Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Any TV program with a title that begins, "A Very British ..."
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
- Thread starter PaulB
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Smashed bottles on cycle tracks or the road
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Spray gravel road improvements…
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
People who bitch about the amount of speeding through our town, then post warnings on Facebook, when there are mobile speed cameras in place.
They had a series of mobile speed camera on our road a few months ago
once or twice a week I would see a bloke in Police uniform pointing his device at all and sundry
I generally gave him a thumbs up or wave as I went past
seems like the result is just once of those signs that tells you how fast you are going
Unfortunatly they have put it just before I turn off the main road so I can;t pull out a bit and see how big a number I can get on it on my bike
(go on- you've all done it!!!!)
Welcome to the new order, third world UK. We need a revolution, hold on the Irish, Welsh and Scottish tried to revolt. Look at all the countries that improved their lot after ditching England.
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
Of course
There are only two of them where I have got a speed above the motor vehicle speed limit - one in a 20 limit, where I have had it register 23, and one at the bottom of a hill in a 30 where I've had 34.
There's another 30 limit one on my commute home where I've regularly had mid to high 20's, but never quite reached 30.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Oh yes, which they compact/consolidate with ......... a broom.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
As Karl Marx said: "Proletarians of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your potholes. "
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
When you don't need it, you often happen across it. When you do need it, you just can't find it! 
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
And when do manage to find it, it's always in the last place that you look ...When you don't need it, you often happen across it. When you do need it, you just can't find it!
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Recipes in US measures. A cup of one thing is a different weight to a cup of another and online converters vary on what this means in terms of mass.
That, too..
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
While I agree about not liking US measures, a cup is a measure of volume, not weight. And should be equal to 240ml, or 8 fluid ounces.
But yes, it is awkward when a recipe calls for a cup of flour rather than x ounces of flour when you are used to measuring by weight. One chart I have found gives the following conversions for a few things
1 CUP FLOUR = 140 GRAMS
1 CUP SUGAR = 150 GRAMS
1 CUP POWDERED SUGAR = 160 GRAMS
1 CUP HEAVY CREAM = 235 GRAMS
I'm not sure whether "powdered sugar" is what we would call Icing sugar, or Caster Sugar. And nor am I quite sure what "Heavy Cream" is.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
This is another annoyance - the naming of stuff. Yes, I believe powdered sugar is icing sugar and heavy cream is double cream. There’s also “all purpose flour” which translates roughly to plain flour. And then they go and pull out corn syrup or some other staple that we don’t typically use here. And then there’s “cilantro” and other “urbs”.
Bah!
