adrock1976
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That was what I was getting muddled up with, as I now remember something about the GP surgery.
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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That was what I was getting muddled up with, as I now remember something about the GP surgery.
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Police putting up a single white on blue 'Diversion' sign sending A-road traffic into a nest of single track roads with no direction signs or engineered passing places.
Just the 'Road Closed' sign would be more honest.
Just the 'Road Closed' sign would be more honest.
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How about streets with no numbers at all, just house names? A right faff on for delivery drivers.
On a related note, I'd definitely be applying the ban hammer to television channels that truncate the end credits of films. It was bad enough when they were "squeezed" to allow a continuity announcement, but now they're just slicing most of them off.
Can't imagine it's a breeze for the emergency services, either
I once told a friend I lived where the streets had no name. "You too?! " be replied.
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Arftastic!
Techniquest
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Light heartedly, I'd ban people forgetting manners on shared use paths. Cyclists today were not much better than pedestrians! I did get some who were sensible and polite, but not many. Two cyclists in particular on the bike version of a Sunday drive were getting on my wick today, they could see I was trying to get past but would they move over just a little bit?
Don't be daft!
I'd also put a strict ban on people smoking anywhere in places where non-smokers have to endure their smoke...
Don't be daft!
I'd also put a strict ban on people smoking anywhere in places where non-smokers have to endure their smoke...
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Anyone using the term “my bad” to be sent for re-education. It’s a “mistake” not a “bad”.
Yes Yes and Yes!
HST274
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I have never thought of that- my bad.
Or mein schlecht, mon mauvaise and ymay adbay. (sorry for the shoddy translation).
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I have never thought of that- my bad.
Mea culpa!
HST274
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I would ban google translate saying the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis perfectly because that is unrealistic.
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Yes - a load of road signing is very poor. For example "No entry except for access" sign not visible until you have actually entered the road in question, and it is unsafe to back out of said road.I do eat them regularly when they're in the shops, I bought a packet from Asda on Sunday and it was strange but nice to have the first packet of the season
YES! This sort of thing drives me crazy regularly, today was one of those days where poor signage was driving me mad. I was trying to follow a National Cycle Network route (the answer to which one will be revealed soon in the trip report) and I ended up going the wrong way due to poor signage. Not just once either, and it happens when trying to find street signs too. Especially annoying when one is new in an area!
I've also seen two concurrent diversions, such that at one junction you had diversion signs pointing both left and right without saying which diversion is which
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I've also seen two concurrent diversions, such that at one junction you had diversion signs pointing both left and right without saying which diversion is which
Yes to both of these. Very, very frustrating! Months back on a tour of Herefordshire on the bike, I faced a Road Closed sign but it didn't appear on the council's closures website. Not wanting to risk getting stuck, I replanned my route and didn't do that particular road for a good long while.
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I always assume there’s a word missing from the end: grammar, breath, BO (and many others) all fit.I modify it to "my bag".
A ban on adverts on You Tube.
Strat-tastic
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Ban ads altogether!
Maybe put them somewhere you can go if you wish/need to see what is on the market, and leave the rest of us in peace.
Maybe put them somewhere you can go if you wish/need to see what is on the market, and leave the rest of us in peace.
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This has baffled me recently - I assume it must be that the driver wants the heating or a/c to keep running. But you often see it even on mild, temperate days.
Then yesterday (sunny and pleasantly warm), I walked past someone parked in a convertible - with the engine running - and the roof down
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Much as I like that idea, without ads there would be no ITV, Channel 4, 5, etc., and the only alternative to BBC TV would be to pay an overpriced subscription to some foreign media magnate.
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One thing that annoys me, is on an inter city train, when the reservation system software is broken and people still insist on sitting in their allocated seat when the train is nearly empty.
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TV programmes that start a couple of minutes before their advertised time, e.g. at 15:58, when they are advertised / listed as starting at 16:00. 
Oh I've had this. A particularly rough group of individuals at St Austell.
Great Western were no help either. No announcements at intermediate stops (about the lack of reservations - all the other pointless crap was present) and no one with any authority to be found in the vacinity.
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Especially if you recognise an actor/actress but can't remember their name and want to see the name of the character they played.
And I would ban people who stand at the stop in the bus station for just over 10 minutes, board the bus and then spend another 5 minutes searching through their small backpack for their purse then search through that for their pass/ smartcard/ change thus holding up everyone else and making the bus leave late! And yes, that did happen today
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And then sit down next to you and start complaining about ‘the buses always being late.’ For good measure they will probably stop for an inordinate time when they get off and give the driver a mouthful of whinges.