[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2624318 19-Dec-2020 15:02

A recipe:

Preheat oven
Mix stuff
Mix more stuff
Put everything in the fridge for an hour
Do a bit more prep
Finally, bake for 15 minutes.

Why did you ask me to preheat the oven more than an hour in advance? And why didn't you catch this oversight when you tested the recipe? Oh, because you didn't bother to test it, of course.

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#2624381 19-Dec-2020 16:55

Behodar:

Why did you ask me to preheat the oven more than an hour in advance? And why didn't you catch this oversight when you tested the recipe? Oh, because you didn't bother to test it, of course.

I always wonder how many times those "authors" actually test those recipes - even for taste.

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#2624383 19-Dec-2020 17:24

This is in a printed book of recipes too, not just someone's blog or anything!

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#2624385 19-Dec-2020 17:26

freitasm:
That's unfair comment when McDonald's themselves use the name in marketing material, website and social channels in New Zealand.

... a lot of which is recycled Australian advertising that they've been too lazy to adapt, a bit like the Australian kat fud ad a few years ago where they tacked on a token shot of Island Bay to make it a "NZ" ad. Also just because McDonalds' Australian advertising execs think NZ should use Strine slang doesn't mean it's a good idea.

The only time you can legitimately use "Maccas" in a sentence is if you're Rodney Rude, link omitted because it's NNNNNSFW but some of you will know what I'm talking about.

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#2624387 19-Dec-2020 17:28

High-tech organisations who get no-tech agencies to place job ads for them:

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#2624388 19-Dec-2020 17:32

At least it's not a soldering iron being held at the tip.

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#2624389 19-Dec-2020 17:36

She's wearing a white lab coat. She must know what she's doing.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2624390 19-Dec-2020 17:38

freitasm:
I always wonder how many times those "authors" actually test those recipes - even for taste.

It also hides the fact that 99% of all baking recipes are just "flour, eggs, sugar, a few other bits, mix, put in oven at whatever seems a reasonable temperature, bake until the edges are slightly brown" dressed up in fancy language. For example "separate the eggs, whip the whites into foam using a French eyespoon, dip the yolks in ducks tears and knead with your elbows, etc" can often be replaced with "break the eggs into the mix" with no discernible effect on texture or taste.

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#2624423 19-Dec-2020 19:43

neb:
vexxxboy:

the paper straws at Macca's

People using strine slang in a kiwi forum.

didnt know that, i have been calling it Macca's for 15 to 20 years.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2624427 19-Dec-2020 19:50

vexxxboy:

People using strine slang in a kiwi forum.

didnt know that, i have been calling it Macca's for 15 to 20 years.

That's because everyone calls it Maccas or knows what it means. It's totally ubiquitous.

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#2624429 19-Dec-2020 19:53

Handle9:

That's because everyone calls it Maccas or knows what it means. It's totally ubiquitous.

Friend goes off when people say they're going down to zee to gas up ;) So we say that a lot ;)

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#2624440 19-Dec-2020 20:51

neb: High-tech organisations who get no-tech agencies to place job ads for them:

There might be another message in the choice of image.

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#2624441 19-Dec-2020 20:53

Geektastic: There might be another message in the choice of image.

That they messed up a perfect opportunity for a downblouse?

(It's OK, I'll see myself out...).

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#2624442 19-Dec-2020 20:53

vexxxboy:
didnt know that, i have been calling it Macca's for 15 to 20 years.

Because McDonalds is such a long and difficult word to say...

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#2624517 20-Dec-2020 02:53

Australians love giving everyone a shortened ‘matey’ nickname based on a corruption of their real name - it’s a form of cultural bonding for them. This also happens here but is much more endemic in Oz. I worked there years ago and some of my colleagues were:

Shazza or Shaz - Sharon

Mazza or Maz - Mary

Wozza or Woz - Warren

Gazza or Gaz - Garry

etc. We had an office full of these.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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