Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

thunderdog · 21-02-2014 03:12PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Bath towels that rather than drying you off, just move the bloody water around on your body.

What gets wetter the more it dries?

not the towel you are using anyway

Wotsername · 21-02-2014 03:43PM

I Know I shouldn't complain about them, I do check them regularly, I don't take them for granted and I also know they save lives....BUT, Ffs Both smoke alarms, at different ends of the appt going off every time I make a piece of toast. Jeesh!

macplato · 21-02-2014 03:47PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Especially when it pops first time and it's nowhere near done, then you chuck it back in the toaster thinking 'right, I better keep my eye on this as next time it pops, it'll be black'...
Then you forget about it / are busy with the frying pan, and ... *pop*
'What's that burning smell? oh b*llox!!!!'

Does anyone have a toaster that toasts properly first time??

Doesn't your toaster have a little knob for adjusting temperature? It takes a few burned/underdone toasts to figure out the setting, but after that you get perfect toasts every time.

Sir Arthur Daley · 21-02-2014 03:47PM

Wotsername wrote: »

I Know I shouldn't complain about them, I do check them regularly, I don't take them for granted and I also know they save lives....BUT, Ffs Both smoke alarms, at different ends of the appt going off every time I make a piece of toast. Jeesh!

If you swapped the smoke for a heat alarm in the kitchen it would stop the nuisance alarm.

eisenberg1 · 21-02-2014 03:49PM

Earlier, I am trying to make my way down a busy street.

I see Mr & Mrs Fcukwit approaching, holding hands, which is fine, except he is at one side of the footpath and she is at the other, with the held hands fully extended like a bloody clothesline.

Now, unless they start humming some calypso music, so I can fcuking limbo dance under them, I am gonna kick someone in the nutsack.

jimgoose · 21-02-2014 03:49PM

Can someone explain to me why I can't get a wedge of Wensleydale without bits of Jaysis fruit in it? What the hemorrhaging furk are people at with that?? :mad:

Johnny_Fontane · 21-02-2014 03:49PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I disagree. For me, a lot of their products are far superior - fruit, veg, cheese etc. I love Lidl olives especially the ones stuffed with amonds, and their wines are far better than what you would get for the equivalent sum in Tesco. Cepa Lebrel for example. €5.99 for the 2012 and it's amazing :P Tesco wine is overpriced plonk.

I buy my wine from france on my annual booze cruise. I just cant deal with supermarket wine. Life is too short for cheap wine.

eisenberg1 · 21-02-2014 03:58PM

macplato wrote: »

Doesn't your toaster have a little knob for adjusting temperature?
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it does, but he was on a day off:D

Wotsername · 21-02-2014 04:02PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

I buy my wine from france on my annual booze cruise. I just cant deal with supermarket wine. Life is too short for cheap wine.

Funny that, My OH's Med Consultant reckons "Life's too short for any wine"

fussyonion · 21-02-2014 04:07PM

dub_skav wrote: »

I agree with Johnny Fontana that I don't get the fuss over LIDL / ALDI, but your response brings up another trivial annoyance of mine.

When people justify the greatness of LIDL / ALDI by saying the meat is better than Tesco, or the wine is better than Tesco.
Well yes, that may be true in your opinion, but it doesn't mean it's good. Go to a butcher, go to an off licence. Tesco is garbage for a lot of things.

LIDL may indeed have better circular saws than Tesco, doesn't mean they're good.

I agree with you about the meat.
No supermarket can compete with the quality and price of your local butcher.
I bought steak and round roast from Tesco once and they were both lumps of rubbery cheap crap that had no flavour.
Money down the drain because we didn't finish either.

Went to the butcher the next week, spent probably two euro more and got better quality and better eating.
Same goes for minced beef.
I like round mince (I know purists will cry "that's bland!", but I like it) but supermarket mince is always stringy and never actually breaks up.
You've got long unappealing strands of fat in the pan that makes you want to get sick.

I will say Aldi do a nice selection of wine at good prices BUT I have seen nice bottles of wine in Tesco for the same price, so in that regard, it's what you prefer.

I don't buy any fruit or veg in Aldi as it always goes off too quick, so I end up throwing it out.

eisenberg1 · 21-02-2014 04:11PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

I buy my wine from france on my annual booze cruise. I just cant deal with supermarket wine. Life is too short for cheap wine.

Pretentious, moi?:D

FollatonWood · 21-02-2014 04:13PM

People who get on an empty bus or dart and SIT RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!

salacious crumb · 21-02-2014 04:14PM

Wotsername wrote: »

Funny that, My OH's Med Consultant reckons "Life's too short for any wine"

Just goes to show.... what the hell do medical professionals know?

jimgoose · 21-02-2014 04:21PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Pretentious, moi?:D

Nah, I have a mate who does that. I occasionally <ahem> "ride shotgun". It's actually good fun, an excuse to take a few days driving through La Belle France. Oh and, buy a load of cheap-but-daycint plonk.

Johnny_Fontane · 21-02-2014 04:27PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Nah, I have a mate who does that. I occasionally <ahem> "ride shotgun". It's actually good fun, an excuse to take a few days driving through La Belle France. Oh and, buy a load of cheap-but-daycint plonk.

I still spend €10 in france on a bottle, and the fact that we have max 2 bottles of wine a week, means that its appreciated. The trip is awesome too......

jimgoose · 21-02-2014 04:28PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

I still spend €10 in france on a bottle, and the fact that we have max 2 bottles of wine a week, means that its appreciated. The trip is awesome too......

Yes, that's what I was saying.

shruikan2553 · 21-02-2014 04:30PM

My housemate has no issue using my playstation but he now take the power cable for the monitor we used for it. It is his monitor so if he wants to use it for his laptop then fair enough but taking the power cable home with him for the weekend just so nobody else can use it is a bit odd. Also kept at me to pay him back for the milk he bought earlier after just paying me rent for January a few days ago.

OldNotWIse · 21-02-2014 04:32PM

dub_skav wrote: »

I agree with Johnny Fontana that I don't get the fuss over LIDL / ALDI, but your response brings up another trivial annoyance of mine.

When people justify the greatness of LIDL / ALDI by saying the meat is better than Tesco, or the wine is better than Tesco.
Well yes, that may be true in your opinion, but it doesn't mean it's good. Go to a butcher, go to an off licence. Tesco is garbage for a lot of things.

LIDL may indeed have better circular saws than Tesco, doesn't mean they're good.

Do you think I havent been to an off license? I dont go to Lidl because its "better than tesco", I go because I like a lot of their stuff. I'm not a label snob*, I buy wine based on how it tastes to me and so far, the best I have tasted (in my budget) is Cepa Lebrel (followed closely by Medicci range which comes in at just under twenty euro and is also available in Lidl). I certainly dont chew the ear off anyone telling them how "great" Lidl is - I have better things to be talking about! I enjoy a nice bottle of wine, I've found somewhere that sells one that fits this description for me, and so I return. Dont worry, I wont tell you where I bought it unless you ask

* my aunt is a classic snob. Total new money and would say something like, "there thats better" if you filled an Evian bottle from the toilet when she wasnt looking. Anywat last Xmas my parents brought out a bottle of the new "better than tesco" range of wines that Lidl had introduced and she was mmmmming and aaaahing about how good it was. She'd never step foot inside Lidl.

homemadecider · 21-02-2014 04:34PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

it does, but he was on a day off:D

Hiyooooooooooooooooooooo!

OldNotWIse · 21-02-2014 04:36PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

I buy my wine from france on my annual booze cruise. I just cant deal with supermarket wine. Life is too short for cheap wine.

Cheap does not necessarily mean bad quality

dub_skav · 21-02-2014 04:37PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Do you think I havent been to an off license? I dont go to Lidl because its "better than tesco", I go because I like a lot of their stuff. I'm not a label snob*, I buy wine based on how it tastes to me and so far, the best I have tasted (in my budget) is Cepa Lebrel (followed closely by Medicci range which comes in at just under twenty euro and is also available in Lidl). I certainly dont chew the ear off anyone telling them how "great" Lidl is - I have better things to be talking about! I enjoy a nice bottle of wine, I've found somewhere that sells one that fits this description for me, and so I return. Dont worry, I wont tell you where I bought it unless you ask

* my aunt is a classic snob. Total new money and would say something like, "there thats better" if you filled an Evian bottle from the toilet when she wasnt looking. Anywat last Xmas my parents brought out a bottle of the new "better than tesco" range of wines that Lidl had introduced and she was mmmmming and aaaahing about how good it was. She'd never step foot inside Lidl.

But you did tell me, and I was deeply upset by it, I had to fill a Fiji water bottle from the septic tank and take a good swig to settle my nerves - tssk Evian, your Aunt needs snob lessons.

OldNotWIse · 21-02-2014 04:42PM

dub_skav wrote: »

But you did tell me, and I was deeply upset by it, I had to fill a Fiji water bottle from the septic tank and take a good swig to settle my nerves - tssk Evian, your Aunt needs snob lessons.

Better have a swig of your Better-than-Cheap-Life-Is-Too-Short French stuff to settle your nerves. I'd invite you over here for one but it might not agree with you.

dub_skav · 21-02-2014 04:45PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Better have a swig of your Better-than-Cheap-Life-Is-Too-Short French stuff to settle your nerves. I'd invite you over here for one but it might not agree with you.

I think you're confusing me with somebody else. I'm more of a beer snob, winewise I'd drink vinegar from an old boot, once it's not white.

The first duty of any good wine is to be red.

**worms everywhere

Edit: Oh and thank you for the (non) invite, very magnanimous of you

OldNotWIse · 21-02-2014 04:46PM

dub_skav wrote: »

I think you're confusing me with somebody else. I'm more of a beer snob, winewise I'd drink vinegar from an old boot, once it's not white.

The first duty of any good wine is to be red.

**worms everywhere

Edit: Oh and thank you for the (non) invite, very magnanimous of you

White's ok in an emergency :P

dub_skav · 21-02-2014 04:56PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

White's ok in an emergency :P

If one's Romeo y Julieta were to set fire to the ottoman perhaps white could be deployed, but no other emergency would justify stooping to the accursed white I fear.

Johnny_Fontane · 21-02-2014 04:59PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Cheap does not necessarily mean bad quality

Excise on wine is €2.80 per bottle.
http://www.wine-searcher.com/eu-wine-taxes.lml

So that leaves €3.19 for growing, making, bottling, selling, shipping, taxes, promotion and markup.

not much room for quality there.....

OldNotWIse · 21-02-2014 05:37PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

Excise on wine is €2.80 per bottle.
http://www.wine-searcher.com/eu-wine-taxes.lml

So that leaves €3.19 for growing, making, bottling, selling, shipping, taxes, promotion and markup.

not much room for quality there.....

And yet the one I drink still finds a way

Taste is entirely subjective. In any event, I'm not gonna be sharing with you so I have no interest in changing your mind :P

Wotsername · 21-02-2014 05:40PM

Ahh here Johnny_F,

Rib-eye beef, Cheese, Wine so fresh from the (stainless steel) vats (Or the Co-Op) you can probably still get the deep, musty stench of Philloxora when you swill it....Ithas to be..... Job-bridge? Gout-a dat!:D

Well_Then · 21-02-2014 05:41PM

FollatonWood wrote: »

People who get on an empty bus or dart and SIT RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!

One of my Coworkers during a factory job I had used to always brag about doing this when bored after work....Strange chap

Oops69 · 21-02-2014 06:17PM

The ****e in the middle of lidl , a little bit of me dies every time I look at the crap there , a bit like looking at reality tv , life is too short .

Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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