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Its always amazed me that while it is illegal to drive while using a handheld mobile phone, its perfectly OK to do so with a lighted cigarette. If you are wearing shorts and some ash goes up the leg of your shorts that could easily be enough of a distraction to cause an accident. Also general risk of fire inside and outside the car. Its a no brainer. Actually, smoking is a no brainer. Anyone who does it is not really thinking of the value of their life and what them being around means to their kids and what would happen to their kids if they are not around. That, and the blatant tax rip off. Would much rather spend my dough on car parts and stuff for my boy, wife etc. than cigarettes and alcohol. The government relies on sucking people in so they can get the money to fund their luxuries in life.
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I hate having to make on the spot decisions to explain things to my son and change it to be child friendly. Lately there has been a somewhat trend of a few p plated cars in my area to hang ***** pumps off the rear view mirror like some do with air fresheners or fluffy dice. When asked what's that by my son I hit the jackpot and told him it's a gravel vac, like what I use to clean the fish tank. Problem is, whenever he sees one in the carpark of the local shop, he tells the wife that the owner if that car has fish...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Dragging 12.5m of bus around the inner city with all the roadworks and obliviots who either have no idea, or don't care for anyone but themselves on the road, while trying to get 60+ kids, and the vehicle to wherever in one piece, has some stress involved. Is it the most stressful job in the world? Of course not. I'm well aware it's very much a first-world problem. You're lucky if you get your 30 minute lunch break every day, some days I can't even stop for a pee, or when I can, there are no facilities. With nowhere to store my fresh, grilled chicken salad to keep for later, I wolfed down a few bits of chicken, and wrote off the $11 it cost me. (Having an Endocrine disorder, skipping meals isn't such a great idea, but thanks for the concern about my health) Yes, these trips do cost hundreds of dollars - because the vehicles cost tens of thousands to put - and keep - on the road, as well as the cost of the depot, the drivers, and of course we need to make some profit, as with any business. That day, I made it back to my pick up on time, only to sit and wait for over 20 minutes, because they weren't ready yet. So yeah, I think that's a bit rude.
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![]() ![]() Have had to think on the fly a few times myself - you did great haha. But why the hell is hanging these things from the mirror a "thing"?? |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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People.....
Every day, I'm losing faith in humanity... Yesterday I met a friend at a train station exit (Edgecliff). While I was waiting an alarm went off, it was the Opel card machine. Really, really loud, with a red flashing LED light. The exit is internal - like a tunnel and the siren was echoing and greatly magnified due to the acoustics. The 2 train staff were walking back and fourth trying to work it out. I think it was a tamper alarm - the kind that are so loud it makes you back away from the machine before you go deaf. While I was waiting, a very obviously blind lady (dog and cane) went trough the turn style. She became very agitated and confused, calling out "what's going on, what's happening?" Several times while turning around... People brushed by and ignored her. One of the train staff walked past her while she was calling out and obviously confused. Without stopping he replied 'It's only an alarm'. and kept going. She then asked an alarm for what? All this happened in the course of less than 10 seconds. I walked across to her, supported her elbow to let her know I was there and told her "Don't worry, it's only the ticket machine, you have nothing at all to worry about". She looked at me, smiled, said thank you and walked off. Just an alarm? Fire alarm? Smoke alarm? Terrorism alarm? Seriously.. that would have been 10 seconds of utter terror to that person, and people just walked around her like she didn't exist. And when I spoke to her people looked at me like I was doing something wrong... Decided to drive to Watsons Bay. On my way back an elderly man that was very well dressed in a suit flagged me down. I pulled over and asked what was wrong. He told me that he had just missed his bus and the next one was in an hr, would I been kind enough to drive him down the rd to Double Bay? Now, 90% of the drivers would be going in the same direction. Of course, I opened the door for him and helped him in. It made me sick, he told me he was standing there for 15 minutes and people actually swerved around him, or saw him and turned the other way. What if his wife was having a heart attack on the footpath? What if some kid robbed him and ran off? This guy would have been in his 80's.. What the hell are we becoming????
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Self absorbed but also we are far more paranoid as a society
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I can't stand anything hanging from the mirror. It's bad enough some idiot behind you with crystals or something shiny swinging about & flashing the sun around in into other cars - it must be a terrible distraction to actually be in the car with it.
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Dunno mate, but it almost falls into the category of being asked how Santa gets into the house when we don't have a chimney.
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The way lanyards are stitched with a twist in the neck strap.
Drives me up the wall....
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Good call JYD. That is pretty much my wife & I's objective most weekends. No radio, tv or mobiles is a great way to free up some head space. Hearing the same negative headlines throughout the day has a massive effect on your subconscious, especially if your a more sensitive personality.
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: South eastern melbourne
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• people that take half an hour to get to the speed limit from traffic lights
• when 2 trucks r going at it taking up both lanes subjecting everyone behind them to their crap! • when 3 trucks r going at it taking up all lanes subjecting everyone behind them to their crap! • idiots the take the 'bathurst lane' at lights and don't play by 'Bathurst lane' rules • slow drivers when u wanna drive fast • fast drivers when u wanna drive slow • slow drivers the accelerate when at the overtaking lane • slow drivers that don't pull into the 'slow car turn out' ( yeah that's you idiot in front! ) • this thread Last edited by Lunch; 01-12-2016 at 06:53 PM. |
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Elderly drivers- driving from MT barker to Strathalbyn today, about 30 Kays behind 2 timid oldies, 100 zone, very few overtaking opportunities. Their speed pinballing between 40 and 80kph, get to wistow where there are 2 slow car pull outs, they miss the first one, then on the second one of them indicates once but doesn't actually move into the turn out
It astounds me how a car can seemingly loose 20kph in an instant without using their brakes, and I'm in a company car with signage, so I can't give them a mouthful either
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I think some people lose sight of just how much time they're spending on social media and how much it impacts their life. Which is probably my major pet peeve - people that take facebook so seriously they think they are actively changing the world with their status updates. Then there are the people that take it to heart when nobody gives their status attention. It really is a sad state of affairs when people base their emotions off a few clicks of the mouse. Or those that share way too much personal drama on there... I mean, it makes nice reading to know about love triangles and legal issues but I could never understand why people post that crap. Geez! I hate facebook... and could go on about it for a whole year. |
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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Yeah I deleted that crap about 4 years ago, I gave no warning, just flat out smoke bombed!
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Join Date: Jun 2016
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Yeah, I should have just done it that way because I haven't stayed friends with anyone from back then anyway. All's well that ends well.
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When you are in a bit of a rush, single lane, limit is 60 and the mongrel in front of you is moseying along at 40. See the lights 100m up ahead.. green. Till you get closer and the slow driver just takes their merry time crawling along, they go through a late yellow and you need to stop at the red.
Same with people at the lights that have their head in their lap on the phone, lights go green, they don't move till it's too late and they go through the yellow only for you to be stuck again on the red. Should be a way to install after market rocket launchers to light them up when they do that...
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I really don't get it, why would someone want to tell the world what they had for breakfast? I have a nephew who thinks the world wants to know what he does 24/7. Recently I was out to lunch and there would have been 10 people at the table, out of those 10, 7 would have been doing their Facebook updates on their phones telling everyone what they had ordered for lunch. Don't people converse anymore? People have learnt not to talk on their phones in restaurants, now they Facebook.
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recently I was in the same boat with 9 others having intimate relations with their phones, so I quietly finished my meal, told the hostess they were paying the bill and walked out. 20 minutes later I get a text where the hell are you, we've been looking for you everywhere.... my reply...'martians took me away, I doubt I'll ever see you again' and I haven't not a great loss on my part
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Totally agree with those who are over Facebook. This & the Mothers detail forum are the only social media I have ever been involved in. I know so many technologies have good applications but I reckon there's more negatives than positives when it comes down to it. Personally, I had a hard time at shool as we moved around a lot when I was a kid. You know, the new kid always gets tested out.. Thank goodness there was no computers or mobiles.When the teasing or bullying became physical, it ended there. Whether I won or lost, it was forgotten & we all moved on. Theses days, cowards hide behind keyboards. I doubt I would cope very well if I was a teen again.
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I hate know it alls.
Can't tell them, can't show them. They know it all. Usually been in the job 5 minutes too. |
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