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What grinds my gears...

By Daggers, in General Chat

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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MsFoxy came from absolute penury and worked her way up but this wouldn't have happened had she to pay for her university education.

Oh no you didn't just come out with that shit! Just when you were making sense.

You are completely wrong. Repeating this shit is what stops people going to university. There is NO UPFRONT FEES!! Why are people so frickin blind they cant see it. The new fees are not going to be more expensive for most people, and they make it easier to go because you are not reliant on your parents deciding to pay. FFS get your facts right and please stpo buying the Labour bullshit, it is politicians actually damaging people's prospects and it makes me absolutely furious..

I ask you one question to make my point... Have you ever met anyone who has said "I am not going to Uni because if I then go on to have a well paid career I will have to pay the 40% tax rate!!" No? No. And the new fees are exactly the same as that.

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z-layrex

z-layrex

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Woah there, I'm going to lectures to learn and it's very difficult to concentrate and do so when people keep pissing about.

That's very true, it's so rude to the lecturer too. I'm topping up my diploma HE to a degree in my own time, and in some of the lectures they've actually had to shush a certain few people because they kept giggling and talking during teaching. We're talking people who've worked as nurses and paramedics for years, I couldn't believe it. Not to mention the £3k cost of the degree just to then talk through the lectures.

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Stay Positive

Stay Positive

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People who don't give way to the right at roundabouts (sorry, yet ANOTHER driving one).

Now, I can handle it if they look to the right and think, after assessing the situation, that they have time, even if I think otherwise. It's the ones that just pull out without looking that bother me. They ought to have a fist that automatically comes out of their steering wheel and punches them for that.

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Haydos

Haydos

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Useless bar-staff.

My scenario earlier - wander in to pub,

Me: "Yeah, hi can I get 2 fingers of the Glenmorangie whisky please?"

Barmaid: "What?"

Me: "Two fingers of Glenmorangie, y'know about 25mL"

Barmaid: "Err, yeah it's just whisky"

Me: "forget it, can I have a pint of..."

You'd have thought as a barmaid she'd understand the measurements for serving things such as whisky.

Edit: Oh, and people who drag you into their relationship issues. You're having problems with your significant other, talk to them, leave me out of it.

Why didn't you just ask for a whisky?

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Rincewind

Rincewind

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Bloke behind in the queue thinking Hope she knows what 10 fingers of Aussie outback rainwater is.

I don't think barstaff are taught to use fingers as a measurement to serve spirits only ml's. Maybe in movies. Finger come in various sizes.

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sphericalfox

sphericalfox

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Useless bar-staff.

My scenario earlier - wander in to pub,

Me: "Yeah, hi can I get 2 fingers of the Glenmorangie whisky please?"

Barmaid: "What?"

Me: "Two fingers of Glenmorangie, y'know about 25mL"

Barmaid: "Err, yeah it's just whisky"

Me: "forget it, can I have a pint of..."

You'd have thought as a barmaid she'd understand the measurements for serving things such as whisky.

Edit: Oh, and people who drag you into their relationship issues. You're having problems with your significant other, talk to them, leave me out of it.

Sorry fella, if I was working behind the bar and you asked me for two fingers, the only measurement would be index and middle.

The term you might use to avoid someone spitting in your next drink will be 'double'. :thumbup:

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Saxondale

Saxondale

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People who don't give way to the right at roundabouts (sorry, yet ANOTHER driving one).

Now, I can handle it if they look to the right and think, after assessing the situation, that they have time, even if I think otherwise. It's the ones that just pull out without looking that bother me. They ought to have a fist that automatically comes out of their steering wheel and punches them for that.

And people who can't understand mini-roundabouts. Just because there's not a big grass mound in the middle, they can't get their thick heads around the rules.

So they pull out in front of you and then usually swear or beep at you as if you're in the wrong.

:frusty:

NOTHING in life frustrates me more than people trying to correct you when they're actually wrong and you're right!

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AoWW

AoWW

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And people who can't understand mini-roundabouts. Just because there's not a big grass mound in the middle, they can't get their thick heads around the rules.

So they pull out in front of you and then usually swear or beep at you as if you're in the wrong.

:frusty:

NOTHING in life frustrates me more than people trying to correct you when their actually wrong and you're right!

they're :whistle:

The Doctor

The Doctor

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Or you could be like me and let the price do the talking, "give me the cheapest thing you got".

Yeah, but I don't go to a pub to drink water.

And yes, double would have been easier, but I have a habit of saying in fingers, not an uncommon measurement - you'd have thought someone working behind a bar would be reasonably well versed in measurements.

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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I must have slept through at least 20% of my first year lectures.

You made it to 20% of your lectures? Nerd.

Yeah, but I don't go to a pub to drink water.

And yes, double would have been easier, but I have a habit of saying in fingers, not an uncommon measurement - you'd have thought someone working behind a bar would be reasonably well versed in measurements.

Fingers is a common measurement in university drinking games. It's not a common measurement in pubs.

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Finnegan

Finnegan

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You made it to 20% of your lectures? Nerd.

Funnily enough, I did re-read that and think "that doesn't really clarify that I mean 20% of the lectures I attended." lol

Also, how the **** can you be university age and have no idea how to order in a pub?

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Stay Positive

Stay Positive

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People who take AGES to do something unbelievably simple. There are many instances of his.

I make exception for the elderly at cashpoints, or for learner drivers, but am less tolerant of people who should know better.

I honestly stood waiting recently - in the pouring rain - for some woman of about 40 to use the cash machine in front of me. It went like this:

Woman stares at screen, blankly.

Woman eventually inserts card, initially the wrong way round.

Woman stares blankly - possibly even startled - at the screen

Woman eventually presses a few buttons.

Woman's card comes out.

Woman stands looking baffled.

Repeat above scenario several times so that the whole process takes a whole 5 minutes - possibly more - and there is a queue of 9 people by the end of it.

The most annoying part is watching her put her card back in time and time again when the rest of us think she's finished.

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