I hate

Organisations that send multipart email with content missing from the text/plain part and tracking URLs in the html bit.

I don't hate the overly scented soap shop

It's a shame they own that trademark. Would be a great name for a wine merchant chain.

I do hate the soap shop. The overbearing stench of all that perfumery really sets off my histamine response.

Why, if you have to get an ESTA to travel to the USA, do you need to supply all the same fucking details to the airline?

Because they want to profile you too.

Traveling to the US is a fucking joke.

Lime Bikes. Fucking eyesore, littered around the streets, in the way on pavements, clicky clacking pricks

Cars. Fucking eyesore, littered around the streets, in the way on pavements, clicky clacking pricks

Sorry. Annoyed by all the cars parked up on pavements etc this morning.

It was an interesting premise that met with the harsh reality of life:

"Bikes won't be parked in bad places as users have to send us a photo of the bike parked responsibly after use otherwise we will fine them" = Others will move the bikes regardless, also...

"Bikes have a built in nurse lock so they can't be joy ridden" = Someone finds a simple way to break the lock so they can be joy ridden. This also means they get dumped anywhere and everywhere. Plus that clacking sound.

We should all just move the non-docked rental bikes into the middle of the road when they’ve blocked a pavement. I’m sure people will be quick to try and get things sorted out when it’s drivers’ journeys that are getting screwed by them blocking the road all of a sudden rather than pedestrians.

Haha yeah I hope cars is a given in this thread. Today it’s bins and Lime bikes. The one day a week I walk my daughter to nursery is bin day, while she’s learning to ride her bike, and I’m quietly cursing a hire bike scheme which should really be positive but I cannot stand it. Also the one time I used one was the single time I’ve been beeped by a driver in the 15 years I’ve ridden in London.

I don't know if I'm missing something with Lime bikes but they seem massively expensive. Way more than the equivalent bus or tube journey. 10 Minutes is £3.70. Half an hour is £9.

And they are scattered absolutely everywhere in the most inconvenient places.

I love lime bikes. Done a huge ammount for active travel for people that wouldn't usually be on bikes. Click click click.

I do quite like the clicking sound though, and it acts as a useful early warning system that there’s someone who can’t/won’t stop coming up behind you.

I’ve often wondered is there a way that lime can harness the free riders? Have some kind of charging system so people can ride for free without the motor but they charge it up a little as they go? I imagine the dynamo would have minimal charging but no idea really.

I’ve often wondered is there a way that lime can harness the free riders? Have some kind of charging system so people can ride for free without the motor but they charge it up a little as they go?

It's always school age kids. I wonder if that counts of child labour. They are doing the work, Lime bike keeps the charged battery.

I’ve seen plenty of adults riding with the clicks which I assume means they’re all using the service for free as well. I am actually on board with it, someone has found a way to get free travel and lots of people are using that and more people are on bikes is great.

I just wonder if even more people would get on the bikes if there was a legit way of riding them for free? Obviously lime aren’t going to just remove the fees, but if there was something they could implement that would allow them to give a free option then it would be good if they did I think.

Folks talking on speaker phone in public. It's no more convenient than holding a phone to your face like a normal person, just everyone else now has to hear the full conversation.

Contribute to the conversation

"Turn the speaker off!"

It’s a mystery to me, broadcasting to all the world, yet they get snippy when I say Darlene should have kept the receipt and not worn the shoes outside.

Public lane swimming.

Every year as sea swimming season winds down I venture to the local pool for a lane swim

Every year I forget that people don't get out your way, clog the fast lane with breast stroke etc.

Aaagghhhhhhhhh

One of my favourite sights every so often is the alpha-males who join the fast lane at the local pool being swum past/over/through by the female former national standard swimmers that frequent the pool.

I hate the fact I don't get to see it more often.

Overcooking boiled eggs.

I knew I should have whipped them out 10sec early, but instead took them out 5sec late as I was distracted by buttering the toast.

There was a bit of dip. But it's so disheartening to have to eat the remaining ¾ of two overcooked eggs with soilders who'll never fulfil their potential.

being swum past/over/through by the female former national standard swimmers

Yes. There was a fast lady there this morning, much faster than me, and we shared a grumble at the people just kicking off again even though your right behind them.

Can't even tap toes anymore, people think you're weird.

Likewise people lane-swimming in family sessions. There’s plenty of dedicated sessions during the week but they want to carve their frowning, head-up-don’t-splash-water-in-my-face way through families and kids having fun. I was teaching my son how to retrieve stuff from the bottom once. We’d been in a quiet bit of the pool for about 5 mins when this bloke decided to swim over the top of us and I collided with him on the way up. Partly my fault for not checking but I’m pretty sure my ten year old son wouldn’t have and we were only under for a few seconds at a time so that bloke was either bloody-minded, stupid or blind.