Comments on: It’s time to declare a pox on annoying people

By: Flaneur Gillespie

Flaneur Gillespie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:20:54 +0000

A set of circumstances recently has introduced me to the pleasures of walking in Cape Town. Living close to my offices (or should that be working close to my home) made the idea of walking to and from the office do-able.

So for the past three weeks or so I have walked the street – so to speak – more specifically walked the pavements and crossed the roads of Somerset and High Level (and some of the smaller roads in-between for variation) from the start of Sea Point to the edge of the city.

Connecting with the city at this level has made me so proud to be a living in this city. Every day I walk past the magnificent stadium and all the construction and building going into making it ready for 2010. The improvement of the pavements, so necessary now that I see how many people are walking instead of driving, is being sensitively executed and has created a very pleasant walking surface. I would wish that this improvement could be extended to all suburbs as it is really pleasant on the feet and must surely improve the value of homes and businesses. It also seems to be a good way of giving employment to a number of people. Three cheers Cape Town.

And a round of applause for the street cleaners and sweepers. When the leaflets from Dr. Bumabashi promising an improvement in my lovelife in just 7 days or the bright red flyers from Spar on its

By: zizikazi

zizikazi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:44:34 +0000

how about people who leave thier shopping trolley behind your car or next to it………. guess after walking around in a mall you’re too lazy to just leave the flippin thing where you’re supposed to

and from my taxi riding days – the guy who uses roll-on sparingly but feels it’s his God-given right to lift his arm and cradle your head in his toxic armpit the whole way to town (oh and don’t even thingk about opening the window someone will complain)

By: Mandy

Mandy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:34:37 +0000

@ Kit

Men are filthy creatures yes, but they haven’t been afforded bladders of the same capacity as women, mainly because their bladders don’t have to be squashed because they’ll never be pregnant.

I think that public urination is more disgusting than annoying. Flies are annoying. Male parts flapping about for all to see is vomit – inducing.

By: Leslie Conlon

Leslie Conlon — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:50:39 +0000

@ Hendrik

By the tone and emphasis of your opinion I just bet you are one of the individuals we are all “commentating” on.

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:23:30 +0000

oh Theodore reminds me of my personal pet peeve, all the rage for sure. My 11 year old daughter always sits on the far left on the way to school so she gets the good view… I think the poor child has seen more piels than I have in all my years. WHAT THE HELL? Why do men think it’s their g*d given right to piss full into the street or the drain – or the worst ON MY CAR in full view of everyone? Do men spend longer in taxis than the women who also get off at the same stop? Do they walk further from the station? Do women’s cars have built-in lavatories? When have you ever seen a woman aiming into the road shoulder or letting it dribble down your rear tyre? Ugh, ugh, ugh.

By: Lobengula

Lobengula — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:32:42 +0000

The great unwashed who interject “you know” and “like” needlessly and continuously into their thoughtless mutterings.

@ Steve Woodall
“…I completely emphasize with you…”
The word is empathise or even empathize. Get a dictionary.

By: Phillipa Lipinski

Phillipa Lipinski — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:43 +0000

I can tolerate pedestrians under any circumstances. They are saving the world a good deal of carbon emissions. Imagine if we all had cars! I think more and more people want to buy a car the first minute they get some money because motorists are not very nice to them.
On the issue of fake tans; Well, it is better that frying yourself in the sun for hours or worse, in one of those scary sun-beds where you feel like you’re in a mortuary.
Somebody once asked a brunette with a very deep tan: “I love your tan, what can I do to get one just like that (and it looks so natural)”. The brunette responded:
“Well, get a black dad”. LOL!

By: Stewie

Stewie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:29:26 +0000

Car drivers never consider/see pedestrians or cyclists imo.
You can be starting to cross over at a stop street, as is your right, and they’ll just ‘put foot’.
When they’re parked on pavements – which they shouldn’t be anyway – they reverse without looking behind them.
And as for going through red traffic lights … enough said!

By: amandzing

amandzing — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:20:38 +0000

“Those cleaning ladies who swing their yellow warning signs violently back and forth in order to dry the floor they have just cleaned, thus clearing a sort of force field in the entire surrounding area while you’re trying to squeeze past them in an effort to pick up a punnet of rosa tomatoes”

echos of this weeks midrand reporter…it seems like it only affects really short people…

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:41:35 +0000

I agree with you 100% Sarah but the thing that really gets my blood boiling are mothers with prams. Specifically Jeep prams. Your baby is very very small, it does not need something that takes up the entire passage to be ferried around in, they are the most illogical things I have ever seen. So unless you are an Amazon and your baby daddy is Goliath get a normal – sized pram or leave your kid at home. If you can afford a big pram, you can afford a nanny.

Another thing, at the gym the people who can’t follow the circuit sequence. The apparatus is numbered you inbred hillbilly fools.

Last one, kids who are not disciplined. Why must the rest of us suffer your insolent brat because you are too lazy to actually parent.