minor things that make you fume

[chrismpw]

Doing the most unusual thing a brit can do.
Complain about food.
So ordered a breakfast which looked lovely.
Cut into the sausage, cold in the middle.
So I just left it,the sausage .
The rest was good.
So paid my bill.
Even give the waitress a tip.
Then said "btw the sausage was cold in the middle ".
She looked at me as though I had six heads.
Never even thanked me for the tip.
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We are becoming like the US in that the compulsory tip is now considered part of the wages. I only tip if somebody has gone above and beyond ... not just done their job. The missus will tip as though the person who just spilled soup on her went on to carry out heart surgery and save a life ffs.

 

[Goodison87]

Who wants to eat fried air?

Anyone from Scotland? They’re mad for it..

 

[degsy]

I absolutely hate receiving gifts that I can't eat or drink. I'm 56 ffs and can buy what I need. Gifts are inevitably what I don't need and don't want and therefore haven't already bought.

The father in law has just given us an egg cooker. Now, instead of me dropping an egg into a pan of boiling water and scooping out a lovely poached egg a minute or so later, now there's an instruction book, measuring devices, 9 steps and a 10 minute cooking time. This is NOT an improvement, its a waste of earth's resources and now my shelf space.

But I have to feign gratitude so I'm told.

Post a pic, I lost mine ( or1 similar? ) in a house move, maybe we could do a deal

 

[degsy]

Doing the most unusual thing a brit can do.
Complain about food.
So ordered a breakfast which looked lovely.
Cut into the sausage, cold in the middle.
So I just left it,the sausage .
The rest was good.
So paid my bill.
Even give the waitress a tip.
Then said "btw the sausage was cold in the middle ".
She looked at me as though I had six heads.
Never even thanked me for the tip.
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Looks kin awful, been sat under hot light for ages by the look of it, sausage looks ropey to
love the chip on the beans thing though.
How much did they charge you for that ?

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

There's a (possibly apocryphal) tale Bill Bryson tells in one of his books about how unafraid some bears are of humans these days. Supposedly a mother smeared honey on her toddler's hands so she could take a picture of a bear licking it off. The bear misunderstood the photo op and ate the child's hand.

It's from A Walk in the Woods. I rely on Bryson for a lot of his science and biology books (he explains stuff that I can use in lessons for non-native English speakers).

“More than nine million people a year come to the Smokies, many of them to picnic. So bears have learned to associate people with food. Indeed, to them people are overweight creatures in baseball caps who spread lots and lots of food out on picnic tables and then shriek a little and waddle off to get their video cameras when old Mr. Bear comes along and climbs onto the table and starts devouring their potato salad and chocolate cake. Since the bear doesn’t mind being filmed and indeed seems indifferent to his audience, pretty generally some fool will come up to it and try to stroke it or feed it a cupcake or something. There is one recorded instance of a woman smearing honey on her toddler’s fingers so that the bear would lick it off for the video camera. Failing to understand this, the bear ate the baby’s hand.​

We, as a a species, have seemed to embrace a retreat from reality with such enthusiasm it has to end in mass extinction within a couple of generations.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Looks kin awful, been sat under hot light for ages by the look of it, sausage looks ropey to
love the chip on the beans thing though.
How much did they charge you for that ?

£7

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I'm a big air fryer convert. We've got one of the large dual versions, which means you can cook more than one item at a time.

For meat and fish and vegetables, it's fantastic in terms of cooking time, taste and reducing the fat compared to frying or cooking in the oven.

They are particularly good for cooking sausages.

Jacket potatoes, home made chips and potato cakes. Basically all the potato family

 

[degsy]

£7

You mostly get what you pay for I suppose

 

[tommytowne]

To be honest I'm firstly fuming that I've taken so long to comment on something that I've fumed about for so long.
Blokes (and women even) wearing sliders and socks, what a gauche fashion statement with footballers in particular guilty of.
All that after the skits towards people wearing sandals with socks.

 

[iamEverton]

Mandatory vaccinations. Nothing is mandatory in life but eating drinking breathing living and dying.

 

[the golden visionary]

£7

Thats a 4 quid breaky at most.

I just send it back if its cold, regardless of the cost.

 

[the golden visionary]

To be honest I'm firstly fuming that I've taken so long to comment on something that I've fumed about for so long.
Blokes (and women even) wearing sliders and socks, what a gauche fashion statement with footballers in particular guilty of.
All that after the skits towards people wearing sandals with socks.

Chill out gok wan.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Thats a 4 quid breaky at most.

I just send it back if its cold, regardless of the cost.

I believe ABFC is in Scotland as well, where the breakfasts are usually far superior with tatty scones and haggis

 

[Tree13]

Thats a 4 quid breaky at most.

I just send it back if its cold, regardless of the cost.

People who decide to deviate from the universally-accepted spelling "brekkie".

 

[Tree13]

To be honest I'm firstly fuming that I've taken so long to comment on something that I've fumed about for so long.
Blokes (and women even) wearing sliders and socks, what a gauche fashion statement with footballers in particular guilty of.
All that after the skits towards people wearing sandals with socks.

Yep +1 for this.

I'll raise you the "wearing fluffy open-toe slippers to go to the shops" look. Enough to make your eyes vomit.