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

Youtube again!

Changed browser to Brave as a better way of getting rid of adverts than the chrome extension I was using.

The result even after importing settings from Chrome is that I have all the crap I assiduously avoid back again.

I then made the BIG mistake of clicking on just one video about diet :-( OMG the youtube algorithm now thinks all I want to view are quack doctors telling me 57 things I should do, shouldn't do, must eat, mustn't eat, vitamins I need to eat and vitamins I am wasting my money on. Neither do I want to unclog my colon although it would be great if the youtube algorithm could unclog itself and come up with a couple of decent suggestions.

If i hear Felice Navidad one more time my head is going to explode.

I'm like an absolute demon today. Trying to prep 8 kilos of roast potatoes and make a vat of cranberry sauce while my dad basically just stands in whatever part of the kitchen I need to access.

Can't find two Christmas presents I bought months ago. Managed to source an emergency replacement for one, but it's a bit shít. Can't get anything to replace the other.

My coldsore looks and feels like my unborn twin is finally making a break for freedom.

I want a bath but my sister has been "about to" wash the dog for about an hour now.

I'm tired, pissed off and don't feel a bit Christmassy. Think I'll just go and hide in my room for the rest of the day.

Or mate.

Where is this ? Blighty ?

Also, I love my mother dearly but there's a very good chance she won't live to see the new year if she doesn't give the Dermot Kennedy a rest...

Lost a stone in weight from stress. My clothes don't fit me.

No sane jury would convict you.

I was watching the Netflix in bed this morning when my phone rang, with a Dublin number which my phone decided was probably a scam number, so I didn't answer. As the ringing stopped, my landline immediately started ringing (which surprised me because I forget that I still have it) and it was the same Dublin number. Because of that, I decided it must be a real call.

It was an automated message, warning me of a potentially dodgy transaction on my debit card. The previous evening, I ordered something on a Spanish website that I hadn't used before. The call had identified itself as the bank with enough information to show they were legit, and asking for the barest information to prove that I was the correct person (with the information I gave not being enough to be helpful to a scammer). I gave the go-ahead to proceed with the transaction.

With me receiving the two phone calls to two devices, while trying to use my mobile to pause the programme I was watching, I hadn't realised that they had also texted me to tell them whether it was a legitimate transaction or not. The whole thing was slightly annoying, but good to know that they're looking out for unusual transactions.

Yeah I've gotten phone calls before that were legit, just never txts.

It was a shop I've gone into numerous times (last time being last Saturday)and only 12 euro , so I'm not sure what flagged it....also I had just used it in a shop that's beside it.

It's a pain in the hole as I can't hear on a phone so I have to get someone to ring for me, which means giving them my details

Felt unwell last night, thought it weird that I was constantly thirsty and drinking water like I’d spent a month in the Sahara… Must have had about 6 litres of liquids. shopping is done so I don’t need to be anywhere today… doesn’t feel like it will be anymore then a 24 hour thing.

Let’s just say there is a takeaway that I used yesterday which I am never going to return to, it’s not my usual but circumstances had me situated nearby…. And I allowed myself be influenced because “ hey it’s not busy and the LK ( usual takeaway ) will be packed, come on “

An awful lot to be said for sticking with the old reliables, what you know and like and what has served us well for more than a decade…even if it’s busy and you end up waiting, that’s a good sign….

That shopping centre smurf thing pictured above will be in my nightmares.

I've just come across an extension of another of my regular Trivial Annoyances.

Packaging that wastes space by being much larger than the product.

I'm facing that now when having a tool sort out. I've several really good Bahco socket sets. The boxes are really nice but I have a shortage of storage space and the boxes are at least three times deeper than they need to be. Many of my power tools come in really nice fitted boxes but I can often fit 3 tools into the box that one comes in, another massive waste of space.

And don't set me off on Amazon packaging, expensive items that need the protection of a large box often come in paper bags and cheap small items you could easily fit in an envelope can come in a box bigger than a Christmas Box of Tayto Crisps.

Pub opening hours tonight. **** put it up on the door and not leave us guessing

The social media Christmas matching Pajamas brigade

Funny enough I saw a youtuber 'wings of pegasus' a fella who really analyses and breaks down music with tech and know how etc. Only a couple of days ago.

Anyway he pointed out how Allie Sherlock (he did not know of her before the video he saw) was very manufactured and stage managed.

She is so stage managed she now autotunes herself, while trying to look 'casual' singing at home. That seems to be the the new internet singing fashion. To appear casual/effortless when you are not. TLDR she mimes along to the song she redid with edits/autotune etc.

It annoyed me a bit to be honest because of the autotune stuff itself, but how nowadays any singer can sound 'perfect' and can stage the whole thing. Basically I don't trust anything now, unless it was obviously live.