Minor complaints thread (2 Viewers)

[Denny Oubidoux]

I think this maunder minimum thing is to blame
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/29/frozen_euro_winters_linked_to_low_solar_activity/

Apart from it being the coldest spring on record (and "summer" is going the same way) we got a away lightly enough down here this last winter but a friend in belfast was telling me that thousands of sheep were buried in the snow and died near his gaff a couple of months ago.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Was in Dakota earlier, meeting my Mam and bro for a bite to eat.

I ordered a salad, and I asked for some bread with it. The girl looks at me and says "bread??", like I asked for chocolate cake. Yeah, I said. And she goes, "are you sure - bread? We'll have to charge you". "That grand" I said - I ordered the salad right? (thinking one of us was getting mixed up). That was grand. She finished the order and walked off looking totally bemused.

Anyway, the bread I got was a sliced, slightly toasted, white roll (probably stale from earlier) but I let it go and didn't question it. They could have just said, they had no bread.

My brother, had ordered a pasta dish with Feta cheese and butternut squash. It was placed in front of him without a word. He was poking through it and said to us "where's the feta cheese"? There was none. He called the girl and she had a "whats the problem now" expression. He said there's no feta cheese. She looked at it and said are you sure? There it is there (pointing at the squash). The bro was just lookin' at her, and says calmly, no, no its not, would you mind asking?. And she goes off to check with the kitchen. She returns and says they are actually all out of cheese, "but to be fair.... we won't charge you for the bread!". He wasn't even eating the bread, I was! The Feta was the main ingredient and leaving it out, without saying a word was a bit strange.

She walks off, leaving us looking at each other, going.. but, but, what?

He decided not to eat it, but didn't want to call her back. So I brought it over to the girl and said, look, sorry, can you take this back, its not what he ordered. And she goes, "but we're not charging you for the bread". And I went, "still-and-all, its not what he ordered, and he'd rather not have it". She's looking at me like I'm acting like a 4 year old.

She wasn't being rude or anything, just questioning and slightly impatient. But how mad is that?

Sorry, long post, when I could just have said, went to Dakota. Poor service.

 

[washingcattle]

Was in Dakota earlier, meeting my Mam and bro for a bite to eat.

I ordered a salad, and I asked for some bread with it. The girl looks at me and says "bread??", like I asked for chocolate cake. Yeah, I said. And she goes, "are you sure - bread? We'll have to charge you". "That grand" I said - I ordered the salad right? (thinking one of us was getting mixed up). That was grand. She finished the order and walked off looking totally bemused.

Anyway, the bread I got was a sliced, slightly toasted, white roll (probably stale from earlier) but I let it go and didn't question it. They could have just said, they had no bread.

My brother, had ordered a pasta dish with Feta cheese and butternut squash. It was placed in front of him without a word. He was poking through it and said to us "where's the feta cheese"? There was none. He called the girl and she had a "whats the problem now" expression. He said there's no feta cheese. She looked at it and said are you sure? There it is there (pointing at the squash). The bro was just lookin' at her, and says calmly, no, no its not, would you mind asking?. And she goes off to check with the kitchen. She returns and says they are actually all out of cheese, "but to be fair.... we won't charge you for the bread!". He wasn't even eating the bread, I was! The Feta was the main ingredient and leaving it out, without saying a word was a bit strange.

She walks off, leaving us looking at each other, going.. but, but, what?

He decided not to eat it, but didn't want to call her back. So I brought it over to the girl and said, look, sorry, can you take this back, its not what he ordered. And she goes, "but we're not charging you for the bread". And I went, "still-and-all, its not what he ordered, and he'd rather not have it". She's looking at me like I'm acting like a 4 year old.

She wasn't being rude or anything, just questioning and slightly impatient. But how mad is that?

Sorry, long post, when I could just have said, went to Dakota. Poor service.

Dakota is a restaurant in Dublin right ?

Not the state in America like ? I was confused as fuck reading that.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Dakota is a restaurant in Dublin right ?

Not the state in America like ? I was confused as fuck reading that.

Yeah, Dublin unfortunately.

Not here sadly

 

[Theseus Mock]

What kind of chef sends out a vegetarian dish with the main protein missing? Did he/she think you wouldn't notice? And the waitress for not even recognising it, you can't really use the 'oh, it's melted in' excuse with feta cheese.

Her compassion for comping the bread wants me want to know how much she was gonna charge for it.

 

[pete]

Dublin Bus WiFi not working

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I have mixed feelings about the redesigned google music

 

[pete]

i have no idea what has been done to google+

 

[Jim Daniels]

What kind of chef sends out a vegetarian dish with the main protein missing? Did he/she think you wouldn't notice? And the waitress for not even recognising it, you can't really use the 'oh, it's melted in' excuse with feta cheese.

Her compassion for comping the bread wants me want to know how much she was gonna charge for it.

Same here! I couldn't get over the Feta thing especially. I think she might have been new and the kitchen were just letting her face the music herself, instead of briefing her. She actually had no idea that the cheese was absent, and was acting like he was mistaken. He didn't eat it, and didn't bother with anything else as he is vegetarian and there was no other options. They didn't charge us for the "bread" either in the end.

Is it weird to ask for bread with a salad?

 

[Jill Hives]

I don't eat bread but I'd assume the most would use it to soak up the left over dressing. Croutons go in a salad so bread on the side doesn't sound weird to me.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i have no idea what has been done to google+

they done made a mess of it

 

[washingcattle]

Dublin Bus WiFi not working

Mega-LOLZ


Pete seriously read that post again.

 

[pete]

The clock will start ticking again on Fox's real-time thriller 24.
The network on Monday confirmed plans to restart the action thriller, which starred Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer and ended its eight-season run in 2010.
The new season, one of two "limited series" Fox plans for 2014, will be compressed into 12 weeks and premiere next May, says Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly. "We'll go in chronological order with the hours of the day, but we'll skip some hours," he says.

WHY BOTHER

 

[dudley]

WHY BOTHER

because you'll watch it

 

[pete]

because you'll watch it

QUIET, YOU

 

[Cormcolash]

Was in Dakota earlier, meeting my Mam and bro for a bite to eat.

I ordered a salad, and I asked for some bread with it. The girl looks at me and says "bread??", like I asked for chocolate cake. Yeah, I said. And she goes, "are you sure - bread? We'll have to charge you". "That grand" I said - I ordered the salad right? (thinking one of us was getting mixed up). That was grand. She finished the order and walked off looking totally bemused.

Anyway, the bread I got was a sliced, slightly toasted, white roll (probably stale from earlier) but I let it go and didn't question it. They could have just said, they had no bread.

My brother, had ordered a pasta dish with Feta cheese and butternut squash. It was placed in front of him without a word. He was poking through it and said to us "where's the feta cheese"? There was none. He called the girl and she had a "whats the problem now" expression. He said there's no feta cheese. She looked at it and said are you sure? There it is there (pointing at the squash). The bro was just lookin' at her, and says calmly, no, no its not, would you mind asking?. And she goes off to check with the kitchen. She returns and says they are actually all out of cheese, "but to be fair.... we won't charge you for the bread!". He wasn't even eating the bread, I was! The Feta was the main ingredient and leaving it out, without saying a word was a bit strange.

She walks off, leaving us looking at each other, going.. but, but, what?

He decided not to eat it, but didn't want to call her back. So I brought it over to the girl and said, look, sorry, can you take this back, its not what he ordered. And she goes, "but we're not charging you for the bread". And I went, "still-and-all, its not what he ordered, and he'd rather not have it". She's looking at me like I'm acting like a 4 year old.

She wasn't being rude or anything, just questioning and slightly impatient. But how mad is that?

Sorry, long post, when I could just have said, went to Dakota. Poor service.

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[Denny Oubidoux]

I wish to go for a ramble and to take in a trip to the supermarket and possibly fit in a quiet mid-afternoon pint somewhere but it is raining and I have no hat, hood or umbrella with me.

 

[Unicron]

After years of it being under control my stutter has returned with a vengeance in the past 6 weeks.

 

[Jill Hives]

After years of it being under control my stutter has returned with a vengeance in the past 6 weeks.

Stress?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

moving out of my flat at the end of may, been so busy in work that i haven't had time to find a new place to live and i go on holiday next tuesday so i'm homeless when i get back : (