Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[Brain Potter]

Blokes in their late 50s and 60s with Paul Weller haircuts.

[Elzar]

Blokes in their late 50s and 60s with Paul Weller haircuts.

Like Paul Weller?

[Ghost Town]

Blokes in their late 50s and 60s with Paul Weller haircuts.

Yeah see a lot of them around in the city

[Mumm-Ra]

Drinking with slow drinkers, I’ve just been staring at my empty glass for 20 minutes

[SouthDerryLaggo]

Drinking with slow drinkers, I’ve just been staring at my empty glass for 20 minutes

or people who drink cocktails or shorts  when the rest are drinking pints, meaning they are finished in half the time 

[So… Howard Philips]

Blokes in their late 50s and 60s with Paul Weller haircuts.

Ha. My step son’s 53 and, guess what, has a Paul Weller hairstyle and wears lots of Paisley shirts, scarfs etc.

[UntouchableLuis]

The latest initiative not to put sell by dates on certain foods. I'm meant to guess with my veg and fruit these days, grapes can be deceiving.

[liverbloke]

Yeah see a lot of them around in the city

there were some of them down in the tube station at midnight

[Clint Eastwood]

YouTubers infiltrating sports.

[Boston always unofficial]

Yeah see a lot of them around in the city

Stanley Road?

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

Drinking with slow drinkers, I’ve just been staring at my empty glass for 20 minutes

Just get yourself another pint or half while they catch up. I call it playing through.

Make sure you can stay the distance though. You don’t want to be the early pace setting crumpled in a heap.

[liverbloke]

people who when you think they have finished their sentence - because they leave quite a pause - start talking again when you reply to them as if you've interrupted them

so you stop and then listen and when you think 'ah, they've finished their sentence now' because of that long pause, and you begin to utter a reply then they start up again

and also i was being interviewed in town about energy prices and this girl answered all my replies to her questions with 'am-mazingggg' even when she asked about do i know anyone elderly who would be suffering and i said 'my uncle's in his 80s and he's just had a massive heart attack and is in poor health' and she said 'am-mazingggg' and moved onto the next question

[So… Howard Philips]

The latest initiative not to put sell by dates on certain foods. I'm meant to guess with my veg and fruit these days, grapes can be deceiving.

I bought a bag of unmarked carrots from Sainsbury’s and after a few days they were going mouldy.

Won’t buy bagged veg anymore just loose stuff.

[UntouchableLuis]

I bought a bag of unmarked carrots from Sainsbury’s and after a few days they were going mouldy.

Won’t buy bagged veg anymore just loose stuff.

It doesn't make any sense to me personally - the idea is that use bys mean a lot of people waste food before it actually goes off but ultimately if there isn't a use by, you buy some veg and it does go off after a few days you're going to buy more anyway and chuck it away. With the use by most sensible people would keep it and use it probably a few days after it in some cases depending on what the food is. Just seems another 'clever idea to save the planet' which is actually counter productive.

[Barneylfc∗]

It doesn't make any sense to me personally - the idea is that use bys mean a lot of people waste food before it actually goes off but ultimately if there isn't a use by, you buy some veg and it does go off after a few days you're going to buy more anyway and chuck it away. With the use by most sensible people would keep it and use it probably a few days after it in some cases depending on what the food is. Just seems another 'clever idea to save the planet' which is actually counter productive.

I use plenty of things after their use by date. If it looks used and smells ok then it's getting used. If it's meat generally I'd cook it about 3/4 of the way then freeze it. Defrost then finish it off.

[So… Howard Philips]

I use plenty of things after their use by date. If it looks used and smells ok then it's getting used. If it's meat generally I'd cook it about 3/4 of the way then freeze it. Defrost then finish it off.

I’d agree but when things get mouldy the solution is obvious.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Drinking with slow drinkers, I’ve just been staring at my empty glass for 20 minutes

I .usually start to shake the glass into my mouth, like an empty packet of crisps to indicate how empty it is. No time for breaking
 round etiquette.

[reddebs]

It doesn't make any sense to me personally - the idea is that use bys mean a lot of people waste food before it actually goes off but ultimately if there isn't a use by, you buy some veg and it does go off after a few days you're going to buy more anyway and chuck it away. With the use by most sensible people would keep it and use it probably a few days after it in some cases depending on what the food is. Just seems another 'clever idea to save the planet' which is actually counter productive.

The knack is to use it before it's gone too far even if it's to make a curry or soup or even stock.  All can be frozen and used later.

[liverbloke]

The knack is to use it before it's gone too far even if it's to make a curry or soup or even stock.  All can be frozen and used later.

bang on 

[Elmo!]

Yeah you don't really need to pay any attention to Sell By or Best Before dates. Even Use By you can just use common sense to tell if something is OK to eat.

[reddebs]

Yeah you don't really need to pay any attention to Sell By or Best Before dates. Even Use By you can just use common sense to tell if something is OK to eat.

My sister is a bugger for using stuff way beyond what most people would.  I remember my niece jokingly saying that she was 15 before she found out that yoghurt wasn't fizzy 😂

I don't buy fruit or veg in packaging as I like to feel and smell how fresh it is and there's nothing worse than plastic for rotting stuff.
 

[Tesco tearaway]

My sister is a bugger for using stuff way beyond what most people would.  I remember my niece jokingly saying that she was 15 before she found out that yoghurt wasn't fizzy 😂

I don't buy fruit or veg in packaging as I like to feel and smell how fresh it is and there's nothing worse than plastic for rotting stuff.

I grow a fair amount of veg in our garden; nothing better 

[reddebs]

I grow a fair amount of veg in our garden; nothing better 

I'm trying but so far, other than onions and spuds I've not had much success. 

My latest project is to turn all the veg beds into raised beds using old pallets so I can keep the rabbits and birds out.

It'll also give me some depth to grow things like leeks, carrots and parsnips as we're on heavy clay.

[Brain Potter]

People who vape, particularly those who think the no smoking rules don’t apply to them. They hide that fucking kazoo thing behind their wrist, and just smoke away on their pretend pipe at the match, on the train, in the pub, pretty much wherever they want.

[Barneylfc∗]

People who vape

You could've just ended it there 
Like with everything, some people are OK, but seemingly the overwhelming majority of these people are utter pricks as you describe. Especially the wankers with their cocktail flavours that think they are some sort of trend setter. Newsflash, you are nothing but a c*nt.

[Lee1-6Liv]

I'd much rather have the smell of cigarette smoke over the sweet, sickly smell of vaping any day.

[ScottScott]

Walking through our town centre yesterday evening to go for a meal and this group of young girls, no older than 13, are harrassing an older man who has clear disabilities. We step in and tell them to fuck off somewhere else and are met with a stream of abuse and threats that they'll come back and stab us and so on. Luckily, someone who knew the aforementioned older man came by to make sure he was alright and made it home but the whole thing was just a sorry view of how a lot of the younger generation seem to be acting nowadays (fucking hell, I'm 35 and sound like a pensioner)

One of the kickers was that they're all there smoking those new disposable vapes that are popping up everywhere. I mean, vaping at that age is madness. How the fuck these things have been able to be so widely released is beyond me

[Ghost Town]

I'd much rather have the smell of cigarette smoke over the sweet, sickly smell of vaping any day.

Yes! I've said the same many times. Whatever its faults and dangers the acridity of cigarette smoke makes it feel, I don't know, sort of astringent and clean and impersonal.

The steam from vaping is not only sickly and overpowering but seems horribly moist and intimate by comparison.

Possibly I'm the only one who knows what I mean, lol.

[AndyMuller]

Not exactly small but I’m due to fly home from Florida on Wednesday but a massive hurricane is on track to hit Florida tomorrow and could delay things big time. I’ll know more tomorrow.

[ShrewKop]

Not exactly small but I’m due to fly home from Florida on Wednesday but a massive hurricane is on track to hit Florida tomorrow and could delay things big time. I’ll know more tomorrow.

Hey Andy, I hope you get home ok. I’m in Florida, and watching the storm closely. Which airport are you flying from? Clearwater airport has just shut down due to evacuation orders, but right now all others are open.

My best mate is supposed to be flying in to see us on Thursday via Orlando so hoping everything goes well his end too…

[AndyMuller]

Hey Andy, I hope you get home ok. I’m in Florida, and watching the storm closely. Which airport are you flying from? Clearwater airport has just shut down due to evacuation orders, but right now all others are open.

My best mate is supposed to be flying in to see us on Thursday via Orlando so hoping everything goes well his end too…

Hello mate, Melbourne airport we are flying from. I’m hoping as it is on the east side it won’t be affected as much but god knows. Hope your best mate gets over ok and all to plan mate.

[red_Mark1980]

"lads" in the gym changies who appear to have mistaken a club for a place to shower and change.

The incessant noise and shouting and bawling honestly makes me question whether I should join a more inconvenient gym from my home and work so I can change in a normal atmosphere

[Riquende]

Walking through our town centre yesterday evening to go for a meal and this group of young girls, no older than 13, are harrassing an older man who has clear disabilities.

Were they filming it? Personally, I can't stand the modern trend to be generating content at all times in public. It's not even just being abusive, or cruel pranks etc - there was a story a month or so back about an older woman who had been given flowers in public by a stranger "because it looked like she needed it" - but it was all just some kid getting content for some channel. I think she was suing him over it.

[liverbloke]

hangnails, nail tags, skin tags around the fingernail, wicklows (i think my mum used to call them)

so painful when touched and if you pull them out - well, just fucking don't!

how can something so small be so painful? i broke my leg in 2 places once and that was a breeze in comparison

[Mumm-Ra]

^ Yes we all hate that, get that pic out of here 

[Mumm-Ra]

This is more something that intimidates me - but it's appropriate to post here and you, yes you, will see why.

I've just booked to come back to Liverpool for a quick solo trip, first time in ages, and I'm going to finally take the plunge and start driving. I moved to the states 20 odd years ago having never driven in the UK, learned in the states, and have still never driven back home. Tight windy roads, fast drivers, other side of the road, roundabouts everywhere, and seemingly - based on this thread - an extreme intolerance for other drivers. A brutal lack of empathy one might say. Well maybe have you ever considered that the other driver is actually an excellent driver who is just learning the ropes in a country that is not foreign per se but foreign in the sense of driving? Did that ever cross your hateful little minds? Perhaps it should next time.

[liverbloke]

This is more something that intimidates me - but it's appropriate to post here and you, yes you, will see why.

I've just booked to come back to Liverpool for a quick solo trip, first time in ages, and I'm going to finally take the plunge and start driving. I moved to the states 20 odd years ago having never driven in the UK, learned in the states, and have still never driven back home. Tight windy roads, fast drivers, other side of the road, roundabouts everywhere, and seemingly - based on this thread - an extreme intolerance for other drivers. A brutal lack of empathy one might say. Well maybe have you ever considered that the other driver is actually an excellent driver who is just learning the ropes in a country that is not foreign per se but foreign in the sense of driving? Did that ever cross your hateful little minds? Perhaps it should next time.

hey get outta my way - you're going too slow for this thread

and we post on the left side over here - damn foreigners coming on here and blocking up the threads

beep beep

[Mumm-Ra]

hey get outta my way - you're going too slow for this thread

and we post on the left side over here - damn foreigners coming on here and blocking up the threads

beep beep

Ayy I'm postin' heeah! *whacks car*

[Son of Spion]

This is more something that intimidates me - but it's appropriate to post here and you, yes you, will see why.

I've just booked to come back to Liverpool for a quick solo trip, first time in ages, and I'm going to finally take the plunge and start driving. I moved to the states 20 odd years ago having never driven in the UK, learned in the states, and have still never driven back home. Tight windy roads, fast drivers, other side of the road, roundabouts everywhere, and seemingly - based on this thread - an extreme intolerance for other drivers. A brutal lack of empathy one might say. Well maybe have you ever considered that the other driver is actually an excellent driver who is just learning the ropes in a country that is not foreign per se but foreign in the sense of driving? Did that ever cross your hateful little minds? Perhaps it should next time.

My nephew moved to America some years ago now. Started off in New York but eventually bought a Winnebago and put a trailer on the back to transport a Mini Cooper S all over the States. They'd find a place to stop off for a while then take the Cooper out and explore. He reckoned the driving in America is much worse than over here.

Last time he came back here to visit he hired a car, and some idiot almost wiped us out at the island by The Grapes pub in Formby, though. 

Anyway, just avoid dickheads in black Audis and you should be ok. I empathise regarding the tight, winding roads though. We were over in Snowdonia a few weeks back and plenty of roads are very narrow as well as hilly. It's scary stuff when you turn a tight corner to see a motorhome coming towards you. 😲

[Tesco tearaway]

I broke my leg in 2 places once and that was a breeze in comparison

Was one of the two places Wembley in a FA cup final Dave?