down or just mucking about.

Edited July 12, 20169 yr by Tdci-Peter
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Then there are those joiners who stop and then hesitate on the sliproad.  Confusing the road markings with normal mandatory stop town junctions. Sending those normal drivers behind them into a sudden kitten producing mode

A couple months ago, when returning from restocking Brandy's recreational bones and ears, rejoining the A31 at the West Moors junction sliproad.  The white Honda ahead of me, slowed down and actually stopped at the dotted line  He had been doing about 40mph up until then. It's not a dualled slip road, just a single lane.  We (myself, a BMW and Transit behind me) were already up to 60 or so, ready to join the A31.  Many kittens were produced!

Having just been outside and looked at my sweetcorns, poised with an open poo bag: whilst I waited for Brandy to conclude her deposit on the lawn,

I don't like the colony of aphids who have gathered in the last couple of hours on the embryonic inflorescences. 

 

 

 

It's more about what annoyed me yesterday tbh, I was on my way down the motorway and I approach my exit so move over  (looking and checking as per normal) and a pox hall corsa/astray cuts in as I move across very nearly taking my rear end with him! once I'm safely in lane 1 I glare back at him in lane 3, he glares back, obviously my fault

 

Then when I'm nearly home I get a zafira, pop out of a mini roundabout when I'm nearly all the way across it (turning right ), and very nearly sideswipes me in the process! 

Meet one you meet them all eh?

What kinda annoyed me today is the extended warranty I paid about 250 quid for with my current car, has to stay with the car, it can't be transfered to another brand new car. So whoever gets my current / old car is getting a cracking deal tbh on top of everything 

My stress levels are off the chart at the moment.  Just want to spar for a few rounds or go to the gym, neither is within reach at the moment though, also don't want to do any unnecessary travelling as I'm currently recording how thirsty my car per fill up & I only want to use it, as I would a normal week

3 hours ago, laumk7 said:

It's more about what annoyed me yesterday tbh, I was on my way down the motorway and I approach my exit so move over  (looking and checking as per normal) and a pox hall corsa/astray cuts in as I move across very nearly taking my rear end with him! once I'm safely in lane 1 I glare back at him in lane 3, he glares back, obviously my fault

 

Then when I'm nearly home I get a zafira, pop out of a mini roundabout when I'm nearly all the way across it (turning right ), and very nearly sideswipes me in the process! 

Meet one you meet them all eh?

Indeed you do.

Trouble is I keep forgetting to take the invisibility cloak off my car that's the only thing I can think of to explain why those effing morons keep !Removed! me off

See my parts for sale on thread "philf1s Spirit Blue Fiesta ST180 parts for sale"

Call me a cynic, a pessimist or whatever...

But I find this latest attempt at stopping young nutcases - and older, from running off to the middle east to go pop in a crowded place, scarily amusing....

I don't know whether you've heard - it's an advert or something that is due to be released and it focuses on the emotional side of these people leaving - involves a younger brother walking into an empty older brothers bedroom - or some twaddle like that...

Does anyone else not see the complete moronic side of it?? I'd be happy if someone can sway my view, but we're talking about trying to emotionally stop being who are strongly considering make a career at removing other peoples heads.... And to make matters worse, all they're doing is saying "don't leave because your family and little brother will be upset".... (I guess - I've not actually seen the advert)... So wait... wouldn't that just make them say "you know what, I really want to cause some chaos, but I don't want m,d and little bro to get upset, so I'll stay at home and work out another way I can help these nutcases"...

I've said it before, I have no problem whatsoever with these people leaving the country and heading off that way - sure, intercept them and drown them in the channel for all I care.. it's the ones that want back in afterwards that I have a big issue with...

I don't like carelessly putting my buttery under the grill and touching the hot element with my knuckles!! 

 

Pokèmon Go 

 

Are people really that glued to there phones these days that they can't go to the forest and pick some mushrooms instead of using an app for the same effect like 😨

 

7 minutes ago, Lenny said:

 

Pokèmon Go 

 

Are people really that glued to there phones these days that they can't go to the forest and pick some mushrooms instead of using an app for the same effect like 😨

 

Yes, I had heard about that...  It doesn't surprise me one bit!

I don't like hair loss....

It's bad enough on the fashion front without the added BS of health reasons like needing to wear a !Removed! hat in the sun to stop your head getting cooked...

Don't get me wrong, I'm learning to just accept the cards I've been dealt, that is until I can save up enough money to go to the US and have a Cherokee !Removed! scalp my hairy ar5e and stick it on my head (if that is an option?!?), But it seems you look in the mirror, moan to yourself, adjust your hair to an 'ok setting' keep doing that for a little while then all of a sudden that style isn't possible anymore.... either you've lost more hair, you need a haircut or both...

Nightmare... only options are to really amp up the gym and look like some gym rat... anyone selling steroids in the general items section??

32 minutes ago, Ianb said:

I don't like hair loss.

When I was young & foolish, I used to think hats were for wallys!

Now I have to wear one, but only:

When its sunny, or when its cold, or when its raining, or when its windy.

Doesn't leave much really, I think there was a day last month when I could go outside without a flippin' hat on.

Why is it that hair in useful places disappears, only re-appear in non-useful, or unwanted places?

Ah, the joys of the passage of time!

 

 

 2 removed words in my post, sorry about that.. first one I think was the word you'd use to describe something covered in blood... I forgot that was a naughty word.

Second word was Indian, but the slang, cowboy spelling of it...the one with a j.... didn't realise THAT was naughty....

I'm having the same issue Ian, gonna end up with a damn island at the front soon!   I'm not even 25 yet...  Been told it's due to stress...as is everything else it seems!  

On that subject though...does anyone else think they look weird (or at least different) in pictures?  Receding hairline isn't helping, but I was 'tagged' in a photo the other day, could only pick myself out due to a specific pair of sunglasses I was wearing.  

BHaha, yeh i hate photos, especially on the hair loss front, just seems that I'm always caught at the most exaggerated hair loss angle!!!

I'm not sure what I can attribute my thinning to? I suppose it started a few years after I met my wife...and has continued ever since so I suppose that can't be a coincidence ;) - along with the few grey hairs I get poking through too!

Not sure what the answer will be, maybe hair transplants will get cheaper in the future... or maybe I'll just deal with it.... >.<

2 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

'm not even 25 yet...

 

55 minutes ago, Ianb said:

I'm always caught at the most exaggerated hair loss angle!!!

After it has been washed, and with careful brushing, I look about the same age as Tom claims he is. (Not quite sure what sort of years Tom is counting in, leap years perhaps)

But then a bit of breeze, or put a silly hat on for five minutes, and the effect is quite ruined..

I dread photos.

 

22 hours ago, Lenny said:

 

Pokèmon Go 

 

Are people really that glued to there phones these days that they can't go to the forest and pick some mushrooms instead of using an app for the same effect like 😨

 

It takes not being aware of your surroundings to whole new level.

One chap got himself stabbed, and then refused medical treatment in order to continue playing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/07/13/pokmon-go-addict-stabbed-while-playing-refuses-to-get-treatment/

Having said that, two ex-marines came across and apprehended a murder suspect whilst playing it

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/13/marines-playing-pokemon-go-catch-attempted-murder-suspect-6004569/

14 hours ago, Tdci-Peter said:

When I was young & foolish, I used to think hats were for wallys!

I used to a wear variety of hats, when young and foolish.  Actually i was the only one us who was generally behatted (unsure if that's a word )  A different hat on a different day etc.

7 hours ago, Ianb said:

Second word was Indian, but the slang, cowboy spelling of it...the one with a j.... didn't realise THAT was naughty....

That's something for "I learned today"thread 

I didn't either 

6 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

On that subject though...does anyone else think they look weird (or at least different) in pictures?

Not just in photos but in life too, I look much younger than I am, though not young enough looking to be asked for ID upon buying beer but no-one actually believes me I'm the age I am.

This wasn't always the case, in my late childhood through to my late teens: I looked far older than I actually was.  Which of course, was a great advantage to buying beer and getting into pubs and clubs

4 hours ago, Tdci-Peter said:

I dread photos.

As do I, and as such, apart from getting caught on CCTV or dashcams, I only know of three photos of me in existence. all digital embedded images, all for specific purposes: my driving licence, passport and government contractor's ID card

Crash for cash people! 

I don't like being ill again...  Plus I really shouldn't call in sick because I am on a warning for having three instances of sick-leave in the last 12 months!  Fine, if they want me to come in whilst ill and infect 50% of the workforce - that's all good.  Then when everybody gets sick they'll say "why did you come in!?".  Can't do right for doing wrong in that place.

I don't like the channel 'Yesterday' plays exactly the same episodes of shows two days running...  Was looking forward to another One Foot in the Grave this evening but just realised it's a repeat of the one that was on last night!!   

I don't like waking up in a near catatonic state - feeling like my joints have all been treated with super glue...  Today will be interesting!!

I don't like that no one has answered this thread 

Shameless bumping

I don't like not anticipating how hot and sticky it was going to get, relatively early in the day upon Brandy's extended weekend walk 

One, I was wearing a too dark shirt for constant sunshine and two, I hadn't brought enough water bottles for both us  Due to Brandy's needs being greater than mine, she had the water bottle and I had to wait until we got back. 

I also don't like upon returning to find the Mk2 focus covered in builders dust, a prolific quantity of dust.  I only washed it yesterday, after what I'd wrongly assumed, that next door's builders had finished for the weekend and wouldn't return until Monday. 

No, they were getting some overtime in and were constructing a new path.  Not only a whacker plate to settle the ground and produce dust, but then a blower to disperse their dust upwards, over the fence and settle on my newly cleaned Focus

13 hours ago, Ianb said:

Shameless bumping

Is there a thing as shameful bumping?

I don't like idiotic taxi drivers who, instead of using the usual methods like flashing their headlamps or waving, think putting their hazard warning lights on is a safe and clear method of letting me pull out of a junction...  So, rather than pull out in front of a (speeding) taxi which may or may not have been beckoning me on, I waited.  Judging by the dirty look I got from him as he passed, he was beckoning me on. 

Well excuse me for not wanting to risk my life!!