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MarkMas

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Talking about warning signs, I never cease to be amazed by the number of establishments, from coffee shops to banks, who display numerous warnings about customer conduct. I have no objection to offenders being hung, drawn, quartered, or even having their accounts closed, but why oh why do the rest of us have to be treated as numpties who don’t know how to behave?PH

It is quite amusing to make your own reciprocal signs and hand them over to the counter clerk or whoever at the start of your interaction. They usually get quite insulted and cross, and don't see the irony at all.
 

alfatwo

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It is quite amusing to make your own reciprocal signs and hand them over to the counter clerk or whoever at the start of your interaction. They usually get quite insulted and cross, and don't see the irony at all.

You mean you just tell them to F off! ...Its quite clear from your diction you don't come from the 1970's:p

Dave
 

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M*ther f*ckers who pull out on you and then proceed to drive like you're in the wrong!

This morning whilst taking Joseph to his Grandmas a dick in a Renault Laguna decide to pull out in front of my from a side road on a 60mph A road.
I had to brake so hard, the ABS kicked in, everything came off the back seat, the dog nearly came off the front seat (strapped in fortunately) and I had to swerve to avoid hitting the tw4t!

At this point my heart was at about 180bpm and I was shaking. No because I would have been in an accident, but because Joseph was in the car.
Then the bell end in the Laguna proceeded to drive along at 40 mph oblivious to what he had just done!

People like these should have their license taken away and shouldn't be allowed on the road, sadly due to them being oblivious to their actions they will do it again and again, and at some point there will be a very nasty accident. We were lucky this morning.

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MarkMas

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You mean you just tell them to F off! ...Its quite clear from your diction you don't come from the 1970's:p - Dave

No, I just hand them a laminated card saying, "Aggressive, violent or threatening behaviour towards your customers will not be tolerated. Any staff behaving in this manner towards customers will be reported to the police." and wait for the incredulity and the claims that this is personally insulting towards them.
 

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Seen it all......
I am travelling home this afternoon. 15:50, get past a junction on the A19 and there is a large object with escort straddling both lanes. It is doing 58 mph ish, so fine. I just sat about 200 yards back in the driving lane. For the next 18 miles I have watched people undertake / overtake and force their way into the overtaking lane just to be at the front of what must have been a 4 mile que (in the end) of cars that couldn't overtake the object. Absolutely beggars belief, and instead of just sticking to the 50/60 of the escorted vehicle they are accelerating and braking to make sure the gap wasn't big enough for another car. I commend to the court that the average driver on our roads is a ****ing idiot.

Edit : It also beggars belief that someone should decide to move such an object on a Friday at rush hour time, I reckon they missed getting it loaded and it was late for where it needed to be,,,
 

Felonious Crud

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You must have ticked the "I have an Aston Martin and therefore want to buy everything box"

Honestly, must I sacrifice myself on the altar of mindless consumerism, or is there an 'opt out of this ****' box, I can tick?

If there was an "I bought an Aston, I have two kids at uni and I'm ******* brassic' box, I'd have ticked that for sure. I don't need more **** in my life!
 

zagatoes30

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Honestly, must I sacrifice myself on the altar of mindless consumerism, or is there an 'opt out of this ****' box, I can tick?

If there was an "I bought an Aston, I have two kids at uni and I'm ******* brassic' box, I'd have ticked that for sure. I don't need more **** in my life!

There's always an opt out box but it is well hidden
 

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don't know if any of you guys have problems with the mas wheels but I'm getting really cheesed off with cracks on my bmw alloys, had 2 cracks on one wheel and 1 crack on another only a couple of months ago, so I replaced them both and now got another fooking crack on those wheels, it's the bloomin RFT's with the rock hard sidewalls coupled with all the frigging pot holes and generally sh1t roads
 

RSM Masser

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Shorts
It is winter - admittedly not too cold just yet but hardly bad my weather.
I see more and more grown adults wearing shorts and no coats. On the train the other day amidfle aged man in shorts and tee shirt, temperature was in single figures and falling, it was wet and dark.
None of the people I have seen have any reason for wearing shorts at this time of year, no bicycle, no obvious signs of just left a gym, sports club, football training etc.

They are just, odd.
 

zagatoes30

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Daughter wears shorts every day, OK she is only 10 but won't wear skirts, leggings, trousers no matter what the weather is like.

Neither does our postman and sons teacher
 
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