PRS: Petty Rage Syndrome

randella

Sporky said:

twatty little bells

Title for your next E.P. right there

jellyroll

People who don't pick up dogshit......or possibly worse.....bag it then just abandon the bag in the same spot

Axe_meister

Random stoppers. Usually just stop in front of an entrance or just after an exit where you can't go round them.
Especially at airports!
When you are stuck in the middle seat of an aircraft and those either side of you take up the whole of both arm rests.
People who decide to have a coffee morning chat in the middle of the super market aisle, leaving no room for trolleys to get past on either side.
People who park their trolleys is such a way it takes up the whole aisle.
Groups of people walking at a snails pace walking side by side so nobody can get past.

bingefeller

Isn't it funny that PRS is also the initials for Paul Reed Smith guitars and the people who play those guitars are those who are the exact types to have PRS. 

Alnico

People

eSully

Axe_meister said:

Random stoppers. Usually just stop in front of an entrance or just after an exit where you can't go round them.

This gave me a chuckle. My grandmother was one of them, she'd walk up to the entrance of a shop and stop in the doorway, survey the place, decide if it was indeed the shop for her. Then usually turn around and walk away with a few annoyed shoppers rolling their eyes behind her.

Ravenous

FelineGuitars said:

People who use a mobile to text whilst driving ........

Congratulations on the only post in this thread I give a damn about!

TheBigDipper

Sporky said:

Cyclists on footpaths who ring their twatty little bells so that you know they're more important than you and you should flatten yourself against a fence or hedge so as not to impede their progress.

As a pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist and car driver all inside the one human...

We've got a lot of shared ped&cycle paths in my area. When I'm walking on one beside a busy road and can't hear the bicycle come up behind me, I appreciate a gentle "ting ting" so I know they're there. Then they go past nice and slowly, say "Thank You" and all's well with the world. That's what I like to do when I'm cycling, too.

The lycra warriors who approach at 20mph and aggressively bash their bells at me tend to find I'm slow to move... 

Simple pleasures. :-) 

Sporky

It's mostly one local footpath, which is hedged and/or fenced on both sides. Some of it is wide enough for a bike to pass a person, some is not. I walk to one side, so if it's wide enough they can pass. If it's not wide enough they can't pass anyway but some of them ring their twatty little bells as if I'm meant to leap into the hedge in acknowledgement of their social, intellectual and twatty-bellial superiority.

randella

Sporky said:

twatty-bellial superiority.

And there's the prog-rock concept album to follow your E.P.

Fretwired

People walking along looking at their smart phones - they expect you to get out of the way. I had a girl say "don't you look where you're going" at me as she stared at her phone. You can't really miss me - 6' 2" and heavy ..

bluechargeboy

People who don't indicate on roundabouts need to be given an on-the-spot execution, or at least have their cars exploded. Can't be arsed pressing a little lever to help other road users? DIIIIIIE!

PS I am sometimes a cyclist and I don't have a Bell of Superiority. I prefer to politely say "excuse me please"........ which some people find upsetting and tell me to get a bell.

snakemanStoo

bluechargeboy said:

People who don't indicate on roundabouts need to be given an on-the-spot execution, or at least have their cars exploded. Can't be arsed pressing a little lever to help other road users? DIIIIIIE!

TheBigDipper

Sporky said:

It's mostly one local footpath, which is hedged and/or fenced on both sides. Some of it is wide enough for a bike to pass a person, some is not. I walk to one side, so if it's wide enough they can pass. If it's not wide enough they can't pass anyway but some of them ring their twatty little bells as if I'm meant to leap into the hedge in acknowledgement of their social, intellectual and twatty-bellial superiority.

Cycling on a footpath? Naughty. Even if it's a shared resource the pedestrian has priority. Take your time... (Unless they're bigger than you or there's two of them).

Sporky

Izzackly.

I don't mind them using it and there are plenty of bits wide enough for passing. It only takes me 3 minutes or so to go the whole length of the path so it's not like I'm making them late for anything.

One time there was a mum and kid both on bikes behind me - I was in a narrow bit and the mum was calling out "Ring your bell so he knows to let you past!", so I made sure I walked right in the middle for the wider bits. If they want an oik like me out of the way they should get the butler to ask one of the footmen to throw me aside.

thomasross20

Not indicating to come OFF a roundabout. NOBODY does it! 
Kicking the backs of seats in the cinema - that's a big one for me. 

RandallFlagg

Sunday cycling fair weathered Lycra warriors with the really expensive bike with GPS this and that, the posh helmet, expensive shades, all new specialist cycling shoes all looking brand spanking new rising 2 a breast with his slightly les enthusiastic 'mate' who also has all the gear, yapping as they go with a care for the huge queue of cards building up behind.

You don't see these bell-ends when it's raining.

Rage on! 

RandallFlagg

dano said:

RandallFlagg said:

Was listening to Johnny Vaughn on Radio X on a drive home yesterday and he was banging on about Petty Rage Syndrome, wqs quite funny. What are the small things in life that get you raging?

This is really petty but you've written "a drive home" when surely it should be "the drive home". Unless you make multiple drives home ? Poor grammar sends me into a Rage. 

I do make multiple journey's home on most days so it's not grammatically incorrect, but that wasn't my intention, I meant to type 'the drive home' I also spelt was incorrectly!

Fretwired

bluechargeboy said:

PS I am sometimes a cyclist and I don't have a Bell of Superiority. I prefer to politely say "excuse me please"........ which some people find upsetting and tell me to get a bell.

I worked in Amsterdam for a while and some of the locals on a bike used to shout 'ring ring' to get tourists out of their way. It was pretty effective if slightly odd.

JohnnyPlectrum

jellyroll said:

People who don't pick up dogshit......or possibly worse.....bag it then just abandon the bag in the same spot

People that go to the trouble of bagging their dog-shit then fling it across the canal leaving is suspended in the trees like some surreal protest.