RickInOz

Rant 1:

Why do all delivery companies insist on delivering to home addresses during office hours. They must think we’re all dole-scrounging chavs and they are the only ones who work 9 - 5. Get real Amtrak/DHL/UPS etc - most of us have jobs too! Why they can’t organise evening or weekend deliveries like Sainsbury’s do is beyond me. And if you aren’t in they insist you go to them! Aside from defeating the point of their existence (i.e: you’re supposed to deliver it to me) they strategically locate their depots in the arsehole of nowhere. I’m sure it’s deliberate.

Rant 2:

Why isn’t Jeremy Clarkson prime minister yet?

(TIC)

Motoring Rants: (aka Rant 3)

1. Attention “Middle lane hoggers”. Read the highway code and move over. There is no excuse for driving at 69mph in the middle lane when the inside lane is completely empty.
2. There seems to be a strange convention of using front foglights and sidelights (i.e: the headlights off). Firstly foglights generally give crap illumination and secondly they aren’t cool, practically every car has them including many KIAs and Daewoos (which are definitely not cool!)
3. It seems roundabout etiquette isn’t taught anymore and it certainly isn’t practiced. Lane discipline and signalling seem to be entirely optional these days especially if you are driving a BMW.
4. People who wear hats when driving. They are either 80 years old and drive everywhere at 18mph or are 18 years old and dive everywhere at 80mph.
5. Those irritating sods who drive at 40mph on open country roads during the day with good visibility. Who, as you overtake, deliberately accelerate and when you do get in front treat you to a cacophony of horns and blind you with their lights on full beam.
6. The highway code is quite specific about behaviour on a dual-carriageway. It says you should stay in the inside lane unless overtaking slower traffic. Despite this dozy eejits still drive at snail pace in the outside lane because they will be turning right about 2 miles up ahead. They should be made to learn to use their indicators (at gunpoint if necessary) and move over at an appropriate point rather than just getting in my way.
7. Are BMW drivers blinded and/or elevated to god status when they buy their cars? They seem to drive like they are the only person on the road and they own it.
8. Motorists seem to be allergic to the inside lane on motorways. It is virtually deserted, the middle lane reasonably full and the outside lane is bumper-to-bumper. Or perhaps it is coned off by invisible bollards that only the truly cretinous can see.
9. Someone should explain the priniciple of average speed calculated zones. Braking sharply and crawling through the cameras at each end won’t save you from a ticket if you have gone at light speed between the 2. There is no reason to slow down for this type of camera and if you need to it’s probably too late!

Rant 4

Music that sounds like it was composed in France in the mid 70s, two impossibly gaunt yet attractive models, some arty camera angles. Yes you guessed it! It’s a perfume advert. Why do they all follow the same insipid formula? Perhaps they are all produced by the same advertising agency. It is high time they learnt to be original with advertising. These make me want to vomit rather than buy the sodding stuff.