You’re off my xmas card list that’s for sure.
Actually that’s reminded me, people who press the button, then decide **** me they can actually get themselves across the road safely, off they go, traffic light goes red, sit and wait at light for no reason.

Doesn't happen in Cyprus. They just go as soon as the crossing is empty.

Good.

Christmas cards annoy me. And birthday cards for that matter. In fact, add greetings cards in general to the list.

Likewise driving along with nothing but an empty road behind you and, rather than wait 10 seconds, a car pulls out of a side road in front of you causing you to slam the brakes on then dawdle along until the div finally gets up to speed.

Drivers who pull into a single car size gap, (between parked cars either side of the road), that you are already driving in and causing 5 minutes of unnecessary manoeuvring rather than giving way, waiting 10 seconds and avoiding all that.

Drivers that don't give way to traffic coming uphill. Is this no longer taught?

And yes I have been out and about Christmas shopping today.

Ho, ho fecking ho.

I get you.

But said pedestrian is obeying the laws of the road and doing everything correctly. If they chose to randomly cross in the USA, for example, a punitive police officer could fine them for jaywalking.

It may annoy you, but you are wrong on this.

Personally, I would, as a capable adult, look up and down the road and cross when your car has passed so as not to cause an inconvenience. But thet might just be me being a pussy.

This.

There's a few hills round South Norwood, Upper Norwood, CP etc and on my daily travels every **** wants to race down the hill so you have to pull over into a gap whilst you are trying to get up the hill. Sylvan Hill, Auckland Road and Stambourne Way are my particular favourites for arsehole drivers who do this.

My daughters art teacher who, I found out today, called her a "Guiri". And my wife, who won´t let me go to the school to discuss this with said teacher.

Where are you Spain? Or is the teacher Spanish? Sounds like a case od discrimination to me.

You should get yourself down there sunburnt, drunk and throwing plastic furniture about. That'll learn 'em.

Another highway code one that no one aheres to that angers me is when two cars are wishing to turn right opposite each other at a cross roads, you are supposed to drive past each other then turn right, not before in front of each other, but I am forced into doing it the mistaken way as it will mean an accident... READ THE HIGHWAY CODE :wallbash:

Not a pussy, but considerate of the world around you, too many people dont think outside of their own perspective. Like dimwits who dont let people off the train first... let them clear the space you want to take no? And help everyone.

So what happens when three cars are waiting to turn right from each direction? How do you turn behind the opposing facing car if there are other cars directly behind it ?

Yo wait until they have all gone. You should only go in front of the opposing car if the road is arrowed.

The teacher is Spanish, sounds like a right bitch.

I´m not from Leicester.

Extra gum adverts... 'It's time to shine'... ******* irritating *****.

As because driving in front of cars creates a blindspot on to potential on-coming traffic.

It seems that onside turning has been relaxed in the highway code though, apprently you can do it if it’s safe. When I did my driving test it wasnt allowed or would be a fail. I still think driving past is a better option as you both clear the way for each other to drive past and you can see the road ahead.

having to spend a vast majority of my life unsubscribing and opting-out. Bloody annoying :jerkit:

Jackie Stewart.

I wouldn't stand for that Pedro. I tore into the English teacher (non native natch) at my kids' school for mispronouncing his surname.

They love a bit of constructive criticism really ;)

I'm assuming that's an insult and, if so, how is it different to dago or spick?

Guiri is the word they use for northern European foreigners. Casual racism as per usual.

Negative term for a tourist, typically a blonde beach dweller, who enjoys a drink.

Not appropriate term for a teacher to call their pupil.

Context could be relevant....could it have been a one-off jokey aside, said with a smile?

Or has it been said nastily, or repeatedly? You don’t want a teacher using this sort of term regularly, because then the other pupils might pick up on it and think it’s OK to repeat it, potentially causing issues for his daughter.

Thanks Pat. Would the words dago or spick be considered the same i.e casual racist?

I use it all the time to describe myself, or north Europeans I’m annoyed with.

Give him a slap and say this is a friendly greeting where I'm from.

Look , I'm not trying to start a fight but I've read the OP using those terms several times and I get it BUT you can't get mad if it goes the other way.

A teacher using those words against somebody that's in their care is a whole different matter.

Fair enough. I can see that too.

I do too. Also the phrase orgull guiri.

Doesn't make it ok for a teacher to say it to a kid.

Catching your smallest two toes on the edge of the door frame on the one day you didn't put on your slippers

Driving (and parking) in Cyprus will always bring back special memories for me.
The creeping forward at junctions is a speciality I won't ever forget.

Me calling myself a Guiri, or my Malaga supporting mates who call themselves "The Guiri Army" is one thing, a teacher using it to a 12 year old girl is something else entirely.

What is the meaning of the word?

Yeah, true. I don’t think they think of it as an insult. But sure, it’s not all right.

Apparently it comes from a Basque word, “Guiristino”, used in the wars of succession in the 19th century by the Carlists for the other side, those who supported the claims of Maria Cristina. The Basques were mostly Carlists and thought of the güiris as liberal, foreign and hence a bit sinister.

Tourist/foreigner typically from the northern areas. I believe anyway.

I thought it was "bin dippers"

Oh....northern Spain :p

No I think it's us , Germans, Skandies etc

Check better with the Costa Clan and El Ag.

Yanks and Aussies are definitely güiris as well. And frogs. Italians, Greeks or Portuguese, I think not. What I don’t know is the status of black or Asian British. I think they probably are güiris although one of the main characteristics is going red on the beach.

'Match day's my favourite day...'

Photos of elfs on Facebook

Chavettes taking their brats out with them when christmas shopping. I just dont get that lack of thinking on their part. Pushchairs, crying bored kids, and shouting mothers, in shopping arcades at the busiest time of the year.

Surely, with a bit of planning a relative or friend could have taken them for 5 or 6 hours.

And this happens in Santiago, too.

****s in doorways.

Find a less obstructive place to have a little chat/check your receipt/change

cvnds

parents = wanker5

having kids turns adult's brains to jelly

fat cvnds in trainers and jogging bottoms

wish me a "merry Christmas",

I dare you.

I double-dare you

fvck you. Have a nice Christmas in Casualty.

Putting a [albeit crap] film like Jurassic World on at 6:40pm. How much will need to be cut to allow that. "This film has been [more] ruined for TV"

:wallbash: The Wilf to Arsenal thread.

Shakin' frickin Stevens. A Poundland Elvis

Howling banshee woman at Swansea yesterday slagging off the players at every opportunity. And her friend who just spent the whole game slagging off Wilf. Hopefully won’t have to endure these idiots at the next away game. My nine year old moved to the row below because her shrieking went right through him.

Women at football

:eek:

cvnds with 'personilised' number plates that are 5hlt (see what I did there ?). e.g. B355l3

I hope your boiler fails and you dl3 0f carb0nm0nxlde p0l5onlng. and if you have a "kids on board" sticker in your rear window, I want to kill you myself

Whilst amusing, this post was also nasty and quite sinister.
And on Xmas Eve too.
You c**t.

When you see a personalized plate and can't understand what it means...

This maybe more prevalent in The US where you can request what you want.

I saw one the other day that had on the license plate frame "Grammar Police", and the actual plate was GRMAPLC (or something like that). Which in my mind might be a tad ironic.

I should add that when I saw this the first thing I thought of was the BBS!

Choirs singing descants to the carols.

Just sing the proper words and tune ffs!!

Jurassic Park annoys me. Had the chance to make a great, powerful movie there with the amazing dinosaur effects but they write a piss poor insipid script that a 5 year old could’ve wrote to accompany it.

Had the ingredients to be a ‘Jaws’ or ‘Close Encounters’ but ended up like a CBeebies historical drama. WASTE!

The Police,


A warning to all, be careful about drink driving as we are getting close
to Christmas and the police are out there checking on people.

Last
night I was out for a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I had a
few too many beers and then went onto the whisky. Not a good idea..

Knowing I was over the limit, I decided to leave my car at the pub and
took a bus home. Sure enough, I passed a police checkpoint, where they
were pulling over drivers and performing breathalyser tests. But because I
was in a bus they just waved it past.

I arrived home safely and without
incident, which was a real surprise as I've never driven a bus before
and I am not even sure where I got it from.

Happy Christmas all.
COYP

:supergrin:

:supergrin:

Merry Christmas mate :p

I knew you would like that one.

Have a great Christmas yourself:p

I got stuck round a friend's house today and had to endure his children playing 'Jedward' videos on the television. It reminded me that I used to consider those two blow-dried, squeaking fairies to be the most annoying turd ever to emerge from the festering arsehole of humanity.

Even years after they thankfully f*cked off back to whatever hole they crawled out of, today's experience reminded me that I'd like to arrange to have the two of them tied up naked in a cage with a sexually frustrated gorilla, pumped up with more Viagra than Hugh Hefner took in his entire lifetime. Next, I'd like to find the music executive individual that shit them upon the world and strap him into a chair with devices that keep his eyes open and moist, as in Clockwork Orange, and force him to watch endless loops of what I had to see this afternoon. His food intake and bodily wastes would be maintained by I.V., foley catheters and colostomy bags while constant wakefulness would be via by stimulants until the inanity of his own horrifying creation caused his brain to stroke out. Then he can dribble in a wheelchair for the rest of his days in a nurses home, with feeding instructions tattooed to his f*cking forehead for the convenience of the staff.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I drink tea from a Jedward mug. WAIT A SEC! WAIT A SEC! I’m a bit of a musical fascist and a friend of mine thought, ‘what could be the most abhorrent thing to buy me’. I took it in good humour and find I still use it, but forget sometimes when we have guests or workman over, and realise I’m getting ‘that’ look and suddenly click and have to explain myself. It would probably be easier to just get myself a Palace mug eh but this mug holds sentimental value.

F*ck me, I thought James Last's audiences were the land that time forgot, but Andre Rieu's are something else.....

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They get a day out once a year. Be charitable.

Were you one of them? LOL

Er, no.

I don't know why, but rock/pop stars wearing watches on stage.

Probably means they are sticking to that 90 minute set, no surprises.

It annoys me when they have a mobile phone in their pocket. Very distracting.

I presume it’s a mobile phone ...

:lux:

Happy Christmas :)

All I want for Christmas is to never ever have to listen to Mariah Carey again.

How long family members seem to say goodbye at the end of the day. First it's at the door bye, then 20 mins later in the driveway still saying bye...another 15 minutes saying bye from the car and invariably getting back out of the car to finish the conversation. Leaving after bye could take up to an hour.

Sprouts

People that don't agree with me.


Because I'm never wrong.

They didn't have the opportunity to do any such thing, it was based on a Michael Crichton book.

People who turn up last minute for a flight. I'm currently at Sydney airport six hours before my flight

If I can do it so can you

Well I humbly suggest they should’ve based it on someone else’s book. :)

The next sale opening at 6 instead of 5. Only got up for a pee.

Brian Cox - what a feckin nerd! ‘Oh I’m so clever but cool cos I was in a band you know’. Your band was horse manure: New Labour, corporate cock sucking crap. D:Ream..what a stupid name. Things couldn’t get any feckin worse.

There's a fine line. I had a 22hr stopover in Dubai so went out for a bit but felt knackered and headed back to the airport some time in the afternoon. They wouldn't let me through to departures even though I'd already checked in, already had my boarding card and just wanted something to do/eat/drink and somewhere to sit. I was too early. 10hrs is too early, they said. Had to spend 3hrs sitting in the nothing zone until The Man would allow me into the terminal proper.

Why would anyone turn up for flight 6 hours early ?

I like the ambience

At the moment. Emirates and Ethiad air stewardresses. God they think they are Gods gift to the world. Yes had a few glasses.

Where's fecking LOT AIrways

You won't find them . BA are the only European airline that flys to the East coast of Oz.

Sky Sports. Looking at the weather outside and looking at the weather forecast for Thursday night I know when I would rather be watching Palace v Arsenal

Christmas. Boring, boring, boring.

Unless there are kids involved, which in my case there are not. Then it is excellent.

Finally convinced the missus that we should go away next year.

Then it wouldnt be Jurrasic Park then, would it.

Suprised you are out of bed mate after last night?:supergrin:

Not having a game on Boxing Day Grrrrrr so pissssssssed off

What's bed?

Seen the weather for this pm?

Neighbour across the road has been blocked in for three days. Coincidentally the car doing the blocking now has three flat tyres.

I’ve not reached that level of frustration yet.. but it’s certainly a option.

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I echo the lack of Palace game today.

My internet being slow to not working. Thus, posting and reading BBS on phone.

Taking Harry Kane out of my Fantasy League team a couple of weeks ago, when i swore blind it was Aguero i'd shifted out, and watching him now rack up his fifth goal in 130 mins of football while i'm sat here with Callum bloody Wilson, Aguero and a no doubt injured Moratta as alternatives. Fantasy football is such a wind up.

I have kept him in mine. But yes there are other Fantasy League irritations.