Pet Peeves

[Ducky]

A potent combination of the local planning authority being idiots and the post office also being idiots.

I mention the planning authority because they gave the okay to have two housing estates in a small town the same fucking name. Granted, they're on opposite ends of the town but you can see why this might lead to confusion.

I live in one of these estates and got a letter through the postbox addressed to the person who lived in the same house number in the other estate. The different townland is clearly stated on the letter, but hey mistakes happen, no biggie.

I fire it into the PO when I'm walking past, grand. Two days later it comes back through the letterbox. Bad form for whoever the letter is addressed to. So I stick it back into the PO when I'm walking past again...

Only for it to drop through the letterbox for the third time this morning. Again, the other townland is clearly stated on the envelope and the addressee clearly doesn't live here.

Fucking clowns.

[Eoin McLove]

A perennial peeve and one I'll no doubt mention again but people not understanding how to drive on a roundabout. On my way home from work the car in front of me indicates into the right hand lane,  drives onto the roundabout indicating to the right,  I'm going straight so I drive into the left hand lane and through.  Next thing your one starts beeping me because she is actually going straight too!

I get to the next town and the car in front of me moves into the left hand lane,  I'm going right,  indicate right and move into the right hand lane.  As we are going round the roundabout your man cuts across me to go right! He did the exact same thing at the next roundabout.  Veer left to go right,  zero indication.  Piss boiling shit!

[mickO)))]

I failed my driving test because some asshole was indicating to come off a roundabout as I was waiting to get onto it so since he was indicating I started to drive onto the roundabout and the guy just kept coming and decided to do get off at another exit further down than the one he was indicating to leave through and his indicator stayed on the whole time. Then the tester decided it was my fault and blamed me.

I guess the tester had already reached his pass quota for the month so no matter what I did I was going to fail.

[mickO)))]

Edit double post

[Carnage]

A potent combination of the local planning authority being idiots and the post office also being idiots.

I mention the planning authority because they gave the okay to have two housing estates in a small town the same fucking name. Granted, they're on opposite ends of the town but you can see why this might lead to confusion.

I live in one of these estates and got a letter through the postbox addressed to the person who lived in the same house number in the other estate. The different townland is clearly stated on the letter, but hey mistakes happen, no biggie.

I fire it into the PO when I'm walking past, grand. Two days later it comes back through the letterbox. Bad form for whoever the letter is addressed to. So I stick it back into the PO when I'm walking past again...

Only for it to drop through the letterbox for the third time this morning. Again, the other townland is clearly stated on the envelope and the addressee clearly doesn't live here.

Fucking clowns.

Try living in an estate with two rows of houses with the same numbers. I lived in number 3, a house that was built in the '70s, when the field across the road was delevoped, it was an extension of the same estate, no new road given, and the same numbers used. Serious hassle trying to sort out post.

[Doctor Crippen]

A perennial peeve and one I'll no doubt mention again but people not understanding how to drive on a roundabout. On my way home from work the car in front of me indicates into the right hand lane,  drives onto the roundabout indicating to the right,  I'm going straight so I drive into the left hand lane and through.  Next thing your one starts beeping me because she is actually going straight too!

I get to the next town and the car in front of me moves into the left hand lane,  I'm going right,  indicate right and move into the right hand lane.  As we are going round the roundabout your man cuts across me to go right! He did the exact same thing at the next roundabout.  Veer left to go right,  zero indication.  Piss boiling shit!

I love driving, I really do but I have to wonder about the driving test in this country. People are reckless approaching them and using them, Liffey valley roundabout is an anxiety producing piece of dirt, pure carnage.

[Kunt 4 Life]

I guess the tester had already reached his pass quota for the month so no matter what I did I was going to fail.

Thats actually bollocks. There is no quota for failing but this urban myth prevails. I work with a guy whose a driving instructor on the side (cough*cash in hand *cough) and his brother is an examiner. I asked him if there was any truth to the myth as I knew other people who believed it and wanted it debunked properly.
He told me it was a load of shite but if an examiner was getting 100% pass rate fora few weeks they'd probably want to have an examiner sit in on the test to examine the examiner.

[Mr Moonlight]

The gangster accent that appears to have become the default accent of London kids in the last few years sounds so utterly retarded it drives me mad. Example: 'Quite nice' becomes 'quaaat naaaaas'. Brain damage stuff.

Yeah, annoying as fuck innit. Da yoof be representin' and ting!

'Oh my days'    Bollix to you and your days.
Having to avoid the inevitable puddle of piss under every urinal in every gents toilet.
The young, the elderly, my peers, the unborn, the dead and dying.

[mickO)))]

I guess the tester had already reached his pass quota for the month so no matter what I did I was going to fail.

Thats actually bollocks. There is no quota for failing but this urban myth prevails. I work with a guy whose a driving instructor on the side (cough*cash in hand *cough) and his brother is an examiner. I asked him if there was any truth to the myth as I knew other people who believed it and wanted it debunked properly.
He told me it was a load of shite but if an examiner was getting 100% pass rate fora few weeks they'd probably want to have an examiner sit in on the test to examine the examiner.

It's one of the biggest money rackets in the country. I doubt your man would actually admit to it either. I know loads of people who failed tests under similar circumstances to mine. I was in the right with what I did and shouldn't have even lost a mark let alone failed for it.

I also know someone else who when they came in and sat down to be asked the few questions at the beginning before going out on the road saw a sheet on the examiners desk that was a list of names from that day that had failed and they were on it this was before the test had even began and when they asked the examiner what it was all about he got embarrassed and tried to hide and then didn't say anything. This came from a person I know well who is not know for talking bollox. Failure rate alone would tell you this because believe it or not the standard of diving in Ireland in general is very high compared to a lot of other countries even for learners.

Over the years I have had four different instructors I always ended up doing a few lessons then stopping and not going back for a while and all of them have told me that this goes on. Same with a lot of driving schools a lot of them will teach the bare minimum every lesson to keep you coming back and spending more money.  One instructor who works for himself now told me he use to work for a school and the manager of the company had a go at him one day for teaching too much in one lesson.

[Pedrito]

The gangster accent that appears to have become the default accent of London kids in the last few years sounds so utterly retarded it drives me mad. Example: 'Quite nice' becomes 'quaaat naaaaas'. Brain damage stuff.

Yeah, annoying as fuck innit. Da yoof be representin' and ting!

'Oh my days'    Bollix to you and your days.
Having to avoid the inevitable puddle of piss under every urinal in every gents toilet.
The young, the elderly, my peers, the unborn, the dead and dying.

Load of African-Irish lads about Drogheda and Balbriggan using that accent but British style. So even though they're Irish they have this tossery Landin ganstery scumbag accent going on. Please god they'll cop.the fuck on once they get imto their twenties.

[mickO)))]

The gangster accent that appears to have become the default accent of London kids in the last few years sounds so utterly retarded it drives me mad. Example: 'Quite nice' becomes 'quaaat naaaaas'. Brain damage stuff.

Yeah, annoying as fuck innit. Da yoof be representin' and ting!

'Oh my days'    Bollix to you and your days.
Having to avoid the inevitable puddle of piss under every urinal in every gents toilet.
The young, the elderly, my peers, the unborn, the dead and dying.

Load of African-Irish lads about Drogheda and Balbriggan using that accent but British style. So even though they're Irish they have this tossery Landin ganstery scumbag accent going on. Please god they'll cop.the fuck on once they get imto their twenties.

Yep caused mayhem during the fleadh came down the first Sunday and caused riots across the town. Got into the grey goose started a load of fights and the garda were called one of them kicked a ban garda in the face another one slashed a different gardas face.

Then they tried to come down on the Thursday by train the cops stopped the train at the station wouldn't let anyone leave the train and sent it back to Balbriggan and they tried to come down on the Saturday night by bus and the cops did the same thing at the bus station.

I don't think any of them live in Drogheda they all are all from Balbriggan and other surrounding Dublin areas. I doubt they will cop on they seem to be a major problem that's only getting worse they are terrorising entire communities in some parts of Dublin, have been for the last 2 or 3 years and nothing is being done about it.

[Kunt 4 Life]

Trust me, the guy I work with would admit it. He's always moaning about injustices of the world and would have told us over and over. Would seen it as a way of getting back at the 'man'.

Besides when you fail they give you a report on why. If you do fine, and nothing wrong, they can't fail you.



Edit, of course you may be from down South so who knows what the rules are.

Out of curiosity, when you're friend saw the list of names, how did he know they were all failed and not just the list he had for the day?

[mickO)))]

He said the sheet that he saw had two columns pass and fail. His name along with a lot of others was on the fail side. As far as I know the company that carries out the driving tests in Ireland is privately owned and not run by the Government like it use to be. I am guessing the English way of testing is completely different.

[Eoin McLove]

David Attenborough getting blasted by SJWs for not being vocal enough on climate change.  How self-righteous do you have to be to have a go at Attenborough! It's actually pretty funny.

[hellfire]

Yeah, they need to be asked they have done apart from bitching on Twitter.