Little Things That Irk You IX

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

You need a decent independent spot for solo pizza munching or you're just getting ripped off.

There’s a place in Loughborough that does 4 x 12” pizzas for £20 and they’re amazing. Sorts me out for dinner, then breakfast, lunch and dinner the day after!

[Anpanman]

No problem with food prices increasing, it's the way of things at the moment.
We get a lot of our stuff from the local market, a 5kg tub of chicken breasts has gone up a bit since last year from about £18 to currently about £20.

[wheelaa]

Very true.

First world problems grumbling about overpriced mass produced junk food. (There's always good quality local junk food anyway!)

However, whether some of the increases I have pointed (and many others I haven't) are justified or not, they don't feel justified to me. I've voted with my wallet for many years now, and for a variety of reasons. Just more to add to the 'no' pile.

(Plus, and this is example specific, but I'll never shed a tear for PepsiCo, Unilever or Nestle.)

[Dogg Thang]

I get things going up in price. But the shrinkage really bugs me. At least chicken thighs aren’t fun size. Yet.

[QualityChimp]

I get things going up in price. But the shrinkage really bugs me. At least chicken thighs aren’t fun size. Yet.

It won't be long, I reckon.
FUN SIZE CHICKEN LEGS!*


*pigeon.

[fishbowlhead]

It won't be long, I reckon.
FUN SIZE CHICKEN LEGS!*


*pigeon.

It’s just chicken of the street.

[Lebowski]

It won't be long, I reckon.
FUN SIZE CHICKEN LEGS!*


*pigeon.

Nestel food laboratory refutes the claims that its new wonder food Chickeons are Genetically modified pigeons that have been breed to be flightless and bleached to look like chicken.

[wakka]

"City chicken"

Yum!

[Asura]

Here's one - US-to-UK postal costs on eBay.

I'm sure it hasn't escaped the notice of others, but the postage cost of any item from the US, now, seems to start at around £30; i.e. £30 is the lowest of the low US postage prices, even if you're ordering a trading card, are £30.

Got to assume that's a Brexit/economic issues caused by Brexit thing. But it just makes ordering anything from the US (that isn't very expensive) not worthwhile.

[dataDave]

Here's one - US-to-UK postal costs on eBay.

I'm sure it hasn't escaped the notice of others, but the postage cost of any item from the US, now, seems to start at around £30; i.e. £30 is the lowest of the low US postage prices, even if you're ordering a trading card, are £30.

Got to assume that's a Brexit/economic issues caused by Brexit thing. But it just makes ordering anything from the US (that isn't very expensive) not worthwhile.

It’s not Brexit. It’s the same for me in NL. We start at around €30, not including taxes/duty. Their excuse is that they want to promote trade within the member states instead of making it too easy for people to shop from overseas. It’s prohibited me from buying most small bits MiSTer or board game related.

[Hirst]

Out of all the countries in the world, America is the last place I want to buy anything from. Their postage costs are insane (and have indeed doubled in recent years), but by far the worst thing is convincing an American to post something overseas. The vast majority of ones that come up on eBay at all is when they’re being sent through the global shipping program (so they don’t really have to handle it themselves). Try asking a US seller to post overseas and you might as well be asking them to personally send it to the moon. I would say 90% won’t even consider it, almost all of the rest will insist on using some ridiculously expensive courier and will often panic and change their mind because they think it will screw up their taxes or something.

I have to buy a lot of car parts from abroad and it is quite literally easier to buy from Iran than the USA (actually it was really easy).

[Dogg Thang]

I had one of those days yesterday. It started when I realised the clocks changed meaning I would have one less hour a day with my lady friend who lives in a whole different time zone and we have so little available contact as it is. Wasn’t feeling great. Tested positive for covid. Then my phone died. Completely. Just shut off and it’s dead. Then to add insult to all that injury, I managed to break my Masterpiece Sunstreaker Transformer. I wonder why it sometimes feels like these things come in a run.

[QualityChimp]

Black coffee.

You ask for Americano, you get asked if you want milk with it.
You ask for black coffee and you get corrected to Americano.

[fishbowlhead]

I believe it’s because all the coffee places want to avoid the word “black” at all costs now. So I was told when I posed the same question when I asked for a black coffee and the staff refused point blank to say the word black.

[Cassius_Smoke]

I believe it’s because all the coffee places want to avoid the word “black” at all costs now. So I was told when I posed the same question when I asked for a black coffee and the staff refused point blank to say the word black.

Hilarious! What colour is space? A deep shade of grey?!