Holy shit dogs Lanzar .... you get the prize for rant of the thread so far


@Quandry: I am lazy, I freely admit that. We all are to some extent but I am one lazy bastard


@Sliper: you could probably park in the coach spaces with your football team. Must be a nightmare when the ankle biters outnumber the adults by sooo much.


@everyone: it seems clear that a lot of things really annoy a lot of people. While I am not normally known as the voice of reason on here how about an un-rant ... it is nearly Christmas and (personally speaking) I have:

had some good nights outs with more to come
have a great group of friends - on here, in work, personal life etc
enough money to keep a luxury fun car on the road - luxury in the sense that it is unnecessary
I am in good health
I get good holidays - including a few days coming up at my brother's in Switzerland
I have a good and reasonably secure job that allows me to do all the above
I have a great wife who is also my best mate


No matter what any of my rants or comments (serious and sarcastic) have already been, there are a lot of people a lot worse off than me as well as a lot of people who have it genuinely hard either this Christmas or throughout their lives.

As an example ... a guy in my work had his 4 year son diagnosed with cancer about 2 weeks ago. This is so well progressed that treatment is proving to be pretty much ineffective leading to a quoted 20% chance of survival for the little blighter. This guy was happy with every aspect of his life 2 months ago and now things have crashed around him and his wife, meaning Christmas (if the unthinkable happens) will likely have bad memories for the rest of his life.

Just food for thought and why, for this Christmas, I am going to be thankful for every small thing that I have not least playing santa for my two nephews (3 & 6 year olds) who I only get to see about twice a year.

Obviously this thankful, clear head thinking doesn't extend to idiots on the road who go through red lights in front of you, don't indicate etc etc



Merry Christmas to you and your car

mnixon wrote:
I have to agree with Spanky on that, big business cares about nothing other than it's bottom line. If they could make more money by getting rid of those family parking spaces they'd be gone in the morning.

While I wouldn't normally park in family spaces, I have in the past. And if I was in a full car park and saw one of these spots empty I wouldn't hesitate to park in it. If i didn't then the person behind who doesn't have a family with him would.[/quote]

Agree with you on the bottom line - thats all anyone cares about nowadays

If you passed by a handicapped space - would you go in just because if you didn't the person behind you would/might ?

Am i right in saying you wouldn't park in a handicapped space ? if so, what is it that lets you park in a family one ? is it that you don't see them as being needy / any less able than you ? Parents with kids might be just as able bodied as you. But, i guarantee you that with little kids, they are much more needy than you.

To all the kid-free lads/ladies - always keep a blow-up life-size kid-doll in your car in the passenger seat - sorted

Spanky's point of extending the discussion to whether obese people should have spaces is a very good one. If families can get them, then why not obese people ?

But, currently, there are only Handicapped and Family spaces - so, morally, why do kid-free people not leave the spaces to more needy parents.

And, where it originally came from is in my Local Spar - there are two handicapped spaces right outside it. And there is a big car park in that there is always free spaces in it. And the furthest space is no more than 30 seconds wealk to the Spar. But, some lazy b******s still park in the handicapped spaces.

Oh yeah - big gripe with laziness in all its forms !

Of course, i always carry one of these signs with me (really !)


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And on the subject of parking, i decided to go and order some joke parking fine notices :laugh:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Joke-6-FAKE-PARKING-TICKETS-1-PACK-Prank-Car-Joke-/190515493238?pt=UK_Toys_Games_Games&hash=item2c5b9bb976

Spidey wrote:
Am i right in saying you wouldn't park in a handicapped space ? if so, what is it that lets you park in a family one ? is it that you don't see them as being needy / any less able than you ? Parents with kids might be just as able bodied as you. But, i guarantee you that with little kids, they are much more needy than you.

If I couldn't find a space in the car park, I would drive home before I'd park in a disabled space. I view them as being very different, disabled parking spots are essential for people who have no choice other than park in disabled spots because they need the extra room. Family parking spots are a benefit afforded to people who have made a lifestyle choice. Families can make do with regular parking spots, disabled people can't. As a general rule I won't and don't park in the family places, I just don't respect what they stand for. I think I would respect it if it was a strictly parent and baby thing but the vast majority of people I see using them are parents and their teenage kids.

Very well said, Mark. And i can see where you and Spanky are coming from. I just wanted to see whether you were drawing a line and viewed no families or some families as genuinely needy and deserving of them.

So, you see parents with babies/buggies as a genuinely more needy case. And i completely agree on this - parents with older kids have no need for this.

I've see parents using them with a car seat in the back - with no kid !

Spidey wrote:
Very well said, Mark. And i can see where you and Spanky are coming from. I just wanted to see whether you were drawing a line and viewed no families or some families as genuinely needy and deserving of them.

So, you see parents with babies/buggies as a genuinely more needy case. And i completely agree on this - parents with older kids have no need for this.

I've see parents using them with a car seat in the back - with no kid !

I do think some people are deserving of having the extra room but they're not necessarily families. I don't think a family with teenage kids deserve extra room more than an elderly, obese or pregnant person, or someone with an injury or broken limb etc.

I think a better way of putting my argument is that I think other people are more deserving of a parking spot with more room so i generally won't park there. But if the car park is full I don't think people are entitled to have a space waiting for them right by the door just because they have a child, while other people spend 15 minutes circling the car park for a spot.

@spanky It can't be helped, some people will be selfish social blemishes be it not following the law (which makes sense a lot of the time) or being outlandish (which doesn't make any sense).

Karma is a bitch though, and I hear she gives out presents to these people regularily.

Just give them the thumbs down

Actually my new rant for today is that all the people who come in to Dublin each morning on the N4 who fly up the inside lane and cut everyone off at Kilmainham should p155 off!! when the rest of us have been sitting in a huge queue for 5 minutes or so - because we're getting cut off by the last minute mergers so much. WANKERS!!!

Where to start...


1. People who drive with their fog lights on when it's not foggy

2. People who drive with one headlight working - an increasingly popular/annoying phenomenon.

3. Cheap zenon/LED headlights that blind the shite out of everyone else on the road.

4. 'German' font numberplates.

5. Tailgaters.

6. People who drive 20kph below the speed limit for no reason.

7. Folk who go power-walking on the hard shoulder of busy roads (regularly see women with buggies doing this!)

8. Cyclists who run lights.

9. Gay Byrne.


Could easily go on alot longer but don't want to bore ye!

Country falling apart and we still have "Corpo type work" being done.

Getting train to work and saw one guy putting up a sign. Two more guys standing there watching him !!! Surely i thought this type of overstaffing shouldn't exist in these hard times ??

In my job, people are working their ass of and the company is still trying to find ways to be more efficient (AKA letting people go!).

I can just imagine if two of us were to just stand there watching other people work !!!

Oh, wait !!!! ......

That is called ....























Management


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A black Ferrari F430 from the North arrived at my work place recently

Is it the fact that he has midship dream and I'm not - NO Im happy for him,
I will never have one like this unless we all go electric and they'll be giving them away for shawing kits - hmm NO

It was his annual tax disc displaying little over 400 pounds....

also usuals
pay cuts
crappy work conditions
and my lattest pi....of Airtrycity

Was it this one by any chance?
If so he lives not to far from me, I love seeing it about absolute minter of a car.

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