when you make a food shopping list, and lose it..then have to rewrite another one trying to think of what was on it..
Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)
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Bidding shut-eye night-night to a day without a poo makes me really mardy on both retiring and rising. Naughty defiant bottom!
But yet more than that... incompetently manufactured kitchen wipes. Little can raise my ire more rapidly than a packet of kitchen wipes so poorly demarcated than when, repeated attempts to take out one single solitary wipe from the central fissure, end in your indomitability having been broken down to the point where you have no option but to accept the inevitable scrunching up between your redundant fingers of about 10 misbegotten wipes in one go. Aaargh
But yet more than that... incompetently manufactured kitchen wipes. Little can raise my ire more rapidly than a packet of kitchen wipes so poorly demarcated than when, repeated attempts to take out one single solitary wipe from the central fissure, end in your indomitability having been broken down to the point where you have no option but to accept the inevitable scrunching up between your redundant fingers of about 10 misbegotten wipes in one go. Aaargh
Originally Posted by bbclassics:
“When you have some alcoholic drinks at night and the next day your mouth/throat is all dry and sore.
And I've tried the thing where you drink a glass of water before bed. Doesn't seem to help much.”
“When you have some alcoholic drinks at night and the next day your mouth/throat is all dry and sore.
And I've tried the thing where you drink a glass of water before bed. Doesn't seem to help much.”
Sometimes I feel the same thing
Originally Posted by Orangemaid:
“when you make a food shopping list, and lose it..then have to rewrite another one trying to think of what was on it..”
“when you make a food shopping list, and lose it..then have to rewrite another one trying to think of what was on it..”
Yup. I go shopping every day and occasionally I forget my list. I can then be found standing still, looking into the middle distance while trying to picture the list in my mind. I often manage to recall all the items *except* the important one.
"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
Well I don't know anyone with epilepsy just now but is the news such a problem?
How about all the other high energy progs on TV that don't have warnings?
On cooking shows when 'gooseberry' is pronounced as 'guzberry'. I often wonder if they'd call a goose a guz?
'Suggested tracks' on Spotify Mobile. It's annoying enough I have to use shuffle to hear an album (unlike on my laptop at home) but to then start adding loads of extra tracks because there isn't enough variety (and them all to be from the same band anyway) is really irritating.
[Yes, I know I could get a premium account, but I don't use it enough for that, and this is an 'improvement']
[Yes, I know I could get a premium account, but I don't use it enough for that, and this is an 'improvement']
More and more I'm hearing people describe themselves as 'ravishing', when they mean famished or ravenous. Again in '24 hours in A&E' last night. And the woman who said it certainly wasn't 'ravishing'.
When I'm looking specifically for PS4 gameplay on Youtube, but the uploaders have put "PS4/Xbox One/PC" in the description.
Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley:
“Well I don't know anyone with epilepsy just now but is the news such a problem?
How about all the other high energy progs on TV that don't have warnings?”
“Well I don't know anyone with epilepsy just now but is the news such a problem?
How about all the other high energy progs on TV that don't have warnings?”
I assume OFCOM would be on your case if you tried broadcasting a programme without warning or taken care during the production.
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
What would you like, those who could be affected not to be warned, to stop watching the news because it affects you?
When some berk walks into the office with a full suit on and a big winter coat and then complains it's too warm so turns every fan on and opens every window to cool down.
Originally Posted by wampa1:
“When some berk walks into the office with a full suit on and a big winter coat and then complains it's too warm so turns every fan on and opens every window to cool down.”
“When some berk walks into the office with a full suit on and a big winter coat and then complains it's too warm so turns every fan on and opens every window to cool down.”
Unlike the lass who works with us who insists on wearing a big winter coat and boots all year around, even on the beach on the hottest day "because I am cold". As her face goes red with the heat. Done purely to gander attention. Gets my goat all the time.
Up/Down plug leads.
I have two plug-in mains adapters and a 13A plug in a four-way block.
One of the adapters has its lead coming out of the top, the other adapter and the plug have their leads coming out of the bottom.
This means one lead has to do a 180º arc before joining the others to the computer table;
and the four-way block cannot be placed up against a wall or other straight edge.
I have two plug-in mains adapters and a 13A plug in a four-way block.
One of the adapters has its lead coming out of the top, the other adapter and the plug have their leads coming out of the bottom.
This means one lead has to do a 180º arc before joining the others to the computer table;
and the four-way block cannot be placed up against a wall or other straight edge.
Originally Posted by boksbox:
“What would you like, those who could be affected not to be warned, to stop watching the news because it affects you?”
“What would you like, those who could be affected not to be warned, to stop watching the news because it affects you?”
Perhaps by now the great british public (including those who suffer from photo-induced epilepsy) have realised that the news may contain flashing lights etc? Do we really need telling every bl**dy time? Surely one warning at the beginning of the programme would do?
Can the sufferers not make their own arrangements - like listening to the news on the radio - instead of having the rest of us bombarded with unnecessary warnings?
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
“"This report contains flash photography..." Good grief, does any other country use this announcement?”
Yes. As far as I know, compulsory in some channels in the US and Canada. Also the entire children's programming in Japan, Singapore and most cities in mainland China, and some of the children's programming in Taiwan (especially Kaohsiung and New Taipei City), Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and two Eastern European countries I can't even pronounce, let alone spell. I think it varies across Europe as well, but I don't know for what and how often.
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“Perhaps by now the great british public (including those who suffer from photo-induced epilepsy) have realised that the news may contain flashing lights etc? Do we really need telling every bl**dy time? Surely one warning at the beginning of the programme would do?
Can the sufferers not make their own arrangements - like listening to the news on the radio - instead of having the rest of us bombarded with unnecessary warnings?”
“Perhaps by now the great british public (including those who suffer from photo-induced epilepsy) have realised that the news may contain flashing lights etc? Do we really need telling every bl**dy time? Surely one warning at the beginning of the programme would do?
Can the sufferers not make their own arrangements - like listening to the news on the radio - instead of having the rest of us bombarded with unnecessary warnings?”
Unnecessary warnings? Really?
Originally Posted by Takae:
“Unnecessary warnings? Really?”
“Unnecessary warnings? Really?”
Well yes. If one warning at the top of the news would do (and I'm sure it would, given that everyone and his dog knows already), all the other warnings are unnecessary, surely?
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“Well yes. If one warning at the top of the news would do (and I'm sure it would, given that everyone and his dog knows already), all the other warnings are unnecessary, surely?”
“Well yes. If one warning at the top of the news would do (and I'm sure it would, given that everyone and his dog knows already), all the other warnings are unnecessary, surely?”
Flash photography usually lasts just a few seconds, but they should miss out the entire programme because you couldn't bear seeing or hearing a warning any time during the programme?
Those tabs with the scorned out edges saying "peel here" or "tear here" and you only get a bit at a time, and end up with 5 - 10 pieces of paper sprawled everywhere because it didn't tear.
Originally Posted by Takae:
“Flash photography usually lasts just a few seconds, but they should miss out the entire programme because you couldn't bear seeing or hearing a warning any time during the programme?”
“Flash photography usually lasts just a few seconds, but they should miss out the entire programme because you couldn't bear seeing or hearing a warning any time during the programme?”
Using your own argument, I could say that the percentage of photo-sensitive epileptics is almost vanishingly small, yet they have an announcement made before almost every news report. That seems equally wrong.
It's surely a matter of taking control of your own life/disablity? Other news programmes are available. And how do these sufferers go on in real life - do they wear blindfolds so as not to be triggered by passing police cars, ambulances and dustcarts?
BTW, I'm not saying there should not be a warning, I'm saying that one warning at the top of the programme would do.
Originally Posted by coldcomfort:
“On cooking shows when 'gooseberry' is pronounced as 'guzberry'. I often wonder if they'd call a goose a guz?”
“On cooking shows when 'gooseberry' is pronounced as 'guzberry'. I often wonder if they'd call a goose a guz?”
I thought everyone said 'guzberry' in the UK! I believe it is pronounced as 'goose-berry' in the US though.
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“Using your own argument, I could say that the percentage of photo-sensitive epileptics is almost vanishingly small, yet they have an announcement made before almost every news report. That seems equally wrong.
It's surely a matter of taking control of your own life/disablity? Other news programmes are available.”
“Using your own argument, I could say that the percentage of photo-sensitive epileptics is almost vanishingly small, yet they have an announcement made before almost every news report. That seems equally wrong.
It's surely a matter of taking control of your own life/disablity? Other news programmes are available.”
Won't they all have flash photography?
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