I hate

What about people who pour a shot of coffee over a scoop of ice cream?

It’s okay. But only if they do not film it and post it on Instagram. Have been drinking vanilla milkshakes with a shot of espresso for twenty years

Or a beer ingredient.

Had a customer come in 30 mins to close on 24th Dec. wanting a pink Halfords kids bike built up for Xmas. As a young schmuck with a heart I stayed an extra hour after closing to finish that goddam bike. Fast forward to 06 Jan, the first time the shop had ever closed for extended holidays, and this woman comes in and complains to me in front of the owner that the shitty brakes made a squeaking sound so they went to halfrauds where a contemptible little weasel told her the extremely basic plastic road brakes were ‘just all wrong’.

Nearly blew a gasket, but I think she realised the truth after my 15 minute rant.

It’s borderline criminal how that company puts blatantly unsafe vehicles out on the road.

Yep. They don’t seem to care either. I’m a mechanic and have sent many a customer back to the H shop with a list of wrongs and a price to rectify. Every one of them was reimbursed.
One guy had taken his immaculate three-speed Raleigh in for a puncture repair and left there with seven things wrong with it.
The worst I‘ve had to sort was a bike with cable discs that had been set up with the outers resting on the end of the adjusters. One had popped into place creating so much slack the brake was useless. The ride home for the teenage owner was down a 20% hill. When his dad saw my report he went ballistic in Halfords and they reimbursed him the whole price of the bike.

Autoflush toilets

people who have a photo of themselves as their phone wallpaper

yet to meet someone who does this who is not a complete sociopath

people who have a photo of themselves as their phone wallpaper

Perhaps not Epic, but certainly WTF

My phone rotates through random photos every hour as my lock screen. I don't have many pictures of myself on my phone though.

People that drive their children to school. If you can't walk there or get the bus or train there, find somewhere closer.

What if the bus company cancels the bus to school? Would you move your kids or drive them?

I live in a 4sq mile suburb with busses every 10-20 minutes yet the school run is 60% 4x4's most of them double or pavement parked. They are not my favourites

We live 3 miles from our school which is just around the corner from the childminder we went to until yesterday. We took the car today as ms_com wanted to come too for first drop off (obvs). Reminded me how good an investment the cargo bike was. 35min to get there by car, 15 min on the bike. I still can't believe how long I put up with the journey before I started going by bike. Some days it could be a 90 minute round trip if the A23 was particularly fucked.

That's hilarious.
Live closer to the school you want to go to.
Lolz.

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What if your closest schools are a bit shit, but you live a short drive from a good one?

In fairness though I do really want to sort out a shotgun seat so I could cycle my eldest to school. Luckily there is a footpath that can get me all the way there as I* wouldn't be that confident going on the roads at peak school time given the way people drive.

However, I wouldn't be able to get my youngest to nursery in time for me to work, so it would be a bit pointless as my OH would just be driving the youngest to nursery which is a short drive on the way back.

I guess the answer is a cargo bike.

Or rustle up another £3-400k to move near the school.

*and definitely not my OH

I guess your parents didn't have a car.

I took the bus.

The main problem with living far away from the school (assuming you're not a monster who drives it every day) is that many of the kids friends will also be miles away, especially if they live n miles away from the school in the opposite direction.

The main problem is kids

ftfy

Remember this is a lifestyle choice

I just think it's weird how people think the road harm, stress and pollution that's caused by driving to a school is OK in the name of personally saving them a bit of time and convenience. Says a lot about the mindset in the UK.
I'll darken the lungs of my own children, myself and and local residents all in the name of my own convenience etc etc.
The school that my youngest goes to has a maximum catchment size of 480m. Who really needs to drive that far? There's all sorts of fuckers not turning the engine off outside the gates in their Qashquai then proceeding to drive onto the footpath to do a 6 point turn in a narrow road whilst there's children crossing.

Definitely agree with that. It would be really nice from a social and lifestyle pov if the school 5min walk away wasn't below average on every metric.

Fortunately the school we have is >3miles and only a 7min drive.

Move house.

Other lifestyle choices are available too