Pet Peeves IV

[Just Alf]

A letter box

A very particular letter box.....

At door of the diggers pub, look over to the exit of the western approach road.... there's a metal fence to your left , 20 feet or so from the junction there's a letter box on the fence... wtf?... why?, for what?

Does ma nut in!

[Keith_M]

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My pet peeve is pet peeves. It just reminds me that our destiny from day one is to evolve in to grumpy old men.

Being a grumpy old man is my Raisin d'etre.


Oh and I also hate it when people use pretentious phrases they don't even know how to spell.

[Bridge hibs]

Oh for **** sake !! It better be home for Fridays bin jockey championship 😡 IMG_5039.jpg

[DH1875]

Our bins get emptied around 8AM so most of the street puts their bins out the night before. They are due to get done Wednesday so rubbish everywhere on Tuesday night then.

[Just_Jimmy]

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A letter box

A very particular letter box.....

At door of the diggers pub, look over to the exit of the western approach road.... there's a metal fence to your left , 20 feet or so from the junction there's a letter box on the fence... wtf?... why?, for what?

Does ma nut in!

Letters?

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[Just Alf]

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Letters?

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Aye... but to where :-)

[WeeRussell]

People who claim to be “excited” by something happening at non-exciting work. If a technical update to a financial services application gets them excited, I’d hate to see the state of them if they ever got their leg over.

And the tit that adds “super” in front of it deserves to never get said leg close to over.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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And the tit that adds “super” in front of it deserves to never get said leg close to over.

I'm super excited etc deserves a Kevin Bridges style "Are you aye"?

[speedy_gonzales]

Twitter trolls/bots.
I enjoy browsing through Twitter and follow a few political commentators, sport vloggers and some photography channels. I rarely post, but when I do it's usually to engage with my local councillor or report infrastructure issues to the council (mainly because they respond fairly quickly and don't chase you up for personal info).
Lately I've been harangued by a couple of prolific trolls who keep nipping away with no agenda or salient point to be made.
There's just no need, I didn't initially engage with you, I made my point, now bore off!
I know I could block or "ignore" but maybe I'm to stubborn 🤔

[Jones28]

Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

[Just_Jimmy]

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Aye... but to where :-)

From America

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[matty_f]

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Bin jockeys. The ones competing to see who can get their bin out earliest. We have a handful in our street. A couple are usually about 3pm the day before pick up. Guess what happened last night to the half dozen bins put out? All over the street. Knobs

Binfluencers.

[Bridge hibs]

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Binfluencers.

Oi, I resemble that remark 🫣

[Northernhibee]

People at comedy shows who think they’re a part if it.

Went to see the one off “Daniel Sloss and Friends” show in Kirkcaldy last night and was sat behind three people. They booed when someone in the audience said they were from England. They booed when Daniel Sloss said he lived in Edinburgh. One of them shouted “carry on” when he put in a pause for comedic effect to allow a particularly awful joke to sink in. They chatted to each other all night with ‘hilarious’ quips. They were ****ing irritating to everyone around them.


They were Glaswegian which again goes back to my regular gripe that Glasgow is the least funny city on earth but still.


On the plus side on the way there we seen two drunk older people try to have a drunken embrace on the street, only to topple like two shop mannequins through somebody’s hedge, landing perfectly on top of each other.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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People at comedy shows who think they’re a part if it.

Went to see the one off “Daniel Sloss and Friends” show in Kirkcaldy last night and was sat behind three people. They booed when someone in the audience said they were from England. They booed when Daniel Sloss said he lived in Edinburgh. One of them shouted “carry on” when he put in a pause for comedic effect to allow a particularly awful joke to sink in. They chatted to each other all night with ‘hilarious’ quips. They were ****ing irritating to everyone around them.


They were Glaswegian which again goes back to my regular gripe that Glasgow is the least funny city on earth but still.


On the plus side on the way there we seen two drunk older people try to have a drunken embrace on the street, only to topple like two shop mannequins through somebody’s hedge, landing perfectly on top of each other.

I went to Colin Geddis in the merchant city, same thing happened there. Irritating as ****


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[sleeping giant]

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Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

😄

[Bridge hibs]

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Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

Just use the walls like most manky *******s do at Edinburgh airport 🤢

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Just use the walls like most manky *******s do at Edinburgh airport 🤢

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[J-C]

People who use toilets in public places and leave them like a bomb site. I use the toilets at the Western General when I rank there, toilet paper and hand towels on the floor, piss on the floor or over the bowl, filthy gets.

[Jones28]

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People who use toilets in public places and leave them like a bomb site. I use the toilets at the Western General when I rank there, toilet paper and hand towels on the floor, piss on the floor or over the bowl, filthy gets.

They’d disgusting, I honestly can’t understand it.

It must take more effort to make toilets minging than it would be to leave them in a reasonable state.

[overdrive]

On the topic of toilets. The urinal at Prahna in Corstorphine. It is placed too high. You can still pee in it but it feels weird. I'm 5ft 9 and I feel anyone shorter might need to stand on their tip toes or aim upwards. One time we went with a group and one guy who is shorter than me had never been to the restaurant before. I warned him before he went to the toilet - he took one look at it and used the cubicle instead. He's a plumber and suggested it was put in by one particular plumber who apparently has a reputation for placing urinals and wash hand basins at awkward heights.

[Pretty Boy]

People calling Bill Foley 'Mr Foley'.

Mr Romanov type chat.

[lyonhibs]

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People calling Bill Foley 'Mr Foley'.

Mr Romanov type chat.

And at the opposite end of that scale, football fans that refer to players using their first name only, as if they're pals, especially when watching in the pub.

[Pretty Boy]

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And at the opposite end of that scale, football fans that refer to players using their first name only, as if they're pals, especially when watching in the pub.

And players nicknames.

I blame Hibs social media for that one. Cadds, Millsy, Ginto, Geeds.......

It's one of those things that gives me proper second hand embarrassment.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Wifes folks using my cup. I like my cup, I only use my cup, it's my cup. They drink tea like it's water. They can't clean the cups properly and leave it all tea stained!!!

I've taken to hiding my cup now

[McD]

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And players nicknames.

I blame Hibs social media for that one. Cadds, Millsy, Ginto, Geeds.......

It's one of those things that gives me proper second hand embarrassment.

This reminds me of teenage years in the 90s, when every rangers player seemed to have the same pish standard of nickname that got bandied about constantly: goughie, coisty, laudo, robbo, fergie, etc.

And as you say, folk who’d never got within 20 feet of these players talking about them with the nicknames like they’re best mates

[danhibees1875]

Not sure it's a peeve but not having a button/code which can deactivate the buttons on my TV remote.

My daughter likes to play with the remote if she's watching some TV and invariably it results in pausing/rewinding/muting/changing channel etc which needs undone. I typically faf around removing a battery then give her the remote to play with but a simpler solution would be nice.

[The Modfather]

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Not sure it's a peeve but not having a button/code which can deactivate the buttons on my TV remote.

My daughter likes to play with the remote if she's watching some TV and invariably it results in pausing/rewinding/muting/changing channel etc which needs undone. I typically faf around removing a battery then give her the remote to play with but a simpler solution would be nice.

My daughter did that when she was younger. We learned how to use the sky remote for flipping between HDMI ports or getting into the options menu for the TV. Previously we used to do that through the TV remote and then use the SKY remote for changing channels. We ended up getting rid of the TV remote. She’s either a child prodigy or I’m a dinosaur, or both 😀

[overdrive]

Inaccurate cooking times on food packaging. I know it depends on your oven, etc. but some of them are ridiculous.

Put some garlic bread in the oven the other night. "Cook at 180C fan for 16-20 minutes" was the "from chilled" instruction. We were a bit suspicious of this as our normal garlic bread we buy isn't anything like that timing and neither is it when we buy a part-baked baguette and make our own garlic filling. Looked at it after 12 minutes... burnt. 8 minutes probably would have been right.

Put on some falafel for my lunch today. "Fan 180C for 12-16 minutes". Took it out after 10 and it was rather crisp.

On the other end of the scale, cooked some gnocchi last night that we had froze. "1-2 minutes from chilled, 2-3 minutes from frozen". More like 5 minutes from frozen

[Stairway 2 7]

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Inaccurate cooking times on food packaging. I know it depends on your oven, etc. but some of them are ridiculous.

Put some garlic bread in the oven the other night. "Cook at 180C fan for 16-20 minutes" was the "from chilled" instruction. We were a bit suspicious of this as our normal garlic bread we buy isn't anything like that timing and neither is it when we buy a part-baked baguette and make our own garlic filling. Looked at it after 12 minutes... burnt. 8 minutes probably would have been right.

Put on some falafel for my lunch today. "Fan 180C for 12-16 minutes". Took it out after 10 and it was rather crisp.

On the other end of the scale, cooked some gnocchi last night that we had froze. "1-2 minutes from chilled, 2-3 minutes from frozen". More like 5 minutes from frozen

On timings, my washing machine saying it has 2 minutes to go then taking 8. If you need more time pal just say don't have me standing there