Trivial things that annoy you

GarIT

People that call a controller a joypad, a joypad is something that was used on one particular console from 1986-1987.

Lingua Franca

smeedyova wrote: »

Eh? Where does it say that? According to the Oxford English Dictionary it means,
"That seasons, that adds a flavour or relish."

Even wikipedia says "Seasoning is the process of adding salt, herbs, or spices to food to enhance the flavor."

Right there on the Wikipedia page, 2 lines down from where you stopped reading.

However, Larousse Gastronomique states that "to season and to flavour are not the same thing", insisting that seasoning includes a large or small amount of salt being added to a preparation.

efb

Late trains

OldNotWIse

GarIT wrote: »

People that call a controller a joypad, a joypad is something that was used on one particular console from 1986-1987.

I call it a joystick

kunst nugget

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Right there on the Wikipedia page, 2 lines down from where you stopped reading.

Yay, I was right! Hasn't helped my cooking, mind…

smeedyova

kunst nugget wrote: »

Yay, I was right! Hasn't helped my cooking, mind…

Oxford English Dictionary wins every time for me

WhiteRoses

WhiteRoses wrote: »

Getting shouted at for 10 minutes today by an irate customer at work, over a mistake made by my manager. Said manager hid in the back because he "couldn't be dealing with the likes of her". So instead of him dealing with with the problem he created, I had to listen to "This just isn't good enough!!!!" on repeat while I apologised profusely.

So despite the fact I only work there 2 days a week, the fact that it wasn't my fault, in fact it was nothing at ALL to do with me, I got the blame for it while a whole host of other customers looked on awkwardly.

Sometimes I wonder is the €8.65 p/h even worth it when stuff like this happens.

When I started my working life I used to have these experiences regularly. They're character forming and you learn diplomatic skills in those situations that are very useful in all areas of later life.

But yeah, it f*cking sucks when you're in the middle of them I know :P

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I call it a joystick

I was wrong on both counts....:P

JanaMay

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

You may all mock but I know everyone of you has gone looking for the cam. So I am going to be the bigger person here and put a link to it.
FYI, penguin porn is a thing.

http://www.dublinzoo.ie/20/Penguins.aspx

How will I ever get any work done now? I'll be looking at their busy little shuffling all day!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

People who park like assholes. Swing the car into a space any ole way at all. Have the white line under the middle of your car and give yourself half a car space to open your door. Never mind the carpark could be heaving with traffic, naw. As long as you don't have to bother parking correctly then don't worry about being a prick.

smeedyova

People who are handing out papers at a meeting and lick their thumbs before they touch each page and then hand it to me with their spit on it.

gramar

I was reading indo.ie (yeah I know, what the fcuk was I doing that for) and there's a story about Yvonne Keating's Christmas plans. Why is this reported?
What purpose does it serve? If I'm not mistaken there was a similar story last year. Who fcuking cares what these people get up to?

Just reading the caption of the story makes my blood boil. It's not just the story itself it's the unapologetically schmoozy writing style.

"Yvonne Keating's planning to go Christmas crackers with Ronan and kids at home - Ronan and the extended Keating family will be heading to Chez Yvonne's for a Yuletide feast"

jimbobaloobob

When your filling the fuel tank on the car and you round it off to the Euro, then hang the pump up and its gone that extra cent over. You dont get the cent of petrol but they get it off you.

eisenberg1

gramar wrote: »

I was reading indo.ie (yeah I know, what the fcuk was I doing that for) and there's a story about Yvonne Keating's Christmas plans. Why is this reported?
What purpose does it serve? If I'm not mistaken there was a similar story last year. Who fcuking cares what these people get up to?

Just reading the caption of the story makes my blood boil. It's not just the story itself it's the unapologetically schmoozy writing style.

"Yvonne Keating's planning to go Christmas crackers with Ronan and kids at home - Ronan and the extended Keating family will be heading to Chez Yvonne's for a Yuletide feast"

Really boils my nuts!! Who gives a flyin ****e what she/he is doing Xmas day. This is what happens when you cant get a "celebrity"....you get husband/wife/partner of one. Are these people stuck for a few bob?

OhHiMark

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

That has always bugged the bejesus out of me. I don't eat meat so mostly whats on offer is pastries if you don't want runny eggs. I can't eat a runny egg, the sight of it makes me queasy, so I only eat eggs that I've cooked for myself, not that I eat them very often.

Also why on earth can cafes not stock some quorn products? It'd be nice to have the option rather than a grease fest like mushrooms, hash browns and fried eggs and beans. I don't bother eating anywhere with that menu.

Why on earth can you not eat meat? It's delicious.

smeedyova

OhHiMark wrote: »

Why on earth can you not eat meat? It's delicious.

Maybe Pumpkin is vegetarian?

Professional chefs who think that a "vegetarian option" is pasta and tomato sauce covered with paremesan cheese. Parmesan cheese is never, ever vegetarian (it's made with the lining of a calf's stomach). I know this so why can't the professionals??? Their ignorance really annoys me.

Czarcasm

smeedyova wrote: »

Maybe Pumpkin is vegetarian?

Professional chefs who think that a "vegetarian option" is pasta and tomato sauce covered with paremesan cheese. Parmesan cheese is never, ever vegetarian (it's made with the lining of a calf's stomach). I know this so why can't the professionals??? Their ignorance really annoys me.

Could it be Vegetable rennet they're using instead?

Vegetable rennet

Many plants have coagulating properties. Homer suggests in the Iliad and the Odyssey that the Greeks used an extract of fig juice to coagulate milk. Other examples include dried caper leaves, nettles, thistles, mallow, and Ground Ivy (Creeping Charlie). Enzymes from thistle or cynara are used in some traditional cheese production in the Mediterranean. Phytic acid, derived from unfermented soybeans, or Fermentation-Produced Chymosin (FPC) may also be used.
Vegetable rennets are also suitable for vegetarians. Vegetable rennet might be used in the production of kosher and halal cheeses but nearly all kosher cheeses are produced with either microbial rennet or FPC. Worldwide, there is no industrial production for vegetable rennet. Commercial so-called vegetable rennets usually contain rennet from the mold Mucor miehei - see microbial rennet below.

yeppydeppy

That féckin' goat is on the way on the radio, isn't he? If anyone ever buys me a goat and sends it to Africa I won't be too happy, I want the goat myself especially if you've paid for a goat as a present for me, I want: goats milk, goat curry and manish water.

peewee_44

I hate the phrase Haters are always gonna hate

smeedyova

Czarcasm wrote: »

Could it be Vegetable rennet they're using instead?


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Some cheeses use vegetarian rennet, but Parmesan must be made in the traditional way in order to be called Parmesan and that means that calf's stomach must be used.

"Parmesan and other non-vegetarian cheese

There are some cheeses which are always made using animal rennet, for example, Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano). In order to be called ‘Parmesan’ this has to be produced according to traditional methods which use calf rennet. The regulations for its production state the following ingredients; cows milk, salt and calf rennet. The milk comes from cows reared in the defined geographical area and the use of the term parmesan as a product description is limited by European Union labelling law to being region specific. Other cheeses which are always made using animal rennet include Grana Padano and Gorgonzola. You can get ‘parmesan style hard cheese’, and variations of others which are suitable for vegetarians."


https://www.vegsoc.org/cheese

Paz-CCFC

CrabRevolution wrote: »

First, the attitude of craft beer types towards those who dont share their love for it. Rarely do they flat out say 'people who dont buy craft beers', its more often 'morons' and 'sheep' who have 'no sense of taste', who drink 'diageo piss/shít'.

Really makes craft beer heads sound like an endearing bunch to join....

Second, people who give out about Irish sport fans. Saying things like 'this country has no real sport fans' and 'Ireland only has event junkies'. These people must either want:

a) For every sport to have only a few hundred die hards at most to attend all the time from the most unattractive early season 1st rounds to the marquee top level finals, and that all the seasonal fairweather fans stay at home all the time and not dare grace sporting venues with their support and money.

b) For every sport to have a designated number of fans and that every fan follows that sport and that sport only, with absolutely no mixing or varied interests allowed.

One thing I've always found amusing about the whole "beer snob" thing, at least on here, is what's generally seen as okay and what's not okay. It's seems to be perfectly okay for a Heineken drinker to call Budweiser piss or for a Guinness drinker to spout about how Beamish/Murphy's is muck. But the moment that someone says that Heineken and Guinness are rather bland and are like the McDonald's of beers, the people who drink these get in a right huff about it. Not saying you do it, but I've noticed it a bit around here.

Likewise, re the sports thing, at least in the context of football, it's no problem for supporters of British teams to be hostile towards local supporters, call the leagues in Ireland ****e etc. (Them being oblivious to the fact that, bar those that make it in the top few leagues in England and the top league in Scotland, those that play in the league systems of Ireland and Northern Ireland are the cream of the crop of Irish footballers). But, if a supporter of an Irish team hits back in kind, lectures are given of the holier than thou attitude that exists, with the irony going right over their head. What's even cringier is people claiming that that's the reason that they don't go to local matches, which is akin to a child saying "You wouldn't agree with me and let me take the penalty, so I'm taking my ball and going home".

Plazaman

So over 1 million people watched Love/Hate and obviously there's going to be huge talk about it the next day on the radio and in the papers. But it's the people who haven't watch it that annoy me giving out that by talking about it we're giving away spoilers. Sooooo, just cause you didn't see it, 1 million + people have to keep their mouths shut until you catch up?

The guy in the comments section of this Indo article takes the biscuit and I had to slap my screen in the hope that it would digitally transpose to him. He never watched the show, but is giving out about spoilers as he MAY want to watch it at sometime in the future.

I'm going to the telephone book now starting from A, ringing people to see who has watched it and who hasn't just to see who I can talk in front off.

*cough Dentist and Wayne gets clipped

OldNotWIse

My OH right now!!! You know how you know someone is not listening? Tell them half a story and they say "oh thats so funny!" -

Mint Aero

One thing that really grates my goats cheese is when firms expand in this country and begin looking for new staff but can't find any

What's really stupid is, said firms will more often than not say something along the lines of "Due to emigration we just can't find any suitable candidates for the jobs available."

Oh, so the Irish workers you need are abroad therefore not available for work? Ok.

The solution?....

"So we're gonna recruit foreign nationals from abroad " :pac:



Really? You can't find any suitable Irish candidates even though Joe soap like myself knows at least 20 off the top of my head.

But let me get this straight, you're gonna go looking for suitable workers abroad who aren't Irish even though you just said the Irish candidates are abroad themselves, then why not recruit them or at the very least consider them before you come on our national airwaves moaning about all the Irish not being available for work because they're abroad what makes them less available than any other nationality who's also abroad?

Why is that?


and before anyone buts in about Google and IT sh*te, I'm not talking about those industries, I'm talking about skilled labour that's actually in abundance in Ireland and has been for decades.

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

My OH right now!!! You know how you know someone is not listening? Tell them half a story and they say "oh thats so funny!" -

Oh sorry, what was that again?:D

kunst nugget

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

One thing I've always found amusing about the whole "beer snob" thing, at least on here, is what's generally seen as okay and what's not okay. It's seems to be perfectly okay for a Heineken drinker to call Budweiser piss or for a Guinness drinker to spout about how Beamish/Murphy's is muck. But the moment that someone says that Heineken and Guinness are rather bland and are like the McDonald's of beers, the people who drink these get in a right huff about it. Not saying you do it, but I've noticed it a bit around here.

Likewise, re the sports thing, at least in the context of football, it's no problem for supporters of British teams to be hostile towards local supporters, call the leagues in Ireland ****e etc. (Them being oblivious to the fact that, bar those that make it in the top few leagues in England and the top league in Scotland, those that play in the league systems of Ireland and Northern Ireland are the cream of the crop of Irish footballers). But, if a supporter of an Irish team hits back in kind, lectures are given of the holier than thou attitude that exists, with the irony going right over their head. What's even cringier is people claiming that that's the reason that they don't go to local matches, which is akin to a child saying "You wouldn't agree with me and let me take the penalty, so I'm taking my ball and going home".

I don't mind people talking to me about craft beers and such as long as they don't think that it makes them intellectually superior in any way. If you like craft beers, bully for you but don't try to make other people feel small because they aren't bothered taking the time out to sample and research different beers - it's a niche hobby and so it's only going attractive to a small section of society. I think they problem is that people immerse themselves in these niche hobbies (which is quite easy to do with internet forums and the like) and the strong opinions that follow with these and don't realise that they don't translate to the wider public. So if you're happy sitting in discussing your favourite IPAs and how sh¡te Bud is with your mates on a forum, that's standard enough chat in these situations. If you do the same thing in a pub with people that don't give two figs about Green Flash or Flying Fish, you'll end up looking like an arsehole.

I'm a fairweather supporter of rugby, I've gone to a couple of Leinster games, keep a passing interest on the Heineken Cup and I'll watch the 6 nations and the november tests but beyond that I don't invest much time beyond because I've kids and other hobbies. But I'll hold my hand up and say that, it's not something I have a problem admitting that and so I don't get any guff off of hardcore supporters. I think what really gets up the nose of the hardcore massive is the spoofers. The guys that pretend they know what they're talking about when they haven't a clue and tbf if I was in that situation it would probably annoy the bejaysus out of me.

Pumpkinseeds

smeedyova wrote: »

Maybe Pumpkin is vegetarian?

Professional chefs who think that a "vegetarian option" is pasta and tomato sauce covered with paremesan cheese. Parmesan cheese is never, ever vegetarian (it's made with the lining of a calf's stomach). I know this so why can't the professionals??? Their ignorance really annoys me.

I am a vegetarian:)

Pumpkinseeds

OhHiMark wrote: »

Why on earth can you not eat meat? It's delicious.

It's just a personal choice. I still cook meat for my husband, the funny thing is the longer you don't eat meat the less appealing it becomes. I'm not all precious about it, but last year I ordered a panini in a cafe and they brought me the wrong order, the sight of chicken on my plate made me feel nauseous, that took me by surprise.

OhHiMark

smeedyova wrote: »

Dylan McGrath on Masterchef: "it needs more seasoning".

Seasoning?

If he's such a cooking genius why can't he say "it needs 5 grains of ground up cumin, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric and a small pinch of thyme".

Seasoning??? What are the contestants supposed to do with that advice? Chuck a shelf's worth of herbs and spices into it in the hope that some of them will be the "seasoning" to which he refers?

Gets on my nerves.

It's a cooking competition. Let them figure it out themselves.

smeedyova

OhHiMark wrote: »

It's a cooking competition. Let them figure it out themselves.

So why do they need a "cooking expert" then? Sure, any of us could taste it and say it needs more seasoning...