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Pepys



Joined: 14 Feb 2007
Posts: 19

PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: My pet hate.... Reply with quote

Car drivers constantly blasting their horns usually for no sensible reason at all. Its probably just a reflex action or, in the case of men, a demonstration of (a) I'm a man and I've got a big ..... car and (b) I'm a man and I'm aggressive so watch out.
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hobo



Joined: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 91

PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CATS


EVERYWHERE!


GO AWAY CATS


And foreigners who sit around whinging all day.


AND CATS!
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bigbadsuzie



Joined: 03 Sep 2004
Posts: 265
Location: Turkish privatesector

PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

soap operas (dizi) that go on for hours because the adverts are twenty minutes long and they break for ads thirty seconds before the end. the characters have names like Poyraz Abi and the women are anorexic. Unfortunately I have to sit through the crap because my boyf Mustafa loves em...
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Vixter



Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 64

PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drivers who cut you up by sticking their arm out of the window. Does your car not have indicators? Can you not get in line in advance of the junction?

Drivers who miss their turnoff (on major triple lane, fast roads in Bursa) and unashamedly reverse to get back to the turning, holding up traffic and causing mad braking to occur.

Drivers who take the wrong turn off and reverse back onto the major fast road. You get where I'm going with this.
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justme



Joined: 18 May 2004
Posts: 1944
Location: Istanbul

PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Drivers who cut you up by sticking their arm out of the window. Does your car not have indicators? Can you not get in line in advance of the junction?


At least they're indicating a turn. This is rare! I imagine them all getting into their cars and seeing the stick for the indicator lights and wondering what on earth that thingie is there for...
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