Nick
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Mega likes. I bet they planned it all week
Most irritating things during the pandemic (5 Viewers)
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LastGarrison
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Maybe they were just trying subliminal messaging so nobody goes out to clap next week?
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Deleted member 5849
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Apathetic around our way. Time for it to end though - point has been made, morale booster, and now it's having the opposite effect.
Sky Blue Pete
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We quite like it
LastGarrison
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We do go out but understand people's comments around it being a Social Media like fest.
However, last night I was walking the dog at 8 around the Morrison's estate and although there wasn't a massive turn out the thing I liked, and will be replicated around the UK, is how many people stayed out afterwards just to have a (socially distanced) catch up with their neighbours and really seemed to bring together a bit of community spirit which was good to see.
Simple solution - if you want to do it (for whatever reasons) do it and if you don't, don't!
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Hmmm. Depending on where you live, you'll possibly have a liking for huskies, an ancient labrador cross, or a cocker spaniel...!
OffenhamSkyBlue
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I stuck my head above the parapet on our village Facebook group (part of the Spotted family - don't know how common they are) to request that the people who blast music and shouting to the people in their road after the clap (it now goes on for an hour, and can be heard WAYYYYY beyond their street) turn it down a bit or keep it to half an hour. It was a polite request, stating that some may wish to enjoy the tranquility of their garden as the sun goes down. The guy who does it was an absolute gent, and said "will do - don't want to offend anyone" (and we didn't hear it at all last night). The rest of the mongs who live in his road gave me a right trolling!
LastGarrison
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Ha ha I'm slowly becoming part of the dog walking "clique" around Binley and Wyken and see my fellow dog walkers more than most of my friends family and but none of the above I am afraid.
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Further to this, i have now been blocked by the Facebook group, showing what a bunch of small minded bigots i share my village with. Oh, and the Admins hide behind the front page so i cannot contact them to ask for their reasoning.
Cunts!
Reject, leper, pariah,personna non grata .
OffenhamSkyBlue
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I'm used to it, Wingy!
Villagers are an imsular lot at the best of times .
Outsider,.
oscillatewildly
Well-Known Member
Twats dumping 'donations' outside charity shops.
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
We used to call it "having a piss in a shop doorway on our way home from the boozer"!
SBAndy
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Remember on Dragons Den a few years back someone had designed cycling headphones that don’t fully enter your ear so you can hear the traffic. Always thought about investing in a pair. Then remembered I go cycling maybe once or twice a year.
ajsccfc
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I bought a bike years ago under a work scheme that gets them before tax or something, telling myself this was how I'd commute every few days. Rode to work and back one day, avoided death about five times in that day and sold the bike without ever using it again. People who cycle regularly on the roads are brave and foolish in equal measure
shmmeee
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The missus is Dutch and in her words “lived on bikes” growing up.
She says she’d never ride on British roads and thinks anyone who does is mental.
Nick
Administrator
Lived on Bikesh?
shmmeee
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Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
I'll tell you what makes my blood boil.
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Cremations.
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Cremations.
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Joggers coming towards you and crossing over the road like you were some fucking blood thirsty zombie! Geez! How much social distancing do they need? And it's not always joggers. Most people who are just walking towards you are the same. Prats!
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Thereby stepping into oncoming traffic. The number of times i had to swerve before i hit 'em!
It's what you call a dynamic risk assessment - do i want to face the extremely small likelihood of something that will most probably not cause me too much damage, OR face almost certain severe injury by getting run over!
Fuxache ...
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Deleted member 5849
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It works the other way too, had people walking/running right at me. If the road's empty, why not cross? Who does that hurt? What it does do is minimise any possibility of hilarious misunderstandings, and it's hardly a chore or a deep offence.
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
If you WERE a bloody thirsty zombie or a flasher, i'm sure people would cross over soon enough!
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Flasher? Damn! I thought that was a well kept secret! :emoji_thinking:
Tommo1993
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Equally funny but irritating. Since start of lockdown and the roads being very quiet (not so much anymore), the dramatic increase in speeding. Simpletons assuming all police efforts are going towards clobbering people ‘flouting the rules’. However there’s still plenty of speed traps hovering about, very cleverly placed as per, and people see it and shit themselves. Test the brakes. Too late, they’ve already busted you!
Sbarcher
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Bloody shops, seems likely they will stop me trying on ladies clothing!
chiefdave
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Its sad to see the state of the parks and other public places. Had hoped that having seen how positive the impact had been of people not being around people would treat it as a reset and show more respect but its back to normal and people treating everywhere like shit.
How hard is it to clear up after yourself?
How hard is it to clear up after yourself?
Marty
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Most people are utter arseholes. Everywhere is back to being a dump again.
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
Guy at work was boasting this morning he spent an hour getting a Big Mac last night.
TBF Id probably do that for a sausage and egg muffin and a hash brown right now. Just don’t like the main menu.
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Aren't you a couple of hours too late for one of them??