Shit Things That Shit People Do

[Quivorir]

can someone explain to me why people put bikes on trains?? isn't that defeating the purpose of the bike in the first place....

I understand it, a 10 min walk turns into a 2 minute ride, thats fair enough.

 

[courtjester]

can someone explain to me why people put bikes on trains?? isn't that defeating the purpose of the bike in the first place....

ummm....

 

[The Passenger]

so why not ride to the station, leave the bike there and pick it up at the end of the day... or do something good for yourself and ride the whole 10-15km journey.

bikes on trains are an absolute pain in the ass. peak hour it multiplied by 50.

 

[kickazz]

Maybe, like, you need the bike at the other end as well?

 

[The Passenger]

then just ride the whole way.

if people can't ride from balaclava to the cbd they need a bit of a kick up the ass really

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I ride it about 5 minutes at each end, it's basically lazier than walking. To ride all the way would be well over an hour, plus arriving at work all sweaty and horrible. And I wouldn't do it on the bike I have now - I'm expecting the back wheel to fall off pretty much any moment.

My work hours mean I'm going in and out well away from peak times, so there's plenty of room on the train for the bike. It's just getting it out through the doors when ten people are trying to smash their way in that's the problem!

 

[The Passenger]

fair enough not wanting to ride an hour before work... my personal opinion is someone just has to make the call on which end is easiest to walk and walk that and ride the other.... or get two bikes (not really feasible. one is bound to get knocked off)...

during quiet times it's not too bad. during peak hour it's ****ing ridiculous though. Happened yesterday.

 

[Caesar]

That reminds me - it shits me when office blocks don't have change-rooms with showers. I had to stop riding to work when I moved to my current job because there is nowhere to get clean.

Not only do I now have to commute in peak hour traffic and pay for parking or public transport, but I also have to get up an hour earlier every morning to fit in the exercise I am no longer getting.

 

[Puntroad]

so why not ride to the station, leave the bike there and pick it up at the end of the day... or do something good for yourself and ride the whole 10-15km journey.

Too many assholes in this world, if the bike is worth anything more than the chain that it's locked up with it will get stolen.

 

[Scotland]

Bikes are banned on the trains over here during 7-9am and 4.30-6.30pm Monday to Friday.

A PITA for me because I'd like to take the train to work in the morning then cycle home at night, but a good policy. The trains are crowded enough in the morning without some nimrod dressed like Cadel Evans trying to squeeze his sweaty lycra into the face of on person and his handlebars into the next.

 

[Gubbz]

I just don't get people. Why go to an event (and presumably pay for it) only to completely ignore it. You can not watch a movie at home.

Because they want to "check-in"/"tag" themselves at the event to seem important to their FB posse.

EDIT: What blues4flag said..

 

[Simple Jack]

Because they want to "check-in"/"tag" themselves at the event to seem important to their FB posse.

EDIT: What blues4flag said..

People are ****ed in the head. Seriously.

 

[Kram]

Discarded chewing gum on the footpath, if you have the misfortune to step on it it takes forever to get out of your shoe tread.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Bikes are banned on the trains over here during 7-9am and 4.30-6.30pm Monday to Friday.

A PITA for me because I'd like to take the train to work in the morning then cycle home at night, but a good policy. The trains are crowded enough in the morning without some nimrod dressed like Cadel Evans trying to squeeze his sweaty lycra into the face of on person and his handlebars into the next.

And on the joondalup line at least, close to an hour either side of those times you won't fit on with a bike even if you wanted to.

 

[Scotland]

Discarded chewing gum on the footpath, if you have the misfortune to step on it it takes forever to get out of your shoe tread.

Likewise smokers (who are generally inconsiderate anyway) dropping their butts on the ground.

There are how many bins and ashtrays in this country? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Yet everywhere you go you see chewing gum and cigarette butts on the ground.

 

[Spirit Level]

People who drive slowly in the right lane and stay level with the car next to them so you cant pass them seriously shit me off.

Also, crowding around the baggage claim at airports so you can't see or easily retrieve your luggage.

 

[Scotland]

People who drive slowly in the right lane and stay level with the car next to them so you cant pass them seriously shit me off.

Agreed. Regardless of traffic flow or the number of lanes, some people feel the need to sit right in your blind spot too. There's an entire road out there, why are you hovering just next to me where I can't see you in my mirrors?

Also, crowding around the baggage claim at airports so you can't see or easily retrieve your luggage.

I shake my head at many air travellers. Take off your seatbelt while the plane is still taxiing on the tarmac. Stand up and get your bags before the doors open and try to be first off the plane, regardless of what aisle or seat number you're in. Rush through the terminal and crowd around the baggage carousel. Grab your bag (which may be the 1st or 100th - something else you have zero control over) when it comes out and rush outside to stand in the Perth Airport taxi queue with all the passengers from all the other flights...

Best airport baggage claim I've seen is Nashville, Tennessee. The floor is covered with a naff brown carpet and there are a handful of wooden rocking chairs. After 10 minutes of relaxing in a rocking chair funnily enough my bags came out just as fast as everyone elses...

 

[Quivorir]

Agreed. Regardless of traffic flow or the number of lanes, some people feel the need to sit right in your blind spot too. There's an entire road out there, why are you hovering just next to me where I can't see you in my mirrors?

If you set your mirrors up correctly, the blind spot doesnt exist.

 

[PP34]

Shit people don't always do this, but a fair few shit people have done this to my family or myself. They come over for dinner or lunch and bring over a nice cake, several bags of chips or some drinks. Everything hasn't been consumed and most of the time, there is lots left. The guests make sure they take home whatever they brought. I mean come on? Who the hell does that? It's not like they're bringing over expensive food either. I don't mind if my mates do it but my cousins and other guests we've had do it fairly often. I just leave stuff when I go to guests houses. Is taking a few pack of chips home really going to change your life? And don't forget the home owners who put on a meal for you.

 

[Marlowe]

Women who protest for "my body, my choice", while simultaneously bleeding their child's father for child support.

 

[Happy_Neale]

If you set your mirrors up correctly, the blind spot doesnt exist.

It does if you have an old car like me.

 

[HappyChappy35]

Don't switch off their high beams when other vehicles enter their immediate vicinity (within 200 metres). Not only do they blind myself and others by driving past with them on, they will cause an accident sooner or later.

 

[PP34]

Truck drivers who tailgate your much smaller car at 100 kilometres an hour basically setting yourself up for a death if the car in front comes to a stop quickly.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Shit people don't always do this, but a fair few shit people have done this to my family or myself. They come over for dinner or lunch and bring over a nice cake, several bags of chips or some drinks. Everything hasn't been consumed and most of the time, there is lots left. The guests make sure they take home whatever they brought. I mean come on? Who the hell does that? It's not like they're bringing over expensive food either. I don't mind if my mates do it but my cousins and other guests we've had do it fairly often. I just leave stuff when I go to guests houses. Is taking a few pack of chips home really going to change your life? And don't forget the home owners who put on a meal for you.

GEORGE: What is this? The marble rye?
MRS. ROSS: Oh, dear. I forgot to put out that - that bread they brought.
ESTELLE: We forgot to bring it in.
FRANK: No, I brought it in. They never put it out.
MRS. ROSS: Where is it?
SUSAN: I don't know. Where'd you put it?
MRS. ROSS: Right over there.
SUSAN: Well, it's gone.
GEORGE: You stole the bread?
FRANK: What do you mean stole? It's my bread. They didn't eat it. Why should
I leave it there?
GEORGE: Because we brought it for them!
FRANK: Apparently, it wasn't good enough for them to serve.
MRS. ROSS: Is it possible they took it back?
SUSAN: Who would bring a bread and take it back?
MR. ROSS: Those people, that's who. I think they're sick.
ESTELLE: People take buses to get that rye.
GEORGE: Maybe they forgot to put it out!
FRANK: Aw, they didn't forget to put it out! It's deliberate! Deliberate, I
tell ya!

 

[Poseidon]

Don't switch off their high beams when other vehicles enter their immediate vicinity (within 200 metres). Not only do they blind myself and others by driving past with them on, they will cause an accident sooner or later.

People who drive with their high beams on without even realising FFS
BRB getting blinded by the power of a thousand suns just because some nuffy has no awareness of what's in front of them.