Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Howiee]

Radio DJs that chatter incessantly over the first 20 or so seconds of a good song. Grrrr.

[endo]

All you lot moaning about half term. Whilst I agree completely (can't be doing with town on a normal weekend day either tbh, it was bad enough today!) you should have seen Italy - particularly Naples. The ONLY way to cross the road is to just walk right out in front of cars and hope they slow down. There is never a gap in the traffic and it is always moving, if even just very slowly. When we got a taxi we almost got crushed by a bus and I'm still surprised we didn't go into the side of another car/get hit by one!

And when walking around people never get out the way either, push in in queues and don't watch where they are going meaning you either keep bumping into people or have to slalom in and out to avoid getting hit!

To balance that out though I have to say loads of people were really friendly and genuinely helpful when we were lost/needed info so any Italians here please don't take offense!!

Bumpers in Italy aren't for protecting you or the car in the event of an accident. Oh no. They're actually parking devices. Space not big enough but you need somewhere to park? No problem! Simply enter the space anyway and gently use the bumper to 'ease' other vehicles along until there's enough room. Brilliant!
I thought driving in France could be sketchy, but the French have got nothing on the Italians when it comes to driving.

[koopatroopa90]

Honestly that is totally believable! We looked for a car/bike/ped that didn't have a ding and only saw one (was a posh looking black car, can't remember the make), even the police cars had bumps. I also witnessed an old woman accidently beep a police man crossing the road in front of her car. The bus driver next to her said something out of the window ("you shouldn'ta done that love, thats a coppa!" I like to think) and the policeman walked back and gave her a right glare

Radio DJs that chatter incessantly over the first 20 or so seconds of a good song. Grrrr.

I think that's for copy protection, so people can't rip songs from the radio. At least it used to be back in the days of the tape so I'm told...

[charlesr]

Italy is awesome. They aim at pedestrians from a distance under the assumption that by the time they get to that spot, you have gone already - the only way to stay alive is to keep moving. Stay still and you're dead.

[Rossco]

You should see the driving in India. It's wild. I was there for a week and even though they just pile bikes, cars, rickshaws in by the bucketload at every traffic light, hardly abide by rules of the road, not even using lanes, I didn't see one scrape the whole time. It was bloody scary though!

[koopatroopa90]

Oh god yeah I remember going to Sri Lanka years ago and seeing all sorts. Old woman mowed down by a tuktuk? Check.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

People on buses who ring the bell even though it's coming up to the last stop on the route.

Where the feck else are you going to get dropped off?

[toythatkills]

I think that's for copy protection, so people can't rip songs from the radio. At least it used to be back in the days of the tape so I'm told...

It's actually seen as quite a skill, being able to time what you're saying precisely so you finish just in time for the song's vocal to start

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Italy is awesome. They aim at pedestrians from a distance under the assumption that by the time they get to that spot, you have gone already - the only way to stay alive is to keep moving. Stay still and you're dead.

I remember going to Florence a few yrs back & saw a bunch of girls at the traffic lights all dolled up ready for a bit of nightclubbing & having a bit of a natter................on their mopeds

[averybluemonkey]

People on buses who ring the bell even though it's coming up to the last stop on the route.

Where the feck else are you going to get dropped off?

The person may not know it's the last stop on the route and I've seen bus drivers not realise there was someone on the upper deck and fail to stop the bus. Plus the person may have missed an earlier stop and be waiting to go back around so the driver can't be sure.

[paul]

'Queuing' at McDonalds.

Not that I go there often, but its a free for all, regardless of you were there before someone else. And don't rely on the goodwill of people to know their place, because more often than not, they couldn't give two turds if you were there first.

A recipe for a Paul meltdown if ever there was one.

[NW2013]

Good irk Paul. I especially hate it when you can see someone who knows full well that you were there first but still tries to sneak in. This is also annoying at bars as I usually let people who were there first get served ahead of me. At least at bars you can give someone a sneaky elbow in the ribs and claim it was an accident.

[Dogg Thang]

We don't go to McDonalds in search of civilisation.

[Fader209]

Good irk Paul. I especially hate it when you can see someone who knows full well that you were there first but still tries to sneak in. This is also annoying at bars as I usually let people who were there first get served ahead of me. At least at bars you can give someone a sneaky elbow in the ribs and claim it was an accident.

Yeah I hate the queueing thing also especially at busy bars too. Once I was in a fairly large mob of people at a bar and this guy pushed in front really badly, when I asked him wtf he was doing he crazily and calmly turned to me and said, "Shut the **** up or I'll bite your ****ing nose off."
I'm not THAT desperate to get a pint...

[paul]

We don't go to McDonalds in search of civilisation.

Apparently they queue the same way at Pret a Manger, which was also once owned by MacDonalds.