Minor Annoyances (Vol 2)

[Fatty Facesitter]

12 minutes ago, CavemanLynn said:

"Can I just shock you?"

I wouldn't mind it if it actually led into a different or vaguely controversial opinion, but it invariably prefaces someone stating the common opinion or, even worse, just stating something utterly bland and normal. Someone in OT used it. Their earth-shattering reveal? "I watched NXT." Fuxake. If it's meant ironically or sarcastically, it's not coming across, especially as it's phrased in a way that doesn't seem like it would come out of someone's mouth. It also reeks of "I'm so special and edgy, me" terminal uniqueness.

Or it's just the evolution of language and I'm not a hip cat anymore.

This was me in the NXT thread. For context, the term is a reference to a popular Alan Partridge catchphrase. For additional context, watching NXT itself wasn't the earth-shattering reveal - the surprise I was conveying referenced that fact I enjoyed a full episode of the show for the first time in a long while. It certainly wasn't an attempt to come across as special, edgy or 'look at me!' and I was trying to convey how overwhelmingly positive I found the show to be. Hopefully the rest of the post conveys that. 

EDIT - Why do I keep saying the word convey? 

Edited January 4, 2023 by Fatty Facesitter

[SuperBacon]

12 minutes ago, Shy Dad said:

Harry Kane in general

Set up a burner account and reply to every missive with this.

Regarding "Can I just shock you?" I'd rather that than the bloody beans/eggs/breakwater nonces.

[CavemanLynn]

The reference was lost on me. The phrase seems to have permeated social media elsewhere, and if it's from Alan Partridge, I doubt users below a certain age know where it comes from. Just trying to be as cool as a Keffer, I suppose.

[air_raid]

This one might be technical ignorance guiding my cynicism so bear with me…

Smart plugs connect to the Internet through the home wi fi. Through my mobile, and the Home app, which is also connected to the Internet, I can use my phone to turn the plugs on and off manually. Am I seriously supposed to be believe, when the plugs have connection to the Internet through a router that’s never switched off, and my phone talks to the plugs through an app, that it actually physically requires a “hub” to operate the plugs remotely? The hub which also only gets its connection from the same router??? And how about “scenes” - the app is where you set them up but you can’t actually use them without a hub? What’s essentially a glorified timer can’t just run through an app and the net, it needs a whole separate plastic brick sitting on the counter? Or is this just Apple finding a clever way to sell another piece of hardware by manufacturing a problem that needn’t exist?

[hallicks]

2 hours ago, air_raid said:

Or is this just Apple finding a clever way to sell another piece of hardware by manufacturing a problem that needn’t exist?

It’s always this. 

[King Coconut]

2 hours ago, hallicks said:

It’s always this. 

This is correct. I've got lights, plugs, garden hoses and webcams without any hub needed.

Edited January 5, 2023 by King Coconut

[air_raid]

2 hours ago, King Coconut said:

I've got lights, plugs, garden hoses and webcams without any hub needed.

That's possibly the most unique OnlyFans I can imagine.

[I Bent My Wookie]

2 hours ago, air_raid said:

That's possibly the most unique OnlyFans I can imagine.

Yeah personally I'd like the hub to be involved in these activities too.

[Keith Houchen]

I’m not policing people’s language and personal experiences with such a horrible time, but a minor annoyance of mine is when someone is referred to as “Losing their battle with cancer”. It suggests they could’ve tried a different strategy or did something different, and they would still be alive if they did. 

Edited January 6, 2023 by Keith Houchen

[gmoney]

2 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’m not policing people’s language and personal experiences with such a horrible time, but a minor annoyance of mine is when some is referred to as “Losing their battle with cancer”. It suggests they could’ve tried a different strategy or did something different, and they would still be alive if they did. 

https://www.theonion.com/loved-ones-recall-local-mans-cowardly-battle-with-cance-1819565052

[BomberPat]

21 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’m not policing people’s language and personal experiences with such a horrible time, but a minor annoyance of mine is when someone is referred to as “Losing their battle with cancer”. It suggests they could’ve tried a different strategy or did something different, and they would still be alive if they did. 

Steven Wells made that point a lot when he was dying from it - that he wasn't in a "battle" or "fighting" cancer, he was dying of a horrible disease and there was fuck all he could do about it. I can't find any of those articles now, but did find plenty of obituaries that use that exact "lost his battle" cliché regardless.

[Keith Houchen]

8 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

Steven Wells made that point a lot when he was dying from it - that he wasn't in a "battle" or "fighting" cancer, he was dying of a horrible disease and there was fuck all he could do about it. I can't find any of those articles now, but did find plenty of obituaries that use that exact "lost his battle" cliché regardless.

He sure was one of the good ones. 

[SuperBacon]

I absolutely loved Swells, he was the main reason I bought the NME, and anything else he was in.

His review of National Express by The Divine Comedy is art. One of my favourite things ever.

And this Placebo one is just as good.

[gmoney]

He's very wrong about that Divine Comedy album, however.

[neil]

22 minutes ago, gmoney said:

He's very wrong about that Divine Comedy album, however.

I had the inverse feeling about those reviews posted myself.