Little Things that Irk You: Episode V

[Colin]

Spending twelve hours at an away day in a hotel in Surrey doing team building exercises, with no means of escape. Utterly excruciating nonsense that meant I got home over four hours late. I was counting down every minute until I could leave.

When my old company had these days I would just point blank refuse to turn up, utter nonsense.

[wakka]

Actually they can be but in different ways. People need a source of happiness and football is probably the leading past time that does that. The current story of Bournemouth achieving their ultimate dream is frankly awe inspiring and gives people hope that anything can be achieved.

Everyone needs a little hope.

It seems to also be the leading source of anguish and rage for most people I know that are into it.

I always find it kinda ridiculous that sport is given masses of time on TV news too, but realistically TV news also gives loads of time to other utterly inconsequential nonsense so hey ho.

[nakamura]

It seems to also be the leading source of anguish and rage for most people I know that are into it.

I always find it kinda ridiculous that sport is given masses of time on TV news too, but realistically TV news also gives loads of time to other utterly inconsequential nonsense so hey ho.

Nothing is perfect of course. Sport is certainly very important indeed though. People that don't like sports and especially football are always keen to ignore its value.

[wakka]

Sport's important in some ways, and ultimately inconsequential in others. I feel it's imbued with too much importance by the media, but then so are lots of other things (like who won I'm A Celebrity and how long the line is for the new iPhone).

The thing with sport is, if you don't like it, it's kind of totally inescapable. Imagine that you're not into antique porcelain (when I know for a fact, of course, that you very much are). Imagine that the news media is constantly filled with news and information about antique porcelain and most men you meet alight on antique porcelain as an automatic source of common ground, but of course you can contribute nothing because you have no interest in antique porcelain.

In short it would be pretty annoying! I wouldn't be too irritated about the minority who don't like sport slagging it - it's imbued with plenty of significance by most anyway.

[QualityChimp]

I'm glad the football chatter is mainly contained to the relevant threads on here. I agree with you, Wakka. Far too much importance is put on football and celebrities.

Facebook is offering to match donations to help the Nepal earthquake survivors to a total of $2M.
Although that's a lot of money, it seems a bit of a token effort when you think how much they've spent on acquisitions in the last few years: $22 Billion for WhatsApp, Oculus Rift For $2 Billion, Instagram for $1bn, Parse for $85M, Ascenta for $20M, Snaptu for $70 million, Little Eye Labs for ?15M and so on.

[fishbowlhead]

I'm glad the football chatter is mainly contained to the relevant threads on here. I agree with you, Wakka. Far too much importance is put on football and celebrities.

Facebook is offering to match donations to help the Nepal earthquake survivors to a total of $2M.
Although that's a lot of money, it seems a bit of a token effort when you think how much they've spent on acquisitions in the last few years: $22 Billion for WhatsApp, Oculus Rift For $2 Billion, Instagram for $1bn, Parse for $85M, Ascenta for $20M, Snaptu for $70 million, Little Eye Labs for ?15M and so on.

Exactly. Just one large corporation could sort all the aid needed (I'm not talking about a rebuilt country, just food water and medicine) and not even know they've done it they have so much money.

Zuckerburg probably spent more than 2 mill on his last car.

[shaffy_oppa]

Will you tell us (me) after the compo is done?

Got the same question but with The Last of Us and The Last of Us remastered.

[QualityChimp]

Well, last year he bought a Pagani Huayra for $1.3 million, but before that, he drove a Honda Jazz since 2010.

The same car as me...

[Brad]

My firm donated $50k plus matching employee donations.

[kryss]

Sport's important in some ways, and ultimately inconsequential in others. I feel it's imbued with too much importance by the media, but then so are lots of other things (like who won I'm A Celebrity and how long the line is for the new iPhone).

The thing with sport is, if you don't like it, it's kind of totally inescapable. Imagine that you're not into antique porcelain (when I know for a fact, of course, that you very much are). Imagine that the news media is constantly filled with news and information about antique porcelain and most men you meet alight on antique porcelain as an automatic source of common ground, but of course you can contribute nothing because you have no interest in antique porcelain.

In short it would be pretty annoying! I wouldn't be too irritated about the minority who don't like sport slagging it - it's imbued with plenty of significance by most anyway.

This with hockey here as well. I've probably voiced my opinion that sport should sponsor science on several occasions.

[fishbowlhead]

Thats good going brad kudos to anyone that does help. Wish I could myself.

[Decider-VT]

When my old company had these days I would just point blank refuse to turn up, utter nonsense.

I'm still reasonably new there but I'm definitely not going again. The imposition alone is enough to make me hate it- why assume that I want to spend the evening with colleagues instead of being at home? I wasn't even amused by the people sucking up to the CEO.

[Dogg Thang]

A great thing I have been working on appears to have turned into a total utter mess. OMG we LOVE what you've done with this, you totally rescued our project so now we're going to tear it apart, remove its heart and leave it as a rotting corpse. People be crazy! I'm overreacting of course and it's not really that bad and at the very least they are paying me well for it so when it comes down to it they can do what they like with the work I do for them. Still an irk though!

[kryss]

I think it comes with the job sadly. They give you instructions on what they want from you, then use the way they want to, not the way you want them to use it.

[fishbowlhead]

Getting a sever back breaking cough from a viral infection in my throat and chest which I've had for a month now, after going to the docs could have for another month, that's IF it doesn't get recycled and come back stronger than ever.

Had enough of this ride.