Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

More of a pain in the arse to wash the window as well.

Mood music which aggressively dominates the sound in films, most particularly in television series, to the extent that it makes it difficult to hear the dialogue or commentary.

When the binman leaves the bin blocking my driveway

Earlier my Dad went to his local high street bank branch asking for advice and was told by the clerk that she couldn’t help, he could only call a phone number or log onto his online account.

Went home, phoned at 2.35pm. At 3.25pm was still on hold, 50 minutes later, waiting.
What’s the point of a banking regulator if they are happy to oversee 90% of the banking tasks ninjad from branches to the internet ?…when a person needs to speak to someone they refuse to help them in person and then there is nobody to answer the phone. Regulator is meant to be for the public interest, not banks.

Update : on hold 65 minutes, then he hung up. Madness, cünts.

When we had a lot of chickens I used to make pickled eggs. I've tried all the tricks and tips you can find on youtube but the fact is if the eggs are really fresh then they are a pig to peel.

Intrigued! Trivially Annoyed!

Several things about YouTube:

Videos that are basically AI-generated content accompanied by AI-generated video narrated by AI-generated speech. Always gets a dislike from me. It would earn an autoblock too - if it was possible to block…

FaceCam: Hearing a creators voice is fine - what I don't need to see is their face, often obsuring a critical bit of the screen. It adds nothing, but I suspect says a lot about the ego of the creator.

Too much commentary: E.g. "Politician makes huge faux pas" video which contains maybe 2 minutes of actual footage and another 18 minutes of pre and post commentary. 20 minutes seems to be what they're aiming for when padding out. I'd rather they just gave me a quick 30-second into and maybe another quick 30-second outro, adding text to the footage if necessary for further information, instead of what appears to be trying to make themselves media stars.

Yesterday I tidied up some wire mesh that I use for making chicken runs. In the process I managed to jamb the cut end of one piece of wire into the tip of my right index finger. TAed and painful.

But thats not the end of the story. This morning I went to write a shopping list and of course the painful bit is exactly where my index finger holds the pen and my writing is unreadable (it was never great).

I use Facebook and I don't know why. There are so many pages now just dumping AI slop images. In theory, it'd be easy enough to avoid. I saw a post related to Irish people in the UK and it was just another AI slop image. I know it's been crap for ages but somehow they've made it even worse. I don't use any other social media and ideally I'd stop but my friends tend to use it to plan trips so that won't happen.