Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Gwylan]

No! It's got to be virgin coconut fat and single grain mustard this season.

 

[Windle]

People at work who make coffee using a damp spoon, first into the coffee then into the sugar, leaving 'orrible brown coffee winnits in the sugar, bloody animals!

 

[Gwylan]

People at work who make coffee using a damp spoon, first into the coffee then into the sugar, leaving 'orrible brown coffee winnits in the sugar, bloody animals!

Imagine what they are like at home. Where nobody sees.

 

[Windle]

Imagine what they are like at home. Where nobody sees.

I very nearly put 'what are their bloody kitchens like at home?' at the end .

 

[Alex321]

Yes, a lot of it (not just roast potatoes) is the chef or person trying to put their own stamp on it which is fair enough, but you can go too far. You only need a par-boiled potatoe, hot lard (or oil) and whack them in. My Gran did perfect potatoes I think becasue she used beef dripping/fat and a sprinkle of mustard powder

I just put the parboiled potatoes in the roasting tin with the meat, basting them with some of the fat that is there. If we have a very lean joint that isn't producing enough fat, then I'll put them in a separate bowl, basted with a little sunflower oil (we don't keep lard in the house nowadays).

Then when the meat comes out, they get another basting and into a separate bowl (I'll be using the meat tin to make the gravy), with the heat turned up a little to help crisp them.

It really isn't that difficult

 

[Electric_Andy]

People at work who make coffee using a damp spoon, first into the coffee then into the sugar, leaving 'orrible brown coffee winnits in the sugar, bloody animals!

This is something that bothers me about human nature. My partner is a clean freak, she won't go to bed if there is a single thing out on the kitchen worktop or droplet of water on it. But with the coffee and sugar jars, she shoves a wet spoon in and out willy nilly. There's coffee in the sugar, and sugar in the coffee, and her veg drawer in the fridge sometimes resembles a horror movie.

 

[Gwylan]

Whilst we are in that zone.

What about people who insist on going hacking, mining and ploughing ugly furrows in the butter and other spreading media?
Sailed with a guy on long voyages who did that. Eventually, at the end of a voyage, shared with him just how much it pi€€ed me off.
Seems my preoccupation with putting things away in the right place had a similar effect on him.
Still chums

 

[matticus]

ugly furrows in the butter

Great 2nd album name.

 

[deuxfois]

I like a wet shave (of my chin, in case there's any doubt) , which I mostly do in the shower after washing my hair. On other occasions I like to lather up with a shaving brush, having rubbed a soap shaving stick over my bristles. Works well.

But. FFS.

Where can I buy a simple soap refill to put in the 'holster' I bought from Boots many years ago? I want a stick of soap, not a wasteful slab served up in a single-use plastic bowl, nor an aerosol of foam nor a tube of cream, all of which are wastefully over-wrapped and described by the marketing departments in faux French or absurd hyperbole designed to conjure up an 'aspirational' 'lifestyle' which takes heed neither of environmental considerations nor of the tightened purse strings of many of us. This morning I looked in a number of 'bargain' stores/poundshops etc (supposedly the refuge of the financially challenged?) without success; nothing but over-wrapped, over-sold, and over-priced excess. *

Note that the title of this thread states 'annoyed beyond expectations'. Surely, faced with this nonsense, we should expect people to get annoyed?

*Phew, I feel better for that!

 

[matticus]

Note that the title of this thread states 'annoyed beyond expectations'. Surely, faced with this nonsense, we should expect people to get annoyed?

Look, it's pretty simple - if you were annoyed within expectations, you've posted in the wrong thread. Comprendez?!?
******** This statement does not affect your annoyed consumer rights. *********

[Would I be wrong to get annoyed by this?? ]

 

[ColinJ]

I like a wet shave (of my chin, in case there's any doubt) , which I mostly do in the shower after washing my hair. On other occasions I like to lather up with a shaving brush, having rubbed a soap shaving stick over my bristles. Works well.

But. FFS.

Where can I buy a simple soap refill to put in the 'holster' I bought from Boots many years ago? I want a stick of soap, not a wasteful slab served up in a single-use plastic bowl, nor an aerosol of foam nor a tube of cream, all of which are wastefully over-wrapped and described by the marketing departments in faux French or absurd hyperbole designed to conjure up an 'aspirational' 'lifestyle' which takes heed neither of environmental considerations nor of the tightened purse strings of many of us. This morning I looked in a number of 'bargain' stores/poundshops etc (supposedly the refuge of the financially challenged?) without success; nothing but over-wrapped, over-sold, and over-priced excess. *

Note that the title of this thread states 'annoyed beyond expectations'. Surely, faced with this nonsense, we should expect people to get annoyed?

*Phew, I feel better for that!

I have not been able to find bars of soap in my local Aldi! They have lots of plastic bottles with shower gel etc in, but no old-style soap. I am going to stroll round to Lidl instead tonight and buy a multi-pack. They have all the wasteful plastic-enclosed products too, but at least they also still sell soap in bars.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

When your out on a chilly morning like today and stop in the middle of nowhere to take a piccy…someone passes you on a bike and doesn’t say hi….normally I force a response from miserable people by giving a cheery good morning but my back was momentarily turned.

Calling @ianrauk

 

[Andy in Germany]

I like a wet shave (of my chin, in case there's any doubt) , which I mostly do in the shower after washing my hair. On other occasions I like to lather up with a shaving brush, having rubbed a soap shaving stick over my bristles. Works well.

But. FFS.

Where can I buy a simple soap refill to put in the 'holster' I bought from Boots many years ago? I want a stick of soap, not a wasteful slab served up in a single-use plastic bowl, nor an aerosol of foam nor a tube of cream, all of which are wastefully over-wrapped and described by the marketing departments in faux French or absurd hyperbole designed to conjure up an 'aspirational' 'lifestyle' which takes heed neither of environmental considerations nor of the tightened purse strings of many of us. This morning I looked in a number of 'bargain' stores/poundshops etc (supposedly the refuge of the financially challenged?) without success; nothing but over-wrapped, over-sold, and over-priced excess. *

Note that the title of this thread states 'annoyed beyond expectations'. Surely, faced with this nonsense, we should expect people to get annoyed?

*Phew, I feel better for that!

Turkish Barbers suppliers are my source for sticks here. As an added plus they have some lovely retro labelling.

 

[ianrauk]

Calling @ianrauk

Been a while since the last one.

 

[Legs]

Bloody office Secret Santa… thank you very much for the frilly red ‘men’s knickers’! Just what I wanted. Especially the little pouch at the front! 😳

They’re staying in my desk drawer to be regifted next year…