I hate

I don't know if they changed the recipe but Reese's seems to be acceptable chocolate now despite being owned by Hershey's which is still absolute garbage. I definitely never used to like peanut butter cups because the chocolate used to taste like low quality carob but now find them quite enjoyable. Maybe they just made it thinner and inserted more peanut butter?

This morning at the train station, going up a long escalator a woman in front of me turned around to wave back down to her bf/husband/loved one six separate times. Then at the top went over to the window for a further wave.

This expressive display of affection didn't sit comfortably with my cold dead heart.

Perhaps I don't hate people who wave goodbye, just people who do it too much

Perhaps I don't hate people who wave goodbye, just people

Ftfy

I used to deliberately embarass my teenage son by doing that on the doorstep as he left for college. One hand in the air, the other clasped over my mouth with an anxious look on my face.
But I wouldn't bother if there weren't people waiting at the bus stop over the road.
He's a 24/7 screen troglodyte now and I refuse to believe I have anything to do with that.
Kids today, eh?

There is a family fun place in Cornwall that has animated animals in display cases. One of them says "Don't like people" which I thought was kinda the wrong attitude for an employee of a theme park that relies on income from humans. Bloody backward pasty muncher.

Last time I looked at the ingredients on a peanut butter cup there was no peanut butter in it. Just peanut flavoured icing.

The only chocolate my local shop sells is hersheys, a gross overpriced galaxy rip off and spicy snickers. I'd kill for a peanut butter cup.

spicy snickers

Wtaf

Spicy snickers - eup?

Yeah peanut butter cups are gross. But those peanut bars (Nutrageous) they do are fucking mint.

The fucking row of taxis idling with their fucking grim engines that I walk past almost every day.

Somebody needs to send a traffic warden and slap a load of tickets on the cunts.

just flexing that sweet, sweet ULEZ exempt energy.

Actually rather than bitching about it, what can I do?

Write to CofL? Mayors office? Who's best?

(I've already bought frozen sausages)

tap on the window and ask them to turn their engine off?

Shit on their bonnet?

It's a row of about 7-20 taxis.

better get taping then!

they do this outside the back of the tate modern. i've had limited success with the tapping and the asking tbt.

The propensity on here to do puns in response to a posting. Tedious as hell.

Get a life dorks!

You know what will invariably follow...

Dorks?

Set up a dedicated thread for it called Simply Punderful

People who should really know better pronouncing 'Bianchi' as "bee-angee".

Italian has really simple and straightforward pronounciation once you know approximately three rules, one of which is that 'c' is pronounced like the English 'ch' if followed by an 'i' or an 'e', except when there is an 'h' inbetween, in which case it's just a plain old 'k' sound - basically the 'h' which is itself completely silent acts as an 'interruptor' to stop the 'ch' sound from happening.

Bian chi : "bian k i"
Ci nelli: " ch inelli"
Vin ce nzo Nibali: "Vin ch enzo Nibali"

I know it looks a bit counterintuitive for an English-speaker, but goddammit, if you're talking about bike stuff all the time, maybe learn some basic pronounciation rules.

(Similar rule for 'g', by the way, see 'giro' vs 'ghetto')

Strong & profound post,
but,
you should have realised by now in Ihnguhlahn,
it is basic low-level, pre-synaptic even, Gammon to refuse to acknowledge any other language,
and the innate right of a Speaker of the Queen's Inglish
to say a forrin word any how they like.

I feel like often it's not even any kind of semi-malicious entrenched anti-foreign-language position, but just blissful ignorance.

But if you deal with bike stuff all the time - say, you make youtube videos about cycling and bikes -, maybe look things up once in a while? 20 seconds on Google will give you a pronunciation guide and you're golden.

Ci nelli: " ch inelli"

Its funny, I don't think I've heard someone get Cinelli wrong before but Bianchi seems much more commonly mispronounced.