New - The things that really annoy you

[Boozad]

Norway was really expensive years ago, I went in 2006 (I think) and it was £7.50 a pint then.

 

[Johnny75]

Norway was really expensive years ago, I went in 2006 (I think) and it was £7.50 a pint then.

Norway -> Sweden -> Denmark for Scandi expense. All more expensive than anywhere else in Western Europe bar Switzerland in my experience.

 

[Alan]

Interestingly, fireworks are banned in Ireland.
Yup, they're illegal.
But as you leg it up the M1 (Irish) towards N.Ire, as soon as you get to the border there are about 20 fucking big signs "FIREWORKS!!" "FIREWORKS THIS WAY", "FIREWORKS FOR SALE - HALF MILE"!
So of course they're all over the kip.
And of course, it being Ireland, the police don't enforce it. Not one little bit!

You just summed up US gun control.

 

[Alan]

Norway was really expensive years ago, I went in 2006 (I think) and it was £7.50 a pint then.

Big tax on it these days IIRC (even relative to Norway’s other taxes). Apparently they decided they had an “alcoholism epidemic” in the late 90s.

Rusty knowledge from ages ago when the plan was to emigrate there.

 

[Boozad]

Norway -> Sweden -> Denmark for Scandi expense. All more expensive than anywhere else in Western Europe bar Switzerland in my experience.

Don’t the government regulate all alcohol prices in Norway or something like that? I seem to remember that’s what the locals were saying. If it was to maximise sobriety it seemed to be working for the most part, I was the only person I saw in Sogndal shitfaced. Mind you the food was eye watering expensive as well.

Copenhagen wasn’t much cheaper but to be fair I only bought pizza and beer at the airport so not a true reflection of the prices there I guess.

 

[Johnny75]

Don’t the government regulate all alcohol prices in Norway or something like that? I seem to remember that’s what the locals were saying. If it was to maximise sobriety it seemed to be working for the most part, I was the only person I saw in Sogndal shitfaced. Mind you the food was eye watering expensive as well.

Copenhagen wasn’t much cheaper but to be fair I only bought pizza and beer at the airport so not a true reflection of the prices there I guess.

I know they do in Norway. Copenhagen is a capital city so it's going to be pricey anyway. Not as bad as Oslo, that was pants down expensive.

 

[Alan]

The rent in Oslo is insane.

 

[Boozad]

I know they do in Norway. Copenhagen is a capital city so it's going to be pricey anyway. Not as bad as Oslo, that was pants down expensive.

I used to smoke back then and getting hold of a packet of fags was so difficult. I ended up having to take my passport out to prove I was nearly 30 which was just daft, I fucking looked it. Can’t remember if they were extortionate or not, I only bought them when I was pissed and had none left.

 

[Wolftone]

Interestingly, fireworks are banned in Ireland.
Yup, they're illegal.
But as you leg it up the M1 (Irish) towards N.Ire, as soon as you get to the border there are about 20 fucking big signs "FIREWORKS!!" "FIREWORKS THIS WAY", "FIREWORKS FOR SALE - HALF MILE"!
So of course they're all over the kip.
And of course, it being Ireland, the police don't enforce it. Not one little bit!

Mate up the north used to get them for me. The one year I asked him if he could get me some, he replied "well I can get you some but im supposed to be decommissioning".

 

[Wolf Hunting]

I like Gammel Dansk Bitters. Can't get it in Ireland, just can't.
Son lives in Norway where yes, the Govnmnt regulate alcohol so a bottle costs around €35.
He occasionally gets sent to work in or train in Denmark where a bottle costs around €7. So he sent me 4 bottles.
He's a good lad.

 

[Templeton Peck]

I've not shouted at a cloud in a while so a short list to get off my chest:

People over the age of 10 wearing crocs
Shoes without socks
Sliders with socks
Trousers that are neither shorts nor trousers
Skinny jeans
Tattoos
Mullets even shitter than the first time
Bumfluff or 'peado' moustaches

 

[Keef]

It’s that time of year when you get blinded in traffic queues on the way home from work by pricks who keep their foot on the brakes, just use the fucking handbrake knobhead!

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Car lights certainly seem to be brighter nowadays. Sitting in traffic is dazzling from LEDs oncoming and from cars in front.
Also - the winter sun is lethal. I keep shades in the car to help when the sun is low but the glare off cars and glass is overwhelming sometimes, despite shades.

 

[EpsomWolf]

It’s that time of year when you get blinded in traffic queues on the way home from work by pricks who keep their foot on the brakes, just use the fucking handbrake knobhead!

It’s compounded by the electric handbrake you have on a lot of cars now, plus more customers/manufactures are going automatic instead of manual for economical reasons (unlike the old days, more efficient than manuals these days).

Some autos with electric handbrakes are a bit of a pain to operate and some people are also too dim to learn the technique on even the simple ones, but yeah, it is irritating.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Doesn’t eco mode engage the brakes on an auto to hold the car in position when the engine turns off stationary in traffic? It all releases when you touch the accelerator and the engine instantly fires up?

 

[EpsomWolf]

On mine when you brake to a stop and the engine cuts out you have to gently squeeze the pedal further and it engages the parking brake and you can take your foot off the pedal.

Problem is, you have to time it just right because if you don’t time it properly, you squeeze, then lift your foot off the brake pedal assuming the parking brake is engaged and suddenly the engine fires up and lurches the car forward - it takes a bit of practice to get both the timing right AND to double check the HOLD is illuminated.

The last motor had a lever mounted button, but that then disabled ‘drive’, so the lights changed, you hit the accelerator and nothing happened - bloody embarrassing when that happens!

Anyway, you can see why a lot of people just think fuck it and sit on the brake.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Car lights certainly seem to be brighter nowadays. Sitting in traffic is dazzling from LEDs oncoming and from cars in front.
Also - the winter sun is lethal. I keep shades in the car to help when the sun is low but the glare off cars and glass is overwhelming sometimes, despite shades.

Similarly, my bugbear is the indicators on modern cars are not so clear, particularly in daylight.

The trend to have clear lenses with the amber indicator light concealed within the lens means they don’t show so clearly in daylight anywhere near as well as the old-skool dedicated orange lens wrapped around each corner.

 

[leedswolf]

Driving back from Mancester airport to leeds yesterday morning there was fog from Milnrow to Brighouse. The number of (ironically dark coloured) vehicles with no rear lights on. The drivers had the daytime running lights on, but don't seem to realise that it's only the front that is illuminated.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Agreed.

I borrowed my FiL’s car and I did this in the early hours on the M25!

The problem is the dash lights are on so as long as you can see ok out the front it doesn’t cross your mind that the rears are out and the fronts only DLR’s.

Edit: I guess a lot of cars now have auto lights so that wouldn’t happen in that case, but it’s very easily done if you don’t have.

 

[leedswolf]

Agreed.

I borrowed my FiL’s car and I did this in the early hours on the M25!

The problem is the dash lights are on so as long as you can see ok out the front it doesn’t cross your mind that the rears are out and the fronts only DLR’s.

Indeed.