Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
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cookmysock said:
SlimJim16v said:
People who use the term take out. We're not f
king American, yet.
I asked a cafe in San Fransisco years ago if they did take away. Young lady replied they didn't serve Japanese food king American, yet.
I was going to reply along the lines of “Bummer, my bad Jim, don’t get all bent out of shape bud, take a chill pill”, but I asked for it I guess, dumb s.o.b. that I am, ooops, nearly slid back there.
The thing of it is cms, I spend so much time over there, that it’s easier to meet them halfway, if only to avoid a chorus of “Excuse me’s?”
I’d never, ever, be so dumb as to adopt a faux American accent, although I freely admit that when asked what dressing I’d like on my salad, I prefer ranch, but I’ll ask for rannch rather than rahnch, as it’s easier on their ears.
No, it’s things like asking for a dry cleaner’s rather than a cleaner’s, a candy store, rather than a sweet shop, vodka on the rocks, no fruit, rather than vodka with ice, no slice of lemon, where’s the nearest gas station, not garage, it just makes life easier.
So sometimes over here, I’ll look at an aubergine, but at the back of my brain, a little voice is whispering egg plant, or zucchini when I’m picking up courgettes in the supermarket.
I let my guard slip, and said Chinese take out, when I really should have said take away, I’ll try to remember where I am in future, when my fingers are hovering over a keyboard in the U.K.
Frank7 said:
I think Jim may have been oh so gently, and not unreasonably, amiably calling me to order.
I let my guard slip, and said Chinese take out, when I really should have said take away, I’ll try to remember where I am in future, when my fingers are hovering over a keyboard in the U.K.
I should have added, other than when used by Americans, for which you almost qualify.I let my guard slip, and said Chinese take out, when I really should have said take away, I’ll try to remember where I am in future, when my fingers are hovering over a keyboard in the U.K.
Have a nice day now.
Roofless Toothless said:
People in this country generally have no idea about sauna etiquette.
Mrs RT and me have a membership of a nice little private spa just round the corner. Two pools, sun terrace, gym, steam room and sauna. Decent restaurant attached too. But the way that people use the sauna is deplorable.
1) not sitting on a towel - who do you think wants to sit on your wet greasy patch when they come in?
2) using the place as a drying room for towels and footwear - unnecessarily opening the door, raising the humidity with their smelly towels, etc. It's a bath, for crying out loud. Would they like it if I rinsed out my socks in the jacuzzi while they were in it? I have now taken to putting abandoned towels outside the door. Wife threatens to disown me
3) and women, I am afraid to say, who go in there solely to dry their hair for five minutes and then go out again, opening the door and lowering the temperature unnecessarily.
4) have I had opening the door and having a chat with their friend outside about what lunch to order?
5) and finally, rabbiting away about the most stupid rubbish imaginable while I am in there trying to relax. No wonder the Scandinavians say behave in the sauna like you would in church.
Reminded me of this:Mrs RT and me have a membership of a nice little private spa just round the corner. Two pools, sun terrace, gym, steam room and sauna. Decent restaurant attached too. But the way that people use the sauna is deplorable.
1) not sitting on a towel - who do you think wants to sit on your wet greasy patch when they come in?
2) using the place as a drying room for towels and footwear - unnecessarily opening the door, raising the humidity with their smelly towels, etc. It's a bath, for crying out loud. Would they like it if I rinsed out my socks in the jacuzzi while they were in it? I have now taken to putting abandoned towels outside the door. Wife threatens to disown me
3) and women, I am afraid to say, who go in there solely to dry their hair for five minutes and then go out again, opening the door and lowering the temperature unnecessarily.
4) have I had opening the door and having a chat with their friend outside about what lunch to order?
5) and finally, rabbiting away about the most stupid rubbish imaginable while I am in there trying to relax. No wonder the Scandinavians say behave in the sauna like you would in church.
https://youtu.be/Pm4hTFV9ias
Bad drivers in snow. This afternoon, I turned to go down a side road. Fresh snow down over frozen, minus 4 ambient temp and the tarmac slope is perhaps 1 in 43.
Halfway up, a Mini was mincing about, wheelspinning madly and going nowhere but straight down.
Taking over from blushing blondie , I reversed Min down and took it up to the main road in reverse. Effusive thanks.
An hour later, my (fwd) Kuga burbled straight up the same slope in 2nd.
Fekkin' amateurs.
Halfway up, a Mini was mincing about, wheelspinning madly and going nowhere but straight down.
Taking over from blushing blondie , I reversed Min down and took it up to the main road in reverse. Effusive thanks.
An hour later, my (fwd) Kuga burbled straight up the same slope in 2nd.
Fekkin' amateurs.
alorotom said:
This from the royal mint where I’m currently stuck in a queue to access their website...
How does it even make sense!
Why would you want to access their website? Why do they even have a website?How does it even make sense!
Oh. Hang on...
If you're buying a coin collection, I'm grassing on you in the Council thread!
alorotom said:
This from the royal mint where I’m currently stuck in a queue to access their website...
How does it even make sense!
That looks like something from some kind of dystopian future movie, Brazil or 1984. You must queue, you may only access it at this time, but we're not going to tell you when.How does it even make sense!
Weather radar
According to https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar there was snow falling here ( just North of Blackpool ) most of yesterday - not a single flake actually fell
According to https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar there was snow falling here ( just North of Blackpool ) most of yesterday - not a single flake actually fell
Special programmes about snow. I know it's fking snowing, I can look out of the window and see it's fking snowing. I lost three days of work because of the fking snow and now they alter schedules to show more programmes about fking snow. I KNOW IT'S BAD. ps off!
I'm sick of hearing about fking snow. Oh and that includes these patronising tts on local news telling me that conditions are dicey. No? Really? I live in a windowless box.
Do be careful out there.. Oh, great idea I was thinking of revving the guts out of the car and driving like a tt.
fk OFF.
king snowing, I can look out of the window and see it's fking snowing. I lost three days of work because of the fking snow and now they alter schedules to show more programmes about fking snow. I KNOW IT'S BAD. ps off!I'm sick of hearing about f
king snow. Oh and that includes these patronising tts on local news telling me that conditions are dicey. No? Really? I live in a windowless box.Do be careful out there.. Oh, great idea I was thinking of revving the guts out of the car and driving like a t
t.f
k OFF.
We've been Clockworked!V8mate said:
alorotom said:
This from the royal mint where I’m currently stuck in a queue to access their website...
How does it even make sense!
Why would you want to access their website? Why do they even have a website?How does it even make sense!
Oh. Hang on...
If you're buying a coin collection, I'm grassing on you in the Council thread!
I was in a deli in Ney York once where the woman serving insisted she could not understand what I was saying when asking for grapefruit juice. I could understand every word she said, but she refused to understand me. Then asked me if I was Australian!
What really get me though, apart from calling a vase a 'vace' and the ridiculous 'burglarized' (how did they even come up with this?!) is their insistence that they speak English and we speak British English. FFS.
No! We speak English (the clue is in the name England) and you speak American English.
What really get me though, apart from calling a vase a 'vace' and the ridiculous 'burglarized' (how did they even come up with this?!) is their insistence that they speak English and we speak British English. FFS.
No! We speak English (the clue is in the name England) and you speak American English.
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