birchesgreen
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Those red road closed ahead signs, especially when "ahead" could mean quite a few roads!
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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scotrail158713
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I know what they're really referring to but I always smile when I see a "Road closed - access only" sign. I'm not sure what else roads are used for other than access.
Gloster
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A variant on one I have mentioned before. People who push their heavily loaded supermarket trolley past several unused Card Only tills to the only functioning Cash & Card one. They then slowly check their purchases through, making a long series of mistakes which require the intervention of a member of staff, before finally paying with a card. They then leave the trolley blocking access to the till while they pack and repack their bags, get confused when the member of staff gently suggests that they could move aside, and have to repack half the stuff again. They then decide that they must buy another shopping bag and have to search through their bags to find their card, and then have to repack everything because they have a new bag. Meanwhile half-a-dozen people, none with more than four items, are queuing to use the till.
dangie
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It makes me smile though when motorists totally ignore the sign, thinking that it isn't really closed or it doesn't apply to them, only to have to do a U-turn as the road really was closed.
Techniquest
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Oh I know this sort of thing only too well! Drives staff up the wall!
Steady on, chucking topless passengers out of train windows might create obstructions on the track
On a related note, signs saying ‘This door is alarmed’.
I have no interest in the state of a timid door’s mental health. Give it therapy or anxiolytic medication if it’s that nervous, don’t come bleating to me about it.
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Busaholic
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Supermarket cashiers (a dying breed) who don't push the customer divider plastic signs down towards the end of the conveyor belt, but sit with them beside them as though they have anal retention issues. For the not-so-able like myself, all it does is create unnecessary delays. Oh, and this is specifically Sainsbury-related, the signs that are put at the end of a belt saying 'checkout closing; please find another' when all the others have similar signs or are already closed. This, at two minutes to closing time on a Sunday when announcements are cajoling customers to get a move on and check out.
Whistler40145
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It gets my goat, especially when it really means a side road and not the road ahead
Chief Impact Officer is the big guy who comes round when you don’t pay your protection money, isn’t he?
You can also add those people who don’t wash their hands after using the toilet or urinal.
py_megapixel
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Apps that refuse to communicate over a slow/intermittent network connection.
It's a remarkably defeatist attitude: "This download will take half an hour when it would ideally take 10 minutes, so I'm not going to bother at all"
It's a remarkably defeatist attitude: "This download will take half an hour when it would ideally take 10 minutes, so I'm not going to bother at all"
I got to my local Sainsbury's checkout queue a couple of days ago to see that there was someone in front of me having her purchases scanned, and a fairly full trolley abandoned behind her. So I pushed the abandoned trolley out of the way and started loading up my purchases. In due course a lady appeared and said "but I only went to get some bananas" and brandished them at me. I just shrugged and went on with what I was doing. I mean, the only thing I could have said, which wouldn't have helped, would have been to say "and you are some sort of entitled person, how?" or something similar. She ended up following me, as she should have done.
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Sun Chariot
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I'd like to ban the Jet Stream. It's clearly not in the right place, this summer. Whilst I'm at it, I ban all low pressure weather fronts, too. They annoy me.
Last year we had record temperatures in July, and people were worrying about the reservoirs drying up.
This year we had above average rainfall in July.
I would like to ban it from raining when England are playing Australia at cricket and are in a strong position to win the match.
If the fourth test at Old Trafford hadn't been disrupted by rain, then arguably England could have won the match and retaken the Ashes.
Gloster
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Last year we had record temperatures in July, and people were worrying about the reservoirs drying up.
This year we had above average rainfall in July.
I would like to ban it from raining when England are playing Australia at cricket and are in a strong position to win the match.
If the fourth test at Old Trafford hadn't been disrupted by rain, then arguably England could have won the match and retaken the Ashes.
Virtually never, in other words.
Here in Leyland it's 14 degrees and it's tippling down as it has been doing, on and off, for days. I'm not a climate change sceptic but I'm beginning to see where they are coming from.
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Current weather is fine by me. It's "useable weather" as the TV weather forecast presenters quite often say.
Can't ever please everyone though, I suppose.
Generally the weather in the UK is fine with me, nobody wants the extremes that are probably going to hit us in future. Those aho habitually whinge about the weather will really have something to complain about soon, and the longing for the mundane uncertainty of the past will become a thing.
Sun Chariot
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Our family measures weather in a new unit called "Wet Bogging Dog". Evidenced through our long haired German Shepherd. "WBD" measurement is currently high....
dangie
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Well the weather had better change pretty damn quick as most of us will probably be dead long before then
I'm in my mid '70s and I think even I might be seeing such a rapid change that the climate might become quite difficult here in the UK before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Depressing I know, but too many seem to think the planet will wait patiently until they themselves are ready to change their lifestyle.Well the weather had better change pretty damn quick as most of us will probably be dead long before then
dangie
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Did I miss global warming? If the last few days, past week, past month are anything to go by, I think we’re in for global cooling…..
When I was at school in the 1950's we were told that a second ice-age was on the way.
birchesgreen
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Yeah well science hasn't advanced since the 1950s apparently.
How would you know that global warming isn't is taking place.
Busaholic
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Tell that to the Spanish, the Greeks, the Sicilians, the Arizonians etc etc etc.
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Without an indication to the contrary, no, but I'm pleased you're not one of the crazies.You did know my comment was tongue in cheek…..??
