What cheeses me off

[anat0l]

WCMO...

• Opting to take the tunnel to save time and then running into traffic inside the tunnel. Waste of money for nearly no time gain.
• Tunnel control reducing the speed limit from 80 km/h to 40 km/h on a stretch which is completely devoid of any obstacles and the exits are clearly free flowing traffic. I can understand if there is an accident in the tunnel or the exits are starting to back up, but not otherwise. They also don't modify the speed limit signs appropriately after the "slow zone" has been passed.
• BS roadwork lane management that goes from 2 lanes to one lane then back to 2 then back to one... you get the <expletive> idea.
• Taking a bit over 3 hours to drive from northside Brisbane to around Southport on the Gold Coast... and no, there was no traffic between north Brisbane and the CBD. And the likely reason for the extreme delay sounded like absolute BS... it was one of those trips where Google Maps said a certain time and kept updating itself by not decreasing the estimated time remaining for a while (and the text was in dark red).
• Why on certain sections of the highway when the speed limit is reduced to 80 km/h for whatever reason (legit or BS), and I get regularly passed by tons of vehicles while I'm observing the posted speed limit like an idiot. Honestly, I wonder if the police ever think that they should post a speed camera there and make a killing.

Yes, some of the above is being CO for CO sake.

 

[RooFlyer]

Needs no explanation

 

[p--and--t]

I'd be tempted to say they can't be Japanese, but I'm going to guess there's a fair chance that they may be (and you would probably know based on their speech); in any case, a rowdy train is no where near Japanese behavioural norms.

Mind, other Japanese are not quick to suggest to anyone who breaks the rules that they are breaking the rules, unless the behaviour is unsafe or absurdly egregious. They just judge you incredibly.

Yep, initial jump to conclusion was different nationals from a nearby country who can be extremely obnoxious, but these were very surprisingly locals.

 

[DejaBrew]

Needs no explanation

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Agreed. Hobart’s consistently inconsistent paving designs would cheese me off too!

 

[RooFlyer]

Some more cheese-off-worthy scooter morons. I send about 10 pics per month to the Hobart City Council who are enthusiastic supporters of hire scooters.

I like this one. On the right is a designated scooter-return area. Too much for the orange guy who parks 3m away, in the middle.














Ooops, sorry.

 

[n7of9]

I'll be a normal person walking down the street minding my own business, and then i see a scooter or ebike blocking the path and i instantly turn into a RAGE monster, they make me so angry!

 

[anat0l]

I'll be a normal person walking down the street minding my own business, and then i see a scooter or ebike blocking the path and i instantly turn into a RAGE monster, they make me so angry!

The issue is that there are so many bike and scooter advocates who are actually following the rules...

...then you have a whole bunch of inconsiderate idiots.

I was just in the Queen Street Mall tonight. Some idiot youth rode right into the mall on a BMX bike, wheelie style, forcing all assorted to get out of the way (yep, you read that right: not the bike avoids the pedestrians, but the pedestrians avoid the bike). (And before anyone says it, no, this is not a pile on about youths in general)

I don't like to stereotype, but food delivery bikes are notorious. Yes, we know you have places to go and so on, but even delivery cars don't get to run red lights or otherwise decide which laws they will ignore just to do their job better.


Just like the "rules" of driving a car: there are laws to punish idiots, but being tolerant and accommodating of idiots is the real way to keep you alive.

 

[VPS]

Sydney airport transfer domestic to international still have a few steps.

 

[anat0l]

Sydney airport transfer domestic to international still have a few steps.

Where? (Don't doubt you, but this is fascinating)

I'm trying to map out the path in my head, but I thought there's always a ramp or a lift. If it were true then there would be **** as it isn't accessible friendly.

 

[VPS]

Where? (Don't doubt you, but this is fascinating)

I'm trying to map out the path in my head, but I thought there's always a ramp or a lift. If it were true then there would be **** as it isn't accessible friendly.

When you go to get on the bus there are about 6 steps down then another 6 or so at the other end until you get to an escalator. No ramp and no one to help

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO is how difficult it is to truly compare different health insurance provider policies.

With April 1 price hike about to kick in decided I should find a better priced plan especially since in the last few years I've needed to use more extras as I now need glasses and physio; and as one gets older different hospital coverage becomes a priority.

My current plan is getting pricey and whilst it offers an unbeatable 85% back with no restrictions on provider, some of the limits have not increased as much as newer policies.

It is so misleading that the headline 60-90% back on newer policies is only on their preferred providers not your own provider of choice. I do not want to stop seeing my quality dentist to go to some co-branded dental centre full of dental students or a provider they have screwed on price for a sub par experience. On some policies when you look at the rebate for non-preferred provides it is half the headline. the whole point of private health insurance is to give one greater choice than the public system.

Then for hospital there is no consistency in difference between top and next policy down across providers. The way they marry some services is crazy (worse than the married segment flight rules). For example on some providers if you un-tick pregnancy & assisted reproduction (something I dont need) that also removes coverage for cataracts (something I might need as I age).

You can also tell the polices are designed by men, because removing assisted reproduction doesnt remove male fertility coverage sexist much?

 

[VPS]

The lights in the F lounge in Sydney making it hard to take photos without the reflection

 

[anat0l]

The lights in the F lounge in Sydney making it hard to take photos without the reflection View attachment 374381

Yep... my nemesis too when I can make it to the F Lounge.

 

[JohnK]

Took wife to work at Mt Ommaney the other day and I had daughter with me and I had early appointment at RBWH and was travelling on M5.

The traffic at the exit near Legacy Way was again horrendous and I wasn't in the mood to sit in traffic for 10-15 minutes so used The Legacy Way for the first time and the exit is near RBWH. What a beautiful tunnel and smooth but I was surprised toll was $6.60!

Why do tolls and these types of charges need to go up with CPI or just for the sake of going up? Blatant cash grab.

 

[n7of9]

WCMO - Gold Coast for the weekend, had to be somewhere at 6pm. I had a couple of hours to spare so went for a scenic drive, got some oysters and went to eat at a lookout, quality afternoon. In the car to head back, WTF it's 5.50pm, i won't make it in time! Start heading back to the hotel, dejected, and see...5pm. I'd crossed over to the dark side of Tweed Heads and ALL clocks updated (phone, watch, car) to NSW time. Why can't QLD just be normal?

 

[Flyfrequently]

WCMO - Gold Coast for the weekend, had to be somewhere at 6pm. I had a couple of hours to spare so went for a scenic drive, got some oysters and went to eat at a lookout, quality afternoon. In the car to head back, WTF it's 5.50pm, i won't make it in time! Start heading back to the hotel, dejected, and see...5pm. I'd crossed over to the dark side of Tweed Heads and ALL clocks updated (phone, watch, car) to NSW time. Why can't QLD just be normal?

It can work in your favour @n7of9

Recent trip to GC staying in Coolangatta, Surfer Flyfrequently known to be tardy ( most of her life) was ready an hour earlier for her flight home as her phone/alarm pinged from a Tweed Heads tower!

 

[anat0l]

Why can't QLD just be normal?

Are we gonna really start this war again of which is normal?

 

[prozac]

I have a bugbear about Australia being Americanised. We have a perfectly reasonable culture, language, phrases and unique words coined by the original convicts and a mix of aboriginal words too. We have a way of doing things too, and an internationally regarded work ethic. It's the little things that annoy me like when people who should know better read the news and tell us the date is month / day. Ben Fordham (2gb) is a goodun for doing this as are all the news readers on 2gb. For those unsure, the Aussie (and Imperial and Euro) way of dates is day number then month.
Which brings me back to the cough-eyed way of the Yanks. If their wont is to say month then number date, eg. July 3rd, why do they describe Independence Day as Fourth of July?

 

[anat0l]

WCM the <expletive> O is that the ECQ can't run an election properly.

No I wasn't affected directly, but the fact this ends up on the news is an absolute embarrassment. Never in the known Australian history has there been such a gaffe in running an election.

Everyone at the top of the ECQ deserves to be dragged into the street and shot without any empathy or sympathy. What an absolute disgrace and contempt for the principles of a democratic governement. The fact that there is no apology, no acknowledgement and attempting to cover up or flick this away is just mind bogglingly, morally corrupt.

 

[anat0l]

Which brings me back to the cough-eyed way of the Yanks. If their wont is to say month then number date, eg. July 3rd, why do they describe Independence Day as Fourth of July?

One theory I found on the web (yeah yeah, reliability questionable) is that July 4 1776 (or 4 July 1776) was the celebration of independence from Great Britain (also inaccurate, as the declaration was signed two days earlier). Of course, breaking from their masters over the ditch required some getting used to, including dates...

....but that's maybe not entirely true because another bit states that UK actually did month/day until well into the 19th/20th centuries when they started to copy the other Europeans in day/month, leaving the US to settle on the format of their colonist ancestors. So maybe another theory also goes that until modern times, the expression of dates was a lot more verbose in many cases, e.g. they would say "the Fourth day of the month of July" or "the Twenty-Fifth day of the month of December". At some point in history this verbose reference to dates was shortened (except for on university testamurs and other formal certificates), but the first laws drafted by US Congress would have used this kind of language.

So in short it's probably a combination of history and something said so often in the past that has now stuck. Of course, you'll find far less people say "Fourth of July" rather than Independence Day, in the same way that hardly anyone (except non-Christians perhaps) would say "Twenty-Fifth of December" (or "December Twenty-Fifth") instead of "Christmas Day".