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Really minor annoyances


I bought one Christmas card this year.

For me mam. I think it’s pointless. Nothing says I love you quite like a bit of folded card with a verse written by AI.
 
The chuffing ridiculous rush to be the first SMBer to announce on here that they’ve put away the tree and decorations and “that’s it for another year” as if it deserves some kind of accolade. I think the record is Christmas Day evening. I don’t believe them in the first place but even if this was true why would you think this is something deserving around of applause?
 
No idea what they're doing, but whatever filter they're putting stuff through is making tv programs and films look less cinematic.

It's as if it negates all the special lighting and lenses and makes everything look like it's been filmed with a mobile phone camera. Oddly makes everything look fake.

Some upscaling malarky making everything overly sharp and pop out? AI goings on or summat?

It's weird. I know scenes are filmed on fake sets, but I can usually suspend my disbelief. We're living in 2026 and modern film looks more fake than decades gone by.
 
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My missus was reversing out of a parking space today and having slight difficulty because the sun was in right in her eyes. I would have volunteered to get out and help but we have front and back parking sensors and it was a quiet car park, with lots of space and she was going very, very slowly and carefully.

Then two people walked behind the car, whilst she was reversing, the sensor bleeped and she immediately stopped. The two people continued to walk alongside the car but… now comes the ‘annoyance’ bit… glanced in the car and gave her a dirty look.

The bigger annoyance was that when I opened the car door to speak to them, the missus shouted at me to shut the door and leave it.

We then had a conversation about going through life being a total doormat and not saying anything to anybody when they are being oblivious or unreasonable (or walking behind a reversing car and giving you dirty looks) versus her assertion that the bloke might have thumped me.

I anticipate others might have opinions about this.
 
Women wearing what my grandma used to call 'Eiderdowns' in public.

Giant quilts belong on the bed of elderly people in nursing homes, not wrapped round the body of someone kidding themselves that wearing oversized bedding as a makeshift coat, is appropriate attire for a trip to the bank.
 
Resistor colour codes. Originally invented when resistors were the size of a jelly bean. Now they are tiny, many are blue, and you have these microscopic bands across where you can’t tell red from orange, black from grey, etc.

My son wants to build his own guitar pedals and I’ve been putting something together for him today. It has about 40 resistors that came in a mixed bag, and it has taken ages to sort them all out. All other components have a code or value stamped on them.
 
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DaveH said:
Resistor colour codes. Originally invented when resistors were the size of a jelly bean. Now they are tiny, many are blue, and you have these microscopic bands across where you can’t tell red from orange, black from grey, etc.

My son wants to build his own guitar pedals and I’ve been putting something together for him today. It has about 40 resistors that came in a mixed bag, and it has taken ages to sort them all out. All other components have a code or value stamped on them.
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If you're soldering components, a geet big magnifying lens with a light is a must anyway.

Not an annoyance, but watching Picture Slam (Yes, exciting life I lead), but any time a modern pop star is shown, it just looks like the same person over and over with three inches of makeup, fake eyelashes etc. and they've got an oddball name like Buttsex Von Artichoke. They could be taking a photo of a CEX employee and making these up for all I know.
 
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When a tv drama suddenly mimics tinnitus after an explosion. Just happened while I was watching something. Only lasted a few seconds. But that’s my tinnitus managing head fucked for a couple of hours.
 
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We have a plastic crate in the corner of our utility room for plastic and tins recycling. When it is full, there are three choices. Empty it, come tell me to empty it, or gently place all other rubbish on top, stacked against the wall so that when I go to empty it, I need to carefully remove this teetering pile of recycling, dump it on the floor, take a level recycling box out to the wheely bin, come back, pick up all the stuff I just scattered, then go back out to the bin again.

Guess which one the rest of my family choose every time?
 
DaveH said:
We have a plastic crate in the corner of our utility room for plastic and tins recycling. When it is full, there are three choices. Empty it, come tell me to empty it, or gently place all other rubbish on top, stacked against the wall so that when I go to empty it, I need to carefully remove this teetering pile of recycling, dump it on the floor, take a level recycling box out to the wheely bin, come back, pick up all the stuff I just scattered, then go back out to the bin again.

Guess which one the rest of my family choose every time?
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I make as much noise as possible when this happens, shouting "SORRY, SORRY, I should've sorted it sooner, MY BAD!!!"
 
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People who talk when you are watching a film.
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My mam is terrible for this, or anything we watch at hers. Sometimes we will watch panel show comedies like Would I Lie To You or QI. Someone will say something that triggers a thought and off she goes on a story about the lives of people I have never met and never likely will. It feels rude to pause the program and just sit nodding, but often I do.
 
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