Life is too short...

[jim]

I'm going to go and find a thread I thanked you in and remove my thanks.

Typical Oxbridge, thinking you're above my poor quality humour

[nibbler]

Typical Oxbridge, thinking you're above my poor quality humour

That's a net loss of two thanks's, keep digging.

[jim]

That's a net loss of two thanks's, keep digging.

Erm... somebody's really got a bee in their kilt?

Hope that's adequate, I'm aiming for a hat-trick (despite the laziness of the above jibe)

[Rob_B]

I've missed something haven't I & I cant find the thread!! Can I start making neck jokes too?

[htid]

Right with you on that one...

WHYYYYY can't people walking at the same pace as someone else f**king follow them rather than walking next to them and blocking the way. Especially a problem in the London Undeground, it's full of people with zero situational awareness.

Tell me about it! Seen those posters around on the tube saying "You know you're a Londoner when you develop a power walk your friends from outside of London have to run to keep up with?" So true! Yesterday I was going to work and could hear the (proper) train pull in to the platform, but it's up some stairs at Vauxhall, and all the people getting off the train were coming down the narrow stairs so there was only a 1 person wide row walking up...there was a woman walking at such a stupidly slow pace in front of me that I only just managed to get on the train! Couldn't get past her because of the people coming down either....MOVE FASTER!! I swear one day I'm going to get tube rage.

[santa claus]

I have the pleasure of working on the outskirts of a market town, there is NOTHING to do at lunch time except go over to the supermarket, slow people at the checkout drive me mad! DONT STAND AND CHAT WITH THE STAFF WHEN THERE IS A QUEUE BEHIND YOU!

I've queued behind middle-aged ladies who huff and puff about the delay but when they get to the front they are never ready to actually pay for their shopping. Invariably, the checkout assistant announces the cost only to be met with a blank look from Mrs Portly who then commences the "my purse is in here somewhere ritual". Locating the purse with an elaborate flourish from a garish handbag is fairly quick but then there's the counting of coins and adding vouchers, paying, receiving change and returning the purse to the black depths "ready" for its next usage in the bus queue for the same ritual....

*Screams*

[nibbler]

Erm... somebody's really got a bee in their kilt?

Hope that's adequate, I'm aiming for a hat-trick (despite the laziness of the above jibe)

That's a perfect 3, not really annoyed but thought I'd give you a hand.

[Behemoth]

Slow as in walking slow...driving excessively slow....being slow at the counter....Had I meant mentally slow I'd have listed you buggers!


edit: I went to the post office earlier and some middle aged women just couldn't understand the concept of having to leave 24 hours from missing the parcel delivery to picking it up at the depot. She talked really slowly as well and had it been anyone else I would have thought they were genuinely taking the Michael! I have never wanted to just backhand someone over the head so much in a long time...infuriating!

You'll be that doddery old person in 40 or so years time mate. It takes time for people to grasp things when and take on board the info in later life.

[TAKTAK]

Egads, slow walkers do my head in.. I've taken to walking on the road in some parts of the city now (Wide roads...) because otherwise it takes you twice as long to get anywhere...
I automatically walk up and down escalators too, it's alot quicker...

I am generally a 'fast' walker though and walk alot faster than 90% of the people on the street.

And as for stopping for no apparent reason, standing in doorways and filling aisles in supermarkets...

Although me and a friend scared some poor bloke in Birmingham when we realised that we were going the wrong way, we counted down to zero and just spun round on the spot.. Poor bloke looked like he needed new underwear...

[jeremyross]

Can we start a campaign, create a law or reward people for punching slow people in the back of the head? Please

yeah nice idea....

[rox0r]

I think you're forgetting just what a terrible trauma it is to be left with a clicking neck after being punched in that area.......

[nibbler]

I think you're forgetting just what a terrible trauma it is to be left with a clicking neck after being punched in that area.......

NO! It's been done already! Leave it, for the children's sake, that they might not have to experience this ever!

[Blitzen]

Do you mean slow as in mentally slow (which would be a somewhat offensive post) or slow as in speed of doing something?

Ah OK - you had me worried for a minute; I had visions of you popping down the special needs school for fight.

Wise men speak because they have something to say.
Fools speak because they have to say something. <--read this line and think.

[GheeTsar]

Wise men speak because they have something to say.
Fools speak because they have to say something. <--read this line and think.

Thanks for your contribution.

[razer121]

Mind you, should always be careful of punching people in the head - you might give them a clicking neck.

Somebody PLEASE explain this to me

side note, there is alot of people like that in the oxfordshire area, drives me nuts but i deal with it, its the ones who stand in the doorway, then look at you as if your odd for saying excuse me....

[MadduckUK]

Somebody PLEASE explain this to me

I always had a relatively happy life, up until secondary school, where I started to get bullied.
This came to a head in Year 9, when out of nowhere the bully came up to me and punched me hard in the back of the neck.
Now I have seen a chiropractor (unsuccesfully) and am now going to another specialist who I have been referred to, who hopefully can relieve the problem, although I have been told I am probably going to have to keep the clicking/cracking in my neck.

It is this clicking/cracking which I have got ever since I got punched.
You could say that I may have got a cracking neck anyway, but I'll never know.

Anyway, this may interest the psychology students amongst you, I hope you can help (Yes I know this is no substitute for professional help, but as I am on a long waiting list, I would appreciate help from you

Basically, every time my neck clicks, I get upset, thinking it shouldn't be happening, because I didn't deserve to get punched. This is annoying but I can live with it.
It is when I get an "extreme" case that I get upset.
Let me give you a real life example that happened recently:
Suppose I had to be on the phone for half an hour to my doctor about my neck (which I believe wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the punch), then I missed the chance to talk to someone. (I heard them outside while I was on the phone, but when I had finished they were gone).

I then worried about this when I heard them the next day outside my room. By this I mean I hesitated and thought whether I should just burst out and talk to them or not, as we haven't really spoken before.
It would undoubtedly have helped my confidence if we had spoken the night before, but of course I was on the phone because of my neck.

I now think of many things that "would have" happened had we spoken, but that haven't happened.

You must be thinking: just talk to them now. Well thats the problem: I don't think this is "the right time" and am worried that if anything goes wrong in the conversation its getting too late to call friends for support on this.

It is this chain of thought: If I never got punched, I wouldn't have been on the phone then, we would have chatted yesterday, we could then have chatted more today, we would be on our way to becoming great friends.

that annoys me, because that is not true.
I could try and make friends today, but if it doesn't work I will be so upset.
Its like being normally upset at someone rejecting you I guess, but with the added damage of it being because of an old bully.


I welcome you guys to challenge my thoughts, and give me good advice.

Thanks in advance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCEV...eature=channel sorry in advance that the guy talking sounds like Boyce from Only Fools And Horses