What grinds your gears ?

[Shinobi]

The Knowhere Guide.
Type in the name of your hometown (especially if it has a somewhat... negative reputation) and prepare to be depressed by the stream of verbal diarrhoea shat onto your screen.

YouTube comments have NOTHING on this...

I can think of another place that is fast gaining a reputation for somewhat negative reputation :wink maybe it was a FULL MOON or something..

There is one thing that is annoying me is people hoovering everything up in the Random Niceness thread, and not offering to replace it.. I think people will get fed up stop offering things and the thread will die, which is a shame!! Before anybody says I know its up to the Individual to take the risk

[crusto]

Cash machine cloggers and petrol pump p!ss ants.

[IronMaidenRule]

People who steal dust caps off cars....mine were not even fancy, just normal green plastic as I had some sort of Eco-mix in my tyres.....needless to say, I now have normal black ones just like everybody else.....idiots!!

[alistair_thomas]

Neighbours who think they have a right to park outside there house all the time, grrrr!

[James A]

Life & Humanity

[ToxieDogg]

Neighbours who think they have a right to park outside there house all the time, grrrr!

Haven't they?

Can understand if they're parking outside your house all the time but they should be allowed to park outside their own, I would've thought.

[pratty]

Neighbours who think they have a right to park outside there house all the time, grrrr!

Haven't they?

Can understand if they're parking outside your house all the time but they should be allowed to park outside their own, I would've thought.

I understand how somebody get accustomed to parking outside their home, but I don't think they're entitled to it. If someone else visits the road and parks in "their spot" I think it would be out of order to have a go and ask them to move. But parking in front of someone's driveway is another matter.

Speaking of parking, I wish people who have tall bushes surrounding their drive would reverse into their drive so they can actually see the pedestrians they risk bumping to when they reverse out.

[ToxieDogg]

Neighbours who think they have a right to park outside there house all the time, grrrr!

Haven't they?

Can understand if they're parking outside your house all the time but they should be allowed to park outside their own, I would've thought.

I understand how somebody get accustomed to parking outside their home, but I don't think they're entitled to it. If someone else visits the road and parks in "their spot" I think it would be out of order to have a go and ask them to move. But parking in front of someone's driveway is another matter.

Speaking of parking, I wish people who have tall bushes surrounding their drive would reverse into their drive so they can actually see the pedestrians they risk bumping to when they reverse out.

No. Many areas are (by law) 'residential parking only' (usually they'll also have signs up) and the residents can apply for permits so as to stop people from outside just turning up and leaving their cars there (ie if there's a football ground nearby) so it wouldn't be out of order at all for the resident to have a go and ask them to move, in fact they'd be perfectly entitled to. Where my mum and dad live is 'residential parking only'.

[alistair_thomas]

Neighbours who think they have a right to park outside there house all the time, grrrr!

Haven't they?

Can understand if they're parking outside your house all the time but they should be allowed to park outside their own, I would've thought.

My girlfriend's boss gave her a lift home last night and they waited outside the flat in her car as I was making my way home (I had the flat keys). Bloke next door comes out, asks if she is parking their as his wife is on her way home and needs the space (bear in mind that there were plenty of other spaces nearby). My girlfriend's boss says she'll go in a minute once I'm back, then the bloke says 'actually can you go now?' - no please, or indeed a thank you when she pulled forward to create more room.

These are also the same neighbours who leave a traffic cone in their 'space' when they go out.

To top it all off, my flat mate went out in his car earlier and couldn't park back where he was before as the lady next door decided to park her car effectively taking up two spaces (not allocated as such, but you could fit another car in easily if she pulled forward a little).

Apparently they also used to leave nasty notes on the cars of the students who used to live here.

I do agree that it would be nice to park outside your house all the time, but to expect to do so and rudely demand that others move is taking the censored.

/rant over

[pratty]

I understand how somebody get accustomed to parking outside their home, but I don't think they're entitled to it. If someone else visits the road and parks in "their spot" I think it would be out of order to have a go and ask them to move. But parking in front of someone's driveway is another matter.

Speaking of parking, I wish people who have tall bushes surrounding their drive would reverse into their drive so they can actually see the pedestrians they risk bumping to when they reverse out.

No. Many areas are (by law) 'residential parking only' (usually they'll also have signs up) and the residents can apply for permits so as to stop people from outside just turning up and leaving their cars there (ie if there's a football ground nearby) so it wouldn't be out of order at all for the resident to have a go and ask them to move, in fact they'd be perfectly entitled to. Where my mum and dad live is 'residential parking only'.

Ah, well that's different then.

[ToxieDogg]

These are also the same neighbours who leave a traffic cone in their 'space' when they go out.

That's actually illegal, and comes under Obstruction Of A Public Highway as far as I'm aware...even if you live in a residential parking area, you get a permit for your car, not stick cones in the road. Realistically, you could actually call the police about that if you wanted to.

They do sound like a pair of 'See You Next Tuesdays', unfortunately.

[rtrgrl78]

I can sympahise with parking woes, I have a certain taxi company that think it's perfectly fine to park outside my house near the drive just waiting for jobs and in some cases resting at all times. I've tried the nice approach with a telephone call, I've been out and asked the driver(s) to politely move on - it still happens. Tried the patient and annoyed approached. To be honest, it's stressful and am not un-reasonable person I don't mind the elderly neighbours parking outside my gates as they have a couple of cars and any visitors. It's more being respectful of people's properties. And I am aware it's not my road or anything like, that I just don't want an eye sore of a taxi parking outside my door, plus it feels as though your being watched. I don't have a car, Am dreading the day, when I've moved in and have been broken in to (my front window and door is right in the eye line of the drive). And to be honest, I know who has told them it's OK to do this, my other neighbour who works for the same taxi company and I get that the property has been empty and is seen the OK thing to do then but just wish they would be a little more thoughtful. Thinking about it now gets me annoyed and I feel I cannot do a thing about it. it's one of the reasons I want to move and sell, apologies for going on this really grinds my gears.

[SJ_Sathanas]

There's no better example of the sheer stupidity and selfishness of people when they get behind the wheel of a car than all the fuss caused by the totally self-imposed fuel crisis.

[STranger81]

The parking thing frustrates me no end. We live in a terrace and while its always nice to be able to park outside your own front door I dont consider it my "right". Theres always room to park so its not like your ever hundreds of yards from home, and its a nice little area so you dont have to look out to see if some pikey is after scratching your car etc, but there are certain people on our row ive seen come out to move their car literally 10 feet so theyre closer to their house. Its stupid.

A girl I went out with in Stoke lived in a terrace and id go and stay on sundays, and I used to park up in a bus stop about 1/4 mile from her house, get my stuff all together on the passenger seat so when I got to her street I could park up and then get inside because there were no end of curtain twitchers who would come onto their doorstep saying you were in their husbands space?!

[The Angry Jock]

'Comediennes'

women are just not funny. I went to a show last night, 4 random comedians, 2 women. Both of them crashed and burned within 5 minutes and let the hecklers take over the show, 1 guy in particular got singled out as he was hilarious in a deadpan kind of , he was branded 'scottish oprah'. Still, they were better than the female ventriloquist of last year...