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Really minor annoyances

DaveH said:
Shelling eggs, a pain in the arse and I'm crap at it.

I fancied eggs and tomato sandwiches for my dinner, I have some fresh eggs from a friends chickens and loads of tomatoes I need to pick at dinner time, so I boiled up some eggs this morning. When other people shell them, you have this nice smooth white egg left and it takes them a minute. I was picking away for ages and ended up with 3 battered asteroids. Feel like I chucked away half the egg with the shell.
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I really, really fancy an egg and tomato sandwich right now. Add a hit of sand and I`m right back at the beach with my family in the mid-70`s :D
 

Tex said:
We get through a lot of eggs in our gaff.
I’m about fifty fifty in success rate with de-shelling eggs cleanly.
Even asked on the wise SMB once and the advice I got was that as soon as you take the pan off the boil douse them in cold running water. Somehow that seems to separate that inner membrane that is key for doing a clean de-shell!
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Sometimes works for me, sometimes does not. I have had success dropping them in iced water, but then you have to prepare a bowl of iced water.
mickb2112 said:
I really, really fancy an egg and tomato sandwich right now. Add a hit of sand and I`m right back at the beach with my family in the mid-70`s :D
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It always was the food for picnics.

I was thinking today when making them, out of all the sandwich flavours you see, you never see egg and tomato in prepacked sarnies. Is it just a north east thing, like when I made corned beef and potato pie? Nobody had ever heard of it.

A day out hiking somewhere, was always those two things and some chocolate cake.
 
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Dirge said:
Being the penultimate person to be served at a supermarket checkout and the person in front of you is a prize fumbler whether it be paying by cash, card or phone

People who go to express queue check out with a months worth of groceries and check out staff let them through
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Boils my piss when someone comes to pay and they suddenly have no concept of money.
Happens all the time in my supermarket or on buses,

You’ve queued to pay for goods/service, why is it an alien concept to be prepared for that.

The amount of people who get on buses then fumble looking for passes, change or a ticket is mental.

I’m socially thicker than a concrete sarnie and if I know I’m getting a bus I’ll have the pass open on my phone or cash ready.
It’s infuriating that people wait in a queue and act surprised the end result is having to pay.
 
Watching a series where close captions are available for first few episodes then for whatever reason they become unavailable
For certain oldies like me being ‘corned beef’ comes with age and our lass can’t be in the room when I put up volume so I am able to hear.
I have hearing aids but hate wearing them…I’m a boomer so I am entitled to be a pain
 
Gentwo said:
Boils my piss when someone comes to pay and they suddenly have no concept of money.
Happens all the time in my supermarket or on buses,

You’ve queued to pay for goods/service, why is it an alien concept to be prepared for that.

The amount of people who get on buses then fumble looking for passes, change or a ticket is mental.

I’m socially thicker than a concrete sarnie and if I know I’m getting a bus I’ll have the pass open on my phone or cash ready.
It’s infuriating that people wait in a queue and act surprised the end result is having to pay.
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The old petrol station at Savecentre in Washington used to be terrible for that.

The line of pumps were in two sections, each one would be a short drive from a kiosk window where you would pay. So you would have people fill up, then slowly edge forward with the traffic funnelling together and eventually you would get to one of the windows. At which point, the driver would look shocked, dive down to the passenger footwell for a handbag and rummage around for ages before paying. Then rather than move forward to a pull in area to put their card away, they would sit blocking the queue repacking their bag.

No thought for others and no self awareness.
 
Gentwo said:
Boils my piss when someone comes to pay and they suddenly have no concept of money.
Happens all the time in my supermarket or on buses,

You’ve queued to pay for goods/service, why is it an alien concept to be prepared for that.

The amount of people who get on buses then fumble looking for passes, change or a ticket is mental.

I’m socially thicker than a concrete sarnie and if I know I’m getting a bus I’ll have the pass open on my phone or cash ready.
It’s infuriating that people wait in a queue and act surprised the end result is having to pay.
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Airports are terrible for that too

"What I need my boarding pass and/or passport to get past security"
 
Hawkings Boots said:
Airports are terrible for that too

"What I need my boarding pass and/or passport to get past security"
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Some people are getting better at managing these things. I was at a small music festival and in the queuing system they had signs saying "open your bag now ready for checks", "have your ticket ready now, to help us move the queue quickly". I think last time I went through an airport they had something similar. At the festival it did seem to work.

Silly that grown adults need telling this and can not think more than 3 minutes ahead.
 
Film captions that say:

Rome, Italy
Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
London, England

Who, exactly, needs the clarification of where those cities are?

Don’t answer; the fact that, iirc, the caption never says ‘New York, USA’ or ‘Los Angeles, USA’ or even ‘Houston, Texas , USA’ kinda gives it away.

It’s a minor annoyance.
 
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