Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Grrr.... Just discovered that the last 7 months of illness and shitty weather and injury and shitty weather and other stuff with very little cycling has seen my waist line increase. So much so that my rarely worn tux ain't gonna fit no more. I've an event to attend next week. Local MossBros is outta stock until end of month! My fault for not checking earlier but covid had the better of me. Desperately doing online shopping for decent cut black suit. Pointless buying a tux again for the little use it gets now. Also discovered most of my shirts have 'shrunk' too. Went through whole wardrobe and now have a stack of stuff to go to charadee shops or recycling. In fact most of wardrobe has gone. Very distressing process.

I'm now a fat bastard! Very annoying!

I was in a fair bit of discomfort at the first black tie event I attended after COVID. I had to undo the button on the trousers as soon as I sat down and the jacket was snug too. I think my wardrobe must have got so humid everything shrunk - luckily it all fits again now.

Mourning the loss of my first decent suit. I recall the trousers being a little loose and needing a belt. I checked the waist band size. 28. Oh how I laughed. BooHooHoo...sob.

It does my head in, businesses and organisations that have websites that need regular updates, but don't update them, (or even work out systems that will update the bits that need updates and leave the rest).

If you can't do updates, just have static pages with static info, and give proper contact info. Probably including a fax number, if that's the best you can manage in 2024.

Or pay someone to do it properly.

Not sure if CTT is any better than it used to be... haven't done a TT for ages, as the club TTs start 20 miles away from home.

Some of the 'tag lines' people put in their LinkedIn profiles. Things like "the leading expert in..." and "the leading observer of...". I assume these are titles they are giving themselves, it takes an incredible level of arrogance to claim to be THE best at something. The worst one I saw was some guy who had "the hardest working person in the room". I think if I was his client or colleague I might take issue with that. Unsurprisingly all his posts showed him to be a complete moron. I need to work out how to stop seeing these people as they aren't direct connections but connections quite often comment on their posts and bring them into my feed. Actually, I hate LinkedIn in general but was told I had to have a profile in a previous job - maybe I should just delete it and risk not being approached for that 6 figure, WFH job with 50 days leave and a 25 hour working week when it comes up.

They also don't seem to realise that there is a limited space in the tag line so I can never see enough to work out what they actually do (although I doubt I would care anyway).

Inspiring proactive leader in.........

They really stand out in my feed, which is mostly pictures of large building and civil engineering projects (and the endless recruitment consultants)

The latest Apple iPad advert.

Just amazing how poorly judged this is. A complete f*** you to their entire market.

I know they haven't put them up since 2017, but a 38% increase in one go still feels like a proper kick up the arse to cancel it over summer at least.

i don’t get the fuss ?

what’s wrong with it ?

Marketing a product aimed at creatives by showing pointless destruction is pretty perverse. Not to mention pretty insulting to the people they are trying to sell to. I assume they were going for 'all these creative tools are contained in this tiny tablet' but it comes across as 'you don't need your stupid piano because an iPad is better'.

Think that's just as stupid.

Wouldn't major sporting events go there too?

2nd most watched non-sporting programme after the coronation last year (globally). Eurovision is *massive*

bahaha and what would you know about taste?

😀