Trivial things that annoy you part 479

jimgoose · 12-11-2015 04:07PM

smash wrote: »

I've a nice scar on my arm of about 5 inches long from a scrambler accident when I was 16. When I say accident, I mean failed stunt... I was wearing protective gear, but I judged a jump wrong and went over the handle bars. Put my arm up over my face because it was an open front helmet and when I hit the ground the elbow pad just slid up to my forearm and I travelled 5 or 6ft along the dirt. Covered in blood I got the best medical treatment I could have expected... half a bottle of iodine poured over me and pat on the back with a "Ah you'll be ok... bye bye now"

<Apu>Try to take it in the shoulder, sir!</Apu> ONW, same goes for you!

OldNotWIse · 12-11-2015 04:08PM

everlast75 wrote: »

Clickbait - it's everywhere

"You won't believe what happened next!"

"His reaction will shock you"

Misleading headlines on websites.

It's infuriating

Yes!

"What will see will make you cry" etc. Hate it

smash · 12-11-2015 04:11PM

jimgoose wrote: »

<Apu>Try to take it in the shoulder, sir!</Apu> ONW, same goes for you!

I took it on the head once. Tarmac to the head aint nice at all

jimgoose · 12-11-2015 04:13PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

My OH has a huge scar on her foot from where she came off a scooter with flip flops on :rolleyes: My Dad has a hole in the side of his knee where he had rods to suspend his leg for 6 months after coming off a bike. Motorcyclists are so vulnerable

That's for sure. You're not going to win any belt-ups with a Nissan Qumquat who's driver is simultaneously arguing with the children in the back and on the phone trying to find out where the babysitter is. So you need to use your head, including armouring-up where and as appropriate.

eisenberg1 · 12-11-2015 04:16PM

All this bike talk, I feel a mid life crisis coming on....

smash · 12-11-2015 04:16PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

All this bike talk, I feel a mid life crisis coming on....

Go home and watch Top Gun... Immediately!

eisenberg1 · 12-11-2015 04:20PM

smash wrote: »

Go home and watch Top Gun... Immediately!

Thanks, but I think I am a bit too straight for Top Gun:)

smash · 12-11-2015 04:22PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thanks, but I think I am a bit too straight for Top Gun:)

Your loss! :pac:

*Highway to the danger zone......

Mesrine65 · 12-11-2015 04:24PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

My OH has a huge scar on her foot from where she came off a scooter with flip flops on :rolleyes: My Dad has a hole in the side of his knee where he had rods to suspend his leg for 6 months after coming off a bike. Motorcyclists are so vulnerable

I have a special addendum to my passport as I have so many metal bits in me from bike offs over the last three & a half decades, that I set all the metal detectors off :eek: :cool:

selous · 12-11-2015 04:24PM

This one fell off a bike years ago, I remember reading about it, it showed a lot of pic's too, but time limit must be up on them but here's a link, to a bit of road rash.

http://themotolady.com/tagged/brittany-morrow/

Mesrine65 · 12-11-2015 04:25PM

smash wrote: »

Go home and watch Top Gun... Immediately!

jimgoose · 12-11-2015 04:27PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thanks, but I think I am a bit too straight for Top Gun:)

Anyone who has ever actually dragged a jet fighter with a Kawasaki GPz900R will tell you that unless you're using a proper helmet you're basically blind after fifty yards, thus detracting somewhat from the experience. But that's Hollywood for you. :pac:

Whitewinged · 12-11-2015 04:45PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Indeed. This reminds me of a TA of mine - goobers on their holidays who hire scooters or small motocycles and proceed to hoor about the place in T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops. It's as if tarmac only grates human tissue like parmesan when it's cold, or something.

this happened my husband on a bike years ago and he said the exact same thing as you that it was like someone "cheese grating your leg". His wasn't too bad but I think he had to wait for the little pieces of stone to grow out of his skin! He calls it "gravel rash" but I think as selous posted the correct term is Road Rash :-s

eisenberg1 · 12-11-2015 04:52PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Last time I did that I couldn't walk right for a week

:D:D

Colser · 12-11-2015 05:14PM

Whitewinged wrote: »

this happened my husband on a bike years ago and he said the exact same thing as you that it was like someone "cheese grating your leg". His wasn't too bad but I think he had to wait for the little pieces of stone to grow out of his skin! He calls it "gravel rash" but I think as selous posted the correct term is Road Rash :-s

Happened me years ago after a fall off a bike,"gravel rash" on the back of my wrist.Stiches opened up a week later again and they took out more gravel:rolleyes:.I will never forget my mothers face when she got the call to come into the hospital,I had told her I was somewhere else altogether and got caught rotten being with someone I shouldnt have been with and on the bike.
Both hands up on those sling holder things and in hospital for a few days but the look she gave me was worse than the fecking injuries..Thanks God for my Dad keeping her away from me:D

There was a guy killed in the UK last year off a bike and he had a camera on the helmet,its one of those clips that you never forget,also him mam took part in a documentary about him and it was excellent but very very sad.

Menas · 12-11-2015 05:19PM

That video from yer mans head cam really makes you realise how fragile we are.
That said I miss my motorbike.... Want a new one.

fussyonion · 12-11-2015 05:37PM

Out shopping today and these two old dears were having a good old chat in the middle of the biscuit aisle.
I manoeuvered around them a bit but then they moved a bit and were still in my way.
I sighed heavily and they got the message.
Go to a cafe if you want a chat!

TA'd that there's nothing I fancy for dinner but I'm hungry.

Also had a "lady procedure" done at the doctor's and it feckin hurt.

Diamond Doll · 12-11-2015 05:37PM

Just watching Come Dine With Me, and someone used canned sliced red peppers.

I'm all for convenience, but how hard is it to slice up a pepper? Even I'm not that lazy!

Colser · 12-11-2015 05:43PM

Diamond Doll wrote: »

Just watching Come Dine With Me, and someone used canned sliced red peppers.

I'm all for convenience, but how hard is it to slice up a pepper? Even I'm not that lazy!

Almost as bad as the night yer one gave up cooking and went to bed,filmed her snoring inside in bed and the others cooking for themselves in her kitchen:rolleyes: I love the show too,waste hours that I could actually spend cooking.Say Yes To The Dress is another offender:o

fussyonion · 12-11-2015 05:49PM

Colser wrote: »

Almost as bad as the night yer one gave up cooking and went to bed,filmed her snoring inside in bed and the others cooking for themselves in her kitchen:rolleyes: I love the show too,waste hours that I could actually spend cooking.Say Yes To The Dress is another offender:o

She died about a year after that. She was an alcoholic.

Diamond Doll · 12-11-2015 05:49PM

Colser wrote: »

Almost as bad as the night yer one gave up cooking and went to bed,filmed her snoring inside in bed and the others cooking for themselves in her kitchen:rolleyes:

As far as I remember, that lady has actually died since of alcoholism!

fiachr_a · 12-11-2015 05:51PM

Those old movies from the 1960s that most film fans have not heard of yet you have to buy both the Blu-Ray and normal DVD together.

eisenberg1 · 12-11-2015 05:52PM

fussyonion wrote: »

She died about a year after that. She was an alcoholic.

Diamond Doll wrote: »

As far as I remember, that lady has actually died since of alcoholism!

Jaysus, didn't know that. Sad.

Colser · 12-11-2015 06:04PM

fussyonion wrote: »

She died about a year after that. She was an alcoholic.

Diamond Doll wrote: »

As far as I remember, that lady has actually died since of alcoholism!

Thats awful.Was it right to show that episode,they must have known she had a problem?Very sad anyway.

Conall Cernach · 12-11-2015 06:19PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Betty would be so proud of you The rest of the English speaking world wouldn't have a fukeing clue what you're on about though.

Now I'm trivially annoyed that I didn't add a :pac: after the first bit of my post.

Still, I'm amazed that there seem to be so many that can't grasp that a great many people pronounce words differently than themselves. There are even parts of Ireland where "wood" gets the full double "O" treatment i.e. "woood".

Samsgirl · 12-11-2015 06:20PM

Driving this afternoon and got a itch on the sole of my foot. Drove me demented as I was on a bad road and had nowhere to pull in.

Whitewinged · 12-11-2015 06:30PM

Colser wrote: »

Happened me years ago after a fall off a bike,"gravel rash" on the back of my wrist.Stiches opened up a week later again and they took out more gravel:rolleyes:.I will never forget my mothers face when she got the call to come into the hospital,I had told her I was somewhere else altogether and got caught rotten being with someone I shouldnt have been with and on the bike.
Both hands up on those sling holder things and in hospital for a few days but the look she gave me was worse than the fecking injuries..Thanks God for my Dad keeping her away from me:D

There was a guy killed in the UK last year off a bike and he had a camera on the helmet,its one of those clips that you never forget,also him mam took part in a documentary about him and it was excellent but very very sad.

I've never been on a bike before. I'd love to and I was actually coming around to the idea of my husband getting one after he made me watch "The Long Way Round" about a million times which was quite good in fairness. I think my husband is going to be fairly TA'd at Jimgoose for setting him back about 3 years of good solid convincing by bringing up the whole "gravel rash" topic which made me Google it in images :-s

TA the weather here is really bad and the electricity keeps going off!

One eyed Jack · 12-11-2015 06:45PM

Samsgirl wrote: »

Driving this afternoon and got a itch on the sole of my foot. Drove me demented as I was on a bad road and had nowhere to pull in.

This is probably going to be a hard one to explain but here goes anyway -

On the touch site, the way in your post those two words were aligned under each other made me read your post like "Divorcing this afternoon...", I thought "Well that's shìt, bit more than trivially annoying though"...

Then I read the rest :pac:

Colser · 12-11-2015 06:49PM

Whitewinged wrote: »

I've never been on a bike before. I'd love to and I was actually coming around to the idea of my husband getting one after he made me watch "The Long Way Round" about a million times which was quite good in fairness. I think my husband is going to be fairly TA'd at Jimgoose for setting him back about 3 years of good solid convincing by bringing up the whole "gravel rash" topic which made me Google it in images :-s

TA the weather here is really bad and the electricity keeps going off!

I was heading to Killarney last week and this bike passed me,the girl on the back was wearing full white leathers..doesnt sound great but honestly looked fab.Now of course i want them:rolleyes: but Im such a nervous passenger Id have to wear them around the house.
Actually Im a shocking passenger in the car as well..TA when you start turning into your mother.

Samsgirl · 12-11-2015 07:00PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

This is probably going to be a hard one to explain but here goes anyway -

On the touch site, the way in your post those two words were aligned under each other made me read your post like "Divorcing this afternoon...", I thought "Well that's shìt, bit more than trivially annoying though"...

Then I read the rest :pac:

Ha ha, would never be that lucky!!
Joking of course ;-)

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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