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

[Ditchfinder]

I love broad beans, especially in a ham and broad bean risotto, but they are difficult to find fresh in this country (well up north anyway) yet we export or use as animal feed most of what we grow in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/art ... -scientist

[mangocrazy]

I really like broad beans as well, but the only way to get hold of them on a regular basis is in the frozen supermarket aisles. If I ever see them fresh I snap them up, but that doesn't happen often.

They're great in a green Thai curry.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I used to do PYO broad beans with my Mum when I was a kid. I'm gonna see if I can find somewhere to do it with Baby D, now I think on it

I suppose I could just grow them

Those pods look so comfortable inside.

[cheb]

The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.

*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.

[Rockburner]

The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.

*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.

Weird. I wonder if the internal parts were assembled 90 degrees out somehow? (Or the wrong internals used).

Seems totally counter-intuitive to have the lever aligned that way.

[cheb]

I doubt that much thought went into the manufacturing specs. It's not a quarter turn tap, just the usual windy up and own one.

I dealt with the wrongly aligned quarter turn taps soon after arrival.

[gremlin]

stadiums

Stadia, surely.


And with any mains tap, as long as it turns when needed, then it's a good 'un.

[cheb]

Hypercorrection apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

Not as bad as shouting 'Bravo' instead of 'Brava' at the opera though.

[Count Steer]

An industrial ceramics academic at Leeds Uni insisted on pronouncing the word as keramics because 'the Greek root is keramos' (potter's earth). He wasn't the only one - it was a bit of an academic snobbery thing for a while.

[cheb]

A bit like surgeons calling themselves Mr or Mrs as historically they weren't physicians.

But then most doctors aren't Doctors.

[Mussels]

I've just had the 6th (I think) visit from the Stoves techs to fix my cooker. Their fault finding methods sounded normal to me so not a big rant about them but the problem turned out to be* loose power cables inside the cooker, not impressed with what is meant to be a premium brand.

* Needs more testing.

[mangocrazy]

The local boulangerie has no bread! None at all! Not one baguette!

Revolutions have started for less in France...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Did they have any cake?

[Taipan]

B&Ms not having any Tingly Teds in!

[mangocrazy]

Did they have any cake?

I had to make do with the last croissant.

[Horse]

An industrial ceramics academic at Leeds Uni insisted on pronouncing the word as keramics because 'the Greek root is keramos' (potter's earth). He wasn't the only one - it was a bit of an academic snobbery thing for a while.

Cementite, also known as iron carbide, is a hard, brittle, and metallic compound of iron and carbon with the chemical formula Fe3C.

Semen tite, as our lecturer called it.

[Noggin]

Queueing at a fuel station! I mean, not the queueing per se, although it was bastard hot, but how people behave!!

When I go, if I have to use cash, I'll stop away from the pump is there is a queue, pay the cash, get the little ticket thing (from a sort of cash machine thingy) and then join the queue

Today there were queues at each side of all the pumps (and I'm in inappropriate kit on a hot Honda and it's nearly midday )

So I did that, went and got my top up ticket and sat in the queue. Luckily not in my queue, but a woman had waited for three other cars to fill up before she got to the pumps, THEN she got out and went to get the cash ticket thingy FFS, that's just rude!! If she'd been in front of my queue I think that by then I'd have squelched over and told her very politely that she's a dick and should consider getting the ticket first!! THEN when she'd got the ticket she then got back in the car to find some plastic gloves to put on before she did the fuelling

It's almost as bad as people who get back in the car and then sit whilst they note the mileage etc, reposition the seat and anything else they can think of before moving off! Have seen bikers fanny arse around getting sorted too. Just pull away to the area ahead where there's loads of space and no queue behind you so then do all the faffing!! I put the fuel in and refitted the tank bag, pulled off, then stopped in the space and sorted gloves etc etc!!

Some people are just rude!!

[Sunny]

Something I want/need from IKEA not being available from my nearest one, and not being available for delivery either.

I'll either be driving to bloody Nottingham to pick it up, or finding somebody to blackmail who can pick it up from somewhere that has it in stock for me

[Ian]

The tit who bounces off the rev limiter when he reaches the speed camera up the road. Not because of the noise at all but because that's the usual noise when someone pulls out on a bike and knocks them off at the junction opposite. Sends a shudder down my spine every time.

[Felix]

Queueing at a fuel station! I mean, not the queueing per se, although it was bastard hot, but how people behave!!

When I go, if I have to use cash, I'll stop away from the pump is there is a queue, pay the cash, get the little ticket thing (from a sort of cash machine thingy) and then join the queue

Today there were queues at each side of all the pumps (and I'm in inappropriate kit on a hot Honda and it's nearly midday )

So I did that, went and got my top up ticket and sat in the queue. Luckily not in my queue, but a woman had waited for three other cars to fill up before she got to the pumps, THEN she got out and went to get the cash ticket thingy FFS, that's just rude!! If she'd been in front of my queue I think that by then I'd have squelched over and told her very politely that she's a dick and should consider getting the ticket first!! THEN when she'd got the ticket she then got back in the car to find some plastic gloves to put on before she did the fuelling

It's almost as bad as people who get back in the car and then sit whilst they note the mileage etc, reposition the seat and anything else they can think of before moving off! Have seen bikers fanny arse around getting sorted too. Just pull away to the area ahead where there's loads of space and no queue behind you so then do all the faffing!! I put the fuel in and refitted the tank bag, pulled off, then stopped in the space and sorted gloves etc etc!!

Some people are just rude!!

During the week i had a guy at the Tesco pump in one of them two seater Smart car things drive to the second pump from the entrance. As i was turning up he was reversing back to the first pump as it was out of petrol, Diesel only. He stopped between the pumps and got out to fill up. OK fuck you mate. I drove round him and left my van at an angle across the front of his car and started to full up a large almost empty tank. The fucker had the cheek to give me the dirty looks when he walked past to pay. Unfortunately no one came up behind to prevent him from reversing back to pass me but FFS. Another six foot back he would have still been close the the filler cap and i could have parked flush to the pump.