Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[eastyy]

art is paintings/drawings (decent ones not looking like they have been done by a 3 year old) and sculptures....thats about it for me....all this other stuff is just a load of rubbish and alot of these art experts are really pretentious and wouldnt know a good artwork if one came up to them and smashed there heads in.....which would probably also win a turner prize

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

art is paintings/drawings (decent ones not looking like they have been done by a 3 year old) and sculptures....thats about it for me....all this other stuff is just a load of rubbish and alot of these art experts are really pretentious and wouldnt know a good artwork if one came up to them and smashed there heads in.....which would probably also win a turner prize

[dataDave]

People putting vinegar over either gravy, curry, peas or a combination of those in the chippy, it's absolutely disgusting as far as I'm concerned. Vinegar does NOT go on gravy or curry!!

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Idiot buyers on ebay.

1. I offer free insured next day delivery due to its value & to get it out to them ASAP but I ask the buyer to include a phone number as I will need a contact number for the courier in case he needs to contact the buyer. 3 days later & still no contact number, so the incentive of getting it ASAP has gone out the window.

2. A guy from australia with 100% posi feedback (over 300) wanted to buy a rare game off of me that I hadnt bothered relisting for a while & didnt ship outside the UK. He bugged me & bugged me for about a wk, so eventually I said ok but told him I'd have to check how much insured shipping would cost as its worth quite a bit. Got a quote, told him, he was happy to pay it.
Listed the item & told him it was up, even gave him a direct link. Did he buy it? Did he F**K as like!!

F**kin idiots & time wasters!!

[Ady]

People putting vinegar over either gravy, curry, peas or a combination of those in the chippy, it's absolutely disgusting as far as I'm concerned. Vinegar does NOT go on gravy or curry!!

How about just vinegar?

Nasty stuff.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

How about just vinegar?

Nasty stuff.

Yeah mate I have always had this strange association with vinegar. Its pretty stinky stuff & reminds me of the smell of piss for some reason

[dataDave]

Yeah mate I have always had this strange association with vinegar. Its pretty stinky stuff & reminds me of the smell of piss for some reason

Same, I don't mind it on fish + chips though. But that's it, And there can be nothing else apart from chips, salt and fish in the tray/on the plate. The smell of S+V crisps being eaten makes me wretch also.

Mixing it with gravy or curry or whatever should be a crime... would you put vinegar on your sunday roast? Or over your chicken madras?

[Ady]

Vinegar and chicken madras. Just the thought of it makes me cringe. >.<

[Spatial]

Vinegar is the stuff of Gods and I will not have a word said against it.

edit: although putting it on everything is a bit of a mentalist thing to do.

[Decider-VT]

You're all crazy. Vinegar is the condiment of the gods. Malt, white, balsamic... I'd have it all, on everything.

Edit: Just had it on pasta. Pasta.

[abigsmurf]

I'm not a fan of malt vinegar but I imagine vinegar with gravy could probably work. Afterall, horseradish gravy works.

I also strongly recommend trying out rice vinegar. It's godly when you're having a dryish curry or one without much sauce

[Spatial]

Cider Vinegar is surely in the top tier of Vinegar Royalty.

*salutes*

God bless you m'am

[Brats]

Aged balsamic. Costs the Earth but once you've tried it, there's no going back.

[smouty]

Cider Vinegar is surely in the top tier of Vinegar Royalty.

*salutes*

God bless you m'am

I'd have to go for Rice Vinegar. It is truly special but I am also a big fan of all vinegars.

Whilst you might not put vinegar on your Madras, you can't make a Vindaloo without it

[JP]

Shops, each and every one of them. Absolutely hate going into them and shopping, I could probably list a thousand shops and a thousand reasons for each of those but I'm just going to mention one type of shop and only one reason...

Not long ago somebody in work was moving on to another job and so we buy a card and present for them which is pretty standard practice, what was different this time was that I volunteered to get buy the card on my lunch break.

As is fairly standard for me I completely forgot about my new found responsibility until about 15 minutes before the end of my lunch break so had to rush back into town to buy the card. I rush back in and because of this forget to pick up my wallet from my desk so just had change in my pocket.

For what ever reason it is these card shops seem to exist in a different dimension to all other shops as what they do would very definitely be illegal and/or immoral if it was to happen in other shops...possibly.

Bear in mind I'm in a bit of a rush and I'm not exactly the most patient of people in public spaces anyway.

Strangely the shop is empty of customers which is a bit of a bonus for me as I presume I'm going to get less annoyed with shopping due to this. I'm looking around for cards until I find one I like and I've got about 5 minutes before I have to be back in work.

I look for the price and there's price sticker on the back which states the price is "M"!! What the hell? I'm think there has to be some sort of code breaker somewhere in the shop which tells me what this means in Earth money. I find one, or I should say that I find a torn part of one on the wall which tells me that a "ZZZ" card is worth ?9:98 as well as the value of 3 or 4 other codes.

Now I have about 5 minutes left before having to be back in work and I can find no reference as to how the codes work, I'm thinking that they must use a form of algebra to work them out so I'll work out the price for myself.

ZZZ = 998 so Z = about 333
Z is letter 26 of 26 so by definition it's the most expensive.
333/26 (letters in alphabet) means that each letter is worth about 12
M is half way through the alphabet so if Z is 26 this must be about 13
13 x 12 = ?1:56

Friggin' brilliant as I have about a fiver on me, I know it's not going to be exactly that amount but it gives me a fair idea!! I have no idea how maths works in their dimension as they wanted nearly ?7:00 from me...which I didn't have!

I'm completely at a loss as to how these shops are allowed to label items with codes instead of real prices, surely no other shops are allowed to? Can you imagine doing your weekly shopping and walking around to see everything labelled with letter combinations instead of numbers? It would be a nightmare!
"Excuse me, how much are these Cornfalkes, I can't find a price on them?"
"It's um..GPK"
"What? Sorry?"
"G for golf, P for Pe..."
"No, I heard you. I just have no idea what the hell you're talking about."

Anyway, I may well be the only one but it annoys the hell out of me.