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

I'd wait ;-)

Bog doors and cubicle doors open too?

I just saw this post now, the level of excitement at the thought of getting the secret answer, only to be disappointed has to be added to the Tayto Trivial Annoyance disappointment.

They don't want you to know the past weights in the packets I think. Plus putting the weight of a packet only really came in when people were calorie counting etc because of EU guidelines or whatever?

It crossed my mind that I should go on a Tayto tour in a factory and get the hidden answer as to past Tayto amounts per packet.

In fairness at least Tayto were not as sneaky as Rolo, they removed the number of Rolo's in a pack. Keeping the price the same.

But the sneaky feckers changed the slogan which used to be about sharing your Rolo."What would you do with your last Rolo?" or "Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?"

Bit of doubt added in about sharing here 1989 -

To too good to share!/ It's my Rolo!

To take the focus away from the fact that you are down the number of Rolo's you normally got in a pack. I definitely remember reading an article on it, made me stop eating Rolo's altogether because they were not going to cod me! 😎

Last paragraph article above -

"The company came under fire in 1995 when a BBC1 Watchdog programme pointed out that Nestlé itself had snatched the last Rolo - the tubes of 11 sweets were cut down to just 10."

In fact at the time in 1995. One woman complained she felt cheated with the one Rolo less.

And she used to give her two son's 5 Rolo's each and eat one herself.

My favourite watch is being petulant again. It’s an eco drive, ie. it charges by being exposed to the light, any light, natural or artificial.

but, despite me leaving it under my bedside light for hours and or at the window in daylight , for hours too, the watch is not holding a charge for very long, I’m lucky if I get 6 hours out of it…. It happened before when it was under warranty and Citizen the maker repaired it for free down in their facility in Shannon, now it’s out of warranty so I dunno.. send it back to them hoping it is not going to cost me ? A new capacitor costs about 20 euros but if they want to charge me for looking at it and installing the capacitor as they are entitled to do… probably around 70 -80 quid total and I’d probably be better off buying a new battery powered watch… no way am I going with eco drive tech again….

Grown adults who stick their tongues out in photos.

Spotted my Wednesday TA again today. Disabled guy parked in disabled parking - so far so good as it should be. The annoyance is that his wife isn't disabled and he sits there with the engine running the whole time reading the paper. To add to my totally TA he always has his fog lights on ;-(

I would have been one those offenders early on to be honest not in the title in fairness, but in the OP. Mods quickly put me in line with the "boards" convention

But as far as I was concerned Leaving Certificate papers used to be like that. Here is the issue xyz with the premise hypotheses etc - discuss. Which to me implies a robust debate is sought rather than a throwaway comment.

It took me awhile to figure out in today's chat in the internet world are of a much softer disposition. And view discuss as an "order" not a "statement" for people to carry on the comment.

The internet is a strange place where suddenly some conventions become the norm that would be my TA, while those new to it are completely obvious to breaking these conventions. I am old enough to remember when people used to say "ASL?" in chatrooms.

Now that seems like the dark ages. Terminology in general language are now becoming the "norm" still jar at me. Such like "mental health" which no longer means "mental illness" such as bipolar or schizophrenia etc. It can simply mean someone who felt a bit down after stubbing their toe. So in other words "mental health" becomes a broad throwaway comment that has lost precise meaning. I don't think I will ever get used to that.

Even "top" journalists use the phrase toxic/toxicity now, but again I struggle to get used to that. To me toxic means something to do with dangerous chemicals/waste not a description of a bad atmosphere or how someone's "feelings" are hurt

It is very hard work to keep up with conventions online etc. I still never really get how capitals are viewed as SHOUTING. To me it is just something that is easier to read, like a note. Even after many decades online.

How can capitals be shouting? They don't actually make a noise. Unless the person reading a post shouts out loud as they read it?

There used to be a function boards to change colour on the text of the HTML it was easy to do, made things clear, easy to differentiate. But few used it, I did when I felt was useful. But again the internet convention seemed to be "how dare you use different colour font in a post who do you think you are?" Which I again found odd.

I am sure in the next few years/decades there will be some other changing terminology or convention that will have to relearn. But eventually it won't be a trivial annoyance. I will be too old to care, or even notice.

That a qualified hairdresser has once again ignored what I said during our discussion about "what would you like today" and I ended up with hair being cut by three times the number of inches/cms that I asked for. Huge TA that some hairdressers just ignore client requests and do something that a client specifically tells them not to do 😠😠😠😠

Sitting on the bus with a runny nose and no tissues in my pocket to wipe it with

What do you read in bed?

I don't know is it just me, but the more pushy the sales person is the more I get annoyed and it puts me off. I got a call from my energy provider contract will be up etc, trying to get me to renew there and then (I got the impression).

Must have been on the phone with me for well over 20 minutes. He barely let me get a word in edgeways, he did not give me much useful information at all. Reading from an obviously preprepared script. In fact I was left more confused after the phonecall, than before it.

So now because of that "hard sell" phonecall I definitely am not going to go with the same provider. Do sales people not realise the hard sell can backfire? To me the product should sell itself. You give me the plus points compared to the alternatives compared to your competitors, don't throw jargon at me, answer my questions straight, don't bluff, let me speak, let me think about it, don't pressure me. Then you have a much better chance of getting a sale!

Two simple things could have been done -

1) Listen to me the customer, don't bombard me

2) Say - "no pressure"

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Then I would have been impressed, more likely to be on the salesperson's side.

i get the impression the ministers have an advisory committee to tell them when to take a dump..

So you have the obligatory rear pocket necessary for the destruction of your smart phone when you sit on it?