Just to pint a bit more of a picture here, where you wearing a hat?
Yes, but it wasnât cute enough to allow me a moderator role
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Three of DiSâ finest GBOLs, but youâve fucked up here, guys. After Glasgow Liverpoolâs the second best city in Britain.
I actually think Liverpool is fucking ace, I was just being a twat
in all honesty, its a close third to London and Bristol.
In all honesty, some of you ballbags should visit Leeds.
you know whatâs really been irking me lately? that thing where youâre going in one direction and everyone is coming towards you and theyâre all spread out across the pavement and nobody moves for you. seems to be a big thing in dublin.
Hi.
The reason is some of us are fast. I mean put aside that the longer your leg the faster you walk anyway, I am just a person who does things at speed. I canât go slow it DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY
FUCKING
INSANE
I get irritated by people who go on the walking side of the escalator and then donât climb it two stairs at a time or do it with purpose.
I have huge amounts of nervous energy. I am always jiggling, tapping, etc.
And yeah 30s might seem like not much but Iâve missed trains or buses by that amount and these things add up if youâre taking two or more trains and youâre trying to get to nursery for pickup etc.
Samesies
Thatâs fine but my issue is you seem to be saying: no compromises, fast people have to just fuck off and accept the ideal world for slower types.
The whole point of the initiative is to provide spaces for both types of people.
And yeah people are slow and people are fast but arseholes are separate. If someone shoves you then thatâs bad but adopting a dog-in-the-manger attitude of being negative towards the mere idea of someone just moving quickly isnât at all better, and that seems to be the attitude youâre adopting here.
FWIW trying to stay slow is REALLY FUCKING Hard as I know from the amount of times Iâve had my wife pointing out over the years about mewalking ahead of her, despite trying my best.
Yeah, exactly, itâs just about being mindful of other people and not acting like an idiot (like people who stop dead at the top (or bottom) of escalators, etc).
Just because I feel youâve twice missed the meaning of my quote
Iâm not saying everyone should take two steps Iâm saying walk up like you mean it. Donât just walk up slowly. Whatâs the point? Stand and enjoy it otherwise.
It still sounds like you have an issue with people who are irritating not with people who are fast because most of us just wait and then go past people when we can. The point of the survey is that it expresses how many people are frustrated like this because they actually do use the road to get somewhere.
Your view is fairly myopic here because you assume. Everyone can make the time to get somewhere more slowly or have nothing important to get to. Who knows, though?
Iâm not apologising for rude people.
I donât really know about crossings. I always wait for a green man, my wife, who is not a fast person, will always try to cross or will cross at random points in the road. I think youâre confusing âspeedinessâ with people not wanting to wait for the green man. Itâs dangerous but thatâs how it is. Itâs nothing to do with how fast people walk, otherwise 99% of people would be fast walkers.
The thing is you canât really say âjust allow more timeâ. Itâs not really necessarily how life works. Maybe you promised youâd pop to a particular shop at lunch or you only have 30 mins to get food and, just before you are about to leave a colleague comes up needing a piece of help. Youâre not an arsehole so you delay to help them. But you have a meeting to attend straight after lunch so that means youâre now running behind.
This sort of thing happens EVERY DAY. You get the tube then thereâs a delay and youâre suddenly 10 minutes later than you allowed for. Not everyone can actually give themselves a 15-30 minute cushion for every eventuality. Itâs completely wrong to assume no one should have to hurry.
Moreover, I always feel the psychology of this is that you will notice the one person doing a thing specifically because it irritates you and not notice any of the people who donât, leading to your mind giving a false perception of the stats involved.
holy overanalysis batman
Sounds like youâre quite uptight, buddy.
Iâm uptight about people slowing me down, maaaaaaaaann.
Now that you mention it, there have been three ducks (one might be a white Mallard or escaped domestic, one looks like a female mallard and the other perhaps a mix of the two?) acting awfully suspiciously over the last year or so. Theyâre nearly always spotted together in the same spot of Foudry Brook, most likely plotting, scheming and spying on passers by. Not sure what their motive woyld have been here though.
To make you the fastest walker in Reading, told you this way up there ^^^&