Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[Schmidt]

Yeah I just had to take two weeks off sick which I've never done before, because of an upper respiratory infection, and it's left a lingering cough. I also had Covid for the first time in early December and that cough was only just going away when I got this new infection, which probably made it worse.

Basically felt like shit for two months now, just don't feel like doing anything but watching TV, playing games and eating (which isn't too different from normal to be fair).

[bradders1011]

If someone starts a sentence "I was listening to Talksport..." I instantly think less of them.

[Elmo!]

Musical episodes of otherwise non musical TV shows.

[bradders1011]

Musical episodes of otherwise non musical TV shows.

Except the Simpsons All Singing, All Dancing with the Paint Your Wagon section.

"That's a pretty sorry-lookin' wagon you got there, mister..."

[tubby]

Musical episodes of otherwise non musical TV shows.

100%.  Always horrible.

[Elzar]

Except the Simpsons All Singing, All Dancing with the Paint Your Wagon section.

"That's a pretty sorry-lookin' wagon you got there, mister..."

Simpsons and Scrubs are the two best at doing them!

[Elmo!]

100%.  Always horrible.

Was watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and the second last episode of season 2 invents some contrived story plot that explains why they are all singing. I've otherwise enjoyed the show but it was cringeworthy.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Musical episodes of otherwise non musical TV shows.

any dream related stuff too

[PaulF]

Was watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and the second last episode of season 2 invents some contrived story plot that explains why they are all singing. I've otherwise enjoyed the show but it was cringeworthy.

Ha ha, I was going to post that I've bet you've just watched SNW. Then I scrolled down to this. It was truly horrendous wasn't it.

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Hanley / Stoke on Trent.

I think i've seen some shitholes in my time but this place beggars belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqPDpTrEXM

[PaulF]

Hanley / Stoke on Trent.

I think i've seen some shitholes in my time but this place beggars belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqPDpTrEXM

Haha, that's probably the upmarket side of town.

[Only Me]

The fact that the slip road onto the Lancs by ours is still shut after about 3 months, and work appears to have slowed to a fucking standstill.

They haven't even bothered changing the sign which still says this road will be closed until 31st Jan 2024.

Useless c*nts.

[rob1966]

I believe in freedom of choice and empowerment of those of all abilities, but....are you really worthy of a blue badge if you drive a Lamborghini Urus? 4-litre V8 with, Google tells me, 600+ BHP? If you can control that, you can walk 40 yards further to the office door.

I qualified for an orange badge in 1997/99, I could easily drive, I just couldn't walk any kind of distance as my pericardium was so thick my heart couldn't properly fill with blood so I got knackered very quickly. Driving was fine.

[Nobby Reserve]

Hanley / Stoke on Trent.

I think i've seen some shitholes in my time but this place beggars belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqPDpTrEXM

You'll get no arguments from me

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=336864.msg17984466#msg17984466

[RedSince86]

Some Kids have just kicked my UPVC front door and damaged it, 10 mins ago.

Chunk has come off door where one of panels are on it.

New door needed now, Bastards.

[jackh]

That momentary pang of intense frustration you feel when you realise you've accidentally toggled 'number lock' off and your typing's gone awry 

[Barneylfc∗]

That momentary pang of intense frustration you feel when you realise you've accidentally toggled 'number lock' off and your typing's gone awry 

That boils my piss 

[Kenny's Jacket]

That momentary pang of intense frustration you feel when you realise you've accidentally toggled 'number lock' off and your typing's gone awry 

Its tHE CAPS LOCK BUTTON FOr me

[jillcwhomever]

Come home to a boiler problem, so frustrating. 

[Nitramdorf]

Those hellish drives home which occur every year or so. Just took me 3 hours to get home, 10 miles. Wanted a slash so bad my kidneys are hurting now. Had to have a slash in my garage, then got back in my car and dented a wing backing into my garage as its pissing down. Isnt life a bowl of cherries.

[Nobby Reserve]

People who can't keep their elbows within their seat space when on a train/plane

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Just took me 3 hours to get home, 10 miles.

My average walking speed is 4mph. 

[BlackandWhitePaul]

You'll get no arguments from me

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=336864.msg17984466#msg17984466

Flippin heck that was quite a night. 

[Slippers]

Almost a week since we took the dog to the beach and I'm still finding sand everywhere.

[CraigDS]

When you get the gym and your headphones have ran out of battery.

[Brain Potter]

the use of the word 'Bro'.

[Barneylfc∗]

Overtime being pulled because about 5% off staff reporting system issues but everyone else is fine 

[reddebs]

Beyonce doing country & western.

I can't stand either but both together..... fuck that shit!

[BarryCrocker]

Beyonce doing country & western.

I can't stand either but both together..... fuck that shit!

Think she's only doing country.

Not my jam, but she's the first black woman to have a # 1 in that genre. That says a lot about her but even more about the racism of the genre.

[reddebs]

Think she's only doing country.

Not my jam, but she's the first black woman to have a # 1 in that genre. That says a lot about her but even more about the racism of the genre.

I didn't even know country and western were different but there you go.

Don't give a fuck about the genre or her success in it to be honest.

[Statto Red]

When you go to press backspace on your keyboard & accidently press F12 instead, which brings up some sort of settings page, rather than deleting a text.

[Riquende]

The damned Youtube algorithm flooding my suggested videos with awful low-effort 'content'.

On Sunday I watched a string of videos, about 20 in a row, all on the same theme. It's basically this year's current Eurovision entries so far, so a mix of the official ESC channel plus some artist channels, national broadcasters, so on. Since then, Youtube has decided I want to watch an endless parade of random fan channels all offering me either their REACTION! to any random song or, even worse, MY TOP 22 SO FAR! list of all the entries. Just the exact same video over and over again, some random internet nobody who thinks that anybody else in the world is going to care which order they'd put the currently-released entries in. It's beyond vapid, each of these videos has about 150 views (somehow) and I'm just having to block every channel from my suggestions so I don't end up tomorrow with endless MY TOP 25 SO FAR videos after Cyprus, Switzerland and the Netherlands reveal theirs.

Could really do with a solution to just tie the YT homepage down to subscribed channels as the sheer amount of pathetic stuff like 'reaction videos' is just overwhelming. People desperate to hop on to any popular topic now in the hope of eking out a small amount of cash online despite no discernable talent or effort.

[redbyrdz]

The damned Youtube algorithm flooding my suggested videos with awful low-effort 'content'.

On Sunday I watched a string of videos, about 20 in a row, all on the same theme. It's basically this year's current Eurovision entries so far, so a mix of the official ESC channel plus some artist channels, national broadcasters, so on. Since then, Youtube has decided I want to watch an endless parade of random fan channels all offering me either their REACTION! to any random song or, even worse, MY TOP 22 SO FAR! list of all the entries. Just the exact same video over and over again, some random internet nobody who thinks that anybody else in the world is going to care which order they'd put the currently-released entries in. It's beyond vapid, each of these videos has about 150 views (somehow) and I'm just having to block every channel from my suggestions so I don't end up tomorrow with endless MY TOP 25 SO FAR videos after Cyprus, Switzerland and the Netherlands reveal theirs.

Could really do with a solution to just tie the YT homepage down to subscribed channels as the sheer amount of pathetic stuff like 'reaction videos' is just overwhelming. People desperate to hop on to any popular topic now in the hope of eking out a small amount of cash online despite no discernable talent or effort.

You can click on "subscriptions" to only show those, but I don't think you can set it as a default.

In general, I hate that all social media bow assumes you have a massive interestin something, because you mis-clicked on something, or randomely looked at it for more than a split second. On youtube, I've taken to either open videos in a private browser window, or, making sure I'm not logged in if I want to watch something outside my normal interests.

[Schmidt]

On YT you can click on the dots below a video and select "Not interested" or "Don't recommend this channel". I've found that using those is a good way to stop certain types of content showing up, particularly if you do it to a bunch of similar videos at once.

[Riquende]

On YT you can click on the dots below a video and select "Not interested" or "Don't recommend this channel". I've found that using those is a good way to stop certain types of content showing up, particularly if you do it to a bunch of similar videos at once.

See, that's what I've been doing, but I'd expect that asking it to "stop recommending this channel" about 50 times on identical content would at least feed back into the algorithm that whatever it's using the source for that recommendation should probably no longer be used for any more.

But instead it's throwing up yet more of this idiocy:

:

3 days earlier? His top 20. A week before that? His top 13. I like Eurovision as much as anybody but seriously Isac, find a hobby. If you must rate all this stuff then the only acceptable time to do it is at the end, on all the entries at once.

Anyway, I block that guy, refresh the page and there's 2 more with the exact same content. I think I'm just going to have to get a bit hotter on clearing out my search and watch histories periodically, or use the Incognito method.

[Peabee]

When you get the gym and your headphones have ran out of battery.

Just play the music loud on your phone.

[SvenJohansen]

Coming up to Limerick on the bus today and about 20 minutes out some prick down the back lights up a cigarette. He's nearly at the last stop but being the selfish dick that he is he thinks it's ok to do it. I wanted to go tell the driver but the missus held me back for fear of being attacked by bloke. We thought the driver would smell the smoke. I fumed but didn't confront them, I figured we'd be in Limerick soon. When the bus arrived he and his tramp girlfriend barged up the aisle expecting everyone to let them through. Did I f**k!

I told the driver when I got off, he had his window open so he didn't smell any smoke. He told me he would have booted them off the bus had he known. I'll make sure I say something the next time.

[Elmo!]

Coming up to Limerick on the bus today and about 20 minutes out some prick down the back lights up a cigarette. He's nearly at the last stop but being the selfish dick that he is he thinks it's ok to do it. I wanted to go tell the driver but the missus held me back for fear of being attacked by bloke. We thought the driver would smell the smoke. I fumed but didn't confront them, I figured we'd be in Limerick soon. When the bus arrived he and his tramp girlfriend barged up the aisle expecting everyone to let them through. Did I f**k!

I told the driver when I got off, he had his window open so he didn't smell any smoke. He told me he would have booted them off the bus had he known. I'll make sure I say something the next time.

As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.

[Nitramdorf]

Coming up to Limerick on the bus today and about 20 minutes out some prick down the back lights up a cigarette. He's nearly at the last stop but being the selfish dick that he is he thinks it's ok to do it. I wanted to go tell the driver but the missus held me back for fear of being attacked by bloke. We thought the driver would smell the smoke. I fumed but didn't confront them, I figured we'd be in Limerick soon. When the bus arrived he and his tramp girlfriend barged up the aisle expecting everyone to let them through. Did I f**k!

I told the driver when I got off, he had his window open so he didn't smell any smoke. He told me he would have booted them off the bus had he known. I'll make sure I say something the next time.

The phrase ignorance is bliss perfectly describes fuckwits. Some people just dont give a shit and have no perception of other people. They dont care and dont know they dont care.

[thejbs]

Had my first psychology appointment yesterday. Went really well and I was feeling much better after it. Then got down to the bike rack at the front of the hospital and found someone had nicked all the lights off my bike. Like who does that?!? At a hospital you can be pretty sure a bike is owned by either a patient or a nhs worker.