Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Sciencemike

When the topic of dog poo in bags comes up I wonder if I'm being anti-social:
I take my dog out 7am every morning, she poos within 200m of my house, I bag it and put it in the same place everyday (on a road salt/grit bin), continue on my walk, pick it up again when I come back 30mins later and put it in a bin.
Is that OK?
When I see a bag left on path I'm as disgusted as the rest of you, but then I think maybe the owner is coming back for it. The ones hanging on inaccessible tree branches (thrown there?) are baffling. Why would anyone do that?

dinyull

Pross wrote:

Trains where seat reservations are shown by the tiny electronics screen rather than an obvious ticket and muppets who insist on moving you from 'their' seat when none of the surrounding seats are occupied or reserved.

I never understand why they don't just print seat number on ALL tickets*. Always annoys the f*ck out of me when you get on a train and some f*cker is sat in your seat. More annoying still, the people willing to take the seat are usually the people least willing to move.

*I understand on trains commuting into/out of London it would be impossible as there aren't enough seats in the first place.

joe2008

LimitedGarry wrote:

but checking your phone several times in 30 minutes is not really something I'd point out as excessive use. In fact, for many people, not keeping up with their accounts for longer than 30 minutes means they'll have to sit down and sort through a whole lot of stuff.

Still not getting it.

What are these 'accounts' that are so important that people have to check them several times in 30 minutes?

Heaven help these people when they go for a bike ride, drive any distance, sleep or... have a life?

bendertherobot

If the checking is trivial then being annoyed at the checking would seem also to be so.

joe2008

bendertherobot wrote:

If the checking is trivial then being annoyed at the checking would seem also to be so.

Yes... that's why I posted it here in 'Seemingly trivial things that annoy you'

FocusZing

He has a point.

dinyull

The difference between different brand porridge oats.

Have a bowl of porridge for breakfast at my desk every morning. 1 scoop of porridge, 2 scoops of mild and 2 scoops of water always.

End of last week ran out of Sainsburys own brand, 3 mins in the microwave and perfect consistency.

This week I replaced them with Lidl's own, 3 mins in the microwave and the f*cker isn't cooked and watery. Try 4 mins, and although seem cooked and more consistent the oats still aren't right.

Also, 3 mins was just put in and forget. Have to keep an eye on them for 4 mins as they explode all over the place.

Surely they're all just oats, how come so different?

TheBigBean

joe2008 wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

If the checking is trivial then being annoyed at the checking would seem also to be so.

Yes... that's why I posted it here in 'Seemingly trivial things that annoy you'

Touché

davesnothere

People who leave passive aggressive post-it notes in the office kitchen

*whiney voice* FAO whoever used up all of MY earl grey tea bags, it's YOUR turn to buy the earl grey teabags *end whiney voice*

joncomelately

Dinyull wrote:

Surely they're all just oats, how come so different?

Just don't go there, it hurts your brain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_oats

capt_slog

Joncomelately wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

Surely they're all just oats, how come so different?

Just don't go there, it hurts your brain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_oats

Well well, who'd have thought it? I'm a porridge fan, eat it everyday throughout the year, I'm a 'regular' porridge eater

A local venue (large pub with dance floor) used to hold what was locally known as a "Quaker Dance" every Wednesday. As a young, fresh 18 yo I asked a work colleague why it was called that..

"Well lad, it's twice 'round the dance floor, and then off for your oats"

Tashman

Dinyull wrote:

Have a bowl of porridge for breakfast at my desk every morning. 1 scoop of porridge, 2 scoops of mild and 2 scoops of water always.

2 scoops of mild? Boozy porridge at work seems the perfect way to start the day! Try a nip of whisky too! lovely

awavey

that every train with paper based reservation system every day has printed hundreds of thousands of these reserved tickets for every train running with reservations and then employs someone to put those reservation tickets in every seat, and then just bins them at the terminating station.

Id totally agree the electronic systems arent perfected yet, blame the moaning masses for insisting on super modern as new cant be wrong trains,its ultimately completely a waste of practical if not economic resource.

scott5

The over use of the word "like". When adding the word like to the end of every sentence...
you know what I mean, "like"
I was just about to "like"
and my son's favorite... well, "like", you know "like", I was "like", I will do it later, "like"

joe2008

scott5 wrote:

The over use of the word "like". When adding the word like to the end of every sentence...
you know what I mean, "like"
I was just about to "like"
and my son's favorite... well, "like", you know "like", I was "like", I will do it later, "like"

People who say "you know what I mean" at the end of every sentence.

tangled_metal

joe2008 wrote:

People who bag their dogs shoot and then leave the shit-full plastic bag on a wall, or hanging from a tree.

+1

The tree thing really mystifies me. Why?

Being tall I have a tendency to duck under things instinctively even when I haven't registered something at head height. For example on a walk with friends down a narrow path between two dry stone walls I turned back after being involved in a conversation with a few friends. I ducked instinctively and missed a rotting dog poo bag at head height by inches! It was at about 5'11" height so others could hit it too. The plastic had degraded due to UV and time. So it was there for some time. The holes in the bag were big bu it was still just about holding things in. Any slight touch and it's contents would spill!

That dog owner should not have any animals. If you can't take responsibility for your dog's mess you're not taking responsibility for your dog properly. It should he taken off you. Sorry but draconian measures for dog poop inconsiderately disposed of

k-dog

People who dither around in your way and then make a big show of letting you through as if they're doing you a favour. I suppose it's back to lack of spacial awareness that has been mentioned before - but with added obsequiousness.

thistle_

Sciencemike wrote:

When the topic of dog poo in bags comes up I wonder if I'm being anti-social:
I take my dog out 7am every morning, she poos within 200m of my house, I bag it and put it in the same place everyday (on a road salt/grit bin), continue on my walk, pick it up again when I come back 30mins later and put it in a bin.
Is that OK?

I think that's fine, it's the ones that are left all over the place that are the problem (like the ones blatantly lobbed in trees away from the path).

awavey wrote:

Id totally agree the electronic systems arent perfected yet, blame the moaning masses for insisting on super modern as new cant be wrong trains,its ultimately completely a waste of practical if not economic resource.

Seats could just have a red/green light on the headrest so you know whether it's reserved or not. Easy to spot the unreserved seats when you get on. Simples.

When I get the train into work (one with the electronic displays) I get on at the starting station for the train. Often I get on and all seats are unreserved, then just before it leaves the staff get around to updating the computer system and they turn reserved after people have sat in them :roll:

FocusZing

Why couldn't we have had another planet like Earth instead of the moon? It's sh1t, all that you can do is stick a couple of flags in it and arse around on a buggy thingy.

Another Earth would look cool in the sky and be a real space holiday. We could also have had that as our nice clean planet, enabling us to fvck this one up without people getting all weird n sh1t.

Matthewfalle

FocusZing wrote:

Why couldn't we have had another planet like Earth instead of the moon? It's sh1t, all that you can do is stick a couple of flags in it and ars* around on a buggy thingy.

Another Earth would look cool in the sky and be a real space holiday. We could also have had that as our nice clean planet, enabling us to fvck this one up without people getting all weird n sh1t.

We could send Nuttall and all his UKIpBNP friends and The Donald there and nuke it.

FocusZing

China are acting like the world power now. Mass production of cheap solar panels and Green R&D.

The new solar farm in the city of Huainan, in the central, coal-rich Anhui province, can generate 40 megawatts of electricity – enough to power 15,000 homes. That’s according to Sungrow Power Supply, the Chinese firm that built the plant. It was connected to the city’s power grid in May.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ ... solar-farm

pinno

FocusZing wrote:

Why couldn't we have had another planet like Earth instead of the moon? It's sh1t, all that you can do is stick a couple of flags in it and ars* around on a buggy thingy.

Another Earth would look cool in the sky and be a real space holiday. We could also have had that as our nice clean planet, enabling us to fvck this one up without people getting all weird n sh1t.

Can I put a spanner in the works?

If it was close enough to see, then we may end up with 2 nights (if it was moving at the same speed as the sun). If it were slightly quicker or slower, we may end up with some long days with very little light. The only way is for Earth 2 to be far enough away and orbiting the sun and not us so as not to interfere with tides and sunlight but close enough to travel to without costing a fortune.
I will take the presumption that the optimum distance from the sun is roughly where we are and therefore this places location restraints on Earth 2 to a trajectory similar to ours, not in front of and not behind.
Would Earth 2 increase our gravitational forces and thereby rendering all Strava records unbeatable, given the mass of all the planets in the solar system has some sort of correlation and equivalence with the mass of the sun?

bompington

Just put it at one of the Lagrangian points

Matthewfalle

bompington wrote:

Just put it at one of the Lagrangian points

Universal.

cowsham

Getting down to the train on bicycle in record time, putting the bike on the train then NOT being asked by the conductor for the fee on the train -- sounds great until your over 50 then it's an insult.

pinno

Cowsham wrote:

Getting down to the train on bicycle in record time, putting the bike on the train then NOT being asked by the conductor for the fee on the train -- sounds great until your over 50 then it's an insult.

Best take the pipe out of your mouth and the cloth cap off your head.

FocusZing

Pinno wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Why couldn't we have had another planet like Earth instead of the moon? It's sh1t, all that you can do is stick a couple of flags in it and ars* around on a buggy thingy.

Another Earth would look cool in the sky and be a real space holiday. We could also have had that as our nice clean planet, enabling us to fvck this one up without people getting all weird n sh1t.

Can I put a spanner in the works?

If it was close enough to see, then we may end up with 2 nights (if it was moving at the same speed as the sun). If it were slightly quicker or slower, we may end up with some long days with very little light. The only way is for Earth 2 to be far enough away and orbiting the sun and not us so as not to interfere with tides and sunlight but close enough to travel to without costing a fortune.
I will take the presumption that the optimum distance from the sun is roughly where we are and therefore this places location restraints on Earth 2 to a trajectory similar to ours, not in front of and not behind.
Would Earth 2 increase our gravitational forces and thereby rendering all Strava records unbeatable, given the mass of all the planets in the solar system has some sort of correlation and equivalence with the mass of the sun?

Has anyone seen my coat?

FocusZing

Matthewfalle wrote:

bompington wrote:

Just put it at one of the Lagrangian points

Universal.

Ok, not as close as the moon and smaller so it's kind of like a mini Earth but still with all the cool stuff.

ben@31

Tangled Metal wrote:

Perhaps Kenobi didn't really know what happened to Anakin and guessed he was killed by Darth Vader. It's just that something got cut in editing that explained that.

BTW I always thought the name change was a kind of secret identity thing. If the Jedi's knew the origins of the Sith lords then that's an advantage surely? It is kind of a secretive group afterall.

Revenge of the Sith... Kenobi and Yoda knew that Anakin had turned.It was Obi-wan who f*cked him up at the end of the film, so he had to wear that Darth Vader costume. Does it come in any other colour, if you dont like black?

I take it anyone (just like Palpatine) can get the job of "Supreme Chancellor of the Galaxy" without any background checks what so ever. Now that would be cool to write into the job description box on forms.

Surely Anakin could tell Palpatine was a bad 'un by the way he talked. It was obvious.

FocusZing

ben@31 wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

Perhaps Kenobi didn't really know what happened to Anakin and guessed he was killed by Darth Vader. It's just that something got cut in editing that explained that.

BTW I always thought the name change was a kind of secret identity thing. If the Jedi's knew the origins of the Sith lords then that's an advantage surely? It is kind of a secretive group afterall.

Revenge of the Sith... Kenobi and Yoda knew that Anakin had turned.It was Obi-wan who f*cked him up at the end of the film, so he had to wear that Darth Vader costume. Does it come in any other colour, if you dont like black?

I take it anyone (just like Palpatine) can get the job of "Supreme Chancellor of the Galaxy" without any background checks what so ever. Now that would be cool to write into the job description box on forms.

Surely Anakin could tell Palpatine was a bad 'un by the way he talked. It was obvious.

Star wars is a load of kids drivel. A big bloody bear in space, gawd!