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Farlsborough wrote:People riding horses who think this qualifies them as traffic officers. "Go round, go round", waving their arms in the most patronising of ways. P*ss off. I'll go round when I feel like going round - my mode of transport is 3 times as wide as yours and it's a narrow country lane. I'm not going to risk being taken out by a rural rude boy in a souped up mitsubishi just because the sound of my engine irks your diddums of a pony.

On a similar note cyclists who use the pavements, sometimes whole families of them, and expect pedestrians to get out of the way for them. I don't. I make eye contact with the father and keep my course. The council spent tens of thousands of pounds putting a cycle path along the road from here into town. Does anyone use it? Nah. I may start using it to walk on.

Oh, and groups of racing cyclists who think that they have a perfect right to clog up the road and create a long tailback while they chat to each other. God forbid anyone beep them to remind them it's a road.

Gosh,that's quite a bit of bile

Farlsborough wrote:People riding horses who think this qualifies them as traffic officers. "Go round, go round", waving their arms in the most patronising of ways. P*ss off. I'll go round when I feel like going round - my mode of transport is 3 times as wide as yours and it's a narrow country lane. I'm not going to risk being taken out by a rural rude boy in a souped up mitsubishi just because the sound of my engine irks your diddums of a pony.

themagicwand wrote:TV ads for loans should be banned. Well, these days with the credit crunch and all they're as good as banned, but still...

Remember the one with that rubbish comic guy who never really made it and his pretend wife? The guy was on the phone organising a mortgage while his wife busied around him. The advert ended with the guy telling the mortgage "advisor" on the other end of the line that he was off to watch the match, then his wife threw a ball and the guy headed it? The couple's loan (the impression given) was organised, approved, and dumped into their bank account in around 2 minutes.

And people wonder why the credit crunch happened. Well done banks.

That advert has been doing the rounds for ages - I remember there being one like that on when I was younger, possibly the same one, where the guy's talking to the call centre monkey about "the football." Miss a payment then see what they want to talk about. It won't be the football.

Didn't an advert like that get pulled because they found out they were using a form of subliminal advertising? They had the cheery voiceover going "of course you could do your house up, do this, do that etc" and without missing a beat, in the same tone, said something like "and your house could be at serious risk if the repayments are missed". Because he just threw it in like that, a lot of people either didn't hear it at all or just glossed over it. I'm sure I remember reading about that advert being pulled - it was so effective it made me forget which company it was advertising.

Infinite wrote: in the US someone is selling the space. Heck we have people who sell ad space ON THEIR HEADS.

In the bins for the airport? Ads placed inside.

OK one for the chaps here, how about those adverts above urinals? Assuming you do the biz like everyone else and stand facing forward, you can't avoid the damn things. I have this desperate urge to aim as high as I can to show what I think of such captive advertising - sadly, I haven't been able to reach that high since I was about 7....

I've always found those posters rather curious - is that really the kind of place you want to associate with your brand?

Tomo wrote:

Farlsborough wrote:People riding horses who think this qualifies them as traffic officers. "Go round, go round", waving their arms in the most patronising of ways. P*ss off. I'll go round when I feel like going round - my mode of transport is 3 times as wide as yours and it's a narrow country lane. I'm not going to risk being taken out by a rural rude boy in a souped up mitsubishi just because the sound of my engine irks your diddums of a pony.

On a similar note cyclists who use the pavements, sometimes whole families of them, and expect pedestrians to get out of the way for them. I don't. I make eye contact with the father and keep my course. The council spent tens of thousands of pounds putting a cycle path along the road from here into town. Does anyone use it? Nah. I may start using it to walk on.

I had that happen the other day, except it was one cyclist. Despite a perfectly fine cycle lane running alongside the pavement he was swerving all over the footpath. I asked him if he passed if he was expecting us to use the cycle lane, he just carried on... stick in spokes, anyone?

I have a lot of pet hates; with a small exception - and in particular in most clubs - I'd have to agree with Sartre: "L'enfer, c'est les autres".

Mandrake wrote:OK one for the chaps here, how about those adverts above urinals?

In some places in the US the urinal cakes themselves are stamped with adverts.

There is some vindication in pointing at it and making part of the letters disappear.

Mandrake wrote:

Infinite wrote: in the US someone is selling the space. Heck we have people who sell ad space ON THEIR HEADS.

In the bins for the airport? Ads placed inside.

OK one for the chaps here, how about those adverts above urinals?

Oh, I like them. They're something to read and they take my mind off peeing in front of other men.

Urinal Cakes. It just goes to prove that it isn't always great to have your cake and eat it too...

Urinal cakes are there for entertainment seeing if you can split them in two. They certainly don't make the things smell much better.

Actually, let me put in another one - people saying they've got OCD when what they actually mean is OCPD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder). As someone who's suffered from OCD, and still does to an extent, it's infuriating to hear it used as some kind of casual thing which marks them out as being a little bit quirky...

"I have to alphabetise my DVD collection, look at me - I'm so OCD!"

Grr...

bananafish wrote:Urinal Cakes. It just goes to prove that it isn't always great to have your cake and eat it too...

Brilliant! I doubt I shall be able to 'go' in a public urinal in future without thinking of you - in the nicest possible way, of course....

Renato wrote:Actually, let me put in another one - people saying they've got OCD when what they actually mean is OCPD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder). As someone who's suffered from OCD, and still does to an extent, it's infuriating to hear it used as some kind of casual thing which marks them out as being a little bit quirky...

"I have to alphabetise my DVD collection, look at me - I'm so OCD!"

Grr...

Say it loud! And people who say "I am OCD." Grrr.

OCPD is rare in and of itself.

Boo for labeling yourself for your unwillingness to cope with reality.

I do not of course take anything away from people who actually ARE diagnosed. I'm more talking those people who have never been diagnosed and just need a label to mask their own lack of initiative or apathy.

My name in Hindi means.. From the Heart..
Unfortunately, adding a 'c' somewhere makes it a really embarrassing English name to have.

Oh I don't know, I think Hincdi has a nice ring to it.