Just give them beer from Northern Germany and that 'aahh' sound will become a 'beurghh' sound.
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Just give them beer from Northern Germany and that 'aahh' sound will become a 'beurghh' sound.
😂 Oh dear, not fond of Bock or Pfriem then eh?
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That video isn't loading for me, perhaps just as well based on what you said! I love the idea that "going 'aahh' is something Australians are supposed to do when we drink beer"
You haven't missed anything. If it's very hot and people are outdoors it has been known to happen.
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People who stop on yellow gridded junctions because they couldn't wait for the next green traffic light and then screw up the traffic flow from the other direction; they need to be put in stocks and blasted with rotten veg and cow dung.
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People who stop on yellow gridded junctions because they couldn't wait for the next green traffic light and then screw up the traffic flow from the other direction; they need to be put in stocks and blasted with rotten veg and cow dung.
Agreed!
Also, (very rare) people who, on approaching a dual carriageway on a slip road, with their back bumper about level with my front one, me slowing slightly to let them on, instead of accelerating, brake, while edging closer to me, making me brake more, yet she continues to brake, until we are literally stopped in the slow lane of the A55 North Wales expressway, she partly, me totally. Outside lane full of traffic, where did she think I was going to go? We could have been killed by someone behind not paying attention and slamming into the back of us. Yet, as I move off to squeeze past her with her car about a third into my lane, she looks at me as if I was to blame. I would love to know if she actually had a driving licence. I'd also have liked the chance to literally horsewhip her, but sadly, I can only get on with my life, knowing the likelihood is she will be involved in a serious accident in the future. Just hope she's the only victim!
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I feel your pain.
You have triggered a motorway related thought now, in addition to the usual frustration with people who think the middle lane is for people who want to do a middle-ish speed (for a B road). It’s those absolute nutsacks who overtake you, return to your lane and then slow down. What the absolute F is all that about?!
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I feel your pain.
You have triggered a motorway related thought now, in addition to the usual frustration with people who think the middle lane is for people who want to do a middle-ish speed (for a B road). It’s those absolute nutsacks who overtake you, return to your lane and then slow down. What the absolute F is all that about?!
Yeah, or the "P" driver who drives in the fast lane of a 2 lane road, with cars queuing behind and nowt in slow lane. Happened to me 2 days ago, had to pass on nearside.
Variation on yours: about 25 years ago, passed a jaguar on a single lane road going fairly slow towards Nantwich, pulled up at lights with 2 lanes. He blows me away from lights then resumes his previous speed, meaning I have to pass him again. He didn't get the chance to do it again, but if there had been another set of lights, I was going to straddle the lanes!
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Back in the 1960s The Frost Report did a sketch based on pedestrians behaving like bad drivers (I think it ended with a people pile-up). In the same way that cars tailgating is annoying, I don't get it when I'm walking along and someone is right behind me by mere inches. When it becomes apparent they're going to stick there I stop and stand aside so they pass. Why isn't it annoying to them to walk so closely behind someone?
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Yeah, or the "P" driver who drives in the fast lane of a 2 lane road, with cars queuing behind and nowt in slow lane. Happened to me 2 days ago, had to pass on nearside.
Variation on yours: about 25 years ago, passed a jaguar on a single lane road going fairly slow towards Nantwich, pulled up at lights with 2 lanes. He blows me away from lights then resumes his previous speed, meaning I have to pass him again. He didn't get the chance to do it again, but if there had been another set of lights, I was going to straddle the lanes!
Could almost have been a Midlands version of Duel, without a tanker truck!
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Back in the 1960s The Frost Report did a sketch based on pedestrians behaving like bad drivers (I think it ended with a people pile-up). In the same way that cars tailgating is annoying, I don't get it when I'm walking along and someone is right behind me by mere inches. When it becomes apparent they're going to stick there I stop and stand aside so they pass. Why isn't it annoying to them to walk so closely behind someone?
Ah the personal space invaders. Ban them too. 👍👍
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Last week I saw, on a website promoting government grants for domestic energy efficiency initiatives, reference to "an inprincable decision". Inprincable.
This is on the same spectrum as bowl in a china shop, all the Belgian whistles, social leopard, a pacific reason, expresso, bit of a damp squid, etc.
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Our local Timpsons - who do shoe repairs and that sort of thing - runs an animal sanctuary, while getting a key cut I saw staff nursing an injured deer, tending to orphaned ducklings and feeding a stranded dolphin. They've also sent a peacekeeping force to Gaza, housed thousands of displaced Syrian war victims, eradicated most forms of cancer, developed a perpetual motion machine, deciphered the 4000 year old Oxus inscriptions and invented cheap clean energy. They're an amazing company.
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Well observed. The irony of virtue signalling. If acting with virtue, you act from the heart, motivated to do good. If you have to signal it, you're running on ego.
"Social conscience" virtue signalling bullsh1t should be dropped into Room 101.
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Well observed. The irony of virtue signalling. If acting with virtue, you act from the heart, motivated to do good. If you have to signal it, you're running on ego.
"Social conscience" virtue signalling bullsh1t should be dropped into Room 101.
I don't mind them doing what they do. There's some value in announcing how you're helping to rehabilitate offenders. But my flight of fancy was sparked by a hilarious twitter thread earlier in which dozens of people were gushing about how wonderful they are, the staff are so kind, they do such good work, then there started to be mentions of how they'd done work for free, been sympathetic to people's circumstances, and so on and it had me chuckling to myself at the absurd wonderfulness of it all. I was waiting for someone to say "THEY SAVED MY LIFE" and set off tales of heroic rescues and self-sacrifices.
Look, if all those people had great service that's all fine and who am I to mock it. It was amusing though that among the starry-eyed breathless praise there were a few disgruntled voices saying stuff like "They glue new soles on which come flapping off a week later" and "Their key-cutting is so bad the key snapped off in the lock".
A few complained that long-established local shops which provided these services closed after the local megastore opened a Timpsons outlet on site. That's an interesting one; they maybe shouldn't blame Timpsons but rather the superstore chain for enabling it and, ultimately, all those locals who chose to switch their business away from the old family-run place.
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Someone on twitter just mentioned Vosene and it made me chuckle.
There's one very much for brits of a certain age.
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If your card did not work on the first tap clearly the best move is to keep smashing it against the reader like it is eventually going to change its mind. Spoiler alert: it won't. There's a reason it failed - just insert the card already.
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If your card did not work on the first tap clearly the best move is to keep smashing it against the reader like it is eventually going to change its mind. Spoiler alert: it won't. There's a reason it failed - just insert the card already.
There's a simple trick to make it work: say "COME ON!!!!!" loudly. Repeat several times, add some cussing for flavour. You're welcome
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If your card did not work on the first tap clearly the best move is to keep smashing it against the reader like it is eventually going to change its mind. Spoiler alert: it won't. There's a reason it failed - just insert the card already.
Also: try to insert USB, doesn't go in. Turn it around, insert; still doesn't go in. Turn it again, ie back to the way around you first had it; it goes in.
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Conversation just overheard in Inverness:
A: Where is he?
B: On his way over on the bus.
A: (incredulous) From Turkey?
B: No. Glasgow.
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Also: try to insert USB, doesn't go in. Turn it around, insert; still doesn't go in. Turn it again, ie back to the way around you first had it; it goes in.
It's the quantum superposition of the USB. Until the USB drive is observed, it exists in a state of being both correctly and incorrectly oriented. Schrodinger's USB.
