Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

I’ve been getting them from ‘ screwfix’ lately . You’ve won a prize but there’s a £2 charge so enter your bank details to pay that and we’ll send you £150 for free. FO

THe fact that certain words can't even be said any more, despite context.

" The N word"

And the latest, now "the F word" apparently can't be printed either, despite us needing to know what the Pope said, but no, if the journalist prints the word, he's afraid people will turn on him.

My mandarin was full of pips.

TA is a really sore shoulder which is starting to bruise after I fired an AK47 on holidays. There's some recoil off that thing....don't believe the movies when they show people firing it in one hand.

The first 5 weapons were OK. But thankfully I still had some brains to stay away from the shotguns.

Nurofen and an ice pack for my final night here. Wish I had listened to the English fella and Polish fella with whom I was talking to a few days ago when they were talking about how much they disliked the AK47.

After 4 out 4 direct hits, I thought that the fifth shot would be overkill so fired wide* 😉

• I think if I ever become a baddie I'll pick an M4 or MP15, so easy to fire with no recoil that I noticed

Krakow

I would advise staying away from the shotguns alright. There was an English couple at the first gun range I went to and both tried the shotguns. The husband was tall and heavy, the wife average height and thin, both found it hard to control the shotgun on recoil and were complaining immediately after of serious back pain.

The small assault rifles are very simple to use and the handguns/pistols more difficult. One instructor said he would need a 1,000 rounds to get someone up to scratch on a handgun but only about a dozen on an assault rifle.

I did fire glocks, a H&K, a Kadet and a Magnum. The Magnum had a serious recoil for a small weapon but not one that would damage your hands or wrist, just more your hands are likely to go flying after each shot.

Browsing boards on mobile, opening multiple threads to their own tabs… then when I read the new post getting confused about what thread the post is for! A very trivial TA.

Wtf is happening with YouTube, watching a video here for work and in the first eight minutes there have been four sets of two ads. I know they're pushing the subscription, but they're making the non sub version unusable.

Another TA of mine albeit rare…. sitting through ads to watch videos that I myself have uploaded onto my own YouTube channel… and still probably have the original video file somewhere on a HD……

Sciatica on holidays, when you really want to do loads of walking around, but have to stop every ten mins 😭

Them Captcha yokes 😀

Major TA: my phone autocorrects perfectly cromulent words into other, also perfectly cromulent words, but which don't make any sense in the given context. For example, it autocorrected "required" to "requited" in the above post. Fcuk off and stop messing around with my shıt, I know what I'm doing.

You're preaching to the choir!

I've also noticed that recently my phone will add in a double letter at the start of a number of words, e.g. yyou, eexample, and often randomly capitalises words that shouldn't be.

Oh really, good to know that the phone isn't packing up on me

I got a warning or infraction on a certain social media platform for a comment very gently taking the piss out of an Irish politician who was photographed in a humorous predicament.

My comment was nowhere near as offensive as the original comment yet the original contributor / commenter doesn’t get sanctioned and the photo and all other replies many of which were in a similar vein remain….

Zero consistency, zero cop on, zero fairness……which let’s face it is in short supply these days.… 👏🏼

TA that I don't know what cromulent means

You havent been exposed to enough After Hours or Simpsons episodes :)

Now I’m getting spam mail from , of all people , google . You’ve won a gift , delivery charges may apply . Click to claim your prize except it’s a dead link .

Another TA is now that I tend to watch daytime telly , all of the ads are for death plans , cremations etc

Even during cycling coverage on ITV4… which you think attract a different audience to the channel, it's those same ads!

I'm forever complaining about homeowners who let bushes and trees grow out of hand so that they take up half the footpath outside their houses. But for fcuk's sake, was it really necessary to cut them back to the property line right at the height of nesting season??? Two people near me have done this in the past week 🤬🤬🤬