Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

First.Aspect

My only Costco experience was in North America, where you had to be a member to get in. Gf had a membership.

All I remember was family sized breakfast cereal - if you family consisted of 8 kids under 10 - and bargain electrical goods, requiring some MMA experience in order to compete for.

Is it still the same?

rick_chasey

I follow the NFL.

A player had a heart attack and collapsed on the field. Not trivial nor annoying.

The response in the coverage to it. Holy moly. Bunch of fundamentalist nutters.

First.Aspect

Are we talking passover followed by Easter, by any chance?

pblakeney

First.Aspect said:

My only Costco experience was in North America, where you had to be a member to get in. Gf had a membership.

All I remember was family sized breakfast cereal - if you family consisted of 8 kids under 10 - and bargain electrical goods, requiring some MMA experience in order to compete for.

Is it still the same?

Pretty much, without the MMA. Most things are sold in huge amounts.
Sensible people buy multi-packs. A chest freezer would be handy too.

orraloon

First.Aspect said:

My only Costco experience was in North America, where you had to be a member to get in. Gf had a membership.

All I remember was family sized breakfast cereal - if you family consisted of 8 kids under 10 - and bargain electrical goods, requiring some MMA experience in order to compete for.

Is it still the same?

You need paid for membership. But most 'umans can sort out a means.
They do have numerous good price + good quality things. Plus lots of pish.

rick_chasey

First.Aspect said:

Are we talking passover followed by Easter, by any chance?

Lots of people saying with a straight face that he survived because of the power of prayers, and that his team has had a couple of remarkable plays is a “miracle” that is related to the player almost dying.

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

Are we talking passover followed by Easter, by any chance?

Lots of people saying with a straight face that he survived because of the power of prayers, and that his team has had a couple of remarkable plays is a “miracle” that is related to the player almost dying.

Oddly enough, just listening to "Earthling" by Bowie. He correctly points out that God is an American.

orraloon

But (way too many) USanians are nutters. A 6yo shoots a teacher?

First.Aspect

orraloon said:

But (way too many) USanians are nutters. A 6yo shoots a teacher?

Guns don't kill. Six year olds do.

rick_chasey

orraloon said:

But (way too many) USanians are nutters. A 6yo shoots a teacher?

Absolutely standard.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Getting flu when you already feel **** from long Covid. About the only blessing is the flu jab I had two months ago seems to stopping me from having the horrendous coughing fits that unvaccinated family members are going through.

morstar

Is anybody else finding the bugs are relentless this year?
We are on about our longest bug free spell as a family at about 3 weeks. I really can't recall a time when people were ill as they regularly are at the moment.
Seems to be the same with work colleagues.

pblakeney

Mixed bag here. My wife seems to catch colds every second week whereas I've not been ill in over 3 years. I wfh, could be very relevant. Strange that I don't catch hers though. 🤔

briantrumpet

Predicted and predictable: society has gone from very cautious and socially distanced practices to one in which anything goes again, in the middle of winter, indoors, with windows and doors closed, and we're doing all the social things we missed. And we've not been exposed to the standard bugs in anything like the same way for two years because of that.

The bugs are just making up for lost time, and we're doing all we can to help them.

morstar

pblakeney said:

Mixed bag here. My wife seems to catch colds every second week whereas I've not been ill in over 3 years. I wfh, could be very relevant. Strange that I don't catch hers though. 🤔

I was ill late 2019 and then not at all until last summer. Since last summer we've tag teamed bugs.

morstar

briantrumpet said:

Predicted and predictable: society has gone from very cautious and socially distanced practices to one in which anything goes again, in the middle of winter, indoors, with windows and doors closed, and we're doing all the social things we missed. And we've not been exposed to the standard bugs in anything like the same way for two years because of that.

The bugs are just making up for lost time, and we're doing all we can to help them.

That's pretty much where my thoughts are at. Every time we've been to a gig or any sort of event, somebody is less than 100% straight after.
Slightly surprised as we've engaged socially ever since the lockdowns eased and yet this year is noticeably worse. I definitely think it's exacerbated by the numbers of people now engaging more.

briantrumpet

morstar said:

briantrumpet said:

Predicted and predictable: society has gone from very cautious and socially distanced practices to one in which anything goes again, in the middle of winter, indoors, with windows and doors closed, and we're doing all the social things we missed. And we've not been exposed to the standard bugs in anything like the same way for two years because of that.

The bugs are just making up for lost time, and we're doing all we can to help them.

That's pretty much where my thoughts are at. Every time we've been to a gig or any sort of event, somebody is less than 100% straight after.
Slightly surprised as we've engaged socially ever since the lockdowns eased and yet this year is noticeably worse. I definitely think it's exacerbated by the numbers of people now engaging more.

I think the number and intensity of social interactions is way up, and people have given up staying away if they are symptomatic. My recent train-plane-coach journey was accompanied by some pretty unpleasant sounding hacking and sniffling that would have been completely socially unacceptable a few months ago.

pblakeney

We learned nothing.
I am disappointed but not surprised.

Pross

Checked the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks on the BBC weather app and today was the only day with no rain at all. Got up this morning and the first thing I heard was rain.

briantrumpet

Pross said:

Checked the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks on the BBC weather app and today was the only day with no rain at all. Got up this morning and the first thing I heard was rain.

Yeah, it's all ABS at the mo.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Pross said:

Checked the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks on the BBC weather app and today was the only day with no rain at all. Got up this morning and the first thing I heard was rain.

Gave up on BBC weather when Meteo Group took over from Met Office ~5 years ago.

I use Met Office and Weather Underground these days.

rick_chasey

Getting quite bored of the "difficult genius" trope, which you see in most dramas, but none more prevalent than in the police procedural or murder mystery, where inevitably the policeman or woman can't handle day-to-day niceties but is tolerated for their ability to do the job.

Usually they are also over-obsessed with whatever we're watching them for, so their side-story of a personal life is always one where it's all falling apart.

How about change it up a little, writers?

briantrumpet

N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

Pross said:

Checked the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks on the BBC weather app and today was the only day with no rain at all. Got up this morning and the first thing I heard was rain.

Gave up on BBC weather when Metro Group took over from Met Office ~5 years ago.

I use Met Office and Weather Underground these days.

Yes, indeed. I always have to make sure I read the words on the Met Office forecasts as well as look at the graphics, as they often flesh out the detail into the wider likelihoods: the words are done by humans and the graphics done automatically on the hour by computer, and if one of them is going to be wrong, it's usually the graphics.

I also use netweather.tv for their rainfall radar, as it's updated every five minutes and it's easy to see if there's something unpleasant incoming that's not been picked up in the forecast.

pinno

I just checked that netweather TV. Bookmarked it.
I wish that graphic wouldn't off on one when scrolling or zooming in or out with the mouse.

pinno

rick_chasey said:

Getting quite bored of the "difficult genius" trope, which you see in most dramas, but none more prevalent than in the police procedural or murder mystery, where inevitably the policeman or woman can't handle day-to-day niceties but is tolerated for their ability to do the job.

Usually they are also over-obsessed with whatever we're watching them for, so their side-story of a personal life is always one where it's all falling apart.

How about change it up a little, writers?

How about not watching much TV?
It's mainly shyte after all.

rick_chasey

I don't, tbh. I'd like to watch more.

I am however, legendary ranked on CODMobile BR for the last 8 seasons in a row

First.Aspect

pinno said:

I just checked that netweather TV. Bookmarked it.
I wish that graphic wouldn't off on one when scrolling or zooming in or out with the mouse.

I end up using BBC, Met Office and Windfinder to get a sense of what's happening sometimes. Oh, and that rain radar app.

Pretty good overall at predicting if there's going to be a weather window, if not when, precisely.

rick_chasey

rick_chasey said:

Getting quite bored of the "difficult genius" trope, which you see in most dramas, but none more prevalent than in the police procedural or murder mystery, where inevitably the policeman or woman can't handle day-to-day niceties but is tolerated for their ability to do the job.

Usually they are also over-obsessed with whatever we're watching them for, so their side-story of a personal life is always one where it's all falling apart.

How about change it up a little, writers?

Bored with* apologies everyone.

Pross

N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

Pross said:

Checked the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks on the BBC weather app and today was the only day with no rain at all. Got up this morning and the first thing I heard was rain.

Gave up on BBC weather when Meteo Group took over from Met Office ~5 years ago.

I use Met Office and Weather Underground these days.

Met Office were showing sunny today too. To be fair, the rain cleared by around 8.30 and it is fairly bright now but not the glowing full sun both apps showed for the day.

Pross

rick_chasey said:

Getting quite bored of the "difficult genius" trope, which you see in most dramas, but none more prevalent than in the police procedural or murder mystery, where inevitably the policeman or woman can't handle day-to-day niceties but is tolerated for their ability to do the job.

Usually they are also over-obsessed with whatever we're watching them for, so their side-story of a personal life is always one where it's all falling apart.

How about change it up a little, writers?

I was thinking the other day whilst watching some detective programme (can't recall which one) that you never see a TV detective who doesn't have a "troubled" personal life in some way.