A special place in hell..

BillDL said:

CavemanGrogg said:

These people are just as bad as the deviants who play bass, like telecasters, like caravans, bring live chickens into the bedroom, and gingers.

I feel like paying a large ginger chicken to jump out of a caravan some night, barge into your bedroom, and slap you around with a Telecaster-shaped bass.  I just have to find the right cock for the job.

Please will you livestream it as well?

NothingOnTheTele said:

I enjoy watching my wife wrapping presents, it's cathartic and quite satisfying.

FTFY

…people who load (and usually overload) dishwashers in such a way that nothing gets cleaned properly.

People who like it warm. :) 

HAL9000 said:

…people who load (and usually overload) dishwashers in such a way that nothing gets cleaned properly.

There are two things that might lead me to divorce. My wife when she's a passenger, and a dishwasher loader trained by drunken chimpanzees (also my wife).

I load the dishwasher perfectly acceptably - nothing ever comes out not properly cleaned but whenever Mrs Fab asks me to load it up, I'll complete the job then she'll rearrange everything to her liking.  She's never very responsive to my subsequent suggestion that perhaps it would be easier if she just loaded it in the first place.  

S56035 said:

Headphones said:

For those who smooth over the end of the sellotape.

I bought us one of those office style tape dispensers a few years ago.  One of the best fivers I've ever spent.

I was told that the correct word for a sellotape dispenser is a ‘snatch’. When this happened, in the mid 90’s, I thought this was hilarious.

I agree though - a must-have.

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

No, that spot's taken by Captain 40mph. You know, the one who drives at 40mph for miles in a 60mph limit, then continues at the same speed when you encounter a 30mph limit (thus letting a whole load of people in front of you), then still carries on at 40mph when it goes back to a 60mph limit.

Sand in the Vaseline. 

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

digitalscream said:

No, that spot's taken by Captain 40mph. You know, the one who drives at 40mph for miles in a 60mph limit, then continues at the same speed when you encounter a 30mph limit (thus letting a whole load of people in front of you), then still carries on at 40mph when it goes back to a 60mph limit.

This is why we have turbos. 

NothingOnTheTele said:

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

No, it is not merging;  it is the driver who misuses an empty lane, usually the approach to a left turn, to reach the front of the line in the next lane, then barges in. Often the offender will create a new line of backed-up traffic, while waiting for someone to let them in.

A special place in hell for AI. 

And the person who made those 50s versions of Led Zeppelin and whoever else they did. 

Litterick said:

NothingOnTheTele said:

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

No, it is not merging;  it is the driver who misuses an empty lane, usually the approach to a left turn, to reach the front of the line in the next lane, then barges in. Often the offender will create a new line of backed-up traffic, while waiting for someone to let them in.

Exactly. It's absolutely rife here in Miami.

Litterick said:

NothingOnTheTele said:

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

No, it is not merging;  it is the driver who misuses an empty lane, usually the approach to a left turn, to reach the front of the line in the next lane, then barges in. Often the offender will create a new line of backed-up traffic, while waiting for someone to let them in.

@Litterick  & @NothingOnTheTele Both of you are right, except that the circumstances causing the traffic backup are different & that isn't initially clear.

Timcito said:

Litterick said:

NothingOnTheTele said:

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

No, it is not merging;  it is the driver who misuses an empty lane, usually the approach to a left turn, to reach the front of the line in the next lane, then barges in. Often the offender will create a new line of backed-up traffic, while waiting for someone to let them in.

Exactly. It's absolutely rife here in Miami.

witnessed a lovely collision the other week. I was stuck in the left lane leaving the motorway in a feeder lane, it was dark and raining. A high end BMW did what you just described, stopped in the main lane indicating to turn onto the feeder lane. The cars behind him didn't realise he'd come to a stop (it's difficult to judge when it's dark and wet) and someone went into the back of him. No one was hurt but the beemer was totalled. His insurance will pay out, but there's a possibility he could be charged with careless driving, driving without due care and attention etc. 

VimFuego said:

Timcito said:

Litterick said:

NothingOnTheTele said:

Timcito said:

There must surely be an especially hot and excruciating pineapple-up-the-ass spot in hades for those people who drive to the front of a long line of backed-up cars and then start indicating that they want to cut in. And someone always lets them!

If you're referring to 'merging in turn' or 'zipper merging', that's how you're supposed to do it. Use the full length of both lanes and merge at the end.

No, it is not merging;  it is the driver who misuses an empty lane, usually the approach to a left turn, to reach the front of the line in the next lane, then barges in. Often the offender will create a new line of backed-up traffic, while waiting for someone to let them in.

Exactly. It's absolutely rife here in Miami.

witnessed a lovely collision the other week. I was stuck in the left lane leaving the motorway in a feeder lane, it was dark and raining. A high end BMW did what you just described, stopped in the main lane indicating to turn onto the feeder lane. The cars behind him didn't realise he'd come to a stop (it's difficult to judge when it's dark and wet) and someone went into the back of him. No one was hurt but the beemer was totalled. His insurance will pay out, but there's a possibility he could be charged with careless driving, driving without due care and attention etc. 

Ouch. Sadly I think that poor sod that rear ended the BMW will get the blame for not observing the situation & driving appropriately for the conditions, or it will probably be deemed an 'at fault' situation for both.
The hard part is proving that you are not to blame. This is why I have car cams facing front & rearward, but that isn't a guarantee, just managing the odds a bit in my favour... unless it was my fault   

I use the Scotch pop-up tape dispensers that attach to your hand and you just pluck another pre cut short strip 

TimmyO said:

I use the Scotch pop-up tape dispensers that attach to your hand and you just pluck another pre cut short strip 

an eminently sensible solution, but where's the fun in that? Where's  the sense of living on the edge, making your own rules, where's the joie de vivre? 

Kittyfrisk said:

VimFuego said:

witnessed a lovely collision the other week. I was stuck in the left lane leaving the motorway in a feeder lane, it was dark and raining. A high end BMW did what you just described, stopped in the main lane indicating to turn onto the feeder lane. The cars behind him didn't realise he'd come to a stop (it's difficult to judge when it's dark and wet) and someone went into the back of him. No one was hurt but the beemer was totalled. His insurance will pay out, but there's a possibility he could be charged with careless driving, driving without due care and attention etc. 

Ouch. Sadly I think that poor sod that rear ended the BMW will get the blame for not observing the situation & driving appropriately for the conditions, or it will probably be deemed an 'at fault' situation for both.
The hard part is proving that you are not to blame. This is why I have car cams facing front & rearward, but that isn't a guarantee, just managing the odds a bit in my favour... unless it was my fault