Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Internal cable routing

This is a colleagues Cannondale. The cable goes through a thin plastic sheath in the frame, fine when it's new I guess, but it had worn through and split around the bottom bracket meaning it needs replacing. The bike is only a year old and this is the second time it's needed the cable replaced, I'm sure the routing is a contributing factor.

Finally put the tubes and tyres (25mm Schwalbe Pro One Vguard front, 30mm GP5000 rear) on my unused VEL 50 RL wheels...

Got a leak somewhere around the valve (Vittoria latex with Vittoria extenders) and sore thumbs from putting the tyres on without a lever.

Need to get going after this cup of tea on the existing Hunt front and Fulcrum rear. Meh.

Hay fever.

What's that allergy $h1t all about. Anyway it's tree pollen which does my conk in.

Long/complicated online forms where you can't save your progress and come back to them... am doing stuff involving lots of info for the Vienne Jazz Festival, and the one form I'd started had cleared when I came back to it today. And on a related note, not being able to copy & paste from a spreadsheets into a spreadsheet-type form, not even column by column. Grrr.

Drivers turning right off main roads cutting the corner aggressively. Almost came a cropper yesterday.

About 90% of drivers at the junction down the road from me. I'll position myself to the right hand side of my lane waiting to turn right out, they'll cut the corner nearly hitting my car (or bike) and then look at me as though it's my fault for stopping them turning in at 30mph.

There's a T junction near us with traffic islands on the road joining. People turning right into it often cut the corner to the extent they go on the wrong side of the islands. There's a pub on the inside of said corner, great spot to sit with a drink watching idiots. Not seen an accident yet but it's only a matter of time I'm sure.

The Great Manchester Run includes elite runners in a competitive event though as well as the club and fun runners. BBC covered Ride London when it included a pro race that made it more of an equivalent event.

Browsers and FaceBoak,

When I open a new tab I get suggested reads through something called 'Pocket'. Usually dross but sometimes things catch my eye. By then it's usually too late and I've already opened a bookmark. I open a new page to get the Pocket links and that interesting article has disappeared into the ether.

Same with FaceBoak. Scrolling on a phone and there is an interesting story or article that I have just scrolled past. I scroll down to get back to the top but scroll once too often and that refreshes the feed and the article has gone.

Annoying.

It's virtue signalling at its worst, even without being dyslexic it gets on my nerves. The same with all the companies posting about the women they have in their company on International Women's Day.

Our intranet page has notes about various religious festivals for all major religions autism awareness day, neuro diversity week, the rainbow version of our logo,metal health awareness week women's day, women in science day, no mow may, etc etc.

I am considering asking for an Atheist awareness morning, if there are any unallocated time slots. But that's not virtuous is it?

It is all wonderfully inclusive. But if your employer relentlessly tells you what to think, it becomes opressive. Particularly if there is implied (and sometimes not implied) moral criticism of staff. I see opportistic morality police on the rise, using this sort of thing as a management tool. It's not very nice.

It was so meandering that I drifted off but it doesn't seem to make any claims about religion not being bad, more about how a few old (new) atheists are bad or dead.

That looks like someone is trying very hard to justify their role but I'm unclear how any of it is oppressive beyond filling up your inbox. Possibly this is a downside of the increase in home working: being spammed by your employer rather than people just pinning stuff on the office notice board.