Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. 352

    352 Moderator

    First 13 seconds of this video is what some idiot in your group will be saying to you after you successfully do all the work to get everyone top marks.

    [video=youtube;Jo-0ytcEXKg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo-0ytcEXKg[/video]
     
  2. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I'm forever putting plates in the oven to warm them before serving food and then leaving them too long meaning I have to get more plates out.
     
  3. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    A thin layer of water then 20 secs in the microwave, dry with kitchen roll.
    Or use the plate instead of a lid on your saucepan.
     
  4. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    You are weird.
     
  5. Bloke

    Bloke Reservist

    Waking up at workday waking up time on a Saturday
     
  6. Godfather

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    LOL ... I dozed off in a drunken stupor and woke up twenty five minutes later panicking about missing kick off ... I guess I'm no longer used to alcohol :D

    (Collapsed drains meant a job I was due to start has been put back so I've had a week of mostly twiddling thumbs. Unfortunately sleep does not come easy to me if I'm not knackered)
     
  7. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    People who let their kids run riot in restaurants. I'm not talking McDonalds.
     
  8. Godfather

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    Here a quack there a quack, everywhere a quack quack!
     
  9. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Forum posts that are meant to be funny but aren't.
     
  10. ForzaWatford

    ForzaWatford Squad Player

    For those who care... I finally got my tax money back today :mengoal:


    .... Just the 4 months after I called them the first time.
     
  11. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    When your dog has to be kept overnight at the vets as he lacerated his paw.
     
  12. molly

    molly Reservist

    Going to a concert and people singing along, especially in harmony. I'm going to see Dixie Chicks (a band name with a serious shelf life!) in a month and I'm dreading it for this reason.
     
  13. Guy

    Guy Squad Player

    Working on a sunny bank holiday day
     
  14. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Ah, the Kinks song which never was.
     
  15. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    The hundreds of different types of olives and nuts market stall men and women.

    They must have a training school for them somewhere, because I've come across identikit ones all over the country. Especially famous for showing up at French Fairs and German Markets etc.

    First they more or less force you into trying them and then give you the big sad eyes and morally blackmail into buying some.

    And then it turns out to be £6.75 for just a tiny little bag.

    They must make a fortune.

    In fact, not just the olive stall, the whole lot of them that set up at those fairs and markets with their over-priced faux-cottage industry rubbish. Want to pay four times the price of the supermarket for a chorizo that is lower quality and probably less authentic? Want some fly-blown pick and mix in the open air at an extortionate price? A pot of lukewarm noodles that have been curdling for 5 hours at the roadside in a giant wok for a prince's ransom? Why not go to a 'foreign' street market!

    Who do they think is going to pay those prices? We went to one of these a few weeks back in February on a windy, chilly Sunday afternoon. Amongst the stalls there was a Vietnamese street food stall, with two frozen Asian (Vietnamese?) people standing behind it. Bored and freezing. I'm not familiar with Vietnamese street food and I don't really know what you got for your money, but I certainly wasn't about to punt the six or seven quid they wanted to find out. Nobody else was either, because nobody even hardly glanced at their stall in all the time we were there.

    Why do it? Why not make the prices more reasonable? It's supposed to be a market. You haven't got all the expense of a shop and rates and electric and everything. The prices ought to be cheap and a bargain.

    You might sell a bit more then.....
     
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  16. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    At the one we went to today, which was in Glorious Gloucester, there was a fella selling hot welsh cakes for a quid each. That was more like it.

    He fried 'em up right there in front of your eyes and rolled 'em up in sugar. Big 'n' fat and about the same dimensions as a wagon wheel biscuit back in the day. Too hot to eat in anything more than little nibbles for a good 3 minutes.

    That's British street food at British street food prices.

    Take note Asian-looking, (maybe Vietnamese) street food selling people if you want to fit in around here.
     
  17. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Id have thought the Vietnamese were some sort of comrades of yours.

    As for olives, you really are betraying your roots there. a working man shouldn't be putting fancy middle class grub like that in his north and south unless he's of Italian or Greek stock.
     
  18. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Ladies in the supermarket who rather than push their trolley by the handle in the conventional fashion, drag it behind them by hooking their fingers through the mesh on the front of the thing.

    That's not how it works.

    Have a look around at how other people are doing it. If you push it, using the handle, you can exert a modicum of control over the trolley's direction and velocity, thereby avoiding smacking it into your fellow shoppers.

    If you pull it by the front end, then the heavier handle end has a tendency to oscilate wildly from side to side of the aisle, causing chaos as it goes.

    That's why they put a handle on it you see. So that wouldn't happen.
     
  19. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Just seen this. Hope Phelps is ok.
     
  20. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    The Boat Race when no one sinks.
     
  21. TheDon

    TheDon First Team

    I just hate the boat race
     
  22. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    I was at the in laws who had it on and it was car crash tv. The event, the people, everything was just wrong.
     
  23. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Couldn't understand what the crew members were saying with accents of crossed American drawl and toff ya ya ya snort.
     
  24. 3000

    3000 Reservist

    I absolutely despise the word "utter". It is awful. I don't deem it to be a proper word yet it is persistently used on this forum. Get it banned.
     
  25. MarlonsCellMate

    MarlonsCellMate Reservist

    Agree, people trying to appear brighter by not using the word very and replacing it with utter.

    Makes me real mad.
     
  26. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Can you replace utter with very? I think I only use utter with tosh but very tosh sounds weird.
     
  27. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    People, especially those engaged in retail, banking or the services, who like to substitute the word 'yourself' for 'you', 'ourselves' for 'us' and 'myself' for 'me', presumably under the illusion that this makes them seem more official, formal or educated.

    "Please feel free to contact ourselves if you have any problems.."

    "Schedule a meeting with John, Mary, and myself..."

    "Julia and myself are going to the football...."

    Drives me nuts that does, because they think they're being so grammatically correct.
     
  28. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Not sure quite why but when someone says happy Easter to "you and yours" it fills me with blind rage.
     
  29. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    People who overuse the word 'absolutely' for emphasis.
     
  30. El distraído

    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

    People who say Happy Holidays instead of Happy Easter.

    You're not a yank and it's not Christmas, so what are you doing?
     
  31. Godfather

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    Oh absolutely!
     
  32. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Utter is not a synonym of very...?
     
  33. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Stupid use of change kits. Germany at home to England should be white v red. Why did it end up weird German away kit plays whatever that monstrosity England were playing in with blue socks?
     
  34. Legskeattch

    Legskeattch Squad Player

    It was the unveiling of Germany's new away kit and that monstrosity is our new away kit!


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    'Striking' is the only way I can describe it.

    Better than our new home kit though:

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  35. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Looks like those boots have been designed by someone on LSD.
     
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