Pet Peeves IV

[He's here!]

The numerous relatives/several generations of the same family who seem to feel it's necessary to accompany a single member of the family to A&E. Almost as though the waiting area is a viable option for an family evening out.

[Bridge hibs]

Ice, ****ing almost gave myself a bad one this morning. Currently off work with nerve damage to my back and hip, putting the bin out this morning and slid all the way down my steep driveway and onto my arse, more pride hurt than anything else thankfully 🫣

[Donegal Hibby]

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Ice, ****ing almost gave myself a bad one this morning. Currently off work with nerve damage to my back and hip, putting the bin out this morning and slid all the way down my steep driveway and onto my arse, more pride hurt than anything else thankfully 🫣

Glad you’re alright buddy these things happen …

https://youtu.be/aylO_1DSdts?si=OCxf0k3TyZbmeO54

[Pretty Boy]

People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.

Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.

It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.

[Bridge hibs]

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People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.

Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.

It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.

Saw a guy yesterday driving his work van, wee square scraped out of his front windscreen so he could see not much

Unreal

[Jim44]

TV chefs, who, when finely cutting stuff, make a point of looking away for a few seconds and speak to someone or the camera, ‘Look at my knife skills, ain’t I great ‘ they’re thinking. I’m baying for blood, one of these days.

[Jones28]

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People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.

Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.

It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.

I had a sheet of ice frozen on top of my car, after about half an hour of driving I pull up to a roundabout and the whole roofs worth of ice slid off and couldn’t see a thing.

I’ve never left anything to build up on my car since.

[overdrive]

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People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.

Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.

It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.

If it was a woman it was probably my ex-wife. Wrecked our car that was less than a week old because she couldn’t be arsed waiting for the windscreen to demist before driving off. Didn’t even get out of the car park before she crashed into a bollard.

[Wembley67]

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If it was a woman it was probably my ex-wife. Wrecked our car that was less than a week old because she couldn’t be arsed waiting for the windscreen to demist before driving off. Didn’t even get out of the car park before she crashed into a bollard.

I concur, grounds for a divorce are watertight there 😁

[heretoday]

TV headline news about wintry conditions. If it was July it'd be a story.
Since when did we become such a bunch of snowflakes?

[O'Rourke3]

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TV headline news about wintry conditions. If it was July it'd be a story.
Since when did we become such a bunch of snowflakes?

When the realisation that ignoring weather warnings for essential travel only had folks on the M8 overnight and cars having to be dug out of snow drifts on the M80?

[danhibees1875]

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People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.

Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.

It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.

I'm over 6 foot and had to go on my tippy toes to clear the middle third of my roof - I imagine many people just wouldn't have been able to... although many more just wouldn't bother to your point.

[Scouse Hibee]

Folk who post on Social Media about how bad a drama or soap has become and lie about watching it. “I stopped watching it years ago, it’s far to violent now, the storylines are ridiculous now and there’s no humour anymore” 😂😂😂😂😂They know an awful lot about a programme/soap they stopped watching years ago!

[Hibrandenburg]

They've changed the English voice announcements on the Berlin S-Bahn, I've now got some Yank telling me what station we're approaching and it does my head in.

[silverhibee]

What’s the difference between anti social and unsocial behaviour, letter from the council about unsocial behaviour in the street, thinking it’s about my dirty noisy neighbours who have been a nightmare the last few nights.

Council came yesterday and swept the gutter in the street to clear all the fag ends. Disgusting.

[matty_f]

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Saw a guy yesterday driving his work van, wee square scraped out of his front windscreen so he could see not much

Unreal

I believe he'd lost his actual scraper and had to use a discount card, so he only got 10% off.

[Bridge hibs]

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I believe he'd lost his actual scraper and had to use a discount card, so he only got 10% off.

Oh ffs 😖

[Jim44]

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I believe he'd lost his actual scraper and had to use a discount card, so he only got 10% off.

On the subject of scrapers, while I’ve not yet seen this raise its ugly head on Facebook yet this winter, the conical plastic ones are absolutely useless. They show videos of folk using them and the hard frost falls away like water off a duck’s back. I stupidly bought one of these two or three years ago and frankly, they just don’t work. They’re fine for removing soft semi-melted frost or snow but they just slide over hard frost. The ‘reviews’ (fake) make out they’re the best thing so we sliced bread.

[CropleyWasGod]

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On the subject of scrapers, while I’ve not yet seen this raise its ugly head on Facebook yet this winter, the conical plastic ones are absolutely useless. They show videos of folk using them and the hard frost falls away like water off a duck’s back. I stupidly bought one of these two or three years ago and frankly, they just don’t work. They’re fine for removing soft semi-melted frost or snow but they just slide over hard frost. The ‘reviews’ (fake) make out they’re the best thing so we sliced bread.

I'm not sure sliced bread would be much help, either.

[lapsedhibee]

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I'm not sure sliced bread would be much help, either.

Pretty sure he means he found an alternative use for the scraper, slicing bread, since it was no use as a scraper.

[Jim44]

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I'm not sure sliced bread would be much help, either.

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Pretty sure he means he found an alternative use for the scraper, slicing bread, since it was no use as a scraper.

Bloody predictive text …… I must check before posting.

[O'Rourke3]

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On the subject of scrapers, while I’ve not yet seen this raise its ugly head on Facebook yet this winter, the conical plastic ones are absolutely useless. They show videos of folk using them and the hard frost falls away like water off a duck’s back. I stupidly bought one of these two or three years ago and frankly, they just don’t work. They’re fine for removing soft semi-melted frost or snow but they just slide over hard frost. The ‘reviews’ (fake) make out they’re the best thing so we sliced bread.

My sister loves internet shopping from China and got me one of those a couple of years back. Great this year with the snow we've had but completely useless with a typical frost. This year's present is a small box which "magically removes all the snow on the outside of the car, from the inside of the car." A few internet searches later and it's most likely to be an air freshener.....

[Jim44]

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My sister loves internet shopping from China and got me one of those a couple of years back. Great this year with the snow we've had but completely useless with a typical frost. This year's present is a small box which "magically removes all the snow on the outside of the car, from the inside of the car." A few internet searches later and it's most likely to be an air freshener.....

I’m relieved to see somebody confirming my opinion. Last year on Facebook about a dozen or more companies, all apparently British but almost certainly Chinese, were pushing this wonderful product and I took every opportunity to highlight how useless they actually were. Not surprisingly, my comments curiously disappeared within a few hours.
Along the same lines a few years ago, I fell for a minor scam with one of these companies and was so pissed off that I made a point of checking out reviews on Trustpilot for any of these companies (Chinese as it happened). 99% of them were getting terrible reviews and I always put a comment on their adverts on Facebook, warning folk about their unscrupulousness, using the term ‘’scam’. I eventually got a warning ( from Facebook, I assume) warning me to stop and desist my negative reviewing. These companies and hundreds more are still flooding Facebook.

[DH1875]

Just me or have shopping prices all gone up again.

[Jim44]

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Just me or have shopping prices all gone up again.

Apologies for stating the obvious, but in Tesco, two months ago, a pack of two venison grillsteaks cost £2.90. Two weeks ago they were £3. Last Wednesday they were £3.50.

[Wilson]

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Apologies for stating the obvious, but in Tesco, two months ago, a pack of two venison grillsteaks cost £2.90. Two weeks ago they were £3. Last Wednesday they were £3.50.

They're deer.

[Jim44]

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They're deer.

8 legs of venison for £70 ……. is that too dear?

[pollution]

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Just me or have shopping prices all gone up again.

The usual January increases, too many to mention !

Tesco are so obvious about it too.

[Pretty Boy]

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Just me or have shopping prices all gone up again.

I genuinely don't know how some people manage. I know the Lee Anderson types will say you can buy a bag of oats, 8 tins of kidney beans and a pack of spaghetti for a fiver and live for a week but in the real world where people want to eat a bit of variance and flavour it's hard going.

I cook almost everything from scratch. I waste nothing. If I have an onion left over I chop it, freeze it and use it the following week, same with things like celery, chilli or herbs. I keep a big tub of chicken bones and use them to make stock when I have enough, I chuck certain peelings in with that as well.

A couple of years back I could do a weekly shop for 4 of us for about £55 which I accept was pretty low but the lack of ready meals and the like definitely keeps costs down. That was a good varied menu. Plenty veg, fruit for snacks, fillings for sandwiches, a few treats etc etc. The same shop now is about £25-30 more expensive. Some of the percentage increases on things like butter, pasta, tinned tomatoes, baked beans (the latter 3 all being cheap staples) is huge and it all adds up. 50p here and £1 there on a list of 30-40 items quite easily becomes £20+.

I'm lucky that I can afford to absorb it and in some cases make cheaper choices but there will be some who just can't and it's only getting worse.

[The Modfather]

AI, or its use of. I saw something about a new film I didn’t know they were making. Watched a trailer for it on YouTube and thought it looked dire. Turns out it wasn’t the actual trailer but AI generated. It looked like a real movie trailer. With AI and deepfake technology that sort of stuff is only going to get worse.