[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Tomous wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Why in the name of all that is holy didn't you put the 'g' in the center of the blueberry?

That's the g spot

Wouldn't that be the middle of the berry seeing as that was originally the part of the flower that got pollinated in this weird berry/vagina analogy.

Words I never imagined typing.

Tomous wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Why in the name of all that is holy didn't you put the 'g' in the center of the blueberry?

That's the g spot

That explains why he had trouble finding it.

Ironhide wrote:Why in the name of all that is holy didn't you put the 'g' in the center of the blueberry?

Horizontal and vertical centre is too expected. We intend to shock people.

Green Gecko wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Why in the name of all that is holy didn't you put the 'g' in the center of the blueberry?

Horizontal and vertical centre is too expected. We intend to shock people.

These people just don't understand art.

Yes but what does it mean?

Green Gecko wrote:Yes but what does it mean?

It represents the imbalances that exist in society, causing so many problems.

Many problems, yes. Apt GCSE annotation.

SEP wrote:

this is so incredibly garish that I can only assume it is extremely modern and hip. I'll tell Brenda in marketing to get this put on all our lines immediately.

thanks as always,

stugene
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Over the last couple of years there seems to be this trend of letting grass verges, hedgerows, fields, gardens etc grow instead of cutting them back all the time. I guess the view is to encourage bees, butterflies, and other insects to flourish a bit more, and it probably looks a bit nicer too I think. I'm all for it generally, but I've noticed recently that it's happening in areas where it causes problems.

Firstly, at the end of roads - you're trying to see if there's any traffic coming, but there's a bloody great hedge in the way and you can't see gooseberry fool. You can literally only see what's coming by being in the road already. Surely it's not difficult to trim it back a bit and make sure drivers can see.

Secondly is coming up to roundabouts. There was a bizarre trend a few years ago around here where fence panels had been put up on the approach to roundabouts, meaning you couldn't see anything coming and had no chance of anticipating the traffic. This meant you always had to slow down and pretty much come to a stop to check what was coming, instead of being able to gauge the flow of traffic and just join at a lower speed. The fence panels went, but now it's tall grass or hedges that block the view. Surely it makes it more dangerous.

Finally, on slip roads, either on motorways or A roads. Swathes of long grass, big hedges, or even planted tress (!) recently that I've seen, in between the slip road and the road you're joining, and you genuinely cannot see what's coming as you go down the slip road. Only when you're right at the junction with the motorway, for example, is you view no longer obscured. On the flip side, if you're on the inside lane of said motorway, again, you can't see what's coming down the slip road until the last second.

The first point with hedges at the end of roads has always been a bit of an issue, it's just got a bit worse lately. But it's baffling that nobody seems to have considered how dangerous the other two are. I like letting things grow, but there are some places where you need to control things a bit.

Lotus wrote:Over the last couple of years there seems to be this trend of letting grass verges, hedgerows, fields, gardens etc grow instead of cutting them back all the time. I guess the view is to encourage bees, butterflies, and other insects to flourish a bit more, and it probably looks a bit nicer too I think. I'm all for it generally, but I've noticed recently that it's happening in areas where it causes problems.

Firstly, at the end of roads - you're trying to see if there's any traffic coming, but there's a bloody great hedge in the way and you can't see gooseberry fool. You can literally only see what's coming by being in the road already. Surely it's not difficult to trim it back a bit and make sure drivers can see.

Secondly is coming up to roundabouts. There was a bizarre trend a few years ago around here where fence panels had been put up on the approach to roundabouts, meaning you couldn't see anything coming and had no chance of anticipating the traffic. This meant you always had to slow down and pretty much come to a stop to check what was coming, instead of being able to gauge the flow of traffic and just join at a lower speed. The fence panels went, but now it's tall grass or hedges that block the view. Surely it makes it more dangerous.

Finally, on slip roads, either on motorways or A roads. Swathes of long grass, big hedges, or even planted tress (!) recently that I've seen, in between the slip road and the road you're joining, and you genuinely cannot see what's coming as you go down the slip road. Only when you're right at the junction with the motorway, for example, is you view no longer obscured. On the flip side, if you're on the inside lane of said motorway, again, you can't see what's coming down the slip road until the last second.

The first point with hedges at the end of roads has always been a bit of an issue, it's just got a bit worse lately. But it's baffling that nobody seems to have considered how dangerous the other two are. I like letting things grow, but there are some places where you need to control things a bit.

It's probably just budget cutbacks.

Dismay after disused golf course 'rewilding' only due to faulty mower

In a similar vein wrt road visibility, there's a blind, narrow corner on the end of my street where a garden wall completely blocks your view until you're round it, and for some baffling reason every twat and their dog insists on parking all the way round the inside kerb. It's only a 20 zone, but the amount of near misses I've had...

We wouldn't need all this overgrown wilderness (either intentionally or otherwise) if homeowners didn't keep paving over their gardens and turning every patch of grass into a driveway for their 4 land rovers.

'It has sports mode, and the suspension can overcome mountains and waterfalls and...'
'Wow, you must lead a really exciting life! Where did you last take your all-terrain mega-structure?'
'ASDA and Christ Church primary school to drop off the kids'

KK wrote:We wouldn't need all this overgrown wilderness (either intentionally or otherwise) if homeowners didn't keep paving over their gardens and turning every patch of grass into a driveway for their 4 land rovers.

'It has sports mode, and the suspension can overcome mountains and waterfalls and...'
'Wow, you must lead a really exciting life! Where did you last take your all-terrain mega-structure?'
'ASDA and Christ Church primary school to drop off the kids'

And fake strawberry floating grass in gardens instead of real bloody grass and actual plants. The number pictures I see if gardens that have no living anything in them as it is just fence to fence fake grass.

A someone that has owned a house with artificial turf, it's often out of necessity, especially with new builds.

Essentially, certainly here in West Sussex, almost all of the grounds that new build estates are built on aren't fit for purpose in terms of drainage. You end up with what amounts to a flood plain; rain doesn't escape into the ground, it sits on it and will very slowly run down any slope that exists on the plot, pooling and puddling.

Homeowners are increasingly having to have gardens excavated and filled with a sub-base of gravel to facilitate drainage. This then needs to be topped with artificial turf because grass won't grow on gravel. This isn't cheap to do either - in 2017 it cost us just shy of £3k for a small garden - Lord knows what it'd cost now.

Errkal wrote:

KK wrote:We wouldn't need all this overgrown wilderness (either intentionally or otherwise) if homeowners didn't keep paving over their gardens and turning every patch of grass into a driveway for their 4 land rovers.

'It has sports mode, and the suspension can overcome mountains and waterfalls and...'
'Wow, you must lead a really exciting life! Where did you last take your all-terrain mega-structure?'
'ASDA and Christ Church primary school to drop off the kids'

And fake strawberry floating grass in gardens instead of real bloody grass and actual plants. The number pictures I see if gardens that have no living anything in them as it is just fence to fence fake grass.

Real, pristinely kept lawns aren't a great deal better for the environment in fairness.

Cuttooth wrote:

Errkal wrote:

KK wrote:We wouldn't need all this overgrown wilderness (either intentionally or otherwise) if homeowners didn't keep paving over their gardens and turning every patch of grass into a driveway for their 4 land rovers.

'It has sports mode, and the suspension can overcome mountains and waterfalls and...'
'Wow, you must lead a really exciting life! Where did you last take your all-terrain mega-structure?'
'ASDA and Christ Church primary school to drop off the kids'

And fake strawberry floating grass in gardens instead of real bloody grass and actual plants. The number pictures I see if gardens that have no living anything in them as it is just fence to fence fake grass.

Real, pristinely kept lawns aren't a great deal better for the environment in fairness.

Its still actual plants not plastic, its soil that drains not concrete or some other sealed subfloor. Its more the idea that people are clearing all plants from their garden, smearing it in plastic grass that looks gooseberry fool and sitting back and calling it awesome.

If you were to draw a venn diagram of people with plastic lawns and people who watch love island, it would be a circle.

Fatal Exception wrote:If you were to draw a venn diagram of people with plastic lawns and people who watch love island, it would be a circle.

I watch Love Island, but i do not have a plastic lawn.

Errkal wrote:...Its more the idea that people are clearing all plants from their garden, smearing it in plastic grass that looks gooseberry fool...

I have to agree. Fake grass, fake plants... pile of pony! .