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

[paua]

[redacted]

[I Love Cake]

People who eat using just a fork, using the fork to cut the meal.

[AlexC1981]

The incredible amount of people selling antique furniture on ebay who do not state the dimensions in the listing. How can so many people be so stupid?

[48k]

yellowjack said:

Europa1 said:

yellowjack said:

Currently annoying me beyond reason is Shreddies.

Specifically their "Proud to be Vegan" slogan on the box.

Well "duuuuur". With ingredients like "wheat", "barley malt", "molasses" and "salt" it's no surprise, really...

Proud to be vegan right up to the point you pour milk over them. Or are they suggesting eating them dry?

Milk? What manner of sorcery is this? Doesn't everyone pour a bottle of Fuller's London Pride over their breakfast cereal? Sheesh! What a generation of snowflake wimps we're breeding...

As long as it's the bottled version of the beer you're OK as it's still vegan. If it's draught then it's not vegan because of the finings in the cask. Had this conversation the other day in my local. Makes my landlord chuckle when people order a vegan meals and a pint.

[Buster73]

Lemming Train said:

Am I the only person that also licks the plate clean?

Not at all , I also drink any milk left in my cereal bowl , direct from the bowl rather than fanny on with my spoon.

I just get the dreaded look from my wife usually while sat the opposite side of the hotel table.

[The Mad Monk]

Buster73 said:

Not at all , I also drink any milk left in my cereal bowl , direct from the bowl rather than fanny on with my spoon.

I just get the dreaded look from my wife usually while sat the opposite side of the hotel table.

She isn't happy with your table manners, does she complain about your grammar?

[Bobberoo99]

Buster73 said:

Lemming Train said:

Am I the only person that also licks the plate clean?

Not at all , I also drink any milk left in my cereal bowl , direct from the bowl rather than fanny on with my spoon.

I just get the dreaded look from my wife usually while sat the opposite side of the hotel table.

[Buster73]

The Mad Monk said:

She isn't happy with your table manners, does she complain about your grammar?

No , she just leaves that to pedantic folk on message boards.

[Lemming Train]

Buster73 said:

The Mad Monk said:

She isn't happy with your table manners, does she complain about your grammar?

No , she just leaves that to pedantic folk on message boards.

[fatboy18]

V8mate said:

fatboy18 said:

HPI Check, not worth the paper it's written on

Complete farce.

I'm looking at purchasing a vehicle which was imported to the UK from the USA. Car is UK registered. Advert says HPI Clean.

So I get a Carfax report from the USA only to find car has 1 outstanding recall, been involved in two accidents, with the last accident declaring the car a total loss and salvage certificate issued!
car was then exported to the UK.
no history of who did the repair work in the USA or UK prior to registering it?

So I contact HPI to ask how they collect their data.

this was the response!
"Thank you for your email. As a UK car data company, we do only ever guarantee that we will hold the history of a vehicle while it has been in the UK - unfortunately as there are no international databases for car data, and every country records it's data differently, we cannot, and do not, promise that we will hold the full history if a vehicle has been imported. This is unfortunately just a risk that cannot be avoided if purchasing an imported vehicle".

So there you have it folks, Just don't bother

I'm sure you're very annoyed about that.

Just to make you even angrier, I think it's perfectly reasonable and exactly what I would have expected.

So I do 1 internet search with carfax and it comes up with detailed information. Do you not think Insurance companies would like to share the same data?
When I disclosed the Information I HAD FOUND, to the insurance companies in the uk trying to attain a quote, they are now all rejecting the car as uninsurable, as there is no record of the repairs! Yet HPI says clean car no accidents.
So the current owner is technically committing fraud by driving around in a salvage car and not disclosing it!

[V8mate]

The Mad Monk said:

OpulentBob said:

What if something belonged to more than one guy called James? How would you refer to that? I can't get my head around it.

James'.

One chap is called James.

Referring to a room full of them would be the Jameses.

Their collective knitwear, for example, would the Jameses' jumpers.

Though if there was only one chap in a woolly pully, you'd refer to James's jumper - as the blank after an apostrophe only works where it is silent when spoken. If the possessive s is spoken, it's written too.

So the dogs' balls (silent possession) but Chris's foot long bratwurst with onions and mustard.

[SCEtoAUX]

I Love Cake said:

People who eat using just a fork, using the fork to cut the meal.

Hello.

[carlove]

Buster73 said:

Not at all , I also drink any milk left in my cereal bowl , direct from the bowl rather than fanny on with my spoon.

I just get the dreaded look from my wife usually while sat the opposite side of the hotel table.

I always do that at home, but not at a hotel, mainly because that's when I get a full English and have toast while I wait, i don't have them otherwise.

[Dibble]

“It’s dusty in here”. I fking HATE that with a passion. Just say you’re moved/upset/emotional.

And people signing their posts. I know it’s been said before, but it still pisses me off.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Dibble said:

“It’s dusty in here”. I fking HATE that with a passion. Just say you’re moved/upset/emotional.

It's the macho "men don't cry" bullst that it represents that annoys me more than the phrase itself. But, yes.

[Dibble]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Dibble said:

“It’s dusty in here”. I fking HATE that with a passion. Just say you’re moved/upset/emotional.

It's the macho "men don't cry" bullst that it represents that annoys me more than the phrase itself. But, yes.

Well, of course, one doesn’t, if one’s the stereotypical, powerfully built, stair dominating, PH director type.

[Bobberoo99]

Lifestyle blogger/vloggers, self absorbed, sponging, vapid, waste of space fking tts!!!!

[kowalski655]

48k said:

As long as it's the bottled version of the beer you're OK as it's still vegan. If it's draught then it's not vegan because of the finings in the cask. Had this conversation the other day in my local. Makes my landlord chuckle when people order a vegan meals and a pint.

What do they line the casks with?
Not pigs intestine surely!

[bristolracer]

No chocolate in the house

[Frank7]

SCEtoAUX said:

I Love Cake said:

People who eat using just a fork, using the fork to cut the meal.

Hello.

And hello from me too, although I admit that I give in with steak type dishes, but even then I’ll sometimes cut the meat into bite size pieces, put the knife down, and just use the fork with my right hand.
Once it’s all cut to size, a knife is superfluous, you’re just holding it like an ornament.
If you’re eating something like a meat pie, mashed potatoes and peas/greens/carrots/swede/parsnips for example, it’s easy to use a fork only.