Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Bobbinogs

You too Brutus, you too?

BelgianBeerGeek

Hugely trivial, but...
I get hayfever. It's annoying and June is the high season. Had it all my life etc. And I have a cold on top. Yes, I can tell the difference. I can even tell which sneeze is one or the other. Feck off summer!

FocusZing

^Cetirizine hydrochloride helps for me. I love getting in an air con car or offices, bliss.

BelgianBeerGeek

FocusZing wrote:

^Cetirizine hydrochloride helps for me. I love getting in an air con car or offices, bliss.

I have all the meds. Still sucks. But others have worse probs. And the air con at work helps (lost cool icon)
Makes me laugh when others put their jumpers on. "It's cold...." :roll:

awavey

going to a concert by yourself
1) you always get collared by the claimed "superfan", who you scratch the merest veneer of their background knowledge of the band/group/artist you are seeing and you realise they really havent got a clue about them at all.

2) everyone around you then spends all their time recording crappy quality videos on their mobile phones, for no purpose they wont rewatch hours of footage of shaky camera poor audio ness

3) those that arent using their phones to video the whole thing, spend all their time facebooking,checking social media and not paying any attention to the concert, seriously why spend £100 on a concert ticket and spend all your time staring at a mobile phone screen like that.

veronese68

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Hugely trivial, but...
I get hayfever. It's annoying and June is the high season. Had it all my life etc. And I have a cold on top. Yes, I can tell the difference. I can even tell which sneeze is one or the other. Feck off summer!

This. And the fact that if I sneeze in April my wife asks if it's hayfever. I know when it's hayfever and I take stuff for it. Beconase works for me unless it's a particularly bad day.

capt_slog

My typing isn't too bad.

Because I didn't grow up with it, I can't really touch type unless I'm not thinking about it, I still need to see the keys to get the reference. But most things I write just flow out without any real conscious effort between brain and fingers.

Apart from the word 'remember' that is, which I make a mess of nearly every single time.

davesnothere

Capt Slog wrote:

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Apart from the word 'remember' that is, which I make a mess of nearly every single time.

i have this with 2 words currently, subcontractor which I always type as subcnotractor

and I have a project called Icewood House EVERY time I type Icewwod

davesnothere

Old friends on facebook who never post or comment, generally lurk and occasionally 'like'

Then they get a new puppy and post 5 times in 5 days with millions of pictures of said mutt

Bobbinogs

Glastonbury. The way that the media assume that we are simply divided into "Those there" and "Those who wish they were there".

Anyone with aspirations of being cool merely by attending should remember that Lionel Ritchie headlined in 2015.

andy9964

It's 26°+ and I have to go to work this afternoon............. I work in a foundry.
Expecting it to be around 40° +, and I'll be wearing thick woollen protective pants and jacket

bompington

Andy9964 wrote:

It's 26°+ and I have to go to work this afternoon............. I work in a foundry.
Expecting it to be around 40° +, and I'll be wearing thick woollen protective pants and jacket

My goodness, if your pants are like that what must your trousers be like? :shock:

andy9964

bompington wrote:

Andy9964 wrote:

It's 26°+ and I have to go to work this afternoon............. I work in a foundry.
Expecting it to be around 40° +, and I'll be wearing thick woollen protective pants and jacket

My goodness, if your pants are like that what must your trousers be like? :shock:

We don't wear trousers, just thick woollen Y-fronts

seanoconn

Andy9964 wrote:

bompington wrote:

Andy9964 wrote:

It's 26°+ and I have to go to work this afternoon............. I work in a foundry.
Expecting it to be around 40° +, and I'll be wearing thick woollen protective pants and jacket

My goodness, if your pants are like that what must your trousers be like? :shock:

We don't wear trousers, just thick woollen Y-fronts

Jesus that sounds like hell. Can't be good wearing an oven around your baby makers.

Pross

Food being marketed as some other type of food for example carrot spaghetti, sweet potato noodles or cauliflower rice. They're just grated / smashed up veg that people could do for themselves if they weren't so lazy / stupid but then presumably they are marketed at people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

joe2008

Facebook, and people who say 'Facebook me'

davis

Pross wrote:

Food being marketed as some other type of food for example carrot spaghetti, sweet potato noodles or cauliflower rice. They're just grated / smashed up veg that people could do for themselves if they weren't so lazy / stupid but then presumably they are marketed at people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

You realise that most of the carbs in many vegetables (ok, not potatoes etc) are in the form of undigestable fibre, right?

Edit: I might be talking US stats vs UK. I can't remember. Bah, I've been up since half past bollocks. Leave me alone.


As you were

joncomelately

Pross wrote:

... people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

Apart from the 95% that is water.

Pross wrote:

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

Next time my grater steals yet another one of my fingertips I might move to pre-grated...

Pross

davis wrote:

Pross wrote:

Food being marketed as some other type of food for example carrot spaghetti, sweet potato noodles or cauliflower rice. They're just grated / smashed up veg that people could do for themselves if they weren't so lazy / stupid but then presumably they are marketed at people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

You realise that most of the carbs in many vegetables (ok, not potatoes etc) are in the form of undigestable fibre, right?

Edit: I might be talking US stats vs UK. I can't remember. Bah, I've been up since half past ****. Leave me alone.


As you were

Carrots are 10% carbs of which about 3% is fibre. I'm aware that carbs are split into different types, unfortunately many who claim to be on a 'carb free' diet seem blissfully aware that they are eating carbs. But that wasn't the point of my moan which was aimed at people trying to pass off grated sweet potato as a form of noodle or spaghetti which just seems pointless. If you've given up a food type just accept it and stop trying to pretend you're eating it in a different form. Same goes for artificial meat, if you've given up chicken why by something that looks like chicken and you try to convince yourself tastes like chicken?

awavey

Pross wrote:

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

now I used to agree on that and part of me still does I think even if I always manage to grate some of the skin off my knuckles doing it...but actually packet of grated cheese if you are doing nachos, or some cheesy topped lasagne/shepherds pie thing you just want to quickly chuck it on, works perfectly, the only downside is the quality of the cheese is terrible, even worse than normal supermarket plastic cheese, you have to get extra extra extra mature just to get semblance any flavour from it.

awavey

Bobbinogs wrote:

Glastonbury. The way that the media assume that we are simply divided into "Those there" and "Those who wish they were there".

Anyone with aspirations of being cool merely by attending should remember that Lionel Ritchie headlined in 2015.

thats generally the media reflecting their own opinions though, being as most of them want to be there on free passes enjoying corporate comp tickets/glamping etc...yeah Glastonbury...or are just jealous of those of their colleagues that are.

fat daddy

I really don't want to be there

Cant cope with that many people that close to each other .. cant cope with the queues, cant cope with any of it to be honest, my anxiety levels go through the roof just thinking about attending

My idea of Glastonbury is to sit at the very back of ..... my front room and watch it on TV whilst browsing the internet and eating something

haydenm

joe2008 wrote:

Facebook, and people who say 'Facebook me'

But... how do you organise anything? Or see pictures of other people's excellent lives? Or get into meaningful discussions about politics? Crazy

In all seriousness though, my life would be worse without facebook, and not just the online bit.

dinyull

Pross wrote:

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

My missus came back from the shop the other day with all the goodies for a nice salad....included a packet of grated cheese. The point I tried to make to her didn't get through when I showed her the 3 packets of cheese already in the fridge.

Pregnancy hormones are like a minefield.

dinyull

HaydenM wrote:

joe2008 wrote:

Facebook, and people who say 'Facebook me'

But... how do you organise anything? Or see pictures of other people's excellent lives? Or get into meaningful discussions about politics? Crazy

In all seriousness though, my life would be worse without facebook, and not just the online bit.

Gave up on facebook over 5 years ago and my life is so much better because of it. Ok that's a bit of an overstatement, but can't say I've ever missed it.

mrfpb

awavey wrote:

Bobbinogs wrote:

Glastonbury. The way that the media assume that we are simply divided into "Those there" and "Those who wish they were there".

Anyone with aspirations of being cool merely by attending should remember that Lionel Ritchie headlined in 2015.

thats generally the media reflecting their own opinions though, being as most of them want to be there on free passes enjoying corporate comp tickets/glamping etc...yeah Glastonbury...or are just jealous of those of their colleagues that are.

But at least everyone that does attend and spends the weekend in mud, being sick, getting lost, stoned out of their brain etc etc sleeping through the music will be able to watch it on iPlayer when they get home.

haydenm

Dinyull wrote:

HaydenM wrote:

joe2008 wrote:

Facebook, and people who say 'Facebook me'

But... how do you organise anything? Or see pictures of other people's excellent lives? Or get into meaningful discussions about politics? Crazy

In all seriousness though, my life would be worse without facebook, and not just the online bit.

Gave up on facebook over 5 years ago and my life is so much better because of it. Ok that's a bit of an overstatement, but can't say I've ever missed it.

I'd certainly get more work done. Most of my friends that I actually want to see are scattered all over the world, meeting up for a drink/ride would be much harder without facebook. Also, organising anything else would be a total ballache. It's very handy for when I get chatting to randomers on rides and want to meet up again, the more riding friends the better

Frank Wilson

Moulded plugs.

fat daddy

headphones - I buy them, think they are going to sound good, and am always disappointed with the quality of the sound

capt_slog

Pross wrote:

Food being marketed as some other type of food for example carrot spaghetti, sweet potato noodles or cauliflower rice. They're just grated / smashed up veg that people could do for themselves if they weren't so lazy / stupid but then presumably they are marketed at people on a 'carb free' diet who are too stupid the realise vegetables are mainly carbs.

On a related theme, packets of grated cheese. How hard is it to grate a block of cheese for yourself?

I remember one of the families in BBC's "Eat well for less" (The Scott family?) where the mum was buying pre-grated cheese. They had her buying cheese as a block and grating it herself, which she found really tedious and described it as "....such a mission". :evil:

It's a wonder my TV survives, it's milliseconds away from something getting thrown at it so often. One day my sheer annoyance will get in there before my common sense and I'll be clearing up the bits.