Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[classic33]

​

​

Taken off a local Facebook page just now. How many times must they be told to keep dogs on a lead when near sheep, especially pregnant ewes!!​

3 h ·

Another dog attack on our sheep grazing near land at Dean Clough Reservoir. Resulting in one dead sheep and one injured.
The owner has been very co-operative with us, stayed at the scene and was extremely distraught. She couldn't believe her pet dog would chase sheep , let alone attack one.
As farmers we hear this all the time. Never under estimate what your dog is capable of.
If you see me around Dean Clough and think I'm being over reactive about your dog being off lead, this is why!
Please just keep dogs on leads when walking on farmland.

View attachment 712168

What's trivial about this type of thing?

Having seen the damage done, firsthand, to more than the individual sheep attacked, "aborted births" with the lamb being "born dead". Days spent trying to find and recover sheep and lambs. Removing the dead animals before predators move in.

 

[Accy cyclist]

What's trivial about this type of thing?

Having seen the damage done, firsthand, to more than the individual sheep attacked, "aborted births" with the lamb being "born dead". Days spent trying to find and recover sheep and lambs. Removing the dead animals before predators move in.

Well yes, I was going to put 'not really just trivial', but I forgot. The farmer posts every other month about these dog attacks on her sheep. She's not keen on getting the shotgun out as I've suggested to her before, but maybe if she did, word would get around and dog walkers would be far more wary, rather than just thinking she's letting off steam again! I'll always remember walking round this reservoir with my daughter when she was a child and getting a whiff of rotting flesh. I told her to keep back as I approached and the smell got stronger. When I got to the source of the horrendous smell I saw a rotting, bloated sheep covered in flies. It's head had been ripped off, along with 2 legs and it was covered in bite marks! Many of these dog on sheep attacks are done deliberately by sick, sadistic scumbags!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Posters who kick off over another posters comments, yet when the first poster posts an explanation of their post, the complaining second poster doesn't acknowledge the first poster's explanation as to why they posted the post that seemed to annoy the second poster!!

 

[Jameshow]

Posters who kick off over another posters comments, yet when the first poster posts an explanation of their post, the complaining second poster doesn't acknowledge the first poster's explanation as to why they posted the post that seemed to annoy the second poster!!

Added to which posters who don't get a common English turn of phrase, or what is the obvious meaning of the post!

 

[Windle]

Maps without a scale.

FFS!

Or at work, structural engineer's drawings without dimensions, but with the usual big note saying 'do not scale' .

 

[Windle]

Yes, it's like a snake-oil salespeople's convention there at times, and the scary thing is that there are people who'll believe all that carp and end up with their house on fire from the 'miracle heater', or holes in all their clothes from the 'infallible stain remover' ...

Ah yes, the 'Miracle Heater' also seen in certain retail park shops. Some sort of thing that plugs into a socket and presumably has a heating element and fan to circulate the warm air. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of physics (or common sense) can figure out that there is no miracle, and it'll either not heat your room (due to not using much electricity) or heat your room by using loads of electricity, possibly whilst overloading the wiring! I'd love to know how they get away with claiming it'll work. There's probably something in the small print where it explains that it will raise the room temperature by one degree after ten hours use or somesuch cobblers.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Ah yes, the 'Miracle Heater' also seen in certain retail park shops. Some sort of thing that plugs into a socket and presumably has a heating element and fan to circulate the warm air. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of physics (or common sense) can figure out that there is no miracle, and it'll either not heat your room (due to not using much electricity) or heat your room by using loads of electricity, possibly whilst overloading the wiring! I'd love to know how they get away with claiming it'll work. There's probably something in the small print where it explains that it will raise the room temperature by one degree after ten hours use or somesuch cobblers.

It will probably heat a room really well
as long as the room is very small and the door is closed
but, as you say, physics comes in inconveniently and limits what it can do
If marketing people got their way physical laws would be abolished!!!

 

[Gwylan]

I do sometimes offer to deliver within the city for an extra fiver, if the thing I'm selling will fit in the car easy enough AND if I'm desperate to get rid of the thing to free up space. There are plenty of people who will buy off you but don't have transport, and I'd rather deliver it to someone than take it to the tip.

As an aside - I see loads of tables, welsh dressers, big sideboards etc selling for very little money or free. And I've decided it's not that no-one wants them, it's that hardly anyone has the means to transport them to their home. I've used a van man before to pick up a cheap carpet off someone, and he charged £20 for a 5 minute trip, which was a third the price of the carpet. So anyone with a large van could make some good money (I think) by collecting all the free/cheap big furniture and then selling for a higher price but with free delivery. If they were so inclined

Need an Uber man with a van!
Might wait a few days but it would happen.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Need an Uber man with a van!
Might wait a few days but it would happen.

I've seen there is a new App that does Screwfix/Toolstation deliveries now, possibly only in London but I was watching a motorcycle courier doing it on YouTube. He has an electric moped and seems to make 50-70 quid a day. Obviously only for smaller items

 

[simongt]

People who refer to family members as "Our" Claire etc...

In a similar vein, older men in Norfolk will refer to their son as 'the boy', but I've never heard of anyone referring to their daughter as 'the girl'.

 

[Gwylan]

I've seen there is a new App that does Screwfix/Toolstation deliveries now, possibly only in London but I was watching a motorcycle courier doing it on YouTube. He has an electric moped and seems to make 50-70 quid a day. Obviously only for smaller items

£70 a day is only £17k per annum. That's not nice.

 

[mustang1]

Dear YouTube,

Do you know what trivial things you do that annoy me? I'll tell, you like feedback right? Well eat this...

You have gone from being a video content site, to a place that has some videos, most are rubbish. Your home page is full of news stories and advertising interspersed with a few videos you think I might like and are wrong most of the time. On top of this you have YouTube Shorts because you don't want those other muppets across the ocean to get a stranglehold of "the most crap content you could watch in the shortest period of time". And to cap it all off you want to force us to watch a bunch of unsolicited, sub standard, low quality adverts unless we pay for the videos. And then we are burdened with sponsoring patreons, getting bombarded with "please like, subscribe and comment on my video".

Some content creators are really good but no better than what you can get on TV, which is free btw; if I want to relax and waste some time, the quality of free content on TV is far superior to a lot of things on YouTube (of course, the opposite is true as well because there's plenty of rubbish on TV as well).

But will I carry on watching YouTube? Hell yeah! But.. no where near as much. And in case you didn't know, I turn the volume to mute when the adverts come on and if the adverts get too annoying, I just stop watching video and go and do something instead.

So how can you improve YouTube? I would think about it but there is a good 1ualoty program I'm watching on normal TV right now.

And that is the trivial thing that annoys me, perhaps not belong expectations, but annoying nonetheless.

Ps: of course, I had time to write this because the WiFi is not working too great ATM so I am unable to waste time on YT anyway!

 

[Chris S]

£70 a day is only £17k per annum. That's not nice.

It's not bad if you're signing on as well

 

[Jameshow]

When you go on a cycling forum and all the threads as non cycling matters!
Your tea tonight or your walk today!*

*That is actually my thread!🤣🤣🤣

 

[Andy in Germany]

Dear YouTube,

Do you know what trivial things you do that annoy me? I'll tell, you like feedback right? Well eat this...

You have gone from being a video content site, to a place that has some videos, most are rubbish. Your home page is full of news stories and advertising interspersed with a few videos you think I might like and are wrong most of the time. On top of this you have YouTube Shorts because you don't want those other muppets across the ocean to get a stranglehold of "the most crap content you could watch in the shortest period of time". And to cap it all off you want to force us to watch a bunch of unsolicited, sub standard, low quality adverts unless we pay for the videos. And then we are burdened with sponsoring patreons, getting bombarded with "please like, subscribe and comment on my video".

Some content creators are really good but no better than what you can get on TV, which is free btw; if I want to relax and waste some time, the quality of free content on TV is far superior to a lot of things on YouTube (of course, the opposite is true as well because there's plenty of rubbish on TV as well).

But will I carry on watching YouTube? Hell yeah! But.. no where near as much. And in case you didn't know, I turn the volume to mute when the adverts come on and if the adverts get too annoying, I just stop watching video and go and do something instead.

So how can you improve YouTube? I would think about it but there is a good 1ualoty program I'm watching on normal TV right now.

And that is the trivial thing that annoys me, perhaps not belong expectations, but annoying nonetheless.

Ps: of course, I had time to write this because the WiFi is not working too great ATM so I am unable to waste time on YT anyway!

I have the same problem, and because I refuse cookies I get gaming ads, most of which are frankly gross.

However, you can get downloaders; these only download the video but not the ads. You can then leave the video running on mute so the ads will be registered and the creator gets their revenue, and watch the video on a separate player Ad free.