Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[v8-powered]

Noisy rich twats and their planes!

Behind our house we have a large reservoir and I guess for some reason, probably safety, that planes use it as an acrobatics area. Seems to be 2 jets that use it recently - a BAC Strikemaster (G-RSAF) and a Jet Provost (G-BKOU), both lovely to watch but they are bloody loud when you are trying to concentrate on work!

I understand that jets could be annoying but I live about a mile from an abandoned WWII airfield, now a quarry, and I find it quite pleasant listening to the odd piston engined plane practicing aerobatics. There's also a reasonably fast road about half a mile away and the weekend peace is often punctuated by obviously speeding motorcycles. They're at about the same decibel level but the planes are like gently buzzing bees, the bikes like angry wasps: nasty, noisy, dangerous things (I'm getting old )

It was a tongue in cheek comment, I actually enjoy watching them from the garden. We also get a lot of Chinooks and Apache flying over.
Bikes on the other hand can do one!

[Cousin Jack]

F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!

[KungFooBob]

F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!

Fuck'em!

The bastards boosting the local economy, eating the cream teas the locals can't be fucked with and buying all that tourist tat, etc..

[Felix]

My Bulgarian neighbour had a loud pipe on his last bike. Present one is getting a loud pipe soon and he was trying the Loud Pipes Save Life's shit with me until i said its a shame it did not save you when you stacked the bike on that bend juts outside Oban and you got slammed into the sharp bend sign. Bike and loud pipe was well fucked

Talking Bulgarian what happened to that annoying twat Val. Did he get to Australia?

[gremlin]

Downloaded WhatsApp on my 80 year-old mum's phone the other week and gave her a lesson on how to use it.

Fuck me, she's bloody video calling me every day now.



Coz she's almost 100% mutton, it's a revelation as she can lip read on the call as well.

[Pirahna]

Downloaded WhatsApp on my 80 year-old mum's phone the other week and gave her a lesson on how to use it.

Fuck me, she's bloody video calling me every day now.



Coz she's almost 100% mutton, it's a revelation as she can lip read on the call as well.

Can you actually see her or just the top of her head?

[gremlin]

Downloaded WhatsApp on my 80 year-old mum's phone the other week and gave her a lesson on how to use it.

Fuck me, she's bloody video calling me every day now.



Coz she's almost 100% mutton, it's a revelation as she can lip read on the call as well.

Can you actually see her or just the top of her head?

Genuine lol, as yes, so far just the top of the head.

[Greenman]

Buses.

The 4am didn't turn up, then the 4:15am didn't come so i had enough and booked an uber and just as the uber arrived the bus turned up.

Wasted a precious hour and a half of my raving night waiting for buses - foolish!...

Show me the Bacon!

[MyLittleStudPony]

Buses.

The 4am didn't turn up, then the 4:15am didn't come so i had enough and booked an uber and just as the uber arrived the bus turned up.

Wasted a precious hour and a half of my raving night waiting for buses - foolish!...

Show me the Bacon!

I took a bus about a year ago in London as it appeared more convenient than The Tube.

Initially I thought it might be a fun experience, like something on a Carry On film. Within 30 seconds however I realised the bus was not efficient and nor frequently used by life's winners or those free from mental health problems.

[Count Steer]

Buses.

The 4am didn't turn up, then the 4:15am didn't come so i had enough and booked an uber and just as the uber arrived the bus turned up.

Wasted a precious hour and a half of my raving night waiting for buses - foolish!...

Show me the Bacon!

I took a bus about a year ago in London as it appeared more convenient than The Tube.

Initially I thought it might be a fun experience, like something on a Carry On film. Within 30 seconds however I realised the bus was not efficient and nor frequently used by life's winners or those free from mental health problems.

You should have tried a night bus.

(I assumed your bus wasn't as the Tube was running but it looks like some run at night at weekends. They could be fun).

[Trinity765]

I plan to get a bus today I am going to walk into town but it's too far to walk back. I remind myself of my Nan more and more every day - which reminds me not to forget my handkerchief. In my experience the number 1 bus has more nutters on it than the number 5 which is odd as the number 5 stops at the mental hospital.

[weeksy]

F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!

So you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?

[Dodgy69]

Along with everything else, the road network in this country is no longer fit for purpose. We've got road works, traffic lights and road closures everywhere, but ultimately nothing really improves. It's a bloody nightmare in the car.

Why on earth they don't make it easier for folk to get a bike licence I'll never know.

There's a lot wrong for sure.

[gremlin]

F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!

So you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?

I have a mate who is originally from Cornwall and does a lovely impression of his fellow Cornishmen in his thick West Country burr:

"Bloody tourists coming down here, blocking the roads, causing traffic mayhem, parking everywhere, making our lives a misery...
What's that, m'dear? Two creams teas? That'll be £18.95 and can I interest you in some fudge for just £9.99?"

As you can tell, he's quite dismissive of what he calls the 'Kernow mob' and their calls for independence.

[Gregor]

F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!

So you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?

I have a mate who is originally from Cornwall and does a lovely impression of his fellow Cornishmen in his thick West Country burr:

"Bloody tourists coming down here, blocking the roads, causing traffic mayhem, parking everywhere, making our lives a misery...
What's that, m'dear? Two creams teas? That'll be £18.95 and can I interest you in some fudge for just £9.99?"

As you can tell, he's quite dismissive of what he calls the 'Kernow mob' and their calls for independence.

They should try visiting Kent in tourist season, same problems re congestion,parking and house prices sky high from second homes in coastal towns.

Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?

The last time we were in Cornwall, the resentment and disdain was pretty off putting.

[Count Steer]

Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?

The last time we were in Cornwall, the resentment and disdain was pretty off putting.

That probably was from the wealthy boomers that have retired down there and bought up the houses that the second homers haven't.

[Horse]

Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?

The Welsh-speakers probably do, just that the rest of us have no idea what it is.

[Count Steer]

Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?

The Welsh-speakers probably do, just that the rest of us have no idea what it is.

Walked into a shop in mid-Wales where a couple of old biddies were chatting happily in English. They looked at us and switched to Welsh. Quite funny really, I'm half Evans and the wife's half Jones.

Company I worked for shifted from the NE to North Wales and several senior managers signed up for Welsh classes. Never heard it spoken in that area. They even prefer football to rugby.

[Horse]

Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?

The Welsh-speakers probably do, just that the rest of us have no idea what it is.

Walked into a shop in mid-Wales where a couple of old biddies were chatting happily in English. They looked at us and switched to Welsh. Quite funny really, I'm half Evans and the wife's half Jones.

A mate went to meet GF's family, Sunday tea. Granny was there too, she spend the whole afternoon muttering in Welsh.

As mate was leaving, he turned at the door and said "It's been a pleasure meeting you" - in fluent Welsh.

She'd been saying he wasn't good enough, etc. Don't know whether she was invited to the wedding.

[Count Steer]

Had a similar thing with a meeting with IBM in Brussels. The French speaking Belgians kept chuntering to each other in rapid French, in a not very complimentary fashion, about how we were the little guys and must accept their TS&Cs and couldn't possibly insist on our own contractual terms.

At the end, my English colleague who had lived in Brussels for umpteen years but hadn't let on said, in perfect (Belgian) French. 'You do know that not all English people are monoglots don't you?' (He could probably have done the same in Dutch too).