The only way to avoid being tempted by offers in a supermarket and strategically placed products is to do your supermarket shop online.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
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The only way to avoid being tempted by offers in a supermarket and strategically placed products is to do your supermarket shop online.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
I have a list, what usually happens is i'll know what's on the list and have my route round the shop planned out roughly (pre-lockdown, I'd be in Tesco every day, so would know the quickest way round to get what I need).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Then if I see someone I know but can't be bothered stopping to speak to (this happens a lot), I'll have to alter my route, and that is when I miss things.
That's my theory, anyway.
You're moaning? - Just think how many people you're affecting for the same reason!Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I'm doing them a favour by dodging them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Undoubtedly true but I like the whole process. Even returning the trolley to the trolley bay after loading the car. And yes, I know that makes me a weirdo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Oh I’m with you on that, I enjoy my supermarket trip and always fall prey to offers and new products 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Probably just a German thing but cyclists who drive on the road when there's a perfectly good cycle path running parallel to the road. There are 2 kinds of cycle paths over here, ones that are compulsory for cyclists to use and non compulsory ones.
It’s Livingston not Livingstone
Definitely not just a German thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
2 in Edinburgh that annoy me are the cycle path in Holyrood Park. I always seem to get stuck behind someone puffing up the hill at 2mph all of 5 yards away from the cycle path. Also at Seafield the pavement is a designated cycle path but you still get people using the road on what is a pretty hefty incline.
Particularly in the case of the former pedestrians have to take some of the blame though. The cycle path and path for walking are clearly defined but some seem to walk wherever they fancy.
You presume.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatecrasher
If you mean going West to East, I think there's a bit of a bottleneck going over the railway bridge where it's easy for cyclists and joggers/pedestrians to meet head-on. Might be a reason for cyclists avoiding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
If you mean going East to West (which I think is up the incline), say going from Screwfix to Halfords, that'd be two fairly unpleasant road crossings to get on and off the cycle path/pavement. Might be a reason for cyclists not using.
I’ve cycled over that bridge hundreds of times on the way to and from work, never once met a pedestrian or fellow cyclist on it. I think folk just don’t realise the pavement is shared use even although it’s clearly marked. That road feels really dangerous on a bike so I don’t get why folk wouldn’t use the pavement anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
On a shopping theme I often buy items I already have, I currently have three jars of mustard.
Oh, and yesterday I went to my local shop in my slippers, standards are definitely slipping during lockdown
Don't go there every day but surprised you've never encountered a pedestrian or runner there - perhaps we go at different times. I do use the pavement going West-East but generally don't bother on the East-West leg, unless coming from the prom.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Exile
Nope not a German thing. The newbridge to Broxburn road specifically has a cycle and walkway but you still cyclists on the road. The same goes for the fife coastal route from Culross to Kincardine stretch. Really tight road with a footpath/cycleway that goes the vast majority of the route, but people still insist on cycling on the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I cycled this last week (National cycle Route 76?), I started on the path but eventually had to take to the road as I wasn't making great progress due to the number of pedestrians/dog walkers. Considering on flat road I can easily cycle at 20mph, I think I made the right decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
78 I think, lovely stretch. I’m not blaming individual cyclists for it, more the users of the path as a whole. 20mph isn’t very fast compared to a car on a twisty road like that though, I know that road but others who don’t and treat it like a rally stage which makes it more dangerous for cyclists. It’s fun seeing the looks on their faces when they come round a bend and find me in the tractor with 25ft trailer or the header for the combine coming towards them.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Coffee granules in the sugar. No need.
Coffee granules, no need.Quote:
Originally Posted by StevieT
Sugar, no need.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
No need.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
It's part of our history. :bitchy: :panic:Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Word of the week.......Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Slaver :greengrin
Royalty free, not the real artist albums. I'm just in from the dentist where I had to put up with a string of 80s hits revisited in a reggae style, including The Final Countdown, the Walk of Life, Drive & Jesus he Knows Me.
The only small upside is that it helped take my mind off what was going on in my gob.
I actually like the alternative takes on well known tunes, always makes me laughQuote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
I did laugh when the Final Countdown started, as did the nurse when I gave her a WTF look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
The dentist who's a great guy, but as camp as a row of pink tents, doesn't give a jot!
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
Last year I was having a scan done, I was to be in the machine for quite a while and was asked if i had music i wanted played or just listen to their choice. I said to put on their stuff as smy phone was locked away. Off they went and I'm in this empty cold room trying to convince myself I'd be okay. It was nerve wracking enough but as i lay there listening to Celine Dion singing All by Myself I didnt know whether to laugh or cry :greengrin
Worth it for that note, that key-change alone....Quote:
Originally Posted by J.S
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
I used to work for a chain of shops where the owner/chairman decided paying for royalties was a waste of money so we were subjected to about 18 months of crappy karaoke soundalikes doing chart music, it was so bad, customers would give you a look or even comment on it :greengrin
If I didnt have to be still I'd have belted it out myself :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Now we are talking, a particular favourite of mine is Italian restaurant versions of popular songs :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by McD
My Daughter calls it Matalan music 😁
Western hits played on Chinese instruments take some beating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Are pan pipe compilations still a thing? They were everywhere for a while.
Pan pipe moods, remember as a teenager coming home and my mum was listening to it :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Particularly if the instrument is a tanggu. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
You should check out Luna Lee's channel on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQA...D7Eh_mfhaTrS0Q)Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Here's a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd8brEiidA
Sorry but that's excellent. Nowhere near cheesy enough!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nazz
Sorry, I missed the whole tone of your post. Serves me right for not reading the thread thoroughly. You're right though, she's an excellent player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
:greengrin Hahaha sadly it wasn’t even as good as that, it was literally folk trying to mimic the actual singers/bands, so the music was never quite as good, the singers never as good, it was like listening to a school band trying to do westlife :greengrin
Don't apologise. There's a fine line between something that's good, and something that's so bad it's good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nazz
And even though she seems to play very well, there are probably some things that just won't work.
Calling to chase up an order and being told it's in its way... Then having a courtesy call 10 minutes later asking if I received it and then promising it would be dispatched in 10 minutes. :dizzy:
I admire the ambition of not having made my food but phoning just in case I think I've received it though. A few more beers on an empty stomach and they might have caught me out! :greengrin
I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation for this one but I'm going to moan anyway.
The Waverley Steps currently being closed. I've been walking to work lately and I cut through the station. For the most part the station is absolutely deserted, it's a bit busier the last couple of weeks but we are talking a couple of handfuls of people as opposed to the usual early morning chaos. The steps are completely closed and gated shut so the only access to Princes Street, from the station, is using the lifts. As I said until the last fortnight I was often the only person other than staff in the place so it was fine. However now it is a bit busier and only one person or one household is permitted to use either of the lifts at a time even a queue of 4 or 5 people can mean a 10+ minute wait.
I would think it is fairly easy to socially distance on a set of stairs or an escalator so I assume it isn't for safety reasons they are closed. The only explanation I can think of is the steps are owned by either the hotel or the shopping centre and because they are closed they have closed the steps as well. It just seems a bit daft otherwise.
I'm guessing that CEC have closed it to dissuade folk using it as a cut-through, limiting station access only to those who need to be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My own peeve about those steps is the number of folk who canny read the signs that say "keep left" :greengrin
Part of their one way system?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
That is totally magic. She's a talented lass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nazz
Pet peeve that I noticed on the main board: people saying Sporting Lisbon.
There's two main football clubs in Lisbon. Sl benfica and sporting club de Portugal.
The only sporting Lisbon in Portugal is benfica, yet people constantly refer to the green and white hooped team as sporting Lisbon!
That’s because they are referred to colloquially as Sporting LisbonQuote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
That's probably my biggest pet un-peeve if there's such a thing. If almost everyone calls them Sporting Lisbon then how are folk supposed to know their proper name unless they are avid Portuguese football fans??Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
I have family over there and am (was) usually there at least twice a year. My description would be Sporting CP but I can understand why they get referred to as Sporting Lisbon, albeit wrongly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
Technically Benfica are Sport Lisboa e Benfica and a lot of their merchandise will carry a SLB logo.
When over, I will go to see all the clubs I can. Benfica always feel a bit Hunnish, lots of self-entitlement and so forth, but they do have their own song, a ballad in the style of SOL written and sung and sold by some Lisbonese crooner in the 1950s to raise money to develop the stadium. It gets belted out before every home game.
Belenenses were my team but they had some massive split, akin to Wimbledon, with the top-flight team moving to the city centre and a new team staying in the original ground in Belém, but in the fifth or sixth flight. Nicely, Belenenses’ first ever game in European football was against us. I have not been able to get over obviously but I think I will earmark the lower-league Belenenses. For anyone going to Lisbon, the Benfica stadium and Sporting stadium are cracking venues and easily accessible on the metro.
A cold pint of Tennents, I know Tennents is cheap and nasty and beer snobs hate it but it's my old faithful, I hadn't had a drink of alcohol since the 2nd of March(the derby, proof Hibs turn me to drink) yesterday when out and about I got a takeaway San Moretti as the fancy bar had no T, today I've just picked up 2 litres of draft Tennents from Brass Monkey on the Walk, **** its glorious
My pet peeve however is posting on the wrong thread:faf::faf::faf:
I miss it. It's daft cos I never used to drink it much back home but after I moved away it's one of the things I wish I could get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Where you sorced this draft T, would they do online orders by chance?
I must add I only enjoy it from draft, cans are rank.
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Don't think they do unfortunately, closest you can get to an actual pint in my opinion is a pint bottle of Tennents, vastly superior to the cans of itQuote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
Are the ramp roads closed as well as it’s not exactly a huge detour to walk up one of them instead?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
More a moan than a peeve. We’re doing some work on our garden and ordered a load of top soil. Was delivered at 6.55, with guy ringing the bell and waking the whole house up including a none too impressed 18 month old.
Who delivers at 6.55am! 🤬
Midwives? 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
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Originally Posted by The Modfather
Liam Henderson, maybe, depending on what time zone you were in.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Knees. How badly designed and put-together are they? Proof if needed that intelligent design is bollocks, nobody intelligent would design a joint as poorly. I dread trying to find stuff in the bottom cupboards in the kitchen now cos I know it's gonna be a mission getting back up.
Craft brewery IPA's/dark beers over here in Aus. F *** ing terrible. Fizzy plasticy horrible swamp water. What I wouldn't give for a pint of Deuchars or Belhaven Best.
I feel your pain. I long for the time when I could get up from kneeling or sitting without sounding like Chewbacca.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mixu62
Why stop at knees? My ankles, knees and hips are all sore, all the load bearing joints. My shoulders no longer move in the directions they should without pain as well. I'm only 51!! I suspect that playing rugby for 30+ years hasn't helpedQuote:
Originally Posted by Mixu62
Would things have been any better if you'd taken it up as a child, rather than waiting till you were 21? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
That is true.
I used to drink the bottle version and it was always good. I didn't realise they still did produce this but I have moved on now.
Warsteiner is the best !
I started at 12/13 and played my last game when I was 50. I loved every minute of playing, fitting in as many games as I could around watching Hibs. At school I would play two games a weekend, once for the school on Saturday morning and then once for the club on Sunday. I've broken more bones than Evel Knievel, my body is shattered due to it and I believe that it is genuinely having played hundreds of games if rugby. Always look played in the forwards, mostly front row. Would I change anything, nope absolutely loved playing rugby. The only thing I would change would be the clashes with Hibs games that has seen me either miss watching Hibs or missing playing rugbyQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Who did you play for mate?Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
AlloaQuote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Videos on social media of people allowing their dogs to lick their babies faces as the sit in their rockers, worse than that is adults who allow their dogs to sleep in their bed with them, absolutely disgusting behaviour.
The crap guest comedians they have on The Infinite Monkey Cage.
I would rather they filled that slot with another scientist.
As a dog lover and owner I agree 100%. Mine doesn't even try and lick faces as she's been trained not to since she was a pup. She doesn't get in the bedroom at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Dogs are amazing and mine is my world but there's a line.
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People who misspell my name. Not if it's just an error which happens but in emails or after I have spelled it out for them.
My name is Stuart, my email address at work and personal contains that name so starting a conversation with 'Hi Stewart' or worse 'Hi Steuart' is just rude really. Do people think I deliberately spell my own name incorrectly in my email address?
Try living with Urquhart as your surname. I'm still learning new ways of how not to pronounce it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Aye that must be a nightmare. I get a few creative interpretations of the spelling and pronunciation of my own surname but Urquhart must be another level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Feel your pain mate, my first name is misspelled constantly, and again usually in emails with my email signature and my email address having the correct spelling :rolleyes:
My surname is regularly misspelled as well :brickwall
My surname has been misspelled and pronounced incorrectly all my life. The best is when some folk think the first half is my christian name and the latter part my surname???Quote:
Originally Posted by McD
I often get called David rather than Daniel.
It happened a few times and I put it down to my hand writing, but it sometimes happens over emails too.
To be fair, the words have quite a similar look throughout them, Da at the start, an i, and then the "el" almost squeezes together to be a d.
I still get Mattie from people who have known me for years. My surname gets a load of variations as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Imagine being Raphael Scheidt!! A guy my ex wife used to work with was called Forbes Allan, she said at least once a day you would hear him in the phone saying "no, no it's not Allan Forbes" Must have messed with his head something awful
McDonaugh - it was bad enough in Edinburgh but it's a total nightmare here.
If I spell it for someone they always say "oh - it's not M A C ?" - no, it's M C and yes I'm sure.
Then they insist on putting a space between Mc & D, which means I'm in with the Ds and not the Ms when they try to find me again.
And don't get me started on the "augh" bit.
I don't use my surname in my work email address - far too much trouble.
Anyway, I used to work with an architect called Peter Caunt. His wife's name was Sally. She stuck with her maiden name. :agree:
How’s this for a peeve? It’s not rude, and has zero consequence.
People spelling my second name with 2 T’s.
It makes absolutely no difference to my life other than irritating me.
Jonestt?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Or Jonesttwentyeightt?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
“Jones28” was actually lifted from the banner at the top of the website when it had the scorers from the league cup final flash up! My second name is Paterson but it gets continually spelled with 2 T’s. I even tell people when I’m booking a table over the phone it’s paterson with 2 T’s.
Really really petty. If I was on the receiving end of the call I’d write down 3 t’s.
Ok well since you mentioned it, a minor peeve of mine is people with surnames as first names, and first names as surnames. How confusing is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
:agree: It's tantamount to child abuse, knowing that the named is going to spend a lifetime clarifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
It's made worse by email systems that record the person's name as "surname, first name". This never used to be a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
He considered taking her name, but thought Peter Minge sounded ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
My Surname only has four letters and I have heard so many pronunciations of it over the years.
My surname has been misspelt all my life and frequently mispronounced, especially in Europe but also in the UK
To the extent that when booking anything for holidays - restaurants, concerts etc, we use my partner’s name. Hers gets misspelt too, as it is one of those surnames that have a few variants in spelling, but generally people can work out an approximation of the pronunciation.
Mine just causes chaos, with the maitre’d claiming there is no booking in that name, until you pull out your phone and show the email confirmation :greengrin
It did have its advantages in the army. When there was dirty jobs being doled out in the mornings the Sergeant would start picking people to do those jobs and it normally went something like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
"Urk....., erm ooork, eh oorquoo.... urcher...... ****-it, Smith you do it.
He'll not like it as he is a member here.
My brother has the moniker Richie Aitken 😁
The expression "no smoke without fire".
My response to that is "you obviously have never been to a ...... (insert appropriate name of a heavy metal or prog band)...... gig."
And, while I'm here......
I thought I would escape it this year, but, no...... Ed Byrne (who should know better) was on TV the other night talking about the "Edinburgh Fringe Festival.":grr:
Totally agree with the name one. My name is Fraser. Replacing the ‘s’ with a ‘z’ is common. I think I’ve had an ‘i’ added everywhere between the ‘F’ and the second ‘r’. I worked in a cinema when I was a student and there was a supervisor who really into stupid management phrases, his favourite being “there’s no ‘I’ in team”. One day I was covering a shift so he had to manually write my name and break time on the daily ops sheet. He added an ‘i’ to my name to which I told him “there’s no ‘I’ in Fraser”. He didn’t understand why colleagues were finding that so funny.
My current boss insists on pronouncing my name as Frasier. It irks me but I generally let it go but it really riles a former boss of mine who works with us. She is constantly correcting him.
Also name related, my work has our names set on our email to be Surname, First Name rather than First Name, Surname. The amount of times I’ve had “Hi <insert my surname>” on an email is unreal even though my surname is not a popular first name in this country.
My first name is Iain. As mentioned earlier, it’s annoying when people don’t bother to read the email address or signature, and just type Ian. And what makes it worse is that some of the people Have known me for years! and you sometimes get the Eoin spelling fling out there now and again.
pronunciation can be an issue, especially abroad, that’s just a write off. But even here, it’s bad.
what’s the name?
iain
neil?
no, iain
dean?
no, iain
cian?
ffs, yeah fine
What about the Iain's who are John's and the Johns who are Iain's??
My Grandad's work changed his name to John when he started as there was already another Ian who worked there.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
I used to ask to speak to Ian whenever I phoned his work only to be told there was no Ian that worked there.
Used to drive me insane, he wasn't remotely bothered :greengrin
That must all be very stressful. You must feel like going to relax in a bar where everybody knows your name.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Same happened with my Uncle Ian, who lives in S****horpe - he gets called John down there. Really confused my son when we set up a WhatsApp group for the cup final re-run last month 😂.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
And the Johns that are Jacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
Americans who pronounce Fraser as Frasier and Craig as Cregg, even when they're ok with the spelling.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
People who pronounce "statistics" as "stastistics".
And far worse, "pacific" instead of "specific".