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Author:  Warhead [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:27 ]
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People who don't turn up for training AT ALL and don't have the courtesy to call, mail or text to let me know. People who don't bring a pen or pencil when they come on my courses.

People who don't do mandatory pre-course work before attending my courses.

Drivers who don't indicate before turning or changing lanes.

Drivers who sit at traffic lights at night with their foot on the brake pedal, dazzling people with their break lights. I don't give a fuck if you have start/stop technology in your ugly automatic Citroen, put it in neutral when your engine has stopped and take your foot off the brake.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:34 ]
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Free hotel wifi that is so slow as to be unusable, or that fails to connect at all, apart from the odd, random, five minute period.

Hotel managers who promise that they're going to get their shitty wifi fixed, only for me to find that it's still as shitty six months later (yes, Stevenage Ibis, I'm particularly referring to you.)

Hotel air conditioning controls that require a two-day course to understand. I just want to raise or lower the temperature, not to monitor the intake temperature, or adjust the outflow so that it's cycling up and down. Those bastards at the Stevenage Ibis could learn a thing or two from the people who designed the system in the Northampton Campanile.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:36 ]
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People who steal plugs from hotel or office wash basins. What is the fucking matter with you people?

Technology companies who don't provide comprehensive user guides for their hardware/software and think that a user forum is an acceptable substitute.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:40 ]
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People who complain a lot.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:49 ]
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Thinking of pet hates when I don't have access to the net, and not remembering them when I do.

Short term memory deterioration.
Author:  myp [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:07 ]
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Warhead wrote:
Fuckers who turn up late for courses I'm running without apologising. Fuckers who sit there texting, or possibly playing Candy Crush, or pratting about on their tablets or laptops during my training sessions. Wazzocks who ask questions that have absolutely no relevance to the subject of the training I'm delivering.
Author:  asfish [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 14:58 ]
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Not sure if this happens everywhere but those guys pushing trolleys of dirty water around supermarket carparks asking if you want a car wash every fucking time you park your car to go shopping.

In addition to the proposal of washing your car in dirty water, they charge more that the carwash at the filling station!

Then staying on the theme of the supermarket the endless, charity collectors, kids brass bands that aren't very good, business trying to sell you stuff and even a small fair ground that gather outside the entrance to the supermarket.

Maybe this just happens at my local that was once the biggest Tesco in Europe.
Author:  myp [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 15:47 ]
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asfish wrote:
Maybe this just happens at my local that was once the biggest Tesco in Europe.

There are designated spaces where if you park in they will ask. Just don't park in those spaces.
Author:  asfish [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 18:52 ]
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Future Warrior wrote:
asfish wrote:
Maybe this just happens at my local that was once the biggest Tesco in Europe.

There are designated spaces where if you park in they will ask. Just don't park in those spaces.


Not at my local they hassle you all over the place and walk around the carpark
Author:  Satsuma [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 19:02 ]
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If I go to someone's seminar you better have pens and paper for me, cause I ain't bringing shit. And I will take that stationary with me.
Author:  Zardoz [ Sat Nov 21, 2015 21:21 ]
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The use of the word 'Slaw'.
Author:  Warhead [ Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:56 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
If I go to someone's seminar you better have pens and paper for me, cause I ain't bringing shit. And I will take that stationary with me.


Agreed.

I don't do seminars, I train engineers who all use pens many times every working day, so I don't think it's unreasonable for them to have one with them. I do supply paper, usually nicked from the nearest printer.
Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:28 ]
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Warhead wrote:
Saturnalian wrote:
If I go to someone's seminar you better have pens and paper for me, cause I ain't bringing shit. And I will take that stationary with me.


Agreed.

I don't do seminars, I train engineers who all use pens many times every working day, so I don't think it's unreasonable for them to have one with them. I do supply paper, usually nicked from the nearest printer.


To be fair I would expect a pen, if I was going on course.
Author:  Warhead [ Mon Nov 23, 2015 15:13 ]
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To be fair, I do give pens to those who need them, but I do find it odd that they don't have one with them when they will probably have used one to record the time and mileage taken to get to the venue. Maybe they DO have them, but just want a free pen whenever they can get one.
Author:  Warhead [ Wed Nov 25, 2015 22:42 ]
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TV series with stupid / annoying endings.
Author:  KovacsC [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:01 ]
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clickbait on facebook
Author:  Kern [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:04 ]
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Please have your door pass ready as you approach the sensor. Please don't stand there faffing around trying to find it.
Author:  KovacsC [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:13 ]
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or folks that stand at subway trying to decide on the bloody bread...
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:33 ]
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People who stand in front of doors having a jolly good natter. Or at the foot of stairs. Or anywhere where people are trying to move.
Author:  GazChap [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:29 ]
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People who wait until the checkout operator has finished scanning their items and gives them their total before rummaging around in their cavernous handbag/pockets for the money/card that they need to pay for the damn stuff.
Author:  Warhead [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 22:23 ]
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Man flu. I feel like shit.
Author:  Warhead [ Thu Nov 26, 2015 22:25 ]
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GazChap wrote:
People who wait until the checkout operator has finished scanning their items and gives them their total before rummaging around in their cavernous handbag/pockets for the money/card that they need to pay for the damn stuff.


:this:

And people from worthy causes making a complete hash of packing bags for me. I now tell them they can have a pound if they DON'T pack my bags.
Author:  Jem [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:07 ]
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Warhead wrote:
I now tell them they can have a pound if they DON'T pack my bags.


I do that :DD I have ishooos about how my bags are packed though.
Author:  GazChap [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:45 ]
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Will charity bag packers now cease to be a thing, given that shops now charge 5p?
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:53 ]
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Service companies making it very hard to actually speak to someone and when you do they're frequently complete fuckwits.

Any service provider who tells you in their interminable on hold messages that they have online facilities to deal with your issues/enquiries which turn out to be forums populated solely by members of the public offering their 2cents worth on how they fixed a similar problem.
Author:  myp [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:55 ]
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My pet hate is pet hates.
Author:  Bamba [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 13:02 ]
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Future Warrior wrote:
My pet hate is pet hates.


My pet hate is people who hate pets.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 13:16 ]
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Stand on the right, walk on the left on escalators. At all times!
Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 18:46 ]
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I've got an actual grumble:

Fucking idiots who can't wait to get into their parked car, walk into the road and then stand next to their car door when cars are coming.

Don't fucking walk into the road and/or open the car door even slightly when a car is coming and then press yourself up against the car in the most pathetic way to avoid serious catastrophic injury since Daffy Duck opened a tiny umbrella up to stop crushing injuries from a falling piano.

Do this: stand on the pavement. Or, if you're an impatient cunt with less of a death wish, stand out of the road next to the boot or the bonnet where cars can't quadrispaz you in a moment of inattention.

So if you like pissing in a bag keep standing in the road but don't come crying to me when your pelvis is ground into a nice paste against your car door.
Author:  myp [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 18:50 ]
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Or you could slow down to a safe speed and ensure you don't hit them.
Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 19:01 ]
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I do, because I drive like somebody's elderly grandma, but other drivers may not be so considerate. The people who do this are putting themselves in harms way unnecessarily and need to have more respect for the inherent dangers of standing in the road like this. This isn't just something that I've experience once - it's every single day I'm seeing this and people need to remember that they are putting themselves at significant risk.
Author:  markg [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 19:20 ]
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Are many people injured like that?
Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 19:37 ]
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Probably.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 27, 2015 21:31 ]
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Someone should stand up for their rights of they get hurt.
Author:  JBR [ Sat Nov 28, 2015 0:05 ]
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Ooh, I've one that seems similar to Sat's, in a 'judgement of space cock-up' way. People who are behind slower walkers, coming in the opposite direction, but you're walking the other way, in the only space. They wait to overtake, then start to move out when next to you, so either brushing past or making you lunge away, rather than waiting the extra second and being able to move out after you've gone past. Idiotic. And bizarre.
Author:  myp [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:33 ]
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Oh I do have a pet hate! Drivers who don't understand how part-time bus lanes work, and queue up in the outside lane even when there's no one parked in the bus lanes. So I drive up the inside and get evils, and also people who try to turn left into side roads FROM THE OUTSIDE LANE. Wow, what idiots.

There's quite a few around my way so this happens all the time.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:36 ]
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Future Warrior wrote:
Oh I do have a pet hate! Drivers who don't understand how part-time bus lanes work, and queue up in the outside lane even when there's no one parked in the bus lanes. So I drive up the inside and get evils, and also people who try to turn left into side roads FROM THE OUTSIDE LANE. Wow, what idiots.

There's quite a few around my way so this happens all the time.



Also:

2 lanes into one where there is a merge 8n turn. And if you pop down the RHS, people who have been queing in the left get shitty.

Most driving in Bradford.
Author:  markg [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:58 ]
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Yeah there's one of those on my way to work, the left lane is queued up all the way from a roundabout past a set of lights and the right lane is mostly empty because nobody wants to feel like they're pushing in.

One time I was in the right hand lane when an ambulance came steaming up behind with its lights on so I had to floor it a bit to get past a car in the left lane to let it past, whereupon the clown I just overtook swerved out to go past me again right into the path of the ambulance who had to slam on to avoid hitting him :facepalm:
Author:  Cavey [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:05 ]
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In a similar vein, I just cannot stand "overtaking lane dawdlers and hoggers". Every morning I'm sat behind some bellend sat doing 60.1mph in a 70mph dual carriageway (because they're so shit they think the speed limit on a dual carriageway *is* 60mph, including when they slam on at the speed camera every time to reduce their speed to 55mph). I know I shouldn't but I cannot be arsed flashing them, I just undertake every time and ignore the ensuing fury of flashing lights, hand signals or whatever.

It's called an "overtaking lane" for a reason, dicks.
Author:  DBSnappa [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:29 ]
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In another similar vein, it's bank or summer holiday drivers on motorways. No lane discipline, tailgating, camping in the middle lane at 70mph when the inside lane is largely clear.
Author:  Cavey [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:34 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
In another similar vein, it's bank or summer holiday drivers on motorways. No lane discipline, tailgating, camping in the middle lane at 70mph when the inside lane is largely clear.


Yeah, that's the thing. People seem to think it's "beneath them" or something to go into the slow lane (leftmost lane) when they're the slowest vehicle. Maybe they think because they are close to what they (wrongly in this case) think is the speed limit, you're damn well not going any faster pal etc.? Whatever the psychology of it all, it most certainly gets on my wick.

It's better when I'm on the bike; people seem to shift out of the way though I've no idea why that should be the case for a bike and not a car.

Honestly, this morning it was raining hard, some tit in a new Jag XJ pulled right out on me, then saw the speed camera and promptly locked his brakes (mistakenly thinking the speed limit was much lower than it actually was). He's fine in that bloody great ugly tank of a thing but I'm in a lightweight 2-seater... it's hard to keep your temper on the road sometimes although I'm pleased to say I just briefly flashed him and politely drove on without looking over when he eventually deigned to pull back into his empty lane.
Author:  Jem [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 14:39 ]
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If I listed all my driving pet hates I'd be here all bloody week, but middle lane wankers are definitely up there as one of the worst.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Dec 01, 2015 19:52 ]
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Low speed bump in the 30mph limit outside lane between a busy roundabout and busy junction? No, Fuck it. Stop in 5he outside lane to have a chat during the middle of rush hour creating another choke point in an already congested area. Never mind the central reservation you could have pulled on to to keep the traffic flowing. Have a chat whilst all the traffic trying to get through the city goes from 3 lanes to 2 to 1 in the space of 35 yards you dicks.
Author:  GazChap [ Tue Dec 01, 2015 22:13 ]
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Jem wrote:
If I listed all my driving pet hates I'd be here all bloody week, but middle lane wankers are definitely up there as one of the worst.

That's definitely one step up from people that just drive in the middle lane.
Author:  asfish [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:26 ]
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I go into work at 6am via the back roads, without fail there is always somebody who sticks to 28mph in the 30 zones through villages then sticks to it on the miles of hard to overtake national speed limit roads.

Sometimes I get past, but these days I make sure there are good songs on the memory stick in the car and put up with it, as getting pissed off only leads to bad overtaking and possible car up a tree scenarios.

When I do get to overtake its always somebody around 70 driving so you do thing "what the fuck are you doing on the road a 6am!!!" :D
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:05 ]
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Going to work, probably.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:03 ]
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Coming back from burying a hooker
Author:  Cavey [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:17 ]
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I feel your pain asfish, I get the same round here they are two a penny and often ponder that it only takes one slow driver to hold up scores of others trying to get to work. I wonder how many of them get killed or seriously hurt each year risking overtaking and coming a cropper?

I think doing 30mph on a 50mph speed limit single lane road (in reasonable weather etc. obv.) should attract a driving without due care and attention conviction and 3 points, maybe then these people would pay more attention to knowing speed limits and good road sense.

It's a living in the sticks thing I think; I shudder to think how long they'd last in rush hour London
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:33 ]
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Average speed in London is 12mph; isn't it?

:)
Author:  JBR [ Wed Dec 02, 2015 14:46 ]
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Yeah - maybe the gentle travellers are from London, unable to believe their luck at averaging 25mph for an entire journey. London's just an exercise in moving from one set of lights to the next.
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