Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[.Bishbash.]

It's happened....I am surprised I did not implode.

So the polite biker florescent vests bikers wear that want to look like complete tools. Bad enough right?!?!?!


Well I spotted one of these vests in London this morning on my commute on a damn cyclist. This can fuck right off.
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Current bike - GSX-R1000 k8

[Tracey Suntan-King]

It's definitely not me....

Today's world has been markedly improved by the introduction of technology, no?

Bloody NO!

I have used all of the following online services - set up to make life easier, allegedly - in the last few days

Student Loan Company
Bank of Cyprus
BT
Scottish Power
Severn Trent

Without exception, nothing worked as it should and in every case I had to ring and speak to, guess what........a human being, who sorted things out.

FFS

Oh yes and they all said it wasn't my fault, I was starting to think it was! They all confirmed that their "system" wasn't working properly. Which begs the question, why design and rely on systems that aren't fit for customers' purposes?
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Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right

[Beehive Bedlam]

Lit the filter end of my roll up.

[recman]

Got a redundant rating from a complete penis who light's the filter end of his roll-ups.

[stevo as b4]

I try not to post a daily moan in this thread as I don't like to be a miserable bastard!

Today I have one though.

Those stupid numerous non uniform signs/stickers on the back of vans/trucks:

*This vehicle is limited/restricted to XX mph.
*Cyclists, Motorcyclists do no not pass this vehicle on the inside

And others similar bollocks stickers all in different wording/styles and fonts.

I think truck's should not be allowed to fit limiters at any other speed than 56mph or 50mph instead of all different speeds in 1mph increments just to be different.

I also think that any such warning stickers should be a single approved style like road signs and that having any other writing or signage on the back of a vehicle or warning labels should be Illegal.

The only thing you should be able to have on a van is company info/logo's, names or web sites and phone numbers.

Things like 'this vehicle is fitted with tracking systems' should be illegal to display, along with instructions to cyclists on what they should do etc.

[goto10]

[stevo as b4]

Instant vehicle seizure by police and crushed sounds good!

Do other road users really need to be told where they can and can't pass vehicles, or other common sense shit about not being able to see mirrors etc.

We even have stupid stickers on our works vehicles that says 'This vehicle has been re-tuned to reduce emissons'
I always think they should put another sticker under that read's 'Remapped vehicle now has worse fuel economy and drivability'

[wr6133]

[Lord Percy]

[stevo as b4]

Manufacturer's logo's and model names are not an issue though or part of the problem.

But now you've started me on this topic, then I do insist that de-badged vehicles should be illegal too, and so should the whole ridiculous sleeper Phenomenon.

If you have a 2.8L V6 Quattro twin turbo RS/Alpina/AMG or whatever, you should not be allowed to roll round de-badged or with 1.3GL stuck on the boot lid.

My real gripe was the explosion of different warning stickers and those that assume people are stupid beyond belief and also those that are shouting/telling other road users what to do!

[Beehive Bedlam]

insomnia.

[andyscooter]

[grr666]

^
Yup, sense of entitlement dictates the lorry should have stopped for her.She probably had
someone telling her she was special her entire life. Obviously a different type of special to the kind she assumed
she was. Now if someone had been telling her she was truckproof her whole life then you can understand the confusion.

In short, special does not = truckproof.
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Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

[grr666]

[Beehive Bedlam]

People who open their jaw and laugh obnoxiously loud.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Random night shifts getting thrown at me, cocking up my sleeping pattern. Just blurgh. Last one I'll have to do hopefully though.
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[waffles]

The replacement guy at work AGAIN.

He bragged that one particular job took him two hours whereas myself and the other guy can do it in four. Checking over his work it is very hit and miss meaning that the pair of us are going to have to go over everything ourselves and find his numerous mistakes. He doesn't read emails (he doesn't know important info that was communicated by email and then told to him to his face), he redoes work already done for him because "it's not my personal style" and then relates stories about how he is so tired after work that he falls asleep on the drive home.

I have no idea why he is so tired. He is here for less time than I am but spends most of it complaining about everything. A fun topic of conversation the other day was about his dead parents.
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[P.]

Please piss in his juice or something. That or bring the smackdown

[Howling Terror]

Win 8.1 not allowing apps to open.
Pissed about searching the error message 0x80072ee4.
Pissed off with stupid resolutions.
More pissing about and got it sorted.
More pissing about setting up email accounts.

Good job I had piss-all to do today as it's pissing it down.
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Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
The Harry Turner Project

[waffles]

[NJD]

High winds. Makes commuting on a lightweight tiddler seem like a one way trip to deathville.

Blown towards the middle of the road with a car coming the opposite way, blown towards a kerb on a bend, front end moving about on an approach to a roundabout making it near impossible to brake and then being blown around on zed roundabout.

Took a deep breath when I got home, god knows how I made it on piece.

[Beehive Bedlam]

[grr666]

My head cold that's had me feeling like I'm being slowly drowned in snot for the last 4 days.
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Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

[recman]

Adjusting from early shift to late shift.
You do get a longer weekend but waking up at 6.30 and having to work past 9.30 tonight makes for a long old day.