Rushing to the shops ?

My wife did a Lano (hand wash and soap) commercial last week and came back with a bin bag full of the stuff, I will die before it is used up.

yeah heard they had some hand sanitiser in :D

M3 82mph just overtaken as was slowing down, so it could have been worse. Didn't know they could put vans on bridges over Motorways :(

Genuine question....will getting a speeding ticket affect your future driving ?

No it wont. I am an 80 mph potterer. I pull over to the inside and let the mad bastards past. I follow the speed limit in town, when I am concentrating on the ever changing speed limits, as I do sometimes find myself at 40 in a 30. This was just one of those things. 70 MPH volvo middle lane hog, I came from inside to outside and back just at the wrong time. I have only ever had 3 tickets, once a decade. 1st was being a prat, 2nd was not slowing quickly enough from a 60 to a 40 ( again stealth camera at 49)
The courses are good as the last one did make me more hazzard aware. I imagine, if the offer, this one may have some new insights. But I dont see it changing my driving radically

Is motorway not 70mph?

Yep, but police usually turn a blind eye to 80mph

The inconsiderate **** at work that used all the water from the cooler, didn't tell anyone, so I am now stuck without water for a cup of tea until my boss arrives with keys to the cupboard the other bottles are in.

This

When I was young my dad did an advert for Twix and came back with a few boxes of them. As you were.

Yes it is but this limit was set in the days of drum breaks and solid tyres. The police have two options. Move the speed limit to 80 and have zero tolerance as in France or the blind eye approach. I think what we have is better.

A visit to Pistonheads Speed Plod and the Law forum in always informative. Plod can't do you unless you are 10% + 2mph over the limit because of tolerance in their equipment and what's allowable for speedometer accuracy. On a motorway that means 79 mph.

Got one a couple of weeks ago,first in over 10 years.Do the course on the 5th April:p

This rain,seems non-stop.Feel for the poor people that have been flooded:frown:

Sounds like my wife... except she couldn't find any hand sanitizer, so she bought the last 3 tubs of antibacterial hand wipes off the shelf (that she's never used in her life)

I couldn't face bring patronised so opted for the points instead. Workshop bastards. They've expired now I think.

Over 70s with trolleys in supermarkets. Get a move on you twats

This is quite interesting re myths etc

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cove.../driving-myths

Bloke at work got done for speeding on the way back from his.

You would have to think that should be worth a month inside.

Nothing annoys me any more. I have accepted human frailties and faults (in others) and learnt to deal with them. Karma sorts this sort of stuff out, so it's not my worry.

I’d ban him for a year. Word would get out that speeding is wrong and people would drive within the law.

Survey requests about everything. One from Ticketmaster wanting to know about my ‘Royal Mail experience’ after I had some tix delivered. Seriously?

Especially ones that ask you to rate between "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree", where they ask the questions that just go on and on.

I guess they usually have a space for comments, but by then I've lost interest.

I've been stopped 3 times in the last year. I'm still driving on my US license which I know is illegal - I should have got my Chilean license as soon as I received my Permanent Residency - but I haven't yet because I haven't got a specific piece of paper (long story and typically Chilean in it's obtuseness). Anyway, all 3 times they have let me go without hardly a word :D
I'm not sure why they stopped me, one could have been for speeding but the others I think were just random paperwork checks - so obviously a big FAIL for the cops here on that score! Just being a foreigner and pretending not to speak Spanish seems to get me off :supergrin:
Got pulled over in Argentina a couple of months ago (overtaking in a no overtaking spot) and bribed the cop - not really true but it sounds better, he wanted me to pay the fine there and then and I didn't have much cash so I just gave him what I had which was the equivalent of about 7 quid. The fine was around 200 quid :supergrin:

I think I'm riding my luck

**** that.

20 mph on bloody main roads around here. I sometimes drive my daughter’s little Citroen which has a black box fitted.

It would be quicker to walk.

They’ve dropped it 20 to stop ***** driving at 35-40.

Interesting insight. What would happen if you were involved in a crash or God forbid a fatality... would you be insured ? I presume not.

Nothing like free text data fields from stopping a business process from being automated. And nothing a business likes less than using humans to do things. Too expensive.

AFAIAC if they can't be bothered to read my opinion they aren't bothered enough for it to be worth writing.

In other news: deep learning networks that can read free text and decide things about it, e.g. whether you thought the product was shite, whether you might buy another one, and whether or not you support weed.

The other night I saw Jean-Efflam Bavouzet play L'Isle joyeuse. Impossible for mere mortals. And lost on the local hairies, of course.

This is what it was like on the BBS with tickets before the play-off final.

At work, you always know when someone's about to steal some milk; they go into a rant about people stealing their milk. I let them finish, and then I follow them towards the kitchen area. You got to watch these people and their psychological tricks.

That the terminology for any media being released now has to be ‘dropped’

I hate this faux gangsta treatment of things to somehow make it seem more edgy. Not one thing isn’t dropping, even the Songs of Praise is dropping.

It's a good question. I mean I have a valid license it's just not Chilean. If I didn't have a permanent residence visa I would not be illegally driving, so it's just a technicality. But knowing bastard insurance companies it's a technicality they would use to avoid paying out anything.
And the issue of the Chilean license is that as a foreigner, I have to prove to the DVLC equivalent that I have completed 9th grade or higher schooling. Which in itself shouldn't be too difficult right? Only I have no idea where my O level certificates are nor my Poly degree cert is (I've moved house more times than I've moved my bowels and a fair percentage of those moves (ahem, house moves) were international moves. Stuff gets lost. So somehow I have to contact my school or Poly to get a copy of the cert, then get it apostolated, translated and the translation notarised. I have known foreigners here with similar problems to actually sit the 9th grade exams!
You have to love red tape right?

Keep being told how to wash my hands

I find great humour in people driving their cars in the rain, and swerving to avoid puddles on the near-side. It seems to me they would rather swerve into oncoming traffic and die, than risk their car wheels getting wet(ter).
Human mentality is bemusing

6 month ban I reckon.

It's nice to see that Chile doesnt just use the same language as Spain, but also its interminable red tape systems

My wife... moan number 29:

Waitress comes to take order while eating in a restaurant. My wife says she has a few questions, and proceeds to go through half the bloody menu, asking about what each item is, and ends each one with, "Is it good?"

I have yet to see any reason why a waiter/waitress would say anything derogatory about a certain menu item, and at best they may say, "It's not my favourite, as I don't like ******".

She then goes through the same routine with the wine list!

I usually close my eyes and count to 100, or crawl under the table during this routine.

And for you Sir? "I'll have **** with **** and a glass of ***** wine. Thanks". Boom, job done!

Not true

I got done at 34 in a 30 last year

Please can we include "lockdown" into this? A piece of prison terminology is it not? Seems to be for people who can't spell Kwarintine.

Good.

:D

Not on the A1

£198 to watch formula 1 that I used to watch for nowt :(

:p
If I end up driving to Leicester away up the A1 I'm going to spit at every camera I see.

BCC. Can’t think of any other use for it other than for sneaky ****ers to stitch people up.

Been there, done that. (A victim, not a perpetrator)

Getting very annoyed by the reporting on the virus. Affected cases in so and so place have doubled which is the largest increase we have seen so far. Well yes they have doubled, but you could have said they have risen by 11 because it is only 22 now and by definition if it has doubled it has to have been the biggest increase - doh! Sheesh, for one, this doesn't need whipping up into a frenzy, it will do it all on it's own thanks. and for two, we will be over the moon if it was to only go up by 11 daily for the next month or so because it is likely to go up by crazy numbers very soon. I wish the BBC and other news institutions would go back to reporting the news, not making it, and reporting facts carefully instead of sensationalizing everything. The BBC used to be the one organisation that you could trust to repeat the facts in a measured way but they are as bad as the rest now.

Appreciate this is a middle class first world problem, but yesterday I got my vehicle washed and my seat has 8 ways to adjust. I think the guy moved all 8, now I can't find a bloody comfortable position. My next car will have to have seat memory for sure.

Also dimmed the dashboard lights, took me forever to figure out how to get them back, and he turned off the automatic headlights, so last night I was driving a long for a while before I realized they weren't on.

Well at least it's clean.

What if someone secretly took photos of your missus or your daughter on their way home from work, and then posted them on a football fan website inviting comments, whilst describing them using base terminology?
Or is that the 'karma' you mention?

When mentioning away support, football commentators always have this quaint notion that we all live in the centre circle of our home ground. ie “ these Crystal Palace supporters have travelled 200 miles from SE25 today...”
Not necessarily so....

:p

I thought that last week... apparently all Palace fans live in Croydon.

Drivers who dont indicate right when going around or taking the exit to there fkin RIGHT on a roundabout

:D I’m dying.

Drivers who do indicate right when approaching a roundabout and then go straight on.

Behind my place.

https://i.ibb.co/GvDKG0y/97-AF59-CE-...-E148301-A.jpg

I don’t get why you just don’t piss in your own milk and put it back in the fridge?

Wrong thread ...

Lace the milk with fistfuls of gold microdots & wait for the giggling.

Spot on Martin. The BBC in particular and other news outlets seem determined to drive up fear and dread, rather than have a balanced approach, considering our Nations population is over 65 MILLION. No wonder there are reports of panic buying. Fortunately the greater majority are taking a sensible approach. :grrr:

Last time I did any driving down south it was one every 200 yards all the way from Twatford to Twatford Gap.

Is that a Turner painting?

Turner didn't paint swamp :sunglasses:

You're right, on reflection I think it might be a Constable.

I can just see Ned Beatty being raped in the background.

Remember a game at Newcastle a few years back and the commentator complimented the Man U away support. He mentioned that all of them had traveled from the South East Counties. He totally forgot to mention that a large minority had also came from Ireland, North Wales and Thornton Heath High Street.

I'm waiting for a death toll ticker to be introduced like it's transfer deadline day or something.

Control through fear.

Don't forget the Scandis, John. I was unfortunate enough to get involved in an incident with some Danish manyoo fans in the Arthur who were too loud in their praise of Peter Schmeichel years ago. Oof. I came a distant second in that one. Probably 3rd if the truth be told. I can still feel the kick between the legs. :D

The time slots at museum and gallery exhibitions- they seem to want to pack in many as people as possible to maximise profit.
The latest was Troy at the British Museum- excellent, but slow going due to the number of people.

The use of the term royal duties which latterly equated with attending the league cup final, drinking Guinness using a hurling stick in horribly stage managed photos during a royal jaunt to Ireland. Now these two wastrels are hoping to go to Australia largely at our expense. Sadly some sycophants Buy into this royalist drivel.

Yep, be careful if you book for Tutankhamen at the Saatchi, we had the same problem there. Choose the most anti social time slot that you can.

What bugs me is when people stand so close to the glass the no one else can see or read anything. Stand back a couple of feet and then several of us can see at the same time.

On the plus side, at least there are time slots nowadays. Chatting to a friend today, he remembered back in the 70s queuing outside for 6 hours with his mother to see that Tutankhamen exhibition!

Would most of these people be tourist? I assume due to coronavirus that this problem will go away in a few weeks and you could have the place to yourself.

Twats talking in cinemas.

Suppose I don’t care so much if it’s a big dumb action movie or goofy comedy, but something high drama like dark waters (good film by the way), keep your mouths shut. The twats in question weren’t even kids either, married couple that looked in their 40s.

Cinemas full stop.
Awful places.Stink of rancid sweet butter. Half the seats are in a shit location for viewing the screen and they are full of inconsiderate talking, seat kicking, munching, plastic packaging crunching twats.
VIP screen at 2pm on a Wednesday is the only time you will get me anywhere near the hell holes.

This was in an Odeon, unfortunately. I rarely go to cinemas, and if I do, I’ll spend the extra money on a picturehouse or somewhere like that.

‘International Women’s Day.’

What a load of bol*ocks!

load of tits and bums surely?

Why?

Irritating. Trying to make out they’re some hard done by minority. Not belittling the achievements of feminists in days gone by with real worthy causes, but a lot of women crying equality today are just wanting their cake and eat it. In my life I have to be honest and say women my age have had just as much, and quite frankly, more freedom to be what and who they want, than most men. There’s a reason why the suicide rate for men is much higher than for women.


And anyway, fed up of their constant nagging so I won’t be celebrating.

If you'd just had the sense to dig out your basement, you could be enjoying your own private cinema. A little planning goes a long way.

I tell people to be quiet.

Plenty of tits on display on Waterloo Bridge today.

He lives in a flat.

I’d disagree with much of that, and even if I didn’t, there’s an internationals men’s day too.

Yep, February 30th...

People who smell of BO have a wash .

I came home from my awareness course in 2015 (for my January speeding).....to find my next notice (from my February indiscretion) on my door mat when I got home. :clown:

Second time was 7am on a Sunday, doing 47 in a 40 when I was genuinely the only car about. Just couldn't believe they had a traffic cop up at that time.

Learnt my lesson. Been a good boy ever since.

Things that annoy you

Other people sneezing. There's an art to it....and most people fail miserably. Twats

March 14th innit.

I was stuck on a Ryanair flight a few seats away from a bloke whose BO could have been weaponized.


I truly pitied the poor sods who had to sit next to him.

Obviously not

Ummmm Steak!

(I'm old :sob: )

Rare & bloody.

Even better. He can dig someone else's basement out and not have to suffer the upheaval! :)

Having a dry cough and the media furore now making me have to at least consider I might have coronavirus.....even though I haven't

Has this aired yet...

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-au...n-sydney-train

Or he might have a flat with underground parking, no need to dig.

The Aussies were the first to panic buy.

He seemed quite reasonable in his grievance and she seemed like a total chunt, no idea if she was going home to a hoard of loo roll. Pandemic or not getting coughed at is pretty rank.

I do have a bodega in the basement. Might not exactly take the IMAX screen I would really like, but if I knock through to the next door bodega and change the lock it might just work