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

[Mr. Dazzle]

Electric scooters. Ok, probably not all of them but there seem to be a ridiculous number of people riding them with no helmet (ok, probably not required, but it's going as fast as an actual scooter quite often, and cyclists tend to wear a helmet now!) and also - WTF do they ride in a cycle lane but THE WRONG DIRECTION/SIDE OF THE ROAD???

TBF, I've seen some cyclists do that too. Never seen it before, maybe it's a Chambéry thing?

But the scooters have zero concern for themselves. Soooo many just zip around with no thought for vehicules or pedestrians. How do more not die?? (Not that I'd wish that on anyone, but FFS, they are mental!! )

Not been to basically any large town or city recently then?

[Noggin]

Electric scooters. Ok, probably not all of them but there seem to be a ridiculous number of people riding them with no helmet (ok, probably not required, but it's going as fast as an actual scooter quite often, and cyclists tend to wear a helmet now!) and also - WTF do they ride in a cycle lane but THE WRONG DIRECTION/SIDE OF THE ROAD???

TBF, I've seen some cyclists do that too. Never seen it before, maybe it's a Chambéry thing?

But the scooters have zero concern for themselves. Soooo many just zip around with no thought for vehicules or pedestrians. How do more not die?? (Not that I'd wish that on anyone, but FFS, they are mental!! )

Not been to basically any large town or city recently then?

Nope! Chambéry is the first since winter basically. And the biggest thing I've noticed is just how many suicidal electric scooter people there are around, and second how the cycle lanes don't seem to run in the same direction as the traffic on that side of the road any more LOL


I do prefer living up high on a mountain!! LOL

[Noggin]

Hotels! Well, not actually the hotels, but the lack of sockets in places you'd really like them to be - like, near the bed!! LOL

I've never really had need to use hotels much but the daily travel budget from the unemployment office generally covers the cost of an hotel for the night. So, I tend to stay a couple or three nights near the driving school as it saves me almost two hours each way per day and gives me some time to at least try and revise!!

But every bloody room is very odd about sockets! Actually, I had one room a couple of times and there is one usable socket in the room near the bed and actually on the side I need it to be (don't shoot me, but I go to sleep with netflix on the tablet, and can only sleep on my left side, so socket needs to be that side!! LOL)

Today I've got a lovely room and for a change, just a double, not with a single bed above, so it feels quite airy!! (The whole room is about the same sqm as my whole apartment, so it definitely feels roomy!).

But the socket is over by what is called a 'desk' and my charging cables only 'just' reach the bed!!!

Gonna have to start packing an extension lead!! FFS!!

[DefTrap]

Hotels! Well, not actually the hotels, but the lack of sockets in places you'd really like them to be - like, near the bed!! LOL

Only seems to have got better relatively recently, with newer or recently renovated hotels.
Old-fashioned hotels are the worst, powerpoints in odd corners and hidden behind furniture.

[Noggin]

Hotels! Well, not actually the hotels, but the lack of sockets in places you'd really like them to be - like, near the bed!! LOL

Only seems to have got better relatively recently, with newer or recently renovated hotels.
Old-fashioned hotels are the worst, powerpoints in odd corners and hidden behind furniture.

Formula1 and another nearby (similar standard!) are terrible for sockets (and not everso nice!!). But the IBIS Budgets generally seem to be much better - just not with sockets

[Screwdriver]

First world problem. Get a power brick.

https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs= ... e_sn=10045

[Noggin]

First world problem. Get a power brick.

https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs= ... e_sn=10045

I have one (cos my phones on its last breath!) so that needs recharging at night too!!!

[gremlin]

Have you noticed how some hotels are finally installing USB charging points in rooms?

Just when the world has moved on to USB-C charging cables.

[Noggin]

I don’t know if it’s the French or if the Brits back over there do it but I never noticed when I lived there cos I was more gobby in english!

But ffs. Virtually Everytime I talk to anyone here on the course, someone else will talk over me and generally change the subject. It happens so often that I join in less and less

TBF it’s happened a bit with the Brit’s in resort that I socialise with, people will cut across what I’m saying and change the subject but I just assumed I was boring people (haven’t had much interesting to talk about for a few years!!)

But it is definitely worse on the course.

Cultural or just that the world is changing and I think it’s rude??!!!

[Cousin Jack]

Have you noticed how some hotels are finally installing USB charging points in rooms?

Just when the world has moved on to USB-C charging cables.

You are obviously going to up market hotels. One in Ireland a few months back had ALL the sockets with round pins, presumably to stop guests charging stuff or otherwise using electricity. This was a modern(ish) building and an hotel that claimed 4*s

[Ian]

Polish on seats. Anyone who does it should get a slap in the plums which is what I keep getting on this VFR when I brake

[Buckaroo]

Polish on seats. Anyone who does it should get a slap in the plums which is what I keep getting on this VFR when I brake

Stick two sheets of sandpaper on it and you'll be fine

Or did you mean people of eastern bloc persuasion

[Jody]

Car crash today

Country lane, I came to a complete stop, my friend in the back of my car literally said "he's going to hit you, he's going to hit you, he's going to hit you" and then he did.

Ball ache with insurance companies and all that trash incoming. I'm fairly certain it will come out knock for knock (even though it definatley wasn't) and my already expensive insurance will be even more next year

The only saving grace is that I could drive away, beat the wing with a hammer and the car appears to only have panel damage. (I will check the alignment at work tomorrow). His car ended up with the front wheels facing in different directions !

[Noggin]

Car crash today

Country lane, I came to a complete stop, my friend in the back of my car literally said "he's going to hit you, he's going to hit you, he's going to hit you" and then he did.

Ball ache with insurance companies and all that trash incoming. I'm fairly certain it will come out knock for knock (even though it definatley wasn't) and my already expensive insurance will be even more next year

The only saving grace is that I could drive away, beat the wing with a hammer and the car appears to only have panel damage. (I will check the alignment at work tomorrow). His car ended up with the front wheels facing in different directions !

Gutted for you.

Was it uk? Just for info, if you don't have one, I have a Constat Amiable that's in French and English that I carry just to make sure that I know what the words mean if I need one (cos I know my language skills drop when stressed!!)
Shout if you want a copy x

[gremlin]

Scratty little cunts on even scrattier 'peds delivering cholesterol-laden food from the plethora of shit-in-a-tray merchants that blight every high street to fat fucks who are too lazy to get their morbidly obese carcass into the kitchen to feed their feral offspring.

And all the while getting in my fucking way.

[Ian]

In a similar vein struggling to get through the supermarket car park because of all the people going to Macdonald's & KFC for Sunday Lunch FFS What is the world coming to.

[Noggin]

Bit of a moment today. Left home at 4m to start at school at 5.45am. All good. We were driving the manual bus which I've driven before with no issues.

Only today, my arm totally spazzed to the point that I really struggled to change gear and started making errors because I was in more pain than I've had for a few months (and crying FFS!).

No real reason for the new level - the instructor today has a foot held together by metal, so was actually more sympathetic than I expected! At one point he said he'd move the gear lever when I did the clutch. Didn't end up doing that as he found somewhere to pull over a bit sooner than planned so someone else could finish the route to the coffee/brekkie stop.

FFS - not impressed! I hadn't taken any meds in the morning as I've just not needed to for weeks. Sometimes I'll take some paracetamol and ibuprofen at night but not even that very often recently.

So, once I stopped I grabbed the max of paracetamol and half a days ketaprofene (prescribed one morning and one evening). We had coffee and pastry and off we went. Had to drive about 3.5 hours later and took the same again about 20 mins before. I know, basically too much, but not actual overdose. Just can't take any more anti inflammatories today!


We're not driving tomorrow, so don't need major doses, but might go back to a small level for a while to make sure everything settles down!!


Chatting with the instructor, he reckons its the weather but I reckon it's stress of last week and constant altitude changes (like a few days down and a few days up. I'm not normally down from the mountain more than a day (12 or so hours!).

Thing is, it's not the bone. It's the bicep area and muscle pain. The long head bicep was severed and the bit left was 'attached' in the bicep area (the lump that gets called bicep!) but is actually quite close to the deltoid join in the arm. So all the stress of the last couple of weeks will definitely have irritated the area of the deltoid join and the bicep joins close, driving a manual bus (won't have to do that at work, his coaches are all auto!) and being blasé about meds is basically the reason (probably because I've been a bit happier than usual so felt better overall, but still needed meds it seems)

[When I say meds - paracetamol (up to the max dose a day) and either ibuprofen or ketaprofen. Nothing really interesting cos they don't work, but even if they did, probably shouldn't take opiates whilst driving, even if they don't feel like they work! LOL)

But, please universe, don't do that again - having to stop a driving lesson due to pain that was making me cry was a bit shit

[Jody]

Scratty little cunts on even scrattier 'peds delivering cholesterol-laden food from the plethora of shit-in-a-tray merchants that blight every high street to fat fucks who are too lazy to get their morbidly obese carcass into the kitchen to feed their feral offspring.

And all the while getting in my fucking way.

Top draw ranting sir, you get a prize.

Free deliveroo for a month

[Pirahna]

General Mayhem, it's full of whinging tossers, I'm back to the politics section.

[Felix]

Have you noticed how some hotels are finally installing USB charging points in rooms?

Just when the world has moved on to USB-C charging cables.

I am sure the wall socket end is still the same.