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My works christmas lunch is at Vittoria on the Bridge.
It's £25 for main and dessert, which is fairly standard for an xmas lunch I think. What the peeve is for me here is that if I want to order the christmas dinner roast turkey I have to pay a £5 supplement. It's the christmas lunch menu! I dinnae mind having to pay a supplement for a steak or something, but you shouldn't be paying extra for a christmas dinner when you go out for christmas meal.
I'm going there as well, but as it's on the weekend you can only select the 3 course menu, as a result I'm about to pay £10 for two scoops of ice cream for a dessertQuote:
Originally Posted by easty
Luckily I love the Vittoria so it's no big deal but I don't even normally have a dessert either
Can my Christmas night out peeve be that my night out has been arranged for a Gorgie venue that has a football pitch on one side and a view into a school on the other?
That's mad. A Christmas lunch menu that charges a supplement for having Christmas lunch:faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
ScotRail. Rush hour train from Dunfermline this morning - 2 carriages so it’s absolutely rammed and getting from my seat to the exit is an exercise in not accidentally sexually assaulting someone.
Train back is cancelled with no announcement, the app says it’s on time and no timetable information is available at the station, so it’s complete guesswork.
Next train arrives, 16:27 so the station is heaving, busier still because of the phantom train not turning up, and its two carriages. Basically can only get on if you’re prepared to push past folk.
They’re meant to make public transport the easiest option - genuinely turning the train into a last resort option.
I’m currently waiting on a tram. Tracker said one due in 2 mins… it arrives and it is an out of service one being used for driver training. Why put it on the tracker?Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I've found the trams (which have been frankly brilliant since they completed the line down to Newhaven) just a little bit more unpredictable in recent weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
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Had to go to a meeting in town last week, so drove to the park and ride at Straiton to get the bus in. 2 buses in a row didn’t turn up at all, despite the app and the digital board saying they were due, ended up waiting half an hour for a bus when should have only needed to wait about 6 minutes. Total shambles
The lack of a single German speaker at meiner Arbeit.
Sometimes I accidentally use Deutsche Worte in the middle of a sentence and not a single soul can Deutsch verstehen!
It really rips mein Stricken
You are Gail Tufts and I claim my 5 pounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Would suit me, perfect excuse to skip my real pet peeve, which is socialising with people from work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
I'm paid to be there, I'd choose to be anywhere else with people I want to be with as soon as the money stopped.
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This patter with goalkeepers at absolutely honking levels of football putting a GoPro in their net, filming a game, adding AI commentary and posting it on social media. One 'character' even has @ScouseGK on the back of his shirt. Total cringe.
Worst is the guys making their kids do it. There's one wee lad Ollie who looks about 10/11 and seems quite a decent keeper but you just know his dad is going to ruin him. Every 3rd week it's 'first game for a new team' or 'all part of the journey, we go again'. Just let the boy play FFS.
I've noticed this too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
I live at the Shore and use the tram a lot, recently there's been a few times when the tram hasn't turned up.
I can say for definite that I have never accidentally sexuallyQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
assaulted someone.
Always been on purpose? 🤔😲Quote:
Originally Posted by oldbutdim
Is that kid de gea? What a nonsense it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The weather app on my phone saying it’s -3 outside but it feels like it is -8 due to the winds, it’s 8mph winds so hardly gusty, it is so cold on the face outside tonight.
The term” X formerly known as Twitter”
Why? If it’s changed it’s name just say “X”
I still just call it Twitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
So do I, because it's full of twits!Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
Yeah I get, but the term is used in media reports all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
Put that up as a peeve months ago and yer right…it’s STILL going on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
So much so it’s like they actually changed the name to be ‘X formally known as Twitter’ [emoji2962]
It's like they think nobody knows that X used to be called Twitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Just stop it. Everybody knows now.
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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It could be the start of a trend. People who take over and rename chippies (say) will have to incorporate 'formerly known as' in their new shopfront signage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
That reminds me of an old mucker of mines when in the dafty days of yore a lot of the locals (myself included) would indulge in the primitive act of self tattooing.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
A lot of them added their “girlfriends” names. One mate in particular I think must have had a truck load of “Indian ink” and appeared to be on a mission to add as many crude tattoos of his mostly then former girlfriends, starting from the top of his arms to his wrists.
Wullie luvs Aggie, Wullie luvs Brenda, Wullie luvs Senga, Wullie luvs Mags (Sengas Mum) every time he split up from a girlfriend, mostly after a one night whirlwind romance he just tattooed a line through the name and added another.
Think he is now married to none of the above and has had laser treatment.
That's an excellent idea. There was a thread on hibs.net not so long ago which went on for many, many days about where a west Edinburgh co-op (or something) used to be or once was or had become. Or that. All the mental racking could have been avoided if all buildings had simply been forced all along to display a list of all the businesses they had housed over the years, with a line through all the ones they no longer did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Yeah I think there is a site out there dedicated to “Ghost Signs” that would be at a time shop owners would employ Sign writers pre plastic and neon sineage days and the former shop names were exposed when the paint was burned off.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Des Clarke is a good bloke to be fair, he’s always that upbeat not just on the radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaulGoodman
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People that are upbeat all the time are one of my pet peeves. It must be an act.Quote:
Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC