Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

dinyull

Capt Slog wrote:

Pross wrote:

Food being marketed as some other type of food for example carrot spaghetti, sweet potato noodles or cauliflower rice. They're just grated / smashed up veg that people could do for themselves if they weren't so lazy / stupid but then presumably they are marketed at people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

I remember one of the families in BBC's "Eat well for less" (The Scott family) where the mum was buying pre-grated cheese. They had her buying cheese as a block and grating it herself, which she found really tedious and described it as "....such a mission". :evil:

It's a wonder my TV survives, it's milliseconds away from something getting thrown at it so often. One day my sheer annoyance will get in there before my common sense and I'll be clearing up the bits.

The wife watches that muck - that and live well for less. They get the most mongy families on there as possible, most of them are thick as f*ck. One the other week, 4 takeaways a week ffs - no wonder your spending a fortune on food you lazy f*cks.

Amazed my TV is in once piece too.

TheBigBean

Am I right in thinking that instead of buying identically priced and branded grated cheese, people would buy the ungrated version simply out of snobbery on the issue even if they needed grated cheese? It reminds of the expression "the best thing since sliced bread" - people should have resisted the slices.

Leads me to my seemingly trivial thing that annoys me: irrational food snobs.

verylonglegs

Another food one...when your neighbours dinner smells so much nicer than yours as they are cooking it.

capt_slog

TheBigBean wrote:

Am I right in thinking that instead of buying identically priced and branded grated cheese, people would buy the ungrated version simply out of snobbery on the issue even if they needed grated cheese? It reminds of the expression "the best thing since sliced bread" - people should have resisted the slices.

Leads me to my seemingly trivial thing that annoys me: irrational food snobs.

No, you're not right.

The grated stuff costs more, and because it's been grated, it's shelf life is less as more of it has been exposed to the air.

BelgianBeerGeek

verylonglegs wrote:

Another food one...when your neighbours dinner smells so much nicer than yours as they are cooking it.

My neighbours are well beyond the (old) retirement age and this has been yet another scorching day, having us all heading for the shade and a cool one. I swear she was cooking a steak and kidney pie. Might have just been steak, but I can detect a bit of kidney at 1000 yards. Ye gods, I really needed a bit of pie, steamed veg and gravy. In 30+C. I might be voting Conservative next.

pinno

Drivers who come up to a T junction with the intention of turning right and the first thing they do is look left. Sometimes, given that there is nothing coming from their left, they start creeping out before looking right.
W@nkers.

Pross

TheBigBean wrote:

Am I right in thinking that instead of buying identically priced and branded grated cheese, people would buy the ungrated version simply out of snobbery on the issue even if they needed grated cheese? It reminds of the expression "the best thing since sliced bread" - people should have resisted the slices.

Leads me to my seemingly trivial thing that annoys me: irrational food snobs.

Do you know anywhere that sells ready grated cheese at the same price per kg as the same quality non-grated cheese? If so I can see the benefit but from what I've seen you get less cheese for more money.

verylonglegs

If it was on 'Eat well for less' I like to think it wasn't the same price for the same amount.

lincolndave

The daily mail, need I say more

rjsterry

Frank Wilson wrote:

Moulded plugs.

The plug on Apple chargers - phone, tablet or laptop. They seem to be made to different tolerances from every other plug, meaning a very tight fit. On top of this they are formed from perfectly smooth, low-friction plastic, requiring a vice-like grip to get the bloody thing out of the socket.

dinyull

I've pointed our car stickers before, but this mornings fair on a brand new Dodge Ram driven by a bloke in his 50's:

"RIDE OR DIE" - Paul Walker 1973-2013 with his signature all over the rear window.

Fair enough if your a spotty teen in a clapped out Corsa, but that must be at least £30k of car you've just ruined.

TheBigBean

Pross wrote:

TheBigBean wrote:

Am I right in thinking that instead of buying identically priced and branded grated cheese, people would buy the ungrated version simply out of snobbery on the issue even if they needed grated cheese? It reminds of the expression "the best thing since sliced bread" - people should have resisted the slices.

Leads me to my seemingly trivial thing that annoys me: irrational food snobs.

Do you know anywhere that sells ready grated cheese at the same price per kg as the same quality non-grated cheese? If so I can see the benefit but from what I've seen you get less cheese for more money.

I checked Sainsbury's - grated cheese is £6/kg whereas an identical non-grated is £5.50/kg. I'm fairly sure I have seen identically priced ones too, but perhaps that relies on a promotion. Anyway, whether the additional 50p/kg is worth is another matter. Presumably there are efficiency losses with grating the non-grated cheese - some of it gets stuck in the grater.

It's good to have a thread to focus on the trivial things!

bompington

Dinyull wrote:

I've pointed our car stickers before, but this mornings fair on a brand new Dodge Ram driven by a bloke in his 50's:

"RIDE OR DIE" - Paul Walker 1973-2013 with his signature all over the rear window.

Fair enough if your a spotty teen in a clapped out Corsa, but that must be at least £30k of car you've just ruined.

Also, the choice has narrowed...

dinyull

Ben6899

bompington wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

I've pointed our car stickers before, but this mornings fair on a brand new Dodge Ram driven by a bloke in his 50's:

"RIDE OR DIE" - Paul Walker 1973-2013 with his signature all over the rear window.

Fair enough if your a spotty teen in a clapped out Corsa, but that must be at least £30k of car you've just ruined.

Also, the choice has narrowed...

Fuck1ng hell. Savage.

veronese68

Dinyull wrote:

Dodge Ram

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

BelgianBeerGeek

Veronese68 wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

Dodge Ram

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

No - my brother has a Dodge Ram

joncomelately

Veronese68 wrote:

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

Dunno about their taste, but I guess you could just about excuse these guys...

veronese68

Joncomelately wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

Dunno about their taste, but I guess you could just about excuse these guys...

If buying a working pick up in the UK I'd be surprised if a Ram was anything like the best buy, certainly around here it is purely a fashion accessory however hard people may try to justify it.

dinyull

They're pretty sh*t at pulling loads too, few videos out there of Touareg's putting them to shame. Absolute poser toy.

joncomelately

Agreed with both, but the pic is from an American site where I'm pretty sure they value patriotism above function and cost, which is why you can - just about - excuse them (even if you don't agree with their value system). Anywhere else in the world, it's probably grounds to have your driving licence removed.

team47b

I completely understand the complexity of the task involved in grating cheese and the health and safety issues but sliced mushrooms ffs

joe2008

Hairs that start to grow out of your ears when you get to a certain age. Likewise, eyebrows which lay dormant for 50 years suddenly start to sprout like you've fertilised them.

cowsham

Webmasters of clubs thinking they know how to make a website better and then after fking it up won't revert it back to the original format cos their pride is dented. Another club forum I belong to had a website in the same format as this ( I belong to two sites with this very same format - which works very well ) has changed the website and destroyed it but won't fix it cos of his pride and most of the members are now on a bloody unorganized Facebook page where you can't find anything.

capt_slog

Cinema.

I find a film i want to see, but I can't get that week or perhaps the next either. Two weeks on, it's not there. It's nowhere to be found, it's month is up.

Every piece of shite in the 'lowest common denominator" genre is though, for weeks and weeks and weeks and...

And while I'm on the subject, Fast and Furious was already one too many in the series, and they really were pushing it at two. As for "Final Destination", "Saw" , people PAY to this? :evil:

And breathe....

Ben6899

Capt Slog wrote:

And while I'm on the subject, Fast and Furious was already one too many in the series, and they really were pushing it at two. As for "Final Destination", "Saw" , people PAY to this? :evil:

And breathe....

People are fuck1ng idiots, mate.

haydenm

Veronese68 wrote:

Joncomelately wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

Dunno about their taste, but I guess you could just about excuse these guys...

If buying a working pick up in the UK I'd be surprised if a Ram was anything like the best buy, certainly around here it is purely a fashion accessory however hard people may try to justify it.

Around here there are a larger than average proportion of pickups on the roads and not one of them is a ram, I think I'd rather turn up on a site in a convertible Evoque than a ram.

I'll add convertible Evoques to the list

orraloon

HaydenM wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Joncomelately wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Has anyone with any taste ever bought a Dodge Ram?

Dunno about their taste, but I guess you could just about excuse these guys...

If buying a working pick up in the UK I'd be surprised if a Ram was anything like the best buy, certainly around here it is purely a fashion accessory however hard people may try to justify it.

Around here there are a larger than average proportion of pickups on the roads and not one of them is a ram, I think I'd rather turn up on a site in a convertible Evoque than a ram.

I'll add convertible Evoques to the list

My work vehicle is an L200 Mitsubishi, bought it 2005, 12+ years of total reliability. And I don't look like a winker while I'm driving it.

haydenm

The L200 is the new defender to most around here I'd guess, I see a lot of the farmers with them and a fair few in forestry. The Isuzu is probably the next most popular here but I don't think I'll be replacing mine with the new one. I look like a winker in mine though because I'm about 3 foot tall...

pinno

HaydenM wrote:

... I'm about 3 foot tall...

Taller than GarryH then.