Things dat Trivyully Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP* NEW

They say you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, V.

Never thought I'd be annoyed at this but I've started becoming fed up of cycling in the cold every morning for the past couple of months.

Every morning I arrive at work with my eyes watered and nose running that I wouldn't be surprised if people thought I had COVID coming into work every day.

This morning is yet another icy one. Getting sick of it now.

Well today can just go and fcuking do one.

Had to get up early cause I've to be at a work thing in Maynooth at 9.30.

The (in date) milk curdled as soon as it hit my tea.

I forgot to put my Fitbit on before I took the dog out.

She just jumped up on me with muddy paws. In my work clothes. 😠

Oh, and I have meetings all afternoon. Fridays are not for meetings, why do some people not get this???

Happy Friday me hole 😡

Micro USB / USB C are flimsy connectors. The pitch is too small and they're too vulnerable to dust and dirt.

Manufacturers are using this to enforce planned obsolescence. Had a phone pack up a while back that had the USB-C port mounted on a custom flexible PCB. Very hard to DIY replace these.

I received an email yesterday from a person not known to me, a student in a university here who was doing an online survey and wanted me to complete it.

i was initially dumbfounded as to how this person who wasn’t known to me had my email. I had no connection with this university, the person or anyone in the university . it’s not spam and their email address is genuine…

on reading their rather long winded and detailed correspondence it was confirmed to me that my details were provided to them by a business who I’d been a long term client of for a few years….and were linked to the nature of the study…which is health and fitness related…

I know fûck all about the law or this element of it but my estimation is that this is or could be a breach of GDPR….in terms and conditions of said business on their site there is nothing said about data at all surprisingly and in signing up for a new dummy account the terms and conditions there you agree to don’t in any manner suggest or require you to relinquish data to third parties in fact they maintain that your data won’t be relinquished to third parties and they will be in full compliance with GDPR…

my concern is what said company might do with my data going forward… if they are throwing it out to random individuals in colleges, this company they have my address, phone numbers, medical history ( fitness related ) …my options are..

1) contact the university and ask why one of their students has solicited or gathered my personal information for their work, using university email address.

2) contact the company and ask under what circumstances this information was provided…

3) contact the Gardai and let them deal with it.

Option 1 I don’t want to use, I don’t on one hand want to get this student in trouble, on the other hand I doubt they are so naive to misunderstand the ramifications of looking to mine the private contact details of individuals for their private purposes…

option 2 … probably

option 3 determined by the response I receive from 1&2…

Is there not already a whole series of megathreads for such things, which I believe are known as trivial annoyances???

Clone threads are bothering me a tad this week.

I don't know what was more annoying in town today: the fella playing a drum-kit at one street corner (surely contravenes some noise pollution by-laws?) or the People Before Profit muppets canvassing people directly across the street from him.

The only downfall of the end of restrictions- these people are back out in force.

TA - Some people expect everything to be handed to them, I see some who just keep going on and on about how the state won't provide them with this or that. Worse are the ones that post the pictures to try and guilt trip you.

Had a little plan for myself when I finished work;

• Buy Six Pack
• Come Home
• Have Dinner
• Watch Wrestling
• Play Video Games
• Watch Something in Bed
• Sleep.

What did I do instead? Well I still came home and had dinner, but I ended up turning on the computer and turning on Sky News and I'm still watching it.

At least I cracked open a lager.....

Poor girl, lumbered with a makey uppey Irish name by her Gaelgoir Nua parents.

I'm sure Ukrainians are way more exercised about what way non Ukrainian media outlets pronounce their placenames than the death from the skies that Russia is raining down on them.

We have new starters in the company and yesterday I was late for a meeting with them. One direct colleague of mine, who hasn’t been part of our team for long either, decided it was a nice tough to introduce me with a jokey “Now watch him, he’ll bully you in no time”.

I haven’t had any issues with this bitch whatsoever so I have no idea where this **** remark came from. The only thing I can think of is that she got all antsy earlier during the week when she asked me a question and then got funny about me not answering right away. I had literally just been thinking about the answer for a few seconds, and she already went “oh there, you are trying to psych me out by leaving me hanging”.

I have genuinely no idea what her issue is, but I have a feeling she’ll be an absolute pain in the ass. But fine, if she wants to play that game she can have it.