Room 101

[Friesiansam]

Funny the yellow headlights are mentioned. My dad, back in the day when he had a Hillman Hunter GLS, if there was any mention of fog he'd put yellow cellophane over the lights.

When I had that Renault, if driving in very thick fog at night on the hills, I would switch the headlights down to just sidelights, so I only had the yellow light. Not legal but, much safer and, in those days, very little likelihood of being seen by the village copper.

 

[plastic penguin]

Game shows. I've never liked them but seem to on most channels.

Tipping Point
1% Club
House Of Games
Tenable

And so the list goes on.

Old ones such as Family Fortunes, hosted by TV chef Geno D'Campo. Really?

Never liked them when I was younger, still detest them.

 

[Friesiansam]

Manky, sticky, supermaket hot cross buns.

We have homemade ones. I can recommend living with a retired chef!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

City driving - a Hades of traffic lights, tailgaters, dawdlers, the barge-in brigade. Hateful.

 

[Gray]

"Haitch"

NO

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The combination of Sainsbury's and Tyrrell's crisps - asking £2.75 for a larger bag of the latter's chili crisps.

I bought so many last time they were on offer that I'd just about ran out when the next offer came. Boots filled again.

Also never thought I'd abandon Heinz baked beans - been a staple of the monkey diet since I was a kid. Turns out that I actually like Sainsbury's own brand more, and in a four pack those are 45p each, not a quid. Can't see me ever ditching Heinz Tomato soup, but who knows...?

 

[Gray]

never thought I'd abandon Heinz baked beans

When we eventually get the figures, I expect to see that Heinz sales have fallen off of a massive cliff - especially their beans and soups.
I find Lidl's Newgate beans to be perfectly ok - despite the massive price rise from £1.09 to £1.69 for a 4 pack....still good value when compared to the ultra-ripoff merchants.

 

[Friesiansam]

We switched from Heinz beans to Tesco, cheaper and, less water, more beans.

 

[Gray]

A rocket that blows itself to pieces has merely expeienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

 

[Friesiansam]

A rocket that blows itself to pieces has merely expeienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

Also, 6 of the 31 rocket motors on the first stage, didn't fire. Beats me how they can still class it as a success.

 

[jjbomber]

A rocket that blows itself to pieces has merely expeienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

Thoroughly Unexpected Rapid Disassembly. I'll let you abbreviate it.

 

[Gray]

Also, 6 of the 31 rocket motors on the first stage, didn't fire. Beats me how they can still class it as a success.

If that's a success, I wouldn't fancy being onboard one of their failures 🤔

 

[Gray]

Completely bare floors in 'hi-fi' rooms (it won't be high fidelity).
Stop it.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Cyclists side by side. If there's no-one else around, feel free. When you are holding other people up unnecessarily, why be so selfish?

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who don't say thanks when you hold a door for them, or let them through a gap not wide enough for two (pedestrian and car).

 

[Gray]

....or let them through a gap not wide enough for two (pedestrian and car).

That bit made me think of a real driving hate.
You will know the situation:
Road barely (but obviously) wide enough for 3 cars.
Car coming toward you with one parked on his side.
You're as far over to your left as you can be.
He goes round it, still coming toward you.
Fair enough.....BUT:
He allows enough room for the PARKED car to (fully) open its door!.

It happens so often, strangely most often to me on the widest road in my area.
If you've ever found yourself muttering "get over you ****" you will know precisely what I mean.

They're letting the highway code override common sense. Don't force the oncoming vehicle against the curb - if the parked car door opens, it deserves to be smashed off.
In that circumstance, it's not practical to give it room to open to its full extent - as so many seem to do.

 

[Friesiansam]

That bit made me think of a real driving hate.
You will know the situation:
Road barely (but obviously) wide enough for 3 cars.
Car coming toward you with one parked on his side.
You're as far over to your left as you can be.
He goes round it, still coming toward you.
Fair enough.....BUT:
He allows enough room for the PARKED car to (fully) open its door!.

It happens so often, strangely most often to me on the widest road in my area.
If you've ever found yourself muttering "get over you ****" you will know precisely what I mean.

They're letting the highway code override common sense. Don't force the oncoming vehicle against the curb - if the parked car door opens, it deserves to be smashed off.
In that circumstance, it's not practical to give it room to open to its full extent - as so many seem to do.

I remember a friend of mine saying, he wished he had an old Land Rover, with a scaffolding pole bumper on the front (used to be popular with farmers in Somerset, so they could use it to push things), so he could just take car doors off when idiots open them as he was passing.

 

[WayneKerr]

Following on from the above: Chelsea tractor drivers who refuse to give sufficient room on country lanes, basically driving in the centre of the road. If I'm going in the gutter to pass you then so are you, I've even recently played chicken with them to force them over into the gutter, they have 4 wheel drive I don't.

Why do cars get bigger and bigger with each incarnation, have we become a nation of tubbies, I certainly haven't. Saw an old Mini yesterday and it looked tiny, but adults can still fit in them.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Reminds me of a situation in a supermarket in the neighbouring village - a little bloke with a bag of heavy shopping in either hand. Walkway was wide enough for two, but not massively greater. I moved over, he didn't - clearly suffering from short guy syndrome he stayed right in the middle. I wasn't moving over any further so we collided, and one of his bags of shopping split and everything went all over the floor. I didn't look around.

Back on topic - the weather. Will it ever stop raining this year? And will the Met Office's app get better than tossing a coin? Truth be told, at the moment it seems that if you assume the opposite of what it says, you're likely to be right...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

but some adults can still fit in them

Fixed your post!

 

[Gray]

Eurovision.

(Abba fans know that they were good enough to have been successful without it).

 

[Gray]

People that post excessively on forums.
Hit 5000 and you need to give yourself and everyone else a break 🖐️

 

[jjbomber]

Cyclists

No need to say any more!

 

[Friesiansam]

People that post excessively on forums.
Hit 5000 and you need to give yourself and everyone else a break 🖐️

Bye!

 

[plastic penguin]

Eurovision.

(Abba fans know that they were good enough to have been successful without it).

Oh yes, Eurotat. Hate, despise, pointless....