h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

back to the priority - it is very clear in my village. you have to let the people past where there are no cars on that side of the road or you can't actually move forwards. and of course where a car is most of he way along a line of cars and I have space I wait for them. But a lot of people don't do that and try to force people to reverse 100m along a narrow wiggly road with cars all along one side.
Nobbers is the word.

Really? It's the same word in English

Once we are at it...bicyclists made kamikazes by decree.
Street too narrow, so declared one way street - but cyclists allowed both ways. Try to brake on wet cobblestones and wait for the sound of the ambulance trying to get there. Neighbours behind window curtains watching the action, better than what´s on the telly.

PH, cyclists that go the wrong way down one way streets!

Writing "cyclists that" instead of "cyclists who"...yup.

they're allowed to go the other way down the one way streets though.

Car drivers shouldn't drive so fast

"Car drivers shouldn't drive so fast"

Getting off the gas on the racetrack can cost you vital tenths of seconds - in town you´ll spend half an hour to find a parking place anyway.
Some wannabes ought to sort their priorities.

Related PH: cars (usually taxis) that actually speed up when passing a horse, rather than slowing down. Especially annoying are the ones that beep their horns because they're so happy to see you

My PH relating to cars include the smell of car air fresheners, and drivers who park their cars so far onto the pavement pedestrians have to squeeze themselves past. This is especially inconsiderate to people with pushchairs or people who use mobility scooters.

Ahhh if we're going to talk about pavements ... the refuse collectors (dustmen for the less-PC) just chucking the bins back anywhere. Usually at least one of them blocking my drive. And usually not mine, but one of my neighbours.

PH: people who can't remember how to use a possessive apostrophe with a plural, so they leave it out entirely, thereby making the sentence confusing.

That's a complete nightmare when people's education doesn't allow them to apostrphise correctly!!!

On the subject of confusing sentences....news headlines that appear to make no sense at all until you read the entire story. I wish I could think of a few examples, but I'm sure there'll be a few on the BBC front page in the next day or so

Most headlines in the Daily Mail would be the answer to the above.

PHoD ... spotting an error in a post on an outdated system that doesn't allow posts and knowing that someone will pick you up on it ...

PHoD2 ... not being able to write a comprehensible post and then spotting it immediately after you posted it on an outdated system that doesn't allow you to edit your posts ...

See, I think that when people occasionally start picking each other up on typos (obvious) then they are losing the argument anyway .

my petty hate of the day is the talent my boyfriend has for turning the duvet through 90 degrees in the night. It doesn't matter, it's almost square, being a king size, but he even does it with a single! He gets hot, throws the duvet off, gets cold, drags it up from by his knees, gets cold feet, pulls it off my feet and so on...

have 2. German beds have two mattresses, and we all have 2 quilts - it's bliss.