Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

briantrumpet

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

The French anti busking police are everywhere.

surrey_commuter

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

a Brexit benefit for owners of UK vineyards

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

I bet they'd let you pick fruit.

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

You could do it for free and be £50 up. 😉

Pross

Not trivial but a couple of times in the last week or so I've been passed by a car whilst walking the dogs up a narrow country lane which has left a strong smell of weed in its wake (I think it was the same car of both occasions). Only the driver in the car so presumably stoned in the middle of the day driving on a single track lane that gets used as a bit of a rat run. I also passed a group of builders with their cars parked up in one of the passing places enjoying a joint before, presumably, heading back to work.

Is this sort of thing common everywhere or is it particularly bad in my neck of the woods?

pblakeney

Become more and more noticeable over the past 5 years. Never smelt it in public prior.

Pross

Yeah, the first time I really noticed it was on a walk on that final weekend of freedom before the first lockdown. I also probably smelled it at a few gigs I went to in the 80s bit was too naive to realise what it was.

First.Aspect

pblakeney said:

Become more and more noticeable over the past 5 years. Never smelt it in public prior.

Has always been there, just smellier now.

Police policy is basically just take it off a 17 year old or younger, with a jolly good talking to. Or give a recordable cannabis earning or penalty notice to anyone else.

I strongly suspect that the hassle of the paperwork for anyone who is only smoking (as opposed to someone suspected of smoking pot whilst being black, for example) is enough for police to largely turn a blind eye.

So the risk of any actual consequences as so low as to now be a deterrent to a calming spliff over lunch.

pblakeney

First.Aspect said:

pblakeney said:

Become more and more noticeable over the past 5 years. Never smelt it in public prior.

Has always been there, just smellier now.
...

That could explain it if true. I have a few regular cycle routes where I can pinpoint the houses where it comes from. Some passing cars too. Never noticed it before @ 2018.

briantrumpet

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

I bet they'd let you pick fruit.

Maybe, though from limited past experience (pre Brexit), employers fill in paperwork that includes payee details and you get to sign it to receive payment. You risk being barred from entering France as a visitor if you are found to have worked for payment without a permit.

I suspect the way round it would be to say you'll do it for food, travel & lodging, so not receive any actual cash payment, and get the host to settle the bills directly.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

I bet they'd let you pick fruit.

Maybe, though from limited past experience (pre Brexit), employers fill in paperwork that includes payee details and you get to sign it to receive payment. You risk being barred from entering France as a visitor if you are found to have worked for payment without a permit.

I suspect the way round it would be to say you'll do it for food, travel & lodging, so not receive any actual cash payment, and get the host to settle the bills directly.

There you go. You can be paid in baguettes.

veronese68

briantrumpet said:

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

Tashman said:

There's a vineyard near us offering an experience for grape picking. It'll cost you just £50 for the day. Shouldn't that be the other way around with lunch thrown in? Especially when you're charging £28 per bottle for your stuff

Why when you can get paid for it in the south of France?

Sadly not allowed to do paid work in France now without a work permit.

I bet they'd let you pick fruit.

Maybe, though from limited past experience (pre Brexit), employers fill in paperwork that includes...

Up to this point I was thinking they were very liberal employers that permitted smoking weed 😂

Munsford0

Pross said:

I also passed a group of builders with their cars parked up in one of the passing places enjoying a joint before, presumably, heading back to work.

Is this sort of thing common everywhere or is it particularly bad in my neck of the woods?

Some of the cr@p our builder tried to get away with made me think he must be on something... But in the end we concluded he was just a 50:50 mix of cr@p and cheapskate.

capt_slog

Pross said:

Not trivial but a couple of times in the last week or so I've been passed by a car whilst walking the dogs up a narrow country lane which has left a strong smell of weed in its wake (I think it was the same car of both occasions). Only the driver in the car so presumably stoned in the middle of the day driving on a single track lane that gets used as a bit of a rat run. I also passed a group of builders with their cars parked up in one of the passing places enjoying a joint before, presumably, heading back to work.

Is this sort of thing common everywhere or is it particularly bad in my neck of the woods?

I rarely go out on the bike without smelling it from a passing car. I find it alarming that so many people drive around like this.

TBH I often smell it whilst driving too, coming from vehicles in front of me.

It does make me wonder if the smokers are so used to it that they think it others can't smell it or perhaps they just don't care.

briantrumpet

It annoys me that I've never been able to smell it, or if I have, to recognise it as such.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

It annoys me that I've never been able to smell it, or if I have, to recognise it as such.

Take a job in a comprehensive school Brian.

briantrumpet

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

It annoys me that I've never been able to smell it, or if I have, to recognise it as such.

Take a job in a comprehensive school Brian.

I've had the stuff shoved under my nose, and I still couldn't really say I could smell it. I've also spent a day with a (now late) big band trumpeter, and he repeatedly put it in his pipe and smoked it, all day.

rick_chasey

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/oct/08/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-fin-boys-cambridge-inventive-cookery-and-seriously-good-ingredients?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Review of a restaurant down the road.

All very good. That’s not the beef. The beef is with this;

Good seafood should never be cheap.

Can’t stand this attitude.

rick_chasey

Fin Boys saw themselves as a repository of good ingredients, alongside a few pre-prepped dishes and advice. They built their relationships with those Cornish day boats and their sustainable fishing methods. They sourced bluefin tuna from a farm in Galicia; they made sure the scallops were hand-dived. And some nights each week they would become a restaurant. Three months ago, however, they scrapped the main retail business. The demand just wasn’t there. A lot of home cooks seem terrified of fish. They see fins and scales and eyes, staring back at them, and run away gibbering. Now, Fin Boys is solely a restaurant.

So the reason they don’t have an oven and why it was a shop before was, I believe, because of planning permission. They sold it as a shop which would have a few sit in eaters.

So they sold it to the planners as mixed use.

The fish they sold was never the stuff you’d want to buy and so overpriced you wouldn’t pay it.

Anyway….

TheBigBean

rick_chasey said:

Fin Boys saw themselves as a repository of good ingredients, alongside a few pre-prepped dishes and advice. They built their relationships with those Cornish day boats and their sustainable fishing methods. They sourced bluefin tuna from a farm in Galicia; they made sure the scallops were hand-dived. And some nights each week they would become a restaurant. Three months ago, however, they scrapped the main retail business. The demand just wasn’t there. A lot of home cooks seem terrified of fish. They see fins and scales and eyes, staring back at them, and run away gibbering. Now, Fin Boys is solely a restaurant.

So the reason they don’t have an oven and why it was a shop before was, I believe, because of planning permission. They sold it as a shop which would have a few sit in eaters.

So they sold it to the planners as mixed use.

The fish they sold was never the stuff you’d want to buy and so overpriced you wouldn’t pay it.

Anyway….

Presumably because good seafood should never be cheap.

On a different note, I bought a squid from a local shop a while go. I asked if they would gut it. They said no, but it was easy to do at home. It isn't, so no repeat business from me. Sometimes local shops don't help themselves.

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

rick_chasey said:

Fin Boys saw themselves as a repository of good ingredients, alongside a few pre-prepped dishes and advice. They built their relationships with those Cornish day boats and their sustainable fishing methods. They sourced bluefin tuna from a farm in Galicia; they made sure the scallops were hand-dived. And some nights each week they would become a restaurant. Three months ago, however, they scrapped the main retail business. The demand just wasn’t there. A lot of home cooks seem terrified of fish. They see fins and scales and eyes, staring back at them, and run away gibbering. Now, Fin Boys is solely a restaurant.

So the reason they don’t have an oven and why it was a shop before was, I believe, because of planning permission. They sold it as a shop which would have a few sit in eaters.

So they sold it to the planners as mixed use.

The fish they sold was never the stuff you’d want to buy and so overpriced you wouldn’t pay it.

Anyway….

Presumably because good seafood should never be cheap.

On a different note, I bought a squid from a local shop a while go. I asked if they would gut it. They said no, but it was easy to do at home. It isn't, so no repeat business from me. Sometimes local shops don't help themselves.

Probably as easy as getting a perfectly flat finish on plastering a large area. Looks easy when you know how...

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

It annoys me that I've never been able to smell it, or if I have, to recognise it as such.

Take a job in a comprehensive school Brian.

I've had the stuff shoved under my nose, and I still couldn't really say I could smell it. I've also spent a day with a (now late) big band trumpeter, and he repeatedly put it in his pipe and smoked it, all day.

Ah. Wasn't meant to be a dig.

Its called skunk for a reason. So best option is to find a skunk, say, "boo" to it and go from there.

Don't wear any nice clothes when you do this.

First.Aspect

Might be easier to just stop to fix a mechanical of you ever pass a vauxhall nova parked in a field entrance. Eventually you'll smell it.

briantrumpet

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

It annoys me that I've never been able to smell it, or if I have, to recognise it as such.

Take a job in a comprehensive school Brian.

I've had the stuff shoved under my nose, and I still couldn't really say I could smell it. I've also spent a day with a (now late) big band trumpeter, and he repeatedly put it in his pipe and smoked it, all day.

Ah. Wasn't meant to be a dig.

Its called skunk for a reason. So best option is to find a skunk, say, "boo" to it and go from there.

Don't wear any nice clothes when you do this.

I'll join the Topsham Skunk Sniffing Group.

Or I'll just accept I can't smell the stuff. Maybe it's like finding sprouts tasting bitter - it's all in the genes. Probably just as well I'm not employed as a drug-sniffing dog, whatever.

rick_chasey

Whilst I’m in a grumpy mood; queuing at the cigarette counter to pick up an order. The state of the people queueing to buy them, Christ alive.

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

Whilst I’m in a grumpy mood; queuing at the cigarette counter to pick up an order. The state of the people queueing to buy them, Christ alive.

What cigarettes had you ordered?

rick_chasey

The not so known brand of the 48 sandwich platter.

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

The not so known brand of the 48 sandwich platter.

I think you'll be in quite a state if you smoke all 48.

pinno

I find that sandwiches are damp and difficult to light.