Things that tick you off!

[Beach Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beach]

3) Turning left on to a side street, from the middle of the road! <- My favorite

I've been on the receiving end of a few minor crashes in recent years from this one. Also from drivers changing lanes without looking or indicating.

The salient and amazing points are always the same:

The drivers at fault are initially very abusive towards me and adamant that it wasn't their fault.

I let them have their spray. When they calm down I hit them with the facts of the matter via a bunch of questions. Then add if they can show me in the road rules where their maneuver is safe and legal, I will pay for the repairs.

Regardless, the "conversation" always ends with words to the effect of "good luck getting me to pay up for this one". So much for personal responsibility.

The worst was a cab driver. Fortunately, a passenger in the cab provided a witness statement for me.

Also, I have found its a good idea to set your smart phone recording in video mode before you get out of the car to exchange details. This helped in the case of the taxi driver as he refused to show me his licence, ending our exchange by telling me to f*&% off and wishing me luck in making a claim. The cops loved that I had recorded our little exchange. I also found that any associated taxi entity will give you the royal run around and do anything to protect the taxi driver.

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Had one of them recently do similar, threatened me and said I wont see a cent from them, so I let it go all the way to court before providing the data and video from my black box to the judge. .. Someone had major egg on their face..
Bumped their costs right up too.

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

When you write a post and click submit and it goes into the nether nether.

[Trekrider Banned Find all posts View Profile Close Trekrider]

Sorry, I shouldn't have called them a bastard.

Unless of course it is a fact

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

No, I could draw undue attention to that fact that they were born outside of wedlock. And that could be unkind, hurtful even.

[Beach Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beach]

When your employer creates a web based ideas forum and invites suggestions on how to improve the "business" and cut red tape. Then, when you challenge someones proposition because it's totally stupid and call them "silly people" you get a bollocking. Apparently your submissions and comments have to be PC, should not upset or annoy anyone, and must be aligned with the organizations direction. Well, what's the point of making any suggestion or comments if you can't call a spade a spade. Everybody agreed with me but I shouldn't have said what I said. Give me a break! I no longer subscribe to the site for fear of making some poor bastard cry. Sorry, I shouldn't have called them a bastard.

Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?

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Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?

You sound just like my boss.

[VKPrado Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close VKPrado]

While trying to enjoy the AFL grand final and also being a responsible person and not drinking you get drunk women who think it is alright to order you around tommake them drinks when they can hardly stand themselves and get all shitty when you refuse to. Then later on in the afternoon the same person is in your face poking you and carrying on and you start by politely asking them to please stop. Well this didn't work so the language gets firmer butnthe drunk woman thinks it is a great joke somin the end I have had to tell her in uncertain terms just what I think of her and threaten to pour my drink over her head. She got the message then.

Thought that was the end of that but no the drunk husband doesn't like the way I talked to his wife as she is now upset. Well tough!

It is my chose to not drink. I enjoyed my day but just p*€$#/@ me off big time when the drunk person just uses the excuse "I was just having fun" yet they don't even remember why I had a go at them.

Rant over, feeling better now thanks.

[geograzza Member Find all posts View Profile Close geograzza]

I have big bright spotties on the front of my Prado for a reason, it's so I can light up what's in front of me so I can clearly see, especially the possibility of roos. So if you are following me out of a town at night, and have one blown headlight and the other is a pale sick yellow, don't overtake me at the first opportunity, then proceed to sit on a lower speed than I was doing because you discover you can't see anything in the pale yellow glow of your headlight. Normally, I would just overtake you again, but in this case from then on the road has quite a few bends & crests, so has double white lines for about 60km. To protect myself from roo strike, I had to slow right down to put a bit of air between me and the fool, but then as soon as I'd start driving at what I felt to be a safe speed (but still well below the speed limit) I'd catch him again.

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I know where you are coming from Vaughn, being a non drinker I have been in a similar situation plenty of times, drunks just don't understand how annoying they can be!

Cheers Andrew

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When your employer creates a web based ideas forum and invites suggestions on how to improve the "business" and cut red tape. Then, when you challenge someones proposition because it's totally stupid and call them "silly people" you get a bollocking. Apparently your submissions and comments have to be PC, should not upset or annoy anyone, and must be aligned with the organizations direction. Well, what's the point of making any suggestion or comments if you can't call a spade a spade. Everybody agreed with me but I shouldn't have said what I said. Give me a break! I no longer subscribe to the site for fear of making some poor bastard cry. Sorry, I shouldn't have called them a bastard.

Seen this time and time again, usually the "business" will leave us (IT) in the dark until the day before it is to be either: 1) Installed 2) Go live 3) combination of 1 & 2

What makes the above even more fun, is the "business" will present a "consultant" to us about the above, making us look like idiots - only because we haven't even heard of said project.....

Apparently, because we are local government - the IT department pretty much does nothing but read people's emails (True story! Same person also brought into question why us (IT) has "view" privileges across network directories!).

Try this Bushbasher, for you next report, works a treat.

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_sep2005/BS_Generator.htm

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Most times you cannot negotiate with a drunk, someone who is angry or both...

Winston.

[Beach Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beach]

While trying to enjoy the AFL grand final and also being a responsible person and not drinking you get drunk women who think it is alright to order you around tommake them drinks when they can hardly stand themselves and get all shitty when you refuse to. Then later on in the afternoon the same person is in your face poking you and carrying on and you start by politely asking them to please stop. Well this didn't work so the language gets firmer butnthe drunk woman thinks it is a great joke somin the end I have had to tell her in uncertain terms just what I think of her and threaten to pour my drink over her head. She got the message then.

Thought that was the end of that but no the drunk husband doesn't like the way I talked to his wife as she is now upset. Well tough!

It is my chose to not drink. I enjoyed my day but just p*€$#/@ me off big time when the drunk person just uses the excuse "I was just having fun" yet they don't even remember why I had a go at them.

Rant over, feeling better now thanks.

Record their drunk behaviour on your phone. Present this to them when they are sober. Enjoy the reaction.

[Chewbacca Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chewbacca]

Kids that wear beanies in 32c heat. What is with that?

[Matty80 Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Matty80]

Our fleet vehicles generally have 2 sets of keys. So today, in order to complete my four wheel drive training course, I grabbed a D4D Hilux but there was only 1 set of keys. The vehicle had been fueled up previously. We drove about 200km through the bush, did some mud recoveries from a lake bed, did some winching and a couple of snatches all in the glorious red dirt. Get back to town and realize the set of keys we had did not have a key to the fuel compartment. No worries, get a set of keys from another car and they opened the fuel door. And there it was, or rather wasn't. No fuel cap. Just a half inch of diesel soaked mud and dirt all around the open fuel pipe. Oh well, we filled it up - that should dilute all the dirt that's gone into the tank.

bugger.. Pre order of a fuel filter too?