ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Yes - to the North a bit along the coast
I actually worked in the centre of Liverpool - that call centre was in Crosby and was the nearest to us
so I went there quite often at certain points in my career there
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
- Thread starter PaulB
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Yes - to the North a bit along the coast
I actually worked in the centre of Liverpool - that call centre was in Crosby and was the nearest to us
so I went there quite often at certain points in my career there
High Five - I did the exact same thing but with patient health records in preparation for linking to the NHS spine.
I also had to perform a lot of filtering and fixing of postcodes - including SO and many other combinations. The number of UPDATE queries just grew and grew.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
I was doing this in about 1982 - and on a "database" that was more of a custom file system accessed by routines written in-house in assembler
and only accessible in COBOL68
why was a rather rude introduction to the world of programming
(and I could "entertain" you with stories about how it got worse for hours!!"
so UPDATE queries would have been a massive luxury at the time!!
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Why sell olives with their 'stones' still in them?! It's pointless trying to eat them by the handful as each one has to be carefully moved around the mouth to avoid biting into a potentially tooth damaging stone. Also, why bother filling pitted olives with such as anchovies, red peppers, garlic, feta cheese etc, etc?! I've yet to taste anything but the olive itself after trying mostly green olives with such fillings. 🤔
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Because people keep on buying them to see if they can taste the stuff filling them...?
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Because people keep on buying them to see if they can taste the stuff filling them...?
Yup- if people will but them then other people will keep selling them
if all comes down to money
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
To me this just reads like "why bother selling whole free range chickens for roasting? It's pointless trying to shove them in your mouth as they're too big to fit and full of bones, unlike mechanically reclaimed battery chicken nuggets"
Olives with the stone in have a firmer texture and taste better - stoned olives tend to be stored in brine, which makes them salty and soggy.
Also - most stoned black olives are actually green olives dyed black - while there are different olive varieties they are all green when unripe and black when ripe, so the difference is when they're harvested. Black olives are ripe and therefore softer, which makes them less easy to remove the stones from without turning them to mush.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Thinking a-ha! this 'whatever' annoys me & I'll post it in this thread; and promptly forgetting what the annoyance was!
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
The 'stones' are removed to be pressed for Olive Oil, they don't press the whole Olive.
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Every now and again....
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Yes they do. Where did you get that idea?
https://www.oliveoilsource.com/info/extraction-process
Depitting
Although first described hundreds of year ago, there has been recent interest in producing oil from destoned olives. This is a fairly uncommon practice and there is some debate about its usefulness.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
It is cheaper, so more profit per kilo.
You can taste some of them, though I usually prefer them without any filling.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Just been to Tesco
so - annoying thing is people who put their trolley at the end of a long line in the trolley parking
when the line is already so long that it goes half way across the lane next to it - this blcking the road to some extent
the next trolley parking if literally 20 yards away!!
now - there are excuses
if someone is disabled - not to the extent that they need the disabled apces but enough - then I understand
If someone has 3 tired and hungry kids that are likely to kill each other if left along in the car for more that 12.7 seconds - then I understand
but most people who do this are not in those categories
they are just morons
same for the ones who just leave their trolley in the middle of the parking spaces
Yes - you are very clever - well done indeed for getting a trolley without paying - how wonderful you are
NOW PUT IT BACK WHERE IT COMES FROM!!!
Yea Gods!!
so - annoying thing is people who put their trolley at the end of a long line in the trolley parking
when the line is already so long that it goes half way across the lane next to it - this blcking the road to some extent
the next trolley parking if literally 20 yards away!!
now - there are excuses
if someone is disabled - not to the extent that they need the disabled apces but enough - then I understand
If someone has 3 tired and hungry kids that are likely to kill each other if left along in the car for more that 12.7 seconds - then I understand
but most people who do this are not in those categories
they are just morons
same for the ones who just leave their trolley in the middle of the parking spaces
Yes - you are very clever - well done indeed for getting a trolley without paying - how wonderful you are
NOW PUT IT BACK WHERE IT COMES FROM!!!
Yea Gods!!
