Trivial Things That Annoy You Thread

Getting a pasta main as part of my meal deal in Morrisons, only to find out they don’t keep wooden forks anymore, so I’m having to eat chicken pasta with a * wooden spoon. Honesty, the world is mental nowadays.

 

People that keep the water running the water while cleaning their teeth.

 

I can't find no 'welcome to' thread for the japanese kid. Whaddemarass?

 

Heatwaves . Cannot stand them.

 

Had to use the doritos i bought as part of the meal deal as a makeshift utensil the other day. Some mess

 

Human evolution. Whys it so slow? Like thousands of years and its still no evolved to avoid your back getting sore for picking a towel up to dry yourself. * you.

 

The smell of weed * everywhere you go. It’s totally unacceptable especially when it’s outside clinics and hospitals.

 

Walking into the bathroom or kitchen in your socks and you realise too late the floors wet

 

I'm always nervous. Gonna try and be more assertive from now on if that's okay with every one.

 

You’d think doctors would know better.

 

Jurgen Klopp’s gnashers…

 

Shitebags..

 

Rod Stewart, for almost single handedly destroying the kudos of the legends spot, in the hour and an half he was sometimes on the stage. *.

 

Just because I been making the bangingest beats, everyone thinks i'm some kind of top musician but I am not, I'm just ME!

 

Jury Duty

I’ve been cited for the third time in less than 18 months, my second of less than 4 months, bringing it to the 4th or 5th time in the last 4 years. I know randomly selected =/= evenly distributed, but it’s bullshit that I know people that haven’t heard a peep from the court(s) in years, but I’m seemingly always in their firing line. It’s mental comparing how many times I’ve been cited since turning 18 in comparison to some other folks I know.

The worst part is that even if you do have a legitimate reason to seek an excusal, which was the case in my second instance in the ongoing trilogy, they treat you like you’re a * chancer and you get the ‘warning’ (or rather, threat) that you’re basically going back to the top of the pile and that they’re going to re-cite you as soon as possible.

One of my more recent citations was accompanied by a kinda cheeky letter chastising me for ignoring a citation and outlining the potential consequences for continuing to do so - the problem was that I’d never even actually received the initial citation to begin with (I’m guessing it got lost in the post or delivered to the wrong address) and then their follow up didn’t arrive until the very last day by which I was supposed to respond (which is the case with my current citation as well).

It’s honestly gotten to the point that every time I have to make some kind of appointment or set a date for something relatively important I’m genuinely half-expecting to be cited and then, as an unfortunately pretty anxious person, you start getting the stress of wondering whether or not it meets their oftentimes unpredictable/mercurial standards for an excusal - and even if it does they’ll be on your * again as soon as they can anyway.

Rant over

 

I got absolutely beasted for jury duty for years, there's no way its random/fairly targeted .... eventually just went * it and stopped replying/turning up ... so far it's worked ... think the mistake you make is replying/showing up in the first place

 

Whenever I hear:

"download the app for free" - while it's pretty much a common knowledhge that you actually pay for it with your privacy which is of a high value to the corpo vampires/oligarchs etc...


Context:
My son applied for a job with Skyscanner.
Did well and got shortlisted into the final 12.
Trip to london, further interviewing and *.

During the process they've been explained what the business model is about.
While the common perception of those "comparison websites" is that they rely on the commision earned when they successfuly married a client with a service/product -
in reality they have about 300 of corpo clients to which they sell the data obtained during the process.

Same goes for those "missold claims" and market comparison sites.
It's a data harvesting (almost nothing else) exercise

Piece of advise:

protect your privacy.
don't sell it cheaply.
think about how it can be used.
don't get fooled.

 

Pretty much the M&S loyalty card model has taken over the world. Data on customer preferences is worth more than direct sales.

Sames true of Gmail, Google, all the social media sites, Facebook/Meta has been using facial recognition to gather data on everyone and catalog us for well over a decade. All for sale. It's unavoidable, don't even need to have an account they are tracking you, and linking it all together with WhatsApp/Instagram via those that do. And you'll have given them legal consent to do it. Even early days any image posted on Instagram belongs to them not you. All perfectly legal.

Same goes for loyalty cards, you and your buying habits are the product.

It's unavoidable, I just agree to the free stuff that benefits me, and minimise where I can. Being in Europe actually has some benefits as you can opt-out of some *.

And don't rely on incognito browsers for protection, means nothing on the data gathering end.

Did your son get the job @adequate citizen Zenon? Skyscanner a decent place to work from what I hear.

 

Hi didn't, which was a huge blow when being shortlisted to the final 12 out of nearly 1k applications (apparently)
The financial package was very good + some good perks, like - working from wherever you want in the World for 3 months every year if you so wish to.

He's fine now. Found something else instead. Unfortunately - abroad (London that is)