Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Hillonearth]

3 hours ago, Father Ted said:

I'm not sure if this deserves a thread of its own or how controversial it might be, but here goes.

The school run, parents running their kids to school.

Supposed reasons for it; saves time, paedos round every corner, etc, etc.

There is NO reason for it, They are just too damn lazy to get up a bit earlier and also learn their kids how to cross a road.

School areas infested with Chelsea tractors, etc. Creating chaos and actually making it more dangerous on the roads next to school.

The only time I would've got a lift in my school time was if you were ill, suspended or expelled.

As for paedo argument, judging by recent events with Westminster, celebrities, church minsters and football coaches. I did well dodging them as I grew up in the 80s when it looks as if it was a much bigger problem and it's an absurd argument to make now. I mean I managed from five to seventeen walking to school and I didn't have to run some sort of paedo gauntlet everyday.

Kids should be walking to school if they stay within a 1-1.5 miles. No excuses, might be the only exercise they get that day.

What's P&Bs opinion on it?

As you can tell I do have a bee in my bonnet about it, and as far as I'm concerned they are c**ts.
 

This. There's an - apparently good - primary school near us that's queued for two hundred yards each side with 4x4 Bearsden tanks between 8.30 and 9am. It's actually more dangerous than letting the kids walk to school as it's situated on a 90 degree bend and the silly boots doing the school run end up parking up on the pavement, treating it as a social occasion rather than depositing their spawn at the gate and fucking off.

Had a run in with one a while back who'd parked on the pavement right on the hard shoulder of the bend and opened her door when I was like five feet away blocking off what she'd left of the pavement, so I bumped the door shut again.

Hell hath no fury like a middle-class wifie on a school run...nae bother - I'll just walk into traffic on a blind bend because you're shite at parking.

[Trackdaybob]

IMO it's partly that a lot of parents don't want to let kids out their sight but also the kids have got used to that pretty quick and also they pretty much have the world at their fingertips on their phones/tablets. They're not that interested in going outside anymore.

Edited December 2, 2016 by Trackdaybob
phone fuckwittery

[smpar]

People saying "theirself" and other frighteningly awful variations of that made up word.

[Trackdaybob]

Noel Fielding. What an unfunny kund.

[Allan Jacobsen]

On 11/26/2015 at 21:50, Fae_the_'briggs said:

Another moan about cars. Why do some people leave their headlights on when sitting in the car and parked on the wrong side of the road facing oncoming traffic. It can be bloody blinding. Side lights are adequate enough. Taxi drivers, yes you lot, are guilty of this when they pick up and drop off fares.

This is somewhat similar. When I come into my street, there are cars parked on both sides of the road which means that cars have to drive up the middle of the road. Therefore there are occasions when you need to pull in to let the cars through. Tonight, I pull into my street and pull in behind a car (facing in the same direction as me) with their headlights on to let the oncoming cars through. You would expect the car to pull out once the road is clear due to their headlights being on - this did not happen. Instead, I notice the fucking idiot waddling across the road and chuck their briefcase in the boot. The moron had left their car with the headlights on which led me to think that there was someone in the car. Suffice to say, when I drove past them (after another 17 cars went past), I let them know what I thought of them. Fucking Audi drivers (even though I drive one myself).

[Tony Ferrino]

4 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Christmas jumpers.

Have the new twin towers been attacked?

Edited December 2, 2016 by Tony Ferrino

[Tony Ferrino]

10 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:

 

Great accents up in the NW of Engerland IMO.

 

As far as english accents go, there are far, far worse.

[Tony Ferrino]

25 minutes ago, Trackdaybob said:

Noel Fielding. What an unfunny kund.

Yeah, sort of know what you mean, but if I made a list of every comedian who appeared on my tele, he'd be in my top 20 least unfunny.

[Stellaboz]

Have the new twin towers been attacked?

Yes but Isenguard is holding out.

[The_Kincardine]

1 hour ago, Trackdaybob said:

IMO it's partly that a lot of parents don't want to let kids out their sight but also the kids have got used to that pretty quick and also they pretty much have the world at their fingertips on their phones/tablets. They're not that interested in going outside anymore.

There is, though, a healthy balance between "running about the streets" and "sitting on your fat arse with a PlayStation".

[Miguel Sanchez]

This was all fields when I was a boy.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 minute ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

This was all fields when I was a boy.

Gracie?

[Ya Bezzer!]

It's starting to annoy me that every woman under, say 40, is wearing jeans with the knees cut out.  

Mindless fad and looks fucking awful.  Air brained tinky witches.  I hope it rains on your awful orange knees.

[weirdcal]

Now I know what getting off at Haymarket means, but this is a loss to me.

Well preston is a bit of a shithole..

[Bert Raccoon]

Just now, weirdcal said:

 

Well Carlisle is a bit of a shithole..

 

I was once approached in a pub by a gentleman with a missing finger who insisted that Carlisle was great for a night out. I didn't take his advice as I don't take advice from men who look like they've been fingering Jaws.

[Shotgun]

2 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I was once approached in a pub by a gentleman with a missing finger who insisted that Carlisle was great for a night out. I didn't take his advice as I don't take advice from men who look like they've been fingering Jaws.

I've had two nights out in Carlisle. Per that scientific sample, I would say the gentleman was incorrect.

[hk blues]

IMO it's partly that a lot of parents don't want to let kids out their sight but also the kids have got used to that pretty quick and also they pretty much have the world at their fingertips on their phones/tablets. They're not that interested in going outside anymore.

By me it's gone way past the joke. When the kids arrive at the school, the security guards meet them at the car and escort them into school...carrying their schoolbags for them. On the way out same in reverse. Utter cunty behaviour.

[Dee Man]

3 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I was once approached in a pub by a gentleman with a missing finger who insisted that Carlisle was great for a night out. I didn't take his advice as I don't take advice from men who look like they've been fingering Jaws.

I always assumed Jaws was a male. Therefore he must have been fingering Jaws' ringpiece, so why would he lose a finger unless Jaws had teeth in his anus as well? In fact, even if Jaws was female and he was fingering her, why would he lose his finger in that situation? 

I don't think you've thought this through, Bert.

[die hard doonhamer]

I'm not sure if this deserves a thread of its own or how controversial it might be, but here goes.

The school run, parents running their kids to school.

Supposed reasons for it; saves time, paedos round every corner, etc, etc.

There is NO reason for it, They are just too damn lazy to get up a bit earlier and also learn their kids how to cross a road.

School areas infested with Chelsea tractors, etc. Creating chaos and actually making it more dangerous on the roads next to school.

The only time I would've got a lift in my school time was if you were ill, suspended or expelled.

As for paedo argument, judging by recent events with Westminster, celebrities, church minsters and football coaches. I did well dodging them as I grew up in the 80s when it looks as if it was a much bigger problem and it's an absurd argument to make now. I mean I managed from five to seventeen walking to school and I didn't have to run some sort of paedo gauntlet everyday.

Kids should be walking to school if they stay within a 1-1.5 miles. No excuses, might be the only exercise they get that day.

What's P&Bs opinion on it?

As you can tell I do have a bee in my bonnet about it, and as far as I'm concerned they are c**ts.

At the school my son goes to no one other than residents are allowed their car in to the street during the school day. We are only about 400m from the school anyway, so would always have walked, but it seems to be working well. Although you do get a few parking just outside the street, boy nearly as many as before

[Bert Raccoon]

4 hours ago, Dee Man said:

I always assumed Jaws was a male. Therefore he must have been fingering Jaws' ringpiece, so why would he lose a finger unless Jaws had teeth in his anus as well? In fact, even if Jaws was female and he was fingering her, why would he lose his finger in that situation? 

I don't think you've thought this through, Bert.

You're absolutely correct. I tried to think of a way I could salvage it involving the shark being fingered with one hand while the other hand hangs precariously over it's mouth. Or even perhaps trying to tie it in some way humorously to not the shark, but the shiny toothed henchman of the same name in the James Bond films. But no, it's fucked and needed pointing out.

 

I'm away to sit in a dark room and think about what I've done here.