People who use the Irish language version of their name.
For example, people who were born, christened and registered as Paul Murphy, for example, who start going by Pól Ó'Murachú.
Those going to extreme lengths to show the world how ‘green’ or sustainable’ they might be (particularly on social media), but at the same time feel an enormous compulsion to announce on social media that they have now ditched their one-year-old smartphone for something minutely better, for example
A similar phenomenon is the ‘Prius Effect’, in which the main motivation for buying an electric car is for status more so than the relatively small environment improvements that come with such tech. Lithium still has to mined to produce the batteries and fossil fuels (almost certainly) have to be used in manufacture and shipping. The book ‘How Bad Are Bananas’ also challenges some of the assumptions that come with solar and wind technology
https://howbadarebananas.com/
While I railed against the To Be Honest etc merchants, I am totally comfortable with the So, Lookit, Well, Should Of, Nooze, Alot et al brigade. The first lot are out to pervert the language, and subvert proper discussion.
The other ones are Innocents abroad, who just use the language the way they hear it. Harmless souls.
Yeah, innocents my Irish bollox…lazy kernts……tossers even, harmless as a dose of Chalfonts.
Danger here... non cockneys using cockney rhyming slang is getting close to tosser territory.
People who jog or running on the road right beside……. A footpath!
Seeing more of lately too
You could have something there…….I have to apologise.
A green party member 😄
Concrete is much harder on joints than tarmac. Also footpaths are rarely level or well maintained so there are frequent opportunities for minor injuries.
I was out for a run recently and had to run on the road (as there was no footpath) and was shouted at by some tosser in a car who claimed that I shouldn't be on the road and actually told me I should have lights 🤣. When I smiled and waved at her she was so furious that she sat in her car with her hand on her horn for over 10 seconds.
She obviously couldn't see my neon green Tshirt with her full beams on.
90% of my runs would not be on a road but there is always a section where you need to go on road whether it be footpaths blocked by cars, no footpaths, road works or just poor surfaces.
TLDR that tosser is me 👍🏾
So you’d rather risk being hit by a vehicle running on the road.
When did I risk being hit by a vehicle?? 😕
If your running on a road instead of the footpath your more likely to get hit by a vehicle.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion unless you are following me 🤣
My tosser for the day is those who think roads are only for cars 👍🏾
Double tosser points are those who beep at others who dare to be on "their road" ie cyclists, pedestrians, people in charge of animals, children, scooters etc.
Triple tosser points to those that use a phone while driving or drive without paying attention and then convince themselves that the vulnerable road user is the tosser just for being there.
Quadruple points to the "salmon". Not drivers, but cyclists who cycle on the wrong side of the road, especially where there are cycle lanes on both sides. Like their fish counterparts, there is some unfortunate attrition inevitable in their quest to reach their destination.
"Cyclists use the term "salmoning" to describe a biker going against the stream on a one-way bike lane. Surely the definition can be broadened to include Baldwin's infraction. While salmoning is a funny word, it's a dangerous action."
A friend of mine ran into a bit of heart trouble, a blocked valve. He has one brother. When he told the brother the first thing the brother said was have you got a will made!!
People who look the other way when they see you coming 😂 im not sure if they are just odd or what. I always stare at them until they look my way, sometime I beep at them to let them know I see them.
Getting hit by a veichle can be hard on the joints too.
Anyone who fauns over foreign football teams.
Bonus points if they wear their Liverpool jersey when chanting uppa ra and saying Brits out.
It is weird reading through the thread and thinking, yup that is me and wondering if I am a tosser or just appear as one, or maybe we are all too judgemental.
My kid has cmpa, cow milk protein allergy, so I buy oat milk as that is preferred over almond, soya and other alternatives. I wear prescription sun glasses and I know I have been out on a sunny day, not had my regular glasses with me, and popped into the local shop wearing my sunglasses inside so I could see.
Maybe we should just give other people the benefit of the doubt rather than assume they are tossers from a small number of actions?
It goes well beyond tosser territory. I'd go as far as to say that any Irish person who uses rhyming slang is nothing short of an absolute berk.
Irish People who use American words like dude and awesome. F**kin tossers
We have a club nearby with a state of the art running track but the members still prefer to run around the town on a dark winters night on the roads.
Blimey, steady on old bean, Irish people don't use berk.
The slang term "berk" is a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt".
Dude was covered on Page 27. You mightn't like what you read, if you read it. If awesome is American, kudos to them for keeping it in the language.
"late 16th century (in the sense ‘filled with awe’): from awe + -some".
Embrace it, its liberating to accept you are or maybe are a tosser.
If in doubt default to yes you are!
If you're running on the road in the direction of the oncoming traffic then the chances of being hit by a car greatly reduces and you can then see traffic coming and briefly go back on the path.
Track running is very different to running on streets. If doing long distances then you don't want to just run around in circles. Did you every notice marathons are never on a running track?
Also requires spikes and it's a totally different discipline.
Or……. Run on the path!
Yes but as explained already the surface of roads is often better to run on and easier on joints. That's the reason behind it.
yea I no but in my mind I’d rather go to a running track or forest somewhere. I run & the road is the last place I’d go.
Get better shoes & socks
Its an accident waiting to happen wtf are people thinking
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