Pet Peeves

[mickO)))]

Fireworks... either set them off at midnight or not at all...

Yes pain the fucking hole. I was in my parents house on NYE and had to go back to my own house at 5 past 12 to check it cause the fireworks set the alarm off. Me smoked out of my brains having to walk down past loads of pubs at possibly the busiest time of the year it was a nightmare on top of constantly hearing shouting voices off in the distance. Before that I spent the previous 10 mins trying to calm one of the dogs down who is terrified of loud noises.

And no chance of the guards enforcing the actual law(s) in the first place?

A guard lives right across the road from my parents house. Her husband is out every Halloween and New Years lighting fireworks.

[The Heretic]

Fireworks... either set them off at midnight or not at all...

Yes pain the fucking hole. I was in my parents house on NYE and had to go back to my own house at 5 past 12 to check it cause the fireworks set the alarm off. Me smoked out of my brains having to walk down past loads of pubs at possibly the busiest time of the year it was a nightmare on top of constantly hearing shouting voices off in the distance. Before that I spent the previous 10 mins trying to calm one of the dogs down who is terrified of loud noises.

And no chance of the guards enforcing the actual law(s) in the first place?

A guard lives right across the road from my parents house. Her husband is out every Halloween and New Years lighting fireworks.

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[Mower Liberation Front]

BlackPlayer. I've used it for years and have been very happy with it but the latest update has btoken the gapless playback feature and rendered it essentially unusable. No help from the developer other than a vague 'switch decoders' comment (it doesn't work). Raging.

Had it, but when I had to get a new phone a few years ago, it wouldn't even load. I switched to Musicolet, which while not as good as OG Blackplayer, is still decent enough.

[Carnage]

I downloaded that earlier as it happens but haven't had a proper look at it yet. I'd imagine it'll take a while to get used to it, and I'll spend an age retagging tracks that I'd downloaded straight to the phone but if it works, great.

I'm so used to BlackPlayer at this stage that I hope they sort it out.

[Ducky]

If ye fellas are on Amdroid, Foobar2000 is top notch. It's taken over form Samsung Music as my go-to player (though the latter handles compilation albums better).

[Carnage]

I'll try that. I gave Musicolet a go and it doesn't support gapless playback, which is the issue wuth BlackPlayer. Not much point having two players that don't do the job.

[Mooncat]

Visiting home and being asked, "How's Canada" a million times. How do you even answer that beyond, "good."?

Then the follow up question of, "Still in the band?". I'm being a dick but people are truly shite at small talk, zero effort beyond minimum.

Now that I'm back in work I've been asked how my trip was about 10 times.

[OpenSores]

I get that, and..."what are you doing with yer'self now", when you've been at the same shit for years.

[Ducky]

I've an old friend that I rarely see, and that's her default question when you bump into her.

Absolutely shite patter altogether.

[Thorn]

D'yknow I'd rather field that one than the standard What's the craic ,which to this day has yet to produce anything from me but 'fuck all, yerself?'

[Eoin McLove]

What's the craic, as with all the other phrases listed above are merely ice breakers. If you walked up to someone and rather than starting the conversation with, "hey dude, how's your budgín?" or whatever other meaningless warm up, and you hit them cold with the chaotic, ugly contents of your inner world, they'd just think, "how can I bring this conversation to a quick and smooth finish without inviting harm upon myself?!"

[Circlepit]

"What's the story?" covers everything you may ever need to know.
" how's your flute" if you need more info.

[The Heretic]

"What's the craic?" which results in the expected generic reply "All quiet/good" = interaction complete

[Pagan Saviour]

Even that is too much of an interaction for me these days

[Thorn]

'How's your flute' certainly seems a bit.....expansive