Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[SpeckledJim]

yellowjack said:

SpeckledJim said:

I thought the Golden Union on Poland Street was the most expensive chippy I've ever been to (because it is) at £14 for a large cod and chips.

£18. This is getting like football. Fish&Chips is supposed to be a working man's game!!!!!11111!!1

Wowsers!

SpeckledJim got so angry about this that he couldn't keep the 'shift' key held down to type '!'s...

The desk was a-bouncin.

And not in a good way.

[toasty]

SpeckledJim said:

RicksAlfas said:

j_4m said:

Poppies Fish and Chips is just over the road from my office, £18 for a large cod and chips!

Is Poppy a spectacularly well endowed supermodel?

I thought the Golden Union on Poland Street was the most expensive chippy I've ever been to (because it is) at £14 for a large cod and chips.

£18. This is getting like football. Fish&Chips is supposed to be a working man's game!!!!!11111!!1

Harrods now has a 'chippy' in the food hall. £27 for cod and chips. Only tourists need apply.

[yellowjack]

br d said:

Shakermaker said:

with mushy peas and curry sauce.

Neither of those things has any business being near chips. Chips is plenty of salt eaten with fingers out of a bag, and a can of coke.

OK. I know it isn't fish with the chips, but... No peas, no curry sauce, plenty of salt. Check!

(How are you with Orange Fanta in the place of coke, and a big ol' Bakewell to finish things off?)

This was from 'Simons' near Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth, and was fuel for my ride back to Farnborough. Total distance that day was near 160 miles. I'd "just popped out to watch the air display dear"...


...anyone hungry?

[Antony Moxey]

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

I'm annoyed beyond reason at several posts on the last few pages as I now really fancy fish and chips but I'm not convinced anywhere near me does a decent one in the winter.

You have a seasonal F&C shop?

I always though they were a year round thing.

The farm shop near me has, it has its own fleet of trawlers. Don't know how many of you have a 'Rockfish' restaurant near you, but their menus have all of the fish shown on them with the waiting staff circling the fish available - it does vary from day to day. Also, futher up the thread there's mention of mushy peas and curry sauce - Rockfish splendidly do curried mushy peas, now THAT's a delicacy.

[Shakermaker]

I used to think the same about mushy peas and curry sauce, but I now firmly believe them to be a Good Thing.

However, they are an optional extra for when "the price is right" - some places try to charge £1.50 for them, and that is too much.

[V8mate]

Shakermaker said:

I used to think the same about mushy peas and curry sauce, but I now firmly believe them to be a Good Thing.

However, they are an optional extra for when "the price is right" - some places try to charge £1.50 for them, and that is too much.

Most seem to be 99p/£1 - which is still horrendous.

I understand the 'service' element, but when a can which holds 5x that of a chippy portion of mushy peas retails at 16p, it's a proper piss-take. No wonder poor, culinarily incompetent people shun their five a day.

[Rawwr]

People who say 'scamera'.

[Shakermaker]

V8mate said:

Most seem to be 99p/£1 - which is still horrendous.

I understand the 'service' element, but when a can which holds 5x that of a chippy portion of mushy peas retails at 16p, it's a proper piss-take. No wonder poor, culinarily incompetent people shun their five a day.

That's the same mark up you're paying for the chips though, surely? Potatoes are not that expensive!

[SpeckledJim]

Shakermaker said:

V8mate said:

Most seem to be 99p/£1 - which is still horrendous.

I understand the 'service' element, but when a can which holds 5x that of a chippy portion of mushy peas retails at 16p, it's a proper piss-take. No wonder poor, culinarily incompetent people shun their five a day.

That's the same mark up you're paying for the chips though, surely? Potatoes are not that expensive!

Yeah, but cooking good chips is a proper talent. I can do good mushy peas at home!

(Kevin Bridges' Hoosrice set applies here)

[DavieW]

Local people on local roads with a sat nav stuck to their window - do they expect to get lost travelling from the shop/work/family to their own home?

[MartG]

People who post photos online without a watermark, and then get all precious when they pop up elsewhere without them being credited.

For example...

[glenrobbo]

DavieW said:

Local people on local roads with a sat nav stuck to their window - do they expect to get lost travelling from the shop/work/family to their own home?

Are you sure they are not dashcams? You never know when some idiot is going to pull out straight in front of you from a side road these days.

[V8mate]

glenrobbo said:

DavieW said:

Local people on local roads with a sat nav stuck to their window - do they expect to get lost travelling from the shop/work/family to their own home?

Are you sure they are not dashcams? You never know when some idiot is going to pull out straight in front of you from a side road these days.

I have Waze on every day travelling to work and back. Which would look, to the casual observer like a SatNav in operation.

After 10 years, I'm getting close to knowing the way by heart , but its critical purpose is traffic management. I want to know to divert my route *before* I join the back of a lengthy queue. And, yes, that could easily be less than a mile from home.

[Morningside]

People who drive less than a cars length following people at NSL.

Followed one to work this morning and they were so close they just kept braking all the time but if they left a slight gap it would have created a buffer.

Plus they are really not going to get there any quicker.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

People who post photos online without a watermark, and then get all precious when they pop up elsewhere without them being credited

It's not exactly hard to look at the EXIF data in the image, or do a reverse image search, before you use it.

Plastering a watermark all over a pic belongs in the last century.

[RizzoTheRat]

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

I'm annoyed beyond reason at several posts on the last few pages as I now really fancy fish and chips but I'm not convinced anywhere near me does a decent one in the winter.

You have a seasonal F&C shop?

I always though they were a year round thing.

Beach bars/restaurants. They dismantle them in September/October and put them up again in March/April. I know at least one of them does a decent fish and chips.

[PositronicRay]

People going on about "the elite" political or otherwise, sounds like they've an inferiority complex.

[Balmoral]

They just don't like Vauxhalls trim levels.

[Johnspex]

glenrobbo said:

DavieW said:

Local people on local roads with a sat nav stuck to their window - do they expect to get lost travelling from the shop/work/family to their own home?

Are you sure they are not dashcams? You never know when some idiot is going to pull out straight in front of you from a side road these days.

What on Earth do you mean? People have been doing that since the car was invented.

[Johnspex]

Rawwr said:

People who say 'scamera'.

Don't criticise people who say scamera. They are the Oscar Wildes and P G Wodehouse of the 21st century. They are the wits that gave you Fleabay. Scumtree, Daily Fail/Wail Halfrauds and probably spell surely as Shirley.