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dapthechap
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Obnoxiously loud motorbikes. You're not impressing anyone. They tend to only be around in the summer so they're not for dyed in the wool motorbike til I die types but for fair weather bikers. You're just another look at me cunt but without even giving people the choice to ignore you. Fuck off!!
While I'm here, it's been touched on before but people who park beneath your window and idle, for 5, 10, 15, 20 fucking minutes. If you're not going anywhere, turn your fucking engine off! Even worse when they go 20 minutes early to school to wait for their kids and leave their engines on, 2 or 3 at a time poisoning themselves, their own and everyone else's kids in the process. It's as if what passes for their soul will be switched off if they have to turn the engine off for a few minutes.
People who use cycle lanes as quick stop parking. They are not there for parking you anii, not only do you negate the benefit of having a cycle lane there but you actually make it worse than if there were no lane there at all! To top it off, should you dare to say anything to cycle lane parkists and idlers they make you feel like you're some kind of fucking lunatic.
People on cycle paths who don't go into single file when people are coming the opposite way. Listen fuckers, me and my girlfriend/cycling buddy have done it, just do it out of basic politeness.
People who go to beautiful, remote places and leave their plastic bottles, cans sandwich wrappers behind. There is no word in the English language that adequately describes the sort of scum that think that that is acceptable.
Finally phones, a million +1's for the key pad noises, especially in a public place, bip bip bipping on the train for 2 hours, or people looking at their phones in cinemas or some other performance. If you can't live without your fucking phones for 2 hours don't go to the fucking cinema. If you're in a public place put your phone on silent!
No wait, one more: People that don't acknowledge you when you are polite. If you let someone through a tight gap (walking or cycling) or through a door or something, just a smile, even a friendly look if you can't spare the energy for a smile. I'm not letting you pass because you're special and I must defer to you but because I'm trying to be a little bit sociable. A small smile or even a thank you for the seconds of my life that I've given up and will never get back will be fine thanks.
And breathe.....................