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Purchased some food for dinner and found all the tins of chopped tomatoes with herbs were all buckled. The other brands of Toms were fine, just these supermarket herbed ones. Anyway found a single tin at the back which was fine.

Reported this to the manager, and he said, with a smirk on his face, "does having a buckled tin change the flavour?" I replied "no, unless the tin is punctured. Are you prepared to give me discount if I buy a bent tin?" At this point my back was really up and barked: "If you was to buy a car and you found it had a dent in the door, would you buy it?"

Hate cockey, unhelpful little oiks!

 

The tins may have been under-weight/filled.  I have recently come across a number of under-weight tins that are dented.  How can a whole pallet of tins get dented other than by extreme force if they are full to capacity?

Trading Standards must be under testing food processors.  In the last couple of weeks we have experienced seriously under-weight, grapefruit segments[Tesco], Biscuits for Cheese[Glutafin] and tinned tomatoes[Tesco].

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Birkenstocks

People who talk during gigs

Ryanair and its ilk

Foxtons

Cameron, Osborne and co

The London Eye

Surrey

Islington

Morningside

Alexander McCall Smith

Piers Morgan

Vanessa Feltz

Giles Coren

Kyle / Wright

Petroc Trelawny

The X-Factor / that Cowell creature

Dixons, Comet, PC World and Currys (one down, three to...)

Nylon (especially shirts, in orange or lilac)

Windows (OS)

Tesco

B&Q

Lemon curd

The Scotch egg

The Creme Egg

KFC

British drivers on motorways

Faux carbonfibre

The five pence coin

Zips

Good list, Sir.....and I suspect that's just scratching the surface.

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... Talking of things that make you grumpy, when friends of mine were going on holiday with their baby... , and taking the bus to the airport........on arrival, when they took their pushchair out of the luggage compartment, somebody had stolen all the wheels off it!!  It didn't help that everyone they complained to, cracked up laughing. 

You had me at "going on holiday with their baby" 

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The Scotch egg

Previously I would have agreed, but then I had proper deli scotch eggs.  Yum.  There is a pub on Gloucester road in Bristol named something daft that sounds like Dr Who's home planet that sells incredible scotch eggs.

Happy to be converted...

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The Creme Egg

Please see JJ/Starwars thread  :) 

Noted. And as for Creme Egg-based wagers, I'd even prefer to watch Piers Morgan and Vanessa Feltz recite, A Love Story - The Collected Extracts of Padmé and Anakin, Star Wars Episodes I - III, in a Tesco car park, in Surrey  

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The careless way that biscuits are handled in supermarkets. Every one broken!

Cyclists sporting spandex wear (LOL)

Any kind of paperwork

So called 'user experience designers'

Superlative ebay descriptions

Any kind of paid parking and traffic wardens

'Celebrity'

Spleen vented. Thank you.

 

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Talk Sport

Unimaginative Classic  Rock radio stations (.... "OK that was Freebird, and coming up next Stairway to Heaven, followed by All Right Now...."  zzzzzzzz )

Victoria Derbyshire ( no logical reason, she just irritates me)

Most TV news reporters with their irritating and rehears-ed mannerisms  (site wont allow the last 5 letters together Laughing)

The fact that DAB radio wont work in my kitchen properly

 

 

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The fact that DAB radio wont work in my kitchen properly

No DAB for DIB!   Sad  

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The irritating female weather reporter on BBC1 in the mornings who seems to be spending my licence fee on a new coat every week for outside broadcasts. The Scottish Liar as I have branded her.

Annoying BBC Irish presenters, especially Colin Murray.....Arghhh

The term "Newbie", Hi Newbie here, lets ask a dumb ass question about cables.

People who are simply unable to listen.

People who talk during TV programmes or at the cinema.

Untidiness

Lateness

Poor manners

Idle feckless layabouts

So called celebrities, generally

Soap Operas

Reality Tv that creates the aforementined pretend celebrities

Thats for starters. I may return...

Oh yes, Miranda, why is it that I dont find her funny, Is it because she simply is not funny?

 

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Don't mess with Freebird.

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My boss

Self service tills in the supermarket - if I'm doing it myself, why dont I get a discount?  & who wants technology that orders you about?

Laziness

Selfishness

Sunday drivers out during the weekly commute & people that dont turn their high beams down soon enough, or think that its okay to drive behind you with their high beams on

Bad parking

Steve Wright

Eamon Holmes

People that wont even consider the other persons point of view (you dont have to agree, just consider)

People that think things should be handed to them on a plate & dont want to put any effort in themselves to achieve things

Politicians that claim poverty & that they are in touch with the real world, when they think their pension plan is 'the same as the man next door' - I think the majority would rethink their career 'calling' if they had to do it for the same remuneration as nurses, care workers or shop assistants!

 

Wow - didnt know I was this annoyed!!  cheer

 

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My boss

Self service tills in the supermarket - if I'm doing it myself, why dont I get a discount?  & who wants technology that orders you about?

Laziness

Selfishness

Sunday drivers out during the weekly commute & people that dont turn their high beams down soon enough, or think that its okay to drive behind you with their high beams on

Bad parking

Steve Wright

Eamon Holmes

People that wont even consider the other persons point of view (you dont have to agree, just consider)

People that think things should be handed to them on a plate & dont want to put any effort in themselves to achieve things

Politicians that claim poverty & that they are in touch with the real world, when they think their pension plan is 'the same as the man next door' - I think the majority would rethink their career 'calling' if they had to do it for the same remuneration as nurses, care workers or shop assistants!

Wow - didnt know I was this annoyed!!  cheer

Now that's the way to make an entrance......welcome to the forum.

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1. Sarah Millican - who is it that thought she was funny and insists shes on every other programme on every channel. I really can't stand her.

2. Compensation culture - Everything and everyone involved with personal injuries. I just renewed my car insurance and I have 9 years no claims discount and its gone up £125 from last year. Will the government put a stop to this madness

More to come - I'm about to go to bed.....

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Stabbing yourself on frayed cable. 

Having a kinder egg and having a one peice toy that doesn't require assembly.

People who ask you how much you earn, just because they are waiting for an excuse to tell you how much they earn.  Not even their Mothers love them.

People cycling without lights.  I barely avoided a guy the other night who was wearing a Tarmac coloured track suit at night with no lights!  He looked like Predator whilst cloaked.

 

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Politicians that claim poverty & that they are in touch with the real world, when they think their pension plan is 'the same as the man next door' - I think the majority would rethink their career 'calling' if they had to do it for the same remuneration as nurses, care workers or shop assistants!

 

Gordon Clown changed the MPs pension scheme from 1/50th of salary per year to 1/40th of salary per year. Most civil servants are on 1/60th. Most people in the real world aren't on final salary any more. 

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People that think things should be handed to them on a plate

Ugh, don't get me started, I HATE carveries!

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Purchased some food for dinner and found all the tins of chopped tomatoes with herbs were all buckled. The other brands of Toms were fine, just these supermarket herbed ones. Anyway found a single tin at the back which was fine.

Reported this to the manager, and he said, with a smirk on his face, "does having a buckled tin change the flavour?" I replied "no, unless the tin is punctured. Are you prepared to give me discount if I buy a bent tin?" At this point my back was really up and barked: "If you was to buy a car and you found it had a dent in the door, would you buy it?"

Hate cockey, unhelpful little oiks!

If the tin is badly buckled (particularly on the seam) , the hermetic seal maybe broked even if it is not punctured, leading to possible botullism for example. Tell the manager that (and shop somewhere else in future). If the manager in Waitrose spoke to me like that, i would have a heart attack.