Pet Peeves IV

[Peevemor]

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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.

Don't apologise. There's a fine line between something that's good, and something that's so bad it's good.

And even though she seems to play very well, there are probably some things that just won't work.

[danhibees1875]

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.

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!

[Pretty Boy]

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.

[CropleyWasGod]

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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.

My own peeve about those steps is the number of folk who canny read the signs that say "keep left"

[Scouse Hibee]

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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.

Part of their one way system?

[heretoday]

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You should check out Luna Lee's channel on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQA...D7Eh_mfhaTrS0Q)

Here's a sample:

That is totally magic. She's a talented lass.

[Onceinawhile]

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!

[Scouse Hibee]

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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 Lisbon

[Hiber-nation]

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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 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??

[Mibbes Aye]

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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!

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.

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.

[Mon Dieu4]

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

[Just_Jimmy]

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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

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.

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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[Mon Dieu4]

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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.

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 it

[RyeSloan]

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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.

Are the ramp roads closed as well as it’s not exactly a huge detour to walk up one of them instead?

[The Modfather]

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! 🤬

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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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? 😉

[Mibbes Aye]

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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! 🤬

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Midwives? 😉

Liam Henderson, maybe, depending on what time zone you were in.

[Mixu62]

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.

[Peevemor]

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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.

[weecounty hibby]

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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.

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 helped

[lapsedhibee]

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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 helped

Would things have been any better if you'd taken it up as a child, rather than waiting till you were 21?

[pollution]

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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 it

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 !

[weecounty hibby]

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Would things have been any better if you'd taken it up as a child, rather than waiting till you were 21?

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 rugby

[Danderhall Hibs]

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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 rugby

Who did you play for mate?

[weecounty hibby]

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Who did you play for mate?

Alloa

[Scouse Hibee]

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.

[sleeping giant]

The crap guest comedians they have on The Infinite Monkey Cage.
I would rather they filled that slot with another scientist.

[Just_Jimmy]

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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.

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.

Dogs are amazing and mine is my world but there's a line.

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[Pretty Boy]

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?

[Hibrandenburg]

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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.