Return of the silly little things that annoy you thread

[Mark Carrington]

Or, if you're in France, UHT. My partner, a confirmed milky tea/coffee drinker goes resolutely black when we're in France.

That's just sent a shiver down my spine. We'll no longer be able to milk with us to France. So quite possibly no tea at breakfast time, during the duration of our stay.
And sure it's just a first world problem, but it's a BIG problem notwithstanding.

 

[Paul Anderson]

That's just sent a shiver down my spine. We'll no longer be able to milk with us to France. So quite possibly no tea at breakfast time, during the duration of our stay.
And sure it's just a first world problem, but it's a BIG problem notwithstanding.

I seem to recall full fat milk was readily available in French supermarkets. When our daughter was young she would only drink milk if it was FF (and she could tell the difference) and she was very happy with what we bought. They were about the only milks that were stored in a fridge (red (full) or blue (semi) tops, I think).

 

[Geordie Torr]

I seem to recall full fat milk was readily available in French supermarkets.

Yes, it's often difficult to find, but it is usually there somewhere. The UHT issue arises when ordering tea or coffee out. Not a problem for me as I don't consider tea or coffee with milk in to be tea or coffee.

 

[Paul Anderson]

Not a problem for me as I don't consider tea or coffee with milk in to be tea or coffee.

Me too. I can even tell if someone has stirred my coffee with a spoon that was previously used in a milky coffee. Why they would stir mine is beyond me as I drink my coffee black without sugar, so there's nothing to stir.

 

[David Pope]

I am fed up with receiving emails from companies trying to persuade me to take out a savings plan to pay for my funeral. I have no intention of going in the foreseeable future.

 

[G. W o l f f]

We have a radio news reporter here who keeps referring to the "new news".

 

[Paul Anderson]

I am fed up with receiving emails from companies trying to persuade me to take out a savings plan to pay for my funeral. I have no intention of going in the foreseeable future.

I started getting phone calls about funeral plans when I turned 60. As I work in IT, I felt obliged to ask when the implementation date is.

 

[Alex Lake]

I started getting phone calls about funeral plans when I turned 60. As I work in IT, I felt obliged to ask when the implementation date is.

Is that allowed? Age discrimination and all that?

 

[Tom Cannavan]

"Well, xxxx has got to change things up if he wants to win this game". Change things UP???? Morons.

 

[Ben Coffman]

Or, if you're in France, UHT. My partner, a confirmed milky tea/coffee drinker goes resolutely black when we're in France.

Same with me. And one is charged €4.50 for a pretty poor coffee.
It occurred to me over the weekend that the Café Nero slogan/review "The best coffee this side of Milan" was actually not saying much as pretty much the entire space between Milan and UK is France...

 

[G. W o l f f]

"Well, xxxx has got to change things up if he wants to win this game". Change things UP???? Morons.

Not far off "swapping it out"

 

[Geordie Torr]

Same with me. And one is charged €4.50 for a pretty poor coffee.
It occurred to me over the weekend that the Café Nero slogan/review "The best coffee this side of Milan" was actually not saying much as pretty much the entire space between Milan and UK is France...

I seem to be alone in actually rather liking the standard bar-tabac espresso you're served in any small town/village in France.

 

[Russell Faulkner]

I don't drink coffee, but I can think of four small high quality 'Torréfacteurs' within a short walk of our shop. Maybe things are changing?

 

[Thom Blach]

I seem to be alone in actually rather liking the standard bar-tabac espresso you're served in any small town/village in France.

I like it too, excitingly squalid and crying out for the kind of French cigarette that is now almost extinct. I don't like it as much as the electric soup one gets in a Roman bar, though.

 

[Thom Blach]

Not far off "swapping it out"

Frying off and cleaning down are pretty annoying, too.

 

[G. W o l f f]

Oversensitive (or any) car alarms. Pointless too as everybody seems to ignore them. My former brother-in-law, many years ago when living in Hatfield, heard a car alarm going off in the middle of the night. He ignored it (well, it was Hatfield, and car alarms may go off more frequently and for good reason there unlike may other instances). In the morning, he discovered it was his car and that it had indeed been broken into and all contents taken (with damage caused).

Closely followed by the key fob button to confirm your car is locked by making the horn beep (although I read that these are banned in Europe?). So unnecessary and so noisy, and people seem to have a habit of doing it from several meters away while I am next to their car. At least Hondas emit a reasonably unobtrusive digital beep.

Also reversing alarms (some people are fitting these to their cars too), and noisy exhausts.

Noise really; and not a silly little thing either. I can half remember a quote about "every little bang" sending somebody off their trolley, but can't find it now.

 

[Dan Baillie]

People who put the loo roll on so it comes from under/behind the roll. What on earth are these people doing? How do they even function?

 

[G. W o l f f]

People who put the loo roll on so it comes from under/behind the roll. What on earth are these people doing? How do they even function?

What is this "loo roll"? I have a cat. The epitome of sustainable post-loo equipment as it is self cleaning. Well, maybe a bidet would be better, but I think the cat would object even more if I combined the two.

 

[Mike Holliday]

Oversensitive (or any) car alarms.

I was walking down the road near Earls Court some while ago and there was a car with an alarm which started just about every time anything larger than a car drove by - and it was a fairly busy road. As I passed I noticed someone had put a note on the windscreen; it read “REINSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY - for owners of badly adjusted car alarms”
I’d only had to suffer for a few minutes but I was starting to feel sympathy for whoever it was…

 

[Rob Lockwood]

What is this "loo roll"? I have a cat.

I suspect using a cat for this purpose is illegal in Britain now Greg.

 

[Charles Muttar]

I suspect using a cat for this purpose is illegal in Britain now Greg.

A bear and a rabbit...

 

[Phil David]

As we are in the smallest room, the adult to adult use of the word poo, even in reputable media. No. Poo is for children. There are myriad synonyms for adults to use, ranging from medical terminology to colloquial to vulgar. Choose one and stop infantilising yourself.

 

[Alex Jagger]

Coffee cups you cannot put your finger in the handle.

 

[Steve Slatcher]

There are myriad synonyms for adults to use, ranging from medical terminology to colloquial to vulgar

I note that the NHS bowel-screening kit instructions now use "poo". The medical and the infantile become one!

It's a sad state of affairs, but I struggle to think of a non-infantile alternative that would be a) universally understood and b) universally inoffensive.

 

[Richard Ward]

I note that the NHS bowel-screening kit instructions now use "poo". The medical and the infantile become one!

It's a sad state of affairs, but I struggle to think of a non-infantile alternative that would be a) universally understood and b) universally inoffensive.

Turd??

Such a great word...