Minor Rant Thread part 6

[Aberdeenplotter]

also clicking on the last post on a thread button and finding yourself at the top of a page without a scoobie of wot's been going on

[susieq100]

Rain, rain and more rain. Fed up now.

[julesapple]

Ditto Susie.....

Hope it dries up for Christmas Day - we need to barbecue.

[Feral007]

Nearly being wiped out at an intersection in Canberra, after dropping the kids at the bus to go to their father's place.
You know if people are tired, stressed, and they go thru a red light? Not nice, but not deadly. But when you get a green arrow to go onto a ramp to a major highway, and someone drives up at high speed, drives thru the stationary traffic and nearly takes you and the car in front out, it doesn't make me happy. You are not just inattentive. You are a murderer waiting to happen. You know that a mistake at that speed will kill people, and you just don't care. You don't slow down, so you don't see the red light, you aren't going slow enough so you don't realise 'oh dear, it's red' and pull up just over the line, you rely on us to see you, to be focused, to see you coming at high speed, and take evasive action. It's not just one of those things. Your speed, and your decision to not pay attention make you dangerous.
I'm not happy. He should be glad that by the time I got over the shock I was kilometres away. Because I might have got out of the car and he'd be sorry if I had.

[julesapple]

You ok Fez?

[Feral007]

Yes, thanks. I've finaly calmed down now! Just needed to get it out! We were lucky, the car in front, and I. Was very nearly nasty. Second rant? Wishing I had more than half a glass of wine for when I got back home!

[Ranger Smith]

The nightmare I had last night:

I saw it from the point of view of a virus that had invaded my body.
It infected every cell, and then the viral components created a nueral network that united them to each other, and they communicated with each other and created a single, conscious, thinking entity within me, that could read my mind, knew everything I knew, feel everything I felt and see everything I saw.
It tapped into the electrical, visual circuitry of my eyes and brain, and I could see the tiny, fuzzy, keyhole-like view that it had of part of my field of view.
And while it was seeing what I saw, it said to itself as if it was talking to me and taunting me, "I can seeeeeee youuuuuuuuuu", with a low, breathy voice, like it was really proud of itself for parasitizing me and living within me without my knowledge.

[Ranger Smith]

I'm sorry for what happened to you. : ( It sounds like you were at an intersection that is controlled by arrows, rather than just an ordinary, green light. Maybe it was a meth head that almost hit you, because I saw a video of the meth heads in Australia, and they were just like the lowly pukes that I see driving here in Hawaii, without a hint of conscience. I was passed by a druggie here, two years ago, who killed a woman after he had passed me. I already testified at the Grand Jury for that, and I keep waiting for the subpoena to testify against him in his manslaughter trial.

Nearly being wiped out at an intersection in Canberra, after dropping the kids at the bus to go to their father's place.
You know if people are tired, stressed, and they go thru a red light? Not nice, but not deadly. But when you get a green arrow to go onto a ramp to a major highway, and someone drives up at high speed, drives thru the stationary traffic and nearly takes you and the car in front out, it doesn't make me happy. You are not just inattentive. You are a murderer waiting to happen. You know that a mistake at that speed will kill people, and you just don't care.

[Feral007]

No, Ranger Smith, I had a good look at him and his face while I was watching him - you know how it is when there's danger every second seems like a minute. He was driving a posh 4x4, and he wasn't even a youngster, he would have been about 30/35. Middle class, just didn't believe that paying attention to the road and driving at a safe speed applies to him. Bit like my ex who believes it's not speeding if you're running late.
The intersection has both lights and arrows as it leads onto upramps to the through hwy north and south. It was just sheer selfishness to drive through an intersection at that speed. If I'd been acouple of seconds faster taking off, or the one in front a couple slower, we wouldn't have been able to make a big enough gap for him. They give the young drivers a hard time, but it's people like that who never learn, they are the ones who should be paying extra insurance and having speed limiting.

[Bigmallly]

Hope you soon get over your shock Feral...........nutters, don't get me going.

My rant - Bladdy wind ( not me personally.... ), take care if you are going out, it's wild out there.

[VirginVegGrower]

A gorilla with wind could be very dangerous.

Got a migraine forming...grrrr

[Potstubsdustbins]

Metal thieves who steal what was a live external gas pipe, the tenants woke this morning to a house full of gas.........................

The police, fire brigade and ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and eventually when everything was sorted National Grid the national gas emergency service.

Still back on holiday now.

Potty

[zazen999]

Lottie flooded.

FFS.

[binley100]

Bummer Zaz............

I do not take kindly to shoppers who try to push me along the queue for the checkout by pushing me with their trolley just as I don't take kindly to them loading up the belt before I have finished, it just makes me go slower ...........and anyway whats the rush it's not like the worlds about to end...

[binley100]

oh and another thing ........
I understand Ikeas green policy which is why they charge for bags and if I'd remembered my bag I probably wouldn't have taken any notice , but to allow someone to walk away with an unwrapped 8" filleting knife with no offer of even a bit of paper to put round it ........well to me that is wrong .