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What really grinds your gears?

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Red Squirrel Jun 2014 1:08pm, 10 Jun 2014 15,440 posts	Quote Pin Red Squirrel Hohum - that massively grinds my gears too. I was stepping into a crossing t'other day and a man was stepping on to it coming towards me. A woman in a car with a phone pressed to her ear swept through the middle and didn't even see us. In hindsight I should've taken the registration and reported it if the chap was prepared to be a witness. I also notice on roundabouts when I'm on my bicycle that people on mobile phones don't stop to give way, even if me and/or any vehicles behind me have got priority. Scary.
Winded Jun 2014 5:48pm, 10 Jun 2014 1,861 posts	Quote Pin Winded Politicians who set up a stupid system allowing communities and faith groups to set up schools that will reflect the beliefs of anyone who has enough of an axe to grind to want to go outside the usual system and are then shocked and appalled that the beliefs influencing education in those schools fall outside the mainstream. It's like watching someone hit themselves with a hammer & then seeing them act all surprised when it hurts.
Poochie Jun 2014 5:58pm, 10 Jun 2014 156 posts	Quote Pin Poochie Trying to get a f#"-+ing passport! Been to the post 4 times now! Sorry sir theres a small crease in the corner of the photo that wont be on your passport, Your capital Y looks like a small y, your G grazed the line of the box. Sorry your initial payment for checking the passport application only covers you for a month, you'll have to pay the extra again! FFS Seems they are postively herding vast shoals of people into the country but will not let me out! Feel like Al Pacino in Godfather 3. Jusf wben i thought i was out! They keep pulling me back in.
macca53 Jun 2014 2:17pm, 13 Jun 2014 20,058 posts	Quote Pin macca53 stupid reports like this dailymail.co.uk They are old people by and large - 80% of people with an untreated fractured hip die within 30 days! What about the 179,939 patients who didn't die??
macca53 Jun 2014 2:18pm, 13 Jun 2014 20,059 posts	Quote Pin macca53 oh and while I'm at it - the lazy gits at the Telegraph, Gaurdian, Independent who basically copied the same report
mr d Jun 2014 9:20pm, 13 Jun 2014 1,227 posts	Quote Pin mr d BBC football pundits stating it's definitely a penalty if a defender slides in th penalty area and the attacker decides to stand on him and pretend to fall over.
Red Squirrel Jun 2014 9:21pm, 13 Jun 2014 15,472 posts	Quote Pin Red Squirrel Parking on pavements and grass verges when all the roads around here are wide. Why, why, why?
Diogenes Jun 2014 2:19pm, 14 Jun 2014 6,872 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Sainsburys online banking system. It asks you for a username and password, which I know, then asks for an additional security question which is always "memorable singer" which I don't know and don't ever remember setting up. I can reset my password by having a code sent to my mobile phone, but I can't reset my security question until I have logged in which I can't so until I have reset my security question. Why does it keep asking the same bloody question? I've tried all the answers I might have put for this question, had I ever bloody provided and answer for it.
Red Squirrel Jun 2014 6:23pm, 15 Jun 2014 15,481 posts	Quote Pin Red Squirrel Oh Diogenes I kind of get where you're coming from. Last year I tried to log into Hotmail when I was staying with family. What I thought the password was, wasn't. After about a week of being locked out and trying to remember people's email addresses, the last emails I received etc etc, I finally got in and reset my password. However, what I reset it to doesn't work and now I'm stuck only being able to access it on my home computer because I'm permanently logged in.
Carpathius Jun 2014 9:30pm, 15 Jun 2014 3,458 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius The woman who pulled out of a side road in front of me, causing me to brake sharply. She then stalled halfway over the line, restarted after a couple of goes, moved backwards (back into the side road) so I went round her. She didn't look and pulled forward before I was completely past and then had the cheek to sound her horn at me.