Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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What is the point of hot cross buns? Is it just a vehicle for butter?0
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Your wife has seen the light.veronese68 said:My wife has started buying hot cross buns, not an annoyance in itself even if it is a little early. She eats them cold, the clue's in the bloody name.
Been a sucker for them in the last ~4 years and at 200kCal+ per bun, they might be a major reason why I've ended up north of 85Kg again, when I should be capable of maxing out at ~78Kg without living like a priest.
Not added a 6-pack to our food delivery for ~4 weeks and I'm slowly losing some excess!================
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That's precisely the point.First.Aspect said:What is the point of hot cross buns? Is it just a vehicle for butter?
I only cycle so that I can eat cake and high calorie food stuffs.seanoconn - gruagach craic!1 -
I bloody love HXBs. Sweet but not too sweet, juicy raisins, and lots of butter melting into them. My breakfast of choice.
Bad ones are very disappointing, but the Sainsburys TTD ones and the M&S ones are good. Anything that is other than the standard (chocolate, orange and lemon, apple etc) are a waste of your calories compared to the OG.2 -
I think the hot means straight from the oven rather than having them toasted though (where they would become a toasted teacake with a bit of a shape on them).veronese68 said:My wife has started buying hot cross buns, not an annoyance in itself even if it is a little early. She eats them cold, the clue's in the bloody name.
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FFS, I don't vent my trivial annoyances on here so you can take her side! Regardless of the fact you may be right, but a toasted tea cake is as it should be. Adding to FA's point this also means you can get more butter into them as it melts into lusciuosness. Cold but slathered on top is not as good.Pross said:
I think the hot means straight from the oven rather than having them toasted though (where they would become a toasted teacake with a bit of a shape on them).veronese68 said:My wife has started buying hot cross buns, not an annoyance in itself even if it is a little early. She eats them cold, the clue's in the bloody name.
Mmmmm, got a craving for crumpets now...0 -
FWIW I prefer them toasted or straight from the oven but I will still happily eat them cold if presented to me. Anything offering the chance for butter to melt is generally prefereable other than freshly baked bread with thick butter.veronese68 said:
FFS, I don't vent my trivial annoyances on here so you can take her side! Regardless of the fact you may be right, but a toasted tea cake is as it should be. Adding to FA's point this also means you can get more butter into them as it melts into lusciuosness. Cold but slathered on top is not as good.Pross said:
I think the hot means straight from the oven rather than having them toasted though (where they would become a toasted teacake with a bit of a shape on them).veronese68 said:My wife has started buying hot cross buns, not an annoyance in itself even if it is a little early. She eats them cold, the clue's in the bloody name.
Mmmmm, got a craving for crumpets now...0 -
Indeed, gift horse/mouthPross said:
FWIW I prefer them toasted or straight from the oven but I will still happily eat them cold if presented to me.veronese68 said:
FFS, I don't vent my trivial annoyances on here so you can take her side! Regardless of the fact you may be right, but a toasted tea cake is as it should be. Adding to FA's point this also means you can get more butter into them as it melts into lusciuosness. Cold but slathered on top is not as good.Pross said:
I think the hot means straight from the oven rather than having them toasted though (where they would become a toasted teacake with a bit of a shape on them).veronese68 said:My wife has started buying hot cross buns, not an annoyance in itself even if it is a little early. She eats them cold, the clue's in the bloody name.
Mmmmm, got a craving for crumpets now...0 -
A teacake is not the same as an HXB.0
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Other than the cross shape on top I'm struggle to see any discernable difference.kingstongraham said:A teacake is not the same as an HXB.
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Hot cross buns have cinnamon in them. Tea cakes don’t.Pross said:
Other than the cross shape on top I'm struggle to see any discernable difference.kingstongraham said:A teacake is not the same as an HXB.
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Cinamon isn't it? I don't think teacakes have cinamon in them.
Back home, teacake is confusingly used to mean a type of bread roll as well.0 -
That's 'cos you're wired funny.Pross said:
Other than the cross shape on top I'm struggle to see any discernable difference.kingstongraham said:A teacake is not the same as an HXB.
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...instead of latex ones?rick_chasey said:Accidentally bought 3 ultra thin race inner tubes 🤦🏻♂️
My annoyance this time is the new cycling infrastructure Edinburgh Council has built. Leith walk gets all the press, but trust me, there are a bunch of spots that are truly dreadful, including but not limited to:- the segregated path downhil in Dean bridge/Queensferry road
- the segregated path and the widened pavement at Toll Cross
- the complete lack of monitoring of motor vehicles parked in the bike lane along Causewayside, a path probably used by several hundreds of students each day coming back from the University of Edinburgh's KB campus.
- The appalling state of both advisory cycle lanes along the meadows
0 - the segregated path downhil in Dean bridge/Queensferry road
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Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.0
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A true friends wouldn't have chosen Wetherspoons...briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
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Ah, pity 'poor' Brexshit supporting Tim, running out of cheap E European bar staff and having to close some of his pubs, such a shame. All Jeremy Corbyn's fault of course.drhaggis said:
A true friends wouldn't have chosen Wetherspoons...briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
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What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
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TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
Tim Brexit Martin. Utter hypocrite, and a man who can afford the fiasco of the Brexit he espoused.0 -
He's a Bwexit supporter.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
He's selling 32 out of about 850. Still a very successful business regardless of his political views.orraloon said:
Ah, pity 'poor' Brexshit supporting Tim, running out of cheap E European bar staff and having to close some of his pubs, such a shame. All Jeremy Corbyn's fault of course.drhaggis said:
A true friends wouldn't have chosen Wetherspoons...briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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He's a Bwexit supporter.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
If Corbyn owned pubs, would you go to them?0 -
If they were any good I would go regardless of owner. Although that would make him a capitalist so he'd go up in my estimationbriantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
He's a Bwexit supporter.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
If Corbyn owned pubs, would you go to them?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They sell sh1te beer, are soulless atmosphere vacuums, that smell of damp carpets and stale beer farts.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
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skyblueamateur said:
They sell sh1te beer, are soulless atmosphere vacuums, that smell of damp carpets and stale beer farts.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
Yeah, and all the food is microwaved (sometimes to the right temperature, I'll admit).
If they were any good, it would be more of a sacrifice, but as they are shite, it's not a problem not to go in.
I'd rather go into my local anyway.
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That's an unusual point of view.skyblueamateur said:
They sell sh1te beer, are soulless atmosphere vacuums, that smell of damp carpets and stale beer farts.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
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Microwaved food is not exactly unusual for pubs, but yes, there are often better places to eat.briantrumpet said:skyblueamateur said:
They sell sh1te beer, are soulless atmosphere vacuums, that smell of damp carpets and stale beer farts.TheBigBean said:
What's wrong with Wetherspoons?briantrumpet said:Having gone into a Wetherspoons for the first time since Brexit, to meet an old friend who chose where. Annoyed to add 1p to Tim Martin's profits, but I did have a pïss in his toilet too make me feel better.
Yeah, and all the food is microwaved (sometimes to the right temperature, I'll admit).
If they were any good, it would be more of a sacrifice, but as they are shite, it's not a problem not to go in.
I'd rather go into my local anyway.0 -
Plugs that are shallow and have no shaping to allow them to be gripped and pulled out of the socket.0
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Pross said:
Plugs that are shallow and have no shaping to allow them to be gripped and pulled out of the socket.
Ah, the start of a slippery slope. Next you'll be asking someone younger to open packets of biscuits for you, or to unscrew bottle tops.0
