The small things in life that annoy you

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

18 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

People whinging about getting caught doing 25% over the speed limit..

I'll be more pleased about it next time.

More frustrating that it's a road I used to drive on a lot and was previously 30mph (in my years of living near it, never any accidents or issues that I'm aware of).

Edited Wednesday at 20:31 by Stripey McStripe Shirt

[Gloucester Saint]

Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains aren’t too shabby either

 

[egg]

31 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

I'll be more pleased about it next time.

More frustrating that it's a road I used to drive on a lot and was previously 30mph (in my years of living near it, never any accidents or issues that I'm aware of).

There are 20 zones all over the place that aren't clearly marked. I don't believe anyone who says they consistently stay below that limit.

[Weston Super Saint]

10 hours ago, egg said:

There are 20 zones all over the place that aren't clearly marked. I don't believe anyone who says they consistently stay below that limit.

20 in a car is painful.  It takes far more concentration to keep the speed that low and far more time is spent looking at the speedo.  I would say my driving is more dangerous keeping to 20 than it is keeping to 30 as I spend far less time watching the actual road!

 

[whelk]

10 hours ago, egg said:

There are 20 zones all over the place that aren't clearly marked. I don't believe anyone who says they consistently stay below that limit.

I got done recently in a 20 zone. The Speed Awareness course was actually ok but still seems 20mph is an outlier that even the trainer found hard to justify other than saying look out for the signs ie there are no other indicators as there are with other speed limits.

[Sheaf Saint]

34 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

20 in a car is painful.  It takes far more concentration to keep the speed that low and far more time is spent looking at the speedo.  I would say my driving is more dangerous keeping to 20 than it is keeping to 30 as I spend far less time watching the actual road!

 

It really doesn't. The road I live on was changed to 20 a couple of years ago, after a bad accident when someone drove into a neighbor's garden wall, and after a very short period of adjustment it just feels totally normal now.

[egg]

51 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

20 in a car is painful.  It takes far more concentration to keep the speed that low and far more time is spent looking at the speedo.  I would say my driving is more dangerous keeping to 20 than it is keeping to 30 as I spend far less time watching the actual road!

 

Yep. Focus on the speedo rather than the road is an issue. The problem on some  back streets is that some are 20 and others 30, with no signs, so I only know I'm in a 20 zone when the car beeps at me for exceeding 20. 

[egg]

17 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It really doesn't. The road I live on was changed to 20 a couple of years ago, after a bad accident when someone drove into a neighbor's garden wall, and after a very short period of adjustment it just feels totally normal now.

I get that it's easy to adapt to a road that you drive on probably twice a day, but that's vastly different to driving street to street with ever changing limits. 

[Weston Super Saint]

46 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It really doesn't. The road I live on was changed to 20 a couple of years ago, after a bad accident when someone drove into a neighbor's garden wall, and after a very short period of adjustment it just feels totally normal now.

On the road you live on is doing the heavy lifting there!

[Whitey Grandad]

On 02/04/2026 at 08:51, Sheaf Saint said:

It really doesn't. The road I live on was changed to 20 a couple of years ago, after a bad accident when someone drove into a neighbor's garden wall, and after a very short period of adjustment it just feels totally normal now.

But how fast was the wall going?

[Turkish]

When you want to go to bed then realise you haven’t done your Duolingo 

[whelk]

8 hours ago, Turkish said:

When you want to go to bed then realise you haven’t done your Duolingo 

Latin or Welsh?

[Sheaf Saint]

20 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

But how fast was the wall going?

Relative to what, Einstein? 

[Turkish]

53 minutes ago, whelk said:

Latin or Welsh?

Arabic so I can communicate with the largest growing community in Britain 

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Relative to what, Einstein? 

Walls don't have any relatives.

[badgerx16]

On 02/04/2026 at 08:51, Sheaf Saint said:

It really doesn't. The road I live on was changed to 20 a couple of years ago, after a bad accident when someone drove into a neighbor's garden wall, and after a very short period of adjustment it just feels totally normal now.

 

23 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

But how fast was the wall going?

 

3 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Relative to what, Einstein? 

The car was stationary, the wall was moving at the rotational velocity of the Earth.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

57 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

 

 

The car was stationary, the wall was moving at the rotational velocity of the Earth.

Hello? Direct Line?

I'd like to make a claim. A planet hit my car with a wall.

[Weston Super Saint]

51 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Hello? Direct Line?

I'd like to make a claim. A planet hit my car with a wall.

Uninsured driver.

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Hello? Direct Line?

I'd like to make a claim. A planet hit my car with a wall.

Sounds like a Jasper Carrot gag.

[Sheaf Saint]

2 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Hello? Direct Line?

I'd like to make a claim. A planet hit my car with a wall.

Pretty sure that would be classed as force majeure.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Uninsured driver.

"and I'd be able afford driving now, if it wasn't for the laws around planetary formation increasing galactic premium prices."

Oddly, I have that corner of the pub all to myself. 🙂