True, I never noticed that but I’d probably switched off by then, unlike the alarm that probably goes off 20 times a day.

Drivers who go around roundabouts the wrong way, particularly at motorway junctions.

They do it everyday without fail in Swindon and Hemel Hempstead.

Cyclists.

That is all.

You mean road maggots?

The problem with cycling for me is simple. The majority of roads were built to allow the rapid movement of goods and people using the horseless carriage. That is their purpose. They were not built for spandex clad posers to treat as their personal play things.

I get all the arguments in favour. So pay a separate bike tax that will enable councils to build cycle path. Then stick to those path instead of riding around poorly lit, narrow and winding country lanes where they are a danger to all, themselves included.

I was ok with cyclists until the Wiggins clones appeared with all the gear but none of the talent. What is it about a certain type of man who feels the need to inflict his lifestyle onto others?

The WERR/Neil Fox Way is a particular bug bear of mine, there is a cycle path for the whole length yet many still insist on riding on the road.

Parents sitting their children in supermarket trolleys, with all the that's on the bottom of their shoes.

Well I've just started biking again after a while out of it, but this annoys me also, Asdale Road is another that caters for cyclists but is frequently not used - BUT - worse than conventional cyclist IMO is the growing number of electric scooters and bikes the latter of which have obviously been modified and I would imagine are totally illegal. I saw one on Denby Dale Road, Durkar this morning with wheels on it like a Honda Goldwing! It crossed the central reservation (a good 4" kerb) with no problem and continued on the other side towards town at I would say a good 30MPH! No lights, no helmet no right to be on the road! When are these morons going to get stopped before they kill somebody?!

Basically, as has been alluded to there are plenty of cycle lanes now but are rarely used by said cyclists.
They either use the roads or the pavements, and totally disregard the cycle lanes they desperately wanted.
Such arrogance.

Apologies to any decent cyclists, you are very few and far between!

On a Christmas theme, why do some people think that Die Hard is a Christmas film?

A couple of weeks ago I drove down Westgate and was just going round St Michael's church towards Dewsbury Road and was suddenly faced by a young lass driving towards me in an Audi

God knows.

They must have missed 60 minutes.

Haha apology accepted!

Or read about it in time magazine !

Same here, we always joke that the blokes must get paid less as they don't have speaking parts but just nod wisely.

Hang on. Don't be disrespecting the greatest movie of all time.
Die Hard is untouchable.

There is more Christmas theme to Die Hard than in Its A Wonderful Life.

I don’t even think they nod, in fact they make no movement at all.

Die hard is a great film but it's not a Xmas film in any shape or form.

If we are going down that route my favourite is Trading places, but the connection to Xmas is tenuous, to say the least,

Interestingly, I was listening to a podcast the other week with Steven E de Souza as guest and the Die Hard and Christmas film question come up, he out rightly said it was intended to be a Christmas film lol.

Well he failed to hit his own brief on that one, the mans a fool

I live in Halifax and we have no cycle lanes in town, its very poor for cyclists . It doesn't help with the narrow roads in this part of Yorkshire

I cannot abide that obnoxious’Go Compare’ opera singer
Is it just me?
How the Hell has he become a thing and made a career out of it! TV or Radio, the instant I hear him it’s off or turned to another station.

The point being, you remember what's he's advertising.
He's done his job, even though he twists my melon too.

The most famous ad for that was the Shackleton's High seat chair. It was so bad it was brilliant, it made that company a fortune.

If we are looking for talentless presenters who have got a job for reasons other than actual ability then look at many of today's TV presenters. That tall guy with the white teeth, Rylance??? And he isn't even the worst. Unlike the GoCompare guy they don't achieve anything in most cases as viewing figures often plummet.

Howard on the Halifax ads. I know he worked for them, but FFS....
Then he started popping up on [ianother[/i annoying ad with Captain Obvious as well!
Boils my pi*s.