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« Reply #1770 on Apr 26, 2012, 3:50am » | ![[Quote]](http://images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Mar 24, 2012, 2:27pm, kimby wrote:| 1314. Those giant toilet paper dispensers in public bathrooms that issue paper with no perforations, so you can't help but waste lots of paper because when you yank it to tear it off, it spins a pile onto the floor and still doesn't tear. |
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Apr 2, 2012, 7:20pm, kimby wrote:| 1325. Sensor operated water soap and flushing toilets in public bathrooms. |
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Well, I'll be. I finally met an automated bathroom appliance I love! It's a toilet paper dispenser that -instead of making you scrabble with your fingernails to get the paper started and then it won't tear off - senses your hand as soon as you reach for the tissue and reels off 15 inches and cuts it off. Every time! What an invention!
1328. Public bathrooms that have automated only SOME of their appliances. I feel silly waving my hands under the soap dispenser only to find that I have to push the button.
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« Reply #1771 on May 3, 2012, 12:03pm » | |
^ Why 15 inches, I wonder, isnt that a bit wasteful, I reckon 12 inches would be more of an optimal size.............................
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« Reply #1773 on May 4, 2012, 4:58am » | |
1330: outrageous political statements that go unchallenged
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« Reply #1774 on May 5, 2012, 9:02pm » | |
1331: People who don't know their left from their right in politics.
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« Reply #1775 on May 6, 2012, 11:13am » | |
1332. That the main trait of the weekend always seems to be that it is almost over.
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« Reply #1776 on May 9, 2012, 4:55am » | |
1333. Not knowing what day of the week it is due to a disruption by a bank holiday.
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« Reply #1777 on May 9, 2012, 6:20pm » | |
1334. people who manage to find problems with having a bank holiday...
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« Reply #1778 on May 9, 2012, 6:55pm » | |
1335. The fact that next week's bank holiday isn't until Thursday.
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« Reply #1779 on May 9, 2012, 8:32pm » | |
(yay, i get that one, too)
1336. those ads that start talking by themselves once again ,especially when they are hidden in some hard to find tab...
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« Reply #1780 on May 11, 2012, 12:45am » | |
May 5, 2012, 9:02pm, Askar wrote:| 1331: People who don't know their left from their right in politics. |
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This gave me a chuckle!
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« Reply #1781 on May 11, 2012, 2:48pm » | |
1337. A radar speeding ticket for going 52 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. Fine: 90€.
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« Reply #1782 on May 11, 2012, 3:32pm » | |
^ 1338: Ouch.
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« Reply #1783 on May 11, 2012, 4:38pm » | |
Plus, I suppose that I will also be debited 25€ by Europcar as the "administrative fee" for giving my name and address.
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« Reply #1784 on May 12, 2012, 4:58am » | |
The radar in common use for traffic enforcement are highly unlikely to be capable of reliably discerning a 2 km/h speed differential. In the US you couldn't even be charged for that "infraction" as the law recognizes the intrinsic margin of error. I'm sure if you wanted you could beat the ticket on those technical grounds. Of course the fine is low enough to disincentivize contesting it if it doesn't have implications with insurance rates.
If I drive that little over the posted limit here I get angry tailgaters. I drive 4 mph over as policy and still annoy people with how slow I'm going. And have never had a speeding ticket.
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« Reply #1785 on May 12, 2012, 5:21am » | |
My speed was "adjusted" as per usual procedure -- "car clocked at 57 km/h adjusted to 52 km/h."
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« Reply #1786 on May 12, 2012, 2:22pm » | |
People seem to drive far more flagrantly over the limit than that in most of Europe, at least on the open road. Most of the enforecment seems to be in the towns and cities. In Italy on the autostrade it isn't unusual to be tooling along around the usual 110 km/h limit and have a BMW or the like flash by like you're standing stationary.
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« Reply #1788 on May 13, 2012, 3:35pm » | |
1340: Males who try to put females into neat little boxes and then get infuriated when they realize that They.Just.Don't.Fit.Into.Them.
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« Reply #1789 on May 13, 2012, 3:50pm » | |
1341. Women who think that "all men are the same" and are annoyed when they are proven wrong. 
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« Reply #1791 on May 16, 2012, 12:53pm » | |
1342. People who look at me as though I am a lunatic just because they see me taking pictures of things that they would never photograph.
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« Reply #1792 on May 18, 2012, 7:48pm » | |
1343. taking some of my overtime, because for once i want to be at home early and get things done - and then some idiot has left some thick wire lying around on the street and of course it gets caught exactly in the gear-thing of my bike and stuck there so i try for ages to pull it out, in the end have to push my bike for many kilometres (obviously htis happens far away from any bike shop) and when i reach the bike shop wait because they are busy with other costumers. in the end i got home even later than usual - what a waste of overtime...
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« Reply #1793 on May 18, 2012, 8:35pm » | |
I have noticed that when I leave the office even just 5 minutes early, it ensures that I will get home 10 minutes late, due to a metro delay or whatever.
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« Reply #1794 on May 19, 2012, 1:51pm » | |
Gad, Rikita -- that was a whole silent movie of accumulated disaster!
Hope you got to have a long hot bath or some other decompression treat after that ordeal.
There are several peaks here in this small but traffic-crammed city, so not paying attention to the times means stuck-in-traffic misery and arriving late. It sounds as though there is a whole contingent of workers sneaking out early in Paris, & you get punished for your occasional innocent little treat by being caught up in the exodus.
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« Reply #1795 on May 19, 2012, 6:14pm » | |
well i mainly whined to mr. r. about it... that helped a bit... and i made mashed potatoes for dinner, that helped too...
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« Reply #1796 on May 19, 2012, 6:39pm » | |
1344. Feeling I have to clean house for the delivery and installation of my new computer.
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« Reply #1797 on May 20, 2012, 4:41am » | |
Rikita, venting & carb-loading are time-honored decompression methods for a reason. 
Kerouac: Peeve? Or full-blown neurosis?
On the other hand, giving a new computer the most dust-free environment possible seems like a good idea.
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« Reply #1798 on May 30, 2012, 2:09pm » | |
1345. Archiving documents that will never been needed again since the file has not been used since 2009 and then needing the same documents within 48 hours.
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« Reply #1799 on Jun 7, 2012, 6:06pm » | |
1346. Thinking of a pet peeve, and before I can open this thread to post it, forgetting it! Especially peeved that this has happened multiple times for the same "peeve" 
(Too much like walking into a room to get something and forgetting what it was and having to go back to where you were and reconstruct what you were doing so you can remember it again, only to forget it again by the time you get to the room where it is...)
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