Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

Not an annoyance per se, more saddened that Raconteuse abruptly closed her account. I'm sure she'll immediately regret that reaction, the poster winding her up simply wasn't worth it.

Panda Killa

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not an annoyance per se, more saddened that Raconteuse abruptly closed her account. I'm sure she'll immediately regret that reaction, the poster winding her up simply wasn't worth it.

She can re-register with a new name in a day or 2....
I've heard that people do this occasionally....

cj maxx

Dropped ,and smashed a full bottle of olive oil yesterday.
Swept, vaccines ( not hovered ) all glass I could find.
TA is today I'm still finding bits when I walk around the kitchen

Panda Killa

Panda Killa wrote: »

She can re-register with a new name in a day or 2....
I've heard that people do this occasionally....

Clearly some do it more often than others. Not the most flattering attribute.

Wayne Jarvis

Deleted User wrote: »

Not an annoyance per se, more saddened that Raconteuse abruptly closed her account. I'm sure she'll immediately regret that reaction, the poster winding her up simply wasn't worth it.

Now that is a goddamned shame. Her last account (Gimme A Pound) was closed over an admin error so hopefully that's the same thing here. She doesn't seem the type to rage quit, especially over that fool you're referring to. Hopefully all is ok with her. A very sound poster.

Panda Killa wrote: »

She can re-register with a new name in a day or 2....
I've heard that people do this occasionally....

True, I'll be closing my account soon and re-regging as Killa Panda.

Panda Killa

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Clearly some do it more often than others. Not the most flattering attribute.

It keeps the mystery alive hoss,

Sad to read that about Raconteuse. I liked her common sense posts. I hope she comes back.

Don't know why anyone would try wind her up, but it seems to be the way here lately.

selous

Candie wrote: »

Sad to read that about Raconteuse. I liked her common sense posts. I hope she comes back.

.

Common sense......alas seems to be an oxymoron....it's not very common.

Antares35

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:

This whole thing is bad enough that they could just report the facts as they are and we would still be scared, they don't need to embellish their reporting with stupid National Enquirer vocabulary.

endofrainbow

Ta'd that the Irish Times and Irish Independent haven't made ALL their articles free online

the purple tin

Antares35 wrote: »

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:

This whole thing is bad enough that they could just report the facts as they are and we would still be scared, they don't need to embellish their reporting with stupid National Enquirer vocabulary.

TV news love doom and gloom. An hour of negativity and fear finished up with a 1 minute 'and finally' light hearted story.

freshpopcorn

Antares35 wrote: »

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:

This whole thing is bad enough that they could just report the facts as they are and we would still be scared, they don't need to embellish their reporting with stupid National Enquirer vocabulary.

The Late Late Show is a joke at this stage. After a week of news, Primetime, etc. They could try and do something a little more cheery but they love misery. I think the worst part for Ryan is he isn't in RTE at the moment.

Panda Killa

TA'd at boards tbh
Running slower than a fat kid on.sports day for over a week now...503 errors... glitches..cloudflare...it's just annoying as hell

Widdershins

Debit card cancelled due to suspicious transaction.
New card on its way.
Supposed to be able to use old card number for online transactions but it doesn't work.

Shady Grady

After all these years of being married, I still haven't realized to lie. Whenever my Mrs. asks me what I honestly think of her deviously and meddling sister.

blade1

Shady Grady wrote: »

After all these years of being married, I still haven't realized to lie. Whenever my Mrs. asks me what I honestly think of her deviously and meddling sister.

So what do you think of her?:pac:

bcklschaps

Antares35 wrote: »

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:

This whole thing is bad enough that they could just report the facts as they are and we would still be scared, they don't need to embellish their reporting with stupid National Enquirer vocabulary.

Totally agree. The media have taken to the whole Covid-19 bad news thing with unapologetic zeal.


From the national broadcaster down to local radio and free sheets. Every Cloud..... and all that

the purple tin

bcklschaps wrote: »

Totally agree. The media have taken to the whole Covid-19 bad news thing with unapologetic zeal.


From the national broadcaster down to local radio and free sheets. Every Cloud..... and all that

There was a statement couple of weeks ago sent out by a guy on lockdown in China, he said not to watch or read too much media about the virus, it will drive you crazy if you are following it all day every day. Do something else with your time to keep your mind off things.

I think he's right too.

iamwhoiam

Antares35 wrote: »

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:

This whole thing is bad enough that they could just report the facts as they are and we would still be scared, they don't need to embellish their reporting with stupid National Enquirer vocabulary.

Mr Gloomy George Lee is only short of pointing out the best bridges we could jump from

Antares35

Antares35 wrote: »

Media's refusal to allow ordinary people to have even a sliver of good news. I know the pandemic is serious, I don't think anyone is trying to deny it. But here's one this evening about how numbers appear to be stabilising across Europe, but then they have to qualify that by saying "but it is still really really really bad in Spain" (terrible paraphrasing I'm sorry :pac:) but like they won't allow us to have anything. Spanish death rates "soared" apparently (to the lowest number in days). Why would you use the verb "soared" where a number is decreasing? It's not just the pandemic that they do this with, it's literally everything though it is only TA'ing me now. :mad:
.

.................must have been George Lee.......RTE's doom merchant :mad::mad:

the purple tin

blade1 wrote: »

So what do you think of her?:pac:

Go on, you can tell us SG. We don't like her either

Be right back

Shady Grady wrote: »

After all these years of being married, I still haven't realized to lie. Whenever my Mrs. asks me what I honestly think of her deviously and meddling sister.

I reckon she's nice underneath it all!

the beer revolu

Be right back wrote: »

I reckon she's nice underneath it all!

I reckon shady wants to ride her.

the purple tin

Be right back wrote: »

I reckon she's nice underneath it all!

You've changed your tune. A couple of weeks ago you told me she was an auld cow. Remember? because she called round and ate all your jaffa cakes on you.

blade1

the purple tin wrote: »

You've changed your tune. A couple of weeks ago you told me she was an auld cow. Remember? because she called round and ate all your jaffa cakes on you.

Well seriously like, if someone ate all my Jaffa cakes,I'd tear em a new one :pac:

eisenberg1

The way some of the news people are doing a D4
Job of pronouncing “The Cowvid Voyrus”

NewbridgeIR

One of the discs in the 33CD Donna Summer Encore box is scratched. The whole thing has to go back to Amazon.

And my iPhone is stuck in headphone mode. I last used headphones with it three weeks ago (to listen to music while on the train). Have been working from home since then. Seems to have happened suddenly. Have tried powering if off, cleaning the headphone jack, switching to airplane mode etc. Nothing works.

Antares35

the purple tin wrote: »

There was a statement couple of weeks ago sent out by a guy on lockdown in China, he said not to watch or read too much media about the virus, it will drive you crazy if you are following it all day every day. Do something else with your time to keep your mind off things.

I think he's right too.

Definitely agree. I managed to avoid it for about two whole days a while ago and I felt immense relief!

I check the spanish stats because my parents are stuck there and it annoys me when I am trying to find some hope and see am article about how they reached their peak or whatever and then that hope is dashed with "oh but they're all still f*cked"

blade1

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

One of the discs in the 33CD Donna Summer Encore box is scratched. The whole thing has to go back to Amazon.

And my iPhone is stuck in headphone mode. I last used headphones with it three weeks ago (to listen to music while on the train). Have been working from home since then. Seems to have happened suddenly. Have tried powering if off, cleaning the headphone jack, switching to airplane mode etc. Nothing works.

Try making a phone call and then switch to phone or phone speaker during call.
It's years since I had an iPhone but it worked for me before.

Be right back

the purple tin wrote: »

You've changed your tune. A couple of weeks ago you told me she was an auld cow. Remember? because she called round and ate all your jaffa cakes on you.

It was actually my chocolate digestives that she scoffed, the wagon.

Antares35

Reminds me, I've an aunt that I despise (my mother's sister). I think I mentioned her before. Hyacinth from Keeping up Appearances. And it's gas because her husband is very like Richard too. A real mouse of a man. Anyway every so often she will do something unreasonable or have a go at my mother over something - doesn't matter what it is. For example, when my mum told her she was worried about my Dad being at risk of Covid-19 because he is in his 70's and has diabetes, she had to retort with, "that's nothing, my husband has a heart condition would you cop on" - as if it is a f*cking competition.

She also has it in for me since I stood up to her over something a few years back (she doesn't like when people do that) and will take any opportunity to discredit anything do. Most recent example being when I got pregnant. A couple of seconds after my mother told her she said, "hmmm....yeah that's lovely. Oh, my daughter was just saying to me there how sad and pathetic it is that all her friends who are in their 30's now are just shacking up with any guy, they are so desperate to have kids, rather than waiting to find the right person". When I did well in my Leaving Cert. she said, "well that's only because she went to a private school isn't it".

My TA is not so much the way she is - there are ars*holes everywhere, but it's that every so often my mother will swear this is the last straw, she is never talking to her again, that's it she is finished with her etc.

Then a month later yer wan is back in our house for dinner and drinks. They get tipsy and are BFFs again. :pac: Apparently "blood is thicker than water" means you can treat people you supposedly love like rubbish :mad:

Panda Killa

Very TA... but my daughter and I should be in sunny Barcelona today for a weeks holiday.
Not in my wildest nightmare could I have imagined what has come to pass.....

Bredabe

Paid for my script over the phone in the week, collected it today .
They can only fill it for a month to avoid stockpiling, if I have to ring and pay for another script for the duration of the closedown, I'll be more than ta'ed!!

Dial Hard

People who feel the need to announce in-thread that they've reported a post.

Bonus sap points if they actually quote the post in question while doing so.

blade1

Dial Hard wrote: »

People who feel the need to announce in-thread that they've reported a post.

Bonus sap points if they actually quote the post in question while doing so.

Post reported!

Widdershins

TA the thing that's fastest and easiest to grow is the one I least like. Salad leaves. That is not food, to me.

TA Facebook must be listening to private conversations or reading my messages.

5 ads for fertility aids, natural contraceptives and pregnancy tests.

When they get it wrong, they get it very wrong.

Gwynplaine

The multiple "bye bye bye" at the end of a phone call. Why do people do this?
Also, social media lurkers.

Kitty6277

My ex in England texted me last week saying he thought he had covid-19, and because he has asthma was worried he wouldn’t survive it. I told him to text me every so often to make sure he’s okay. Haven’t heard from him since Thursday and I’ve texted him twice since and he hasn’t read or answered them. Can’t decide if I should be worried or not

Kitty6277

Kitty6277 wrote: »

My ex in England texted me last week saying he thought he had covid-19, and because he has asthma was worried he wouldn’t survive it. I told him to text me every so often to make sure he’s okay. Haven’t heard from him since Thursday and I’ve texted him twice since and he hasn’t read or answered them. Can’t decide if I should be worried or not

Such a time calls for social media stalking?

Potential-Monke

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

One of the discs in the 33CD Donna Summer Encore box is scratched. The whole thing has to go back to Amazon.

Had something similar happen a few years ago with the Harry Potter Blu-ray collection, one of them wouldn't play (confirmed across multiple devices). They said sorry and sent me another one without having to send back the original. Waited a few months, bought the non-working disc second hand somewhere and sold the original, now working, collection for half price. Win!

TA'd that even without a VPN so very limited access to work systems, they seem to think we can work as if we were still at work with access to everything. How can we work as normal without access? And then to be basically giving out what we're not doing enough! Up to 80% of the business customers we support are closed!!!

Kitty6277

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Such a time calls for social media stalking?

I did try but he’s not that big into social media so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary if he wasn’t on it. Just logged into my PS account and saw he’s online so he must be okay. TA’d that he wouldn’t at least text me to let me know since he knows how I worry :rolleyes:

NewbridgeIR

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Had something similar happen a few years ago with the Harry Potter Blu-ray collection, one of them wouldn't play (confirmed across multiple devices). They said sorry and sent me another one without having to send back the original. Waited a few months, bought the non-working disc second hand somewhere and sold the original, now working, collection for half price. Win!

In fairness, Amazon's customer service is good. Depending on the item, they'll often let you keep it. This is an expensive box (£170) so they want me to send it back within 30 days but will issue a replacement set shortly. I'll continue play-testing the CDs in this box and when the replacement comes, will do a mix & match to have a working set.

Panda Killa

Kitty6277 wrote: »

My ex in England texted me last week saying he thought he had covid-19, and because he has asthma was worried he wouldn’t survive it. I told him to text me every so often to make sure he’s okay. Haven’t heard from him since Thursday and I’ve texted him twice since and he hasn’t read or answered them. Can’t decide if I should be worried or not

I may be completely wrong......and forgive me if I am....
But this sounds like a headfck move.. trying to exert control over you ...

Bowlardo

Bagels are great over rated

blade1

Bowlardo wrote: »

Bagels are great over rated

So which is it? :pac:

blade1

Staggered work times over covid.
Would normally have an hour done now but only starting now.
Has to be done though.

Be right back

blade1 wrote: »

Staggered work times over covid.
Would normally have an hour done now but only starting now.
Has to be done though.

Think of it as having a lie in!

blockfighter

blade1 wrote: »

Staggered work times over covid.
Would normally have an hour done now but only starting now.
Has to be done though.

Im doing occasional split shifts to minimize the amount of people at work. Work from home first half of day, break from 1 till 5 then drive to work and work until 9 or 10 after everyone else has gone home.
It's annoying but it could be a lot worse.

blade1

Be right back wrote: »

Think of it as having a lie in!

Once I wake I have to get up.
Sure haven't I being lying in all night :pac:

Now work to be done!

Trigger Happy

Monday mornings are a slight TA. Has anyone ever mentioned that before?