Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    rjsterry said:

    New cooker delivered today. Installation all going fine, but then installer finds a fault with the new cooker. Will have to go back and a new one be sent out. Fair enough; stuff happens. The annoying bit was that the scrap metal vultures had already swiped the old one from outside the house (installer was due to take away) so now we have just a microwave for a week. Balls.


    Scrap metal merchants took my dad's old barbecue. It's handy when they save you a drive to the tip.

    Except my dad was still using it, and had got it out onto the drive to hose/scrub down ready for summer. :lol:

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  • Pross
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    I’m not a frequent flyer but when I do fly it always raises a few annoyances. Today it was the 7.00am beer drinkers at the departure lounge which presumably then leads to annoyance two, the people who are straight out of their seat and queuing for the toilet the second the seat belt sign goes off. Final one is the idiots who take hand luggage that is well above the supposed maximum size. Presumably they know they’ll get away with it as all the cabin crew and boarding staff are worried about is getting everyone onboard so they don’t miss their take off slot.

    Also, Edinburgh Castle’s ridiculous ticket system. They have two people in a ticket booth but you can’t buy a ticket from them, you have to buy online on your phone then take the code to a ticket machine and type it in. Messing around for 5 minutes on the phone in the pouring rain when you could just go and tap a card on a contactless terminal seems stupid.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,928
    Pross said:

    Final one is the idiots who take hand luggage that is well above the supposed maximum size. Presumably they know they’ll get away with it as all the cabin crew and boarding staff are worried about is getting everyone onboard so they don’t miss their take off slot.


    Although that does give the pleasure on the few occasions when they do enforce it: I've seen a family sent right back to the baggage check-in at Paris, and several passengers charged a hefty supplement at Bristol.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,892
    Ben6899 said:

    rjsterry said:

    New cooker delivered today. Installation all going fine, but then installer finds a fault with the new cooker. Will have to go back and a new one be sent out. Fair enough; stuff happens. The annoying bit was that the scrap metal vultures had already swiped the old one from outside the house (installer was due to take away) so now we have just a microwave for a week. Balls.


    Scrap metal merchants took my dad's old barbecue. It's handy when they save you a drive to the tip.

    Except my dad was still using it, and had got it out onto the drive to hose/scrub down ready for summer. :lol:

    When we did our bathroom, we manhandled the old cast iron bath down the stairs and were struggling to get it around the awkward corner and out of the front door (needed to lift it above our heads to clear the newel post) two of them appeared at the open door like the shopkeeper from Mr Benn.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    rjsterry said:

    Ben6899 said:

    rjsterry said:

    New cooker delivered today. Installation all going fine, but then installer finds a fault with the new cooker. Will have to go back and a new one be sent out. Fair enough; stuff happens. The annoying bit was that the scrap metal vultures had already swiped the old one from outside the house (installer was due to take away) so now we have just a microwave for a week. Balls.


    Scrap metal merchants took my dad's old barbecue. It's handy when they save you a drive to the tip.

    Except my dad was still using it, and had got it out onto the drive to hose/scrub down ready for summer. :lol:

    When we did our bathroom, we manhandled the old cast iron bath down the stairs and were struggling to get it around the awkward corner and out of the front door (needed to lift it above our heads to clear the newel post) two of them appeared at the open door like the shopkeeper from Mr Benn.

    They can smell it.
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  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    rjsterry said:

    Ben6899 said:

    rjsterry said:

    New cooker delivered today. Installation all going fine, but then installer finds a fault with the new cooker. Will have to go back and a new one be sent out. Fair enough; stuff happens. The annoying bit was that the scrap metal vultures had already swiped the old one from outside the house (installer was due to take away) so now we have just a microwave for a week. Balls.


    Scrap metal merchants took my dad's old barbecue. It's handy when they save you a drive to the tip.

    Except my dad was still using it, and had got it out onto the drive to hose/scrub down ready for summer. :lol:

    When we did our bathroom, we manhandled the old cast iron bath down the stairs and were struggling to get it around the awkward corner and out of the front door (needed to lift it above our heads to clear the newel post) two of them appeared at the open door like the shopkeeper from Mr Benn.
    I thought you were going to say the scrap men hit the bath with a big hammer and carried it out in pieces!
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I have delivery coming via Royal Mail. When I try to track it I get one of those things were you tick off all the pictures of bridges/ chickens/ strawberry cakes. However these are never ending which has left me wondering is this part of the industrial action planned for this weekend.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    webboo said:

    I have delivery coming via Royal Mail. When I try to track it I get one of those things were you tick off all the pictures of bridges/ chickens/ strawberry cakes. However these are never ending which has left me wondering is this part of the industrial action planned for this weekend.

    I experienced that too.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Probably more frustrating than annoying but hearing Dario G’s Sun Chyme on the radio and that sample of Life In A Northern Town that never quite gets there. Like a musical version of edging.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,928
    Pross said:

    Probably more frustrating than annoying but hearing Dario G’s Sun Chyme on the radio and that sample of Life In A Northern Town that never quite gets there. Like a musical version of edging.


    I could write a symphony...


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  • First.Aspect
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    As edging goes that's quite nice. Way nicer than the edge of a lawn against a bed, cut with nail scissors.

    Providing that whoever owns that lawn doesn't pressure wash the shit out of those stones, in a few years they will be covered in miss and lichen.

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    Pressure washers. Those are annoying.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,928
    Avoiding by inches a lad on a bike coming the other way on a shared use path in the dark, who was drifting directly towards me... I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that he was staring at his phone while riding one-handed with ear buds in. I might just have called him a wänker at the top of my voice (and then apologised to the pedestrian whom I'd just passed).
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Recipes that call for caster sugar, but then the first line of the instructions is "dissolve the sugar in water".

    If it's just going to be dissolved in water, what's the point in it being caster sugar?


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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    Clicking on the CX Season thread, knowing full well I haven't finished catching up with it. 😒
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,972
    Small grains dissolve more easilly?
    capt_slog said:

    Recipes that call for caster sugar, but then the first line of the instructions is "dissolve the sugar in water".

    If it's just going to be dissolved in water, what's the point in it being caster sugar?

  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    monkimark said:

    Small grains dissolve more easilly?

    capt_slog said:

    Recipes that call for caster sugar, but then the first line of the instructions is "dissolve the sugar in water".

    If it's just going to be dissolved in water, what's the point in it being caster sugar?

    Like it's tricky to do? Especially when it's often being heated as well.

    I guessed that was the reason, but i sometimes wonder if the people who write this stuff down actually consider how things work rather than just parroting what they've always been told.



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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,892
    First.Aspect said:

    Pressure washers. Those are annoying.

    So is falling on your arse due to a thin film of algae.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,593
    capt_slog said:

    Recipes that call for caster sugar, but then the first line of the instructions is "dissolve the sugar in water".

    If it's just going to be dissolved in water, what's the point in it being caster sugar?

    Similarly, wife was watching James Martin show how to perfectly segment a lemon.
    Next stage? Chop it up. I was confused as to what the point in segmenting was.
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  • briantrumpet
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    Vegan food that pretends to be meat. A trumpeting friend of mine who stayed with me had me chopping various vegetables into 2mm cubes for ages, and it turned out that it was just ending up as pretend mince in a spaghetti bolognese, but without the flavour or proper texture of one.

    It was actually OK, but not worth the work (I'm a lazy cook), and I'd prefer to enjoy vegetables that aren't pretending to be something they aren't.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    briantrumpet said:

    Vegan food that pretends to be meat. A trumpeting friend of mine who stayed with me had me chopping various vegetables into 2mm cubes for ages, and it turned out that it was just ending up as pretend mince in a spaghetti bolognese, but without the flavour or proper texture of one.

    It was actually OK, but not worth the work (I'm a lazy cook), and I'd prefer to enjoy vegetables that aren't pretending to be something they aren't.

    my mind is boggled at the thought of chopping a 2mm cube
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,928
    surrey_commuter said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Vegan food that pretends to be meat. A trumpeting friend of mine who stayed with me had me chopping various vegetables into 2mm cubes for ages, and it turned out that it was just ending up as pretend mince in a spaghetti bolognese, but without the flavour or proper texture of one.

    It was actually OK, but not worth the work (I'm a lazy cook), and I'd prefer to enjoy vegetables that aren't pretending to be something they aren't.

    my mind is boggled at the thought of chopping a 2mm cube

    Well, it was blimmin small... I was getting bored, and asked "Is that fine enough?", and the lack of an immediate "Yup!" knew I was being told off for being a slacker.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    briantrumpet said:

    Vegan food that pretends to be meat. A trumpeting friend of mine who stayed with me had me chopping various vegetables into 2mm cubes for ages, and it turned out that it was just ending up as pretend mince in a spaghetti bolognese, but without the flavour or proper texture of one.

    It was actually OK, but not worth the work (I'm a lazy cook), and I'd prefer to enjoy vegetables that aren't pretending to be something they aren't.

    If you need it to look or taste like meat.
    Just eat meat.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    However much i play, I can never beat Civ 6 on Immortal or Diety but Emperor is always too easy.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,593
    MPs total inability to read the room.


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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited November 2022
    What's wrong with the office xmas party being on expenses?

    Can f*ck off if they expect me to pay for drinks.
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,498
    rick_chasey said:

    What's wrong with the office xmas party being on expenses?

    Can f*ck off if they expect me to pay for drinks.

    If you want to go on the p*ss, pay for it yourself. Are you happy for all schools, hospitals, councils etc to also spend public money for a night out?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited November 2022
    Tashman said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What's wrong with the office xmas party being on expenses?

    Can f*ck off if they expect me to pay for drinks.

    If you want to go on the p*ss, pay for it yourself. Are you happy for all schools, hospitals, councils etc to also spend public money for a night out?
    Yes, of course, if it's the xmas christmas party.

    If the office party was pay-for-yourself it's not different to any after-works drinks and you'd have to allow people not to turn up in case they don't want to spend the money.

    Entirely defeats the point of it.


    What kind of miserly penny pinching lot are you. Office xmas party is part of work and if they're not paying for it, don't go, arrange your own with the people you actually like in the office.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    HMRC has even agreed an allowance for this sort of thing.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,288
    Tashman said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What's wrong with the office xmas party being on expenses?

    Can f*ck off if they expect me to pay for drinks.

    If you want to go on the p*ss, pay for it yourself. Are you happy for all schools, hospitals, councils etc to also spend public money for a night out?
    Yes.

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