[Archived] RANT

[Mike E]

Retracted.

[Mike E]

I have got my facts straight with a friend (a miscarriage is not what I thought it meant, which was a stillbirth).

As such I retract the comments I made earlier although they'll remain viewable in the quotes of other posts. I apologise to members who have read what was a misjudged, ill-informed and really rather nasty comment.

[Stuart]

That doesn't make it any better, Mike. If anything it makes it worse.

I'm not easily offended but I don't even want to imagine the horror of a stillbirth.

[broadsword]

Back to ranting ... morons who deliberately buy trousers that don't fit so they can show off their pants. Unbelievable

[old darwen blue]

Ignorant motorists who cut me up on my bicycle

[adopted scouser]

Cyclists who ride on the roads free of charge while I have to pay tax and insurance

[jim mk2]

Motorists who object to paying taxes for the pollution and environmental damage they cause.

Motorists who object to paying takes despite the fact motoring costs have not risen taking account for inflation for 30 years.

Motorists who think the country should be plastered with new motorways.

Company car drivers - have I mentioned them before ?

Bleeding private rail companies who are making extortionate profits from passengers.

John Major for privatising the rail network and Tony Blair for failing to renationalise it.

Barsteward Beeching and his crook sidekick Ernest Marples.

More later.

[Mike E]

People who take ages trying to pronounce things on a chinese takeaway menu instead of giving the numbers. So much simpler!

[thenodrog]

  On 11/11/2013 at 07:04, Stuart said:

That doesn't make it any better, Mike. If anything it makes it worse.

I'm not easily offended but I don't even want to imagine the horror of a stillbirth.

I'd leave it at that Stuart. A misunderstanding not reason for a lynch mob. . Mike has retracted so you might like to edit your quote out too.

[thenodrog]

  On 11/11/2013 at 09:47, jim mk2 said:

Barsteward Beeching and his crook sidekick Ernest Marples.

More later.

Is that the Dr Beeching that your hero Harold Wilson elevated to the peerage to become Baron Beeching?

btw don't steam trains pollute?

[Mike E]

Drivers who get up your arse just because you aren't doing 50 in a 30. Usually those 'low-riders' with all manner of bodykit, go-faster stripes, and music so loud on their radios you just get that dull thud that sounds like a cat being sick.

[adopted scouser]

  On 11/11/2013 at 13:10, Mike Ellison said:

Drivers who get up your arse just because you aren't doing 50 in a 30. Usually those 'low-riders' with all manner of bodykit, go-faster stripes, and music so loud on their radios you just get that dull thud that sounds like a cat being sick.

The little dick club ?

[Reedy You're A Star]

I tend to go at 20 at times like that and let as many people out or across the road as I possibly can. It's so much more satisfying watching steam come out of their ears behind you than have it come out of yours because they're up your arse.

[FGS5635]

I flick my rear fog lights on. Always keans them up that your breaking

[Majiball]

  On 11/11/2013 at 13:10, Mike Ellison said:

Drivers who get up your arse just because you aren't doing 50 in a 30. Usually those 'low-riders' with all manner of bodykit, go-faster stripes, and music so loud on their radios you just get that dull thud that sounds like a cat being sick.

GET OUT OF MY KEANING WAY THEN!

[Majiball]

  On 11/11/2013 at 19:30, FGS5635 said:

I flick my rear fog lights on. Always keans them up that your breaking

just lift the hand brake one notch, brake lights on but brakes not.

[Mike E]

Ummm Maj? Brake lights aren't connected to the handbrake....

[old darwen blue]

People who complain about cyclists not paying tax and insurance. I pay enough of both on my A5 3.0 TdI quattro sport and shouldn't need to pay for tax on my bicycle although I understand a lot of cyclists pay insurance because there are some real arseholes on the road. Anyway bicycles have been here longer than cars as have horse riders and they don't pay any tax either. What's next, a compulsory requirement for joggers to require personal insurance when running on pavements in case they knock someone over by accident? What about someone walking too quickly through a crowded shopping centre? What about hikers who may require the assistance of mountain rescue? Rant over.

[perthblue02]

Joggers who run on pavements who don't have insurance for when they bump into somebody and knock them over.

People who walk too quickly in crowded shopping centres and barge past people

Hikers , full stop!

People who call for the destruction of Sharks just because some idiots want to paddle in that bit of the sea

[cn174]

East Midlands Trains not having any food or drink on board their slow train from London to Sheffield this morning.

Escalators that do not escalate.

[thenodrog]

  On 12/11/2013 at 04:40, perthblue02 said:

Joggers who run on pavements

Joggers who run on the left side of the road and pay no heed to approaching cars behind them. Rain a greasy windscreen and a car coming the other way with headlights on renders them either lucky, invisible or dead. How can people have such little regard for their own life?

[Stuart]

Joggers who run on the road, full stop.

Hell there are enough footpaths and fields to run on. A bloke in the road on Saturday nearly caused an accident!

[Amo]

Must admit, during my usual route, there's one road I run down the side of. Simply because the pavement on the other side is too narrow, and having to bob and weave around people when you're trying to build momentum is a pain in the jacksy.

[broadsword]

I wouldn't cycle on the road let alone run on it. Roads are far dangerous these days.

[thenodrog]

  On 12/11/2013 at 22:46, Amarillo said:

Must admit, during my usual route, there's one road I run down the side of. Simply because the pavement on the other side is too narrow, and having to bob and weave around people when you're trying to build momentum is a pain in the jacksy.

Down the left? if so I can only assume that you don't drive.