Pet Peeves

[Carnage]

Same story re: Meteor and Eir for me. With Meteor almost from when they started up and as soon as Eir bought them out, the problems started. On Three now but it's a work phone, and he's talkung about switching to 'Fordy-ay' when the contract is up (this month or next month, I think). Not that big a switch as they're a Three subsiduary, but I like the unlimited everything freedom.

Pet peeve: I had an eyelash or bit of fluff or something stuck under my contact lense all day, drove me nuts.

[Blackout]

Words I never want to hear again: Flatten, Curve, Crucial, varient, variant.

[Eoin McLove]

The overuse of the phrase, 'no pressure then!', usually followed by gormless laughter. Yes, you have said something quite wonderful and original...

[StoutAndAle]

The hard-wired smoke alarm in house has a back-up battery.

It had 5 full days, while I was off work, to beep annoyingly and so tell me it was dying.

Nah.  0300hrs on my first workday back. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Disconnected it. Removed battery. Back to bed.

Bolt awake until it was time for work.

Prick.

[Giggles]

Multi-factor authentication.

Not being able to log into my online bank account without now using an app on my phone. I'm trying to use the thing less, not more.
And if I break it or lose it or if my battery dies and I'm not near a charger, I won't be able to access my account at all, which is making me more dependant on my phone. Fuck that.

Fuck online banking man, Fuck tap and go, fuck revolute, fuck all that shit.Use cash for the love of humanity, all ye online bankers are playing directly into the hands of the banking institutes and laying the foundation for corrupt government to exert totalitarian control over the population in the future. Stop it.

Just wanted to check my balance like 

[Snare]

The hard-wired smoke alarm in house has a back-up battery.

It had 5 full days, while I was off work, to beep annoyingly and so tell me it was dying.

Nah.  0300hrs on my first workday back. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Disconnected it. Removed battery. Back to bed.

Bolt awake until it was time for work.

Prick.

That can actually happen if the battery is fine but there's a sudden change in ambient temperature, e.g. if you had a window or draught from a vent with the cold overnight temperatures this week. The condensation in the sensor throws it out.

I discovered this after a similar problem previously where it continued after changing the battery. I then checked the power of both batteries and they were both solid. So on researching the problem on manufacturer sites I discovered the possibility.

[Nazgûl]

Fuck online banking man, Fuck tap and go, fuck revolute, fuck all that shit.Use cash for the love of humanity, all ye online bankers are playing directly into the hands of the banking institutes and laying the foundation for corrupt government to exert totalitarian control over the population in the future. Stop it.

Some proper lunatics on this forum.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yeah.

[Caomhaoin]

Prince Philip all over the sports feed on BBC.

[son of the Morrigan]

Fuck online banking man, Fuck tap and go, fuck revolute, fuck all that shit.Use cash for the love of humanity, all ye online bankers are playing directly into the hands of the banking institutes and laying the foundation for corrupt government to exert totalitarian control over the population in the future. Stop it.

Some proper lunatics on this forum.

The typical retort of those too blind to see.

[Giggles]

Well it probably would've helped if you'd actually backed up your rant with an explanation instead of just raving like, well a lunatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2EBQxYUok&t=27s

I'm assuming the video explains how you feel about a cashless society, and so yeah, I see your point. The thoughts of a small handful of companies controlling all worldwide monetary transactions is actually frightening.

[astfgyl]

Well it probably would've helped if you'd actually backed up your rant with an explanation instead of just raving like, well a lunatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2EBQxYUok&t=27s

I'm assuming the video explains how you feel about a cashless society, and so yeah, I see your point. The thoughts of a small handful of companies controlling all worldwide monetary transactions is actually frightening.

Sometimes I'm jealous of everyone who isn't suspicious of everything. It can get depressing seeing the inexorable march and being able to do nothing about it.

[Kunt 4 Life]

As long as there's boose, loud rocking music and the chance to get your knob dipped in some clunge, who gives a fuck about the Nazi lizard people in the New World Order?

[Thorn]

Yeah, I'm there with you Kunt, I've  more years behind me than I have ahead and I look around and see the way the next generation are locked into their gadgets and are so detached from real life that every little slight in the real world has to be turned into an issue...  Nah, I've followed all your arguments astyfgl  and I'm very open to them.....but ,c'mon, we're out of here in 30/40/50 years, .. , like as much as I respect Nemtheanga I can't get with this long term world view. .. Just get some Raven on, get the brews in and let's get the fuck out of here.

[son of the Morrigan]

Well it probably would've helped if you'd actually backed up your rant with an explanation instead of just raving like, well a lunatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2EBQxYUok&t=27s

I'm assuming the video explains how you feel about a cashless society, and so yeah, I see your point. The thoughts of a small handful of companies controlling all worldwide monetary transactions is actually frightening.

Thanks for putting up that video, it pretty much covers it allright.
The thing that really annoys me, and the reason I didn't back up my rant with evidence, is that everyone with a brain in their Goddamned head knows all this stuff, its obvious, they just don't seem to give a fuck.
Its like a crowd of stupid cunts marching towards the edge of a cliff, they know they are going to march over the edge and die,but they do it anyway, because they are following the stupid cunt in front of them while being pushed forward by the stupid cunt behind them.
I'm saying Don't be a stupid cunt, step out of the crowd, and  perhaps others will follow, and others may follow them.