Little things that irk you 2

[Largo]

This is a major peev, and i think most people here would agree,

its 'people who forget to set their microphone to push to talk'

I have never played a multiplayer game on Origin, without first muting everybody before anything else.

Need for Speed Most Wanted is one of the major major offenders here. People dont just transmit the odd sound, more often than not its just full of blasting noise from their TV/Speakers or just incredibly loud static etc.
Now maybe its an Origin default setting perhaps, which is causing this. Dead Space 3 is no different. Anyway it drives me utterly insane, im prob going to give 80% of the guilty partners the benefit of the doubt, and its just a honest oversight, but god damn is it annoying.

[kryss]

People who don't pronounce the 'p' in the word crisps.

I'm just having a bag of crisssss.

LOLWUT.

Damn cat putting caps lock on.

[_SD_]

I couldn't sleep, then had a sudden "oh ****" moment when I realised that my car tax ran out on the 31st January.... so I've just got up and done it on their website. ?148.50 for six months

[fuse]

This is a major peev, and i think most people here would agree,

its 'people who forget to set their microphone to push to talk'

Kinect is a cock in this (and many other) regards on the 360 - the default setting is for the mic on the sensor to be always on during online games, meaning you often get people joining a session and projecting an entire living room's worth of inane bollocks to god knows how many other players.

[Harry]

****ing fat bitch parked outside my house RIGHT NEXT to my drive way with a mini van with blacked out windows. I practically told her to **** off. Please tell me I'm not in the wrong. She was almost covering the driveway. I mean seriously, **** the **** off. I don't give a **** if the school allows no parking, it doesn't mean you take it on the residential that's close to the school.

Gonna' get some big wooden pegs down methinks.

[ETC]

****ing fat bitch parked outside my house on RIGHT NEXT to my drive way with a mini van with blacked out windows. I practically told her to **** off. Please tell me I'm not in the wrong. She was almost covering the driveway. I mean seriously, **** the **** off. I don't give a **** if the school allows no parking, it doesn't mean you take it on the residential that's close to the school.

I guess legally she can park there if she chooses to as long as its not a private road or lines down. I know what you mean though people just don't give a **** or have any courtesy these days. I park outside my mums as I drive her (she has bad arthritis) and I got in to a slanging match with this dickhead carer that visits a few doors down literally blocking off my mums and other people's houses even though there is a car park around the back literally 20 extra steps away nothing to them (or me) but 20 extra steps for someone with bad arthritis is a lot

[Harry]

I guess legally she can park there if she chooses to as long as its not a private road or lines down. I know what you mean though people just don't give a **** or have any courtesy these days. I park outside my mums as I drive her (she has bad arthritis) and I got in to a slanging match with this dickhead carer that visits a few doors down literally blocking off my mums and other people's houses even though there is a car park around the back literally 20 extra steps away nothing to them (or me) but 20 extra steps for someone with bad arthritis is a lot

It takes the piss, doesn't it. What pisses me off is that she'll take her fat self, with her fat ass minivan, with blacked out windows right up my houses' ass, and keep it there through her childs entire life at the ****ing school. I'm not having it. She can **** off elsewhere. She didn't like me telling her where to go but I practically told her she wouldn't park there again. I can understand if it was imperative but I'm not having a blacked out mini van right outside my house for the next 5 years.

Don't see how you parking outside your mums is a problem though since she resides there. You/she is entitled to park where you want outside the properly. Sorry to hear about your mums arthiritis.

[QualityChimp]

It's an odd one, but it seems like the law prevents people from blocking you leaving, but not returning!

The Traffic Management Act 2004, part 6 says:

86 Prohibition of parking at dropped footways etc.

(1) In a special enforcement area a vehicle must not be parked on the carriageway adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge where—
(a) the footway, cycle track or verge has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway for the purpose of—
(i) assisting pedestrians crossing the carriageway,
(ii) assisting cyclists entering or leaving the carriageway, or
(iii) assisting vehicles entering or leaving the carriageway across the footway, cycle track or verge; or
(b) the carriageway has, for a purpose within paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), been raised to meet the level of the footway, cycle track or verge.
This is subject to the following exceptions.
(2) The first exception is where the vehicle is parked wholly within a designated parking place or any other part of the carriageway where parking is specifically authorised.
A “designated parking place” means a parking place designated by order under section 6, 9, 32(1)(b) or 45 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27).
(3) The second exception is where the vehicle is parked outside residential premises by or with the consent (but not consent given for reward) of the occupier of the premises.
This exception does not apply in the case of a shared driveway.
(4) The third exception is where the vehicle is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes.
(5) The fourth exception is where—
(a) the vehicle is being used for the purposes of delivering goods to, or collecting goods from, any premises, or is being loaded from or unloaded to any premises,
(b) the delivery, collection, loading or unloading cannot reasonably be carried out in relation to those premises without the vehicle being parked as mentioned in subsection (1), and
(c) the vehicle is so parked for no longer than is necessary and for no more than 20 minutes.
(6) The fifth exception is where—
(a) the vehicle is being used in connection with any of the following—
(i) undertaking any building operation, demolition or excavation,
(ii) the collection of waste by a local authority,
(iii) removing an obstruction to traffic,
(iv) undertaking works in relation to a road, a traffic sign or road lighting, or
(v) undertaking works in relation to a sewer or water main or in relation to the supply of gas, electricity, water or communications services,
(b) it cannot be so used without being parked as mentioned in subsection (1), and
(c) it is so parked for no longer than is necessary.
(7) In this section “carriageway”, “cycle track” and “footway” have the meanings given by section 329(1) of the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66).
(8) References in this section to parking include waiting, but do not include stopping where—
(a) the driver is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his control or it is necessary for him to stop to avoid an accident, or
(b) the vehicle is stopped, for no longer than is necessary, for the purpose of allowing people to board or alight from it.
(9) The prohibition in this section is enforceable as if imposed—
(a) in Greater London, by an order under section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27),
(b) elsewhere in England and Wales, by an order under section 1 of that Act.

This thread is interesting. It looks like you're in the right, but contacting either the police or council if it's an ongoing problem.

It seems to me like it's a one-off, so let it go. Life's to short to get stressed over stuff like this!

[Harry]

I know, I would much prefer to let it go. But with some kinds of people they come back and bite you in the ass, boasting political correctness and all that ****e. I'm just gonna' knock some pegs into the turf and a sign, hopefully should deliver the message. (I've seen signs on streets similar to my property before?)

Will give that info a proper read tomorrow though, thanks.

[Colin]

Sounds like you're more irked she's fat and has blacked out windows than anything else.

[Harry]

I don't like staring at a blacked-out min-van when I look out side the window, do you?

Especially people who feel entitled to park there. **** THAT ****. I'm not about to get politically correct.

[Colin]

Have you got something to hide? Are you being watched by the DSS for benefit fraud or something? You sound a little on edge.......

[QualityChimp]

This van is parked outside my house. They're just delivering flowers in the dead of night when the roads are quiet, right? RIGHT?!

[Colin]

He's having a Henry Hill day QC.

[Harry]

This van is parked outside my house. They're just delivering flowers in the dead of night when the roads are quiet, right? RIGHT?!

It's exactly that van. You maybe on to something.