Minor Irritations

**Thetyim** · 25-04-2006, 09:30 PM

People who don't laugh when I fart.
They just sit there and frown as if I had just done something anti-social.
I don't fart for my benefit, I fart because it is funny and I want to make you happy.

**stroller** · 25-04-2006, 09:47 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Burr
I ride a motorbike (a small one). If you stop in the middle of a main road because you want to turn right, you will either get mown down from the rear because the driver is rummaging in the glove-compartment. Or, you will get mown down from the front as some idiot that has been tail-gating a truck decides to pull-out and overtake. After a couple of close shaves, I always pull over to the left to turn right.

Oh dear. That's a thought that's going to linger, unwelcome as a turd in a fridge. I always try and do it the first way you described, because that seems the proper way to do it. But now you've got me worried...

Same for me, Sir Burr started a very deep and relevant thought process.
But then, if you stop in the middle of the road to do a turn, aren't there all these lorries behind you ploughing on to reach there destination?
I'll have to mull this over, or maybe I should start wearing a safety helmet? Install an emergency-eject button and carry a parachute in my rucksack?
Or is the best way to continue as I have done, simply turn when I have to? The oncoming vehicles do have brakes.

**Gazza** · 25-04-2006, 09:58 PM

People that pronounce baht as 'bats'.

Plastic ring pulls that break off in your hand.

Screw off bottle tops that just turn and turn.

People that sound like a budgie when they suck food out their teeth.

Spending 10 mins after a meal removing food stuck in my teeth only to find some I've missed 20 mins later.

Rushing into a public toilet, dropping my load, only to find out there's no water or paper.

Getting embarassed when I tell a lovely KFC worker that my ex-wife's name was also Tarinee, but having her point out that her name tag actually says 'Trainee'.

Warped chopsticks.

Automated phone service (UBC) that has you back at the beginning after pressing half a dozen buttons.

Having a Thai phone to me and both of us saying nothing but 'Hello' for 5 mins.

Fat Thai men wearing flip flops and seeing their little toe poking out from between the strap.

Being given ice in a drink when it's so cold I'm wearing a pair of socks as mittens on my hands.

Walking around the house barefoot and treading on a sticky grain of cooked rice.

**lom** · 25-04-2006, 10:03 PM

Getting a weekly SMS from DTAC which looks like:

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**benbaaa** · 25-04-2006, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Gazza

Screw off bottle tops that just turn and turn.

I think they're the childproof ones, Gazza.

**stroller** · 25-04-2006, 11:04 PM

Thaiophiles will use any excuse to explain the low level of quality with everything produced in Thailand, including screw-tops.

Smeg told me.

**Marmite the Dog** · 26-04-2006, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Gazza

People that sound like a budgie when they suck food out their teeth.

Sorry.

**Sir Burr** · 26-04-2006, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by stroller

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Burr
I ride a motorbike (a small one). If you stop in the middle of a main road because you want to turn right, you will either get mown down from the rear because the driver is rummaging in the glove-compartment. Or, you will get mown down from the front as some idiot that has been tail-gating a truck decides to pull-out and overtake. After a couple of close shaves, I always pull over to the left to turn right.

Oh dear. That's a thought that's going to linger, unwelcome as a turd in a fridge. I always try and do it the first way you described, because that seems the proper way to do it. But now you've got me worried...

Same for me, Sir Burr started a very deep and relevant thought process.
But then, if you stop in the middle of the road to do a turn, aren't there all these lorries behind you ploughing on to reach there destination?
I'll have to mull this over, or maybe I should start wearing a safety helmet? Install an emergency-eject button and carry a parachute in my rucksack?
Or is the best way to continue as I have done, simply turn when I have to? The oncoming vehicles do have brakes.

The brakes are ineffective if they pull-out from behind that truck 15 mtrs away from you.
Don't forget, on a busy main road you could be waiting for quite awhile for that gap in the traffic.

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