As it's useless to me it will be on ebay shortly.. to pay for one that will fit.. IF i can find one... Am seriously considering going "streetfighter" style!! grrrrr
Is streetfighter the same as naked? (the bike, not you) lol
Just staring out of my window watching an electric invalid scooter cruising the wrong way down a dual carriageway. He does it all the time. I feel really sorry for the guy, he's one of the neighbours and only about my age. But supposing there was an accident? Bet he's not insured. God only knows how many traffic laws he's breaking. OK, so it would be tactless for the police to go in hard on him, but there's an accident and an ugly court case in the making here, and possibly someone hurt. Same applies to pedal cyclists. If you're in the road, you stick to the rules of the road, OK. You know, things like red light means stop, a one-way street means you only go down in one direction, you put lights on at night. It ain't that difficult. Rant over.
Cruising?? Was his battery low? lol
Most of those 'vehicles' I end up having to dive out of the way of cos the 'driver' doesn't seem to know where the brakes are
Feckin' numpties on bikes treating the back road into my town as if it's their private feckin' racetrack.
If I hadn't had my wits about me, someone would've got seriously hurt tonight and it wouldn't have been me.
If you're out playing with your mates on your bikes, you do NOT separate and try to pass either side of a car that's going straight over a roundabout when you're going all the way round it. FFS!
No wonder bikers have such a bad friggin' image when there are such mindless eejits about.
Fortunately for the numpties in question, I was well aware that they were coming at me from all angles & I braked, cos the numpty undertaking was never going to make it past me. Another road user may not have been able to react in the same way and prevent the accident waiting to happen.
I can't help but think there would've been some ranting anti-car driver thread on a forum somewhere if said numpty hadn't been so lucky tonight.
And another thing... before you act like a total numpty, be very aware of the roundabout you're choosing to be a numpty on. The vast majority of the time, that particular roundabout has shedloads of gravel scattered about on it, particularly around the outsides of it... i.e. where you're trying to undertake a sodding car.
Joyriding (not a joy to anyone but themselves) bike riders made my life a miserable one quite often. Riding up and down the street I live in. They live on same street. They don't ride every day and not for long periods and the cops can't do anything about them.
I learned a long time ago that confronting them has no effect at all.
I've stopped letting them get to me cos it was making my nerves bad, now I just close the windows or turn the telly up and hope they run out of petrol and have to push the bike back
Little fookers give the majority of sociable bikers a bloody poor name :o(
But when they are reported on in the press it's allways hooligan bikers or bikers cause mysery (they are not bikers they are inverably fookin chavs who've stolen a ped or some little scroat who's had not any decent training and thinks he's bloody indestructable)
passes on soap box for next ranter lol
Numpty people passing on numpty email "advice" such as:
Too
bad the mobile phone companies don't give you this little bit of
wonderful information. So now it's your turn to let your friends know
about 112
(112 is an emergency number on your mobile that takes you straight to the police because 999 does not work if you have no signal) . This is good information that I did not know! Oh FFS!
No signal = no signal.
You can't phone any number whatsoever if you have no signal.
112 is a Europe-wide emergency number and when in the UK, if you dial 112, you are connected to the 999 service. It's not some magic number that works even if your phone doesn't that the mobile companies are keeping secret for some reason FFS!
Just because it's in an email doesn't make it true. Even if it says "verified by the Dorset Police" at the top of it.
PML @ Wannabe's rant.
(if it's a revolution ya want try visiting the chat room, it has a revolving door)
my rant:
t v programmes that play music when the voice over is talking. I dunno about folk with perfect hearing but I'm H O H (hard of hearing) and it's difficult to hear what's being said, especially when there are no subtitles to help out. This music isn't necessary so give it a rest!!!
also when the camera isn't on the person who is talking and there are no subtitles how the hell are we supposed to know what's being said? Camera on face of person talking, even without subtitles, is better cos we can at least attempt to lip read.
Jeez it aint like deafness is a new thing, so FGS sort it out or give us a refund on our t v licence!!!
*soap box free for next person*
my rant, is everbody ranting lmao...god i couldnt live next door to kwak and wanna's...i would be sh*t scared to step out of my front door...think they are moulding into nora battys for the future ..oops sorry ladies
Ian it's difficult to explain, to folk who have good hearing, but noise, especially unecessary noise, just drives me mad. I hear sounds differently to folk who have good hearing so what may just be a slight noise to you is a major irritation to me. I know that seems crazy if I'm hard of hearing but that's how it is.
If you lived just one day with less than half your hearing you'd get pissed off too.
When I'm in a crowd of people I feel lonelier than if I was on my own because it's difficult to make out what someone is saying if others talk at the same time or there's background noise, so as I can't follow the conversation I tend not to try and this can lead to folk thinking I'm not interested or that I'm stuck up.
When I've been in shops and someone has asked me to let them pass if they are behind me sometimes I don't hear them. I only suspect that's the case when they finally get in front of me and give me a dirty look and/or say something snide cos I didn't move out of their way.
Maybe if folk were taught deaf awareness at school then they wouldn't assume that all folk who don't get out of their way are ignorant 2hats.
So yes, if me not liking noises and complaining about them makes me a Nora Batty so be it.
Kwak , i thought i was the only deaf one here , this is the 1ST TIME someone else has expressed my feelings and on top of it a woman! you know i actually dread a phone and god knows what else .TV i've given up on years ago and i still today use a cordless headfone , i paid 3thou pounds (40 thou rand) for earphones 6 mths ago in SA (with remote volume control & program change)still does'nt help much) ..sometimes i think f it all no-one wants to understand , but , i've learnt to live with it . Thank you for speaking up!! lol
I forgot to mention i'm 82% deaf for high pitch tones and 65% for bass tones so literally i'm f....d as far as hearing goes , if anyone needs to know why "army" and i never volunteered , it was conscription .
Aww Billy I think, from what you say here, that my hearing is possibly not as bad as yours.
I have been hard of hearing since i was about 4 yrs old so I know no different and can manage most situations it's just noisy atmospheres such as nite clubs/pubs and any other crowd gathering I find hard to hear conversation.
Phones, I'm ok with those if the person on the other end doesn't mumble or isn't eating while they are talking to me and there's no noise in the background, I don't like when folk phone me and they have their telly/radio on.
Don't give up on the telly, admittedly it's shite at mo, most tellies have subtitle facilities, not all programmes do but they're working on it. I can't watch the telly without them, I used to keep saying 'what did they say?' lol
Ian, I realise it was a joke but considering the topic not in good taste eh?
sorry kwak but on this occasion i have to disagree, what i said was not in bad taste nor did i say anything about people who are hard of hearing as one of my best friends is totally deaf, i even know some sign language so we can communicate, i was just having a joke because yourself and wannabe were having a good old moan fully justified.
Ian I know you didn't say anything about deaf folk but you criticised me complaining and I had just been complaining about not being able to hear, or follow programmes etc, so that is why I don't think it was in good taste.
But I don't hold a gruge or stay peed off for long so let's just leave it there eh?
each to there own opinion, but if we reacted on this site to a post when it could be in bad taste we would be doing it all the time as people can always find something to be unhappy about
Ian , its hard for people with good hearing to understand but sometimes they think we are slow or even stupid , and in my case it's not being slow to reply it takes time to fathom what someone has said before i reply ...and i still get it wrong .lol
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