#94

My mum used to give us a proper ticking off for this when we were kids, she’d always say “we can’t all walk along arm-in-arm like the Tralala Girls”

Still have no real idea who that is

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#95

I got told off by the office admin at work for disabling my voicemail and that I should turn it back on. I dealt with it the same way I deal with most things I don’t want to do at work and just did nothing.

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#96

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#97

Sorry, I don’t listen to The Smashing Pumpkins

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#98

Accessing voicemail is torture - they want me to set up a password (every time for some reason) and an irritating Geordie goes “champion” at me

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#99

Says the man with 5 posts in here.

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#100

Well I hope all you anti-breaders are happy!

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#101

just smash into them, fuck it

#102

Eating honey. Props up an industry based on the exploitation of hard-working bees. Honey CEOs swanning around in yachts while the bees aren’t paid a penny.

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#103

I deliberately didn’t check voicemail on my desk phone for a year. A little icon blinked at me to tell me they were there, but I never checked them and nothing bad happened.

I also had a phase of declining meetings unless the invitation explained what the point of the meeting was. I missed one meeting where something important was discussed, but mostly I just gained free time.

Makes me sound like a bit of an edgelord, but I did it with good humour.

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#104

Wellll… I cycle and I walk (and I drive and sometimes catch trains - it’s a cornucopia of transport methods round my way, I tell you) and on shared areas with cyclists and pedestrians the number of times I’ve seen pedestrians being idiots >>>> cyclists.

We’ve got a path clearly divided in half and marked bikes and pedestrians but do pedestrians stick to their bit? Hell no. They wander along on both sides and then look startled/grumpy when a cyclist clears their throat behind them. Arrrghhh.

I do the same stretch fairly regularly as both a cyclist and a pedestrian and honestly there are dicks on both sides.

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#105

This is now the cycling thread

#106

Swans are arseholes so…yeah :wink:

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#107

I hate myself

#108

Was about to say something along the lines of this. It’s not the mode of transport it’s whether the person is or is not a dick, surely?

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#109

My colleagues are terribe for this. We often go for a walk at lunchtime along a cycle path/footpath. There is a kerb to separate the two so you can’t be in the cycle lane by accident. They insist on walking spread out right across both the cycle path and footpath

#110

Oh and while I’m on the topic.

Bad things a lot of people do that they may not realise are bad : demonise cyclists.

Extra points for the bloody ‘mamil’ comments. Alright Jeremy Clarkson, we get it, you are threatened by the sight of men wearing tight fitting outfits that make you scared and confused as all of your neat little preconceptions about the world and conventional gender roles as shown by clothing are shattered by the sight of a chap with tight shorts but steady on.

My Dad used to have a thing about ‘everyone who drives a BMW drives really badly’ and I realised relatively late in life that I’d been agreeing with him but that actually it was nonsense. The problem is that once you think ‘all BMW drivers are idiots’ you notice the bad drivers everywhere and it reinforces your bias but you never see the BMWs that are being driven perfectly reasonably and, yes, they do exist, they just blend into the background. Same with cyclists. Everyone notices the knobs, their knobbery is what makes them stand out, but the patient, respectful cyclist blends into the background.

I know that cycling has a ‘ho ho ho - we all hate cycling’ railery attatched to it on here but, actually, I think it’s worth challenging if I’m honest. Cycling is a great way of getting around that keeps you healthy and doesn’t kill the planet: we should be all for it really, I wish I did more of it.

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#111

And as with all of these things their general knobbery is usually overexaggerated.

Can’t remember the last time I was genuinely inconvenienced by a cyclist. And I do quite a bit of walking.

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#112

Can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t actually hate all cyclists.

I had a pop in here about bad ones who have actually come close to twatting me off my feet. I don’t think that was unreasonable. If it was and I crossed a line, I’m sorry.

I really don’t think anyone here has any serious issue with people who choose to cycle about.

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#113

I’m sorry, I can’t read this post for the clouds of smug coming off the final paragraph.

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