Please can I have a moan here ? OK MH :)

[atkinsonr (Rich)]

It’s a huge accolade to be protected; Stilton, Scotch, Champagne, all the good things... mmmm pasties!

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

What about Worcestershire sauce

[JeniSkunk (Jenifur)]

Originally Posted by atkinsonr

Stilton

That does make things interesting.
'Cheddar Cheese' does not have a PDO, but 'West Country Farmhouse Cheddar' does
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese
I wonder if Australia could get a PDO for Coon Cheese?

[gaseous (Patrick)]

Oh my goodness, can I have a moan. In no particular order, and admittedly very petty:

People who pronounce the "t" in "often".
People whose hands wobble when they walk.
People who say "undoubtably".
Supermarket cashiers who try to spark up a conversation about random topics.
Dogs that lick, jump or bark.
Ceramic tiles
Monotone voices
Missing Tupperware lids.
Tardiness.
Leaves in the pool.
Capsicum
People who take the tv remote then won't decide on a channel.
Dirty dishcloths
Telemarketers
End of year school concerts
Uneaten school lunches.
People who push their shopping trolley sideways.
Never finding hats to fit.
People who use all the ice and don't refill the tray.
Wet towels.
Poor grammar.
People drinking my last beer.
Swimming carnivals.
People touching my stuff.
Golden cane palm fronds.
Smoking
Mould
Gonna say capsicum again - that stuff is evil.
Lists

[atkinsonr (Rich)]

Originally Posted by Ukastronomer

What about Worcestershire sauce

It’s seriously good gear. But has no place in a Cornish Pasty

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by atkinsonr

... mmmm pasties!

mmmm ... Curry Pie

[RyanJones]

I’m going to wade in on the Cornish pastie war and suggest that maybe it is simply a style of pastie and as such can be named the same around the world? It must have a half moon folded crust to hold while you eat it as the Cornish coal miners did back in the day thus enabling you to eat it with dirty hands.

Qualification - I lived in Cornwall for much of my childhood

[LewisM]

I think the one that makes me cringe the most is people pronouncing kilometer as “kilom-eter”.

Going by that uneducated none sense, a centimeter is actually a “centim-eter” and a millimeter a “millim-eter” and so on.

(There are similar cringers like foliage pronounced “foilage”, nuclear as “newkular”, herbs as “erbs”, asphalt as “ash-phalt” , solder as “sodder” - particularly American *******isation - and so on ad infinitum...)

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

I think the one that makes me cringe the most is people pronouncing kilometer as “kilom-eter”.

so how do you pronounce it? surely not Keelo meter?

[LewisM]

Metric has prefixes - kilo, milli, centi, deci, deca.

Yes, kilo-meter. No pause though...kilometer

KILOM-eter is not correct.

Would you ask for a KILOG-ram of chicken?

[xelasnave]

Kill a meat eat a.

Why do any of these things annoy folk?

What about how one holds a knife and fork...what if you met someone who held the knife in their left hand and fork in the right...should they be allowed to live?

Alex

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

What about how one holds a knife and fork...what if you met someone who held the knife in their left hand and fork in the right...should they be allowed to live?

I'm still here.

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by multiweb

I'm still here.

Yeah but you are French. Need we say more?

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

mmmm ... Curry Pie

YUK Curry and chips

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Originally Posted by RyanJones

I’m going to wade in on the Cornish pastie war and suggest that maybe it is simply a style of pastie and as such can be named the same around the world? It must have a half moon folded crust to hold while you eat it as the Cornish coal miners did back in the day thus enabling you to eat it with dirty hands.

Qualification - I lived in Cornwall for much of my childhood

Ah but are you "Cornish"

[Paul Haese]

I have a few.

• The entire east coast of Australia. Anyone would think the rest of Australia does not exist. The news is always presented as being from the east coast, the weather too, starting at Queensland and heading down. Oh that is right we're just the mining and grain states.
  
• The centre of a frame for DSO is actually the astronomical standard, Rule of thirds applies to terrestrial photography, not astronomy in general. Guide star selection being the exception.
  
• Pronunciations made by people on the east coast on many English words. Important being the most irritating. There is no d where the first t appears.
  
• The use of the words Eh But at the end of sentences.
  
• People who sit in the right lane on double lane carriage way which is over 80km per hour even when not overtaking.
  
• Idiots that like to do 20km per hour under the posted speed limit without a good reason (like towing).
  
• Idiots walking along the foot path with their heads in their phones. Little realising the danger and then abuse you when they walk into you.
  
• Disliking myself for disliking others who appear to lack any form of intelligence.

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Idiots walking along the foot path with their heads in their phones. Little realising the danger and then abuse you when they walk into you.

I have lost count of the morons I have almost hit when cycling in a supermarket car park,who just step off the kerb phone in hand

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Yeah but you are French. Need we say more?

It's called table ETIQU-ette.

[Astronovice (Calvin)]

Originally Posted by RyanJones

I’m going to wade in on the Cornish pastie war and suggest that maybe it is simply a style of pastie and as such can be named the same around the world? It must have a half moon folded crust to hold while you eat it as the Cornish coal miners did back in the day thus enabling you to eat it with dirty hands.

Qualification - I lived in Cornwall for much of my childhood

Just a miner (oops) thing - but weren’t they tin mines in Cornwall?

[atkinsonr (Rich)]

Originally Posted by Astronovice

Just a miner (oops) thing - but weren’t they tin mines in Cornwall?

Yes - Tin and Copper.

Qualification - Cornish and lived there for 23 years before moving to the lucky country. I recently traced my ancestry back to the 1700's in the same village I grew up in, most of the men were tin miners.