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Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 18, 2016 10:20:58 GMT
Morning
Fudgie is your host this week....
Tossers - No not the insult for people I don't like, the people who think the world is their bin. There is very little I hate more than people who openly chuck their litter on the floor.
Not only is it unsightly, it also can cause problems with wildlife of the area, it can cost the government money in cleaning it up and it's just downright lazy. I'm sure you can carry the empty pack of Monster Munch you just had in your pocket until you find a bin.
Tailgating - Okay I know it's a bit of an Americanism after I recently displayed my disdain for Americanisms, but this one is important!
Why do drivers feel a need to go bumper to bumper with the car in front? Is it to send a message? Is it to try and get to your destination a few seconds faster? Whatever the reason, it makes you a b*ll-end!
Not only is it pointless, it is also dangerous to you and the vehicle in front of you, it leaves very little reaction and stopping time if the car in front slams it's breaks on for whatever reason and it can also intimidate/frustrate the driver in front into speeding up, increasing his/her chances of an accident as well.
It's something that no one ever needs to do, yet people still do it!
Talking loudly on the phone - Okay you had a 'sick' night as you pulled this bird, that's great but you don't need to tell the whole bloody train/bus/tram etc about it. We don't care what you have to say to your friends.
Unless you're giving out sure fire bets to your friend, we don't care! A phone call is a private conversation between two people in different areas. Not between one person in one area and 30 people in a crowded bus!
I appreciate that some people have to take important phone calls at inconvenient times, I understand that but keep your voice as low as possible if it's they can't call you back later. Unless you're Dom Joly, if you're screaming into your phone in a public place, I think, and will continue to think, you're a kn*b!
Get voting!
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Post by archie on Jan 18, 2016 10:27:28 GMT
Litter louts absolutely and always.
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Post by gazz on Jan 18, 2016 10:50:35 GMT
Tailgating is bad, and even though I'm not a driver myself I have been a passenger and I do hate other impatient drivers.
Loud talkers on mobile phones are annoying, as are those utter dick heads who sit in a group in a public place and think it's 'cool' to blast their utterly sh*te music to everyone sat around them, often singing along to it in unison too!
We don't want to hear it!
Fortunately, wherever I go I take my headphones with me, so it only takes a few seconds before the only thing I can hear is my own fantastic choice of music. Ok, that doesn't help the other folk who don't want to listen to it, but I have bigger fish to fry...
LITTER TOSSERS, or should that be UTTER TOSSERS?!
Down the years I've actually seen people dropping litter literally yards away from a bin, and while walking TOWARDS the bin too. It's the height of pig-ignorance for me.
The worst offenders are chewing gum eaters who just spit it out where they're stood, it's even worse when they just stick it to a seat or table. I've copped for that more than once in my time, and once on a train to Stockport. Which, after my best attempts to remove it resulted in me having to go to County with a disgusting streak of white gum stuck to the leg of my pants.
So I'm with archie on this one. Get those utter scumbags in the vault and make sure they take their litter with them, so they can lay in it for all eternity!
Great choices, Fudgie!
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Post by gazz on Jan 18, 2016 10:59:49 GMT
Apologies to anyone reading that ^^^^ straight after I'd posted it, because thanks to my handy piece of illiterate Japanese tat it ended up with a sh*t load of random typos.
I've corrected them now, no thanks to f***ing SAMSUNG.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 18, 2016 11:21:45 GMT
I've corrected them now, no thanks to f***ing SAMSUNG. Keep up, Gaz-man - that was sooo last week, CHIVE-wise!:-)
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Post by gazz on Jan 18, 2016 11:44:32 GMT
I've corrected them now, no thanks to f***ing SAMSUNG. Keep up, Gaz-man - that was sooo last week, CHIVE-wise!:-)
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 18, 2016 11:50:18 GMT
Three excellent examples of selfish arrogance in those groups of nominees, fudgie!
Frankly, the entire lot should binned with a view to making the world a nicer place, but I shall join archie and gazza in unceremoniously chucking away the Tossers.
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Post by countyfan on Jan 18, 2016 12:01:40 GMT
Some great suggestions this week Fudgie, I could quite easily see all 3 go into the vault!
Tossers annoy me so much, especially when they drop litter right next to a bin!! They can't be bothered to stretch out their arms and place it in the bin so just open their hand for gravity to do it's work!! It's almost as infuriating as seeing someone step out of their own front door and drop litter??? Why???
Tailgaters are complete pricks! There's no need for it whatsoever. I used to do a fair bit of motorway driving in my last place of work as a sales rep so have seen many occasion of prime bellends on our roads! I love the one's where they are 2 inches from the bumper in front forcing them to move in to the middle lane only to go a further 20 foot forward until the next car!! pointless. As Im getting older I find myself trying to get maximum fuel economy from my car these days so when I'm on the motorways now I set the cruise control to 62 mph and sit nicely in the inside lane and watching the traffic in the other 2 lands is better than watching all reality TV programs!! It's highly entertaining to see what idiots are out on the roads these days, I recommend it to you all to try!
I tend to find that the people that talk loudly on the phones are mainly in 2 groups of age ranges, 14 - 20 or 65 - 90+!! The elder age group I can understand as most of them do start to lose their hearing later in life....I SAID THEY LOSE THEIR HEARING LATER IN LIFE!! It's the younger age range that annoy me the most though, they think they are so cool as they've discovered swearing so every other word is an obscenity and don't actually use the right swear word in the right place most times making them look a little bit retarded!! Then you get the one's that have just discovered they can get served in pubs/bars so talk about the night before and think they are "mint" because they got smashed off 3 pints the night before and ended up pulling that fat chick near the pool table and even managed to stroke one of her breast through her clothing in the car park!! You're not cool, you're not gods gift to the opposite sex and you're not making any friends on this public transport journey! You're a annoying little idiot that looks about 16 years old and is the reason why the rest of us grown up's will be avoiding the Northern Quarter for the next 300 years!!!!
So out of all these I will go with the one that I see on a daily basis and that is the Tailgaters.
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Post by marketharborough on Jan 18, 2016 13:10:23 GMT
As I drive a lot around the countryside I get fed up of tailgaters and frequently switch on my rear fog lamps - they soon drop back a bit (mind there is no one behind them) as they often think its break lights (or at least its too bright for them. So Tailgaters is the automatic choice for me
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Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 18, 2016 13:21:33 GMT
Yes, much as I could easily opt for the other two, I'll also go for tailgating.
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Post by gazz on Jan 18, 2016 13:23:52 GMT
I can see this one being either a dead heat or very, very close!
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Post by countybenno on Jan 18, 2016 13:26:53 GMT
Great choices this week Fudgie, I would be more than happy for all 3 of them to go in the fire pit, but my vote goes to tossers, nothing winds me up more than seeing litter being thrown on to the street, usually when there is a bin just a few paces away, makes my blood boil.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 18, 2016 19:25:52 GMT
i've sworn off public transport, so i don't tend to experience the talkers a lot; but the arrogant self-regard that sees someone pollute everyone else in proximity's journey properly f***s me off. i don't mind if they're trying to be reasonably quiet and keeping it short "on the bus...i'll phone you back..." whatever, but loudly recalling the exploits of the previous night or speculating at length about the forthcoming evening's events...i was going to say there should be a law under which you can just wrestle their 'phone off them, and give them the ultimate crestfallen expression by throwing it out of the window, but i realised that would just be
...littering! i hate the mindlessness of it. seeing people with their new packet of fags pull the cellophane bit off the top and drop it in the road. pull the foil paper bit out and drop it in the road. not furtive, not thinking, just that it's their reflex action. have seen a couple of those bear grylls series 'the island', where he drops groups off on a tropical island with nothing but basic first aid and cameras, and sees how they get on. staggeringly, they will always find beaches on at least one side of the island which are absolutely full of litter, no matter how remote the island. it all washes up somewhere. tons of plastic bottles, footwear, and other detritus.
i've just read '438 days' which is about a fisherman who gets blown off the coast of mexico with the engine broken on his small boat, and drifts 6,500 miles over 438 days before hitting the marshall islands. one of the reasons he survives is because there's so much litter in the sea that he manages to get fifty plastic bottles, a cannister and a barrel to collect rainwater in to tide him over for drinking water between storms.
all fudgie's choices ultimately come down to forms of selfishness, and litter is such a global problem that it has to be the winner for me.
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jan 18, 2016 21:05:04 GMT
Excellent selection, fudge. I'd put them all in.
Tailgaters really do my head in . I tend to put my hazard lights on as I'm driving and that often makes them back off.
Talking loudly on the phone is just unnecessary. Thankfully a good set of noise-cancelling headphones usually does the trick.
There a few things in this world I hate more than the mindless selfishness of people who drop litter. There is no excuse - you are just a pathetic excuse for a human being. Be gone, the lot of you.
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jan 18, 2016 21:07:52 GMT
Apologies to anyone reading that ^^^^ straight after I'd posted it, because thanks to my handy piece of illiterate Japanese tat it ended up with a sh*t load of random typos. I've corrected them now, no thanks to f***ing SAMSUNG. Don't worry, gazza, there is a special place in hull for the inventor of autocorrect!
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