Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

I don't understand how any adult can actively enjoy this cold snap (particularly the weather nerds on that forum who take it too seriously).

Clearly don't have to worry about frozen over vans, suspect road conditions, delayed truck deliveries, trucks not even arriving, disgruntled customers, the flu wiping out so many work colleagues and the knock-on effects of that (which wouldn't happen during the mild spring etc.), and just simply being outside in it all day.

A newsreader on C4 pronounced mandatory as man-date-ore-ey. Come again?! Have they started replacing newsreaders with AI? They give themselves away with certain words like that.

AIB had and maybe still have an awful one. "We're backing brave"

RTE from last weekend they told us that it will be very cold until Friday when it will start to warm up. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday they've freaking out about how there's no end in sight and neverending cold. What a bunch of clowns running that organisation.

Battery at 20%

Phone asks me if I want to turn on EXTREME battery saver.

Lord help us

The converse is people driving around city and town centres with their fog lights on. You're two feet in front of me in traffic, dude, I can see you.

Dogs (and cats) that open doors and don't shut them again!

There's a draft in my room caused by a small Jack Russell who has just pushed the door open to come and see me. Why can't he shut it again?

Women being overly lauded for mediocre work. The cognitive dissonance with women’s sport is another story but I’m seeing it creep into film and TV now. I’ve been stung by a few shows and films that have been heaped with praise and fantastically reviewed almost solely on the bad of them being “female led”.

I love Sharon Horgan and her work. Catastrophe was fantastic and many other projects she has involved with was brilliant. I recently watched Bad Sisters after an amount of five-star reviews. I was poor to middling. The fact it was 5 females leads speak to it.

Amy Huberman was made a career out of producing sh*te and being drowned by top class praise for her hunzos.

People who use power tools and don't use eye protection.

Sib is still in pain despite taking the meds the GP gave them, called the GP and told them so.

Two phone calls from different doctors and a referral to a posh specialist while renewing the original 3-day-old script.

When they paid for the second round of the meds, I found that they hadn't read or misread( dyslexic and short-sighted so reads SFA) the dosage and had been taking 2x2 instead of 2x4.

Ta that all these medical professionals (6 in total) and no one ever checked with him that he knew the correct dosage!

the fact that both the roads and paths outside are like an ice rink. Reminiscing about times gone by when councils used to attempt at least to grit roads and paths and look after the wellbeing of taxpayers as best they could… sure they don’t even collect bins now so…..Couple about in their 40’s out walking a dog 5 minutes ago and both having a good bit of difficulty walking, basically holding onto each other and using gates and pillars to rest / rebalance themselves….

dogs can open doors if it opens outwards . I know from our collie

I often wonder about the mentality of people who snort, hockle and spit in the presence of other people, especially at bus stops.

I couldn’t fall asleep in bed so I got up to make some important phone calls . Queue me waking up on the sofa too late to make the calls