Random Irritations

[PJ87]

I threatened a car lease company with that when they failed to collect one for over a month..
Worked a treat, they turned up unannounced within 48 hours and didn't charge for things I thought they would - scuffed alloys etc..
Or
Sell it and if they ever do come to pick it up, claim that someone from Argos picked it up a week ago......

When we moved house they had made it very clear if we didn't complete by this date etc etc we would be charged by the day certain fees etc

They phoned us 3pm moving day to say it couldn't happen today due to some problem I pointed out they would owe me x amount of fees laid out in their contract for not completing on the agreed date

Yeah we were given the keys by 4.

 

[bobmac]

Just waiting now for a manager to call me in the next 4 hours, I'm not holding my breath.
I also discovered that the collection people don't work at the weekend, so there was never anyone coming yesterday.
Meanwhile, two 4x4s have just driven passed my house with a tiny area of snow removed from their windscreens.
What's wrong with people today?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We have had a Christmas pudding in our cupboard for 'a while'. It's one of those things you notice but just dismiss. Today, after a very nice Sunday dinner I thought today's the day. I took it out of the cupboard, started to read the instructions and then noticed the expiry. March 2020 . It really has become part of the furniture.

Ah well, not today after all

 

[RichA]

The train from Manchester to Scunthorpe yesterday. It left 45 mins late. Buying a first class ticket was pointless - it was rammed, and no guard. On approach to Sheffield it’s announced that the train would not be stopping at Doncaster, Scunthorpe, Barnetby & Haborough but would be going on to Grimsby & Cleethorpes. All passengers for those stations were to get off the train and get on the one behind, which was running 5 mins late.

Couldn’t even get into the first class carriage on the second train, and neither of the two toilets on the train worked.

Arrived in Scunthorpe 1hr 5mins late. 100% refund due, but that’s not the point.

At least travelling a day early has meant we beat the weather. Looks like 3 inches of snow out there now.

At least when you finally got to Scunthorpe it will have felt like your train had arrived about 45 years early.

 

[Imurg]

We have had a Christmas pudding in our cupboard for 'a while'. It's one of those things you notice but just dismiss. Today, after a very nice Sunday dinner I thought today's the day. I took it out of the cupboard, started to read the instructions and then noticed the expiry. March 2020 . It really has become part of the furniture.

Ah well, not today after all

When we're up at the In-laws every Xmas we play cards for small prize pressies....like stocking fillers
Done it for years.
1 prize gets recycled every year, wrapped up slightly differently to disguise it....
A vintage 2001 tin of Spam....reckon if we opened it we may discover new species.....

 

[AmandaJR]

We have had a Christmas pudding in our cupboard for 'a while'. It's one of those things you notice but just dismiss. Today, after a very nice Sunday dinner I thought today's the day. I took it out of the cupboard, started to read the instructions and then noticed the expiry. March 2020 . It really has become part of the furniture.

Ah well, not today after all

Tomorrow then?!

 

[PhilTheFragger]

We have had a Christmas pudding in our cupboard for 'a while'. It's one of those things you notice but just dismiss. Today, after a very nice Sunday dinner I thought today's the day. I took it out of the cupboard, started to read the instructions and then noticed the expiry. March 2020 . It really has become part of the furniture.

Ah well, not today after all

They keep for years, do a sniff test and a look for furry stuff
It’s probably absolutely fine

 

[Lord Tyrion]

They keep for years, do a sniff test and a look for furry stuff
It’s probably absolutely fine

Just a year over, for that type of pudding, and I'd have eaten it. Coming up to 4 years, that's a gamble not worth taking

 

[Orikoru]

This fad of putting salt on sweet things. Who made this up? Salted caramel - disgusting. Salted brownies - awful. I had a shortbread cookie yesterday - traditionally shortbread would be dusted in sugar, but they'd dusted it in salt instead. It just tastes weird! Like they ran out sugar and did it wrong. I'm convinced this is like an emperor's new clothes thing where everyone knows it tastes awful but nobody wants to admit it for some reason. You wouldn't put sugar on your fish and chips.

 

[TimShady]

This fad of putting salt on sweet things. Who made this up? Salted caramel - disgusting. Salted brownies - awful. I had a shortbread cookie yesterday - traditionally shortbread would be dusted in sugar, but they'd dusted it in salt instead. It just tastes weird! Like they ran out sugar and did it wrong. I'm convinced this is like an emperor's new clothes thing where everyone knows it tastes awful but nobody wants to admit it for some reason. You wouldn't put sugar on your fish and chips.

As someone who adores salted chocolate, I promise you it’s no fad.

 

[Voyager EMH]

This fad of putting salt on sweet things. Who made this up? Salted caramel - disgusting. Salted brownies - awful. I had a shortbread cookie yesterday - traditionally shortbread would be dusted in sugar, but they'd dusted it in salt instead. It just tastes weird! Like they ran out sugar and did it wrong. I'm convinced this is like an emperor's new clothes thing where everyone knows it tastes awful but nobody wants to admit it for some reason. You wouldn't put sugar on your fish and chips.

And yet many people do just that with tomato ketchup which is mainly sugar.

But agree with you about unnecessary salt added to any stuff. Just let people add salt if they want to.

 

[Orikoru]

As someone who adores salted chocolate, I promise you it’s no fad.

It tastes weird and wrong though. Would be like if someone brought you your chips, and instead of ketchup they provided a bowl of strawberry jam.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

They keep for years, do a sniff test and a look for furry stuff
It’s probably absolutely fine

And so in the same vein…I have two unopened packets of brandy soaked mixed fruit (for Christmas cakes, mince pies etc) that I didn‘t use last year with BBE date of May 2023. I’m thinking it’s Best Before not Use By…and the mixed fruit is soaked in alcohol so won’t that preserve the fruit. Use or Not Use is the question. I hate waste.

 

[Slime]

This fad of putting salt on sweet things. Who made this up? Salted caramel - disgusting. Salted brownies - awful. I had a shortbread cookie yesterday - traditionally shortbread would be dusted in sugar, but they'd dusted it in salt instead. It just tastes weird! Like they ran out sugar and did it wrong. I'm convinced this is like an emperor's new clothes thing where everyone knows it tastes awful but nobody wants to admit it for some reason. You wouldn't put sugar on your fish and chips.

Next time you're having chocolate cake, try this little twist.
Take the top off the cake and cover the filling with ready salted crisps. Put the top back on and enjoy.
Yes please!

Oh, you're all welcome.

 

[Orikoru]

Next time you're having chocolate cake, try this little twist.
Take the top off the cake and cover the filling with ready salted crisps. Put the top back on and enjoy.
Yes please!

Oh, you're all welcome.

No I'm not going to do that you lunatic!

 

[TimShady]

It tastes weird and wrong though. Would be like if someone brought you your chips, and instead of ketchup they provided a bowl of strawberry jam.

It tastes weird to you maybe.

 

[Slime]

It's gorgeous.

 

[Voyager EMH]

One tablespoon of ketchup has 4g of sugar.
One tablespoon of jam has 9g of sugar.

When you put strawberry jam on your chips, you only need to use about half as much as the ketchup.

You're all welcome.

 

[chellie]

We have had a Christmas pudding in our cupboard for 'a while'. It's one of those things you notice but just dismiss. Today, after a very nice Sunday dinner I thought today's the day. I took it out of the cupboard, started to read the instructions and then noticed the expiry. March 2020 . It really has become part of the furniture.

Ah well, not today after all

Oh, I'd have eaten it. Unless it had mould on.

 

[IanM]

Ok. Why are folk writing "gifted," in place of "given?"