Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Having had a difficult week and heading into one even more difficult, I was happy to head to bed last night.

Finished my 7-night course of Balance Active, within half an hour I got signals that I may have a 24-hour dose of cystitis, it took three hours for the symptoms( I couldn't get downstairs to my secret stash of Cystropurin) to subside so got about 4 hours sleep!!

Now the boys are here doing things with glue and paint in the house, which gave me a sinus headache so I'm forced to take Sudafed just to survive till they leave.

This getting old thing is crap and expensive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(TA)

Been said before, but i think its important to say again..... Cryptobores.

Please just stfu about your investments and the latest technology involved and your insights into the future market.

I think a fair rule of thumb is that if you're not talking to another fellow cryptobore, the person you're talking to really couldnt give fewer sh*ts if they tried.

My TA is every time we get a storm we get a power cut and when the power comes back there several appliances that need resetting.

Minute cryptic . A head wrecker

Totally confused this morning by clocks going back. I have two clocks in the bedroom. One is an internet radio so I expected it to automatically update the time the other an ancient Roberts "satellite" alarm clock radio I remember always updates the time (never touched it in 10 years).

Anyway TA is neither of them updated automatically - or they did and I'm living in a time slip?

That is a TA … wondering if it will auto update or not. I end up having to google current time or check my 'offline' analogue wristwatch to be sure what the time is then I can assess if auto update happened.

The politest way I can think of saying this is awkward/annoying drunks in the chipper at night, invading personal space etc. Went in to order my stuff and brought a book with me to read while I was was waiting.

What happened afterwards was like a sketch from telly or a play

There was a couple there let's call them 'himself and herself" middle aged, obviously in some state of inebriation. "Himself" seem to take grave exception to the fact I had a book for whatever reason. Also the jumper I had on seemed to agitate him.

He asked me when I thought the world was going to end, I said "Maybe when Mayo win the all-ireland?". Said he "Mayo are never going to win the AI, etc etc". "Exactly" I said.

And eventually after a few minutes of listening to him, then he wanted to look at the book I had, and I explained to him what it was about. It was basically geopolitics in space, satellites etc, and mankind's curiosity with what is beyond earth from earliest times to now.

What I told him was the Chinese man who tied a lot of rockets to a chair thousands of years ago (blew himself up) and now has a crater named after him on the moon. And it was about satellites in space, and stuff like that. It took four rounds of explanation of that, and hoped he would leave me be then. Nope he was still leaning in on where I was sitting for while, nearly on top of me.

Eventually "himself" went off to the "eat in" section of the chipper while he was waiting (the building beside the part I was in, partitioned with glass).

"Herself" proceeded to have a conversation with me asking me "When do you think the world was going to end?" (It seemed to be the major topic of choice)

Pointing to "himself" in the partitioned area. "He thinks the world is going to the end in 10 years" stating it as if is a very likely fact. "As he reads bukes too".

I explained how that is unlikely, some people have been saying that for thousands of years and never happened. "Herself" seemed amazed at this, as if it was some new revelation and proceeded to tap the glass partition to get his attention.

"Himself" comes back into the main chipper area, where "Herself" explains "He knows, he has a buke' he is reading. "Himself" did not seem very happy about this at all (again) and eventually went back to where he was. I still had not managed to start reading any page, or even sentence, at this stage.

Opened the chapter "astro-politics" to try again. "Herself sitting beside me again then started to try and read the word "astro-politics" she got the "astro" part.

The next part go even weirder. "Herself" says "Are you alright in your life?".

I said "I'm grand". Say's she "Do you not think about the world ending, and dying?" "No" I said, "That's depressing". She's says "I do, buried my Dad last year".

Then I was thinking "What do I say here?", "Think of happy memories" instead was what I went with.

So now my TA is not only did not get the 20 minutes of peace, now anytime I open the book I was reading I will associate it with those two from the chipper, and wonder when the world is going to end!

Cooking videos that overdo the ASMR. Insta is particularly bad for it.

ASMR?

Match of the Day 2 being moved to midnight for some celebration of BBC2. Woke nonsense.

Good thing is I to watch 8out10 cats does Countdown

A match of the day 2 now is it? Some people are well off.

Give them 3 random games, one of which is 0-0 and one of which comes from outside the Premier League.

No highlights of other games.

Like the good old days.

I just sat on a rock on the beach without first seeing that there was a bird poop on it. Now I’ve a big birdcrap stain on the back of my pants.

Went to take a jacket out of the wardrobe that I was going wear today only to discover that its covered in mold.

I've a TA that my wife can't see a book I've bought with a sticker on it without peeling it off. I don't care if it has a €1 St Vincent de Paul charity shop sticker on it just leave it alone.