jono

Inadequately chilled Chardonnay.

Know what you mean Jono. I wince when I notice what other people's shopping trolleys contain sometimes. Manufactured, processed, refined, packaged rubbish.
I have to confess I do have food issues but stems from a kid. I didn't eat a single vegetable until I was 20 and now eat just about every one. Don't do cauliflower though.  
Gluten free is another thing that gets on my nerves. I am actually gluten free as I have gluten sensitivity which took ages to find out. I basically lived my life with chronic squirts and had my body's immune response go insane but the ridiculous thing is, if you eat pretty naturally and healthily then that diet should be pretty much gluten free anyway. It's only things that are boxed, packaged and manufactured that are pumped full of the stuff. Fruits, meats, fish, dairy, veg, nuts, seeds, water none have gluten in. (Nuts and seeds though can be contaminated).
It's the people who just buy all this replacement gluten free crap that you have to laugh at. Fair enough, if you like pasta then you can get gluten free pasta but you can buy almost anything nowadays and many folk have just stopped eating crap with gluten in and are now eating more crap but just without gluten. Bread, pretzels, rich tea biscuits, fish fingers, sausage rolls the list is endless. The prices are stupid too. I saw GF tomato sauce, £1.50 a bottle. ALL products now have to be labelled if they have allergens in there so you'll find that ordinary tomato sauce at say 40p a bottle is also gluten free anyway. Pasta sauce the same. Pay £2 for a jar of GF or 70p for a jar of ordinary that is GF anyway.
I don't want to make light of gluten intolerance / sensitivity / coeliac as it's horrendous to live with but sometimes I think folk just don't help themselves.
 

I forgot to say ... Tony that was a very good rant. ! 
My moan for today is people with "food issues" ... We all have the odd thing we don't like or would prefer to avoid but there are literally thousands of ordinary grown up, reasonably educated people who have lists and lists of things they don't like. 
Garlic, chilli, mince, rare meat, random fruits milk, egg yolk or egg white, shell fish, cheese, onions, mushrooms. I mean fussy kids fair enough.. Things are new and strange that's fair enough but these are adult folk who have travelled the world and watch chef programmes half the time. yet they are the ones consuming all the artificial stuff made heaven knows where and containing additives so weird that no one really knows what they are. 

Sir Thomas Beecham when asked if he had ever conducted any Shostakovich ... Answer "No but I once trod in some"
and to a lady Cellist .. "Madam you have one of gods great instruments between your legs. Please can you do more than just scratch it" 

And those who walk down the street with music blaring out of their 'personal' music thingy. Plus those on public transport or in doctors waiting rooms who also have a 'personal' music thingy with all sorts of bleeps and squeaks blaring out or some rapper on about his bitches or something embarrassing like that. It's YOUR music man which means I don't wanna effin hear it too!! It's never ever decent music either, just gormless techno, inert r and b or the crucifyingly excruciatingly annoying sounds of some wannabe rapper from Worcester trying to sound like he was brought up in the Bronx! Aaaaaggggh!! Although I realise I've just condemned the whole gamut of 3 different musical genres there I make no apologies.
I can deal with a tiny tiny amount of dance music at a push but r and b and rap make me heave.
Calmed down now. Just put on some Shostakovich.
No, not that one. This one are Soviet four piece metallers.

I expect that a few might agree with me here.
 
But what really really annoys me is those people that get all high-horse uppity about football, even having never watched, played or witnessed a game!
You know the types, they prefer caravans to boobs, herbal tea to beer and don't like sunshine.

Then there's Gigantes Autem Dormierunt FC, perpetual under-achievers.
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I'm a yorkshireman born and bred and they usually fall into two categories. Thick, obnoxious, insular, narrow minded ,arrogant tw*ts that know everything under the sun and have been there and done it already and they lack manners, basic courtesy and still think it's ok to make unsolicited sexist comments to passing women.
Or genuine, really dependable, salt of the earth blokes who are loyal, honest and although they say it how it is they don't ram it down others throats like the first category of yorkshireman. I fall between the two categories.
Saw a  rotund 40 plus bloke walking the harbour at Brid last week wearing a t shirt that said, IF IT'S NOT FROM YORKSHIRE - IT'S *****. Should have known better than to go to Brid I guess.  So glad my kid is born and raised Derbyshire tbh.

I can live with the former as often they are great blokes to have around when the chips are down.
Best fun is to wind them up..... try this ...
Interrupt his 2 hour pub discourse on why Yorkshire is the greatest by saying - "Oh yeah, Yorkshire, the place who's job is to keep the wind off the Midlands."

Never did like the way they played football. Eboracum City .. Lower league team stuff, very negative 

Yes know what you mean. Although Loidis lunctus are the real cloggers. Someone told me their half centurions were hard as nails 
 .. Ps I am really well oiled tonight so might not be at the top,of my game at the moment 

Never did like the way they played football. Eboracum City .. Lower league team stuff, very negative 

Olicana Town can be a bit like that too...........  Defence like city walls

Never did like the way they played football. Eboracum City .. Lower league team stuff, very negative 

Oi jono. What about the Romans?

Turning nouns into verbs ..... 'medal' ("Can he medal in this event?"), 'podium', 'summit' ("I have summitted Everest four times")
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/08/meddling-with-nouns-whos-medalling-now/
Worst of all 'Math'... "Do the Math" ITS MATHS OR MATHEMATICS
I bl***y hate that.

#Grumpyoldmen

#Putting hashtags in front of vaguely connected words. Just write a ******* sentence describing what you mean. 

People who e-mail you something at work, then immediately phone you up to make sure you've seen said e-mail. If it was urgent, why didn't you just phone me? If it's not urgent, then why are you phoning me?
Also, unnecessary "thanks"/"you're (usually spelt "your") welcome e-mails.
Office bitching.
Yes, it's been one of those days.

"110%"

New tin bucket has arrived!

Damn electric power, I feel a equal amount of pity and envy when I see someone in one!

I had to start taking pictures on my phone and then zooming in to read it which made me look a right knob in the cereal aisle in Asda.

I used to live in Stockport and only used the M6 if there was a lot if snow around. Only took hour and half, hour and 45. Went via Macclesfield, Leek and Ashbourne. Was quicker than going on the A6 through Matlock.

I travel to Stockport / Manchester once or twice a month and go over the peaks. Takes longer however you are moving and the scenery is awesome.