Atlantic Xpat

People who drink Timmies while going around the grocery store.
People who leave Timmies cups on grocery store shelves when finished.

Greenhill

I'll tell you what doesn't grind gears and that's the CVT on my car. What does grind my gears though, is that I have no idea what the thing is doing at any given moment.

Top tip: don't rely on engine braking while descending Mount Washington if your car has a CVT.

dbd33

Oh, the whole culture of leaving food and beverage containers laying around gets on my tits. The streets around us are littered with coffee cups, polystrene trays, whisky bottles (from the LCBO) and beer cans; it's socially acceptable, indeed usual, for people to finish dinner or a drink and then throw the container out of the window as they drive along. Now that it's hunting season the woods are also littered with bottles, sandwich and pita wrappers and burger packaging.

People are shit. Hunters more so.

Almost Canadian

I could never understand this particular aspect of your posts, until I started to live outside of the city (I had never really noticed it while travelling around).

Now I completely agree with you. I am always amazed at how much garbage can be found in the ditch beside the road that borders our property. By far, beer bottles outnumber "other stuff". The kids collect them and claim the refund.

During the last spring clean up with the local 4H club, I believe my daughters' club obtained more than $100 in refunds from discarded cans/bottles. They only cleaned a 5 km stretch of the road and they clean the same stretch each year. Not good.

jimf

The absence of treasury tags..........

Former Lancastrian

Travel companies who advertise the price of a holiday or flight and put the taxes in small print.
Save 73% on this vacation
Toronto to Santa Lucia (Camaguey)
Gran Club Santa Lucia

Wednesday, November 06, 2013 - 7 Days - All inclusive
Now
Reg $785
$215
+ taxes $280

So the actual price is $495 and not $215.

Jingsamichty

That applies to virtually everything you buy here... you think it's $x but it's $x plus tax.

oopsbuddy

Treasury tags.....(always bloody hated them!)

Former Lancastrian

Thats why I have always agreed with the VAT system of pricing. Price on the tag is the price you pay.
The travel industry has always been criticized for their advertising methods as its just not a simple add 17.5% or whatever the GST/PST/HST rate is in your Province.
Airline taxes to Cuba are $280, Cancun $350, Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) $398 and Jamaica around $390.

Shard

These days it seems you can't watch a video clip from a newsmedia website, without first watching a commercial beforehand. In the past you were able to skip the commercial after five seconds, but more and more, you are obligated to watch the whole thing.

orly

Poor clutch control

Jingsamichty

Oh no you're not, just find another news site.

And it's "obliged", not "obligated".

nldfc

That's one that seriously pisses me off as well - cant understand why people feel the need to leave an empty coffee cup in amongst the ketchup bottles .
Another one is when they pick up something from the freezer section , decide they don't want it anymore and then decide to leave a frozen pork tenderloin beside the choccy biscuits - lazy bastards

Jingsamichty

In Canada? Do they even know what that is?

JimandBettina

Timmies!