Pet Peeves IV

[The Modfather]

My wife putting the used egg shells back in the box. She claims it’s because she uses them to stop the snails/slugs from eating the plants. Which is fine, but we already have a food bag full of crushed egg shells. It always looks looks like we have more eggs than we actually do.

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My wife putting the used egg shells back in the box. She claims it’s because she uses them to stop the snails/slugs from eating the plants. Which is fine, but we already have a food bag full of crushed egg shells. It always looks looks like we have more eggs than we actually do.

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[heretoday]

Jason Leitch. He's my current pet peeve.

[Jones28]

Jacket potato

It’s a ****in baked tattie.

[Pretty Boy]

Nostalgia ****posting on social media.

People sharing idealised pictures of years gone by and giving it 'oh look how wonderful it all looks'. In a fair number of instances what they really mean is 'oh look how white it all looks'. In most of the others it's by people too young to have experienced such times so they are presenting some romanticised view that conveniently omits the grinding poverty, life expectancy of about 60, squalid living conditions and so on.

And don't even get me started on the people sharing pictures of gigs in the 1960s with captions like 'look at this, not a phone in view, back when people just lived in the moment'. Yes, because you didn't ****ing well have phones then. You spend your time now using social media to check in at the supermarket and share lost dog posts from Australia mate, I'm 99% certain if you had a phone at a gig back then you would have had it out.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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You spend your time now using social media to check in at the supermarket and share lost dog posts from Australia mate, I'm 99% certain if you had a phone at a gig back then you would have had it out.

Best thing I’ve ready today and very accurate. Cheers for cheering me up a bit mate


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[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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Jacket potato

It’s a ****in baked tattie.

On that topic; spudulike.

Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!


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[CropleyWasGod]

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On that topic; spudulike.

Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!


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Is it only me who sees that word, and thinks of Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke?

Spuh-joolikeh

[The Modfather]

Links that don’t open in the app. They send you to the App Store where you already have the app installed. When you click open it forgets the link you’re trying to open and just opens the app at the homepage. A general moan as quite common, but on the back of someone sending me a link to Google maps.

[grunt]

Having just come back from London, I'm reminded of one of my all time major peeves: people walking while reading their phones and not looking where they are going.

[Moulin Yarns]

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On that topic; spudulike.

Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!


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This reminds me of being in a pub last Thursday and there was a deliveroo guy waiting by the kitchen door. Who orders a pub meal to be delivered??

[Wilson]

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On that topic; spudulike.

Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!


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Good chance you can have that with a gluten free filling, so I would. Who the hell goes to Burger King is more to the point - wheat tolerant idiots.

[grunt]

Ok, wasn't sure where to post this but I think this little story qualifies as someone's pet peeve. Hope you all don't mind this slightly OT post.

Nearly half of all aircraft noise complaints in Australia last year were filed by a single person, who complained 20,716 times

The same is true of Heathrow. 80% of noise complaints come from just 10 people.

[Smartie]

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On that topic; spudulike.

Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!


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Spudulike was great and I regret it's demise.

My first home wasn't far from what I think was their first shop and my mum and dad used to get them all the time when I was tiny. It was a proper 70s / 80s staple.

When I was a kid and after we'd moved out of Edinburgh we used to quite often go back there, get baked potatoes and sit as a family and eat them in the car next to the Meadows.

The demise of the baked potato as a credible, healthy fast food is bad progress imo.

[Hiber-nation]

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Spudulike was great and I regret it's demise.

My first home wasn't far from what I think was their first shop and my mum and dad used to get them all the time when I was tiny. It was a proper 70s / 80s staple.

When I was a kid and after we'd moved out of Edinburgh we used to quite often go back there, get baked potatoes and sit as a family and eat them in the car next to the Meadows.

The demise of the baked potato as a credible, healthy fast food is bad progress imo.

I used to live across the road from The Tempting Tattie in Jeffrey Street and it was an absolute treat. No idea how good it is now (assuming its still open) but the tatties were superb back in the early 80s.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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I used to live across the road from The Tempting Tattie in Jeffrey Street and it was an absolute treat. No idea how good it is now (assuming its still open) but the tatties were superb back in the early 80s.

Not visited the place for about 20 years but, they were certainly very good back then.

[The Modfather]

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Spudulike was great and I regret it's demise.

My first home wasn't far from what I think was their first shop and my mum and dad used to get them all the time when I was tiny. It was a proper 70s / 80s staple.

When I was a kid and after we'd moved out of Edinburgh we used to quite often go back there, get baked potatoes and sit as a family and eat them in the car next to the Meadows.

The demise of the baked potato as a credible, healthy fast food is bad progress imo.

I used to enjoy when the Friday night treat tea was from Bigger Bites in Abbeyhill when I was young. Haggis on the baked potatoes was my go to and something I’d still buy nowadays if there were any baked potato shops around.

[Keith_M]

Taylor Swift.

No, not the actual person, but the endless articles in the Media about her, her tour, her fans, where she's staying, and on and on and on.

Do we really need to know that she's staying in a luxury hotel, that her fans are buying disposable cameras for her visit to Edinburgh... her favourite toilet paper?


OK, I made that last one up, but it's only a matter of time before the DR tells us that it's definitely not Andrex.

[grunt]

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Taylor Swift. No, not the actual person, but the endless articles in the Media about her, her tour, her fans, where she's staying, and on and on and on.

Where is she staying?

[Keith_M]

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Where is she staying?

HERE

[grunt]

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HERE

Got me!

[Keith_M]

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Got me!

😁

[Keith_M]

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Nostalgia ****posting on social media.

People sharing idealised pictures of years gone by and giving it 'oh look how wonderful it all looks'. In a fair number of instances what they really mean is 'oh look how white it all looks'. In most of the others it's by people too young to have experienced such times so they are presenting some romanticised view that conveniently omits the grinding poverty, life expectancy of about 60, squalid living conditions and so on.

And don't even get me started on the people sharing pictures of gigs in the 1960s with captions like 'look at this, not a phone in view, back when people just lived in the moment'. Yes, because you didn't ****ing well have phones then. You spend your time now using social media to check in at the supermarket and share lost dog posts from Australia mate, I'm 99% certain if you had a phone at a gig back then you would have had it out.

As rants go, that one is absolutely top notch.

Love it!

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[Godsahibby]

What is this new need for grown ups discussing politics suddenly having this need to give everyone a cringy nickname. I know it was a very American thing with the obvious example of 'Sleepy Joe' Biden.

Even started to see this coming through on some of the Holy Ground threads.

[Moulin Yarns]

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Got me!

And me, is it a pitch or school view though?

[Smartie]

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Nostalgia ****posting on social media.

People sharing idealised pictures of years gone by and giving it 'oh look how wonderful it all looks'. In a fair number of instances what they really mean is 'oh look how white it all looks'. In most of the others it's by people too young to have experienced such times so they are presenting some romanticised view that conveniently omits the grinding poverty, life expectancy of about 60, squalid living conditions and so on.

And don't even get me started on the people sharing pictures of gigs in the 1960s with captions like 'look at this, not a phone in view, back when people just lived in the moment'. Yes, because you didn't ****ing well have phones then. You spend your time now using social media to check in at the supermarket and share lost dog posts from Australia mate, I'm 99% certain if you had a phone at a gig back then you would have had it out.

Have you ever read "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling?

It's a pretty good antidote to the "everything is pish nowadays" brigade which points out that objectively, most things are actually better.

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When she has a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes she pours the milk in then purposely leaves the bowl for about 10 mins to let the cereal go mushy.

[Jones28]

Colds that come from nowhere.

Had a busy-ish week but nothing too outrageous.

Yesterday morning felt alright when I woke up, tired but no more than usual. Then about 11am out of nowhere the snot arrived. I’ve just gotten over a bout of shivering that could have broken concrete.

[Keith_M]

'Sensationalist' style headlines in newspapers that bear no relation to what's actually in the article,


e.g. 'Doidge names what Hibs men were shocked by over David Gray's coaching'


And what was it that they were so shocked by? Uhm, apparently that he was quite good at his job.

I mean wow, whooda thunk it!

[J-C]

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Colds that come from nowhere.

Had a busy-ish week but nothing too outrageous.

Yesterday morning felt alright when I woke up, tired but no more than usual. Then about 11am out of nowhere the snot arrived. I’ve just gotten over a bout of shivering that could have broken concrete.

Snap, runny bloody nose with enough snot to fill an elephant's trunk.