Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Pross

Americanisation of dates. I can just about cope with 9/11 on the basis it happened in the US but just saw a trailer for Dunkirk where they said 'coming to cinemas July twenty one'. Seems a bit early to be advertising a film coming out in 4 years!

FatTed

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Flying.

I'm not sure I'd count that as a trivial thing.

I absolutely @£$%ing hate flying. It's a miserable experience these days, and I don't even sink to the depths of Ryanair.

I much prefer loading the car, and crossing the Channel on a ferry (tunnel a second best) then driving. It's quite an adventure in the car with the whole family - stopping overnight at some cheap hotel in the middle of nowhere before arriving at the resort.

My wife has persuaded me to fly to Marseille this year where we will hire a car before heading along the coast to the place we've rented. I would much rather have driven - next year, I hope to get my way (for a change).

Why don't you drive and the wife fly?

pinno

FatTed wrote:

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Flying.

Why don't you drive and the wife fly?

This is the plan but there is a flaw. She'll arrive ahead of me and but she doesn't drive and speaks almost zero French/Spanish. We tend to go self catering so always a drive to the destination.
Or...
Go ahead in front of her but we live miles from any airport and she doesn't drive...

Any suggestions welcome. If someone said I could avoid ever flying again, it would actually bring a smile to my face.

rjsterry

French/Spanish lessons for her and/or heavy sedation for you?

Tashman

Flying as a passenger should be the rant. Being in control is a whole different kettle of kippers

FatTed

Most airports have a hotel attached to them or perhaps she could catch a bus/train/uber/taxi to the airport

seanoconn

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Flying.

I'm not sure I'd count that as a trivial thing.

I absolutely @£$%ing hate flying. It's a miserable experience these days, and I don't even sink to the depths of Ryanair.

I much prefer loading the car, and crossing the Channel on a ferry (tunnel a second best) then driving. It's quite an adventure in the car with the whole family - stopping overnight at some cheap hotel in the middle of nowhere before arriving at the resort.

My wife has persuaded me to fly to Marseille this year where we will hire a car before heading along the coast to the place we've rented. I would much rather have driven - next year, I hope to get my way (for a change).

How does the cost compare? Petrol, ferry crossing/Chanel tunnel, motorway tolls, stopover at cheap hotel vs taxi/train to the airport and flight?

mr_goo

Lazy speech. This is nothing to do with regional accents or colloquial words or expressions. But I really hate it when I hear for example:

Fink - Think
Sumpfink - Something
Nuffink - Nothing
Innit - Isn't it

There was a professor on Radio 5 Live yesterday who thought there was nothing wrong with it. Well in that case we might as well give up teaching English at schools and burn all the copies of the Oxford English Dictionary.

pinno

seanoconn wrote:

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Flying.

I'm not sure I'd count that as a trivial thing.

I absolutely @£$%ing hate flying. It's a miserable experience these days, and I don't even sink to the depths of Ryanair.

I much prefer loading the car, and crossing the Channel on a ferry (tunnel a second best) then driving. It's quite an adventure in the car with the whole family - stopping overnight at some cheap hotel in the middle of nowhere before arriving at the resort.

My wife has persuaded me to fly to Marseille this year where we will hire a car before heading along the coast to the place we've rented. I would much rather have driven - next year, I hope to get my way (for a change).

How does the cost compare? Petrol, ferry crossing/Chanel tunnel, motorway tolls, stopover at cheap hotel vs taxi/train to the airport and flight?

Nah silly; you can offset the costs with putting a few illegal immigrants in the boot. Just pick them up in Calais on the way back. Syrians tend to pay better then the Sudanese.

burnthesheep

When you're eating cereal with milk and a little bit of milk constantly leaves the spoon right as you're about to eat it and it gets all over your face.

shortfall

Airport duty free stores that charge more for fragrance and booze than normal shops. What's the fuck1ng point?

pinno

burnthesheep wrote:

When you're eating cereal with milk and a little bit of milk constantly leaves the spoon right as you're about to eat it and it gets all over your face.

Perhaps you need someone to help you. Personally, I find those bibs with the plastic bowl attachment is great. You can slurp the contents.

dinyull

burnthesheep wrote:

When you're eating cereal with milk and a little bit of milk constantly leaves the spoon right as you're about to eat it and it gets all over your face.

Pouring milk onto cereal and always finding the cornflake or what not that is shaped perfectly to spout the milk straight out of the bowl and onto the bench.

Every f*cking time.

pinno

Dinyull wrote:

burnthesheep wrote:

When you're eating cereal with milk and a little bit of milk constantly leaves the spoon right as you're about to eat it and it gets all over your face.

Pouring milk onto cereal and always finding the cornflake or what not that is shaped perfectly to spout the milk straight out of the bowl and onto the bench.

Every f*cking time.

When will you come to the conclusion that all that yellow and green is giving you bad Karma?

the_hundredth_idiot

seanoconn wrote:

How does the cost compare? Petrol, ferry crossing/Chanel tunnel, motorway tolls, stopover at cheap hotel vs taxi/train to the airport and flight?

Cheaper to drive, definitely much cheaper. I know I'm going to regret giving numbers because some clever dick will point out the flaws in my analysis and thus demolish one of the main arguments for driving.

Our flights to Marseille were about £1,600 on Easyjet, with car hire a further £400 or so. So something in excess of £2,000 to fly (and the sheer ball ache of modern air travel). If is even worse for half-term skiing in the Alps - flights always seem to be over £3k return to Geneva.

Compared with driving:
diesel - three tanks at French prices - say £150
ferry crossing - say £250
motorway tolls - I lose track but say another £100
stopover at cheap hotel - £60 each way so £120 total
wear and tear on the car - difficult to say - I know people say there are a lot of hidden costs but the family car is low mileage so gets serviced each year regardless of miles driven, and depreciation is pretty irrelevant given I plan on keeping it until it is worth sod all anyway. Tyres, perhaps? 30,000 miles on a set costing £500 so 2,000 miles is about £35.
So I get to about £650 which is about a £1,400 saving over flying. I would have to have missed some pretty big costs of driving for it not to be a four-figure saving.

seanoconn

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

How does the cost compare? Petrol, ferry crossing/Chanel tunnel, motorway tolls, stopover at cheap hotel vs taxi/train to the airport and flight?

Cheaper to drive, definitely much cheaper. I know I'm going to regret giving numbers because some clever dick will point out the flaws in my analysis and thus demolish one of the main arguments for driving.

Our flights to Marseille were about £1,600 on Easyjet, with car hire a further £400 or so. So something in excess of £2,000 to fly (and the sheer ball ache of modern air travel). If is even worse for half-term skiing in the Alps - flights always seem to be over £3k return to Geneva.

Compared with driving:
diesel - three tanks at French prices - say £150
ferry crossing - say £250
motorway tolls - I lose track but say another £100
stopover at cheap hotel - £60 each way so £120 total
wear and tear on the car - difficult to say - I know people say there are a lot of hidden costs but the family car is low mileage so gets serviced each year regardless of miles driven, and depreciation is pretty irrelevant given I plan on keeping it until it is worth sod all anyway. Tyres, perhaps? 30,000 miles on a set costing £500 so 2,000 miles is about £35.
So I get to about £650 which is about a £1,400 saving over flying. I would have to have missed some pretty big costs of driving for it not to be a four-figure saving.

Thanks. More or less the same figures I'd worked out for a driving option rather than flights.

hamish_mctavish

Mr Goo wrote:

Lazy speech. This is nothing to do with regional accents or colloquial words or expressions. But I really hate it when I hear for example:

Fink - Think
Sumpfink - Something
Nuffink - Nothing
Innit - Isn't it

There was a professor on Radio 5 Live yesterday who thought there was nothing wrong with it. Well in that case we might as well give up teaching English at schools and burn all the copies of the Oxford English Dictionary.

'Innit' is already in the OED. Not sure about 'nuffink' but 'nuffin' is in my 15 year old Chambers. Dictonaries describe language and if enough people use a word, it goes in. I understand your ire but why, for example is 'isn't it' acceptable whereas 'innit' isn't? Both should be 'is it not' should they not?

dinyull

People whining about their teeth, going to dentist and having a load of work done to fix them. Then only days later stuffing their face with cake.....and complaining their teeth are hurting again.

Having said that, they did come back from the dentist with a fruit smoothie for lunch to replace solids. So I should expect such behaviour.

team47b

Mr Goo wrote:

burn all the copies of the Oxford English Dictionary.

orraloon

Getting dropped by the missus twice yesterday. First time been out together since she got her new n+1 carbon Merida (which has the right colour scheme :roll: ). WTF? Been off form past couple of weeks with sniffles but really?

Upside though. Had a through the tread blow out 15 miles from home; poxy Schwalbe Luganos, less than 1k miles, Contis here we come. However it happened a few hundred metres from the only pub in miles. Just had to wait there, free roasties on the bar as well, while she carried on home to get my truck to rescue me.

mrb123

The wife's insistence on drinking only bottled water when we go on holiday. We're in Spain FFS, not South Sudan. The tap water will not give you dysentery.

Ben6899

MrB123 wrote:

The wife's insistence on drinking only bottled water when we go on holiday. We're in Spain FFS, not South Sudan. The tap water will not give you dysentery.

It will give you the sh1ts though.

dinyull

Getting a terrible earworm thanks to some twunt blazing tunez with windows down.

DJ Khaled, Dj Khaled, DJ KHALED!!!

dinyull

Sex tapes being seen as the sure fire way to become a z-list celeb.

Don't watch the shower of sh*t, but almost every week since it's been on a sextape of someone from Love Island has been in the papers.

earth

When you go into a shop to buy something and a spiv siddles over and claims the item you are looking at is the one they use as well.. 'We've all got one of those here'.

Bought a pollution mask today. I cannot tolerate the air pollution any longer. I think I might just wear a gas mask all the time.

earth

Pross wrote:

Americanisation of dates. I can just about cope with 9/11 on the basis it happened in the US but just saw a trailer for Dunkirk where they said 'coming to cinemas July twenty one'. Seems a bit early to be advertising a film coming out in 4 years!

Isn't there a thread specifically for examples of irony.

awavey

earth wrote:

Pross wrote:

Americanisation of dates. I can just about cope with 9/11 on the basis it happened in the US but just saw a trailer for Dunkirk where they said 'coming to cinemas July twenty one'. Seems a bit early to be advertising a film coming out in 4 years!

Isn't there a thread specifically for examples of irony.

I dont know about the dates being Americanised, but they better fix that union flag on that jeep in the trailer, as its weirdly symmetrical, now that is trivial annoyance, but hard to miss when its a 70mm film projection.

capt_slog

awavey wrote:

I dont know about the dates being Americanised, but they better fix that union flag on that jeep in the trailer, as its weirdly symmetrical, now that is trivial annoyance, but hard to miss when its a 70mm film projection.

I can't see it myself, it looks fairly ok to me.

But on that subject...
My step-mum in law thinks that the UK flag SHOULD be symmetrical, and whenever she sees the correct version, anywhere, will say that its wrong. It doesn't matter how official the source of the picture is ("You'd think they'd get the right flag on Buckingham Palace wouldn't you?"), SHE'S right. :roll:

rjsterry

Capt Slog wrote:

awavey wrote:

I dont know about the dates being Americanised, but they better fix that union flag on that jeep in the trailer, as its weirdly symmetrical, now that is trivial annoyance, but hard to miss when its a 70mm film projection.

I can't see it myself, it looks fairly ok to me.

But on that subject...
My step-mum in law thinks that the UK flag SHOULD be symmetrical, and whenever she sees the correct version, anywhere, will say that its wrong. It doesn't matter how official the source of the picture is ("You'd think they'd get the right flag on Buckingham Palace wouldn't you?"), SHE'S right. :roll:

Has she been able to produce any example anywhere of a symmetrical Union Flag? I don't think I have ever seen one. I mean even Geri Halliwell's infamous outfit got that bit right.

awavey

rjsterry wrote:

Capt Slog wrote:

awavey wrote:

I dont know about the dates being Americanised, but they better fix that union flag on that jeep in the trailer, as its weirdly symmetrical, now that is trivial annoyance, but hard to miss when its a 70mm film projection.

I can't see it myself, it looks fairly ok to me.

But on that subject...
My step-mum in law thinks that the UK flag SHOULD be symmetrical, and whenever she sees the correct version, anywhere, will say that its wrong. It doesn't matter how official the source of the picture is ("You'd think they'd get the right flag on Buckingham Palace wouldn't you?"), SHE'S right. :roll:

Has she been able to produce any example anywhere of a symmetrical Union Flag? I don't think I have ever seen one. I mean even Geri Halliwell's infamous outfit got that bit right.

not sure if I can post a screencap from the trailer, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-eMt3SrfFU&feature=youtu.be&t=12s just pause it at 13seconds.