Little Things That Irk You IX

[fallenangle]

The BBC irked me yesterday. Minor irk on the scale of things but it riled me enough to consider complaining to them directly, which in the end I did not.

On the 'Red Button' they are covering the Nottingham Open womens' tennis tournament, like Devonshire Park in Eastbourne, one of the lead-ins to Wimbledon where you get to see who is in form and whether any British players have a chance of making their mark there.

I just happened to turn on the TV at teatime and saw that after rain delayed play they were only halfway through the first set of the match between current UK number one: Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart who is probably the third ranked UK women's player. Damned good contest with some great tennis which turned into an epic; Dart took the first set and then Boulter slowly got back into it. Dart really lost her cool and was chuntering away to her support team and nobody in particular about lousy line calls and arguing with the umpire for ages. Loved it, really fun entertainment.

Then, here's the irk: at 18.30 the BBC simply stopped coverage halfway through the final set at 3:3. WTF were they thinking! They desperately needed to show us some European athletics instead, in particular that incredibly popular sport of hammer throwing. Again WTF!

The tennis was apparently continued on the IPlayer and BBC app but I couldn't access my PC at that time (in the middle of a full backup and defragging) so I thought I'd catch it later. But oh no.....................when I ploughed through the annoying IPlayer sports' menus the only video available of the tennis I could find was ended at the same point in the match. I had to go on YT to find the highlights which skipped to the final game and I was irked even more.

Sunday 16.06.24 EDIT

The BBC bloody well did it again today. Literally just into the last set in the WTA Nottingham Rothsey Open Womens' Tennis Final Final they cut the broadcast.

This was with Brit: Katie Boulter looking like she might be going to retain her title in a very good three set match against past winner and once world highest ranking player: Karolína Plíšková. That took almost 2 hours with Boulter only having a couple of hours rest between the final and playing and winning, obviously, the bulk of the rain affected epic 3hrs 13mins semi-final against Emma Raducanu, also coming back into form.

So we have a Brit winning a significant grass tennis tournament that is, like Eastbourne, an important lead in to the Wimbledon fortnight and an indicator on who is on form and they cut off the broadcast to give us what? The fatuous hour long build up to the England v. Serbia football match which they were already showing on BBC1/HD as well.

Irked.

[Neon Ignition]

When you get into the office on a Monday morning and make a cup of coffee. You open the fridge to find it's full of milk but you can't tell which are todays delivery and which are from last week, you take your best guess, give it a sniff and pour. There's a moment where it looks okay and then hundreds of milk bits begin to rise to the surface.

[Dogg Thang]

You open the fridge to find it's full of milk but you can't tell which are todays delivery and which are from last week

Does your milk not have the best before date on the top nice and clear? Are you drinking straight from cows in some black market milk underworld?

[Anpanman]

I was thinking that too but perhaps he has glass bottles with that lovely cream on top!

...or there's a milk carton label switcher in the office.

[Yakumo]

No, no, that's a thing. If you put off milk in to tea or coffee it looks fine at first but then all the crap floats to the top as the heat breaks down the fats.

[Neon Ignition]

They changed to old school glass bottled milk to be 'environmental' and they have no dates. I'd gip if I tried to drink the bits


Another work one:
Yesterday I went to the bathroom and in the cubicle someone had left an open pack of wet wipes... toddler training wipes... who doesn't know how to wipe by employment age?!

And the classic one we're enjoying in the hot weather:
Microwaving fish

[Neon Ignition]

Listening to someone on the radio trying to make the case many required infrastructure plans can't go ahead because of the inconvenience to 'local people' that the view of them creates, such as the example that Wales has been 'devastated' by wind farms and how they can't be allowed to decimate 'our beautiful countryside'

Now the Tories are gone people can clearly finally talk b******s about other subjects again.


1 - That 'beautiful countryside' is maintained private land. You have zero entitlement to it.
2 - You don't own the view
3 - If you're sounding like these then you've lost

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=7725be0140c9f7d3JmltdHM9MTcyMTg2NTYwMCZpZ3VpZD0wOWM0OGM4OS1jYzc0LTZmNjktMDZmMi05Y2Q5Yzg3NDZiY2UmaW5zaWQ9NTUyNw&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=09c48c89-cc74-6f69-06f2-9cd9c8746bce&psq=Brat&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueWFob28uY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvb3Bpbmlvbi1rYW1hbGFzLXZwLW11c3QtYnJhdC0wODQ3MTMwNjIuaHRtbA&ntb=1

Already tired of hearing 'Brat' - It's not a thing and it's painful trying to hear people attempt to define it. It already has a definition, Charlie XCX didn't invent the term.

[wheelaa]

Adverts, in general.

Those laptop rage adverts, for a certain ****e retailer, in particular.

[fishbowlhead]

Adverts, in general.

Those laptop rage adverts, for a certain ****e retailer, in particular.

Advertising is just vomit inducing now days, literally everything is set up to steal your data then force more crap back at you, and repeat, and repeat, and repeat

[egparadigm]

Adverts, in general.

Those laptop rage adverts, for a certain ****e retailer, in particular.

Can recommend adguard which works well on mobile devices as well as computers. It’s on sale at the moment for a lifetime membership.

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[QualityChimp]

Trying to study to pass some Microsoft exams and I've come across the dreaded sentence "Note: This content was partially created with the help of AI."

I'm currently looking at Microsoft Power Platform. What is that, you might ask, well here's the description:
"Microsoft Power Platform enables your business to craft solutions while empowering you to unite customized technology to help everyone, from the CEO to the frontline workers, drive the business with data."

Absolute word salad, saying buzzwords without saying anything.

Googled it and Gemini says:
"Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform that helps businesses create custom business solutions, apps, and workflows"

That's so much easier to understand, but the actual course material makes me feel like Bart trying to understand knife safety:

[Neon Ignition]

Radio adverts for films or TV shows.

It could be the greatest film ever but something about the delivery of radio ads make every one of them sound awful

[CMcK]

Kind of difficult to advertise a largely visual medium with only sound. I wonder why they even bother?

[eastyy]

I dunno if its just me but Youtube when watching a video when an advert comes in the video sound fades out before the ad starts....irks me as i think someone is about to call or a text message or something