Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Profpointy]

Gobs with megaphones leading demonstrations, shouting 'Who's streets'?!!, with a crowd reply of 'our streets'!!!, then it gets repeated time after time really annoys me! 🧐

I remember an anti-apartheid demo back in the day and a load of us students had gone down from Aberystwyth in a minibus. The guy with the megaphone from our contingent started off seriously enough with respectable chants like "free Nelson Mandela" and "Maggie Maggie Maggie, out out out!" and so on, but after a while he started dropping in silliness like "What do we want? Soft bogroll" to disapproving looks from more serious minded Trots and Socialist Workers

 

[Profpointy]

We used to have things called Rakes for that very job. Or is it too much like hard work for people now?

I'd have thought a rake and two bits of board to pick up the leaves was a hell of lot less work than lugging a noise petrol engine around on your back.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I remember an anti-apartheid demo back in the day and a load of us students had gone down from Aberystwyth in a minibus. The guy with the megaphone from our contingent started off seriously enough with respectable chants like "free Nelson Mandela" and "Maggie Maggie Maggie, out out out!" and so on, but after a while he started dropping in silliness like "What do we want? Soft bogroll" to disapproving looks from more serious minded Trots and Socialist Workers

Only in Britain.

I was reading that at work and now I have to explain to my colleague why I was laughing, which involves translating "soft bogroll".

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm sure some people still use rakes. But as with just about everything, if technology provides easier ways of doing something, most people will use it.

It isn't that it has become "too much like hard work", it is that people say "Why should I work at it when it can be done more easily?".

It is no different to any other modern labour saving device, such as vacuum cleaners, automatic washing machines, dishwashers, etc.

I sweep my flat because I find vacuum cleaners too noisy.

I've never had a washing machine as loud as a leafblower.

 

[Dadam]

I'd have thought a rake and two bits of board to pick up the leaves was a hell of lot less work than lugging a noise petrol engine around on your back.

Most domestic ones these days are cordless battery powered.

 

[Profpointy]

Only in Britain.

I was reading that at work and now I have to explain to my colleague why I was laughing, which involves translating "soft bogroll".

The incident was over 40 years ago, but it still makes me smile.

 

[Jameshow]

I remember an anti-apartheid demo back in the day and a load of us students had gone down from Aberystwyth in a minibus. The guy with the megaphone from our contingent started off seriously enough with respectable chants like "free Nelson Mandela" and "Maggie Maggie Maggie, out out out!" and so on, but after a while he started dropping in silliness like "What do we want? Soft bogroll" to disapproving looks from more serious minded Trots and Socialist Workers

An aside..... Maggie gave us soft scoop ice cream!

 

[Alex321]

I'd have thought a rake and two bits of board to pick up the leaves was a hell of lot less work than lugging a noise petrol engine around on your back.

I can't remember seeing a domestic petrol powered one. They are usually electric, nowadays mostly cordless.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I was very late joining the "normal bike" Strava bandwagon in autumn 2016, when I suddenly discovered after almost three years that my Nexus 7 2013 tablet could record rides. I've seen very few legitimately flagable normal rides in almost nine years on my usual lanes/hills in Hampshire.

But holy cow, so many Hampshire ebike segments I've come across in the last six weeks either have less than ten public activities, or they have numerous very dodgy rides on leaderboards on fairly flat roads but especially climbs... It's like the wild west! How the heck are rides like https://www.strava.com/activities/3796379736 not being automatically flagged?

 

[Alex321]

I was very late joining the "normal bike" Strava bandwagon in autumn 2016, when I suddenly discovered after almost three years that my Nexus 7 2013 tablet could record rides. I've seen very few legitimately flagable normal rides in almost nine years on my usual lanes/hills in Hampshire.

But holy cow, so many Hampshire ebike segments I've come across in the last six weeks either have less than ten public activities, or they have numerous very dodgy rides on leaderboards on fairly flat roads but especially climbs... It's like the wild west! How the heck are rides like https://www.strava.com/activities/3796379736 not being automatically flagged?

That isn't entirely unreasonable for an e-bike. Possible but unlikely with a legal one, not hard with a derestricted one.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

That isn't entirely unreasonable for an e-bike. Possible but unlikely with a legal one, not hard with a derestricted one.

If it's an ebike at all, it does not comply with UK law. Multiple 50mph+ and 20mph up significant climbs.

In the UK, motor assistance on legal ebikes stops at ~15.5mph or 25kph, lower than USA for example (20mph).

 

[raleighnut]

An aside..... Maggie gave us soft scoop ice cream!

Aye it made being farked upthearse seem easier

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I'd have thought a rake and two bits of board to pick up the leaves was a hell of lot less work than lugging a noise petrol engine around on your back.

Unhooking the leaf blower from the garage
plugging in as I walk past the plug n the shed
then walking around blowing all the carp off the trees

is a lot less effort than brushing/raking it up
especially as it is quite light
I have tried both in the last few weeks as the trees at the back drop stuff every night!

 

[lazybloke]

Lots of gardeners don't like having leaves all over their pretty lawn. So they use leaf blowers to gather them into one pile which can then be bagged up.

Never owned or wanted one myself, but I do understand why some would.

Lazy f*****s should stop their noise pollution and use rakes