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

[Pirahna]

Just paid another speeding ticket for wifey, it was my fault because I didn't tell her what the speed limit was. This one was on a French motorway north of Paris. 104 in a 90 for a €45 fine.

[Skub]

Just paid another speeding ticket for wifey, it was my fault because I didn't tell her what the speed limit was. This one was on a French motorway north of Paris. 104 in a 90 for a €45 fine.

It's always your fault by default!

[gremlin]

People who relate a story to you, that is so obviously an urban myth*, but insist that it's absolutely true as it happened to their mate's brother's uncle or some such....


*Story relates to a joint hen and stag party, Amsterdam, a glory hole and the bride and the bride's father. You can guess the rest.

[Mussels]

People who relate a story to you, that is so obviously an urban myth*, but insist that it's absolutely true as it happened to their mate's brother's uncle or some such....


*Story relates to a joint hen and stag party, Amsterdam, a glory hole and the bride and the bride's father. You can guess the rest.

I think that was in the press a few days ago, I dodn't believe it then either.

[Wossname]

On the positive side, that has explained why our offspring sniggered behind their hands when my wife told them to hang the kids coats in the “glory hole”. It’s the cupboard under the stairs, obviously, always has been.

Until now….

[Felix]

Just paid another speeding ticket for wifey, it was my fault because I didn't tell her what the speed limit was. This one was on a French motorway north of Paris. 104 in a 90 for a €45 fine.

Get her a cheap sat nav. This is a cheap Xgody what bottom left is telling me i am traveling at 62mph. Above its is telling me the road is 70mph what to the left is 100kph and i am 12% under the limit. When i go over the font turns red and says +12% That hac be switched to KPH and mph lower right.

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[Mussels]

Just paid another speeding ticket for wifey, it was my fault because I didn't tell her what the speed limit was. This one was on a French motorway north of Paris. 104 in a 90 for a €45 fine.

Get her a cheap sat nav. This is a cheap Xgody what bottom left is telling me i am traveling at 62mph. Above its is telling me the road is 70mph what to the left is 100kph and i am 12% under the limit. When i go over the font turns red and says +12% That hac be switched to KPH and mph lower right.

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I can't see that working, how will the satnav pay her fines?

[Pirahna]

Just paid another speeding ticket for wifey, it was my fault because I didn't tell her what the speed limit was. This one was on a French motorway north of Paris. 104 in a 90 for a €45 fine.

Get her a cheap sat nav. This is a cheap Xgody what bottom left is telling me i am traveling at 62mph. Above its is telling me the road is 70mph what to the left is 100kph and i am 12% under the limit. When i go over the font turns red and says +12% That hac be switched to KPH and mph lower right.

She was using Android Auto, the speed limit was displayed.

Last time it happened she was caught by a camera van in Wales a couple of years ago and had to do a speed awareness course.

[Taipan]

Being taken for a mug.

Being a lazy git, at around 11pm last night, I hailed a black cab at the top of East Smithfield, near Tower Bridge, and asked to go to London Bridge Station. Now, being a proper cock-er-nay geezer, with knowledge of the City having worked in it for years, I knew that a cheeky left over Tower Bridge, followed by a right into Tooley Street would bring me slap-bang outside the entrance.

For reasons I couldn't fathom, Mr. Taxi Driver went straight on and down Lower Thames Street. 'Which route you taking, mate?' I asked. The mumbled reply was that Tower Bridge was busy (which it wasn't) and that he couldn't turn right onto Tooley Street (being a licensed taxi, he can). Hence we took a lovely tour of that part of the City, including crossing Southwark Bridge and then the big loop back to London Bridge Station.

'£15.80' he chirpily informed me when we pulled up.

'No it ain't', said this wise old owl, 'It'll be £7 and you'll be bloody happy I don't report your badge to the PCO. Have a good night'.


Spoke to my mate who's been driving a taxi in the Smoke for a years this morning. He was livid and said I should report him on the basis that he's either incompetent or a rip-off merchant.

It's why I have a distrust of London's cabbies as this has gone on for years. Ripping off tourists on airport runs into the city was so lucrative it would get violent over who could park up at heathow etc. I'm pretty sure there was even a newspaper article or tv program about it?

I used cabs a fair amount at one point as we had bags to carry. Cabs assumed you were a tourist despite getting off at Fenchurch St, but asking for tottenham court road or russell square would see them going on a longer route every time and many an argument ensued. We'd have to ask them to go past St pauls and high Holborn or mystriously they'd try and head up old street/a501 way, citing they were avoiding heavy traffic through the city if questioned. It was clearly a common deception as they always said the same thing when asked where we/they were going!

It's why i use Ubers, or Bolts, here and abroad as you get a quote and prepay, so you know whats happening. Uber prices change depending on demand but you know the price before prepaying, whereas in a cab the meter keeps ticking depending on how they can lengthen the journey.

[gremlin]

Just for balance, the night prior to this little episode, I got a cab from more or less the same place to London Bridge and the female cabbie was the paragon of professionalism, and we had a good chat about family, the worry of dustbin lids, etc., who did take the right-hand turn on the south side of Tower Bridge into Tooley Street, hence why I knew the next bloke was talking out of his bottle and glass.

Matey boy was, in my experience, very much the exception to the rule.

[Taipan]

With everybody having phones and maps etc I'd kind of expect things to have improved, but the trust has gone for me as it was too frequent of an occurance and Uber gives me a better option.

[gremlin]

With everybody having phones and maps etc I'd kind of expect things to have improved, but the trust has gone for me as it was too frequent of an occurance and Uber gives me a better option.

Where your average Uber driver falls flat is not having a very vocal opinion on who should be managing the England football team and how to solve all of London's traffic issues if they became mayor.

[cheb]

That my new bread bin has a bowed base and therefore doesn't sit right.

It's probably why it was in a skip.

[Jody]

Washing machines !!!

Why is it, that from the second it starts the door is locked tighter than fort knox. No amount of fiddling with the buttons or switching the power off is enough to let the damn door open WHY FFS

[Horse]

That my new bread bin has a bowed base and therefore doesn't sit right.

[Bigjawa]

I'm sitting in the waiting area of the fracture clinic. There's a woman of a certain age with her phone not set to silent. She's listening to Elvis and judging by the looks she's getting she'll be getting some new fractures soon. Ignorant oul bat.

[gremlin]

My prostate. Was penciled in to have the TURP next Friday. All geared up for it, but my last PSA was 3.9. One prior to that was 6.9. Median for an old git like me is 3.0.

Hence, Bones says he wants an MRI, possible biopsy, before venturing in with his hot wire cutting tool. I suppose it makes sense, as if there's anything wrong with the prostate that requires whipping it out, doing a bit of delicate surgery beforehand would be a bit like decorating a condemned house.

Given my impending holibobs to Thailand at the end of the year, he's put the brakes on it all until I come back because, as he put it, Thailand is a bit of a third-world country and getting sick over there is a bit risky. My answer to that was that I've been in the East London Hospital A+E dept. at midnight on a Friday. Now that's grim.

[Noggin]

I'm sitting in the waiting area of the fracture clinic. There's a woman of a certain age with her phone not set to silent. She's listening to Elvis and judging by the looks she's getting she'll be getting some new fractures soon. Ignorant oul bat.

Hope you've not broken anything serious!


And on the topic of people mismanaging phones - I sodding well HATE people that have public chats on their mobiles in confined spaces, or worse, watch videos

I know some people 'need' to use the speaker function, but most of those people will take the phone outside (partly to help them hear!).

But FFS, if you want to watch a video in a bar, then take the sodding ear phones with you and USE them!!!!!!

[Count Steer]

Washing machines !!!

Why is it, that from the second it starts the door is locked tighter than fort knox. No amount of fiddling with the buttons or switching the power off is enough to let the damn door open WHY FFS

I assume you've RTFM?

Ah....men...manuals...

As you were.

[MrLongbeard]

I sodding well HATE people that have public chats on their mobiles in confined spaces

I just join in on their call, fuck 'em.