British Expats - Pet Peeves?

Cheese grating is not easy. I made my wife grilled cheese yesterday and she found the supermarket label and barcode in it halfway through eating it :o

Garnish. :nod:

Pulaski

Oct 15th 2013 5:40 am

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10945501)

.... Well, it could have been related to the age of cheese being squared off ...

And presumably, the origin! :sick:

SultanOfSwing

Oct 15th 2013 5:41 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10945506)

And presumably, the origin! :sick:

Or indeed, the variety ...

Pulaski

Oct 15th 2013 5:46 am

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10945509)

Or indeed, the variety ...

That's not quite what I had in mind, third technician Rimmer. ;)

Nutek

Oct 15th 2013 5:48 am

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STOP SPOILING CHEESE!! http://yaypics.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-mXGJm3S-S.gif

Pulaski

Oct 15th 2013 5:56 am

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10945519)

STOP SPOILING CHEESE!!

That's a good contender for ironic post of the year, given that cheese is made by inoculating milk proteins with bacteria and waiting until the bacteria have digested it, which is a fair definition of "spoiled". :unsure:

Nutek

Oct 15th 2013 5:58 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10945530)

You are not helping. :frown:

SultanOfSwing

Oct 15th 2013 6:01 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10945517)

That's not quite what I had in mind, third technician Rimmer. ;)

Second technician. Lister was third tech :D

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10945532)

You are not helping. :frown:

Here are your eggs. Try not to think about where they came from.

lizzyq

Oct 15th 2013 8:51 am

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10945223)

It's more of aggravation on a per occurrence basis. Irritation when it's seen, then forgotten about shortly thereafter.

It doesn't come close to the grocers' apostrophe (which I saw on a sign in a bloody supermarket the other day) or christians, for example ...

On the motorway between Milan & Turin today I saw an Italian fruit'n'veg van with an English phrase correctly punctuated including an apostrophe. How come the Italians get it right and the native speakers mangle it beyond comprehension?

Sally Redux

Oct 15th 2013 8:55 am

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Originally Posted by lizzyq (Post 10945794)

I would have a school leaving test requiring every candidate to get these simple things right or stay on until they could. 'Plaza de Toros' might even become readable.

Doubtful though.

Where do they even come from?

Complete idiots.

Here's another one I noticed in P de T. Leave a space before your exclamation marks so !!! Immigrants are a big problem !!!

yellowroom

Oct 25th 2013 3:59 am

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Instructions to arrive 15 minutes before your appointment. If you want me to turn up at 8.30am for an 8.45am appointment, why don't you just make the appointment time for 8.30am so we all know what time I'm supposed to arrive?

Nutek

Oct 25th 2013 4:06 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by yellowroom (Post 10961553)

Because they aren't going to see you until 9:15

At the earliest.

SultanOfSwing

Oct 25th 2013 4:21 am

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Originally Posted by yellowroom (Post 10961553)

Sometimes, though, it works in your favour to be early because they might have a cancellation or something that means you end up getting seen more quickly.

jeffreyhy

Oct 25th 2013 4:28 am

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I do that sometimes, when the last word ends with the letter 'ell'.

Regards, JEff

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10945807)

Here's another one I noticed in P de T. Leave a space before your exclamation marks so !!!

yellowroom

Oct 25th 2013 5:13 am

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10961597)

Sometimes, though, it works in your favour to be early because they might have a cancellation or something that means you end up getting seen more quickly.

If I get there early due to being super organised or good traffic then that's fine, but enforced earliness of the "8.45am means 8.30am" variety is just stupid.

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10961567)

Because they aren't going to see you until 9:15

At the earliest.

Probably. I know in reality it means that they want to go through the whole bloody id/insurance/address/consent rigmarole at reception, then nurses weighing and measuring you and getting you all ready so that doctor can swan in at 8.45am for 30 seconds, poke about and then bugger off and charge my insurance a small fortune.

Getting a smear test done by the practice nurse at my GP might have been more low-tech but there was considerably less (pardon me) fannying about!!!!

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