Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Pirahna]

The olive crop has been low for two successive years, drought and very early heatwaves are to blame. Last year was worse than 2022, lots of trees were bare or only had olives on sheltered bits. I don't have any trees but friends do, I volunteer picking services for olive oil, I've still got 10 litres in the cupboard.

The almond harvest was also shit last year, but it's a global market and California had a bumper crop. Doesn't help the Spanish farmers though.

The grape harvest was ok. The wine vines are out in the open but seem to do ok. Eating grapes are usually under very fine nets or the individual bunches are covered to protect them.

That covers the three main crops here. They're all irrigated but water is tight and you can't protest from early season heat.

[Noggin]

I buy Spanish La Espanola olive oil which in the last year has over doubled in price. At the weekend I refused to buy it as it had gone up yet again. Just heard on the news that its due to Spains drought and some bug or another and olive tree theft! It appears supermarkets are cashing in on this by putting up the prices of all olive oil and dramatically so too! Appparently their grapes have problems due to drought and wine prices are climbing as well. Real world problems right there!

I'll bet you they don't pay the producer more though... Just charge the public more. Welcome to the world we live in of selfish people.

100%

Supermarkets have always screwed down prices to suppliers but made a shit ton of money (like Wetherspoons pubs for the pub industry - buying cheap, dated beer and making the same profit even though the prices were lower - byebye loads of proper local pubs )

Ok, that's business - up to a point. But when a farmer has to accept a price that makes virtually no profit because otherwise he has to throw away the produce and go bust just so the supermarkets can have a loss leader or make extra profit, that's not right.

One of my goals is to get my life sorted so that I can buy from the farms and veg growers here direct. Ok, pretty sure that the French supermarkets don't get to screw over the farmers like in the uk, but still, if you buy direct or from a local butcher, it's gotta be better for the farmer/grower.

Sadly, I have to admit to working for both a supermarket and Wetherspoons

[weeksy]

Fucking weather again !!!! couple of days of not too bad weather, then boom, back to the fucking twatting rain... FUUUUUCK

[Yorick]

Fucking Guardia Civil. Wankers.
They are hated by 100% of the population.
So much so, that they never work near their home. They're shipped miles away.

Today the boat docked in Cadiz at 8 ish.

About 15 cars got off, then all the bikes.
The G.C. we're checking every car.
Only 1 guy checking. Other 5 sat around chatting.

We had to wait 20 minutes behind the 15 cars. The one guy was checking everything.
Then he stopped us bikes and asked for paperwork.
So 30 mins in total.

Behind us, over 100 cars on the boat waiting to unload. They'd be a couple of hours at least in a fume filled environment

If the other lazy twats did some work, there'd be much less time wasted.
But they're smug, arrogant wankers

[Felix]

Fucking weather again !!!! couple of days of not too bad weather, then boom, back to the fucking twatting rain... FUUUUUCK

What. T-shirt day today in Scotland. Started to rain earlier after tea time but its now looking like another dry day tomorrow.

[Bigjawa]

Getting one of those 'polite voice" calls from the wife asking if I know how to get a Belgian Malinois off the roof of the garden shed.

Skinny big muppet has worked out that if he bounces on top of the wheelie bins, then it's a short hop onto the shed roof where he can lord it over the neighbouring gardens whilst the Rotts go nuts below him.

I swear I'm going to strangle him.

[Pirahna]

Getting one of those 'polite voice" calls from the wife asking if I know how to get a Belgian Malinois off the roof of the garden shed.

Electric fence, the dog will get one hit from the fence and never go near it again. That's how we trained my old mans dog not to go on the road. 17 years later and she still won't go out the open gate.

[Pirahna]

MotoGP has annoyed me today. I booked a ticket for Valencia, €125 for 3 days and the stand. Why do they think a €2.50 handling fee and €5.00 delivery fee is acceptable for an emailed ticket on an automated system?

[Sunny]

My new MoniMoto tracker. Went to set it up, all fine except it wouldn't register the key fob. I've spent upwards of an hour trying various different things, including a bunch of suggestions from MoniMoto (who were very responsive). Nothing.

I eventually decided to try changing the battery. The fucking battery had been installed upside down Oh, says MoniMoto, we had a batch go out with the battery installed the wrong way up.


Still, it's set up now

[Horse]

The fucking battery had been installed upside down Oh, says MoniMoto, we had a batch go out with the battery installed the wrong way up.

Years ago, a colleague had a nice Alfa.

Apart from, twice, it leapt sideways. Luckily both times on dual carriageways.

The dealer realised that it had different wheels on one side from the other.

"Odd," Alfa said "we've only had one other car like that ... "

[Noggin]

Bastard sodding weather

When I get back from GVA with my friends, I get to ride the bike back to resort. Around that time it’s forecast to snow

TBF, i am totally fine with snow, even in May. But I’d much rather it didn’t snow this afternoon

I mean, it’s not going to settle on the roads, but I’ve not ridden in falling snow since the first couple of months of bike ownership

[Taipan]

Fucking Guardia Civil. Wankers.
They are hated by 100% of the population.
So much so, that they never work near their home. They're shipped miles away.

Today the boat docked in Cadiz at 8 ish.

About 15 cars got off, then all the bikes.
The G.C. we're checking every car.
Only 1 guy checking. Other 5 sat around chatting.

We had to wait 20 minutes behind the 15 cars. The one guy was checking everything.
Then he stopped us bikes and asked for paperwork.
So 30 mins in total.

Behind us, over 100 cars on the boat waiting to unload. They'd be a couple of hours at least in a fume filled environment

If the other lazy twats did some work, there'd be much less time wasted.
But they're smug, arrogant wankers

French customs were the same when I was there the other year. One checkpoint to go out on the ferry, all done in a few minutes. Coming back Frenchies had 3 stops and then the English border patrol. Loads of people missed their ferries.

[MingtheMerciless]

Fucking Guardia Civil. Wankers.
They are hated by 100% of the population.
So much so, that they never work near their home. They're shipped miles away.

Today the boat docked in Cadiz at 8 ish.

About 15 cars got off, then all the bikes.
The G.C. we're checking every car.
Only 1 guy checking. Other 5 sat around chatting.

We had to wait 20 minutes behind the 15 cars. The one guy was checking everything.
Then he stopped us bikes and asked for paperwork.
So 30 mins in total.

Behind us, over 100 cars on the boat waiting to unload. They'd be a couple of hours at least in a fume filled environment

If the other lazy twats did some work, there'd be much less time wasted.
But they're smug, arrogant wankers

A mate has a horror story involving them and some immigrants. Suffice to say Judge, jury and executioner.

[MingtheMerciless]

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Having to go out in the garden in the pissing rain (which it has been since 0100, it’s all flooded again) to convince youngest dog to go outside and have a.

[gremlin]

convince youngest dog to go outside and have a.

Lead by example.

[Rockburner]

Bikes advertised as "Investment Grade"

Utter shite.

Polished beyond reason and missing all internals?

[cheb]

Bikes advertised as "Investment Grade"

Utter shite.

TBF they don't usually state who will benefit from the investment.

[gremlin]

Tea bags.

Not the tea bag itself, it's a wonderful invention. But why, oh, why, do they insist on joining two together, thus requiring the user to pull them apart to make a brew? Think of the collective man/woman hours wasted in the UK each year pointlessly separating the bags. And let's not start on the odd occasion when you ham-fistedly rip one of the bags attempting to separate them, usually at 6am in the morning.

[636mick]

Tea bags.

Not the tea bag itself, it's a wonderful invention. But why, oh, why, do they insist on joining two together, thus requiring the user to pull them apart to make a brew? Think of the collective man/woman hours wasted in the UK each year pointlessly separating the bags. And let's not start on the odd occasion when you ham-fistedly rip one of the bags attempting to separate them, usually at 6am in the morning.

One of my team makes the tea every morning, cos he’s in at 0500, without fail someone gets a ripped tea bag.
Still, they are Yorkshire tea so probably retain a tight grip on everything!

[Yorick]

Stupid swimming pools.
The one here looks cool, so just been for a dip.
Fark. It's 6" deep at shallow end and 3' at deep end. No bloody good for swimming
You can see the tiles on bottom in photo.

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