Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,469
    orraloon said:

    Or a bloke could just sit down?

    Or aim.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,299
    First.Aspect said:

    orraloon said:

    Or a bloke could just sit down?

    Or aim.
    Ready. Aim. Spray.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    briantrumpet said:

    Not being able to remember the thing that I thought of earlier that annoys me.

    This, so many times 🙄
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    First.Aspect said:

    morstar said:

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    briantrumpet said:

    Oh, got it. Toilet seats that won't stay up without you holding it with a knee or a hand. Basic centre of mass failure in design or execution.

    I consider it a female influenced design feature.

    The whole toilet seat thing annoys me though.

    50% of the population generally want it up whilst the other 50% want it down.

    And yet the retort is it’s lazy to leave it up. No, it’s sensible. A womans needs do not trump a mans. Quite the opposite infact, given I know many women who can last days without seeming to go.
    Er, so how often HAVE you been married now?
    This year or in total :)
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    First.Aspect said:

    orraloon said:

    Or a bloke could just sit down?

    Or aim.
    Just no. That is where I do have sympathy for women.

    On the odd occasion I fail to manage the number 2 schedule while out and about…

    Mens sit down toilets are frequently a total disgrace.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,686
    When a subject comes up in the final round of Pointless that you want to try your hand at but the contestants opt for one of the other options you know nothing about.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    In hindsight having the boiler service today was not super smart, given they've had to turn on the radiators at full whack for a bit to test it.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Whoever designed this work laptop and put the power button next to delete.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,295
    The Hundred.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    kingstongraham said:

    The Hundred.

    Agreed but it does make me laugh that the commentators seem to be contractually obliged to tell us it is sold out and packed to the rafters
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    Not particularly a fan but it's the only live cricket available on Free to Air.

    Would rather they'd smacked a few heads together and sped up the T20 back to how it was supposed to be.

    Add in marketing it equally and making some of it available free to watch, and they'd probably of solved most of the issues that The Hundred is supposed to "fix".

    I'll watch it when there's nothing else on and keep cringing at most of the commentary
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    kingstongraham said:

    The Hundred.

    If you mean the cricket…

    I struggle to see the difference between T20 and the hundred.

    Short format game with razzmatazz. Why have two versions doing the same thing?

    But maybe there’s something I don’t get as a non fan.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,295
    morstar said:



    kingstongraham said:

    The Hundred.

    If you mean the cricket…

    I struggle to see the difference between T20 and the hundred.

    Short format game with razzmatazz. Why have two versions doing the same thing?

    But maybe there’s something I don’t get as a non fan.
    It's just the stupid graphics all over the screen that don't make any sense. The cricket itself is the same as a t20 except for some random rules and overs not being modern that I don't care enough to know about.

    I've never managed to watch more than about ten minutes because it's annoying.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,686
    Yeah, never understood the point in bringing in yet another format that is so similar to another. I like the team format being more city based but feel they should have just revamped the Twenty20 (although the counties probably rely quite heavily on that income).

    It annoyed me when I went to watch the other day live iPlayer through iPlayer. It defaulted to a match featuring one of the teams I’d seen advertised but it was only after several mentions of football scores and noticing the sun wasn’t setting that I realised it was highlights of a previous game. I eventually tracked down the live version but you would think that would be the default. I noticed with the Commonwealth Games that it wasn’t easy negotiating the options too.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,469
    edited August 2022
    Short form cricket needs to have several inning per team, say every 3 batters per inning, to jazz things up a bit. A round bat would add some jeopardy. And if they only had one end so the crowd could get closer to the action, that would be good. You could kind of spread the other wicket around to the sides so there's more run out action, closer to the stands.

    You see where I'm going with this. It's a stupid game for victorians with loads of time on their hands who happen to own opera glasses.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,603
    First.Aspect said:



    You see where I'm going with this. It's a stupid game for victorians with loads of time on their hands who happen to own opera glasses.

    You've been living in Scotland for too long. 😉
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,469
    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:



    You see where I'm going with this. It's a stupid game for victorians with loads of time on their hands who happen to own opera glasses.

    You've been living in Scotland for too long. 😉
    Yet to find a sport done well here. Cricket is what english ex pats do, amd the SNP disapprove. Football is thud and blunder. Rugby is thud and blunder, etc.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,603
    First.Aspect said:

    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:



    You see where I'm going with this. It's a stupid game for victorians with loads of time on their hands who happen to own opera glasses.

    You've been living in Scotland for too long. 😉
    Yet to find a sport done well here. Cricket is what english ex pats do, amd the SNP disapprove. Football is thud and blunder. Rugby is thud and blunder, etc.
    That doesn't excuse you dissing it being done elsewhere.
    😉 for clarity.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,299
    Race Across Scotland ultra, Southern Upland Way, 215 miles, starts tomorrow, still showing 28C down these parts. Wotz not to like?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,686
    New iPhones coming with a USBC to lightning cable rather than USB to lightning when all my plugs, computer ports and fittings on wall sockets are USB.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Pross said:

    New iPhones coming with a USBC to lightning cable rather than USB to lightning when all my plugs, computer ports and fittings on wall sockets are USB.

    Blind loyalty really does allow them to make some really stupid choices and get away with it.

    I have an iPhone but have a real contempt for the crap they pass off as innovative.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,469
    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:



    You see where I'm going with this. It's a stupid game for victorians with loads of time on their hands who happen to own opera glasses.

    You've been living in Scotland for too long. 😉
    Yet to find a sport done well here. Cricket is what english ex pats do, amd the SNP disapprove. Football is thud and blunder. Rugby is thud and blunder, etc.
    That doesn't excuse you dissing it being done elsewhere.
    😉 for clarity.
    Cricket is fair game for any degree of ridicule.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,469
    I found out today that one of our secretaries has a law degree. They are unsettled and want more money.

    Why are we training people to be lawyers who have absolutely no prospects of becoming lawyers?

    Happiness is the ratio of reality/expectation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited August 2022
    First.Aspect said:

    I found out today that one of our secretaries has a law degree. They are unsettled and want more money.

    Why are we training people to be lawyers who have absolutely no prospects of becoming lawyers?

    Happiness is the ratio of reality/expectation.

    Wehay, welcome to the skills mismatch which is a big part of UK’s productivity problem.

    The better question is why do we have law graduates who settle for secretarial work.

    It’s not so good for the people who can’t do law degrees but can do secretarial work.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,938
    rick_chasey said:

    The better question is why do we have law graduates who settle for secretarial work..


    Universities make money out of selling the courses. Once upon a time there was a cap on the number of lawyers being produced by universities, to more closely match the number of positions. But that's not a free market, so it was scrapped.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,686
    Plus I know several people who wanted to be lawyers and doing the degree made them realise they’d hate it. People discover it’s not all glamour of fighting high profile cases for a few hours like on TV or a ticket to making a fortune. I had to do a module on construction law as part of my course and it was tedious, not helped by an incredibly boring lecturer.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,603
    Switched from being an architect once I found out what the job actually entailed. I thought it was all making models and doing drawings. Architects can feel free to comment.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited August 2022
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    The better question is why do we have law graduates who settle for secretarial work..


    Universities make money out of selling the courses. Once upon a time there was a cap on the number of lawyers being produced by universities, to more closely match the number of positions. But that's not a free market, so it was scrapped.
    Such boomer logic.

    You want smart people doing jobs that need smart people. You want enough jobs that need smart people that smart people are maximising their potential.

    Restricting education is the not the path to riches.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,603
    I wonder who is going to create all these new highly skilled jobs.
    As they are very profitable, would that it were so simple.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pblakeney said:

    I wonder who is going to create all these new highly skilled jobs.
    As they are very profitable, would that it were so simple.

    Yeah we should all have stuck to subsistence farming.
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