NWR Silly Little Things That Annoy You

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Adam Holland

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It annoys me that this thread disappeared but what annoys me even more is the adjectival use of ‘Rhone’ as in Rhone wine.

Why on earth conflate the cold, Calvinistic clutch of the mono-varietal reds of the northern Rhone with the warm, Baroque embrace of the garrigue-infused, joyous blends from the southern Rhone.

They couldn’t be more different.

Probably even more annoying but on a related theme is that Rhone Rangers is one of the (excruciating) thread titles on the TWS forum (Burgundy Believers, Bordeaux Browsers, Italian Inquirers…you get the drift). I don’t want to click on a thread where you have to plough through idle chatter about Cornas and Cote-Rotie and Crozes-Hermitage when I could be reading about Gigondas and CNdP and Mount Ventoux wines.
 
It’s a much bigger issue! The Spain footballer, the Wales hills etc etc etc. Not sure why this happened but it’s horrific and seemingly endemic in the press and on the beeb these days.
 
Incidentally, what annoyed me most about the enforced thread deletions was my stupidity in choosing to delete "threads older than X", with X being their creation date. I have since realised that there was an option to delete "threads where the the most recent post is older than X", which would have meant ever very old threads would not have been deleted, as long as they were still active with recent posts. It's annoying that you live and learn.
 
First world problem, but one for the new thread:

A combination of:
- hotels with windows that can’t be opened
- hotel air conditioning failing at midnight
- air freshener being sprayed heavily in the room every day despite repeated requests not to.

It is lovely and cool at night but I can’t open the window to get rid of the revolting, vomit-inducing smell or cool down the room.

Oh well
 
G. W o l f f said:
First world problem, but one for the new thread:

A combination of:
- hotels with windows that can’t be opened
- hotel air conditioning failing at midnight
- air freshener being sprayed heavily in the room every day despite repeated requests not to.

It is lovely and cool at night but I can’t open the window to get rid of the revolting, vomit-inducing smell or cool down the room.

Oh well
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You do need to clarify that you are now in India and not NZ Greg.
 
I suspect I have a low/strange irritation threshold. Two things I always find strange: being in an airport and they announce your plane has been delayed for five hours and apologise for "any inconvenience". Of course it's bloody inconvenient, why not apologise for "the inconvenience". The other thing that always makes me smile, when in a restaurant or somewhere similar and you read "please ask our friendly staff". How the f__k do you know which one's the friendly one?
 
Kevin Courtney said:
You do need to clarify that you are now in India and not NZ Greg.
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Yes indeed, albeit very luckily getting an alternative flight after my scheduled one was cancelled due to more torrential rain in Auckland. Rushed to the airport and was allowed on what turned out to be the last flight of the day early in the morning and only got on that as it was itself delayed and they were finishing boarding. Colleagues remained stranded in Nelson.

The luck aspect is one for the “delight” thread.

Hot in the day here but still cooling off nicely at night - outside the hotel at least. A chilled Riverby Gruner Veltliner would help!
 
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G. W o l f f said:
Yes indeed, albeit very luckily getting an alternative flight after my scheduled one was cancelled due to more torrential rain in Auckland. Rushed to the airport and was allowed on the last flight of the day and only got on that as it was itself delayed and they were finishing boarding. Colleagues remained stranded in Nelson.

The luck aspect is one for the “delight” thread.

Hot in the day here but still cooling off nicely at night - outside the hotel at least. A chilled Riverby Gruner Veltliner would help!
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We have never had a summer like this one in NZ, although the South Island has escaped so far.
 
"Any inconvenience caused" god yes that is irritating. Tom does this mean my proper rant about on-train PA announcements has been deleted? I'll have to go and suffer it again.

Mind you, the proliferation of loudly broadcast banalities is not restricted to being on the train. At London Bridge, they recently introduced a new "hold the handrail, and face the direction of travel" repeating clip on the escalators. Do people really think that anyone who is not holding the handrail and facing the direction of travel is going to change their behaviour because of this announcement?
 
"The train from Waterloo has been delayed because of the late running of the earlier service." That's not the reason; that's the effect!

Getting the train from Birkenhead to St James in Liverpool with all the on board station announcements being in RP. I mean, really?
 
Joel Hopwood said:
Mind you, the proliferation of loudly broadcast banalities is not restricted to being on the train. At London Bridge, they recently introduced a new "hold the handrail, and face the direction of travel" repeating clip on the escalators. Do people really think that anyone who is not holding the handrail and facing the direction of travel is going to change their behaviour because of this announcement?
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I can imagine the station staff cleaning up the resultant mess tut tutting to themselves “We told you so”…..
 
When I was working at Jeroboams a couple of decades ago we used to have a board where we'd record and rank the most idiotic strangest questions we got asked by people coming in the shop. By far the most common was the following conversation:

Customer: I had this great wine in a restaurant last night - do you have it or can you get it?
Staff: I can try - what was the wine?
Customer: I don't know
Staff: Do you remember the kind of wine? Burgundy, Bordeaux, Australian, etc?
Customer: I don't know
Staff: Ok - was it red or white?
Customer: Red
Staff: Great that's a start - what was the restaurant and I'll call them and see if I can track it down
Customer: Ummmmm....
 
This didn't annoy me really; it just made me laugh. Very chatty Uber driver yesterday, an Indian guy of around 45 I'd guess, and we somehow got talking about driving tests. He sat his over here about 15 years ago, and asked when I passed mine. When I said that it was well over 40 years ago, he replied, "it would have been much easier back then, especially with so few cars on the road." !?!?!?! :)
 
Tom Cannavan said:
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I am also veering towards that position. The real annoyances are the characterless, wooden chef judges all asking the same questions - "are you happy with the cooking of the fish/meat"; "Are you pleased with the sauce/texture/balance" and worst of all "what would you score this dish?". Andi Oliver is OK during the cooking part, but her comments during the judging summary are worthless, inept and don't even sound as if they are own.
 
Paul Anderson said:
I am also veering towards that position. The real annoyances are the characterless, wooden chef judges all asking the same questions - "are you happy with the cooking of the fish/meat"; "Are you pleased with the sauce/texture/balance" and worst of all "what would you score this dish?". Andi Oliver is OK during the cooking part, but her comments during the judging summary are worthless, inept and don't even sound as if they are own.
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At one time it was about cooking and celebrating local ingredients. Now it's clear most of the chefs haven't got a clue about the theme - the production company has given them a book, or TV show and briefed them on it - and the production company has also dreamed up and manufactured the ludicrous props. The panel of judges is very unlovable. The end result is that it's just such boring TV. I gave up after a couple of the latest series, as it totally failed to interest or entertain me.
 
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