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 April 1 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. 🙂

[The Kraken]

502 Bad Gateway

504 Gateway Timeout ERROR

[RedArmy]

Can someone put 50p in the servers? 
 

 

[Sheaf Saint]

Northern Rail using trains with no luggage space on their service between Manchester Piccadilly and the airport. Because why would anyone travelling to and from an airport need to take luggage with them? 

[Sheaf Saint]

57 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Northern Rail using trains with no luggage space on their service between Manchester Piccadilly and the airport. Because why would anyone travelling to and from an airport need to take luggage with them? 

And while I'm at it...

Split-save tickets that specify a different station to travel through from the one that you're changing at, leading to total confusion about what time your connecting train is actually due to depart. 

[Lighthouse]

Horse racing. If motorsport had the same number of human fatalities it'd have been banned decades ago.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

44 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Horse racing. If motorsport had the same number of human fatalities it'd have been banned decades ago.

What human fatalities have there been in horse racing?

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

What human fatalities have there been in horse racing?

Emily Davison

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Discretionary service charges added to restaurant bills.

[whelk]

9 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Discretionary service charges added to restaurant bills.

I was at an airport yesterday and bought a couple of bottles of water near the gate. And had to navigate that I didn’t want to give an additional tip for being handed two bottles - and that €4.50 per bottle was plenty enough for such incredible service

[egg]

33 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Discretionary service charges added to restaurant bills.

I don't mind it in restaurants, and I think a tip should be paid by default....auto adding it flushes out the tight people. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

16 minutes ago, egg said:

 I think a tip should be paid by default.

Why? Just add it to the advertised cost of that's the case.

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

I was at an airport yesterday and bought a couple of bottles of water near the gate. And had to navigate that I didn’t want to give an additional tip for being handed two bottles - and that €4.50 per bottle was plenty enough for such incredible service

Yep, plus in bars when you order at the bar and all they are doing is their job of pouring a couple of drinks and the card machine comes up with "add tip" also when supermarkets ask you if you want to round up your bill to support whatever charity is try to climb the Woke League, fuck off.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

Yep, plus in bars when you order at the bar and all they are doing is their job of pouring a couple of drinks and the card machine comes up with "add tip" also when supermarkets ask you if you want to round up your bill to support whatever charity is try to climb the Woke League, fuck off.

Don't get me started on supermarkets who have a food bank donation point straight after the tills.

Absolutely no disrespect for food banks, but multi billion pound companies asking me to donate a tin of beans just seems insulting. I saw in Waitrose the other day you can buy what appeared to be a mystery bag of food for £5 (I think).

[egg]

5 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Why? Just add it to the advertised cost of that's the case.

I'm always happy to tip serving staff unless they're rude or give shit service. There's always some tight sods who don't though, so stick it on the bill and let them ask for it to be removed if they're unwilling to pay it. 

[trousers]

21 minutes ago, egg said:

I'm always happy to tip serving staff unless they're rude or give shit service.

I tend to tip on a sliding scale, rather than on a 'black and white' do or don't basis... If it's shit, yep, no tip... If it's excellent, a decent tip... Anywhere in-between, reduce the tip accordingly.

 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

2 hours ago, egg said:

I'm always happy to tip serving staff unless they're rude or give shit service. There's always some tight sods who don't though, so stick it on the bill and let them ask for it to be removed if they're unwilling to pay it. 

If I decide to splurge on a prime fillet steak instead of a cheap burger, why should I be expected to pay a higher tip (i.e percentage of my bill) for exactly the same service?