Trivial Things People Do That Make You Disproportionately Cross

And it’s carcinogenic don’t you know… apparently. I used to splosh it all over the shop as a fitter (not on brake calipers, mind you).

 

My dad spent his entire working life in the chemical industry, breathing in carcinogenic fumes, being doused in all sorts of toxic liquids and ingesting hazardous substances with his lunch and whatnot, yet he is in his 80s and it looks as if he's about to outlive his second missus as she's just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, while he is still going strong and could be mistaken for someone in their 60s. Ironically, he's a massive hypochondriac.

 

They are just admiring your builder's bum.

 

I'm not sure that it's 'trivial', but people who complain about occasional motorbike exhaust noise but don't seem to care when it comes to petrol powered blowers, mowers and god knows what, which are interminably droning away in their gardens.

 

Yup, I knew a bloke that used to blend blue asbestos before it became infamous. Knee deep in the stuff shovelling it all day. No face masks of any description required. He’s deed now but he lived to a good age and died of something completely unrelated.

 

Ha ha, I do feel a bit bad when I’ve got my 2 stroke leaf blower out… and it’s not so much fun since my enormous Mastiff died. He loved a blast of air to his chops

But I don’t complain about noisy motorbikes… cos I’ve got one of those too

 

D'you think that might be due to everyone knowing you deliberately spent £3K to make the bike loud, unlike the garden tools?

 

I don’t think most non-riding folks would know if it’s an aftermarket pipe or how much it costs?

 

If all a biker wanted to do was to make noise, he/she needn't spend £3000 on an exhaust when, for considerably less, he could just buy some noisy garden equipment rather than a rake, brush or electric mower.

 

My 2 stroke 4 stroke stihl is noisy AF. I love it.

 

But they're not very stylish outside the pub/ chippie/ promenade!

 

You might be right.