Pet Peeves IV

[easty]

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.

[Mon Dieu4]

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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 dessert

Luckily I love the Vittoria so it's no big deal but I don't even normally have a dessert either

[Smartie]

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?

[Pretty Boy]

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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.

That's mad. A Christmas lunch menu that charges a supplement for having Christmas lunch

[matty_f]

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.

[overdrive]

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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?

[Smartie]

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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?

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.

[McD]

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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?

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

[Keith_M]

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

[Hibrandenburg]

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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.

[Just_Jimmy]

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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?

Would suit me, perfect excuse to skip my real pet peeve, which is socialising with people from work.

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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[Pretty Boy]

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.

[babahibs]

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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.

I've noticed this too.
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.

[oldbutdim]

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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.

I can say for definite that I have never accidentally sexually
assaulted someone.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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I can say for definite that I have never accidentally sexually
assaulted someone.

Always been on purpose? 🤔😲

[Onceinawhile]

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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.

Is that kid de gea? What a nonsense it is.

[silverhibee]

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.

[Scouse Hibee]

The term” X formerly known as Twitter”
Why? If it’s changed it’s name just say “X”

[easty]

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The term” X formerly known as Twitter”
Why? If it’s changed it’s name just say “X”

I still just call it Twitter.

[Moulin Yarns]

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I still just call it Twitter.

So do I, because it's full of twits!

[Scouse Hibee]

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I still just call it Twitter.

Yeah I get, but the term is used in media reports all the time.

[RyeSloan]

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Yeah I get, but the term is used in media reports all the time.

Put that up as a peeve months ago and yer right…it’s STILL going on!

So much so it’s like they actually changed the name to be ‘X formally known as Twitter’

[babahibs]

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Put that up as a peeve months ago and yer right…it’s STILL going on!

So much so it’s like they actually changed the name to be ‘X formally known as Twitter’

It's like they think nobody knows that X used to be called Twitter.

Just stop it. Everybody knows now.

[Keith_M]

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You are Gail Tufts and I claim my 5 pounds.

[lapsedhibee]

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The term” X formerly known as Twitter”
Why? If it’s changed it’s name just say “X”

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.

[Bridge hibs]

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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.

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.

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.

[lapsedhibee]

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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.

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.

[Bridge hibs]

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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 the building had simply been forced all along to display a list of all the businesses it had housed over the years, with a line through all the ones it no longer did.

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.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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Morning radio presenters in general. They are way too happy and excited for early mornings.

I’d like a morning radio presenter to be nice and relaxed, soft voice. Let me wake up.

Nothing worse than jumping in the van in the morning and hearing boogie or, god forbid, that fanny Des Clarke going off their tits at 7am.

Des Clarke is a good bloke to be fair, he’s always that upbeat not just on the radio.


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[overdrive]

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Des Clarke is a good bloke to be fair, he’s always that upbeat not just on the radio.


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People that are upbeat all the time are one of my pet peeves. It must be an act.