Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
glenrobbo said:
j_4m said:
Stretching is one of life's simple and free joys! You can't beat a good long stretch first thing in the morning, as a break from monotonous desk work or when you've just spent an hour or so bent double over an engine bay a prison bunk bed when you're doing a 5 stretch.
Not the kind of 'stretched out' I was thinking of!
People that advertise cars on the internet.
Question, "Hello im interested in the car you have for sale, you say the car has an engine problem? please could you tell me more, thank you"
And then you hear Nothing.........
If your not prepared to answer questions about an item you are selling then why bother advertising the car in the first place?
Knob.
Question, "Hello im interested in the car you have for sale, you say the car has an engine problem? please could you tell me more, thank you"
And then you hear Nothing.........
If your not prepared to answer questions about an item you are selling then why bother advertising the car in the first place?
Knob.
ehonda said:
Mrs Ehonda's Mini is moaning that it needs a brake fluid service, so I phone up the MINI dealer where it came from and got put through to a central booking facility for the dealership.
Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
f
king ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.
Unhelpful bds.
What is a brake fluid service?Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
f
king ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.Unhelpful b
ds.rambo19 said:
ehonda said:
Mrs Ehonda's Mini is moaning that it needs a brake fluid service, so I phone up the MINI dealer where it came from and got put through to a central booking facility for the dealership.
Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
fking ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.
Unhelpful bds.
What is a brake fluid service?Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
f
king ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.Unhelpful b
ds.MartG said:
rambo19 said:
ehonda said:
Mrs Ehonda's Mini is moaning that it needs a brake fluid service, so I phone up the MINI dealer where it came from and got put through to a central booking facility for the dealership.
Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
fking ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.
Unhelpful bds.
What is a brake fluid service?Explain that it is telling me it needs a brake fluid service and that I would like to get it booked in.
Since it is the wife's car I don't know what the mileage is, but she is away with work so I'm helping out.
I'm told that it is impossible to book the car in without knowing the mileage.
f
king ludicrous and they just wouldn't budge 'Computer says 'no''. In hindsight I should have just made up the mileage. I'd take it somewhere else but it has a service pack so it's all paid for.Unhelpful b
ds.cuprabob said:
rambo19 said:
What is a brake fluid service?
Replacement of brake fluid. Recommended at 3 years and then every 2 years thereafter.cuprabob said:
rambo19 said:
What is a brake fluid service?
Replacement of brake fluid. Recommended at 3 years and then every 2 years thereafter.It seems however that whoever changed the brake fluid filled it to the *full* marker...on worn brakes.
The whole idea of having a great big reservoir is not for leaks, it is so that it should be at full when the brakes are new and low when they're worn out. You shouldn't ever need to "top it up" unless there is something wrong.
So I had to remove a whole load of fluid from the system before I could even start...and then because it ended up that I removed too much I had to go and top it up again. Gah.
yellowjack said:
People who, upon seeing me use cutlery, ask "are you left handed?" No. "Oh. But you're using your knife and fork the wrong way around?" Again, no.
More odd than that, saw an American eat lunch. Fork in left hand, knife in right, cuts a piece of meat, puts knife on the table, transfers fork to right hand, puts piece of meat in his mouth. He then scoops up some veg with his fork in his right hand and eats it. Empty fork to left hand, picks up knife, cuts a piece of meat and repeats from puts knife on the tableCotty said:
yellowjack said:
People who, upon seeing me use cutlery, ask "are you left handed?" No. "Oh. But you're using your knife and fork the wrong way around?" Again, no.
More odd than that, saw an American eat lunch. Fork in left hand, knife in right, cuts a piece of meat, puts knife on the table, transfers fork to right hand, puts piece of meat in his mouth. He then scoops up some veg with his fork in his right hand and eats it. Empty fork to left hand, picks up knife, cuts a piece of meat and repeats from puts knife on the tableFourWheelDrift said:
Cotty said:
yellowjack said:
People who, upon seeing me use cutlery, ask "are you left handed?" No. "Oh. But you're using your knife and fork the wrong way around?" Again, no.
More odd than that, saw an American eat lunch. Fork in left hand, knife in right, cuts a piece of meat, puts knife on the table, transfers fork to right hand, puts piece of meat in his mouth. He then scoops up some veg with his fork in his right hand and eats it. Empty fork to left hand, picks up knife, cuts a piece of meat and repeats from puts knife on the tablehttps://youtu.be/c1yKb_77Sf0
AstonZagato said:
John Cleese talks about the chap who inspired Basil Fawlty, who had a problem with Terry Gilliam’s table manners with regards to fork etiquette.
https://youtu.be/c1yKb_77Sf0
You have a good memoryhttps://youtu.be/c1yKb_77Sf0
Cotty said:
More odd than that, saw an American eat lunch. Fork in left hand, knife in right, cuts a piece of meat, puts knife on the table, transfers fork to right hand, puts piece of meat in his mouth. He then scoops up some veg with his fork in his right hand and eats it. Empty fork to left hand, picks up knife, cuts a piece of meat and repeats from puts knife on the table
Are American children taught this as good table manners?The Mad Monk said:
Are American children taught this as good table manners?
Recently I was in San Francisco eating at a good steak house (Mortons) and there was a family of five next to us with three teenage boys.The whole family cut up their food, then proceed to have fork in right hand and shovel all the separate bits in. I've spent a lot of time in the US so it's not new to me, but my wife was fascinated/appalled by it!
The Mad Monk said:
Cotty said:
More odd than that, saw an American eat lunch. Fork in left hand, knife in right, cuts a piece of meat, puts knife on the table, transfers fork to right hand, puts piece of meat in his mouth. He then scoops up some veg with his fork in his right hand and eats it. Empty fork to left hand, picks up knife, cuts a piece of meat and repeats from puts knife on the table
Are American children taught this as good table manners?I’ve been using cutlery that way for longer than I can remember, certainly before I ever went to the Land of the Free.
I can vaguely recall my mother scolding me when I was 13-14, for putting my knife down, and transferring my fork to my right hand, “Eat your dinner how you like”, she said, “but if you mark the tablecloth with that knife Frankie, you’re in trouble.”
I don’t know WHY I started eating that way, and still do, I think I must have found it easier, and simpler, to use the fork with my favoured right hand, and not have to keep holding a superfluous knife, just using that when necessary.
The Mad Monk said:
Are American children taught this as good table manners?
The whole concept of "table manners" is a class based construct designed at the outset to identify "outsiders". But the upper classes were freer to do as they pleased, as strict rules about "table manners" and the laying up of myriad different knifes and forks do do different jobs were really the preserve of the middle and upper-middle classes. Basically invite a person to dinner, then invent a new course, or a new eatin' iron, then watch as everyone who is in on the joke laughs at the "outsider" who hasn't been briefed on the new rules. All so you could identify "new money" or the upwardly mobile, and pass judgement on them.Complicating things these days are those "restaurants" that insist on serving food on various improvised "plates" made from scaffolding boards or roofing slate, and which like to serve their chips (they are not, nor will they ever be "fries"
) in galvanised buckets.So now, if I tip out the chips, they'll probably spill off the slate/scaffold board onto the table. And if I leave them in the bucket/flower pot, I'm not going to be able to spear them with the tines of a fork. So I end up eating with my fingers. Which, by the way, I've just washed, and are probably cleaner than any item of cutlery which has been sat on the table for goodness knows how long, exposed to persons passing, possibly with dubious hygiene standards, laid up by persons with unknown hygiene standards, onto a table wiped down with a damp rag that who knows when it was last boil washed? Then someone (who clearly believes they are somehow superior to me on account of their rigid obeyance of rules about recently invented "table manners") will remark that I'm being "disgusting" by eating with my fingers. WTF? The whole point of the humble chip is that it takes a potato and cuts it into manageable bite sized pieces, seals it into a crisp coated, yet soft inside product which needs no outside assistance save for ones fingers to get it into ones mouth without spilling it. I'm hardly likely to pick up a sausage, or a piece of steak and take a bite before putting it back on my plate in public, but in very many parts of the world the whole concept of a shared meal involves sitting around a communal serving vessel, eating with ones fingers, and very often "double dipping" too. Yet that is entirely normal in their culture, whether it be in East Africa or Southern Iraq. So When it comes to using my fingers to scoop up a few chips from a terracotta flower pot and dip them into a pot of sauce sat on a clay roofing tile, then I'm OK with that due to my high standards of personal hand hygiene.
But thanks for your concern, lemmings. You continue to fret about how the world sees you when you eat, I'll just eat with whatever nosh rods happen to be at hand, or use my fingers if I feel the need.
FWIW I also eat food that falls off the plate onto the table, and have been known (at home) to eat stuff that fell on the floor if it can be retrieved quickly.
It annoys me beyond reason that most on PH seem to regard Road Traffic Law as optional, and "more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMkuPiIZ2k , despite those rules being clearly and unambiguously written down, and having potentially serious consequences regarding your safety and that of others. Yet when it comes to table manners and etiquette, those guidelines need to be followed to the very letter, despite there being absolutely no danger to others whatsoever. A very, very odd set of priorities...
Big Nanas said:
The Mad Monk said:
Are American children taught this as good table manners?
Recently I was in San Francisco eating at a good steak house (Mortons) and there was a family of five next to us with three teenage boys.The whole family cut up their food, then proceed to have fork in right hand and shovel all the separate bits in. I've spent a lot of time in the US so it's not new to me, but my wife was fascinated/appalled by it!
My missus did a less than perfect job of concealing her amazement.
yellowjack said:
So now, if I tip out the chips, they'll probably spill off the slate/scaffold board onto the table. And if I leave them in the bucket/flower pot, I'm not going to be able to spear them with the tines of a fork.
Do what? Have you got a garden fork or something? Of course you can spear chips in a basket/whatever with a fork.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff