Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion

[green1]

Just tea and coffee in general.

 

[tyred]

People who work in chip shops who put the salt on the chips and then wash it off with vinegar.

Put the vinegar on first and the salt sticks.

 

[Paul99]

My own personal annoyance is what I call 'pavement smidsys', those who walk out of shops that exit directly onto the pavement without any care or realisation that others may be walking along that pavement. Especially when they don't even notice you. And more especially when they look at you as though YOU are in THEIR way... and don't get me started on family groups who manage to take up the whole pavement. Grr.

That's what punching was invented for.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I am not sure of the authority on this but Coffee needs slightly cooler water (off the boil) whereas tea needs boiling water to brew.
So what you do sounds fine for coffee but rightly would raise an eyebrow with tea which really needs a warmed teapot.

by the time I have remembered the kettle has boiled in the first place, said water is not normally boiling.
My OH has been known to repeatedly come back to my mug, drink the contents, complain that a married man could die of thirst in my kitchen, make 2 new cups of green tea (or coffee) and leave me with a mug that is now too hot again for me to drink.

 

[EltonFrog]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jun/25/science.highereducation

It depends,if you are making tea in a teapot, properly, then milk in the cup first, poor in the tea. But if you make tea in the mug, milk in after you take the tea bag out. That's it. I have spoken, I will not discuss the matter further.

 

[Archie_tect]

...but only to the top chips, the rest are just vinegary and progressively soggy and the hot vinegar takes your breathe away!

 

[Cubist]

[QUOTE 2412057, member: 259"]Give this man a medal! [/quote]

But he's so wrong! Salt on last leaves a layer of salt on the top chips only. Salt on, then vinegar which helps to wash salt down onto the lower layers, then a bit more salt on the top chips, then a bit on the wrapper outside the inner greaseproof sheet to act as an emergency salt reservoir for the problem chips that the original two-phase process missed out.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

just ditch the salt & the vinegar. problem solved!

 

[green1]

just ditch the salt & the vinegar. problem solved!

FTFY
Chips without pickled onion vinegar is sacrilege.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

FTFY
Chips without pickled onion vinegar is sacrilege.

just have them with mayo and be done with it. better still wrapped in an (staffordshire) oatcake with the mayo and mustard dripping off the chips!

 

[User482]

Mayonnaise, aka "Devil Spunk".

 

[Archie_tect]

Mayonnaise, aka "Devil Spunk".

You're just trying to curry favour with Mort, the last bastion of Englishness in a foreign field....
[Edit: even then I was too slow...]

 

[Fnaar]

Ninja munchkins who sneak up and headbutt you in the nether regions while you're standing at the bus stop reading a newspaper, then run off giggling and shouting "learn some self-defence, mofo!"

 

[MisterStan]

People who say 'YOLO'
Edit; and things like FML and such like.

 

[tyred]

People that proudly display a "Baby on board, please drive carefully" sticker on the back of their Citroen Picasso yet proceed to drive like a complete arse.