What grinds your gears ?

[DreamcastRIP]

Religious fundamentalist types. They really grind my gears!

[Pixiu]

People texting while driving down the motor-way at 80 miles an hour. I saw it so many times yesterday it was frightening. People don't seem bothered - even after we drove past a 3-car smash and had three ambulances speeding down the other flow. People must just think "it'll never happen to me".

It's mental, isn't it? WTF is wrong with these people?

Case in point:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/843032 ... al-mistake

'A US teen's final message to a friend still haunts her parents. "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha," wrote Taylor Sauer moments before she slammed into a tanker truck on an Idaho highway.

The 18-year-old, travelling at more than 130km/h, was killed instantly and police later found no sign she applied her brakes before the crash. The tanker truck was crawling up a hill at 25 km/h.

Ms Sauer was making a late-night, four-hour drive from Utah State University in Logan to her parents' house in Caldwell, Idaho on January 12. She was using her phone to pass the time, messaging a friend on Facebook about the Denver Broncos gridiron team. Phone records later showed she was posting something on Facebook every 90 seconds during her drive.'

Yes, very sad for her family and all, but man, what a Darwin award contender.

[alistair_thomas]

In keeping with the theme of dangerous driving, I'm noticing a lot more instances of drivers ignoring zebra crossings and signal crossings. If I'm waiting at a zebra crossing, I should not have to wait for half a dozen cars to speed through before I can cross. The same goes for signal crossings around here. I have had two cases at two different crossings on my way home just now where a car has driven through the crossing whilst it's on green for pedestrians to cross. It's either them not paying attention, purposely ignoring the rules of the road or not actually understanding what a red light is - all of which means they should not be allowed behind the wheel of a car and put lives at risk!

[Katzkatz]

In keeping with the theme of dangerous driving, I'm noticing a lot more instances of drivers ignoring zebra crossings and signal crossings. If I'm waiting at a zebra crossing, I should not have to wait for half a dozen cars to speed through before I can cross. The same goes for signal crossings around here. I have had two cases at two different crossings on my way home just now where a car has driven through the crossing whilst it's on green for pedestrians to cross. It's either them not paying attention, purposely ignoring the rules of the road or not actually understanding what a red light is - all of which means they should not be allowed behind the wheel of a car and put lives at risk!

Ahh, interesting that you mention this, take a look at the following link(be warned it is from The Daily Heil) :-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055346/Zebra-crossing-facing-extinction-thanks-hi-tech-replacements-increased-death-toll.html

[alistair_thomas]

It would be a shame to lose them as in my experience it's ignorance on the driver's part rather than them being difficult to spot. I do think having them immediately coming off a roundabout though is incredibly silly.

[greenberet79]

Have to buy a new bag for my vacuum cleaner. Right, fine - but the instructions say every time you put in a new bag you also need to swap the filter thingy for a new one as well. Ok, fine. But in a pack of 4 bags, you only get one filter thingy. So how does that work???

EDIT - I misread the instructions!

New gear grind - people who don't read instructions properly and then complain!

[r0jaws]

People who cut you up on a roundabout, then flick a V at you in case you didn't already think they were a complete pr1ck.

[greenberet79]

People who cut you up on a roundabout, then flick a V at you in case you didn't already think they were a complete pr1ck.

I was on a dual carriageway last sunday when I could see and hear an ambulance coming up behind us (maybe 100 meters or more away, but coming very fast). I was in the left lane anyway, but saw it was going full pelt so slowed down (I'd only been doing 30 anyway, having just been through a set of lights). So, I slowed right down, pulled over a bit to the left, and the fella behind me was going ballistic! Waving his fists, pointing at the road ahead, shouting, looking this way and that!

God forbid I slow him down for 10 seconds to give a speeding ambulance a clear run past! I had a good mind to get my wheel lock and shove it where the sun doesn't shine, mind...!

[DigitalDuck]

Got on the train today. At the next stop a couple in their early 20s with a 7-year-old kid, a baby, and a fully stocked pushchair boarded. The woman left the pushchair parked directly outside my seat, effectively blocking me in. The four of them went to a seat a couple away from mine, and let the baby cry at full volume without any attempt to quieten it. Five minutes later, the woman came back to the pushchair, picked up a bag of nappies, and prised one out, leaving the bag to go flying and smack me in the side of the head. She went back to her seat, without apologising, and leaving the bag where it fell. She then started playing music extremely loudly to drown out the sound of the baby crying.

Then it was my stop. I tried to shout to get their attention so they could free me from the prison they'd created around me, but they couldn't hear me. So I climbed over the pushchair, which got the attention of the woman, who started hurling abuse at me for doing so. I left the train as quickly as possible, because my idiot tolerance is extremely low. Had that not have been my stop, I probably would've tried to get off anyway.

Inconsiderate and moronic twonks like that should be shot.

[alistair_thomas]

'Kids' around here in what is normally an ok area, hanging around on the street til all hours, drinking, shouting and swearing. The police have been out tonight though, with what would seem like a possible arrest.

[dste]

That Guardian advert, bloody annoying.

One of the favourites of this thread, people standing chatting in supermarkets. In local Morrisons yesterday when the woman and her daughter in front of us in the queue packed up their shopping and decided to move their trolley away a few inches and stop and chat to another woman. This meant that I couldn't put our trolley next to the check-out to pack so had to ask them to politely move. They then moved about another two inches so I had to ask them again to move as I still couldn't move the trolley.

[pratty]

If Hell is bad as people make it out to be, then I theorise that Hell could very well consist of trying to adequately apply screen protectors until the end of time.

If that is the case then may God have mercy on our souls.

[theantmeister]

Litterers - that is, people who litter.

I don't know if it is just government cutbacks, but I'm starting to notice the rubbish piling up. The A303, for example, looks pretty bad these days. Why the censored do people think it is ok to just throw rubbish out their car windows? Also, the little gobshites from the school up the road from me seem to love just throwing their crisp packets and whatever into the street and a lot of it ends up in my front yard.

Cut off their hands I say! That'll learn 'em.

[themightymartin]

People who complain that they don't have enough money when they've just come back from a holiday in Florida or an Elton John concert or something like that. Yes, I am referring to someone in particular and yes, they are a relative, but it still winds me up no end!

[Liamh1982]

The mystery interference that has almost completely cut out my TV signal since Saturday. It also affects the screen when I use a console or my DVD recorder - lots of faint wobbly lines just noticeable enough to be really annoying.

Oh, and the low buzzing sound like my tinnitus is now playing up when I'm awake (usually only get it when I'm sleeping).