Small things that annoy you (3)

[Rocket Spud]

Just realised that i've bought kitchen roll instead of the toilet variety

[Rocket Spud]

Alcohol shortage at the Co-op meaning only 1 of each alcoholic item allowed - i grabbed a couple of 4-packs but not what i wanted really

[humphrey]

All the pensioners out and about in their cars through the day, so much for them staying home for their own safety.

[Dougella]

^ Well atleast they're in their cars and not walking along in the street.

[Professor Willow]

The repetitive use of the phrase 'ramping up' by politicians during the daily Coronavirus briefing.

[gregarious_introvert]

^ I'll get my coat!

[Jen.]

Weren't you thinking about temporarily closing your Facebook account recently? It doesn't seem like you're having any positive experiences on there so might be worth considering to get away from stuff like that.

[InternationalManOfMystery]

^ I like your attitude about your issue with social media, Nanuq - although if there are people who are making you feel like your life is empty, you could always "unfollow" them rather than "unfriend" them - so you still have them on Facebook, but you don't get their updates in your feed (or whatever it's called - I don't have social media myself). Anyway, I hope that you are able to build the fuller life you want - once this current situation has eased!

Three times in the last couple of days I've made blog posts and then (and it always happens at the end) lost everything - I'm typing away, then the text highlights and disappears before I can stop it! I have no idea what I'm hitting accidentally which causes this and I am now trying to remember to save the draft at the end of each paragraph, but sometimes I get into a flow and forget. It's really annoying (you can replace the word really with the one I was going to use), especially as I have nobody but myself to blame!

To cap it all, I started rewriting the entry I lost at 2.30 this morning, then my internet went off for a few minutes and I lost that too! Oh well, third time lucky!

Before anybody asks, yes I do know that I'm not logged in as gregarious_introvert - but my gripe related to the blog I'm writing on this account!

[Rocket Spud]

Not having a Snickers in the fridge when i thought i had

[anxiouslondoner]

Losing my internet connection. What am I supposed to do, go outside!?

[Jen.]

When a tv show has really loud music and really quiet dialogue so you need to keep your hand on the remote control and start pressing up or down every thirty seconds

[Appear]

That I've probably done my best ever job of encouraging my right eyebrow into shape without it looking too well shaped (hi, Rylan) but have nowhere to wear it.

[Sphinx]

Originally Posted by Jen.

When a tv show has really loud music and really quiet dialogue so you need to keep your hand on the remote control and start pressing up or down every thirty seconds

This really bugs me too! Sometimes I have to resort to subtitles if it's late at night.

[Blackflies]

How you always bump into people or they knock on the days where you look and feel like shit (less likely in lockdown- at least one silver lining).

How temperamental electric tin openers are and how they seem to discriminate against opening the cheapest tins that don’t have pull cords.

Putting on a double or king size duvet cover and avoiding the gap at the top.

Originally Posted by Jen.

When a tv show has really loud music and really quiet dialogue so you need to keep your hand on the remote control and start pressing up or down every thirty seconds

That’s so true and seems to be a regular occurrence with films in recent years! You get a shock every time the music starts blaring out from no where.

[Rocket Spud]

^ Gap at the top? What gap at the top... ??

[Deer]

Originally Posted by Blackflies

How you always bump into people or they knock on the days where you look and feel like shit (less likely in lockdown- at least one silver lining).

How temperamental electric tin openers are and how they seem to discriminate against opening the cheapest tins that don’t have pull cords.

Putting on a double or king size duvet cover and avoiding the gap at the top.



That’s so true and seems to be a regular occurrence with films in recent years! You get a shock every time the music starts blaring out from no where.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who experiences this. I honestly put subtitles on pretty much everything I watch.
Now I don't like watching film without.

[Sphinx]

^ They must think we all have surround sound systems and live in big detatched houses.

Mine and the neighbours walls are like cardboard so I get paranoid about starting a noise war

[Sphinx]

There's another thing that annoys me, hearing my neighbour talk/sneeze/their tv etc etc.

[Rocket Spud]

Forehead tan lines.

Should've cut my hair last weekend

[twosocks]

Fearne cottons "mmmmmm's" in agreement. They seem artificial and the peoples shes interviewing on her podcast give really interesting answers, i dont get why she doesnt ask a few follow up questions or speaks a bit more about something useful/good they've just said if shes really listening to them as she just ends up "mmmm'ing" in agreement and moves on to the next static question

[Blackflies]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

^ Gap at the top? What gap at the top... ??

Like when the cover slips down and doesn’t align with the thickness of the duvet so you have a lonely inch at the very top. Normally I try and climb in and pull the duvet up to the top centre when I’m making it to avoid this so it’s snug at the top. Haha this scenario makes sense in my head but you probably still have no idea what I mean. You expert bed maker, you.

[Blackflies]

Originally Posted by Deer

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who experiences this. I honestly put subtitles on pretty much everything I watch.
Now I don't like watching film without.

I notice most families who’s first language isn’t English, tend to do this, which makes sense. Often wondered if I added foreign subtitles would it help me learn another language. Im quite lazy so don’t usually watch subtitled films but do actually enjoy them more when I do. Perhaps subtitles encourage you to actually absorb the dialogue more and engage with what’s happening in each scene.

[Rocket Spud]

... I'm gonna need a diagram of this to be sure, but my take is there's too much material for the duvet.. ? Is that what you're saying and you've got an annoying flap of material at the top? Why don't you make it so the flap/gap is at the bottom?

[Jen.]

Originally Posted by Blackflies

Often wondered if I added foreign subtitles would it help me learn another language.

It can be helpful if you use foreign subtitles that match the foreign audio so you can practice listening skills as you read along, but it would be pretty useless if you had foreign audio with English subtitles or English audio with foreign subtitles since the translations are mostly just an approximation and usually feature a lot of localisation.

[Rocket Spud]

Thinking i had kidney beans when i don't

I'm making chilli: would diced sweet potato do as a substitute?

[Mr. Nobody]

Getting up in the morning,

[newbs16]

Starting to wonder if it's normal to be this clumsy. I made a egg mayonnaise sandwich and ten seconds later I dropped the plate on the floor and that was the end of the sandwich, the plate was undamaged.

[Rocket Spud]

Yas, i bloody well knew it!

[Blackflies]

Originally Posted by Jen.

It can be helpful if you use foreign subtitles that match the foreign audio so you can practice listening skills as you read along, but it would be pretty useless if you had foreign audio with English subtitles or English audio with foreign subtitles since the translations are mostly just an approximation and usually feature a lot of localisation.

Thanks for the headsup. I’ll bare that in mind if my lazy ass ever gets around to adding them.

[Tembo]

Joggers. They come out of no where, often have earphones in so they can’t hear other people around. And many of them don’t seem to move out of the way - I’ve ended up in undergrowth a few times now to keep 2 metres away. Very annoying during this time of social distancing, and they seem to have come out like ants in summer at the moment.
Perhaps I’m jealous because I’m not fit enough to jog.