Pet Peeves

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Agreed, it's annoying as hell, across the entire Microsoft Suite which I have to use on a daily basis (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). Worse still, it's not even helpful for the kind of thing it should be able to do. Now that the technology has reached a certain level, I use AI to proof-read any stuff I have to write in French, but the in-software version of Co-pilot in Word is so badly integrated, it's actually more efficient to copy and paste into the online version paragraph by paragraph. Similarly, couple weeks ago, I had to last minute give a class in English I'd only given in French before so thought the in-software Co-pilot in Powerpoint might be able to one-click throw out a first approximation translation of the whole thing, but nope! Says it can't directly modify the content of slides like that. In that case, don't stick your stupid fucking icon in my face every time I need to click on a slide! 

Ah, not forgetting Adobe: they can get their useless fucking AI icons out of my face and all!

[The Heretic]

It's very invasive, at least for people who are relatively experienced with applications, if they want to roll it out fine, but at a bare minimum don't make it a pain in the whole to disable the functionality, and fuck windows 11 too, the sooner I move to Linux the better!

[The Heretic]

I don't have anything in particular against Rory McIlroy, fair play to him for what he's achieved over the weekend, but can we finally now shut the fuck up about him? Thank You!

[Ducky]

Enjoying me salad for lunch and wouldn't you know there's a stone in two of the olives.

That made me recall an incident years ago in a café - ordered myself a panini; cheese, onion, peppers, olives, wee lick of mayonnaise. Obviously toasted. What the lass serving me didn't clarify is their olives had the stones in them. So after two bites I opened up the gooey mess, went to pick them out, then had a moment of "fuck this" and went and asked for a new one, this time without the inedible stones smooshed through the melted cheese.

[Carnage]

I don't have anything in particular against Rory McIlroy, fair play to him for what he's achieved over the weekend, but can we finally now shut the fuck up about him? Thank You!

I'm no fan but I was happy enough to see him win instead of Rose, we'd never hear the end of it if an Englander won. Have the Brits claimed McIlroy yet?

[Maggot Colony]

I don't have anything in particular against Rory McIlroy, fair play to him for what he's achieved over the weekend, but can we finally now shut the fuck up about him? Thank You!

I feel the same way about Kneecap, and their Brits Out shtick. They're in the headlines now for chanting about Maggie Thatcher at Coachella. A bunch of gaeilgeoirs cosplaying as chavs chanting to a crowd of rich yanks about a dead politician they've never heard of.

[The Heretic]

All the shit that the actress Aimee Lou Wood is getting about her teeth, if she was black I'm sure SNL wouldn't have done the skit. Fair play to the girl for being natural.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Agreed, apart from the gratuitous "if she was black" comment:
https://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/michael-strahan-lisp-tooth-gap-mocked-snl/

SNL is dogshit anyway.

[Ducky]

I was about to get shouty with the lad, so I agreed to "wear them for the weekend" just so I didn't make a scene.

I'll be cool as a cucumber on Tuesday, will be requesting both sets of lenses are replaced. If not then a refund. And if not that then I'll be starting a chargeback with my bank.

Luckily for myself I know consumer rights backwards and forwards. I've fought for a few replacement items for myself and others other the years, and despite the retailer trying to shirk responsibilities, I've been successful every single time.

Figured I'd update this - had to get a refund from Specsavers in the end. They put three sets of lenses into the glasses, all equally shite. When talking to the manager, she had no clue what chromatic abberation was, nor Abbe value. I appreciate the front of house staff are effectively sales people, but when you're selling optics you should have an understanding of the bare basics of, you know, optics.

Was in with a well regarded optician today. They know their shit, but you also pay for it - looking at €450 for one pair of glasses and frames, and I'll probably have to stump up for an eye test as while they can cut the prescription to what Specsavers tested, they basically said they can't stand by it as they can't vouch for the accuracy of the Speccys optician.

It's spurred me on to crack open my COVID lockdown change jar at least 

[Mooncat]

Seems like something management needs to address but how do you approach it. Might be that he has a condition but even if he doesn't, imagine having to sit the cunt down (all windows wide open, Glade plug-ins bilging smoke under the pressure) and say, hey dude, no offence, but you stink like a wet shite. Wash yourself, cunt. No offence.

 

It definitely is a management/HR issue but our HR team seem to be incapable or unwilling to deal with it.

A few people have gone to them, myself included - and said "Look, you're going to have to talk to him about this." One of them even said "I've never noticed an odour". I felt like dragging them down to where he is and making them inhale him. 

All they say is that it's a sensitive subject - it's not, he doesn't wash either himself or his clothes. He doesn't brush his teeth. He doesn't cover his nose/mouth when sneezing. He doesn't wash his hands after leaving the jacks. This is not a medical condition, it's a dirty humming bastard condition.

It has become unreasonable that nobody else can or will use the canteen if he's in there because the smell is so bad or you can tell that he's been in a room even if you didn't see him enter/exit it.

I don't even have to work with him that much but if he comes into my (windowless) tool room to ask me something I have to steer the conversation out into the yard or warehouse. 

I work in management. I have to deal with overdoses, aggression, stabbings, fights, racism/homophobia, crazy religious people etc etc, but the smelling bad customer or staff member is by far the most awkward and hardest one to deal with. The rest is a piece of cake in comparison 

[Mooncat]

Lately it seems there's been ads that cover half the screen on your phone, but also don't have an option to 'x' them out. Not even a hidden one anywhere. I rarely use the ad blocking browser because I'm so entwined with Google now (another pet peeve), but I'm going to have to start using it now.

[Eoin McLove]

I can't think of a more detestable music related sound than the voice of the cunt who sings Teenage Dirtbag. How can anyone enjoy it.

[Carnage]

It's the "Ih-ern Maiden" bit that kills me. I'l bet the same cunt says nukiller.

[Ducky]

Lately it seems there's been ads that cover half the screen on your phone, but also don't have an option to 'x' them out. Not even a hidden one anywhere. I rarely use the ad blocking browser because I'm so entwined with Google now (another pet peeve), but I'm going to have to start using it now.

I use Brave browser and it blocks almost all of that shit, wouldn't go without it.

[astfgyl]

Lately it seems there's been ads that cover half the screen on your phone, but also don't have an option to 'x' them out. Not even a hidden one anywhere. I rarely use the ad blocking browser because I'm so entwined with Google now (another pet peeve), but I'm going to have to start using it now.

I use Brave browser and it blocks almost all of that shit, wouldn't go without it.

Started using brave for watching anything on the phone and it is indeed a master job