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Really minor annoyances


When you forget basic things you were going to do.

I made a really nice crusty loaf of bread yesterday. My daughter made some blackberry jam a few weeks back. Yesterday I thought that would be a great breakfast today. And I thought the same again when starting work having had cornflakes out of habit.
 
People at festivals and gigs who plonk their arse on the floor and refuse to budge.
Was at one on Saturday and watched a young lass trying to get through the crowd, fall and break her wrist when she fell over a group of people sat down in a pitch black 9pm festival lit only by stage lights and the odd floodlight.
The sitters then grumbling because she fell onto them.
Just lazy and ignorant.

My back can barely hold up to long periods of standing but I still wouldn’t put my arse on the ground inbetween crowds of standing people.
Insane.
 
The segments in, typically, morning tv magazine programmes where ‘expert advice’ is offered that’s ’eye opening’ and/or ‘so confusing’ when mostly the subject matter is something that would be quite simple, obvious and straightforward to anybody with a brain cell.

I’m convinced that the presenters must have to stifle eye-rolls and shoulder shrugs throughout the segments because they’d have to be utterly thick about how normal life works or be endowed with the patience of a saint to present this stuff.

This morning’s stuff isn’t about recycling wheely bins or bus timetables. It’s about legal cover on insurance policies (motor insurance, house… presumably travel… that sort of thing). They attempting to convince me that most of their viewers don’t know it exists.
 
When you reach into the fridge for the looks like a nice jar of orange marmalade, and it turns out to be some f***ing apricot conserve
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Also, when we have several perfectly decent oven gloves which are very good for handling hot pans and trays etc. But they're not much f***ing use for wiping the worktop or drying the dishes, so how about not using the kitchen cloth and towels for the hot pans and f***ing trays?
 
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People who use generic office backgrounds on Teams calls.

I'm sat in a meeting and there are 2 background in use by 5 people, all looking like they are in the same place. It looks silly.
 
Snugster said:
When watching something on TV that I'm enjoying and she says
"Is there nothing better than this on?"
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Linked to that, when certain people say there's nowt worth watching on tele.

Erm, Prime Video, Netflix and everything under the sun on Cinema HD and IPTV.
 
Unbalanced Views said:
I have Steptoe & Sons front room for mine atm
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I go for seasonal and scenic. Currently it is an October morning on my local field. The sun is just coming up with some redness in the sky, and there is a low mist hanging.

It sometimes creates a talking point while people arrive.

When we first started doing Teams, one person went to answer their door. While they were away we all did a screen shot of their dining room where they had been working, and changed our backgrounds. He came back to see us all sitting in his dining room and was initially confused.
 
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Toddlers sat within within screaming distance of you on along haul plane journey ( happened to me today on a 10 hour flight) parents immune to the racket and just gawped at their phones all journey
Kids need taking into care to be properly raised
 
First class train travel, ,last night, with zero service offered, last night.
Yes Transpennine, I am talking about you.
 
The sadists who design the process for changing car headlight bulbs.

Noticed a bulb off last night, half an hour free before work, should be more than enough time. I had to use two different sockets, a torx and a philips, then lift the entire headlamp assembly out before I could access the bulb. Then if you do not have the assembly at exactly the right angle, it does not slot back into the bumper trim properly when putting it back. With a sharp edge or two, I cut my thumb doing it.

It involved removing one bit of metal (with two bolts) that does not make contact with the light, but sits 2cm above it and as far as I can tell, it's only purpose is to make it an absolute fuck on to change a bulb.

Asking Halfords to change a bulb for me seems pretty pathetic, but I doubt my wife could have done this and I would think twice about trying to do it in the dark, when I'm more likely to notice a bulb out.

For safety, these things should be quick and simple, and anyone should be able to do it on the roadside in the dark, in less than a minute. I could in my 1990s Fiesta, why has progress made this a job where you consider going to a garage?


Oh and to continue my grumpy start to the morning, wankers at work who do not put holidays in their diary. I currently have two meetings that I'm shuffling around because every time I move them, someone else says "Oh I have that day off". That is the entire purpose of the diary, and you can even have our holiday booking system send you a diary event so it is one extra mouse click.
 
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