Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

kingstongraham

The Giro website constantly reloading itself and insisting on showing me pictures of the official Giro pants.

briantrumpet

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Pross

briantrumpet said:

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Snickers / Mars etc. Duo bars are now about the size I remember the single bars being.

mully79

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Snickers / Mars etc. Duo bars are now about the size I remember the single bars being.

Dairy milk nut bars are so thin they stopped putting whole nuts in.

briantrumpet

mully79 said:

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Snickers / Mars etc. Duo bars are now about the size I remember the single bars being.

Dairy milk nut bars are so thin they stopped putting whole nuts in.

Similar with Curly Wurlies - made the mistake of going to Cadbury World, and as small recompense for the extortionate entry fee, you get a free CW... and I was thinking "It must just be a childhood memory that they used to be soooo much bigger", until they had the advert of Terry Scott with one displayed, and you realise that, yes, they used to be twice the size.

pangolin

briantrumpet said:

mully79 said:

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Snickers / Mars etc. Duo bars are now about the size I remember the single bars being.

Dairy milk nut bars are so thin they stopped putting whole nuts in.

Similar with Curly Wurlies - made the mistake of going to Cadbury World, and as small recompense for the extortionate entry fee, you get a free CW... and I was thinking "It must just be a childhood memory that they used to be soooo much bigger", until they had the advert of Terry Scott with one displayed, and you realise that, yes, they used to be twice the size.

You pay to go to Cadbury World and get one curly wurly?? I went as a kid and remember getting loads of chocolate.

briantrumpet

pangolin said:

briantrumpet said:

mully79 said:

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Packs of Club biscuits now being 7 instead of 8. Inflation by stealth. Grrr.

I've still never forgiven them for reducing Yorkie Bars from their original 66g size.

Snickers / Mars etc. Duo bars are now about the size I remember the single bars being.

Dairy milk nut bars are so thin they stopped putting whole nuts in.

Similar with Curly Wurlies - made the mistake of going to Cadbury World, and as small recompense for the extortionate entry fee, you get a free CW... and I was thinking "It must just be a childhood memory that they used to be soooo much bigger", until they had the advert of Terry Scott with one displayed, and you realise that, yes, they used to be twice the size.

You pay to go to Cadbury World and get one curly wurly?? I went as a kid and remember getting loads of chocolate.

Plus a small Dairy Milk (eurgh) bar. £11.50, about 8 years ago.

The contrast with the Cailler factory near Geneva, which cost 8.50€, and where you have a tasting room where you can *literally* eat as many properly posh chocolates as you want/can could not be greater.

pinno

Rip off Britain.

I once drove from Barcelona through Andorra to Aix les Bains.
On the way, in the southern Pyrenees, we stopped at a little truck stop/cafe/shack.
On the menu was macaronis y ensalada mixta. In fact it was the only thing on the menu (I found it funny that we were asked what we would like to eat).
We got plied with coffee, refills and more macaronis y ensalada mixta and fresh bread by the bucket load.
We went to pay la nota and the bloke showed me the bill @ €6.30 for both of us. I looked at it puzzled and asked es correcto ? He punched the till keys and recalculated, handed me another 'nota' for... €5.40.
I handed him a €10 note and he proceeded to get change and I told him it was no problem as I wanted him to keep the €10.
He looked at me puzzled.

masjer

I never fully recovered from the Marathon to Snickers incident.

morstar

masjer said:

I never fully recovered from the Marathon to Snickers incident.

Did you try to enter the London Snickers?

Pross

Current issue with OneDrive following a Microsoft update which is making accessing any documents a pain.

mully79

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

pblakeney

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

I posted similar 2 or 3 years ago so it's not the cost of living crisis, it is an excess of muppets crisis.

pangolin

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

How do you know it's to save fuel? I file them all under "idiots" but their motives are hard to work out.

briantrumpet

pangolin said:

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

How do you know it's to save fuel? I file them all under "idiots" but their motives are hard to work out.

Not forgetting, of course, that HGVs are restricted to 40mph on (some?) NSL roads. I have an HGV driver friend who has to deal with muppets frequently on such roads, with stupid overtakes and signalled impatience with my friend's sticking to the speed limit.

rick_chasey

First few days of holiday I am always exhausted.

orraloon

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

I had a transit south on M6 couple days back, the Shap to J36 downhill section there's a muppet sitting in lane 3 in a Fiat 500 doing 65mph with not a lot of other veehickles around. Empty lanes to the left. I'm in a hire car so not hanging about. Muppet did move over to let me past, yeah cheers pal, but then moved back into lane 3... non gender specific d!ck

Stevo_666

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

Selfish as well, holding other drivers up if you can't get past them. Quite funny watching them trying to speed up when you do overtake them though

Pross

pangolin said:

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

How do you know it's to save fuel? I file them all under "idiots" but their motives are hard to work out.

On the road I drive to take my daughter to work which is 7 miles and nearly all NSL as soon as I end up behind one of these I say "bet they turn into the garden centre" and I don't think I've been wrong yet.

briantrumpet

I followed a car driven by an elderly local in Budleigh Salterton a few days ago... I reckon she must have been imagining she was overtaking a cyclist all the length of the main street and up past the beach, as she left about 6ft gap on the nearside, had her offside wheels well over the central line, forcing oncoming drivers into the side of the road where they could, and she even clipped the mirror of one as she blithely carried on. Fortunately she didn't go faster than 10mph.

If you ever see a car with 'Staddons Garage' (it's the one in Budleigh) in Devon, the odds are that they will be an elderly and rubbish driver. You have been warned.

pinno

Yeah but... there seems to be legions of slow drivers on the roads since lockdown.
Maybe it's cabin fever for old codgers elderly folk who don't normally drive much.

Stevo_666

pinno said:

Yeah but... there seems to be legions of slow drivers on the roads since lockdown.
Maybe it's cabin fever for old codgers elderly folk who don't normally drive much.

The sort of people who have probably never had an accident but have caused loads.

Tashman

Pross said:

pangolin said:

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

How do you know it's to save fuel? I file them all under "idiots" but their motives are hard to work out.

On the road I drive to take my daughter to work which is 7 miles and nearly all NSL as soon as I end up behind one of these I say "bet they turn into the garden centre" and I don't think I've been wrong yet.

I have this when i head in the direction of Wakehurst Place NT gardens

Tashman

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

They also remain at 40 when travelling through 30mph zones usually. They are oblivious to the world around them

Pross

Tashman said:

mully79 said:

The new breed of fuel saving drivers that think driving at 40 mph on a national speed limit road is reasonable. Caravans are even getting held up behind these clowns.

They also remain at 40 when travelling through 30mph zones usually. They are oblivious to the world around them

One of the ones I had last week overtook a group of cyclists on a blind bend with about 1m of clearance (nothing came the other way fortunately). The irony of the impatience of being 'held up' by something moving slower than them was off the scale.

kingstongraham

There's an irony in this being a topic on a road cycling forum as well.

briantrumpet

Johnson using big adjectives to make him sound clever, when they are actually meaningless in the context he uses them, such as 'inherently' or (today's choice) 'intrinsically'.

I’m not attracted, intrinsically, to new taxes.

I've no idea what that's supposed to mean... even if Johnson had a single principle.

TheBigBean

briantrumpet said:

Johnson using big adjectives to make him sound clever, when they are actually meaningless in the context he uses them, such as 'inherently' or (today's choice) 'intrinsically'.

I’m not attracted, intrinsically, to new taxes.

I've no idea what that's supposed to mean... even if Johnson had a single principle.

Makes sense to me. You may not like the man, but he definitely has a good vocabulary.

pblakeney

kingstongraham said:

There's an irony in this being a topic on a road cycling forum as well.

The counter argument could be that at least we are trying to go as fast as we can instead of wilfully going slow.

monkimark

yup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTCrR4rmvs

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

Johnson using big adjectives to make him sound clever, when they are actually meaningless in the context he uses them, such as 'inherently' or (today's choice) 'intrinsically'.

I’m not attracted, intrinsically, to new taxes.

I've no idea what that's supposed to mean... even if Johnson had a single principle.

Makes sense to me. You may not like the man, but he definitely has a good vocabulary.