Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[KungFooBob]

I paid the equivalent of £12.50 for a glass of house red in the bar of the Moscow Metropol 10 years ago, I reckon half of that was paying for the bloke playing the piano.

[Yorick]

Plenty of folk here who like their wine. None pay more than 7€ or 8€ a bottle.
Lots of good stuff at that price.

Pal of mine owns a bar and the red wine he serves is about 4€ in the supermarkets.
He drinks that when he visits the bar. He even has it at home.

No wine snobbery here.

[Count Steer]

I paid the equivalent of £12.50 for a glass of house red in the bar of the Moscow Metropol 10 years ago, I reckon half of that was paying for the bloke playing the piano.

Oh, that's in the BMP category. The prices restaurants and bars charge for wine. I know they have overheads etc but they seem to try and claw huge chunks of it back by selling wine (with glowing tasting notes obvs) at eye-watering mark-ups. A lot of them seem to be labelled specifically for the trade so you can't do a swift Google and find out what the retail £ is but, at a guess, some are getting £60 for a £12 bottle (and that £12 is probably too high a figure in some cases) and £30 for a £6.

[mangocrazy]

A friend of mine linked to the wine list of a place he and his missus had stayed in for their wedding anniversary. After five minutes of Googling it was clear that their mark up at the cheaper end of the spectrum was around 500% - a bottle that the grower listed as being €6 ex-cellar was being punted out at over £30 in the restaurant. No idea what the mark-up was on the pricey stuff, but I can't amagine they'd get away with 500% +.

In our little corner of France €5 will get you a very pleasant bottle of wine - spend a few €uros more and the quality improves quite markedly. Generally when comparing supermarket prices to those in the UK I'd say take the French price in €uros, double it and you have the equivalent price in a UK supermarket in GBP.

[Silly Car]

I paid the equivalent of £12.50 for a glass of house red in the bar of the Moscow Metropol 10 years ago, I reckon half of that was paying for the bloke playing the piano.

Oh, that's in the BMP category. The prices restaurants and bars charge for wine. I know they have overheads etc but they seem to try and claw huge chunks of it back by selling wine (with glowing tasting notes obvs) at eye-watering mark-ups. A lot of them seem to be labelled specifically for the trade so you can't do a swift Google and find out what the retail £ is but, at a guess, some are getting £60 for a £12 bottle (and that £12 is probably too high a figure in some cases) and £30 for a £6.

Don’t even get me started when they are adding 300% on the price of wine found in a supermarket, absolute piss takers!

Corkage pisses me off as well, not that they charge it but for two reasons:

The amount they charge for bunging a few bottles in a fridge and typically unscrewing a cap - yeah I know it is to replace the profit they lost on the garbage wine they offered but still!

They dare to even charge it at all when they have a shit range of wines in the first place. *


* Venue where I got married, every wine they offered was awful - we tasted them all, and were ridiculously priced for local wholesaler rebadged house wines (at best). They eventually agreed to a fixed price for corkage following various issues with our overall booking. Thankfully the assembled families caned through the wine we supplied which brought down the cost per bottle. Naked Wines also gave a very generous discount on the wine in the first place to help offset the corkage cost as well

[Sunny]

People with visible plaque on their teeth.

If you can look at your teeth in a mirror and see a load of white gunk around them, and don't do anything about it, you are minging.
Oh, and your breath will stink too Consider yourselves told.

[Saga Lout]

I've wrote a little storey.

I was riding home, paddling quiet fast when my attention was peaked by a couple of shops at the side of the road. The first one was the greengocer's with apple's, pear's and seadles grape's outside. The third on was the butcher, but I was interested in the middle one, the baker. I hit the breaks, broke my bike to a halt outside the shop and piqued in. I went inside and brought too pies, maybe that was one to many, I'm trying to loose wait. Back on my bike I literally flew down the road. When I got home I really should of got a knife and fork from the cutlery draw but I couldn't be asked so I just ate the pie from the paper bag.

Soapy tenner if you can guess what boils my peas.
Another Soapy tenor if you get them all.

[gremlin]

I've wrote a little storey.

I was riding home, paddling quiet fast when my attention was peaked by a couple of shops at the side of the road. The first one was the greengocer's with apple's, pear's and seadles grape's outside. The third on was the butcher, but I was interested in the middle one, the baker. I hit the breaks, broke my bike to a halt outside the shop and piqued in. I went inside and brought too pies, maybe that was one to many, I'm trying to loose wait. Back on my bike I literally flew down the road. When I got home I really should of got a knife and fork from the cutlery draw but I couldn't be asked so I just ate the pie from the paper bag.

Soapy tenner if you can guess what boils my peas.
Another Soapy tenor if you get them all.

Baked goods?

[Horse]

I've wrote a little storey.

I was riding home, paddling quiet fast when my attention was peaked by a couple of shops at the side of the road. The first one was the greengocer's with apple's, pear's and seadles grape's outside. The third on was the butcher, but I was interested in the middle one, the baker. I hit the breaks, broke my bike to a halt outside the shop and piqued in. I went inside and brought too pies, maybe what was one to many, I'm trying to loose wait. Back on my bike I literally flew down the road. When I got home I really should of got a knife and fork from the cutlery draw but I couldn't be asked so I just ate the pie from the paper bag.

Soapy tenner if you can guess what boils my peas.
Another Soapy tenor if you get them all.

Can't see any of that, I have you on moot. But if I could see, I'm sure it would be pleasing to the eye, very ascetic.

PS I've added another in. Have your S£ back if you find it

[Saga Lout]

I've just reread it. Muphry's law strikes again.

[Saga Lout]

PS I've added another in. Have your S£ back if you find it

What's that? Oh, that's what.

[Skub]

I've wrote a little storey.

I was riding home, paddling quiet fast when my attention was peaked by a couple of shops at the side of the road. The first one was the greengocer's with apple's, pear's and seadles grape's outside. The third on was the butcher, but I was interested in the middle one, the baker. I hit the breaks, broke my bike to a halt outside the shop and piqued in. I went inside and brought too pies, maybe that was one to many, I'm trying to loose wait. Back on my bike I literally flew down the road. When I got home I really should of got a knife and fork from the cutlery draw but I couldn't be asked so I just ate the pie from the paper bag.

Soapy tenner if you can guess what boils my peas.
Another Soapy tenor if you get them all.

Baked goods?

When your on teh interwebz it must brake you're haert espeshully when paragraffs and punkchewashun no longer exist its all just won big streem of conshoesness

[Saga Lout]

When your on teh interwebz it must brake you're haert espeshully when paragraffs and punkchewashun no longer exist its all just won big streem of conshoesness

Its not teh spelling grammar or punctuation per say what boil's my peas its that them what does it don't bloody care that their making thereselves hard too understand.

[Yambo]

"Let's eat, Grandad."

"Let's eat Grandad."

Punctuation matters.

[Horse]

"Let's eat, Grandad."

"Let's eat Grandad."

Punctuation matters.

[Rockburner]

Put the car cover down on the ground to dry out.... But it's flock-lined. Twat.

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[Jody]

When an advert in social media intrigues me, so I watch it. Decide it's not for me. Then (apparently) I need to see that advert, a version of it, or someone else selling the exact same product, every 3-5 posts for the rest of my life. Even worse, is the same thing happening even if I do buy the product!!

[Jody]

Would you be surprised to hear that I've injured myself again !?


An whole cup of boiling hot tea thrown over myself.



So I'm on the sofa cycling tea towels between my foot and a bowl of ice water

[v8-powered]

New bloody work app called Jira - now every fooker can assign actions to you even if not in the same department and prioritise them. Crap....

[Rockburner]

New bloody work app called Jira - now every fooker can assign actions to you even if not in the same department and prioritise them. Crap....

Welcome to the treadmill...