What winds YOU up ?

[Donnywolf]

Or a man of La Manche  .......  from Manche - ster ?

[Boomstick]

Halal food. I was in a restaurant recently, they had some Moroccan chicken, it looked delicious. But it was their 'halal' option, so naturally I chose something else that didn't look as nice.

f**king barbaric practice and should be outlawed. I refuse to go anywhere near the stuff.
I hate the fact places have to accommodate this bullshit, backwards practice .

[The Red Baron]

Two more road-related things which boil my piss.

1. Pedestrians who cross the road (in busy traffic) when there is a crossing a few yards away. Lazy gits!

2. Cyclists who suddenly go from cycling on the pavement to cycling on the road (or vice-versa).

[IDM]

Cyclists without any lights at this time of year..

Got a death wish.?? Bell ends.!!

[rich1471]

Halal food. I was in a restaurant recently, they had some Moroccan chicken, it looked delicious. But it was their 'halal' option, so naturally I chose something else that didn't look as nice.

f**king barbaric practice and should be outlawed. I refuse to go anywhere near the stuff.
I hate the fact places have to accommodate this bullshit, backwards practice .

i work in the catering industry and would say 90-95 % of chicken is halal people just don't  shoot about it , nanado's chicken is all halal , and some meats from subway , around 90% of animals are stunned for halal meat and not just slaughtered nowadays.
 things what pixx me off   
1 people on there phones when paying at a till its just rude
2 people trying to joining the motorway at 30 M.P.H
3 people who go out for a meal and spend all there time just texting there friends or taking photos of there food just eat it and enjoy the company your in
4 motorcyclist who weave in an out of traffic and look at you when they cannot get by as if its your fault
 

[RedJ]

Motorcyclists are allowed to weave through traffic.

[Donnywolf]

... and leading on from rich1471s point above people who join Motorways (usually at 80) by crossing the Chevron marked area rather than waiting till the correct spot to join

[IDM]

Bogies..

Why the hell do we have them.?

[Bentley Bullet]

Bogies..

Why the hell do we have them.?

They are an essential part of trains on our railways.

[RedJ]

Bogies..

Why the hell do we have them.?

In-car entertainment for kids, it seems...

[Boomstick]

Colleagues, certain ones. Complete Kitsons which I have nothing in common with, and would never have anything to  do with them otherwise, but forced to endure their company for 8 hours a day.
Then pretend to get along with them, whilst seething inside and resisting to punch the Kitson, in the Kitson.

[RedJ]

Christ, never thought I'd see a boomstick post and agree with every single word of it, but here we are.

[colfromdonny]

Colleagues, certain ones. Complete Kitsons which I have nothing in common with, and would never have anything to  do with them otherwise, but forced to endure their company for 8 hours a day.
Then pretend to get along with them, whilst seething inside and resisting to punch the Kitson, in the Kitson.

+ 1

[bellevuebulgar]

People who persist in pronouncing the letter H as HAY ch. NO!! It’s bleedin Aitch.
Guards (train commanders, whatever they’re called nowadays on LNER) telling me whatever is in coach “Hay..ch”.
To top it all I had to listen to the Head of Cyber Security at HMRC on Radio 4 this morning telling us he worked for “Hay ch MRC.” Noooooo!!

[roversdude]

Can I add another - justifying the cash cow that is 60mph signs on M1 as being for air quality

[BillyStubbsTears]

I assume you've never lived close to a motorway then, like an old colleague of mine did with his asthmatic daughter.

[Herbert Anchovy]

Atheists and Religious fundamentalists

[Boomstick]

Atheists and Religious fundamentalists

I would say an atheist is a religious fundamentalist, by point blank refusing to believe anything religious.
All the atheists I've met, are very preachy, ironically.
Kind of like vegans.

Ah ! Vegans, they wind me up.!

[Herbert Anchovy]

The bas**rds who injured Alan Brown and Ray ‘Dixie’ Deans in our 1984/85 season. They were shaping up to be a phenomenal strike partnership until they were both injured and forced to retire within months of each other!

[drfchound]

People who persist in pronouncing the letter H as HAY ch. NO!! It’s bleedin Aitch.
Guards (train commanders, whatever they’re called nowadays on LNER) telling me whatever is in coach “Hay..ch”.
To top it all I had to listen to the Head of Cyber Security at HMRC on Radio 4 this morning telling us he worked for “Hay ch MRC.” Noooooo!!

There was a young woman on the BBC Breakfast programme this morning telling the world she had been the victim of coHersion.

[roversdude]

I assume you've never lived close to a motorway then, like an old colleague of mine did with his asthmatic daughter.

Actually I do now - however most of the area these matrix signs are on are not near housing

[roversdude]

On the flip side a mate of mine lived in Scotland miles from anywhere on a farm and his lad had asthma

[BillyStubbsTears]

Where are the pollution-based speed limits that aren't near built up areas.

My ex-colleague lives near Tinsley viaduct. The pollution levels there were horrific. If its a choice between doing something to address that or folk getting home 5mins earlier, it's a no brainer.

[roversdude]

Billy I think you missed my point, from junction 28 going north these matrix signs have been on a timer (same going down to 28), initially it was a managed motorway. All of a sudden it’s an air quality issue. If it is air quality then slowing the traffic and having stop start will only make this worse.
If this is the best we can come up with to tackle greenhouse gases it is laughable.
Has slowing traffic improved Tinsley (genuine question)

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've no idea what the purpose of the limits are on that stretch (fortunately I don't use it as often as I used to - God knows enough of my younger life was lost there). But it's well known that reducing speeds at peak times increases the smooth flow of traffic, as there's less hard braking at high speed, which ripples back through the traffic.

To me it's a non-issue. If you do 25 miles at 60, you take less than 4 mins more than you would doing the same 25 miles at 70. You use a lot less petrol and have less time up the arse of the car in front of you. And you pollute less.

Tinsley. I don't know the official analysis but figures I've seen say there's not been a single day this year where the NO2 concentrations have been above the legal limit. I don't know what mybex-colleague's situation is like because he's a Kitson and if I never see him again it'll be too soon.

[roversdude]

Billy it wasn’t the extra time taken it’s how they’ve packaged it up.
Totally agree with the idea of smoothing out the traffic flow, however there is always some kitson in an Audi/BMW who wants to be somewhere too soon who causes everyone one to brake by trying to cut through traffic.

[Donnywolf]

b****t this
b****t that
b****t any f*****g thing

ENOUGH please !

[Filo]

Billy it wasn’t the extra time taken it’s how they’ve packaged it up.
Totally agree with the idea of smoothing out the traffic flow, however there is always some kitson in an Audi/BMW who wants to be somewhere too soon who causes everyone one to brake by trying to cut through traffic.

On Friday afternoon coming back from East Midlands Airport, it wasn’t the Audi/ BMW drivers, it was white van man weaving in and out all the time

[drfchound]

Billy it wasn’t the extra time taken it’s how they’ve packaged it up.
Totally agree with the idea of smoothing out the traffic flow, however there is always some kitson in an Audi/BMW who wants to be somewhere too soon who causes everyone one to brake by trying to cut through traffic.

On Friday afternoon coming back from East Midlands Airport, it wasn’t the Audi/ BMW drivers, it was white van man weaving in and out all the time

......or, as very often is the case, the young drivers in their Corsas who think they can drive how they like.
Also, I don’t think I have ever seen anyone drive a Subaru Impreza at anything other than a dangerous speed.

[Bentley Bullet]

An Egyptian bloke in a BMW just pulled up alongside me on Bentley Road, beeped his horn and bared his naked arse out of the window.

Bloody toot and car moon.