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Things annoying me today 11:23 - Mar 10 with 4180 viewsnodge_blue

1. £4.50 for a cappuccino in starbucks.
2. The end of the civilised world.
3. Relegation.

Think that just about covers it.

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Things annoying me today on 17:04 - Mar 10 with 974 viewsMattinLondon

Things annoying me today on 16:45 - Mar 10 by Ryorry

🎶 "If you want
some chocolate on your biscuit
join our Club" 🎶

Not many of us left who remember that ad jingle, I suspect!


Rather depressingly, I remember that jingle. Sigh.
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Things annoying me today on 17:15 - Mar 10 with 946 viewsmutters

Things annoying me today on 14:49 - Mar 10 by TheBlueGnu

I've found an even more radical way to avoid expensive coffee. Rocket science it aint. Buy a £6.25 jar of coffee from Asda, and enjoy at least 30 cups of coffee from it - just over 20p a cup. Alright, there's the extremely difficult, exhausting and time-consuming task of making it ones-self !


To be fair though instant coffee is pretty rank

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Things annoying me today on 17:17 - Mar 10 with 943 viewsmutters

Things annoying me today on 16:45 - Mar 10 by Ryorry

🎶 "If you want
some chocolate on your biscuit
join our Club" 🎶

Not many of us left who remember that ad jingle, I suspect!


"Not many of us left who remember that ad jingle, I suspect"

Pretty sure that advert was used throughout my childhood (80s/early 90s) so there are plenty of us left 😂

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Things annoying me today on 18:24 - Mar 10 with 898 viewsmonkeymagic

Things annoying me today on 16:54 - Mar 10 by Churchman

I do!! The chocolate one with raisins was a favourite.

I think the club was biscuit of choice because it fitted nicely in the plastic Tupperware lunch box.


I nearly always agree with your views but on this serious matter of best club biscuit flavours, I think you need to reconsider. Both orange and mint were way superior to raisin.
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Things annoying me today on 18:33 - Mar 10 with 874 viewsMattinLondon

Things annoying me today on 18:24 - Mar 10 by monkeymagic

I nearly always agree with your views but on this serious matter of best club biscuit flavours, I think you need to reconsider. Both orange and mint were way superior to raisin.


As a kid I always felt disappointed if I found a raisin flavoured club in my packed lunch box. Orange was good but think the mint chocolate one was my favourite.

Honourable mention for the mint yo-yo biscuit that came in a bright green wrapper.
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Things annoying me today on 18:45 - Mar 10 with 858 viewsMullet

Things annoying me today on 18:33 - Mar 10 by MattinLondon

As a kid I always felt disappointed if I found a raisin flavoured club in my packed lunch box. Orange was good but think the mint chocolate one was my favourite.

Honourable mention for the mint yo-yo biscuit that came in a bright green wrapper.


Red yo-yos were far superior - also there was a bar called a Trio bar better than all of these.

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Things annoying me today on 18:48 - Mar 10 with 854 viewsmonkeymagic

Things annoying me today on 18:45 - Mar 10 by Mullet

Red yo-yos were far superior - also there was a bar called a Trio bar better than all of these.


I’d forgotten all about yo-yo and Trio’s : both classics, with the latter also having a catchy advert. Shout out to United biscuits too.
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Things annoying me today on 19:03 - Mar 10 with 844 viewsMeadowlark

Things annoying me today on 12:50 - Mar 10 by nodge_blue

Yeah sadly Cafe Neros always seem to be in city centres rather than on the outskirts?

Ive got an M&S cafe, a Starbucks, a Range cafe, a Costa, costa in next, a Greggs but no Nero.


how about a thermos flask??
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Things annoying me today on 19:03 - Mar 10 with 844 viewsDubtractor

Things annoying me today on 12:08 - Mar 10 by TractorWood

With Octopus energy you get a free hot drink every week from Nero. Small wins!


I'm with octopus, and didn't realise this!

I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun. I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
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Things annoying me today on 19:04 - Mar 10 with 840 viewsSwansea_Blue

Things annoying me today on 16:53 - Mar 10 by Pinewoodblue

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/05/starbucks-paid-7-point-2m-in-uk

Tax dodgers.


They’re not alone. I saw a figure the other day for roughly how much additional tax the govt would be getting if these (mostly, but not exclusively) American firms paid the intended amount of tax. It’s eye-wateringly large. Tens of billions. So much money leaves the UK to our glut of foreign owners.

Anyway, back on topic, we’ve a Coffee #1 in Swansea that I like. I’m not sure if that’s a chain. But otherwise we mostly make our own and have thermos mugs.

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Things annoying me today on 19:08 - Mar 10 with 835 viewsDubtractor

Things annoying me today on 14:06 - Mar 10 by peterleeblue

Moving away form Coffee one of my pet peeves at the moment is the price of concerts.
When did £100+ become a thing?

It annoys me that normal arena at best level bands are being pulled together with similar level artists to create an outdoor show and then a £40-50 price tag becomes £100+

Or Odeon level bands being grouped together with a similar artist and then playing an arena to push the ticket price up.

Then its the whole £8.00 per pint nonsense when in the venue.

Just a total rip off all round.


I was really interested in that black sabbath gig at villa park, but it was 250 for a crap ticket a mile from the stage, and 400 quid plus for anything half decent.

No way I'm paying that!

I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun. I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
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Things annoying me today on 19:11 - Mar 10 with 827 viewsDubtractor

Things annoying me today on 17:15 - Mar 10 by mutters

To be fair though instant coffee is pretty rank


Agree with this.

I've become a bit of a coffee snob as I've got older. Have a sage machine at home, with beans from coffee link (ipswich company), and it's so much better than anything the chains do.

I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun. I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
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Things annoying me today on 19:14 - Mar 10 with 823 viewsMattinLondon

Things annoying me today on 18:45 - Mar 10 by Mullet

Red yo-yos were far superior - also there was a bar called a Trio bar better than all of these.


Don’t remember the red ones - what flavour were they?

Forgot about trios.
[Post edited 10 Mar 19:15]
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Things annoying me today on 19:21 - Mar 10 with 810 viewsMullet

Things annoying me today on 19:14 - Mar 10 by MattinLondon

Don’t remember the red ones - what flavour were they?

Forgot about trios.
[Post edited 10 Mar 19:15]


Toffee, fudge something like that

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Things annoying me today on 19:35 - Mar 10 with 780 viewsRyorry

Things annoying me today on 17:17 - Mar 10 by mutters

"Not many of us left who remember that ad jingle, I suspect"

Pretty sure that advert was used throughout my childhood (80s/early 90s) so there are plenty of us left 😂


Must hold or be close to a record for durability then, cos I remember it from the 1960s! Had a Saturday job, & kind employer had a huge biscuit tin stuffed with them which she was always offering.

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Things annoying me today on 19:57 - Mar 10 with 761 viewsChurchman

Things annoying me today on 19:11 - Mar 10 by Dubtractor

Agree with this.

I've become a bit of a coffee snob as I've got older. Have a sage machine at home, with beans from coffee link (ipswich company), and it's so much better than anything the chains do.


Throw it all in the bin and make yourself a nice cup of tea. You know it makes sense.
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Things annoying me today on 20:04 - Mar 10 with 736 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Threads about coffee.

"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
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Things annoying me today on 20:08 - Mar 10 with 728 viewsmellowblue

Things annoying me today on 16:45 - Mar 10 by Ryorry

🎶 "If you want
some chocolate on your biscuit
join our Club" 🎶

Not many of us left who remember that ad jingle, I suspect!


I remember it, I used to like the orange club as a child.
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Things annoying me today on 20:15 - Mar 10 with 722 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Loads of people remembering advert lyrics incorrectly is really annoying too...


"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
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Things annoying me today on 20:30 - Mar 10 with 696 viewsgtsb1966

People who take their dogs to Pets at Home. Why it annoys me I don't know but it does.
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Things annoying me today on 20:36 - Mar 10 with 680 viewsiamatractorboy

Things annoying me today on 20:15 - Mar 10 by BanksterDebtSlave

Loads of people remembering advert lyrics incorrectly is really annoying too...



I bl00dy knew those lyrics quoted above in the thread were wrong but I was worried I'd been victim of the Mandela Effect. Thanks for confirming I had remembered correctly!
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Things annoying me today on 20:39 - Mar 10 with 668 viewsRyorry

Things annoying me today on 20:15 - Mar 10 by BanksterDebtSlave

Loads of people remembering advert lyrics incorrectly is really annoying too...



I did wonder actually, when singing the jingle later under my breath - it didn't seem to scan right as I'd written it!

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Things annoying me today on 21:09 - Mar 10 with 629 viewsTractorWood

Things annoying me today on 20:04 - Mar 10 by BanksterDebtSlave

Threads about coffee.


Fair. I stopped drinking in the middle of last year and coffee has really helped plugged the gap a bit. Other tips:

- Coffee bags like Taylors are actually pretty good and worm out about 30p per coffee
- same with posh little filters you can get from waitrose etc. You pour water into the top and they slowly drip strong coffee down
- as I said earlier. If you are with octopus. Their octoplus rewards grant you a free coffee any size, any type once per week if you are quick on Mondays
- carry a thermos everywhere as you can either bring one of the top two with you and then usually get a discount if you get one out

I know that was then, but it could be again..
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Things annoying me today on 22:01 - Mar 10 with 575 viewsmutters

Things annoying me today on 19:11 - Mar 10 by Dubtractor

Agree with this.

I've become a bit of a coffee snob as I've got older. Have a sage machine at home, with beans from coffee link (ipswich company), and it's so much better than anything the chains do.


Me too. I lived in Australia about 20 years ago and got into the coffee culture there. When I returned home I was hooked. I've invested in a Gaggia and even though it's not a bean to cup, it's fantastic. Nearly 15 years of service and it's hardly gone wrong (only recently it started leaking, but that's all and just needs a good service/repair).

My mum used to drink Mellow Birds coffee. Bonkers when you compare the two, akin to comparing a pint of old school homebrew that your mates dad used to make when you were a kid and a proper craft beer

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Things annoying me today on 01:24 - Mar 11 with 475 viewsWeWereZombies

Things annoying me today on 22:01 - Mar 10 by mutters

Me too. I lived in Australia about 20 years ago and got into the coffee culture there. When I returned home I was hooked. I've invested in a Gaggia and even though it's not a bean to cup, it's fantastic. Nearly 15 years of service and it's hardly gone wrong (only recently it started leaking, but that's all and just needs a good service/repair).

My mum used to drink Mellow Birds coffee. Bonkers when you compare the two, akin to comparing a pint of old school homebrew that your mates dad used to make when you were a kid and a proper craft beer


Fizzy craft beer

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