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Title: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 07, 2017, 07:17:13 AM
I love honeydew but I don't like the bitter aftertaste. It only happens if I drink water immediately after eating it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Galactica on March 07, 2017, 11:56:44 AM
I'm hungry but too lazy (and cold) to leave the building to find lunch...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 07, 2017, 12:18:26 PM
I'm hungry but too lazy (and cold) to leave the building to find lunch...

The struggle is real with this one...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 07, 2017, 01:18:49 PM
That thing when you feel meh but the kitchen sink is piled high with pots + pans to clean... grrr!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Galactica on March 07, 2017, 02:44:59 PM
I'm hungry but too lazy (and cold) to leave the building to find lunch...

The struggle is real with this one...

lol

I did manage to track down lunch eventually- but just now I was trying to eat a cadbury egg- and my fingers got all sticky from trying to peel those little bits of foil that get stuck to the egg...  arghhhh

Dang, I sure am sufferin today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: melodys_angel on March 07, 2017, 02:59:57 PM
I don't want to go see a doctor.  Im hoping the pain in my gum/ear will just go away
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 07, 2017, 04:02:41 PM
I want the IRS to just understand that I don't owe them anything.... stop sending me nasty letters because my international filings are complicated!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LunaMoonCustoms1212 on March 07, 2017, 04:03:53 PM
I'm cold and sleepy, but its too early to go to bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on March 07, 2017, 05:10:12 PM
My lunch break just ended and I don't want to go back out there, lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Honeycomb on March 07, 2017, 06:37:50 PM
I don't know what to eat for lunch. Every day the same question.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Marlin on March 07, 2017, 07:01:06 PM
Why can't people frikken indicate at roundabouts??
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cron Sacchariferous on March 07, 2017, 07:47:41 PM
Steel beams can't melt jet fuel.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: nessa16 on March 07, 2017, 08:18:56 PM
That thing when you feel meh but the kitchen sink is piled high with pots + pans to clean... grrr!
This!

I am sick of waiting on everything!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Noxxbunny on March 07, 2017, 08:34:47 PM
I want do spring cleaning on my entire room...But I also want to be on the internet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on March 07, 2017, 10:22:39 PM
I want to have something like tacos for dinner...
But kraft dinner is much easier
And I'm a lazy sloth...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 08, 2017, 04:47:23 AM
I should take an earlier bus so I have time to go to the bathhouse and get my boyfriends swimwear he forgot there.. but it's snowing outside and going straight from the bus to the job feels so much better..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Uninu on March 08, 2017, 05:06:14 AM
I should be putting empty moving boxes away but I don't seem to have the energy yet. Maybe after dinner. Or tomorrow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Aflame on March 08, 2017, 05:13:06 AM
why does buying a house have to be so longwinded and bloody expensive !!!!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kasin on March 08, 2017, 05:38:43 AM
why does buying a house have to be so longwinded and bloody expensive !!!!!!

It's quite a antiquated process isn't it? Your hand hurts from signing so many documents!

For me: Breastfeeding
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on March 08, 2017, 08:05:04 AM
How in the world can such an amount of dirt build up on the inner window sill? It's inside!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SilverHorsey on March 08, 2017, 08:45:59 AM
I should do a homework right now, but I skipped it(yet again!). I am too lazy.

And I am going to finish high school this year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 08, 2017, 09:16:22 AM
Why does working from home have to require work?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SundanceSadie on March 08, 2017, 09:31:21 AM
I have tons of fresh strawberries in the fridge  :straw:
but I'm quickly running out of chocolate to dip them in! 

Post Merge: March 08, 2017, 09:34:05 AM

How in the world can such an amount of dirt build up on the inner window sill? It's inside!

Truth!!
I thought the same thing when I had to clean mine yesterday before opening up all the windows.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Bekuno on March 08, 2017, 10:02:04 AM
Government professor fell behind on assignments so he decided to drop 8 on us at once all due by Monday! Argh!  :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Aflame on March 08, 2017, 11:22:30 AM
why does buying a house have to be so longwinded and bloody expensive !!!!!!

It's quite a antiquated process isn't it? Your hand hurts from signing so many documents!


For me: Breastfeeding

yes its stressing me out !
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 08, 2017, 11:45:43 AM
I have the day off, and it is way to windy to go on a walk. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 08, 2017, 12:43:14 PM
Waiting in left lane at road junction, car in right lane zooms past and clips my mirror  :shocked:

I sounded my horn in one long FNAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR ...I was so angry!  :hmm:

...the poor cars ahead of me got a fright and moved-off pretty fast!   :blush:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 09, 2017, 01:55:22 PM
Ok now it is windy and getting cold I think Gusty, and Windy teamed up with Snowflake to bring winter back for a bit longer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on March 09, 2017, 09:50:35 PM
I loved Airheads but don't care for the watermelon ones. I bought a multi-pack with three flavors: cherry, blue raspberry, and watermelon. The cherry is my favorite of the 3. What did I end up with?

6 watermelon
2 blue raspberry
1 cherry
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 10, 2017, 03:54:29 AM
I don't feel like leaving the house today but I have to be responsible.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mkia on March 10, 2017, 08:41:25 AM
My house is a mess and needs cleaning but I'm sick with a cold and just don't feel like doing it. Also I have to work tonight and don't want to do that either  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 10, 2017, 10:47:55 AM
My ice cream is a 1 hour commute away, and I can't start that 1 hour commute for another 3 hours and 13 minutes...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 10, 2017, 12:28:03 PM
My ice cream is a 1 hour commute away, and I can't start that 1 hour commute for another 3 hours and 13 minutes...

What kind of ice cream??

My new complaint....... I have no ice cream and I'm too lazy to leave the house to get some
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 10, 2017, 12:55:50 PM
Need my transmission fluid swapped out and the first place I went to told me they couldn't do it because they didn't have the right equipment for my make/model so I should take it somewhere else and that I should expect it to cost $300-400 and it would take about 2 hours.  I called Jiffy Lube and the guy said he could do it in about half an hour.  Not sure about the cost, but I can't imagine it costing what I was originally quoted by the first guy. 

So I guess my complaint is that apparently I don't speak fluent "car maintenance".
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 10, 2017, 12:56:33 PM
Vanilla - there are very few lactose free flavors and I can't chew any other goodies that might be in ice cream right now. I guess I could complain about my braces while I'm at it lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on March 10, 2017, 07:36:59 PM
I don't WANT to shower! I want to sleep for 5 hours straight...

...but I also don't want to smell like a foot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: melodys_angel on March 11, 2017, 10:35:32 AM
Dear weather:

Stop being a meaniehead and atleast stay above the freezing mark so my bulbs and hydrangea that are already starting to gain leaves do go into shock  pleasekthanksbie.


Thi sis the first year in 4 or 5 years my hydrendea is growing on old wood..which means if it doesn't go into shock ill have flowers this year.  So stop being a meanie!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 11, 2017, 08:36:50 PM
It's daylight Savings tonight, meaning at 2 am the clocks skip forward one hour, and I lose and hour of sleep and my day starts earlier  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 13, 2017, 09:53:14 AM
It's daylight Savings tonight, meaning at 2 am the clocks skip forward one hour, and I lose and hour of sleep and my day starts earlier  -_-
Losing an hour to DST makes a bigger difference than I think it will! Last night I couldn't fall asleep (I try to be asleep by midnight) but my body clock wouldn't cooperate, so of course I had difficulty waking up in time for work this morning. I love love love the longer days, though. I feel so much more energetic. I dislike getting home from work when it's already dark, then I just want to go to bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on March 13, 2017, 12:06:30 PM
I want ramen noodles but not the kind sold in the USA.
Damn you Japan.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 13, 2017, 05:24:08 PM
Always a pleasure to take a 50 minute walk home in the middle of the night, the road too dangerous to bike, no public transport at the time and taxis too expensive. It's especially delightful doing it while limping as one slipped and fell on the same dangerous road yesterday.. Luckily i only met two strangers on my walk and neither of them was the evil kind. A, the joy of having such lovley work hours. :awake:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: archidraca on March 13, 2017, 06:39:03 PM
That thing when you feel meh but the kitchen sink is piled high with pots + pans to clean... grrr!

... and no one else seems to be able to do anything about it even though they just asked what would help you feel better when you're sick.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 13, 2017, 06:47:57 PM
We might have close to two feet of snow over the next three days, shoveling ahoy..... yay ......... :cold: :snow:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 13, 2017, 09:55:25 PM
Parked my car, went to the coin machine to buy a parking ticket - it took my only 50p coin... and *gulp* it swallowed it, but did not register that payment had been made!

So annoyed!  :argh:

Hit the machine to try and move the jammed coin... nothing. Cancel button did nothing either.  :mad:

Got a 2p coin (the machine does not accept them) and popped it in to try and dislodge the other coin. Still nothing... pressed the cancel button and 2 seconds later...

lots of coins came out - including extra ones from previous frustrated users!  :beerchug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on March 15, 2017, 11:28:09 AM
I will never buy anything that works with suction cups AGAIN! :argh:

When we moved in here I bought these lovely green, flowery corner shelves with suction cups. I bought three for the shower, for shampoo and such, and two for the toilet. Oh yeah, and a little basket from the same stuff. So I stuck them to the wall. Ten minutes later I heard BANG! BANG! and BANG! They were all on the floor.
So today I bought these cute suction cup hands that you can stick to the bathroom wall, bottles and such will stick to it and it looks really fun.

That is, if it would WORK.

IT. DOESN'T. WORK!

We have some empty bottles that want to keep because they changed the design. I thought it would be nice to put them on the bathroom wall as a piece of art. I stuck them to the wall. They fell. :pout: And these are LIGHT, EMPTY bottles, too! So I thought I'd just keep the hands on the wall, after all they look cute without anything stuck to them too. They fell. :pout:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on March 15, 2017, 11:55:54 AM
No matter how much meds I take, my face still hurts like hell. I hate these kind of days. -_- 6 more minutes to the next dose... gosh I feel like a junky already :P
6 weeks to go for the next meds check, cross your fingers that I finally feel better then :P (wont happen I guess, haha, but ill give it a go!)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 15, 2017, 02:42:33 PM
Super trivial......My bus is late  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 15, 2017, 03:38:44 PM
when will this snow fest be over, I have had enough  nearly two feet in two days.  No more shoveling for me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on March 15, 2017, 04:21:45 PM
I have left over birthday money and no idea what to buy. I don't think it gets any more trivial than this. :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Marlin on March 15, 2017, 10:15:14 PM
Parked my car, went to the coin machine to buy a parking ticket - it took my only 50p coin... and *gulp* it swallowed it, but did not register that payment had been made!

So annoyed!  :argh:

Hit the machine to try and move the jammed coin... nothing. Cancel button did nothing either.  :mad:

Got a 2p coin (the machine does not accept them) and popped it in to try and dislodge the other coin. Still nothing... pressed the cancel button and 2 seconds later...

lots of coins came out - including extra ones from previous frustrated users!  :beerchug:

Lol - love it :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 16, 2017, 04:26:10 PM
Someone offered me a multi-day ticket to Fan X and now they can't find it. I'll still go for at least one day but this isn't the first time the universe has pulled this kind of stunt with me--and it's never the same person twice so I know it isn't just because I believe someone I know to be a liar.  Honestly I'm to a point where when people say that I can have something I refuse to believe it or get excited about it until it's actually in my hand because until then the universe will inevitably change its mind about letting me have anything nice.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 16, 2017, 04:38:30 PM
Photobucket is not working right now, so I cant post the cool lisa frank thing my twin found at the thrift.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on March 16, 2017, 11:28:40 PM
My darn breakfast is too hot to eat and Im already late lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: archidraca on March 17, 2017, 09:20:28 PM
With how the iPad and Flkr talk to each other (through clenched digital representations of teeth, likely) I can't post pics to the Arena except for on my computer...  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: alkevin on March 18, 2017, 04:28:15 PM
Nobody can go to he bathroom after my dad XD.I hate when people finish the toilet paper and do  not put a new one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on March 18, 2017, 05:28:08 PM
The system at work keeps playing up, we can scan products but when we try to scan the bag barcode it can take minutes to get it to register! It makes every run take longer than it should, sometimes twice as long, which puts me in the red every day ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 21, 2017, 05:21:54 AM
Ordered some new clothes last week. Estimated delivery today or tomorrow. This morning I get an email that the items are being shipped today, from Germany. I will not get the cloths in time for the event I was gonna wear them. I am a little pissed. I have ordered clothes from this place numerous times and never had this happened. At least they're fancy clothes and I can wear them whenever, but still.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on March 21, 2017, 07:09:26 AM
I wanted to order Beast, Belle and Gaston from EB Games for my Funko collection. Looked at them several times, debating whether I really needed them. Went to place the order this morning and Beast--my most wanted character--is gone. :angry: I can't find him anywhere that isn't from a re-seller unless my bf drives over an hour. Not Happy! :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 21, 2017, 09:28:15 AM
Ordered some new clothes last week. Estimated delivery today or tomorrow. This morning I get an email that the items are being shipped today, from Germany. I will not get the cloths in time for the event I was gonna wear them. I am a little pissed. I have ordered clothes from this place numerous times and never had this happened. At least they're fancy clothes and I can wear them whenever, but still.



I am super irritated for you! Can you find something else to wear in time?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 21, 2017, 10:31:57 AM
Dragonfly, how sweet of you :hug:. Yes I can absolutley find something else, it is no problem. Just the small issue of spending more money.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 21, 2017, 01:41:01 PM
My cat is mad at me and keeps putting scratching post fibers in my shoes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 21, 2017, 02:39:30 PM
I'm going out to dinner with my dad and mom and he's driving so aggressively he's making me really sick I'm gonna barf...  :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Olympus on March 21, 2017, 04:52:22 PM
My hair is long enough to get in my face when I lie down, but it's too short to stay behind my ears when I tuck it back.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 24, 2017, 01:30:37 PM
I was going to look something up on the internet and now I can't think of what it was!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Bekuno on March 24, 2017, 04:38:53 PM
I wish hot topic would restock their online merchandise! I wanted the dinosaur shoes they sell but my size (US average I guess?) sold out first!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on March 24, 2017, 07:52:00 PM
Half our staff was out sick today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Uninu on March 25, 2017, 07:25:34 AM
Sold some ponies and the postage ended up being twice what I assumed and quoted to the buyer. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on March 25, 2017, 07:31:34 AM
I'm so congested that I was having trouble breathing last night.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 25, 2017, 02:11:00 PM
This would be trivial to everyone else NOT a MLP collector;

I have officially run out of room for ponies
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Duenia on March 26, 2017, 05:44:43 AM
This would be trivial to everyone else NOT a MLP collector;

I have officially run out of room for ponies

Yeah sounds more like a crisis lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: little.fox on March 26, 2017, 06:32:52 AM
Setting up an Etsy shop was more work than I thought.. just naming it is proving a nightmare!  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 27, 2017, 09:23:44 PM
My dog farted so loudly it woke him up then he gave me a dirty look and blamed it on me. Then he wanted a treat!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on March 27, 2017, 10:22:25 PM
My dog farted so loudly it woke him up then he gave me a dirty look and blamed it on me. Then he wanted a treat!

LMFAO!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 28, 2017, 05:55:06 AM
My dog farted so loudly it woke him up then he gave me a dirty look and blamed it on me. Then he wanted a treat!

Bwahahaha lmao what a way to start my day!!!! Thanks for posting this!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on March 28, 2017, 09:10:49 PM
Ugh. The A button on the 2DS is loose and wiggly. I hate when that happens. I guess I hafta send it to repair. Not cool.

Post Merge: March 28, 2017, 09:11:07 PM

My dog farted so loudly it woke him up then he gave me a dirty look and blamed it on me. Then he wanted a treat!

:haha:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on March 28, 2017, 10:58:39 PM
My trivial complaint is that I have too many trivial complaints to go into, another trivial complaint is that i think they are all planet-stopping nontrivial complaints.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: yurika on March 29, 2017, 04:00:01 AM
I feel so frustrated when a write to a seller for buy him some stuffs...waiting to see his answer the next day and see how he sell already some items and still not answer me...what i did wrong!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: sweetie_pie_48427 on March 29, 2017, 07:31:10 AM
My husband gave me the go-ahead last month to buy some ponies for my birthday. I don't usually buy any in the winter, because money is tight. But since he gave it to me, there haven't been any lots on ebay that I don't have the majority of, for a good price.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on March 29, 2017, 11:54:33 AM
Rain means puppy Yuki running through the mud and puddles with great joy and me having to give him a bath. Oh joy of all joys.

My cat is mad at me and keeps putting scratching post fibers in my shoes.
:lmao:

When our cats are mad at us they just slap us in the face. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: princessluna11706 on March 30, 2017, 04:33:00 AM
I will never buy anything that works with suction cups AGAIN! :argh:

When we moved in here I bought these lovely green, flowery corner shelves with suction cups. I bought three for the shower, for shampoo and such, and two for the toilet. Oh yeah, and a little basket from the same stuff. So I stuck them to the wall. Ten minutes later I heard BANG! BANG! and BANG! They were all on the floor.
So today I bought these cute suction cup hands that you can stick to the bathroom wall, bottles and such will stick to it and it looks really fun.

That is, if it would WORK.

IT. DOESN'T. WORK!

We have some empty bottles that want to keep because they changed the design. I thought it would be nice to put them on the bathroom wall as a piece of art. I stuck them to the wall. They fell. :pout: And these are LIGHT, EMPTY bottles, too! So I thought I'd just keep the hands on the wall, after all they look cute without anything stuck to them too. They fell. :pout:



These never work!  I used to have suction cup shelves for my bathroom as well, fell all the time..

My complaint:  I don't want to shower :wail: it's late in the evening and my hair won't dry well, but I don't want to go out tomorrow with greasy hair so..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 03, 2017, 08:48:39 AM
Annoyed at my boss because he says a project has been sitting for 2 weeks without getting done but I know that's not true because I do it every Thursday (it involves changing the status of certain library books).  Just because he put the books on his list to be done more than 2 weeks ago when they were checked out to a patron doesn't mean that I haven't been doing them as they come in. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on April 03, 2017, 11:49:11 AM
It's cloudy. :shakefist: Gimme sunlight, yo!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 03, 2017, 12:24:19 PM
Ugh. £6 to park for just under 3 hours in a grotty car-park in town - and I was not even in London! Grrrr.  :angry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Emberfly on April 03, 2017, 03:00:02 PM
Mom and I are both home sick from work but she thinks I should still go grocery shopping and make a new curry recipe for her for supper.  Really?!  You want it, you go.  Oh, but she's sick.  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 03, 2017, 04:05:17 PM
Part of my job is to make replacement artwork for DVDs and CDs and I have so much fun doing it that I don't want to stop just to go home.  And part of me wants to take it home to work on...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Emberfly on April 03, 2017, 04:47:56 PM
Part of my job is to make replacement artwork for DVDs and CDs and I have so much fun doing it that I don't want to stop just to go home.  And part of me wants to take it home to work on...

Lol, that is a 'trivial conplaint' - "I live my job too much"  :biggrin:  Awesome, good for you!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on April 03, 2017, 10:23:31 PM
Part of my job is to make replacement artwork for DVDs and CDs and I have so much fun doing it that I don't want to stop just to go home.  And part of me wants to take it home to work on...

That's really cool! :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on April 04, 2017, 01:54:48 AM
Bring a sleeping bag.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Uninu on April 06, 2017, 07:10:14 PM
I had a nightmare where I was cleaning my tooth brush in a washing machine in the middle of the night and the horrid sounds it made woke up all my neighbors and they all came to complain to me. Now I can't get more sleep. :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 07, 2017, 08:56:57 AM
I had a nightmare where I was cleaning my tooth brush in a washing machine in the middle of the night and the horrid sounds it made woke up all my neighbors and they all came to complain to me. Now I can't get more sleep. :lol:

Haha...my dream last night included me needing a prescription for migraines and when they gave it to me it was a huge tube of red frosting.  I'm really not sure where that came from...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 07, 2017, 11:09:49 AM
It is windy and cold out again, but hey at least no snow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: orangepeachmango on April 07, 2017, 11:11:42 AM
i have gotten two board warnings on a different pet site (not here) for absolutely nothing. its like the mods have it out for me?? on anyother site none of the things ive done would warrant a board warning?! i dont want to challenge it and cause more trouble but im really upset!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on April 07, 2017, 11:33:02 AM
30 minutes till I have to work and cut fabric for people. Just want to stay home snuggled with my cats.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on April 07, 2017, 06:20:10 PM
Cogeco Cable decided to tell us they do not serve our area--after we called and cancelled internet with our current ISP. Calling back and eating crow is not pleasant. On to the next plan to upgrade internet and get TV...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 08, 2017, 12:53:40 AM
Sometimes I feel dizzy, the entire world starts spinning around and it can go on for days/weeks and I have some prescription pills I take for it. After a year of taking them I noticed yesterday evening that they contain 50 mg caffeine! I have caffeinetablets I take when I have long workshifts and they are 100 mg and keep me going 14 hours straight. I don't drink coffee or energydrinks so those pills really do the work on me. The realisation on why I have had trouble falling a sleep some nights were daunting! I also feel very stupid. It's ok to laugh at me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loa on April 08, 2017, 01:14:07 AM
I can't find my DVD remote. This is SO annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on April 08, 2017, 03:07:10 AM

Sometimes I feel dizzy, the entire world starts spinning around and it can go on for days/weeks and I have some prescription pills I take for it. After a year of taking them I noticed yesterday evening that they contain 50 mg caffeine! I have caffeinetablets I take when I have long workshifts and they are 100 mg and keep me going 14 hours straight. I don't drink coffee or energydrinks so those pills really do the work on me. The realisation on why I have had trouble falling a sleep some nights were daunting! I also feel very stupid. It's ok to laugh at me.

Nothing funny about hidden caffeine and insomnia. I had a similar experience.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 09, 2017, 09:38:16 AM
I've had bangs all my life. Two years ago I decided to grow them out. Which is great! I'm very happy with how it looks, except...

I wish someone had told me about those STUPID baby hairs that would appear on my forehead. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2017, 08:59:19 PM
I have had mostly great weather since being here in Kyoto. But the moment the cherry blossom hits full bloom it is cloudy and/or rainy every day. I just want some blue sky sakura images. Is that too much to ask?
(apparently so).

Plus I only have 2 pairs of shoes here and buying new ones is not an option as my feet and Japanese women's feet are not even on the same planet. One pair is a comfortable fit but is about wrecked and leaks, so any hint of damp outside and it's like having squelchy feet. The other are watertight but pinch my feet. Each day is now a choice between painful or soggy toes.

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on April 10, 2017, 10:52:56 PM
My nose seems to always be stuffed up  >_< I though that would change after I left china because of their horrible pollution but nope.

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my feet and Japanese women's feet are not even on the same planet
I had to find winter clothes and I'm a fat american while women in China are like a size 0. I ended up getting a pair of tailor made heavy pants and top that are to be worn under my normal clothes and it was only about $20 USD.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2017, 11:19:32 PM
My nose seems to always be stuffed up  >_< I though that would change after I left china because of their horrible pollution but nope.

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my feet and Japanese women's feet are not even on the same planet
I had to find winter clothes and I'm a fat american while women in China are like a size 0. I ended up getting a pair of tailor made heavy pants and top that are to be worn under my normal clothes and it was only about $20 USD.
Unfortunately Japan is an expensive economy and I only have 2 weeks left, so I am trying to make what I have last. But my soggy-shoes have still not dried out properly from the eighth, so I am starting to think they might have to go in the bin sooner rather than later...

Which leads on to another observation/trivial complaint.

I know they are meaning to be helpful, but I wish staff at Japanese museums, tourist sites, restaurants etc would not speak to me in English the moment they see me. Aside from the fact I;m more than capable of using Japanese and my speaking brain currently takes a moment to readjust to English, they sometimes make themselves harder to understand by doing so.

The Japanese people who look at me and speak to me in Japanese regardless are the people I like best.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on April 12, 2017, 12:03:48 AM
Ask anyone who speaks to you in english to hold Fluttsi and take a picture. Or take their shoes, solves two complaints at once that way.

I have a trivial complaint. I've been all bummed out for hours by something someone said to me (not you taffeta) but i managed to delete the message i wrote instead of sending it, even though i got it worded just right, and i feel a little better now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Majesty on May 01, 2017, 06:27:55 PM
I'm happy we're getting warmer weather but now we get more bugs outside my especial hates are gnats/mayflies and gypsy moths which destroy trees and the caterpillars are dangerous to touch.

Also, why does New England get 70's weather one day and the next day is about 50?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cswift on May 01, 2017, 07:35:45 PM
There is no way in heck Bendy and the Ink Machine is going to be worth $20 in total. I don't even think Chapter 2 is worth the $5 it costs, and it's absolutely ridiculous that the customer is expected to pay $5 for the next three installments. I get that the game has a nice aesthetic and all, but as of now there is absolutely no gameplay except for solving incredibly easy puzzles, tanking through laughably non-threatening enemies and occasionally running from a jumpscare. It's possible that Chapter 3 will completely blow the previous two chapters completely out of the water and change my mind, but I find it unlikely. Also, game devs need to learn that the 80s deviled everyone out and no one finds spooky wooky pentagram shenanigans scary anymore.

BatIM is honestly reminding me a lot of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, another horror game I found immensely disappointing.

Also, I saw three spiders in my house today. Argh. It's that time of year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Gloomygirl777 on May 01, 2017, 07:51:16 PM
Why is it that on the day I most desperately need good coffee the filter decides to fail....fold in half.....and fill my coffee pot with grinds?  :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 02, 2017, 10:45:24 AM
i'm really sick of sellers claiming they ship from the UK when they actually ship from china or japan.
It's like ebay don't even care anymore.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 02, 2017, 12:00:55 PM
Grrr I'm finding that chocolate tastes awful recently - I take a bite, chew, then spit it in to the bin - texture way too waxy! Why don't they just stick with cocoa butter instead of messing about with palm oil!?!?!

Actually - could this be a blessing in disguise?

i'm really sick of sellers claiming they ship from the UK when they actually ship from china or japan.
It's like ebay don't even care anymore.
Very annoying - I usually click on the postage tab and see the estimated times for delivery - a clue if the seller is indeed internationally based!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 02, 2017, 01:03:20 PM
its actually against ebay policy to mislead buyers over where the item comes from and if you look at their feedback profile, it tells you where they are really from. Still IOts really annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 02, 2017, 01:11:20 PM
Why do people at Subway bother to ask if I want egg white on my breakfast sandwich when they're going to put whole egg on it anyway?  Four of the last five sandwiches that I've requested egg white on have had very yellow eggs.  Do they not teach colors in kindergarten anymore?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 02, 2017, 01:40:23 PM
And another thing. WHY won't my dad talk to me.?! He calls my brother but my emails go unreplied to and so do my texts. He's just stopped communication for no reason!!

he loves playing mind games with people so you can't talk to him or get mad as he twists it round and throws it back at you. All my life hes been like this but I thought things where improving.

Really want to punch something right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on May 02, 2017, 01:50:23 PM
I did not give it permission to rain/hail during my 6 mile walk. :pout: At least it was only 15 minutes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cswift on May 02, 2017, 11:10:45 PM
And another thing. WHY won't my dad talk to me.?! He calls my brother but my emails go unreplied to and so do my texts. He's just stopped communication for no reason!!

he loves playing mind games with people so you can't talk to him or get mad as he twists it round and throws it back at you. All my life hes been like this but I thought things where improving.

Really want to punch something right now.

I'm sorry, that does sound like a really troubling situation.

You're totally free to not answer if it's too personal, but have you tried going low/no-contact with your father? He honestly sounds like he's pretty toxic towards you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on May 03, 2017, 07:13:23 AM
It's past midnight and I have to be up in less than 5 hours for a 9 hour shift... but I can't sleep because I had a fight with my boyfriend and I'm on the couch trying not to cry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Jinxxy on May 03, 2017, 10:36:20 AM
People need to leash their dogs and pick up their poop... Irresponsible dog owners.. *grumble grumble*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on May 03, 2017, 10:02:42 PM
I just had a confrontation with the caterer today that screwed up my lunch order for an important seminar, feeding a bunch of social workers and community leaders 80 percent of whom are muslim and they called me an excessive complainer for insisting they replace the pork with the sandwiches i actually ordered. I ended up missing the key piece of the presentation armwrestling with the delivery person who tried to make off with all 40 sandwiches when she only brought me 16 replacements and today her manager wouldn't even give me a token discount on the next order for tomorrow, or even say sorry (and i'm beginning to wonder if the entire debacle was not a mistake but deliberate ethnic discrimination but it could just be bad service). I had to switch out to another caterer on like, zero notice and i think it's going to be ok but i couldnt stop steaming over it. Then on the way home i dropped in to my ThriftTown where all the workers know me and somehow they were all even better to me than usual and i had a few fun other customer interractions and i'm all fixed up now. (Left the only mlp there, an AJ brushable but found a bunch of cool tiny horses in intetesting poses yay!) So, pony hunting therapy to the rescue.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on May 04, 2017, 05:11:33 AM
I am starting to suspect that xylitol gives me wicked vertigo. :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 04, 2017, 05:56:22 AM
We have a beautiful lawn in front of and behind our flat. It's like a paradise. So of course they mow it everytime it starts to become REALLY beautiful, with little flowers everywhere. They have been mowing our lawns at least four(!) times in one month. WHY!? -_- Does it really HAVE to look like a perfectly flat carpet, with no "flaws" like, FLOWERS? :angry:

Sorry for the caps. This gets to me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on May 04, 2017, 06:08:37 AM
My keyboard is dead and since i won't pay $30 to ship the order i placed, i won't get my new one til the 12th. My sanity is holding by a thread. :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 04, 2017, 08:06:40 AM
I work with someone who is super sensitive.  If I even suggest that she might have made a mistake (even though I know for a fact that she is the one that did it) she gets all defensive and comes up with scenarios where "whoever did it" probably wasn't paying attention but she would "never make a mistake like that."  It's so annoying.  She does a half-baked job on almost everything she does and I hate having to go behind her and do it right.  I have my own work to do!  And you can't talk to her about it because she gets butt-hurt and basically throws a tantrum.  And unfortunately, I'm assigned to do certain tasks with her so I can't just have someone else do it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 04, 2017, 10:40:44 AM
My dog farted so loudly it woke him up then he gave me a dirty look and blamed it on me. Then he wanted a treat!

Good one  :haha: :haha: :haha:

I miss my dog Lilly who died in March  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cloud:


I hate the black rabbit of inlay for taking her. (Guess which movie and book it's from)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: shelvesofwhimsy on May 04, 2017, 02:47:58 PM
A homeless woman spooked me on my way to work.
She was hiding behind a wall, and when I turned the corner she yelled "BOO!"
I nearly jumped out of my clothes. As I was walking away she said "Sorry, I had to"
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 04, 2017, 06:43:36 PM
I got in the rear seat of the wrong car today after coming out of the store. As I was shutting the door, the driver says "Sir this isn't your car." Talk about embarrassing!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 04, 2017, 07:49:36 PM
We have more rain on the way, no flooding where I am, but further north there has been a lot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lordalexander74 on May 05, 2017, 05:48:40 PM
Might as well call it a business expansion, I was originally assigned to help out with but didn't work out for whatever reason. Company bit off more than it could chew. I still work for them, it's a warehouse/logistics company with locations all over town. So I get forced to work under a manager who's not the most pleasant person to work with. If you'll pardon the venting, I'd rather sweep the entire warehouse with a toothbrush than work for her. Said manager is knowledgable about her job, but not much of a people person. I find her hard to communicate with, being social in general is tough for me. Every other manager I've worked under in that company I got along with just fine, but not this particular person. She's got the personality of a snapping turtle, condescending and somewhat lazy.

Definitely looking into finding a position under another manager at the earliest possible time. I'd rather not lose that job, one of the better companies to work for in Crossville.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lhianneth on May 05, 2017, 07:50:15 PM
The food I feed my cats got recalled, so I had to go return the lot I'd just bought for the month, and try to figure out a new wet food for them. They're picky about their wet food, and I'm picky about their health, so finding a food that is grain free, human-grade ingredients, but still something they'll eat is a little bit of a pain. I ended up bringing home a small range of different brands and flavours to see if any of them sticks, but I'm not thrilled about it all.

Their dry food is safe at least, so if worst comes to it, I can just stick to biscuits until the recall is resolved, or I find a new brand they like/meets my standards.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 06, 2017, 01:15:11 PM
If charater options had offered to sell the full range of zhus I would not have had to crawl through the internet, translating every word in order to find them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: archidraca on May 06, 2017, 03:27:30 PM
:enraged:

To all eBay sellers : Just because you didn't smoke in your home doesn't mean you don't need to smell your merchandise acquired elsewhere for the smell of cigarette smoke!!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 07, 2017, 08:08:43 AM
I just hate when I have to yell* at one of my cats with my mouth full (which just happened again). >_< Sometimes they are in the closet or on the desk, and they must be shooed. And then it sounds like "Huy, gut owff thuwre!!!" and I just HATE it. >_<

*Of course I mean "yell" in the most loving way possible. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lockette on May 07, 2017, 11:54:42 AM
my nails looked REALLY nice in April. not crazy-long but long enough to look -dare I say- elegant and I kept them painted all month! then we moved a week ago so I had to cut them-- I would've absolutely torn half of them if I hadn't. about a week before I'll want to paint them again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 07, 2017, 02:30:47 PM
WHy does the internet grind to a halt over the weekend in the czec republic? I noticed this both times I bought from there. Nothing happens over those 2 days. No emails no updates..nothing!

How do they manage?!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Carrehz on May 07, 2017, 03:15:04 PM
*Nowhere* near me sells the Steven Universe Pint Size Heroes blindbags!! Forbidden Planet sold them for like, a month and then I guess they sold out and never restocked. Barely anyone on eBay is selling them and it's super expensive to buy them from the US due to the screwed-up exchange rate atm. And to make things worse, it looks like there's two versions of both Pearl and Holo-Pearl (I guess they forgot to print the stars on their outfits at first?) - who are both ones I want - and Holo-Pearl is a chase figure I believe, so she'll be hard to find to begin with. But I'd rather have the 'correct' versions so that makes it much harder to look for her -_-

It's particularly irritating since some other stores have started carrying *other* PSH figures.. just not the SU ones. It's like.. gah, I want to support the show but it's hard to like this! :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 08, 2017, 10:05:40 PM
Tonight my mom asked if I'd talked to one of my friends recently because she posted a question about things to do in Switzerland on Facebook. She's FB friends with my mom as well, so my mom sees her posts.  I was going to go look up what she posted but even as I started typing "facebook" into the search bar, I realized that I have absolutely NO desire to even look at Facebook anymore.  I just...have so many other things to do.  And I hate the whole "my life is SO perfect (online) and you should be jealous of me (even though it's all just a facade) and if you disagree with me you're an idiot (even if you're right and I'm 100% wrong--I don't have to admit it because online I'm invincible)" attitude. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thrice on May 08, 2017, 10:23:01 PM
I'm pregnant, and there are zero, repeat ZERO, strawberries in my fridge. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 09, 2017, 01:33:34 PM
So I went onto Amazon to price the Rugrats season DVDs because I knew that they did a MOD (make on demand) of them, only to find that they're discontinuing the MODs because Paramount is doing a real DVD release.  So far they've done seasons 1 and 2 (which were available as of May 2nd), and since they've discontinued the other seasons on Amazon as well, I'm assuming that they'll do the rest of them.  Exciting, right?  Except that none of the stores around me are carrying it, so I still have to order them online.  What's the point of having them available to retailers if everywhere says that it isn't available in the store and you have to order it online anyway?  By the way, Amazon still has them cheapest.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: buttonso on May 09, 2017, 05:11:23 PM
Jammed my finger on the steering wheel of my car (think of it as stubbing your toe, only with your finger) and bent the nail back.. hurt like CRAZY and I was so mad!  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: daffodil101 on May 09, 2017, 05:29:19 PM
The cat has moved onto my bed and always sleeps in the MIDDLE of the bed.  Like, c'mon dude, I'm human sized, you're cat sized... take a corner!  And I feel bad pushing her out of the way when I want to roll over or spread out a bit.  I mean, she's so cute all curled up...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Jinxxy on May 09, 2017, 06:56:34 PM
The Tradebox hair issue....I must have styled these ponies a thousand times.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lhianneth on May 09, 2017, 07:26:56 PM
The cat has moved onto my bed and always sleeps in the MIDDLE of the bed.  Like, c'mon dude, I'm human sized, you're cat sized... take a corner!  And I feel bad pushing her out of the way when I want to roll over or spread out a bit.  I mean, she's so cute all curled up...

She'll learn to adapt. haha

My cat has figured out what position I sleep in, and waits until I'm settled before flopping down where it's warm (against my backside or between my knees). Our other cat does the same with my partner, but he sleeps much more lightly than I do, so when she cuddles up to him, he moves away. Some mornings, I wake up and he's hanging half-way off the bed because she kept inching after him in the night.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 10, 2017, 12:08:47 AM
This is the fourth day I wake up to see it snowing outside. We're in May! The grund should be covered in small springflowers, not snow!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NinaMarie on May 10, 2017, 08:40:23 AM
I dunno how trivial this is but I don't want to make my own separate whiny post.

*Takes a deep breath*
Getting married this month on the 27th. Things are on course for it but I'm super nervous and anxious over something bad happening because that is the story of my life.

My fiance and I have already had two apartment applications fall through. One for money issues and the next because apparently cockatiels are an exotic animal and not allowed??!! We are running out of time to get our own place before the wedding and I don't want to keep living with my parents.
We have 0 extra cash and my mom promises her and my dad can pay for leftover expenses but I feel so guilty because they are already shelling out so much to get the house and backyard ready for the wedding (backyard wedding since it is beautiful and cheap). I promised to pay for the wedding.

I can't seem to sell any of my extra ponies and dolls because it's all common unpopular stuff and I don't want to just donate it all to thrift because we need money and especially the space but I'm not going to make a whole lot anyway so why bother?

And then work is so stressful because I have a million responsibilities and I've been training two younger newer coworkers how to do the shipping that's been a big part of my job for so long and one is great and the other is a total brat but his mom is the assistant manager and he is allowed to do whatever and be super disrespectful and he makes me uncomfortable and anxious and exhausted.

So sorry for all that text but i feel a bit better just letting it all out. :blush:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on May 10, 2017, 08:49:45 PM
I like biology but the memorization of everything... is it possible to be brain dead and still function? Cause that's how i feel.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lhianneth on May 10, 2017, 09:16:37 PM
I like biology but the memorization of everything... is it possible to be brain dead and still function? Cause that's how i feel.

Time to put down the flash cards and vege out in front of the TV with a movie, maybe.

It's very possible to over-study, there's a few methods that recommend that you study once through, then review what you studied (so read a chapter, and take a brief flashcard quiz on the items you were trying to memorise). You wait a little while after that, review again. If you make a mistake, you re-study what you got wrong, then wait a couple of hours before another review. The amount of time between review sessions varies, depending on who you ask.

Too much cramming can actually be bad for your memory, because you start merging concepts that you studied at the same time, instead of treating them as separate items to remember. So you space it out (the study method is "spaced repetition study") over several days instead of just one night, but also continue to repeat it as you add new concepts. So you continue to introduce new information, while reviewing what you already know.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on May 13, 2017, 04:12:42 PM
I forgot to bid on a gorgeous custom pony, a Mirror Mirror bait with TAF rose symbols (she was going to be a birthday gift). I was rushing to work at 5am when her auction ended... Someone else won her :'(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on May 13, 2017, 06:54:57 PM
My dog is in super cuddle mode but she stinks like outside lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: rybett on May 13, 2017, 07:33:31 PM
My shoulder HURTS!!!!!  Ibuprofen not working.  I have to go into the office next week for a class.  I work from home. I have to wear pants to the office.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cswift on May 14, 2017, 10:41:30 AM
I forgot to bid on a gorgeous custom pony, a Mirror Mirror bait with TAF rose symbols (she was going to be a birthday gift). I was rushing to work at 5am when her auction ended... Someone else won her :'(

Oh hey, I think I know which one you're talking about. She was super pretty and I had her watched, though I didn't bid because I'm pretty low on money right now. 8( I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on May 14, 2017, 12:04:43 PM
I forgot to bid on a gorgeous custom pony, a Mirror Mirror bait with TAF rose symbols (she was going to be a birthday gift). I was rushing to work at 5am when her auction ended... Someone else won her :'(

Oh hey, I think I know which one you're talking about. She was super pretty and I had her watched, though I didn't bid because I'm pretty low on money right now. 8( I'm sorry to hear about your loss.

Thanks, I really had my heart set on her. :(
I've reasoned that the person who won her probably had a higher bid than I was willing to go and I saved myself more heartache trying to bid right before work. Still, disappointing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mami Tomoe on May 14, 2017, 01:38:05 PM
everything i want is expensive
and i cant find room for ponies
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 15, 2017, 12:26:15 PM
I am getting annoyed, with stupid robo calls, we are on the do not call list too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 15, 2017, 12:59:54 PM
I am getting annoyed, with stupid robo calls, we are on the do not call list too.

I report every single one of them.  They mysteriously stop almost immediately when I do that and then a few months later they'll start up again.  I think my favorite one was the one claiming to be the IRS, using a computerized voice to leave the message and leaving me a call-back number in addition to claiming to be watching me and my property.  I'm sure the IRS was as amused as I was when I reported it and asked if those people could be arrested for stalking me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 15, 2017, 02:57:52 PM
I am getting annoyed, with stupid robo calls, we are on the do not call list too.

Yep they're a pain. When I look up the #s I don't recognize I find the vast majority are cited as scams (vacation scams, computer virus scams, police charity scams, etc...). They're almost never legitimate businesses, at least not in my case.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on May 15, 2017, 11:37:37 PM
I have stated that I wont be making it to an annual ponymeet and 90% of the posters after didnt even say a single word like "oh thats a pity" or anything, just the initiator said "Aww" lol. I now feel it was good to finally decide not to go but it still hurts... nobody even seemed to notice. Well, now I know, thats the good side of it :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 16, 2017, 01:03:22 PM
Pokemon Advanced was supposed to be out on DVD today but it's "out of stock" everywhere, even online.  So I'm thinking it didn't really get released today.  You'd think that viz.com would have at least updated the release date if they weren't really going to release it in time for stores to sell it today. 

I guess I'm more annoyed about it because my Walmart has been doing "reconstruction" (really just rearranging the store) so the only new movie they've gotten in the last three weeks is 50 Shades of Porn.  They have space, time and energy to put that crap out but not anything worth watching...

And I pinched my hand on the cart so now I have a blood blister.   :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on May 16, 2017, 02:23:00 PM
Pokemon Advanced was supposed to be out on DVD today but it's "out of stock" everywhere, even online.  So I'm thinking it didn't really get released today.  You'd think that viz.com would have at least updated the release date if they weren't really going to release it in time for stores to sell it today. 
Did you try target? It looks like it's in stock there. But maybe it's not every target.


I'm so mentally exhausted and tired. I just want to curl up and close my eyes. And...... I can't.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cuddlebuggy on May 16, 2017, 08:28:15 PM
Well I would have considered it a minor annoyance for my mom to see a cast iron pot I rescued from goodwill out in the yard. The reality is, my husband -who I have no control over- used it to feed deer (she's mad about that too) Then she shamed me on Facebook with it. I'm going to mail it to her. She could have said something to me but instead made a post about how it makes her feel like a failure as a mom. After I had her over for Mother's Day, thanks! Maybe her favorite child will let her move in with him when she needs extra help, oh wait! He still lives with her at 31. Maybe the 35 year old? Oh, he and his daughter live with her too? Maybe we shouldn't shame people publicly and then expect them to not stoop to that level?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 16, 2017, 10:47:41 PM
That Italian woman who asked what the postage was gonna be on my Utra Rare and Rare Twozies. She only wanted the two pandas.

I don't like splitting sales up, and people only want one or two things. If they want the ones they want so bad then they should see if they can get them somewhere else.

This makes me so  :enraged: :enraged: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 18, 2017, 02:16:38 PM
Someone keeps stealing the video games from the library where I work.  Seriously?  Why not just check them out like a normal person instead of stealing them like a useless freak loser?   :enraged:

Now I want to send out a press release that says we have purchased technology that not only tracks our discs but takes video of whoever has them and then put stickers inside the cases that say "Smile, you're on camera!"  Then whoever steals them will have to figure out where we've put the micro-camera and how to get rid of it so that we can't find them.  People who lie and steal tend to be more paranoid than other people, so it might be enough of a deterrent...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on May 18, 2017, 02:44:32 PM
two migraines one week apart is NEVER ok. Especially when the blurred vision comes back!
 My maths exam is next thursday so I will have to be tanked to the eyeballs on ibruprofin for the whole morning and I am sick of it. Five month into the new years and already had more migraines than the last two years combined.

Oh regarding the disk .problem above me, put notices on them sayiong that if they are taken a certain distance from the building without the proper code,the game will automatically wipe rendering it useless. Or that it contains a small but powerfull explosive. Either is good
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: rybett on May 18, 2017, 05:50:12 PM
It downloads some sort of virus to your game system that shorts it out if the game is not back to the library be 12:01 AM the morning it is due.   Yes, that grammar bugs me too.  4 day training is DONE!!!!!  Tomorrow back to normal with Lily in a box on my desk at home and Luna in a pulled out drawer.  Good kitties...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lhianneth on May 18, 2017, 07:07:51 PM
I have a super persistent, super annoying cold at the moment. It makes it hard to sleep. Or eat. Or drink tea. I feel best when I'm standing in a hot, steamy shower, but as soon as I get out, my chest seizes back up and I feel like garbage again. ._.

Someone keeps stealing the video games from the library where I work.  Seriously?  Why not just check them out like a normal person instead of stealing them like a useless freak loser?   :enraged:

Now I want to send out a press release that says we have purchased technology that not only tracks our discs but takes video of whoever has them and then put stickers inside the cases that say "Smile, you're on camera!"  Then whoever steals them will have to figure out where we've put the micro-camera and how to get rid of it so that we can't find them.  People who lie and steal tend to be more paranoid than other people, so it might be enough of a deterrent...

Well, but if they check it out properly, they don't get to keep it.

... people are jerks, though. My mom was a librarian and some of the stories she told me of patrons blew my mind. I used to volunteer as a clerk when I was in high school, and did odd jobs off the book when I was even younger than that, and saw some of their nonsense in person. People can really, really ruin a good thing for others. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 19, 2017, 07:17:43 AM
I have a super persistent, super annoying cold at the moment. It makes it hard to sleep. Or eat. Or drink tea. I feel best when I'm standing in a hot, steamy shower, but as soon as I get out, my chest seizes back up and I feel like garbage again. ._.

Someone keeps stealing the video games from the library where I work.  Seriously?  Why not just check them out like a normal person instead of stealing them like a useless freak loser?   :enraged:

Now I want to send out a press release that says we have purchased technology that not only tracks our discs but takes video of whoever has them and then put stickers inside the cases that say "Smile, you're on camera!"  Then whoever steals them will have to figure out where we've put the micro-camera and how to get rid of it so that we can't find them.  People who lie and steal tend to be more paranoid than other people, so it might be enough of a deterrent...

Well, but if they check it out properly, they don't get to keep it.

... people are jerks, though. My mom was a librarian and some of the stories she told me of patrons blew my mind. I used to volunteer as a clerk when I was in high school, and did odd jobs off the book when I was even younger than that, and saw some of their nonsense in person. People can really, really ruin a good thing for others. :|


Yeah, I think I may write a book about what really happens at the library. I've seen everything from rudeness to peeing on the shelves.  Yes, you read that right.  And it wasn't by someone under the age of 12...

As for your cold, try 100% pineapple juice.  It has a natural decongestant and a natural expectorant in it. I've found that juice mixes (like pineapple mango or pineapple orange) don't work as well as the pure stuff.  Most grocery stores have it in the juice aisle instead of the refrigerated section.  I kicked a cold in 3 days with it a couple of weeks ago.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 21, 2017, 12:53:44 PM
That massive mermaid/unicorn hype. Seriously, what IS IT with that!? I like that stuff just as much as the next idiot, I have unicorn bedding and a mermaid tail blanket, but I don't now, it's so... extreme? It's starting to irk me.

It's not just the themed stuff everywhere, but on basically every site now (looking at you, Primark) it's like they want us to forget that we're actually human! :pout: Look, I get the whole idea about hiding from the big bad world, wallowing in a fantasy world. I like that too. But I am NOT freaking unicorn, or a mermaid! :razz:

Seriously, get a grip...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Carrehz on May 21, 2017, 01:12:05 PM
^ The mermaid thing hasn't quite hit us over here yet I don't think, but yeah I've noticed the overabundance of unicorn stuff in shops lately too! It's weird o-O I mean, I like unicorns as much as the next person but I wonder why they're the 'in thing' all of a sudden.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on May 21, 2017, 01:22:28 PM
I am sick of the weather report saying major rain with flooding and I don't see a drop of rain anywhere.  What is wrong with these people?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 21, 2017, 02:31:54 PM
I saw a sign for a yard sale today so I went and looked no street address and supposedly was today at 9am. DON'T ADVERTISE IF YOU ARE NOT HAVING IT. Say exactly where you are on said street. People do not like to waste gas, and time trying to find your sale.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 22, 2017, 08:29:43 AM
^ The mermaid thing hasn't quite hit us over here yet I don't think, but yeah I've noticed the overabundance of unicorn stuff in shops lately too! It's weird o-O I mean, I like unicorns as much as the next person but I wonder why they're the 'in thing' all of a sudden.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! You would think that the supply would be massive because of popular demand. Instead, it seems to be the other way around; they are shoving unicorns and mermaids down our throat and we WILL like it... :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NinaMarie on July 26, 2017, 08:48:00 AM
Do not like being grumpy in the morning. I have been having a hard time falling asleep which means a hard time waking up on time. Already not a morning person but skipping showers and breakfast to make it to work on time makes me grumpier.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on July 26, 2017, 09:23:35 AM
I have to go to work tomorrow, but my sleep schedule is in a different timezone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 26, 2017, 10:23:17 AM
I've been doing really good at exercising and losing weight so I thought I would reward myself with buying new jeans.  The stupid fashion industry has once again resized women's pants so I am technically still in the same size even though I've lost three inches off my hips.  :cry:  I know they resized them because there were some older jeans on clearance and the smaller sizes fit me and were the same measurement as the larger sizes in the new jeans. 

I'm going to start buying men's clothes because women's clothes are getting stupider and stupider.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cuddlebuggy on July 26, 2017, 02:14:32 PM
I heard my kid singing and only heard a few notes but it conjures up a song that I can't quite remember when trying to think of it. Hopefully it'll come to me before I forget that I was trying to remember it. I do that so much now, try to remember something and when I can't, forget it completely till something else makes it swim up in my mind when it doesn't matter anymore.
Lol, it floated up right after posting. Moulin Rouge, "Come What May"
All I could think of was, " I never knew..."
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loa on July 26, 2017, 03:14:51 PM
I've stubbed my big toe and the nail really hurts!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 26, 2017, 04:04:37 PM
Tons of rain, not that we need any more right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on July 27, 2017, 07:21:52 AM
I've stubbed my big toe and the nail really hurts!
owwie!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NightGliderSA on July 27, 2017, 10:40:19 AM
I've been doing really good at exercising and losing weight so I thought I would reward myself with buying new jeans.  The stupid fashion industry has once again resized women's pants so I am technically still in the same size even though I've lost three inches off my hips.  :cry:  I know they resized them because there were some older jeans on clearance and the smaller sizes fit me and were the same measurement as the larger sizes in the new jeans. 

I'm going to start buying men's clothes because women's clothes are getting stupider and stupider.

Oh my gosh! That is just mean   :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 30, 2017, 02:00:27 AM
I'm sick of being sick! :argh: I get bronchitis every summer due to hot, humid days, but this year it's BAD. I've been sick on and off since May, and I've had ENOUGH. Please, bring me the autumn already! :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 30, 2017, 10:02:55 AM
Ugh, UK hospital carparks for old, Victorian hospitals.
Expensive... then very complicated when trying to wheel someone out in their wheelchair.
Ah well, the bright-side is today is Sunday and we could actually find a space to park!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Koudoawaia on July 30, 2017, 11:00:37 AM
That massive mermaid/unicorn hype. Seriously, what IS IT with that!? I like that stuff just as much as the next idiot, I have unicorn bedding and a mermaid tail blanket, but I don't now, it's so... extreme? It's starting to irk me.

It's not just the themed stuff everywhere, but on basically every site now (looking at you, Primark) it's like they want us to forget that we're actually human! :pout: Look, I get the whole idea about hiding from the big bad world, wallowing in a fantasy world. I like that too. But I am NOT freaking unicorn, or a mermaid! :razz:

Seriously, get a grip...

I find the sudden unicorn hype annoying too as well as the 'emoji' hype. I hate that word. I will always call them emotes or emoticons. Anyway, it's bad enough having merchandise of the crap emote but in Jewelry at work, I found a plush bank that was a rainbow colored crap emote >< I think it's supposed to be unicorn crap too because everything rainbow is unicorn related lately also because in the back to school display, there was a backpack that has a unicorn on it as well as that stupid rainbow crap emote. It's all so stupid.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 30, 2017, 01:37:11 PM
Wow, that's really bad. Who wants that? :crazy: And yes, "emoji", UGH! To me they will always be emoticons too, or smileys. Either I'm getting old, or the world is moving very fast...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 30, 2017, 07:01:46 PM
Yeah, well brace yourselves because when I went to see Cars 3 there was a trailer for "The Emoji Movie".   :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 30, 2017, 07:12:44 PM
I don't mind a smiley but I cringe almost every time I see a certain popular one on almost everything. I don't understand why it is so popular. I also have no interest in the Emoji movie.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on July 31, 2017, 03:46:00 AM
I'm really annoyed that I can't seem to find MLPs anymore at flea markets. And the rare occasion I do, people ask ridiculous prices for ratty common G3s and G4s just because they finally heard the news that ponies can be collectibles. I don't want to haggle for half an hour each time.

I miss when I could find affordable restoration projects. I really love(d) restoring ponies and putting my money into new hair and not into the semi-dead pony itself  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Bekuno on July 31, 2017, 05:29:12 PM
My neighbor came over today (1st time this has happened since I moved here, but I knew her already) and asked my friend and I to move our cars. When my friend went out, he said she told him to not park in their yard (but didn't fuss at me when she came to the door). I of course apologized and we moved everything but I just feel like such a jerk ugh!

It was just parked in the street, they were mowing the ditch. I would have parked in my own driveway but my boyfriend had parked his car in front of the gate so he could mow our yard and I couldn't get it in  :( Now I'm thinking about all the times my other friend may have parked on their side instead and I feel awful. I guess they consider the whole ditch to be theirs even though about 1 car width of space is on my side?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 31, 2017, 05:53:41 PM
I'm really annoyed that I can't seem to find MLPs anymore at flea markets. And the rare occasion I do, people ask ridiculous prices for ratty common G3s and G4s just because they finally heard the news that ponies can be collectibles. I don't want to haggle for half an hour each time.

I miss when I could find affordable restoration projects. I really love(d) restoring ponies and putting my money into new hair and not into the semi-dead pony itself  :cloud:

You should come to my flea market , I have a few venders who sell ponies a buck each, and blind bags are fifty cents.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 31, 2017, 06:15:13 PM
People can't seem to follow the simplest instructions. In my voicemail message at work, I give instructions on where to call for various things. For instance, I explicitly say, "If you're calling about animal placement or adoption, please call our shelter (and give the shelter's address and  their phone #). Yet people still routinely leave voicemail messages like today's: "My cat had 4 kittens. I need to get rid of them ASAP. Call me." So I call the shelter to see if the person had called over there as well. Nope, they couldn't be bothered to follow simple directions just like they couldn't be bothered to spay their cat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 31, 2017, 07:05:49 PM
I bought a song on iTunes that I already owned and iTunes didn't warn me that I was rebuying the same song.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on August 01, 2017, 03:20:58 AM
I lost my 3DS :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 05, 2017, 02:14:37 AM
Its August in the UK, which means that, weatherwise, we only have autumn to look forward to now. Sigh.

Also, I am cross that Mattel stopped selling MH Minis in any store I can get to. Because I really like them, and I don't want to import.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on August 05, 2017, 02:58:01 PM
My pepper plants have aphids :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 05, 2017, 03:49:35 PM
We just mowed the lawn, watered the plants, and it decided to rain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 06, 2017, 12:04:47 AM
Yesterday we decided to meet friends for a family day out - to be held at our local-is police training centre,

Kids lured in with displays of police horses, dogs, helicopters, vintage cop cars,  etc.

2 HOURS to drive a stretch of road that should have taken 10 minutes. :shocked:  In HOT sunshine (yay car aircon)   :sunny:

Then we arrived... rain + thunder!  :rain: All the tents/booths were rammed with other noisy folks taking shelter, no room for us!

Turned back + tried to drive home, another 25 mins to exit a muddy field (normally a couple of minutes) oh, the hot sun came out again  :pout: my husband was very hangry + had to be fed copious bags of sweets from our treats stash...

on the plus side - we took our soggy selves to TRU as my kid had been gifted toy vouchers from a friend - she got Shopkins, a plush PinkiePie, Glimmies + NomNums (spelling?) AND I found a £5 note on the shop floor (nobody around so I could not ask) which added to her toy budget!  :thumb:

They then had a McDonalds for a lazy lunch - grrr I am on a clean-eating thing so had to decline  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 07, 2017, 04:10:05 PM
Well more rain, not that we need any, at least it is not a huge downpour.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on August 07, 2017, 06:07:23 PM
Can't stand it when the Dove bar soap I use gets small and breaks into two, don't have the patience for using it!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on August 07, 2017, 07:28:36 PM
I just saw a pony I would have loved to buy sold on ebay a couple weeks ago, argh!  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 08, 2017, 03:00:03 AM
Missed out on buying a bundle of ponies with Steamer in on eBay.uk

I'm in a  :enraged: :enraged: :enraged: :enraged: :enraged:

Plus My Little Customs are out of the nylon hair coral.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Hannah66665 on August 08, 2017, 03:12:25 AM
I am tired of hearing about Game of Thrones. My siblings have killed any and all interest I ever had in giving the show a chance and my patience is wearing thin with my brother constantly bringing it up. I don't want to watch it, I don't care.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 09, 2017, 08:35:55 AM
When you explain in detail to a disability assessor why you can't use the telephone for live calling, and she tells you if you have questions you can call the helpline number...

When you place an online enquiry to a store and state that you don't use the phone and they call the number on your record anyway...

When a store randomly makes a typo in its records and starts sending text messages about products addressed to Keith to your mobile phone...

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 10, 2017, 12:49:30 AM
I just found out the hard way that (probably all of) my little polystone statues are actually hollow. :| First I dropped a toadstool. It broke, and it turned out to be completely hollow. Last night a seagull fell (probably by itself, it isn't the first time it acted up, it lost a part of its tail last time), it broke, and it also turned out to be completely hollow.

This is probably common knowledge, but I really didn't know. I've collected little polystone statues for years (mostly forest things, like toadstools and animals), and I never doubted that they were solid. Not that it matters much, but it makes them harder to repair if they fall, and somehow I feel cheated. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on August 10, 2017, 04:44:37 PM
I get so tired of dealing with rude, impatient people:

We had a lady show up at our office with some baby squirrels she'd found. My boss advised her that since we don't have a wildlife person (we're a cat and dog shelter after all), she'd see if she can find contact info for a wildlife rehabilitator. The lady got all nasty saying she wasn't going to spend all day on the phone, and my boss said "I'm not asking you to. I'll make the call, I just have to finish giving a dog his medication." The lady asked how long it'll take, my boss advised her it'd be a few minutes. And the lady starts loudly sighing, saying, "I should have just left them out along the road," and stormed out the door. A rehabilator picked up the squirrels, but what is wrong with people? The lady was was so obnoxious. It's not like the squirrels were injured and needed immediate attention.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 11, 2017, 07:08:01 AM
I get so tired of dealing with rude, impatient people:

We had a lady show up at our office with some baby squirrels she'd found. My boss advised her that since we don't have a wildlife person (we're a cat and dog shelter after all), she'd see if she can find contact info for a wildlife rehabilitator. The lady got all nasty saying she wasn't going to spend all day on the phone, and my boss said "I'm not asking you to. I'll make the call, I just have to finish giving a dog his medication." The lady asked how long it'll take, my boss advised her it'd be a few minutes. And the lady starts loudly sighing, saying, "I should have just left them out along the road," and stormed out the door. A rehabilator picked up the squirrels, but what is wrong with people? The lady was was so obnoxious. It's not like the squirrels were injured and needed immediate attention.

It's just hard being the only person on the planet with no one to cater to her every need.

Post Merge: August 11, 2017, 10:42:28 AM

UGH...I hate that my boss is such a drama queen.  I got an email this morning saying "You need to do such and such because it hasn't been done."  Of course it hasn't been done, I've been on vacation and haven't gotten to it yet this morning!  I got an email just before I went on vacation from him saying that I'd had something in my office since April and it needed to get out because it was a special request blah blah blah and I had to tell him that I'd only had it for two days because the director had to order in a special case for it and then I had to create artwork (from scratch, I might add) to fit the case before we could move it along and it was on it's way to the next step already.    :pullhair:

If it's so darned important that it be done this exact second why doesn't he do it himself?  It isn't like I sit in my office with my thumb up my butt all day.  I actually have 53 DVDs that need new artwork (and I can't find decent replacements online) and some of them have been waiting since March because they don't have holds on them and I keep getting more that do have holds so the others have had to wait.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on August 11, 2017, 12:06:25 PM
I just found out the hard way that (probably all of) my little polystone statues are actually hollow. :| First I dropped a toadstool. It broke, and it turned out to be completely hollow. Last night a seagull fell (probably by itself, it isn't the first time it acted up, it lost a part of its tail last time), it broke, and it also turned out to be completely hollow.

This is probably common knowledge, but I really didn't know. I've collected little polystone statues for years (mostly forest things, like toadstools and animals), and I never doubted that they were solid. Not that it matters much, but it makes them harder to repair if they fall, and somehow I feel cheated. XD

I'd feel cheated too, stuff should be solid! 

I had a porcelain carousel horse fall and shatter, reminding me one of the things I like about ponies.  Unbreakable toys are best for me.



My neighbor came over today (1st time this has happened since I moved here, but I knew her already) and asked my friend and I to move our cars. When my friend went out, he said she told him to not park in their yard (but didn't fuss at me when she came to the door). I of course apologized and we moved everything but I just feel like such a jerk ugh!

It was just parked in the street, they were mowing the ditch. I would have parked in my own driveway but my boyfriend had parked his car in front of the gate so he could mow our yard and I couldn't get it in  :( Now I'm thinking about all the times my other friend may have parked on their side instead and I feel awful. I guess they consider the whole ditch to be theirs even though about 1 car width of space is on my side?

Parking makes people crazy!



Now that I work 6 days a week for a mere 30 hours of pay, I've been having trouble falling asleep and am starting to have trouble getting up and running late for work.

Today was my only sleep-in day in the last two weeks to try and catch up, but I woke up early after like 5 hours of sleep and couldn't get back to sleep.

I'll probably be fired soon if I don't get on top of this.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 13, 2017, 12:22:21 AM
Woke up 8 am by the door bell. When I came to the door no one was there, but the automatic sensorlamp was on indicating I had not been dreaming. Of course I couldn't go back to sleep afterwards.. Today is my last day of vacation and I really wanted to sleep in. Bummer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 17, 2017, 01:18:41 PM
This is a really stupid and trivial twitch but it really drives me nuts.
When people create Japanese character names, technique names, usernames and don't use the Japanese properly. I have about had my fill of google translate names for Bleach swords and awkward jamming together of Japanese words looked up in a dictionary and forced together.

It is absolutely none of my business and totally trivial, but it really drives me insane.

I think the killer for me was on another forum when someone glued together the words hitori and ookami in an attempt to make 'lone wolf'. But hitori = one person, so basically they made a one person wolf ;)


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: goddessofpeep on August 18, 2017, 01:48:39 AM
For some reason, too many cars parked on the street in my area has become a real problem. It didn't used to be like this, but it suddenly got really bad in the last year or so. We live in a double cul-du-sac, and so there is only one way in or out of this area. If that street is blocked, everyone on my street is just trapped in here.   It used to not be an issue that a few people would park along that street, but I think one of the local apartment complexes did something to force a lot of people to park elsewhere.  Now the street is always completely packed with cars.  I see people dropping other people off at their cars all the time, and both sides of the street are always completely full and hard to navigate.  Due to this, the street is now too narrow for more than one car at a time to drive down it, and it's become a real issue to get in and out.  If someone comes from the opposite direction while you're in the middle of the gauntlet, it becomes a game of "who's going to back up and let the other person through?".  People also double park while they drop their friends off and chat, so sitting around waiting for some double parked jerk to finish their conversation has become a thing now.

Also, my next door neighbor is basically running their own private tenement complex.  They turned their garage into an illegal 2 bedroom apartment, and they rent out the rooms in the house to I don't even know how many people.  We have no idea who lives there(occasionally the cops come by looking for someone, and I'm never able to help them with that because it's impossible to keep track), or even how many people live there, but they all have cars.  So, so many cars, and boy do they all love to park in front of our house!  It's gotten so we can't even put out our trash cans to be picked up anymore since there's always a ton of cars parked in front of our house.  On trash day, I hang around outside to see if someone leaves long enough for me to get the garbage cans out.  Even then sometimes they'll move them onto the sidewalk where they don't get picked up so they can park in front of our house.   You can't see to back out of the driveway if they've parked one of their larger cars in front of the house, and my husband already had one accident because of that.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on August 18, 2017, 03:52:58 AM
I'm having a birthday party this year, but none of my friends want to tell me what their favorite snacks are. No, I won't just do whatever I want to do because I can't be happy unless you are. Modesty isn't helpful  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 18, 2017, 01:08:19 PM
For some reason, too many cars parked on the street in my area has become a real problem. It didn't used to be like this, but it suddenly got really bad in the last year or so. We live in a double cul-du-sac, and so there is only one way in or out of this area. If that street is blocked, everyone on my street is just trapped in here.   It used to not be an issue that a few people would park along that street, but I think one of the local apartment complexes did something to force a lot of people to park elsewhere.  Now the street is always completely packed with cars.  I see people dropping other people off at their cars all the time, and both sides of the street are always completely full and hard to navigate.  Due to this, the street is now too narrow for more than one car at a time to drive down it, and it's become a real issue to get in and out.  If someone comes from the opposite direction while you're in the middle of the gauntlet, it becomes a game of "who's going to back up and let the other person through?".  People also double park while they drop their friends off and chat, so sitting around waiting for some double parked jerk to finish their conversation has become a thing now.

Also, my next door neighbor is basically running their own private tenement complex.  They turned their garage into an illegal 2 bedroom apartment, and they rent out the rooms in the house to I don't even know how many people.  We have no idea who lives there(occasionally the cops come by looking for someone, and I'm never able to help them with that because it's impossible to keep track), or even how many people live there, but they all have cars.  So, so many cars, and boy do they all love to park in front of our house!  It's gotten so we can't even put out our trash cans to be picked up anymore since there's always a ton of cars parked in front of our house.  On trash day, I hang around outside to see if someone leaves long enough for me to get the garbage cans out.  Even then sometimes they'll move them onto the sidewalk where they don't get picked up so they can park in front of our house.   You can't see to back out of the driveway if they've parked one of their larger cars in front of the house, and my husband already had one accident because of that.

Ugh.  Can you paint the curb outside your house red so nobody will park there?  :devious:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lostpony on August 18, 2017, 04:04:08 PM
Pardon my input, but:

I'm thinking a written complaint to the city with some fotos including your trash cans being pushed up onto the sidewalk and showing the lack of ability to safely pull out of your driveway, along with complaints to the garbage company, are the things to do. 

It's a safety hazard on multiple levels and not fair to the residents.  The governing agencies have a duty to mitigate it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: goddessofpeep on August 18, 2017, 06:35:03 PM
Getting a can of red paint and "fixing" the problem myself has crossed my mind more than once:p 

Unfortunately, I live in a large city with too little money, and they don't have the resources or the interest to do much about minor parking problems.  Legally, anyone is allowed to park there as it's a public street.  Even if I could get someone out here to do something, there's not much they can do about the cars as long as they're not blocking the driveway.  The next door neighbor's completely illegal renter situation has been reported to the police by multiple neighbors.  Everybody knows about it, and everybody hates it.  It's been years, and they've still done nothing.  The code violations alone should be enough to shut the place down.  It's the most extreme DIY project house you'll ever see.  At this point, I doubt it's even legal to sell that house without major renovations to fix all the crazy stuff they've done in there. 

It's hard to get the city to come out even for some bigger things.  It took almost 3 years of constant calls from multiple neighbors to deal with an abandoned house that was being used as a major pot growing house.  It's not a bad or unsafe neighborhood, but there just aren't the resources for any of this minor/moderate stuff.  The city can generally be counted on for the big stuff(major crime, trees/power lines down, etc), but the small stuff is up to us to deal with.

I'm still glad I don't live in an HOA neighborhood though:p  The parking problems are annoying, and my next door neighbors may have created their own slum lord kingdom, but at least I'm not paying $400 per month to have a bunch of people tell me what color I can paint my house.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 19, 2017, 08:36:26 AM
The very definition of a first world problem, but last Tuesday evening, a thunderstorm moved through and knocked out my power for maybe one second. Of course, I was so happy that my power came back on. But one thing didn't, my internet. :cry:

I thought "Okay, I'll give it some time. I'm sure it'll come back." However, after waking up the next morning, resetting my modem again and it still being down, my mom told me I should call the company. So I did that, thinking that they'd probably just tell me that there is an outage and they're working on it. Instead, I got the news that something had gone wrong with my connection from the outside and my modem, as well. =/ And then I was told that they would have to come and fix it, and that would not be until the 23rd, an entire week away from the call.

I, not being able to survive without internet (I've been addicted since 2004. Lol. No, seriously, though. For real.), called up my mom to just come home for a little while. Classes start on the 21st, making this awkward. But it was a good thing to come home because my dog needed to go back to the vet yesterday anyway. However, I ended up missing the pre-semester music program party a second time (my last chance because this is my senior year) and I feel really bad. However, I can say I missed it because I was taking care of my dog.

But the fun doesn't stop there. Seeing as my classes start on the 21st, there might be an issue. I have classes on the 23rd, and someone needs to be there to let the worker in to fix the internet and modem for me. Earlier this week I learned my mom wouldn't be able to be there to help me, and now I have no one. I have no idea what I'm going to do. >.< Unfortunately they only gave me a generic time range of "8am to 8pm". It could work out, but it could not, as well.

*sigh* All of that because of a stupid August storm (storms should not be happening in August!) and a single little power flicker. How weak are internet providing machines? Geez!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 21, 2017, 09:43:34 PM
Just spent an hour typing up part of a story and when I went to save the website said I had to log in so I lost everything I'd just typed up. The one time I actually typed straight onto the site instead of in Word and it kicked me off without letting me save. :wail: :dumbpc: :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on August 22, 2017, 12:03:29 AM
Just spent an hour typing up part of a story and when I went to save the website said I had to log in so I lost everything I'd just typed up. The one time I actually typed straight onto the site instead of in Word and it kicked me off without letting me save. :wail: :dumbpc: :cry:

Oh I hate that! I've lost documents on a couple occasions because I didn't save them before either power outages or in one case a circuit overload. So I totally understand your frustration.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on August 22, 2017, 01:52:25 AM
I just had an attack of sleepy brain and managed to forget what year it is. I was checking the expiry date on a coupon in my purse and somehow thought that 2017 was last year. I did not catch or fix this mistake until grumbling about my 'expired' coupon to my boyfriend an hour later. The moment I told him I realized how much I messed up. Cost me 10% off at the site I was shopping at. :argh: That's why it's best not to do big orders at 4 a.m., I guess.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on August 22, 2017, 03:26:02 PM
I just had an attack of sleepy brain and managed to forget what year it is. I was checking the expiry date on a coupon in my purse and somehow thought that 2017 was last year. I did not catch or fix this mistake until grumbling about my 'expired' coupon to my boyfriend an hour later. The moment I told him I realized how much I messed up. Cost me 10% off at the site I was shopping at. :argh: That's why it's best not to do big orders at 4 a.m., I guess.

Please don't make time go any faster than it is!!!  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Carrehz on August 22, 2017, 04:05:06 PM
Obscure dolls are so hard to buy clothes for. @_@; Hard to know what'll fit them without trying it first..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 22, 2017, 08:43:21 PM
Bought a chocolate bar today and it melted before I could get it home, we're talking completely liquid. Fortunately it was in a completely sealed wrapper so it didn't leak all over.  It didn't harden at all on its own so I stuck it in the fridge.  Now I have to wait...:sigh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SnorkMaiden on August 23, 2017, 03:20:16 AM
Bought a chocolate bar today and it melted before I could get it home, we're talking completely liquid. Fortunately it was in a completely sealed wrapper so it didn't leak all over.  It didn't harden at all on its own so I stuck it in the fridge.  Now I have to wait...:sigh:

*lol* Something similar happened to me when my mum sent me several large chocolate bars in my birthday parcel. The chocolate was almost liquid when the parcel arrived. When it hardened, one chocolate bar was very thin on one end and almost twice the normal size on the other end. It looked very funny, but still tasted great.

My trivial complaint is that I wish it were just a little bit warmer. For the last couple of weeks, we've mostly had that weird in-between weather when it's too cold to wear a t-shirt only, but too warm to wear a coat. It would be so much more enjoyable if it were just one or two degrees warmer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: daffodil101 on August 23, 2017, 04:06:32 AM
Watched the leaked Game of Thrones (I never normally do, but there were spoilers so in-your-face that I couldn't even go on the youtube homepage without the entire plot instantly spoiled).  Have to wait 10 days instead of 7.  Longest 10 days of my life.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on August 23, 2017, 06:52:38 AM
Wasn't too thrilled that a jerk-face nearly ran me over as I was crossing (in a crosswalk, I might add) the street yesterday. Came within about 2 or 3 feet of hitting me, or maybe less - cause I had to move fast. Thanks, buddy. Love you too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 23, 2017, 07:07:53 AM
I painted some boxes and used them in a display at the library where I work.  Someone wants to buy at least one and I have no idea what to charge for them.  How's that for a trivial problem? :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 23, 2017, 12:09:32 PM
For the past couple days, my housemate and I have been trying to one-up each other by putting an action figure of Isaac Clarke in funny places and positions around the house. This afternoon, I set him in a really chilled out position on top of a skull in the living room (leaning back with his hands behind his head and everything), housemate came back from work, saw it and didn't even chuckle. Honestly, where is his sense of humour?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 27, 2017, 01:57:49 AM
What's going on with PicMonkey, seriously!? I can hardly do any precise work anymore, because the cursor is leading its own life now? It's not my computer, because it's only with PicMonkey that I have this problem. What the...? :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on August 27, 2017, 09:25:28 PM
This coming week starts with 109F tomorrow and only gets worse, nearly every day but one is above 100F. Not looking forward to it.Come on fall weather! Fall is my favorite season and I'm really looking forward to it this year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 29, 2017, 10:05:31 AM
Ugh...my work just hired someone I can't stand.  He's been a volunteer for years but whatever dead thing it is he rolls in every morning gives me migraines so I hate being around him.  Now I'll be forced to tolerate his stench and his laziness.   >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 30, 2017, 08:22:22 AM
The back door completely came off of its hinges earlier today. It's back on now but urrrgh, so much for a stress-free day off.  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on August 30, 2017, 10:08:33 AM
Did you have to take my bike away from me, Mr. Bike Thief? :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on August 30, 2017, 07:58:32 PM
Some random drunk a-hole on the bus home today called me fat...like tell me something I don't know? D...head  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 31, 2017, 01:32:08 PM
Did you have to take my bike away from me, Mr. Bike Thief? :(

That is totally rubbish SDS :(

The bank decided that it was suspicious behaviour that I was buying craft supplies (from my usual supplier, which I visit and buy online from on a regular basis) and so blocked my card. What made it worse is the bank called me as well as texting me and they also left a suspicious voice mail. When I tried to call them to sort it out, the service wouldn't work as my phone number didn't match the one they had on record, even though I was calling them on the phone I have listed as my phone number and their computer is supposed to recognise it???..... I ended up reporting my own bank to themselves for fraud and suspicious behaviour! Turns out they had a glitch as well as lag at their end, so the system was behind. They still couldn't explain why my phone number didn't work, even though it was correct. I now have no confidence that I'll ever be able to use my card again or that I trust my banks anti-fraud system, especially since I was behaving as normal!!!

I have also lost my camera battery charger. I have turned the craft room, office and garage upside down and it's like it's vanished into thin air. So I've had to spend £50 to get a replacement :( I've not had the camera for that long either. I guess it must have got lost when I decorated the craft room.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 07, 2017, 12:33:19 PM
I have all the ideas in my head to write my academic paper. I have them in my head but as soon as I try to type them out they turn into nonsense. Why can I not submit my brain for review instead...?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BabyBlueberry on September 07, 2017, 08:57:56 PM
Trivial First World Problem #1 - my favorite author on my favorite fanfiction site hasn't updated her story yet. WAH!
TFWP #2 - all the ponies I want would add up to about double next week's paycheck - which has to go to bills.
TFWP # 3 - the BJD I want is going off sale before I can buy him. POO!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on September 08, 2017, 03:42:03 AM
This week, my kid had an "inset day" (day off school for teacher-training or something...) so I decided to take her to London.

She has always wanted to see inside the Natural History Museum and really wanted to see the blue whale exhibit; I told her it would be HUGE (and it was!) however, she was so unimpressed at how much smaller it was than she expected...  :shocked: no pleasing some people!  :sad:

The, she *really* wanted to go to the downstairs cafe ??  :blink: because it seemed so interesting... she made me drink most of her hot chocolate...

Then moaning that there were too many steps... and so much walking...

Anyway, a quick Tube trip to Leicester Square later and two large tubs of pick-a-brick Lego and the trip was finally a success! She even snuck in a couple of character heads in her tub (saw on the floor next to pick-a-brick section) and the guy at the till gave her a free Ninjago set to make at home!

She *almost* fell asleep on the train home so I was rather pleased that she had worn herself out  :devious: 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on September 08, 2017, 05:20:48 PM
Renewed my drivers license and it cost me $33 (I'm in the States). That's highway robbery! Add in two other bills I had to pay. Money in and money out,being an adult and adulting all the things sucks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 09, 2017, 12:50:48 PM
Renewed my drivers license and it cost me $33 (I'm in the States). That's highway robbery! Add in two other bills I had to pay. Money in and money out,being an adult and adulting all the things sucks.

Yikes!  I have to renew mine soon and if I renew online it's only $20. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on September 09, 2017, 01:19:49 PM
Renewed my drivers license and it cost me $33 (I'm in the States). That's highway robbery! Add in two other bills I had to pay. Money in and money out,being an adult and adulting all the things sucks.

Yikes!  I have to renew mine soon and if I renew online it's only $20.

After getting married I had to change my name on my UK driving licence - but I think that was free. Renewals are approx £21.

Passports - to do that I need to pay for a renewal which is over £72  :enraged:  but if I carry on using my old one I can only book travel abroad in my old maiden name - - - which has not applied to me for a few years now anyway because I have not been abroad since my honeymoon  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 09, 2017, 01:35:17 PM
Money in and money out,being an adult and adulting all the things sucks.

This is truth on such a level that I would gladly have it rendered in cross-stitch format and framed on the wall! :D

And also to add to the trivial complaints, I got started on a comic page this afternoon, had an idea for the layout that would make it a bit more interesting (wavy panels for an underwater scene with the text flowing between them) then got completely stuck for engaging imagery to put in said panels. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on September 09, 2017, 09:24:34 PM
I wish I could take down all the stuff I have in storage on my own, and sort through it whenever I want. Ugghhh.

Or better yet, somebody near me should sell their house so I can have my brother's room and not have to have all of my things in storage!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 11, 2017, 11:57:53 AM
Just household chores, you get ten things done, twenty more things need doing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 12, 2017, 09:30:29 AM
I really want pizza but everything is closed :pizza:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 12, 2017, 10:11:04 AM
Stupid Albert Heijn*!!! :enraged: Lately they've been throwing out so many good things, two things in particular bother me very much. Two(!) different types of catfood that my cats loved and was affordable, and delicious chocolate seashells that were also super cheap. And do they offer an alternative? Of course not! >_<
 
*Dutch supermarket

Also, why do pictures of bigger women have to be such a trigger? :( I sometimes check Primark's instagram to see what's new, and today they posted a picture of a bigger woman in one of their pajama sets. The comments are so hurtful (one of the reasons I don't do social media myself)... Everybody has an opinion about HER, instead of the clothes, this doesn't happen with pictures of thin women. It's all about the clothes then. I understand and agree that obesity is not healthy, but people seem to see a real danger in finding big women beautiful, because it's "promoting obesity". Well thanks, I'm not going to lose my fat any sooner if I'm being punished for it, you know? We want to be beautiful too, like any woman of any shape. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 12, 2017, 10:26:56 AM
I hate that, too Broken Irishwoman.  But I'd be willing to bet that most people making those comments are male, live in their mother's basements and weigh at least twice what the woman in the picture weighs.  People feel a need to put others down in order to make themselves feel better and they always have the worst comments to say about people who have faults that they're afraid people will find out that they share.  If anyone is so shallow that they'll judge you (or anyone else) based solely on looks, they're not worth your time.

And being "fat" doesn't necessarily mean that  you're unhealthy.  Each physical body type processes and handles weight differently.  For example, my sister has always been a stick figure.  She was a cheerleader in high school.  When she got pregnant the first time, her body put on weight too fast and she's had health problems ever since.  On the other hand, I've always been heavier because I have my dad's build, not my mom's. but I don't have all the health issues that she has.  I don't have back problems, I don't have high cholesterol, I don't have diabetes, I don't have migraines on a daily basis.

And that whole BMI measurement thing is a crock.  While my brother was in the army he had one of his buddies do his BMI and at 2% body fat was declared morbidly obese.  As long as you're healthy and happy for you, that's all that matters.  Screw the trolls!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 14, 2017, 11:23:14 AM
You're so right! :) It's like everyone has an opinion about everybody else's body, but with a totally screwed up perspective... I guess it's just a human trait, as sad as that is!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NightGliderSA on September 14, 2017, 11:38:58 AM
It is a pity that society seems to be so focused on people being a certain way that they feel they have to fit into that perspective. It is sad. And unnecessary. Being unique is awesome. It is a pity that many people cannot see that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 19, 2017, 12:24:33 PM
I really despise rude people.   :enraged:

I was in the middle of something at work and when I looked up there was a man standing there.  So I said, "Hello."  And he cut me off with "Can. I. Help. You." said very slowly and deliberately as if I have a negative IQ. He didn't even give me a chance to ask if I could help him.  I really had to bite back the remark I wanted to make.  So I just looked at him and waited for him tell me what he wanted because I figured he wouldn't let me talk anyway.  Then he said he wanted to pay his fines (I work at a library) so I told him how much his fines were.  He pulled out a handful of bills, threw them on the counter and walked off. 

If you're going to expect someone to ask how they can help you, make sure you're someone people give a crap about helping.  :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on September 19, 2017, 09:31:00 PM
I'm not a fan of door to door sales people, especially when their behavior is off. I had a guy show up at my workplace wanting to see me some carpet cleaner. He handed me a pamphlet about his product, and I politely told him I'd pass it along to my boss and if she's interested she'll contact the company. He said, "I don't want you to buy from the company, because the fat cats at the top of the chain will get all the money and I'll get nothing." 
:what:

He proceeded to tell me he wants me to buy from him directly. Suspicious....... I asked him to leave his contact info and that I'd pass it along. He told me he doesn't have a cell phone or anything, took the the pamphlet out of my hand and told me he'd stop back in a year.  :hmm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 19, 2017, 09:41:45 PM
^ Sounds almost like a scam.

My complaint is this headache that refuses to go away. It woke me up from a super deep sleep, I've taken some OTC meds and am rotating ice on my head and neck. If just the edge would ease off a little :(

I've got blue shade on my tablet to protect my eyes... I was getting bored sitting up in the dark waiting :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on September 20, 2017, 04:16:49 PM
^ Sounds almost like a scam.

My complaint is this headache that refuses to go away. It woke me up from a super deep sleep, I've taken some OTC meds and am rotating ice on my head and neck. If just the edge would ease off a little :(

I've got blue shade on my tablet to protect my eyes... I was getting bored sitting up in the dark waiting :/

I hope you're feeling better now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 21, 2017, 08:36:58 AM
I hate how no matter what kind of plans I make with my friends they are NEVER on time.  My friend and I have been planning to go to Comic Con for a month and she's still not packed.  We were supposed to get off work at noon and leave to go down, but she says she still needs about half an hour after that to finish up.  It's not like it was a last minute decision to go.  But it isn't just her.  When I've gone on trips with other friends, they make me wait up to 4 hours for them to finish packing because they can't decide which clothes they'll be in the mood to wear on this trip so they need to take their entire wardrobe and heaven forbid they start packing earlier than when we were supposed to LEAVE.  This is why I prefer to travel alone.  At least then I get to the things I want to do on time.   -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Carrehz on September 21, 2017, 01:32:43 PM
The other day I found the *perfect* pair of shoes for a doll, exactly what I'm looking for.. and they had sold out of the colour I wanted. :cry: The hunt continues..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 21, 2017, 01:54:01 PM
People who look at their smart/iphone (or whatever those things are called) while cycling. Seriously, do you WANT do die!? Or do you want ME to die because you're too stupid to look at the other cyclists around you!?

Seriously, it's an illness. :| It's not just one or two, it has become a common sight. Don't people realise how dangerous that is!? The worst kind are the ones who use BOTH hands to text, they sit on their bike with NO hands on the steer, and they look down... Just what...? :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on September 21, 2017, 05:47:03 PM
People who look at their smart/iphone (or whatever those things are called) while cycling. Seriously, do you WANT do die!? Or do you want ME to die because you're too stupid to look at the other cyclists around you!?

I saw a guy doing that about a week ago. I agree it's a very disturbing trend.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 21, 2017, 11:04:10 PM
People who look at their smart/iphone (or whatever those things are called) while cycling. Seriously, do you WANT do die!? Or do you want ME to die because you're too stupid to look at the other cyclists around you!?


It happens here too. I get it if you want to check the time real quick (I'm guilty of that) but people who text, or even facebook, while being out in traffic scares me a lot, and give us other cyclists more bad reputation.


Me and my neck are not friends at the moment. My back locked itself a week ago but it is totally fine now, it's just my neck refuse to loosen up and remains stiff and it spreads to my head adding to my constant headache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 25, 2017, 03:41:12 PM
Had a patron today ask why someone ahead of her in line couldn't go to the other desk to get a card.  I had to bite my tongue instead of telling her it was none of her business what the other patrons were getting help with.  Instead I told her that she always had the option of using the self-checkout machine.  She wasn't too happy with my answer and told me she was 'here yesterday' and it 'wasn't working'.  Um...we were closed yesterday so I would imagine it wasn't working.  Perhaps if she didn't believe that she needed someone to cater to her every need she wouldn't be such a nosy, crotchety busy body!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 25, 2017, 05:36:10 PM
Someone is using my mouthwash :really:

Everyone denies it.

I use a more expensive brand because it's the only one I can find that is cinnamon flavor. They all use the cheap mint stuff.

I marked the bottle with a Sharpie.

We'll soon see.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Skylar on September 25, 2017, 09:54:21 PM
People who look at their smart/iphone (or whatever those things are called) while cycling. Seriously, do you WANT do die!? Or do you want ME to die because you're too stupid to look at the other cyclists around you!?

Seriously, it's an illness. :| It's not just one or two, it has become a common sight. Don't people realise how dangerous that is!? The worst kind are the ones who use BOTH hands to text, they sit on their bike with NO hands on the steer, and they look down... Just what...? :|


Oh Lord! People are getting stupider if it is even possible!

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I can't seem to find a picture hosting site that is easy to use and doesn't drive me nuts since Photobucket tried to screw everyone and it P**** me off!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 26, 2017, 12:30:22 AM
I put some tiger balm on my shoulder yesterday, forgot to wash it off before bed and now everything has this really weird overpowering medicine-ish menthol and cinnamon smell all over it. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Honeycomb on September 26, 2017, 01:00:59 AM


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I can't seem to find a picture hosting site that is easy to use and doesn't drive me nuts since Photobucket tried to screw everyone and it P**** me off!

Me too! Add to that the fact that most of them are blocked in China anyway.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mami Tomoe on September 26, 2017, 05:27:40 PM
at school i feel like a number more that an actual person

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at school i feel like a number more that an actual person and im in so much pain
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on September 26, 2017, 07:58:58 PM
There's this lady that keeps calling my house. This has been going on for a couple years and she calls every couple months. She calls as early as 7:00a.m. and as late as 10:00p.m. If I pick up the phone, she always says "Who's this?" (Really lady? YOU called me.) She insists my phone number is her husband's (I've had the same home # since 1986), and I've told her on multiple occasions she has the wrong #. I can't block her calls because she calls from different phone #s all belonging to some hospital 2 hours away. I thought the calls had finally stopped since she hadn't called since March, but she just called again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 27, 2017, 07:06:27 AM
There's this lady that keeps calling my house. This has been going on for a couple years and she calls every couple months. She calls as early as 7:00a.m. and as late as 10:00p.m. If I pick up the phone, she always says "Who's this?" (Really lady? YOU called me.) She insists my phone number is her husband's (I've had the same home # since 1986), and I've told her on multiple occasions she has the wrong #. I can't block her calls because she calls from different phone #s all belonging to some hospital 2 hours away. I thought the calls had finally stopped since she hadn't called since March, but she just called again.

Next time tell her it's Santa Claus and ask if she's been a good girl and what she'd like for Christmas.  And if you want to take it a step further, actually send her something for Christmas at the hospital she calls from.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 27, 2017, 07:40:54 AM
watching Power Rangers clips on YouTube, started  :bawl:  when Zordon sacrificed himself.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 27, 2017, 10:27:16 AM
she calls from different phone #s all belonging to some hospital 2 hours away.

Alzheimer's maybe? That's kinda spooky and sad at the same time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on September 30, 2017, 07:24:57 AM
The other day, I saw a young girl wearing a pony t-shirt. It had all of the mane 6 on it... Except for Applejack  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 30, 2017, 07:47:23 AM
Several years ago I had someone send me multiple texts about "going to my little sister's birthday party"  and renting a limo I didn't answer the texts because I knew they had the wrong number. Then the person called me because I wasn't answering the texts and I told them they had the wrong number, The other day I got a text for someone named Charlie (no one here by that name)  from a pharmacy.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on September 30, 2017, 10:03:19 AM
she calls from different phone #s all belonging to some hospital 2 hours away.

Alzheimer's maybe? That's kinda spooky and sad at the same time.

It's possible that she may have early onset Alzheimer's (she sounds like she's in her 40s). I don't know. The calls are always short if I pick up and always play out the same: I say "Hello." She says, "Who's this?" I answer, then she says "Oh" and hangs up. The only reason I know she's looking for her husband is that once instead of answering her, I asked who she was, who she was looking for, and why she keeps calling. That was the time she called at like 10:00p.m.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 02, 2017, 04:37:08 AM
Twice I've bought nail polish at Ulta only to get it home and discover that someone thought it would be fun to decorate the cap with other polish colors that aren't even close to the color I bought. This weekend I saw some Sharpies for sale and some small paper bags. Someone had scribbled all over the paper bags with the Sharpies to see if the pens worked. Why do some people think it's okay to do these types of things?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 02, 2017, 06:42:54 AM
Stop blocking my card, Bank! How many times do I have to call you?!

It's a video game from Japan I am trying to buy! How does that look fraudulent???

:enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 03, 2017, 12:54:06 PM
I actually came up with a plausible ending and an underlying thread for this comic I'm working on, which in theory should have me jumping for joy because I never manage to bring a project full circle, but now I'm agonising over how many self-contained stories should occur before bringing it all to a close. I haven't even started sharing it yet and I've got in a mess over its lifespan! So much for making something purely for the sake of enjoying the creative process! :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Galactica on October 04, 2017, 03:33:20 PM
There's this lady that keeps calling my house. This has been going on for a couple years and she calls every couple months. She calls as early as 7:00a.m. and as late as 10:00p.m. If I pick up the phone, she always says "Who's this?" (Really lady? YOU called me.) She insists my phone number is her husband's (I've had the same home # since 1986), and I've told her on multiple occasions she has the wrong #. I can't block her calls because she calls from different phone #s all belonging to some hospital 2 hours away. I thought the calls had finally stopped since she hadn't called since March, but she just called again.

Maybe.... it's a GHOST CALLING !!!!  No, probably just a confused old lady. Poor thing. Beats getting all those annoying calls during election season though!  (so many times I have wanted to abandon our land line...)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 05, 2017, 12:03:31 AM
My former workplace has updated it's membership-thingy and since I love watching movies and still goes to the theatre I thought it might be a good idea to follow it. Since I'm a member already I should just need to log in with the same email and password as on the former membership and confirm the new one. So I clicked the link, read the info and it said I should follow the steps on the "next side". There's no button/link taking me to the next side.

There is an "I understand" button/link but it is said to be used for those who want to be new members. Well, I clicked it anyway and lo and behold, it took me to a place where I can either log in or create a new profile. I choose to log in, it didn't take my password so I sent for a new one, got the verification and tried again and got the message there's already a member with this email. YES IT IS! ME!

Since working there I know the customer service sucks and those in the consession stands can't help, just refering to customer service so can't really do anything.. I have so many points tho, well over three free tickets and it would be such a shame to loose them. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 05, 2017, 07:30:49 AM
Build-a-Bear have updated their website and I can't remember my password, tried asking for a reset password 4 times today. Still nothing. I got in touch with them on Instagram but they haven't replied. I'm ticked off, as I've got my eyes on some more bears for my Power Rangers, and My Little Pony.  :enraged: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: alkevin on October 05, 2017, 09:06:39 AM
I hate the post office and customs: this month they got 2 of my packages and I had to pay almost the price of the orders. The PO keeps increasing the prices. In April the service was 2.30€, on August is 3,40€, same service.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on October 05, 2017, 05:59:56 PM
My cat had his sutures and e-collar removed today. He had a wound on his face that wouldn't heal so, given his history of skin cancer, I had the area removed and submitted for testing (the test came back negative). It was determined by the vet that there's nothing physically wrong, she thinks its an anxiety issue or neuropathic pain. He's on a cream that numbs the area and prescribed Elavil for a backup. Well he must be rubbing the area against rough surfaces because it's bleeding again (albeit minimally), so I started him on the Elavil. I was hoping pills wouldn't be necessary.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on October 07, 2017, 01:40:14 PM
I'm feeling cheated, the cartoon of eggs I bought is missing 2 and 2 are cracked...even though I was the one who bumped it and broke those 2 eggs and dumped 2 on the floor and felt guilty enough to buy it anyways...dummy... :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on October 08, 2017, 12:23:37 PM
^ Well, for what it's worth, I don't think that's a bad thing! I mean, aside from the fact that you ended up with a faulty product, that bites of course. Not many people have the decency to make up for their actions like that (they just leave it behind; "I didn't do it!" :whistle:), but you did. :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 08, 2017, 02:40:40 PM
Last weekend Target had 3 or 4 copies of the MLP movie prequel comic and when I went back yesterday and the remaining copies were bent in half and folded over. I was so sad to brand new books ruined like that.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: alkevin on October 08, 2017, 02:42:55 PM
I think eggs are freaking fragile.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 12, 2017, 11:03:40 PM
Waking up at 7:30 for no reason on a day I start my shift at 2 pm..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 13, 2017, 05:12:14 AM
I went for a walk in the forest, which was fine, but it turns out my new phone likes to shriek loudly when the battery is dying. I didn't need to discover that in an isolated part of the forest with a spooky, dilapidated old farmhouse looming overhead. :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on October 15, 2017, 09:20:47 AM
I got a great deal on some new shoes for work, only €14,99 for a pair, and they look sturdy! I needed new work shoes anyway, and the pair I was eyeballing was €29,99, so hey, great deal!

...Not. I bought them and tried them on when I got home. They are much too nice to use for work! :cry: Now I still have to buy the €29,99-pair. I don't want to. :hmm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on October 15, 2017, 10:24:11 AM
^ Well, for what it's worth, I don't think that's a bad thing! I mean, aside from the fact that you ended up with a faulty product, that bites of course. Not many people have the decency to make up for their actions like that (they just leave it behind; "I didn't do it!" :whistle:), but you did. :)

Aww, thanks for this, didn't make me feel as cheated knowing someone thinks I did the right thing  :heart:

My trivial complaint for today?  I slept in too long and now the day is half over and I have a headache...(boo hoo right?  :lol: )
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 16, 2017, 04:24:14 PM
Black flecks in my store bought ice. What? Why? Stop it :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on October 18, 2017, 12:08:01 PM
Aww, thanks for this, didn't make me feel as cheated knowing someone thinks I did the right thing  :heart:

:D
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 18, 2017, 12:48:28 PM
Aww, thanks for this, didn't make me feel as cheated knowing someone thinks I did the right thing  :heart:

:D

Now I feel guilty because I swapped out a cracked egg from my carton in-store today...   :blush:  I did leave the damaged carton open so others could see it was damaged + not buy them!  :angel:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 18, 2017, 01:48:06 PM
I've listened to a song on YouTube 3 times and can't decide if I like it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on October 18, 2017, 08:02:06 PM
Tripped on the curb while unlocking my phone to check my voice mail. Skinned up my knee and I'll have a heck of a bruise. Worst part? I walk past that spot several times a week and nothing happened. Except today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on October 19, 2017, 01:42:40 AM
Now I feel guilty because I swapped out a cracked egg from my carton in-store today...   :blush:  I did leave the damaged carton open so others could see it was damaged + not buy them!  :angel:

Haha, don't! It's already nice enough that you left it open for other people to see. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on October 21, 2017, 12:03:33 PM
Now I feel guilty because I swapped out a cracked egg from my carton in-store today...   :blush:  I did leave the damaged carton open so others could see it was damaged + not buy them!  :angel:

Haha, don't! It's already nice enough that you left it open for other people to see. :P

Lol yes, don't feel guilty, I don't want that!  You just didn't want to buy a faulty product from the get-go, no shame in that! Like Broken said, you left them open for someone to see so they wouldn't end up with it, that's ok in my books!  :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 21, 2017, 12:57:09 PM
Now I feel guilty because I swapped out a cracked egg from my carton in-store today...   :blush:  I did leave the damaged carton open so others could see it was damaged + not buy them!  :angel:

Haha, don't! It's already nice enough that you left it open for other people to see. :P

Lol yes, don't feel guilty, I don't want that!  You just didn't want to buy a faulty product from the get-go, no shame in that! Like Broken said, you left them open for someone to see so they wouldn't end up with it, that's ok in my books!  :)

 :biggrin: ah, I don't feel too bad  :lol:

Scrubbed the bathroom today, brand new posh soap dispenser on the sink... only to find it has fallen into the toilet (after my child was playing in there <suspicious> hmmm)...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 25, 2017, 05:13:38 PM
This is a trivial complaint for sure. I saw some cookies I really wanted at a Family Dollar a week or so ago. I went back there to get them this time because I needed my sweets fill! Unfortunately I can't drive, so I had to walk. They were out of the cookies! I thought about there being a few more stores lined up within walking distance, and thought I should check them. By the time I got to the last place, still unsuccessful, I got a stomachache and it wasn't looking good for me to be able to make it back to my apartment. So I had to embarrass myself and ask the cashier for a key to use their bathroom. Then, they were out of paper towels to dry my hands.  -_-

I ended up buying Oreos, which really weren't what I wanted... But no way would I ask to go use their bathroom in such an embarrassing fashion and not buy something.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 25, 2017, 07:57:03 PM
My coworker gave me some mango iced tea to try yesterday! But I forgot that mango gives me canker sores.  :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on October 26, 2017, 12:25:46 AM
It's been snowing all night and I'm trying to bring myself to shovel a path out because the dog refuses to go out right now.

Also I should have had my period nine days ago and there is absolutely no sign of it which is stressing me out as I'm normally very regular.
Negative on the home pregnancy test I took the other day too.

And I'm broke so I can't visit my sister in december as I had hoped T_T

Thanks for this thread, I needed to whine!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 28, 2017, 03:29:42 PM
I was gonna rake the yard but it rained... well now that wont get done.  At least the house is clean.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on October 29, 2017, 03:24:20 AM
Mom: Can I take a picture of you?
Me: Sure, but only if you promise not to post it anywhere.
Mom: Oh, never mind then.

Am I being too old fashioned? I don't like that this is what society has come to, and I know my mom isn't the only person with this mindset.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on October 29, 2017, 01:13:32 PM
My husband and I don't post our pictures either.  I don't mind online friends seeing my pic, but there are sooo many trolls out there too and I just don't like the idea.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 29, 2017, 01:16:43 PM
Mom: Can I take a picture of you?
Me: Sure, but only if you promise not to post it anywhere.
Mom: Oh, never mind then.

Am I being too old fashioned? I don't like that this is what society has come to, and I know my mom isn't the only person with this mindset.

No, I think consent is important with pretty much everything - pictures included.

I played in a trio earlier this year, and had a really neat picture taken I would have liked to have posted on FB, but I have not because one of the performers is not on FB and I don't want to post a picture of her on there without her knowing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on October 29, 2017, 11:25:57 PM
I'm iffy about photos of me being posted on social media. Thankfully my friends always ask my consent and won't post if I say no. Think I lost both Sky Rockets I got in the newbie swap here. I have everything else from my swap box but them. :cry: :cry: Have torn apart my closet and looked all over my room.

It's killing me because I'm so carefully with that kind of thing....ugh...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: alkevin on October 30, 2017, 06:41:16 AM
I don´t like also: when you pm a seller and he never responds ( at least could say they don´t ship to my country ) and when the shipping is higher than the price of the figure ( mainly blind bags).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 30, 2017, 11:30:22 AM
Just had a co-worker get mad at me because earlier she said she had some slips I needed done but when I went to get them, she told me she was still printing them.  She chewed me out because I was frustrated that they weren't done when she told me they were already done.  Then she claimed she hadn't told me they were done, they were just in her office.  What she said was "I have these slips ready.  Do you want them right now?" and because I wasn't quite ready for them I told her I didn't need them right that second.  So excuse me for misunderstanding "These are ready" to mean that they are, in fact, NOT ready.  This is the same co-worker that I can't have a conversation with because she's such a drama queen that every little thing is an affront to her whole existence.   :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NightGliderSA on October 31, 2017, 02:27:23 AM
Mom: Can I take a picture of you?
Me: Sure, but only if you promise not to post it anywhere.
Mom: Oh, never mind then.

Am I being too old fashioned? I don't like that this is what society has come to, and I know my mom isn't the only person with this mindset.

No, I think consent is important with pretty much everything - pictures included.

I played in a trio earlier this year, and had a really neat picture taken I would have liked to have posted on FB, but I have not because one of the performers is not on FB and I don't want to post a picture of her on there without her knowing.

I totally agree. I don't post photo's of my kids on facebook. Too many weirdos have access so just - no. That is what WhatsApp is for.

Sorry about the annoying co-worker Pokeyonekenobie.

I am on hold trying to speak to someone at Home Affairs to find out what has happened to the marriage certificate my boss applied for in July. They can't be bothered to answer the phone. This is perfectly normal with our government departments. But he asked me to try...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 31, 2017, 04:50:07 AM
Amazon.uk has just started shipping things that I brought from them on Wednesday or Thursday.

Why are they taking so long!

 :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 31, 2017, 06:16:22 AM
I did something to my thumb and it really hurts.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 31, 2017, 02:38:48 PM
Hope the thumbs heals quickly, Ponyfan!

I am soo impatient, I know Halloween isn't *quite* over yet, but I just cannot wait to see all the Christmas decor in the stores! I popped over to IKEA this morning and they are only now just setting up the shelves with their pretty, sparkly knick-knacks. I bought 2 tins of their heart-shaped ginger cookie/biscuits as they are so delicious... then I popped over to Sainsburys who are just clearing shelf space too. I then went to NEXT who finally do have Christmas things in their Home dept; I bought some acorn baubles that will look cute on a small artificial tree that we have.
A quick trip into town and Wilco are selling their packs-of-3 craft baubles for £1 - perfect to fill with glitter etc and an activity I shall save for later with my kid.

Must. Be. More. Patient.
ARRRGGHH!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 02, 2017, 02:21:17 AM
I was supposed to get my Amiibo figure of Chrom on Tuesday (Halloween) from Anazon.co.uk, but it won't come now till next Tuesday because they was a problem with the delivery. Amazon is getting on my nerves, I never ever will do the £20 for super free delivery from them. I rather buy items from them that are just free delivery from a third party seller.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 03, 2017, 04:20:36 AM
Not happy with Disney Store Deluxe Doll Set, because it's Tangled the Series (thought the animated series was weird looking, but the dolls are as well).

Why couldn't they do the one that started it all into a deluxe doll set, or Picahontas? Or other Disney Princess movies that are underrated like Princess and the Frog, Mulan, Aladdin (counted this as underrated but I've already got the Deluxe Doll Set)?

Just because Rapunzel is the 50th Movie, doesn't mean that it gets a Deluxe Doll Set, while other movies haven't.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 03, 2017, 11:58:22 AM
Oh, speaking of deluxe doll sets, why did Disney Store stop selling the Cinderella + Stepsisters set.... and the Ariel/Vanessa/etc doll set? I did manage to buy them second-hand  last year but, oh my goodness, have you seen how much they sell for now on E-B?!?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 08, 2017, 05:08:13 AM
Had to cancel plans due to the bank withdrawing fees from my account with no notification whatsoever. Suddenly my balance was on minus. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on November 08, 2017, 08:45:10 AM
I have a headache. No exceptions. It isn't always unbearable, some days I barely notice it at all, but it's always there. I never gave it much thought when I was a kid, because I thought this is just how it feels to exist. Only after my mom told me most people only have a few headaches a year, I can't stop thinking about how unfair it is that I should be in pain all the time if no one else is.
I know I should just talk to a doctor about it, but I'm afraid of what the problem might be. Either it's something serious that I can't just ignore, or it's something relatively trivial like dehydration and I'm getting worked up over nothing. So instead of facing my fears so I can fix them, I'm choosing to be miserable and feel sorry for myself just like I always do :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Littlesparklepony on November 08, 2017, 09:15:42 AM
My new dentist was careless and didn´t know about my fear of dentists.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on November 08, 2017, 09:52:11 AM
I'm waiting to have physiotherapy on my hip. I was told they'd call to do a triage assessment "to speed up the process." Well it's been three weeks and no call so I rang my Dr. They said the triage is running at about a month right now and that's even before you get put on the waiting list for actual physio! I can't even walk my dog without suffering for it the next day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 09, 2017, 02:50:56 PM
Oh, speaking of deluxe doll sets, why did Disney Store stop selling the Cinderella + Stepsisters set.... and the Ariel/Vanessa/etc doll set? I did manage to buy them second-hand  last year but, oh my goodness, have you seen how much they sell for now on E-B?!?

As for the deluxe doll sets they only gave them out for a year (2016 was the year I got my Beauty and the Beast set, they finished selling it on January 2017)

Yes I've have, trying to see if I can get the dolls separate but they cost too much.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 09, 2017, 11:40:31 PM
Oh, speaking of deluxe doll sets, why did Disney Store stop selling the Cinderella + Stepsisters set.... and the Ariel/Vanessa/etc doll set? I did manage to buy them second-hand  last year but, oh my goodness, have you seen how much they sell for now on E-B?!?

As for the deluxe doll sets they only gave them out for a year (2016 was the year I got my Beauty and the Beast set, they finished selling it on January 2017)

Yes I've have, trying to see if I can get the dolls separate but they cost too much.

The stepsisters or stepmother alone and undressed - I've seen them go for over £50 each!  :shocked:
As for Vanessa - OMG...  -_-
I am so lucky to have got them when I did.

I saw someone do a dark-hair re-root of an Aurora doll (keeping the violet eyes, darkened + re-defined the eyebrows to look more devious) and they did a very good job of making a Vanessa custom.
 :art:

Trivial complaint - glitter - I love it - but HATE THE MESS after handling it. I decorated some cheap, plain baubles yesterday - they turned out great, but ugh, even trying my best to be tidy and I STILL get twinkly dust everywhere...  >_<


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on November 10, 2017, 01:47:50 PM

Trivial complaint - glitter - I love it - but HATE THE MESS after handling it. I decorated some cheap, plain baubles yesterday - they turned out great, but ugh, even trying my best to be tidy and I STILL get twinkly dust everywhere...  >_<




You can send your enemy a glitter filled card! There's a site somewhere that does it for you so when they open the card they get glitter everywhere! It's evil!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 10, 2017, 11:04:57 PM

Trivial complaint - glitter - I love it - but HATE THE MESS after handling it. I decorated some cheap, plain baubles yesterday - they turned out great, but ugh, even trying my best to be tidy and I STILL get twinkly dust everywhere...  >_<




You can send your enemy a glitter filled card! There's a site somewhere that does it for you so when they open the card they get glitter everywhere! It's evil!

Haha! Glitter-bomb! Now, that would be seriously annoying!

One Christmas I bought some rolls of beautiful wrap which had glittery reindeer on it - months later I was still finding sparkles shimmering within the carpet, even after rigorous vacuuming  >_<

Another complaint - a famous UK department store - John Lewis - has just launched its Christmas advert campaign (normally signalling that it is early enough for the nation to start getting festive decorations up - hmm still a bit too early IMHO) and the advert shows an amazing LED nightlight that projects pretty stars on your walls and ceiling - at £15 a great price - so 7am in the morning I look at their website...

SOLD OUT.

*stamps foot*
 -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on November 11, 2017, 08:57:24 AM

Trivial complaint - glitter - I love it - but HATE THE MESS after handling it. I decorated some cheap, plain baubles yesterday - they turned out great, but ugh, even trying my best to be tidy and I STILL get twinkly dust everywhere...  >_<




You can send your enemy a glitter filled card! There's a site somewhere that does it for you so when they open the card they get glitter everywhere! It's evil!

Haha! Glitter-bomb! Now, that would be seriously annoying!

One Christmas I bought some rolls of beautiful wrap which had glittery reindeer on it - months later I was still finding sparkles shimmering within the carpet, even after rigorous vacuuming  >_<

Another complaint - a famous UK department store - John Lewis - has just launched its Christmas advert campaign (normally signalling that it is early enough for the nation to start getting festive decorations up - hmm still a bit too early IMHO) and the advert shows an amazing LED nightlight that projects pretty stars on your walls and ceiling - at £15 a great price - so 7am in the morning I look at their website...

SOLD OUT.

*stamps foot*
 -_-

Yeah... Nowadays if you want to get your decorations, you need to get them in September or October.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 11, 2017, 10:23:01 AM
Yeah... Nowadays if you want to get your decorations, you need to get them in September or October.

It's crazier because they only just launched the sale of the light that morning!  >_<
It's so annoying!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 11, 2017, 12:15:12 PM
I have some family members that have decided to take home the free food items from restaurants. If we go to a restaurant that serves crackers when someone orders a meal, they will take the crackers home. Now they have started taking the fresh tortillas home when we eat at a Mexican restaurant. It shouldn't embarrass me but it does a little.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 12, 2017, 10:17:37 AM
We are short handed at work, at least I don't have to work thanksgiving. I work at a grocery store, it will be packed the next two weeks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: DazzleKitty on November 12, 2017, 06:44:42 PM
I am a wee bit nervous about starting a new job with horrible hours on Wednesday.

The day before, I have an interview for an even better job. I am hoping I get that one, and hence more nervousness about getting this one instead. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 13, 2017, 10:35:18 AM
Ugh public transport...

I drive everywhere because it takes up less of my day and I don't have to sit next to rude, sweary people who don't cover their mouths when they cough...

I had a hospital appointment at 4pm today in the town centre - there is NO space to park so I took the bus... the timetable just happening to be at the point where they are every half hour instead of every 10 mins - grouch #1

The hospital appointment was fast, friendly, straight-forward and done within 10 minutes.

Walked in the dark to get the bus home - gah, just missed it! grouch #2

Popped into a shop to kill some time for the next bus... eventually one came along but it was the one that did a very windy route - got on it anyway 'cos I was freezing grouch #3

got to the precinct a mile away from my house so hopped off to walk the rest home in the cold and dark - was happy to have worn my scarf and leather gloves, brrr too cold grouch #4

got home and lightheartedly said to my husband that it would have been nice if he had given me a lift home - only to be snapped at to be told that it was my fault for not taking the car in the first place?  :shrug: sheesh. grouch #5

Anyway, just made my dinner - and not his -  :devious:  :biggrin: :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 13, 2017, 12:04:06 PM
The A&W restaurant near my work just took 20 minutes to make an order of chicken strips.  Since they made my milkshake as soon as I ordered, it was completely melted.  Because they took so long, I don't get to eat my lunch before I go back to work.  That is the first time I've ever left a review on Google because the service was so terrible and I was so annoyed by it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 14, 2017, 06:58:03 AM
I really regret taking a 9AM class :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 14, 2017, 01:09:19 PM
Bought some furniture at IKEA today - 3 mini wardrobes - however, they only had 2 sets of doors to go on them... bought them anyway, the rest is supposed to be in-stock in December though  :pout:

Anyway, went to another store to buy some faceted crystal knobs to put on the other 2 sets of doors - they look lovely  ^.^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on November 14, 2017, 02:27:17 PM
Dominos messed up my order yesterday. Was too tired and ill to cook so thought it'd be quick and easy to send my sister out to get it. She was back right at 6pm when I wanted to eat, so I congratulated myself on my perfect timing. Next second I was opening a box to a mighty meaty instead of the veggie one I'd ordered (and was listed on it's label). Of course the other one had meat on it too so had to ring the store send sis back to go get the right one. Took 45 minutes and by that time my sister's were dried out from being in the oven, she didn't mind having two though and didn't complain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 14, 2017, 02:50:24 PM
I just want to live peacefully with my cat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 17, 2017, 09:06:04 AM
I picked up some nice metallic twigs, pinecones and woven wooden hearts to liven up the kitchen a bit and they look really nice but I will literally be hoovering up glitter for the next century now. They've shed everywhere. :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kakenterprise on November 17, 2017, 11:16:06 AM
Since I've started couponing I just ran out of space in all of my cupboards.  I'm going to be banned from buying cereal. I never knew how much you could save couponing.
  :blush:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on November 17, 2017, 04:56:30 PM
Cold one day hot the next, rinse and repeat. I am sick of this.  Let's get some freedom from summer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 17, 2017, 05:44:06 PM
We have a storm moving in, and it is making my shoulder ache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 17, 2017, 05:54:15 PM
I'm getting sick. Not miserable enough to be in bed, but still miserable. I've got the chills and I'm achey and blah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on November 17, 2017, 06:06:13 PM
I'm getting sick. Not miserable enough to be in bed, but still miserable. I've got the chills and I'm achey and blah.

Hope you feel better.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 17, 2017, 10:08:54 PM
I'm getting sick. Not miserable enough to be in bed, but still miserable. I've got the chills and I'm achey and blah.

Hope you feel better.

Ditto -  :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 17, 2017, 10:28:06 PM
New medication added to my regimen. I swear I eat more pills than food.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 18, 2017, 08:12:46 AM
Popped my knee last night bad enough that I couldn't move for about five minutes after it happened. (And I swore in front of my parents and my two little nephews.  Oops. :blush:  I'm supposed to be the good one that doesn't say things like that  :P)  It isn't sore this morning but it looks a little swollen and it feels stiff if I bend it or try to straighten it too far.  A 95 degree angle is about where it starts to feel stiff.  I just hope I didn't do anything really bad to it, especially because it doesn't actually hurt unless I bend it really wrong. :wonder: So now I get to sit around today and let it rest. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 18, 2017, 09:59:08 AM
Playing my Dragon Age Origins PS3 game, it froze on me. Got to restart the part I'm on all over again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 18, 2017, 10:48:58 AM
Popped my knee last night bad enough that I couldn't move for about five minutes after it happened. (And I swore in front of my parents and my two little nephews.  Oops. :blush:  I'm supposed to be the good one that doesn't say things like that  :P)  It isn't sore this morning but it looks a little swollen and it feels stiff if I bend it or try to straighten it too far.  A 95 degree angle is about where it starts to feel stiff.  I just hope I didn't do anything really bad to it, especially because it doesn't actually hurt unless I bend it really wrong. :wonder: So now I get to sit around today and let it rest.

Ouch not nice - and oops at the sweary moment!  :blush:

Took my kid to wear herself out at the indoor-play place this afternoon - job done!
My husband spent all day volunteering with a bunch of pals to renovate a church shed to become a food-bank centre - he is worn out too! They are both downstairs snuggled on the sofa under a blanket watching the live action Cinderella movie.

I am not in the mood to watch it, though! Maybe hormones... dunno...

That leaves me on my lonesome upstairs, browsing on my laptop, but it's ok  ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 18, 2017, 11:06:31 AM
Thanks Northstar and glitterball.

Post Merge: November 18, 2017, 11:07:35 AM

Popped my knee last night bad enough that I couldn't move for about five minutes after it happened. (And I swore in front of my parents and my two little nephews.  Oops. :blush:  I'm supposed to be the good one that doesn't say things like that  :P)  It isn't sore this morning but it looks a little swollen and it feels stiff if I bend it or try to straighten it too far.  A 95 degree angle is about where it starts to feel stiff.  I just hope I didn't do anything really bad to it, especially because it doesn't actually hurt unless I bend it really wrong. :wonder: So now I get to sit around today and let it rest.

We all slip in moments of pain. Some more then others. :p
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on November 18, 2017, 04:23:25 PM
Popped my knee last night bad enough that I couldn't move for about five minutes after it happened. (And I swore in front of my parents and my two little nephews.  Oops. :blush:  I'm supposed to be the good one that doesn't say things like that  :P)  It isn't sore this morning but it looks a little swollen and it feels stiff if I bend it or try to straighten it too far.  A 95 degree angle is about where it starts to feel stiff.  I just hope I didn't do anything really bad to it, especially because it doesn't actually hurt unless I bend it really wrong. :wonder: So now I get to sit around today and let it rest. 

I hope the pain has subsided. Also, you're fully justified in your slip up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2017, 11:30:02 AM
I am going to Freakin Hurt Walmart! I bought a stupid prepaid money card and can't even activate the bloody thing because it keeps telling me I entered an Invalid Birthdate! So I call walmart to find out wtf is going on and they give me a number for the same, worthles, PoC automated voice system with NO actual customer support whatsoever and it tells me to activate the bloody thing online. Umm hello?! If I could activate it online Morons, I wouldn't be calling this useless number now would I? Grr! So frustrated!  :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on November 20, 2017, 11:48:41 AM
I am going to Freakin Hurt Walmart! I bought a stupid prepaid money card and can't even activate the bloody thing because it keeps telling me I entered an Invalid Birthdate! So I call walmart to find out wtf is going on and they give me a number for the same, worthles, PoC automated voice system with NO actual customer support whatsoever and it tells me to activate the bloody thing online. Umm hello?! If I could activate it online Morons, I wouldn't be calling this useless number now would I? Grr! So frustrated!  :argh:
Oh for goodness sakes.  No good words for this.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2017, 11:55:37 AM
I am going to Freakin Hurt Walmart! I bought a stupid prepaid money card and can't even activate the bloody thing because it keeps telling me I entered an Invalid Birthdate! So I call walmart to find out wtf is going on and they give me a number for the same, worthles, PoC automated voice system with NO actual customer support whatsoever and it tells me to activate the bloody thing online. Umm hello?! If I could activate it online Morons, I wouldn't be calling this useless number now would I? Grr! So frustrated!  :argh:
Oh for goodness sakes.  No good words for this.

Agreed. I'm going to ask my boyfriend to try it, because I swear to the Gods, if I have to drag my sick, sorry, butt down To Walmart in the cold, the words coming outta my mouth will make South Park look tame!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 20, 2017, 12:20:17 PM
Agreed. I'm going to ask my boyfriend to try it, because I swear to the Gods, if I have to drag my sick, sorry, butt down To Walmart in the cold, the words coming outta my mouth will make South Park look tame!

Hehe, would love to be a fly on the wall for that
*sits back and munches popcorn*

anyway, it's a bummer, I hope you get it resolved soon!  :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2017, 12:40:17 PM
Agreed. I'm going to ask my boyfriend to try it, because I swear to the Gods, if I have to drag my sick, sorry, butt down To Walmart in the cold, the words coming outta my mouth will make South Park look tame!

Hehe, would love to be a fly on the wall for that
*sits back and munches popcorn*

anyway, it's a bummer, I hope you get it resolved soon!  :)

Me too. I want to get my grandma's christmas present to her before christmas and the gift can only be gotten online. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 20, 2017, 01:10:03 PM
Me too. I want to get my grandma's christmas present to her before christmas and the gift can only be gotten online. :(


Urgh, I hate it when it gets awkward like that. Maybe going in-store and not leaving until THEY call head-office (or wherever) to get is resolved will be the quickest way to sort this card out. Or maybe for them to do a one-off store order to get the web-only order to you?  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2017, 01:21:56 PM
I may have to do that glitterball. Hopefully I'll be able to calm down first. I'm sick and extra cranky today.

I wanna get my grandma one of those neat, lost item trackers. She is always losing her keys and this would be super helpful to her. I could also ask one of my relatives to order it for me and I'll send them the dough to buy it?

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 20, 2017, 01:54:39 PM
I may have to do that glitterball. Hopefully I'll be able to calm down first. I'm sick and extra cranky today.

I wanna get my grandma one of those neat, lost item trackers. She is always losing her keys and this would be super helpful to her. I could also ask one of my relatives to order it for me and I'll send them the dough to buy it?


That's a good plan-B... but make sure you somehow get your pre-paid card-money back too (although I know you are in a rush to get your Grandma's gift in good time).

I have a love/hate relationship with pre-paid gift cards - usually received as birthday gifts, I make a rule to spend them ASAP as I will only go on to forget about them and some go "stale" after a few months / year. This means I end up spending them on stuff that I didn't really want, or on boring (but useful) household things, just spending for the sake of not losing the money!  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 22, 2017, 01:00:53 AM
A couple of years ago Black Friday was unheard of in Sweden. Then people started to pick up about it and order things online from overseas so of course the retailers here had to jump on it. This year they're taking it too far in my opinion. Many stores have a so called Black Week with huge sales since Monday. My own chain is starting tomorrow and going until Monday (forget Black Friday and Cybermonday, we have Blackthursdaytomonday). I just feel like it's insane that we didn't only adopt an insane shoppingconcept, we managed to make it worse. .
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 22, 2017, 02:11:10 AM
Can't find my Disney Infinity figures of Anakin Skywalker, and Ansoka.

My Little Custom is sold out of the nylon hair I need for some of my ponies.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on November 22, 2017, 08:04:29 AM
So I decided to come home for Thanksgiving and be with my family and lovely dogs (they're family, too, of course, but I have to note them separately because they're that special!). It's been August since I've been home, so it's been quite some time. I was thinking "Do not forget anything while packing" but it's been sooo long.

I'm getting ready to take my shower this morning and finally realize what I forgot... Clean undergarments.  :drunk:

(I brought home some laundry and there is some in that batch, but I was going to wait until Saturday to do laundry... *sighs*)

A couple of years ago Black Friday was unheard of in Sweden. Then people started to pick up about it and order things online from overseas so of course the retailers here had to jump on it. This year they're taking it too far in my opinion. Many stores have a so called Black Week with huge sales since Monday. My own chain is starting tomorrow and going until Monday (forget Black Friday and Cybermonday, we have Blackthursdaytomonday). I just feel like it's insane that we didn't only adopt an insane shoppingconcept, we managed to make it worse. .

Actually this isn't too far off from US practices.

Some time ago, Black Friday began inching its way into Thanksgiving. Whereas now, for many retailers, the best deals - if not pretty much all of the deals - happen on Thanksgiving afternoon.

I worked in one of these retailers for several years and was really frustrated with these practices. I have no problem with Black Friday itself, but it needs to be a Friday thing, not a Thanksgiving thing.

I think it was 2014 I had a 12 hour shift going from Thanksgiving afternoon into Friday morning. =/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 22, 2017, 10:11:06 AM
Yes, I truly hate that Black Friday is now Thanksgiving afternoon.  I refuse to do any in person "Black Friday" shopping until 10 am on Friday at the earliest.  They never have anything I truly need and if what I want isn't still there (because most deals last until they sell out) then I'm not upset. If I really want it I'll see if I can get it online for the same price as advertised.  I think it's crap that people who work retail don't get to spend Thanksgiving with their families because of greedy corporate people (who I can guarantee are with their families that day).  I think the only way to stop it is to have people quit shopping on Thanksgiving, but unfortunately there are too many people who won't give up their "special deals" even though places like Walmart have those deals available online all day Thursday (in store the sales start at 6 pm) so it isn't even necessary to go to the store to get them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 22, 2017, 12:48:06 PM
Yeah.. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I hear you both Harmonie and Pokeyonekenobie. Sweden celebrates christmas on the 24th and they're doing the same to us then as they do to you on Thanksgiving. The Mall I work in is open till 3pm on christmas eve (thankfully I'm not the poor soul that has to work). Moms store was supppose to close at 5 pm but they managed to negotiate it til 3 by reminding corporate that they only had two customers between 3 and five last year. Stupid.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2017, 09:15:12 AM
I don’t shop in stores on Thanksgiving or extremely early Black Friday sales. I realize that shopping  at 2am is fun for some people and part of their tradditions but it’s not fun for me. Sometimes I will go to a store around 11 am on Black Friday.

I bought a brand new book last week and when I  started to read it at home I realized soneone put a security sticker in the book and accidentally “glued” the first page to the cover. There’s no way to remove the tag without tearing the first page. :( I can still read the book but I wish the page wasn’t glued.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 23, 2017, 09:29:17 AM
That's really annoying about the glued book, Ponyfan  >_<

Our posh microwave is getting old and unpredictable - I just made nuke-in-the-bag popcorn and most of it is scorched - yuck! Oh well, it stopped me eating it all...  :blush:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 23, 2017, 10:32:47 AM
We have a wonderful snowstorm this morning. I opted to bike anyway as I don't rely on my particual bussroute (electric buses that don't go well with the cold) and even if it was a struggle, it was beautiful outside with all the snow..
Came out from work to pouring rain and had to walk in slush! A couple of inches of snow all musched up in rain.. I was soaked to my skin when I came home.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on November 23, 2017, 11:10:25 AM
^ That sucks! That's how it is around here, too. It snows quite often, but it always has to rain right afterwards :pout:

My trivial complaint is that everything is offensive these days. This time, people are offended by an illustration of a wolf on a Norwegian predator-themed milk carton. Apparently, it's insensitive to farmers. I guess we should just ban art because nothing is politically correct anymore :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on November 24, 2017, 07:34:59 AM
^ OMG yes... People, grow a backbone! -_-

My complaint: I love Anneke van Giersbergen's voice so much, but her music is so boring! >_< I only love (and I mean LOVE) Endless Sea and The Moment from The Gentle Storm, and the entire Mandylion album from The Gathering. Everything else has been unable to impress me. I had high hopes for VUUR, but even though the sound is great, there's not one memorable song on the album. :|

Oh well then. No Anneke for me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 24, 2017, 09:49:36 AM
My trivial complaint is that everything is offensive these days. This time, people are offended by an illustration of a wolf on a Norwegian predator-themed milk carton. Apparently, it's insensitive to farmers. I guess we should just ban art because nothing is politically correct anymore :facepalm:

This, so much! Some people just seem to make an Olympic sport of needlessly getting their undies in a knot nowadays. :/

My complaint is the radio at work. Now I don't mind the music itself, it's refreshing to hear something different from what I normally listen to but the presenter. Just the worst! He was giving that whole "cooler than thou" garbage which is annoying anyway but coming from this guy, it was extremely tempting to troop down to the radio station and clout him round the head.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Strawberrysweets on November 24, 2017, 10:00:41 AM
^ That sucks! That's how it is around here, too. It snows quite often, but it always has to rain right afterwards :pout:

My trivial complaint is that everything is offensive these days. This time, people are offended by an illustration of a wolf on a Norwegian predator-themed milk carton. Apparently, it's insensitive to farmers. I guess we should just ban art because nothing is politically correct anymore :facepalm:

I laughed way to hard when I read that on VG. Drawing of a wolf. Cant wait til they get triggered by cartoon wolfs.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 24, 2017, 02:15:50 PM
Disney Store has still not got their Disney Animator Advent Calendar.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 24, 2017, 03:08:53 PM
Just people who wait too long to get sold out things, plan ahead stupid.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 25, 2017, 07:34:40 AM
So I bought some lamb liver yesterday, thinking that I would do a traditional liver n bacon in herby onion gravy with mashed potato + veggies for my husband - who likes liver (I don't).

I found a BBC Hairy Bikers recipe online + based my cooking on it, but tweaked it to include extra pepper + sage + also prepping the liver by soaking it in milk overnight...

All cooked beautifully, the gravy was so tasty, my husband loved it... then I took a bite out of a piece of liver - YUCK!  :X

I don't think that I'll ever like liver (or kidney either). I put my portion into a storage box + drove over to my Uncle's and gave it to him to eat (he loves liver)  :lol: ah well, I enjoyed the cooking part... I had a sandwich to eat  instead  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 26, 2017, 12:05:55 AM
I have been trying to get Pokemon Bank to work for the last six hours.  It keeps giving me connection error messages even though EVERY time I check the connection, it claims that it's working.  It's so annoying!  I've tried everything to get it to work, even resetting my router.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on November 26, 2017, 01:03:29 AM
My parents asked me to give them idea of what i want for Christmas. Well, I want sweaters. They asked for examples of what I'm looking for. Knowing my parents only do in-store shopping, I'm checking the websites of clothing chains with a store near me. And all the men's sweaters are in the same few colors: black, gray, navy blue, burgundy, and dark green. I don't like the 3 former colors, and I already have a lot of the two latter. I can't find anything in the colors I'm looking for: light blue, medium blue, light green, dark pink, or any shade of purple. I can't even find anything in yellow or orange. Talk about a restrictive color palate.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2017, 09:11:17 PM
Tried to put gas in my car tonight but I couldn't get the gas cap off.   This will make the third gas cap I've had to buy in the last two years.  I'm about to the point where I'm willing to get a new car just so I can have a gas cap that isn't crap.  :enraged:  I never had this problem with my last car...

Post Merge: November 29, 2017, 12:40:26 PM

Aaannnd I took my car to the dealer because I figured they must have a tool for stuff like this.  Turns out they don't and because I don't have an appointment they don't know how long it will take to get to.  It will cost $50 just to "diagnose the problem".  The problem is that the gas cap won't come off.  Then it'll cost depending on how long it takes to fix it and I'll need to buy a new gas cap.  So I'm guessing a minimum of $100 just to be allowed to put gas in my car.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 02, 2017, 09:15:17 AM
My laptop is making annoying noises when I play music. I sincerely hope that this isn't the beginning of the end of my ability to play music on this thing. :angry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 02, 2017, 10:40:43 PM
Found two old rolls of film while cleaning.  I don't know if anywhere near me will still develop them and I have no idea what's on them because I haven't used a film camera since 2006.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on December 04, 2017, 12:28:28 PM
The light in my fan in my bedroom went out and I don't know to remove the cover from it to put in a new light and there's no one around to help me (I could ask neighbors, but my bedroom especially is experiencing "End of semester" messiness syndrome and now I can't see to clean it, so...).

I sleep with the light on (I'm weird like that, but have my reasons), so this is a problem.

Should have known I can't fully adult. :cry:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Haruna on December 07, 2017, 08:51:56 PM
The light in my fan in my bedroom went out and I don't know to remove the cover from it to put in a new light and there's no one around to help me (I could ask neighbors, but my bedroom especially is experiencing "End of semester" messiness syndrome and now I can't see to clean it, so...).

I sleep with the light on (I'm weird like that, but have my reasons), so this is a problem.

Should have known I can't fully adult. :cry:
Aww, did you ever get it fixed?

Today I received a delivery of two canvas garment-thingies instead of the 100-count hangers I ordered. How will I hang up my clothes in the new house this weekend? I think they'll have to be draped on the floor. Hmm.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 08, 2017, 03:22:03 AM
Ugh. Pizza Hut gave me food poisoning :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on December 08, 2017, 08:36:08 AM
Collected kid from school - along with her half-finished lunch bag... juice box leaked EVERYWHERE in the car on the way home - too freeeezing outside to properly clean the car, so I am being a grotter and leaving it for now  :coffee: :angel:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 08, 2017, 12:30:32 PM
My friends think I'm silly for not writing in my dialect. I'm sorry, Norway has two official written languages, I'm not going to waste that by writing in a language that only sounds good when spoken... Not to mention the inconsistent grammar.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 08, 2017, 01:20:56 PM
I think I want to sell off my G3s but I don't know whether to do it piece by piece via the arena, which will result in multiple trips to the post office and making people pay for shipping or if I ought to just put a big lot on the local classifieds and have someone come and pick them all up at once.  The big lot is in some ways easier, but in the past when I've done this with other things, I've had people try to cheap out on the price I've set  and offer me less than half of what I was asking (which was ridiculously cheap for the items to begin with) so that's a hassle I don't want to deal with either.

I have definitely come to the conclusion that I was not ever meant to be in sales.   :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 08, 2017, 02:10:09 PM
Someone ate a bunch of candy  in the store and left the wrappers laying around. They didn’t even try to throw them away.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 09, 2017, 01:14:07 AM
Today is the only day I have time for bakning the goods for christmas and of course I had to wake up with a soar throat and feeling like sh*t.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 09, 2017, 02:52:04 PM
Today is the only day I have time for bakning the goods for christmas and of course I had to wake up with a soar throat and feeling like sh*t.

Hope you feel better.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 10, 2017, 05:12:02 AM
My Vixen build a bear still hasn't arrived to my house I'm :enraged:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 10, 2017, 11:51:55 AM
Today is the only day I have time for bakning the goods for christmas and of course I had to wake up with a soar throat and feeling like sh*t.

Hope you feel better.

Aaww, thanks. I feel a bit better now. :) Managed to make everything between sneezes and extreme washing of hands.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 10, 2017, 03:00:00 PM
I had to send cards out for a private card swap late, as I had run out of stamps.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 10, 2017, 11:14:29 PM
I hate my bed. It's so uncomfortable and the springs pop.

edit: I also hate when I make a new page!  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 11, 2017, 07:55:59 PM
I ordered two Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Star Lord Funko Pop Bobble heads for some customs (I needed their heads more than their bodies) and I can't use one of them because it's the chaser variant.   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on December 11, 2017, 11:29:10 PM
Visited parents yesterday, ate some lovley dinner (cottage pie) but today have awoken smelling of garlic!! (Dad's fault for adding more ingredients to the pan.)  :devious:

Also - awoke to find my kid had grabbed her soft toys and blanket + had camped on top of my legs overnight  :huh:  Still, she's warm + snuggly + it is so cute (even though I have dead legs now!) Husband has a bad cold so is sleeping in another room  :cool:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: HelloGoodbye on December 13, 2017, 11:11:04 AM
Yesterday was my birthday and while it was overall good, I've never had more people forget about it or ignore it  :(  Even someone who I've known for nearly 20 years and consider family forgot, and she was pretty mean to me on top of it because she was in a lousy mood.  Like I said, the day was otherwise very nice, but I'd be lying if I said that it didn't sting quite a bit.  I'm trying not to let her ruin it, but whenever I think of the day the first thing I think of is how darn nasty she was for no good reason  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 13, 2017, 05:39:08 PM
We had a -6 wind chill last night, and today it felt like a high of 2 outside.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on December 13, 2017, 09:20:44 PM
Yesterday was my birthday ...

Many happy (belated) returns!  :tort: :party:



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BethyVic on December 13, 2017, 09:49:56 PM
My mom wrote me a rather large check, as I was walking into the bank to deposit it, it blew out of my purse and into another parking lot. It was 17 degrees today.  It turns out she can cancel the check and write me a new one.  However, it happened after another driver gave me the finger.  So it made me sad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 14, 2017, 12:16:50 AM
Yesterday was my birthday and while it was overall good, I've never had more people forget about it or ignore it  :(  Even someone who I've known for nearly 20 years and consider family forgot, and she was pretty mean to me on top of it because she was in a lousy mood.  Like I said, the day was otherwise very nice, but I'd be lying if I said that it didn't sting quite a bit.  I'm trying not to let her ruin it, but whenever I think of the day the first thing I think of is how darn nasty she was for no good reason  :pout:

I wonder if maybe she had something stressing her out.
Happy belated birthday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 14, 2017, 01:13:35 AM
Yesterday was my birthday and while it was overall good, I've never had more people forget about it or ignore it  :(  Even someone who I've known for nearly 20 years and consider family forgot, and she was pretty mean to me on top of it because she was in a lousy mood.  Like I said, the day was otherwise very nice, but I'd be lying if I said that it didn't sting quite a bit.  I'm trying not to let her ruin it, but whenever I think of the day the first thing I think of is how darn nasty she was for no good reason  :pout:

Happy Belated Birthday!
I am unfortunaly very used to people forgetting my birthday. As a kid mom used to call our relatives to remind them but understandably stopped when I became an adult. Still it hurts every time.. Birthdays are supppose to be happy events. I am glad you still had a nice day, but yeah. I know the feeling. :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 14, 2017, 05:58:31 AM
Yesterday was my birthday and while it was overall good, I've never had more people forget about it or ignore it  :(  Even someone who I've known for nearly 20 years and consider family forgot, and she was pretty mean to me on top of it because she was in a lousy mood.  Like I said, the day was otherwise very nice, but I'd be lying if I said that it didn't sting quite a bit.  I'm trying not to let her ruin it, but whenever I think of the day the first thing I think of is how darn nasty she was for no good reason  :pout:

I am so sorry. People often forget my birthday as well. I used to get sad because in high school I had two classmates that had birthdays right before mine and all of our classmates made a big deal out of their birthdays but when mine came I was lucky if anyone remembered it.  My mom came up to school one year and decorated my locker for my birthday because I told her the other girls got theirs decorated but no one remembered to do mine. The last time I tried to have a birthday party in high school  only two people came.

I am sorry about your friend hurting you so deeply on your birthday. I cried myself to sleep one year because the person that I considered my very best friend and part of the family didn’t call or acknowledge my birthday. I found out later it was because she was angry about something I had said months earlier and her way of dealing with it was just to ignore me.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 14, 2017, 09:10:40 AM
Me and a friend bought some cacti with flowers on them as a present for another friend. We thought the flowers looked fake, but since the cacti had labels that said to water them and stuff, we figured they were real... except the flowers, which I now see have just been hot glued on, and I can't return them because the store won't accept plants :(
I may have to toughen up and complain...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 14, 2017, 05:25:03 PM
Me and a friend bought some cacti with flowers on them as a present for another friend. We thought the flowers looked fake, but since the cacti had labels that said to water them and stuff, we figured they were real... except the flowers, which I now see have just been hot glued on, and I can't return them because the store won't accept plants :(
I may have to toughen up and complain...

That is incredibly deceptive , I would raise a stink over that, it is almost borderline fraud and such.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 15, 2017, 09:41:11 AM
Today has been so weird. My scanner won't work, photoshop won't work properly, some of the documents on my computer are gone, and my friends have been acting weird too. I feel like I'm stuck in a dream where everything is slightly off.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 16, 2017, 02:16:28 AM
Rude people at the merch table at gigs always grind my gears. I'm sure the folks organising the whole do would've been sensible enough to ensure that they have enough shirts for everybody, I don't see why people feel the need to push and shove. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 16, 2017, 04:29:22 AM
I took part in a flashmob for a charity event and filmed it. I tried to uppload it in the commentsection of a thread I created about it on my very own page on facebook. It was approved and available to be viewed. Just, it's not showing up. Only place I can access it is on the list of events and in saved posts. It has a padlock, and I can't edit as I don't have authorisation for it and I don't understand why.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 21, 2017, 04:29:28 AM
I finally got round to restringing my violin and the E sounds like it's been smoking about 500 Woodbines daily for the last 20 years. I'm hoping it's just me going overboard with the rosin on the bow; I've no intention of mucking about with another set of strings just yet - not after that palaver! :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 23, 2017, 03:10:26 PM
I had this really obnoxious lady come into my work yesterday. We have a gift shop of donated items for our animal shelter. In the shop we had these finger pianos retailed at $51.00 each (they're merchandise from a store that went out of business, and are new not used). We had a sale for 30% off. We have chart for our volunteer cashiers that shows how much to take off for each dollar amount to save them time. Anyway, this lady sees the 30% off sign and the chart, and tells me she thought the finger pianos were only $15.30 (that's the dollar amount the chart said should be taken off).

So when I told her that the total after the 30% discount was $73.50 for two of the pianos, she had a fit. She started saying how she donates all her cans and bottles to our shelter, was taking a bunch of donated items to our shelter, her sister-in-law is leaving us thousands of dollars in her will, and insinuates that we therefore owe her special pricing (Btw: I don't know any of those 3 things to be true). She goes on and on about how the items have sat for a year unsold (which is true), and they'll just sit and collect dust if I don't give them to her at $10.00 apiece.

I had a mountain of work to do before the holidays, and just wanted her to just go away. So I said, "fine", and regretted it later. I hate people who carry themselves with a sense of entitlement.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 24, 2017, 04:15:01 AM
A combination of my period and a cold is making this a rather uncomfortable Christmas eve.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 24, 2017, 02:34:22 PM
I had this really obnoxious lady come into my work yesterday. We have a gift shop of donated items for our animal shelter. In the shop we had these finger pianos retailed at $51.00 each (they're merchandise from a store that went out of business, and are new not used). We had a sale for 30% off. We have chart for our volunteer cashiers that shows how much to take off for each dollar amount to save them time. Anyway, this lady sees the 30% off sign and the chart, and tells me she thought the finger pianos were only $15.30 (that's the dollar amount the chart said should be taken off).

So when I told her that the total after the 30% discount was $73.50 for two of the pianos, she had a fit. She started saying how she donates all her cans and bottles to our shelter, was taking a bunch of donated items to our shelter, her sister-in-law is leaving us thousands of dollars in her will, and insinuates that we therefore owe her special pricing (Btw: I don't know any of those 3 things to be true). She goes on and on about how the items have sat for a year unsold (which is true), and they'll just sit and collect dust if I don't give them to her at $10.00 apiece.

I had a mountain of work to do before the holidays, and just wanted her to just go away. So I said, "fine", and regretted it later. I hate people who carry themselves with a sense of entitlement.

You need to put up a sign that says "Putting up with your bad attitude carries a $100 charge." and then actually enforce it for people like her.  ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 24, 2017, 04:07:59 PM
I had this really obnoxious lady come into my work yesterday. We have a gift shop of donated items for our animal shelter. In the shop we had these finger pianos retailed at $51.00 each (they're merchandise from a store that went out of business, and are new not used). We had a sale for 30% off. We have chart for our volunteer cashiers that shows how much to take off for each dollar amount to save them time. Anyway, this lady sees the 30% off sign and the chart, and tells me she thought the finger pianos were only $15.30 (that's the dollar amount the chart said should be taken off).

So when I told her that the total after the 30% discount was $73.50 for two of the pianos, she had a fit. She started saying how she donates all her cans and bottles to our shelter, was taking a bunch of donated items to our shelter, her sister-in-law is leaving us thousands of dollars in her will, and insinuates that we therefore owe her special pricing (Btw: I don't know any of those 3 things to be true). She goes on and on about how the items have sat for a year unsold (which is true), and they'll just sit and collect dust if I don't give them to her at $10.00 apiece.

I had a mountain of work to do before the holidays, and just wanted her to just go away. So I said, "fine", and regretted it later. I hate people who carry themselves with a sense of entitlement.

You need to put up a sign that says "Putting up with your bad attitude carries a $100 charge." and then actually enforce it for people like her.  ;)

LOL, that'd be great :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 24, 2017, 04:43:20 PM
I pre-ordered an anime series on blu-ray in a set with a bunch of extras (art book, posters, etc.) and it was supposed to arrive 12/18 with some other things I'd ordered but it wasn't in the box.  The packing slip said that it was supposed to be in there so I contacted the company I ordered it from and it took them three days to get back to me and now they're on vacation for the holidays--and I still have to prove to them that they didn't send it to me.  So even though I ordered it more than a month before it was due out I won't get it until at least a month after it was released.  And everyone else who got it is raving about how wonderful the set is.  I want my show darnit!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 24, 2017, 10:45:30 PM
I pre-ordered an anime series on blu-ray in a set with a bunch of extras (art book, posters, etc.) and it was supposed to arrive 12/18 with some other things I'd ordered but it wasn't in the box.  The packing slip said that it was supposed to be in there so I contacted the company I ordered it from and it took them three days to get back to me and now they're on vacation for the holidays--and I still have to prove to them that they didn't send it to me.  So even though I ordered it more than a month before it was due out I won't get it until at least a month after it was released.  And everyone else who got it is raving about how wonderful the set is.  I want my show darnit!

Uggh...Yeah that's one of the big negatives this time year. Businesses are busier, which likely means more errors and then it's harder to get things resolved because of reduced hours/closed days due to the holidays. I hope they get it sorted out for you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 24, 2017, 11:04:35 PM
I pre-ordered an anime series on blu-ray in a set with a bunch of extras (art book, posters, etc.) and it was supposed to arrive 12/18 with some other things I'd ordered but it wasn't in the box.  The packing slip said that it was supposed to be in there so I contacted the company I ordered it from and it took them three days to get back to me and now they're on vacation for the holidays--and I still have to prove to them that they didn't send it to me.  So even though I ordered it more than a month before it was due out I won't get it until at least a month after it was released.  And everyone else who got it is raving about how wonderful the set is.  I want my show darnit!

Uggh...Yeah that's one of the big negatives this time year. Businesses are busier, which likely means more errors and then it's harder to get things resolved because of reduced hours/closed days due to the holidays. I hope they get it sorted out for you.

I'm just glad it was something for myself and not supposed to be a gift for someone.  Otherwise I would have had to find something else extremely last minute.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Skylar on December 28, 2017, 03:21:32 PM
People who say the are going to pay for stuff but on the day they say they are going to pay you, you get a message saying "Can you hold the stuff alittle longer?" Have had it happen 3 times in the last month and inevitably they just disappear wasting my time yet again. Why can't people just do what they say they are going to do?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 29, 2017, 12:46:14 AM
I have thoroughly spooked myself reading about prions. Why do I do these things.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 29, 2017, 10:10:38 PM
My oldest cat came walking after eating, sat beneath the christmastree beside me and pooped on the carpet, then walked away like it was nothing. :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SunbeamV on December 29, 2017, 10:46:32 PM
This week between various December holidays and New Years sucks. Feels like time has slowed to an absolute crawl and nobody knows what to do with themselves because we have to wait a couple more days to start improving our lives.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on December 29, 2017, 11:12:31 PM
My oldest cat came walking after eating, sat beneath the christmastree beside me and pooped on the carpet, then walked away like it was nothing. :blink:

Sounds like your cat was trying to make a statement.

I won a Visa gift card, and decided to treat myself to some new clothes. After a couple hours of looking at items on Ebay, I figured out what I wanted, loaded the shopping cart feature, and went to checkout. Well, it turns out I can't use my gift card as a method of payment through PayPal.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on December 30, 2017, 06:15:34 AM
I’m feeling useless and defeated.
Having cramps and just want to sleep.
Worried that I will never be a productive member if society and just burden those I love.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 30, 2017, 08:33:05 AM
I’m feeling useless and defeated.
Having cramps and just want to sleep.
Worried that I will never be a productive member if society and just burden those I love.

:hug:  Just Keep Swimming, sweetie!  One day you'll find that thing you love to do and you will use it to contribute to society and you will do it with style and grace. As Miss Frizzle says: Take chances, make mistakes and get messy!  Your life is going to take its own path and even though it's hard not to (sometimes really really really hard not to!), you can't compare it to someone else's path.  Your path with take you to amazing places and experiences if you let it so keep your head up and your eyes open.  You never know what you might see.  Like the song says: Sometimes things looks bad. Then *poof* the moment is gone! And what do we do?  We just keep swimming on.... (these lyrics are from Finding Nemo: The Musical) :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on December 30, 2017, 01:08:04 PM
I’m feeling useless and defeated.
Having cramps and just want to sleep.
Worried that I will never be a productive member if society and just burden those I love.

:hug:  Just Keep Swimming, sweetie!  One day you'll find that thing you love to do and you will use it to contribute to society and you will do it with style and grace. As Miss Frizzle says: Take chances, make mistakes and get messy!  Your life is going to take its own path and even though it's hard not to (sometimes really really really hard not to!), you can't compare it to someone else's path.  Your path with take you to amazing places and experiences if you let it so keep your head up and your eyes open.  You never know what you might see.  Like the song says: Sometimes things looks bad. Then *poof* the moment is gone! And what do we do?  We just keep swimming on.... (these lyrics are from Finding Nemo: The Musical) :hug:

This made me smile on an otherwise rough day.
I’m so grateful and I do feel more motivated again.
Thank You <3
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Bewilderbeast on December 30, 2017, 02:06:20 PM
I had an apology blow up in my face on top of finding out some people in a group chat I was in didn't want me there and just didn't say anything, hoping I'd go away on my own. So now I've lost one of my favourite places to be as well as found out people I considered friends didn't consider me a friend back.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 31, 2017, 04:06:54 AM
My mom and my sister are away to handle a family crisis and my other siblings are with their friends on New year's eve, which is the day when we're usually all together. I actually had to cancel plans with my own friends so my dad wouldn't have to be alone... but at least the two of us can have a nice eve.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 31, 2017, 10:17:27 AM
I fell down on some icy gravel, so now both hands, knees, and my face on one side is all bruised and cut.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on January 01, 2018, 02:00:23 PM
thanks to the bout of norovirus over the holidays, my IBS is worse than ever and I need meds to star regular.
Food that only trigger very slight reactions, now causes pain and bloating.

Stupid cr***y holiday!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on January 05, 2018, 02:22:52 PM
When someone says "maybe," it shouldn't actually mean "no. "
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on January 05, 2018, 04:00:41 PM
Macys stores are closing and sadly the one I work at is one of them :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 05, 2018, 11:15:14 PM
Oh, no Pikashoes! I am so sorry! :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on January 06, 2018, 08:15:21 AM
Oh, no Pikashoes! I am so sorry! :hug:
:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on January 06, 2018, 01:20:33 PM
Sick of being sick. :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 06, 2018, 03:50:12 PM
It's really cold here. The temp was 27F the other night. That's not my complaint though. My dad turned the heat on :huh:

He's always yelling at us to open the windows and shut off the AC when it's 80 out but we get this nice cold front for a change and... he turns the heat on. I kept my window open >.>

I'd rather be cold and get under a bunch of blankets for a week than sweat to death 99% of the year!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 06, 2018, 07:25:11 PM
It's really cold here. The temp was 27F the other night. That's not my complaint though. My dad turned the heat on :huh:

He's always yelling at us to open the windows and shut off the AC when it's 80 out but we get this nice cold front for a change and... he turns the heat on. I kept my window open >.>

I'd rather be cold and get under a bunch of blankets for a week than sweat to death 99% of the year!

You kind of live in the wrong place, then. lol.

Anyway, I understand where you're coming from. When I was in high school my parents waited forever to turn on the air-conditioner. Like it was in the 90s and miserable and the AC still would not be on because it was just too expensive.

...Flip that around to the winter and the heater gets turned on the instant it hits below freezing for an overnight temperature.

I always thought that the cold is so much easier to deal with. Heat is intolerable.

Thankfully once my family started to get English bulldogs the air conditioner was turned on much, much quicker.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 06, 2018, 07:47:44 PM
I bought two movies online that I couldn't find in stores. Both movies came quicker than I thought they would, but one movie has a hole in the case. I don't think I can return since the disks are okay, but I wonder how someone didn't notice that the case had a hole in it and pieces were breaking off.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on January 09, 2018, 12:33:37 PM
My IBS is much worse since I had the norovirus, sellers on ebay sell be broken or fake zhus then don't refund me, someone at the local autisum group likes me ( as in 'like' likes me) and I don't know what to do about it, My guinea is bleeding from her downstairs but is acting normally ( already been to the vet and had both anti biotics and anti inflamatories)
 Bedroom is a mess but always too busy to tidy it and I hate the cold weather we have right now.

*whimpers into pillow*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 09, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
I'm so tired :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 10, 2018, 06:31:46 PM
My teachers have forgotten that we are human beings and have lives and have given us so much homework that I only finish when it is time to go to bed. I even had to read a book this morning for a quiz about a few chapters we had on it because I couldn't finish yesterday. I'm soooo tired I can barely keep my eyes open!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 11, 2018, 12:29:29 AM
It is -15 degrees celcius outside and the cats are insisting firmly that they all want to go out on the balcony.. Fine, but after realising it is in fact really cold, they come in again, just to think it has become warmer and will try again a couple of minutes later. :nuts:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 11, 2018, 11:20:47 AM
This going to sound really petty but I was looking at Christmas wrapping paper and there were two other people looking also. I found some I was interested in but it had been torn open and ripped. I said something about the paper being opened and the person I was with starting helping me look for more of that paper. The other two people suddenly grabbed the last roll of paper of the design I was looking for. Its not that they grabbed the roll of paper, they were there first,  but they made a big deal about getting the paper , announcing loudly that they got it.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on January 11, 2018, 02:30:32 PM
This going to sound really petty but I was looking at Christmas wrapping paper and there were two other people looking also. I found some I was interested in but it had been torn open and ripped. I said something about the paper being opened and the person I was with starting helping me look for more of that paper. The other two people suddenly grabbed the last roll of paper of the design I was looking for. Its not that they grabbed the roll of paper, they were there first,  but they made a big deal about getting the paper , announcing loudly that they got it.

Ponyfan

Hey it is the trivial complaints thread :). Plus, I don't think that's petty. I'd be annoyed too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on January 11, 2018, 02:55:13 PM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

See also:  People who walk in the middle of the sidewalk so there is no room to get around them, instead of picking the left or right and sticking to it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 11, 2018, 03:38:17 PM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

They expect you to move first.

Take up a tackle position, assert dominance :sly:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on January 11, 2018, 04:57:49 PM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

See also:  People who walk in the middle of the sidewalk so there is no room to get around them, instead of picking the left or right and sticking to it.

Yea people are the same way with their grocery carts in the grocery store.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 12, 2018, 05:08:37 AM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

They expect you to move first.

Take up a tackle position, assert dominance :sly:

So much this! People staring at smartphones are a nightmare as well, when they go swerving diagonally across the pavement. Tackling them just on principle feels veeeery tempting. :devious:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 12, 2018, 06:39:26 AM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

See also:  People who walk in the middle of the sidewalk so there is no room to get around them, instead of picking the left or right and sticking to it.

What I get annoyed with is when there are two people walking together taking up the whole sidewalk and one of them doesn't move to let me stay on the sidewalk.

People are so inconsiderate.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on January 12, 2018, 04:56:14 PM
Once a lady in the grocery store wasn't paying attention and slammed into my basket.  Then she had the nerve to yell at me for hitting her. I was all the way on the side of the isle mind you. I was still because I saw her coming and had no place to go.  I let her slam into me because I had a stack of people behind me and the right side was waiting for her to get her act together.  She got in my face and yelled at me.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 13, 2018, 04:56:17 AM
I really want to get stuck into these super tasty cheese and onion rolls but I can't have lunch until my housemate gets back from work, because we're meant to be having some kind of little party together.
I might go and sneak one from the fridge anyway. It's my birthday, I can do whatever I want! XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 13, 2018, 02:17:50 PM
I've been restarting my X Pokemon Game so that I can breed a bunch of scatterbugs that will evolve into the various forms of vivillon and save them in my Pokemon bank for use in future games.  However, I am annoyed to find that there are going to be six forms that I will be unable to breed in my game (assuming that the various websites--all of which have some variations--are correct) and will have to trade for them.  I had wanted to have a game where my characters were all named after Disney characters and have my guy named Walt, just for fun.  Now I won't get to have all the vivillons with Disney names unless I arrange to have someone name some special for me.

And I'm running out of names to use with my starters because I keep getting females!  I am going to have to convince myself that the pokemon don't have to resemble the Disney character...but I am going to have a Furfrou named Georgette.  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on January 14, 2018, 03:33:09 PM
What is with people who clearly see you on the sidewalk, yet head straight for you?  Just????  Do they think I am a mirage they can walk through?  Do they expect me to grow wings and fly away before they collide with me?

They expect you to move first.

Take up a tackle position, assert dominance :sly:
I've had this issue before at my local mall, where I would have to dodge people. Now I make odd eye contact and they move lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 14, 2018, 03:57:48 PM
I lost hours of sleep due to being a little sick and having some pretty severe heartburn. Essentially I had a pretty bad sinus headache and then that heartburn. My body would not fall asleep! So frustrating!

Thankfully this is a three day weekend, and today is a Sunday, so I didn't have any obligations... But still. Anytime I try to lay down the heartburn comes back. I don't know what to do about it. My mom tells me to use cough drops... But I don't know.

On top of that I woke up to the living room being really warm and muggy. I was having cold shivers overnight as a result of being sick so I thought it might not actually be warm and it was just because I am sick, but I do have a thermometer in there and could verify that it was actually much warmer than it was the day before. Usually this happens when it warms up outside, but it was well below freezing this morning and didn't get out of the 40s for a high so that doesn't make any sense. Yesterday it was so cold, I actually had to turn on my heater!

I've come to the conclusion that somehow one of the neighbors has left their heater on too long and it has somehow come over here, but I've never really had that happen before. So it's still kind of a mystery to me. I really hope this is not a trend. I had to turn my air conditioner on for a while even though it was 40 degrees outside.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 14, 2018, 04:43:02 PM
I hope you feel better soon Harmonie! Heartburn stinks.

My complaint is that nail polish never sticks to my nails. Ever. It's the reason I don't wear it. I used to, but it would chip off completely in a couple of days. I was getting out all my glittery nail polish for the flimsy wing photo derby to make some props and saw a base coat hiding in the back. I got it because I thought it would stick, but then I guess I forgot about it. I put two coats on yesterday (first time I have worn nail polish in years) and it did pretty well yesterday. I only put the base coat on and no color on top though because I am weird I guess lol XD There was only one little scratch on my thumb. Today it is peeling off like a bad peel off base coat in sizes of one of Peachy's hearts or less. I wonder why no polish will every stick to my nails! Maybe it's my ph in my nails reacting with the polish or something? Who knows.
I would buff my nails to get them rough so the polish would stick but buffing files away the layers of your nail and damages it. I also don't have access to gel polish.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 14, 2018, 07:47:56 PM
When will I learn to stop being free tech support for my family?  :shakefist:

My sister asked me to do maintenance on her computer because it was running slow. It's basic stuff but somehow even if I write it down everyone always "forgets" how to do it.

Before clearing her browser history I asked if she had ALL her usernames and passwords written down in a physical place. Yes, she said.

Minutes later she came back to me and said she can't login to Facebook because she lost her password, how can she get a new one?   

"I asked you if you had that info!"
"Yeah, but not that one."

:argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 15, 2018, 02:57:25 AM
When will I learn to stop being free tech support for my family?  :shakefist:

My sister asked me to do maintenance on her computer because it was running slow. It's basic stuff but somehow even if I write it down everyone always "forgets" how to do it.

Before clearing her browser history I asked if she had ALL her usernames and passwords written down in a physical place. Yes, she said.

Minutes later she came back to me and said she can't login to Facebook because she lost her password, how can she get a new one?   

"I asked you if you had that info!"
"Yeah, but not that one."

:argh:

Can relate. My Uncle got a new tablet for christmas and asked my Dad if he wanted the old one. Since Dad is always borrowing Mum's tablet, we all thought it a good idea for him to say yes. Of course, this arrived before I went back to London, and I had to help him set it up, and then answer all the questions - mostly from Mum, who should know the answer having one of her own, but just 'wanted to make sure'...sigh.

Happily since I came back to London, they seem to be figuring it out. Dad's just had minor surgery on his leg, so the tablet is keeping him amused. Happy ending...I hope.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thunderwing on January 16, 2018, 03:31:21 PM
I always have great plans to do house work/repairs on the weekend, but am always too tired and sore from the work week. So the house stays messy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 16, 2018, 04:14:53 PM
I hate that I am apparently the only person in the entire world that can park in the center of the parking space.  I was parked in the center of my spot, with ample space on both sides and the person who parked to the right of my vehicle parked OVER the line, leaving less than a foot of space between their car and mine, resulting in chipping the paint on my car when they exited their vehicle.  There are also two new very straight scratches along the top of the trunk of my car.  I had to fight VERY hard not to key their vehicle in retaliation.  Really, there is NO reason for anyone to be touching my vehicle. :enraged:

One of these days I might create a device that delivers 10,000 volts of electricity into anything that touches my car.  That'll teach them to keep their %&@# hands to themselves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on January 16, 2018, 05:35:59 PM
When my mom needs to use my phone for whatever reason, she never knows how to use it and has to ask me for help.


We own the same phone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 17, 2018, 01:17:03 AM
Facebook thinks I have too few friends and has locked my flow (is that what it's called in english?). I can see nine posts and then comes the note that I need new friends to see more. I can bypass it somewhat by going into each persons or groups personal wall and see what's been posted but in the long run, it's a rather annoying thing to have to do. I find it baffling that facebook prefer quantity over quality and I am in no mood to befriend random people just to see what my actual friends and family posts.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 17, 2018, 02:31:17 AM
Because Diabetes, Trigeminus Neuralgia, Hashimoto, blablabla (I save my breath to include everything else here too) isnt enough : todays appointment gave me a bonus, yaaaaay... just got diagnosed with (intrinsically) Asthma. Sure why not. One more thing to worry. Come on, shove more on me, mooooore. I can surely handle it all. -_- soo fed up, soooooo fed up with it all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 17, 2018, 05:15:16 AM
Captchas on jobhunting websites. I want to send off an application and go looking for more opportunities, not waste ages clicking on pictures of street signs, only to have yet more pictures of street signs thrown at me. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 17, 2018, 03:31:12 PM
My laptop.

So this laptop was given to me ostensibly to make my life easier at university. It doesn't.

Laptop (known as Fuyu, computers need names so you can yell abuse at them properly) has lived with me since I began my PhD in 2015. Fuyu is the Japanese word for winter, as she is snow white.

Since the start she has touchpad issues. It cuts out and freezes or gets stuck on zoom and zooms in and out unnecessarily.

She's also developed gradual decay of her keyboard function to the extent I had to get it replaced (of course, she began with the numbers I need to write about 12th century Japan and G1...) I aalso learned how many words unexpectedly use the letter Q.

When the keyboard was replaced, all her internal working was attached to the keyboard not the base. The guy who replaced her keyboard had to take her apart and completely rebuild her JUST to replace the keyboard. Weirdly, she worked better after that for a while. But now she's back to her old tricks.

She's also now crashing Word about 1 in seven attempts to add a reference. It's totally random. So far she hasn't lost any of my work, but meh.

Today at least I discovered a way to reset the touchpad that so far seems to be working, if annoying to have to do. My solutions up to this point had been to either hit the touchpad till it works again or turning the computer upside down and back again, both of which are completely ludicrous but for some reason work. It ought to be a hardware issue given that, but apparently the software reset works. I've had this computer almost 3 years. I only JUST learned that.

And yet I do not give up on her. This PC is my PhD PC. She WILL finish writing it with me O.O. Or else.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 19, 2018, 03:29:31 AM
I thought I'd found one of the last two Pogles storybooks I needed to complete my collection, only to be contacted by the seller to say it'd already been sold and they couldn't find another copy of it.
Serves me right for collecting things that are ridiculously difficult to find. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on January 19, 2018, 08:06:20 PM
I hate unscrupulous businesses. And we've dealt with several  at work this week:

My boss ordered some labor law posters a few days ago. Then on Wed, the company called and said the order had to be put on hold. They wanted us to spend additional money on additional posters. My boss reiterated multiple times to the rep that we weren't interested in any additional items. Finally the rep said they'd ship the order. The company called again today. Another rep gave me the same story. They put our order on hold, they needed to speak to my boss, etc... So my boss told me to cancel the order and have them mail our check back. I reiterated that to the rep. Who then said, "Oh I just realized we already sent your order."

We have a Postage Due account for returned mail. Last week, the post office notified us that the funds were getting low. Well they called again this week and said, "Your postage due account is low. We told you last week, and you people still haven't done anything about it." My boss pulls out her checkbook and said it was replenished several days before and she had the receipt to prove it. Come to find out they'd applied the payment to some other account. This is not the first time they'd called us about something and gotten nasty, only for it to turn out to be their own mistake.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 20, 2018, 09:40:41 AM
I've been sitting in one position too long and now my leg is asleep. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 20, 2018, 02:17:47 PM
I'm trying to write a fanfiction story. I can think up lots of ideas when I'm not trying to but when I sit down and try to write out the ideas I seem to lose them or they don't flow well.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 23, 2018, 04:45:24 AM
This book I'm reading right now, started out with a perfectly logical conflict, then the central point of that conflict was turned into a big dramatic plot twist!!! And said twist is also a huge plot hole that you could drive an 18-wheeler through. I figured the plot was fairly solid for a mushy romance until that happened, so now I'm just pointlessly irritated when all I wanted to do was have a nice time reading something a bit trashy. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 23, 2018, 01:27:54 PM
The fact that shipping from Norway to USA apparently starts at 47$. I was going to try to sell some ponies, but now I'm not so sure I have the heart to tell people that shipping is ten times as expensive as the thing they're trying to buy :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 23, 2018, 10:53:53 PM
I have several small complaints. My manager sent me a text Monday, about him having to leave early yesterday as both wife and kids as well as himself are sick. Somehow it got lost on the way and landed in my phone yesterday evening after my shift ended. I don't know if it's his or my phone that's responsible for it, but it doesn't feel ok that a text take more than 24 hours to arrive.

Speaking off, we don't have a replacement for a coworker who quit still. We have an extra that can come in after class, meaning this week I get to eat by the register as I don't have anyone to cover my lunchbreak.

Yesterday I went to work in a crisp -14degree C (6,8F) beautiful winterlandscape. This morning there is a snowstorm and only -1,4 (29,48F), meaning the road is more or less like slush. Yaaaaaay! >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on January 24, 2018, 02:54:00 PM
I have several small complaints. My manager sent me a text Monday, about him having to leave early yesterday as both wife and kids as well as himself are sick. Somehow it got lost on the way and landed in my phone yesterday evening after my shift ended. I don't know if it's his or my phone that's responsible for it, but it doesn't feel ok that a text take more than 24 hours to arrive.

Our volunteer coordinator at work was having the same issue with her voicemail a couple months ago. She was getting voicemails a week after people left them. It was weird. I left her a message like, "So and so can't make it in to volunteer today." Then a week later she called me and said they aren't scheduled today. And I'd tell her I'd left her that message when the person was scheduled the previous week. She said it became an ongoing issue with her phone. It was resolved, but I'm not sure how.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on January 24, 2018, 07:51:10 PM
Four years ago I lent out a copy of one of my favorite books, and I still haven't gotten it back. The movie comes out Friday and I'd love to read the book again before I see it, but that won't happen unless my sister actually gives it back. I've been bugging her everyday for weeks now and yet no book.

Needless to say I won't be lending out books for a while due to trust issues.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 27, 2018, 07:26:01 AM
I have several small complaints. My manager sent me a text Monday, about him having to leave early yesterday as both wife and kids as well as himself are sick. Somehow it got lost on the way and landed in my phone yesterday evening after my shift ended. I don't know if it's his or my phone that's responsible for it, but it doesn't feel ok that a text take more than 24 hours to arrive.

Our volunteer coordinator at work was having the same issue with her voicemail a couple months ago. She was getting voicemails a week after people left them. It was weird. I left her a message like, "So and so can't make it in to volunteer today." Then a week later she called me and said they aren't scheduled today. And I'd tell her I'd left her that message when the person was scheduled the previous week. She said it became an ongoing issue with her phone. It was resolved, but I'm not sure how.

So weird. I just hope it doesn't happen again. This text was just a heads up for me to be prepaired but what if he sends something of more importance? Don't like it at all.


Four years ago I lent out a copy of one of my favorite books, and I still haven't gotten it back. The movie comes out Friday and I'd love to read the book again before I see it, but that won't happen unless my sister actually gives it back. I've been bugging her everyday for weeks now and yet no book.

Needless to say I won't be lending out books for a while due to trust issues.

I once got a call from my local library that a book with my name on it had been turned in. I practically lived in the library at the time and was grateful they saw the book was mine.. but it was the last time I lent out a book to anyone.


My complaint of the day: Went groceryshopping. The slush from wednseday has freezed and since none bothered to come and scrape it away the ground is almost impossible to walk on. Tiretracks from bikes and cars along with footprints makes the ground so uneven. Oh, they were nice enough to put gravel on it but it doesn't help with the uneveness. Thinking I had a problem walking? I am so impressed with the old man who dared go out with his walker! My heart beat so hard in my chest when I saw him take one tiny step at the time on that ice!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 27, 2018, 10:54:12 AM

I once got a call from my local library that a book with my name on it had been turned in. I practically lived in the library at the time and was grateful they saw the book was mine.. but it was the last time I lent out a book to anyone.


I worked in a library for some years, and generally if a book isn't library property, some effort does go into finding where it belongs. If there's a name in it then we used to check the borrower register and then get in touch with that borrower to find out if it was theirs. Although usually they had brought back their own book by mistake, not someone else O.O. Any that weren't claimed ended up in the book sale though we did our best with lost books.

My trivial complaint. Dogs do not belong on bus seats. Dogs do not belong on the upper deck of buses, either.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 27, 2018, 12:35:30 PM
Eta: might be too heavy for this thread.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SweetScoops on January 28, 2018, 01:46:42 PM
Trivial complaint: Planning seat placements for the wedding dinner is turning out to be harder than I thought and I feel ridiculous for crying about it! :-(
And I still have to call my dad and tell him I'm getting married and he's not invited even though our relationship is better than ever and I know he really wan't to come.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 28, 2018, 07:45:08 PM
A couple of things:

1. I was hoping to get to see even a dusting of snow on campus before I graduated. However, I guess that's just too tall of an order. I have never seen a single snowflake fall since I've come here. Snow chances keep on appearing in the forecast but then vanish into thin air before the day comes. Now that we're going into February, the high temperatures will be more regularly in the 60s and all precipitation will be rain for sure. Goodbye, winter.  :sad:

2. I hate it when on iTunes (or other services, like Amazon) a song I want is only available if I purchase the whole album. I don't get enough iTunes cards to buy whole albums... Especially when they turn out to cost $40! Even a $9.99 album is well past my budget, though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Dreamer on January 29, 2018, 09:16:57 AM
Ayyy lost an auction on something i really wanted  :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on January 29, 2018, 11:44:05 PM
My views on dating.

Don't bother. You get guys saying the same thing. Your profile looks great/ I live your profile, let's get to know each other. I'm looking for a genuine lady for a serious relationship...

I reply and then they vanish and never respond but stay on the site and look at your profile. If i dare to email again, I'm labelled as pushy and not genuine but if I reply with my side of the situation, I'm branded nasty.

It shouldn't bother me but it does. Been used as a doormat by many people including my dad who see me as not worth replying to and ok to waste my time.

Don't want yo go to work today. Stomach hurts and I want to cry. Life's really mot been kind recently.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 30, 2018, 05:20:42 AM
Whyyyy were there only ever 13 episodes of The Flumps made???!!! I know I should count my lucky stars that it hasn't been given the CGI treatment but still. I need more Flumps in my life.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on January 30, 2018, 01:15:13 PM
had another migraine. Thats two in 72 hours. Not fair.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 31, 2018, 09:08:50 AM
Four weeks teaching completed. Payday is today. Have I been paid?...No.

I swear everything logistical relating to universities is very very bad.

Now to go rant at some people for my money.

Edit...and no sooner do I write that but IT APPEARED IN MY BANK ACCOUNT. Like it wasn't there AND THEN SUDDENLY IT WAS LIKE IT HEARD ME ABOUT TO COMPLAIN.

I feel like there are ghosts watching me now O.O
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 31, 2018, 10:50:17 AM
Every time Windows 10 updates, it breaks something. I have to fire up the laptop and then restart it in order to use the taskbar. Just a bit counterproductive, Microsoft. Get it together - yeesh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 31, 2018, 11:06:07 PM

I once got a call from my local library that a book with my name on it had been turned in. I practically lived in the library at the time and was grateful they saw the book was mine.. but it was the last time I lent out a book to anyone.


I worked in a library for some years, and generally if a book isn't library property, some effort does go into finding where it belongs. If there's a name in it then we used to check the borrower register and then get in touch with that borrower to find out if it was theirs. Although usually they had brought back their own book by mistake, not someone else O.O. Any that weren't claimed ended up in the book sale though we did our best with lost books.


It is very appreciated :). Luckily for me I lived in a small town where the librarians new me by name. I was there so often I never needed my card even, as soon as they saw me come up to the desk they just put in my card number which they had learnt by heart. They often took books (not reserved ones tho) they thought I might enjoy and put them aside and when I was done they just put it in the pile with the rest. I loved that library! Unfortunaly it's not what it used to be and I haven't been there in years. -_-


Complaint of the day: bid on a pony and won Sunday, the first one I bought in years. I paid within minutes of winning and it's still not here! No words from the seller or nothing.. Stiff neck is making me extra cranky.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 01, 2018, 01:25:44 PM
Netflix removed what they had left of Futurama. I have the FOX seasons and movies on DVD, but not the Comedy Central seasons. It's really bothersome, because I have the original box set and they're awesome and detailed, but the "new" box set is so... boring. Plus if I just get the last four seasons it won't match the other ones :mad:

Netflix having the CC episodes was ideal and now they're gone! I don't have regular TV so I can't even watch them in reruns. Now I have to decide if I want to entire new boring box set (because it's a set!) or just the seasons I'm missing (that don't match!). 100% First World Problems.

edit: Gah! I hate when I make a new page! Also I have a headache :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on February 02, 2018, 05:03:24 AM
My bubble wrap fell off the shelf.  That's not my complaint, though.  My complaint is that my cat then pulled it into his litter box to cover his poop, and now . . . well, now I need to buy more bubble wrap.  Thanks, cat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 02, 2018, 05:52:19 AM
I was meant to be doing a work trial at a flower shop today, which would've been awesome, but they called me at the last minute to say they'd already decided on someone to fill the position. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 02, 2018, 06:08:16 AM
Build-a-bear has just dispatched my package.

Norton antivirus program ran out on my laptop and my dad's laptop.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 05, 2018, 12:20:13 AM
There are no good jobs to apply for this morning; I'm scouting about as many places I can feasibly travel to as possible, but there's nothing. Maybe it's just a bit too early in the morning but still, bring on the jobs!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 05, 2018, 11:22:20 AM
It's still winter.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 05, 2018, 04:41:25 PM
It's still winter.
My complaint is the opposite. California reached a high of 79 Fahrenheit today!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on February 05, 2018, 06:47:59 PM
The 10 year old Wii console my family owns runs so slowly, yet because it still runs Netflix nobody else wants to replace it with something newer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on February 05, 2018, 07:15:11 PM
The 10 year old Wii console my family owns runs so slowly, yet because it still runs Netflix nobody else wants to replace it with something newer.

Do they not want Netflix in HD?  :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 06, 2018, 02:09:51 AM
I got some ideas above my station and tucked into some extra hot chilli naan bread. Something tells me I'm only going to be able to taste fire for the next three weeks... :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on February 06, 2018, 11:19:06 AM
I beat Breath of the wild. It's been more than a month, longer than I spend on most games, but like... I want to keep playing. Why can't things go on forever?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 06, 2018, 04:21:45 PM
Tracking said my long awaited version of Pokemon Sun would be here today. It isn't. Delivery times have ended and the mail has already come, so it will hopefully be here tomorrow. I never know though, I have received packages well after the times when they are supposed to be delivered, so there is hope yet I guess... I just REALLY want to start it! I have been wanting it for half a year, so I think you can guess that I can not wait.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on February 09, 2018, 11:01:01 AM
I finished my last box of Pumpkin Spice Cheerio's this morning.  :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 12, 2018, 12:57:16 PM
I probably shouldn't have demolished 4 chocolate flapjacks today, I feel a bit iffy. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 12, 2018, 05:04:43 PM
Dad's football team keeps losing and mine keeps winning. It's hard to be really happy about the one when he's kind of bummed about the other...

Entertainer have Hippogriff tags but no Hippogriffs, just Ocean Gem.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 16, 2018, 09:21:06 AM
I was having a leisurely read about babirusas and came across a link to an article titled "Giant Killer Pigs from Hell", only to click on it and get "Page not found". What heartless fiend would allow such an amazing thing to disappear like that?! You can't promise monster-pigs and not deliver on it!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
I was having a leisurely read about babirusas and came across a link to an article titled "Giant Killer Pigs from Hell", only to click on it and get "Page not found". What heartless fiend would allow such an amazing thing to disappear like that?! You can't promise monster-pigs and not deliver on it!!!

 :lol:  (If you'd like to see babirusas in person, they have them at Disney's Animal Kingdom.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on February 17, 2018, 01:25:33 AM
I came to complain about my terrible nausea but instead I ended up learning about quadhorned piggies!

No longer complaining.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 17, 2018, 10:30:48 AM
The weather keeps fluxing between rather warm and cold, come on it is winter stay cold and give us our snow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mareacooda on February 17, 2018, 10:36:03 PM
I want to head to bed to go sleep but hubby make to much noise...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 17, 2018, 10:57:49 PM
You people who work with kids, I don't know how you do it!? So much respect for you right now! I work retail, a small hole in the wall store in a mall, It's usually a quiet nonstressful enviroment, mostly visited by families on weekends. Squishies is in high demand and we got a new large shipment on thursday. Yesterday children stood in line to check, smell, squeeze and buy these little creatures. It was ongoing for hours and felt like a daycare, (think what the toys experienced in Toy Story 3!) I had to constantly clean up and refill and I was asleep well before 9 pm after I got home. Sooo tired! And today I get to relive it again! Woohoooo!!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on February 18, 2018, 04:32:28 AM
You people who work with kids, I don't know how you do it!? So much respect for you right now! I work retail, a small hole in the wall store in a mall, It's usually a quiet nonstressful enviroment, mostly visited by families on weekends. Squishies is in high demand and we got a new large shipment on thursday. Yesterday children stood in line to check, smell, squeeze and buy these little creatures. It was ongoing for hours and felt like a daycare, (think what the toys experienced in Toy Story 3!) I had to constantly clean up and refill and I was asleep well before 9 pm after I got home. Sooo tired! And today I get to relive it again! Woohoooo!!!!

I’m starting my new job as a daycare assistant on wednesday. I’m scared XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 18, 2018, 07:37:30 AM
I'm getting a sty or stye or however you spell it in my right eye >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on February 18, 2018, 05:43:12 PM
I truly deeply HATE getting private chat messages on facebook.

Family members and very close friends are fine and if it’s to make plans before a specific event or a one-off conversation to catch up with someone I haven’t seen in a very long time.

But when it comes to ”Hey, what’s up” type chatting it seriously stresses me out to no end!

And I feel terrible trying to explain it because I don’t want anyone to take it personally or think I’m being intentionally rude.

It’s so bad I avoid FB altogether just so I don’t have to say ”Sorry I’m just lurking, I don’t want to talk” one more time.
But then there are other people who I need to be able to be contacted by ( like my dogs breeder) who only or primarily use messenger to contact me about haircut appointments and similar.

Ugh.... I’ve just needed to vent about this for a LONG TIME.

Sorry for taking up so mych space XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 18, 2018, 07:35:27 PM
I'm getting a sty or stye or however you spell it in my right eye >_<

Have you been peeing in the street?  :shocked:  (Sorry, that's what my grandma used to tell us caused styes :lol:)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 19, 2018, 12:11:03 AM
You people who work with kids, I don't know how you do it!? So much respect for you right now! I work retail, a small hole in the wall store in a mall, It's usually a quiet nonstressful enviroment, mostly visited by families on weekends. Squishies is in high demand and we got a new large shipment on thursday. Yesterday children stood in line to check, smell, squeeze and buy these little creatures. It was ongoing for hours and felt like a daycare, (think what the toys experienced in Toy Story 3!) I had to constantly clean up and refill and I was asleep well before 9 pm after I got home. Sooo tired! And today I get to relive it again! Woohoooo!!!!

I’m starting my new job as a daycare assistant on wednesday. I’m scared XD

I wish you good luck! :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on February 19, 2018, 06:55:59 AM
I can't find one of my sweaters. It's not in my room, it's not in the laundry... where else could it be? Did I take it off somewhere and leave it there? How'd I do that in the middle of winter? I don't even know where to start looking because losing clothes is so unlike me. It would be fine if it was just a random sweater, but it's one that someone knit especially for me. Sigh...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on February 19, 2018, 09:09:40 AM
I can't find one of my sweaters. It's not in my room, it's not in the laundry... where else could it be? Did I take it off somewhere and leave it there? How'd I do that in the middle of winter? I don't even know where to start looking because losing clothes is so unlike me. It would be fine if it was just a random sweater, but it's one that someone knit especially for me. Sigh...

Two of my favorite shirts went missing a few months back, and I never lose clothes. Even after about 4 months, I still haven't figured out where they could've gone. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 19, 2018, 11:26:11 AM
I'm getting a sty or stye or however you spell it in my right eye >_<

Have you been peeing in the street?  :shocked:  (Sorry, that's what my grandma used to tell us caused styes :lol:)
Haha, no, it's from darn allergies. It's warming up quite a bit where I live so allergens are everywhere. A stye is a little bump in the corner of your eye, btw! It is usually red and tender. Not fun at all!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 19, 2018, 11:35:28 AM
Forgot it was presidents day, bank was closed , so I could not get money out. Oh well, got to go out to lunch and of course the dollar slot on the claw game was jammed. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on February 19, 2018, 05:10:11 PM
I would've had a three day weekend, but since school was closed for bad weather last month, we had to make up for it today  :pout:

To make things worse, Saturday is the art competition I love participating in. My sister's going, but as for me... I can't. Last semester I was taking college algebra with a pretty rotten teacher that many other students complain about. I was struggling in her class, and despite all of my efforts to get her to help me out with tutoring, she ignored my struggles and let me fail. I ended up dropping out of the class at the end of the first semester. Since I failed her class, I'm not eligible for the competition. I'll have to watch my sister and classmates go while I can't, all because of a had teacher.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 20, 2018, 02:26:23 AM
It's such a beautiful day outside, the sun is shining for the first time in weeks! The sky is blue and birds are singing.. But as it's february sunshine means cold! Like -20C /68F cold! Also, today marks the first day of working 8 days in a row. Feels like I'm warming up for a marathon!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 20, 2018, 07:22:11 AM
Rugs.
Nobody ever warned me that trying to find a rug to liven up a dreary room would be such a flipping hassle.
(I think I may have found one... possibly... it's like finding water after a century in the desert.) :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 20, 2018, 06:32:26 PM
Mosquitos.

I hate them.

They are the very worst.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 20, 2018, 06:53:48 PM
Working a shift when the weather is unseasonably warm.  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 20, 2018, 07:14:51 PM
My school sells good chocolate chip cookies. I tried to buy some today, but they weren't chocolate chip! They were a gross, hard, failed attempt at a snicker doodle. Me and my friend tried banging them against the table. We even threw them at the table! And they didn't break!

Ehh, it just means I don't get cookies for a while. But still, lol!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on February 21, 2018, 12:17:24 PM
I got a notice yesterday that I had a package at the post office.  So, I make the long drive over only to find out it was for a package I already picked up last week.  I get home and there is a notice on the door for another package on its way to the post office.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 22, 2018, 07:29:50 AM
I'm waiting for a parcel that is meant to be delivered by Yodel. That alone scares me but it also bugs me that I got up early and have been waiting around the house all day. It better had turn up today as well seeing as I paid for nominated day delivery!
On the plus side, I have found a rather amusing thread on the internet that is just a bunch of people complaining about terrible couriers - there are some pretty funny stories on there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 22, 2018, 08:29:20 AM
One of the girls I work with asked me to trade duties with her today (she'd do mine today and I'd do hers tomorrow) because she had an extra project she wanted to work on tomorrow and then she called out sick.  Again.  She does this every time she doesn't want to do something that she's been assigned to do.  Fortunately, the manager in charge of the duties we "traded" has noticed this trend and since I still had to do my duties today, she's going to make the girl do her duties tomorrow so I don't have to do both days.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 24, 2018, 07:57:21 AM
I stubbed my toe on the kitchen doorway.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SwirlyWhirly on February 25, 2018, 12:43:32 AM
I stayed up until 2 AM, fixing up my little ponies and today I'm really tired. I couldn't even sleep in because my dog woke me doing miserable sounds, trying to convey the message that he wanted his breakfast. I almost never stay up late any more and now I remember why. I don't even know how I did it when I was younger. I could stay up most of the night, sleep maybe three hours and then go to school. How could I possibly function?! Now I think six hours sleep is too little.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 25, 2018, 02:51:12 PM
Just got woken up from a nap (it's Sunday afternoon for me) by a phone call from someone claiming to be raising money for a local police charity.  The reception on my phone is bad where I live (especially with the windstorm we have going on right now) so he kept cutting out.  What I understood was that they were giving away t-shirts in exchange for each donation and how many could he put me down for?  He didn't ask if I was interested in donating he just assumed that I would want to.  I told him I wasn't interested in donating at this time (mostly because I work right next to the police station--if I want to donate I can do so directly and with cash rather than passing out my card/bank info over the phone) and he very abruptly said,"Fine" and hung up.  Why does that feel more like a scam than a fund raiser? :wonder: 

(Had I been more awake I would have made a comment about how my brother is an officer and he never mentioned the fund-raiser to me.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on February 25, 2018, 04:04:44 PM
Just got woken up from a nap (it's Sunday afternoon for me) by a phone call from someone claiming to be raising money for a local police charity.  The reception on my phone is bad where I live (especially with the windstorm we have going on right now) so he kept cutting out.  What I understood was that they were giving away t-shirts in exchange for each donation and how many could he put me down for?  He didn't ask if I was interested in donating he just assumed that I would want to.  I told him I wasn't interested in donating at this time (mostly because I work right next to the police station--if I want to donate I can do so directly and with cash rather than passing out my card/bank info over the phone) and he very abruptly said,"Fine" and hung up.  Why does that feel more like a scam than a fund raiser? :wonder: 

(Had I been more awake I would have made a comment about how my brother is an officer and he never mentioned the fund-raiser to me.)

The "police charity" calls are known scams. I get them quite frequently. I also get a lot of the Microsoft Windows scams (The ones where they tell you your computer is infected with a virus and that they'd like you to download software to "fix the problem".)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 26, 2018, 04:23:10 AM
I won something on evilbay on Friday and there hasn't been any shipping notification yet. I'm just hoping that it's a matter of me being paranoid and impatient. With it being a rare item, I don't hold out much hope for finding another if it falls through, least of all finding one at such a decent price! D:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 26, 2018, 02:13:31 PM
I can't find my nail clippers  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 27, 2018, 11:40:32 AM
I had just laid down in the bathtub to enjoy a nice and quiet me-time with a good book, soft music and a bathbomb smelling of mango when one of the cats decided to come and do a smelly number two in the litterbox.. I did not have a nice moment after that :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on February 27, 2018, 09:41:55 PM
I can't find my nail clippers  :pout:

Had this happen last week. Three pairs of clippers, all missing. Turns out my mother had all 3. No idea why.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 05, 2018, 04:09:17 PM
Said goodbye to TRU :(

Finding it hard getting the next stage of my thesis started. I have 1700 words so far. Most of them will probably need replacing.

Uni staff still on strike so again having to break the picket line on Wednesday to ensure I don't get fired.

Uni HR/Payroll getting their tax codes muddled so a lot of money was taken wrongly in tax and won't be repaid till end March.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 06, 2018, 07:16:24 AM
Every time my computer does an update, my google browser can't shut down properly.  The only way I've found to fix this is to clear off all my cookies, which means I have to sign back in to every site I use.  Every. Single. Time.  This is only a problem I have on the Dell computer that I use at work.  And because I work at a library, re-creating artwork for AV materials, I use the internet a lot to get bits and pieces and to access covers I've already made/uploaded for future use.  It isn't a problem on any other computer I've ever used.  Just Dell.  I really hate Dell computers.  They don't know how "sleep" is supposed to work, either.  I have it set that if I press the power button, it's supposed to go to sleep.  It shuts down, even if you accidentally bump the button for less than a millisecond.  If you choose the sleep option instead of shut down, it still shuts down completely.  I"m sorry but if you can't get simple functions to work, you really shouldn't be trying to sell computers.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 06, 2018, 10:22:11 AM
I mysteriously pulled a muscle in my back and it really hurts when I breathe.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 06, 2018, 10:48:56 AM
I mysteriously pulled a muscle in my back and it really hurts when I breathe.

Oh, I did that twice.  It's not fun. :hug:  The first time I ended up sleeping on the couch because my bed was too flat and I couldn't get up and down and I couldn't breathe at all when I was flat on my back.  The second time was worse so I went in just to make sure it wasn't something serious (like a heart attack) because it hurt so much to breathe.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 07, 2018, 10:42:06 AM
I just went and duffered my own childhood by considering the fact that the last two fights in Sonic 3 and Knuckles take place in the sky and in space. Oh, to live in a world where there's no such thing as altitude sickness and everyone can survive in a vacuum without any protective equipment. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on March 08, 2018, 06:20:14 AM
I just had to empty our savings account to pay bills!

My husband didn't get his pay check this month because the people in charge forgot to renew his contract in time.

It just really reminded me how badly prepared we are economically...
Expecting a child in late summer of this year.

I'm in a job training program that doesn't pay anything yet, but hopefully will someday in the future...

So, I'm ready to sell a big chunk of my pony collection but I have no energy to fix them up and take photos and do all the necessary work. Bleh! T_T
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: buddyboymama on March 09, 2018, 06:41:59 AM
Getting toward the bottom of the box and there are no raisins in my bowl of Raisin Nut Bran. Doesn’t get much more trivial than that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 09, 2018, 11:25:50 AM
Long overdue a visit to the hairdressers, so went today for a colour touch-up and cut + blowdry.

Yeesh, why are they so expensive?!?!   :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 09, 2018, 12:03:39 PM
Amazon.uk was supposed to deliver a package today, but it hasn't come. Gotta wait till tomorrow or the fourteenth of March to get it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 10, 2018, 05:25:52 PM
my uber eats driver didn't feel like coming up so i had to walk downstairs and get my food
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 10, 2018, 05:54:54 PM
Just expenses right now, and had to repair our front door, the prior owners put the wrong, and upside down, cylinder on the door.  At least the door is ok, I wonder what else they cheapened out on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 12, 2018, 08:43:08 AM
This book. I love Mary Shelley but The Last Man promises an early dystopian plague story and instead gives us Painfully Extensive Accounts of the Emotional Turmoil of Posh People. Perhaps if each sentence was trimmed down by about 17 words apiece, then it'd flow a bit more smoothly and it'd do a decent job of creating emotional stakes for when the plague actually hits but as it is, I'm just feeling irritated and disappointed. I'ma have to go read Frankenstein again to heal my broken heart afterwards. :| This is The Night Land all over again (and there I was thinking Hodgson could do no wrong!!!)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 12, 2018, 01:15:43 PM
This book. I love Mary Shelley but The Last Man promises an early dystopian plague story and instead gives us Painfully Extensive Accounts of the Emotional Turmoil of Posh People. Perhaps if each sentence was trimmed down by about 17 words apiece, then it'd flow a bit more smoothly and it'd do a decent job of creating emotional stakes for when the plague actually hits but as it is, I'm just feeling irritated and disappointed. I'ma have to go read Frankenstein again to heal my broken heart afterwards. :| This is The Night Land all over again (and there I was thinking Hodgson could do no wrong!!!)

Ahh, yes, authors of the Victorian Lit era wrote excessive amounts of prose because they were paid by the word.  Quite frankly, I'm surprised that Frankenstein is as short as it is. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 12, 2018, 02:28:12 PM
This book. I love Mary Shelley but The Last Man promises an early dystopian plague story and instead gives us Painfully Extensive Accounts of the Emotional Turmoil of Posh People. Perhaps if each sentence was trimmed down by about 17 words apiece, then it'd flow a bit more smoothly and it'd do a decent job of creating emotional stakes for when the plague actually hits but as it is, I'm just feeling irritated and disappointed. I'ma have to go read Frankenstein again to heal my broken heart afterwards. :| This is The Night Land all over again (and there I was thinking Hodgson could do no wrong!!!)

Ahh, yes, authors of the Victorian Lit era wrote excessive amounts of prose because they were paid by the word.  Quite frankly, I'm surprised that Frankenstein is as short as it is.

Yeah, I definitely noticed that in The Picture of Dorian Gray - that whole tedious chunk about fancy fabrics and jewels, there's no way that was in there to advance the plot!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 12, 2018, 02:44:59 PM
This book. I love Mary Shelley but The Last Man promises an early dystopian plague story and instead gives us Painfully Extensive Accounts of the Emotional Turmoil of Posh People. Perhaps if each sentence was trimmed down by about 17 words apiece, then it'd flow a bit more smoothly and it'd do a decent job of creating emotional stakes for when the plague actually hits but as it is, I'm just feeling irritated and disappointed. I'ma have to go read Frankenstein again to heal my broken heart afterwards. :| This is The Night Land all over again (and there I was thinking Hodgson could do no wrong!!!)

Ahh, yes, authors of the Victorian Lit era wrote excessive amounts of prose because they were paid by the word.  Quite frankly, I'm surprised that Frankenstein is as short as it is.

Yeah, I definitely noticed that in The Picture of Dorian Gray - that whole tedious chunk about fancy fabrics and jewels, there's no way that was in there to advance the plot!

The unabridged Hunchback of Notre Dame has a history of French Architecture.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 13, 2018, 03:16:49 AM
Trying to get through a trilogy by Nora Roberts. I bought it on sale, all three books within the same cover and the reviews on Goodreads were so positive so I was really looking forward to it and it's just pissing me off! The plot is a nice one, it has such potential! It could be so good! But all three books starts with a man who notices a special woman (different men and woman in each book), and despite making said woman uncomfortable decides to step on. "She wants me to leave, I see it in her body language, but she's too well raised to ask me to leave, I'm just gonna sit down here in her garden and continue watch her awesome body". "My questions makes her uncomfortable and irritated, better keep asking those questions and show up where she's least expect it to make her more uncomfortable". "She says no again and again and again and tell me to leave her house. I'ma just close the door still being inside and talk to her anyway". And in the end the women swoon over the men and all is well. Me? I'm so creeped out and can't believe this was written by a woman! Worst part: Why am I still reading it?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 13, 2018, 10:17:06 AM
Trying to get through a trilogy by Nora Roberts. I bought it on sale, all three books within the same cover and the reviews on Goodreads were so positive so I was really looking forward to it and it's just pissing me off! The plot is a nice one, it has such potential! It could be so good! But all three books starts with a man who notices a special woman (different men and woman in each book), and despite making said woman uncomfortable decides to step on. "She wants me to leave, I see it in her body language, but she's too well raised to ask me to leave, I'm just gonna sit down here in her garden and continue watch her awesome body". "My questions makes her uncomfortable and irritated, better keep asking those questions and show up where she's least expect it to make her more uncomfortable". "She says no again and again and again and tell me to leave her house. I'ma just close the door still being inside and talk to her anyway". And in the end the women swoon over the men and all is well. Me? I'm so creeped out and can't believe this was written by a woman! Worst part: Why am I still reading it?!

 :lol:  I work in a library.  You wouldn't believe how many books have this same horrible theme!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 13, 2018, 07:17:35 PM
Trying to get through a trilogy by Nora Roberts. I bought it on sale, all three books within the same cover and the reviews on Goodreads were so positive so I was really looking forward to it and it's just pissing me off! The plot is a nice one, it has such potential! It could be so good! But all three books starts with a man who notices a special woman (different men and woman in each book), and despite making said woman uncomfortable decides to step on. "She wants me to leave, I see it in her body language, but she's too well raised to ask me to leave, I'm just gonna sit down here in her garden and continue watch her awesome body". "My questions makes her uncomfortable and irritated, better keep asking those questions and show up where she's least expect it to make her more uncomfortable". "She says no again and again and again and tell me to leave her house. I'ma just close the door still being inside and talk to her anyway". And in the end the women swoon over the men and all is well. Me? I'm so creeped out and can't believe this was written by a woman! Worst part: Why am I still reading it?!
Yeah, cause the best way to a woman's heart is to creep her out and make her uncomfortable. :blink:

My complaint is homework. I worked until 6:30 this evening, and I still have more. I've got about three hours in and an hour to go. And it will be like this for a while...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 14, 2018, 07:33:14 AM
Trying to get through a trilogy by Nora Roberts. I bought it on sale, all three books within the same cover and the reviews on Goodreads were so positive so I was really looking forward to it and it's just pissing me off! The plot is a nice one, it has such potential! It could be so good! But all three books starts with a man who notices a special woman (different men and woman in each book), and despite making said woman uncomfortable decides to step on. "She wants me to leave, I see it in her body language, but she's too well raised to ask me to leave, I'm just gonna sit down here in her garden and continue watch her awesome body". "My questions makes her uncomfortable and irritated, better keep asking those questions and show up where she's least expect it to make her more uncomfortable". "She says no again and again and again and tell me to leave her house. I'ma just close the door still being inside and talk to her anyway". And in the end the women swoon over the men and all is well. Me? I'm so creeped out and can't believe this was written by a woman! Worst part: Why am I still reading it?!

 :lol:  I work in a library.  You wouldn't believe how many books have this same horrible theme!

What is the joy in reading things like that? What is it teaching young women?


Trying to get through a trilogy by Nora Roberts. I bought it on sale, all three books within the same cover and the reviews on Goodreads were so positive so I was really looking forward to it and it's just pissing me off! The plot is a nice one, it has such potential! It could be so good! But all three books starts with a man who notices a special woman (different men and woman in each book), and despite making said woman uncomfortable decides to step on. "She wants me to leave, I see it in her body language, but she's too well raised to ask me to leave, I'm just gonna sit down here in her garden and continue watch her awesome body". "My questions makes her uncomfortable and irritated, better keep asking those questions and show up where she's least expect it to make her more uncomfortable". "She says no again and again and again and tell me to leave her house. I'ma just close the door still being inside and talk to her anyway". And in the end the women swoon over the men and all is well. Me? I'm so creeped out and can't believe this was written by a woman! Worst part: Why am I still reading it?!
Yeah, cause the best way to a woman's heart is to creep her out and make her uncomfortable. :blink:


According to these books it is very much so as two of the woman has married their creeps so far. I have a feeling it will be a hat trick. I feel sick..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on March 16, 2018, 01:44:37 AM
My complaint is as trivial as it gets, but I've been too social lately. I feel like I need to be alone for like, a month, to get my energy back >.>
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 16, 2018, 04:26:03 AM
I ditched all my art materials in a bit of a meltdown last week and now I'm foaming at the mouth to actually draw something, but if I do go back to it so soon, then I'd still be going round in circles and end up right back in the frustrated state that made me want to give up in the first place. :/
I'm determined to at least give it a couple of months just to recalibrate and take in some different sources of inspiration but it's haaaard. I'm no good at exercising restraint. :drunk:
Also there's meant to be an electrician coming round today wire up the new boiler but they haven't specified when they're going to turn up, so I can't stick my headphones on and chill in case the door goes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 16, 2018, 11:05:51 AM
I think women tend to be the worst offenders for writing stuff that basically says it's fine for men to behave like that. I haven't read or seen it but it makes me think of all the media around 50 shades of grey etc.

I've had experience of a guy like that, who I was friends with and spent 2 years basically telling him I wasn't interested and it didn't end with me swooning over him. It ended in me severing all contact with him because he told me that I wasn't in love with him because I was autistic and therefore had no feelings and I was being selfish.

Happy ever after.

Yeah. Anyhow! My trivial complaint for the day.

Why is it that my university manages to turn a legitimate strike protest with a valid cause into a riot on the steps?

I am very fond of my university and have met amazing people there. The options and diversity of education and students and teachers and so on are great.

But we have one big issue. Our Student Union.

To save the details, whenever there is a 'cause', and a 'protest', it ends in a riot, vandalism, violence and intimidation of anyone who takes the opposing view or gets in the way. There have been a lot of incidents on campus of people being assaulted, threatened, etc and all of this is being justified by the "protest" being a "valid cause". Most of the causes are valid but that's not how you protest for them.

Today they managed to shut the building. The school has condemned the violence. I am waiting now for the regulation SU email which will probably report that it was justified violence in the name of the strike cause!

That's what usually happens. Unfortunately, bigger picture is that it's not helping the lecturers save their pension fund.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 18, 2018, 01:13:02 PM
Our fat kitty got me up, by walking on me this morning.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 18, 2018, 05:12:14 PM
My history teacher always capitalizes random words. For example: "Why are the Middle Ages called that? What are they Between?"  :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on March 18, 2018, 08:04:21 PM
My history teacher always capitalizes random words. For example: "Why are the Middle Ages called that? What are they Between?"  :enraged:

Middle Ages should be capitalized since it refers to a specific period in history.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 19, 2018, 12:28:27 AM
Found a recipie for easy to make bread I thought I would try this morning.. Firstly the dough was too wet, second it said they should be in the oven 12- 15 minutes. After 25 they were still undercooked.. I wonder if those who wrote the recipie missed something.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 19, 2018, 07:07:42 AM
My history teacher always capitalizes random words. For example: "Why are the Middle Ages called that? What are they Between?"  :enraged:

Middle Ages should be capitalized since it refers to a specific period in history.
Yes, I know that. If you would notice, the word Between is capitalized as well. I was not referring to the Middle Ages being capitalized.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 19, 2018, 07:13:52 AM
My history teacher always capitalizes random words. For example: "Why are the Middle Ages called that? What are they Between?"  :enraged:

Middle Ages should be capitalized since it refers to a specific period in history.
Yes, I know that. If you would notice, the word Between is capitalized as well. I was not referring to the Middle Ages being capitalized.

On this subject, I am actively offended by people spelling Mediaeval with an ie. I know it's the correct way in the US and that's fine -the US simplifies a lot of words that have multiple vowels in other places (like oesophagus/esophagus etc) so I don't bother about it in US texts. But I am actively offended when I see a British person using the ie spelling.

I'm a mediaeval historian. The word comes from Mediæval which has the anglo-saxon ae character in the middle. The real pronunciation of the word acknowledges that extra vowel in the middle.

Anyone who calls themselves an academic of the Middle Ages should be ashamed of themselves for using a modernised spelling of a word with mediaeval roots.

I rest my rant.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 19, 2018, 11:50:31 AM
My mp3 player has thrown a tantrum and corrupted a heap of files. It's being formatted at the minute, and hopefully that will sort the problem. Oh for the days when Philips mp3 players actually worked properly. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on March 19, 2018, 12:34:55 PM
My mp3 player has thrown a tantrum and corrupted a heap of files. It's being formatted at the minute, and hopefully that will sort the problem. Oh for the days when Philips mp3 players actually worked properly. :pout:

Sorry to hear that, hope formatting works everythiing out. I can't remember the brand of my first MP3 player, but I'm thinking that it may have been Philips. It had radio and could fit maybe all of ten to twelve songs.  :lol: Back in 2005 when I got it, it was super cool even still. I listened to it in classes when we were allowed to. My high school banned them for my senior year, though.  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on March 19, 2018, 08:24:32 PM
My history teacher always capitalizes random words. For example: "Why are the Middle Ages called that? What are they Between?"  :enraged:

Middle Ages should be capitalized since it refers to a specific period in history.
Yes, I know that. If you would notice, the word Between is capitalized as well. I was not referring to the Middle Ages being capitalized.


Oh, I somehow missed that. Sorry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 20, 2018, 03:54:21 PM
I work semi late the next three days,and due to my schedule I only have a lunch in all of them, makes the day super long.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 20, 2018, 04:11:02 PM
The person I have a crush on has liked my mortal enemy. Now he is starting to like my best friend. >_< Oof!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on March 23, 2018, 02:15:36 PM
I want to collect toys and video games and books, because those things make me happy. I also want to own only what I can fit in a single backpack and a fiddle case, so I'd never be bound to one place, because that would make me happy. I wish I could have multiple lives.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 24, 2018, 05:33:24 AM
Tourists everywhere :shakefist:

It seems they come earlier and stay later every year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 24, 2018, 05:41:09 PM
Fire alarm went off at work, just before the end of my shift, thankfully it was nothing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 25, 2018, 09:04:49 PM
Allergies have made me sick for the whole first two days of spring break I have had. Yay. Spring break is finally here and I can finally relax... Then allergies decide to attack me. >_< :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 26, 2018, 04:04:07 PM
Not a complaint, just an observation.

They are building a Burlington Coat Factory here. In southwest Florida.
Maybe it's more like a regular department store these days? I dunno. I just remember going there when I lived in Wisconsin to, you know, buy coats :lol:

Not many coat sales happening down here  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: misskindle on March 27, 2018, 12:35:14 AM
Some of my more expensive things (dolls, signed books, childhood collections) got thrown out and now I have to decide if I'm willing to pay the hundreds it will take to replace it all
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 27, 2018, 12:19:37 PM
I have the joy of replacing a strap button in my classical guitar, which wasn't even supposed to have a strap button in the first place, the previous owner just thought it'd be a hoot drill a hole in it and ram a huge, brittle, plastic peg in there and of course, said peg has snapped in half. At least I can fit a more tasteful-looking one in its place. :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loa on March 27, 2018, 04:28:34 PM
People who write 'PAYED' instead of 'PAID'. For goodness sake. You don't write 'SAYED', or 'MAYED'.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 27, 2018, 11:02:27 PM
Waited the entire day yesterday for the vet to call and check up on us as she said she would. She never called, so today on my day off I have to call and try to get a hold of her which she herself has said is rather difficult, which is why she was supposed to call me in the first place.. I have so many questions that need answering before easter! Aargh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on March 30, 2018, 05:09:20 PM
Ugh, just got home from working a 12am-9:30am shift to find my partner still asleep and 3 desperately hungry cats still waiting for their breakfast.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 30, 2018, 10:58:58 PM
I found out last week that my cousin from the states is in Sweden right now and on Sunday she and my aunt will fly up to my city to visit our grandparents over the day. Last time I saw her she was 7, now she's a college graduate so it's been a really long time. I talked to grandma yesterday and she was mad none of my family can come and say hi, especially mom since it's her niece. I don't always see eye to eye with my mom, but changing workdays on a weekend within a weeks notice is nearly impossible in retail as it is, add easter to the mix and it would be easier to walk on water. Grandma doesn't understand this and it felt like listening to a broken record at the end. Had we gotten the news earlier we might have made it, but not as it is now and mom is sad as it is without grandma picking her apart :mad:. I work to six pm tomorrow, the taxi pick them up at 7 to go back to the airport.. If I bike like crazy I might be able to get to see her for ten minutes.. in my sweaty work clothes. Great first impression after 14 years or what it is :lol:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on April 01, 2018, 06:22:02 AM
I have another lol... The other day I noticed a tiny little bug had squeezed into my iPad and was crawling around under the screen, tonight I noticed it is dead... This happened with an old laptop too, why do insects die inside my tech? *protectively shields phone*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 01, 2018, 04:41:23 PM
I have another lol... The other day I noticed a tiny little bug had squeezed into my iPad and was crawling around under the screen, tonight I noticed it is dead... This happened with an old laptop too, why do insects die inside my tech? *protectively shields phone*
My worst nightmare. Hate dead bugs. Found one in my Raya doll's hair the other day and literally threw her across the bathroom and left her till someone came home to remove it.

I am fed up with living in a country that either can't make up its mind what to call itself or other people can't make up their mind how to label it.

After scrolling through country options looking for United Kingdom, then Great Britain, and then down to England too many times to count, it's annoying. I wish websites would pick one and stick to it. (And yes I do know all of the above are different geographical boundaries, but since where I live qualifies to be in all three of the above, I would really like it if they were a bit more universal)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 01, 2018, 10:46:48 PM
I am fed up with living in a country that either can't make up its mind what to call itself or other people can't make up their mind how to label it.

After scrolling through country options looking for United Kingdom, then Great Britain, and then down to England too many times to count, it's annoying. I wish websites would pick one and stick to it. (And yes I do know all of the above are different geographical boundaries, but since where I live qualifies to be in all three of the above, I would really like it if they were a bit more universal)

Just contact all the websites and tell them you're renaming it "The Land of Dragons."  Or something short...like "Bob".
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 02, 2018, 02:19:06 AM
I am fed up with living in a country that either can't make up its mind what to call itself or other people can't make up their mind how to label it.

After scrolling through country options looking for United Kingdom, then Great Britain, and then down to England too many times to count, it's annoying. I wish websites would pick one and stick to it. (And yes I do know all of the above are different geographical boundaries, but since where I live qualifies to be in all three of the above, I would really like it if they were a bit more universal)

Just contact all the websites and tell them you're renaming it "The Land of Dragons."  Or something short...like "Bob".

Yes! I live in Bobland ;)

Actually, the land of dragons might be more accurate, given that the Welsh use a dragon still on their flag, and there are ancient stories about the fighting of the white and the red dragons over our land in the past...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on April 02, 2018, 05:02:41 AM
Someone from another country sent me a glass jar in a bubble mailer. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on April 02, 2018, 08:53:00 AM
Stomper NEEDS this stupid winter to freaking END, already! :gah: :rant: :shakefist: :throw: :wail: :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on April 02, 2018, 10:42:12 AM
Stomper NEEDS this stupid winter to freaking END, already! :gah: :rant: :shakefist: :throw: :wail: :pout:

Please send it my way! I'm graduating from this college without having ever gotten to see the campus with any snow and I'm sad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on April 02, 2018, 05:18:14 PM
It basically turned straight from winter to summer where I live! It went from 50-60 degrees to 80 degrees in a couple of days. Eek!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 03, 2018, 02:33:59 AM
I finished my book and can't think of what to read next... :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: beajjai033 on April 03, 2018, 06:51:52 AM
I finished my book and can't think of what to read next... :|

Would like to have that problem, as I have tons on my list  :lol:

I should pick up some slack so I don't always work 15 hours a day, but here I am at the Arena and all~ :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 03, 2018, 10:18:29 AM
When I mentioned that something at work had been done incorrectly and would need to be redone, one of my co-workers asked, "Why would you need to redo it?  It looks fine."

Uh...because it isn't done RIGHT????  :duh:

I seriously don't understand why people where I live feel that doing everything half-baked and then going back to do it again four or five times before it is right is okay.  I was not born or raised here so that might be why I don't understand.  Apparently doing something right the first time is a sin and I'm going to hell for even suggesting something so outrageous.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on April 10, 2018, 08:20:26 PM
3 hours and 45 minutes of homework tonight wasn't fun. Just got done at 8:15 PM. So mentally out of it right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Twilight Pink on April 11, 2018, 06:30:30 AM
Is the world going to end every 3-6 years? :/ it's BEEN  old now....

(P.S. not sure if that's a trivial complaint)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 11, 2018, 08:35:47 AM
Is the world going to end every 3-6 years? :/ it's BEEN  old now....

(P.S. not sure if that's a trivial complaint)

There's another end of the world theory on the horizon?! Kinda makes me wonder if these people ever thought to stop and enjoy their lives for a bit, instead of working out precisely how they're going to be cut short by rogue planets or ancient predictions. :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Twilight Pink on April 11, 2018, 11:13:40 AM
Is the world going to end every 3-6 years? :/ it's BEEN  old now....

(P.S. not sure if that's a trivial complaint)

There's another end of the world theory on the horizon?! Kinda makes me wonder if these people ever thought to stop and enjoy their lives for a bit, instead of working out precisely how they're going to be cut short by rogue planets or ancient predictions. :lol:
The world's going to end on April 18th, 2018...supposedly
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on April 11, 2018, 11:49:34 AM
oh crap

but on the bright side, at this point I don't even have to bother with the laundry ...
Is the world going to end every 3-6 years? :/ it's BEEN  old now....

(P.S. not sure if that's a trivial complaint)

There's another end of the world theory on the horizon?! Kinda makes me wonder if these people ever thought to stop and enjoy their lives for a bit, instead of working out precisely how they're going to be cut short by rogue planets or ancient predictions. :lol:
The world's going to end on April 18th, 2018...supposedly
oh crap

but on the bright side, at this point I don't even have to bother with the laundry ...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on April 13, 2018, 11:16:12 PM
A third world war must be avoided no matter what. It seems some world leaders don't understand this :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on April 14, 2018, 07:48:59 AM
I have the worst of luck when it comes to buying certain things off ebay.  If I buy for myself I always get it, if I buy for someone else as a gift it magically disappears and doesn't get to me.  Argh I have no explanation on this fact.  The ebay Raven has struck again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on April 14, 2018, 08:56:58 AM
I really wish the temperature would stop dropping suddenly. My horses have already lost their winter coats and I hate that it drops from 80 degrees to 20 degrees overnight (coupled with the OK wind chill) and I wake up to my poor injured mare, who had to be separated from her herd because they were trying to beat up on her, shivering up a storm. We can never find a blanket that fits her and isn't dangerous to her because of her weird body shape and our local stores only carry L and XLs. I should really just try to sew her one myself at this point. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on April 14, 2018, 06:18:37 PM
State testing is coming up. So much pressure, stress, and anxiety!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on April 14, 2018, 07:07:23 PM
We're having a major ice storm. Which is freaky.

But my complaint is the schools all closed today (weekend, some exams) for this storm, but not a single snow day all winter, even when there was a couple times we should've had one. Grr!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pikkupapupata on April 14, 2018, 07:27:54 PM
If I am looking for a new place to rent, and I send an information request within minutes of a new listing being posted, how am I made to wait days before getting a response, and how is that response, 'Sorry, it's been rented.'?

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 15, 2018, 12:19:50 AM
It's after 1am...and I don't feel like going to sleep.  But I have church in a few hours...but I still don't feel like going to sleep.  The harsh realities of being a night person.  :sigh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 15, 2018, 05:33:15 AM
I shouldn't be complaining because it's an opportunity but seriously, who conducts a job interview on a Sunday?! I could've been in bed! It's done now anyway. I'll be lazy next weekend. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Twilight Pink on April 15, 2018, 08:24:54 AM
That moment when you request the missing item from your order from the seller on ebay but instead they refund you the money. :I

That's is NOT what I asked for, not every problem can be solved with money.  Literally they could've sent my missing item OR told me that ithe was outta stock (which I don't get how that could happen, it shouldn't be listed on ebay if that's the case) or suggested me another plushie  from their store X_X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 15, 2018, 09:53:37 AM
Today is my birthday and what do I get Icy rain, and ice everyone wont be going out today.  I hope I can tomorrow but it is supposed to rain.  :cloud:  I have a four day weekend, and not a singe chance to go out once do to bad weather.  :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Twilight Pink on April 15, 2018, 05:46:28 PM
Today is my birthday and what do I get Icy rain, and ice everyone wont be going out today.  I hope I can tomorrow but it is supposed to rain.  :cloud:  I have a four day weekend, and not a singe chance to go out once do to bad weather.  :wail:
I feel your pain,  i'm born in January and I can't do nothing fun when it's freezing outside....that's definitely not a happy birthday  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on April 15, 2018, 06:14:47 PM
I shouldn't be complaining because it's an opportunity but seriously, who conducts a job interview on a Sunday?! I could've been in bed! It's done now anyway. I'll be lazy next weekend. :pout:

Well there's a movie I watched about a month ago that started with a couple people having job interviews on a Sunday. It turns out they were selected as unwitting test subjects to be locked in a bunker for a year and a half under the false pretense of a sudden nuclear war, and the research company needed a way to lure them to the bunker.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on April 15, 2018, 06:45:21 PM
I went and saw a movie with my sister, and while we were waiting to be picked up, we stopped by the small toy shop next to the theater. I didn't bring any extra cash with me and ended up seeing so many things I wish I could've gotten but couldn't. Maybe next weekend!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: alkevin on April 16, 2018, 02:04:23 PM
I have the worst luck at shopping: I´ve bought the new t rex  from JW2 on ebay at the morning, then at night there is a listing with the price 25 less. :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: beajjai033 on April 16, 2018, 06:00:41 PM
I have the worst luck at shopping: I´ve bought the new t rex  from JW2 on ebay at the morning, then at night there is a listing with the price 25 less. :huh:

We are the same. I bought a bag and saw one a few days after at 20 less :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 17, 2018, 03:00:08 AM
I shouldn't be complaining because it's an opportunity but seriously, who conducts a job interview on a Sunday?! I could've been in bed! It's done now anyway. I'll be lazy next weekend. :pout:

Well there's a movie I watched about a month ago that started with a couple people having job interviews on a Sunday. It turns out they were selected as unwitting test subjects to be locked in a bunker for a year and a half under the false pretense of a sudden nuclear war, and the research company needed a way to lure them to the bunker.

In that case, I'm going to be extra careful in future - thanks for the heads up! :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 17, 2018, 04:51:22 AM
oh crap

but on the bright side, at this point I don't even have to bother with the laundry ...
Is the world going to end every 3-6 years? :/ it's BEEN  old now....

(P.S. not sure if that's a trivial complaint)

There's another end of the world theory on the horizon?! Kinda makes me wonder if these people ever thought to stop and enjoy their lives for a bit, instead of working out precisely how they're going to be cut short by rogue planets or ancient predictions. :lol:
The world's going to end on April 18th, 2018...supposedly
oh crap

but on the bright side, at this point I don't even have to bother with the laundry ...

I might postpone my laundry too, then...;) And delay writing my presentation paper. This paper is for a conference where I made a deal with a friend that I'd present if she handled all the navigating (it's in her country). And now I'm waiting to find out how I'm meant to get home as she's planning on flying back early to meet a deadline...

Arrived back in London yesterday. First my bank didn't want me to pay my rent (sorted now) and then today my toilet stopped flushing. (Also now fixed). It's as though nobody wants me to be back in London O.O.


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on April 18, 2018, 07:43:47 AM
I just bought a pony set from ebay for £18.65. On opening I discovered a "George at Asda" invoice inside for £12 and no evidence of the actual ebay seller. So it looks like they've taken my ebay order then placed their own with Asda for me! I could have done that myself! There was one left in stock when I ordered and there's still one left. I'm feeling duped.

*edit - I'm now feeling angry! I reckon it's against eBay policy to sell an item you don't have and then to order it from another shop?! I've contacted eBay and George at Asda by phone - neither seemed bothered so I've emailed too and reported the seller.

*edit again. It's called Drop Shipping and isn't exactly within ebay's rules but they don't do anything about it. Good to know :P Wonder if Asda will have the same thought.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cookifaa on April 18, 2018, 02:22:43 PM
i need to study but it takes too much effort.

and i've just eaten a whole tub of pringles to myself but i'm still hungry.

Post Merge: April 18, 2018, 02:26:05 PM

and i have a show on saturday and my mare has rolled and i cant be bothered to bring her home and bath her.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 18, 2018, 07:44:56 PM
We might get another snow storm, they downgraded it to 1 to 3 inches instead of 3 to 5 inches. So slightly improved, but I just put my snow shovels away.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 19, 2018, 12:08:10 AM
Just finnished a week long trial of eating painmeds to humour my Doctor. Seven days of painkillers morning and night did nothing to change anything. I knew it wouldn't. I told him it wouldn't. He still insisted. I just messaged him to let him know it didn't. I wonder what he will try next? I feel like a guinea pig..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on April 19, 2018, 08:19:00 AM
Went to the hospital today to get myself tested for PCOS. Turns out I have it which I dont mind. What I do mind is that my copper IUD was placed all wrong all this time even when my doctor assured me it was in the right place.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2018, 08:21:13 AM
London, make up your mind what your freaking climate is already, please!

After really late freezing temperatures and snow, now it's 28 degrees (celsius)?

ITS ONLY APRIL.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ColdRuru on April 19, 2018, 08:56:52 AM
London, make up your mind what your freaking climate is already, please!

After really late freezing temperatures and snow, now it's 28 degrees (celsius)?

ITS ONLY APRIL.

Too hot here too. My poor mare was so sweaty today after our ride, and it was in the "fresh" morning.
I do not like hot temperature, I want winter back :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2018, 08:59:03 AM
London, make up your mind what your freaking climate is already, please!

After really late freezing temperatures and snow, now it's 28 degrees (celsius)?

ITS ONLY APRIL.

Too hot here too. My poor mare was so sweaty today after our ride, and it was in the "fresh" morning.
I do not like hot temperature, I want winter back :cry:

I made the mistake of walking from Tesco to Smyths in long sleeves on Tuesday. Not even making that mistake today. The road where I live is in full sun and walking up it to the shop, even, is not pleasant. So I have been inside doing academic work I needed to do instead. But yeesh. Guess it's a pan-European thing then??

London does get up to 30, 34 even in the summer...but this is April o.O. And we had snow a few weeks ago. I love Spring, but not hot weather -.-.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on April 19, 2018, 09:12:08 AM
I do not know if it's the fluctuating weather, the flu bug that's going around or my period but I wish my body would hurry up and feel normal again! Sick and tired of being sick and tired...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ColdRuru on April 19, 2018, 09:28:24 AM
Well winter was rude for most of France (rain rain rain) and my mother who lives in the mountains is still under snow (who's not normal, as she's too south for this kind of weather now). But me, in the plain I got no spring, we jumped to summer!
The weather is completely crazy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on April 19, 2018, 09:18:10 PM
London, make up your mind what your freaking climate is already, please!

After really late freezing temperatures and snow, now it's 28 degrees (celsius)?

ITS ONLY APRIL.

Too hot here too. My poor mare was so sweaty today after our ride, and it was in the "fresh" morning.
I do not like hot temperature, I want winter back :cry:

I made the mistake of walking from Tesco to Smyths in long sleeves on Tuesday. Not even making that mistake today. The road where I live is in full sun and walking up it to the shop, even, is not pleasant. So I have been inside doing academic work I needed to do instead. But yeesh. Guess it's a pan-European thing then??

London does get up to 30, 34 even in the summer...but this is April o.O. And we had snow a few weeks ago. I love Spring, but not hot weather -.-.

Welcome to my world! People have this image of Spring as being in between, but the more the climate is changing, the more heat is just taking it over.

This year has been a bit of an exception, I suppose. It snowed about two weeks ago. However, it was up into the mid 80s (around the 28 C you mentioned) in less than a week. The heat will now take over completely.

Where I live, a lot of areas where I walk outside are cut off from any breezes/air circulation varying on where the wind is blowing from, and it's just really made me more grouchy. If the sun is out and it's above 60F (about 15C) it can feel too warm for me. I know that sounds so silly because that temperature is so low, but when the sun is shining and there is no air circulation it is uncomfortable.

That's why I want it overcast and cooler. If I have to put on a jacket, it's so much better than walking in the sun with no breeze.

Oddly enough, most of today was a rare day where it was sunny, over 15C, and was actually comfortable. The breeze was consistent in most areas and was legitimately cool. I loved it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 19, 2018, 10:09:58 PM
When I biked to work yesterday I had a longsleeved shirt and my spring jacket on and I was sweating. I met people in t-shirts and shorts! In april! Of course when I went home from work, longsleeved shirt, jacket, beanie and gloves were much needed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 20, 2018, 09:33:48 AM
Sometimes having childhood collection ponies that the whole rest of the world go insane over is not a good thing.

Of the three Mountain Boys I had as a kid, only one of them is known to exist still MOC - IF you have like $1600 to spend.

I sympathise with all the people who had Mimic as a child and who now want to get her MOC. We're in the same boat.

No store sold non-Nirvana pony should ever be going over $1000 MOC for any reason, period.

Collector hype is such a pain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 20, 2018, 09:55:11 AM
My phone has been going off all day, it's about jobs so I guess it's a good thing but I'm already stressed out and all these calls about things, trying to work out my diary and prepare for several interviews is making things worse. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on April 21, 2018, 08:56:02 AM
Having a completely empty bank account and a pile of bills that are due is extremely stressful.

I'm trying to take on extra illustration work to make it in time but I'm so tired my eyes are literally closing on me while I draw T_T
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 21, 2018, 10:38:53 AM
The lingerieshop where I get my bras has changed their sizecharts when it comes to sportsbras. When I walked in there today I met a former coworker working there. This girl was notorious for lying to customers and coworkers as well as trying to put us managers against each others at the movie theatre when I worked there. When being called out she tried to worm herself out with more lies. It was such a relief for all of us when she quit.

I commend her for coming up to serve me considering how much we argued and fought before. But, when I took out an old sportsbra and asked which size the equivalent is now, she said small. I am not a large person but I am nowhere near small in that area so I got suspicious and walked up to the register and showed the bra to the cashier and she went and got the right size which were not a small.. I am not sure if old coworker lied to me because of our history or if she just did it because it's how she is and I didn't say anything about her lies to the cashier but now I kind of wish I had.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on April 21, 2018, 11:11:26 PM
Mid to high 80sF for the coming week. It's ten degrees hotter than it should be. I don't tolerate heat any more and if this keeps up it's going to be a long spring/summer. :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 23, 2018, 12:58:41 PM
I bought sliced cheese less than 10 minutes ago, intending to have it for my snack today, and when I opened the package, I discovered it is already moldy.  According to the expiration date, it should be fine until June.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 23, 2018, 02:10:57 PM
I get to do small parts pony inventory tomorrow, yay for a lot of things to go though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on April 23, 2018, 05:50:20 PM
Oof. I'm atheist. My parents still make me go to church and practice Christianity though. The pastor found out I draw and wanted to see some examples and maybe even have me draw something for a handout. The most recent thing I've drawn was a girl with a crap ton of piercings in overalls and fishnet. I'm probably not the best fit lol. And I most likely wouldn't get paid. You can probably see why this is awkward and I don't want to do it! My parents will probably make me though. Not fun.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 23, 2018, 06:21:09 PM
Oof. I'm atheist. My parents still make me go to church and practice Christianity though. The pastor found out I draw and wanted to see some examples and maybe even have me draw something for a handout. The most recent thing I've drawn was a girl with a crap ton of piercings in overalls and fishnet. I'm probably not the best fit lol. And I most likely wouldn't get paid. You can probably see why this is awkward and I don't want to do it! My parents will probably make me though. Not fun.

That is not ok to force a faith on anyone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on April 24, 2018, 06:35:08 AM
Oof. I'm atheist. My parents still make me go to church and practice Christianity though. The pastor found out I draw and wanted to see some examples and maybe even have me draw something for a handout. The most recent thing I've drawn was a girl with a crap ton of piercings in overalls and fishnet. I'm probably not the best fit lol. And I most likely wouldn't get paid. You can probably see why this is awkward and I don't want to do it! My parents will probably make me though. Not fun.

Sorry you have to deal with that. I'm so fortunate that my family really stopped being regular church-goers in my mid to late teens. They also stopped making me go those times they did go.

I'm so grateful for that because church was sooo boring for me as a kid. It also feels awkward going to church now that I don't believe it at all. It would have been a lot harder for me to hide my atheism if I was still forced/expected to to go to church.

Sorry you're stuck in that awkward situation. I don't know what I'd do.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on April 24, 2018, 07:04:06 AM
Thanks :) I know it's not okay what they are doing, but there isn't much I can do without damaging my mom's mental health severely. Anyway, I hope it just kind of falls through. It's not fun having this in the back of my mind during state testing though :wacko:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 25, 2018, 11:51:49 PM
My university room is too hot.

Thats what comes of having huge windows that let in tons of sun but which for 'safety reasons' won't open -.-

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on April 26, 2018, 07:20:53 PM
I hate snotty people. I was at the grocery store today, and headed to a checkout register. At first I missed a sign that said that particular register was closed. So when I headed to it the cashier says to me, "This line is closed due to training. You need to leave." Wouldn't the first sentence be sufficient without the snottily added second sentence?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 27, 2018, 08:24:12 AM
We might get snow Sunday, I have plants I want to move outside soon.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 27, 2018, 02:27:07 PM
I want to take up playing the concertina but trying to decide on one to start with has caused a level of confusion for which I was not prepared. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ghouldilocks on April 27, 2018, 06:30:24 PM
It's polleny temperature-shifty season right now, so my submandibular glands are all swollen and irritated today   :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 30, 2018, 09:19:58 AM
I hate cleaning the shower.

Also, today has been almost entirely rain.

And my university has found yet another way to make its research students feel unwelcome.

Yay.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on April 30, 2018, 04:26:20 PM
I got tackled by a football player today  -_- I wasn't hurt or anything, thankfully, but it was definitely an experience.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: CherryTreats on April 30, 2018, 08:20:58 PM
Sometimes I feel like giving up on buying any secondhand items online. I'm tired of things smelling like smoke, perfume, musty odor, etc. I immediately want to get rid of anything with a bothersome smell. It's hard when it's an otherwise very beautiful pony. I have opened ebay packages that the smell of throws me into a huge coughing fit. I'm tired of rebuying something I just bought because I don't like the smell or because something wasn't mentioned (like a haircut). I'm sensitive to smoke, musty odors, perfumes, air fresheners, scented candles, etc. and it makes buying things frustrating. Also, I am disappointed the new rainbow ponies coming out are scented.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on April 30, 2018, 11:36:02 PM
My tooth that needs a filling or pulling depending on what I want to do. Has started aching and it's still two weeks before my scheduled appointment. Not now! There's a week n a half left in the semester. I'm struggling mightily to finish my math class, I may be failing but I refuse to quit.

Also, insomnia but there is a full moon tonight. So who knows. :blink: :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 01, 2018, 05:12:45 AM
So. Much. Wind. >_<

I'd like to open up a window without getting blown away all the time. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starstrider on May 01, 2018, 08:56:46 AM
I don't want to go to work tomorrow.  But how else will I continue to fund this lavish pony lifestyle I find myself living?  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 01, 2018, 09:42:39 AM
Okay, so I live in a semi-detached house so obviously there's going to be noise bleeding between the two but one of the neighbours has just been banging hard enough to shake the whole building, like stamping their feet on the floor or something. It can't be about noise because I'm literally just sitting here looking for jobs on the internet (so that I can afford to move out of this house someday and away from these petulant, immature *can't think of a an Arena-friendly word to cap off that statement*) I fully understand that sometimes you need to blow off steam but that kind of behaviour is just completely uncalled for. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 01, 2018, 10:47:04 AM
My sister has the flu and her hacking and coughing and gagging are getting really irritating (and gross)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 01, 2018, 12:30:47 PM
I've been grouchy all month. 

I currently hate people around here.  They are annoying and quite frankly, I'm tired of sharing my oxygen with them.  It isn't like they're doing anything useful with it anyway.  Half the people I've come into contact with today have been so annoying that all I can think is "It's a good thing Jesus loves them because nobody else does." 

But it might just be because I've been grouchy all month.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 01, 2018, 07:52:48 PM
My shoulder is aching. It started up several hours ago. Wonder if I practiced too much? I don't know what would cause such a thing, or if it's just like headaches/legaches which just occur sometimes.

My sister has the flu and her hacking and coughing and gagging are getting really irritating (and gross)

That kind of sounds like me throughout some of today. D: Coughing in a way that causes one to gag is certainly not pleasant. It didn't help that today I had my aural theory exam and my jury where I had to play my oboe. Somehow the gagging coughing fits did not happen during those important moments.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 01, 2018, 09:03:27 PM
My loved ones are both being buttheads atm and can go bugger off for a while. Certainly not doing anything nice for any of them for the rest of the month.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 02, 2018, 08:26:25 AM
Headaches, I just can't stop having headaches. I imagine it is associated with whatever little cold I've gotten. However, I'm worried about taking any medication at this point because I don't remember exactly how many days in a row I've been taking it now.

Also the humid warm/hot weather is agitating me. I turn off my AC unit for even five minutes and the humidity immediately seeps back in. I also hate waking up sweating, it prevents me from being able to fall back asleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 03, 2018, 03:55:04 PM
So, I was on my way out of school. I got on my bike and noticed an old white man handing out a small orange book at the entrance to the bike path, right by school property but no quite on it. I rode to the entrance, on my bike, and he handed it to me. While on was riding on my bike. Turns out it was a pocket copy of the bible. I was not pleased. Nobody asked for it. And there are maaannnny religions at my school. I'm betting others weren't happy too.

My mother of course said "At least he is spreading the good word! You can be offended all you want and waste your time. There are bigger problems to worry about in this world." She got offended at the fact that I didn't like being handed the bible from school. More than usual because it was about religion. Then she told me that if I didn't want it she should have it and snatched it forcefully out of my hands. -_- :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 03, 2018, 04:40:56 PM
I look younger than my actual age and sometimes am treated like a teenager/tween rather than as an adult by cashiers, sales clerks etc... I went in to a new jewelry store today and one of the sales associates acted like I was a teenager she even said “Let me know if we can help you, Sweetie” I know some people say “Sweetie” to everyone and I don’t mind it so much if it comes from a person I know well but it’s annoying when strangers say it to me.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 03, 2018, 04:59:40 PM
I look younger than my actual age and sometimes am treated like a teenager/tween rather than as an adult by cashiers, sales clerks etc... I went in to a new jewelry store today and one of the sales associates acted like I was a teenager she even said “Let me know if we can help you, Sweetie” I know some people say “Sweetie” to everyone and I don’t mind it so much if it comes from a person I know well but it’s annoying when strangers say it to me.
Ponyfan

I hate when people use terms like that with strangers. I get the same kind of crap, but for different reasons. People assume that because I have a stilted gait I must have some sort of cognitive impairment. I get addressed with terms like "buddy", "chief", etc... by total strangers and it comes across as condescending, so I understand where you're coming from.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 04, 2018, 03:30:14 AM
I also hate being called sweetie or love.

I also hate when my university departments either stop emailing me and find a go-between or start talking to me like I'm an idiot when I disclose that I have autism. I have trouble filling forms, but I'm a PhD student. I don't need to be spoken to in words of one syllable, and I don't need someone else to translate basic messages.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 04, 2018, 12:13:00 PM
I wanted to mow the lawn, rained today so that is not gonna happen.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 04, 2018, 12:45:06 PM
Eczema, go away. I know I'm stressed out, you didn't need to show up to remind me :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 04, 2018, 02:21:29 PM
It took Panda Express 40 minutes to get my food.  And I still had to go back and ask them for my eggroll.  Gee, it's a good thing I have an hour lunch and Panda Express is only 10 minutes away (and ten minutes back)...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 04, 2018, 07:27:51 PM
I ordered from Panera Bread using a gift card I had. My mother picked up the order, and when she brought it home I found that whoever prepared it screwed up both of my sandwiches (I specifically asked for white cheddar for both and instead the sandwiches had American cheese). I called to complain and was advised I could either make the 20 minute trip back to Panera for a corrected order or settle for a gift card in the mail. I opted for the gift card. When my gift card didn't come in the next 3 days, I followed up and was advised they had run out of stamps earlier in the week and would likely receive the gift card in about another week. So now a week after I would have had my food (had the order been correct), I'm still waiting for the gift card.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on May 05, 2018, 09:14:05 AM
I wish the sales people in a store would leave me alone.  They swarm up to me every time and talk and talk and ask question after question.  I want to shop in peace.  I find this extremely rude.  If i need help I will ask for it, just give me some space. Uggg  I think I know what I want to look at and I really do believe at my age I can figure out what size I need.  Go do your work!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 05, 2018, 09:34:46 AM
I have eczema that can flare up when I’m stressed also or when I touch something I’m allergic to.  That new my  eczema exposed commercial drives me crazy. I don’t need to be reminded how ugly my eczema looks .

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 05, 2018, 10:07:11 AM
I was putting on my pants for graduation and banged the section of my leg below the knee on the wooden end of my bed. Ouch! I think it'll be okay, but I've been having a lot of pain lately in my feet and knee, this did not need to be added!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 05, 2018, 02:44:41 PM
I wish the sales people in a store would leave me alone.  They swarm up to me every time and talk and talk and ask question after question.  I want to shop in peace.  I find this extremely rude.  If i need help I will ask for it, just give me some space. Uggg  I think I know what I want to look at and I really do believe at my age I can figure out what size I need.  Go do your work!!

Agreed. I was at the grocery store the other day trying to decide what to buy to make my own Alfredo sauce. There were two ladies standing at a counter in the center of the display. One of the ladies behind the counter asked if she could help me find something. I said, "No, I'm just browsing." Then a couple minutes later the second lady asked the exact same question. It made me feel rushed, like they wanted me to pick up something and leave. I hate that!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 05, 2018, 04:11:18 PM
I made some iced peppermint tea because it's oppressively hot today and it's made me feel a bit iffy. I thought mint was meant to settle your stomach, if anything. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 05, 2018, 05:49:36 PM
I made some iced peppermint tea because it's oppressively hot today and it's made me feel a bit iffy. I thought mint was meant to settle your stomach, if anything. :/

Hm... I drink a peppermint and spearmint combo tea all of the time, but have never tried it iced before. Somehow the thought of drinking it cold just makes me feel uneasy thinking about it.  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on May 05, 2018, 06:36:33 PM
I got a slot with a tattoo artist I've been wanting a tattoo from for a couple years now, and yeah it's really expensive, but to me it will be well worth it. I wish when I told my friends, and I wish they could be excited for me too. Instead they just talked the whole thing down and said I was getting scammed and tried to refer me to their artists who work in a completely different style. I'm still super pumped but that kind of really put a damper on my good mood. As far as life long body art goes I'd rather pay top dollar for an artist who can work in the style I like than a fair price for someone who might struggle with it and botch it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 06, 2018, 02:20:50 AM
It's not enough that I have to deal with a runny nose due to pollenseason, keeping tissuepaper close at hand at all times, I also have to have a pimple inside my nosstril witch itches like crazy and everytime something touches my nose it feels like I've been punched. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Uninu on May 06, 2018, 02:50:47 AM
Stay strong, Minty_Magic! I'm one of those people who think that it's much better to find a tattoo artist whose work you love and get it done well at the first try, even if it means paying more than for example your friends did. There are so many styles in tattoos that it's good to know what *you* want and go for it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on May 07, 2018, 07:10:51 PM
It's not enough that I have to deal with a runny nose due to pollenseason, keeping tissuepaper close at hand at all times, I also have to have a pimple inside my nosstril witch itches like crazy and everytime something touches my nose it feels like I've been punched. :pout:

I have gone through that a few times its the pits.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 08, 2018, 04:50:49 AM
I made some iced peppermint tea because it's oppressively hot today and it's made me feel a bit iffy. I thought mint was meant to settle your stomach, if anything. :/

Hm... I drink a peppermint and spearmint combo tea all of the time, but have never tried it iced before. Somehow the thought of drinking it cold just makes me feel uneasy thinking about it.  :lol:

Ooh, peppermint and spearmint sounds nice, I'll have to keep an eye out for it! But yes, after this experience, it's definitely hot tea all the way from now on. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starstrider on May 08, 2018, 06:30:49 AM
My feet are freezing cold, but I'm too tired to stand up and walk all the way to the kitchen to put on the kettle for a hot water bottle.  IT'S JUST TOO HARD.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on May 08, 2018, 06:31:15 AM
I enjoy the ranking thingy on this website where you are allocated a type of pony, but now I am a Fakie :c im not a fake I swear  :whoa:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cookifaa on May 08, 2018, 06:44:43 AM
My exams start on Monday and I'm no where near ready. What I mean by no where near ready is that, I have 5 days to catch up on over 300 pages of work. And that's just for one subject.

If I could go back to 2015, I would have never of left school. Serves me right for having a hair wrap.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 08, 2018, 07:37:32 AM
"I Was Born Without Arms But It Doesn’t Stop Me From Fulfilling My Dreams" *shows drop-dead gorgeous drawings*

Yeah. It's awful success stories like these that kill my self-esteem all the time. I just have no excuse to be lousy at anything, AT ALL. Because there's always someone without arms/legs/eyes/brains out there who does amazing things. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Tulips on May 08, 2018, 07:48:22 AM
I'm so fed up, I've been paid incorrectly again and I'm owed 8hrs pay...
I don't know why they can't get it right, and each time I question it they act like I'm wasting their time and it's not their mistake! 
:stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 08, 2018, 03:21:34 PM
Temperature tomorrow is going to be 77, I work outside, and I dont have enough potting soil for my new pot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 08, 2018, 04:06:06 PM
We're going to have to run the mile tomorrow in 90 degree heat. Plus I have asthma and there is a crap ton of pollen in the air and I can only take two puffs of my inhaler in 4 hours. I'm going to be coughing by the end of it. Then right after that I have a 300 point presentation. Yay!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on May 08, 2018, 06:12:17 PM
"I Was Born Without Arms But It Doesn’t Stop Me From Fulfilling My Dreams" *shows drop-dead gorgeous drawings*

Yeah. It's awful success stories like these that kill my self-esteem all the time. I just have no excuse to be lousy at anything, AT ALL. Because there's always someone without arms/legs/eyes/brains out there who does amazing things. :pout:

Well, I can't paint.  I am totally lousy at it.  I can't even paint a wall.  Now if they guy down the street can paint an entire mural for his wall with two toes more power to him.  If I can't paint with my fingers, I certainly will never paint with my toes, belly button or teeth.  It isn't my talent.  Hugs
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 09, 2018, 04:31:01 PM
Now I'm sick :sick: Sore throat, earache, fever.

Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 09, 2018, 07:31:24 PM
Hot and humid today, made me very sleepy, I dont like it at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 10, 2018, 08:18:13 AM
Well, I can't paint.  I am totally lousy at it.  I can't even paint a wall.  Now if they guy down the street can paint an entire mural for his wall with two toes more power to him.  If I can't paint with my fingers, I certainly will never paint with my toes, belly button or teeth.  It isn't my talent.  Hugs

Thanks! You're totally right, but sometimes I just get (too) bitter about these things, not good at all... :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 10, 2018, 04:37:47 PM
I think a lot of people with disabilities are fed up with being seen as inspirational just because they find a way to get on with their lives regardless, but the media will lap up those stories anyway...

My trivial complaints for the day.

I have been on a roll typing up my notes from my text this last couple of weeks, but today my brain just won't focus on writing up all the wonderful aspects of the dead Emperor Takakura. Amusingly my speech recognition software used to transcribe Takakura as Coca Cola, so now I think of him fondly as the Emperor Coca Cola. Unfortunately that doesn't help me write up notes about how wonderful he was. Give me a battle scene to write up any day. They're so much more fun.

My ear is annoying me again. I am rather worried my new shampoo is affecting it. It's so annoying having sensitive skin and sensitive everything and not being able to use products because of it. It costs a small fortune.

Life is generally exhausting. I realised that pretty much every aspect of my life is exhausting and yet I don't intend on giving up any of them. But next year has so many questions hanging over it that it's really annoying me. I have my tribunal still to settle, I'm waiting on the stupid DSA people to actually give me an update on that (it's been 6 months, it was meant to be within 20 days), I don't know where I'm living, if I have funding, whether I am teaching, if I need to get a job, whether I'm getting writing up status...or anything yet.


Also, ignorance is the ultimate rudeness.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starstrider on May 11, 2018, 09:02:32 AM
I am a cat colony manager and rescuer, cats are my other passion besides MLP.  A few days ago I stuffed up whilst handling a feral kitten and he bit my hand and arm, and now I've developed cellulitis.  Yes, normally I wear gloves, and I should have been better prepared, but it was a crappy situation and 98% of the time rescues go off without a hitch.  This time just happened to be in the 2%. 

Last year I went through a similar situation but I ended up with a serious finger and hand infection and tenosynovitis, which resulted in emergency washout surgery, a week of IV antibiotics in hospital, two months off work (unpaid), the development of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), and all round a six month rehabilitation process including IV drug infusions to treat my pain.  So am a bit scared it's going to end up being another surgical case because it's affecting my hand and fingers, but so far the infection doesn't seem to have permeated the knuckle joints.  AAAAARRRRGGHHH. 

Kitty however, is now absolutely fine.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 11, 2018, 10:22:48 PM
I am a cat colony manager and rescuer, cats are my other passion besides MLP.  A few days ago I stuffed up whilst handling a feral kitten and he bit my hand and arm, and now I've developed cellulitis.  Yes, normally I wear gloves, and I should have been better prepared, but it was a crappy situation and 98% of the time rescues go off without a hitch.  This time just happened to be in the 2%. 

Last year I went through a similar situation but I ended up with a serious finger and hand infection and tenosynovitis, which resulted in emergency washout surgery, a week of IV antibiotics in hospital, two months off work (unpaid), the development of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), and all round a six month rehabilitation process including IV drug infusions to treat my pain.  So am a bit scared it's going to end up being another surgical case because it's affecting my hand and fingers, but so far the infection doesn't seem to have permeated the knuckle joints.  AAAAARRRRGGHHH. 

Kitty however, is now absolutely fine.

Ouch!! I really commend you for managing a colony and doing rescue work though. It can be stressful work. There are groups and individuals that help our shelter with TNVR and colony management. And on top of the issues of trying to trap tricky cats to get fixed, potential safety hazards, etc... they have to deal with repeated backlash from individuals who can't seem to comprehend that there's a difference between a domesticated cat and a feral cat and that a feral cat can't just be sent to the shelter for adoption because it's a wild animal.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starstrider on May 12, 2018, 08:29:54 AM
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Ouch!! I really commend you for managing a colony and doing rescue work though. It can be stressful work. There are groups and individuals that help our shelter with TNVR and colony management. And on top of the issues of trying to trap tricky cats to get fixed, potential safety hazards, etc... they have to deal with repeated backlash from individuals who can't seem to comprehend that there's a difference between a domesticated cat and a feral cat and that a feral cat can't just be sent to the shelter for adoption because it's a wild animal.

It's always so great to meet other rescuers and kitty enthusiasts!  I see you're in NY, and there are several NY colony groups I follow on IG and FB because the work they do is just absolutely phenomenal.  TNR is less common here in Australia, but those of us involved in colony management recognise that it is the only sustainable and ethical way forward for handling the feral cat population (I hate the word feral!).  Animal rescue is both a joy and a constant source of sadness.  I am so grateful to the animal lovers of the world for the effort and the love that goes into saving animals in need. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 14, 2018, 01:28:15 PM
I got plenty of work done in the garden and round the house today but apparently put too much strain on my dodgy leg in the process, so my reward for all that work is an incredibly painful leg. I want a new body, this one's rubbish. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 14, 2018, 02:37:46 PM
I found another bruise on me, and I have no idea where or when I did that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tulagirl on May 14, 2018, 03:45:36 PM
I got plenty of work done in the garden and round the house today but apparently put too much strain on my dodgy leg in the process, so my reward for all that work is an incredibly painful leg. I want a new body, this one's rubbish. :pout:

I want one too!  If I clean for 5 or more minutes it is amazing the amount of pain I get into. Argh
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kestral_kitsune on May 15, 2018, 07:02:59 PM
lol my trivial complaint is i ended up popping my wrist at work, a lump appeared had it checked out  thank god no fracture, but its a cyst that's gonna have to be taken care of due to where it was. weirdest part was the lump wasn't there this morning and we honestly thought it was a bone ... on top of that its my bday and that was not how I wanted to spend my after noon XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 15, 2018, 10:09:07 PM
I'm not eating a can of chocolate frosting at one o'clock in the morning. Nope. Not me.

 :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 15, 2018, 10:34:45 PM
lol my trivial complaint is i ended up popping my wrist at work, a lump appeared had it checked out  thank god no fracture, but its a cyst that's gonna have to be taken care of due to where it was. weirdest part was the lump wasn't there this morning and we honestly thought it was a bone ... on top of that its my bday and that was not how I wanted to spend my after noon XD

Happy birthday :) Glad there's no fracture at least.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Wildshadow on May 16, 2018, 07:55:22 AM
I'm hating how a lot of pictures I can't see on this board because I'm looking at this at work and they have blocked LOTS of pictures from various sites, especially Deviantart x.X and I look at this place at work because I can type much faster than on a laptop or phone/tablet ^_^""
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 17, 2018, 12:11:02 AM
That moment when an apparently reputable academic wades into a controversial conversation about politics and decides to refer to it all as 'autistic hostility'.

Because that's entirely appropriate use of language. Not.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 17, 2018, 07:20:06 AM
That moment when an apparently reputable academic wades into a controversial conversation about politics and decides to refer to it all as 'autistic hostility'.

Because that's entirely appropriate use of language. Not.

I don't even know what that phrase is supposed to mean.   :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 17, 2018, 07:36:35 AM
It's a phrase used in conflict studies to indicate a situation where two sides stop speaking to each other, refuse to engage and basically end up with worse relations.

However when used randomly without qualifier or explanation in a general discussion, it comes over in a totally other way.

I actually think the original term is offensive too, personally, but I can't do a lot about that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 17, 2018, 01:17:22 PM
It's a phrase used in conflict studies to indicate a situation where two sides stop speaking to each other, refuse to engage and basically end up with worse relations.

So..."The Silent Treatment"?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on May 17, 2018, 07:01:43 PM
It's a phrase used in conflict studies to indicate a situation where two sides stop speaking to each other, refuse to engage and basically end up with worse relations.

However when used randomly without qualifier or explanation in a general discussion, it comes over in a totally other way.

I actually think the original term is offensive too, personally, but I can't do a lot about that.

Wow... Never heard that one before. IMO, that’s a seriously offensive term, in any context. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2018, 02:30:26 AM
It's a phrase used in conflict studies to indicate a situation where two sides stop speaking to each other, refuse to engage and basically end up with worse relations.

However when used randomly without qualifier or explanation in a general discussion, it comes over in a totally other way.

I actually think the original term is offensive too, personally, but I can't do a lot about that.

Wow... Never heard that one before. IMO, that’s a seriously offensive term, in any context. :/

It is, but we apparently don't have feelings, and don't interact with the real world enough to know about this stuff, so who cares? Certainly not this academic. He should have contextualised his jargon at the very least.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 18, 2018, 09:32:15 AM
Next week is memorial day weekend... I work at a grocery store bring on the last minute panic, I work half the weekend.  :shocked: :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on May 18, 2018, 12:05:35 PM
Being broke sucks so much  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 19, 2018, 03:13:09 AM
I wish them every happiness, but I am so sick of stuff on the Royal Wedding.

Right now three channels are broadcasting it live and it hasn't even kicked off yet. About ten other channels have wedding themed weekends or documentaries about Harry and Meghan.

The news has been 50% about that as well this week even though actual things are happening in the world.

I'm not anti-royalist. But do we really need this much coverage?

Not to mention half of London is currently blocked out with street parties and other things so no buses go anywhere of use.

Only thing worse would be to actually be in Windsor right now...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 19, 2018, 04:58:28 AM
^^As someone who lives in the USA, I just have to say although I might not care too much about the Royal Wedding, I am really glad to have the attention put on the Royal Wedding instead of a certain USA political figure who dominates the media every other second and disgusts me to the the core.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on May 19, 2018, 05:13:06 AM
I wish them every happiness, but I am so sick of stuff on the Royal Wedding.

Right now three channels are broadcasting it live and it hasn't even kicked off yet. About ten other channels have wedding themed weekends or documentaries about Harry and Meghan.

The news has been 50% about that as well this week even though actual things are happening in the world.

I'm not anti-royalist. But do we really need this much coverage?

Not to mention half of London is currently blocked out with street parties and other things so no buses go anywhere of use.

Only thing worse would be to actually be in Windsor right now...

I agree with you 100% I will be glad when its all over  :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 19, 2018, 09:34:39 AM
Two days with no sleep! Wheeee!

CFS is so bizarre. Tired, sleep for 15 hours. Still tired! Awake for days!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 19, 2018, 03:40:03 PM
There is very push cashier at one of the stores I like to shop at. Every time I am in there she tries to get me to sing up for the store's loyalty card (It costs $25 a year) When I politely tell her no she starts to harass me for several minutes during the transaction asking me questions like "Why don't you want to have one? Don't you want to save money? How can you say you don't want to sign up for it?" It's really annoying.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on May 19, 2018, 10:32:14 PM
A very pony-related complaint: I’m still mad/sad that G2 was pretty much skipped in the U.S.. I feel like I was robbed of what could have been an awesome part of my childhood or something, lol. XP
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 20, 2018, 12:05:18 AM
There is very push cashier at one of the stores I like to shop at. Every time I am in there she tries to get me to sing up for the store's loyalty card (It costs $25 a year) When I politely tell her no she starts to harass me for several minutes during the transaction asking me questions like "Why don't you want to have one? Don't you want to save money? How can you say you don't want to sign up for it?" It's really annoying.

Ponyfan

I'm with you on this. These aggressive sales tactics are super annoying. If you're already there buying something then company is already making money, and the businesses should not be coaching their salespeople into aggressively attempting to bilk customers out of more money. Maybe if enough people complain at the corporate level then companies will start changing tactics, so I would complain if you haven't already.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 20, 2018, 01:26:08 PM
There is very push cashier at one of the stores I like to shop at. Every time I am in there she tries to get me to sing up for the store's loyalty card (It costs $25 a year) When I politely tell her no she starts to harass me for several minutes during the transaction asking me questions like "Why don't you want to have one? Don't you want to save money? How can you say you don't want to sign up for it?" It's really annoying.

Ponyfan

I'd probably be a brat and tell her I didn't want it because she was trying to get me to sign up for it.  I've told pushy people before "Don't call us, we'll call you" and walked off.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 20, 2018, 02:04:42 PM
I asked to order some sunglasses to try at Boots and they seem to be taking an incredibly long time to arrive (weeks!); given the kind of unpleasant attitude on the staff, I'm wondering if they even bothered to order them at all. I'm gonna go check some different opticians instead and see if they have any sunglasses that take my fancy. My eyesight is bad enough without getting headaches every time I go out on a clear day, and from what I've been reading about sun damage, I'd rather like to avoid the risk of macular degeneration in later life, thank you very much! :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 20, 2018, 02:08:14 PM
There is very push cashier at one of the stores I like to shop at. Every time I am in there she tries to get me to sing up for the store's loyalty card (It costs $25 a year) When I politely tell her no she starts to harass me for several minutes during the transaction asking me questions like "Why don't you want to have one? Don't you want to save money? How can you say you don't want to sign up for it?" It's really annoying.

Ponyfan

I'd probably be a brat and tell her I didn't want it because she was trying to get me to sign up for it.  I've told pushy people before "Don't call us, we'll call you" and walked off.

The thing is she's probably been instructed by her superiors to be pushy. That's why I think people should start going to the top of the chain and making it known that this crap is creating a very uncomfortable shopping experience.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 20, 2018, 03:31:04 PM
I always seem to be sick and still at school when test and presentations happen. I've been sick for the last few math tests, and I have a presentation tomorrow and I am sick with allergies. Of course, I still have to take the tests and present the presentations because I am there. *cue angry allergy sneeze*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 22, 2018, 10:13:37 AM
I have somewhere around 400 G3s that I want to rehome but selling is such a pain!  At the same time, I'd hate to send them to a thrift shop where if they don't sell, they might get thrown away.  :(

Post Merge: May 22, 2018, 09:41:41 PM

Just got scammed out of $400 by someone claiming that I needed to make a payment because I had a warrant out for my arrest and I was an idiot and didn't think it through.  So if anyone calls claiming that you missed jury duty, hang up on them and call the cops to ask. (Though, I did call what I thought was the police and apparently they managed to spoof that number online as well.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on May 23, 2018, 01:46:18 AM
Just got my copper IUD replaced with the Kyleena one with hormones. The replacement itself was a lot better this time but yikes my leg hurts like hell now. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 23, 2018, 07:23:19 AM
I frequently look on eBay for authentic Pokemon cartridges to play. So many fake games are calling their fakes reproductions. At least they put it in the listing the aren't authentic, but seeing "Pokemon _____! Aftermarket reproductions!" In every listing isn't fun.

Seeing an English version of green when they have a listing of various first gen games is a bit funny though!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starstrider on May 23, 2018, 09:13:19 AM
I think I'm coming down with a cold, and it's further sapping my already low energy reserves.  I feel like I need to sleep for a week, but I just started back after the weekend and I have four more days of work until my next day off.  Ugh.  Need sleepy day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lonewolf on May 23, 2018, 09:06:44 PM
For the first time in 6 years it looks like I won't be attending a pony convention. CanterlotKC was going to be back this year, but they announced they couldn't get the funding together for it. And with Nightmare Nights Dallas gone there's nothing close to me (there is Crystal Fair in St. Louis this weekend, but I found out way too late, and already have plans). :sad:
 The closest is Ponyville Cider Fest in Milwaukee in October, but that's close to 800 miles from here, and I did the number crunching (car rental, hotel, and badge) and it comes out to $700-$900 depending on if I arrived Friday or Thursday. I look forward to going to one every year. and 2019 could very well be the last year for them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on May 24, 2018, 04:25:45 AM
Looks like I have lost my divers licence, I can think where  might have had it but it seems to have just vanished. So its either wait and see if I actually find the stupid thing or pay out £20 for a new one  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 24, 2018, 04:39:06 PM
I bought one of those 20th anniversary Tamagotchi virtual pets a few weeks ago and just opened it tonight. Mine’s defective and doesn’t work even after just pulling the battery tab and hitting reset. Now I have to return it. :(

Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 24, 2018, 05:54:17 PM
I really need to make a list or spreadsheet or something for my video games. For the third time I bought one I already have and don't need/want multiple copies of.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 25, 2018, 03:05:43 AM
I've just found out that Tefifon was a thing and I'm really gutted that the format was never a success; those big, chunky cartridges and the thick plastic tape spools look like they'd be really fun and satisfying to use. Why is it always the failed formats that steal my heart?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 27, 2018, 05:46:15 AM
I may not be able to to to the flea market today, perfect weather, nice temp, and nope my dad has a foot infection.  :huh: :mad: >_< :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 27, 2018, 11:50:42 AM
My bike broke down so I had to walk to and from work this weekend, 1 hour each way. Now I have blisters and chafes on my feet and under my toes. Lovley >_<.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 27, 2018, 12:22:26 PM
My bike broke down so I had to walk to and from work this weekend, 1 hour each way. Now I have blisters and chafes on my feet and under my toes. Lovley >_<.

That's terrible :( but I'm really impressed you went into work anyway! I would have had to call in ( I'm not a good employee...). You deserve something special for putting up with that!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 27, 2018, 12:55:41 PM
I was flipping through the channels yesterday and saw James Van Praagh peddling his psychic garbage on Dr. Phil, and it made me sick. For those unfamiliar with Van Praagh, he is a nationally known self-proclaimed spiritual medium. He's raked in millions conning grieving family members with false claims that he can speak to the dead. My father grew up with his family and said they always had a reputation for being immoral human garbage. It's just sickening seeing schemers like Van Praagh, Sylvia Browne, and John Edward take advantage of gullible victims for personal gain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kestral_kitsune on May 28, 2018, 09:40:59 AM
I got an email yesterday saying someone added an email address to my paypal account, went to log in and got the 'there is no account underneath this name'. three hours later they're off the account, and I have it back but I CANT LOG IN D: they acknowledge my password changes but shows that I make no attempt at logging in.
so I have to try again today and if it doesn't work I am going to have to have them close my paypal account so I can open up another one. :joy: -sarcasm-

so guys Keep an eye on your paypal accounts I didn't use a password for that I used elsewhere
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 28, 2018, 10:26:19 PM
Ugh.  In clearing out my emails, I found an email in my spam box from Bank of America stating that someone had tried to access my account and I needed to verify the information.  The problem is, as far as I'm aware, I do not have a Bank of America account.  So now I get to call them in the morning and try to sort all of that out.   I really hate dishonest people and I wish that they would just quit breathing my air.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 28, 2018, 11:28:36 PM
My bike broke down so I had to walk to and from work this weekend, 1 hour each way. Now I have blisters and chafes on my feet and under my toes. Lovley >_<.

That's terrible :( but I'm really impressed you went into work anyway! I would have had to call in ( I'm not a good employee...). You deserve something special for putting up with that!

Thank you. I'm a workoholic and it takes a lot for me to call in for anything. Some bandaids and I'm all good really. :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 29, 2018, 07:20:22 AM
@Pokeyonekenobe and kestrel_kitsune - both of those sound like email scams to me, especially the Bank of America one. I get BoA emails like that all the time and I'm not even in the US.  They sound like emails that you should never click the link on or phone the number contained within either.

My trivial complaint - more thunderstorms, more rain, more lightning. Third major storm since I came back home on Friday. Glad I didn't have to fly through it, and also glad it didn't affect the carboot sale yesterday, but seriously? Enough with the storms already :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mami Tomoe on May 29, 2018, 08:09:20 AM
I want a rare mst3k garage kit but its so rare and probably expensive
I want a job but I don't want to stand for to long

Post Merge: May 29, 2018, 08:11:41 AM

That moment when an apparently reputable academic wades into a controversial conversation about politics and decides to refer to it all as 'autistic hostility'.

Because that's entirely appropriate use of language. Not.

I don't even know what that phrase is supposed to mean.   :huh:
its a buzzword it just an insult to autistic people
My laptop isn't working because I haven't updated it and now I use my phone
I hate people who are so two faced theres this one girl that's friends with everyone but not me and I did nothing to her she's so annoying and all she does is talk about death and things about her life nobody wants to know like im happy that your recovering but I just met you and I don't want to hear every bit of trauma when im eating a sandwich and it could trigger my trauma and I don't want to hear about how you want to die when I am trying to battle bad thoughts of mine
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 29, 2018, 09:12:42 AM
It's oppressively hot, my room is south-facing and it has huge windows, so it's basically a greenhouse in there, I have job interviews tomorrow and on Thursday and it's impossible to get a decent night's sleep in this heat. I kind of need a decent amount of sleep if I'm going to stand a chance at getting either of these jobs. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 29, 2018, 10:11:14 AM
@Pokeyonekenobe and kestrel_kitsune - both of those sound like email scams to me, especially the Bank of America one. I get BoA emails like that all the time and I'm not even in the US.  They sound like emails that you should never click the link on or phone the number contained within either.

The Bank of America one is a scam.  It is pretty convincing, but on further inspection this morning, I noticed some grammatical errors.  Plus, since I checked the actual Bank of America site before doing anything with the email, I knew what to look for. It's people phishing for your information and if you click the link in the email, you'll go to a bogus site.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 29, 2018, 03:07:59 PM
@Pokeyonekenobe and kestrel_kitsune - both of those sound like email scams to me, especially the Bank of America one. I get BoA emails like that all the time and I'm not even in the US.  They sound like emails that you should never click the link on or phone the number contained within either.

The Bank of America one is a scam.  It is pretty convincing, but on further inspection this morning, I noticed some grammatical errors.  Plus, since I checked the actual Bank of America site before doing anything with the email, I knew what to look for. It's people phishing for your information and if you click the link in the email, you'll go to a bogus site.

Glad you were able to check it out and resolve it without falling for their scam. It's one that amuses me because I always get messages which say "There is a problem with your BoA account". And my response is always, yeah. I'm not in America, and I don't have an account. Those are pretty big problems - before hitting the delete.

It's so sad how common these scams are these days. I admit, I have had genuine emails from companies which I've assumed to be scams until I verified them through other means. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 29, 2018, 03:43:17 PM
We might be near 90 tomorrow temp wise and humid. I work outside.  :cry: :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kestral_kitsune on May 29, 2018, 06:22:20 PM
@Pokeyonekenobe and kestrel_kitsune - both of those sound like email scams to me, especially the Bank of America one. I get BoA emails like that all the time and I'm not even in the US.  They sound like emails that you should never click the link on or phone the number contained within either.

The Bank of America one is a scam.  It is pretty convincing, but on further inspection this morning, I noticed some grammatical errors.  Plus, since I checked the actual Bank of America site before doing anything with the email, I knew what to look for. It's people phishing for your information and if you click the link in the email, you'll go to a bogus site.

its why i didn't try anything on that email, and went straight to the website itself to try and log in and found i was locked out. called support and YUP someone got into my account and locked me out of it. it's mostly fixed now I just have to call them again to fully shut down my paypal account because I STILL CAN'T LOG IN TO IT XD oh my stars and garters its annoying
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on May 29, 2018, 06:37:00 PM
I've got some sort of bug and I've been in bed all day. I wanted to go to the fabric store today! Ugh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loa on May 29, 2018, 07:38:59 PM
My niece is taking FOREVER to be born!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 29, 2018, 09:30:55 PM
My niece is taking FOREVER to be born!

Hope everything is okay?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on May 30, 2018, 05:10:07 PM
Our bathroom wall caved in while my sister was taking a shower. Luckily she's okay, but we have a gaping hole in our shower now. The drywall is just shot, it's completely rotted. It's the landlord's fault for not keeping it up to standard though so thankfully he has to take care of it and it won't be coming out of our pocket. But it's still kind of annoying and freaky to have your wall cave in haha.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 31, 2018, 10:20:12 AM
I hate how websites just move and move and MOVE these days, just because all kinds of things that I don't even WANT have to be loaded (like ads and interactive buttons and crap). It makes it very hard to read anything at all, and I keep clicking on things I don't want, because the dang page moves up and down right when I want to click on something. I seriously have to CATCH the buttons or links I wish to click on.

I. DON'T. LIKE. GAMES. :angry:

Spoiler
Caps were absolutely necessary.  I apologise.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on May 31, 2018, 04:10:32 PM
I am trying to buy a house in Seattle, and it is a pain in the butt.  Everything is overpriced so I'm constantly second-guessing myself, like should I wait and hope the bubble pops?

Unnnnngh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 31, 2018, 05:19:10 PM
Hot and humid again bring on some rain please.  :hot: :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 31, 2018, 06:31:36 PM
Why do my classmates find it fun to make fun of or laugh at serious things? My friend started dramatically reading a suicide prevention poster, making fun of the pictures of different cartoon faces they had on there, even saying "Do people actually call that number?" referring to a suicide prevention line. Yes, that number is there to help save peoples lives! Let's make fun of it and the people who care... I told her that people do call and it's not very nice to make fun of people who want to end their life. She continued on, saying how one of the pictures of a kid that had "bullying" as his emotion looked like a Target logo because he had a black eye with a white circle in the middle while the other eye was just black. Yay...

We also learned about the trail of tears today and the horrid atrocities that happened besides that. Some people were talking and laughing, not paying attention at all. During my teacher talking about how thousands of people died. It looked like they were laughing at death.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on May 31, 2018, 07:16:13 PM
I took the bus with a plan to go to the doctor's office for some routine bloodwork. With all the stops, having to get off at the station, boarding a second bus, and going to the medical center, it was meant to be a ~50 minute trip each way. But it didn't work out that way:

10:47a.m.: I arrived at my nearest bus stop
10:59 a.m.: Board first bus to station
11:39a.m.: Arrive at station to board second bus
11:45a.m.: 6 minutes past when bus is due and it hasn't arrived
12:10p.m.: Bus has now missed it's second trip to the station
12:30p.m.: I get advised by another driver the buses are short-staffed, and that he'd do the route I was taking after his current route.
1:45 p.m.: I give up waiting and take the bus for my route back home.
2:06p.m.: Get dropped off back at the stop near my house.
So ~3 hours spent just to go to a medical office located 15 minutes away by car, and I only got as far as half my trip.

Luckily, my mom drove me later to get my bloodwork, but what about the people who rely on the bus to get to/from work?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 01, 2018, 07:33:48 AM
I bought this nice candle I had been eyeballing for a while (see spoiler). When I got home, I wanted to take the foil off the glass, turns out, the image is ON the foil. Seriously? :pout:

I paid €2,99 for the dang candle. For that price I expect the image to be on the GLASS. If I had known, I never would have paid that much for it, especially since it smells like hell, lol. I only bought it to burn it up as quicky as possible, so I could put a regular tealight in it.

Spoiler
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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 01, 2018, 12:56:37 PM
Cottonwood pollen, I am not allergic, but that stuff makes a huge mess, and clogs things.  :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 01, 2018, 07:51:22 PM
Our bathroom wall caved in while my sister was taking a shower. Luckily she's okay, but we have a gaping hole in our shower now. The drywall is just shot, it's completely rotted. It's the landlord's fault for not keeping it up to standard though so thankfully he has to take care of it and it won't be coming out of our pocket. But it's still kind of annoying and freaky to have your wall cave in haha.

That must have scared the you-know-what outta her! I'm glad she wasn't hurt, and that she doesn't hafta pay for it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on June 03, 2018, 07:23:20 AM
My dog Amber located a fledged Blue Tit that was on the ground hiding in the garden. Little Bird is VERY lucky it was Amber and neither of the other two because one is a known mouse and newt killer and the other doesn't like birds. She sniffed at him a bit but left him alone. So now I just have to keep the dogs out of their favourite place until the bird leaves! Hope its soon!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 03, 2018, 11:13:00 PM
I bought a USB cooler & warmer to help my teacup keep the heat of my tea. I had been eyeing it forseveral months now at work and as I never took a return of it I thought it would be good. Nope, tea still gets cold despite the thing being warm.. Not sure if it is the teacup that is wrong or what and I am contemplaiting if I should return it but with the staff discount it was so cheap and maybe the cooler will work to keep my water chilled instead?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 04, 2018, 03:01:58 AM
I left my watch in the pocket of my work trousers and put them in the wash. Good job it was only a cheap watch, really! I don't think it's going to work now seeing as there's water sloshing around under the face and I can't get it out... :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 04, 2018, 12:43:33 PM
I ordered a dvd player new, I wound up with a defective one.  So I had to get a replacement one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on June 04, 2018, 01:04:08 PM
Why are play dolls at Goodwill naked? Do they shuck their clothes off before putting them out? Is it just my store..it's so frustrating. Find a doll I like and she's butt naked. When I find one with clothes it's one I'm not collecting for, just my luck.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 04, 2018, 02:03:58 PM
We started the Summer Reading Program today.  In the first hour we signed up more than 200 kids and they've been coming pretty steadily all day.  :faint:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 04, 2018, 02:17:00 PM
Why are play dolls at Goodwill naked? Do they shuck their clothes off before putting them out? Is it just my store..it's so frustrating. Find a doll I like and she's butt naked. When I find one with clothes it's one I'm not collecting for, just my luck.

I see that all the time at my local salvation army store, like is there a secret dolls clothes cult I dont know about?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on June 04, 2018, 04:26:33 PM
Why are play dolls at Goodwill naked? Do they shuck their clothes off before putting them out? Is it just my store..it's so frustrating. Find a doll I like and she's butt naked. When I find one with clothes it's one I'm not collecting for, just my luck.

I see that all the time at my local salvation army store, like is there a secret dolls clothes cult I dont know about?

Glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem. And it's all different sizes, nobody is safe.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 05, 2018, 08:52:01 AM
Why are play dolls at Goodwill naked? Do they shuck their clothes off before putting them out? Is it just my store..it's so frustrating. Find a doll I like and she's butt naked. When I find one with clothes it's one I'm not collecting for, just my luck.

I see that all the time at my local salvation army store, like is there a secret dolls clothes cult I dont know about?

Glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem. And it's all different sizes, nobody is safe.

More worrying still is when they're half dressed and the clothing they do have on is way too big. It makes you wonder what they get up to when the store is shut.

Last doll I picked up from a charity shop was a Sunset Shimmer doll and she was wearing really baggy barbie trousers and nothing else. No wonder she looked so startled...

And it is just stores, because the last 4 EQG dolls I picked up from carboot sales were all fully dressed, mostly in their own original clothing!

Spent £21 today to have the dentist tell me my tooth is a hypochondriac. It's good to know it has no infection, but a root filled tooth should not be sensitive to hot and cold...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 05, 2018, 02:21:48 PM
I dropped by my local wall mart, once again the claw games are garbage, I did win one plush. However they used to be sooo much better.   :pout: :pout: :pout:


Also the my little pony section has been taken over by those pick me lollipop animal plush.   :pout: :enraged: All that was left was a barely two foot wide mostly empty, cardboard display full of air. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on June 05, 2018, 02:43:47 PM
Had to take our bunny to the vet, she's staying overnight for tests (has kidney stones but need the test results to see how best to proceed for treatment). Seeing her empty pen at home is so strange.

Not to mention the bill (and just when we thought things were settled).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 05, 2018, 04:19:34 PM
Had to take our bunny to the vet, she's staying overnight for tests (has kidney stones but need the test results to see how best to proceed for treatment). Seeing her empty pen at home is so strange.

Not to mention the bill (and just when we thought things were settled).

I hope she gets well soon, Kiwi!


It was 91 at 8 o'clock this morning. I'm so sick of living here. ...and I made a new page :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kestral_kitsune on June 05, 2018, 05:06:17 PM
i got a gangling cyst removed this morning on my right wrist and pain meds aren't working and the incision is itchy and i'm supposed to keep my wrist straight and do you know how hard that is with out a brace? i don't know why they didn't give me a brace D: this is hard to type out one handed  i have a left handed brace upside down to try and keep it stablized
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 06, 2018, 12:23:33 AM
Had to take our bunny to the vet, she's staying overnight for tests (has kidney stones but need the test results to see how best to proceed for treatment). Seeing her empty pen at home is so strange.

Not to mention the bill (and just when we thought things were settled).

Oooh, it's so worrysome when the little ones are sick. I keep my fingers crossed it all goes well and the treatment chosen is an easy one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 08, 2018, 09:10:05 AM
I thought I saw a herdwick up in Bollington today and got really excited because they're my favourite sheep. Turns out is was actually a dark brown sheep grazing and a white one standing a short way away with its head up, so at a glance they looked like a brown sheep with a white head. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 08, 2018, 11:11:07 PM
Got woken up at 5am by someone banging on my livingroom window. In my drowsiness I thought it was my boyfriend who had lost his keys, never mind his shift ends at 7 am and he would've called me. So up I went, looked out the window and saw none. Walked to the kitchenwindow to see if anyone stood outside the door to the complex. None. Went back to bed and tried to sleep but by now the cats were awake and demanded breakfast.. byebye sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 09, 2018, 02:44:20 AM
Got woken up at 5am by someone banging on my livingroom window. In my drowsiness I thought it was my boyfriend who had lost his keys, never mind his shift ends at 7 am and he would've called me. So up I went, looked out the window and saw none. Walked to the kitchenwindow to see if anyone stood outside the door to the complex. None. Went back to bed and tried to sleep but by now the cats were awake and demanded breakfast.. byebye sleep.

Can relate. Noisy students giggling and stamping up the hallway at ungodly hours...normal routine on a Saturday morning after late night returns. Wouldn't mind except I am trying to regulate my own sleeping hours so I can focus on reediting my thesis for draft submission later this month. Hopefully soon most of them move out...

Also still unsure what I am doing next year. University site is messing up with GTA applications, and they're not answering their email. I don't know about funding, I don't know where I am living, or anything right yet. And my professor, who has had three sections of my work in his possession to read since February/March...has not yet read them. Sigh. Universities are so great.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 09, 2018, 12:58:50 PM
One of the water bed heaters is broken and when I went to the store to get another, the store was sold out. The sales clerk said they could order one and that it will "only take 10-12 days"  for it to come in . Waterbeds can get cold if you don't have a water heater and she continued to make comments strange comments like "Why do you need a heater? It's hot outside"


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 09, 2018, 02:06:00 PM
Today was clearly Idiots Go Out In Public day.

Aside from the really rude guy playing his very bad music out loud on the bus for a good 30 minutes, I almost got run over by someone who decided they wanted to drive over the zebra crossing while I was still crossing it - in front of them. I am pretty sure the law, and if not the law, the highway code states that if a pedestrian has a foot on the crossing, driving over it is illegal. I was halfway across it and just about to cross in front of them when they decided it was time to drive away. I don't think they were paying attention, but they also could not be bothered to apologise.

People like that should not be allowed out, let alone allowed to drive.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 09, 2018, 05:05:11 PM
I'm so tired of being tired...  :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 09, 2018, 05:27:12 PM
Today was clearly Idiots Go Out In Public day.

Aside from the really rude guy playing his very bad music out loud on the bus for a good 30 minutes, I almost got run over by someone who decided they wanted to drive over the zebra crossing while I was still crossing it - in front of them. I am pretty sure the law, and if not the law, the highway code states that if a pedestrian has a foot on the crossing, driving over it is illegal. I was halfway across it and just about to cross in front of them when they decided it was time to drive away. I don't think they were paying attention, but they also could not be bothered to apologise.

People like that should not be allowed out, let alone allowed to drive.

I deal with that working in a parking lot all day, I did get hit once.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 10, 2018, 09:58:59 AM
Today was clearly Idiots Go Out In Public day.

Aside from the really rude guy playing his very bad music out loud on the bus for a good 30 minutes, I almost got run over by someone who decided they wanted to drive over the zebra crossing while I was still crossing it - in front of them. I am pretty sure the law, and if not the law, the highway code states that if a pedestrian has a foot on the crossing, driving over it is illegal. I was halfway across it and just about to cross in front of them when they decided it was time to drive away. I don't think they were paying attention, but they also could not be bothered to apologise.

People like that should not be allowed out, let alone allowed to drive.

I deal with that working in a parking lot all day, I did get hit once.

That sucks :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 12, 2018, 07:58:06 AM
A website that used to be free isn't free anymore.  It isn't expensive, but now I'm wondering if I still want to use it.  I use it for work and because I contribute content, my account is free but other people have to pay for it now and I didn't want people to have to pay for the content I contribute.  But I still use the content I've contributed (I replace artwork for DVDs and CDs at the library where I work) so having it saved online is helpful and makes it easy to locate. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on June 12, 2018, 08:31:56 AM
I can't go out with my family on our weekly outing today because this stupid plumber, who's kinda not been on top of things for the past week, ignored our request to actually call and give notice before showing up, and just showed up as we were getting ready to leave. Now we're stuck here all day, according to him. I really look forward to our outings because I don't get to leave the house much with all our animals and the farm-related stuff we have to do during the day, so this sucks. Figures the one day of the week my family gets to go out and enjoy ourselves would be the day he shows up unannounced.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 12, 2018, 02:31:46 PM
The bus I take to work today was 35 minutes late. Fortunately the manager is alright just so long as you call ahead and let him know what's going on, so it wasn't anything that could jeopardise my job, but I really hate being late, it doesn't make that good of an impression. Luckily I was able to get my frustration out by drilling holes in things for most of the day. ;D
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 13, 2018, 12:00:32 AM
The bus I take to work today was 35 minutes late. Fortunately the manager is alright just so long as you call ahead and let him know what's going on, so it wasn't anything that could jeopardise my job, but I really hate being late, it doesn't make that good of an impression. Luckily I was able to get my frustration out by drilling holes in things for most of the day. ;D

Yay for British buses. I remember one time where one of the buses round by us didn't turn up for 2 hours...

So I tried to apply for academic teaching on Friday and the site was messing up. I emailed HR, and no reply. Today I get a reminder to complete my applications. I can't. They haven't fixed the problem yet. If they have time to tell me to do that, they have time to read and reply to my email. Meanwhile, deadline is approaching...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 14, 2018, 09:46:15 AM
I just love sitting outside, doing nothing and sweating to death. It's great! Like a free sauna. (this is sarcasm)

I used to spend quite a bit of time outside, enjoying nature. Living in Florida sure has killed that part of me. Unless I'm actively IN the ocean, I'd rather be inside a dark room.

...I made a new page again!  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 14, 2018, 11:09:57 AM
Had a bit of a composite filling pop off, I am fine it was just $175.00 to fix and replace the rest of it. At least i had a health savings account to pay for it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 15, 2018, 09:42:43 AM
American dental prices never fail to terrify me. I think that £40 for a filling is expensive ><

So my Uni job site was messed up this past week. It kept telling me I couldn't apply.
I complain.
HR ignore me for a week then tell me how to apply for a job like I'm an idiot.
The admin at my uni often talk to me like I'm stupid because I'm autistic. I am really sick of it.
I complain to disability office.
Disability office phone HR.
Suddenly the thing I asked for a week ago gets done IN TEN MINUTES.

Literally a half hour later my job application is done.

Imagine how much time and stress would have been saved if they just listened to what I said originally and did something based on what I told them, rather than needing someone else to phone & tell them that my problem was not because I'm stupid and disabled, but because their system was broken.

So annoying.

So so annoying.

BUT at least the application got done.

Now I am trying to figure out what to do with next year's accommodation, given that I'm still waiting for a tribunal date over my disability benefit, don't know if I have any chance at any funding, and have nowhere in London to live after the end of August.

Oh yeah. And I've a thesis draft to write too.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 16, 2018, 11:37:03 AM
Went to a few yard sales one listed as having "Vintage toys" turned out to be 7 year old fast food toys worth nothing, the only vintage anything was a transformers knock off. PLEASE BE HONEST IN YOUR ADDS.  :mad: :enraged: :enraged:

Nothing ticks me off more than lying about things at your yard sale. On a good note I fond a hardcover for nightmares and dreamscapes for a quarter.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on June 16, 2018, 04:09:48 PM
Had a donor chew me out today over the most absurd thing: 4 years ago, Couple A made a check out to our shelter in memory of Couple B's dog and gave the check to Couple B to give to our shelter. Couple B gave us the check a couple months after it was written. We publish memorials in our quarterly newsletters. In the time between when the check was written and when it was received by our organization, our quarterly memorials had been submitted to be published, so recognition would simply go in the next quarter's newsletter. The wife in Couple A was ticked off that her memorial was not listed, and my boss explained to her about how we didn't receive the donation until after the newsletter had been submitted, and it would therefore be in the next one (but she could have figured this out herself by comparing the date of deposit with the memorials' dates in the newsletter's heading).

Fast forward to this year, the husband of Couple A submits his credit card info through the mail for another memorial. There was no name listed on the outside of the envelope, and only his name (and that of the person who the memorial is for) was listed on the inside. So now the wife is ticked that only his name was listed as the donor instead of both their names, even though hers was not listed anywhere on or in the donation envelope.

So she publicly chewed me out and blamed me for both instances. Then her husband snaps at me, "Next we make a donation, we want it recognized with both names listed. You got that? It's not difficult!"
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on June 16, 2018, 04:37:15 PM
There is so much pollen in the air and I can't breath!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 17, 2018, 02:02:46 AM
So she publicly chewed me out and blamed me for both instances. Then her husband snaps at me, "Next we make a donation, we want it recognized with both names listed. You got that? It's not difficult!"

I never understood that kind of attitude. Shouldn't the important thing be the donation, not getting pats on the back for it? Sheesh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 17, 2018, 03:59:29 AM
So she publicly chewed me out and blamed me for both instances. Then her husband snaps at me, "Next we make a donation, we want it recognized with both names listed. You got that? It's not difficult!"

I never understood that kind of attitude. Shouldn't the important thing be the donation, not getting pats on the back for it? Sheesh!

People who expect you to be psychic. Sigh :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on June 17, 2018, 07:34:02 AM
I bought myself some chocolate during my little shop because I was feeling down. Get home and realise I must have left them at the till
Such a minor thing but this has really upset me  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 17, 2018, 01:26:28 PM
So glad to be off tomorrow high will be 95 with a heat index of 100, doing a quick run out to the store for lemonade tomorrow morning.  Other than that NOPE GONNA HIDE IN THE HOUSE.

 :shocked: :yikes: :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BubbleTea on June 17, 2018, 01:58:10 PM
Going to the flea market and having a vendor refuse to sell me the toy horses she had for sale.

Same day another person puts away ponies just as I'm going to buy them.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 17, 2018, 03:03:27 PM
Going to the flea market and having a vendor refuse to sell me the toy horses she had for sale.

Same day another person puts away ponies just as I'm going to buy them.  :pout:
*pony hugs*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BubbleTea on June 17, 2018, 03:35:06 PM
Going to the flea market and having a vendor refuse to sell me the toy horses she had for sale.

Same day another person puts away ponies just as I'm going to buy them.  :pout:
*pony hugs*

Thanks  ^.^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on June 17, 2018, 05:25:25 PM
Going to the flea market and having a vendor refuse to sell me the toy horses she had for sale.

Same day another person puts away ponies just as I'm going to buy them.  :pout:

Oh, I had that happen once when I was a little boy, probably like 8 years old. I was at a yard sale and found this vinyl unicorn. I was walking around with it in my hand looking at other items. Suddenly, the man running the sale came over to me, took the unicorn out of my hand, and told me it had already been sold. Then he put it right back with all the other toys that were for sale.

I assume in my case he just didn't want to sell a unicorn to a boy. Did either of these sellers say anything to you?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 17, 2018, 10:54:35 PM
I bought myself some chocolate during my little shop because I was feeling down. Get home and realise I must have left them at the till
Such a minor thing but this has really upset me  :cloud:

:hug:
I understand the feeling, the same thing has happened to me a few times before and it was very frustrating. When you're not feeling that great, the last thing you need is to lose out on a nice treat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 18, 2018, 06:49:46 PM
When did Netflix decide to send an email everytime you log in? 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2018, 10:14:42 PM
Ponyfan's comment above reminded me of something else.

Why do TV channels on catch-up demand you log in and register these days? And why do they keep saying you need only do it once and then log you out over and over so you have to re-log in in order to access what is a free television service? And why do they want all your details to do that?

I understand having a log in for services that are paid for, but ITV, C4, etc? So frustrating and such an invasion of privacy.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 18, 2018, 11:34:17 PM
Yesterday morning as I was ready to get to work we were hit by thunder and heavy rain. When I came into work the rain had soaked through my waterproof raincoat and pants and shoes. When I was going home 8 hours later they had not dried. During the ride home the sun came out and it got warm and made me sweat on top of it all. Today I woke up to rain as well and the raincloths are still not dry! I have another jacket I can use, albeit thinner so I will probably freeze, but the pants and shoes are gonna be fun. I'm considering wearing plastic bags on my feet :lol:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on June 19, 2018, 09:22:56 AM
Beldarna: I've done that, lol! Hey it works:)

Got stuck babysitting today. My mom was watching my cousin's little girl when my sister calls her up and asks if she can sand the kitchen today (she's working on her house) Mom not only agrees but says niece can come over here to play as I won't mind. I DO mind, thank you very much as you didn't ask me if I would watch the first one! (The girls are fine I just really hate when my mom just volunteers me for stuff.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 19, 2018, 10:12:15 AM
I hate when parents come to the library, set no limits for how many books their kids can check out and then WHINE because they have so much stuff to carry.  What did you think would happen?  You're not raising your kids to understand the concept of self control.  It's like they're afraid if someone looks at the book before they do the words will disappear.  And I'm not going to feel sorry for them because they CHOSE to let their kids have that much stuff. 

Seriously, if you can't figure out how to use the word "No" you should never reproduce.  Ever.  You should probably not go out in public without a leash and handler, either.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2018, 06:13:12 AM
While a lot of parents work hard and are great, I have to agree that parents who make no attempt to control their kids and thus inconvenience everyone else are really annoying. It's like you go into a shop or a cinema or anything (library too) and they're acting like it's their front room and the kids can do as they would at home. Run riot. Scream. Pull stuff off shelves. Bother other people. And often the parent is on the phone and not even paying attention to the kids. I saw a kid almost pull a trike onto herself from a shelf in a toyshop once because of that kind of parenting.

I also worked in a library where parents would expect library staff to play creche advisors. One little girl was particularly wild. She was very bright and actually, a nice kid, but her mother basically ignored her when using the computers and didn't reinforce any instructions so the child ignored her back. I remember spending an hour with this kid going through the books we had beneath the desk (this was an information library, NOT a lending library so no kids section per se) because this kid had already tried to run out of the door once (onto a main road) and we didn't want her hurt.

The heartbreaking thing about that story is that she was so quiet and attentive and engaged with me looking at this book and talking about it that when her mother wanted to leave she got upset. She wanted to stay with me and the books rather than go home with her mother :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 21, 2018, 01:48:39 PM
The heartbreaking thing about that story is that she was so quiet and attentive and engaged with me looking at this book and talking about it that when her mother wanted to leave she got upset. She wanted to stay with me and the books rather than go home with her mother :(

That is a shame.

Years ago, I went on holiday with my ex boyf and his extended family. One of the young cousin kids (age 6) was notoriously troublesome and I was dreading sharing my time with them; screaming and running away at the airport, being brattish etc. however, I soon got to see him in a new light: his mum practically ignored him the whole time, so he played-up to get attention, even if it meant being shouted at.

One evening, after being told off again by his mum and walking off in a strop, he sat with me at the dinner table, I kind of half-heartedly took him under my wing, chatted to him etc - he ate all his dinner and veggies (to everyone's surprise) and was in fact a very sweet little boy. For the rest of the holiday we spent a bit of time here and there, he behaved so well around me! He cried when the holiday ended.

As I am no longer in contact with my ex I have no idea what has happened to that lad, they lived in another country and moved back to the UK when their father died - so no updates  :wonder: :shrug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cookifaa on June 21, 2018, 03:34:26 PM
More on the kids and parents ignoring them thing:

I hate it when adults leave their children to the teenagers at family gatherings, like I'm sorry, but I'm here to see my family, not to be your personal baby sitter -_-

At my last family gathering, which was a memorial day for my late uncle (he was 21, so it was still sore), everyone was really emotional as can be expected, but they were telling their children to go find me and hang out with me so they could get drunk. Within half an hour I was nannying 16 kids, only a three of which I'm related to. I also have social anxiety, so being left with a whole clutch of loud, obnoxious kids who are complete strangers did nothing to help my anxiety at all. What made it worse was that every time they went to bug their parents or got too loud, I got an earful off the adults. The kids were not my responsibility and so to be shouted at for someone else's kids messing about was a huge blow. I ended up having a huge panic attack and grabbing my three little cousins and fleeing to the local country park until late. I felt bad for abandoning all the kids, but at the same time, they're really not my responsibility, I didn't even know their names. My cousins were the only ones who were actually listening to me and being quiet!

If they really didn't want to be with their kids they should have got a baby sitter, or someone else to mind the kids so they could go alone :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 21, 2018, 08:57:08 PM
I ended up having a huge panic attack and grabbing my three little cousins and fleeing to the local county park until late. I felt bad for abandoning all the kids, but at the same time, they're really not my responsibility, I didn't even know their names. My cousins were the only ones who were actually listening to me and being quiet!

If they really didn't want to be with their kids they should have got a baby sitter, or someone else to mind the kids so they could go alone :(

Oh that's awful, cookifaa, so unfair to you  :( especially when you are grieving, too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 22, 2018, 07:40:16 AM
Yesterday came a report that several brands of a hugely popular toy (squishies) contains toxins and are not safe for kids. There were a list of 12 retailers selling those, one being in Sweden and the toy store chain carrying them immediately discountinued their items. Now we also sell squishies but have another brand that is safe. It has been thoroughly tested both at the factory in China and here in Europe. The toy we carry is safe. Period. Yet I heard all day today from customers walking past our store seeing our squishies making remarks of them being prohibited, toxic, etc and how wrong I was to still have them out etc. Like, it's one brand in one store thats affected people! Get a grip! Like if Volvos SUVs suddently malfunctioned and got discontinued, would you stop buying SUVs from Wolksvagen? :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 22, 2018, 04:03:28 PM
Hot and humid again today, I dot like that at all it makes me sleepy.

 :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 22, 2018, 04:30:53 PM
 :stressed: There is a ninja mosquito in the room with me. It keeps biting me and getting away before I see or feel it. WHY?! Why do you keep biting me?! How much of my blood do you need?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 23, 2018, 02:57:22 AM
Found an Amazon voucher. Ordered rainbow retro parasol. Accidentally forgot to change the address on Amazon, so she's been delivered to my parents' house instead of to me in London. Which means another five whole days before I get to play with her :'(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on June 23, 2018, 05:06:22 AM
We had a heck of a severe storm last night and it took out our greenhouse, which was staked down and lined with concrete blocks. It blew across the highway, and when I went out to look for it this morning, it looks like it ended up wrapped around an inactive oil rig like a mile away. So now on top of having to skip the toy show we were going to, we have to spend the morning trying to get a hold of the company who owns the rig so we can apologize and get it removed before it causes issues >.< Ugh.

But I guess I can be grateful that it was an inactive rig, and not an active one, right?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cookifaa on June 23, 2018, 08:09:17 AM
I like this thread, it feels good to complain without being judged :lol:

Seriously though, why are ducks so nosey?

I had a heart attack moment earlier when the neighbor knocked on my door to tell me one of my ducks had some string in her mouth and was trying to swallow it. I just thought he meant some baler twine or something, but no. It was a really long piece of thick blue rope that she had partially swallowed. I spent 20 minutes trying to slowly prize it out of her mouth and I've never been so scared! I honesty thought I killed her at one point because she gagged and went limp.

It eventually came out and I put her down and she ran off quacking at me, if she was human she would have been so disgusted with me. The part she had swallowed was 6 inches long and she's only a call duck too so the rope would have shut off her airways if the neighbors hadn't of noticed and warned me.

Hopefully it'll teach her to stop being nosy and eating everything she sees, and its definitely taught me to constantly check and duck proof the garden! :blush:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 23, 2018, 08:53:33 AM
@Cookifa, Glad your duck is doing fine! I would have been scared to death, especially when she gagged and went limp.

We had a heck of a severe storm last night and it took out our greenhouse, which was staked down and lined with concrete blocks. It blew across the highway, and when I went out to look for it this morning, it looks like it ended up wrapped around an inactive oil rig like a mile away. So now on top of having to skip the toy show we were going to, we have to spend the morning trying to get a hold of the company who owns the rig so we can apologize and get it removed before it causes issues >.< Ugh.

But I guess I can be grateful that it was an inactive rig, and not an active one, right?

Ah, looks like we live in the same state. Thankfully, by the time it got over to my area it must have really toned down. I don't think it was even severe anymore. I slept through most of it, with just a brief waking up around 3 am to hear it. I was expecting it later in the morning.

My poor dog was awake scared and panting, though.  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on June 23, 2018, 01:31:04 PM
@Cookifa, Glad your duck is doing fine! I would have been scared to death, especially when she gagged and went limp.

We had a heck of a severe storm last night and it took out our greenhouse, which was staked down and lined with concrete blocks. It blew across the highway, and when I went out to look for it this morning, it looks like it ended up wrapped around an inactive oil rig like a mile away. So now on top of having to skip the toy show we were going to, we have to spend the morning trying to get a hold of the company who owns the rig so we can apologize and get it removed before it causes issues >.< Ugh.

But I guess I can be grateful that it was an inactive rig, and not an active one, right?

Ah, looks like we live in the same state. Thankfully, by the time it got over to my area it must have really toned down. I don't think it was even severe anymore. I slept through most of it, with just a brief waking up around 3 am to hear it. I was expecting it later in the morning.

My poor dog was awake scared and panting, though.  :(

Oh! Another Okie? Glad you didn't get the brunt of it, it was wild. Lightning flashes that lit everything up like daytime and wind enough to knock a body over. I'm surprised we didn't lose more things, honestly.

Same here, I had to pull my dog out of his crate in the living room and let him sleep in my room. Poor thing is terrified of storms.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: sparkykandy on June 23, 2018, 09:56:26 PM
I hate FaceBook.  It won't let me access my account without confirming my identity, but the only way to confirm it is by sending them official documentation which I refuse to do.  So, I'm locked out of my account and can't delete it without accessing it.  Oh, and there's no way to send an email to FaceBook or anything.  I hope FaceBook goes the way of MySpace.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 24, 2018, 07:23:07 AM
I ran into a vender at the flea who forgot to bring ponies, I emailed them and have not gotten an answer back in a weeks time. I am a little miffed, and was hoping they would be a little prompt about a reply. At this rate I am gonna say forget it.  :mad: :pout: :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 24, 2018, 08:22:03 AM
Ugh, so hot. The pool looks nice but it's dirty (why do we even have a pool guy??) and if I clean it I'll be even more hot... but then the pool would be clean... but it's sooooo hot...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on June 24, 2018, 08:37:19 AM
BlackCurtains: fill up the tub with cool water?

Youngest sister has wound Mom up again over different things (I'll be SO glad when sister's house is done so she'll calm down a bit) so now Mom is even MORE stressed than she already was and since I've been listening to both sides I now have a pounding headache. Going to go take some pics after some coffee for distraction.

* edit I meant my sister will calm down; mom will when sis does, lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sweet Daes on June 24, 2018, 08:56:37 AM
Even 3 minutes is too long to wait for coffee to brew.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 24, 2018, 09:03:48 AM
BlackCurtains: fill up the tub with cool water?

Alas, I don't have a bathtub :( Anyway, now it looks like it's going to storm, so no pool regardless.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 24, 2018, 02:23:16 PM
I am extremely disappointed with an Etsy seller. :pout: I ordered a beautiful wooden sign, almost a month ago. The seller messaged me immediately that it would be ready and shipped within a couple of days, and that she would let me know if anything changed. I heard absolutely nothing, and my item hadn't been shipped either. I messaged her after two weeks, but no reply. I was just thinking that maybe life got in the way, so I refrained from getting annoyed, for the moment.

...Until I saw that she had been active on facebook, offering her work. I don't have/want facebook, so I couldn't reach her there. I messaged her on Etsy mmediately, the "please respond" kind of message. She didn't reply, however, within a day I received a full refund, saying that she could not ship my item because of the high international shipping costs.

You couldn't tell me that right away instead of hiding? Yeah, I was (pleasantly!) surprised that shipping was only $10, in fact I could hardly believe it (since it's a large item). However, it's still the seller's responsibility... :hmm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2018, 06:26:05 PM
I bought a new DVD set and the last disc wasn't secured on the holder so when I opened the box it fell out and got scratched. :sad:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 24, 2018, 09:57:22 PM
I bought a new DVD set and the last disc wasn't secured on the holder so when I opened the box it fell out and got scratched. :sad:



Ponyfan

If it skips, contact the company that made the DVD and ask if you can get a replacement.  I've done that before (most recently with my "Hey Arnold" complete series because disc 13 skipped) and they asked me to email them a picture of my receipt and the proof of purchase off the case and then they sent me a replacement free of charge. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 27, 2018, 07:32:22 PM
Was really looking forward to a package I had been anxiously awaiting days for that was due for delivery today. However, instead of being delivered to me, it was delivered to someone else. The person even signed for it and everything. What in the world?  :mad:

Now I have no clue if the delivery company is somehow going to be able to retrieve it or if I'm going to have to reorder it. *sigh* Either way, I'll be waiting days if not a whole week longer than I thought.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 28, 2018, 10:07:56 AM
I was in a hurry to catch my bus this morning and left my normal glasses on the bookshelf, so I've had to wear my sunglasses at work all day - it's a good job they've got prescription lenses in them, really! Can't do much wiring if everything is a blur!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 28, 2018, 05:03:00 PM
Pretty sure my ADHD is acting up right now. I'm trying to read this chapter of my textbook for a class, and it's just really not interesting to me at all (it talks about technological manufacturing processes). I'm just trying to get through it, but my mind wanders and I can 'read' half a page but not have processed a single word of it. D:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 28, 2018, 05:12:20 PM
Ugh, this day has sucked :pout: I somehow hurt my ankle.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on June 28, 2018, 09:02:46 PM
Sooooooooooo many people. I'm exhausted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2018, 01:20:03 AM
I've had some weird train experiences lately, but yesterday was one of the rudest people I've met on the train for a while.

So when I travel, I have to be near my cases otherwise I will forget them and leave them behind (which causes chaos).

I always try to book a seat near the racks for this reason, but this trip home my usual seat was taken so I had to book another one. These are priority seats for disabled people BUT they are not exclusively for disabled people, it's the kind of thing whereby you move if someone more needy comes along, which is fine. But I need to be near my case, so I'm really limited in where I can sit on these trains.

In any case, because of this, the seat I had to book was the window seat and the aisle seat already had a booking. I don't really like travelling next to someone else but I can deal with it.

Anyway, got on the train yesterday. There's already the woman sitting there. She has her stuff sprawled all over both seats and is reading her book. I politely ask her to move her bag so I can sit down, because I have the seat booked.

She looks at me, then says, "there are plenty of other seats free."

Now, I've booked that specific seat, so her saying that is already pretty off, but I explain to her politely that I have a disabled railcard, and I need to be in that seat to be by my case.

So she gets all annoyed then like I'm being unreasonable, and basically shouts at me to sit down then...then she knocks her coffee over, she swears and glares at me like it's my fault, and eventually gets up so I can try to sit down. She's still all over my seat space, and it's really really awkward.

Eventually she decides to go move to another seat where she can dump her stuff all over the place. Which made me quite relieved.

It ended without escalation because I basically refused to argue with her or rise to her snapping, but it did make me feel uncomfortable. To begin with, if I have a specific seat booked, who is she to go tell me to sit somewhere else so her BAG can have my seat? Secondly, these are priority seats and I have a priority need to sit there. And thirdly, having any kind of confrontational conversation with a stranger is not the best thing ever for me. Travelling is stressful enough without meeting someone like that before the journey even begins.

It's not quite as bad as the time I was made to move from the disability area of a train to make way for a bike, but you know...it's getting there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on June 29, 2018, 08:18:56 AM
Not a complaint really, just something a littke funny with a complaint  :P

Its really hot in the UK, too hot... Some may say i am allergic to the sun as when it gets to temepratures like we are seeing this week i break out in Prickly heat all over my body, it looks horrible so i cant wear shorts or a dress but apart from that it causes me little bother.
Im not the only one whos complection has changed this week however.... My Mirror Mirror has her symbol constantly activated because of the heat, she isnt in sunlight either so it must be just the warmth! I hope it doesnt affect her too much as her symbols are perfect with no flaws... :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on June 29, 2018, 09:04:09 AM
I’m too tired to exist.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 29, 2018, 01:06:32 PM
Sunday is gonna be a high temp of 98 EEEEKKK  :yikes: :yikes: :whoa: :hot:  I work inside, and all next week will be hot too. I work outside.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 29, 2018, 03:15:55 PM
These afternoon thunderstorms give me a massive headache everyday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on June 29, 2018, 05:58:48 PM
Another hot weekend here, last weekend it was 103 and 105F. Which translates to overnight temps in the low 80sF, not much of a cool down. Tomorrow is supposed to get 104F, uggh.

 My bathroom was torn up all day because the toilet was getting fixed. The place is one giant dust ball and I so want to clean but can't have the windows open. It's bugging me! >_< Stay cool everyone. :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 29, 2018, 11:46:06 PM
Joining the club to complain about the heat! I was hoping to avoid it and stay cool, but my room is south-facing and the windows take up about half of the outer wall, so it's basically a greenhouse in here.  The layout of this stupid house has the kitchen and bathroom facing away from the sun - not places to sit and chill out. I have to go out into town as well and people round here are ignorant enough on a normal day, they get worse when it's sunny for some reason. Urrgh. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 30, 2018, 12:37:51 AM
Complaining about weather is a basic human right :D
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 30, 2018, 01:54:20 PM
Complaining about weather is a basic human right :D

True that, especially in England! (That said, I think it might be more of a cultural more for us.) XD
Continuing the weather complaints, the heat drove me to the evils of ice cream and even though I let it soften up a bit first, it still made my teeth hurt. I'm fine with hot food but anything too cold and my teeth are just like "No! Stop that!"
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 01, 2018, 07:55:20 AM
Complaining about weather is a basic human right :D

True that, especially in England! (That said, I think it might be more of a cultural more for us.) XD
Continuing the weather complaints, the heat drove me to the evils of ice cream and even though I let it soften up a bit first, it still made my teeth hurt. I'm fine with hot food but anything too cold and my teeth are just like "No! Stop that!"

I think here it's a legal requirement :)

It is hot though. It is not quite as bad at home as it was in London last week but some of my plants look tired because of the sun and lack of rain/water.

I guess this is that mythical thing other places call 'summer'.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 01, 2018, 01:54:00 PM
Too hot! I feel drained, baked... got 2 fans on in my room, semi nekkid, still too warm *sigh*

I reckon my ideal weather would be warm + sunny during daylight and cool and light-rain at night to refresh everything.

I've had some weird train experiences lately, but yesterday was one of the rudest people I've met on the train for a while.

Ugh, what a nasty woman, a pox be on her!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 01, 2018, 02:19:01 PM
Yep, weather sucks. It's been so hot and dry most of the year so far. Now that's it's started storming everyday there is massive flooding. Also since it rains in the evenings it smells like rotten vegetation during the day >_<

The gulf is in turmoil too. Riptide so bad it's killing manatees.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 02, 2018, 07:49:36 PM
I spent today at work with no fan and no air conditioning. It was 97 degrees Fahrenheit.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 03, 2018, 10:58:43 AM
My country played today at the soccer world cup. The entire mall was dead, I think I had one paying customer during the whole game. The store opposite showed the game on one of their big screen tvs and people passning stopped to watch but no one bought anything. Needles to say this was one of the most boring and uneventful workshifts I've ever had. On the plus side we won the game.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 03, 2018, 02:34:58 PM
I had a performance review today and managed to completely stress myself out over nothing.  At least it's over now. :faint:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 03, 2018, 07:18:47 PM
I had a performance review today and managed to completely stress myself out over nothing.  At least it's over now. :faint:

Ugh.... I hate those too so I empathize.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 03, 2018, 10:16:35 PM
My dog got attacked by fire ants and we must be out of benadryl. I splashed ammonia on his leg so hopefully it'll be fine but now I've gotta stay up to keep an eye on him. At least I'm wide awake now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 04, 2018, 01:55:33 PM
My dog got attacked by fire ants and we must be out of benadryl. I splashed ammonia on his leg so hopefully it'll be fine but now I've gotta stay up to keep an eye on him. At least I'm wide awake now.

I hope your dog will be okay.

I’ve been a little sad today for no real reason.  I’m still having trouble coming up with ideas for my epic adventure story. I can think of ideas when I’m not able to write them down but by the time I sit down to write I can’t think of anything to add.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on July 06, 2018, 06:52:07 AM
My dog got attacked by fire ants and we must be out of benadryl. I splashed ammonia on his leg so hopefully it'll be fine but now I've gotta stay up to keep an eye on him. At least I'm wide awake now.

Oh no! I've tangled with a few of those and the results are painful, hope he's feeling better.

It's early here (7 AM) and I need to vacuum today, been putting it off due to the hot weather. But I live in an apartment and don't want to be one of *those* neighbors. Who starts running appliances at an insane hour of the day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 07, 2018, 12:30:03 AM
A parcel I've been waiting for has been in England for 4 days now and according to the tracking, is still languishing in Langley HWDC - not the Langley just up the road from me, the Langley at the opposite end of the country. I hope it hasn't been lost in the sorting centre. I know there are more important things in the world than sodalite rune stones but even so, I've worked hard for that treat! :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 07, 2018, 05:40:26 AM
I hope your dog will be okay.

Oh no! I've tangled with a few of those and the results are painful, hope he's feeling better.

He's fine ^.^ Just a bit itchy.

I always panic dealing with fire ants since I'm deathly allergic to them myself.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 07, 2018, 08:03:26 AM
Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 07, 2018, 09:10:19 AM
I had a customer try to help me push carts, I fell on my rope for them, now I have a nasty bruise near my armpit. As well as a messed up elbow too, I may have inflamed the tendon, or bothered the fluid sack near it. I have a brace on, and will ice it again later.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on July 07, 2018, 01:15:10 PM
People who complain that they have no peace of mind, while they literally sit there and attempt to start a bloody argument out of the blue. I mean, I'm argumentative too, but don't cause a ****storm and then blame it on another person when you are the only one who has been throwing a tantrum and throwing your weight around for the past few hours when everyone else has been quiet and calm. I told her that too. She didn't like it at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 07, 2018, 02:49:23 PM
Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

Very rude indeed. She should do one load at a time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on July 07, 2018, 03:51:02 PM
Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

That is rude, hope you can get your laundry done.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 07, 2018, 07:34:04 PM
Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

Very rude indeed. She should do one load at a time.

Or two, at most. I always do two, but never exceed that amount. I feel like its fair - there are eight washers in the laundromat, so I'm only taking up a fourth. This morning two of the washers were out of function, though, leaving only six. And that lady was using all six! >.<

Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

That is rude, hope you can get your laundry done.

Thanks, everything worked out in the end. I was just really frustrated because not only was it inconsiderate, but it really hurts me to walk due to some medical issues right now, so I couldn't just walk back to my place and wait, I had to sit there and wait for thirty minutes for washers to clear. I wasn't prepared for it at all, I hadn't had my breakfast or anything.

The good thing was somehow she didn't take up all of the driers (I'm not sure how that worked out) and I was able to move my clothes to the driers immediately after they were done in the washers.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on July 09, 2018, 09:43:36 AM
Agh I hate contest where people actually have to vote and most votes wins. I feel like it can get rigged so quickly and that people with the larger fanbases have a much higher change than that of less-popular artist. It doesn't feel fair, like it's more about the popularity than the art itself. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 09, 2018, 10:03:19 AM
Since my 8 hour car ride, I've had the most annoying slight vertigo!
Agh I hate contest where people actually have to vote and most votes wins. I feel like it can get rigged so quickly and that people with the larger fanbases have a much higher change than that of less-popular artist. It doesn't feel fair, like it's more about the popularity than the art itself. :/
That's sadly how it is with most contests. It'd be nice if there were a more anonymous way of displaying entries for voting, or if more people from outside of circles were able to cast votes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 09, 2018, 10:13:21 AM
Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

Ugh, I can so relate. Students. STUDENTS. Seriously. You either get the ones who do as your lady does, or more annoyingly, the ones who put their washing/drying on  and then go out/go to bed/go to class and leave it. FOR THE WHOLE DAY. We're not meant to take stuff out of the washers or driers unless they belong to us but seriously they end up hogging machines for 12 hour+ stints because they can't be bothered to come get their stupid clothing.

Drives me crazy.

In Japan, the machine hogging didn't happen, but people did keep stealing my detergent instead of buying their own (despite the big sign in English and Japanese from the landlords telling people to bring their own!)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on July 09, 2018, 10:30:55 AM
Alright so that contest is actually quite... strange. The ending date for BOTH the uploads and voting is the same. So if you submit anything with only 1 hour left, well you're out of luck then. What kind of idea is that? Make art faster so that you can gather votes more quickly? Let me post one of my favorite quotes:

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 09, 2018, 02:09:05 PM
Sooo....hoooooootttttt!    :drool::hot:  The air conditioner at work isn't working right....again.  Maybe if it breaks again (for the third year in a row) we'll get some paid days off because it's too hot to come in...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 09, 2018, 05:50:32 PM
My elbow is sore, thanks to a customer trying to help me with carts.  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 10, 2018, 08:26:50 AM
Well, I think heat/stress/anxiety have finally all succeeded in doing me over after weeks of incessantly ganging up on me. I've been ill all day, couldn't even keep a cup of tea down at breakfast and barely made sense on the phone when I called work because my head just wouldn't co-operate. My stomach appears to have calmed down a bit but it still does cartwheels whenever I stand up and I just feel completely drained. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 11, 2018, 11:14:57 AM
I was going to go out to lunch with a friend, but they never showed, I guess something came up.   :nomail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 11, 2018, 12:13:14 PM
Rude transport people file continues to grow.

On a london bus. I need to get off. I politely say to the lady blocking the aisle, "excuse me please, I need to get off here." And she glares at me, snaps "Wait!" and then shoves past me.

I have issues with strangers making physical contact with me. It took a lot of self control not to shove her away from me. I hate rush hour buses. Especially on that route, because it's always packed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 11, 2018, 08:26:01 PM
Increased doctor visits as of late have uncomfortably made me repeatedly have to be made aware of exactly how much I weigh. Why do they need my weight at a podiatrist? >.<

I know, I should care, but a couple of years ago after changing some of my habits (which I documented in Healthy Pony back then) I was happily losing weight, but then - keeping the same habits - it suddenly turned around and now I weigh more than I ever have and it makes me want to cry. But if I told anyone this IRL they've laugh at me because I still look skinny (I really think that's changing, though.).

I need to do some exercising, I guess, but not until my feet are better.

Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

Ugh, I can so relate. Students. STUDENTS. Seriously. You either get the ones who do as your lady does, or more annoyingly, the ones who put their washing/drying on  and then go out/go to bed/go to class and leave it. FOR THE WHOLE DAY. We're not meant to take stuff out of the washers or driers unless they belong to us but seriously they end up hogging machines for 12 hour+ stints because they can't be bothered to come get their stupid clothing.

Drives me crazy.

In Japan, the machine hogging didn't happen, but people did keep stealing my detergent instead of buying their own (despite the big sign in English and Japanese from the landlords telling people to bring their own!)

Here people will just take those people's clothes out of the washers/driers. I see it all of the time, there's just clothes thrown all over the place in there.

I always am careful not to leave my clothes in the washer/drier, but one time I was washing my dog's blanket, which was not a usual part of my routine and it threw me off and I was just a few minutes late getting back to the washer and someone had taken it out. I was not too happy. It's not like I was coming back hours later, or gosh even more than 5 to 10 minutes. =/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 11, 2018, 08:54:26 PM

Went down to the laundromat like I always do Saturday mornings, and discovered that a single lady had taken every single washer at once. I'm half tempted to go talk to the apartment management about it.

If it had been multiple people, I'd just call bad luck on my part (usually no one is in there on Saturday mornings). But for one individual to take up the whole laundromat at once? It's just inconsiderate beyond belief. I also know we're not supposed to do that... But my experience with going to any form of management about people being so inconsiderate has never gotten me anywhere, so I wonder if I should even bother.

Ugh, I can so relate. Students. STUDENTS. Seriously. You either get the ones who do as your lady does, or more annoyingly, the ones who put their washing/drying on  and then go out/go to bed/go to class and leave it. FOR THE WHOLE DAY. We're not meant to take stuff out of the washers or driers unless they belong to us but seriously they end up hogging machines for 12 hour+ stints because they can't be bothered to come get their stupid clothing.

Drives me crazy.

In Japan, the machine hogging didn't happen, but people did keep stealing my detergent instead of buying their own (despite the big sign in English and Japanese from the landlords telling people to bring their own!)

Here people will just take those people's clothes out of the washers/driers. I see it all of the time, there's just clothes thrown all over the place in there.

I always am careful not to leave my clothes in the washer/drier, but one time I was washing my dog's blanket, which was not a usual part of my routine and it threw me off and I was just a few minutes late getting back to the washer and someone had taken it out. I was not too happy. It's not like I was coming back hours later, or gosh even more than 5 to 10 minutes. =/

I had the same thing happen once.  Years ago I was living in an apartment complex that had three washers and three dryers in each set of units and I left a load in one of the washers about five minutes after it was done while I was packing to move and the guys that lived in the apartment below mine pulled out my laundry and threw it on the ground.  The washers and dryers were outside in a covered area (it was in Florida) so I had to rewash everything because now it was wet and covered in dirt.  After my roommate yelled at them and their loads were done, they filled the washers with ketchup, mustard, and a bunch of other stuff from their fridge.  I used another unit's washers to rewash my clothes and my roommate reported them to apartment management.  I don't know what happened with it but how immature do you have to be to respond that way?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 12, 2018, 12:47:00 AM
It's amazing how petty people are about laundry machines. I think the reason we're not meant to take stuff out of the machines is because of the risk of something getting damaged or going missing. Because a lot of people who live in this hall are (to be blunt) spoiled little rich kids who complain about the least thing to the main desk. Sometimes they even expect the staff on the reception desk to bring their shopping. Seriously.

So this morning, 8.30 am. As some of you guys know I didn't go to bed last night till pretty late - about 3.30am. And then I'm woken at 8.30 by a bunch of workmen in the corridor singing, shouting and moving furniture.

I had to go speak to them which is extremely scary to me because it's potentially a confrontation. They said sorry and that they would do less of the singing, shouting, and whistling (they are fitting furniture in some of the empty rooms) - but they are still pretty noisy. And I am really sensitive to noise.

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 12, 2018, 05:56:01 PM
Welp. I bought shrimp flavored treats even though that's what my cat hates the most. How? Why? Guess I didn't read! She won't eat them, the kitten won't eat treats at all and I can't give them to the dog since he's on a specialized diet. I'd donate them to the shelter but they're already opened (so I guess I didn't read multiple times, go me!).

Anyway, they're the only treats I have and Mouse keeps asking where the heck the good treats are and I feel so bad. It's too late today to go to the petstore. Honestly, I have no idea how I overlooked they were shrimp! Though they're a mix with lobster and oceanfish, so maybe that's what I saw?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on July 12, 2018, 06:04:28 PM
I had a funny joke planned out where I was going to send some promotional items made long, long ago by the company I work for to my boss, without telling her who they were from. It's a long story but it would have made everyone laugh.

I asked the seller to do this...and what does she do? Puts my name on the packaging slip.

No "I have to do this because of Paypal" (not an eBay transaction, a private one just involving Paypal and one as a "friend and family" to boot). Not even a "no I am not doing that". Just completely ignores me about it. 

Joke partially ruined.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 13, 2018, 04:22:26 PM
It's Friday the 13th and I haven't done anything fun to celebrate.  Didn't even realize it until now (after 5pm where I live) so I can't do anything at work, either. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on July 13, 2018, 04:34:40 PM
The humidity here coupled with the heat has been causing my asthma to flare up. Normally the area is hardly humid so this is excessive. It's going to be a long week with the hot weather moving in for the long haul.

People not letting you off the bus, I actually am afraid I won't move fast enough and miss my stop. That hasn't happened but I've had to seriously elbow a few people.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on July 13, 2018, 04:45:36 PM
It's Friday the 13th and I haven't done anything fun to celebrate.  Didn't even realize it until now (after 5pm where I live) so I can't do anything at work, either. 

We're just watching the worst Friday the 13th movies.  We just got done with V. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 13, 2018, 06:33:26 PM
We so badly need rain, my lawn is turning brown.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 13, 2018, 08:30:25 PM
Boyfriend talked me into seeing the new It-movie as it is on Netflix. We didn't even see half of it because I needed a break and que nightmares..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 14, 2018, 12:01:55 PM
It's Friday the 13th and I haven't done anything fun to celebrate.  Didn't even realize it until now (after 5pm where I live) so I can't do anything at work, either. 

We're just watching the worst Friday the 13th movies.  We just got done with V. 


I watched VII last night, which I consider one of the worst along with V.

I should add that the actress who plays Tina's mother in Friday the 13th Part VII is the same woman who did the voices of Buttons & Paradise in the G1 cartoon series (Susan Blu). I learned that yesterday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: emily_katie on July 15, 2018, 10:28:11 AM
Not a complaint but something I don't understand...
'Attic finds' I see a lot of G1 lots on Ebay listed as attic finds, I don't get it? You move into a house and low and behold theres a herd of g1's in the attic? why would they be left behind?
Why have I never found the holy grail of ponies in my attic  :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 15, 2018, 10:36:01 AM
Not a complaint but something I don't understand...
'Attic finds' I see a lot of G1 lots on Ebay listed as attic finds, I don't get it? You move into a house and low and behold theres a herd of g1's in the attic? why would they be left behind?
Why have I never found the holy grail of ponies in my attic  :|

I agree!

...Although I wonder if it's more they sorted out someone's house (ie a grandparent maybe?) and found toys that were kept there for the grandkids?

Or they just have spent so long on their phones facebooking and Instagramming each other that they forgot they had a childhood and then suddenly found the box and remembered?

My complaint for today...

People on buses with dogs. Again. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 15, 2018, 03:57:58 PM
Someone dropped off a liquid opioid meds in my recycle bin at work,, I am very glad it was not open or leaking. WE ARE NOT A DROP OFF FOR MEDS ok the signs says CAN and BOTTLE only. How hard is that, and pics too showing what is ok. I am just glad I was wearing gloves.  :stressed: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 15, 2018, 09:12:01 PM
Someone dropped off a liquid opioid meds in my recycle bin at work,, I am very glad it was not open or leaking. WE ARE NOT A DROP OFF FOR MEDS ok the signs says CAN and BOTTLE only. How hard is that, and pics too showing what is ok. I am just glad I was wearing gloves.  :stressed: :enraged:


Yuck.....That's a hell of risk to subject someone to. Like you said, you're lucky you had gloves.

I don't know why people do stuff like that. In our indoor recycle bin I'll find garbage a lot of the time: used napkins, etc... The most bizarre finding was one I made into a thread in the WYP forum about a year and a half ago: Someone had left a little puppy in our cans/bottles bin (which was just a small fenced in area) during off hours in the middle of winter. We found her barking before we opened for the day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on July 15, 2018, 09:28:41 PM
Not a complaint but something I don't understand...
'Attic finds' I see a lot of G1 lots on Ebay listed as attic finds, I don't get it? You move into a house and low and behold theres a herd of g1's in the attic? why would they be left behind?
Why have I never found the holy grail of ponies in my attic  :|

I've totally found ponies in places I've moved into before. Just twice though, and each time it was only a single pony (and a SSC the second time). The first time it was a rusty-eyed baby Gusty when I was young.  The second time was in 2006 it was a tailless, dirty, 2nd edition Cotton Candy that was pre-tagged for a yard sale (still have her) and a naked Blueberry Muffins (still have her too, but she is no longer naked), and a bunch of other things.  But that second time we found a LOT of weird crap in that apartment the landlord just let us keep what we wanted. It had previously belonged to a hoarder and he had no idea this panel in the attic came off when he bought the place. I still have a mid-century lamp and an old medicine cabinet from that find.

And also an inexplicable number of NES systems and games.  Even in the 80s. Always in closets.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 15, 2018, 11:45:50 PM
Not a complaint but something I don't understand...
'Attic finds' I see a lot of G1 lots on Ebay listed as attic finds, I don't get it? You move into a house and low and behold theres a herd of g1's in the attic? why would they be left behind?
Why have I never found the holy grail of ponies in my attic  :|

I've totally found ponies in places I've moved into before. Just twice though, and each time it was only a single pony (and a SSC the second time). The first time it was a rusty-eyed baby Gusty when I was young.  The second time was in 2006 it was a tailless, dirty, 2nd edition Cotton Candy that was pre-tagged for a yard sale (still have her) and a naked Blueberry Muffins (still have her too, but she is no longer naked), and a bunch of other things.  But that second time we found a LOT of weird crap in that apartment the landlord just let us keep what we wanted. It had previously belonged to a hoarder and he had no idea this panel in the attic came off when he bought the place. I still have a mid-century lamp and an old medicine cabinet from that find.

And also an inexplicable number of NES systems and games.  Even in the 80s. Always in closets.

That is so cool! Living in a town with a huge university the garbagerooms tend to overflow with furnitures and whatnot that studens moving away don't care to take with them. I've found a shelf and almost the complete works of the Chronicles of Cheysuli by Jennifer Roberson (only missing one book). I also found a couple of nice potted plants once, but had my hands full and when I went back to retrieve them someone else had gotten them. Never any toys tho :(

My complaint of the day: I have a really bad cold, in the middle of this heatwave. It's allover my body and every muscle ache along with everyting else. I'm just.. whyyyyy?! :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 16, 2018, 10:37:57 AM
I want to punch one of my co-workers in the face.  I want it to happen so bad I'm considering paying someone to do it for me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on July 16, 2018, 01:28:48 PM
Ugh feeling worthless again. >x(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 16, 2018, 01:33:22 PM
Hot day in London.
Accommodation hunting.
Thought before I went that I knew what I wanted.
Now I am less sure.
Thought I would have it settled today.
That's not going to happen.
Currently still homeless for next year with 6 weeks left :/

I really want to stay where I am but I know that's impossible. I'm not ungrateful for the scholarship I've had because it's looked after me these three years, but it doesn't make sense to fund only 3 years of a course that in the UK is almost always 4 years. It's like leading one out to the middle of the river with a lifeboat and then zooming away and leaving us to drown once we hit the deepest point.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 16, 2018, 10:23:22 PM
Aaaw, that sucks Taffeta! It must be so stressful not knowing where to live. In my town an exchange student was kicked out of the contry with six weeks left on her masters because she couldn't show sufficent funding (never mind her parents in Iran sent her money regurlarly). The system is crazy sometimes and really not accomodating. I hope something comes up for you. :hug:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2018, 02:00:44 AM
Aaaw, that sucks Taffeta! It must be so stressful not knowing where to live. In my town an exchange student was kicked out of the contry with six weeks left on her masters because she couldn't show sufficent funding (never mind her parents in Iran sent her money regurlarly). The system is crazy sometimes and really not accomodating. I hope something comes up for you. :hug:


Unfortunately the UK has had some similar incidents in the past as well. Our immigration system actually had a major spasm recently with a lot of British citizens coming up for deportation orders because of some kind of muddle over documentation/authorisation going back about 40 or even 50 years.

The student thing comes up as well. Our university research union went to war with the university itself this year over how they wanted to monitor tier 4 visa (ie non EU) research students...because it was literally insane and sounded like they had no trust in either the student or the student's supervisory team. My uni has about 50% students on tier 4 visas and more postgrads proportionately to undergrads compared to many other London uni campuses, so yeah. It caused a big fuss. The school backed down. (These regulations weren't legal expectations of tier 4 visa students, they were just my university deciding to play Big Brother...and failing).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 17, 2018, 10:39:15 AM
I normally have the pain tolerance of an armour-plated ox but I took a really hefty wrench in my good leg at work, so now both legs hurt when I walk and that is just beyond the pail.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 17, 2018, 10:43:15 AM
It was finally the first day of registration for the fall semester and although it's not as big an amount as it usually is (I go to community college), it was still nothing to sneeze at. I have to take a science this semester and the lab fee bumped it up an extra $500 dollars.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2018, 10:57:15 AM
It was finally the first day of registration for the fall semester and although it's not as big an amount as it usually is (I go to community college), it was still nothing to sneeze at. I have to take a science this semester and the lab fee bumped it up an extra $500 dollars.


You have my sympathies.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 17, 2018, 11:05:41 AM
You have my sympathies.
As do you, I really hope you find accommodations very soon. That is awfully strange for the program to only support 3 years!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2018, 11:07:46 AM
You have my sympathies.
As do you, I really hope you find accommodations very soon. That is awfully strange for the program to only support 3 years!

Thank you :) I shouldn't really complain, some people only get a year's support or none at all. Our education system really needs better funding in some areas. And London is just ridiculously expensive in general. I think I have some new places to look at, so fingers crossed. I'm sure it will all work out eventually. I might just be grey when it does.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on July 17, 2018, 01:56:19 PM
I feel ripped-off by Hasbro. Now they suddenly also make 80s-pony shirts. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 20, 2018, 10:02:39 AM
I'm not sure if this belongs here or in "What's your problem"
Someone I am close to made fun of the fact that I buy "toys" In addition to ponies I also collect Barbie, Disney dolls, Ariel/Little Mermaid items and Funko Pops. I went to Hot Topic today to see if they still had the Sailor Moon Black Lady Funko Pop since I wasn't able to go yesterday. Later my friend said "When are you going to grow up and stop buying toys?" or something :sad:

 I was a little shocked by her comment and said something like "Adults buy them too."  I think she knew she hurt my feelings (She is a really nice person and has mentioned before that sometimes she says things that don't come out right/isn't what she meant to say before. ) It still made me sad and took a lot of my enjoyment out of getting the Funko Pop I wanted.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 20, 2018, 12:17:35 PM
I'm not sure if this belongs here or in "What's your problem"
Someone I am close to made fun of the fact that I buy "toys" In addition to ponies I also collect Barbie, Disney dolls, Ariel/Little Mermaid items and Funko Pops. I went to Hot Topic today to see if they still had the Sailor Moon Black Lady Funko Pop since I wasn't able to go yesterday. Later my friend said "When are you going to grow up and stop buying toys?" or something :sad:

 I was a little shocked by her comment and said something like "Adults buy them too."  I think she knew she hurt my feelings (She is a really nice person and has mentioned before that sometimes she says things that don't come out right/isn't what she meant to say before. ) It still made me sad and took a lot of my enjoyment out of getting the Funko Pop I wanted.


Ponyfan

Just what is it that she expects you to spend YOUR money on?  Clothes?  Makeup?  Going out to eat?  Going to the movies?  None of those things will last as long as your "toys".  Even the memories will fade fairly quickly unless you took pictures or something absolutely amazing happened to help you remember it.  And quite frankly, it's none of her business.  Besides, if adults weren't supposed to buy them, specialty stores like Hot Topic (which is not remotely geared towards children) wouldn't carry them.  I'm not sure how old you are, but I can guarantee that there are people on this site older than you still buying "toys"--I'm probably one of them.  (I just bought the Pokemon Z-Power Ring for my Ultra Sun game yesterday.)  And I can tell you from experience that growing up is overrated. 


My current trivial complaint is that the air conditioning isn't working at work again.   :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 21, 2018, 02:27:36 PM
@Ponyfan :hug: Sorry your friend said that to you.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 22, 2018, 01:15:17 AM
In the worst draught Sweden has experienced since the 1900's, with 80+ wildfires raging through out the country, with firemen coming up from France, Poland and Germany to help out. With waterplanes flying in from Italy and with a national catastrophe message forbidding all forms of open fire, people still go out in the forest to grill, have bbq parties by lake and sea, smoke while standing on fried grass and toss the leftover on the ground. The stupidity of people baffles me and makes me so angry!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on July 22, 2018, 12:40:21 PM
Man the Dutch Ebay-like website Marktplaats sucks. No feedback system, sellers who don't respond. No clear auction ending times. People messaging eachother behind their backs. Stupid scalpers who just buy ponies to sell them for 100x as much later. People who keep overbidding by 1 cents.

Thai said there are of course also some good sellers out there but they are rare. 
Oh and why does it feel like Hasbro ignores us? Why does everyone get the SDCC set to review but we never hear anything. I spend like most of my free time on the website blogging news and updating everything. :( (Kinda busy right now with adding the older gens which is fun.  :P) Maybe a bit selfish but eh.. feels bad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 23, 2018, 10:59:28 AM
It's not my day today. I was cutting a piece of din rail at work, went through it then the hacksaw slipped and the rail went through my hand (luckily it won't need stitches), then when I got home, my housemate had left his keys in the door. I knocked on the door and he came to let me in with no trousers on. I did not need to see that. :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 23, 2018, 03:28:15 PM
The children's daycare that is two doors down... they have a SCREAMER... and they let him out in the yard starting at 8:30 am... 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on July 23, 2018, 04:13:24 PM
My tomatoes have end blossom rot.... grrr.. some are ok though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 24, 2018, 11:20:26 PM
Apparently my nephew had someone steal an online account for some Dragonball game a few days ago and is now trying to sell it for about $40.  When my nephew confronted the guy (via the computer) the guy claimed that he'd traded for it and they went back and forth with name calling, racial slurs (the other guy calling my nephew things without having a clue of his race btw) and threats of calling the cops, etc.  Now I can't convince my nephew that it's gone and he's not going to get it back and to let it go.  Instead, he just wants to antagonize the guy because somehow he's convinced that the guy will eventually give it back.  My nephew said he reported the account to the game administrators but I really don't think anything is going to happen with it.

I hate people who lie and steal but there's really nothing he can do about this one.  :shrug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 25, 2018, 08:03:27 AM
This morning I saw a weather forecast that predicted 35 degrees in London tomorrow and 36 on Friday.

I can only hope that's wrong.

I wasn't going to come back to London so quickly but I had some things to settle here - but...my room here has aircon, so I guess I'm staying a few days longer...

Sigh. Summer goes on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 25, 2018, 11:10:54 AM
Not only do we still have killer rip currents but now there's red tide.

I haven't been to the beach at all this year :mad:

edit: New paaaaaage :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 25, 2018, 01:14:44 PM
I tried to suffer through my cold and ended up having to go home because I couldn't bear standing up.
Now that I'm in bed I feel like I could go in.
When I stand up, I feel terrible and have to lay down.
And then I feel like I could run a marathon...
Pick a mood, body! :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 25, 2018, 04:11:34 PM
My air conditioning is broken.  :hot: :hot: :hot:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on July 25, 2018, 05:43:18 PM
The TV keeps interrupting programming for weather alerts (none of which apply to the county I live in). The beeping that occurs when these alerts pop up is driving my dog nuts. Each time she'll whine, then get up and run. I think she expects to find the source of the beeps if she looks out the window.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Moonbreeze on July 26, 2018, 04:00:30 AM
It's way too warm to live without airconditioning D: It's going to be 36 degrees celsius (mind you that we're not used to such temperatures at all) tomorrow and northern europe is on fire right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2018, 04:30:24 AM
It's way too warm to live without airconditioning D: It's going to be 36 degrees celsius (mind you that we're not used to such temperatures at all) tomorrow and northern europe is on fire right now.

The UK is being predicted 38 on Friday. And to be utterly helpful, the tabloids are reporting it in Fareinheit, a measurement that the majority of the population don't learn in school and therefore don't understand. Proof the target audience for said papers are over 60...

I am staying in London a few days more because although it is hotter here than at home, my room here has airconditioning...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Moonbreeze on July 26, 2018, 06:37:45 AM
It's way too warm to live without airconditioning D: It's going to be 36 degrees celsius (mind you that we're not used to such temperatures at all) tomorrow and northern europe is on fire right now.

The UK is being predicted 38 on Friday. And to be utterly helpful, the tabloids are reporting it in Fareinheit, a measurement that the majority of the population don't learn in school and therefore don't understand. Proof the target audience for said papers are over 60...

I am staying in London a few days more because although it is hotter here than at home, my room here has airconditioning...

Oof, well the 36 degrees is for the coast.  The rest is 36-38 too. Why Fahrenheit though? The UK uses Celsius right?
Airconditioning will definetely save you tomorrow!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 26, 2018, 09:03:18 AM
So :hot: we've got the air cooler in the living room and Honey is laying beside it.

Plus my orders from Japan are coming in August, and the liquid fusion glue is taking a long time to dispatch from the USA.

I need Dexter Charming dolls to make some more anime characters.

Plus I goofed up in A.O.T 2, by asking Mike/Miche what does Erwin Smith smell like (Mike's nose can smell Titans)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2018, 11:17:51 AM
It's way too warm to live without airconditioning D: It's going to be 36 degrees celsius (mind you that we're not used to such temperatures at all) tomorrow and northern europe is on fire right now.

The UK is being predicted 38 on Friday. And to be utterly helpful, the tabloids are reporting it in Fareinheit, a measurement that the majority of the population don't learn in school and therefore don't understand. Proof the target audience for said papers are over 60...

I am staying in London a few days more because although it is hotter here than at home, my room here has airconditioning...

Oof, well the 36 degrees is for the coast.  The rest is 36-38 too. Why Fahrenheit though? The UK uses Celsius right?
Airconditioning will definetely save you tomorrow!

We do use Celsius. We have a weird mix of imperial and metric across lots of different measurement systems here (eg miles and yet metres xD) but Celsius is one of those that is generally widely accepted.

BUT the change happened about 50 years ago.  I am assuming as the papers reporting it are also the pro-Brexit papers, and the majority of pro-Brexit people are older/retired...that's the reason why. Who knows, maybe it's another covert way of rebelling against the EU (sighs).

I think in any case we can agree that temperatures are insane. We're getting news here telling us this is gonna be the norm going forward and by 2030 we might have regular temperatures of 40 in the summer.

...at which point I move to Iceland.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 26, 2018, 11:43:23 AM

I think in any case we can agree that temperatures are insane. We're getting news here telling us this is gonna be the norm going forward and by 2030 we might have regular temperatures of 40 in the summer.

...at which point I move to Iceland.

At which point I would have already got air-con installed in my house, been meaning to do it for years, I can't even have the window wide open at night as TWICE I have had to shoo away a curious cat trying to jump in!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2018, 11:47:54 AM

I think in any case we can agree that temperatures are insane. We're getting news here telling us this is gonna be the norm going forward and by 2030 we might have regular temperatures of 40 in the summer.

...at which point I move to Iceland.

At which point I would have already got air-con installed in my house, been meaning to do it for years, I can't even have the window wide open at night as TWICE I have had to shoo away a curious cat trying to jump in!

Oh wow, a surprising midnight visit!
The one night I spent at my friend's family's flat in Rehovot in May, I had to keep the doors and window closed (and had a crying ginger cat outside my door trying to get in all night) even though it was really quite warm...

I didn't think that 38 degree temperatures would end up in the UK as well this year ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 26, 2018, 11:53:47 AM
Hehe, I'm just waiting for the floods and rainstorms in September, a heatwave at Christmas and snow flurries in April next year...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on July 26, 2018, 01:52:59 PM
Day four of a six-day run of 101-105F temperatures, yesterday was 108F! It means the overnight temperatures are only in the low to mid 70sF. My wall unit AC has been going for bust, it only cools one room so I've been living in front of it.

I felt so lazy sleeping in this morning but I didn't have to go out, my errands are going to be tonight. Working my day around the heat feels so odd. Up early tomorrow to cram as much as I can before it gets too hot. Which for me is low 90s but that's 'cool' right now. :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 26, 2018, 02:20:13 PM
Hehe, I'm just waiting for the floods and rainstorms in September, a heatwave at Christmas and snow flurries in April next year...

Where I live that already happens! This last April it snowed and actually accumulated. One year it was 30C on the day after Christmas. And rainstorms in September? Very common.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 26, 2018, 02:24:40 PM
Hehe, I'm just waiting for the floods and rainstorms in September, a heatwave at Christmas and snow flurries in April next year...

I'm going on holiday in September to Great Yarmouth, for a week (Saturday to Saturday). I hope it doesn't rain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 26, 2018, 10:27:00 PM
Urrggh, it was so hot last night I couldn't sleep. And I normally sleep like a hibernating bear.
At least it's pretty much the weekend now, so I can stay up 'til Ridiculous O'clock playing video games and not have to worry about getting up for work in the morning. Silver linings and all that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2018, 10:35:05 PM
Hehe, I'm just waiting for the floods and rainstorms in September, a heatwave at Christmas and snow flurries in April next year...

Where I live that already happens! This last April it snowed and actually accumulated. One year it was 30C on the day after Christmas. And rainstorms in September? Very common.

Snow at Easter or in April in the UK actually isn't that unusual either...nor are rainstorms in September (and unfortunately flooding is becoming more common these days) but you win on the 30C around Christmas ;)

All the news reports are saying that the heat increase is partly due to the reduction of green space (there are city authorities looking at this at the moment). So not only does concreting up the world cause flooding, it's also cooking us. So much for plants not mattering.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 26, 2018, 10:39:07 PM
When the new coworker stands there and looks like he's hearing what you're saying but don't really listen...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 27, 2018, 10:48:27 PM
I've been getting pretty good at 3D puzzles. I got 2 new ones yesterday and decided to put both together today. When I was finishing the 2nd one several pieces fell off and I can't find them even though I've looked on the floor and got a flashlight trying to find the missing pieces.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on July 29, 2018, 09:03:40 AM
I've been getting pretty good at 3D puzzles. I got 2 new ones yesterday and decided to put both together today. When I was finishing the 2nd one several pieces fell off and I can't find them even though I've looked on the floor and got a flashlight trying to find the missing pieces.

Ponyfan

If they are Wrebbit puzzles, and the pieces don't show, you can order replacement pieces for free.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2018, 07:10:15 PM
Thanks Kiwi.  :)  They're made be Bepuzzled/University Games but I looked at their FAQs and it looks like they also replace missing pieces for free. I still haven't found them.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2018, 05:25:44 AM
Thanks Kiwi.  :)  They're made be Bepuzzled/University Games but I looked at their FAQs and it looks like they also replace missing pieces for free. I still haven't found them.


Ponyfan

Did you ask Sea Poppy and Lilly Drop?? ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 30, 2018, 01:28:58 PM
Now that you mention it, their identical twin sisters were in the room when the pieces dissapeared but how did they manage to hid them and sneak back in to their packages without me noticing? :what: :biggrin:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 01, 2018, 03:51:27 PM
My salvation army store is closing at the end of the month, gonna go back a few times before they do to see if I can get more back up work pants.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on August 01, 2018, 04:39:30 PM
I discovered a webforum where all anyone does is complain about YouTube quasi celebrities and call them SJWs.  And it's kind of ruined my evening.

That and the fact that they're rebooting ALF.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on August 01, 2018, 08:33:23 PM
Just found out we bridesmaids are supposed to wear burgundy to my sister's wedding. This sucks as:
1. Last I knew it was burgundy OR navy Blue
2. I look HORRID in burgundy
3. so I bought a navy blue dress.
4. Bought it on Ebay so I can't return it so I'm out $30 + money to buy a stupid burgundy dress I will NEVER wear again.

What makes me even more grumpy is I know another sister has been subtly pushing for burgundy and when (yet another) sister brought up the fact I'm not a fan of that color (see above reason) she said "well it's (sister's) wedding, she can choose what she wants!" This sister looks awesome in burgundy so of course she wants to go with that one! (this is the same sister that wanted us to wear yellow for her wedding. NONE of us look good in that color). ARGH!!!

Edit: Yes, i know it's my sister wedding and therefore her choice and I will wear what color she wants; I just wish that someone had thought to let me know esp. since I am very plus sized so it's hard finding decent, affordable dresses to begin with :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 02, 2018, 06:42:19 AM
Woke up at 6 in the morning to the sound of workers on the roof. We'd be warned that there would be workers on the roof, but I had no idea that they'd start working at 6 in the morning. Can't they at least wait until 8 or 9? =/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 02, 2018, 07:27:36 AM
I'm trying to get better with eating healthier foods but I keep falling back on eating wayy too much protein.
I discovered a webforum where all anyone does is complain about YouTube quasi celebrities and call them SJWs.  And it's kind of ruined my evening.
I think I know of the forum you're talking about, or at least one of the variants of it. Good bedtime reading if I want to get angry at the internet.  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sukeile on August 02, 2018, 07:48:53 AM
I have such terrible issues with anger.

I can’t let myself feel angry at anyone ( even only internally ) without feeling guilty and bad for it. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 02, 2018, 09:04:12 AM
I'm trying to get better with eating healthier foods but I keep falling back on eating wayy too much protein.

Is too much protein a bad thing?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 02, 2018, 05:27:25 PM
I went to a movie today and a woman with two young children sat in the same row. For the last 20-30 minutes of the movie at least on of the children started playing on a phone. The bright light was very distacting and at one point someone was taking pictures and the flash lit up the wall closet to where they were sitting 3 times in a row.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 02, 2018, 06:47:47 PM
I feel like I'm at my breaking point again. *sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on August 03, 2018, 01:22:49 AM
Ugh I don't like it when people flame my sites because they are "wrong" but then refuse to tell me what's actually wrong. Guys I can't fix it if I don't know what's not right. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 03, 2018, 04:03:39 AM
Ugh I don't like it when people flame my sites because they are "wrong" but then refuse to tell me what's actually wrong. Guys I can't fix it if I don't know what's not right. :/


Try not to take it to heart. It is a lot easier for people to attack and criticise someone else's work and knowledge than it is to create or offer any of their own. If they aren't offering constructive criticism or help/proper proof, then ignore them. If they understood how much work and time goes into a website, they'd shut up and go away - but most people don't realise that it doesn't magically appear there by itself. Especially on a site like yours, which is constantly trying to stay abreast of new developments.

@Ponyfan - I absolutely relate. Young kids being allowed in 12 films has ruined the cinema for me because their parents treat it like a creche and let them run wild while they watch.

@Bandit Pony - I can also relate - it's been a hard few weeks here too and I have definitely crossed breaking point a few times in the last fortnight with my tribunal and trying to organise my move. My only advice is to step back, take a break, and try to do things one at a time. :hug:

My trivial complaint - Last night I had a wasp in my room. This morning, I had a wasp in my room. I guess that means the grapes on the vine are probably ready to be picked (they grow under my window). Also it was really hot this morning waiting at the bus stop for the LATE bus.

Also, delivery people. I've mentioned before that they like to deliver things to our front bush. Today it got better. My sister was waiting for something and everyone was out. She got a message saying it was handed to resident. I found it under the car. Apparently the parcel was now delivered to our car, who is apparently a resident...

Fortunately there's been no rain and the car doesn't leak oil. :P TO give the delivery driver his due, he did hide it well, because I didn't find it until I read his note saying exactly where he'd left it. I don't suppose anyone walking by would have seen it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on August 03, 2018, 09:25:27 AM
I bought a Sweetheat Sister, a pony line I have disliked since it came out and avoided collecting, and now I want them all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 03, 2018, 09:56:26 AM
Is too much protein a bad thing?
Not necessarily, but I want to eat some more fruit and veg. I'm trying to do at least a little bit of fruit every day, but it's tricky for me.
At least on the days I work I can buy fruit for snacking during my shift.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on August 04, 2018, 02:30:56 AM

Also, delivery people. I've mentioned before that they like to deliver things to our front bush. Today it got better. My sister was waiting for something and everyone was out. She got a message saying it was handed to resident. I found it under the car. Apparently the parcel was now delivered to our car, who is apparently a resident....

Well, I know some people think of their car as a member of their family, but expecting it to sign for parcels is taking it a bit far. Did it make a tyre imprint as a signature?? :lol:

My trivial complaint: my cat has to go to the vet for a routine procedure next week. I am (mostly) quite calm about that. But the night before we have to keep him in and not feed him from 10pm until 8am when he leaves for the vet's....poor boy, he's going to be so confused as to why we aren't giving him food and opening the door so he can go out for his morning stroll. I wish I could explain to him what's going to happen! (I am way too besotted with my cat and want him to have a perfect and calm life.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Strawberrysweets on August 04, 2018, 05:40:42 AM
Due to going from 35C to 15-16C I have now a cold building up in my system and I am drowning vitamin C, cough drops and soups. Atleast I have ice cream.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on August 04, 2018, 09:46:42 AM
I have very loud hiccups right now and I'm trying to paint a custom.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 04, 2018, 10:03:33 AM
I have very loud hiccups right now and I'm trying to paint a custom.

Squiggly line patterning, perhaps?

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on August 04, 2018, 10:22:28 AM
I have very loud hiccups right now and I'm trying to paint a custom.

Squiggly line patterning, perhaps?
XD I wonder how she would look with that!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 04, 2018, 02:55:24 PM

Also, delivery people. I've mentioned before that they like to deliver things to our front bush. Today it got better. My sister was waiting for something and everyone was out. She got a message saying it was handed to resident. I found it under the car. Apparently the parcel was now delivered to our car, who is apparently a resident....

Well, I know some people think of their car as a member of their family, but expecting it to sign for parcels is taking it a bit far. Did it make a tyre imprint as a signature?? :lol:

My trivial complaint: my cat has to go to the vet for a routine procedure next week. I am (mostly) quite calm about that. But the night before we have to keep him in and not feed him from 10pm until 8am when he leaves for the vet's....poor boy, he's going to be so confused as to why we aren't giving him food and opening the door so he can go out for his morning stroll. I wish I could explain to him what's going to happen! (I am way too besotted with my cat and want him to have a perfect and calm life.)

I totally read "cat" in your last paragraph as "car" and thought you were continuing the joke!  :lookround: I'd say I need sleep, but I got a lot of that between last night and this morning. 

I hope the vet appointment goes well.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 04, 2018, 03:05:06 PM
Customers getting all hissy and huffy at me because there is no deposit on hard cider. I dont get it why is being nice considered kicking puppies these days.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 05, 2018, 08:35:33 PM
Few months ago my Wal-Mart redid the whole front of the store with more self checkout lanes. They have an automatic conveyor so you don't have to constantly pick up something from the cart, scan it and put it on the thing. They're great! But half the time they aren't open. I asked the lady at the small self checkout why they were closed and she said there was no one available to staff them. Like what??? It's Wal-Mart, they hire anybody. They can't find someone to stand in front of them and watch for a blinking red light? C'mon!

So I busted my back doing the one-by-one thing on the small bedside table sized check-out because of course no regular staffed check-outs were open either!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 06, 2018, 07:42:55 AM
It is 91 out, humid, and blah out again. At least the lawn got done but now I am all sweaty after only being outside for half an hour.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 06, 2018, 02:10:47 PM
Few months ago my Wal-Mart redid the whole front of the store with more self checkout lanes. They have an automatic conveyor so you don't have to constantly pick up something from the cart, scan it and put it on the thing. They're great! But half the time they aren't open. I asked the lady at the small self checkout why they were closed and she said there was no one available to staff them. Like what??? It's Wal-Mart, they hire anybody. They can't find someone to stand in front of them and watch for a blinking red light? C'mon!

So I busted my back doing the one-by-one thing on the small bedside table sized check-out because of course no regular staffed check-outs were open either!


One Walmart where I used to live had to close their self check outs because people were using them to steal DVDs and they didn't have enough staff to watch everyone all the time.  They would scan the $3.97 DVD, then put a more expensive DVD in the bag.  Even though they were paying something, they weren't paying the price they were supposed to. The self check outs where I live now have a camera on them, but I don't know how much of a deterrent that actually ends up being.

So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2018, 02:29:55 PM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 07, 2018, 12:20:51 AM
Few months ago my Wal-Mart redid the whole front of the store with more self checkout lanes. They have an automatic conveyor so you don't have to constantly pick up something from the cart, scan it and put it on the thing. They're great! But half the time they aren't open. I asked the lady at the small self checkout why they were closed and she said there was no one available to staff them. Like what??? It's Wal-Mart, they hire anybody. They can't find someone to stand in front of them and watch for a blinking red light? C'mon!

So I busted my back doing the one-by-one thing on the small bedside table sized check-out because of course no regular staffed check-outs were open either!


One Walmart where I used to live had to close their self check outs because people were using them to steal DVDs and they didn't have enough staff to watch everyone all the time.  They would scan the $3.97 DVD, then put a more expensive DVD in the bag.  Even though they were paying something, they weren't paying the price they were supposed to. The self check outs where I live now have a camera on them, but I don't know how much of a deterrent that actually ends up being.

So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

One of my local supermarkets, in Henley-upon-Thames, have the self-checkout (with security cameras).

A famous UK chef / TV personality who lived nearby shopped there also. A few years ago, they caught him stealing a lump of cheese!  :lol: Of course, the newspapers had a lot of fun reporting it.

He wasn't short of money so he had no excuse. But... cheese? Of all things...

ETA - oh, and some wine too. To go with the cheese, I suppose  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 07, 2018, 10:13:59 AM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan

I work in a library and people steal our DVDs.  They open the cases, take the DVD and walk out with it, even though they have security right on the DVD.  Someone has even gone so far as to peel the security strip off of the DVDs and Video Games, which ends up ruining them, so they leave them somewhere in the library for us to find.  Seriously, just check out the DVD or Video Game.  It isn't like it costs anything to borrow it!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2018, 07:13:23 AM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan

I work in a library and people steal our DVDs.  They open the cases, take the DVD and walk out with it, even though they have security right on the DVD.  Someone has even gone so far as to peel the security strip off of the DVDs and Video Games, which ends up ruining them, so they leave them somewhere in the library for us to find.  Seriously, just check out the DVD or Video Game.  It isn't like it costs anything to borrow it!

When I worked in that kind of library, we never had the discs in the cases. They were all in a drawer beneath the desk. When someone wanted to take out a box set it was a nightmare, getting the right pouch and putting the right discs in - but it was to prevent theft.

Library users are surprisingly inconsiderate though. It's not about noise in the library but people leaving books on tables, on the wrong shelves...in the ref library I worked for 7 years we had newspapers and apparently some of our users were capable of reading broadsheet papers with long words in long sentences but not capable of putting them back in the right place (labelled by the name of the paper). In some cases they even dissected them so they ended up in bits...and on the worst occasions, they also took out the free tokens. Because why buy a paper of your own when you can steal an offer from your local council service?

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 08, 2018, 09:56:50 AM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan

I work in a library and people steal our DVDs.  They open the cases, take the DVD and walk out with it, even though they have security right on the DVD.  Someone has even gone so far as to peel the security strip off of the DVDs and Video Games, which ends up ruining them, so they leave them somewhere in the library for us to find.  Seriously, just check out the DVD or Video Game.  It isn't like it costs anything to borrow it!

When I worked in that kind of library, we never had the discs in the cases. They were all in a drawer beneath the desk. When someone wanted to take out a box set it was a nightmare, getting the right pouch and putting the right discs in - but it was to prevent theft.


I've suggested doing this but we have over 15,000 DVDs (that's not even including the audiobook/music CDs and the video games).  There just isn't room to keep the discs separate from the cases.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2018, 02:16:12 PM
Speaking of stealing DVDs I was looking in the DVD section of Barnes and Noble once and picked up a DVD  season set to look at it. It felt very light and when I looked inside the case (it had plastic wrap on it but some clear plastic sections also where you could look inside) there were no DVDs inside.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2018, 02:23:43 PM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan

I work in a library and people steal our DVDs.  They open the cases, take the DVD and walk out with it, even though they have security right on the DVD.  Someone has even gone so far as to peel the security strip off of the DVDs and Video Games, which ends up ruining them, so they leave them somewhere in the library for us to find.  Seriously, just check out the DVD or Video Game.  It isn't like it costs anything to borrow it!

When I worked in that kind of library, we never had the discs in the cases. They were all in a drawer beneath the desk. When someone wanted to take out a box set it was a nightmare, getting the right pouch and putting the right discs in - but it was to prevent theft.


I've suggested doing this but we have over 15,000 DVDs (that's not even including the audiobook/music CDs and the video games).  There just isn't room to keep the discs separate from the cases.

Wow, that's a lot of DVDs. Ok, in that context I can see why they don't remove them all. It'd take forever to find one O.o.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 08, 2018, 03:33:10 PM
I had my disability hearing today. My mom went with as my witness and my sister drove. My dad didn't say anything before I left and when I got home the only thing he had to say was that the internet wasn't working and could I fix it :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 08, 2018, 05:42:11 PM
Hot and humid still, hate it and it makes it hard to sleep at night.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2018, 06:02:02 PM
I had my disability hearing today. My mom went with as my witness and my sister drove. My dad didn't say anything before I left and when I got home the only thing he had to say was that the internet wasn't working and could I fix it :sad:

You have my sympathies.

I had my tribunal hearing a couple of weeks ago. It was a horrible experience :/ I hope yours works out in your favour. It's taken a year to get to this point with mine and although they upheld my appeal, I still have yet to hear anything about it or whether it's going to be dragged out longer.

I'm glad your mum and sister at least were there to support you :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 08, 2018, 06:52:49 PM


So I guess my trivial complaint is dishonest people ruining things for everyone else.

This really gets to me too. I hate it when dishonest people ruin things for people. The other day I saw a 6 pack of Coke and someone had helped themselves to 1  bottle and left the other 5. Today I was in a craft store and was looking at a package that had several crochet needles. Someone stole one of the needles out of the multipack even though there were single crochet needles for sale for $3 close by.


Ponyfan

I work in a library and people steal our DVDs.  They open the cases, take the DVD and walk out with it, even though they have security right on the DVD.  Someone has even gone so far as to peel the security strip off of the DVDs and Video Games, which ends up ruining them, so they leave them somewhere in the library for us to find.  Seriously, just check out the DVD or Video Game.  It isn't like it costs anything to borrow it!

When I worked in that kind of library, we never had the discs in the cases. They were all in a drawer beneath the desk. When someone wanted to take out a box set it was a nightmare, getting the right pouch and putting the right discs in - but it was to prevent theft.


I've suggested doing this but we have over 15,000 DVDs (that's not even including the audiobook/music CDs and the video games).  There just isn't room to keep the discs separate from the cases.

Wow, that's a lot of DVDs. Ok, in that context I can see why they don't remove them all. It'd take forever to find one O.o.

Yeah, I only know how many we have because I'm currently working to scan/archive all the artwork so we can replace it quickly when it gets too beat up and doesn't look nice anymore.   :art:

The last library I worked at had hard plastic cases (they called them Kwik Cases because that was the company that made them) that you put the DVD cases into and then used a magnet to open them when people checked the DVD out.  BUT people figured out that they could melt the magnet inside those cases out with a lighter so they'd go into the bathrooms and ruin the Kwik case to steal the DVDs.  We'd find the Kwik cases in the bathroom garbage cans all the time. :yucky:

Post Merge: August 09, 2018, 06:58:59 AM

One of our patrons made us homemade pot stickers and even though they were labeled "for everyone" one of the girls I work with ate half of them and then took the rest of them home so nobody else got any.

Now I wonder if all the treats I bring in "For Everyone" are just going home with her.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2018, 02:40:16 PM
I'm sorry your coworker took all of the pot stickers.  Pokeyonekenobie  I always try to take just 1 or 2 and the leave the rest for others when we have special treats/food  at work.



Last week a friend told me if I went to the movie she wanted to see, she'd go with me to a movie I wanted to see. She wanted to see Mama Mia 2, a film I wasn't really interested in seeing but willing to go with her if I got to see a film I was more interested in later. I wanted to see the new Christopher Robin movie but she told me today that she already saw Christopher Robin. To be fair though a family member picked that movie for them to see together but it was a little disappointing to hear her say she'd already seen it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 09, 2018, 04:46:04 PM
So in 3 weeks I have to move. And it's too early to pack and yet I keep looking at everything in my room in terms of what will fit into what container or case...(sigh).

Also I really want to get back to doing proper research now that I've got the tribunal done with and the move organised...but I spent the whole day watching Transfer Deadline Day and the European Championships instead...

Motivation clearly doesn't happen when pony buying priveleges are restricted...;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 10, 2018, 11:36:31 AM
A game on the PS4 was taking ages to install, so I got the guitar out to noodle while it was doing that, and of course all of a sudden the game decided to install super fast. Make up your mind, you fickle machine!  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on August 10, 2018, 12:22:29 PM
Ugh. The air is smokey from all these fires. Its a little uncomfortable to breathe. Stay safe Cali peeps! And much thanks to our brave firefighters. Hope they'll be safe and sound too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 10, 2018, 12:27:18 PM
Ugh. The air is smokey from all these fires. Its a little uncomfortable to breathe. Stay safe Cali peeps! And much thanks to our brave firefighters. Hope they'll be safe and sound too.

It's just so wrong you guys are going through all of that when today here we had a total downpour that meant pretty much paddling my way up the main road to my hall.

I wish nature would get its weather rations sorted out. It's so messed up.

Stay safe everyone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 10, 2018, 02:20:05 PM
A game on the PS4 was taking ages to install, so I got the guitar out to noodle while it was doing that, and of course all of a sudden the game decided to install super fast. Make up your mind, you fickle machine!  :pout:

I downloaded a game on my Switch the other night right when it released so it would be ready in the morning when I woke up. Turns out it still wasn't fully downloaded in the morning and downloading it also nearly bottomed out the battery, so I had to charge it even when it was fully done downloading.

Next time I download a game I'll have it in the charger, I guess.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 10, 2018, 02:54:12 PM
Ugh. The air is smokey from all these fires. Its a little uncomfortable to breathe. Stay safe Cali peeps! And much thanks to our brave firefighters. Hope they'll be safe and sound too.

It's just so wrong you guys are going through all of that when today here we had a total downpour that meant pretty much paddling my way up the main road to my hall.

I wish nature would get its weather rations sorted out. It's so messed up.

Stay safe everyone.

This is why having Pegasuses to control the weather is a good idea.   :P

A game on the PS4 was taking ages to install, so I got the guitar out to noodle while it was doing that, and of course all of a sudden the game decided to install super fast. Make up your mind, you fickle machine!  :pout:

I wants ALL the attentions.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 11, 2018, 05:58:05 AM
Had to cancel two items from Amazon.uk today because they couldn't get a delivery date for them. Luckily someone else had the exact two dolls I need for my custom Ken Attack on Titan dolls. Now I'm being swamped by Captain Kirk heads.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2018, 12:38:44 AM
My thesis draft is due with my three supervisors on 15th August. Two of them are not in the country and are currently in Japan.

Because of the other crazy going on in my life, I sent my draft to them on the 11th July.

Today (three days before the deadline) I find out at least one supervisor didn't receive it and the other two currently aren't answering my emails.

This basically determines whether or not I can progress and/or finish my PhD. I am not very happy right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 12, 2018, 11:17:52 AM
My thesis draft is due with my three supervisors on 15th August. Two of them are not in the country and are currently in Japan.

Because of the other crazy going on in my life, I sent my draft to them on the 11th July.

Today (three days before the deadline) I find out at least one supervisor didn't receive it and the other two currently aren't answering my emails.

This basically determines whether or not I can progress and/or finish my PhD. I am not very happy right now.

OMG that is really bad - do they have a anyone in "higher command" at your faculty that you could escalate this to? Just tell them that you are highly concerned at the lack of communication at such an important deadline - especially as you handed the work in EARLY!!

Keep an email trail as physical proof that these concerns have been raised - it will back you up if they later come back and accuse you of being too late with handing in your work.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on August 12, 2018, 12:14:07 PM
Today (three days before the deadline) I find out at least one supervisor didn't receive it and the other two currently aren't answering my emails.

I would resend it to the other two again (even if they aren't responding) with just a simple "it seems person 1 did not receive this the first time on X date, so I am resending to you as well as a back-up". But re-foreward from the email you initially sent back in July so it has the date stamp.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2018, 12:54:03 PM
Today (three days before the deadline) I find out at least one supervisor didn't receive it and the other two currently aren't answering my emails.

I would resend it to the other two again (even if they aren't responding) with just a simple "it seems person 1 did not receive this the first time on X date, so I am resending to you as well as a back-up". But re-foreward from the email you initially sent back in July so it has the date stamp.



My thesis draft is due with my three supervisors on 15th August. Two of them are not in the country and are currently in Japan.

Because of the other crazy going on in my life, I sent my draft to them on the 11th July.

Today (three days before the deadline) I find out at least one supervisor didn't receive it and the other two currently aren't answering my emails.

This basically determines whether or not I can progress and/or finish my PhD. I am not very happy right now.

OMG that is really bad - do they have a anyone in "higher command" at your faculty that you could escalate this to? Just tell them that you are highly concerned at the lack of communication at such an important deadline - especially as you handed the work in EARLY!!

Keep an email trail as physical proof that these concerns have been raised - it will back you up if they later come back and accuse you of being too late with handing in your work.

Oh believe me I will do so. I know my main supervisor is in Japan at the moment (but so is the one I have been in touch with, he now has it, so moving on to the others). The third should be in the UK, I am going to go stalking campus if I don't hear from him tomorrow morning.

I can copy in or contact the research tutor but right now it's not so much that it's a crisis - they have to sign a form by the 15th September, but I am meant to meet my faculty deadline of 15th August for the submission. BUT I also put it on my online logbook which can be checked by people way up in our doctoral school (on 8th August) and which my supervisors also have access to, so really I am probably covered if there's any deeper issues. But if the form isn't signed by all of them by 15th Sept I basically don't continue next year and I'm screwed. So yeah.

But 3 days till the faculty submission deadline. And I can prove I have submitted it. I would just feel happier if they confirmed it.

I have sent them a follow up email since supervisor 2 said he didn't get it to tell them it is also on the logbook and to contact me if they haven't received it. I will resend it on the deadline if I don't hear from either of them and I will email the research tutor as well. Too much harassment when you need them to sign a form is also not always good...:/

(I think it partly likely that 2 of them haven't checked and the one which did didn't check properly. Sigh).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 12, 2018, 10:37:02 PM
When I did my thesis in archaeology, my handler was everywhere but on campus and only checked his email once in a blue moon. We only had one handler as well so it was crucial they were available. I remember asking a question on which approach he thought I would take concerning genus and he answered after two weeks! I had to ask another professor for help! When it came to writing a thesis in History I had the chance to have a professor who's lectures was really good and engaging but who frequently traveled to Åland for his own research, or a doctorate only a few years my senior. I went for the doctorate as I knew she would be on campus and I strucked gold. The ones having the professor had the same problem I had had before with the archaology professor.

It's like, I know they have their own research and things they're exploring, but part of their job description is doing the other part of their job as well, ie to be available for their students and keep the important dates and not doing things in the very last minute. It's our future they're gambling with.

Sorry for the rant, I hope they'll submit they have read it on time Taffeta.


My complaint: First day of vacation and it's raining. Yaaaay, raing. We need it becaus of drought, but.. now it's cold and I want to wear dresses!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loona on August 13, 2018, 02:00:51 AM
Send the rain over here, Beldarna! I just got back from the cool mountains where we had our vacation, and it's yucky hot here - it's been all last week, so my outdoor plants died, and probably some of the indoor ones too (which I didn't arrange watering for, as there wasn't any issue with them not being watered for 6 days ever, not even during summers). Now other than feeling unwell because of the hot, I am also feeling bad because I was a careless plant mom :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2018, 09:30:13 AM
Thank you all for the support :D I finally managed to reach my main supervisor who assures me it's all fine and that they all have received it. I did go to supervisor 3's office this morning but he wasn't there. For all I know they're all having a tea party in Japan talking about my annoying emails at this point :) But if my main supervisor has it and knows when I sent it, and my 2nd one does, and it's on my logbook as well, I should be fine. Main supervisor doesn't seem to think there's any issue as he's the only one who has to comment in detail. The others just need to sign the release and make general comments.

My supervisors (actually, especially 1 and 3) are pretty good as a rule. The one I can't get hold of at the moment is actually very helpful but he recently got a promotion that means he's much harder to reach now on email :(

Also, we have the rain too! I have got drenched twice in a week :/ My raincoat leaks. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 13, 2018, 11:10:27 AM
There was a flood at work this morning, a pipe leaked on the testing rig (I work in a factory that makes fire sprinkler pumps) - so. much. mopping.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 13, 2018, 02:49:01 PM
I want chocolate and popcorn, I am out of both and it is too late in the day to get some, and pouring on top of that.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 14, 2018, 12:24:45 AM
I want chocolate and popcorn, I am out of both and it is too late in the day to get some, and pouring on top of that.   :mad:

Oh, stop it! Marks & Spencers (UK) sell little bags of Belgian-chocolate-covered toffee popcorn -
now I want some too!!  :lol: :lol: :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 14, 2018, 02:31:00 AM
I want chocolate and popcorn, I am out of both and it is too late in the day to get some, and pouring on top of that.   :mad:

Oh, stop it! Marks & Spencers (UK) sell little bags of Belgian-chocolate-covered toffee popcorn -
now I want some too!!  :lol: :lol: :P

M&S snacks are highly tempting. Their cookies are <3

Every room in my current hall is meant to have had a new shower head. I was told mine would be done yesterday.  Still waiting. ..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 14, 2018, 09:50:23 AM
My tooth hurts >_< It's a wisdom tooth but not the one that normally gives me trouble. I need dental care so badly but it's too risky with the implant in my head :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 14, 2018, 10:07:44 AM
Why are Swedish Fish candies so addicting???  A friend at work bought me a huge bag and now I just want to eat the whole thing and I'm trying to stop eating so much sugar.   :freak:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 14, 2018, 11:15:51 AM
I've always had short fragile nails that chip and break if I so much as breath on them so yesterday (first day of vacation) I spoiled myself by going to a nail salon to finally get some nails I dare to show in public. I got some pretty nails which I love and I can't stop looking at them.. they're so pretty at last and they even have nailpolish!!!! I've never had that before. They're not superlong, just a tiny bit above the fingers but I have had issues every since! Typing on the keyboard, using my phone, changing channels on the remote, swithing gears on my bike. I had to use my knuckle to flush the toilett and a pen to up my chapstick. I mean, they're not even that long and I can't do normal stuff! I paid so much money for them and I am not gonna remove them! But how do you do stuff with them?! :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 14, 2018, 02:06:53 PM
I’ve been looking at getting replacements for two of my childhood toys I let go of many years ago. The toy line itself doesn’t seem too hard to find on Ebay although most toys are missing their very tiny accessories. Looking on sold auctions on Ebay I discover that I started looking a little later than I should have and several great deals (including one toy still in its original package) have been on these toys within the past month. I am slightly torn over whether I should start by buying other characters (the ones I’m looking for are not on Ebay right now)or if I should wait and see if the two I’m looking for will come up on Ebay again. There’s also a playset and several of the toys with their tiny accessories for sale but the playset is really big and my budget really tight right now.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 14, 2018, 06:28:22 PM
I left my Switch's charge cable back at home, which I won't be going back to until Friday evening... So now I won't get to continue playing Okami HD much for a few days.  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on August 14, 2018, 06:40:58 PM
An art program I use has the ability to share your drawings to the public, but you can still have them private (which is what I always have it set at.) I finished a sketch and tried to save it but it didn't work because I was missing a title. I tried to resave it, but it said "please do not spam, you must wait one minute between sharing drawings". I had both saves set on private. I'm totally try to spam myself.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on August 14, 2018, 10:13:06 PM
We've mailed Hasbro like three weeks ago to see if they want a small collaberation or something like that.

We got completely ignored. Never received a response...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 15, 2018, 09:16:27 AM
We've mailed Hasbro like three weeks ago to see if they want a small collaberation or something like that.

We got completely ignored. Never received a response...

Maybe the person who answers those is on vacation?  I once emailed a company (can't remember which one it was at this point) asking a question and they didn't respond for almost 6 months.  By the time they answered me I'd forgotten that I'd even asked!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: mlp4me on August 15, 2018, 09:17:27 AM
I've always had short fragile nails that chip and break if I so much as breath on them so yesterday (first day of vacation) I spoiled myself by going to a nail salon to finally get some nails I dare to show in public. I got some pretty nails which I love and I can't stop looking at them.. they're so pretty at last and they even have nailpolish!!!! I've never had that before. They're not superlong, just a tiny bit above the fingers but I have had issues every since! Typing on the keyboard, using my phone, changing channels on the remote, swithing gears on my bike. I had to use my knuckle to flush the toilett and a pen to up my chapstick. I mean, they're not even that long and I can't do normal stuff! I paid so much money for them and I am not gonna remove them! But how do you do stuff with them?! :pout:
I've kept my nails long since 1996; you adapt, it just takes time. You become more mindful of your hands when you have longer nails.


My complaint; two months now of the bottom & side of my foot hurting. I tried doing jumping jacks one evening; managed 50 of them. Next morning couldn't step on my left foot. I think I sprained my foot/ankle or dislocated a bone; now I suffer endlessly. (I had sprained that same ankle a decade ago and it took more than a year to fully heal...) Why...? I just want to be able to exercise....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 15, 2018, 01:03:27 PM
Stop telling me she's small because I am small. I am VERY average.

I am getting really mad hearing it. I might punch the next person who says it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 15, 2018, 02:41:49 PM
Trying to find all the small parts for my numerous play sets. As well as finding very obscure toys, but having no info on the net about them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 15, 2018, 10:40:07 PM
I was convinced that today is Friday, it's actually Thursday... and I have to go into town and do a load of stuff after work. Pssh. This calls for battenburg, there's nothing else for it. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 16, 2018, 05:44:59 AM
My complaint; two months now of the bottom & side of my foot hurting. I tried doing jumping jacks one evening; managed 50 of them. Next morning couldn't step on my left foot. I think I sprained my foot/ankle or dislocated a bone; now I suffer endlessly. (I had sprained that same ankle a decade ago and it took more than a year to fully heal...) Why...? I just want to be able to exercise....

Could it be plantar fasciitis? Trust me, you want to get that checked and treated ASAP. I didn't, and now I'm really suffering. I'm worried about starting my new job because I'm going to be slow and in so much pain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: mlp4me on August 16, 2018, 05:56:21 AM
My complaint; two months now of the bottom & side of my foot hurting. I tried doing jumping jacks one evening; managed 50 of them. Next morning couldn't step on my left foot. I think I sprained my foot/ankle or dislocated a bone; now I suffer endlessly. (I had sprained that same ankle a decade ago and it took more than a year to fully heal...) Why...? I just want to be able to exercise....
Could it be plantar fasciitis? Trust me, you want to get that checked and treated ASAP. I didn't, and now I'm really suffering. I'm worried about starting my new job because I'm going to be slow and in so much pain.
It's definitely inflamed, but it's more the upper left side of my foot. I literally rolled the top/side of my foot when it sprained it so I'm sure it will take months to calm down. At least my ankle has stopped cracking/popping all the time. (All from jumping jacks... grr) I get relief for short periods of time, but for the most of the time it's stiff (that and I can feel a bone moving sometimes). I'm not dying so no doctor. I read that I need to strengthen the muscles in my feet, so walking I've been doing and a lot of up and down on tip toes.  Slow recovery.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 16, 2018, 07:42:48 AM
Package from Amazon.uk hasn't come yet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 16, 2018, 12:04:03 PM
I smacked my head against a cast iron pipe and it still hurts, hours later. Now I definitely need battenburg. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 16, 2018, 12:52:46 PM
I caught my dog, who has very stubbornly not eaten her breakfast (it is almost 3PM now) chewing on my thumb drive that had my Wii U copy of Breath of the Wild on it.  -_- She busted it open, so there goes my save file.

I love her to pieces, and am actually more worried about her than I am angry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 17, 2018, 11:31:12 AM
I'm trying to re-create Reading Rainbow DVD covers for our collection and I usually scan pictures out of the books and email them to myself for use with this project but this morning the scanner is offline and won't send me my pictures.  And our IT person can't get it to work (because it goes through the city's server) so now she has to contact the city IT person to fix it and I just wanted to get some of these done today  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 17, 2018, 01:16:47 PM
I want to pack to move. But it's too early. But I want to get it done. But it's too early. But I need to know what boxes I need still. But it's too early...

*headbutts wall*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 17, 2018, 02:11:51 PM
My computer won't get here until Tuesday. The day before my semester starts. Arg.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 17, 2018, 02:45:44 PM
I was trying to look at the different languages on my Duolingo app and accidently added a language I didn't want to learn and I can't find a way to delete it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 17, 2018, 06:19:07 PM
I got caught in a downpour at work, of course I brought my rain boots too, but forgot to take them outside with me today. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2018, 07:02:55 AM
Air conditioning is out again, and the weather is preventing me from going outside. :( I wanted to go pony hunting today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 18, 2018, 09:37:14 AM
I need new shoes.  The only shoes I like are no longer carried in stores in my area (even though when you do a search, the internet claims they do).  I don't like buying shoes online because I want to make sure the fit is correct before I buy them.  Why is shoe shopping so hard?  Why can't I just go barefoot?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 18, 2018, 10:18:59 AM
I'm trying to make myself have the patience to use accessibility options on the laptop to make it more suitable for my dodgey eyesight, but Opera isn't playing along. The medium text is just ever so slightly too small for me to read comfortably - it's kind of doable but it's foggy and I keep misreading things) but the large text is mahoosive. It would be a lot better to have an option to set the text size by points, because it only really needs to be one or two points bigger. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 18, 2018, 07:01:15 PM
Hello to leg cramps, why must I get them now, after years of not having them.   :cry: :whoa:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 19, 2018, 05:59:00 AM
My dog hasn't eaten anything since half of her breakfast yesterday. Unfortunately, this morning it is storming, so even if she would eat (which I don't know), she's not going to because she's too scared.

And speaking of storms, I have a new job orientation in an hour and am probably going to have to walk in the storms to get there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TickleMePink on August 19, 2018, 06:16:05 AM
I have a cold, and tomorrow is arguably one of the busiest days at work this autumn  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 19, 2018, 03:50:57 PM
I can't type anything in Chrome on my tablet. At first I thought it was a problem with the tablet itself but after some searching I'm not the only one having issues thankfully. Going back to the previous update fixes it but I can't figure out how to do that :huh: It's not a huge deal, I do have the Silk browser which is built on Chrome but it's ehhhh.

Just kinda annoying to be browsing and want to comment by habit and then not being able to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwichi on August 19, 2018, 08:39:02 PM
Went to a family gathering at my parents house tonight.  My husband scolds me afterwards outside about how I wasn't watching my child (not attentive enough according to his standards...) than suggests I drive bc he chose to have 5 beers tonight.  I'm so annoyed right now >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: billietallent on August 19, 2018, 09:51:12 PM
Tried Popeye's Chicken for the first time yesterday; it was so bad I actually felt a little nauseous afterward. Definitely not going there again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 20, 2018, 01:07:41 AM
That moment when you email an organisation about something and they reply with an email that clearly didn't read your original enquiry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 20, 2018, 03:54:17 PM
Hello shark week and very little sleep for a few days.  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 20, 2018, 06:05:56 PM
I bought these spicy chips to eat with homemade taco dip. I like spicy stuff (I made the dip spicy even) but these chips just aren't doing it for me. I wish I'd gotten a bag of regular chips because now I don't have anything to eat with the dip. Unless I just eat it. But then it wouldn't be dip! Hmm. Maybe I'll spread it on a soft tortilla.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 22, 2018, 04:15:50 AM
When you make an offer on something on eBay.uk and the person doesn't respond to it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 22, 2018, 05:19:43 AM
The semester starts today and I don't have classes Wednesdays, so it's a nice long day of "am I missing something?"
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 22, 2018, 06:06:04 AM
I just want to cry.
I feel like such a failure... When it's just things out if my control
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 22, 2018, 02:31:07 PM
Basically had someone tell me that my current project is a waste of time and they tried to sugarcoat it by adding "not to belittle your project or anything."  Yeah well...I think almost everything they do is a complete waste of time, especially since they have volunteers do it and it has to be done multiple times to get it done right.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on August 23, 2018, 10:46:09 AM
I love my boyfriend, but I'm very annoyed with him. He bought a vest from a foreign country, didn't check the size chart conversion, pushed and pestered me to email these people for an exchange and then when I was getting ready to send it off, since he's working long hours decided out of the blue that he is going to keep it. So now, I hafta email these people again that Mr. Wishy washy has changed his mind and ebay isn't letting me message them. He's a great guy, but from now on if he wants something exchanged, he is going to do it. I keep telling his stubborn butt to not buy clothes online and just get them from a real store.

Post Merge: August 23, 2018, 10:49:57 AM

I just want to cry.
I feel like such a failure... When it's just things out if my control

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 23, 2018, 07:12:04 PM
:hug:

:heart:
thank you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 24, 2018, 05:57:41 AM
I had to put one of my cats to sleep and it is painful enough as it is. But as an act of kindness I decided to give away her leftover food to someone who might need it so I posted about it in a local facebookgroup. It's a veterinary diet and I wrote that, also saying I would not say what it is for as the one needing it already should know, I also wrote that it's not something to give to a healthy cat just because it's free. I also asked not to have any unrelated comments concerning my post (a disclaimer that's noted in the rules if one want to keep the thread on topic and not deviate).

Soon, people started to comment on how I should donate it to the local animalshelter instead and got angry at the admin when she started to delete their comments as it was unrelated. Within ten minutes I had over 20 comments stating the same thing and the admin did a terrific job at keeping the thread clean but jeeeesh! People got so aggressive!

I donate money to the shelter whenever I have the funds for it, share their facebookposts, and I know they get food donated from Hills. I wanted to do something nice for someone else as the food is ridiculously expensive and added veterinary costs at that can eat you up.

Then one man asked to have it and I agreed to give it to him and was about to send him a PM with my details when he wrote me first and told me he wanted his cats to have some quality food instead of the cheap stuff he usually buys from the supermarket. When I asked I learnt his cats were not sick and had no need for this particular food. So no.. just greed.

Thankfully two nice ladies asked for it as well and they both got some so the food is gone now, but I still feel sad about the whole thing. I tried to do something nice in memory of my cat and was met with malice and greed instead, it felt awful :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 24, 2018, 08:24:12 AM
Waiting for two things from eBay.uk, plus some other things that I've got to order from eBay.uk and Amazon.uk before I go on holiday next Saturday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 24, 2018, 12:25:57 PM
@Bandit Pony *hugs* Hope you feel better :(

@Beldarna - that's just really wrong. I'm sorry about your cat :/

So that moment when you are about to move and are packing stuff in your room and then run out of something you need so you have to buy a whole new pack for FIVE DAYS because the stupid store doesn't sell individuals...

Also I really hate packing. I hate moving. I will be really sad to leave here as I really love this place and the area. BUT I am excited about exploring a new area. I just know I will get very. Very. LOST. Sigh.

Going to get the key tomorrow. Really not looking forward to taking a case on the tube. I don't use the tube unless I have to. It's not my favourite way to travel London...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 24, 2018, 02:07:34 PM
Urrrgh. I was fast asleep and then in the small hours, the shelf at the foot of the bed decided it was tired of that being-up-on-the-wall nonsense and plunged to the floor with a massive crash, woke me up and scared the living daylights out of me, so I couldn't get back to sleep and have been tired and really nervous at work all day. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 24, 2018, 06:04:01 PM
Beldarna - I'm sorry, that really sucks :( I tried to donate an open bag of senior food to the local shelter because my cat hated it. It was really nice food and I had only used a tiny bit, but they wouldn't take it. I understand why they didn't, but it was upsetting because I knew the food was fine and just wanted to help. And sorry about your kitty :hug:

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My complaint is this massive head and neck ache that's been going for three days now. I've tried medicines, massage, ice, heat, laying down, sitting up. If it's still bothering me by Monday I think I'll need to go to the ER.

edit: Gah! New page! :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Haruna on August 26, 2018, 06:38:35 PM
My complaint is this massive head and neck ache that's been going for three days now. I've tried medicines, massage, ice, heat, laying down, sitting up. If it's still bothering me by Monday I think I'll need to go to the ER.
Oh, no :( How are you feeling now?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 26, 2018, 10:58:32 PM
Thank you Taffeta and BlackCurtains.

I hope your pain has subsided so no need of the ER today. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.


Today is the first day of work after a two week holliday. My husband has another two weeks of freedom. I am not ready to go back, at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on August 27, 2018, 07:31:07 AM
My thermostat broke in my car and now I have to decide whether I want to make a mess and fix it myself or pay someone else to do it but risk my car overheating on the way there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 27, 2018, 10:42:48 AM
I went back and tried to play the cheapie acoustic guitar I bought to start out with, but ended up getting shooting pains in my left hand. I'm hoping it just needs lighter strings because if not, then I'll have to part ways with it. I can't justify keeping something that big out of sentimentality. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 27, 2018, 12:09:34 PM
I had a yard sale, held things for two people, they never came back. Bugs the living daylights out of me when people do that, WE ARE NOT A PAWN SHOP.   :mad: :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 27, 2018, 12:57:22 PM
Oh, no :( How are you feeling now?

I hope your pain has subsided so no need of the ER today. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks :hug: It's still there but the pain has lessened a lot, it's more tolerable.

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My complaint today is not being able to understand people on the phone. I hate talking on the phone mainly because it seems like everyone either mumbles or talks so fast all the words run together. Slow down and round your vowels :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 27, 2018, 01:32:39 PM
My other annoyance has been a string of phone scam calls about utilities. I have reported a few.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 27, 2018, 04:19:52 PM
My other annoyance has been a string of phone scam calls about utilities. I have reported a few.

Ugh.  I've had a 9-digit number (in the states they're 10 -- 11 if they add the 1 at the beginning) calling me every day.  The first day it called 6 times, the second day it called 5 times, and they've called three times a day after that.  I've ignored it every time (and reported it to the Do Not Call Registry).  I don't know who you are or where you're calling from and it isn't important enough to leave a message so quit calling me!  :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on August 29, 2018, 01:46:04 PM
Ugh they ruined the dutch MLP Facebook page. Nowadays it's only about "funny" mother memes with a pony image slapped onto it.
Examples:

"When the kids think they can dress themselves"
"It's really lost when mom can't find it"
"Last point on moms to-do list: me-time"
"being suspicous when the children are suddenly too quiet"

Like what's going on? Quite a limited target demographic. How about some merch information? Or when a new season will air and so on.
(We actually post all the new dutch merch store-findings :P)

It's all sooo cringey...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 30, 2018, 12:57:56 AM
So yesterday I moved.

Up at 6am to pack last minute things as the moving people had not given me a time slot to tell me when they were collecting and stuff.

Turns out the time slot is 3-6pm. The worst timeslot ever.

Parents and I move all precious and irreplaceable things across to the new room (including Truly, Trickles and Tropi Breeze) and set up as best we can. We then wait. And wait.

It passes 6pm. Still not here.

Eventually turns up at 6.08pm. Parents had to head back into central London around 7 so we had a mad rush to get anything organised and I was left doing most of the stuff myself so I didn't wake up this morning in a room of boxes.

I booked the move more than three weeks ago and they knew that I needed help with the unpacking and an earlier slot, so I am not amused.

Also, the driver guy kept phoning my mobile even though on the system I quite clearly said please DO NOT call this number, only text. I don't use the phone for calling as it makes me stressed. Having a strange guy who has custody of all my stuff phoning me at random intervals is not helpful.

When the items arrived, two of the boxes marked fragile were at the bottom of the pile of stuff, underneath all my books. Including my box with the delicate noodle bowls in. Fortunately the box was strong enough and they were well packed enough that nothing broke.

So in summary - took ages, came late, ignored my phone instructions and put my breakables underneath boxes of heavy books. Unamused Taffeta is unamused. As if moving wasn't bad enough without added unnecessary problems.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 30, 2018, 07:39:35 AM
So yesterday I moved.

Up at 6am to pack last minute things as the moving people had not given me a time slot to tell me when they were collecting and stuff.

Turns out the time slot is 3-6pm. The worst timeslot ever.

Parents and I move all precious and irreplaceable things across to the new room (including Truly, Trickles and Tropi Breeze) and set up as best we can. We then wait. And wait.

It passes 6pm. Still not here.

Eventually turns up at 6.08pm. Parents had to head back into central London around 7 so we had a mad rush to get anything organised and I was left doing most of the stuff myself so I didn't wake up this morning in a room of boxes.

I booked the move more than three weeks ago and they knew that I needed help with the unpacking and an earlier slot, so I am not amused.

Also, the driver guy kept phoning my mobile even though on the system I quite clearly said please DO NOT call this number, only text. I don't use the phone for calling as it makes me stressed. Having a strange guy who has custody of all my stuff phoning me at random intervals is not helpful.

When the items arrived, two of the boxes marked fragile were at the bottom of the pile of stuff, underneath all my books. Including my box with the delicate noodle bowls in. Fortunately the box was strong enough and they were well packed enough that nothing broke.

So in summary - took ages, came late, ignored my phone instructions and put my breakables underneath boxes of heavy books. Unamused Taffeta is unamused. As if moving wasn't bad enough without added unnecessary problems.

Yuck!  My dad was in the military so we moved every 2-3 years.  My mom used movers ONCE and because they lost so much of our stuff and broke an antique that she inherited from her grandmother, she refused to use movers ever again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 01, 2018, 10:30:05 AM
I want battenburg but I rrrreally don't want to down the shop to get some. It's a really serious conflict: cake vs. social anxiety. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 01, 2018, 10:40:21 AM
Microwave in the new room terrifies me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 01, 2018, 11:54:43 AM
Probably constitutes quite a bit more than a trivial complaint, but... I'm very sick and tired of being in pain. Around February I started getting a case of plantar fasciitis, but had to put off getting it checked (I had no idea what it was) for months because that's when my semester got really rough, as well. I had no time to think, much less go to a doctor!

Well, now I'm paying dearly for it. The pain is really bad at times, and requires me to take pain meds (ones in the store, like Advil). Even still, I recently started a job where I'm doing a lot of standing and walking and it has been rough. Even when the pain I've associated with plantar fasciitis doesn't flare up as bad, both of my feet are just burning the whole shift. I walk really slow, and limp, and everyone and their dog has to comment on it. Although I suppose it is nice to have people actually concerned about me...

At this point I don't even know what to do. I don't know if the burning pain might be in part because of the inserts I'm wearing (they are really expensive and custom-made to correct my feet). It feels like concrete. If I didn't have this condition, I'd be wearing work shoes because I know they are very comfortable for working, but I'm not really in a position to do that. I wish the inserts were softer.  :cry:

Sorry for all of the complaining... Just had to let it out somewhere. Working with this condition is rough. I desperately feel the need to sit down to rest my burning feet, but I can't really.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 01, 2018, 10:28:15 PM
I went into a store and asked a question about a facial cream to the wrong person.. the very knowledgable seller went allover my case, looked at my face and told me she was a skintherapist and started recommending other stuff, oils, even washing detergent. She then gave me her email and instagram and told me to email a picture of all the things I use on my face and body so she can see what is good for me and not and perhaps recommend something similar but better instead. I felt a bit overwhelmed. A two minute errand turned into a 15 minute lecture and now I have a store in the mall I work at which I'll never set my foot in again. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 02, 2018, 06:12:29 AM
Sitting in my new room minding my own business when someone starts trying to force unlock the door using a key card. Thinking they have the wrong room, I ignore it. It stops, and then a few minutes later, they come back. And this time they MANAGE TO OPEN IT.

I have no idea who the person was. She looked at me, went, "Oh, Sorry," and then left. No explanation. Nothing. But now I am majorly freaked out. I mean, I can deal with people making mistakes, but it's that time of year when rooms are getting cleared and cleaners are in sorting and removing junk. I don't want my room cleared when I've just moved in by someone who doesn't have the right to access my room...?

Also, I want to go have a shower, but you know...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 02, 2018, 02:39:56 PM
Sitting in my new room minding my own business when someone starts trying to force unlock the door using a key card. Thinking they have the wrong room, I ignore it. It stops, and then a few minutes later, they come back. And this time they MANAGE TO OPEN IT.

I have no idea who the person was. She looked at me, went, "Oh, Sorry," and then left. No explanation. Nothing. But now I am majorly freaked out. I mean, I can deal with people making mistakes, but it's that time of year when rooms are getting cleared and cleaners are in sorting and removing junk. I don't want my room cleared when I've just moved in by someone who doesn't have the right to access my room...?

Also, I want to go have a shower, but you know...

If it was me, I think I would have smiled sweetly and said, "Good thing I just unpacked my gun," and watched her run out.  But I would definitely contact whoever is in charge of your dorms and let them know that people are breaking into your rooms and ask if you can have a deadbolt added to your door.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 02, 2018, 03:13:17 PM
In order to get in my room she would have to have access to a pass key so she is probably a warden but I will take it up with the manager tomorrow. Meanwhile the door is double locked.

I expect it was an accident and she hit the wrong room but ut freaked me out.

Also...if I had a gun I would be arrested or evicted . ..UK gun laws are pretty strict ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 02, 2018, 04:00:23 PM
Saying you have a gun and actually having one are two different things.  Even if she reported you for claiming to have one, she'd have to explain why she was in your room in the first place and you could deny saying gun.  You could claim you said something about gum and she must have misheard you.  Then again, I am a little evil.  :devious:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 02, 2018, 04:25:54 PM
I’m sorry that happened Taffeta. :hug:

I was on a school trip once and we had to share rooms with two or more people. The girls in my room got to where they would leave the door to the room propped open and I was frightened that someone would find the door and come in.

My trivial complaint today is my local bookstore.  I bought the first volume of a 3 volume series a few weeks ago. When I went back to buy Volume 2 and 3 Volume 2 had been sold. This wouldnt normally be a problem but last time I wanted to buy the next 2 volumes in a series my bookstore never restocked one of the last volumes and I had to order it.  I hope they restock the missing volume soon.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2018, 12:20:37 AM
Saying you have a gun and actually having one are two different things.  Even if she reported you for claiming to have one, she'd have to explain why she was in your room in the first place and you could deny saying gun.  You could claim you said something about gum and she must have misheard you.  Then again, I am a little evil.  :devious:

Yeah...it's just something that culturally wouldn't happen in the UK if you didn't want to have a police raid in your room.

At my old place, they used to leave the corridor door (that led outside) open at night. True, it was some floors up and a sheer drop, but basically it was wide open and anyone could have climbed up to come in or out if they had really wanted to.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 03, 2018, 06:36:30 AM
The valve pipe on the toilet broke, thankfully my twin was home to shut it off, and mop up the water. If neither of us had been home, it would have gone down the grate, into the duct work, down the wall, and into the furnace.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 03, 2018, 07:49:01 AM
My laptop forcibly updating and restarting itself while I was trying to enjoy my lunch break on my laptop. It gave me warning, but absolutely no way to delay it. That's ridiculous. What if I had been doing something important like taking a quiz for my online class?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2018, 07:59:44 AM
My laptop forcibly updating and restarting itself while I was trying to enjoy my lunch break on my laptop. It gave me warning, but absolutely no way to delay it. That's ridiculous. What if I had been doing something important like taking a quiz for my online class?

Mine did that one on a train when I had no plug socket access. I was so worried about the battery giving out midway...computers are so evil :(

My hall manager thinks the invader in my room was a cleaner and he's dealing with it. Hopefully it won't happen again :) .

So last night I was talking to one of my good friends who I lived with during my MA year. She's from India (she just moved from Delhi to Mumbai) and in talking I realised we haven't seen each other face to face for five years. Time has gone so fast :( I miss her. It also reminded me that I'm losing another friend in a month or so when she goes back to Israel full time. I love my university because I get to meet and make friends with people all over the world. But sometimes I also hate it because they all ultimately go back home :/

And to make matters worse, one of my good BRITISH friends is still living in Saitama -.-.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 03, 2018, 03:07:22 PM
A friend wanted to see the new movie Alpha. I had only seen a couple of advertisements and didn't realize that the entire film would be subtitled.  I'm not saying there's anything wrong with films that are dubbed in to English or subtitled but it's something that I think should have been shown in the trailers.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 04, 2018, 12:54:49 PM
So I kind of deliberately made a point of mentioning to my housemate that I'm really stressed at the moment, thinking he might possess the intellectual capacity to gather that means "maybe don't rant at me ad nauseam about *arena-inappropriate language goes here* you've read in a tabloid" but of course, he immediately brings up politics from his oh-so-very-enlightened and wonderfully informed perspective. I just don't care anymore, keep politics away from me, it's too much of a snakepit to even so much as glance at it sideways at this point. I need to learn to shut people down when they bring up political issues at me because they never want a discussion, they just want to try to validate their own views via medium of the screaming match. And I am just so done with meaningless conflicts at this point in my life. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 04, 2018, 05:13:42 PM
I need to learn to shut people down when they bring up political issues at me because they never want a discussion, they just want to try to validate their own views via medium of the screaming match. And I am just so done with meaningless conflicts at this point in my life. :pout:

Ugh, same.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 05, 2018, 01:23:19 AM

I need to learn to shut people down when they bring up political issues at me because they never want a discussion, they just want to try to validate their own views via medium of the screaming match. And I am just so done with meaningless conflicts at this point in my life. :pout:

Can relate. I genuinely don't want anything to do with any of British politics at the moment either. It's not like anyone making the decisions is really listening to anyone but themselves anyway, and the more I think about it, the more annoyed it makes me...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on September 05, 2018, 08:18:49 PM
I had my disability hearing today. My mom went with as my witness and my sister drove. My dad didn't say anything before I left and when I got home the only thing he had to say was that the internet wasn't working and could I fix it :sad:

You have my sympathies.

I had my tribunal hearing a couple of weeks ago. It was a horrible experience :/ I hope yours works out in your favour. It's taken a year to get to this point with mine and although they upheld my appeal, I still have yet to hear anything about it or whether it's going to be dragged out longer.

I'm glad your mum and sister at least were there to support you :/

Both of you have my sympathies,it's not easy and I just started with a minimum 15-18 months before a hearing date. Am glad I've gotten this far but I'm terfiec what it means for my future.

My new iPhone 5s started not accepting certain calls,so I'm calling my carrier again tomorrow. The worst part is my best friend is having to borrow it while her's is being fixed. So we both could be missing calls.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 05, 2018, 08:22:37 PM
I just got a phone call about an "important Mazda recall."  When I answered, they asked for "J", who I said didn't live here and this wasn't his number.  So they asked if I could give him a message.  I asked why they were calling me and she said that my number was "what was in the system."  Multiple things wrong with this aside from not listening when I said it wasn't his number.  1) I have never owned a Mazda.  2) My brother goes by "J" but they couldn't tell me if it was my brother that gave them this number or not.  3) It's after 9PM here.  Why wouldn't they call during sensible hours?

Solution:  I gave them my dad's number.  They can deal with him.  Oh, but he's off hunting this week so they'll get nothing but voicemail until he gets somewhere where he gets service.  Maybe by then they'll give up.  And if it is a legit recall, he would be able to tell and he would know whether or not it was my brother's car that they were talking about.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on September 06, 2018, 04:50:57 AM
The mail: "Hey we are building a medical center near you-- pls donate"

ARGH, maybe if you didn't bleed me dry local hospital system year after year I COULD.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 06, 2018, 11:27:52 AM

I need to learn to shut people down when they bring up political issues at me because they never want a discussion, they just want to try to validate their own views via medium of the screaming match. And I am just so done with meaningless conflicts at this point in my life. :pout:

Can relate. I genuinely don't want anything to do with any of British politics at the moment either. It's not like anyone making the decisions is really listening to anyone but themselves anyway, and the more I think about it, the more annoyed it makes me...

Very true, I'm just hoping that all this nonsense is a temporary state of upheaval and sometime in the (nearer rather than further) future, people will come to their senses and learn to work together. Probably a bit too much in the realms of wishful thinking, though. :/

And my complaint for today is my leg, it's been alright for most of the day and I was able to get about without a support bandage, then on the way home from work, it started hurting again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 06, 2018, 04:11:21 PM
I thought my camera was dead, nope just the battery, just when our porch spider is out, and i have a perfect shot of them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 06, 2018, 05:36:39 PM
I'd love to find a lens cleaner that actually cleans my glasses instead of leaving streaks and little specs of dust. I paid $70 out of pocket for reinforced, glare-free, and dirt resistant lenses too. It seems like I try to clean them a dozen times a day :mad:

edit: and apparently I forgot how to post on the forums.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 06, 2018, 09:06:12 PM
The chain and gears on my bike started to act weird so yesterday me and husband was gonna take it to the bike shop where I bought it which is on another side of town so we decided to go early in case it would be hard for me to bike with the chain jumping on and off. We came out to the storage room and I have a flat front tire.. I was gonna start work at noon, it was fifteen minutes to ten and I began to walk with said bike and made 3,4 miles within an hour! Left the bike, ran to the bus stop and made it to the bus which goes to the mall I work at on the other side of town. I made it to work with a minute to spare. My legs felt like spagetthio after my shift so instead of walking I took the bus home. At home I started to freeze and woke up too early this morning with a soar throat and soar legs from yesterdays long march. I can't be sick! We already have a coworker who is sick so there's none to cover for me and tomorrow my family comes to town to celebrate my brothers 30th birthday! I'm the one who booked the restaurant and I'm gonna help blow balloons and things! Aaargh >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 07, 2018, 07:12:13 AM
My my little pony headphones are on the way out, the jack is messing up.  Well at least they lasted a few years.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 07, 2018, 09:16:35 AM
I got some sushi yesterday and there was no pickled ginger with it... what is the world coming to. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 07, 2018, 09:23:42 AM
The Charlet me and my family had mould in it, the beds weren't comfy. Glad to be back home to sleep in my own bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 08, 2018, 01:27:30 AM
So when you spend two hours on a train to a conference and the guy in front of you is spending the whole journey looking at naughty images.

I genuinely don't care what he or anyone else wants to get up to in their private life, but I would have preferred it if he wasn't trying to be really furtive to prevent people walking past from seeing. Because it meant instead I got a full view through the seat gap at regular intervals whenever I tried to look out of my window and yeah. I don't need to see that.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SilverStarApple on September 08, 2018, 05:10:59 AM
I designed a control scheme for a Fighting Game character with 9 helpers. I don't know if I should bother with the old "Pick 2 helpers at the start of the round or get all 9 at once but no super atks" system or not, now that I've figured out how to map their functions to an extra stick.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on September 09, 2018, 10:44:33 PM
Hearing aid batteries, if I wear my hearing aids for two 12 hour days I have to change them after day two. Three days of about 8 hours and they last three maybe four days. Anything less than 8 hours and I can squeeze a week out of a pair.

Each package has  8 batteries, making four pairs and depending on where I get them they can cost about $17 for two packages. Thankfully my best friend was able to pick up a nice bundle of them at Cost Co which saved me a bunch of money. Why don't they last longer... :blink: :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 10, 2018, 08:38:52 AM
Hearing aid batteries, if I wear my hearing aids for two 12 hour days I have to change them after day two. Three days of about 8 hours and they last three maybe four days. Anything less than 8 hours and I can squeeze a week out of a pair.

Each package has  8 batteries, making four pairs and depending on where I get them they can cost about $17 for two packages. Thankfully my best friend was able to pick up a nice bundle of them at Cost Co which saved me a bunch of money. Why don't they last longer... :blink: :huh:

Because the companies would loose money, and they would rather keel over than do that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 10, 2018, 08:45:56 AM
Kept poking myself with my doll needle rerooting a doll, in my leg and another part of my body.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 10, 2018, 02:21:52 PM
My big thrift store closed, so one less reason for me to go out anymore.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SilverStarApple on September 10, 2018, 02:53:23 PM
Nobody has any Vocal Stems of Tom Jones music. My hilarious meme music idea is ruined!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 10, 2018, 11:10:46 PM
Woken at 6.30 by the fire alarm. Still have no idea why it went off. But I guess I'm awake now.

The trouble is, I don't need to be awake, because I have no reason to get up early today. Grr.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 11, 2018, 12:40:10 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore, so I've just had to get the old laptop out, wait for it to refuse to start up, then wait some more while it umms and ahhrs over whether or not it wants to work, then wait even longer while it struggles to comprehend how to run a program and goes "Not Responding" for no reason. It's running off the mains this entire time because the battery quit holding a charge ages ago, so all this dithering is wasting electricity. All that faff because I want to put a Rag 'n' Bone Man album on my mp3 player. I can't be expected to sit through a bus ride without music, what kind of horrific netherworld am I looking into?! I may have to just admit defeat and go in search of an external disc drive for Pyewacket because the notion of firing up the Flossmonster again just sends shivers down my spine after this palaver. I really hate extraneous bits of machinery, though. I prefer to keep things as streamlined as possible. :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 11, 2018, 01:20:25 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 11, 2018, 01:29:56 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 

They don't. I have an external drive because I want to avoid the nightmare of booting up the dinosaur. But it's not totally convenient. The drive lives here in London, and when I take the laptop home it makes it more difficult...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 12, 2018, 11:42:16 AM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 

They don't. I have an external drive because I want to avoid the nightmare of booting up the dinosaur. But it's not totally convenient. The drive lives here in London, and when I take the laptop home it makes it more difficult...

The most irksome things about it is that a middle-of-the-road laptop without the disk drive still costs the about same, even though it's essentially less capable/versatile than the earlier version of it from a few years ago, not to mention the total paradox that has been created presumably in the name of convenience. I gather that digital media is increasingly popular because it's instantly accessible but it really throws a spanner in the works for people who prefer physical media.
(Come to think of it, maybe I'm just a bit salty about a computer making me feel old before my time.) ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 12, 2018, 01:33:26 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 

They don't. I have an external drive because I want to avoid the nightmare of booting up the dinosaur. But it's not totally convenient. The drive lives here in London, and when I take the laptop home it makes it more difficult...

The most irksome things about it is that a middle-of-the-road laptop without the disk drive still costs the about same, even though it's essentially less capable/versatile than the earlier version of it from a few years ago, not to mention the total paradox that has been created presumably in the name of convenience. I gather that digital media is increasingly popular because it's instantly accessible but it really throws a spanner in the works for people who prefer physical media.
(Come to think of it, maybe I'm just a bit salty about a computer making me feel old before my time.) ;)

Yeah, that really makes me not want to upgrade my laptop.  I've already replaced the battery once but other than that it still works great (possibly because I never save anything directly on it-it's all on flash drives).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 12, 2018, 02:14:24 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 

They don't. I have an external drive because I want to avoid the nightmare of booting up the dinosaur. But it's not totally convenient. The drive lives here in London, and when I take the laptop home it makes it more difficult...

The most irksome things about it is that a middle-of-the-road laptop without the disk drive still costs the about same, even though it's essentially less capable/versatile than the earlier version of it from a few years ago, not to mention the total paradox that has been created presumably in the name of convenience. I gather that digital media is increasingly popular because it's instantly accessible but it really throws a spanner in the works for people who prefer physical media.
(Come to think of it, maybe I'm just a bit salty about a computer making me feel old before my time.) ;)

Yeah, that really makes me not want to upgrade my laptop.  I've already replaced the battery once but other than that it still works great (possibly because I never save anything directly on it-it's all on flash drives).

I want to get a gaming laptop for Sims 4 I wonder if that has a disk drive init.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 12, 2018, 04:45:52 PM
I had to work six days in a row at work this week. I appreciate having a job and a full-time schedule, but with my foot issues it was not fun at all. They really need to get my work schedule evened out so I have a set two days off. I've talked to them about it, so hopefully.

I want to get a gaming laptop for Sims 4 I wonder if that has a disk drive init.

Well, I'll just let you know that I don't think EA even releases The Sims 4 by disk anymore. I got a physical copy of the pets EP and the only thing inside of it was a code to download it from Origin.

My laptop that I got a few years back does not have a disc drive and I always found that kind of weird. I bought the laptop without even knowing that it didn't have one because I just thought it was such a no-brainer. Oh well, it's been more of a slight inconvenience for me than anything else, because my main PC is my desktop which very much does have a CD drive.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on September 12, 2018, 06:00:10 PM
Apparently laptops don't come with built-in disc drives anymore

Really?  How lame! 

They don't. I have an external drive because I want to avoid the nightmare of booting up the dinosaur. But it's not totally convenient. The drive lives here in London, and when I take the laptop home it makes it more difficult...

The most irksome things about it is that a middle-of-the-road laptop without the disk drive still costs the about same, even though it's essentially less capable/versatile than the earlier version of it from a few years ago, not to mention the total paradox that has been created presumably in the name of convenience. I gather that digital media is increasingly popular because it's instantly accessible but it really throws a spanner in the works for people who prefer physical media.
(Come to think of it, maybe I'm just a bit salty about a computer making me feel old before my time.) ;)

You could convert your music to MP3s and covert your DVDs to videos?

What *I* don't understand is why new Macbook pros don't have a normal USB port... You can't even transfer files between computers without a stupid dongle. (I'm on the verge of needing a new work laptop, and I can't wrap my head around no normal USB port)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 12, 2018, 06:42:50 PM
Apparently someone called me at 1 pm but my phone didn't register the voicemail until 7 pm.  Um...what if that was a really important call that I'd been waiting for?  Not cool phone companies...not cool.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 12, 2018, 10:24:11 PM
I have a cold. Again. I have four days of work a head of me. Yaaay, fun!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 13, 2018, 07:19:09 AM
Why do people on bikes think they're pedestrians?  Crosswalks are for pedestrians, not vehicles.  Bikes are a vehicle (even if it is man-powered). If you're walking your bike across a street on a crosswalk, yes, you are a pedestrian.  If you are riding your bike across a street on a crossWALK you are on a vehicle and I should not be obligated to stop for you, although I will because I don't want to dent my car with your dumb butt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on September 13, 2018, 09:02:53 AM
Now my son's bike has been stolen >_< :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 14, 2018, 05:46:35 AM
I've got a blister from using my forceps to pull doll hair out
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 14, 2018, 06:02:34 AM
Friend still not replying to her messages...worrying about her because I haven't heard from her since she had a pretty big deal academic assessment.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 15, 2018, 10:01:12 AM
I accidentally kicked the oak baseboard trim, hello broken toe.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 16, 2018, 02:05:26 AM
I had a dream last night about petting a lovely horse, a patchy brown-and-white one. I want to pet horses in real life too, dangit!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 17, 2018, 02:11:13 PM
I went to a restaurant for lunch with family members today. I ordered a Ceaser salad with Ranch dressing but when my salad arrived it came with Ceaser dressing instead. I made a comment that I ordered Ranch dressing but one of my family members insisted that I ordered Ceaser dressing. To save the arguement I gave up and decided to eat the Ceaser dressing. Then another family member backed me up and said I had ordered Ranch dressing in the first place but by them I had already used the dressing.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 20, 2018, 08:28:24 AM
My knee hurts today.  The only reason for it I can think of is a possible change in the humidity, which would be good because it usually means rain and we could use the rain but I hate that it makes me hurt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 20, 2018, 11:59:17 AM
It rained literally all day here today.

Sigh.

I guess it's really autumn tomorrow for real.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 20, 2018, 08:13:36 PM
I got out too late to get an apple fritter doughnut, I really wanted one too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 21, 2018, 03:40:55 AM
It's the end of September. Which means! The university contract merrygoround begins. I wonder how many dud contract drafts I will see this week before they finally get all the details straight..?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 22, 2018, 05:06:53 AM
Why are designer towels a thing? And why is it that a shop will have shelves upon shelves of overpriced DKNY towels, but no sign of a bale of ordinary, everyday, blue bathroom towels? Yeesh. (And it's not just the designer thing either, all of the towels were white or grey - is blue no longer a logical colour for bathrooms?) :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 22, 2018, 05:16:17 AM
I'm cramping up and I've got a 7 hour shift today. And I have a 7 hour shift...tomorrow? I'm really not used to these long shifts, I'm usually at 5-5.5. We were supposed to get less hours on the desk, too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 22, 2018, 09:11:39 AM
Why are designer towels a thing? And why is it that a shop will have shelves upon shelves of overpriced DKNY towels, but no sign of a bale of ordinary, everyday, blue bathroom towels? Yeesh. (And it's not just the designer thing either, all of the towels were white or grey - is blue no longer a logical colour for bathrooms?) :pout:

Last year Dunelm had some excellent bundles of towels. So much so I ended up buying more than I needed :/ Maybe you need to try hunting out "Student" sale displays, because I've seen a few decent discounts in stores aimed at students starting at uni for the first time....

My trivial complaint...

Another day, another league defeat.

Also, I am not looking forward to what will be a manic day tomorrow, with two trips across London. If it weren't that my friend is leaving the UK permanently on Tuesday to go back to Israel, I really wouldn't attempt it ><

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 22, 2018, 04:40:14 PM
I'm in so much pain all the time. I don't care that some people choose to abuse pain meds or don't question their doctors if they feel they're being overmedicated. Why should I be punished because of these people? Why can't I have actual pain medicine instead of larger doses of NSAIDs that are destroying my liver and causing more pain in my stomach???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 22, 2018, 11:33:42 PM
Yesterday my dad and his girlfriend came to visit. As we talked the idea came up to go check out ikea as they still had not been there and since me and husband had talked about getting a new dresser to the hallway and we now had access to a car, we decided to buy it. First thing to go wrong is at the register we learnt we had missed one package and went to retireve it but it was not on the shelf. Upon asking the info desk we learnt it will come down from another stockroom this morning. So we went home with everything except this one which we will have to buy today. This time we have to take the bus, hoping it's not too heavy to carry.
Second thing going wrong is we decided to put the units we had together yesterday afternoon while being a bit tired and put in the wrong clam shells, plastic instead of metal in the bases. Upon removing the plastics they broke so now we have to get spare parts as well so we can put the drawers that goes into the dressers together.

Totally our fault everything, but so annoying still. I had hoped for a quiet pyjama day today, instead I'm dressed before 9 am a Sunday morning waiting for the bus back to Ikea. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 23, 2018, 01:13:53 AM
Why are designer towels a thing? And why is it that a shop will have shelves upon shelves of overpriced DKNY towels, but no sign of a bale of ordinary, everyday, blue bathroom towels? Yeesh. (And it's not just the designer thing either, all of the towels were white or grey - is blue no longer a logical colour for bathrooms?) :pout:

Last year Dunelm had some excellent bundles of towels. So much so I ended up buying more than I needed :/ Maybe you need to try hunting out "Student" sale displays, because I've seen a few decent discounts in stores aimed at students starting at uni for the first time....

That's good advice, thank you very much! :) It would've been a more sensible idea for me to look out of town for towels, in retrospect - Macclesfield has a fair amount of trendy shops, but very little that caters to people who want something practical. There's a branch of Dunelm in Stockport so I'll be sure to check it out when I need something for the house in future.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on September 23, 2018, 07:56:13 AM
My mom likes to complain. About everyone. When she's complaining about me, she says I don't talk to her and don't have any interests. Actually, I'm always trying to talk to her about my friends and interests, but she belittles them and tells me straight up that she doesn't care... Does it not count as long as we're not talking about her? :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 23, 2018, 11:07:36 AM
Just a few cute and cool kickstarter projects and I dont have the Money.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 23, 2018, 04:17:40 PM
My mom likes to complain. About everyone. When she's complaining about me, she says I don't talk to her and don't have any interests. Actually, I'm always trying to talk to her about my friends and interests, but she belittles them and tells me straight up that she doesn't care... Does it not count as long as we're not talking about her? :pout:

That's just like my mom too! I'm convinced she has narcissistic personality disorder.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 23, 2018, 08:23:10 PM
My phone is suddenly not receiving text messages.  The last one to come through was on Tuesday.  I paid my bill on Wednesday, so I know that's not the reason.  My brother sent me one half an hour ago so I could see if it was working and it still hasn't come through.  If my phone company has stopped messaging services to my phone (it still has real buttons) then I'm going to be mad because they didn't notify me about it at all.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 24, 2018, 09:47:52 AM
Waging the usual war with the doctoral school.

I think I am just going to go shout at them tomorrow. That usually works.

I asked them 2 weeks ago to have a letter of student status ready to collect at enrolment as I need it so I won't be charged council tax. Do they do this? Apparently not...

And the Doctoral School is way out from the rest of campus, so I have trouble finding it.

I really hate the Doctoral School. I miss the days of having things managed by the Registry, which actually bother to complete tasks within a reasonable period of time. Taught students are so lucky.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 26, 2018, 10:50:50 AM
I treated myself to a couple of nice, small toy horses because I've had a beast of a time recently and just wanted a simple little thing to throw a bit of sunshine over the whole shaking-profusely-and-nearly-passing-out-from-stress thing and they've been entrusted to Hermes... I am honestly afraid for their wellbeing. :|
And according to the tracking, it's in Bolton. The temptation to send a message through the universe just going "Stop! I'll get on a train and pick it up myself!!!" is immense.
:drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on September 26, 2018, 11:00:17 AM
I treated myself to a couple of nice, small toy horses because I've had a beast of a time recently and just wanted a simple little thing to throw a bit of sunshine over the whole shaking-profusely-and-nearly-passing-out-from-stress thing and they've been entrusted to Hermes... I am honestly afraid for their wellbeing. :|
And according to the tracking, it's in Bolton. The temptation to send a message through the universe just going "Stop! I'll get on a train and pick it up myself!!!" is immense.
:drunk:

Aww I hope you're okay :( please try not to get too stressed, take some time out to relax!

If I'm honest Hermes is not my top pick for deliveries either, they always seem to knock on the door, then run to my back garden, throw the parcel over the fence and drive away, they threw my flutter ponies over the fence the other week :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 28, 2018, 06:42:46 AM
Hermes is such a mix of good and bad service, it's a total lottery. I hope your stuff is ok O.o.

My convener has roped me into doing revision sessions into April as well.

This would be fine, until I realised that because Easter is so late, our term dates are so messed up that I will have to travel back to London on the Easter bank holiday...which is when trains are often out for maintenance...OR pay triple the fare to travel anytime to get back in time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 28, 2018, 07:39:20 AM
Selling Barbie dolls on Shpock  no interest in them, one person is a torment. Plus sold a Monster High bundle on there, and the buyer is a dealer.

Got another Monster High bundle on there and no one is interested in them.

Plus this Barbie bundle I wanted that had a rooted Ken that I was going to customise into an Attack on Titan character (the head was going to be Gunther's) has been brought; I just hope that I can get the other bundle with a Ken doll that was one that you can put wigs on so that my Keiji body doesn't have to be headless.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 28, 2018, 12:13:41 PM
I treated myself to a couple of nice, small toy horses because I've had a beast of a time recently and just wanted a simple little thing to throw a bit of sunshine over the whole shaking-profusely-and-nearly-passing-out-from-stress thing and they've been entrusted to Hermes... I am honestly afraid for their wellbeing. :|
And according to the tracking, it's in Bolton. The temptation to send a message through the universe just going "Stop! I'll get on a train and pick it up myself!!!" is immense.
:drunk:

Aww I hope you're okay :( please try not to get too stressed, take some time out to relax!

If I'm honest Hermes is not my top pick for deliveries either, they always seem to knock on the door, then run to my back garden, throw the parcel over the fence and drive away, they threw my flutter ponies over the fence the other week :blink:

Thanks, I'm making it a priority to relax this weekend - starting with a nice cup of tea and a fluffy blanket. And wow, that is definitely not a conscientious way to deliver any kind of ponies, least of all delicate ones like flutter ponies - I hope they're alright!

Hermes is such a mix of good and bad service, it's a total lottery. I hope your stuff is ok O.o.

Very true, on a couple of occasions, Hermes have behaved and done their job properly, but most of the time the service has been pants. Fortunately, the horses are fine, so I had no need to worry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 28, 2018, 07:04:37 PM
Social Security sent me the most outdated and overly complicated crap to view my case file on a CD. Just... what?!

And THEY LOST MY FILE. My original file from 2001. So they attempted to "reconstruct" it in 2016. What?!?

Oh gee, they have to take my word that I totally had brain surgery. "This opinion has significant weight". Really?!! Do you think I have an 11 inch scar on my scalp for fashion reasons? WHAT?!!!

I think I need an attorney :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 28, 2018, 09:51:34 PM
To add to everything else, we've got case-bearing clothes moths in the livingroom. They have appeared on the wall behind the couch every two days or so for the past week. I have no clue how we got them as we've not bought any new-old textiles in forever. The only thing I can think of is they came with dad and his girlfriend when they visited as they sat in the couch. I've been vacuuming the couch, wall behind it and floor beneath it everyday now. If they keep showing up I have to call the landlord.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 30, 2018, 09:52:37 AM
Attack on Titan Episode 48 is delayed to be aired on the eighth of October. I don't know what to do!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 30, 2018, 11:22:20 AM
Turned the PC on to write more detailed notes for my first EA History class. Yeah, I am a week ahead, but got distracted by pony stuff and still haven't cracked open the folder.

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: TornadoTwist on September 30, 2018, 11:40:26 AM
I feel like I'm living in constant stress. That every step I take, I'll take three back. I'm so scared all my projects will fail no matter how hard I try. I'm afraid I'll dissapoint everyone...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 30, 2018, 03:57:15 PM
Finally figured out how Paypal works for selling stuff.  So now I want to try and sell off my G3s...which means I have to dig them out and take pictures and then hope that people want them before the snow starts falling.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 30, 2018, 04:15:41 PM
Saw a very nice crags list pony lot, tried calling five times, just a busy signal... Says not to contact by email. Post was put up three days ago, if it is gone seller please take it down.   -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 01, 2018, 06:57:30 AM
I signed up for Hulu this weekend mainly because they have a show that I really wanted to watch that isn’t on Netflix. I was trying to finish the episode I was watching but a family member keeps coming in to the room just about the time I get interested in the episode. That means I have to pause the episode and come back later :sad: I just want to watch the last few minutes of the episode. Playing the episode while they’re in the room isn’t an option because they are really picky about what they want to watch.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 01, 2018, 10:40:17 AM
I signed up for Hulu this weekend mainly because they have a show that I really wanted to watch that isn’t on Netflix. I was trying to finish the episode I was watching but a family member keeps coming in to the room just about the time I get interested in the episode. That means I have to pause the episode and come back later :sad: I just want to watch the last few minutes of the episode. Playing the episode while they’re in the room isn’t an option because they are really picky about what they want to watch.

Ponyfan

Hence why I a TV in my room to watch things that my parents don't want to watch.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on October 03, 2018, 11:12:32 AM
Oh for the love of... ! It's been cloudy for about two weeks now and it's killing me. I'm dying by the inches. I'm starving for sun. My mental well-being is deteriorating.

I got a 10 minute tease of sunlight this morning; it's the first time I've seen the sun in days. The moment I saw the beams, I got dressed to go outside and walk in it (it's snowy here, so it takes awhile to get dressed.) By the time I'm almost ready to go, the clouds close in again. :bawl: :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 03, 2018, 11:27:52 AM
Far be it from to be judgmental, but I don't think somebody should be criticising a person for "mindless strumming" when they keep snapping strings on their guitar because the whole thing is tuned an entire semitone too high, and they also don't know what the standard tuning is. They can keep their 10-million-mile-an-hour noodling on their badly-tuned guitar and I'll carry right on looking after my instruments properly, tuning them correctly and learning at my own pace. ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 03, 2018, 06:58:06 PM
I've been cleaning/reorganizing my room and I came across a random power cord.  I have no idea what it goes to.  I found one on Amazon, but it doesn't say what it's for.   :huh:

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**My dad suggested it may belong to an old CD player that I have in the closet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 03, 2018, 08:58:07 PM
My head/neck/shoulders are so sore and I have no idea why. I must have slept weird.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SourdoughStomper on October 04, 2018, 07:32:35 AM
I've been cleaning/reorganizing my room and I came across a random power cord.  I have no idea what it goes to.  I found one on Amazon, but it doesn't say what it's for.   :huh:

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**My dad suggested it may belong to an old CD player that I have in the closet.

Printer, maybe? I dunno.

---

I'm pleased to say I got a respite from the clouds for a couple hours yesterday. :joy: It's back to overcast again today, but tomorrow should be sunny.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 04, 2018, 09:44:54 AM
OT, but that plug is so weird to me xD.

So after 30 minutes of discussion about how many tutorials I'm teaching and when, it turns out I'm teaching the exact same number as I was before, in the same places, at the same time.

And I don't have a key to the office yet. Because they have to make one.

Universities are awesome.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 04, 2018, 03:37:31 PM
I get so annoyed when my French homework throws in words and phrasings that are yet to be discussed in the book. One of these words was thrown into a listening exercise of all things, and was a verb which was very crucial to answering the question.

I was lucky enough to be able to figure out what the word meant, but... that shouldn't have been expected of me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on October 05, 2018, 02:06:41 AM
I had a friend disappear for about 5 months (and I mean totally disappear, all their social media was suddenly deleted and their phone seemed to be completely cut off) and I finally heard from them at 4am but it was just a "hey" out of nowhere.
I've been talking to them for a little bit tonight and told them how worried I had been about them, but there doesn't seem to be any apology or explanation for falling off the face of the earth! How do you go away without any warning and then not have at least some kind of story to tell when you come back?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 05, 2018, 07:07:57 AM
I had a friend disappear for about 5 months (and I mean totally disappear, all their social media was suddenly deleted and their phone seemed to be completely cut off) and I finally heard from them at 4am but it was just a "hey" out of nowhere.
I've been talking to them for a little bit tonight and told them how worried I had been about them, but there doesn't seem to be any apology or explanation for falling off the face of the earth! How do you go away without any warning and then not have at least some kind of story to tell when you come back?

Maybe they were abducted by aliens and don't realize they were gone so long because their memory was messed with...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 05, 2018, 09:35:53 AM
Dear TFL.

Bus stops are places that buses stop.

Numbers on the bus stop indicate which buses stop there.

If you are going to not run buses up a certain road, it helps to tell people. Particularly if it is only one bus, and especially if it happens to be the bus I am waiting for.

It is good also to provide information in ways that don't require telepathy.

Thanks so much.
Taffeta

P.S since the other bus was stopping there, maybe next time include its timetable at the bus stop, so people know where it goes, and not the timetable of the bus that is apparently invisible? Much obliged.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 05, 2018, 03:57:27 PM
Can I please stop having nightmares? :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: mlp4me on October 06, 2018, 09:15:28 AM
I want my car back.
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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 06, 2018, 12:34:27 PM
Today has not been my day. I went shopping today and a lady with an electric cart "chased" me down the toy aisles.  Almost every aisle I stopped on to look at something she came right behind me forcing me to move quickly to another aisle even though I was in the aisle first.  In another store a man screamed in my ear calling to his friend (I must have had my invisibility cloak on today) and at yet another store a lady acted like I should move out of way again even though I was in aisle first. Why do people assume that I should just get out of their way instead of them asking me nicely to move?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 06, 2018, 01:57:09 PM
I treated myself to a couple of nice, small toy horses because I've had a beast of a time recently and just wanted a simple little thing to throw a bit of sunshine over the whole shaking-profusely-and-nearly-passing-out-from-stress thing and they've been entrusted to Hermes... I am honestly afraid for their wellbeing. :|
And according to the tracking, it's in Bolton. The temptation to send a message through the universe just going "Stop! I'll get on a train and pick it up myself!!!" is immense.
:drunk:

Aww I hope you're okay :( please try not to get too stressed, take some time out to relax!

If I'm honest Hermes is not my top pick for deliveries either, they always seem to knock on the door, then run to my back garden, throw the parcel over the fence and drive away, they threw my flutter ponies over the fence the other week :blink:

Thanks, I'm making it a priority to relax this weekend - starting with a nice cup of tea and a fluffy blanket. And wow, that is definitely not a conscientious way to deliver any kind of ponies, least of all delicate ones like flutter ponies - I hope they're alright!

Hermes is such a mix of good and bad service, it's a total lottery. I hope your stuff is ok O.o.

Very true, on a couple of occasions, Hermes have behaved and done their job properly, but most of the time the service has been pants. Fortunately, the horses are fine, so I had no need to worry.



Ah! I'm so sorry I didn't see your reply!
That's good, I hope you had a relaxing weekend.
You're right no pony or any parcel for that matter should be treated in such a way, luckily the Flutter ponies I bought had no wings and the seller wrapped them up in bubble wrap so they were safe!  :) Good to hear your horses are well after their time with Hermes delivery :satisfied:

Post Merge: October 06, 2018, 02:11:14 PM

I need to get this out of my system and complain;

If there is a seat on the bus, please sit down and don't block the gangway especially if you are carrying a large bag. Its the morning rush and when people do this it makes it tough for people to get on and off  :pout:
Seriously, every Wednesday and Thursday this happens to me, if there is a seat take it, I understand when there are no seats but when many seats are available please take one, don't block the exit and entrance it makes it hard for others.
Also please pay for a metro ticket if you are using the service, sure your getting off in 3/4 stops but everyone else standing on the platform has had to pay, a child's ticket is only 80p, its not fair on others who have had to pay for their journey. Just because your a school student doesn't mean you don't have to pay, it can lead to a fine! Sure if you have a Netone or Pop card you don't have to pay at the station but you still have to scan your card at the platform when you get on or off. Also, please don't run infront of people when they are getting on a metro, its a safety hazard...


Okay my rants over, I got a bit carried away!  ^^;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 07, 2018, 11:01:18 AM

If there is a seat on the bus, please sit down and don't block the gangway especially if you are carrying a large bag.

Absolutely YES on all levels. Seriously, I have so many bus related (and now train related) gripes like this.
If the bus is busy, don't sit on a separate seat to your friend, sit together.
If there are seats, SIT ON THEM.
Don't park your buggy in the aisle of the bus, if there's a wheelchair in the wheelchair space get the next bus (they come every few minutes here!)
Don't think your suitcase is more important than the person in the wheelchair. It isn't.
Don't take dogs upstairs. Don't let them sit on the seats. Don't let them sleep across the aisle so nobody can get out and don't let them off their leads. IMO only dogs who are working should even be on buses.
Sigh.

The dog rant is a wider one in that everyone thinks everyone in the UK loves dogs and should accept them appearing literally anywhere, often off lead and under no control. No offence to people who train their dogs and handle them responsibly, but I hate dogs, and I do not want them running riot on platforms, buses, streets, trains or inside shops. It's enough dealing with them at the carboot sale, but at least there PUT THEM ON A LEAD.

Sigh
Yes.
Anyway.

And on trains, my favourite annoyance is when the parents let kids run up and down the aisles "because the journey is boring for them." Yes, maybe it is, so BUY THEM BOOKS and GIVE THEM COLOURING IN and even FIND THEM GAMES TO PLAY. Or you know, just talk to them. Don't let them run riot while you watch your mobile phone, it's not your house! Gah.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 07, 2018, 01:14:53 PM

If there is a seat on the bus, please sit down and don't block the gangway especially if you are carrying a large bag.

Absolutely YES on all levels. Seriously, I have so many bus related (and now train related) gripes like this.
If the bus is busy, don't sit on a separate seat to your friend, sit together.
If there are seats, SIT ON THEM.
Don't park your buggy in the aisle of the bus, if there's a wheelchair in the wheelchair space get the next bus (they come every few minutes here!)
Don't think your suitcase is more important than the person in the wheelchair. It isn't.
Don't take dogs upstairs. Don't let them sit on the seats. Don't let them sleep across the aisle so nobody can get out and don't let them off their leads. IMO only dogs who are working should even be on buses.
Sigh.

The dog rant is a wider one in that everyone thinks everyone in the UK loves dogs and should accept them appearing literally anywhere, often off lead and under no control. No offence to people who train their dogs and handle them responsibly, but I hate dogs, and I do not want them running riot on platforms, buses, streets, trains or inside shops. It's enough dealing with them at the carboot sale, but at least there PUT THEM ON A LEAD.

Sigh
Yes.
Anyway.

And on trains, my favourite annoyance is when the parents let kids run up and down the aisles "because the journey is boring for them." Yes, maybe it is, so BUY THEM BOOKS and GIVE THEM COLOURING IN and even FIND THEM GAMES TO PLAY. Or you know, just talk to them. Don't let them run riot while you watch your mobile phone, it's not your house! Gah.


Its honestly so annoying but buses/metros are the only way that I can get to college since its so far.

I totally agree with 'If the bus is busy, don't sit on a separate seat to your friend, sit together.' that used to happen a lot when I got a bus home from school, just sit together, your bag doesn't need a seat and your friend isn't going to give you a disease if you sit next to them.

I remember that sometimes when I got the bus home from school, the bus driver would allow 3 buggys on even though there were only space for 2, what made it worse was that everyone was coming home from school/work/shopping so we all had to pile on, some being pushed right to the back of the bus and had to crouch because the area was so small...Stagecoach buses where I live all come every 1o minutes from 8-6 and every 30 minutes before and after those times so its not like people are waiting hours for a bus.
Ive never seen anyone allow their dogs on the seats yet but thats honestly ridiculous people might have allergies to dogs and if they're allowed to sit on the seats, their fur is going to be everywhere! I've seen people get on with dogs but they usually stand with them or have them in their lap if they are small enough.
I understand guide dogs on public transport as they are essential to the owner but when you're taking your dog on transport and allowing it to sit on the seats, that's ridiculous!

Bored kids are the worst on public transport lol, what really annoys me are the parents/carers and how most of them sit there on their phones or are shouting at them across the bus, I'm pretty sure you could play I spy or something with them :shrug: I was on a bus once and these two little girls were sitting on the area where shopping bags go pretty sure that's a safety hazard and were screaming and singing at the tops of their lungs while their nana (I think can't remember?) just sat there and watched. I had them screaming in my ear the whole bus journey  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 07, 2018, 04:28:38 PM
I want my car back.
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Oooh...I hope you're okay!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 07, 2018, 04:51:32 PM
I want my car back.
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Oooh...I hope you're okay!

OMG I can't believe I didn't even see that the first time. mlp4me, I hope nobody was hurt??
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: mlp4me on October 08, 2018, 09:30:44 AM
I want my car back.
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Oooh...I hope you're okay!

OMG I can't believe I didn't even see that the first time. mlp4me, I hope nobody was hurt??
I luckily was not in the car. My husband was picking me up from job #2 for the day with the dog in the back seat. A lady ran the red light, my husband stopped just in the nick of time to avoid any major injury. The airbags didn't deploy even though the other driver was going about 40 mph. Dog stayed lying down in the back seat. I am so very thankful they walked away ok. We spent 4 hours in the emergency room and the ER doc was stunned. A state trooper witnessed the whole ordeal... What's going to happen with the car is still unknown at this time. However, it's totaled.
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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 08, 2018, 09:34:35 AM
I want my car back.
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Oooh...I hope you're okay!

OMG I can't believe I didn't even see that the first time. mlp4me, I hope nobody was hurt??
I luckily was not in the car. My husband was picking me up from job #2 for the day with the dog in the back seat. A lady ran the red light, my husband stopped just in the nick of time to avoid any major injury. The airbags didn't deploy even though the other driver was going about 40 mph. Dog stayed lying down in the back seat. I am so very thankful they walked away ok. We spent 4 hours in the emergency room and the ER doc was stunned. A state trooper witnessed the whole ordeal... What's going to happen with the car is still unknown at this time. However, it's totaled.
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Omg I'm so sorry to hear! I honestly hope everything gets sorted and that you, your husband and your dog are okay. Remember we're always here along with family and friends if you need anything! :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on October 08, 2018, 10:02:26 AM
:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on October 08, 2018, 07:36:21 PM
Really sorry to hear that mlp4me :( I hope everything turns out okay. Sending many hugs your way :hug: :deathhug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 09, 2018, 01:19:17 AM
It seems like I'm allergic to my wedding band :(. I got red and swollen underneath it and it itched like crazy. I called the goldsmith and asked if there was a possibility the white gold contained nickel as it's the only metal I react against but they told me it does not. I got advice on how to clean the ring and didn't wear it for a couple of days to let the finger heal. I wore it for 8 hours yesterday and took it off before going to bed and this morning the finger is red again. I feel so sad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on October 09, 2018, 01:44:11 AM
It seems like I'm allergic to my wedding band :(. I got red and swollen underneath it and it itched like crazy. I called the goldsmith and asked if there was a possibility the white gold contained nickel as it's the only metal I react against but they told me it does not. I got advice on how to clean the ring and didn't wear it for a couple of days to let the finger heal. I wore it for 8 hours yesterday and took it off before going to bed and this morning the finger is red again. I feel so sad.

I had something similar with a ring (mine was a plain band made of tungsten), it was quite a tight-fitting ring and I think soap and water would get sort of trapped under it and not get dried properly, thus irritating the skin (I have eczema as well, so my skin gets irritated easily). I wore the ring threaded on a bracelet for a while to give my finger a chance to heal. It seemed to just sort itself out in the end and I'm wearing the ring now with no problems, I hope yours settles down too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 09, 2018, 02:49:04 AM
My right knee is playing up again, I just hope it doesn't expand to the size of a balloon like last time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 09, 2018, 04:58:29 AM
Just found out my gorgeous little rabbit, Domino, has sadly passed away in his sleep. I've been in tears all morning, it was just so sudden. I loved him with all my heart... :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 09, 2018, 01:44:57 PM
:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on October 09, 2018, 06:02:59 PM
Oh SS :( it's awful when they leave, even more so when it's so sudden. Bunnies are so special. :bunny: Binky free Domino.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 09, 2018, 06:10:57 PM
Oh SS :( it's awful when they leave, even more so when it's so sudden. Bunnies are so special. :bunny: Binky free Domino.

Thank you so much for your concern :hug:
He was only a baby too but he either had diabetes or kidney/heart failure, we couldn't properly pin point his problem. He was always so happy and bouncy he didn't show any signs of problems, I just wish I could of helped him more.

My mum said I just have to think of it as he left because he had done his job. He was there to see me through my GCSEs, he saw me pass and go to college and that he left because he wanted me to become independent.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 10, 2018, 10:48:59 PM
It seems like I'm allergic to my wedding band :(. I got red and swollen underneath it and it itched like crazy. I called the goldsmith and asked if there was a possibility the white gold contained nickel as it's the only metal I react against but they told me it does not. I got advice on how to clean the ring and didn't wear it for a couple of days to let the finger heal. I wore it for 8 hours yesterday and took it off before going to bed and this morning the finger is red again. I feel so sad.

I had something similar with a ring (mine was a plain band made of tungsten), it was quite a tight-fitting ring and I think soap and water would get sort of trapped under it and not get dried properly, thus irritating the skin (I have eczema as well, so my skin gets irritated easily). I wore the ring threaded on a bracelet for a while to give my finger a chance to heal. It seemed to just sort itself out in the end and I'm wearing the ring now with no problems, I hope yours settles down too.

That is good to hear :). I am taking it off now everytime I wash my hands and cook food or something else which makes them dirty and require washing. I'm also not wearing it at night and see if it gets any better.


StrarberrySundance, I am so sorry for your loss. Loosing a pet is always tough :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 11, 2018, 12:54:34 AM

StrarberrySundance, I am so sorry for your loss. Loosing a pet is always tough :hug:


Thank you so much :hug: I'm just heartbroken at the whole situation.


Another complaint; Got on the metro this morning, and we've just been told that trains to the airport are not running and are only going to a certain stop. I've been sitting here on the metro for 30 minutes now as multiple trains are attempting to get into the final station, I wish they had told us this before we all got on... :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 11, 2018, 10:26:59 AM
That awkward moment in an undergraduate lecture when you know the entire backhistory about mediaeval Japan the lecturer just gave is fundamentally wrong, but can't say anything because its just background material.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 12, 2018, 04:06:23 PM
I kept getting calls about a Mazda recall and I don't own a Mazda (and have never owned a Mazda) so I contacted Mazda Corporate about it because I assumed it was a scam and they should know about it.  Apparently the number that is contacting me is legitimate so now I feel a little bit bad about yelling at someone but not too bad because I had told them previously that the number was incorrect and that I didn't own a Mazda and that they needed to remove me from their calling list.  I should not have to contact Corporate Headquarters to get my name off a calling list.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 12, 2018, 10:17:17 PM
Here's a fun one.. I might have a reaction issue with the air at my work and it's in a mall so I can't really do much about it. I finally told my gp about feeling super dry and being red in my face, enough that it wont hold any make up (it just goes off like water on a goose within a couple of hours). He suggested allergy but I brushed it away and said it's probably ecxema and he prescribed me with a face cream for that. It's not helping at all, and our talk did make me take notice of where and when my face begin to feel like burning and yep, within five minutes after I step in at work. So now I have to contact my GP again and ask how to conclude it and what to do about it from my end.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on October 13, 2018, 07:55:24 AM
Lots of hugs Strawberry :hug: I know it's hard when it's sudden.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 13, 2018, 08:28:43 AM
Thank you Safflower :hug:
It is really tough, but I'm trying my best to get through it, he's always in my heart.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 13, 2018, 09:20:55 AM
I strained my hand playing the guitar, put some red tiger balm on it and that's done nothing whatsoever, other than making my hands smell of overpowering menthol - it still hurts and the balm has not done the hot, tingly thing it's meant to do. I don't know what's irking me more, the fact that the hot stuff is not doing the hot thing, or the fact that I managed to mess up my hand while writing a three-chord folk song. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 14, 2018, 08:33:46 PM
The screen on my phone has decided to randomly go blank.  I guess it's time to upgrade.  I'm gonna miss those real buttons...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cactusflower on October 14, 2018, 10:24:26 PM
I want chocolate milk, but it's 10:30pm and I'm not leaving the house to go out in the cold.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 15, 2018, 08:34:21 AM
It should not take 2 hours and a complete program reinstall to get a virus scanner to actually update.

Also, the weather is horrible. At least here it's just grey and spitting, though. Nottingham this morning was a bit wetter, but not as bad as yesterday. I guess autumn is here...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 15, 2018, 08:49:26 AM
My stomach's been upset no matter what I eat. And I haven't seen a sunny day in a while, it's not usually this wet and dank out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 15, 2018, 10:57:09 AM
I hit my head against a metal rod at work, and had it not been for my glasses, I would've taken it in the eye as well. Really did not need that today! :really: At least it's a valid excuse to munch Soreen. Comfort food is required.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 15, 2018, 11:01:40 AM
There was no 1% milk at the dollar store, so I had to get skim this time.  Also our wallmart is already putting up Christmas stuff IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET!   :pout: :pout: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 15, 2018, 11:54:23 AM
There was no 1% milk at the dollar store, so I had to get skim this time.  Also our wallmart is already putting up Christmas stuff IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET!   :pout: :pout: :enraged:

Lol our Walmart has had Christmas stuff up for quite some time. I see people buying some of it on occasion, too. I suppose I can follow their logic, if you want the best stuff you've got to get it now. It was in October that I got some pink Christmas lights that I really love. They are always gone long before Christmas time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cactusflower on October 15, 2018, 07:24:21 PM
I have to eat the whole strawberry shortcake myself, because I live alone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 16, 2018, 04:01:01 AM
There was no 1% milk at the dollar store, so I had to get skim this time.  Also our wallmart is already putting up Christmas stuff IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET!   :pout: :pout: :enraged:

Lol our Walmart has had Christmas stuff up for quite some time. I see people buying some of it on occasion, too. I suppose I can follow their logic, if you want the best stuff you've got to get it now. It was in October that I got some pink Christmas lights that I really love. They are always gone long before Christmas time.

John Lewis have a whole floor display for Christmas stuff in Oxford Street.

Here it tends to be Hallowe'en - Fireworks - Christmas, but sometimes they all blur together. I wish they wouldn't sell fireworks to private individuals, I wish it was just big proper displays because people always do stupid things and get hurt...but anyway. (For anyone not familiar, UK celebrate Guy Fawkes on/around Nov 5th).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 16, 2018, 10:30:37 PM
There was no 1% milk at the dollar store, so I had to get skim this time.  Also our wallmart is already putting up Christmas stuff IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET!   :pout: :pout: :enraged:

Lol our Walmart has had Christmas stuff up for quite some time. I see people buying some of it on occasion, too. I suppose I can follow their logic, if you want the best stuff you've got to get it now. It was in October that I got some pink Christmas lights that I really love. They are always gone long before Christmas time.

The store I work in is focusing on Halloween as we lean towards the younger generations and it's just gets bigger and bigger over here so we're crazy about Halloweendecorations. The store opposite mine to the left also have Halloweendisplays as well as a huge advent calendar for christmas next to the pumpkins and skeletons while the store opposite me to the right has christmas decorations and only that which I think is way too early.. and then we have the stores that display candles and stuff for All Saints Day which is the old Holliday which was huge before Halloween walked in and crushed it between the toes. But even there some tidbits of christmas decor is up. Anyway, walking around the mall is confusing me, and I work retail!

I read a comment somewhere about poor people being able to buy christmas decor easier if it's out earlier. I didn't really follow that logic though, if you can buy a five dollar decoration in october what is keeping you from saving those five dollars or a couple of cents/a dollar a week to have the money in december? When my economy was strained I went ballistic after the Holliday and bought items on clearance. But to each their own.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on October 17, 2018, 01:30:06 AM
I am living in the land of coughs and colds. My girlfriend is in her sixth week of on-and-off sinusitis and going to see the doctor about it today. Even our cat has a cold, poor little chap (his sneezes are surprisingly cute, though). I just want all my loved ones to be healthy again!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 17, 2018, 06:44:30 AM
I do love British trains. Not...;)

Yesterday coming back from campus (after a long day) my train home was cancelled. Fortunately I know that there's a bus from the next station up that goes direct to my front door, so I had a strategy, but it was annoying and I got home later. Better than the people on the station where I got off the train, though, they were basically stranded by the cancellation.

My rail service is also having some more strikes. Yay.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 20, 2018, 08:44:44 AM
Ugh, I wish my college would stop taking the class work down from Moodle on their website, I can't finish my assignments without some of the PowerPoints and I can't access our online homework now either  :pout:
Also, we've got less that a week to finish the whole of our unit 2 course work because our lecturer 'forgot' to hand the assignments out back at the start of September, this happened with another unit too, luckily I finished that in time and it's gone in for marking ...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 20, 2018, 09:44:03 AM
Moodle -_-

I only had to use it as a phd student to log stuff but since I started teaching I have to access it a lot...all the undergrad reading and info is on there so if it goes down...gah.

Good luck with yours :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on October 20, 2018, 09:55:12 AM
Moodle -_-

I only had to use it as a phd student to log stuff but since I started teaching I have to access it a lot...all the undergrad reading and info is on there so if it goes down...gah.

Good luck with yours :/

Ours is constantly down, on and off, on and off. It's ridiculous  -_-
My two tutors are always like 'weve put the class work on Moodle for you if you've missed it or want to watch the videos again' but whenever you go on its 'This page is not accessible to students' it's starting to annoy me now it was working fine on Thursday... :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 20, 2018, 03:03:37 PM
*sigh* There's been a rash of parcels going missing in the post lately. I think this is three in about a fortnight now. And it's not just my stuff either, my housemate ordered a CD that never turned up and I had an absolutely nightmarish rigmarole to get a refund for him. Urrgh. So frustrating. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 20, 2018, 03:28:06 PM
I’m sorry that happened Minature Sheep. I’ve been really lucky that things that didn’t get delivered in time usually show up the next day but I’m always worried that they might be stolen.

Some of the Walmart stores in my area are rearranging and have decided to take part of the Music/Movies/Gaming section for Funko Pops and Mystery Mini boxes. For some reason I don’t mind so much that Target has a collectible section in the same area as their entertainment section but it annoys me when Walmart does the same thing.

Ponyfan



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on October 20, 2018, 03:54:22 PM
Discovered the Pop take over yesterday, I like some of them so no big deal. It's just odd placement. My Walmart has mostly switched over to Christmas decorations. Every year it gets earlier and earlier.

For me, Halloween goes up October first, Fall goes up November first and Yule goes up the day after Thanksgiving. It's getting tricky to buy for that holiday when the stuff switches so fast. My BFF was looking for fall decorations yesterday and was dismayed to see the section already being cleared out.

I'm just starting to buy my decorations for Halloween. Speaking of Halloween, Dios de Los Muertos is not nor has it ever been Halloween. This recent uptick in putting it in with and making it trendy upsets me. I've celebrated the days as they should since childhood.

Watch Coco for a great way of understanding what it is, yes that movie has merchandise but it's not marketed as Halloween. *sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 20, 2018, 05:47:09 PM
I always thought Dia De Los Muertos was supposed to be November 1st.  They talk about it in "The Halloween Tree" and I've never understood why people lump it in with Halloween.  The focus of the holidays is on different things.

I let my Pokemon Bank lapse and I won't be able to get more funding for it until next week.  I can take out Pokemon but I can't store any until then.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cactusflower on October 20, 2018, 10:19:24 PM
The one pair of pants I wanted to wash, was the one thing that didn't make it into the washing machine. DUH.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 21, 2018, 03:49:31 AM
*sigh* There's been a rash of parcels going missing in the post lately. I think this is three in about a fortnight now. And it's not just my stuff either, my housemate ordered a CD that never turned up and I had an absolutely nightmarish rigmarole to get a refund for him. Urrgh. So frustrating. -_-

Is it still treason to tamper with the mail now that RM is privatised?
That sounds a bit concerning, either there's a problem at your sorting office or getting stuff to it, or something else is going on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 21, 2018, 07:13:01 AM
Yesterday one of my Barbie Fashionistas came, I ordered two from the same seller on eBay.uk; the main one I wanted wasn't in the package. Contacted the seller and they said they sent an email to me saying it was out of stock, I didn't have the email from them; waiting for them to refund me the money for the one I didn't get.

Not very happy, now I have to pay more money for the same one that I really wanted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 21, 2018, 09:43:27 AM
*sigh* There's been a rash of parcels going missing in the post lately. I think this is three in about a fortnight now. And it's not just my stuff either, my housemate ordered a CD that never turned up and I had an absolutely nightmarish rigmarole to get a refund for him. Urrgh. So frustrating. -_-

Is it still treason to tamper with the mail now that RM is privatised?
That sounds a bit concerning, either there's a problem at your sorting office or getting stuff to it, or something else is going on.

That is a good question! I looked it up out of curiosity but of course, the internet being what it is, all I could find was people arguing rather than providing information or having a discussion about it. Flippin' internet, honestly... I'm thinking that it's just incompetence that has caused the parcels to go missing, as it's only been small things that have failed to arrive. I've had some pieces of music equipment delivered safely, and they seem like a much more logical thing to go missing than the blank tapes that seem to have disappeared. Fingers crossed it's just a bad day at the sorting office!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ragamuffin on October 21, 2018, 06:33:18 PM
I'm finding myself loving charms I see when going into jewelry stores, but the problem is I hate jewelry. :huh: I hate how necklaces hang and get tangled in everything, I hate the weight of bracelets, and I have a legitimate phobia of rings (as soon as I slide one on I panic, I'm scared it'll get stuck!). Maybe one day I'll buy some, and put them on a keychain or something... I just love them so much!! They're so cute...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 22, 2018, 02:46:55 PM
I was putting together the goodie bags and ran out of candy at least I had enough for about 100 of them, so not a big worry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 23, 2018, 12:58:08 AM
My manager changed my schedule without informing me. Yes, I have access to it online and on my phone as an app, but since my schedule always is the same I look at it only to write it down in my calendar. Any changes are to come to me either by textmessage from the app when it changes or by mouth from him. Neither happened. I found out two hours before my shift usually ends that I was suppose to work til closing.. Not happening. I had plans. Gone over my schedule now to see and there is more changes I've not been informed of.. How hard is it to say, "i've done some tweaks, take a look will you"?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 23, 2018, 04:01:44 AM
Rail company on strike again.

My rail company is weird and halfhearted with its striking usually, in that most of its strikes happen on Saturdays. But this week is Half Term (kids off school) so apparently they think it's a big long weekend or something.

In any case, trains are running on my line, but only 2 an hour. At home where my family live, 2 an hour is basically fine. In Zone 5 of the London area, at rush hour, not so much. Normally my station has 4 trains an hour offpeak and about seven or eight at peak times. This morning...2 trains at peak time. Not a pleasant experience getting in to teach today. At least most of my students showed up so it made the trip worthwhile!

I am better off than other people, though, some stations are closed and the other trains that run through my station are off completely, stranding people in those areas.

It also took me longer than normal to type this post because my keyboard is still having haphazard moments when it doesn't want to type certain letters. It seems to hate being carried around, so I think there's a loose connection. It always takes a while after I start it up at uni or when I've taken it back home to register that it has a full keyboard. By this point in the post most keys have unstuck, but the f is still being annoying.

Also, I miss my tab key.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on October 23, 2018, 02:02:59 PM
Math math math.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 24, 2018, 02:20:13 PM
Losing a day of the week because of a busy day before is still such a nusiance. I have a long day on a Tuesday which for most people would probably be no big deal but long days at work surrounded by people really drain my energy and yesterday was worse because of the strike and the crowded trains and late trains and so on. I try and avoid crowded places, especially at rush hour, having to wait half an hour on a packed station where people are shoving past all the time is not a great thing. I was absolutely shattered when I got home last night.

And today I am basically useless for anything meaningful. So that means losing a day because I worked a day.

Nothing I can do about it. But it's really frustrating, not least because most people around me just don't get it. And also don't understand personal space.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 24, 2018, 04:40:53 PM
I might have to get some more candy for mini goodie boxes for some friends. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 25, 2018, 12:14:52 PM
Weighing up whether or not I should go to Manchester on Saturday. It was meant to be a perfunctory trip down there just to get my melodeon looked at and work out whether it can be restored to playable condition or whether it'll have to be sentenced to a dull life of being an ornament, but I'm really struggling with my social/general anxiety disorder in equal measures at the moment, and just the thought of crowds put me in a panic at work today. I don't know whether I should grit my teeth, make the trip and get it done or just stay at home and try again next weekend. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 25, 2018, 04:43:17 PM
Today I went to a restaurant with some people and we were seated next to a group of people. It was okay at first until the group seated next to us become so loud that we couldn’t carry on a conversation at a normal volume at our table. They began to yell at each other and someone at their table began singing at the top of their lungs. As they were leaving a man from that table came up to ours and said “I hope we weren’t too noisy for you.” and “You should go vote.”


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 27, 2018, 06:03:22 PM
I have some wood boxes to paint and no idea what to paint on them. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 27, 2018, 06:12:44 PM
Rain today , tomorrow, and possibly Halloween enough with the rain.  :pout: :mad: Also the 30th is supposed to be partially sunny too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 28, 2018, 03:48:28 AM
I am annoyed it's wet and raining here today too, I was going to go out but I don't like walking in the rain as I don't have any watertight shoes at the moment. It's on my to do list once I get paid :/

Also just ripped a hole in my local rail company. Not about the strikes, I sort of accept they happen, but about their decisions to cut trains from my station when they're running late. Which would be fine if the following train wasn't 15 minutes late too. I don't like waiting 30 minutes on the station because they've cut a train that was only running 5 minutes late. Starting to understand why people moan about commuter lines around London xD. Glad I only have to use this rail system when I need to get to campus, as the buses where Inow  live are awesome and go to lots of interesting places well outside of London!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 28, 2018, 04:36:29 AM
Blerghhh I hate having a cold - sneezing and snuffling etc.

Started on Thursday, eased off on Friday, back with extra venom yesterday. Snuffling a bit today but hoping that it's all recovery from now on. I have gym at 6am tomorrow and don't want to get into the habit of cancelling... I must have caught the cold from someone there as they have all had it recently.

Upside: clocks have changed here in the UK, so in fact my 6am gym will feel more like 7am - waking up early won't be as painful  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 29, 2018, 08:08:23 AM
We made a change in how we do something almost two years ago and people are still doing it wrong.  Their excuse: "We haven't been doing it that way very long so I forget." 

REALLY????????

The problem is that when they do it wrong, it makes twice as much work for me and then they act like I'm being unreasonable to expect them to do something simple.  The change is: If there's no check mark on the paper, leave the sticker off and I will put it on after I complete the task the check mark is for.  Is that so *&^*%^%$#@$^&* hard?!?!?!?!  When they put the sticker on, I then have to remove the sticker, fix the damage caused by removing the sticker, scan the paperwork (because there can't be a sticker on it!), print a new sticker and reaffix the sticker. 

It isn't rocket science.  I've asked nicely multiple times.  I'm about 2 seconds away from printing up instruction slips in every language available on Google Translate and posting them around the work area so they can't be missed.  It may be passive-aggressive but asking directly has yielded no change so I think treating them like the morons they are is the next step.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 29, 2018, 01:47:11 PM
My usb keyboard broke, at least the one on the laptop works.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 29, 2018, 10:32:09 PM
Winter is nice and all but -8 degrees in october feels a bit over the top.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 30, 2018, 04:43:12 AM
My usb keyboard broke, at least the one on the laptop works.

I have the same problem in reverse. My touchpad is misfiring, so I was using a mouse but it died and because my PC deletes its bluetooth drive often, I have to use an attached USB keyboard with touchpad to get full function. Also because certain of my keys keep going dead on me. Today it is g and f that are taking extra hard hits to get functioning...sigh. I wanted this PC to survive my whole PhD but it is really falling apart :/ It's only four years old :( and it has already had its keyboard replaced once.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 30, 2018, 09:55:27 PM
Winter is nice and all but -8 degrees in october feels a bit over the top.

Ignore the above.. yesterday started with a snowstorm followed by pouring rain so I had to bike through slush to get home. This has frozen over night so the road is covered in ice. It's still october!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 31, 2018, 07:32:10 AM
I think I ate something off last night as I don't feel all that great this morning (but I was totally fine yesterday).  I hope I can convince my co-workers to let me stay in back at least for a while this morning so I can dash to the restroom if necessary.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 31, 2018, 10:00:46 AM
Why don't the yogurt companies make more mutlipacks of single serve yogurt cups? My favorite yogurt flavor is peach but no major company in the US seems to sell it in a multipack by itself. It's always packaged with another flavor I don't want yet if I was wanting vanilla. cherry or strawberry  I can always find a multipack pack of those. That means if I want my favorite flavor of yogurt I have to be the induvial packages.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 31, 2018, 12:08:55 PM
I really want some chocolate but I do not have any chocolate. I specifically wanted some chocolate eyeballs from Sainsburys, but they'd sold out. They do have chocolate snowballs which are literally the same thing, just with different foil on them, but that is entirely beside the point. It needed to be eyeballs! Chocolate eyeballs are the best thing ever!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 31, 2018, 02:58:50 PM
I sure wish I could enjoy the birthday present I bought for myself.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on November 01, 2018, 02:43:36 AM
I have yet another cold! So annoying! This one includes a cough.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 01, 2018, 06:21:11 AM
I have a latex allergy. My family is aware of this but several times yesterday I had to remind them about it when they wanted me to handle latex balloons. This morning a family member put a latex balloon directly on my drinking glass (no harm intended I’m sure they just forgot) meaning I had to get a new glass. How many times do I have to remind them?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 01, 2018, 07:36:03 AM
November arrives with grey skies and torrential rain. How I do hate this month.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 02, 2018, 07:02:04 AM
Ugh purchased a PS1 memory card as one of my games I play is a PS1 game but I use my PS2 to play it and I was sick of restarting it over and over every time I turned my PS2 on.
The one I bought was from a big batch of memory cards and I was hoping to get an official one and I didn't. My PS2 Slim won't recognise the card because apparently Slim PS2s can only recognise official Sony memory cards  :pout:

Edit: Found out that the PS2 slim made slight changes to the pins in the memory card slot to block out 3rd party cards
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on November 02, 2018, 10:43:51 PM
All of my calls at work tonight have been exceptionally weird, I feel like I’m in the twilight zone right now. It’s not even a full moon, so I can’t blame it on that!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 06, 2018, 11:08:48 PM
I have absolutely NO motivation for Nanowrimo this year.  I'm supposed to be over 11,000 words as of today and I've got 928.  Ugh.  I don't think it's going to happen. :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady.Arachnia on November 07, 2018, 12:20:36 AM
Ugh....I have a Ehlers Danlos Syndrome flare up......
I feel like I did a round of Medieavel Torture Devices....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 07, 2018, 10:32:42 AM
I keep getting robocalls about someone filing a claim against me.  This morning, because I blocked the number, they spoofed the T-Mobile voicemail number (which is totally weird) to get past the block.  Seriously people, I haven't answered you or responded to your voicemails for a week. And I've reported them to the Do Not Call registry for it. GIVE IT UP!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 07, 2018, 11:17:13 AM
I was involved in a flipping bus crash this morning. Thankfully, nobody was hurt but it was pretty scary - another bus backed into ours as it was pulling out and the window shattered right next to me. -_- The thing is, I think it's actually one driver who has this habit of pulling out as the other buses are moving, because I remember a couple times previously seeing the Selwyns bus pull out as my usual Arriva one was going out and thinking "This idiot's going to hit us if he's not careful", well, if it is that same person, he's finally succeeded. Well done! :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 07, 2018, 03:57:31 PM
O.o scary. I have been on buses with near misses (especially in London) but never in one that actually crashed.

The local bus station where my parents live recently upgraded (by which I mean moved to a new further away location with great open spaces for drafts to get in). They also recently took down the signage at each stand that said what time each bus went and which stand it went from in favour of screens.

But the screens, while looking shiny and new, don't register the actual arrival time of buses, only when they are due and where (so if a bus is late or at the wrong stand, there's no indication). And there's no clock in the bus station now anyway...sigh.

I've never been able to do Nanowrimo. When I had time to write stuff,  I could average about 120k words a month, but right now with the PhD and everything if I manage a few thousand of fanfiction in between academic stuff it's a miracle... I think real life is the enemy of Nanowrimo.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on November 07, 2018, 04:30:04 PM
That's so scary! My story is bus related, bus stop related. So the doctor's office moved to a new location, not far from its original location (less than a mile). Thing is, it moved to from a location that was close to two major bus stops. In a sizeable strip mall. To an industrial complex with no bus stops near it, none. The closest ones are the same ones but now it's a 15 min walk. Crossing over a freeway overpass (there is a sidewalk) with no traffic lights between the ramps. Just "yield to pedestrian" crossing signs, anyone see a problem?

Generally, you go to the doctor cause you don't feel good, even feeling fine I'd be reluctant to tackle the route and I walk nearly everywhere I go. I rescheduled because I forgot they moved and didn't feel like tackling the walk with a hurt toe. Cause you know, walking.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on November 09, 2018, 05:01:12 AM
I wanted to buy some mlp or animal stickers for the card swap, but every store I visited had already replaced them with generic Christmas ones. I wish they'd at least wait until December >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 09, 2018, 08:55:06 AM
Yet again I made plans and other people changed them.  How am I supposed to get MY work done if I'm constantly covering for other people????
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 13, 2018, 03:40:23 PM
University hall internet.

Need I say more.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 13, 2018, 10:25:57 PM
My orbituary will say: worked to death.. No, but seriously, christmastime is busy in retail and I know the need to put in extra hours for everyone but come on! I only have five days off between 1-24th december and my workdays will extend several hours on top of that. I will work three weekends in a row AND! I am scheduled to work on christmaseve, which in Sweden is the day we celebrate -_-.
 
I don't have a car, by the time I get off all the buses will have stopped going because Holliday so no possibility to get to my family even if a bit late.. At home my husband will be a sleep and get up by five or six pm only to get to his work at 7 pm.. So basically I'll be working and then sit home alone on christmas, the only Holliday in the world I truly love to celibrate.. I'm honestly crying over this :cry:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 14, 2018, 12:30:30 AM
I really hate to say it but college has really been getting me down lately. My anxiety isn't allowing me to sleep well and I'm dreading going for other various reasons too.

Luckily I gained the courage to tell my mother and we're seeing the doctor about going back on medication and she's going to have a talk with the college with the other matters.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 14, 2018, 06:54:07 AM
Hugs for Sundance. I can't wait for this semester to be over, I'm doing extremely poorly with my Statistics class.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 14, 2018, 07:06:38 AM
My orbituary will say: worked to death.. No, but seriously, christmastime is busy in retail and I know the need to put in extra hours for everyone but come on! I only have five days off between 1-24th december and my workdays will extend several hours on top of that. I will work three weekends in a row AND! I am scheduled to work on christmaseve, which in Sweden is the day we celebrate -_-.
 
I don't have a car, by the time I get off all the buses will have stopped going because Holliday so no possibility to get to my family even if a bit late.. At home my husband will be a sleep and get up by five or six pm only to get to his work at 7 pm.. So basically I'll be working and then sit home alone on christmas, the only Holliday in the world I truly love to celibrate.. I'm honestly crying over this :cry:.

That's such a bummer!  I really hate that retailers are open on Christmas and Thanksgiving.  Those are supposed to be family holidays.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 14, 2018, 08:19:47 AM
Hugs for Sundance. I can't wait for this semester to be over, I'm doing extremely poorly with my Statistics class.

Thank you and hugs back! :hug:
I've got a face to face meeting with my lecturer tomorrow about everything and I'm not looking forward to that :/
Sorry to hear you statistics class isn't going well :( You've tried your best and that's all you can do :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 14, 2018, 08:35:11 AM
Hugs for Sundance. I can't wait for this semester to be over, I'm doing extremely poorly with my Statistics class.

Thank you and hugs back! :hug:
I've got a face to face meeting with my lecturer tomorrow about everything and I'm not looking forward to that :/
Sorry to hear you statistics class isn't going well :( You've tried your best and that's all you can do :hug:

I said this to one or two of my students as well, but your health is the most important thing and you are right to take it seriously. Hang on in there. It's not long till Christmas. Also I think you should address with the school the issues you mentioned before about not being properly informed about what you need to do, as that may help in the long run with the stress.

@Beldarna - that's horrible :( Time to find a new job..?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 14, 2018, 05:13:49 PM
Hugs for Sundance. I can't wait for this semester to be over, I'm doing extremely poorly with my Statistics class.

Thank you and hugs back! :hug:
I've got a face to face meeting with my lecturer tomorrow about everything and I'm not looking forward to that :/
Sorry to hear you statistics class isn't going well :( You've tried your best and that's all you can do :hug:

I said this to one or two of my students as well, but your health is the most important thing and you are right to take it seriously. Hang on in there. It's not long till Christmas. Also I think you should address with the school the issues you mentioned before about not being properly informed about what you need to do, as that may help in the long run with the stress.

@Beldarna - that's horrible :( Time to find a new job..?

Thank you Taf :hug:, hopefully when the Christmas holidays come round, Ill be able to get myself together, I can always switch colleges in the second year if I need to. Hopefully the meeting should do something...hopefully  ^^;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 14, 2018, 05:44:27 PM
My bus got stuck in the snow trying to go up a hill I was 45Min late to work. At least I did not loose my whole shift.  I stayed late to make up for some of it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 14, 2018, 10:06:02 PM
My orbituary will say: worked to death.. No, but seriously, christmastime is busy in retail and I know the need to put in extra hours for everyone but come on! I only have five days off between 1-24th december and my workdays will extend several hours on top of that. I will work three weekends in a row AND! I am scheduled to work on christmaseve, which in Sweden is the day we celebrate -_-.
 
I don't have a car, by the time I get off all the buses will have stopped going because Holliday so no possibility to get to my family even if a bit late.. At home my husband will be a sleep and get up by five or six pm only to get to his work at 7 pm.. So basically I'll be working and then sit home alone on christmas, the only Holliday in the world I truly love to celibrate.. I'm honestly crying over this :cry:.

That's such a bummer!  I really hate that retailers are open on Christmas and Thanksgiving.  Those are supposed to be family holidays.

And on facebook people are jumping with joy that the stores are open even longer and busses goes the entire day (locally in town) etc and I'm like.. these people forced to work has families too you know? It's not like they're working with emergency services..

Taffeta, I truly like my job. It's easygoing and so stressless it's almos boring at times which I love, having left a job so full of stress and anxiety only a year ago. Like yesterday I had 9 customers my entire shift and walked around doing nothing. It's just around christmastime it gets crazy and I know my manager will work just as much, if not more. It's just.. december in retail. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on November 16, 2018, 04:22:08 PM
Just like a few weeks ago I mentioned (in this topic or another related one?) how you have to go shopping for your Christmas decorations in October, or you'll be in trouble.

I just want to demonstrate an example (it's November, not October, but still!) that happened to me between just yesterday and today. I decided I wanted a gold Christmas tree for my musical decorations and knew that we better get out looking before it gets too late. We finally found an acceptable one at Walmart yesterday, but we still had a few places to look if I could find a nicer one. Unfortunately I was to worn out to go back yesterday when we discovered there were no alternatives. I wasn't too worried because it's still a week out from Christmas time even starting, and there were a few copies of it to purchase.

My mom and I got back out today and head over to the same Walmart. Immediately I realize that the display of Christmas trees has been massively downsized just from yesterday. That's right, a week before the season even starts, Walmart is taking down the display. The tree I had looked at just yesterday was a part of that display, meaning that if I had come just one day later, I wouldn't have even seen it and decided to purchase it. I repeat, it's not even Christmas time yet, and it was crucial I come in on this particular day to even see a Christmas decoration I wanted. I can't. I can't even.

Also, all of the copies of the tree in easy reach were now bought. Thankfully there was one, but only one, just left for me to purchase, but it was higher up and an associate had to come help us get it.

The difference one day makes... And it's not even Christmas time yet. People make fun of Christmas for being marketed too early, but I think it's about time people realize that doesn't just happen to Christmas. Stores these days want to push out stuff for every season out too early and then clear it out before the ordinary time to even buy it. Hence why you can't find coats in the winter, because they've all been cleared out and replaced with bikinis.

Retail is weird.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 16, 2018, 04:27:08 PM
People will not shovel the sidewalks!! I WAS WALKING IN THE ROAD just to get to the bus hub.   :mad: :enraged: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 16, 2018, 04:41:50 PM
People will not shovel the sidewalks!! I WAS WALKING IN THE ROAD just to get to the bus hub.   :mad: :enraged: :enraged:

That sucks. I remember one year back home after snowfall and a freeze they didn't even bother to grit the walkways in the bus station or the steps (!) down to the station. It's like they want to reduce the population in winter...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 17, 2018, 12:37:52 AM
We got an e-mail from an electrician at work yesterday, he had a question about a priority demand valve for which I'd wired up the control box. All fine so far, but he sent us a picture to illustrate the source of his confusion... well, now it gets interesting. We put the power supplies in and yes, they look as if they're upside down, but they work just the same because the cables are all in the right places and they make the right connections, it just makes the internal layout of the cables neater so it's easier and more efficient to work on if it does need anything doing at it. This electrician, rather than contacting us first to enquire, went ahead and cut all the cables out, then wrote to say he was stumped by it. Hmmm, how is an electrical circuit supposed to work if there are no connections because you've cut through them all?!
On the plus side, the whole thing was so stupid and unbelievable that it made me laugh.
But at the same time it's kind of frightening because these valves and control boxes I'm doing are for fire alarm sprinklers. Honestly, people as dense as that guy should not be indirectly trusted with people's safety. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 17, 2018, 05:17:18 PM
Hugs for Sundance. I can't wait for this semester to be over, I'm doing extremely poorly with my Statistics class.

Thank you and hugs back! :hug:
I've got a face to face meeting with my lecturer tomorrow about everything and I'm not looking forward to that :/
Sorry to hear you statistics class isn't going well :( You've tried your best and that's all you can do :hug:

I said this to one or two of my students as well, but your health is the most important thing and you are right to take it seriously. Hang on in there. It's not long till Christmas. Also I think you should address with the school the issues you mentioned before about not being properly informed about what you need to do, as that may help in the long run with the stress.

@Beldarna - that's horrible :( Time to find a new job..?

Thank you Taf :hug:, hopefully when the Christmas holidays come round, Ill be able to get myself together, I can always switch colleges in the second year if I need to. Hopefully the meeting should do something...hopefully  ^^;
My anxiety has hit me square in the face again. I'm having panic attacks at home and I'm feeling extremely anxious when entering college so much so I got sent home by the head of Student Well-being. My lecturer has turned their back on me as I raised a few questions/concerns I had with work and has been extremely rude to my mum over the phone. I've got a meeting with her too soon about this and I'm dreading it.
I'm not even sure if I am returning to college anymore, it's gotten to a point where I'll panic before I even get there.
I've been told by family and friends that my mental health comes first and that I need to focus on my well-being more than anything else. I can either take a year off and sign back up next year (I'm currently applying for part time jobs so I can gain work experience for a year and boost my confidence back up again), Change college next September and just deal with this one now, get an apprenticeship or change courses (which is definitely not what I want to do- it's the college and lecturers themselves not the course, I absolutely love what I picked, I just haven't been taught how I should, no deadlines given, no guidelines for work, no one stating the sections of work we need to do, no fire exit routes shown, my placement given late etc )
I just feel awful for causing all this and I really don't want to let my family down by leaving for a year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 18, 2018, 06:41:43 AM
@StrawberrySundance - it sounds like taking a break, taking some time out, getting some additional experience and then thinking about applying for college somewhere else (if you still want to go down that path and don't find an apprenticeship that suits you better) would be a good plan. Your health is the most important thing for sure. I;m glad it sounds like you have good support from your family in this and your friends as well which is also great.

In any case, there is a duty from the staff to support their students. Although I worked in a FE college (vocational) for 2 years as a learning support assistant and such a lot of the time that well being support of student duty got ignored or dumped onto the LSAs to deal with. I think it doesn't help that a lot of college teachers are horribly overworked on unpaid overtime (at my college some of them were doing 12 hour days regularly then admin) but it shouldn't rebound onto you :/

In any case, it isn't your fault and you're not letting anyone down :) It's better these things are resolved sooner when they can be resolved than allowed to get worse and make a bigger problem down the line.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 18, 2018, 05:29:41 PM
@StrawberrySundance - it sounds like taking a break, taking some time out, getting some additional experience and then thinking about applying for college somewhere else (if you still want to go down that path and don't find an apprenticeship that suits you better) would be a good plan. Your health is the most important thing for sure. I;m glad it sounds like you have good support from your family in this and your friends as well which is also great.

In any case, there is a duty from the staff to support their students. Although I worked in a FE college (vocational) for 2 years as a learning support assistant and such a lot of the time that well being support of student duty got ignored or dumped onto the LSAs to deal with. I think it doesn't help that a lot of college teachers are horribly overworked on unpaid overtime (at my college some of them were doing 12 hour days regularly then admin) but it shouldn't rebound onto you :/

In any case, it isn't your fault and you're not letting anyone down :) It's better these things are resolved sooner when they can be resolved than allowed to get worse and make a bigger problem down the line.

Thank you Taf :hug:, I've actually just applied for an apprenticeship in the science industry as that's one thing I'm very passionate about and will be looking elsewhere too :)

I just do think that the way I was taught was enjoyable (due to me coming straight into the highest level from school while others moved up from previous years- so others had more experience then me), I definitely get what you mean when you said that most teachers are horribly overworked- it's very stressful! But you're right it shouldn't be thrown onto students. Hopefully these apprenticeships will give me confidence to try again sometime down the road later in life :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 18, 2018, 06:19:39 PM
I thought Payday was tomorrow but it isn’t. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 19, 2018, 06:30:57 AM
I am not used to these chunky 7/8 hr shifts at all, especially not with one more class day before the break. I'm not even a college student who rooms on campus, so I don't need all these hefty shifts when someone else might need the hours to maintain the scholarship.
I understand needing help but all I did yesterday was wander the aisles and direct people...I'm going to be cashiering today. I'm not a cashier, and I wasn't asked if I wanted to help out. If I was asked I would have agreed. Ugh, and I still have a test to take tonight online.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 20, 2018, 03:12:00 PM
While doing the dishes I somehow managed to smack my thumb on the side of the sink. My nail bent backwards. It's been like an hour and a half and it still hurts!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Cactusflower on November 20, 2018, 04:39:47 PM
There's no more almond chocolate milk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2018, 04:47:11 PM
I really love the NHK Taiga (Japanese historical) drama series.

However the problem with them is that the people in them are based on real people (however fictionalised their characters might have become).

So when they die or bad thngs happen to them, you know that at some time, in some place, that bad thing really did happen.

I love watching them. But they still always get me every time...

I also often don't get quite to the very end of any of them because I know the history and I know generally how it ends. Since Japan like to make a big thing over those for whom it didn't end so well...yeah, you can basically see where that is going...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on November 21, 2018, 05:43:02 PM
While doing the dishes I somehow managed to smack my thumb on the side of the sink. My nail bent backwards. It's been like an hour and a half and it still hurts!

Your finger, my toe. My right big toe finally decided to lose it's nail last night. It doesn't hurt, just looks funky. It's been fixing to do this for about a month. Am going to be on my feet all day tomorrow, helping cook etc. So I called the nurse hotline to get care tips, seriously toe? seriously

I've done my fair share of retail through the winter holidays and I don't wish it on anyone. It's a soul-sucking slog from October to January. Because of that, I'm always mindful of the folks working while I shop.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 23, 2018, 01:54:13 PM
Brain has officially entered hibernation. It's a little late this year thanks to how much sun we had in October, but the string of dark and rainy days is having a major impact on my energy levels :/ So inconvenient...

Plus the key that the department had ordered for me for the office doesn't work, and my convener didn't leave his key, so I got stuck in the outer office again. Sigh...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2018, 02:50:34 PM
I have a fear of being trapped in an elevator. I still use them but it makes me nervous. My mom has recently decided that it’s really funny that I don’t like elevators. We were in an elevator together this week and she laughed the whole time because I get nervous in them,

I’m sorry you got locked out of the  office Taffeta. I’m always  surprised how people in charge of making sure you can get in to an office/classroom can  forget to unlock doors or make sure you have a working key.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 23, 2018, 09:18:53 PM
Last year I think I complained somewhere around here of Black Friday starting too early.. it was worse this year. As we don't celebrate Thanksgiving there's not really an official starting point, my storechain has had different offers ever since Halloween was over, starting with Singles Week, two weeks of "SneakPeaks" and now Black Weekend. Every new campaign offering added deals. My brain has officially entered sleepmode because of the craze.

To make matters worse, I woke up 5:20 today because of a dream I had of work.. I was so filled with adrenaline I couldn't go back to sleep so went up and stepped on cat vomit first thing.. In the bathroom I remembered I had put some cleaners in the toilet before I went to bed so decided to use the brush and clean it off.. of course toilet water splashed allover me. So I had to take a shower and began cleaning it while being in it.. continued to clean the entire bathroom before even 6 am a saturday morning. I'm working today and tomorrow as well. So on the brightside, maybe the kitchen will get some deepcleaning tomorrow? :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 24, 2018, 05:16:51 AM
Someone barged in on me while I was in a fitting room today - it's a good job I'd just finished putting my clothes back on, really! I'm not a prude by any means but A - noone, and I mean noone gets a piece of this action without my say-so and B - would it have killed her to ask "Is someone in there?" before just barging on in through the curtain? Yeesh! :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on November 24, 2018, 12:00:36 PM
Work weekends go by too fast. Just glad I got to have Thanksgiving off.

Someone barged in on me while I was in a fitting room today - it's a good job I'd just finished putting my clothes back on, really! I'm not a prude by any means but A - noone, and I mean noone gets a piece of this action without my say-so and B - would it have killed her to ask "Is someone in there?" before just barging on in through the curtain? Yeesh! :shocked:

Reminds me of the time someone barged in on me in a public restroom. The worst part is that it was a very small bathroom and the toilet was facing the door, meaning... so was I. D:

The door was locked, the lock just didn't work. Funny, I still frequent that restaurant and those bathrooms have been turned into janitorial closets or something. I think it happened not too long after that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 24, 2018, 03:09:08 PM
Someone barged in on me while I was in a fitting room today - it's a good job I'd just finished putting my clothes back on, really! I'm not a prude by any means but A - noone, and I mean noone gets a piece of this action without my say-so and B - would it have killed her to ask "Is someone in there?" before just barging on in through the curtain? Yeesh! :shocked:

That kind of thing is my worst nightmare >< Albeit what Harmonie said is a level beyond that. *shudders* personal space people.

@Beldarna  - it annoys me that Black Friday is now a thing here in the UK as well. I have nothing against it in its original cultural setting because in the US it makes sense - but it really doesn't mean anything here except stores finding another way to make people buy things they don't need. Our Christmas shopping period has already begun anyway and they now do "Black Friday Week" which is just self-contradictory. I wish they'd stop with it tbh. It's an American tradition, not a British one.

<--also has been known to clean areas of my room at odd times in the morning, or do laundry....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on November 25, 2018, 06:49:34 PM
Turns out I don't have much of a choice with college :/ which kinda sucks, but I guess I don't have long, we finish quite early for the summer holidays compared to school kids plus the Christmas holidays are just around the corner, so I guess I have to stay strong!


Also, it's not really a complaint it's more of a 'why'- The prices some people are putting the Kevin the Carrot toys up on eBay for this year are ridiculous although some of the descriptions had me laughing so hard XD
I can't believe people had lined up at Aldi and fought over a cuddly carrot toy :facepalm:
You'd think black Friday was bad, just wait until Aldi releases Kevin XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 26, 2018, 03:56:29 AM
I finally got my PS4 hooked up, fix the settings, ect. I make my spot all comfy ready to play RDR2 and... it has to copy the game data? WTF is the point of having a physical disc if it needs to copy to the HDD?

So now I gotta wait over an hour to play. And it's on 2 discs so I assume I'll need to copy the second also? Oh and of course it had to download and install updates as soon as I turned the system on.

You know, sometimes I wish it was like the pre-digital days and I could just shove in a game or a movie and it would start immediately.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 26, 2018, 08:05:02 AM
I finally got my PS4 hooked up, fix the settings, ect. I make my spot all comfy ready to play RDR2 and... it has to copy the game data? WTF is the point of having a physical disc if it needs to copy to the HDD?

So now I gotta wait over an hour to play. And it's on 2 discs so I assume I'll need to copy the second also? Oh and of course it had to download and install updates as soon as I turned the system on.

You know, sometimes I wish it was like the pre-digital days and I could just shove in a game or a movie and it would start immediately.

Like you I've got Crash Bandicoot N.San Trilogy for the XBOX ONE, I've got to wait till it installs it and update it.

Had to delete some games on my Nintendo 2DS to play Fire Emblem Heros.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 26, 2018, 09:04:07 AM

You'd think black Friday was bad, just wait until Aldi releases Kevin XD
OMG I know. Insane. I mean the adverts are cute, but seriously...?

...Only in Britain could people fight over a plush carrot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 26, 2018, 11:20:53 AM
...and the next day I went to my local Aldi and they had ALL the carrots, including the jumbo Kevin, available for sale.

Todays vent:
firstly, having to go into town, pay £4 to park, to buy white tights (pantyhose) for my kid for her angel costume at school - because the local shops only have the wintery colours of grey, navy and black.

then - as I was on limited time - so had to drive - when I finally get there, people are just walking around like zombies in the shops and the high-street. I had a mission to complete and these folks were just getting in my way!!

then - Entertainer not having any G1 on their shelves  :mad: I wanted some pony eye-candy therapy!

finally - feeling oh so tired this evening, and cold and sensitive... a hot cup of tea and an early night are called for!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 26, 2018, 12:21:30 PM
I finally got my PS4 hooked up, fix the settings, ect. I make my spot all comfy ready to play RDR2 and... it has to copy the game data? WTF is the point of having a physical disc if it needs to copy to the HDD?

So now I gotta wait over an hour to play. And it's on 2 discs so I assume I'll need to copy the second also? Oh and of course it had to download and install updates as soon as I turned the system on.

You know, sometimes I wish it was like the pre-digital days and I could just shove in a game or a movie and it would start immediately.

Same here, this digital nonsense is a pain in the backside! I got the Spyro remakes and had to wait about 45 minutes for it to download and install 17gb worth of data before I could play them. Not ideal for a quick bit of fun after work. Turns out only the first game is on the disc and the other two were the downloads, so if there's someone out there without an internet connection, they're scuppered! If this move towards digital stuff is meant to make things more convenient, then it's failed. Wildly. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 26, 2018, 01:37:00 PM


then - Entertainer not having any G1 on their shelves  :mad: I wanted some pony eye-candy therapy!

Maybe the staff member you spoke to got to them first!

My hypochondriac tooth is misbehaving again. Every time I take it to the dentist they say it's fine. But it doesn't agree. It's such a spoiled brat. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 26, 2018, 01:55:44 PM
My holiday cards are ready to go and I have no stamps.  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on November 27, 2018, 02:14:23 PM
The headphones I ordered on Amazon (Prime two day) are now lost due to their in-house shipping. Have had problems with them before. Called them about getting a replacement and was told I couldn't because they were through a third party seller. Never mind that said seller was Amazon approved. So I got a refund and contacted the seller, just want my headphones. The crappy part is they're no longer on sale (Black Friday sale) and I can't afford them at regular price. I just wanted my headphones, they were the only Black Friday thing I was after.

Went to the library to browse for books to cheer me up and came home with an armful.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 27, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
So just a summation of my experiences commuting into London so far this term...

Dear Suburban London Rail Network (who shall remain currently unnamed)

Please remember that this thing exists called "time". Time works by adding minutes in a chronological order. Your main role is to get your "trains" to match up as closely as possible to the "time" that appears on the timetable. 5.42 is not the same thing as 5.54 or "Delayed". 10.06 is not the same thing as 10.11.

If you are going to not stop at certain stations, maybe announce that fact. There is not a lot of point in announcing that the train that was going to London has changed and is now going to London.

If trains are leaving stations on time and then getting delayed by congestion going into London, maybe it's not absolutely necessary for certain stations to have trains every 2 seconds, causing a queue and a delay for everyone else.

Don't cut trains stopping at my station at short notice in order to pander to those people with trains that come every 2 seconds. I need to travel too.

Please do not put 5 car trains on a 10 car route at rush hour. That's just nonsense.

Please do not do maintenance on weekends if you can't finish it by Monday morning rush hour.

Please don't advertise a delay compensation service when in reality in order to claim any kind of delay repay you not only need to give your oyster card number but your entire personal name and address, email, phone number, bank details and sundry other private information which has nothing to do with the network and which would doubtless result in unwanted spam.

Please negotiate with your striking workers. They are striking for a reason.

Finally, if you can't provide a decent service, don't compound the issue by sending ticket inspectors down the train to block the aisle just as I need to get off.

Dear Unnamed London Station run by aforementioned network of doom:

Please at least attempt to put your trains up on the departures board in order of when they are MEANT to arrive, rather than the order in which they are actually arriving. (These should actually be the same thing but apparently we're not at that level yet).

Please do put all trains up on the departure board, not just the ones you know the location of. Its not great to lose whole trains and not know well enough where they are to even announce them, but it is hard to catch a train if there are no trains advertised to your location and yet they are still running anyway. If this didn't happen, running would not occur on the platform.

Please don't allow dogs to urinate on platforms. I mean, seriously. At rush hour? Does nobody police that kind of thing? You can hire a hawk to 'scare' the pigeons but you can't hold dog owners responsible for their animals?

Furthermore, if a train is delayed, please do not create a stampede by platforming the next one before the earlier one arrives.

If the earlier one actually does arrive, announce it before the stampede happens so that people can get on it and thus not be squashed to death on the train ride home.


With thanks,
Sincerely,

Taffeta
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 28, 2018, 05:31:47 PM
The cat spilled  soda all over my bed, so I had to wash all the stuff on my bed.  At least they missed my laptop.   :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 30, 2018, 10:29:25 AM
It's so cold in this house that I can't move my fingers with enough finesse to practice picking on the guitar. I've managed to get some strumming done but ugh, I should not have to decide between playing music and not freezing to death!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 30, 2018, 03:37:26 PM
A customer tired to help me with shopping carts again, hello to bruised knee and shin. As well as pulling a muscle in my leg.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 30, 2018, 06:25:30 PM
I'm in so much pain :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 30, 2018, 10:37:17 PM
Train again.

Yesterday I skipped the first train to buy some food to take back with me. My reward was a delay to the second train caused by a faulty door to my carriage which meant moving carriages. Although this had a bonus because there was this horrible woman sitting next to me.

It's already really not good manners in London to sit next to someone if there are free seats where you don't have to do that, but she just plunked herself down next to me. She then proceeds to take off her boots and get herself and her bag comfortable, shoving me up against the window twice with no apology. Then she phones someone to whine at them about the fact they're not dropping their entire life to rush to get her at the other end. This all before the train left the station. Given that, moving carriages was a relief...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 01, 2018, 12:52:54 AM
Of course I had to get sick as soon as December starts >_< I was so ready to be happy and excited for Christmas today. Hopefully I'll be well enough to decorate my room tomorrow, at least...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 01, 2018, 01:31:08 PM
Trying to decide on a color scheme for a Rarity Carousel I want to customize.  Can't decide between a darker "night" theme (midnight blue/white accents) or something with shades of green or just making it pastel pink/blue/purple instead of the garish shades it comes in.

I swear, picking the colors for any project is what takes me the longest.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 02, 2018, 04:24:11 AM
Trying to decide on a color scheme for a Rarity Carousel I want to customize.  Can't decide between a darker "night" theme (midnight blue/white accents) or something with shades of green or just making it pastel pink/blue/purple instead of the garish shades it comes in.

I swear, picking the colors for any project is what takes me the longest.

Very relatable! It takes me far too long to decide on the colours for anything - there are too many good combinations out there! The midnight theme sounds really nice, it'd work well with Rarity's colour scheme too, I reckon. :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2018, 06:08:33 AM
Have absolutely no idea what I'm meant to be teaching the first years tomorrow.

This because the convener accidentally gave them one class too many on the schedule. It is now fixed but last week at short notice I was told to cover a particular subject (short notice being 2 minutes before class) and didn't know whether we'd have class time to come back to it. So now have nothing really to teach tomorrow.

Also the one day I have to look over my thesis draft this week, the hall of residence has scheduled fire alarm checks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 03, 2018, 11:15:52 AM
I think I might have accidentally re-pierced one of my ears this morning, didn't even realise it had closed up at the back!  :whoa:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2018, 11:36:13 AM
I think I might have accidentally re-pierced one of my ears this morning, didn't even realise it had closed up at the back!  :whoa:

I did that a couple of times. My ears had issues though, hypersensitivity and studs didn't work so they healed up now :/

I just had a phone rant at my father because he managed to somehow overlook one of my plants when he was doing the watering.

While I accept that he is plantsitting while I am in London, my plants are my pets. And this one was a rescue plant that I brought home from the garden centre because it was not as pretty as the others and was being neglected.

I feel so bad for it, with all the others getting watered and it not. Whether it is still alive or not is currently uncertain. Dad (who is actually pretty upset about it, he does like plants and is generally good with them) is doing his best to revive it, but I just feel like what was the point in rescuing it if it was just going to suffer again?

I've always rescued plants since I was a kid and quite often the ones I rescue I manage to revive. I used to rescue all the pricked out seedlings my Dad wanted to discard when I was about three years old, because I felt sorry for them. I'd plant them and they'd turn into great plants to the point my Dad now doesn't discard seedlings when he plants them because a: he knows I will just adopt them all and b: they end up the best plants anyway so what's the point.

So to think of a plant I rescued being put in that situation makes me really upset. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 05, 2018, 11:28:56 AM
There were people behind me in the self scan aisle. I hate when people are waiting behind me, it kicks my anxiety into high gear and I get all panicked and paranoid.

I wanted a Dr. Pepper from the cold case when I was done with the rest of my groceries so I hurried to grab one. Didn't see I had grabbed Cherry flavor :( I hate cherry flavored stuff (but like actual cherries). I'm bummed and feel dumb about it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 05, 2018, 07:19:07 PM
My spell checker has decided anything ending as a plural, or with the litter S is wrong, and must die. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 06, 2018, 08:33:30 AM
I keep getting random calls from TX and MA.  Not sure if someone is just trying to see when I am likely to answer my phone but the answer is that if I don't know who they are, they are required to leave a message before I will decide whether or not to contact them in return.  It's just annoying to get multiple calls a day that I don't care about.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 06, 2018, 08:40:11 AM
1. Both the bus and metro where late so I missed about 45 minutes of college, luckily today we were only in 2 hours or so for an exam and my lecturer didn't mind. I managed to finish the exam on time, check through it and leave with everyone else. Hooray for British Transport!  :pout:

2. I had some work I needed to print off to complete my booklet. The internet was really slow on the campus, the computer had to update (lucky that didn't take long) and everyone had to line up at the printer at the other end of the room as one guy couldn't get the other printer to stop printing off multiple copies of his work!

3. Missed a metro on the way back home, the one I got on was packed so I had to stand (which I don't mind doing at all) but I was holding onto one of the railings when a guy literally walked up to me with his friend grabbed hold of the railing I was holding onto, swung himself around so his bag hit me in the face and began to lean back and casually talk to his friend like nothing happened, squishing me in the process  :rant:. Luckily I moved down a bit when the metro came to a halt.
Some school kids came on near the end of the journey and began fighting with each other, kicking, punching, grabbing on to each others bags and the finally pushing each other out of the metro swearing at one another when it stopped at the station. What a day!

Okay rant over ^^;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 06, 2018, 07:03:09 PM
For some reason I keep getting pop-ups asking if I want Google Translate to translate the page I'm on, even when it doesn't need translating.  It seems to think DeviantArt is in German when it's clearly in English and that FanFiction is in French or Portuguese (depending on the day).  Not sure why it thinks that.   :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 07, 2018, 07:33:36 PM
I hit a deer on my way home from work.  I'd slowed down because I saw two others crossing and at the last second the third one (that I didn't see in the dark) ran in front of me.  His butt dented my hood and broke the plastic covering on my headlight but he kept going so I don't think I hurt him too much.  As far as I can tell the damage is all cosmetic.  I'm pretty sure my insurance will cover it, but if the deer had waited two seconds he could have crossed with no problems because there was absolutely no one behind me. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 08, 2018, 06:19:18 AM
insurance.

coding specifically.

And all this anxiety I have to endure on the phone correcting it.

I feel like moving because I'm so mad at both hospital systems in my area. -__-;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 08, 2018, 06:19:45 AM
I woke up with a really bad throat this morning, my little brother had passed a virus onto me  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on December 08, 2018, 08:24:32 AM
My left thumb is hurting. It's not that bad, just annoying...

I hope you get better soon SS!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 08, 2018, 08:56:32 AM
My left thumb is hurting. It's not that bad, just annoying...

I hope you get better soon SS!

Aww thank you Safflower! :hug:

Hope your thumb stops hurting!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 08, 2018, 02:02:01 PM
Ugh, there was an overly pushy girl in CEX today. I don't like that shop anyway and try to avoid it, but it's the only brick-and-mortar shop in Macclesfield to get games older than whatever has just come out (in which case your only choice is supermarkets - what joy.) :pout: I politely told her I didn't want a membership card, as I barely ever actually buy games (there's very little I can really play) but she kept insisting that "It only takes a few seconds" - she clearly doesn't get it. It's not time that's the issue, the thing is that I'm not going to use the card, and I'm not going to get one to have it languishing or to ditch it later, because that's needless and wasteful. Just take no for an answer, yeesh. She just did a rrreeeaaal good job of making me very stressed and uncomfortable. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 08, 2018, 04:31:24 PM
Today I learned that the local movie theater is, and has been, getting treated for bed bugs (this is fact).

The theater is inside the mall (also a fact).

Some people are saying there are bed bugs in some of the department stores now (has not been proven).

Of course the news is all over it. The worst part is the cinema owners/whoever aren't saying anything other than to confirm ONE room has been treated and quarantined (totally no bugs anywhere else and would you like extra butter juice on your popcorn).

Bed bugs and lice are two biting critters I've managed to avoid in my life so far. Based on my severe reactions to others; fleas, mosquitoes, those invisible flies that live on the beach, ect. I'm assuming I would have similar horrific reactions.

To summarize: I am never going to the movies (or mall) ever again :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on December 08, 2018, 06:37:06 PM
My left thumb is hurting. It's not that bad, just annoying...

I hope you get better soon SS!

Aww thank you Safflower! :hug:

Hope your thumb stops hurting!
Thank you! It's feeling better now :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 09, 2018, 06:53:55 AM
My left thumb is hurting. It's not that bad, just annoying...

I hope you get better soon SS!

Aww thank you Safflower! :hug:

Hope your thumb stops hurting!
Thank you! It's feeling better now :hug:

That's good to hear, glad it's better! :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 10, 2018, 01:39:32 PM
Spent 4 hours travelling home on Saturday and 4 hours back today because sister believes we must all have a christmas decorating weekend. Wouldn't mind but on my local train today someone pulled the emergency cord (for apparently no reason) which meant us waiting around an extra 15 minutes while they investigated...

Then I just got an email from someone at the university and by dint of this conversation I have learned that although my contract officially says it ends 3rd May, HR think it ends on 22nd March. And that's quite a difference. So now I have had to email both the person in my dept (whose fault it isn't but who might fix it) and someone in HR (a dept I don't trust even the slightest) to sort it out so I don't end up doing work that I don't get paid for...

Sigh. Logistic things break my brain and stress me out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 11, 2018, 02:40:59 AM
I had a nightmare, except instead of it being an original nightmare, it was several painful childhood memories back-to-back. Like a montage of stuff I thought I'd gotten over by now :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 11, 2018, 03:27:52 AM
I had a nightmare, except instead of it being an original nightmare, it was several painful childhood memories back-to-back. Like a montage of stuff I thought I'd gotten over by now :pout:

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 14, 2018, 03:42:40 AM
I've been going to bed quite early this past week due to having a week of placements at the nursery, but I've been waking up at stupid times (3am,1am etc.) And can't go back to sleep, I'm thankful it's Friday  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 14, 2018, 12:00:44 PM
There's some creep who keeps staring at me when I get off the bus of an evening. He looks a few years younger than me, I don't know if he thinks he's being clever or what. I don't want a conflict, because I have to get the bus to and from work every day, but if he does it again, I'll stare him down right back and see what happens. Shouldn't have to but I'm sick of it, to be honest. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on December 16, 2018, 12:48:59 PM
For the past few days I've been so unbelievably tired and unmotivated. I don't know if I'm just stressed that finals are about to start, if it's seasonal depression finally kicking in, or whatever it may be, but I'm feeling awful.
I also have a project for school to work on that I'm neglecting to do because of it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on December 18, 2018, 11:46:56 AM
 :happy: Hmm. Laryngitis... I think I went online just so I could go bla, bla, bla again... my ponies meanwhile are all trying to figure out who put a spell on them so they cant say anything to each other lately... they don't know about me so the sudden silence seriously creeping them out.  :stressed:
 
Note:
Meant to reply to your gripe separately miniature sheep but it only seems to attach to  own gripe on this thread and my imagination about my ponies being confused at my lost voice sorry.


Post Merge: December 18, 2018, 12:01:13 PM

There's some creep who keeps staring at me when I get off the bus of an evening. He looks a few years younger than me, I don't know if he thinks he's being clever or what. I don't want a conflict, because I have to get the bus to and from work every day, but if he does it again, I'll stare him down right back and see what happens. Shouldn't have to but I'm sick of it, to be honest. :pout:
You can always hold up a mirror for him if that don't work, then he can stare himself down if he pleases... good luck.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 19, 2018, 04:36:49 PM
I won a raffle basket, just trying to get a ride up to claim it, and I need to call the place that has it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 20, 2018, 04:55:59 AM
It's so close to Christmas Eve, but I'm having a hard time feeling happy about it or getting in the holiday spirit. Could it be because of the unusually warm weather? Seasonal depression? Or could it be... Am I getting too old for the Christmas spirit?
And then I realized that all but one of my friends moved away to study this year. My one remaining friend is busy studying too, so she only comes over a couple of times a month. I'm not too old for Christmas, nor am I depressed, I'm just sad and lonely because I spend 28 days a month alone... How did I not notice that until now? :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on December 20, 2018, 06:30:03 AM
:cold:
It's so close to Christmas Eve, but I'm having a hard time feeling happy about it or getting in the holiday spirit. Could it be because of the unusually warm weather? Seasonal depression? Or could it be... Am I getting too old for the Christmas spirit?
And then I realized that all but one of my friends moved away to study this year. My one remaining friend is busy studying too, so she only comes over a couple of times a month. I'm not too old for Christmas, nor am I depressed, I'm just sad and lonely because I spend 28 days a month alone... How did I not notice that until now? :huh:
Aw! It's hard to be merry when you are missing people no matter the season. Maybe making some paper snowflakes to mail to the friend who moved away would help get into your holiday a little or making a photo montage of your happy times together to send on Christmas Eve? Going to the Mall is fun to see the kids see Santa, if you don’t have a mall you can check out one of Santa’s many professional youtube channels instead or the random vids these days of security cameras secretly catching that ‘jolly old elf’ in action on behalf of the younger family.
Your friends are likely a little lonely too and missing you this christmas, they just don’t have the ability to do as much about feeling that way if they haven’t free time or are stuck where they don’t know folk the same way they did back home. I know when my friends get busy they aren’t always able to communicate back right away how much they appreciated my keeping thinking of them and leaving messages they couldn’t return… it’s often weeks or months later I hear how much it had meant. Then I get busy and it goes in reverse sometimes… hectic world.
When it comes to blue holidays however I am superstitious about no other day of the year including Friday the thirteenth but beware December the twenty-third. Due to Christmas Eve my theory is it is the popular deadline for emotionally charged and not-thought-out arguments during a time of holiday stress. Dec. the 23rd is the day I unplug from everything and batten down my hatches while pretending I’m simply not there. If I can just get through the 23rd then usually everything is better by the next morning I swear… as if by a magic spell. Draw the shades, turn off the wringer, skip your messages, turn the tv on low and gather the unicorns round… get through the evil 23rd stress-fest and I can predict all the world is going to be somewhat nicer for Christmas again. :snowball:
Animals help too around the holidays... mine always has his own stocking up!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 21, 2018, 06:33:04 AM
Washed something that had smoke damage (had been cleaned by dry cleaners) and it caused everything else in the wash to smell terrible AND my new washer smells funky too now. :/ Gonna be so mad if the washer is ruined.

Phew. Running the washer multiple times on clean got rid of the smell. I think the clothes are ruined. -__- never knew smoke damage could be so nasty.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 21, 2018, 12:56:41 PM
it is raining and no snow for Christmas this year blah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on December 22, 2018, 11:52:27 AM
Does anyone else have a friend who mentions their boyfriend in every sentence?  Like, okay girl, we get it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 22, 2018, 11:10:37 PM
My eye eczema has returned, the day before christmas eve. It looks like I've applied red eyeshadow on my upper and lover eyelids really badly.. Luckily I have enough cortisone at home to handle it but it will take days for it to clear up :(.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 23, 2018, 07:04:38 AM
Every time Opera updates, it undoes my settings. I don't want the news on my speed dial page, I don't want autocomplete on, I just want my settings leaving the heck alone. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 23, 2018, 03:03:13 PM
I semi smooshed the gingerbread triple layer cake I got at work, not too badly though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 23, 2018, 05:08:22 PM
I feel baaaad! I was doing a system transfer from my daughter's 2ds to mine to get my two games and it deleted a ton of her pictures! I'm sooo stupid!

 :nope: :crazy: :cloud:


At least her themes and games are still there. We hafta wait a whole week to transfer all her stuff back.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on December 23, 2018, 05:17:22 PM
Decided to play some Um Jammer Lammy earlier on my PS2, got it down from my shelf, plugged my console in etc. and for some reason it began glitching and freezing on stage 2 and I couldn't go any further, the place where I buy my game always like to clean their discs and because of this half the time the games don't function correctly, so £40 went down the drain as well as one of my favourite PS1 games. Hopefully the store will refund me when I pop in. I luckily managed to find the game on the PS3 store for £3.99 so I'm super glad but, I really like having the disc/box rather than just a download :/
Also this version seems to have port lag
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 24, 2018, 08:01:28 AM
There's some creep who keeps staring at me when I get off the bus of an evening. He looks a few years younger than me, I don't know if he thinks he's being clever or what. I don't want a conflict, because I have to get the bus to and from work every day, but if he does it again, I'll stare him down right back and see what happens. Shouldn't have to but I'm sick of it, to be honest. :pout:

Be safe. If he gets too close for comfort well...I'm sure you know where to kick him.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 24, 2018, 09:48:12 AM
The bookstore I buy my manga at is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. Unfortunately. the manga series I was looking most looking forward to starting is sold out of the first 5 volumes. :( Another series  I'm interested in sold out of volume 3.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 24, 2018, 05:11:08 PM
Work was a zoo, they almost had no cider left, but thankfully  I got some but I had to get a gallon as half gallon were gone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 24, 2018, 05:18:34 PM
The bookstore I buy my manga at is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. Unfortunately. the manga series I was looking most looking forward to starting is sold out of the first 5 volumes. :( Another series  I'm interested in sold out of volume 3.


Ponyfan

Can you order the mangas you want from Rightstufanime.com?  They're having a holiday sale right now and they might have some of what you're looking for at a decent price.

I have to finish wrapping presents for my niblings and I just don't want to.  It's not that I don't want them to have the presents, I just don't feel like wrapping stuff.   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 26, 2018, 04:43:59 AM
There's some creep who keeps staring at me when I get off the bus of an evening. He looks a few years younger than me, I don't know if he thinks he's being clever or what. I don't want a conflict, because I have to get the bus to and from work every day, but if he does it again, I'll stare him down right back and see what happens. Shouldn't have to but I'm sick of it, to be honest. :pout:

Be safe. If he gets too close for comfort well...I'm sure you know where to kick him.

Will do! Fortunately, he's started getting off at an earlier stop than me so there's less chance of any mither from him, but even so, I'll be careful.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 26, 2018, 04:47:05 PM
Reading stuff quickly is annoying. It means I get through things too fast. I began with Akatsuki no Yona manga the week before I went home for Christmas. I have tried to drag it out but as of today I'm on volume 22 (this is in Japanese). There are only 28 volumes so far. I will soon be caught up. I hate being caught up. Waiting is such a pain...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2018, 04:48:51 PM
The bookstore I buy my manga at is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. Unfortunately. the manga series I was looking most looking forward to starting is sold out of the first 5 volumes. :( Another series  I'm interested in sold out of volume 3.


Ponyfan

Can you order the mangas you want from Rightstufanime.com?  They're having a holiday sale right now and they might have some of what you're looking for at a decent price.



Thanks Pokeyonekenobie but it looks like Right Stuf is sold out too :sad: This seems to happen whenever I want to try a new manga series or get really excited about one.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady.Arachnia on December 26, 2018, 11:53:44 PM
Thanks Santa....for ANOTHER UI infection!!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 27, 2018, 07:17:38 AM
The bookstore I buy my manga at is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. Unfortunately. the manga series I was looking most looking forward to starting is sold out of the first 5 volumes. :( Another series  I'm interested in sold out of volume 3.


Ponyfan

Can you order the mangas you want from Rightstufanime.com?  They're having a holiday sale right now and they might have some of what you're looking for at a decent price.



Thanks Pokeyonekenobie but it looks like Right Stuf is sold out too :sad: This seems to happen whenever I want to try a new manga series or get really excited about one.

Ponyfan

Since you mentioned which one you were looking for in the Shout Box, I googled Fruits Basket Manga and this site came up.  They might have the ones you want for a good price.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=fruits%20basket
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 27, 2018, 08:18:02 AM
The bookstore I buy my manga at is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. Unfortunately. the manga series I was looking most looking forward to starting is sold out of the first 5 volumes. :( Another series  I'm interested in sold out of volume 3.


Ponyfan

Can you order the mangas you want from Rightstufanime.com?  They're having a holiday sale right now and they might have some of what you're looking for at a decent price.



Thanks Pokeyonekenobie but it looks like Right Stuf is sold out too :sad: This seems to happen whenever I want to try a new manga series or get really excited about one.

Ponyfan

Since you mentioned which one you were looking for in the Shout Box, I googled Fruits Basket Manga and this site came up.  They might have the ones you want for a good price.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=fruits%20basket

There's also cheap ones on eBay... Or try your library?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 27, 2018, 10:06:26 PM
In the stress of sales between christmas and new years, full of returns and giftexchanges, please remember that the person behind the register is a human being with feelings and emotions just like you. They are serving hundreds of people, their breaks might be delayed or even canceled to time up with the rush of people, yet they smile and try to be polite and helpful to you.

They're trying to accomodate you as best they can but they have rules and policies and laws to follow. To scream at someone that something worked in another store doesn't help as every store has different set ups, different registers and different rulings. Apologizing afterwards does not help at all, it might make you feel better but their day is already ruined as you were the twentieth person having the same childish antics, screaming at them that day..

I'm gonna be so glad when today is over, then I'll have five days off and wont set a foot in a mall or store during that time. I am sick of people  -_-.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 28, 2018, 03:45:31 AM
In the stress of sales between christmas and new years, full of returns and giftexchanges, please remember that the person behind the register is a human being with feelings and emotions just like you. They are serving hundreds of people, their breaks might be delayed or even canceled to time up with the rush of people, yet they smile and try to be polite and helpful to you.

Gah. Working with the public is a nightmare sometimes, as there's always that percentage of people who forget that the folk in the stores etc are people and not just verbal punchbags. I worked front desk of a library for some years and know exactly the kind of attitude you mean -my sister, who has worked extensively in retail, believes all people should have to do national service working in retail so they learn compassion for people working in stores and on the front line!

Hope it improves for you :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on December 28, 2018, 06:07:03 AM
Yes, I've been saying that too lately - every single person should have to work retail (or some kind of front-line customer service) in their lives, to have a better understanding and appreciation of what it's like on the other side.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 29, 2018, 03:55:41 AM
I donated all my Maakies books to Samaritans and now I can never go to that charity shop again, because that one person who donated the numerous books full of absolute filth will be pretty flipping recognisable. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2018, 01:01:45 PM
Thank you Taffeta and banditpony. :) It looks like I picked the same time as many other people to start reading Fruits Basket. I checked my city's libraries online catalog and only two branches have a few of the volumes.
Hopefully all of the stores that carry Fruits Basket will restock soon. or I can find them on Ebay. I really want the Collector's Edition volumes.


Today's trivial complaint. Yesterday I bought a DVD set that was secured with an anti theft device. After the cashier rang it up she placed it in the shopping bag without removing the anti theft device. When I questioned her, she said that I would have to take it up front to "the employee wearing yellow" to have it removed. It surprised me that I had to go to another employee instead of the cashier having the key to remove the anti theft device.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 29, 2018, 02:21:58 PM
Thank you Taffeta and banditpony. :) It looks like I picked the same time as many other people to start reading Fruits Basket. I checked my city's libraries online catalog and only two branches have a few of the volumes.
Hopefully all of the stores that carry Fruits Basket will restock soon. or I can find them on Ebay. I really want the Collector's Edition volumes.


Today's trivial complaint. Yesterday I bought a DVD set that was secured with an anti theft device. After the cashier rang it up she placed it in the shopping bag without removing the anti theft device. When I questioned her, she said that I would have to take it up front to "the employee wearing yellow" to have it removed. It surprised me that I had to go to another employee instead of the cashier having the key to remove the anti theft device.


Ponyfan

Luckily I can get Fruits Basket manga on Amazon.uk

That’s weird about the cashier telling you to go to someone else.

Waiting for the new Attack on Titan chapter 113 (I think that’s the chapter) to be done into English I want to know what happened to Levi is he going to get killed? Plus waiting for the next part of the anime to be released is driving me nuts. Plus I’ve got to wait till the twenty ninth of January for Kingdom Hearts 3.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 29, 2018, 03:31:33 PM
Just people not paying attention to where they are driving, I know new years is around the corner SLOW DOWN.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 29, 2018, 06:36:32 PM
I donated all my Maakies books to Samaritans and now I can never go to that charity shop again, because that one person who donated the numerous books full of absolute filth will be pretty flipping recognisable. :|

Oh man, I had come across that comic years ago and forgot all about. Thanks for reminding me :lol:

It's not that bad. It was in a newspaper after all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 29, 2018, 07:29:08 PM
Thank you Taffeta and banditpony. :) It looks like I picked the same time as many other people to start reading Fruits Basket. I checked my city's libraries online catalog and only two branches have a few of the volumes.
Hopefully all of the stores that carry Fruits Basket will restock soon. or I can find them on Ebay. I really want the Collector's Edition volumes.

You can always ask if your library is willing to do an Interlibrary Loan, where your library borrows books from another library for you.  Some libraries charge a fee for this but some do not, it depends on your library.  It doesn't hurt to ask.  I know the library where I work has all the volumes of Fruits Basket and we've loaned them out as ILLs before.  (I actually bought most of the series from my library book sale because they were upgrading to the Collector's Editions so they weeded out the singles.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 30, 2018, 12:22:20 AM
No movies coming out April 2019 (my 30th birthday), all of the best ones are out on either May or June. And I don’t want to go to a Chinese restaurant because on Saturdays we have a Chinese from the takeaway.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on December 30, 2018, 07:51:29 PM
Today was such a tech nightmare I don't want to remember.  :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 30, 2018, 10:48:57 PM
In the stress of sales between christmas and new years, full of returns and giftexchanges, please remember that the person behind the register is a human being with feelings and emotions just like you. They are serving hundreds of people, their breaks might be delayed or even canceled to time up with the rush of people, yet they smile and try to be polite and helpful to you.

Gah. Working with the public is a nightmare sometimes, as there's always that percentage of people who forget that the folk in the stores etc are people and not just verbal punchbags. I worked front desk of a library for some years and know exactly the kind of attitude you mean -my sister, who has worked extensively in retail, believes all people should have to do national service working in retail so they learn compassion for people working in stores and on the front line!

Hope it improves for you :(

Yes, I've been saying that too lately - every single person should have to work retail (or some kind of front-line customer service) in their lives, to have a better understanding and appreciation of what it's like on the other side.

Thank you. I used to say that as well, when I take over the world working at least one year in retail is gonna be mandatory ;). I find it sickening how many people whom have never set a foot behind a register knows so much about it and wanna teach me how to do it. Also asking "are you new?" when I tell them something they don't like. No, I've been here a year and a half but have a total of 11 years within retail.

Third day off and I'm still feeling weary and have slept a lot. I guess I'm lucky hubby is working right now because I am no fun person to be around.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 31, 2018, 08:25:16 AM
It's new year's eve.

And I am celebrating by...

Working on thesis draft corrections.

Because I have to submit in the new year.

Because otherwise one of my proposed examiners will be on study leave.

Yay...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 31, 2018, 03:15:50 PM
I wish Netflix would have the Lady Bug and Cat Noir episodes in the correct order. I have to keep looking up the correct episode order on Wikipedia before selecting an episode to watch to make sure I am watching the right episode so that I won't see anything happen before I am supposed to.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 31, 2018, 03:25:36 PM
I donated all my Maakies books to Samaritans and now I can never go to that charity shop again, because that one person who donated the numerous books full of absolute filth will be pretty flipping recognisable. :|

What?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 31, 2018, 05:36:25 PM
I donated all my Maakies books to Samaritans and now I can never go to that charity shop again, because that one person who donated the numerous books full of absolute filth will be pretty flipping recognisable. :|

What?

It could just be me being paranoid but I donated some comic collections full of quite adult humour to a charity shop and now I'm afraid to go back to that shop, as I may be judged very harshly by the staff there. :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 31, 2018, 06:44:04 PM
It could just be me being paranoid but I donated some comic collections full of quite adult humour to a charity shop and now I'm afraid to go back to that shop, as I may be judged very harshly by the staff there. :yikes:

Seriously, it's not that bad! You'll be fine :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 01, 2019, 08:19:18 AM
I was cutting a pita and got my finger a good one, happy first injury of the new year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 01, 2019, 09:04:54 AM
I was cutting a pita and got my finger a good one, happy first injury of the new year.
Ow! Hope you heal quickly.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 01, 2019, 01:45:06 PM
I hope you managed to have a happy new year anyway, Taffeta. Good luck with your thesis :)

As for my very trivial complaint, I really want to go outside and catch some bugs (y'know, to keep me company), but there are no bugs outside because it's winter. I guess I'll go see if there are any spiders in the attic...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kikwifluff on January 01, 2019, 04:02:23 PM
I got five stitches in one of my fingers. Great start to the year   :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 01, 2019, 09:44:25 PM
I hope you managed to have a happy new year anyway, Taffeta. Good luck with your thesis :)

As for my very trivial complaint, I really want to go outside and catch some bugs (y'know, to keep me company), but there are no bugs outside because it's winter. I guess I'll go see if there are any spiders in the attic...
You might have better luck starting a worm bin, worms do love leftovers. Spiders need live prey, & can't digest food without chemicals from fang. I assume you have ice fishing in Norway in winter so live worms should be easy to obtain and house, there's a ton of info on the web about worm bin husbandry in the home. If all goes well you'll have delightful garden compost from your pets. And if this wasn't a serious question cheer up, you evidently aren't the strangest person out there with such response at the top of my brain. :lol:

Post Merge: January 01, 2019, 09:55:05 PM

I got five stitches in one of my fingers. Great start to the year   :pout:
Aw! You know when my nerves are a pain I love those plastic flossing sticks rather than dental floss. You can mint or get tutti-fruiti kid flavors... this prevents the added toothache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 02, 2019, 02:45:47 PM
Ordered something from Amazon on the 31st used my student prime to get next day delivery (In this case would be 3rd of Jan due to new year's etc) and it's supposed to be here tomorrow but it's still in the 'item ordered' process and hasn't moved to 'dispatched' yet and I'm getting a little worried, maybe I'm just panicking over nothing and will still arrive tomorrow or maybe my order hasn't been processed correctly??   :yikes:



Edit: Turns out I was just worrying over nothing it's just been dispatched! (At 11:45pm? It's a bit late XD )
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 02, 2019, 07:46:54 PM
I donated all my Maakies books to Samaritans and now I can never go to that charity shop again, because that one person who donated the numerous books full of absolute filth will be pretty flipping recognisable. :|

What?

It could just be me being paranoid but I donated some comic collections full of quite adult humour to a charity shop and now I'm afraid to go back to that shop, as I may be judged very harshly by the staff there. :yikes:

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 03, 2019, 10:33:35 AM
Attempting to get new passport photos today. The machine ate my £5 note and refused to give me the photos. It did return the £1 coin, but now I am out £5 and still don't have any passport photos. As if it isn't expensive enough to renew a passport.

Also, I hope that by the time I actually get to apply for a new passport it won't yet be blue. Not that I have anything against blue, but I object to having a UK passport in blue on moral grounds.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 03, 2019, 12:11:41 PM
Attempting to get new passport uphotos today. The machine ate my £5 note and refused to give me the photos. It did return the £1 coin, but now I am out £5 and still don't have any passport photos. As if it isn't expensive enough to renew a passport.

Also, I hope that by the time I actually get to apply for a new passport it won't yet be blue. Not that I have anything against blue, but I object to having a UK passport in blue on moral grounds.

It sucks when machines eat your money.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 03, 2019, 10:47:16 PM
I fessed up to myself that I have no friends really, so I got this app which is kind of like tinder but for women seeking friendships. One woman wrote to me almost immediately which made me so happy, but she's not written anything in a couple of days now so I think she didn't like me and I wrote to one who has not responded at all, but the message is read. Am I really that unlikeable? :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 04, 2019, 01:01:28 AM
Am I really that unlikeable? :(

I know the feeling. I have no local friends and the small number of online friends I thought I had disappeared after a while.

For what it's worth, I like you!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on January 04, 2019, 01:14:18 AM
I fessed up to myself that I have no friends really, so I got this app which is kind of like tinder but for women seeking friendships. One woman wrote to me almost immediately which made me so happy, but she's not written anything in a couple of days now so I think she didn't like me and I wrote to one who has not responded at all, but the message is read. Am I really that unlikeable? :(
:hug: I don’t think you’re unlikeable at all! I have the same problem, I have maybe 1 or 2 close friends and would really like a slightly larger social circle. I’ve tried apps like that too with the same results. I don’t think it’s you as much as the platform itself. It seems like after the first conversation on social or meetup apps, the conversation always dies or the other person dissappears. My other close friend has had this same problem too, so I don’t think it’s you, or any of us at all! I genuinely do wish there were better meet up apps for meeting new people.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 04, 2019, 08:48:31 AM
I have pms, grr just in time for the new year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 04, 2019, 09:15:28 AM
I think I have a cold. I’m trying to save the cost of a drs visit because he would tell me that antibiotics won’t work against colds.

To everyone that feels unlikeable, you are not alone. I also have the same problem. I’ve tried to make friends with coworkers but it doesn’t work out. I have a few online friends but they live too far away to do stuff together. I’m sure we’re not unlikeable. :hug:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 04, 2019, 09:38:57 AM
Back in the day Care Bears used to say "...the best way to make a friend is to be a friend yourself!" translated to the adult world the trick is to not come on to strong but to just be friendly and patient because after you've known a bunch of people for a while the friendship just happens and comes to you without deliberate effort.

 Volunteering in person as opposed to signing up to an online service is the best way to meet people... for one thing it doesn't cost you anything, for another you aren't all anonymous and therefore people shy-of you... you get to see what each other like in real world over time, also volunteering you meet more caring people to start with & they see a good side of you.

Don't be hard on yourself, making friends only happens instantly when people are still kids and haven't really had much broken hearts so humans trust openly when young. It's just that way, nothing personal about that disconnect as people age. Problem is a lot of us (me once: some of us never get to be around our peers at a certain age and) get pretty isolated on our way so that don't see the changed way to make new friends evolve in our peers... like most of them see while growing up. You probably just missed that memo like me.

It goes like this: Don't push anyone for friendship (often spooks & ruins simply because some people are controlling instead of merely lonely) but be nice to people you don't know remembering to listen and respect their own friends as well, don't chase people who take advantage of you either just be cool with yourself but nice to everybody in the group... in a few years you'll have so many opportunities you'll have to turn some new people down so you can spend enough time with the friendships you are able to keep... adults have only a fraction of free time we did in youth so loved ones come fill, but people move away, change, get busy, from time to time you'll find someone who has that empty space and help them fill it... that's how friendship changes later in life.

Normally takes years of being in the same people in a community (safer to get to know adults in a group than 1-on-1 like you could just do back when everyone who asked to be your friend was actually 7 so quicker to make friends in a community as well) and showing you play nice with everybody even the grumpy ones and that you don't intend to isolate anyone else from their other friends. After that you just connect with other people because of who you both are finding the group members that you've the most stuff with in common, but after a group knows you well in person you've simply more options open.

Anyway in person among a group is the best way to learn about them too, they could otherwise pretend to be anybody to you too.

Post Merge: January 04, 2019, 09:46:36 AM

I think I have a cold. I’m trying to save the cost of a drs visit because he would tell me that antibiotics won’t work against colds.

To everyone that feels unlikeable, you are not alone. I also have the same problem. I’ve tried to make friends with coworkers but it doesn’t work out. I have a few online friends but they live too far away to do stuff together. I’m sure we’re not unlikeable. :hug:

Ponyfan
Work and school are always harder groups to make friends in because being around is not by choice... the bullies remain and the others are more shy of everyone knowing they can't leave. I think that is why it's usually easier to make friends after volunteering a few years, because if people don't like a volunteer job they give their notice and then they go without risking anything they need to survive. Lower stress on everyone, more relaxed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 04, 2019, 10:11:19 PM
Black Curtains, Minty_Magic and Ponyfan, thank you. To be honest I've never really had any close friends either. I do have one I consider my best friend, but she lives an hour away into the woods with her husband and two toddlers. When we meet and talk we can get on for hours, but between those rare instances (which happens maybe once a year), there's a text or email from her once in a blue moon.

Another I considered close never messages me, really. It's always on my initiative and then she squeeze me in somewhere between other stuff so I always feel like a burden. It's really rough, to be honest.

To be perfectly honest, at work I am never alone in that sense, there is always people I can chat with and hang with. It's outside of work, during weekends and Hollidays they're lacking. During Christmas, none got in touch to wish a Merry Christmas. None who asked for my plans of New Years. No one who invited me to join them when they found out Hubby was gonna work. When I've asked people about their plans they have no problem telling what they're gonna do, but none ask me back or invite me to anything and I'm not one who invite myself to stuff so I always end up alone. It's the same as it was when I was a kid/teen in school.

Lorefyore, I find your answer rather offputting. I'm not sure if that is your intent but it is how you come across. I am neither pushy, chasing or disrespectful. Neither have I ever said I think it should be all about me. Also I volunteered at the Red Cross once a week for a year, and didn't get any friends there either.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 05, 2019, 04:23:07 AM
Got to wait until Monday to book a doctor's appointment, I've been ill for about 5 weeks straight now and it's just getting worse by the moment. I'm constantly coughing, feeling dizzy, being sick etc., I couldn't even get out of bed this morning.
Ugh I wish I didn't feel like this, I've got to go back to the nursery/college Monday  :(

Also Moodle is being funny again, apparently my username or password is incorrect, I've tried everything and I know exactly what my username and password is- it kinda sucks when there's information I need to be able to complete my work on there  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 05, 2019, 11:42:53 PM
Never said every volunteer job is better if folk only wait it out, I said people not happy can give notice and find better.
The Red Cross is practically a for-profit corporation serious...
https://www.propublica.org/article/red-cross-ceo-has-been-misleading-about-donations
I don’t know how long you’ve been carrying not befriending anyone from this shiny organization around as a proof of how hard it is for you to get friends in life but I’d stop underestimating yourself there and let go of that one.  Even without the funding issue to upset the volunteers with the decency to hate the funding thing... that had been around long enough to know of the funding controversy (almost certainly longer than a year) making these perhaps rightly cynical about the social environment they’d been in, there are the recurring natural disasters themselves, more stress and exhaustion in the core than at most workplaces. Then there are empty people more like the CEO who maybe have a lot prop friends to show off and flaunt for pictures. Take it as a compliment any time those types skip you.

I think this goes to show why I don’t think people online simply trust people online enough to get anywhere with other online strangers.You could have just said nah, not getting the memo it’s not affecting me…but socially I think you did a little bit of a different thing there… hard to read it. What is clear is that you skimmed my post and have utterly re-summarized for whatever reasons.

One day I hope you won’t be posting to boards anymore asking if you are unlikable… stop judging yourself by online strangers, some of the worst bullying incidents online aren’t even a group of humans they are bot programs that a single bad person or biased interest group set upon somebody who was actually getting popular for doing what is right and good. I could find a link but couldn’t post one here those targets who make news are too political for the mlparena site.

Meanwhile even Facebook, it like experiments on users without their knowledge in attempts to sometimes make them sad:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/#582d46b6197c

If I could go back in time and give it to myself when I left home, the memo would have helped me skip a lot of painful people and self doubt. And because I had to learn the basics when I could remember them, I remember some things I think others forgot with childhood. Not every gift folk need, but sharing pain and awkwardness for others… it’s usually meant as one no matter if loved or scorned that.
 
I meant you to internalize less than you are doing here. And I wish you luck and happiness in your life.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Elva on January 06, 2019, 10:45:56 AM
Why does it feel so bad to sell the ponies I don't need or even like that much >_< I'm wrapping a few I sold in bubble wrap and for some reason I feel absolutely miserable :D Ugh. Suddenly Cuddles looks super cute, I don't want to let her go  :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 06, 2019, 11:12:23 AM
I tried an app for pen friends on the tablet, thinking it'd be a nice bit of fun but I ended up getting about 5 letters all at once, and it set my anxiety off really badly, so I've just had to give up and deleted my account on there. I feel bad for not responding to the letters I received and don't want to seem ignorant or unapproachable, but at the same time I can't really handle something that aggravates my nerves that badly. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 06, 2019, 12:16:54 PM
I tried an app for pen friends on the tablet, thinking it'd be a nice bit of fun but I ended up getting about 5 letters all at once, and it set my anxiety off really badly, so I've just had to give up and deleted my account on there. I feel bad for not responding to the letters I received and don't want to seem ignorant or unapproachable, but at the same time I can't really handle something that aggravates my nerves that badly. :/
I have the same problem! I have several PMs across several forums that I'm probably never going to answer, not because I don't want to, but because I'm too nervous about it. I'm simultaneously sorry that you have this problem and happy that I'm not the only one :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 06, 2019, 06:28:36 PM
Can also relate to extreme introvert social problems :huh:

My current complaint is one of my meds (no idea which, they were all changed/added recently) is making my tongue kinda numb and a bad taste in my throat. Bleh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 07, 2019, 09:27:44 AM
I want to know why meteorologists get paid.  On the news website it says it is currently overcast in my area with no chance of snow.  Yet I look outside and it is snowing.  Really people?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 07, 2019, 11:43:51 AM
I want to know why meteorologists get paid.  On the news website it says it is currently overcast in my area with no chance of snow.  Yet I look outside and it is snowing.  Really people?

That happened in my city in December. The meteorologist said we'd only get a dusting of snow and we had 10 1/2 inches of snow.


Today's complaint: I ordered 3 things from Amazon.com last Wed and they were advertising free shipping (non prime) until January 31st. My estimated delivery window is this week and my items haven't shipped yet.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 07, 2019, 01:12:56 PM
When people just let their kids shriek and act up while they just sit there and don't even do anything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 07, 2019, 01:36:44 PM
Frozen rain pellets , just what we need.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 07, 2019, 02:27:51 PM
Left nostril hurts, think I’m getting another boil up there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on January 07, 2019, 03:16:32 PM
This is so first world but I don't have my own washer/dryer. Instead, I have to use one of the ones in my apartment complex. The walk isn't that far but it's a pain when the weather's bad and or something happens overnight. They don't open till 8 AM.

Also, I can relate to the medication thing. My first anti-seizure medication seriously messed with my sense of taste.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 07, 2019, 04:24:34 PM
I was reading an article on the local news site about how too many kids are obese.  Every comment was about how it's the parents fault because they let their kids play too many video games.  Not one comment about how all the schools are cutting out recess...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 07, 2019, 05:14:42 PM
I  hate being stressed out about a job interview... *crosses hooves*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 07, 2019, 05:35:42 PM
It got up to 70 today. I know most people would be happy, but the only thing a warm temperature does in the winter is agitate me because it makes my room too warm. It only got down to 60 last night, which just allowed even more for uncomfortably air to sink in. I live with my parents again so I have no control over the air conditioner so I just have to put up with being uncomfortable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 07, 2019, 06:24:57 PM
Can also relate to extreme introvert social problems :huh:

My current complaint is one of my meds (no idea which, they were all changed/added recently) is making my tongue kinda numb and a bad taste in my throat. Bleh.
They took me on and off so many when I was younger I don’t remember anymore what mine was called… and of course ain’t saying it’s definitely the same... but good luck. The one I had, when I complained to them they said it must be my “dissolve-able”… I didn’t need an easier to swallow pill, but for whatever reason it was the only version they had in stock for a while. Tart juice ready in my mouth before the pill and gulping fast helped a little… but only a little. Horrid tasteaftertaste, and bump any part on the way down it’s like you swallowed 15 times a spider web in that area of your throat-mouth-tongue… (Cough my er… dusty coffee cups I’d bought to entertain didn’t get used for a while except by the spider once or twice! That one also took a little detective work to figure out… invisible spiderwebs need soap and HOT water to break up, not just a cool rinse under tap.) :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on January 07, 2019, 07:39:03 PM
Have no problem swallowing pills but all of the anti-seizure medications I've been on have been horrible. Always seems to get stuck in my throat and it takes me chugging whatever drink I have. To get them to go down or keep from getting stuck.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 07, 2019, 08:03:51 PM
Turns out I've got a throat infection, I've had these symptoms for 6 weeks and the doctor has refused to give me antibiotics for another 2 weeks. I've had really bad trouble sleeping the past few weeks along with being sick during the night and it's even worse now that I'm back to college and my work placements. I wish this infection would just go away  :(
I'd love to call in sick but I Just don't (For some reason I forgot to put that word in XD) want to be selfish and take time off.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 08, 2019, 09:38:38 AM
@StrawberrySundance

It's not selfish to take care of yourself.

On the other hand -- think about it if you are contagious. :/ It could be life threatening for others. (I know some people have no choice and need money but man oh man I hate when people come in sick)

I  hate being stressed out about a job interview... *crosses hooves*
I hope you get it !! :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 08, 2019, 10:11:06 AM
@StrawberrySundance

It's not selfish to take care of yourself.

On the other hand -- think about it if you are contagious. :/ It could be life threatening for others. (I know some people have no choice and need money but man oh man I hate when people come in sick)

I  hate being stressed out about a job interview... *crosses hooves*
I hope you get it !! :)

I called in sick, the last thing I want to do is make others ill.


Got lots of college work to focus on, but I'm getting through it! Although it doesn't help when they don't give you a proper deadline and just say 'hand it in in January'   :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 08, 2019, 03:18:54 PM
:hug: to StrawberrySundance, feel better soon - also :hug: to Beldarna.

So today is my first day back after the break. First day of the new academic term...

That in itself is fine. Just the admin dept at my university really need re-employing or re-training. Last term I wasn't on the timetable, I got told to fill in registers for a course I don't teach, and HR told me my contract ended in March when it ends in May. So I should have been prepared...however...

I get to my 10am class. Except the classroom has changed. Without anyone telling me or my students. That's bad enough but I have navigation issues, so any room changes are meant to be communicated to me well in advance to make sure I know how to find that room and that there's no issues. This did not happen.

It also wasn't an isolated incident as my afternoon class had also moved. But after the morning incident I thought to check. This one was also without any notice, and worse, in the building I have the most trouble navigating. So I had to waste some time figuring out where it was well before class, since I go right from lecture to class and don't have time to get lost. All this when I needed to go speak to the doctoral school about my viva, not flap around finding my classrooms.

My students, again, weren't told. They were also very confused. One of them asked me why the rooms changed. I wish I had an answer to give that didn't involve "timetabling sucks."

All in all I managed to teach my classes, find my classes, and get through my day, but it meant internalising a lot more stress than I normally would in order to teach the class professionally and not let the students down. It made me angry in particular because while a lapse in communication can happen, it's written specifically on my staff record that I need to know about room changes. And it could easily have meant that these classes didn't run today, if the rooms had been in places I couldn't find or if, this morning, I hadn't had students with me to help figure it out.

On top of that my convener has made some changes to one of the courses without telling me. I wouldn't mind but again I found out this morning. But it turns out the material he added isn't essential, it's just for the students if they want to expand their reading...so that was a lesser panic.

First day of term, done. Really looking forward to the rest of it. And this is just the teaching. Not even the bit when I have to format and submit my thesis, which is coming up fast now...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 09, 2019, 04:28:22 AM
:hug: to StrawberrySundance, feel better soon

Thank you Taffeta :hug:
Sorry to hear that all this disorganisation is going on at the university, it sounds exactly like my college- ugh it's super annoying.

First day back at college and I'm still feeling terrible, I've had 3 hours sleep, I accidentally slept in 30 minutes, I had a bit of a break down in the car, my fingerprint didn't work in the café (luckily I could use my student ID) and the childcare classrooms have no windows that actually open so it was very warm especially being in a class room 9-12. I'm an hour away from home too, I cannot wait to get home and sleep...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 09, 2019, 09:52:14 AM
:hug: to StrawberrySundance, feel better soon - also :hug: to Beldarna.

So today is my first day back after the break. First day of the new academic term...

That in itself is fine. Just the admin dept at my university really need re-employing or re-training. Last term I wasn't on the timetable, I got told to fill in registers for a course I don't teach, and HR told me my contract ended in March when it ends in May. So I should have been prepared...however...

I get to my 10am class. Except the classroom has changed. Without anyone telling me or my students. That's bad enough but I have navigation issues, so any room changes are meant to be communicated to me well in advance to make sure I know how to find that room and that there's no issues. This did not happen.

It also wasn't an isolated incident as my afternoon class had also moved. But after the morning incident I thought to check. This one was also without any notice, and worse, in the building I have the most trouble navigating. So I had to waste some time figuring out where it was well before class, since I go right from lecture to class and don't have time to get lost. All this when I needed to go speak to the doctoral school about my viva, not flap around finding my classrooms.

My students, again, weren't told. They were also very confused. One of them asked me why the rooms changed. I wish I had an answer to give that didn't involve "timetabling sucks."

All in all I managed to teach my classes, find my classes, and get through my day, but it meant internalising a lot more stress than I normally would in order to teach the class professionally and not let the students down. It made me angry in particular because while a lapse in communication can happen, it's written specifically on my staff record that I need to know about room changes. And it could easily have meant that these classes didn't run today, if the rooms had been in places I couldn't find or if, this morning, I hadn't had students with me to help figure it out.

On top of that my convener has made some changes to one of the courses without telling me. I wouldn't mind but again I found out this morning. But it turns out the material he added isn't essential, it's just for the students if they want to expand their reading...so that was a lesser panic.

First day of term, done. Really looking forward to the rest of it. And this is just the teaching. Not even the bit when I have to format and submit my thesis, which is coming up fast now...


That's a lot at the start of one new class. I hope your campus has a rights/cultural group led by students with disabilities, many don't. Some of these, like Syracuse U. in the U.S.A. that do had an online email list for the topic around the nation. Easier to go through disregard of the accommodation and any such battles with people who get the gripe is more than you being about you. Stay strong & hope you are soon back to relaxing and teaching your classroom.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 09, 2019, 01:44:49 PM
I can't find the courage to apply for a new job. I thought I'd lessen the pressure by simply offering to volunteer at a nonprofit thrift store for a while, but even that leaves me paralyzed with fear, just thinking about it. At least I might be able to solve this with even more fear, since I'm even more terrified of becoming a deadbeat :cloud:
I wish I could be not useless and not scared at the same time...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 09, 2019, 02:23:49 PM
I can't find the courage to apply for a new job. I thought I'd lessen the pressure by simply offering to volunteer at a nonprofit thrift store for a while, but even that leaves me paralyzed with fear, just thinking about it. At least I might be able to solve this with even more fear, since I'm even more terrified of becoming a deadbeat :cloud:
I wish I could be not useless and not scared at the same time...
Yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xp22IYL2uU
Have you tried being a tad gentler with yourself? Kicking ourselves when down isn't something we really have to do these days when we are a bit different than others and need it understood or to explain to family... leaking in are some gentler ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eee7h7uVbiY
Man I struggle with it too so good luck, some days though the most productive thing left to do is to give yourself a break and sleep it off if you need to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 09, 2019, 03:19:34 PM
I wish that stupid "who is watching in [insert current year]?" trend on YouTube would die already, seriously. :hmm: I really don't care if you think you're "cool" because you are watching a video from before you were born. If I scroll down to read the comments I am doing so because I am interested in other people's opinions about the song, but I all I get is "who is watching in [insert current year]?" 7465823477485923229 times. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 09, 2019, 03:22:27 PM
:hug: to StrawberrySundance, feel better soon - also :hug: to Beldarna.

So today is my first day back after the break. First day of the new academic term...

That in itself is fine. Just the admin dept at my university really need re-employing or re-training. Last term I wasn't on the timetable, I got told to fill in registers for a course I don't teach, and HR told me my contract ended in March when it ends in May. So I should have been prepared...however...

I get to my 10am class. Except the classroom has changed. Without anyone telling me or my students. That's bad enough but I have navigation issues, so any room changes are meant to be communicated to me well in advance to make sure I know how to find that room and that there's no issues. This did not happen.

It also wasn't an isolated incident as my afternoon class had also moved. But after the morning incident I thought to check. This one was also without any notice, and worse, in the building I have the most trouble navigating. So I had to waste some time figuring out where it was well before class, since I go right from lecture to class and don't have time to get lost. All this when I needed to go speak to the doctoral school about my viva, not flap around finding my classrooms.

My students, again, weren't told. They were also very confused. One of them asked me why the rooms changed. I wish I had an answer to give that didn't involve "timetabling sucks."

All in all I managed to teach my classes, find my classes, and get through my day, but it meant internalising a lot more stress than I normally would in order to teach the class professionally and not let the students down. It made me angry in particular because while a lapse in communication can happen, it's written specifically on my staff record that I need to know about room changes. And it could easily have meant that these classes didn't run today, if the rooms had been in places I couldn't find or if, this morning, I hadn't had students with me to help figure it out.

On top of that my convener has made some changes to one of the courses without telling me. I wouldn't mind but again I found out this morning. But it turns out the material he added isn't essential, it's just for the students if they want to expand their reading...so that was a lesser panic.

First day of term, done. Really looking forward to the rest of it. And this is just the teaching. Not even the bit when I have to format and submit my thesis, which is coming up fast now...


That's a lot at the start of one new class. I hope your campus has a rights/cultural group led by students with disabilities, many don't. Some of these, like Syracuse U. in the U.S.A. that do had an online email list for the topic around the nation. Easier to go through disregard of the accommodation and any such battles with people who get the gripe is more than you being about you. Stay strong & hope you are soon back to relaxing and teaching your classroom.

Thanks :)

My university complains about a lot of things but disability in regards to student representation has only really found a voice this past year when the SU realised it was roundly hated for some of its other behaviour...

I am stubborn though. And well used to dealing with this kind of thing. I know it wasn't malicious, it's just complete lack of attention that does it. People don't understand disabilities they can't see and so don't take them seriously/ignore them/forget them etc. But I have informed the proper people and my convener is on my side anyway.

Discrimination through ignorance is probably better than discrimination through spite, but it creates just as much annoyance.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 10, 2019, 07:46:10 AM
I'm creating a maze for a Harry Potter escape room and the effect that worked at home isn't working when I try to do it at work.  Waah!  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 10, 2019, 08:07:50 AM
I have been getting telemarketing calls constantly for the last few days. It's same 2 or 3 numbers. They hang up and call back 5 minutes later. This can last for several hours a day.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 10, 2019, 09:35:18 AM
I have been getting telemarketing calls constantly for the last few days. It's same 2 or 3 numbers. They hang up and call back 5 minutes later. This can last for several hours a day.


Ponyfan

I've gotten these a lot lately, too.  I ignore the call unless I recognize the number and they keep using different numbers from different states.  They're spoofing them and someone texted me to tell me that they'd gotten missed calls from me that I didn't make (and I told them that I thought my number was being spoofed and to ignore them) so I don't think anyone's number is safe.  I think they're calling initially to see when you are likely to answer.  I have found that if I ignore them and don't answer, they don't call as often because they're getting the hint that I'm not going to answer.  If you're in the states, report them to the Do Not Call Registry (donotcall.gov) if you are registered because they're not supposed to be calling you.  It's illegal once you're registered on that list.  And if you're not on it, go ahead and register for it.  It's free and you only have to sign up once and you're on the list for life. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 10, 2019, 11:39:52 AM
Yikes, customs charges! I treated myself to a record for my birthday but the only way I could get the specific edition I've wanted for years now was to get it from America, so it's arrived safely but I had to pay an extra £16 to retrieve it from the post office. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 13, 2019, 03:11:01 PM
I have been getting telemarketing calls constantly for the last few days. It's same 2 or 3 numbers. They hang up and call back 5 minutes later. This can last for several hours a day.


Ponyfan

I've gotten these a lot lately, too.  I ignore the call unless I recognize the number and they keep using different numbers from different states.  They're spoofing them and someone texted me to tell me that they'd gotten missed calls from me that I didn't make (and I told them that I thought my number was being spoofed and to ignore them) so I don't think anyone's number is safe.  I think they're calling initially to see when you are likely to answer.  I have found that if I ignore them and don't answer, they don't call as often because they're getting the hint that I'm not going to answer.  If you're in the states, report them to the Do Not Call Registry (donotcall.gov) if you are registered because they're not supposed to be calling you.  It's illegal once you're registered on that list.  And if you're not on it, go ahead and register for it.  It's free and you only have to sign up once and you're on the list for life. 

 They are calling up to 7 times a day 15-20 minutes apart. My numbers are on the Do Not Call List so I’m not sure how they getting around it.


Today’s complaint:  I went out to eat and one of the bus boys reconigezed me. We went to school together when we were in grade school. I’ve seen him a few times since then as an adult and he always says Hi and today he gave me a hug but the thing is the only time we communicate is when we see each other in passing so I guess I should be flattered that I still look young enough that he would reconige me. He told someone that he is older than me when really we’re the same age. I don’t understand why he seems attracted to me maybe he’s just being extra friendly.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 13, 2019, 11:15:23 PM
Fire alarm went off at 4.30 this morning. Students burning toast. Apparently. Who cooks toast at 4.30 am on a Monday? I mean, seriously?

Fire engines and everything. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 14, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
*sigh* I've just had to block someone on Instagram because they don't know when to back the *heck* up. I mean I wouldn't mind receiving a few messages from them if we'd actually communicated before, but this person just came out of nowhere and it's messages, message, endless flaming messages! Not to mention mithering me in comments because I hadn't responded to one of their DMs just... stop. I don't want to seem standoffish or unpleasant, I do genuinely want to connect and communicate with people even if it does often fry my nerves, but I can't be fielding whatever kind of problem it is that causes this kind of incessant mithering from total strangers. It didn't really help that another person in the same day DMed me after I'd liked one of their posts, asking me to comment as well. I would've commented if I'd had something to say, yeesh. :pout:
It bugs me a lot when stuff like this happens because I really enjoy seeing other people's pictures and sharing my own, but when stuff like this happens it just kind of knocks the shine off a bit. Hmmph.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 14, 2019, 06:57:01 AM
I've been ill since yesterday. I'm having a hard time sleeping, I just feel terrible. I was about to doze off when the prisoners showed up for maintenance on the road out back. Lawnmowers, weeders, leaf blowers and guards barking orders over it all.

Plus, the cut grass is going to make my allergies flare up. I closed my window but it's too late.

I just want some sleep :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 14, 2019, 09:21:49 AM
I have been getting telemarketing calls constantly for the last few days. It's same 2 or 3 numbers. They hang up and call back 5 minutes later. This can last for several hours a day.


Ponyfan

I've gotten these a lot lately, too.  I ignore the call unless I recognize the number and they keep using different numbers from different states.  They're spoofing them and someone texted me to tell me that they'd gotten missed calls from me that I didn't make (and I told them that I thought my number was being spoofed and to ignore them) so I don't think anyone's number is safe.  I think they're calling initially to see when you are likely to answer.  I have found that if I ignore them and don't answer, they don't call as often because they're getting the hint that I'm not going to answer.  If you're in the states, report them to the Do Not Call Registry (donotcall.gov) if you are registered because they're not supposed to be calling you.  It's illegal once you're registered on that list.  And if you're not on it, go ahead and register for it.  It's free and you only have to sign up once and you're on the list for life. 

 They are calling up to 7 times a day 15-20 minutes apart. My numbers are on the Do Not Call List so I’m not sure how they getting around it.


I would definitely report them.  Then they'll get in trouble.  I've found that when I report them the calls stop within a day or two.

Today's trivial complaint...I have ice cream in the freezer at work and I don't feel like eating it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 14, 2019, 11:31:49 AM
I just learned that my online French II course is a fast track course that starts in March. Yikes. Language classes are something I'm already so antsy about taking online, but being a fast track course, too?

There were no other options for online French II, now I may have to strongly reconsider taking the Tuesday/Thursday in person class, but that would stress me out.

Why aren't there any other options for online courses? I thought there would be a full semester online French II just like French I and that would keep things simple, but for some reason there isn't. Very strange. *sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 15, 2019, 08:33:03 AM
I have to get up at 5am for work tomorrow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 15, 2019, 04:39:54 PM
I guess this isn't trivial, and I don't know, yet, if it is a complaint or not. But I think our government may be about to implode...



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 15, 2019, 10:28:42 PM
I guess this isn't trivial, and I don't know, yet, if it is a complaint or not. But I think our government may be about to implode...

I saw a bit of the debate before the vote on the news and wow are your politics loud, obnoxious and full of bad words. I could hardly keep up. Watching my own politics debate is like watching a boring documentary about a slug race in comparison.

I wish I could have a government to complain about. The election was in september and they still don't agree. We get to know today if we get a new government or a new election.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 16, 2019, 03:19:29 AM
I guess this isn't trivial, and I don't know, yet, if it is a complaint or not. But I think our government may be about to implode...

I saw a bit of the debate before the vote on the news and wow are your politics loud, obnoxious and full of bad words. I could hardly keep up. Watching my own politics debate is like watching a boring documentary about a slug race in comparison

Considering what's at stake, I'd take the slug race. In any event, I believe there are some rules in our parliament which means that the MPs can be very direct and even insulting to each other providing they follow the etiquette of referring to each other as right honourable friend...

This is probably the most heatedly debated issue of my lifetime, certainly the most heatedly debated issue in UK parliament of the 21st century. The problem is that the UK don't really do referendums a lot, and the first referendum only asked "remain" or "leave" without any follow up research into what form people wanted to leave. So now parliament is split into so many factions - remain, another referendum, a Norway type deal, no deal, the deal from the EU...

It's also made more complicated by legal obligations to Northern Ireland which in the case of no deal could revert us back to the way things were before the Good Friday agreement. And since the pro EU nationalist MPs for NI don't bother to come to parliament because they don't want to swear an oath to the Queen, it means that only one set of NI MP voices are heard - those who care passionately about staying in the UK and who won't tolerate any form of even temporary alignment with the EU if the rest of the UK is not so aligned.

So there are so many divergent views. It didn't surprise me the deal got rejected, but its not as though the people who rejected it agree on what should be done next...

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 16, 2019, 08:24:39 AM
It snowed last night.  That isn't an issue, except that they didn't plow so I couldn't make it in to work this morning.  I tried, but after a few miles going ridiculously slow over roads covered in slush over ice, I decided it wasn't worth it.  And it's supposed to get warm enough to rain tomorrow and then turn into snow at night.  So Friday will basically be snow over LOTS of ice...

And now I feel a little guilty for not going in because even though it is still snowing, the traffic cams in town are showing fairly clear roads but the traffic cam on the highway between my house and town hasn't updated in over half an hour so I don't know if the roads are clear enough to try to go in but I think I could make it.  So now I'm torn between just taking the whole day or attempting to go in even though there's no really pressing reason to go in.  Sometimes liking my job is a pain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on January 16, 2019, 03:38:26 PM
Someone called 5 minutes before the end of the... half hour phone call later I finally get to head home. *collapses*

I got home, threw the pizza in the oven, made a hot chocolate, wrapped up in my fuzzy housecoat, put on the tv, and have vowed not to move for the rest of the night.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 17, 2019, 10:36:27 AM
Crap. The stuff in our rickety shed is soaked.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ladybastilla on January 17, 2019, 11:35:18 AM
They're forecasting that we're about to get a foot of snow and jump from 0 degrees to minus 30. Guess I'd better get ready to be a potential guest on Arthritis Bingo. Ouch!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 17, 2019, 12:09:30 PM
We might get over a foot of snow in my sate, and the wind chill monday will be below zero, guess who works the weekend, then is off Monday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 17, 2019, 07:11:18 PM
My allergies have been triggered from the mold -__-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 18, 2019, 01:44:25 AM
I'm getting a bit annoyed with politicians as well. First the prime minister urges Norwegian women to have more babies, to make sure the next generation is big enough to fill the available jobs. At the same time, the people in charge don't want Norway to accept as many immigrants as other European countries, because we don't have enough available jobs for them. Something doesn't add up here :wonder:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 18, 2019, 06:40:08 AM
I would also like to complain about the government. Social Security is promising to stay open during this dumb shutdown. The courts have enough to stay operating until the 25th (they estimate). My Social Security Disability hearing is Feb 4th in a regular courthouse. Sooo... if this lasts until then, do I still go? Does it fall on the SS side or the Judiciary side?

I've been on the phone trying to get to a person at SS since they opened this morning but it's not going through :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 18, 2019, 01:56:56 PM
It feels like we need a Complaints: Politics edition thread. Except of course the mods probably would not like that because it would almost certainly explode.

@BlackCurtains - I have had ongoing trauma with disability related stuff like that over here, largely because in my case the dept in question decided that they could deny my claim if they just acted like I didn't have any evidence. I hope yours doesn't get too messed about by the shutdown :/

Also it seems like what's going on over there with people not being paid is a bit...scary. O.o.

I think a lot of govts at the moment really are not in touch with real people. I'm starting to wonder if ours is populated by real people, or droids. I'm also debating whether Brexit would be better off decided by primary school kids. It might mean bigger candy imports, but I am fairly sure they'd do a better job of being decisive.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 18, 2019, 03:15:43 PM
I don't like it when people talk about politics :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on January 18, 2019, 06:45:09 PM
You are welcome to start a thread like that, but it would need to be in WYP (not fitting for the Off Topic forum), and it would be closely monitored to make sure it was just general venting and no member attacking.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 18, 2019, 10:35:26 PM
As of yesterday I have a government to complain about. And the racist party is not part of it! :biggrin: The compilation is weird and I'm not sure how it will hold but it's still the best of the two options. It only took four months and two partys to leave a strong alliance and join the good side.

Complaint of the day: It's easier to walk than to bike in the cold. Meaning I have to be out for a longer period of time to go to work but at least it wont taste like blood in my mouth.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 18, 2019, 11:47:24 PM
Thinking too much of final thesis submission logistics, ended up working on revisions from about 4 till now which is almost 8am UK time.

The Doctoral School (who I have mentioned before, I hate) have still not got back to me about help with submission logistics (because I have issues with logistics and the instructions are far from clear enough for me to follow on my own). I went to see them on the 8th and was told I would hear from them soon about an appointment to do this.

It is now 19th and no contact, despite my sending them a follow up message.

I have explained to them why I have a tight schedule (examiner going on study leave in April) and that I need help to do this else I won't submit on time. And yet, nothing.

I hate the Doctoral School. Right now it is the biggest obstacle to me submitting on time.

Ironically.

Technically I have until September to submit, but if I do that it will have to be a different examiner and new forms and new arrangements. And so more logistics with the DS. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 19, 2019, 10:03:38 AM
:( I just broke our only sled in the middle of the snow storm.

AND the layers of snow are so crummy I can't seem to be able to make a decent snow ball. (2 inches of wet snow on the bottom, half an inch of hard crusty snow, and now 3 inches of fluffy snow).

I guess all I can do is make snow angels.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 19, 2019, 10:17:28 AM
Super trivial, but yesterday I saw that they had Sylvanian Families at the toy store, I had no idea they even still made them! I'm so in love... But those prices! :crazy: I can't believe how expensive they are. Of course they are super nicely made, so it's totally worth it, but I don't have that kind of money. When I have a little extra I will get something, but with those prices it's never gonna be a collection. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 19, 2019, 11:40:30 AM
I hate that there is no public transportation in this crummy place :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 19, 2019, 01:38:25 PM
I was asked to do some soup in the microwave earlier, because I share a house with a lazy specimen who couldn't be bothered to do it himself, basically. I really can't do soup. Even if it's not me who's eating it, it just grosses me out. Doesn't help that lazybones wanted me to do cock-a-leekie, which is just the pukiest consistency I have ever encountered in something that is ostensibly food. Blechh!  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 19, 2019, 02:11:24 PM
I can’t do soup either.

I’ve got wind terrible, and my tummy hurts.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 19, 2019, 02:23:41 PM
All we can manage for snow "storms" where I live anymore is a trace. This is so depressing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 19, 2019, 03:08:29 PM
You are welcome to start a thread like that, but it would need to be in WYP (not fitting for the Off Topic forum), and it would be closely monitored to make sure it was just general venting and no member attacking.

With all respect, it may not be trivial what people had been discussing but due to the way the forum works not everyone can post to WYP either.

Warning to skip it if you want:
We meanwhile have many members who have daily life problems created by trivial politicians not themselves that aren't so trivial for forum members when we examine them. Meanwhile the mods risk non-minorities making it seem better than it is by telling us all to post about in the trivial so long as we can just keep it light because some cant WYP anyway. UMM everypony, those border/trade-wars lately are much more dire for many forum members than the access to a nirvana pony. The good news sounds like bad news and the bad news I can’t properly inform nor does the arena feel the place.

The good news (at least in the US):
If there is a delay in new benefits I know that usually there is sometimes financial help before approval depending on the situation: https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-expedite-ussi.htm can’t hurt to ask. Those who’s USA disability Social Security benefits had been approved can in all likelihood continue to receive some partial amount while homeless https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-homeless.htm until at least Sept. even without housing as SSA luckily was funded through Sept. before the shutdown occurred from what I have heard https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T051-C000-S003-government-shutdown-delay-social-security-benefits.html .
Even if no one fixes mysteriously poorly prepared HUD https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/house-democrats-investigate-hud-s-failure-act-shutdown-threatens-affordable-n956521
and we start receiving our eviction notices we should have a roof over our heads until at least March or April as we have to legally get 30 days https://realestate.findlaw.com/landlord-tenant-law/rules-for-landlords-and-property-managers-when-evicting-a-tenant.html which gets us through winter in most parts but FYI saving for an emergency ticket south if winters are harsh http://dignityrollerpod.blogspot.com/p/how-to-build-your-own.html may be worth the cost of late fines later over some of your bills. (Don't judge yourselves.)

The censored bad news:
If you are a disabled American (I am one and also rely on HUD housing) who knows much about the hate that is still out here the wall ought scare you more than homelessness (yes I've also been homeless). The first budget war of their indifference at best was about the expense of our healthcare citizens included… (many not able to avoid stressing over that one who have more distaste for politics than those who avoided the topic at the time will ever be able to comprehend) I’m seeing historical intersections. I would rather think of unicorns only but know that light political discussions are a luxury to the few whom complain about those who cannot afford the luxury along with them. What are we to do? I am in solidarity with every forum member regardless of your documentation. Just don't PM me about stuff you should keep private because I DO think more than the Mods monitor folk online esp. around people who care like me.
Peace and eventual prosperity all. I'd rather everyone feel safe here whether your daily lives have been 'politicized' without your sayso... or you happen to still live in the happy bliss of the ignorant and well.
Otherwise, again thank you Mods for getting us back on ponies. I do need some rainbow in my sky.  :rainbow:

 





Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 19, 2019, 04:40:13 PM
I can't upload pictures in BMP format onto DeviantArt-even though I used to be able to.  I'm not sure when they changed that.  I have to re-save them as PNGs in order to upload them.  It's just annoying that i have to do that extra step.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 20, 2019, 05:05:25 AM
I hate that feeling of needing to do something when I literally can do nothing more on my work until next week.

I also really need to know if the university's stupid declaration has to count in my word count. I say stupid because it's also on the submission form and while I do not mind signing any number of forms saying I haven't plagiarised, I would rather not lose 100 words of my own thesis work in order to reiterate something I've already said.

People who plagiarise annoy me so much. They make the rest of us jump through so many hoops to prove we aren't plagiarising, when it really shouldn't be that way.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on January 20, 2019, 09:27:17 AM
No one said that political issues themselves were trivial, or that they couldn't be discussed, just that this is not the appropriate place to discuss them. Off Topic is and always has been for lighter topics, while WYP is for heavier and more sensitive topics. WYP becomes available to members one they reach 210 posts, which is not an unreasonable requirement. This was put in place to support the safety of the community, given the nature of the forum.

I am putting an official warning on this thread to keep things appropriate, light topics. This thread is intended for smaller issues, things that only need a 30 second vent and not their own bigger thread. Any further deep discussion/larger issue posts will be deleted from this thread.

If anyone has further questions or comments about this, you can PM me directly.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: leonaenae on January 20, 2019, 10:40:35 AM
OUCH
I was clipping my cats claws and he did one of those WIGGLE FLAIL moves and his claw SNAGGED the meaty part of the base of my finger and gave me a nice little stinging scratch.

EEEEEEEEEEEEK
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 20, 2019, 11:12:58 AM
x_x the noises in the wall/against the house are gonna drive me crazy!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 20, 2019, 10:55:30 PM
I saw an add about kittens for sale and the pictures were adorable and when I looked at the map they were in my city so I saved it to show hubby when he came home from work. We both fell in love with one female and talked about contacting the seller so I clicked on the map to show hubby where they were located and the map showed a small town an hour drive from here. Turned out the location in my city was for another add I accidentally clicked on and had not noticed. We don't have a car and wanted to meet the litter before deciding and now we can't so the kitten is out of the question. I am so bummed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loreofyore on January 21, 2019, 01:40:03 AM
 :rainbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_etIOISgyQ  :lol:
Whatever's wrong hang in there!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2019, 03:43:55 AM
:rainbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_etIOISgyQ  :lol:
Whatever's wrong hang in there!

It's entirely off topic but I have always found that song beautiful in its irony :)

...Still waiting for an email from the Doctoral School. Going to storm them tomorrow if I don't hear anything as they are now holding up my submission...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 21, 2019, 07:09:36 AM
I went to write some dates for later in the year in my 2018/2019 diary. Turns out it only goes up to the end of July 2019... :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2019, 08:46:04 AM
Father told uncle what I may plan to apply for after I finish my degree.

I am a great believer in a: not jinxing myself by talking about future plans in detail and b: not putting pressure on myself in case I change my mind or I don't succeed, because I don't see why I should then have to explain myself to the whole of my family.

My uncle is also not in my good books as he doesn't seem to always remember he has two nieces, and sends stuff for my sister's birthday but not mine.

He therefore has no right of knowledge in this case.

So now I had to field his enquiring emails.

Dad owes me cake.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 21, 2019, 10:12:07 AM
Wind chill today is around -20 so I am not going outside for some lovely winter pics
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 21, 2019, 09:15:35 PM
Why does everyone in my family have to complicate the simplest things?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 22, 2019, 02:11:42 AM
Put my headphones in on the train and turned on my music app, only to find a majority of my songs have disappeared... :mad:


Edit: Got to college and we are in a large computer area due to some of us doing our course exams and some of us are finishing off booklet work. Although there's a huge sign outside on the door saying 'Do Not Enter- Booked by group' and 'Exam in progress' people are still walking in, sitting at computers and being completely ignorant when the lecturer is saying 'sorry this room is closed right now due to exams'  :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on January 22, 2019, 07:45:53 AM
For some mysterious reason, my older brother's room has been causing his dust allergy to act up, so my mom asked me to clean it for him. Some of the stuff in there seemed like it hadn't been properly cleaned in years, if ever. My brother knows he's allergic to dust, why doesn't he dust his own room every once in a while? :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 22, 2019, 11:14:33 AM
My external hard drive has broken, and the laptop wasn't working properly, so I put all of my data on there, and of course it had to break before I could get another drive to back everything up, just in case something exactly like this happened. Thanks for that!  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 22, 2019, 06:01:11 PM
I had a POTS flare today, my heart rate has been all over the place...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 22, 2019, 06:09:48 PM
I had a POTS flare today, my heart rate has been all over the place...

Aww Safflower I'm so sorry that happened, it sounds awful! I hope you're feeling better soon :hug:


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I'm thinking about heading back to the doctor's since this infection still hasn't left my system and I'm getting a little worried  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 22, 2019, 06:27:13 PM
Thanks Sundance :hug: It should be better by tomorrow. I'm really sorry your infection hasn't gone away, that's not good :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 22, 2019, 06:33:23 PM
Thanks Sundance :hug: It should be better by tomorrow. I'm really sorry your infection hasn't gone away, that's not good :(

You're welcome and thank you too! :hug:
It's a bit better than last week but it's been 8 weeks now since it started so something is not right  :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 22, 2019, 06:37:50 PM
Thanks Sundance :hug: It should be better by tomorrow. I'm really sorry your infection hasn't gone away, that's not good :(

You're welcome and thank you too! :hug:
It's a bit better than last week but it's been 8 weeks now since it started so something is not right  :sick:
Yeesh, I hate stubborn things like that! I hope it gets better soon, it must be frustrating :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 22, 2019, 06:53:42 PM
Thanks Sundance :hug: It should be better by tomorrow. I'm really sorry your infection hasn't gone away, that's not good :(

You're welcome and thank you too! :hug:
It's a bit better than last week but it's been 8 weeks now since it started so something is not right  :sick:
Yeesh, I hate stubborn things like that! I hope it gets better soon, it must be frustrating :(

Me too it's a really stubborn little virus XD, the doctor told me I couldn't be prescribed medication for another two weeks (last time I went) since my anxiety may be the cause of the infection taking so long to leave. So hopefully if I go back they'll give me something, my throat is killing me so much from coughing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 23, 2019, 05:53:57 AM
@Strawberry Sundance - with the number of things going around at this time of year, maybe you're reinfecting yourself -ie picking up something else while your immune system is already down. Hope it gets better soon :(

There's no possibility it could be some kind of allergy?

My trivial complaint - I feel like I'm almost at the final hurdle with my thesis, and yet there feels like there's so much more work I should be doing.

And I have to rewatch a black and white japanese movie that I didn't really enjoy watching last year, in order to teach it next week...because my convener decided it would be discussed in tutorial and lecture, not just lecture...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 24, 2019, 12:12:00 PM
My boyfriend is a really good guy and I love him, but he wants to go to dinner and told me to wear something nice, because I never want to look good for him anymore.

 I know I'm not pretty like other girls, or as slim as I used to be, but he never acknowledges me when I do make an effort. But that girl over there has long, beautiful hair, and that one is cute, and why don't you dress like that in short skirts and high boots?

Well GEE! I wonder why I don't dress up for you anymore. And he tells me, "Stop! Your ticking me off!"  and "You always take it as an attack on you."

So I'm not allowed to be butthurt when he compliments other girls to me, but how dare I make him mad by pointing it out?   :mad:

Its one of the few things about him that really grinds my gears.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 24, 2019, 03:03:10 PM
I'm so sorry Leave a Whisper. :hug:

I've had classmates give me backhanded compliments all through school like "But you'd look so pretty without glasses"


I had a bad today today but can't talk to a really good friend about it because she is going through something that is a lot more important than venting about my bad day.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 24, 2019, 03:04:14 PM
My boyfriend is a really good guy and I love him, but he wants to go to dinner and told me to wear something nice, because I never want to look good for him anymore.

 I know I'm not pretty like other girls, or as slim as I used to be, but he never acknowledges me when I do make an effort. But that girl over there has long, beautiful hair, and that one is cute, and why don't you dress like that in short skirts and high boots?

Well GEE! I wonder why I don't dress up for you anymore. And he tells me, "Stop! Your ticking me off!"  and "You always take it as an attack on you."

So I'm not allowed to be butthurt when he compliments other girls to me, but how dare I make him mad by pointing it out?   :mad:

Its one of the few things about him that really grinds my gears.

What would his reaction be if you started commenting on other guys and making similar comparisons?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 24, 2019, 04:44:22 PM
@Strawberry Sundance - with the number of things going around at this time of year, maybe you're reinfecting yourself -ie picking up something else while your immune system is already down. Hope it gets better soon :(

There's no possibility it could be some kind of allergy?

Thank you Taffeta :hug:
That could be a possibility especially this time of year and since I'm on the bus/train 4 times a week (others may have something)
It could possibly be an allergy but I don't know if I'm allergic to anything, I've never had trouble in the past.


Another complaint- Had to get Spotify, seems my phone enjoys skipping songs a few seconds before the end or randomly pausing before the end  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on January 24, 2019, 06:18:37 PM
I partially dislocated my ankle! It didn't hurt and I popped it back in place, but it's definitely happened before and I just haven't realized it :blink: I did some research into what a subluxation feels like, so when I got a sharp pain in my ankle from walking (which is exactly how it was described...) I moved it and felt (and heard) it pop back.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BubbleTea on January 24, 2019, 06:58:36 PM
Pencils keep disappearing from me. It's scary.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 25, 2019, 09:56:29 AM
The knuckle-draggers that plague the industrial sector. They just operate on a level of "I want to do a thing and noone else matters".
For very good reason, we have an entry way with a big ol' sign stating that only members of staff are allowed in the factory but apparently that doesn't apply to this one super important meathead bloke. He didn't announce why he was here or anything, or ask to speak to the manager, just strode in and was like "I've got my pallet truck here" - what do you want me to do? A flaming backflip? I've got a pallet truck too! I asked him what he was there for because he could be literally anybody and he just repeated "I've got my pallet truck." Uh. Yeah. I know. I heard you. That doesn't tell me why you're coming into our factory without permission.
It keeps happening as well, there have been too many times that I've answered the door and asked "Can you wait here while I fetch the manager?" and they just come wandering on in. That's not waiting in the entry way really, is it.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 25, 2019, 02:48:34 PM
Argh. Ended up getting sick. u_u
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 25, 2019, 04:09:31 PM
That week when you see exactly FOUR of your registered students across tutorials for one history unit, and only ONE of the absent students bothered to email in.

There are still some students taking this unit that I have yet to meet. For a unit that began in OCTOBER.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 25, 2019, 11:13:35 PM
I woke up at 4 am with my left leg cramping. It's still doing it and I can't walk straight..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 26, 2019, 04:37:32 AM
I woke up at 4 am with my left leg cramping. It's still doing it and I can't walk straight..

I'm sorry. My legs cramp sometimes too and it's really painful.


Today's complaint. I should be sleeping in since it's the weekend but I work up extra early and couldn't go back to sleep.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 26, 2019, 05:35:46 AM
I woke up early today too. Must be something in the air...

I really don't know what to do with myself this weekend.

So I have my thesis to submit. But I can't do anything about that until I hear from the binder people, and speak to my disability advisor about stuff on Tuesday. So I can't do anything about that. One adviser is meant to have proofread a couple of bits of it a week ago but I still haven't heard from him so I'm not going to get any edits he suggests into the final submission.

I have two units to teach next week. One I already have the prep work from last year and I rewatched the film as well already. The other I've done the reading for and something of a powerpoint, even though the computers never work in that classroom. So that's done too.

Even though there's basically nothing I can do about anything this weekend, I still feel like I should be doing something work related...

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on January 26, 2019, 08:15:43 AM
There was some extremely questionable people in the city centre today. I had two young teens follow me around the make up section in a store (I wanted some new nail varnish) so I moved to the eye make up section and they followed me there, then the lipstick section- I took my phone out at this point as I had a missed call and they seemed to back away. I then had a woman almost charge into me when I was attempting to exit a busy store, I apologized straight away and she seemed to mumble to her friend something about me being an idiot. I also had a young teenage boy shout something to me as I went into the post office. Seriously, I don't understand people's actions at times, it doesn't help my anxiety much  :shrug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on January 26, 2019, 11:12:44 PM
My lower back cramps something awful so I total understand. That sounds scary StrawberrySundance, am glad they backed off. Really wish I could paint my black bookshelves white instead of the black they are. It's cheap plywood so don't know if I even can but I'd love to. My things look swallowed up by all the black plus it makes my living room look smaller.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 28, 2019, 01:21:30 AM
I've got this really nice blues solo from a Coheed and Cambria song going round in my head, which is fine because I like that song, but it's making me feel very inadequate about my guitar playing, even though I literally can't be bothered with solos, I just do rhythm and finger-picking. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 28, 2019, 02:00:39 AM
Help I’ve got Let it go going around my head.  :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 28, 2019, 06:52:30 PM
I know people are literally freezing and burning to death around the globe but it's 45° in south Florida right now and I am far too cold :brr:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 29, 2019, 12:03:13 AM
I woke up at 4 am with my left leg cramping. It's still doing it and I can't walk straight..

I'm sorry. My legs cramp sometimes too and it's really painful.

Ponyfan


Thanks :).

My lower back cramps something awful so I total understand. That sounds scary StrawberrySundance, am glad they backed off. Really wish I could paint my black bookshelves white instead of the black they are. It's cheap plywood so don't know if I even can but I'd love to. My things look swallowed up by all the black plus it makes my living room look smaller.



It's not that hard. I've painted a number of plywood furnitures and other types. Just sandpaper the surface thorougly so the paint has something to stick on and wash it with soapwater before you begin so all dust particles are removed. It might take a number of layers but in the end the result usually comes out fine :).



I don't want to go to work today. It's only 3,5 hours today and tomorrow I'm off completley. Still don't want to. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 29, 2019, 10:23:53 AM
We have these pumps at work, cast iron monstrosities that weigh a flaming tonne (well, 35kgs) and I had to pack one, so I lifted it up as best I could, then lost my grip on it at the last moment and it tore my hand up in three places as it fell - fortunately, it wasn't damaged but that's more than can be said for my hand! It'll be a relief when we've shipped the last of these annoying specimens and I'll never have to deal with them again!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 29, 2019, 12:09:33 PM
The binders that the doctoral school recommend I go to turn out to have closed down their binding department. Without telling anyone.

I can't navigate so now have to entrust it to somewhere I can't physically go to and do it all online. And hope for the best. Gah.

Meanwhile, I sense that the £ is going to have another spasm tonight...sigh.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 29, 2019, 10:02:55 PM
Let my 15-yr-old nephew borrow my GameBoy Advance SP to play Pokemon Gold.  When he gave it back to me the hinge was broken.  When I asked what happened, he told me it was like that when I gave it to him.  Um...no it wasn't.  I take care of my things and it really ticks me off when my family breaks my stuff and then tries to act like I'm just too stupid to notice.  I think I'm done letting anyone borrow anything without a $500 deposit.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 30, 2019, 03:29:22 AM
I haven't heard the furnance kick on

It's like -2 out

I am worried it's gonna break..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 30, 2019, 06:17:25 AM
My heater is actually working too well. It's not anywhere near as cold outside as it is up North (it's like in the upper teens) but it is certainly cool enough I shouldn't be burning up in my room! I switched rooms in the house - the one before was always too cold during the winter and too hot every other time of the year, now in my new room it has been reversed. Or at least it is too hot during the winter. The heater always works better than anything else.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 30, 2019, 06:31:42 AM
:/
That sounds like an insulation problem to be honest. And not with your room. With the colder rooms.

You should partially close the vent in your room.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 30, 2019, 06:38:52 AM
:/
That sounds like an insulation problem to be honest. And not with your room. With the colder rooms.

You should partially close the vent in your room.

Yeah... Unfortunately the vent in my room is too hard for me to close at all. I need to get my dad to do it for me, I guess.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 30, 2019, 07:36:03 AM
Maybe you should look into infrared thermography to see where the heat loss is in your house? I've read it's possible to do yourself, but also you can have a professional come in.

If you can get the other rooms to keep their heat, then your room will be more on par.

Otherwise just keep your door open, curtains open, and maybe crack a window.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 31, 2019, 07:26:33 AM
I hate trying to find a mechanic to do maintenance on my car!  I tried to get a quote from a website and it said to call the location for the prices.  Um...if you're not going to give me a quote online, why offer it?  If I wanted to wait until I got there to find out how much it was going to be I wouldn't bother to try and price it out online first.  My debit account has a spending limit so sometimes I need to be prepared with extra cash so I can pay it all at once with stuff like this.  I know car repairs can be expensive.  Plus, mechanics ignore what I tell them because I'm a girl and couldn't possibly know that the car I've been driving for 9 years needs routine maintenance or that something is out of the ordinary.   :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 31, 2019, 12:40:38 PM
I'm making a new signature, but I can't find a suitable background picture. :pout:

EDIT: Fixed it. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 31, 2019, 01:35:02 PM
A cold, cold wind is a-blowin' and I don't like it. Cold weather in general is okay but freezing winds have that awful 'biting' feel and I just can't be doing with it! :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 31, 2019, 01:39:09 PM
Totally have no work I need to do, yet feel guilty that I'm not doing it to such an extent that I just did my teaching preparation for NEXT week (even though I still haven't finished this week's teaching yet)...

Sigh.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 01, 2019, 08:35:47 AM
The convention I usually do AA at is lottery this year. :/ And since apps are opening so late, the other summer option is already closed...

*Sigh*

I look forward to to the con every year because its my only escape from my very stressful life. (And all profits go to spending money for the year).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 01, 2019, 08:41:39 AM
I sprained my wrist when I slipped on some ice two days ago. It's not that bad of a sprain, but it makes me less enthused to work tonight.
Also, I'm stuck at work during the Super Bowl with nothing to do all alone...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 01, 2019, 10:50:55 AM
Yet more injuries at work. I lost my grip on a tape gun yesterday and the teeth that cut through the tape dug themselves into the side of my hand (and it's in just the right place that it hurts like heck because simple everyday actions pull on the gashes), bashed and grazed both legs in the process of moving some pallets about, and there is a cut on my eyelid.
Never mind staying where it's warm, I'm staying where it's safe this weekend.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 01, 2019, 12:56:32 PM
Why do the phones keep ringing?! We have a landline and my dad and I have cell phones and all three have been ringing all day!

My anxiety is running high and my nerves are already frayed, I can't stand it! Everything is TOO LOUD and TOO BRIGHT and everyone is talking TOO MUCH.

I want to get away and hide in the deepest, darkest hole.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on February 02, 2019, 01:49:26 PM
My friend bailed on me for a concert we were supposed to see today. I should be used to this by now, but it always ticks me off. We planned this months ago, and she was still on board just a couple of days ago. She’s not even sick or anything, she just found something more fun to do I guess.

Oh well, I guess i’ll Just go it alone. If she had gone she has a tendency to want to leave stuff early, so I guess I’ll be able to stay as late as I want!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2019, 04:53:52 AM
I live in a hall full of morons.

Came out today to go do some basic shopping, to find the staircase blocked by a mattress. There is a lift down from my floor but that stairway is also the fire escape. So, when I came back from shopping, I went and moved the mattress (aka kicking it down the stairs and propping it up against the wall on the next floor down, as it's too heavy for me to lift). At least now the access is open again - but whatever idiot thought that was a good idea needs a slap.

While ranting, I also need to add that everyone goes crazy on a Sunday. The driving on the roads near my store was ridiculous, people doing turns in the middle of traffic and blocking turnings and such. And the driving of trolleys inside the store was just as bad. BUT the piece de resistance, I go to pay and on the automatic checkout there is a HUGE DEAD SPIDER.

I am fine with spiders, so long as they are alive. I cannot deal with dead bugs. If the spider had been alive, it would've been fine. In fact, I'd have been tempted to take it outside with me somewhere safer. But dead and half squashed on the scanner? Nope. Not using that till. Had to wait for the next one, and while scanning my shopping, my peripheral vision was people scanning stuff over the dead spider, squashing it further...

...Yeah. Not my favourite ever visit to Asda.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 04, 2019, 01:36:31 PM
I lost my voice to a cold earlier this week.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on February 05, 2019, 05:04:39 AM
I had a dream where my mom was yelling at me for whatever reason, and then she told my dad not to talk to me or cheer me up because "she's just too depressed to see past her own idiocy". A dream like that normally wouldn't bother me too much, but... I know for a fact that I've heard her say those exact words before, a long time ago. Not about me, but someone... One of my sisters? It must've been, my mom never speaks badly of non-family members. But that means one of my sisters has been depressed, and not only was our mom mean about it, I was completely oblivious. I mean, I'm a lot younger than my sisters, so it makes sense that I wouldn't have known what depression was back then, but still. I just wish it wasn't such a vague memory, so I'd at least know exactly what I'm regretting >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on February 05, 2019, 10:09:27 AM
My eyes think I have the flu. I don't. Yet they hurt, I can't keep them open and I have dark circles under them. This has been going on for three days now. Sweet.  >_<

My friend bailed on me for a concert we were supposed to see today. I should be used to this by now, but it always ticks me off. We planned this months ago, and she was still on board just a couple of days ago. She’s not even sick or anything, she just found something more fun to do I guess.

Oh well, I guess i’ll Just go it alone. If she had gone she has a tendency to want to leave stuff early, so I guess I’ll be able to stay as late as I want!

Ugh, I had a friend just like that... I understand the feeling completely! >_< Glad it has a good side too though!

Not trying to top your situation, but just for illustration: When we were about 8 she "couldn't" come to my birthday party because she had a new video game. She was my best friend, also my only friend... If I got a pony for every time she bailed on me, I'd have a huge collection. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 05, 2019, 11:00:37 AM
We got German Celebrations at work today, which is awesome, but I noticed that they have Milky Way Crispy Rolls in them, and those particular chocolates are not included in the English ones. Why do we not get Crispy Rolls in English Celebrations? Why is it that we have to put up with Galaxy Caramel by the bucket-load, which is absolutely atrocious, but no Crispy Rolls?!!!
I know I could just buy some Crispy Rolls from the corner shop but that's beside the point. Is England just anti-joy or something?! Yeesh!
(And I appear to have started a new page by ranting about chocolate... what is my life.) :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on February 05, 2019, 11:32:42 AM
I'd rant too. :P By the way, they aren't included here either, I didn't even know they were included in Germany at all, I love them too!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 05, 2019, 01:07:53 PM
I found out today that one of my favorite apps that I play everyday is shutting down at the end of March. I wouldn't mind so much if it was just not allowing new downloads but I won't be able to even play anymore after the shutdown date.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 05, 2019, 09:56:53 PM
I woke up 6:15 am, which was an hour earlier than I set my alarm. But I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 05, 2019, 11:42:48 PM
This whole thing about Liam Neeson being racist is getting on my nerves.   :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 06, 2019, 09:28:27 AM
Had to drag into university today to settle something that apparently needed my settling directly. I live an hour from campus now, so yeah, that was 2 and a half hours of my day wasted unnecessarily.

Come home, have lunch, and then there's a guy knocking on my door wanting to do some routine maintenance. Now I HATE strangers coming into my room and I hate them needing to do so without warning. I had arranged that the maintenance person would come yesterday while I was out, but this is the second time that's basically just been rearranged without my being informed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 07, 2019, 09:22:30 AM
I live in a place where people don't understand that the magic sky water makes things wet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 07, 2019, 09:30:35 AM
I live in a place where people don't understand that the magic sky water makes things wet.

If people didn't understand that here, nothing would ever happen. Ever. XD But that's a wonderful description <3.

My body is still trying to decide if it still has the cold it randomly picked up (probably on the commuter train) last Friday. I would really like it to make up its mind.

Also, I have to teach tomorrow. Last day before reading week. I don't generally mind except that the material for the first year class this week is really not easy to teach. At least the 2nd year class should be better...if the students turn up of course...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 07, 2019, 10:49:37 AM
I'd rant too. :P By the way, they aren't included here either, I didn't even know they were included in Germany at all, I love them too!

Honestly, I'm glad I'm not alone in this! Chocolate is of the utmost importance! :lol:

And my complaint for today is peak British - the weather. In the half an hour it takes me to walk to the bus station on the way to work, I got some rain, then hail, then snow. What even is that, other than a meteorological temper tantrum?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 07, 2019, 07:51:33 PM
Sometimes I hate the vinyl community :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 08, 2019, 09:04:38 AM
I'd rant too. :P By the way, they aren't included here either, I didn't even know they were included in Germany at all, I love them too!

Honestly, I'm glad I'm not alone in this! Chocolate is of the utmost importance! :lol:

And my complaint for today is peak British - the weather. In the half an hour it takes me to walk to the bus station on the way to work, I got some rain, then hail, then snow. What even is that, other than a meteorological temper tantrum?!

Sounds about right.

In my part of the country, it was the usual story of "I will wait until you step outside and then RAIN ON YOU mercilessly." Coupled with the classic London, "Let's not fix the pavements, they make such great puddle bases for people to get soaked in."

Yay for Winter. Not. Even as a Feb baby, I am looking forward to Spring.

Incidentally, the weirdest ever weather situation I encountered here was at the bus station local to where my parents live, where on one side of the sky there was a full scale thunderstorm going on, and the other bright sunshine, with a rainbow across the middle. Weird British weather is weird...

Edit to add a second rant. More strike days forecast on my local rail network and one of those is a day I teach. Gah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 09, 2019, 01:19:07 AM
I live in a place where people don't understand that the magic sky water makes things wet.

I love that! Magic Sky Water! :heart: We currently have that in frozen form, and this time I don't have to go outside. It' spretty to watch, but I am happy not to be wheelchair bound or dependent on a walker, it is not easy to go through. Our landlord takes forever to shovel our grounds, just two days ago a neighbour shoveleved the entrance to our house as our landlord had fail to do that for several days.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 09, 2019, 04:46:56 AM
Trains suffering from a storm hangover. Not really thrilled to take a forced detour through Northampton...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 09, 2019, 03:56:10 PM
I'd rant too. :P By the way, they aren't included here either, I didn't even know they were included in Germany at all, I love them too!

Honestly, I'm glad I'm not alone in this! Chocolate is of the utmost importance! :lol:

And my complaint for today is peak British - the weather. In the half an hour it takes me to walk to the bus station on the way to work, I got some rain, then hail, then snow. What even is that, other than a meteorological temper tantrum?!

Sounds about right.

In my part of the country, it was the usual story of "I will wait until you step outside and then RAIN ON YOU mercilessly." Coupled with the classic London, "Let's not fix the pavements, they make such great puddle bases for people to get soaked in."

Yay for Winter. Not. Even as a Feb baby, I am looking forward to Spring.

Incidentally, the weirdest ever weather situation I encountered here was at the bus station local to where my parents live, where on one side of the sky there was a full scale thunderstorm going on, and the other bright sunshine, with a rainbow across the middle. Weird British weather is weird...

Edit to add a second rant. More strike days forecast on my local rail network and one of those is a day I teach. Gah.

100% with you there - bring the Spring!!! British weather seriously needs to calm down, or at least make its mind up about what it wants to do.

And my complaint as of this moment is that I just tried to refill the converter in my fountain pen with tiger balm... Y'know, because a small, hexagonal pot of orange matter is clearly very easily confused with a pretty big, rectangular pot of dark blue ink. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on February 10, 2019, 06:31:12 AM
My diet motivation is absolutely zero today. :pout: I don't feel like exercising, and I want to eat EVERYTHING. I haven't lost a single pound since last week. I know that's completely normal, I know there are hundreds of factors that can make a difference, I know it's not supposed to go fast, I know I just have to keep it up. I just get grouchy and demotivated if I don't lose a kilo every week.

Oh well, I did grow up since my last diet (which was six years ago). Back then I would have considered it ruined and I would have pigged out. Now I just ate a scoop of chocolate spread and behave for the rest of the day. :P

For the record: I have a cheat day every week, so it's not like I'm being too hard on myself or anything. I could never cut out chocolate entirely! But today is not my cheat day. :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 12, 2019, 11:35:03 PM
Need to refill my busspass but the webshop is down. I can refill it on the bus but it's more expensive for the same amount of travels. And yeah, too much snow on the ground for walking or biking today so need to take the bus.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Rarityfan2011 on February 13, 2019, 12:48:32 AM
Today's complaint. I should be sleeping in since it's the weekend but I work up extra early and couldn't go back to sleep.


Ponyfan


I also did that last weekend.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on February 13, 2019, 09:54:31 AM
I was standing at the bus stop (bus was late again) minding my own business and all of a sudden something hits my chest, I look down and see that someone had thrown an allen key (I think that's what they're called?) at me as they drove by- I began to panic and had to run to my aunt's (luckily she lived near by), why are some people like this? Honestly all I wanted to do was go home... :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 13, 2019, 11:12:27 AM
I was standing at the bus stop (bus was late again) minding my own business and all of a sudden something hits my chest, I look down and see that someone had thrown an allen key (I think that's what they're called?) at me as they drove by- I began to panic and had to run to my aunt's (luckily she lived near by), why are some people like this? Honestly all I wanted to do was go home... :cloud:

Perhaps they were just throwing things out the window and not specifically targeting you (at least, I hope they weren't targeting you!).  Maybe it's a magical key to Narnia or something.  :bigups:

My trivial complaint is that it's STILL snowing!  It's supposed to be warm enough to rain tomorrow but we're supposed to get 5-8 inches of snow today. :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on February 13, 2019, 11:19:49 AM
I was standing at the bus stop (bus was late again) minding my own business and all of a sudden something hits my chest, I look down and see that someone had thrown an allen key (I think that's what they're called?) at me as they drove by- I began to panic and had to run to my aunt's (luckily she lived near by), why are some people like this? Honestly all I wanted to do was go home... :cloud:

Perhaps they were just throwing things out the window and not specifically targeting you (at least, I hope they weren't targeting you!).  Maybe it's a magical key to Narnia or something.  :bigups:

My trivial complaint is that it's STILL snowing!  It's supposed to be warm enough to rain tomorrow but we're supposed to get 5-8 inches of snow today. :yucky:

That's what I was wondering but I seemed to be the only on at the bus stop at the time. Haha it would of been awesome if it was a key to Narnia XD

Sorry to hear you've got more snow on the way, I hate dealing with snow especially when you've got places to go, hopefully the rain will wash most of it away :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 13, 2019, 12:06:44 PM
My trivial complaint is that it's STILL snowing!  It's supposed to be warm enough to rain tomorrow but we're supposed to get 5-8 inches of snow today. :yucky:

My complaint is every time it snows it rains within 3 days. It's winter-- I expect snow bc I live in an area with snow. Let the dang snow stay on the ground-- and let the ground keep frozen not wet. 9_9 I'm so happy the sump pump is new...

Snow on Monday. all day rain Tuesday (rain ~ snow overnight). Snow today. Rain tomorrow.

Also, in relation to this, pot holes.
There's so many rim breaking pot holes on the road that they obviously can't fix until spring.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on February 13, 2019, 05:39:15 PM
I was standing at the bus stop (bus was late again) minding my own business and all of a sudden something hits my chest, I look down and see that someone had thrown an allen key (I think that's what they're called?) at me as they drove by- I began to panic and had to run to my aunt's (luckily she lived near by), why are some people like this? Honestly all I wanted to do was go home... :cloud:

Oh gosh, why an allen key of all things? :what: That's one of the most random object to throw out of a car!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 14, 2019, 12:11:27 PM
I got an e-mail from a letting agent today, saying he's available to let me view a flat today, but that happened while I was at work. I have neither smartphone nor mobile internet, so how am I supposed to be able to see the message, let alone respond? He could at least have sent a text, then I could've messaged him back during my break and viewed the flippin' flat after work! Hmph... :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 15, 2019, 11:04:54 AM
I really would like a snickers bar but there's too much anxiety to go to the store...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 15, 2019, 04:18:22 PM

Post Merge: February 15, 2019, 04:21:37 PM

I got an e-mail from a letting agent today, saying he's available to let me view a flat today, but that happened while I was at work. I have neither smartphone nor mobile internet, so how am I supposed to be able to see the message, let alone respond? He could at least have sent a text, then I could've messaged him back during my break and viewed the flippin' flat after work! Hmph... :pout:

I feel this. When I tell people I don't have a smartphone they don't know what to say. I still get confirmation texts for doctor visits and things, but instead of a text back 'yes/no' they give a link. Which I can't open.

Sorry you missed it. Most people don't think about those of us not connected to the internet 24/7.

...

My complaint is I have to much to do but my body says "no. go lie down instead."

Wow, and apparently I've forgotten how to post on this forum :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 19, 2019, 01:29:04 PM
I.
Work.
With.
IDIOTS.
 :enraged:

I spent 10 minutes looking for a book someone had reserved only to find it on the shelf in the back where we put items that do not belong to us.  It is OUR book.  It had a "hold" slip in it.  We put reserved books on a CART, not a SHELF when they're in the back.  And now the patron has to make yet another trip in to get the book because we couldn't find it.  Such great customer service we have here.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2019, 04:07:01 PM
Years ago I bought a pair of cheap headphones that were surprisingly fantastic for such a low price. When I got them today I noticed that the soft material around the earpieces is starting to crack and flake off. There’s no doubt I got my money’s worth from them but I’m still a little sad that I have to replace them.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on February 19, 2019, 07:46:38 PM
I was standing at the bus stop (bus was late again) minding my own business and all of a sudden something hits my chest, I look down and see that someone had thrown an allen key (I think that's what they're called?) at me as they drove by- I began to panic and had to run to my aunt's (luckily she lived near by), why are some people like this? Honestly all I wanted to do was go home... :cloud:

Aww why would they do that? :grouphug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 19, 2019, 09:41:45 PM
Going from plus 5 degree C to minus 7 in a couple of hours means dressing too warmth and suddenly be dressed too cold and I'm changing jackets to parkas to jackets more often than one change underwear.. it is something that happen so I should not complain, it's just annoying.. and a month too early to boot :mad:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on February 20, 2019, 08:07:32 AM
We were supposed to get some snow yesterday but all it did was rain and mist. It's just absurd at this point. Every single winter storm misses us. Every single one. And now winter is pretty much over. I've been waiting for a winter storm for eight years now and I am very, very, very unhappy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on February 21, 2019, 12:18:41 AM
Its the last day of my 3 week Chinese New Year Holiday. I don't waaaana go back to work >.<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2019, 12:26:44 PM
Rats.

Big rats.

In the communal rubbish area where I live, and the connecting garden.

I have never been scared of rats. But these were not particularly bothered that I was there. They unnerved me. And the fact that sometimes the rear door is left open during the day makes me worry about rats getting inside the main building as well.

I strongly disbelieve in killing animals as pests. But I also don't want them running all over the rubbish and the yard as they cause disease. Torn about what to do...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 21, 2019, 01:12:40 PM
Rats.

Big rats.

In the communal rubbish area where I live, and the connecting garden.

I have never been scared of rats. But these were not particularly bothered that I was there. They unnerved me. And the fact that sometimes the rear door is left open during the day makes me worry about rats getting inside the main building as well.

I strongly disbelieve in killing animals as pests. But I also don't want them running all over the rubbish and the yard as they cause disease. Torn about what to do...

Disney World allows feral cats to roam the parks at night to keep the rodent population under control.  Perhaps you need to lure some strays into your area...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2019, 01:50:07 PM
Rats.

Big rats.

In the communal rubbish area where I live, and the connecting garden.

I have never been scared of rats. But these were not particularly bothered that I was there. They unnerved me. And the fact that sometimes the rear door is left open during the day makes me worry about rats getting inside the main building as well.

I strongly disbelieve in killing animals as pests. But I also don't want them running all over the rubbish and the yard as they cause disease. Torn about what to do...

Disney World allows feral cats to roam the parks at night to keep the rodent population under control.  Perhaps you need to lure some strays into your area...

There is an urban fox that lurks these premises. I remember one of the halls near where I used to live got some cats, but I am not sure this landlord would do that. We don't have a lot of feral cats in London as far as I can tell. I was in Jerusalem last year and there were tons of the critters everywhere there - but I've never seen anything like that here.

It would be nice if the fox came to visit...that would be a natural solution to the problem.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on February 22, 2019, 10:51:18 AM
Some company has apparently received permission to carve out ice from the already receding Svartisen glacier. For the sole purpose of selling it to high-end restaurants around the world to use as ice cubes. Never in my life have I heard of such a foolish decision, except maybe in one or two dystopian novels :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on February 22, 2019, 04:45:14 PM
Some company has apparently received permission to carve out ice from the already receding Svartisen glacier. For the sole purpose of selling it to high-end restaurants around the world to use as ice cubes. Never in my life have I heard of such a foolish decision, except maybe in one or two dystopian novels :huh:

That sounds like something right out of a book and it's highly disturbing.

Transit card was loaded last night but the money didn't post today. So this morning I had to catch the next bus while I went to get cash. Just annoying, this is the third time it's happened to me in six months. The local transit companies are rolling out a cashless fare system.

Which is classist as heck, to load the cards one needs a bank account/debit card/credit card and access to the internet You can load it at some customer service kiosks but those a few and far between. My entire county has two, just two.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 22, 2019, 05:58:42 PM
Finally found an old anime movie I remember from my childhood on DVD.  And the dub is different than the one I grew up with.  They did the same thing with the Smurfs and the Magic Flute movie.  I like the dubs I grew up with so much better.  :sigh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 23, 2019, 07:56:56 PM
I hurt my knee today and now it feels like if I could bend it it would feel better, but I can't bend it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 24, 2019, 05:31:49 AM
I just had a chicken and chorizo salad sandwich on some mild chilli bread and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it's prompted acid reflux. I never get acid reflux off of anything - why now?! Ugh. So I can't go eating that again, even if it is nice. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 24, 2019, 11:34:52 AM
I got too close to a faucet that had hot water pouring out of it and ended up with a minor burn.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 25, 2019, 07:08:09 AM
All the stupid people in town today.
I guess it;s the sunny weather.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 25, 2019, 10:46:06 AM
All the stupid people in town today.
I guess it;s the sunny weather.

That's quite spooky, I've had the exact same problem on the way home from work! Why on earth people feel the need to constantly zigzag on a pavement is beyond me. :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 25, 2019, 01:04:45 PM
All the stupid people in town today.
I guess it;s the sunny weather.

That's quite spooky, I've had the exact same problem on the way home from work! Why on earth people feel the need to constantly zigzag on a pavement is beyond me. :blink:

I find it's usually the phone zombies responsible for potential collisions. That or the cyclists who ignore red lights because they think they're more important than road safety. (There are many of those in London.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 26, 2019, 11:39:33 AM
Engineers. We got a call today asking for help with a fire sprinkler pump that wasn't working properly (during a test, thankfully!) and it turns out that the problem was caused by a 12-inch spanner that had been dropped into the pipe and left there. So at some juncture, someone dropped their spanner in the pipe, knowing full well this pump is intended to save people's lives in the event of a fire, and didn't think to tell anybody about it. Ugh... Honestly, I accidentally dropped a small screw inside a pump a few months back and immediately got somebody to help me get it out again - it could mess up the motor if it stays in there! How people can be so negligent with such important equipment, it honestly scares me a little bit. -_-

All the stupid people in town today.
I guess it;s the sunny weather.

That's quite spooky, I've had the exact same problem on the way home from work! Why on earth people feel the need to constantly zigzag on a pavement is beyond me. :blink:

I find it's usually the phone zombies responsible for potential collisions. That or the cyclists who ignore red lights because they think they're more important than road safety. (There are many of those in London.)

Oh yes, phone zombies and irresponsible cyclists are a scourge here as well, unfortunately. I've been lucky enough to avoid collisions but my dad got knocked over by a cyclist running a red light a while back. They do my flipping head in! :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on February 27, 2019, 10:06:49 AM
40 minutes late for work due to trains being suspended because of cable theft! :mad: I had to take 2 buses to reach work, one of them being 20 minutes late. So thank you to the thieves for making everyone who had to take the train's day tough!  :rant:
Luckily suspensions were lifted at lunch so I could get home a little easier.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 27, 2019, 10:18:50 AM
40 minutes late for work due to trains being suspended because of cable theft! :mad: I had to take 2 buses to reach work, one of them being 20 minutes late. So thank you to the thieves for making everyone who had to take the train's day tough!  :rant:
Luckily suspensions were lifted at lunch so I could get home a little easier.

Ugh. Seriously, the things that happen on our rail network...

So someone accidentally set off the fire alarm this morning. At 2.30am.

Not amused.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 28, 2019, 12:11:58 AM
I was gonna meet a friend yesterday for a walk, waited for her to call but she never did. Around 2 pm I sent her a message. Another hour later I finally got a response: She had forgotten. Ok, I was bummed and sad, more than most people would be I assume just because I have a history of always being forgotten and it takes a huge toll on me. Positive side is I got to read, I'm on a reading roll.. Yeah, no. The online library only lets one borrow one e-bok a week. Like.. what? It's an ebook, not an actual copy! How can there be restrictions?! I finnieshed the last one I borrowed within two days and now I have to wait till Sunday to borrow a new one. So now I have to read through my pile of physical books, I had hoped to save those till summer :pout:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on February 28, 2019, 09:02:51 AM
40 minutes late for work due to trains being suspended because of cable theft! :mad: I had to take 2 buses to reach work, one of them being 20 minutes late. So thank you to the thieves for making everyone who had to take the train's day tough!  :rant:
Luckily suspensions were lifted at lunch so I could get home a little easier.

Ugh. Seriously, the things that happen on our rail network...

So someone accidentally set off the fire alarm this morning. At 2.30am.

Not amused.

Ugh I know, we have fantastic public transport here in the UK XD As well as that, there were even more delays today due to a fault on one of the carriages.

Oh man, I don't blame you for being mad- I'd lose it if someone accidentally set the fire alarm off that early! Did you manage to get back to sleep?


Today's complaint- It's back to rainy old England, the gorgeous summer like weather has left us :(
Also one of the nursery's fish died, poor guy   :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 28, 2019, 01:38:23 PM
I hurt my knee last Saturday.  I had an MRI this morning and have to wait until Monday to discuss the results.  I hate waiting and I want my knee to stop hurting!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 28, 2019, 03:49:40 PM
One of my tv subscription services decided my subscription expired and so cut my access. Even though I have the invoice to say the sub went out AND my bank agrees. Apparently this means there's a 'problem with the billing cycle'. They're about to get more than a problem with their billing cycle if they don't sort it out pronto -.-.

In the meantime, I guess I'm going to be watching a lot of DVDs and anime this week.

Not that I really mind that, but I'm running short of viable Saiyuuki eps because I'm about to enter the trainwreck of the Even a Worm arc that goes horribly off the rails halfway through because of manga hiatus.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 04, 2019, 02:33:11 PM
Endless mither between one thing and another. Can everything in life just not for a day or two, I need to lie down... :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 04, 2019, 03:23:45 PM
Endless mither between one thing and another. Can everything in life just not for a day or two, I need to lie down... :drunk:

Life needs to come with a pause button.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 04, 2019, 05:52:41 PM
argh.

Didn't win the AA lottery. ;_; Need a plan b or no convention for me this year.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 05, 2019, 12:00:41 PM
Endless mither between one thing and another. Can everything in life just not for a day or two, I need to lie down... :drunk:

Life needs to come with a pause button.

It certainly does! Ideally located within easy reach of the bed, so when you wake up in a "nope" mood, you can just hit pause and go right back to sleep.

And my complaint for the day is that in the process of dragging heavy things to my new house, then bringing in pallets and sawing through din rails at work, I've completely worn out the muscles in my arms and there are still three days of the working week to go...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on March 08, 2019, 08:17:36 AM
My French II fast track class just got cancelled right before it was about to begin. I'm not mad at the school or professor... But just a bit frustrated, because I want to get to grad school soon, and wasting an entire semester like this is something I really didn't need. I could have been taking the on-campus French II, or I could have been starting German. =(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 10, 2019, 02:19:21 PM
Went to wall mart pony section has shrunk again, it is barely two feet by two feet that is it , not even a shelf unit, just a few pegs with the main six, in clunky packages.  I miss what the section used to be, just down to almost nothing now, and we skipped so many waves, and some ponies I never saw.  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BubbleTea on March 10, 2019, 06:59:48 PM
I was going to buy Tempest from Shopko today since there was like...ten of them. I ended not buying her since I thought "ehhhhhhhhhh, nah" but now I realize that I really want tempest. o well.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 12, 2019, 07:56:17 AM
I wanted to go on a beautiful mid-March walk today along a route that I already had planned, but because of one difficult client I didn't get any sleep and was just too tired and annoyed for that :cloud: :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 12, 2019, 10:59:00 AM
Missed the earlier train by 10 seconds. Usual train just left. 15 mins late. On a service that runs every 15 mins.

Not amused.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Water Lily on March 12, 2019, 12:30:46 PM
I want coffee but dont feel like moving :shocked:

Post Merge: March 12, 2019, 12:32:25 PM

Went to wall mart pony section has shrunk again, it is barely two feet by two feet that is it , not even a shelf unit, just a few pegs with the main six, in clunky packages.  I miss what the section used to be, just down to almost nothing now, and we skipped so many waves, and some ponies I never saw.  :cry:
this right here
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 12, 2019, 12:58:34 PM
Seems the bunch of muppets in the big building by a certain famous London clock tower imploded again.

Wholly expected mind you. Sigh. And so it goes on.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 12, 2019, 03:26:05 PM
This britexit thing is getting on my nerves.

This place has gone to hell.

Who wants to start a revolution like in Les Mis?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on March 13, 2019, 03:07:33 AM
I've caught an illness, it feels like my head has been hit with 1000 bricks  :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 15, 2019, 02:15:36 AM
This has been a very long week. For various reasons. Finding Tickle and co was actually a really nice thing to happen in what has otherwise been crazy.

Now I have to go teach. My convener on Tuesday dumped it on me to run an essay workshop today with them today. I have had zero time to prepare because of above family reasons that had me zipping all over the country the last 2 days. So I have no idea how it's going to play.

I remember nothing about 1980s Korean politics right now either, nor Japanese postwar nostalgia. And I really hate teaching anything postwar. Also, if it happened in my lifetime I really don't feel like it's history. It makes me feel so old since most of my students were born in or around the year 2000.

Also my convener disappears off to Japan for 5 years sabbatical next week.

It's ok for some.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 25, 2019, 01:45:59 PM
I really, seriously, am so sick to the back teeth of this country right now.


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 25, 2019, 02:10:37 PM
I hate how small and crammed my room is, adding anything new to it literally requires MacGyver levels of ingenuity :enraged: :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 27, 2019, 03:47:54 PM
Our hot water tank is on the way out lets light a few $100.00 bills on fire.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 27, 2019, 05:20:50 PM
I seriously cannot describe how much I hate EU right now :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 27, 2019, 05:23:54 PM
I thought my package was gonna arrive today. I now think it's delayed bc of some sort of Mercury spill.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 27, 2019, 10:49:26 PM
I keep having vivid nightmares that won't get out of my head. There was even one I can still physically feel... :crazy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 28, 2019, 01:25:10 AM
I seriously cannot describe how much I hate EU right now :(

Ditto above but replace EU with UK govt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on March 28, 2019, 01:40:02 AM
I seriously cannot describe how much I hate EU right now :(

How so? Is this about the copyright laws? I can see there might be inconveniences but on the level of principle, I think it's a good thing. Furthermore, apparently the new law will also affect artworks in the public domain - previously, libraries and other repositories have been able to collect fees from researchers and others who wish to reproduce images, even if the said works are out of copyright (think medieval manuscripts). Having those fees lifted would be extremely helpful for art historians and other scholars, who often have to pay for these out of pocket!

My vent: In addition to my struggles trying to get up earlier, I always seem to miss the bus. Oh well. Off now so I can catch the next one!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 28, 2019, 09:25:23 AM
I was hoping for a call from a friend of mine nothing at all, I guess something came up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 28, 2019, 11:20:53 AM
The neighbor that lives about 2 blocks away often goes out with my family. Today the neighbor wanted to get cookies because she had a Buy 1 Get 1 Free coupon. The neighbor decided to keep both of her cookies for herself but since there were 4 people in the group today that meant someone didn't get a cookie.  I'm not saying that she had to share her cookies but a little warning that she would keep both for herself would have been nice.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 29, 2019, 02:48:31 AM
Let me rant for a while about my doctoral school.

So all of this year they have been driving me mad. Not a new state of affairs, but still.

January, they delayed my submission by sending me to a printers that was closed.

February, they promised to expedite my thesis to examiners, then didn't.

March, they told me that they would liaise about AV in my exam. They haven't.  ANd now they are basically saying they don't do any of that, it's all on my supervisor, etc.

This in spite of the fact I was told by many people at the DS that they needed to be involved in organising this.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on March 29, 2019, 08:43:34 AM
That really sucks, Taffeta! I'm sorry :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 29, 2019, 02:46:50 PM
Someone is spoofing my number.  Again.  The theory behind telemarketers spoofing numbers is that people won't answer the telemarketer's number so they pick a phone number at random to use so that people will be more likely to answer.  Quite frankly, if I wanted to speak to a telemarketer, I would call them myself.  The fact that they are being dishonest means that I wouldn't do business with them even if I did happen to answer the number they were calling from.  I think that telemarketers who spoof private numbers should be shut down permanently because it is a form of identity theft and if I knew who it was that was spoofing my number, I would sue them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 29, 2019, 05:40:25 PM
Someone is spoofing my number.  Again.  The theory behind telemarketers spoofing numbers is that people won't answer the telemarketer's number so they pick a phone number at random to use so that people will be more likely to answer.  Quite frankly, if I wanted to speak to a telemarketer, I would call them myself.  The fact that they are being dishonest means that I wouldn't do business with them even if I did happen to answer the number they were calling from.  I think that telemarketers who spoof private numbers should be shut down permanently because it is a form of identity theft and if I knew who it was that was spoofing my number, I would sue them.

This and robo calls are really becoming a sort of crisis, aren't they? It's never been this bad.

There was one number that called me 12 times in one day of a recording that said something about an online order being shipped and to please call back. I knew it was a scam of some kind and never call back. I reported the number to the Do Not Call list but it didn't take effect until after I got that same call a dozen times.

I seem to get calls every single day and late at night too! It's crazy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 30, 2019, 08:55:23 PM
When you ask direct questions -- and the person responds and yet ignores the question.

bonus points when doctors do it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 01, 2019, 02:47:03 PM
Still hating my country. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on April 04, 2019, 03:48:29 PM
I'm on holiday tomorrow and I can't find part of my PSP charger :rant: I knew I should of checked the other day rather than last minute, I could of then ordered one. I don't know where on earth it's gone, I'll have to take a look downstairs encase it's been misplaced in the cupboard, I'm so mad :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2019, 12:02:41 PM
I was at the store today and a lady sat down on a bench. A few minutes later when I happened to glance that way I saw the lady had opened a can of green beans in the store (she had a basket so I assume she had already paid for them) and was eating them straight out of the can. :dropjaw:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 06, 2019, 01:02:31 PM
I was at the store today and a lady sat down on a bench. A few minutes later when I happened to glance that way I saw the lady had opened a can of green beans in the store (she had a basket so I assume she had already paid for them) and was eating them straight out of the can. :dropjaw:



Ponyfan

I have seen people do that but eating stuff actually IN THE QUEUE for the till.

And our newsagents/post office had to put up a sign telling people to pay for envelopes etc before using them to post stuff...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on April 06, 2019, 04:28:51 PM
I hurt my knuckles while air drumming to "In the air tonight"  :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 12, 2019, 08:29:48 AM
I swear that the courier driver from UPS didn't bother to knock at the door this morning, just left the card. It's my sister's parcel, but the place where it was left to collect is not on a bus route so Dad had to take the car out to go get it...

Then I somehow missed both Amazon's courier and the post as well.

Three strikes and all out today. Sigh.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 13, 2019, 01:51:07 PM
I hurt my knuckles while air drumming to "In the air tonight"  :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

Haha, that happens to me all the time. XD When I sing along to songs and start to get expressive, I either hurt myself or break a plate/mug/bowl... Someone is probably trying to hint that I need to stop singing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 13, 2019, 03:12:02 PM
To the people that film presentations and then upload them to websites for those who were not able to attend to watch later: Please make your video appealing to the audience who is watching water. I tried to watch one today and half the time the camera was on the presenter who was looking through her notes/not at the camera or a on a video that made all the real life people in it look purple.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on April 15, 2019, 10:14:49 AM
Third day in a row : one Asthma-attack hunts the other. Gosh, my whole body hurts already -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 15, 2019, 10:55:55 AM
Yahoo mail is playing up. I don’t know if my emails are going through to people.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 15, 2019, 11:01:59 AM
Yahoo mail is playing up. I don’t know if my emails are going through to people.

If you emailed me back, I didn't get it :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 15, 2019, 11:16:38 AM
Yahoo mail is playing up. I don’t know if my emails are going through to people.

If you emailed me back, I didn't get it :)

I emailed you back so you didn’t get it try to send it to my gmail I send you  a message on you user page.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 16, 2019, 07:07:48 AM
I had to call the 1-800 number of a major website yesterday because a problem occurred when I tried to place an order. I realize that being a Customer Service rep is sometimes a thankless job and they sometimes have to deal with angry customers.

I was polite but told the person that I didn't want to place another order at the time. After that the rep's attitude changed and he kept repeating over and over "end the call. end the call, please end the call" for at least 5 minutes.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on April 16, 2019, 09:19:04 AM
Yahoo mail is playing up. I don’t know if my emails are going through to people.

If you emailed me back, I didn't get it :)

Same-I sent you the photos of the G1s you asked for
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 16, 2019, 11:12:55 AM
My copy of Black & White for Mac stopped working. I don't know what the problem is, but it's with the disc itself. It starts out like it's going to run then it stops spinning, then starts up again then abruptly stops. It keeps doing that; starting, stopping. It shows up as a blank disk in both drives I have. There are no scratches or anything I can see. I tried cleaning it. Nothing :(

I'm so bummed out because it's one of my all time favorite games. I've been playing it regularly for, pfffft, nearly 20 years! I have the PC version and will try to make it work with Win 10. The Mac version was updated (at the time) with bug fixes and it actually has much better graphics than the PC release so it's still a bummer.

Man, I love that game! :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 16, 2019, 11:15:03 AM
I'm confused. I moved into this house about 6 weeks ago and found a disused recycling bin in the shared yard out back, therefore assumed that was meant to be my recycling bin. as all the other houses using this yard are occupied. I got rid of a load of garbage a previous tenant had left in there, poured out a load of water that had gathered in it, cleaned it and repaired the lid so no more water would get in, and went on using that bin for my recycling. Coming home from work today, I see a recycling bin out in the street with the number for my house on it, among a bunch of other bins... never seen it before. So I've been using the wrong bin this entire time, but noone's piped up about it and I'm not entirely confident in going out to see if the one with my house number on it is being used by somebody else, or if it's just been left there. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 16, 2019, 09:25:26 PM
When the part-timers at work complain about their schedules (especially after the director has gone out of her way to accommodate their schedules so they'll stop complaining--at the expense of the full-timer's schedules, I might add) it makes me want to stuff their work boxes with applications for places like McDonald's and Walmart so they can find a job someplace else so that I don't have to listen to them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 16, 2019, 11:08:57 PM
I got an e-reader for my birthday back in february and since then I sign in to the online library and borrow e-books that I download to the computer and move to my reader. Easy peasy? No. At first I was bummed about only being able to borrow one book a week. As a fast reader it bugs me but ok. But now, I haven't been able to borrow even one for the past three weeks as the library itself has used up their quota for online lending. None is able to borrow any e-books at all. Like, its not even physical copies, how on earth can there be a restriction of how many e-books a library are allowed to lend? I want to read!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 17, 2019, 08:20:04 AM
People in London currently who think that by encouraging lots of people to travel into the city (carbon footprint), clogging up traffic (increasing emissions), and tweeting about it on electric devices made in industrial factories running on fossil fueled electric power is going to save the environment.

Not to mention I am worried about the rubbish they're tipping and painting all over the road. London may be a city but it has a thriving urban ecosystem of birds, small animals and foxes.

Of course, I also resent the fact that this is happening in London, victimising Londoners (and it's going to mess with my exams too)...with an apparent intention to get the government's attention at a time when the government are at recess so NOBODY IS THERE TO LISTEN.

So yeah.

I care about saving the environment. I care a lot about this. I recycle, I turn stuff off, I use energy saving stuff, I am absolutely passionate about planting green stuff rather than concreting over everything. And it does concern me where the world is going in the long term.

But I can think of better ways to do it than polluting London and putting the safety of people at risk by blocking access to ambulances and using up all the already stretched police resources.

At the very least lobby parliament when its in session, or even better, lobby the local MPs in their constituencies. All they're doing right now is annoying Londoners, which is admittedly not hard to do, but ultimately isn't going to save the polar ice caps.

Ironically London is probably making more attempts to help reduce pollution than a lot of other parts of the UK - except right now that's hopeless because the air quality in those traffic jams is probably toxic.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 17, 2019, 09:51:37 PM
I got an e-reader for my birthday back in february and since then I sign in to the online library and borrow e-books that I download to the computer and move to my reader. Easy peasy? No. At first I was bummed about only being able to borrow one book a week. As a fast reader it bugs me but ok. But now, I haven't been able to borrow even one for the past three weeks as the library itself has used up their quota for online lending. None is able to borrow any e-books at all. Like, its not even physical copies, how on earth can there be a restriction of how many e-books a library are allowed to lend? I want to read!

I can actually sort of answer that!  I work in a library and I know for our ebooks we have to pay for so many copies to "check out" to ereaders through the company that provides the digital books.  So even though it's a digital copy, we can only have two copies of (for example) Alice in Wonderland checked out at a time, so if a third patron wants it, they have to put themselves on the wait list for it.  Depending on the contract your library has, it will determine how the check-outs work.  It sounds like your library paid for X number of books and they need to renew their subscription.  My mom has Amazon Prime and I think she gets to download a free book every month but you might see if they offer check outs as well. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 17, 2019, 10:57:37 PM
I got an e-reader for my birthday back in february and since then I sign in to the online library and borrow e-books that I download to the computer and move to my reader. Easy peasy? No. At first I was bummed about only being able to borrow one book a week. As a fast reader it bugs me but ok. But now, I haven't been able to borrow even one for the past three weeks as the library itself has used up their quota for online lending. None is able to borrow any e-books at all. Like, its not even physical copies, how on earth can there be a restriction of how many e-books a library are allowed to lend? I want to read!

I can actually sort of answer that!  I work in a library and I know for our ebooks we have to pay for so many copies to "check out" to ereaders through the company that provides the digital books.  So even though it's a digital copy, we can only have two copies of (for example) Alice in Wonderland checked out at a time, so if a third patron wants it, they have to put themselves on the wait list for it.  Depending on the contract your library has, it will determine how the check-outs work.  It sounds like your library paid for X number of books and they need to renew their subscription.  My mom has Amazon Prime and I think she gets to download a free book every month but you might see if they offer check outs as well. 

Thank you. It's understandable when you get the reason as to why :). I wish there was another system though, I hardly get myself to the library to borrow physical copies as it is located downtown and I rarely go there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 18, 2019, 01:58:36 PM
The Cranberries webshop just got my hopes up for nothing. :hmm: I pre-ordered the new album immediately when I could, and I've been checking my order status daily. Today it suddenly said "complete", so I already started bouncing! Until I noticed the details...

"This item was sent out on the 25th April."

DUDE.

First of all it's only the 18th, you guys are sending me stuff from the future? And second, they said it would be shipped in time for the release date. Yeah thanks, there's no way it's going to be here on the 26th. It would be sweet if they shipped international orders a liiitle earlier... I know this is awfully nitpicky, but this is not a regular album. I really want it here with me on the release date...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 18, 2019, 11:19:53 PM
I only work six hours today and then I'm off for some Easterdays off. Downside is four of those hours are alone with a guy I can't stand. I'm hoping for lots of people wanting to shop today so we'll have plenty to do and not have to be in each others faces.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 19, 2019, 04:47:04 AM
I busted out the vinegar out to get some serious cleaning done, it went over and I got said vinegar right in a load of cuts and scrapes on my hand. Well, that stung!!! :whoa:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 19, 2019, 09:17:06 AM
Just about to have a shower when I heard a low buzzing... A drowsy queen wasp crawling on my shower curtain... I HATE wasps. Made a fast retreat and brought forth the Raid insect spray. Locked the room for 20 minutes and found the wasp in its final throes. It was disposed of but I felt spooked out having my shower afterwards!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on April 20, 2019, 05:52:55 AM
-_- Amazon just really bothers me sometimes.

I bought a few games there, because they were pretty decently prices (let's just cross my fingers they weren't a good price because they are fake). And I picked free shipping since my order was above the threshold.

Anywhere else, would have an item shipped out within ~2-3 days. That's obviously not how amazon logistics works. It takes 6 days to actually pack my order-- and THEN, kicker, shipping will occur within 1 day and my package will arrive *Sunday*.

That makes me feel rotten to get a package on a stinking sunday AND holiday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 20, 2019, 08:04:43 AM
I keep having nightmares of the Beast Titan and Armoured Titan dancing in pink tutus.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 22, 2019, 05:18:19 AM
Ugh, spicy food definitely does not agree with me anymore. I really hate being ill, so I guess it's more middle-of-the-road food for me from now on. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on April 22, 2019, 09:36:35 AM
photo bucket is such a pain now I want a good free alt I can post the the arena on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 22, 2019, 01:40:08 PM
photo bucket is such a pain now I want a good free alt I can post the the arena on.

I use DeviantArt--it's totally free to sign up, you only pay if you want "core" membership, which lets you have more subfolders and I think takes off the ads.  I just upload the photo into my "stash" and then it isn't public on DA but the image location still works for posting pictures on this site.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on April 22, 2019, 03:07:39 PM
Dreading my Childcare exams this week  :shocked:
The exam sounds really silly out loud; basically we are given a question from any unit we've covered this year, were allowed to use the internet, text books, note books and talk to our peers (we have to reference of course)  I know I shouldn't be panicking, but these are my first college exams and they're a little new to me, hopefully everything should go alright I just hope I don't end up with a topic I'm not too good at lol. Got to try and remember to bring my glasses too, we're using the computers to type them up in the space of 3 days  :blink:

Good luck to anyone else with college/school/university exams!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on April 22, 2019, 05:24:14 PM
meh to you -- old man at the post office.

I literally hand you a 1-day express package, we chit chat about how much it's worth, and you do NOT scan it to enter it into the tracking system????

It took 10 hours for it to have it's "acceptance scan" (at the second distribution center).

I /hate/ mailing expensive things.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StrawberrySundance on April 24, 2019, 10:54:40 AM
Turns out exams are next week whoops XD

Ugh I've had a terrible day,
- We weren't notified we had a lecture this morning so I walked up to my usual classroom to find a note on the door saying our class had been moved to a building on the other side of the campus, so I turned up late. Luckily the tutors in there were understanding and didn't mind.

-The lecture finished earlier than we were told so we had a 30 minute break till next lesson, with that I did my usual bought drinks for lunch and a snack as I hadn't had breakfast and made my way to student services to get my pass sorted I collected my ticket and thought 'great I can get this renewed after college' turns out I was wrong, I made my way to the station only to find out the travel shop closes at 1pm on Wednesdays.

- With that I got my pop card out and went to a top up station to put £1 for my journey only to find out I had nothing but a £10 note (which was Easter money I needed to put in my bank) I made my way to a shop I had just bought from and asked the girl at the till if I could have change, apologising and explaining my situation, she understood and was lovely, giving me change and wished me well

- Put cash on my pop card, scanned it and made my way to the platform, got on the metro which was packed. I was squished between a guys bag and the door which wasn't fun and all of a sudden the train stopped and the lights turned off. Power cut. We waited a while and got things running again. I couldn't get through to my mum or brother to tell them I was going to be late either.

-Got off at my stop and looked at the bus time table, only 15 minutes for the bus (they stop running their usual time around 5:45) and it was on time for once! Which was great but still didn't make up for all these unlucky events today   :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 24, 2019, 05:52:08 PM
I'll add to the public transport woes...

I had to be at uni this morning by 11. Very important that I was.

Because of the possibility of insane people trying to block roads with their logic of saving the environment (by polluting London as much as possible with paint, fumes, fake blood and superglue, creating unnecessary carbon footprint by inviting speakers to fly in from the US and train in from Europe to babble about saving the world) I also wanted to leave early. (Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely all for climate change awareness, but I don't like hypocrisy and I don't believe the means justify the end if it means creating more pollution just to get celebrity speakers).

 I don't use tube trains if I can help it - but especially not at rush hour because they are...not pleasant.

So I leave plenty of time, I get to the station and...my train is cancelled.

Of course, it's not actually cancelled. Five minutes after it was due to arrive, it raced through the station without stopping. Which brings me to the crux of my transport trivial complaint for the day...rail companies operating commuter routes in greater London who cut stations at the last minute and race through them instead of picking up passengers so that they can arrive in London "on time."

This matters because their official performance stats at the moment only measure the time they leave the first station and arrive at the final destination. So in order that my rail company can keep its late stats down, when they have a delay (which is daily, due to congestion because of badly organised train routes that rarely maintain their proper times), they end up just cutting stops to make up time.

London area transport is way superior to what exists back at home, but my station is one of those on this route that has only four trains an hour. Every station between mine and London has more trains an hour. The next stop has six, and every station beyond that has at least eight. Cutting a train on my station means half an hour between trains and angry passengers.

...And I am really fed up with seeing my "cancelled" train rush through the station 5 minutes after it is due so that the rail company don't get fined for being late.

Trains are there to pick up passengers. Not race.

Fortunately I still made it on time as the next train ran more or less to schedule and I had left enough time for disasters. But yeah. It's annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 25, 2019, 01:05:55 PM
I joined a couple of Buy, Sell, Trade groups on Facebook for a non pony item. Everything appeared to be going well. I got message from someone asking me what items I had to trade. After I replied the person said they weren't looking for those items and we ended the conversation pleasantly. Last night I got another message from them asking if I had more items to trade. I replied that I didn't have anything new to offer at this time.


The person seemed interested in one of my items but it was getting late so I decided to write back in the morning. When I looked at my messages this morning I found a strange message from this person sending me a link to a Snopes.com article. that didn't have anything to do with our conversation. It was a little distressing to see especially without a logical reason. It makes me wary of continuing the conversation with this person.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on April 26, 2019, 02:25:28 AM
I need to clean my sewing and crafts room. I really do.

But... it’s so scary. XD It kind of looks like a storage unit right now (and not the neat, orderly kind). *Sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 26, 2019, 08:45:10 AM
The farmers have been muck-spraying their fields,
the wind has carried the odour to our town and now everywhere smells of xxxx  :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 26, 2019, 11:56:33 AM
When you tell your students at least 5 times before the end of term that revision sessions will be held in the lecture session, and yet still get an email asking why there was no Friday class this week.

*headdesk*

If they can't remember that detail, I worry about what they'll remember in the exams...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BubbleTea on April 27, 2019, 11:49:58 PM
I missed a Breyer collector club horse AGAIN. As I was checking out it sold out. This is the second time this year it's happened to me. I officially have the worst luck with collector club. :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 28, 2019, 02:29:55 AM
There are things I want to get rid of on evilbay but the effort of photgraphing and listing them and the high likelihood of non-paying bidders, ugh, I can't work up the motivation.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 29, 2019, 08:52:45 AM
There are things I want to get rid of on evilbay but the effort of photgraphing and listing them and the high likelihood of non-paying bidders, ugh, I can't work up the motivation.  :pout:

I hear you!
So much junk from clearing my house - most went to charity-shops or the tip!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 29, 2019, 09:00:03 AM
I have stuff to do.

The fact I'm here means I'm not doing it.

I thought that this week I'd actually get a few days break without having to focus on my thesis. BUT apparently not. I realise getting it done sooner is better. But I have spent so long going over this thing I am thoroughly sick of it now.

Sigh. I'm going to start dreaming about it soon...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 01, 2019, 11:54:37 PM
It is snowing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 02, 2019, 12:37:09 PM
Our pre-order STILL isn't here! :pout: :argh:

The album was released last Friday, they claimed it would be "shipped in time for release date". NOT. I have never pre-ordered something before, and I never will again. Usually I just go to the store on the release date of an album I want, but I wanted to buy this one directly from the official store because this is a special album (the very last album of The Cranberries).

I can't believe it. I have been a huge and true fan since '94, now their very last album is out, and almost a week after its release I still haven't heard it. :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 02, 2019, 02:07:35 PM
I went back to an antique/vintage store to look at the G1 MLPs with my mom again, since I didn't get a good look at them last time. I had seen that Raincurl was there, and I really wanted her. I was so ready to get her, but then she costed $30. Now that may be a standard price, and she is in really good condition, with great curls still in tact and everything (just mentioning this makes me so depressed lol) but I'm extremely short on money. I could buy Raincurl and have no fun money at all for who knows how long (health and job complications. I'm not making any money any time soon. T.T). If I had money, there would have been no stopping me.

My mom also was there to keep me down to earth. I'm quite an impulsive buyer, especially for something this cute. I'm sooo sad I can't have it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 02, 2019, 03:29:29 PM
I do not understand why it's apparently considered abnormal for people not to drive. Quite a lot of people appear to commute to work on public transport, I know this because I see a lot of the same folks on the bus each morning, they're presumably not just going up to Bollington at the crack of dawn for a lark. I keep getting asked about it and for some reason people get really defensive about the fact that I don't drive, like by making my own choice in life, I'm somehow automatically saying that others' choices are wrong or something, which I wouldn't do because I'm not a complete and utter specimen.
As it is, I probably couldn't learn to drive even if I wanted to because I have eyesight problems, but I shouldn't need to bring that up just because the fact that I live my life in a way that suits me is apparently inherently offensive. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 02, 2019, 04:14:24 PM
I do not understand why it's apparently considered abnormal for people not to drive. Quite a lot of people appear to commute to work on public transport, I know this because I see a lot of the same folks on the bus each morning, they're presumably not just going up to Bollington at the crack of dawn for a lark. I keep getting asked about it and for some reason people get really defensive about the fact that I don't drive, like by making my own choice in life, I'm somehow automatically saying that others' choices are wrong or something, which I wouldn't do because I'm not a complete and utter specimen.
As it is, I probably couldn't learn to drive even if I wanted to because I have eyesight problems, but I shouldn't need to bring that up just because the fact that I live my life in a way that suits me is apparently inherently offensive. :/

It's nobody's business but yours if you choose not to drive.  Quite frankly, if I lived in NYC, I wouldn't bother to drive because they have such good public transportation.  Perhaps you should look at them, smile sweetly and reply "They won't let me drive again until the last person I ran over is out of hospital."  :devious:


My complaint is that I'm trying to recreate artwork for DVDs at work (I work in a library) and I can't find pictures online to use, which means I'll have to make up something that will take longer than cutting and pasting.  Usually I can find what I need on eBay if nowhere else but this particular piece (the spine) isn't anywhere, not even eBay. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 02, 2019, 04:28:40 PM
I do not understand why it's apparently considered abnormal for people not to drive. Quite a lot of people appear to commute to work on public transport, I know this because I see a lot of the same folks on the bus each morning, they're presumably not just going up to Bollington at the crack of dawn for a lark. I keep getting asked about it and for some reason people get really defensive about the fact that I don't drive, like by making my own choice in life, I'm somehow automatically saying that others' choices are wrong or something, which I wouldn't do because I'm not a complete and utter specimen.
As it is, I probably couldn't learn to drive even if I wanted to because I have eyesight problems, but I shouldn't need to bring that up just because the fact that I live my life in a way that suits me is apparently inherently offensive. :/

I also can't drive for eyesight reasons. Sadly, where I live public transportation is not very big. People don't actually usually bother me about not driving, but I always feel like such a huge burden upon my family and friends. I hate that I can't just meet my friends somewhere, that they have to come pick me up.

I also really dislike how having a driver's license is so fundamental and expected that the fact that there is actual separate state ID you can get is not common knowledge and I did not even know about it until 2014.

So much is tied to being able to drive where I live. I doubt people who are able to drive even think much of it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 02, 2019, 05:15:01 PM
I share that frustration! I had driving lessons for a long time but never passed. And though I probably could have done, eventually, I realised that my tendency to self destruct under the pressure of the test didn't bode well for me out on the road on my own.

I have great eyesight but really bad navigation. To the point that I have a bus pass and railcard, so yeah. That bad. But yeah, I get that too. The "oh, you don't drive?" thing. And then people arrange things that you need to drive to get to. Where my folks live, the buses, we had to fight so hard because "but everyone there drives!" (not). Even now the buses there are bad. I couldn't do much after 5 when I lived at home and I am frankly scared of leaving London and losing any sense of freedom by going elsewhere.

On the transport note, today I took a detour back to visit a store I like in London. Waited ages for the bus but it didn't come. So ended up getting lost and then walking half the way instead. Walked over Waterloo Bridge. The "it will immediately wash away and be gone forever!" paint daubed all over the bridge in the occupation the other week is still very much there, and looks like it's been spreading over the bridge. So what that's doing to the local birds and any urban nightlife is anyone's guess.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 02, 2019, 11:51:41 PM
Oh man, people are always on my case about driving too. >_< I am 32, therefore I surely must have a drivers licence? Yeah, no. I couldn't do it either. There's no way on God's green earth that I could even afford lessons, let alone a CAR, and I would also be very scared all the time on the road. I have absolutely no problem with that (except sometimes when it seems like everyone has a car, and we are the only ones struggling to carry heavy things home), but ask anyone, I made all the wrong choices and I am not living a full life without a car! :freak:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 03, 2019, 02:39:22 PM
Things I have learnt this year.

#1 Submitting an article is more difficult than writing an article.

#2 Submitting a PhD thesis is more difficult than writing a PhD thesis.

#3 The History Office hates all tutors. Spent 3 months trying to get a past paper for the students. Eventually gave up and told the students to go try themselves. 24 hours and they have the paper. Sigh.

#4 I need a holiday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 04, 2019, 01:23:54 AM
Because of stupid road construction work I took a wrong turn when driving to pick up a family member from a health resort and I ended up lost in the middle of countryside for two hours (the car doesn't have a GPS), and on my birthday too :yikes: :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 04, 2019, 06:42:07 AM
I also had bad experiences with driving lessons. Starting when I was a teen and although I took all of the lessons the instructor decided I "wasn't ready" and wouldn't give me my driver's ed certificate unless I got my license within a certain time frame. I didn't get in in time so never got the certificate. Fast forward several years and my parents bought me a used car that they thought was great but had several problems that were not disclosed by the seller including the fact that the car had been submerged at some point long enough for the break lines to rust out and brake.


I'm trying again to get my license but I've gotten a lot of the comments about not having a drivers license too.



I woke up extra early again and all of my usual strategies for trying to go back to sleep failed  :zzz:




Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 04, 2019, 11:09:46 AM
A broken Irishwoman went to the doctor... Sounds like a joke, right? Well, it was! :pout:

My own doctor didn't have time, so I saw a different one. She asked if I tried any painkillers yet, so I said that I tried an aspirin since paracetamol doesn't work for me. She asked what a meant... "Aspirin? You mean ibuprofen? Or naproxen?" No, just aspirin! In those white/green boxes? :blink: She had no idea... I'm not sure about other countries, but aspirin is the second most popular painkiller here, how a doctor doesn't know about its existence is beyond me...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 04, 2019, 05:14:15 PM
A broken Irishwoman went to the doctor... Sounds like a joke, right? Well, it was! :pout:

My own doctor didn't have time, so I saw a different one. She asked if I tried any painkillers yet, so I said that I tried an aspirin since paracetamol doesn't work for me. She asked what a meant... "Aspirin? You mean ibuprofen? Or naproxen?" No, just aspirin! In those white/green boxes? :blink: She had no idea... I'm not sure about other countries, but aspirin is the second most popular painkiller here, how a doctor doesn't know about its existence is beyond me...

If my doctor didn't know the difference between aspirin and ibuprofen I would run away!  I certainly wouldn't trust them with something hard!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 05, 2019, 03:52:41 AM
I had a dream that it was 2012 again except it turned out that the end of the world prophecy was confirmed 100% to be true :scared:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 05, 2019, 09:52:11 PM
I have to be at work at 7:45 am because of a mandatory firedrill. That will take aprox 15 minutes, half an hour at most. Then I will sit there with nothing to do until we open at 10am. At least I'll get paid while being there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 06, 2019, 08:39:39 AM
I wish the weather would make up its mind if it wants to be sunny or not.

Ambiguously cloudy is not helpful.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 06, 2019, 08:45:28 AM
I wish the weather would make up its mind if it wants to be sunny or not.

Ambiguously cloudy is not helpful.

Yes, this is very relatable! It's been really indecisive today - raining at first, then sunny, then overcast and windy, now it's attempting to let loose the sun again... and now it's cloudy again, within a matter of seconds. I do not have the patience for these meteorological shenanigans.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 06, 2019, 08:47:41 AM
I wish the weather would make up its mind if it wants to be sunny or not.

Ambiguously cloudy is not helpful.

Yes, this is very relatable! It's been really indecisive today - raining at first, then sunny, then overcast and windy, now it's attempting to let loose the sun again... and now it's cloudy again, within a matter of seconds. I do not have the patience for these meteorological shenanigans.

Spring in Britain, eh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 06, 2019, 10:31:09 AM
If my doctor didn't know the difference between aspirin and ibuprofen I would run away!  I certainly wouldn't trust them with something hard!

I did run, I will never see this doctor ever again. :crazy: Next time my own doctor can't see me, I'll wait!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 07, 2019, 11:47:58 AM
I wish the weather would make up its mind if it wants to be sunny or not.

Ambiguously cloudy is not helpful.

Yes, this is very relatable! It's been really indecisive today - raining at first, then sunny, then overcast and windy, now it's attempting to let loose the sun again... and now it's cloudy again, within a matter of seconds. I do not have the patience for these meteorological shenanigans.

Spring in Britain, eh.

Yep, gotta love it in all it's... er.. 'glory'. I'm glad of the longer days but a bit more sunshine to go with them would be a treat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 08, 2019, 02:11:40 AM
I wish the weather would make up its mind if it wants to be sunny or not.

Ambiguously cloudy is not helpful.

Yes, this is very relatable! It's been really indecisive today - raining at first, then sunny, then overcast and windy, now it's attempting to let loose the sun again... and now it's cloudy again, within a matter of seconds. I do not have the patience for these meteorological shenanigans.

Spring in Britain, eh.

Yep, gotta love it in all it's... er.. 'glory'. I'm glad of the longer days but a bit more sunshine to go with them would be a treat.

Yep. Today it's (torrential) rain. I have a few things I need to buy. I can handle general rain, but NO WAY I am going out in that. Working all day tomorrow invigilating exams so I guess I will just have to go without those things for a few more days.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 08, 2019, 03:04:36 AM
Getting a headache because my mum doesn’t understand how to search for Norton VPN on the website.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 08, 2019, 06:17:55 AM
Had an incident 2 weeks ago at a restaurant where I bit into something + broke a tiny bit of (molar) tooth.

Went to dentist who discovered that another tooth was in very bad shape too - I had been getting pain after eating hot or cold foods - after she attended to it (drilled out cavity close to the nerve, infilled the rest) my face/jaw hurt for days, I could not chew hard food and made do with protein shakes for most of my nutrition.

Tomorrow I am to see the dentist - there is still a wee bit of pain - looks like I am gonna have root canal and a crown. I hope our insurance covers it otherwise ££££££ ouch!  :cry: >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 08, 2019, 02:48:56 PM
Had an incident 2 weeks ago at a restaurant where I bit into something + broke a tiny bit of (molar) tooth.

Went to dentist who discovered that another tooth was in very bad shape too - I had been getting pain after eating hot or cold foods - after she attended to it (drilled out cavity close to the nerve, infilled the rest) my face/jaw hurt for days, I could not chew hard food and made do with protein shakes for most of my nutrition.

Tomorrow I am to see the dentist - there is still a wee bit of pain - looks like I am gonna have root canal and a crown. I hope our insurance covers it otherwise ££££££ ouch!  :cry: >_<

This is why NHS dentist.

Seriously.

If I had to do private dental anything I would have had to ebay my soul already. My teeth are literally full of impurities and thus horrible.


I'm invigilating all day tomorrow. Which is fine and it's money but it means fighting the morning trains again and playing the lottery of which signalling isn't working today...

Basically there's always a problem on ONE line. And you just hope it isn't yours...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 09, 2019, 10:42:34 AM
I need money, dang it. Two more weeks until payday. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 09, 2019, 11:46:25 AM
Dentist update: no root canal, for now, she wants to see how the nerve settles down as I still have a tiny bit of nerve pain. She will start work on my other tooth next week  :bolt: husband has family dental insurance as part of a work perk, otherwise it would be NHS, however going private has the advantage of being treated in a shorter time-frame (plus only being 10 minutes walk away from my house).

Today: all I wanted to buy were 3 little packets of Cadburys Buttons for the kids I was looking after today - all that Sainsburys had was the mega bags (huh, try sharing 1 bag of chocolate between 3 young, ravenous kids!!  :freak: :scared:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 09, 2019, 04:20:14 PM
I bought 2 books yesterday and still need 2 books to complete the series I’m working. Out of the 4 books I needed 1 was out of stock. So I bought the next 2 books in the series. Today not only did I find out that the missing volume was in stock but that the store sent out coupons and I didn’t get one even though I’m a loyal customer.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 09, 2019, 09:48:16 PM
Get up early to do laundry.

Get all the way downstairs with laundry to find laundry room closed with an out of order notice.

Out of order notice says 'service will resume on 8th May'.

It's the 10th May and there are still no working washing machines.

And at the very least this is the kind of thing you send in a mass email to residents, not wait for them to lug laundry all around the building first...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 09, 2019, 10:38:06 PM
I bought a new external hard drive to replace my two old brick size ones from the early 2000s that need power from a wallsocket to work.. and while transferring all the files I noticed that every picture from 2014 to 2017 are missing, including those from my trip to the Azores. I've been going through my computer and every file and can't find them. I am devastated. :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 10, 2019, 12:34:47 PM
I made a complete pig's ear of gathering some pencil pleat curtains. One of them I've sorted out, so it's pleated, it's up, it looks okay... the other one, well it's hung up but I'll have to replace the cords tomorrow. At least it's fixable. I've done plenty of hand-sewing in the past so it's no biggie, I just feel a complete berk for having messed up something as simple as that. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 10, 2019, 01:55:12 PM
Thought it too good to be true.
Looks like my university might be striking at the end of May.

To be honest they have an absolutely valid reason to strike this time and I totally support their cause.

I just worry about the nature of the strike as my uni can get scary when strikes happen. This year's SU have been reasonable for the most part, but the last two years when strikes happened violence and forcible building lockdowns also happened. And this is exam period, and students shouldn't be victimised for their final exams.

I finish my invigilating around the time this is meant to kick off but the last thing you want if you're a student - especially a final year student - is to have to sit an exam in a hostile atmosphere, or to get to uni to find the exam you expected to sit is moved or cancelled.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 12, 2019, 02:09:12 AM
I made a complete pig's ear of gathering some pencil pleat curtains. One of them I've sorted out, so it's pleated, it's up, it looks okay... the other one, well it's hung up but I'll have to replace the cords tomorrow. At least it's fixable. I've done plenty of hand-sewing in the past so it's no biggie, I just feel a complete berk for having messed up something as simple as that. :/

Eeek did the strings get accidentally pulled out? Get a big upholstery needle or bodkin to feed them back through (if sewing a new tape is too much hassle).

Thought it too good to be true.
Looks like my university might be striking at the end of May.

Oh that's a worry  :(

So on Thursday I bought a bag of freshly-baked, double-choc-chip cookies to take on a play date, but we went home with the bag un-opened. Took them yesterday to a BBQ, same thing happened.

BB4 date is due today and these highly calorific, chocolatey, delicious morsels keep WINKING at me and telling me to eat them. I must be strong...
 :yummy: :angel:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 13, 2019, 11:10:25 AM
I made a complete pig's ear of gathering some pencil pleat curtains. One of them I've sorted out, so it's pleated, it's up, it looks okay... the other one, well it's hung up but I'll have to replace the cords tomorrow. At least it's fixable. I've done plenty of hand-sewing in the past so it's no biggie, I just feel a complete berk for having messed up something as simple as that. :/

Eeek did the strings get accidentally pulled out? Get a big upholstery needle or bodkin to feed them back through (if sewing a new tape is too much hassle).


Yes, that's precisely what happened but to add insult to injury, the cord ended up in a tangle so I had to cut it, then the stuff I tried replacing it with was too hefty for my needle, so I'm going to have get something a tiny bit finer or a bigger needle. It will be repaired eventually! :lol:

And my complaint for today is that while trying to be well-behaved, I successfully resisted the urge to buy some creamy wafer biscuits on the way home from work, but now I've had some nice fresh coffee, I really have a hankering for some of those biscuits and there are none in the house.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 14, 2019, 07:10:14 AM
The next time my parents go on vacation one of my brothers is watching their dog.  He has decided that letting me sleep in past 4 AM is unacceptable because he wants to go outside.  So this morning I put him out and left him out.  When I left for work he wanted to go in but I made him stay outside.  I told him that since he wanted out he could stay out.  He would have had to stay out all day anyway while I was at work but I think if I make him stay outside until I'm ready to go to bed he'll get the point (he really is a smart dog, he's just spoiled rotten by my parents).  And if not, he'll start getting locked in the office at night and he can stay there until I get up for work. :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 14, 2019, 09:37:21 AM
The whole "influencers" thing... I must be getting old, because I don't understand any of it. The word alone...  Why on earth would you be influenced by someone who calls him-/herself an "influencer"? Wouldn't that give you the feeling that you're being had? You don't have a mind of your own? :brow: And why would you want to become one? Are you really so full of yourself that you actually expect people to be influenced by you? :nuts:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm getting old. I don't belong in this crazy age. :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 14, 2019, 10:21:14 AM
The whole "influencers" thing... I must be getting old, because I don't understand any of it. The word alone...  Why on earth would you be influenced by someone who calls him-/herself an "influencer"? Wouldn't that give you the feeling that you're being had? You don't have a mind of your own? :brow: And why would you want to become one? Are you really so full of yourself that you actually expect people to be influenced by you? :nuts:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm getting old. I don't belong in this crazy age. :lookround:

I agree...maybe I'm old too...don't understand and have never understood peer pressure in any of its forms anyway.

Took me till almost 4pm to get home today (finished invigilating at 1pm, it's usually a 20 min bus trip and then 30 mins by train home). I did take a detour into the city but the biggest issue was that all the trains were out thanks to an incident on the line on my route. So I had to get a train to a different station and then a bus. Thankfully it's a nice day and I know bus routes from about six different stations home in case of such emergencies, but I hadn't had lunch and was pretty hungry by the time I finally got back (last thing I'd eaten had been breakfast at 7am..)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on May 14, 2019, 11:46:16 AM
I finally have pony money to spend and can't find the pony I want to buy anywhere
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 14, 2019, 10:26:15 PM
Yesterday before he left work, my manager told me I was gonna be on my own the whole day today as my coworker was gonna be in a meeting and come in just as my shift ends. He did offer to bring his kids and come in and cover an hour for lunch, but it seemed like a lot of hassle to bring two young kids to a mall, especially a toddler, for one hour so I told him it wasn't necessary. But I wish he could have told me before my break so I could have bought a sallad or something to eat by the register. Now I have to rely on bananas and proteing bars as I already had them in the breakroom.


..and my doctor banned me from chewing gums :sneaky:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 15, 2019, 06:30:27 AM
Should be reading through my thesis copy but I am so sick of it by now I really don't want to. I haven't really got that much rework to do on it now but I just. Can't. I have technically till August to do this, but I want to do it much sooner if I can. Just totally lacking in motivation right now...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 15, 2019, 10:42:34 AM
There was an impromptu show at work today and I missed it because my work bench faces the back of the factory. I heard a fwoosh! and a load of laughing followed by some shouting, then "Get a mop and bucket!!!" We've been working on some new high-pressure pumps, and of course the second it was hooked up to the test rig and given its maiden voyage, one of the hoses immediately leapt free of the tank and a huge plume of water shot clean over to the other side of the factory! So I didn't get to see the display, but I did get to clean up the aftermath. It quite literally adds insult to injury, seeing as I bent my wrist backwards while sawing rails earlier in the day. I could've done with a bit of light entertainment. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 15, 2019, 11:16:26 AM
Walmart's bags have gotten so flimsy that I had to triple bag something that shouldn't have even needed to be double bagged.  The bag with my box of cereal ripped.  How is making me use 12-20 bags per trip better/cheaper than letting me use 4 quality bags that I can reuse for bathroom trash later?  These new ones are so flimsy that I don't even dare reuse them for the bathroom.  The entire reason I don't use fabric bags when I go to stores like Walmart is so I can reuse the plastic bags as garbage bags for the bathroom because they fit so well in that little can.  I guess I'll have to start buying them for the bathroom like the ones for the kitchen. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 15, 2019, 02:07:18 PM
So, I took my kid to swimming lessons after school today.

As we walked into the main pool area, everyone was walking out, towards us.

Turned out all lessons were cancelled... because...

...some kid had just pooped in the pool  :X :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 15, 2019, 02:10:58 PM
So, I took my kid to swimming lessons after school today.

As we walked into the main pool area, everyone was walking out, towards us.

Turned out all lessons were cancelled... because...

...some kid had just pooped in the pool  :X :shakefist:

Ew. That's just...ew. At least your kid didn't get in the water before that happened...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kingluke on May 18, 2019, 12:40:38 PM
Not safe for work/dark/trigger warning?

Sorry to be so disturbing but I fear I am an undiagnosed schizophrenic who had a psychosis and the healthcare system doesnt
 seem to care if I exist or not. Sorry im just tired of getting diagnoses. This will be number 6.

Also I want cake. But I dont have any.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 18, 2019, 07:54:41 PM
I can't cool down. My face is so hot  :hot:

edit: ...and I made a new page :shakefist: :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 19, 2019, 06:43:57 AM
This is a major first world problem but I can't decide on what kind of teapot to get. I've held it to ransom, so I'm only allowed to  get one once I've finished clearing out all the stuff that's languishing in the spare room. Some of that stuff has been sold on evilbay already, so I'm a step closer to the teapot, but it's a hard decision. There's a white stoneware one in the shape of a cat with a gold collar on it, which is quite elegant and smart, but I also really like cast iron teapots because of their traditional charm, and one of those would go well with the Japanese influences that have cropped up throughout the house.
Hopefully once the rest of the junk has been cleared out of The Abyss, then I'll feel more certain about what teapot I want. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 19, 2019, 07:06:48 AM
Ooh, I have a cat teapot! I love mine :) He's a tuxedo kitty sitting on a blue plate with a little blue hat ^^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 19, 2019, 11:05:16 PM
I wanted to burn some CDs to put in my car but as soon as I started looking through my music, I couldn't decide what to put on the discs so it will have to wait until tomorrow (or possibly longer depending on if I can figure it out tomorrow or not).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 20, 2019, 05:47:52 AM
This morning a dove actually went out of his way to prove me wrong. :hmm: We couldn't sleep, it was 5 AM and we heard all the birds waking up one by one. First the blackbirds, then the robins... So I said to my husband, "next the wrens will wake up, the house sparrows and the doves are always last, when it's light outside".

..."CUCKOO COO!"

:hmm:

And then the little bugger remained silent until 6:30. He heard me, and just HAD to prove me wrong. It was funny as heck, but I was actually pissed for a moment. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on May 20, 2019, 07:07:59 AM
I found out that Dragonboat festival is combined with a muslim holiday for a week long holiday (june 5-12) but its only in very specific parts of China( that have high muslim populations), and I just happened to live in one.

SO my issue is, where should I go? Stay put in Ningxia or go elsewhere? Traveling IN china during any national holiday is a nightmare for me because of the sheer amt of people but staying here  for a week is gonna get boring. I did that during the national day golden week and I got bored after 4 days.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 20, 2019, 08:12:01 AM
Why are all the days I am off from work also holidays?  I can't get anything done I need to, because stuff is always closed on the holidays I get off from work! 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on May 20, 2019, 03:45:29 PM
Ah yes, the Oklahoma tornado season has begun. They cancelled school in like half the state today due to the weather (which kinda sucks because it was welding certification day at my tech school, but safety first always), and there's been a couple tornadoes on the ground in the state already. Yikes! Hope that we don't get hit by one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 22, 2019, 03:22:08 AM
Good luck to people facing tornadoes!

So this is where I am right now.

I have more or less done my revisions of my thesis, I have to print it tomorrow so I can check it in hardcopy as I don't pick up errors on screen so well. But this is due on 8th August. And I have basically done it. So that's one thing.

In the last month I have also written an academic article, reviewed another, applied for two jobs, invigilated several exams, supported my students through their exams (which are now ended, my duties are over!), submitted something else for another project I'm working on...attended a funding conference at the embassy...

So why is it I feel like I'm not doing anything useful right now?

I have spent the last two evenings watching anime. It's not even cerebral anime. It's about as mainstream as you can get, but I really like it. And I feel really guilty about spending 2 evenings doing this. But why do I? I literally have NO formal deadlines right now until the end of June. There is an essay competition I might enter if I can figure out how to structure my answer, but it's absolutely not a must do.

So...I really shouldn't be feeling guilty about not doing something academic. I shouldn't feel guilty about watching anime (in Japanese, note :P) or writing fanfic or anything else on that level. And yet I DO.

I think it's the same as when you have exams and then they're over and you've so conditioned yourself to do work for them that when they're done, you feel a bit lost...?

But meh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 22, 2019, 07:25:49 PM
I decided to go to the bookstore in the mall today. Unfortunately I got there when a bunch of high school/junior high age students were there. I wouldn't have been bothered about them being in the store except they were disrupting the quiet atmosphere of the bookstore. Some were talking/yelling loudly but what really got me was that I saw a few actually running around the book store behind and between the aisles.  :shocked:  A bookstore is not the place to be running around like you are on a playground.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 23, 2019, 12:01:31 AM
I decided to go to the bookstore in the mall today. Unfortunately I got there when a bunch of high school/junior high age students were there. I wouldn't have been bothered about them being in the store except they were disrupting the quiet atmosphere of the bookstore. Some were talking/yelling loudly but what really got me was that I saw a few actually running around the book store behind and between the aisles.  :shocked:  A bookstore is not the place to be running around like you are on a playground.



Ponyfan

When I worked in the library kids would do that, and throw around magazines, and sometimes play in the rolling stack which is very. not. safe. Fortunately the one on the public access floor was self-locking, but yeah. I don't like tarring 'kids' all with the same brush as many are fine, but there's always some. Getting the bus back when I lived in North London at around 3 was a bad idea if it was coming through from certain areas, as the kids on those buses were noisy, intimidating, and actually pulled people's hair and created a scene. I saw them thrown off the bus once. It was a pretty unpleasant experience travelling with them. (I worked with teenagers for 2 years, many of whom came from rougher areas or problem backgrounds. I travelled on many buses with my students and others at the end of the day, and never had any of them behave like that...so it really is just a few giving the rest a bad name)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 23, 2019, 07:05:33 AM
Someone is stealing DVDs from the library again.  Seriously, you can use them for FREE!  Why would you go out of your way to prove that you're a pathetic loser by stealing them?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 23, 2019, 09:34:56 AM

I think it's the same as when you have exams and then they're over and you've so conditioned yourself to do work for them that when they're done, you feel a bit lost...?


Yep, know the feeling - it's great! Then... you feel guilty - I *should* be doing something?!! Enjoy the anime!

So my tooth started hurting again, BIG TIME. Saw the dentist this afternoon, she drilled stuff and poked around the nerve YOWCH it REALLY hurt... packed it with some sort of antibiotic filler and I am now scheduled for the dreaded root canal in 2 weeks time...  :cry:

the specialist clinic is next to my old secondary school so at least it will be easy to find  :cool:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loona on May 23, 2019, 12:42:13 PM
I get how you feel Taffeta - I still clearly remember the very first day after I finished university. Husband (then boyfriend) left for work, so I got up too, basically as a habit, and I was just... wandering around the flat, not knowing what to do, for what felt like the first time ever in my life. There was no "it starts again in September", there was just no specific next step. I could have done a lot of things I wasn't able to when I was studying my butt off, but suddenly I didn't have the mood for anything. I just sat there, stood up, walked around, sat back, and felt incredibly lost - and depressed too actually - the latter only increased after a couple of weeks' trying to find a job, in vain. To stay on topic (as I don't really have anything to complain about right now), it still pisses me off why so many companies put up ads for jobs in July when they actually didn't have plans of hiring anyone until summer is over. I never managed to get a job until September, and by that time I was feeling so miserable and good-for-nothing that it literally hurt. Later it turned out (when suddenly everyone started to call me in September) that they just put the ads up, left for summer holiday, and continued recruitment only in September. Why? Ideally (I would believe) those who wanted a job in July would have already settled for something by September (because they needed the money), and those who start looking for a job in September will not even look at, let alone apply for an ad that is more that 2 months old...

Enjoy being able to have some peace of mind and watching whatever you want to watch! :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 23, 2019, 02:13:25 PM
@Loona - my job at the college some years back was like that...advert in May, interview date...end July. That's genuinely not practical...but that was somehow still the job that I got xD. (And I still have to find a job too now, going forward. Struck me today that I essentially have 3 months left in London :/ After 4 consecutive years here it's going to be a wrench going back to a place where there is nothing and no transport and yeah. Nothing. Nothing but Leave voters. The only good thing there is my parents. (And I guess my pony collection, but you know).

@Pokeyonekenobie - I know you know this, but even though the people who come into libraries appear to be civilised folk, the reality is often very different O.o. Beneath those innocent expressions are some of the craziest people on the planet. Seriously, the lack of respect people have for library property is astounding.

We didn't have DVDs in my library as it was a ref library, but the thing that got me the most was the newspapers. The fact we (note, mostly I) stamped and put these out neatly each morning, and then during the day they'd get filleted, thrown about, misordered, kicked in pieces around the floor, bits stolen (we used to have to take out certain supplements because they'd get pinched, usually the job ones, oh the irony) and coupons cut out (yes, get a free something at the library's expense. You know, that place where they pay for you to use the resources for free, not for you to get money off your shopping!). And the worst part was most of these were so called broadsheet newspapers, not tabloids. And the people who came to read them apparently were civilised and literate until they got to the newspaper rack, at which point they became mad chimps having an impromptu party.

...I am sure you can relate.

@Glitterball, thank you! I am trying, the problem is that it's now currently airing, and I'm almost caught up, and I hate waiting...

I don't know if you've had a root canal before, but honestly, the root canal is generally less bad than the infection or nerve irritation that comes before it. If it's a molar it can hurt more, but its' still ultimately better if it's done properly than having the infection/issue in the tooth. And it sounds like part of it she's already done, if she did a temp filling. So with any luck it will go fine :)

<--root canal veteran now. My nerves hate me. Yes. I get on my own nerves. Sigh. No jokes please.

So my trivial complaint for today...mostly done with my revisions but going through my page numbers and they are all perfect EXCEPT FOR ONE! So I have to now redo the whole PDF because one page number says 210 instead of 226 on the contents page. And I have to redo it at uni because I don't have the software here to edit or grayscale it. So there goes my afternoon tomorrow.

Gaaah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 23, 2019, 02:31:24 PM
Brought Pokemon Ultra Moon from CEX internet on Monday it came today and it doesn’t work on any of my 3DS. So I’ve got to print the invoice out and take that and the game to my local CEX (Wellingborough) to get a replacement Ultra Sun or get a different game that cost the same amount (£30)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 23, 2019, 09:09:16 PM
I really really want the game Observation but it's $25 on PSN. I do have an 8 dollar balance but still... money is kinda tight right now and I have so many other games I've never played. Part of me is like 'but I've been waiting for thiiiiiiis!' and part of me is 'wait for it to go on saaaaale!' Ugh.

Also, as amazing as it looks I'm kinda afraid it will trigger my vertigo. I couldn't finish Dead Space because of the zero g areas.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 23, 2019, 11:04:52 PM

@Glitterball, thank you! I am trying, the problem is that it's now currently airing, and I'm almost caught up, and I hate waiting...

I don't know if you've had a root canal before, but honestly, the root canal is generally less bad than the infection or nerve irritation that comes before it. If it's a molar it can hurt more, but its' still ultimately better if it's done properly than having the infection/issue in the tooth. And it sounds like part of it she's already done, if she did a temp filling. So with any luck it will go fine :)

<--root canal veteran now. My nerves hate me. Yes. I get on my own nerves. Sigh. No jokes please.

So my trivial complaint for today...mostly done with my revisions but going through my page numbers and they are all perfect EXCEPT FOR ONE! So I have to now redo the whole PDF because one page number says 210 instead of 226 on the contents page. And I have to redo it at uni because I don't have the software here to edit or grayscale it. So there goes my afternoon tomorrow.

Gaaah.

Oh how ANNOYING for you - just one little error and all the hassle needed to fix it - thank goodness for todays software, though, in the long-run fixing the problem will take a matter of a few minutes, instead of like in the old days, having to hand-type it all again - back in the mid-90s our faculty had just TWO word processing computers for ALL the students, no software training, general dread when it came to submitting written work (but I made-do by borrowing one from my Mum's friend).

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

So today my tooth seems to be quiet, I had a good nights sleep although I played-safe yesterday evening by eating soft rice pudding and having a protein shake for dinner, to avoid any chewing.

As the dentist was poking about, making me whimper at each touch of the nerve, she told me the antibiotic stuff will gently kill the nerve, allow 24-48 hours for any pain to settle down. Within seconds of finishing-up, I felt my hot nerve pain manifest itself, dentist agreed it was the last throes before the demise of the nerve.

My only worry about the root canal is the fact that my tooth is far back and in a tight space, the x-ray show the roots as straight (so that makes the op less complicated in that respect) but the guy I have been referred to does this op as a speciality so he must know what to do!  :lol:

*  *  *  *  *  *  *

Trivial complaint du jour:

being Friday, I usually get a treat for my kid.

Annoyingly, I have run out of new ponies and other ideas of what to get... so either a trip to London for a quick lunch with my best pal (and buying a sneaky pick-a-brick tub at Lego Leicester Sq)
...or...
looks like I will be getting a fourth version of one of those taco wrap, blind-bag soft toys, Cutetitos  ^.^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 24, 2019, 10:14:08 AM
Ticked off because people are calling Type 1 Diabetes as a disease while it’s not, it’s a condition. Even my dad isn’t happy with the news reporter on ITV News calling it a disease.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 24, 2019, 10:47:49 AM
Ticked off because people are calling Type 1 Diabetes as a disease while it’s not, it’s a condition. Even my dad isn’t happy with the news reporter on ITV News calling it a disease.

I can relate to this. The number of times I've seen people call autism a learning difficulty or a mental health problem when it's a developmental disorder and neither of the above...*shakes head*

People like to be ignorant about things that don't affect them, and don't bother to inform themselves until it affects them directly.

@Glitterball - glad your tooth is doing better. The way back teeth are worse but if you have a specialist and straight roots, then hopefully it will be straightforward!

And the contents page now says 226 :P

I can't really remember what PCs my uni had between 2000 and 2003 when I did my first degree, but yeah, the options are way different now :) Thank goodness as well that there are ways around manual footnoting now o.o. I was never good at that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 24, 2019, 10:22:39 PM
Yesterday I got a letter from the doctor I've been seing at the pain clinic about my headache. I've been meeting her, a physiotherapist and a psychologist and the letter state what they've come up with about me and how to proceed with the investigation and what treatment I shall undergo. It's a copy of the letter they sent to my gp so it's full of medical terms I don't understand.

But the complaint is not about that, it's that I sat in a room with all three of them where they explained all of this to me in person, the letter is just a reminder, and not once did they mention ptsd. Yet it says so in the letter. I can live with that diagnosis, it never occured to me that the trauma I experienced as a child affected me like this as a grown up and I am glad that their examination of my head gave more than I could've asked for. I just wish they could have told me instead of me finding out in a letter while I'm home alone a friday evening.. It is a lot to digest and I have slept badly.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on May 25, 2019, 08:05:57 AM
My boyfriend's ex keeps sending me really nasty messages on Facebook. Half of me is laughing at how immature she is and the other is getting quite angry at it now...
Block time!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 26, 2019, 07:25:37 AM
I'm irritated because I can't draw anymore. :pout: I used to draw a lot when I was younger, and I did it quite well. Not great, but good enough to be satisfied. Now I can't do it anymore. I'm rusty and my hands are much shakier than a couple of years ago. I know I should just practise, but I get discouraged easily. I only want to draw when I'm inspired anyway. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 26, 2019, 07:23:04 PM
A major bookstore's website used to let you look up in store inventory from the website without having to type the store you wanted to search every time. Now you must tell the website what location you want to search for each time and for each item you want to see if it is in stock. Why did they have to make their website more complicated? So if I am looking for the next volume in a book series I have to go to each title's  page and tell the website  the location I want to search.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 28, 2019, 03:20:03 AM
Woken up by one of the cats about to hurl next to me. Didn't move her in time.

Now I'm awake at 6am and I need to do laundry :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 28, 2019, 04:02:48 AM
My university again making things stupidly complicated.

I am owed some rebate on my fees.

They seem to be trying to make it as difficult as possible to actually pay this rebate.

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on May 28, 2019, 06:43:31 AM
Quote
I don't know what to eat for lunch. Every day the same question.

Story of my life..but more of "what the hell did I order"?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on May 29, 2019, 12:00:16 AM
Insomnia, fourth night in a row. :( It’s about three in the morning here, and I can’t sleep, even though I feel exhausted. It’s like a bad caffeine hangover... except I don’t drink caffeine. Blah. I’m going to have to take a sleep aid at this rate, and those tend to make me groggy for DAYS...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 29, 2019, 07:39:55 AM
It's Half Term.  :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 29, 2019, 02:12:43 PM
It's only going to get hotter... :hot: 🔥 🌞 🔥
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on May 30, 2019, 07:06:02 AM
It's only going to get hotter... :hot: 🔥 🌞 🔥
This...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on May 30, 2019, 09:25:30 AM
I’m concerned about a problem a loved one has (out of respect for them and their wishes, I cannot go into detail)... I’m so worried, I actually feel physically sick. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on May 31, 2019, 04:29:55 AM
This is about the visibility of handling time on ebay. long rant.
Spoiler
It's been 3 business days, going on 4, and my buyer is asking me if I'm going to ship yet. I'm nervous my buyer is going to dock stars because they are asking me questions. They will end up getting their item 1 week after buying the item. I don't think this is long at all.

It bothers me so much that eBay sets this unrealistic expectation for shipping. Amazon and big box stores ALSO have 3-5 business days for handling. But people on ebay think they need to get their item yesterday. (And I blame this on ebay).

I literally can't do anything about shipping Tuesday-Thursday because I leave the house at 5am and come home at 7pm. My post office doesn't have a drop off. And it's been rainy so I'm not leaving the package out for pick up.

I'm also just bitter about this auction because I goofed in the ebay app and it listed my item with free shipping -- when I was attempting to charge shipping. So I'm literally selling this at a loss.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 02, 2019, 06:02:05 AM
What's with the dang wind lately? No matter what type of weather it is, there's SO. MUCH. WIND. It's 32℃ today, and all my stuff still flies through the house when I open a window. I know I should be happy with this, because usually there's no breeze at all when it's hot, but this is a tad bit much. :pout:

I’m concerned about a problem a loved one has (out of respect for them and their wishes, I cannot go into detail)... I’m so worried, I actually feel physically sick. :(

I obviously don't know what's going on, but I'm so sorry. :( I wish you lots of strength and light! :hug:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 02, 2019, 09:12:37 AM
The sibilance on certain modern records is bugging me a bit at the moment. Normally I can gloss over it and just enjoy the music but when you hear "your voissse like the sssound of sssirensss to a houssse on fire, you're sssaving me", it's quite noticeable... :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 02, 2019, 09:26:15 AM
I’m concerned about a problem a loved one has (out of respect for them and their wishes, I cannot go into detail)... I’m so worried, I actually feel physically sick. :(

I obviously don't know what's going on, but I'm so sorry. :( I wish you lots of strength and light! :hug:

Thank you. :hug: There’s just... been a LOT going on and I’m worried the stress is starting to really take a toll on this loved one. We talked the other day, and I think they’re beginning to move in a more positive direction, so that’s good. I’m just hoping things let up for them soon.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 02, 2019, 12:56:28 PM
So one of the academic organisations I'm a member of has an essay competition in which you write about the pros and cons of the field and so on.

It really shouldn't be hard to write 3000 words on that. That's a tiny amount of words.

The problem is that although I know what I want to say, my brain won't say it in an intelligent way.

I don't *have* to write this, or enter it, but I kind of wanted to. As it stands right now, though, I don't know that it's going to happen. The deadline is next week...

I think I used up all my academic brain cells.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 03, 2019, 06:57:19 AM
Thank you. :hug: There’s just... been a LOT going on and I’m worried the stress is starting to really take a toll on this loved one. We talked the other day, and I think they’re beginning to move in a more positive direction, so that’s good. I’m just hoping things let up for them soon.

I hope so too, at least it's a good sign that things are taking a postive turn! Stay strong! :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 03, 2019, 04:16:49 PM
I had to get two MRIs done today. Certainly a little stressful, and it was my very first time. However, they weren't really the problem. The lady at the desk asked if I needed to go to the bathroom and I had already seen that it wasn't a private one and I didn't feel like going there, so I said "No". Then the MRI tech (or whatever you call them) asked me the same question and, again, the bathroom back there wasn't private so I said "No". I was wondering why I was getting asked this so much, like it was something that I *had* to do before getting my MRIs.

I quickly learned why. It was awful, and I still wouldn't budge and use it when the MRI tech came back in before the second MRI to check on me and let me get up for a minute. The second MRI was the worst. It just kept on going on and on and on and on and I was like "When will this stop?! I can't do this anymore!"

I really didn't have to go to the bathroom that much before the MRIs. It just flared up suddenly. Geez. Hopefully if I ever have to do an MRI again I'll have gotten over these issues of mine. >.<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 03, 2019, 11:32:57 PM
I've gotten chafes on both feet from shoes I've had a pretty long time.. And it's raining outside so I have a limited set of shoes that are waterproof and I need to get to work and I'm just dreading it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 05, 2019, 12:22:49 PM
Apparently my name is very difficult. Yesterday someone called me Melissa, earlier someone called me Miranda. Neither of the two is even CLOSE to my name. It does start with an M, but that's all. Losers. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 05, 2019, 04:34:12 PM
Apparently my name is very difficult. Yesterday someone called me Melissa, earlier someone called me Miranda. Neither of the two is even CLOSE to my name. It does start with an M, but that's all. Losers. :pout:

I can relate. Google thinks my name is a spelling error. I put it in one time as I wanted to find my scholar page quickly without ploughing through the whole university website and it came up with the "did you mean...?" message.

My trivial complaint - how is it that my room gets more cluttered and untidy when I'm home, yet I don't remember doing anything to make it that way??

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 07, 2019, 01:20:17 AM
Ugh, that's so annoying! It's nice to have a slightly different name, but the hassle it can give you... Mine isn't even unusual, just spelled differently. Maybe the unusual letter is what's throwing people. They see a letter they don't expect, and their brain short-circuits. And don't get me started on my last name... It's an English name, Dutch people can't handle that. :P And now that I am married it has only gotten worse, because my married name is foreign too. It would be so much easier to just be called  Truus Jansen or something (stereotype/typical old Dutch name). XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 07, 2019, 03:46:23 AM
My name is also an alt spelling of a regular name. So I am alwats asked if it is a mistake...or people 'correct' it to the common version even if the actual spelling is in my message to them...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on June 07, 2019, 05:06:38 AM
With my name, people either seem to be able to spell it right, OR pronounce it right. Nobody seems capable of both
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 07, 2019, 06:31:35 AM
With my name, people either seem to be able to spell it right, OR pronounce it right. Nobody seems capable of both
My sister has this problem.
In my case, people can generally do neither ;)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 07, 2019, 06:39:38 AM
My name is not unusual but it's not common either. Growing up the only other people I knew of with my name were adults.

I got a membership card one time and the name on it was completely different from mine even though I had spelled my name correctly on the membership form. When I complained through email the company fixed it for free since someone entered my name wrong.

My dog has decided that if she is up I should be up too even if it's too early.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 07, 2019, 06:47:23 AM
With my name, people either seem to be able to spell it right, OR pronounce it right. Nobody seems capable of both
My sister has this problem.
In my case, people can generally do neither ;)

People sometimes get my last name wrong they put a e in it, there’s no e in my last name.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 07, 2019, 06:56:16 AM
With my name, people either seem to be able to spell it right, OR pronounce it right. Nobody seems capable of both
My sister has this problem.
In my case, people can generally do neither ;)

People sometimes get my last name wrong they put a e in it, there’s no e in my last name.

We have the opposite. We have an e, and sometimes people miss it out ;)

...People should just pay attention to how people spell their names. It's just so rude how often people don't even bother to look or check. And so often, if someone has managed, by some miracle, to get my first name spelt right...they inevitably misspell the other. It's like they spent so long focusing on that one because it's unusual that they then don't pay attention to the other, which is less so...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 07, 2019, 08:09:28 AM
My name is a name others use as a nickname, so I always have people trying to call me by my "proper" name (usually to prove some kind of superiority-managers and teachers with control issues) and then they get mad when I don't respond.  My parents didn't like the "proper" name and if they wanted me to be called that, they would have named me that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 07, 2019, 10:19:49 PM
Oh, I remember when Floor Jansen (singer in Nightwish) got the boot from Facebook because they didn't think her name was real. Luckily for her, being famous with thousands upon thousands of fans to fight for her, she got reinstated within a couple of days.


My complaint of the day: I got woken up around four times this morning by husband and my cats.. everytime it was harder and harder to get back to sleep until I gave up. I'm gonna be a zombie at work today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on June 08, 2019, 06:32:42 AM
One of my local charity shops has put all their toys in a little tent, and you have to climb into the thing to see them. Well sorry but I'm not going to crawl on my hands and knees into a child-sized tent to look for ponies so I'll probably miss any that come into that shop now
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 08, 2019, 10:54:04 AM
I got a really beautiful Meito teapot and matching milk jug with a simple design - a nice, dark muted brown with pink blossoms - and of course with them coming from Evilbay, they were packed in a single paltry layer of bubble wrap, a faffing amount of newspaper, and a flimsy cardboard box. There wasn't even anything mentioning that they're fragile on the box! So of course, I went to clean the teapot only to find out it's split and it leaks. I can't find any more examples with the same design, either... and now for the rigmarole of returning them. What joy. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 08, 2019, 11:33:54 AM
Woke up with a sore throat. Ugh, I feel awful.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 09, 2019, 03:27:51 PM
There’s nothing like those special Ebay sellers who suddenly cancel an entire auction because the bid isn’t going as high as they’d like. =P And then they put “item is no longer available” as the rationale. Mmhmm, right... The items just disappeared once you saw that the bid was staying low. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on June 09, 2019, 08:59:56 PM
I got up after 2 hrs of sleep for a skype interview, only for them to tell me NOW that speaking Japanese is a requirement.
WHY WAS THAT NOT LISTED AS A JOB REQUIREMENT??

Also. living in China is a neverneding battle aganist various mystery ailemnts most likely caused by their crappy air.  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 09, 2019, 10:48:28 PM
There is something flying around in here. I keep seeing it from the corner of my eye but every time I go to look, it disappears :ninja:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Trinity on June 10, 2019, 12:36:55 AM
There’s nothing like those special Ebay sellers who suddenly cancel an entire auction because the bid isn’t going as high as they’d like. =P And then they put “item is no longer available” as the rationale. Mmhmm, right... The items just disappeared once you saw that the bid was staying low. :P

OMG. That is one of my major pet peeves! People always trying to game eBay. Grr.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 10, 2019, 02:20:11 AM
My package has been stuck in (or out of?) Amsterdam for over a week. >_< It says "departed", but where is it now? It came from the US, but it can't be import tax hassles, because it was under €22.

I. Want. My. Package. :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 11, 2019, 02:21:31 AM
My package has been stuck in (or out of?) Amsterdam for over a week. >_< It says "departed", but where is it now? It came from the US, but it can't be import tax hassles, because it was under €22.

I. Want. My. Package. :stressed:

Maybe its in Moldova. One of mine spent a day there the other week. Still no idea why, except Dhl can't read.

...My trivial complaint is quite simple.

I get that rain is important, but a little sunshine in between would be nice as well...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on June 11, 2019, 01:43:10 PM
Just got word we got into artist alley.
whoohoo.

Except.... I only have 2 months to make product... I usually have 4-6 months ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 12, 2019, 10:21:42 AM
The Bird Protection webshop annoys me. >_< We have a little bird restaurant on our balcony, and lately a jay has been showing up, he goes crazy on the peanuts. Now we want to order a safer system to put the peanuts in, because they are in one of those cheap nets. I know that can be dangerous for birds, so I want to change that. However, all these systems are specifically made so that bigger, crow-related birds can't "steal" the peanuts (it says that on the website). Dude, why? I want that jay to enjoy the peanuts! We have other food for smaller birds, and they come here a lot too, so it's not like the jay scares them away or anything. I guess I'll just put some peanuts on a plate then. :shrug:

Maybe its in Moldova. One of mine spent a day there the other week. Still no idea why, except Dhl can't read.

Oh wow! I have no idea where mine is right now, it still hasn't been updated... I guess I could contact the Dutch postal service, but I really don't feel like it because you can't just send an e-mail to them. You can call (I hate making phone calls), you can use twitter or facebook (which I refuse to take part in), you can chat with them (NO) or you can send them a letter (I'd do that, but they say it can take up to ten days to get a reply). Yes, I am difficult like that. :lookround: We also don't have a post office anymore; so much for that option. Why can't I just mail them!? >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 12, 2019, 12:19:08 PM
Just opened a Series 4 Cutie Mark Crew figure.  The paper inside said it was supposed to be Sea Swirl and I was really excited, but when I opened the bag it was...Pinkie Pie.  The package didn't appear to be opened and reclosed so I think it was a factory error, but a real letdown when you wanted a non-mane pony.


I opened another one that I'd bought (I bought several as motivation for performing small chores) and it actually had Sea Swirl inside, so that's better.  Now I just don't have a paper for the Pinkie Pie in a beach ball and two papers for Sea Swirl.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 12, 2019, 02:21:22 PM
@Broken Irishwoman, that was in between being in Leipzig, Bucharest and Bologna ;) It had a busy trip.

I totally empathise about the phone. I hate the phone too, and I hate how sites and people assume that a: you can call them and b: they can call you. That's why we invented the internet. So we didn't have to telephone. Duh.

Also. IT IS STILL RAINING.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 12, 2019, 09:56:48 PM
*whines* Again, I can't sleep :( I was exhausted all day ready to fall asleep in an instant but now when I want to, I can't. The same thing happened the night before. In two hours I'll have been up for 24.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 12, 2019, 11:50:18 PM
I had a customer buying a sim-card, and then ask if I had an opener for the phone. I did not but I did have paperclips and went to get him one. But instead of waiting a few seconds for me, he just leaned over the register and grabbed one holding together a stack of papers in a holder. I gave him an earful for that and he did apologize but I'm still annoyed. People are so inconsiderate to retailworkers. Like I have time to sort through a bunch of papers again and clip them together..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on June 13, 2019, 05:35:27 AM
I tried yerba mate for the first time but it wasn't quite as good as people make it seem to be :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 13, 2019, 09:54:10 AM
Darn Laura Ashley sales - you make me spend money on upholstery fabrics when I should be saving, grrrrr.....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 13, 2019, 02:39:04 PM
Hate waiting for post...

Also...

Rain.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 14, 2019, 02:52:07 PM
I bumped into one of my old friends from secondary school the other day, which was nice and all, but the issue I have here is the whole keeping in touch thing. I've had it too many times in the past when my old friends ask for my number  then never get in touch, and at this point I'd rather just part with "it was nice to see you" or something rather than "we'll have to get together for coffee sometime" that never happens. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 15, 2019, 07:51:47 AM
Chocolate is evil. :pout:

@Broken Irishwoman, that was in between being in Leipzig, Bucharest and Bologna ;) It had a busy trip.

I totally empathise about the phone. I hate the phone too, and I hate how sites and people assume that a: you can call them and b: they can call you. That's why we invented the internet. So we didn't have to telephone. Duh.

Maybe it wanted to see the world before settling in the UK! :P

Exactly! Phone calls are the worst! >_< I did get over myself though (this time), I called them yesterday, and "the package had moved just that day"... First of all: I don't buy that. Somehow I got this image in my head of the lady poking the post office that there might be a package that has fallen behind the shelf or something, and they found it. Also, even though she said it would probably be delivered yesterday or today, the tracking information is still the same as two weeks ago (and no package). I guess we'll see when/if it gets here. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 15, 2019, 12:07:31 PM
Disclaimer: I am not speaking specifically about THIS forum, or any incident herein. I am speaking mostly about discussions and comments I have encountered on other sites and forums, and also internet/social media culture in general.

That said, here’s my mini-vent:
I really cannot fathom why some “fans” (I hesitate to even call them that, as their greatest passion seems to be for trolling and complaining) feel the need to hate on certain movies/characters/reboots so vocally and with such HOSTILITY. It’s one thing to say “I thought (insert character name here) was kind of annoying and didn’t add much to the plot.” and quite another to write an ALL CAPS novella about how “the character, actor, writers, and so on are all garbage and blah, blah, BLAH... RUINED FOREVER!!1!”. Beyond the fact that these “fans”/whiners often get into the dark territory of hate campaigns and harassment, it just seems like all they want to do is belittle and hurt the people who DID like that movie/character/reboot.

Within the pony fandom, this mostly has to do with some G4 fans mocking/deriding earlier generations. (For the record, I am a huge G4 fan myself, so I’m by no mean hating on the fandom as a whole.)  MLP has a rich history as a brand. It has brought happiness to millions and millions of children (and adults) for generations. If someone only likes G4, that’s fine... But it’s just pathetic when adults/teenagers loudly proclaim how everything that came before it sucked or “mostly sucked” (yep, I’ve actually heard that one). This has ramped up somewhat, with G5 on the horizon. A lot of people seem to honestly believe that if something isn’t matched to THEIR specific tastes, that means it universally sucks (this goes well beyond MLP, too... *cough*StarWars*cough*). :facepalm:

NO ONE should get that angry because a plotline didn’t pan out the way they’d hoped. NO ONE has the right to attack or harass another human being because they feel like Luke Skywalker, Rainbow Dash, or whoever didn’t get enough attention in a movie sequel. The fact that people are arguing over fictional characters and storylines with the kind of venom and vehemence usually reserved for politics just disgusts me. Is there really not enough anger and conflict in this world already, without coming up with FICTIONAL reasons to fight with each other? :nuts:

:facepalm: :really: :nope:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on June 15, 2019, 01:47:53 PM
Within the pony fandom, this mostly has to do with some G4 fans mocking/deriding earlier generations. (For the record, I am a huge G4 fan myself, so I’m by no mean hating on the fandom as a whole.)  MLP has a rich history as a brand. It has brought happiness to millions and millions of children (and adults) for generations. If someone only likes G4, that’s fine... But it’s just pathetic when adults/teenagers loudly proclaim how everything that came before it sucked or “mostly sucked” (yep, I’ve actually heard that one). This has ramped up somewhat, with G5 on the horizon. A lot of people seem to honestly believe that if something isn’t matched to THEIR specific tastes, that means it universally sucks (this goes well beyond MLP, too... *cough*StarWars*cough*). :facepalm:

Well, at least with MLP a major reason is that, whether we like it or not, a large number of newer fans (those who weren't into ponies before G4) came from online communities that are particularly known for their toxicity and extreme attitudes, so it's just bound to happen from time to time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 15, 2019, 02:37:19 PM
@Nemesis - I understand totally where you're coming from. When I was moderating on a manga/anime forum, the constant backbiting between Naruto/Bleach/One Piece people was so heartkilling. I mean, fine, you like x best, that's awesome, now accept other people think differently and share the good bits, don't start ripping holes in each other based on which animated humanoid you think is coolest?

With an anime I've been watching recently, getting utterly fed up with people leaving comments on CR (I usually don't watch on the website for this reason too) complaining about any character other than the main one getting any attention (even though that's part of plot building, to flesh out Other Characters)...

And I remember when I was in that same manga community, there were actually death threats sent to the mangaka when it looked like he killed off one of the popular characters. He didn't, but it might have been a take back because of the feeling it engendered. In the end the manga ended badly with all the favourites getting progression at the expense of both the plot and the other characters. And then everyone complained. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 15, 2019, 03:32:50 PM
@Taffeta The funny part about the Naruto/Bleach/One Piece conflict is that they were all Shonen Jump manga/anime. You could literally enjoy all three in the same monthly publication... which is what I (and I imagine most normal people) did, back in the day. All of the venom between the fandoms is too stupid to fathom. :facepalm:

And yeah, death threats and personal attacks are absolutely unacceptable, and just show that some people really, REALLY need to reconnect with reality. :/ Creepy stuff.

I’m a cosplayer, a fanfic writer, and a collector. I’m a hardcore nerd, and obviously passionate about my favorite franchises and series... But I am profoundly in touch with reality. If I hate a movie, that’s disappointing... but I can MOVE ON with my life. I feel no need to insult anyone or write hatemail. It’s a cliche, but... what is WRONG with people!? :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 15, 2019, 03:46:15 PM
@Taffeta The funny part about the Naruto/Bleach/One Piece conflict is that they were all Shonen Jump manga/anime. You could literally enjoy all three in the same monthly publication... which is what I (and I imagine most normal people) did, back in the day. All of the venom between the fandoms is too stupid to fathom. :facepalm:
Yep.

I only followed Bleach, but I take the line that if I'm not interested in something I'm not going to waste my time going specifically to areas where fans of the two series I don't follow are in order to write that Bleach is better :P.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 15, 2019, 04:31:50 PM
When I see someone call something "garbage", I honestly lose interest in whatever else they might have to say. You don't care for it, that's fine. It has flaws to point out, that's fine... But when you say something that many people love is just pure "garbage" you're not expressing your opinion in a way that is either respectful or respectable.

And yeah, take it from someone who (as an adult) got into MLP with FiM. The FiM fandom was built entirely on separating itself from the old generations, which they mocked, said were "too girly", and, of course, referred to them as that "garbage" word.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2019, 12:34:18 PM
I hate having to wait a week for a new episode of something. I usually wait and hoard up eps but I've been watching the older series through so had to catch up to the end. Sigh. Meh. Impatient Taffeta is impatient.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 19, 2019, 02:13:10 AM
I can't sleep again :freak:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 19, 2019, 04:57:45 AM
They bulldozed the Japanese book shop.

It is probably coming back but not before I leave London.

And I had a totally wasted journey.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on June 19, 2019, 05:39:26 AM
People who brag in spite of someone else's unfortunate situation
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 19, 2019, 10:45:59 AM
Apparently I have a new landlord now, and this was dropped on me with no prior warning, literally just a text message like "the house you're living in has been bought, you need to set up a new standing order". Well, thanks for the heads up. :pout: They also sent me something about putting me on "one of [their] tenancies" so if this means signing a new contract, I may see about shortening my lease on this place. I was meant to be moving out at the beginning of next March but I've just had so much trouble with the place, I'd much rather leave sooner.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 19, 2019, 10:54:10 AM
Aside the annoying thing mentioned above, TFL have it in for me with their bus stops.

So the one at Piccadilly that I have used for years is also bulldozed at present.

That's the third bus stop I use that's out of service in less than 48 hours.

I came back into London on Monday to find the central station stop gone so I had to get to another stop to catch a packed bus there instead.

The bus stop on the road opposite where I live is also closed, so I had to lug my shopping back a long way yesterday.

And now today, the bulldozed one in central London.

...So this may seem really trivial but I can't navigate and I rely on buses and bus stops. Having to find different stops or reorientate myself to a different route at short notice is NOT fun.

...Oh yeah, and there's a rail strike too.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 20, 2019, 12:00:11 AM
I have to say, Taffeta, the way you describe the buses and trains in London all the time make it sound like traveling around is just a great adventure, you never know where you end up, and when. My worry is that if you brits who live there has such a problem, I can't imagine how it would be for out of towns people.. or turists :shocked:.


My complaint is that I get these weird rashes whenever I've been out. Monday me and hubby was bicycling almost 20 kilometres and when we stopped he got big eyes and snapped a picture of my face to show me, and my entire face was covered with a red rash.. it was gone by the time we got home and my face looked normal. Today i woke up with the same small rash on my forearms, around the elbow and it itches like crazy! Really annoying, especially when I don't know what triggers it..The sun? The wind? The air?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 20, 2019, 02:11:15 AM
I have to say, Taffeta, the way you describe the buses and trains in London all the time make it sound like traveling around is just a great adventure, you never know where you end up, and when. My worry is that if you brits who live there has such a problem, I can't imagine how it would be for out of towns people.. or turists :shocked:.


The irony of it is that London probably has the best public transport network in the country. But it's also because I rely on them so much that when they go wrong it's a major issue for me.

Though the other day my train changed its destination mid route so...I mean, it wasn't even like it was terminating early, it just decided that it wasn't going to go to x place and went to y place instead. That actually worked out better for me, but still..who reroutes a train in the middle of its journey to a completely different destination??
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 20, 2019, 11:21:48 PM

...So this may seem really trivial but I can't navigate and I rely on buses and bus stops. Having to find different stops or reorientate myself to a different route at short notice is NOT fun.


So annoying! Back in the 90s, when I lived in the East End of London, there were all sorts of disruptions (especially with the DLR, new stations being built etc) so it was a daily lottery of walk / tube / bus - or sometimes a lift in my friend's car! I  got so vexed at times that I even considered doing driving lessons there (but I observed some of the driving instructors, the poor state of their vehicles plus actually driving in unknown bits of London and I chickened-out!!)

Back home, until I passed my driving test, my main travels were on bus / taxis / bus and walking in my trainers  :lol: my college was in Henley and my friends lived in the surrounding countryside so many of their homes were not served by public transport. At least it kept me trim doing all that walking!  :lol:

Complaint:
finished my root canal yesterday, only to be told that a fine crack has appeared in the tooth and prognosis was not too good and to get a crown asap... the dentist who will do my crown is now off on holiday and not available until mid July  :cry: :cry: ugh, should've pulled out the tooth and saved on all this hassle....  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 21, 2019, 12:56:06 AM
I have to say, Taffeta, the way you describe the buses and trains in London all the time make it sound like traveling around is just a great adventure, you never know where you end up, and when. My worry is that if you brits who live there has such a problem, I can't imagine how it would be for out of towns people.. or turists :shocked:.


The irony of it is that London probably has the best public transport network in the country. But it's also because I rely on them so much that when they go wrong it's a major issue for me.

Though the other day my train changed its destination mid route so...I mean, it wasn't even like it was terminating early, it just decided that it wasn't going to go to x place and went to y place instead. That actually worked out better for me, but still..who reroutes a train in the middle of its journey to a completely different destination??

Oooh, another adventure! Lucky for those who had planned for the original place o.O

Earlier this year a channel showed a programme about the London underground and the people working there. I got claustrofobic just seeing all those people packed in that tiny space, and how the staff had to close the gate when the number of people reached maximum limit on the platforms. What if there had been a fire? Or somehing worse, all those people trapped like that scared the bazonkas out of me. But what surprised me the most is how early they closed. I thought in such a large city it would stay open longer.. I mean, in Stockholm, the subway close between 11 pm and 1 am on weekdays. In one episode of the show, the staff were prepared to stay open to 1 am on new years eve and that was stretching it o.O. Between that show and your posts I've learnt that if I ever come to London I should have comfortable shoes and be prepared to walk a lot.


To get back on topic, my little teenage kitten decided that my back would be the perfect scratching post while I was on the loo doing my business. Could not get away either, or catch her back there so now I have a back that looks like it's been whipped.. gonna have a shirt over my dress today to cover that up as I don't fancy getting weird looks around all the people today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2019, 01:14:11 AM
@ glitterball, that sucks :( I hope your tooth holds out.

@Beldarna - I avoid the tube if I can because buses are often better, despite all my complaining xD. Especially at rush hour - tubes are a nightmare. They also don't run all night (a lot of buses do) in part because there were a lot of strikes and protests when it was suggested. Some lines do run all night on weekends now but not all. I know the show you mean I think :) The tube is the oldest underground in the world though and some of the tunnels are victorian so I guess that explains a lot...

Where I live now there is no tube, just suburban overground, which is not the most reliable (but still more so than the trains near my parents' house, where I grew up). But yeah, the changing destination train was a bit of a novelty.

Also, naughty kitty o.o.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 21, 2019, 07:07:33 AM
I'm still complaining about not sleeping. I was able to get maybe four hours before I woke up this morning. I think my meds are to blame but one of them is to help me sleep... obviously not working. It's three weeks yet til I see my psychiatrist again. Sooooo tired 😴
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2019, 07:18:36 AM
I was listening to an album on my iPod. There were some glitches in iTunes when I bought the songs from the album and for some reason the computer version of iTunes lists one album as 2. I didn't think this was an issue until I noticed yesterday that one of the songs seemed out of place. iTunes placed the climax song out of order due to the error.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 21, 2019, 12:55:10 PM
My hair. :pout:

I've always had difficult hair, even as a child I was always mumbling, grumbling about it. It looks like a bush after washing it. You'd think that with all these modern products you'd have some control over it... Actually, I did, when I discovered a great anti-tangle spray that seemed to be the secret (it does more than just detangling, it makes my hair smooth and shiny).

...Until I got some severe hairloss last year (not because of the spray, it was stress-related). Now I have all these idiot looking baby hairs on my head, and they curl in idiot directions. :pout: Even the hair straightener doesn't do the trick completely. It sucks because I am so happy that my bangs finally grew out completely (I had bangs pretty much my entire life, until I decided I didn't want it anymore), and now I still have short, stupid looking strands of hair in my face.  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 21, 2019, 01:35:18 PM
A rather odd rant: I’m really tired of some of some of the current, counter-productive trends in alleged “body-positive” media. For decades, animated/comic book characters and dolls with Barbie-esque proportions and large bust sizes have been criticized as objectifying/fetishizing women. When that’s all that’s portrayed in media and fiction, I can totally see what the critics are saying. Not all women look like that—in fact, most don’t—so that shouldn’t be all that’s represented in media.

But now the trend has shifted to portraying all “sexy” female characters as fat-free masses of tight muscle, complete with washboard abs and zero “jiggle”. Aaand those same critics lap it up and praise the artists as progressive and feminist.

Umm... So now everything is better because we’re promoting/fetishizing a different unattainable standard of beauty in women? Honestly, getting cosmetic surgery to look like a Barbie doll is probably easier and less time intensive than dedicating the majority of your life to your gym membership. :P For superhero(ine?)s it makes some sense, because the men have always been herculean hulks, too. But for everyone else? We’ve just traded one unrealistic ideal for another.

Personally, I dream of a world where all body types can be celebrated and held up as different ideals of beauty, rather than just one or another being put on a pedestal. :P Let’s end the body-shaming witch hunts, please.

(And yes, I’m of the softer, curvier, “hourglass” type myself... and would just like to say that busty women don’t deserve to be excluded/erased in fiction just because of a tendency to fetishize them. Seeing people complain about the bust size of fictional characters because they’re “unrealistic” or “objectifying” is insulting to me. So apparently I’m unrealistic and offensive to all other women because of my bra size?)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2019, 02:45:38 PM
I am over body image defining anything in general. Honestly. I am not interested in whether someone is portrayed as big, small, tall, short, shaped in any particular way. I'm not interested in the stereotypes that go along with them or the fetishing or body shaming that comes along with them.

Basically as a woman I want to be considered for the person I am, not the shape/size/height/colour/etc that I am as I don't think it's relevant. I wish the world would also take that view. I think we spend way too much time as a species fussing about how we look and how others look and how we compare to others...and why it even matters I'm not sure.

Being clean, and healthy, those two things I understand. Everything else is meh to me.

@Broken Irishwoman - I relate on the hair front as well. Mine is quite fine. It doesn't behave itself. It's a nice colour, and in the sun it shows the red highlights which means I'd never dye it, but I'm never going to have the beautiful full body waves that adverts show (this connects to the above as well I guess, that we all have to have shiny bouncy hair now?). It also needs cutting mind you, but that's way too expensive for what it is...

At least one positive with my hair is that it goes grey slowly. My Grandfather was 83 when he passed and his hair was still not even half grey. My mother just turned 71 and she's had lots of things happen over the years to make her hair grey, but it's still predominately dark brown. On Dad's side of the family they go grey quicker and my sister has that hair, so hers is thick and wavy...BUT she has more greys than I do and she's only 31...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 21, 2019, 03:30:35 PM
I understand what you mean... But at the same time, human beings ARE, as a species, obsessed with appearance. I don’t think that will ever change, sadly. In visual mediums like art, fashion, cosplay, etc., appearance is always going to be a factor... And because of that, I feel like reasonable, diverse representation—100% free of body-shaming—is important.

I suppose it’s a big deal to me because I have a major interest in fashion and cosplay... The body-shaming wars never really let up in those fields. :P But representation helps.

For anyone who’s wondering what spurred on this rant... It’s the recent redesigns of several female video-game characters. Both Lara Croft and now Tifa (of Final Fantasy) were originally busty, without absurdly defined muscle or six-pack abs... both are now “realistically” proportioned bodybuilders. And the designers can’t blame it on the more primitive graphics from back in the day, because the concept art from back then matches the in-game renderings. :/

As for hair... I spend a lot of time and money warring with my hair, so I know what you mean. DX I’ve developed a fondness for wigs, lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2019, 03:44:24 PM
I also have trouble with my hair. No matter how hard I try to make it look nice it usually doesn't behave like I want it to. When I had my college graduation picture made the photographer refused to take my picture until I "fixed" my hair because they were "too many fly aways" My hair and been washed the night before and brushed before arriving at the ceremony. I had to step out of line and have someone help me tame my hair before he would take my picture.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2019, 04:32:36 PM
@ Nemesis - there's a distinction between taking pride in how we look ourselves, for ourselves, and being obsessed with looking a certain way/judging others for how they look. In my view the first is fine if that's your thing. The second isn't. The second is what I've had enough of. The first just isn't really relevant to me personally as a means of self-definition?

@Ponyfan - what a horrible photographer >< Way to dent a someone's confidence and embarrass them...on a really special and important day o.o.

On my postgrad graduation for some reason they were taking photos of students preparing for the ceremony and 'getting the hat fitted' (I know, yeah :P) and for some reason a photo of them 'fitting my hat' appeared as the graduation image on facebook. Much to the huge amusement of my flatmates...who proceeded to then repost it all over the place >< It looks more like the guy is trying to remove my head, not place my mortar board ><

 My uni also has really nice graduation colours - but they didn't have them yet when I graduated my MA so it's boring University of London colours instead :/

If and when I graduate with the PhD it's a different gown so I still won't get the pretty colours :'(

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 21, 2019, 07:33:29 PM
Taffeta: I know you weren’t being critical or anything. :) I just wanted to clarify why it matters so much to me. It’s not that I need the media’s approval of how I do or don’t look—it’s that representation or lack thereof can really affect the climate of things like cosplay and fashion.

In any case, no one should feel pressured to care about appearance, fashion, etc. if it isn’t their cup of tea. But EVERYONE should feel welcome and included if they do enjoy those things. :)

Ponyfan: Wow... Rude photographer much? It’s one thing to warn someone about a stray hair or something, but quite another to make a huge thing of it and force you out of the line. :blink: I’m sorry that happened to you. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 21, 2019, 11:35:35 PM

@Beldarna - I avoid the tube if I can because buses are often better, despite all my complaining xD. Especially at rush hour - tubes are a nightmare. They also don't run all night (a lot of buses do) in part because there were a lot of strikes and protests when it was suggested. Some lines do run all night on weekends now but not all. I know the show you mean I think :) The tube is the oldest underground in the world though and some of the tunnels are victorian so I guess that explains a lot...

Where I live now there is no tube, just suburban overground, which is not the most reliable (but still more so than the trains near my parents' house, where I grew up). But yeah, the changing destination train was a bit of a novelty.

Also, naughty kitty o.o.


Oh, I know. They said so in every episode. I think it's neat :satisfied:. In Sweden they are so good at destroying old buildings and replace them with new one.. or put up a supermodern, ferry looking cover-your-eyes-its-so-hideous-thing next to a 1900th century hotell (google väven Umeå).. I love shows like Escape to the country where they're like, "this used to be an old forge and it has the original fireplace and look, here's the original door, preserved since the fifteenhundreth.." Used in the everyday life still today. The historian and archeologist in me just swoons. I know there are problems with that as well, with renovating and stuff but I don't care, I just love it. The only thing that gets saved here are old castles..


Have I something to complain about today? I can go on with my hair as well. It can't hold any type of hairstyle at all, my hairdresser calls it glass hair. Just putting it in a ponytail requires to tousle it, spray it with saltwater, two or three sturdy bands, and hairspray. If I'm lucky that will hold three or four hours -_-. Or I can wait until it's extremly dirty, to the point your hand feels greasy touching it, then it will hold with just a touch of hairspray. Hairpins just fall to the ground. Oh, but I do have a valid complaint! I just remembered! It needs to be trimmed, but my haridresser is on maternity leave.. so no cutting during the upcoming 18 months, heh :pout:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 24, 2019, 12:41:25 AM
Three o clock this morning. I know, because I checked my clock.
Some brats outside going home from a night out. Yelling loudly to each other - mostly 'goodbye' and stuff.

At 3 am.

Maybe I'm getting old, but that is just RUDE.

And yes, it woke me up. I sleep through trains going through, but shrill yells outside my window? Nope.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on June 24, 2019, 07:23:52 AM
I wanna buy some sailor moon dolls but I'm not sure which ones. In the end I really just want Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon (And corresponding clothes for Usagi + Chibi Usa). Bonus for anything else.

Spoiler
Instead of paying out the nose for MIB, I'd rather have something loose and played with.

I see a set of mini collection of ALL the girls-- where half the dolls have hair rot (I can reroot, so that doesn't bug me), but Chibi usa is missing her shoes (really want those). Saturn is missing her shoes (and she's harder to find). and... but 80% of the other dolls have all of their accessories + alternative outfits. A few things missing. But pretty nice!)

Or a set of dream pockets of ALL the girls including Starlights except Venus that look fairly minty. Chibi moon doesn't exist in that series, but I could buy her separately).  Only Mars is missing her shoes... but there's no alternative outfits in this series. 

._.; I kinda wanna buy both, and take what I want and sell the remainder, but that would cost me over $900. And I'd STILL have to hunt down chibi usas shoes, and her fuku in the end.


Also, all this awful rain has killed most of my flower garden, and my dad's veggie garden. (I feel like I have no right to complain because of the loss for farmers... but I'm still bummed).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2019, 10:55:18 AM
Thanks Taffeta and Nemesis. It's a little sad that my memory of that day is tainted by the way the photographer acted. Even now sometimes a complete stranger will make a very condescending comment to me in public I assume because they think I am an young teenager instead of an adult. 



I got sunburned while I was away. I got some burn relief gel and thought it was getting better. Today after sitting in a sunny car for around 30 minutes my arm began to turn red  and my sunburn started hurting again.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 24, 2019, 11:35:41 AM
Too many things have gone haywire all at once. I'm currently locked out of my bank account because I blanked, forgot my pin, entered the wrong number too many times and the reminder is coming by post so goodness knows if it'll get here in a helpful time frame. I arranged a vet's appointment for my cat for Thursday, not factoring in the pin number situation, so if it's not here by Wednesday, I'll have no choice but to reschedule which is a fuss for the staff and I don't want to put anyone to any unnecessary inconvenience, I was just thinking of getting Vince checked out asap because I'm worried about her, but she can't very well see the vet if I'm still unable to access my bank account in order to pay the bill.
I also still need to set up a standing order for my new landlord, and ask them for permission to install a new smoke alarm in the kitchen because the previous one was so old it practically disintegrated. Seriously. As if I haven't had to fix enough guff around this place already.
There's also the issue of having my bus ticket on my tablet which is too big for the scanner. I thought it would just work like a paper ticket, where you show it to the driver but apparently not. That was another thing I'd forgotten until the night before I had to go back to work (ironically, I took a week's holiday to de-stress - hasn't made a shred of difference) and it's a monthly ticket so this needless fuss will have to continue for another 3 flaming weeks.
On top of all this, not to get too WYP but all this stress has exacerbated my mental health problems, hence forgetting things and being more stressed and the icing on the cake, the pain in my wrist that started up a few weeks ago isn't going away. :pout:
I need a cup of tea and a lie down.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 24, 2019, 01:58:16 PM
Why must people yell to increase their emphasis? Gag I understand what is wrong and why I should fix it, DON'T YELL AT ME
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 24, 2019, 09:47:03 PM
I need to talk to my doctor about the insomnia I’ve been dealing with lately. :( It’s been going on for weeks now... I have an appointment set up in mid-July, and it can’t come soon enough. XP

Also, my cat is acting odd... She goes to the vet tomorrow for a checkup and vaccinations. So I’m also stressed out about that... I really hope she’s fine, and just having a weird day like cats sometimes do.

She was a stray, so I don’t know her history or even age for sure. The people at the shelter thought that someone had shot her with a BB gun, because she had a crater-like wound on her side. :( I cannot fathom how anyone could be so monstrous—it makes me sick to think about it. She’s a sweet, affectionate cat that wants nothing more than to hang out and ask for belly rubs... Poor thing was injured, starving, and near-death in a pile of snow when she was found. Anyway, I just really hope she’s okay...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 25, 2019, 03:56:35 AM
They are drilling the road right outside where I live. It's not as hot as it was yesterday thanks to rain in the night but it is warm enough that I want to open my window - however it's too noisy.

They took out the crossing light as well. There are temporary crossing lights, but I feel like this is a worrying sign they may be changing the road layout considerably.

Which means my getting places is going to be even more disrupted than it already is by having to go one stop along to get off the bus since they shut down my bus stops as well.

...At least walking to Asda is now safer because cars can only come from one angle into the side road, not three...so that's good?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 26, 2019, 09:38:56 AM
My eggs are frozen because my fridge is panicking from this heatwave. :pout: Well, half frozen anyway. This is annoying because I had this perfect carton of eggs (there's even a white feather in it :P ), waiting to be boiled half-hard one by one, and now I will have to boil them hard after they are defrosted and finish them in two days. :pout: Delicious, yes, but runny yolk is my idea of heaven.

First world problems, yes. I know some people don't even have eggs. I'm sorry, but I'm still upset. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 26, 2019, 09:45:26 AM
Runny yolk is awesome. You have my sympathies.

So I really have no idea what they're doing to the road outside my window, but it's been even noisier today as they were cutting slabs.

Despite taking out the crossing lights completely, they just amended the road to make an easier crossing point with the stippled slabs...?

I really am so confused right now and it's making my ability to go anywhere very annoying. I actually walked to the station Sainsburys for the first time since I moved here (last August, and yes, I got lost) because I didn't want to have to figure out where to get off the bus coming back and how to cross the road if I went into town proper.

Sigh.

Nice day though. Pity I've had to keep my window closed again -.-.

At least I have a fan.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 26, 2019, 10:01:52 PM
I was supposed to get my salary two days ago, it has yet to show up. I have bills to pay, payments set up to go automatically from my account and I was on vacation in friggin Gothenburg expecting money in my bankaccount so I could shop and do stuff but it didn't turn up so I had to take a bunch of money from my savings instead. It's super frustrating!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 28, 2019, 10:50:42 AM
The lady at the toy store started talking to me in English today. Apparently I look foreign, because I get this a lot. :hmm: They aren't wrong, in a way... After all I'm Dutch/Irish/English. But come on, I was born and raised here, I've never even been abroad (Germany and Belgium don't count), and I was NOT raised bilingually. I speak perfect Dutch and lousy English. It must be my face. :hmm:

So yes, as my username might give away I love the fact that I'm not "just" Dutch. But it's extremely irritating, because when people think you don't speak Dutch, they automatically assume you're stupid, and will talk to you like you are either retarded or dangerous. :pout:

Runny yolk is awesome. You have my sympathies.

Thanks. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sora on June 28, 2019, 11:54:18 AM
Friendly PSA to all theatre-goers!  ^.^

Turn. Off. Your. Stinkin'. PHONE. No, I don't want to hear your ringtone going off during a a quiet, emotional scene.

Please also do not let your 4 year old walk down the aisles alone (?!) so she can talk loudly during the climax of the production. And no, I'm not surprised an attendant told you both to get off the steps when you finally caught up to her, because you can't sit there during the performance.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 28, 2019, 01:01:55 PM
Friendly PSA to all theatre-goers!  ^.^

Turn. Off. Your. Stinkin'. PHONE. No, I don't want to hear your ringtone going off during a a quiet, emotional scene.

Please also do not let your 4 year old walk down the aisles alone (?!) so she can talk loudly during the climax of the production. And no, I'm not surprised an attendant told you both to get off the steps when you finally caught up to her, because you can't sit there during the performance.

I hate that.

I also hate it in cinemas. I have basically stopped going to the cinema because of parents thinking the big screen is a babysitter for their two year old while they watch the film. Especially 12 films. I could rant a lot about the evils of 12a films.

My rant for the day...

When your sister's dental appointment disrupts your whole schedule once and then turns out to take 2 hours instead of 5 minutes.

I left London at 11.

I got home at 5.30pm.

It's Dad's birthday tomorrow, else I wouldn't have bothered.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on June 29, 2019, 11:14:29 AM
Today's my birthday and I made plans to go to the mall with my sister and my best friend.

Well, my best friend has bailed on me last minute. I still get to go with my sister but that kinda hurts :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on June 29, 2019, 02:52:46 PM
Today's my birthday and I made plans to go to the mall with my sister and my best friend.

Well, my best friend has bailed on me last minute. I still get to go with my sister but that kinda hurts :/

Wow... Rude. :/ I’m sorry that happened to you on your special day... :hug:

Anyway, happy birthday! I hope you have a great time with your sis!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 01, 2019, 08:27:53 AM
I'm just getting really annoyed with Twitter and it creating notifications when people I follow post/like stuff. Like, I'm not saying that option for those notifications shouldn't be there, but as far as I can tell it's not an option, period. There's no way to turn it off.

Whatever happened to actually reading through feeds to see posts with notifications being for when people like or comment on your posts, follow you, or message you? Am I just old-fashioned? I've seen Tumblr and also YouTube pull this stuff too (including YT actually giving me notifications for accounts I'm not even subscribed to!  :mad:)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on July 01, 2019, 08:34:42 AM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 01, 2019, 09:33:19 AM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

To be honest, I am annoyed by the proliferation of dogs in every space of modern life just generally.

If people want dogs then that's fine, but I am so sick of seeing dogs that are clearly not any kind of support dog in cafes, in supermarkets (both places they are not allowed by the way) and basically everywhere. There;s even a thing to try and get dog friendly cinema screenings. Because of course dogs need to go see Toy Story 4?

I hate dogs. I have always hated dogs, since being attacked by one as a kid. They freak the heck out of me. And while I know some are very well trained, my expectation is that someone who can't read signs or pay attention to rules regarding where dogs should be probably also don't care how their animals act.

I also wish they would ban them from the top of buses. They're not man's best friend to me. They're my worst nightmare.

Obviously, this isn't dogs who are actually needed as support dogs, guide dogs, etc, as they have proper training and mostly aren't a problem.

 But since you can now buy the jackets online and flat out lie about it to get your animal anywhere, it really is hard to tell.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2019, 11:10:04 AM

To be honest, I am annoyed by the proliferation of dogs in every space of modern life just generally.

If people want dogs then that's fine, but I am so sick of seeing dogs that are clearly not any kind of support dog in cafes, in supermarkets (both places they are not allowed by the way) and basically everywhere. There;s even a thing to try and get dog friendly cinema screenings. Because of course dogs need to go see Toy Story 4?

I hate dogs. I have always hated dogs, since being attacked by one as a kid. They freak the heck out of me. And while I know some are very well trained, my expectation is that someone who can't read signs or pay attention to rules regarding where dogs should be probably also don't care how their animals act.

I also wish they would ban them from the top of buses. They're not man's best friend to me. They're my worst nightmare.

Obviously, this isn't dogs who are actually needed as support dogs, guide dogs, etc, as they have proper training and mostly aren't a problem.

 But since you can now buy the jackets online and flat out lie about it to get your animal anywhere, it really is hard to tell.





I’m a dog person but seeing dogs that are clearly not service/support animals in public just because the owners don’t want to leave them at home gets me too. I’ve seen dogs wearing the service animal vests bark, pull at their leash and show other behaviors that true service/support animals  wouldn’t do. As much as I love my dog I won’t lie and say she’s a service animal when’ she’s not.

I did something to my knee. I’m not used to knee pain. It’s becoming painful to walk but my health insurance is terrible and probably won’t cover x-rays.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 01, 2019, 12:33:21 PM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

100% agreed! This really gets my goat, too.
I'm all for the evolution of language, because that is what makes language fascinating by its very nature, but when people talk utter drivvel because it's fashionable on the internet, it's just aggravating. I'd give anything for there to be a divide between the internet and real life, the way there used to be. It just feels as if online nonsense bleeds into everything nowadays like a horrendous, inescapable aura of unpleasantness. Or perhaps I'm just being a bit dramatic...

Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming" and - the one that really gets my hackles up - adulting. We already have ways to convey these concepts, namely "playing games" and "being an adult". I can't imagine it's that hard for people to bust out an extra word or two in their day. Heck, it might even give their grey matter a bit of a workout!

So I guess my complaint for the day is that I'm getting old. :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on July 01, 2019, 01:31:53 PM
Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming" and - the one that really gets my hackles up - adulting. We already have ways to convey these concepts, namely "playing games" and "being an adult". I can't imagine it's that hard for people to bust out an extra word or two in their day. Heck, it might even give their grey matter a bit of a workout!

So I guess my complaint for the day is that I'm getting old. :lol:

Heh, this reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip... Verbing weirds language (https://blog.linguisten.de/post/72966347371/verbingweirdslanguage) :lol:

To be honest, I think it's fascinating that you can do that in English, turn nouns into verbs and keep them identical. (Or only differentiate them by word stress, which is one of the difficult areas for learners... especially for speakers of languages in which the main stress always falls on the first syllable!)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 01, 2019, 02:19:51 PM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

I... have never heard any of these. :blink: I’m only 27... Am I already getting old!? :cry:

Although I like the word gaming. Saying “playing video games” is a mouthful, and a lot harder to slide into a “hobbies/interests” space than just “gaming”. “Gamer” has been around for a long time, so I feel like “gaming” is a natural evolution. Considering that video games as a whole have only been around for a few decades, new words are inevitably going to form in that vacuum.

As for “adulting”... I always thought that was supposed to be ironic humor? Like, it’s such a ridiculous word, that it sounds like something a little kid would say. Thus, when someone says they’re “adulting” it’s ironic, because they kind of just made a point of how immature they are. XD Or have I just been taking it the wrong way?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 01, 2019, 02:40:31 PM
I think gaming has evolved now into the language as a specific type of playing games. It's kind of like googling and texting, which have become verbs from objects.

Mind you if you think that's bad you should see what the Japanese do with the words they take from our language.

It's already a thing in Japanese to shove suru on the end of a lot of nouns to make a verb, but it's a lot weirder when it's a loan word that has suru tacked onto the end of it.

Good examples - if you're doing sport, you up suru (appu suru - warm up) beforehand and then down suru (daun suru - cool down, or warm down, whichever) afterwards..

On this same note, I can't stand people putting Japanese words into english sentences. Not words that have become part of English, like tsunami or kimono, but other words.

Years ago everyone used to post "it's so kawaii" on forums all over the place and it did my head in. It still does, but it happens less now (at least, I don't see it as often). Especially since the way most people pronounce kawaii when they say that is more like the japanese word kowai, which means frightening, not cute.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 01, 2019, 02:53:20 PM
Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming"

Eh. The word gaming has been around for a long time: http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/vintage-ad-why-women-dont-play-wargames.html

I'm unsure if wargaming came first, or if it was just gaming in general. But international federation of wargaming was in the late 60s. :/ and they started gen-con which is gaming convention.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 01, 2019, 02:57:20 PM
Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming"

Eh. The word gaming has been around for a long time: http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/vintage-ad-why-women-dont-play-wargames.html

I'm unsure if wargaming came first, or if it was just gaming in general. But international federation of wargaming was in the late 60s. :/ and they started gen-con which is gaming convention.

I have a feeling it's maybe older. I think it's associated with gambling, but I'm not sure when gaming became used in that context...

Edit to add:

Google searched it and apparently 1501.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaming

But in the context of gambling. Although it's listed as a noun rather than a verb, it seems a bit fluid given how it's used now...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sora on July 01, 2019, 03:01:08 PM
I hate that.

I also hate it in cinemas. I have basically stopped going to the cinema because of parents thinking the big screen is a babysitter for their two year old while they watch the film. Especially 12 films. I could rant a lot about the evils of 12a films.

My rant for the day...

When your sister's dental appointment disrupts your whole schedule once and then turns out to take 2 hours instead of 5 minutes.
Ugh, yes. I loathe going to the cinema. Don't even get me started about people who talk during the performance and throw out SPOILERS for the film before they happen (it's happened to me twice now).

I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...
Yes, I agree. What makes it worse is when you play a videogame and someone on the team decides to add words like that to make it hip (I guess). I play these things to get away from this world, not to fall right back in it  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 01, 2019, 03:14:16 PM
Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming"

Eh. The word gaming has been around for a long time: http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/vintage-ad-why-women-dont-play-wargames.html

I'm unsure if wargaming came first, or if it was just gaming in general. But international federation of wargaming was in the late 60s. :/ and they started gen-con which is gaming convention.

I have a feeling it's maybe older. I think it's associated with gambling, but I'm not sure when gaming became used in that context...

Edit to add:

Google searched it and apparently 1501.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaming

But in the context of gambling. Although it's listed as a noun rather than a verb, it seems a bit fluid given how it's used now...

I also think it's older too, but I tried to stick to sources with text that I can say here's an example of it. (war games have been around since the 1700s, but unsure if they used the word gaming). But I think in a modern sense, it EASILY stems from nerd culture from the 70s/80s.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 01, 2019, 03:28:47 PM
Being a bit of a pedant and a stick-in-the-mud, needlessly making nouns into verbs annoys me as well, such as "gaming"

Eh. The word gaming has been around for a long time: http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/vintage-ad-why-women-dont-play-wargames.html

I'm unsure if wargaming came first, or if it was just gaming in general. But international federation of wargaming was in the late 60s. :/ and they started gen-con which is gaming convention.

I have a feeling it's maybe older. I think it's associated with gambling, but I'm not sure when gaming became used in that context...

Edit to add:

Google searched it and apparently 1501.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaming

But in the context of gambling. Although it's listed as a noun rather than a verb, it seems a bit fluid given how it's used now...

I also think it's older too, but I tried to stick to sources with text that I can say here's an example of it. (war games have been around since the 1700s, but unsure if they used the word gaming). But I think in a modern sense, it EASILY stems from nerd culture from the 70s/80s.

Interestingly the above link is an American dictionary, rather than a British one, but 1501 or thereabouts probably legit given that dictionaries research that stuff. It doesn't surprise me that gaming (the gambling term) should be (at least) Tudor in origin. There was a lot of gambling at Henry VIII's court. It's probable the record they cite comes from his household accounts or similar records from that period, as a lot exist. Unfortunately the dictionary doesn't say so. It would be fun to know for sure, but I don't fancy digging through the BL archive xD. My guess would be that if it was there in the early Tudor period it's probably mediaeval at least, but that's a guess.

But all of that is totally different from the video gaming context which is obviously more recent.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 02, 2019, 01:37:40 PM
About the language thing: I couldn't agree more! >_< But trust me, it's even worse when you live in a non-English speaking country... Everything NEEDS to be in English to make it more "hip" and "youthful". :hmm:

Uh, hello? We have our own language? We are Dutch, remember? So irritating... >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 02, 2019, 04:10:08 PM
About the language thing: I couldn't agree more! >_< But trust me, it's even worse when you live in a non-English speaking country... Everything NEEDS to be in English to make it more "hip" and "youthful". :hmm:

Uh, hello? We have our own language? We are Dutch, remember? So irritating... >_<

I never knew that was a thing. :blink: How odd... Like what kinds of things do you mean?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 05:35:53 PM
About the language thing: I couldn't agree more! >_< But trust me, it's even worse when you live in a non-English speaking country... Everything NEEDS to be in English to make it more "hip" and "youthful". :hmm:

Uh, hello? We have our own language? We are Dutch, remember? So irritating... >_<

I never knew that was a thing. :blink: How odd... Like what kinds of things do you mean?

The Japanese do this as well and it irritates the heck out of me. I mean, seriously, they have their own words for things. Please use them. Please....

I remember a german friend when I was in sixth form having similar rants about German adopting too many English words.

English is really not that amazing that it should be infecting every other language on the planet :/

<--the English girl who wanted to learn every language as a kid and who genuinely hated that English was her first language because it meant she didn't get to learn other languages as early as other countries and thus was always playing catch up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 05, 2019, 12:17:26 PM
I'm in the US and even though fireworks aren't allowed inside the city where I live a lot of people ignore the law and shoot fireworks off anyway. My dog gets very upset by the loud noises the fireworks makes and I was up late last night trying to keep her calm and reassure her that the fireworks wouldn't hurt her.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 05, 2019, 11:41:52 PM
People are implementing a lot of English words in the Swedish language as well and has for some time. Some has been here since the 80's like 'skateboard', and we are extremly good at translating one english word to another english word. Anyone remember walkman? In Sweden we called them freestyle. The movie Miss Congeniality is Ms Secret Agent here. Dead men tell no tale became Salazar's Revenge.

Nowadays a lot of English words that are used here have to do with social media and also a bunch of swear words. We have an array of perfectly good bad words in our dictionary, I can't understand why we would have to add more but the F-word is used a lot nowadays, so much that authors write it in their books. We have a swedish word for it but I guess that's not cool enough. Cool is also a word we've taken in btw ;). Some rapper tried to implement the N-word but he got shut down pretty fast. Listening too young kids and teenagers talking today and there's a lot of Swenglish going on. I know languages evolve but I don't really like this new trend :pout:.



Ponyfan, I'm sorry. Every new years there are debates about the use of fire works because of how it scares animals and people spread tips and ideas of how to keep them calm. Last year a dog died out of fear. I hope your dog is feeling better and that the idiots who broke the law kept it to to the fourth and don't fire anymore.



My complaint of the day: We were suppose to go camping by the beach but it's raining so it got cancelled. Also, it's my last weekend before I have to go back to work.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 06, 2019, 03:46:39 AM
Complaint of the day: hypocrisy! Especially from people who like to put on a big show of what perfect, conscientious human beings they are. Spoiler alert: those people are usually the very LEAST perfect of us all—hence their pathological need to prove how much better they are than everyone else. ;)

Sorry. I really needed to vent that bit of snarkiness. -_- People can be exhausting...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 06, 2019, 09:19:43 AM
I'm in the US and even though fireworks aren't allowed inside the city where I live a lot of people ignore the law and shoot fireworks off anyway. My dog gets very upset by the loud noises the fireworks makes and I was up late last night trying to keep her calm and reassure her that the fireworks wouldn't hurt her.


Ponyfan

I understand. They're allowed in my town, unfortunately. But people don't care about the rules to begin with.

My dog is scared of thunder and fireworks and thus the last several days have not been fun. She actually is okay indoors (not so much when there is a thunderstorm, but she has been panting/shaking less in the fireworks than thunderstorms), but when I let her out she won't go to the bathroom, she just bolts right back to the door.

She is a smaller dog, so I know she can't go that long without going to the bathroom, yet she just doesn't have accidents indoors when it's too much for her, she just suffers. I hate fireworks so much. Seriously who in the world allowed those things to be set off in a town?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 06, 2019, 09:33:18 AM
Complaint of the day: hypocrisy! Especially from people who like to put on a big show of what perfect, conscientious human beings they are. Spoiler alert: those people are usually the very LEAST perfect of us all—hence their pathological need to prove how much better they are than everyone else. ;)

Sorry. I really needed to vent that bit of snarkiness. -_- People can be exhausting...

I feel like this is a rather large percentage of society.

@Ponyfan - I hate when people do that :( It's rough on animals, and I'm not a fan personally of private firework displays. People always get hurt around 5th Nov despite the warnings, and the wild animals also suffer from the noise as well as pets...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 06, 2019, 03:35:06 PM
Thank you everyone. My dog started having seizures last year after the 4 of July. She is an elderly dog but she had never had a seizure before she got so scared last year. Last night I only heard a few fireworks going off.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 06, 2019, 03:54:37 PM
Thank you everyone. My dog started having seizures last year after the 4 of July. She is an elderly dog but she had never had a seizure before she got so scared last year. Last night I only heard a few fireworks going off.


Ponyfan

I didn’t even know that could happen. :( I hope she’s doing alright...

I worry about my dogs, as they’re both getting on in years, and bad thunderstorms seem to really upset the older of the two... She’s a Lhasa Apso with an unknown history, and she already has a nervous disposition...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 06, 2019, 08:28:28 PM
I hate the kind of people whose idea of celbrating weekend is to get completely drunk and yell like an animal in the middle of night when other people are asleep, want to relax after a hard day or might have some work to do :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 07, 2019, 02:00:22 PM
What a weekend! Firstly, I am thankful that the three performances that my kid acted in at her theatre show went very well, travel was straight-forward, we didn't lose anything and she remembered to smile!

However, yesterday... phew... my phone ran out of power, then... my car battery ran out of power too! Turned out that I had left the lights on all day  :pout: I had just collected my kid after her evening performance, we were both mega tired and ready to go home but NO! We had to call out the rescue van... the staff at the theatre were very accommodating and googled my insurance helpline number for me as I used their phone.

Got home just before 11pm. The repair guy re-charged my battery and I was safe to go on my 45-minute trip home. Husband had been worried!  :lol: :cool: :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Carrehz on July 08, 2019, 06:52:20 AM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

OOF, this!! My big problem with silly stuff like this is that people tend to run it into the ground. The odd "smol" or "birb" here and there, okay, sure, that's cute, whatever. But nooo, it has to be *all the damn time*, it gets old fast!

(another thing that irritates me - people that,,,, use a bunch of,,,, commas,,,, in a row,,,, ....like that, haha. It looks so silly! I'm not that nitpicky about grammar/punctuation, I get misusing it intentionally to better convey the tone you're trying to get across, but that one just looks stupid to me :p)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 08, 2019, 07:36:32 AM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

OOF, this!! My big problem with silly stuff like this is that people tend to run it into the ground. The odd "smol" or "birb" here and there, okay, sure, that's cute, whatever. But nooo, it has to be *all the damn time*, it gets old fast!

(another thing that irritates me - people that,,,, use a bunch of,,,, commas,,,, in a row,,,, ....like that, haha. It looks so silly! I'm not that nitpicky about grammar/punctuation, I get misusing it intentionally to better convey the tone you're trying to get across, but that one just looks stupid to me :p)
The older I get, the more annoyed I am with the whole Internet culture - the intentionally poor grammar (i.e.  noun + "be like"), the repetitive memes, the latest cool hashtag that everyone ends their sentences with etc.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 08, 2019, 09:16:00 AM
I never knew that was a thing. :blink: How odd... Like what kinds of things do you mean?

Sorry for the late response! Other have explained it very well in the meantime, it's exactly like they say.

Tickets, meeting, checking in/out, barcode, dashboard, creditcard, fashion, fulltime, multiple choice, magazine, outfit, provider, deal, research, second opinion, feedback, kids, talkshow, design, shopping, updating... Just a few examples of words you hear ALL THE TIME, even though we have perfectly nice Dutch words for all these things. :hmm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 08, 2019, 12:06:55 PM
Thank you everyone. My dog started having seizures last year after the 4 of July. She is an elderly dog but she had never had a seizure before she got so scared last year. Last night I only heard a few fireworks going off.


Ponyfan

I didn’t even know that could happen. :( I hope she’s doing alright...

I worry about my dogs, as they’re both getting on in years, and bad thunderstorms seem to really upset the older of the two... She’s a Lhasa Apso with an unknown history, and she already has a nervous disposition...


My dog was acting really strange for a couple of days. I was afraid she would have to go to the vet but she's doing better now.

Today's complaint: A family member didn't realize I was in the garage getting soemthing and not only turned the light off on me but also closed the door from the kitchen to the garage. The garage is pretty dark with no light. I called out that I was still in the garage but no one heard me. I fially found the doorknob. but it was scary for a few minutes.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 08, 2019, 12:27:21 PM
Massive headache won't go away. I think it's weather related. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 08, 2019, 05:44:31 PM
I'm getting really fed up with this stupid "internet language" you can't seem to avoid these days. Why can't they call anything by its real name? A dog can't be a dog, it's a "pupper" or a "woofer". A bird is a "birb". Cats are probably "cattos" or something equally stupid. For some reason it really irritates me.

What's worse is when people start saying it in real life...

OOF, this!! My big problem with silly stuff like this is that people tend to run it into the ground. The odd "smol" or "birb" here and there, okay, sure, that's cute, whatever. But nooo, it has to be *all the damn time*, it gets old fast!

(another thing that irritates me - people that,,,, use a bunch of,,,, commas,,,, in a row,,,, ....like that, haha. It looks so silly! I'm not that nitpicky about grammar/punctuation, I get misusing it intentionally to better convey the tone you're trying to get across, but that one just looks stupid to me :p)
The older I get, the more annoyed I am with the whole Internet culture - the intentionally poor grammar (i.e.  noun + "be like"), the repetitive memes, the latest cool hashtag that everyone ends their sentences with etc.

I'm one of those people who want people, if they're going to swear, to swear in a grammatically correct way :P We have conjugation for a reason, use it, or otherwise just don't bother...

I'm not even that fixed on grammatical correctness most of the time - just certain times, and swearing is one of those times. *shrug*.

...So as much as I don't want to complain about buses again today...

The bus across london was packed, stuck in traffic, and also I had to walk a long way from the station to catch it because of roadworks.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pumpkin_Tart on July 09, 2019, 09:12:21 AM
I normally don’t have a lot to complain about but I just got 6 teeth (wisdom + extra) taken out and this hurts....oh well, I guess it’s just a part of life. But on the bright side, I can get some sleep and pain meds to help eventually :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 09, 2019, 09:34:31 AM
Can’t find rooted Ken Fashionista dolls for some of my custom anime dolls.

Plus I started coughing because my tongue pushed some phlegm to the back of my mouth and my throat and chest hurt.

Now I’ve got the hiccups
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on July 09, 2019, 09:46:55 AM
My friend has just got her driving lisence and we're planning to go on a day trip somewhere... but can't decide/agree on somewhere to go!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 09, 2019, 01:45:04 PM
I'm having a dentist appointment on Thursday >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pumpkin_Tart on July 09, 2019, 02:28:15 PM
Ug! I feel you!

I'm having a dentist appointment on Thursday >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 10, 2019, 07:52:13 AM
Ug! I feel you!

I'm having a dentist appointment on Thursday >_<
Thankfully it's just a regular preventive cleaning, but I'm always nervous that they will find something bad going on in there that I didn't know about.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 10, 2019, 01:52:15 PM
I overslept and missed my appointment with my therapist. I'm kinda miffed that no one bothered to wake me up, everyone knows my therapy schedule. But then I'm an adult and should be responsible for my own stuff. But then I'm a mentally ill adult that needs help sometimes. Who do I blame??! :P

Me. I blame myself. Bummer. I like my therapist. And I just know she's gonna give me a hard time when I bring this up next time :lol:

edit: Gah! New page noooooo......
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on July 10, 2019, 03:59:12 PM
About the language thing: I couldn't agree more! >_< But trust me, it's even worse when you live in a non-English speaking country... Everything NEEDS to be in English to make it more "hip" and "youthful". :hmm:

Uh, hello? We have our own language? We are Dutch, remember? So irritating... >_<

I never knew that was a thing. :blink: How odd... Like what kinds of things do you mean?

The Japanese do this as well and it irritates the heck out of me. I mean, seriously, they have their own words for things. Please use them. Please....

I remember a german friend when I was in sixth form having similar rants about German adopting too many English words.

I am such a German :lol:
I mean, yes, we implemented "cool" a while ago and there are other anglicisms I don't mind because they make sense. Most are work related like "meeting".

But I looooaaaatheeee people just replacing words with the English counterpart.
This started to get really bad a while ago when youtube and social media exploded. People are kind of adapting to English as a universal language but I see no reason why a fellow German would talk to me in a weird half-German half-English.
Either people don't realize it anymore or they think American English sounds cooler.
I know people in their late 20s to late 30s who will admit they hate our 'complicated' language and wish they could talk American English 24/7 because it is "easier" - and then these people make a ton of pronounciation and grammar mistakes, lol. Apparently English isn't so easy after all. And by inserting English words everywhere they forget how to build proper sentences.

Also, kids no longer say 'kawaii' here. They say 'cute' and 'nice' now. Like: "das Pony ist so cute", "dieses Game ist voll nice" :lol: It takes me out. Kjuut und neiss.

I hate the sound of it when said in a German accent because I am hearing it each day.

Post Merge: July 10, 2019, 04:12:41 PM

Anyone remember walkman? In Sweden we called them freestyle.

I never heard of that, lol! That's almost as bad as us Germans calling mobile phones 'handies'. We also didn't let the word die with the product, we just moved on to calling smartphones handies now :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 10, 2019, 05:24:47 PM
I never heard of that, lol! That's almost as bad as us Germans calling mobile phones 'handies'. We also didn't let the word die with the product, we just moved on to calling smartphones handies now :lol:

I like that one! XD It sounds cute.

But I seriously never knew people did this (using English words randomly)... It still strikes me strange. In America at least, “kawaii” has come to mean anime-style, Japanese-influenced cute art, like Sanrio or Tokidoki stuff. It’s useful for that, because like “anime” (which just refers to animation as a whole in Japanese), it now refers to a specific genre of art. I haven’t heard anyone call something like a random cat photo “kawaii” in a long time. XD That was a trend back in the 00s, though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 10, 2019, 10:24:41 PM
Anyone remember walkman? In Sweden we called them freestyle.

I never heard of that, lol! That's almost as bad as us Germans calling mobile phones 'handies'. We also didn't let the word die with the product, we just moved on to calling smartphones handies now :lol:


I think that sounds cute, though  ^.^.


I have another language related complaint.. I have a friend (or it's more my husbands best friend, we're more of an acquaintance) who writes in english on her instagram, which is fine I do to, but she need to check her spelling so bad sometimes. If I see her write thaught instead of thought one more time my head's gonna implode. She's a teacher for crying out loud! And no, I can't comment her on that because she's so easily hurt and any comment that critizie her a tiny bit get removed like she can't deal with it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 10, 2019, 11:23:50 PM
I never heard of that, lol! That's almost as bad as us Germans calling mobile phones 'handies'. We also didn't let the word die with the product, we just moved on to calling smartphones handies now :lol:

I like that one! XD It sounds cute.

But I seriously never knew people did this (using English words randomly)... It still strikes me strange. In America at least, “kawaii” has come to mean anime-style, Japanese-influenced cute art, like Sanrio or Tokidoki stuff. It’s useful for that, because like “anime” (which just refers to animation as a whole in Japanese), it now refers to a specific genre of art. I haven’t heard anyone call something like a random cat photo “kawaii” in a long time. XD That was a trend back in the 00s, though.

I can't stand people doing that either, to be honest, mostly because they pronounce it like kowai, and also that kawaii has lots of different nuances in Japanese and it's not a genre of frilly clothing to amuse western fetishes. Sorry, I feel really strongly about the misuse of that word. Although I won't pretend when it comes up in an anime with a girl putting the unnecessary emphasis on all the syllables it annoys me any less (different annoyance though - ka-wa-i-iiiiiii...)

I always loved the fact that the German word for mobile was Handy.

Although honestly I only remember being taught directions and that everything was Umweltfreundlich in German classes. It was a long time ago now. My friend, though, she had her rant at the time when I think there were discussions about getting rid of the eszett.

For me as a native English speaker, I don't like how Americanisms have got more common in our English. Also spellings. I don't have any issue with Americanisms in America, but the way English is used in both countries is quite different really, so when you try and insert Americanisms into the less direct British English, it sounds weird. Also words like orientated have become oriented and so on in some contexts, which is just plain wrong in British English, but seems to pass as fine these days.

Also when my spellcheck shifts on its own to US english and then tells me to remove all the 'se' endings and replace them with 'ze' I don't get amused. Honestly, I have had so many people in feedback on fanfiction telling me I can't spell because I write realise instead of realize and so on. It's so annoying. The global English thing has honestly not much to do with British English :/ and it affects how people speak and write here as much as anywhere else.

On the flip, it means that most of the time I'm not confused about American terms for things xd. But still, it's getting way too common. And I will never ever accept or use the spelling of Mediaeval without the e. It may be simpler but for someone in the field who knows the linguistic origin of the word, I'm not dropping the e to satisfy modern laziness.

Yeah, that one's been bugging me since I was an undergrad.


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 11, 2019, 01:50:45 AM
I can't stand people doing that either, to be honest, mostly because they pronounce it like kowai, and also that kawaii has lots of different nuances in Japanese and it's not a genre of frilly clothing to amuse western fetishes. Sorry, I feel really strongly about the misuse of that word. Although I won't pretend when it comes up in an anime with a girl putting the unnecessary emphasis on all the syllables it annoys me any less (different annoyance though - ka-wa-i-iiiiiii...)

The “kowai” thing always cracks me up. XD I don’t even know why that’s a common mispronunciation... The “a” and “o” don’t sound similar at all...

I don’t use “kawaii” in casual conversation ever, but it’s a handy search term online. If you’re looking for a certain style of art, it’s a lot easier to put in “kawaii art” than “cute, whimsical, Japanese anime-style art”. As a dedicated enthusiast of Japanese history and culture, I get where you’re coming from on the misuse thing... but that’s pretty much how languages have worked from the beginning. Words get appropriated, altered, and repurposed, and fighting it is like fighting the tide. :shrug: People shrieking “KAW-WAHHHH-EEEEEEEYYYUH” in casual (non Japanese-language) conversation is grating, but as a term to describe something that there really isn’t another word to effectively describe it with? It works. In total fairness, “yankee” (or “yankii”)” means something very different in Japan, as does “gal”. XD Those words go way back, and were appropriated/borrowed to describe things that the Japanese language didn’t really have pre-existing terms for.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 11, 2019, 03:06:46 AM
I never heard of that, lol! That's almost as bad as us Germans calling mobile phones 'handies'. We also didn't let the word die with the product, we just moved on to calling smartphones handies now :lol:

I like that one! XD It sounds cute.

But I seriously never knew people did this (using English words randomly)... It still strikes me strange. In America at least, “kawaii” has come to mean anime-style, Japanese-influenced cute art, like Sanrio or Tokidoki stuff. It’s useful for that, because like “anime” (which just refers to animation as a whole in Japanese), it now refers to a specific genre of art. I haven’t heard anyone call something like a random cat photo “kawaii” in a long time. XD That was a trend back in the 00s, though.



This is how I see it used generally.

I'm trying to think, even when I'm selling stuff at conventions people who walk by and squee tend to say "so cuuute!" rather then "kawaiiiiii". And that's the place you'd think you'd hear it most.

And I think using the word is great. I work in the art industry and there's a HUGE difference between a typical cute style and a kawaii cute style. It's the perfect application of a loan word.

I'm not sure how many people I hear pronounce it kowai. But I live in an area that speaks inland northern american english so we apparently screw up our As. (Although my Japanese teacher told me I spoke fine,  sooo, I'd like to think I hear it ok too).

Also meeeh.

I remember in the 90s when the word "anime" wasn't solidified yet for Americans. Thank god the word Japanimation died. It was ultra annoying.

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 11, 2019, 04:41:52 AM
Japanimation. XD Such an awkward mouthful. I’m reeeaaally glad “anime” caught on.

But yeah, I haven’t heard people squealing “kawaiiiii” in many years... Not since the mid-2000s convention scene, and even then it was mostly tweens and younger teens. Words get borrowed and modified all the time; I certainly don’t take offense when other languages borrow/redefine American-English words like the aforementioned “yankii”. It’s when one language begins to eclipse another (like what people are talking about with German and Dutch) that it becomes problematic, since there’s really no reason for it other than “trendiness” (what’s not trendy about just using German or Dutch? :blink:).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 11, 2019, 05:50:26 AM
I still hear it at events, but you guys have to remember that the UK is still some years behind the US in its appreciation of Japanese culture, so that may be part of it. I will admit I have a general ennui to that aspect of Japanese culture too though, so it's just compounded by people trying to use a word they can't pronounce in order to sound 'cool' - and actually ending up saying a total other word instead...

It first got me riled up on this forum, though, years and years ago, when it was all the rage to call everything kawaii. And so it just grates now when I see the word out of context in English in any form.

I'm not really as annoyed by other loan words in general, although Japanese uses some English words in a very odd way (tension, for example...) but there are some from Japanese which are hugely unhelpful. When you work in the field, trying to deprogram from history students' brains that 'samurai' is not a catch all for Japanese warrior is quite tough.

But then English also has words like tycoon which originally come from Japanese, so I guess it's not all bad.

Just Kawaii should be banned for anyone who can't actually say kawaii.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 11, 2019, 07:01:14 AM
I've only read the word "kawaii" (and I've never tried to use it in conversation) but I'm not 100% sure how it would be pronounced.  I thought it would be like "Hawaii" but with a "k" instead of an "h".  Is that even close?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 11, 2019, 07:13:50 AM
I've only read the word "kawaii" (and I've never tried to use it in conversation) but I'm not 100% sure how it would be pronounced.  I thought it would be like "Hawaii" but with a "k" instead of an "h".  Is that even close?

Every syllable in Japanese has the same weight, unlike in English. The last two i syllables tend to blur together into a double length i, but it is technically a separate one.

https://www.rightpronunciation.com/languages/japanese/kawaii-13279.asp?id1=15&page=19

English pronunciation tends to put emphasis on the middle syllable, making it sound more like kowai, the Japanese word for 'scary'.

https://forvo.com/word/kowai/

(Disclaimer - I'm basing that on the English pronunciation of Hawaii, I'm sure there's a better Hawaiian one that I'm not aware of, having never been there xD)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 11, 2019, 11:00:04 AM
The only time I've seen kawaii used is on stuff like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Kawaii-Doodle-Class-Sketching-Super-Cute/dp/1631063758/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Kawaii+coloring+book&qid=1562867826&s=gateway&sr=8-6




Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 11, 2019, 11:06:36 AM
The only time I've seen kawaii used is on stuff like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Kawaii-Doodle-Class-Sketching-Super-Cute/dp/1631063758/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Kawaii+coloring+book&qid=1562867826&s=gateway&sr=8-6


I think that link sums up one of the reasons I consider the use of kawaii a trivial complaint ;)

On another note, my trivial complaint for the day...

When you give a referee two and a half weeks of notice about a reference that you'd like written, when he agrees two and a half weeks before the deadline to do it and then doesn't actually do it till 2 hours before the deadline...

At least he did it I suppose?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on July 12, 2019, 06:44:02 AM
Wow, I really started something with my language complaint!

Complaint of the day: I'm trying to get my dad to go out of town somewhere this week, to enjoy the hot weather. He doesn't seem to want to leave the house these days
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 12, 2019, 07:37:54 AM
Meh. Dealing with too much anxiety lately.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 12, 2019, 03:19:23 PM
I saw someone walking around a store with a kitten today. I know dogs can be service animals but can cats also? As far as I could tell the kitten wasn't wearing any kind ID that would indicate it was a service animal.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 13, 2019, 04:57:13 PM
The TV started glitching randomly when I was watching "When Harry Met Lloyd" :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2019, 02:42:33 AM
Last night was a pretty crazy night.

So the night before last there were noisy roadworkers drilling till midnight and then yelling to each other till 2am, but last night they were quiet.

Unfortunately it wasn't a restful night.

First thing was the wasp. I hate wasps. I don't even know when it came in, but it was SITTING ON MY TV SCREEN like it owned the place. My window here doesn't open very far because it's high up, and at night getting it outside that way was basically impossible so I had to catch the critter without getting stung. I actually did manage to do this, and took it downstairs and out into the gardens. I should add that I am pretty freaked out going there at night since the rats incident some months back, so that was pretty scary as well. Got rid of the wasp. Fine. No problem. Back to the room.

Then my towel fell off my rail randomly in the bathroom and knocked a whole bunch of stuff flying, which I had to resolve. Also another towel now needs washing =.=

All in all not much sleep happened last night. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 17, 2019, 04:57:17 AM
Sorry you have such a rough night Taffeta.  :hug:  I don't like wasps or stinging insects either.



My local bookstore is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale. You're supposed to be able to check store inventory online but yesterday 3 books that I couldn't find anywhere in the store were listed online as in stock at the store. The store inventory doesn't update in real time and it's possible that someone might else might have chosen those 3 books because of the sale but out of all the books I was interested in to get a 2nd free book because I bought 4 books I couldn't find them in the store.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 17, 2019, 09:33:13 AM
First thing was the wasp. I hate wasps. I don't even know when it came in, but it was SITTING ON MY TV SCREEN like it owned the place. My window here doesn't open very far because it's high up, and at night getting it outside that way was basically impossible so I had to catch the critter without getting stung. I actually did manage to do this, and took it downstairs and out into the gardens. I should add that I am pretty freaked out going there at night since the rats incident some months back, so that was pretty scary as well. Got rid of the wasp. Fine. No problem. Back to the room.

You’d have loved what happened to me a couple summers ago... After weeks of wasps invading my bedroom at night, I discovered that they had built a nest under the roof next to my window. I had to camp out in the basement for weeks until they were removed (there were hundreds of them). :yikes:

Also, I have nasty reactions to wasp/bee stings, so that was not fun. DX

But yes, wasp invasions suck. Sorry you lost sleep over it. :( :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pumpkin_Tart on July 17, 2019, 09:35:01 AM
First thing was the wasp. I hate wasps. I don't even know when it came in, but it was SITTING ON MY TV SCREEN like it owned the place. My window here doesn't open very far because it's high up, and at night getting it outside that way was basically impossible so I had to catch the critter without getting stung. I actually did manage to do this, and took it downstairs and out into the gardens. I should add that I am pretty freaked out going there at night since the rats incident some months back, so that was pretty scary as well. Got rid of the wasp. Fine. No problem. Back to the room.

You’d have loved what happened to me a couple summers ago... After weeks of wasps invading my bedroom at night, I discovered that they had built a nest under the roof next to my window. I had to camp out in the basement for weeks until they were removed (there were hundreds of them). :yikes:

Also, I have nasty reactions to wasp/bee stings, so that was not fun. DX

But yes, wasp invasions suck. Sorry you lost sleep over it. :( :hug:

Yikes!  :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 17, 2019, 09:44:10 AM
I can now identify and differentiate the buzz of a wasp from that of any other insect. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2019, 01:08:52 PM
First thing was the wasp. I hate wasps. I don't even know when it came in, but it was SITTING ON MY TV SCREEN like it owned the place. My window here doesn't open very far because it's high up, and at night getting it outside that way was basically impossible so I had to catch the critter without getting stung. I actually did manage to do this, and took it downstairs and out into the gardens. I should add that I am pretty freaked out going there at night since the rats incident some months back, so that was pretty scary as well. Got rid of the wasp. Fine. No problem. Back to the room.

You’d have loved what happened to me a couple summers ago... After weeks of wasps invading my bedroom at night, I discovered that they had built a nest under the roof next to my window. I had to camp out in the basement for weeks until they were removed (there were hundreds of them). :yikes:

Also, I have nasty reactions to wasp/bee stings, so that was not fun. DX

But yes, wasp invasions suck. Sorry you lost sleep over it. :( :hug:

Yikes!  :shocked:

Oh yeeps, that sounds awful O.O how poisonous are your wasps and bees over there? I remember in Japan being verrry cautious of the bees in the cherry blossom because the Japanese bees have super nasty stings. I'm not allergic to stings, fortunately, but I don't like them anyway.

I am wondering if there's a nest somewhere up on the roof of this building as there are a lot of wasps flying around at the third floor level where I am and that doesn't seem too normal. Fortunately the one last night was small and fairly dopey, so I managed to catch it and take it outside - but I don't really want to repeat...

Also that was all at around 3.30am, chasing the thing around my room with a small plastic sorbet pot and a towel.

The worst situation I ever had was a wasp that got in my hair one night. My hair is quite long and it was tied up in a messy ball that night and somehow the wasp got INSIDE that and yeah, getting it out without panicking or getting stung is one of my traumas ><

The other week at home I had a hornet in my room. I've never seen a real hornet before. That was big. O.o.

Sigh, the buzzy things seem to really love me :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 17, 2019, 10:56:06 PM
I woke up with a soar throat. I sound like I've been smoking 40 cigarettes a day and drinking lots of whiskey for the past thirty years.. Hubby thought it so hilarious he wanted to record it. Also, i can't call in sick because it's summer and there's none to cover for me. Also, we're out of honey, the only thing that helps when my throat is like this.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 04:42:15 AM
*points at the window*

Sudden torrential rain.

I guess I'm not going out to buy lunch then.

Wonder what's in the cupboard other than soy sauce and cake.

(Not a good combination).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 19, 2019, 08:40:20 AM
Oh yeeps, that sounds awful O.O how poisonous are your wasps and bees over there? I remember in Japan being verrry cautious of the bees in the cherry blossom because the Japanese bees have super nasty stings. I'm not allergic to stings, fortunately, but I don't like them anyway.

I am wondering if there's a nest somewhere up on the roof of this building as there are a lot of wasps flying around at the third floor level where I am and that doesn't seem too normal. Fortunately the one last night was small and fairly dopey, so I managed to catch it and take it outside - but I don't really want to repeat...

Also that was all at around 3.30am, chasing the thing around my room with a small plastic sorbet pot and a towel.

The worst situation I ever had was a wasp that got in my hair one night. My hair is quite long and it was tied up in a messy ball that night and somehow the wasp got INSIDE that and yeah, getting it out without panicking or getting stung is one of my traumas ><

The other week at home I had a hornet in my room. I've never seen a real hornet before. That was big. O.o.

Sigh, the buzzy things seem to really love me :(

I would probably need trauma counseling if a wasp ever got stuck in my hair. :shocked:

The ones that laid siege to my bedroom were yellowjackets, though I couldn’t tell you the exact species. They’re ridiculously aggressive, but not deadly or anything unless you have severe allergies. My reaction isn’t THAT severe, but I do swell up like a balloon when I get stung. :P

I had heard that there were some pretty scary bugs in Japan... I imagine those wasps must be everywhere in spring, especially at cherry blossom viewing spots! My childhood home had an apple tree that would blossom each year, and during that time it would be a giant, buzzing deathtrap. XD You could hear the buzzing at a distance, there were so many bees and wasps...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 19, 2019, 03:41:06 PM
You guys are freaking me out with all this wasp talk. I'm severely allergic to pretty much anything that stings. Down here in Florida we have these huge (though not Japanese huge, thankfully) wasps that are super aggressive. They get trapped in the screened in lanai sometimes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 20, 2019, 12:12:19 AM
When I was a 9 year old kid on the beach a huge wasp landed on my thigh. I did the stupid thing without thought and brushed it away. Then I had do run to the water Donald Duck style and jump right in. When I got up it was still there lingering above me so I took a deep breath, back down under the water and swam under the waves.. When I came up for breath ten meters later it was thankfully gone. My mom and sister had the sweet audacity to laugh at me.


The warmth have finally arrived and we have what feels like summer up here in the north so of course I had to get a heavy cold. Not only soar throat but coughing and sneezing and freezing and sweating. Another one is that it's the first time I'm not working the weekend when the towns rockfestival is, but theres no band playing I feel like watching. I guess on the plus size, being sick doesn't really matter today and I save money.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 20, 2019, 11:41:16 PM
I don't care how healthy it's supposed to be, apple cider vinegar smells and tastes like vomit!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 21, 2019, 06:15:39 AM
Some insect decided I would make a good meal and now I have several bites. :(



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 21, 2019, 07:03:54 AM
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pumpkin_Tart on July 21, 2019, 07:38:00 AM
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.

I agree with you Nemisis! I get what you are feeling.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 21, 2019, 07:58:00 AM
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.

I agree with you Nemisis! I get what you are feeling.

I second that.  The only reason I have a FB account is because I have some friends that I can only keep in contact with through FB and I only check it if I have an actual reason, so the last time was to post about my knee surgery back in March.  (I haven't even checked it to see if people reacted to my post...is that bad?) 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 21, 2019, 08:32:02 AM
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.

The irony of this being that if I could like this post, I would.

I have been online stalked and even threatened - and that was a member of the pony community :/ But it was a very long time ago and it taught me a very early lesson about the internet.

It frightens me how little people care about who has their identity and what can be done with it. I use FB but mostly the chat only, and everyone on my fb is someone I know in real life and just have no other way of keeping in contact with, like old colleagues and uni friends in other countries.  I won't ever log into some other site with my facebook. I won't comment on something if it means giving my real name - not because I'm trolling, but because I don't want to BE trolled.

The other thing that bugs me about this, though, is that social media fragments, it doesn't connect. There are so many different ways to communicate now on SM that everyone is spending lots of time disseminating their thoughts in hundreds of places rather than having one solid conversation with someone in front of them. And the biggest problem is that half the time this is done on phones in public places which is ok, if you want to be a phone zombie, but not okay when you're going to get hit crossing a road, or driving (!), or just being plain inconsiderate by playing your videos out loud on a bus or ignoring other people (bag on seat, old person needs seat, phone zombie too busy looking at pictures of cats).

It may be an old person thing - I realise that social media is probably generational. I'm 37, I grew up with the PC and I like computers better than phones. But I also like having actual conversations.

In my feed I have one friend who posts a picture of her daughter literally every day since she was born. I have another who posts a similar number of cat pictures, but her cat is cute, so that I prefer.

What's really annoying for me with social media is that job hunting is now so much harder. Instead of everything being in the collective academic databases, now some stuff is only on the college's facebook or twitter or whatever.

I don't like that we live in a quick click one word answer not really paying attention society now. And I think social media is part of that. I just haven't worked out whether social media is driving the people or vice versa.

There's some evidence that social media feeds into mental health issues, and I think that's because most everything that happens on social media is superficial and meaningless, and it creates an emotional vacuum that isn't being filled with real conversations. "Are u ok hun" on a facebook feed is not an intervention when someone's seriously upset.

On the subject of forums -and here is not immune - I've seen a few die because of social media pressure, but one in particular which was basically destroyed by it's own facebook group. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 21, 2019, 08:42:08 AM
I don't mind social media, personally. I think it has its place. However, I do agree that the internet forums are great. I've been using internet forums since 2003 and they have provided me a lot of room to be myself and learn about so much, all of this especially as a teenager.

Most people talk like chat services like Discord are the biggest threat to forums and that frustrates me. I really don't like Discord at all. The conversations move so fast and you miss out on so much. I understand how some people like that format, but it shouldn't conflict with forums. Forums are a completely different format. If internet forums go away and chat services like Discord are what we have left, that will be it for me.

I dearly hope that MLPArena forums will be around for a very long time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 21, 2019, 11:23:02 PM
I was eating dinner with hubby yesterday when the phone rang. It was from work. The guy working had gotten a customer who had bought a tripod and it was acting weird and he wanted to know where we had them so he could look at it and eventually exchange it if the customers indeed were broken. That's totally ok.

But here's the thing. Another summer worker did a superawesome job by constructing, cleaning and fix our stockroom with labels and stuff thursday and friday. It's super neat now, things are easy to find but things got shifted around a bit. So I didn't have in my head were the tripods were. The backroom isn't large and the tripod he was looking for is about the same hight as me. How he could not find it is not that disturbing however, he's a kind of person who can't find things if they're behind something else (he always get amazed when I tell him to look behind other stuff and then see what he is looking for). What was disturbing was that he called me instead of the guy who moved things around. He called me because my name was on the reciept as a seller to the customer. The reciept was more than a week old. I could not know a week ago that coworker was gonna move things around now, could I?

But he always does this! He always calls me instead of the people he should call. We got a phone back that had been on repair in another store. They had sent the faulty battery as well. He called me and asked about the battery instead of the store that had sent it.
He also always call about things I already gone through with him several times. I can tell him things, and he looks at me, takes notes, ask relevent questions about it and then he gets in a situation that is exactly what we talked about not even ten minutes ago and he doesn't remember anything and has to call me and ask, showing he didn't really listen at all. There's always things like this, I always have to babysit with the phone in hand when he works and I'm off, or having lunch and it makes my hair go grey! :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kiwi on July 22, 2019, 04:27:23 PM
“I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!”

I now want McD's fries! :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 23, 2019, 01:30:05 AM
Am I tired? Yes. Can I sleep? Nope!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 23, 2019, 06:49:00 AM
We missed the bus because it was over five minutes early, and it only goes once an hour. :angry: I broke down crying. :blush:

I'm ALWAYS super early except for now (this time things just came up, but we still would have made it easily if the bus didn't fly by seven minutes early), it was 35°C, I have bronchitis and we had groceries that needed to be in the fridge. To top it all off, I lost €10 in the next bus because the fricken chip card system never works properly. :angry:

Also, upcoming Thursday it's going to be 40°C.  :crazy: :tumble:

I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.

 :worshippy:

I feel the same way!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 23, 2019, 11:38:10 AM
We missed the bus because it was over five minutes early, and it only goes once an hour. :angry: I broke down crying. :blush:

I'm ALWAYS super early except for now (this time things just came up, but we still would have made it easily if the bus didn't fly by seven minutes early), it was 35°C, I have bronchitis and we had groceries that needed to be in the fridge. To top it all off, I lost €10 in the next bus because the fricken chip card system never works properly. :angry:

Also, upcoming Thursday it's going to be 40°C.  :crazy: :tumble:

I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?

I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” -_- Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.

 :worshippy:

I feel the same way!

Ack, we've caught up with your insane continental heatwave now. Today was 33 I think. I don't have aircon so my fan has been working doubletime. Tomorrow is gonna be 31 which I can about stand so will go run my errands, but thursday they're predicting 37, feels like 42. I may spend the whole day in the shower. Not even kidding. I don't do heat.

And these are my last few weeks in London and I want to do stuff -.- but of course the capital and area is always the hottest place (sigh). It was fine last year because I had aircon at my room and I could escape back there but now...not so much.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 24, 2019, 09:10:02 AM
I don't do heat either! Horrible, horrible. >_< We don't have aiconditioning either, just a small fan. We put frozen bottles of water in front of it, which really helps, but we have such a tiny freezer. Four 500ml bottles and it's full, so it's not like we can create a whole bunch of them or use big bottles. :hmm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 24, 2019, 10:26:28 AM
Got a Digimon I didn’t want in Digimon world next order
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 24, 2019, 01:56:18 PM
I don't do heat either! Horrible, horrible. >_< We don't have aiconditioning either, just a small fan. We put frozen bottles of water in front of it, which really helps, but we have such a tiny freezer. Four 500ml bottles and it's full, so it's not like we can create a whole bunch of them or use big bottles. :hmm:

I am also on frozen bottles in the freezer - but my room isn't big enough to try the air cooling trick with them. My fan is on a stand in the corner, between the printer, the bed and the wall...and the size of the room doesn't help with airing it through. Nor does the fact the window only opens a little way to prevent stupid residents falling out (there re some residents here stupid enough to turn the fire alarm on when trying to do laundry, so I can understand the concern, but still...). In short, not designed for 30+ heat. Dreading tomorrow.

Also, the dead rat in the rubbish area doesn't make me thrilled at the idea of taking my recycling out. I need to, but the last time I encountered rats in the rubbish area it was literally face to face. I discovered I really don't like them, alive or dead, and I really don't want to go in there. Sigh.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on July 24, 2019, 02:19:24 PM
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. :P I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.

I don't like it, either. Most people are just using social media to essentially roleplay; photoshopping their bodies and faces to hell and back and lying about it. Acting like their life is such and such.
And then there is the oversharing and begging for validation (likes).

I'm on instagram for work and I hate it when someone posts too much private stuff when I just want to look at their artwork :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 24, 2019, 02:57:51 PM
Wow! I never expected to find so many kindred spirits! XD

The thing about social media is... I’ve tried it. I really did give it a fair chance. But it left me feeling so... empty? Unfulfilled? Getting a “like” or a “how are u” from a relative I haven’t seen in five years seems almost uncomfortable to me. I know they MEAN well, and they probably really do care, but... Is that really all human interaction is now? Copy-paste snippets of chatspeak and single-click affirmations? :(

I don't like it, either. Most people are just using social media to essentially roleplay; photoshopping their bodies and faces to hell and back and lying about it. Acting like their life is such and such.
And then there is the oversharing and begging for validation (likes).

That’s a really good comparison. It IS like some strange roleplay that people pretend they’re not playing. People take 1000 selfies at a go, trying to take the most flattering one possible... then they photoshop it anyway, for good measure. Then they make it their “avatar”, and go about curating a social media personality that glosses over anything unflattering or “too real”. From there, everyone pretends to care about what everyone else is doing, for the sake of self-promotion and fishing for likes.

Alright, that sounded pretty cynical. Not EVERYONE uses it that way. But a whole lot of people DO...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 24, 2019, 09:12:08 PM
I think what concerns me is that people take for granted social interactions and dilute them down to clicking of buttons, rather than really engaging with the other person. As someone who has spent much of her life learning some of the social skills most people allegedly are born with, it bothers me that you'd want to potentially lose those skills by defaulting to such a superficial system. The friend button isn't a friendship. The like button doesn't mean you read someone else's post.

One of my former flatmates would insist on being untagged in any photo that didn't make her look good. She's a really intelligent person who has worked for embassies and all kinds of organisations all over the world, mostly in the middle east, speaks fluent arabic and Spanish (her native language) as well as English. Yet she's worried about how her photos look on social media. *shakes head*. I don't get it.

It seems like a kind of peer pressure, that people are sort of expected to do it. I do think there is a place for what social media does, but the fact everything is expected to happen on such an interactionally weak set of platforms is bothersome.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 25, 2019, 09:33:44 PM
I'm dogsitting my mom's dog and if I'm not doing anything, like watching TV, he's content to sleep on the couch but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING, he suddenly needs to go outside or wants to play or needs to be pet.  I'll be glad when they get home this weekend so I can get something done.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 26, 2019, 03:53:27 AM
Once again I should be sleeping and I'm not. Also I think something died in the attic, the whole house smells  :crazy:

edit: omg there are dead rats in the hot tub :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 26, 2019, 01:16:16 PM
I want to buy a mini-fridge for my office but the one I want won't fit in my car.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 26, 2019, 07:15:00 PM
edit: omg there are dead rats in the hot tub :yikes:

That... is terrifying. :shocked: Is there water in it, or how did they end up in there!? =O

I want to buy a mini-fridge for my office but the one I want won't fit in my car.

I’m sure you’ve looked into it already, but is there anyplace that would deliver it? An online seller, maybe?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 26, 2019, 11:51:15 PM
This doesn't even concern me first hand but I'm still annoyed. Hubby went with his best friend to camp at a beach for a night. We usually go every summer but this time I couldn't go because of work. First his friend thought that we could take his wife along and go to a beach a little closer to home for the day and drive us back in the evening so he and hubby could go to the camping beach a bit later. But his wife didn't want to as we had to go in the afternoon due to an appointment hubby had. If she's gonna go to the beach she wanna go in the morning and stay all day, a few hours in the afternoon didn't work. That bummed me out, I thought it was stupid, but ok.

So hubby and his friend went camping a bit earlier since they both had nothing to do in the afternoon. So I saw them off and went to work. The next day friends wife calls friend super early in the morning demanding him to come home so they can go to the beach. He and hubby had plans to stay until noon at least and just hang, but no, he had to come home right that instant. It's not like she can't go alone, she has her own car and a lot of people spend time there alone. But the guys had to pack down the tent and drive home just to please his wife.. and then she posts on social media pictures from the beach and how lovley it is, without a thought that she wrecked her husbands and my husbands campingtrip. I just can't...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Honeycomb on July 27, 2019, 01:10:49 AM
Nemesis, I feel exactly like you!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 27, 2019, 03:43:57 AM
edit: omg there are dead rats in the hot tub :yikes:
That... is terrifying. :shocked: Is there water in it, or how did they end up in there!? =O

Yes there's water in it. It's inground like the pool but not actually connected to the pool. I don't know how they ended up in there :( There were two and they were smaller than the rats I usually see (we have an on and off problem with them since my dad feeds the birds). I thought maybe they fell off the roof during a storm but the lanai is screened in and the screen doesn't look like it's loose above the tub. I had to fish them out since no one else wanted to do it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 27, 2019, 03:47:55 AM
edit: omg there are dead rats in the hot tub :yikes:
That... is terrifying. :shocked: Is there water in it, or how did they end up in there!? =O

Yes there's water in it. It's inground like the pool but not actually connected to the pool. I don't know how they ended up in there :( There were two and they were smaller than the rats I usually see (we have an on and off problem with them since my dad feeds the birds). I thought maybe they fell off the roof during a storm but the lanai is screened in and the screen doesn't look like it's loose above the tub. I had to fish them out since no one else wanted to do it.

I feel your trauma. There was a random dead rat on the pathway between the rubbish area and the side gate where I live on Wednesday. I suspect it dropped dead in the heat...but that was a totally unexpected shock. I discovered I hate rats when I met one eye to eye on the top of a rubbish skip...*shudders*

I'm sorry you had to be the one to fish them out :/ Here I reported the dead rat to the desk team and they called pest control to do it. Pet rats are fine but the ones that rummage litter...? No thanks. Not good on any day, dead or alive.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on July 27, 2019, 11:08:37 AM
Sorry if this is more WYP territory, but at my aunties' (who I visit twice a week), a female hedgehog had made a nest in their shed and had her babies there. She had four three days ago but today we only saw two, they weren't moving and she was curled up like she was really frightened (they have a big dog that barks all the time), and last we saw she was crawling away in the garden, no sign of the babies. I can't bring myself to check if they're still there. I also read online that the babies could have disappeared because she ate them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 27, 2019, 11:13:29 AM
Poor hedgehogs :/

I need to write an abstract.

I don't want to write an abstract.

I hate having to summarise an article I wrote. I understand summarising a whole book, but an article? That's just lazy. If you can't read 10,000 words to find out if it's relevant to you then you're really no kind of academic. Seriously.

...I know, that's just me being petty, but whatever. I want to send this article off this weekend/by the start of next week but my brain really doesn't want to write an abstract.

At least it's not hot any more.

Also trying to plan to move. My room now is much smaller so starting to pack the unnecessary things to save time later isn't possible, nowhere to put the boxes. Slightly concerned about this since I will have an item limit if the moving people I want to use have a slot...

I like being in new places, but I hate moving. And I really hate that this move may be me leaving London for good :'( I hope not.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 27, 2019, 12:02:19 PM
Sometimes I have to read a professional magazine. Knowing I have to read it even if I don't want to makes it even harder to stay focused. :( I'd much rather read something for fun.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on July 28, 2019, 05:48:50 PM
We didn't eat the cucumber in the fridge quick enough and I had to just throw it out, only half eaten...man, I hate wasting food :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 28, 2019, 08:25:22 PM
IT’S SO HOT. Muggy, too. :hot:

I’m seriously considering gathering up all of the ice packs in the house and constructing a makeshift mattress out of them. :P It’s days like these that I wonder why humans decided to build houses above ground... Oh yeah, because the nice, cool basement flooded during the storms last week. Why, nature!? WHY!?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2019, 10:44:23 AM
That moment when the bus driver on a route you don't know decides to change the end destination of the bus route to somewhere you also don't know.

Yes, Beldarna, I'm complaining about buses again.

Fortunately...where he stopped was close enough to the river and the bridge for me to figure out I was quite close to home and I was able to walk into town without a problem (plus it's a nice day in the middle 20s and the river is pretty), but that's not nice.

Especially since usually they only do that when they're running late, but he was wasting time waiting at stops along the route, suggesting he wasn't running late, just couldn't be bothered to negotiate the town centre for some reason -.-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: magoobear on July 29, 2019, 11:31:47 AM
When I'm in the mood to do the sewing at work (part of my job is sewing clothing) and the sewing machine decides to act up .. the feeder won't feed automatically , and it was working just fine for past ten minutes .. great!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 29, 2019, 11:30:28 PM
Well, Taffeta, I think I'll survive. It's always enjoyable reading about your traffic situation. As annoying as it seems, I can't help but smile.

I'm gonna continue to complain about the weather. Although it is nice not feeling like I'm stepping into an oven everytime I walk out from the cool airconditioned mall I work in, I didn't sign up for ice winds from the Artic! Two days ago I couldn't enjoy my balcony because it was too hot! Now I need extra layers, a blanket and woolen socks to be able to! I mean, come on!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 30, 2019, 10:44:41 AM
It makes me so sad my friend said that she hates the term inclusion :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 30, 2019, 02:46:34 PM
It makes me so sad my friend said that she hates the term inclusion :(

Wow... That is really sad. :( I can’t understand that kind of thinking...

Anyway, I’m sorry you’re feeling down about it. :hug: I always feel very... I don’t know what the right term would be... Disheartened? Let down?... when people say things like that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2019, 03:18:44 PM
It makes me so sad my friend said that she hates the term inclusion :(

I guess it depends on how it's used. I hate words that are thrown about without meaning (like diversity, inclusivity, and others). It's a trend in the modern world to use these kinds of watchwords without any intention of applying them.

@Beldarna - you're welcome ;) In a few weeks my bus complaints will consist of...there are no buses >< save meeee.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on July 30, 2019, 03:26:19 PM
It was meant in the most WYP way ever.

And maybe disappointing is a better word.. but my heart felt sad when I was told it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2019, 04:31:37 PM
It was meant in the most WYP way ever.

And maybe disappointing is a better word.. but my heart felt sad when I was told it.

:(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 30, 2019, 11:06:01 PM
Taffeta, how ever will we survive that?! :lol:

Oh, banditpony I am sorry to hear that :hug:. I have a friend I found out voted on the racist party in the last election. The feeling is so confusing because i like her, but can't really come to term with her views.. It's hard.


Who in their right mind books an appointmen for a haircut at exactly 5 pm, when their shift ends at exactly 5 pm? Who does a warranty issue completley wrong and issue a refund in the last minutes of his shifts just so he can rush to said appointment? Who comes back 40 minutes later to finnish the issue without the customer there to fill in the paper and THEN clock out?! I mean, are you planning to get paid for overtime when cutting your hair? :blink: I tell you who, the summerworker I've been complaining about on and off this summer! Mindboggledstupifiedlotsofbadwordsijustcan't! Yesterday was my last shift with him and that makes me HAPPY!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 31, 2019, 01:49:08 AM
It makes me so sad my friend said that she hates the term inclusion :(

Was it along the same line as "everything is too politically correct" or whatever? If so, I sympathize. I had a friend with that same attitude. Notice I said had a friend...

---

My current complaint: Even when I can sleep, it's bad. Woke up with a terrible headache and I had a weird dream that's bothering me :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 31, 2019, 11:01:11 AM
I decided to go through ALL my stuff and declutter by pulling everything out of my room and putting it back in, dusting off the larger furniture/vacuuming as I went. 

I have so much stuff.... :cry: 

Why do I have SO. MUCH. STUFF????
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 31, 2019, 11:33:16 AM
I just started my last Harry Potter book again, I want to read more after finishing it, but I don't have the last two books yet.  :cry:

Spoiler
Fun fact: It was actually this forum that got me hooked. :P About two years ago there was a thread about Hogwarts houses, and I did the test just for fun, even though I hardly knew anything about it (I got Slytherin, but I'm 100% certain that I'm a Gryffindor!). It sparked my interest, and now there's no way back. :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 31, 2019, 12:32:52 PM
Taffeta, how ever will we survive that?! :lol:

Oh, banditpony I am sorry to hear that :hug:. I have a friend I found out voted on the racist party in the last election. The feeling is so confusing because i like her, but can't really come to term with her views.. It's hard.


Without being too political, the Brexit debate has divided people, areas, communities all through this country and revealed some not nice sides to people. I know some of my school friends voted the other way from me, but the husband of one of my friends kept posting really far right pro Britain rubbish on his FB feed till I completely unfollowed him. He might be a lovely guy. But I have no time for leave voters who voted leave based on racial prejudice.

I have some issues with those who voted leave, period, but at least, growing up in a pro-leave area with zero economic opportunities, I understand WHY it happened, even if I don't like that it did...


There can be too much political correctness - such as the habit now to rename all the jobs from what they actually are to something euphemistic that sounds much more fancy but isn't. That always amuses me.

As an autistic person the 'person with autism' political correctness debate also twitches at me. I personally don't care whether people say I'm autistic or a person with autism, but the moment someone tries to make diversity points off using "person with autism" like it's a disease or something requiring pity, that annoys me. Some attempts at being PC actually are more offensive than if no attempt was made at all.

...But people complaining about PC because they want to be racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, ableist, or whatever, and people saying "it's just a joke" when they've been one of the above...nope. No thanks.

...

On a lighter complaining note...

Today's bus complaint. I went to a local area of London and did my shopping there as the supermarket is bigger. I walked into the next town and then caught the bus from there.

The stop back is right outside the door of the shop. Of course, the shop has two doors, one each side, and I ended up in the carpark the first time because I'm a navigationally challenged moron. But when I finally found the bus stop - from which there should have been a bus that went RIGHT BACK to where I live...it turns out that that bus wasn't running properly today, so I had to get a different one and walk from the local church with a REALLY heavy bag instead.

...Buses hate me.

And for some reason, this kind of bus thing always happens when I walk into that same local town.

Maybe I need to stop doing that o.O.

...One month left in London :'(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on July 31, 2019, 06:10:29 PM
It makes me so sad my friend said that she hates the term inclusion :(

Was it along the same line as "everything is too politically correct" or whatever? If so, I sympathize. I had a friend with that same attitude. Notice I said had a friend...

Reminds me of the line I hear more frequently "everyone is too offended by everything these days". I've found it pretty much means the same thing and is thus a huge red flag for me when I hear someone say it.

---

Maybe not such a trivial complaint, but I'm having to cope with the idea that my feet are not going to get better and that my current job - which I was perfectly comfortable and very competent at (something I rarely feel about myself with anything) - is not going to work as it requires me to be on my feet, and so I may have to go way out of my comfort zone to find one that will work out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 31, 2019, 09:26:52 PM
5am.

Woken by fire engine sirens going past.

Sigh.

Well, if it saves someone, I guess it's fine.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on July 31, 2019, 09:41:56 PM
...but the moment someone tries to make diversity points off using "person with autism" like it's a disease or something requiring pity, that annoys me. Some attempts at being PC actually are more offensive than if no attempt was made at all.

THIS.

Because sadly, there ARE people who treat diversity/acceptance as though it has a points system. These same people are usually the ones who end up being offensive and causing more problems and division... all in an effort to exhibit how open-minded and forward-thinking they are.

People really shouldn’t have to consciously think about how to be polite, supportive, or accepting. That’s just called being a decent human being. It’s not that complicated.

The really hilarious/tragic cases are the people who go out of their way to say that they’re not bigoted... as a precursor to saying something insanely bigoted. As if that’s somehow a “get out of jail free” card for whatever monstrous thing they’re about to say. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: MerryAnvil on August 01, 2019, 07:21:58 AM
Yesterday I smashed my left pointer finger in between a very heavy part I had just finished welding and the 'jig' (basically like a sort of mold-thing that clamps the parts into the shape it needs to be so you can weld it without worrying about it moving about and becoming crooked) and holy moly did it hurt. No broken skin thankfully, but there are like three blood blisters and it's so swollen around the fingertip's joint that it's turned like a maroon-ish color. I'm fairly certain that nothing's broken underneath all that swelling because I've had broken fingers before, but gosh.

I had to take the day off work today and even though I had a perfectly good reason to I still feel so guilty. Like...I know I couldn't accomplish anything with one hand and I'd have just been a hindrance, but I still feel like I should have gone in anyways. Work ethic will be the death of me >n<;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 01, 2019, 12:05:49 PM
I went out to eat and the waitress was terrible. She did not keep the drinks refilled and messed up the tickets when she separated the orders. More than one table had to ask another waitress for help because the waitress that was supposed to be working that section disappeared.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 01, 2019, 03:36:49 PM
I hate bugs so much :angry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 01, 2019, 04:02:53 PM
I hate bugs so much :angry:

I had to chase another wasp out of my room today. My firestick handset got jammed down the side of my bed at the same time. Those handsets are ridiculously sensitive, so I'm chasing the wasp while the iplayer on my TV is merrily rewinding the whole of the episode of the programme I had been watching.

Fun times.

I had to close the window and rely on the fan until it got dark :/

I am zero kill on anything, including insects I'm afraid of, like wasps - because killing them is wrong and also dead bugs freak me out more than live ones...so chasing a confused wasp out of a window that barely opens is not a lot of fun.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on August 02, 2019, 11:20:04 AM
I want to go thrifting but I also don't want to leave the house today because I'm lazy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on August 03, 2019, 09:30:14 AM
I'm getting ready to sell about half my collection (don't worry, I'm not sad about it ;)) and I've been writing descriptions for each of the ponies. There's about 130. I just finished up, but I got disconnected from the internet somewhere in the time I was writing. I connected again, only to hit save, and find everything I wrote deleted. Now to go write 26 descriptions again...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 03, 2019, 10:18:21 AM
I don't want to move :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on August 03, 2019, 12:59:10 PM
I don't want to move :(

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on August 03, 2019, 02:11:42 PM
I made plans to meet up with a friend I haven’t seen in a while today and she just told me she also invited a bunch of her other friends to come along so it would be more “fun”. I don’t know who she invited and she never even asked if I was okay with that. I was looking forward to a nice quiet night where we could catch up but it sounds like that’s not the plan anymore. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 03, 2019, 03:42:05 PM
Facebook arguments -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pawpatrolbab on August 03, 2019, 04:32:49 PM
Was supposed to get icecream but friend had us take an Uber home instead of us getting off the bus and getting ice cream  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 03, 2019, 09:36:30 PM
Today's my last day as acting store manager. I'm not sad about it, rather the opposite, but tomorrow starts a new week and I have no schedule. I can't write it, only the actual store manager can. I mean, I figure this is my actual work weekend which would make tomorrow my day off, but it would be nice to actually see it and not just assume.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 04, 2019, 12:47:40 AM
Cycle race through where I live.

Started at 5am.

I decided not to go to the carboot this morning as I had a long day yesterday and if I buy any more stuff I just have to add it to the move pile anyway...so the fact there are no buses running through here isn't a problem.

However...

People standing shouting and cheering the racers on from about 6am on a Sunday morning is a bit much.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 05, 2019, 08:20:08 AM
I found some books I want on the shelves of the bookstore today but the release date is supposed to be tomorrow. I’m sure someone put them out early by mistake and since I didn’t want to get anyone in trouble I didn’t try to buy them but seeing them on the shelves a day early makes me want them even more especially because one is the next book in a series I’m reading.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 05, 2019, 09:08:30 AM
This actually makes me smile, but my post is currently the last one in that thread, so I'll just bend my story a little so it becomes a complaint. :P

Anyway, one store already sells autumn stuff! :freak: :freak: :freak: Yes, I know it's early, but I always go crazy when the autumn decorations hit the stores. Each year I buy way too many toadstools, leaves, trees, foxes, hedgehogs, pumpkins, ghosts and gnomes... My house is basically a forest. :lookround:

Now I'm 25 euros lighter. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on August 05, 2019, 09:29:34 AM
I bought a new nose ring but it's a different type to the ones I'm used to and now I'm scared to put it in
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 05, 2019, 09:54:57 AM
I have a $300 gaming chair. I did not pay that for it, I got it on sale over New Years. I hate this chair. It's uncomfortable and even with the liftv  all the way up it's too low for me.

Anyway, today it rolled out from under me as I went to sit down and I crashed into it and then hit the floor. Now the seat plate is dented and the gas lift is all messed up. So now I need to order replacement parts for it. Of course, I have to email them instead of them having an online catalog or something so the price of these items is a mystery. I have no idea where to even start guessing how much they'll be and I'm thinking of just getting rid of the stupid thing and buying a nice office chair instead. This will be the last and only gaming chair I ever own!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 05, 2019, 10:28:34 AM
It's currently 11:25 am and 82F outside.  The air conditioner is not working...again.  They've reset it at least 6 times since 8 am.  The air conditioner cannot be fixed properly due to the system being so old that we have to custom order parts as they break down.  The system cannot be completely replaced due to the age of the building (parts of it were built in the late 1800s).  The city has promised us a new building for the last 10 years.  People who complain about the minuscule tax increase claim we do not need a new building, we just have to fix what's wrong with this one.  Then they come in and complain that the air conditioning doesn't work.  But we can't fix it and we don't "need" a new building so we should just fix it even though it can't actually be fixed.  Utah logic at its finest.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 05, 2019, 11:53:43 AM
Yesterday all travel was suspended in my area due to a stupid cycle race that went on most of the day.

I already hate cyclists, because 9 out of 10 London ones don't understand road rules, and will run red lights and crossings and even hit pedestrians if they're in the way...and then they whine about "dangerous drivers" like only vehicles with four wheels are a problem.

A whole day of racing that means no buses and road closures is not cool. Apparently it was on TV. It was also past my window. Again and again. For hours.

And worst of all, they were cheering it on. From 7am. ON A SUNDAY.

...not amused.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on August 05, 2019, 02:23:43 PM
Argh it's past midnight and my smoke alarm started to make beeping sounds. I found a new battery but that didn't help. I guess I need to get a new alarm... :( Or at least wait 'til the morning to try again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 05, 2019, 02:53:30 PM
Argh it's past midnight and my smoke alarm started to make beeping sounds. I found a new battery but that didn't help. I guess I need to get a new alarm... :( Or at least wait 'til the morning to try again.

Depending on how your alarms are set up, it could be a battery in another alarm is going bad and yours is beeping.  When the alarm in my room beeps, the one downstairs beeps as well and vice versa.  It's totally annoying but I think it's set up that way in case one is in a lesser used part of the house.  It may also be that the battery isn't inserted right.  Mine uses a 9V battery and it's a pain to get it pushed all the way in.



The air conditioner is supposedly fixed (at least temporarily) but my office is so warm I just want to go to sleep... :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2019, 11:17:13 AM
I'm falling in to a viscous cycle of insomnia.  I wake up way too early and have trouble going back to sleep. I slept well night before last but was up at 3 this morning.

 :zzz:

I have a medical condition that makes it hard to get a good night's sleep but I am being treated for it so I don't think it's that.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 06, 2019, 02:06:26 PM
I have another dr appt with the surgeon.  It shouldn't be stressful because it's just a check to make sure things are still going well (my physical therapist thinks the surgeon might even officially be done seeing me after today) but I'm kind of freaking out inside.  Why can't I learn to be okay with going to see the doctor?   :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 06, 2019, 11:09:07 PM
With the medication I take I'm sleeping deeper and has started to remember my dreams, I'm not waking up from an abyss of nothing anymore. But the thing is I think I prefer the former as the dreams are always filled with time challenges and I usually wake up exhausted.. I don't like it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 07, 2019, 06:09:31 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 07, 2019, 06:17:13 AM
Speaking of dreams, I still have dreams about being in school and taking tests or forgetting something important. I’ve noticed I’ve had dreams about a manga series I’m reading too.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on August 07, 2019, 06:54:40 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats

I really hate this, tbh. Literally hate.
I am allergic to cats and in general my life circumstances never allowed for cats, but I always loved dogs and it was easier to keep dogs growing up.
So called "cat people" acting snooty because I don't know what it's like to have a cat because cats are the most magical and royal of all pets annoy the crap out of me. Not cat owners, mind you. Self-proclaimed "cat people" who have statues of Bastet everywhere, have all sorts of cat items, say things like "my cat owns ME"  but will make a dumb comment about how dogs are not loyal they are just dumb.

The entire cat VS dog thing annoys me. Some people just don't have the time for a dog or don't have the interest in a cat.

Also... people who furiously hate one or the other. Or people who assume just because you prefer one does mean you hate the other. They are just pets. It's not that deep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 07, 2019, 08:36:28 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats

I really hate this, tbh. Literally hate.

Same! For me it's console gaming vs PC gaming. I do and love both for various reasons. People act like it's impossible. Don't get me started on the "PC Master Race" stuff either :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 07, 2019, 09:25:01 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

It's a flaw with the human race. It irks me especially when you have football related discussions and you find that there are some people who have literally just joined the discussion to hate on the team being discussed...no other reason. Like, what was the point of that?

Re cats and dogs - I feel the same way about dog people as you do about cat people, Zapper. I'm afraid of dogs, I got attacked by one as a kid, and it annoys the heck out of me that people (certainly here) are arrogant enough to bring their (non-service) dogs into places dogs are banned and so on.  Also, that they don't train their animals. I literally loathe those people. The other week I was in Oxford with my sister and we walked past a sign saying how a vicious dog attack had killed a horse in the area and they were looking for information. A horse. This is a place people walk their dogs a lot, and also a place where horses and cattle graze. What kind of dog owner must you be to have a dog who savages a horse...and what kind of an owner are you to just let that happen?

Yeah, I hate those dog people. I hate them with a passion. But not because they like dogs. Because they don't care that other people don't. Because hey, it's 'man's best friend', right?

(Basically I have the same feeling as Zapper from the opposite perspective. Except in my case it is the dog owners that are the problem. Though I genuinely don't understand why there are so many stores selling sequinned or glittery pug statues..it's not offending me particularly that it exists. So long as it can't bite me or jump up at me and isn't being allowed to do so by a human who frankly should be the one undergoing training...I'm good.)

Please note, I know there are a lot of dog owners who train their pets and don't do the things mentioned above.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 08, 2019, 12:31:46 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

This so much! I had a coworker at my former job who talked trash about teabags. A REAL tea-drinker would only buy loose tea according to her. I was flabbergasted. I drink both! As a matter of fact I got so happy when Lisa Vanderpump from Real Housewifes of Beverly Hills (one of my guilty pleasures :blush:) showed how she made a cup of tea because she used a teabag and she's brittish! Everyone know brits love their tea and if i brit use a teabag, then it's ok, right? :lookround:

Nowadays I work in an electronic store and we sell gaming equitpments amongst other things and the gamers are the worst when it comes to brands. The war between this brand or that brand is real. It's insane.



Moving on to my complaints of the day is my headache peaked for the first time in months yesterday. I went to sleep with it and I woke up with it. Painkillers has not done anything for it yet. My head feels like a bowl of glass with a crack in it. Any wrong move and it will shatter to pieces.
Another thing is my mom remember our weddinganniversary. Only she got the dates wrong. We married on the 18th, not the 8th. Close enough I suppose.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2019, 01:53:16 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

This so much! I had a coworker at my former job who talked trash about teabags. A REAL tea-drinker would only buy loose tea according to her. I was flabbergasted.

Hope you feel better soon, Beldarna!

On this note, it reminded me of when I was learning Japanese. Or rather, no. After I was pretty ok with my Japanese but on a forum where people were talking about learning it.

And there were a few people getting all high and mighty and saying that watching anime couldn't possibly be part of learning Japanese and that it was silly and childish and had no place in proper academic studies.

Of course that's really narrow minded. It's been proven that you are much more likely to learn something if you are interested in it. Yeah, you can't learn Japanese from watching anime, but you can use it as listening practice and it can spur you on to find out words and such.

The first Japanese words I learned came from Fushigi Yuugi...I think probably 'shashin' was one of them, as Miaka has this whole scene where she's explaining what a camera is to the seishi, and every time she said shashin, the word photograph appeared on the screen, so it became obvious that was what that word meant.

My way of learning Japanese was entirely unorthodox and I wouldn't recommend it. I absolutely think you need to properly study the language as well (which I did, through the JLPT at first) - BUT I wouldn't ever tell anyone watching anime has no benefit to learning Japanese if it's interesting to them.

When I worked at the college, there were kids who barely ever read anything who would read manga (in English obviously). These were kids that struggled with English in school, and there was, again, this stuck up view that manga and comics were 'not proper reading'. But I felt like, if they're reading something and doing it voluntarily it can't hurt them, surely? Reading helps you build your vocabulary and your spelling no matter what language it's in.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2019, 05:03:58 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

This so much! I had a coworker at my former job who talked trash about teabags. A REAL tea-drinker would only buy loose tea according to her. I was flabbergasted.


The first Japanese words I learned came from Fushigi Yuugi...I think probably 'shashin' was one of them, as Miaka has this whole scene where she's explaining what a camera is to the seishi, and every time she said shashin, the word photograph appeared on the screen, so it became obvious that was what that word meant.




This is exactly how I learned the words dragon and yes in Japanese from the Yona ovas.  :)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2019, 06:08:10 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

This so much! I had a coworker at my former job who talked trash about teabags. A REAL tea-drinker would only buy loose tea according to her. I was flabbergasted.


The first Japanese words I learned came from Fushigi Yuugi...I think probably 'shashin' was one of them, as Miaka has this whole scene where she's explaining what a camera is to the seishi, and every time she said shashin, the word photograph appeared on the screen, so it became obvious that was what that word meant.




This is exactly how I learned the words dragon and yes in Japanese from the Yona ovas.  :)



Ponyfan

Exactly!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 08, 2019, 07:03:36 AM
I can't stand people who look down on others based on their personal preferences, like choosing dogs over cats, or debit cards over credit cards, or coffee over some special exotic tea etc. Is it really this hard to respect that different people prefer different things?

This so much! I had a coworker at my former job who talked trash about teabags. A REAL tea-drinker would only buy loose tea according to her. I was flabbergasted.

Hope you feel better soon, Beldarna!

On this note, it reminded me of when I was learning Japanese. Or rather, no. After I was pretty ok with my Japanese but on a forum where people were talking about learning it.

And there were a few people getting all high and mighty and saying that watching anime couldn't possibly be part of learning Japanese and that it was silly and childish and had no place in proper academic studies.

Of course that's really narrow minded. It's been proven that you are much more likely to learn something if you are interested in it. Yeah, you can't learn Japanese from watching anime, but you can use it as listening practice and it can spur you on to find out words and such.

The first Japanese words I learned came from Fushigi Yuugi...I think probably 'shashin' was one of them, as Miaka has this whole scene where she's explaining what a camera is to the seishi, and every time she said shashin, the word photograph appeared on the screen, so it became obvious that was what that word meant.

My way of learning Japanese was entirely unorthodox and I wouldn't recommend it. I absolutely think you need to properly study the language as well (which I did, through the JLPT at first) - BUT I wouldn't ever tell anyone watching anime has no benefit to learning Japanese if it's interesting to them.

When I worked at the college, there were kids who barely ever read anything who would read manga (in English obviously). These were kids that struggled with English in school, and there was, again, this stuck up view that manga and comics were 'not proper reading'. But I felt like, if they're reading something and doing it voluntarily it can't hurt them, surely? Reading helps you build your vocabulary and your spelling no matter what language it's in.

I had a college professor ask why we had gotten into acting (I was a theatre major).  My answer was that I was so shy in high school that I wouldn't answer questions in class so I thought acting would help me get out of my shell.  She told me that wasn't a reason to get into acting.  Um...I actually answered her question in class, didn't I?  I would say it worked.  (Of course, this was the professor that wanted perform "Equus" because it had nudity and not for any other reason so...yeah.)


My trivial complaint is how video games get blamed for all bad behavior on the planet (even when the person with the bad behavior doesn't play video games), when 5 minutes on social media causes more mood swings, rage, depression and anger than any video game I've ever seen in my life. :dumbpc: 


Edit to add: They've assigned us new shifts at work and I don't understand why the part-timers (who only work 16 hours a week) still can't work the hours they're assigned.  They have to rearrange the schedule again because the whiniest (and most useless) part timer we have "can't" work one of the nights (even though her other job is substitute teaching during the daytime so she can't work during the days either).  I'm sorry that taking 4 whole hours out of your day to come to your job is so inconvenient.  I wish she'd quit and save the rest of us the headache of putting up with her.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 09, 2019, 11:09:33 PM
Thank you Taffeta, it is a lot better today :).

Anime taught me quite a lot of japanese words and frases. I've never been one of those that need to learn japanese though and since I haven't watched anime for a number of years a lot has gone away. But one should never underestimate the power of tv-shows when it comes to languages. Fun Factory in the mornings on Sky One was what tought me English as a kid :).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 10, 2019, 07:28:49 AM
Seriously, this is the world upside down. -_-

On a local news site I read that a group of people planted flowers in different spots in a village nearby. Nobody knew where they came from, but today it was revealed that it was done by a group of people who wanted to raise awareness for the massive bee-mortality that has been going on lately. That's awesome!

However, I wish the authorities would feel the same... In the news article it says that these people will be expected to pay for the "damage". "Damage" caused by planting flowers between stones and in FIELDS. FIELDS I tell you!!! How exactly is that DAMAGE!? *shakes fist*

I can't even. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 06:43:51 AM
The other day, I overheard a couple of kids (maybe 10 or 11) as I walked by them... They were arguing about politics. -_- Seriously, these kids were engaged in a heated debate about politics.

When I was that age, I argued with my friends about whether Pokemon was better than Yu-Gi-Oh!, or who had called dibs on something first... What is this world coming to? Political division can’t even wait until these kids are old enough to vote? It makes me feel like crying, seriously. :(

I think the whole world—regardless of individual political alignments—just needs to be more tolerant of each other. As the saying goes: “We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.”
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 11, 2019, 06:46:55 AM
Meh. Some political ideals are harmful though. Harmful views shouldn't be tolerated.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 06:58:40 AM
My trivial complaint is how video games get blamed for all bad behavior on the planet (even when the person with the bad behavior doesn't play video games), when 5 minutes on social media causes more mood swings, rage, depression and anger than any video game I've ever seen in my life. :dumbpc: 

SO. MUCH. THIS. :iconclap:

Seriously... I don’t think I’ve ever come away from social media without feeling irritated, at best. That’s why I ignore it now. XP

Meh. Some political ideals are harmful though. Harmful views shouldn't be tolerated.

Of course not. I’m part of the LGBTQ+ community, so I’m very aware of how dangerous some political “ideals” can be.

BUT, I’m talking more about the gross generalizations that are flying around now. The “us” and “them” mentality, if you will. Not everyone in a huge political party that you (not YOU, specifically—I’m saying this in general) side with is a saint, and not everyone on the other side of the aisle is a monster. People are more complicated than that. And even when we disagree with others, it’s important to be calm and handle the disagreement with dignity. Throwing more hate and anger on the fire just makes the world an even bigger mess than it already is.

And kids shouldn’t be getting dragged into it by the constant political bombardment around them... period. Kids should be kids. There will be plenty of time for them to be grouchy, unhappy adults caught in a quagmire of negativity later in life. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 11, 2019, 07:32:11 AM
Kids are so involved in politics these days though, as the impact on them is tremendous. As a kid of ten or eleven I knew what was going on in the UK politically. I don't say I was having debates about it, though, and my interests were more with my ponies or writing stories or reading as many books as I could before the summer holiday ended...but I knew a fair bit. I think that's the age you become aware of the wider world.

On that same note, I read a news article today which was you know, just a news article. And then made the mistake of looking at the comments underneath.

Oh dear.

If printed it would probably go to several hundred pages...of vitriolic abuse (some of it quite offensive) between (mostly) pro-leave and (some) remainers. All of whom making the human race look disgusting and the United Kingdom like a toxic blot on the map.

Which is honestly how I've come to see my country in the last 3 years, since neither side seem to be acting in the interests of anyone but themselves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 07:41:53 AM
Kids are so involved in politics these days though, as the impact on them is tremendous. As a kid of ten or eleven I knew what was going on in the UK politically. I don't say I was having debates about it, though, and my interests were more with my ponies or writing stories or reading as many books as I could before the summer holiday ended...but I knew a fair bit. I think that's the age you become aware of the wider world.

On that same note, I read a news article today which was you know, just a news article.

Oh, I had a cursory understanding of politics at that age... but I mostly just tried to ignore it all. It was big, it was complicated, it was scary... and it was definitely not something I wanted to get into with my friends. >_<;

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And then made the mistake of looking at the comments underneath.

Oh dear.

If printed it would probably go to several hundred pages...of vitriolic abuse (some of it quite offensive) between (mostly) pro-leave and (some) remainers. All of whom making the human race look disgusting and the United Kingdom like a toxic blot on the map.

Which is honestly how I've come to see my country in the last 3 years, since neither side seem to be acting in the interests of anyone but themselves.

I know exactly what you mean. :( Don’t feel like it’s just in the UK, though... I’ve been feeling very similarly: like I just want to pack up and move to... some less politically-charged country. That theoretically exists... somewhere.

In the U.S, things are just as tense, and people are just as awful in comments, BELIEVE ME. I fight the temptation to scroll down to the comments every day... even though I know what I’m going to see.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 11, 2019, 08:14:09 AM


I know exactly what you mean. :( Don’t feel like it’s just in the UK, though... I’ve been feeling very similarly: like I just want to pack up and move to... some less politically-charged country. That theoretically exists... somewhere.

Let's find us a deserted island and set up camp.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 09:23:48 AM
Let's find us a deserted island and set up camp.

I’m in! :D Just as long as we can bring ponies.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 11, 2019, 10:58:50 AM
Let's find us a deserted island and set up camp.

I’m in! :D Just as long as we can bring ponies.

Ponies are always welcome.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 11, 2019, 11:01:00 AM
That's why I stay as far away as I can from politics of any kind.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 11, 2019, 11:07:57 AM
That's why I stay as far away as I can from politics of any kind.

Unfortunately staying away from it doesn't fix it. Most of the problems in this country right now are caused by rampant ignorance :/

But you're right, we should shift away from the topic towards something else...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 11:22:57 AM
My biggest issue is that my extended family are divided on various issues. As a result, I’ve witnessed family members saying truly horrendous things, mocking each other behind one another’s backs... It’s ugly. No political disagreement is worth tearing a family apart!

Thus, when I see comments online mocking one side or the other in a mean-spirited, bullying way... It makes me very sad. Even if I agree with what the commenter is supporting (though definitely not their incivility about it), I feel hurt because they’re mocking people I know and love, despite our political differences.

Human beings are still human beings deserving of kindness and civility, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on. Also, blanket stereotypes don’t help anyone. You don’t suddenly know everything there is to know about a complex human being because you know who they voted for. I’ve had to learn that due to the aforementioned divisions amongst my family and friends. It is possible to disagree about politics, and still love and value one another.

But you're right, we should shift away from the topic towards something else...

Yes, I suppose you’re right... Sorry, I just needed to get that out of my system. I avoided mentioning any specific issues or whatnot, so as not to spark any controversy or hurt feelings.

My grievance isn’t so much any actual political issue right now, but just the hate and division that seems to burn hotter every day. :shrug: It’s been affecting my extended family, and I’m very sad to see it happening... Politics can be debated civilly and respectfully, but that doesn’t seem to happen much anymore. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 11, 2019, 11:41:11 AM
I'm fortunate my family are all on the same side, that must suck :( :hug:

Much as I want to rant muchly about more stuff, I guess this isn't the place. So I won't. I'll just say...it will be a long time before I forgive. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on August 11, 2019, 12:23:55 PM
I know exactly what you mean. :( Don’t feel like it’s just in the UK, though... I’ve been feeling very similarly: like I just want to pack up and move to... some less politically-charged country. That theoretically exists... somewhere.

:) My brother is an ex-pat, it's certainly possible to move out of the country.

I just don't think there's anywhere in the world that exists where there is not conflict in some form or another.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 11, 2019, 12:27:50 PM
Human beings are still human beings deserving of kindness and civility, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on. Also, blanket stereotypes don’t help anyone. You don’t suddenly know everything there is to know about a complex human being because you know who they voted for. I’ve had to learn that due to the aforementioned divisions amongst my family and friends. It is possible to disagree about politics, and still love and value one another.

I really disagree with this. Someone that supports the fundamentals of a political party that are harmful to others do not deserve respect and kindness. I've cut people, family, "friends" out of my life because of what and who they support.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time with it, but it isn't like someone saying the don't like the color yellow or something. These are things that effect people and society as a whole. It is 100% okay to be angry and unkind about it.

edit: Related; my trivial complaint for today are conspiracy theorists  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lordalexander74 on August 11, 2019, 12:32:56 PM
So there's this 12 mile stretch on I40 in Tennessee with no exits. Just past the only exit for a while... and traffic stopped. Apparently two trucks and a car were having an unpleasant party up the road. Took around three hours to clear the accident. Least I had my phone fully charged, spent that time watching Another Dirty Room and Bob Ross.

Passed one of the trucks on my way home, the wheels/cab were at a 45 degree angle compared to the road, and that wasn't due to the tow truck. Was one rough accident.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 11, 2019, 01:18:58 PM
Human beings are still human beings deserving of kindness and civility, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on. Also, blanket stereotypes don’t help anyone. You don’t suddenly know everything there is to know about a complex human being because you know who they voted for. I’ve had to learn that due to the aforementioned divisions amongst my family and friends. It is possible to disagree about politics, and still love and value one another.

I really disagree with this. Someone that supports the fundamentals of a political party that are harmful to others do not deserve respect and kindness. I've cut people, family, "friends" out of my life because of what and who they support.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time with it, but it isn't like someone saying the don't like the color yellow or something. These are things that effect people and society as a whole. It is 100% okay to be angry and unkind about it.

edit: Related; my trivial complaint for today are conspiracy theorists  -_-

Then we will have to agree to disagree. I believe that answering hate with hate and anger with anger does nothing to solve problems. The people who make the most positive, lasting differences in this world are the ones who fight for their causes with dignity and diplomacy. When you treat others with courtesy, even when they themselves are being uncivil, you make yourself the “bigger person”. You’re showing them someone on “the other side” who is still being polite and respectful, even when they are not. That kind of thing can make people question themselves. I’ve seen it happen. I’ve even seen people do a 180 on certain issues after getting to know me and hearing me (civilly) explain my POV and why I feel the way I do. If I had just gotten angry and insulted them? They wouldn’t have changed their minds. Most likely, they would have just had their negative impression of me and what I support reinforced in their minds.

Everyone who has a political opinion feels passionately about it because of how these issues effect the world. Different individuals have different reasons for supporting what they support, and it’s rarely simple. People come from all kinds of cultures, backgrounds, and life experiences... No two are alike, and therefore no generalizations should be made about parties or groups (short of actual hate groups, of course).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 11, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
I’ve been watching tv for about 45 minutes and the channel I’m watching is airing the exact same 3 commercials every commercial break. :(

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on August 11, 2019, 03:28:15 PM
I’ve been watching tv for about 45 minutes and the channel I’m watching is airing the exact same 3 commercials every commercial break. :(

That reminds me that I loathe spotify commercials. They are so obviously designed to annoy you so you will break down eventually and buy a subscription to get rid of the ads. But they won't get me! :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 11, 2019, 11:43:59 PM
Yesterday I had one of those days.. it was grey, dark and rainy which I usually like as I get to light some candles and not feel bad for being indoors, but I didn't find anything on any stream or tv-channel to watch. Tried to do some crosswords but didn't feel like it. I read half a book but don't remember what I read, tried to draw, no-no. Didn't feel like playing games either. I think I spent the majority of the day watching the ceilling and waiting on nightfall so I could go to sleep. Today seem to go in a similar route emotionally, luckily I get to work so I hope the day will go faster.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on August 12, 2019, 01:19:52 AM
Lol. I have found my people.
So yeah, I have a headache  from lack of food, but no food to eat. And its too hot to go out . Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 12, 2019, 08:38:26 PM
I think I shall have to replace the battery on my laptop soon (again).  A full charge now only lasts 40 minutes.  Used to be 4 hours...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2019, 06:01:56 AM
I used to like macaroni and cheese but I'm starting to not like it anymore.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 13, 2019, 09:33:45 AM
I ordered a complete set of Woodland Folk books online and they sent me someone else's order instead :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 14, 2019, 01:04:46 AM
When my computer updates and when I reopen the browser it's conveniently lost all my tabs, although it says it remembers them it won't load them. I hate when it does that, as I had a lot of important stuff open that now I have to find all over again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 14, 2019, 08:05:52 AM
When my computer updates and when I reopen the browser it's conveniently lost all my tabs, although it says it remembers them it won't load them. I hate when it does that, as I had a lot of important stuff open that now I have to find all over again.

Yes!  And I wish it would wait until I tell it to update instead of deciding that since I've put it to sleep for the night (so I can get up and work on things in the morning) that it means it can close everything and do stupid updates that don't actually change anything.   :mad:  And then, when it reboots, it doesn't go back to sleep.  It just stays on ALL night because I didn't wake up just to sign in so it would go to sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 14, 2019, 08:58:56 AM
When my computer updates and when I reopen the browser it's conveniently lost all my tabs, although it says it remembers them it won't load them. I hate when it does that, as I had a lot of important stuff open that now I have to find all over again.

Yes!  And I wish it would wait until I tell it to update instead of deciding that since I've put it to sleep for the night (so I can get up and work on things in the morning) that it means it can close everything and do stupid updates that don't actually change anything.   :mad:  And then, when it reboots, it doesn't go back to sleep.  It just stays on ALL night because I didn't wake up just to sign in so it would go to sleep.
That's just Windows for you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 14, 2019, 11:24:05 AM
Just got to work and because the part timers who whine about wanting more money won't take the extra shifts, the full timers now have to rotate through them for the next 4 months.  Seriously, my constantly changing schedule when I worked at Disney World or McDonald's wasn't this confusing!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2019, 08:32:30 AM
 I bumped into a metal trashcan today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 15, 2019, 08:35:37 AM
I got new parts for my chair but the old cylinder is stuck in the wheel base. I've been whacking it with a mallet for an hour :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 15, 2019, 01:59:17 PM
I bumped into a metal trashcan today.


Ponyfan
Did it apologise? Did you?

(Seriously, are you ok?)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2019, 02:33:00 PM
I bumped into a metal trashcan today.


Ponyfan
Did it apologise? Did you?

(Seriously, are you ok?)


The trashcan didn't apologize. I have started to apologize to inanimate objects before when I bumped in to them and thought it was person only to realize when I turned around that it wasn't. :lol: 

I'm going have a couple of bruises but I'm ok.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sora on August 16, 2019, 08:46:49 AM
Can I just say how much I HATE search engines these days?  :mad:

No Amazon, "Rainbow Dora the Explorer backpack with free stickers" is NOT the same as "The Lion King". Neither is "1,000 different phone cases with random animals on them", eBay.

Oh and Google, stop twisting my words. It's hard to find something specific if you're going to keep using synonyms everywhere. Do I really have to use "" everywhere? I mean at least that's one search engine that acknowledges these things, I guess. Lookin' at you again eBay, where '-phone -case' means 'must include phone case'.

I miss the days when searching actually led you to items you wanted to find.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on August 16, 2019, 09:16:09 AM
Seriously sick of being left on read for important questions. Like when I am planning something and people take days and weeks to confirm or decline. I want to scream! Then when people don't stick to the deadline and confirm too late I am the bad guy for leaving them out. NO!

This is why I hate being in charge of events.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 16, 2019, 10:05:09 AM
Can I just say how much I HATE search engines these days?  :mad:

No Amazon, "Rainbow Dora the Explorer backpack with free stickers" is NOT the same as "The Lion King". Neither is "1,000 different phone cases with random animals on them", eBay.

Oh and Google, stop twisting my words. It's hard to find something specific if you're going to keep using synonyms everywhere. Do I really have to use "" everywhere? I mean at least that's one search engine that acknowledges these things, I guess. Lookin' at you again eBay, where '-phone -case' means 'must include phone case'.

I miss the days when searching actually led you to items you wanted to find.

Google thinks my name is a spelling mistake.

One time my uni search was down and I was trying to find my academic page. It's not what I got.

Like I said in another thread recently, ebay thinks cars toys are the same as mlp. I miss the old categories.

Oh but my favourite idiot of the day was this guy posting that he was fed up of Japanese culture in anime...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 16, 2019, 10:37:59 AM

Oh but my favourite idiot of the day was this guy posting that he was fed up of Japanese culture in anime...

Uh... :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on August 16, 2019, 12:49:20 PM

Oh but my favourite idiot of the day was this guy posting that he was fed up of Japanese culture in anime...

Uh... :blink:

L M A O
I need more details. Like, was he annoyed there wasn't enough anime taking place in the UK or Europe? Because there are quite a bunch to my knowledge.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 16, 2019, 03:11:43 PM

Oh but my favourite idiot of the day was this guy posting that he was fed up of Japanese culture in anime...

Uh... :blink:

I can’t decide if this is more hilarious or tragic. Both, I guess.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be laughing hysterically for several consecutive days. :haha:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 16, 2019, 10:26:43 PM
Can I just say how much I HATE search engines these days?  :mad:

At my work, we use our own webpage to find things customers are searching for (we have well over 5000 articles raining from slime, to rcs, to adult toys, to gaming equipment to music instruments etc so we're using it for almost everything, everyday), the difference for us is that if we log in, we can see if the items are in stock in our store. The search engine is designed for us to show the items we earn most on first. This has given me a lot of trouble. If a customer want a ps4 handcontrol and I type in playstation 4 handcontrol in the searchbar, I get anything but the control as we earn almost nothing on them. But I can get cables, rcs, anything with a 4 or a handcontrol. BUT! if i open a new tab and search for playstation 4 handcontrol and add our store in Google I get a link direct to what I want. This idiocy gives me grey hairs.


Oh but my favourite idiot of the day was this guy posting that he was fed up of Japanese culture in anime...

 :blink: :shocked: Wut?



My complaints is that I found out my awesome coworker was at an interview for another job tuesday. She hadn't said anything to me about it. I didn't even know she was searching for something else. I am devastated. She's so good at what she does and I know I can trust her to get things done. I don't want her to leave :cry:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: OleGrayMane on August 17, 2019, 06:07:10 AM
After giving a demonstration of my rather technical work of the last two weeks, the project manager asked “what is the business case for this?” Oh, just the foundation of the project, that’s all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on August 17, 2019, 08:19:31 AM
Recently, I have bought three of the retro G1 ponies, and decided to keep them MIB. Everyone I've told has said "that's because they'll keep their value, isn't it?" like I'm going to sell them. I haven't bought these ponies with any intention of selling them, I just like having them on display MIB and like how they look that way. Sure, they might be worth more money if I ever have to sell them, but I don't want to and that's not why I've kept them in the packaging.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 17, 2019, 09:49:49 AM
I had a little bottle full of hand sanitizer in my bag and didn’t close the lid all the way. Of course the bottle leaked. Luckily it was in another bag inside my main bag but it was still frustrating.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 17, 2019, 09:57:22 AM
I had a little bottle full of hand sanitizer in my bag and didn’t close the lid all the way. Of course the bottle leaked. Luckily it was in another bag inside my main bag but it was still frustrating.

Ponyfan

I have had that happen. It's so annoying :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 17, 2019, 01:25:07 PM
I had a little bottle full of hand sanitizer in my bag and didn’t close the lid all the way. Of course the bottle leaked. Luckily it was in another bag inside my main bag but it was still frustrating.

Ponyfan

I have had that happen. It's so annoying :/

I raise you - the same situation, but with a bottle pf Thai fish sauce...

I brought a bottle in for my friend and it LEAKED, the smell was AWFUL!!!  :X :X :X :X :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 17, 2019, 05:21:07 PM
Can I complain about people who accuse others of not being a "real" whatever unless they like XYZ? I'm not a Star Wars fan. Sorry, I find the movies boring. This makes me unable to be a REAL science fiction fan because everyone who knows anything about sci-fi loves Star Wars apparently.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 17, 2019, 11:06:41 PM
I was helping my parents clean our church building this morning and we found 2 baby mice crawling about.  They were so small they had grey fuzz but their eyes weren't open yet.  My dad had to dispose of them.  They were cute, but I understand that they are also pests whose leavings carry the hantavirus and I still feel bad they had to be sent to the big cheese in the sky.  There were two larger mice that were dead in a trap in a nearby room so they may have been the parents (in which case the babies wouldn't have survived long anyway) but there's no way to know for sure.  Poor little :yuki:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 18, 2019, 02:31:11 AM
Can I complain about people who accuse others of not being a "real" whatever unless they like XYZ? I'm not a Star Wars fan. Sorry, I find the movies boring. This makes me unable to be a REAL science fiction fan because everyone who knows anything about sci-fi loves Star Wars apparently.



I have this with anime lately. Being told to watch certain shows because they're popular else I don't know anything about anime.

*rolls eyes*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2019, 02:16:18 PM
Can I complain about people who accuse others of not being a "real" whatever unless they like XYZ? I'm not a Star Wars fan. Sorry, I find the movies boring. This makes me unable to be a REAL science fiction fan because everyone who knows anything about sci-fi loves Star Wars apparently.



I have this with anime lately. Being told to watch certain shows because they're popular else I don't know anything about anime.

*rolls eyes*


I also dislike when people say you have to like or watch a certain thing to be a real fan. With anime I think there is something for everyone. I recently watched Howl's Moving Castle and didn't enjoy it much, but that doesn't mean that  I don’t like anime just because I didn't like Howl’s

It is 104 F where I live. It’s too hot.  :hot:


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 18, 2019, 10:34:11 PM
Can I complain about people who accuse others of not being a "real" whatever unless they like XYZ? I'm not a Star Wars fan. Sorry, I find the movies boring. This makes me unable to be a REAL science fiction fan because everyone who knows anything about sci-fi loves Star Wars apparently.

Well, Star Wars is not even true Sci-Fi, George Lucas himself called it a Space Opera and it's even been discussed if it should be called fantasy (IV-VI with the force etc) that just happen to be in space, so called Space Fantasy. So those who says you have to watch it to enjoy sci-fi are clearly wrong :P.

I was once interviewed by a girl at a party who concluded I was not a true fan of a band as I couldn't mention all the band members. I still can't. I listen to the band because i like the music, not to be able to answer a popquizes of who's who. That goes for every band I listen to. In many I can't even name the singer. I know the lyrics to pretty much every song though, but that is not something that counts apparenlty.


It is raining on my day off and I am suppose to meet a friend today but all I feel like doing is lighting a few candles, huddle under a blanket and read my book.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2019, 06:15:04 AM
Worst Witch is getting a lot of attention lately, which is fine. However. I am getting fed up with people claiming it is a knock off of Harry Potter.

I grew up with the Worst Witch books,  they hugely predate HP. When HP first came out I immediately thought of the WW series.

Of course they are not identical. But they do have a lot in common and the above HP fans should educate themselves about which came first before making stupid comments.

Jill Murphy deserves better.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 19, 2019, 07:16:54 AM
Worst Witch is getting a lot of attention lately, which is fine. However. I am getting fed up with people claiming it is a knock off of Harry Potter.

I grew up with the Worst Witch books,  they hugely predate HP. When HP first came out I immediately thought of the WW series.

Of course they are not identical. But they do have a lot in common and the above HP fans should educate themselves about which came first before making stupid comments.

Jill Murphy deserves better.

People seriously think Harry Potter came first?  Wow.  That's like saying that Dracula is a knock off of Twilight. 

My trivial complaint: I'm 2 pounds away from my first weight goal (I will set another after I achieve this one) but I've been stuck here for a week.  Grrr....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 19, 2019, 05:46:54 PM
The 2 Japanese songs I wanted to buy on iTunes are not on US iTunes.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2019, 11:57:43 PM
The 2 Japanese songs I wanted to buy on iTunes are not on US iTunes.

Ponyfan
I feel your pain.
I'm usually amazed when one of the tunes I want IS on Itunes, and I don't have to plough through either auctions or amazon.jp and sell my soul.

@Pokeyonekenobie - I know, right? *head desk*.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on August 20, 2019, 01:14:41 AM
Worst Witch is getting a lot of attention lately, which is fine. However. I am getting fed up with people claiming it is a knock off of Harry Potter.

I grew up with the Worst Witch books,  they hugely predate HP. When HP first came out I immediately thought of the WW series.

Of course they are not identical. But they do have a lot in common and the above HP fans should educate themselves about which came first before making stupid comments.

Jill Murphy deserves better.

The Worst Witch was basically my life when I was 6-8 (and I still love it!), so this really drives me mad too! I remember reading Harry Potter when I was 8 and thinking it was totally overrated because the Worst Witch and the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones were much more awesome, so why was everyone going on like J. K. Rowling had invented magic? I must have been the only kid in my school not obsessed with Harry Potter :lol:. I used to find it so annoying telling people I liked books about witchcraft and them saying 'oh, like Harry Potter?'. No, not like that upstart Potter! I was quite angry about my witchy book preferences as a child :lol:. I am more chilled now, but I still think Harry Potter's similarities to books that came before should really be acknowledged!

Jill Murphy is a bit peeved by it too, she was interviewed in the Telegraph recently and said 'I don't talk about Harry Potter. I suppose it would be nice if people said thank you'. Meanwhile Diana Wynne Jones once said quite mildly 'I think J. K. Rowling must have read my books as a child'!

I also don't like the new CBBC adaptation of WW, my heart belongs to the 90s ITV version. So my trivial complaint is that you can now get various fanmade items for the new series on Etsy, and for the 80s(?) film with Tim Curry in it, but nothing for the ITV version! I want stickers, badges and fanart with Kate Duchêne as Miss Hardbroom!

The 2 Japanese songs I wanted to buy on iTunes are not on US iTunes.

Ponyfan

I identify with this too! I love German and Hungarian musicals. I can usually find the German ones, but Deezer (my go-to for listening to music) doesn't seem to have heard of Hungary....
Then of course my favourite Hungarian actor releases a CD and it's not available to buy internationally :cries:. I must stop loving such obscure things!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 20, 2019, 01:38:55 AM
I first knew about HP when the first movie happened, as I was older than the age demographic. I saw a trailer of the movie in a store somewhere - maybe Woolworths - and I was like, but the Worst Witch already did all this, right? Uncompromising potions teacher who hates the MC? Check. Crazy head? Check. Annoying blond rival from priveleged family? Check. Boarding school to learn about magic? Check. Enemy witch who happens to be related to one of the good witches? Check. Flying lessons on brooms? Check.

So I don't think it's the same. I think HP probably does enough to be considered its own thing overall, and a magic school in general is probably quite vague and broad. But given the above, I feel like at the very least those fans should be educated enough to know the order of stuff, and not just assume HP came first and that WW is a knockoff. I saw the interview article as well with Jill Murphy. I've always felt a bit bad for her with all the HP hype since for me it's hard to imagine HP would have happened without WW.

I remember reading Diana Wynne Jones as a kid but mostly horse things pushed my way by my horse mad friend, I don't remember the other series you mention.

But yeah, this irked me.

I also liked the 90s series although it does a lot of swerving away from the books in places.

Though I do actually think Snape is a more relatable character than Hardbroom and more fleshed out overall. But it still feels like the right thing to do would be to acknowledge the influence so that fans stopped calling WW a HP knockoff and started to respect it as an earlier work.

As a kid I had the yellow and the red books and read them to death, and borrowed the purple one from the library often. My sister also read my copies to death and then got her own and then the aqua one came out as well. My sister disdains everything HP. I think this is part of the reason why.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Einhornbaby on August 20, 2019, 01:40:39 AM
While my Mom recently died of cancer (in such a painful way I wish nobody else to experience) Im still fussing about a dentist appointment which is today (half an hour to go)... -_- gosh, Im pathetic.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 20, 2019, 02:32:24 AM
While my Mom recently died of cancer (in such a painful way I wish nobody else to experience) Im still fussing about a dentist appointment which is today (half an hour to go)... -_- gosh, Im pathetic.

:hug:

So this happened a few days ago, but I was waiting at the bus stop for the bus back from the carboot sale.
THis guy and his daughter and grandson are there waiting too.
He sees I have a bus pass and he looks at me and then is like, "don't people ever challenge you or look at you funny because you have a disabled bus pass and you're young?" And I said, no, nobody ever has. And he grinned at me and tapped his old person's pass and said, "I bet they do, behind your back. I earned mine."

Not sure how being old is earning a bus pass, given that unlike him I can never drive, and unlike him, I'm literally in danger because of my inability to navigate, so buses are my lifeline.
Spoiler

Example, same bus route, when parents were visiting - bus ignored the stop I wanted and stopped at the next one. I flat out panicked because I had no idea how to get back to the stop I wanted and to the destination we needed because the bus had turned a corner and it threw my navigation completely. Fortunately parents were there so it was fine, but otherwise who knows.

People who make visual assumptions are not cool in my book. My navigation is so bad that if a landmark changes I don't know where I am, or sometimes I can be on a bus route I know and look out the window and recognise nothing. Only London buses tell me where I am at every stop so I tend to remember stop names in order so I know where to get off and when I'm getting close.  When I tell people I can't navigate they're often like, oh yeah, I'm bad at that too - but it's not like that. I'm physically incapable of forming routes or sequences, so it's not "oh, I get a bit lost but GPS can help". It's I can't read maps, can't tell left from right, can't orientate myself, can't follow ambiguous signposts, and if I turn around I might completely forget where I came from or how to get back. And even if I know the area I can still get completely lost within a hundred yards, because if my brain resets a route, I don't know where I am.

My parents have lived in the same area for almost 30 years. If I want to go for a walk beyond the local shop, 4 mins away, my sister or one of my parents have to go with me. The one time I tried to go on my own recently I got lost and it took me 30 minutes to find my way back. I was about 6 minutes from home at the time and I grew up here. Even the walk I took to school for 5 years every day now throws me because the school got demolished so now I no longer have a landmark to fix on.
It already bugs me that people don't realise how serious that is if you don't have something helping you (like I use buses).

Yet apparently I shouldn't have a bus pass, because I didn't 'earn it'.

The article about the winning joke at the Fringe Festival reminded me of this experience, and makes me realise yet again that disability is still treated as a joke or an attempt to get special favours, rather than an actual life challenge.

Fortunately at the time I was so stunned by what he said I kind of dismissed it. But it only really dawned on me later the implications of what that guy said, and when I told my parents they were really angry since they know how much I fought to get that bus pass (it took me 2 years and a ton of evidence, I didn't just get given it for having a few birthdays).

By his standards, I definitely 'earned it'.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 20, 2019, 07:45:26 AM
While my Mom recently died of cancer (in such a painful way I wish nobody else to experience) Im still fussing about a dentist appointment which is today (half an hour to go)... -_- gosh, Im pathetic.

:hug:

So this happened a few days ago, but I was waiting at the bus stop for the bus back from the carboot sale.
THis guy and his daughter and grandson are there waiting too.
He sees I have a bus pass and he looks at me and then is like, "don't people ever challenge you or look at you funny because you have a disabled bus pass and you're young?" And I said, no, nobody ever has. And he grinned at me and tapped his old person's pass and said, "I bet they do, behind your back. I earned mine."

Not sure how being old is earning a bus pass, given that unlike him I can never drive, and unlike him, I'm literally in danger because of my inability to navigate, so buses are my lifeline.
Spoiler

Example, same bus route, when parents were visiting - bus ignored the stop I wanted and stopped at the next one. I flat out panicked because I had no idea how to get back to the stop I wanted and to the destination we needed because the bus had turned a corner and it threw my navigation completely. Fortunately parents were there so it was fine, but otherwise who knows.

People who make visual assumptions are not cool in my book. My navigation is so bad that if a landmark changes I don't know where I am, or sometimes I can be on a bus route I know and look out the window and recognise nothing. Only London buses tell me where I am at every stop so I tend to remember stop names in order so I know where to get off and when I'm getting close.  When I tell people I can't navigate they're often like, oh yeah, I'm bad at that too - but it's not like that. I'm physically incapable of forming routes or sequences, so it's not "oh, I get a bit lost but GPS can help". It's I can't read maps, can't tell left from right, can't orientate myself, can't follow ambiguous signposts, and if I turn around I might completely forget where I came from or how to get back. And even if I know the area I can still get completely lost within a hundred yards, because if my brain resets a route, I don't know where I am.

My parents have lived in the same area for almost 30 years. If I want to go for a walk beyond the local shop, 4 mins away, my sister or one of my parents have to go with me. The one time I tried to go on my own recently I got lost and it took me 30 minutes to find my way back. I was about 6 minutes from home at the time and I grew up here. Even the walk I took to school for 5 years every day now throws me because the school got demolished so now I no longer have a landmark to fix on.
It already bugs me that people don't realise how serious that is if you don't have something helping you (like I use buses).

Yet apparently I shouldn't have a bus pass, because I didn't 'earn it'.

The article about the winning joke at the Fringe Festival reminded me of this experience, and makes me realise yet again that disability is still treated as a joke or an attempt to get special favours, rather than an actual life challenge.

Fortunately at the time I was so stunned by what he said I kind of dismissed it. But it only really dawned on me later the implications of what that guy said, and when I told my parents they were really angry since they know how much I fought to get that bus pass (it took me 2 years and a ton of evidence, I didn't just get given it for having a few birthdays).

By his standards, I definitely 'earned it'.

I'm sorry.  It's none of his business what you had to do to "earn" the right to not be confined to your house. 
Spoiler
Usually when people try to use age as a reason for anything (like thinking they deserve respect when they're acting like [words I'm allowed to use here]), I tell them that the only reason they're older than me is because their parents had sex first and that's no reason to respect them--it isn't like they were involved--and given their behavior I doubt that their parents are worthy of any admiration when they clearly had no business reproducing in the first place.  (I'm not very nice when people make me mad. :P)

Trivial complaint for this morning: I have no desire to be at work today.  No reason.  I just don't feel like doing anything.  So we'll see if I actually manage to get anything done. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2019, 10:32:41 AM
The 2 Japanese songs I wanted to buy on iTunes are not on US iTunes.

Ponyfan
I feel your pain.
I'm usually amazed when one of the tunes I want IS on Itunes, and I don't have to plough through either auctions or amazon.jp and sell my soul.


I found something that I would love to own but since it's from Japan and has to be imported I can't really afford it right now. There are a few songs Japanese songs on US iTunes but they are mostly from the Ghibli movies or Sailor Moon.





The 2 Japanese songs I wanted to buy on iTunes are not on US iTunes.

Ponyfan

I identify with this too! I love German and Hungarian musicals. I can usually find the German ones, but Deezer (my go-to for listening to music) doesn't seem to have heard of Hungary....
Then of course my favourite Hungarian actor releases a CD and it's not available to buy internationally :cries:. I must stop loving such obscure things!!



I'm not sure how iTunes decides what they have in the store for purchase. If I want something from the Ghibli movies or the entire script from the musical Les Misérables in French I can find that on iTunes easily but not the Japanese songs I'm looking for. Now it's 3 Japanese songs that  I want that are not on iTunes.  :P


So this happened a few days ago, but I was waiting at the bus stop for the bus back from the carboot sale.
THis guy and his daughter and grandson are there waiting too.
He sees I have a bus pass and he looks at me and then is like, "don't people ever challenge you or look at you funny because you have a disabled bus pass and you're young?" And I said, no, nobody ever has. And he grinned at me and tapped his old person's pass and said, "I bet they do, behind your back. I earned mine."

Not sure how being old is earning a bus pass, given that unlike him I can never drive, and unlike him, I'm literally in danger because of my inability to navigate, so buses are my lifeline.
Spoiler

Example, same bus route, when parents were visiting - bus ignored the stop I wanted and stopped at the next one. I flat out panicked because I had no idea how to get back to the stop I wanted and to the destination we needed because the bus had turned a corner and it threw my navigation completely. Fortunately parents were there so it was fine, but otherwise who knows.

People who make visual assumptions are not cool in my book. My navigation is so bad that if a landmark changes I don't know where I am, or sometimes I can be on a bus route I know and look out the window and recognise nothing. Only London buses tell me where I am at every stop so I tend to remember stop names in order so I know where to get off and when I'm getting close.  When I tell people I can't navigate they're often like, oh yeah, I'm bad at that too - but it's not like that. I'm physically incapable of forming routes or sequences, so it's not "oh, I get a bit lost but GPS can help". It's I can't read maps, can't tell left from right, can't orientate myself, can't follow ambiguous signposts, and if I turn around I might completely forget where I came from or how to get back. And even if I know the area I can still get completely lost within a hundred yards, because if my brain resets a route, I don't know where I am.

My parents have lived in the same area for almost 30 years. If I want to go for a walk beyond the local shop, 4 mins away, my sister or one of my parents have to go with me. The one time I tried to go on my own recently I got lost and it took me 30 minutes to find my way back. I was about 6 minutes from home at the time and I grew up here. Even the walk I took to school for 5 years every day now throws me because the school got demolished so now I no longer have a landmark to fix on.
It already bugs me that people don't realise how serious that is if you don't have something helping you (like I use buses).

Yet apparently I shouldn't have a bus pass, because I didn't 'earn it'.

The article about the winning joke at the Fringe Festival reminded me of this experience, and makes me realise yet again that disability is still treated as a joke or an attempt to get special favours, rather than an actual life challenge.

Fortunately at the time I was so stunned by what he said I kind of dismissed it. But it only really dawned on me later the implications of what that guy said, and when I told my parents they were really angry since they know how much I fought to get that bus pass (it took me 2 years and a ton of evidence, I didn't just get given it for having a few birthdays).

By his standards, I definitely 'earned it'.




I'm so sorry that happened to you Taffeta. I don't like it when people make assumptions like that about people.  A family member of mine has a lot of back and knee problems but she has had people give her looks that say "You're fine, why do you need a motorized cart" if she tries to use one.


While my Mom recently died of cancer (in such a painful way I wish nobody else to experience) Im still fussing about a dentist appointment which is today (half an hour to go)... -_- gosh, Im pathetic.



:hug:  I'm sorry for your loss. I never enjoy going to the dentist either.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 20, 2019, 12:06:03 PM
Whenever I go to a Japanese event it's always the first thing I check, whether the songs are on itunes. If so, then I don't need to pay exhorbitant prices for the CD, but if not...:/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 20, 2019, 12:55:39 PM
Okay, WHAT'S with Etsy? I wanted to message a seller about an item, and now I just get a useless chat window? Seriously, get lost! I want to be able to write a proper message, and now I can't even use enter for blank lines, because enter means sending the bloody message! I'm fuming, really!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 20, 2019, 05:02:14 PM
Turns out I have to play around with my fall semester schedule a bit more because the shuttle from this campus to main does not align with the class at all. Sigh.
I'm a transfer and all the classes were chosen in March, so we all get the scraps. I don't want to be a part time student this semester but I'm going to have to dig super deep to find a class I can take that aligns with my schedule. Sigh sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 20, 2019, 08:30:04 PM
My depression has been hitting me hard lately -_-  :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 20, 2019, 09:02:25 PM
Migraines. Again. I’m so tired of dealing with them... I’ve been losing a lot of sleep lately. :shrug:

Taffeta: That’s awful. :( That guy had no right to say that to you... I would have totally told him off. I will also likely never be able to drive, though you certainly can’t tell that by looking at me. People are so terribly ignorant, sometimes... You would think that in this day and age, there would be more awareness that not all impairments/special needs are overtly visible.

My depression has been hitting me hard lately -_-  :(

I’m sorry to hear that. :( Depression sucks, I know... I hope you can take it easy for a while and focus on your health. :hug: My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 20, 2019, 10:17:02 PM
Today marks the one year anniversary when I had to say goodbye to my feline companion Tarzan. I can't stop crying :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 21, 2019, 03:54:12 AM
Thank you people ;)
@Nemesis, I'm sure you've probably had your share of similar experiences. It's not that the guy meant it to be mean, just ignorance. Assumptions. And this idea that disability can be joked about, unlike race, or sexuality, which still causes massive inequality BUT is generally not considered something you joke about or comment on if you want to be seen as a decent human being.

 The winning joke at the Fringe Festival makes fun of Tourettes syndrome. Kind of illustrates the world we still live in, and my bus experience also kind of feeds into that as well. A white person can't make jokes about a black person without being called racist (and quite right too), but a nondisabled person can make fun of disability and get a reward for it? Why is that ok?

The bus guy's attitude was exactly the same thing. "It's not a big deal so I can joke or comment about it." Well, yes, actually, it is.

People are hypocritical and ignorant when it comes to these things.

@Pokey - I wish I had the courage to say that to a random stranger xD. As if it's not annoying enough here at the moment dealing with a large number of bigoted older people forcing us down a path to destroy our economic futures while telling us that we don't understand anything...this was just the icing on the cake for me. Apparently in entitled old people world, this stuff is acceptable.

(And both my parents are older, and would never act like this, so I'm not for one minute generalising all old people. Just the entitled ones who think that they still know better about everything, when they don't.)

@Beldarna :hug: I'm sorry :(

@Black Curtains - I hope you feel better soon :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 21, 2019, 09:46:46 AM
I wanted to complain a little but seeing so many people with problems much bigger than mine right now I think I'd better keep it to myself for a while.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 27, 2019, 12:19:25 PM
Once again the pharmacy is out of the prescription I need. :( I am about to change pharmacies because this happens almost every time I need medicine.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: AvianWing on August 28, 2019, 07:23:38 PM
Well, looks like I gotta prepare for another one of these blasted hurricanes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 28, 2019, 10:41:33 PM
Please tell me I'm not the only one who always gets forgotten in the medical fields!? I've had it pretty much all my life. The number of times my dentist or optrician has walked by me sitting outside of their office asking me if I had had any help and I answer with "no I'm just waiting for the appointment with you, the one scheduled half an hour/ 45 minutes/ an hour ago" is beyond the number of fingers on my hands. One time I was sitting in the waiting area at my new healthcare clinic since a move and it was 20 minutes past my appointment when a man walked by and went out from the building, returning 45 minutes later and after another fifteen minutes came out to the waiting area and called for me. Yes, my new doctor had gone for a lunchbreak during my appointment, having me waiting for more than an hour. I switched clinic after that.
The newer new clinic is a bit better but I have been hold up there as well. I know some appointments can take longer than the alloted times delaying the rest of the appointments but once the doctor started to call out for people that came in after me!

Anyway, the reason I'm ranting now is that in MAY I got a letter from the doctor from the pain clinic (who also forgot to call me one day for an update which she had promised), a letter she also had sent to my GP with a list of diagnosis or possible diagnosis that needed deeper examinations (another CT scan being one of them (after my last scan, they forgot to call me with the result by the way, I was promised a call after a week, after three weeks I called them)) that my GP would have to do. She had even written down the exact wording on the referal he needed to send. Since then I have been waiting for a letter from the healthcare clinic for a date and time where me and GP would go over the letter together. Given the fact of summer and vacations slow things down, it's now the END OF AUGUST so yesterday I decided to call the clinic and the receptionist apologized for them missing me and said that my GP was prettymuch fully booked for a number of weeks but since I had been waiting for so long she wanted to talk to him to see if they could fit me in somewhere anyway. She promised to call me back in the afternoon, which she never did. I was glued to the phone the entire afternoon, barely even went to the toilett in case she would call. Stupid thing is this exact scenario has happened before and I'm getting pretty badword sick of it. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on August 29, 2019, 08:20:44 AM
A really trivial complaint... Last December my phone went out and I had to take it to one of those places that fixes them. When I was there the worker convinced me to get a new screen cover that he said was super resistant to scratches and cracks.

That's been true, up until this last week, when mysteriously scratches have begun to appear all over the screen cover. They're small, but still noticeable. I don't even know where they're coming from. I have not even been rough with my phone, putting it against things that would scratch it... The scratches are just appearing, and they've all appeared in the last week or so.  :wonder:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 29, 2019, 02:19:35 PM
Here's something super trivial: My friend is getting lots of help from her parents to pay for college and I am not. She does NOT understand that no, I don't want to pay to go visit her via the train, because that's money I don't want to spend NOR do I want to go that far into the city. She's also bugging me just in a bunch of smaller ways. It's like she suddenly doesn't understand the concept of money or wanting to save it?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 29, 2019, 04:24:39 PM
Here's something super trivial: My friend is getting lots of help from her parents to pay for college and I am not. She does NOT understand that no, I don't want to pay to go visit her via the train, because that's money I don't want to spend NOR do I want to go that far into the city. She's also bugging me just in a bunch of smaller ways. It's like she suddenly doesn't understand the concept of money or wanting to save it?

That's almost the same problem I have, but a bit different.  I have really good money habits so certain friends of mine that do not just assume that it's okay to have me pay for stuff and then never get around to paying me back.  One of my co-workers (who has terrible money habits and no money even though we make the same amount) is constantly in my office asking if she can drink my water/soda (I only keep caffeinated soda on hand for my migraines, but she drinks it all), if I have headache medicine she can "borrow", and if she can have crackers, string cheese, candy, or whatever other snacks I have on hand.  She doesn't bring me anything.  I feel like a grocery store/pharmacy some days. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 29, 2019, 06:59:47 PM
I’m sorry to hear that. :( Depression sucks, I know... I hope you can take it easy for a while and focus on your health. :hug: My thoughts and prayers are with you.

@Black Curtains - I hope you feel better soon :(

Thanks, I am finally feeling better. One of my medications was upped by 10mg and it seems to be making a big difference.

---

My complaint for the day - the non-local weather people acting like doomsayers about hurricane Dorian. Look, I live in a hurricane area and I know how important it is to prepare and have a plan and all that jazz, but some of these weather people, especially on the Weather Channel, are just SO over the top about it. It's way too early to even tell where it will go and there are a lot of things in its way, dry air, areas of high and low pressure, that can make or break it - literally! But you hear these people talk and they're comparing it to hurricane Andrew? Really?! Because one of the models kinda looks like the path Andrew took? C'mon people!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on August 29, 2019, 07:21:35 PM
I have discovered my duvet covers that I got off eBay forever ago for a new bed ... are for double duvets, not single  :cry: No wonder the first one didn't fit right! Need to get ANOTHER duvet cover and sheet set that actually fits now

I am genuinely annoyed there are very few Monster High single duvet covers, and where are the Lion King ones?? Primark has DOUBLES but no singles??
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 30, 2019, 09:40:40 AM
I have discovered my duvet covers that I got off eBay forever ago for a new bed ... are for double duvets, not single  :cry: No wonder the first one didn't fit right! Need to get ANOTHER duvet cover and sheet set that actually fits now

I am genuinely annoyed there are very few Monster High single duvet covers, and where are the Lion King ones?? Primark has DOUBLES but no singles??

Just get a cheap double-duvet inner from Tesco - having a double cover over a single bed just makes it more cosy!  :cool:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 30, 2019, 10:38:42 AM
I'm home :(

Not that I don't like my home or my family, and my ponies are here. And hopefully it's a temporary stop while I figure out next steps.

But I really wanted to stay in London.

And I really want to go back.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 31, 2019, 01:06:50 AM
I have been trying to go to sleep for hours and not having any success.  Usually soft noises like fans or air conditioning running help me sleep but tonight I heard every click when the ac came on  :zzz:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 31, 2019, 07:51:58 AM
I have been trying to go to sleep for hours and not having any success.  Usually soft noises like fans or air conditioning running help me sleep but tonight I heard every click when the ac came on  :zzz:

I can relate to this 100%. I hear every little thing usually and it keeps me up so I got a white noise machine like this one (https://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Classic-White-Noise-Machine/dp/B00HD0ELFK/ref=sxin_3_osp99-985d12a5_cov?ascsubtag=985d12a5-79c9-48b9-8e52-4ae74350d4a4&creativeASIN=B00HD0ELFK&crid=TF3KEZ7ETSYF&cv_ct_id=amzn1.osp.985d12a5-79c9-48b9-8e52-4ae74350d4a4&cv_ct_pg=search&cv_ct_wn=osp-search&keywords=white%2Bnoise%2Bmachine&linkCode=oas&pd_rd_i=B00HD0ELFK&pd_rd_r=144ef789-3b80-48c7-86fb-dda70de3e2fa&pd_rd_w=kFr20&pd_rd_wg=hqYDw&pf_rd_p=4ba5fbe3-1d1a-4339-9600-c9708eb9301d&pf_rd_r=YZC74T22RZ79S16N9FPM&qid=1567262970&s=gateway&sprefix=white%2Bnoise%2Caps%2C173&tag=gearpublish-20&th=1) and I love it. It drowns everything out and makes a natural, non-repeating fan noise.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SnorkMaiden on August 31, 2019, 11:01:25 AM
I bought a couple of DVDs from a second-hand store. I just came home and saw that the store assistant didn't put one of the DVDs into its box. Now, I know the store won't make a fuss about either giving me the DVD or refunding my money, so that's not the issue. I'm just annoyed that I'll have to go back to the store, when I'm so busy at the moment and *really* don't have time for this.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 01, 2019, 08:19:44 AM
I slept funny and my neck and shoulder are killing me :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 04, 2019, 09:53:14 AM
I’ve been on antibiotics since last week and I feel worse today than I have in several days. :(

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 04, 2019, 10:01:55 AM
I’ve been on antibiotics since last week and I feel worse today than I have in several days. :(

Ponyfan

:hug: Feel better!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 04, 2019, 01:37:48 PM
Our front porch needs to be redone, the thing is 100 years old and starting to lean. Hey at least it lasted this long.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 04, 2019, 03:07:22 PM
I’ve been on antibiotics since last week and I feel worse today than I have in several days. :(

Ponyfan

:hug: Feel better!!


Thank you Taffeta.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 04, 2019, 03:33:22 PM
Ponyfan-when I was on antibiotics for a bit, my momther (she's a nurse) told me to take a probiotic about an hour after the dose for the day to offset the colon fun, if that was the issue. It might help, but I would talk to your doctor if you're taking them for something more serious.
The shuttle is always late for this class and I don't like being five minutes late consistently, but I can't take an earlier shuttle.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 04, 2019, 11:01:17 PM
So, anyone who has cats knows what a pest they can be sometimes. Like scratch at the bedroom door way early in the morning to get us human up to feed them when it's not even their mealtime yet. I take a petty revenge at that by going up and do anything but give them their food until their breakfast time. Like this morning I locked myself in the bathroom and played a game on my phone while they were sitting outside scratching on the toilett door. I'm already up so their scratching don't do anything for me. But then came a scratch and meow that was more frantic than the others but I still kept playing for a few minutes until the clock striked 7 (breakfast time) before opening the door and met one of the buys rushing past me to the litterbox. He needed to make a number 2 really bad and I had kept him from it by just being stupid :(. I feel so bad for him now and he did get extra kibbles in his breakfast. But yeah.. they woke me up, I paid them back and got hit with bad conscience any way. Good way to start the day, or not.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 05, 2019, 02:35:20 AM
I'm so tired but i still can't sleeeeeep. I'm having coffee and am going to try and clean. At least I can get something done if I'm not going to be sleeping.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 05, 2019, 08:10:11 AM
Thanks tailrustedtealeaf.  I get a lot of respiratory illnesses like bronchitis often. :( 

I took a cough suppressant last night but I don't like taking it because it makes me groggy the next day.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Loona on September 08, 2019, 10:15:51 AM
OK, the first thing I'll do tomorrow after work is go to the LED bulb shop near us and buy a LED lightbulb to switch out the regular one in my sewing machine. The plastic cover of the part of the machine where the bulb is located is broken, so I use the machine without it, and the metal cover protecting the lightbulb can heat up to burning hot. I did touch it accidentally several times in the past, but it was never something severe. Just now I managed to push the inner part of my upper arm against it as I was leaning over to pick something up from behind - after submerging it in cold water and holding ice cubes on the burn until my arm went numb, it still hurts like hell, and I fear it will leave a mark. Time for another ice cube, I guess :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 08, 2019, 05:47:12 PM
Loona-ouch! Reminds me of when I burnt my finger on the coil of the oven while trying to finesse my calzone out of the oven. >< Not fun.
I lost my campus ID card. I swear I put it in the pocket of my backpack, so I cleaned my floor up a bit and can't find it...I can get into buildings as long as they just need a tap (I have hooked up the ID onto my phone) but I'm going to a class for the first time tomorrow and I fear it may be in a swipe building. I'm gonna just ask if I can get a new one printed, I feel bad not having it on me. That's what I get for not using a lanyard.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on September 08, 2019, 07:41:59 PM
The power is out and i dont even have any icecream to eat-before-it-melts.and since the atms are out, i guess i'm stuck with tuna sandwiches,lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on September 09, 2019, 12:28:55 AM
Horrible week was horrible. :( My nerves are so frayed right now...

So I guess my specific complaint is... I hate it when my anxiety acts up so badly that I start to feel depressed and apathetic. I know how to cope with anxiety, profoundly unpleasant as it is... but I feel helpless when it comes to depression. :shrug: Maybe this week will be better...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 09, 2019, 03:21:15 AM
I'm sorry, Nemesis :( I know how that can be. Hope you feel better soon and things look up.

--

My complaint is I woke up with a terrible headache. I haven't been having them lately so it feels extra bad. I took some medicine and am sitting up, it hurts to turn my head.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: beajjai033 on September 10, 2019, 07:10:42 AM
I'm sorry, Nemesis :( I know how that can be. Hope you feel better soon and things look up.

--

My complaint is I woke up with a terrible headache. I haven't been having them lately so it feels extra bad. I took some medicine and am sitting up, it hurts to turn my head.

I hope both of you feel much better now!  ^.^

I am on a dolly slump - I realise I now have 9 Pullips and 3 minis now and I never got around to photographing them at all these years, I am more on accumulating them. I am hoping it won't backfire and just let them gather dust on the shelf.  :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2019, 12:16:12 PM
I had a horrible asthma attack this morning. It was so bad I went back to bed.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 11, 2019, 09:47:08 AM
Please deposit five coins
Please deposit five coins

Got that annoying Rockstar Freddy quote in my head.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 11, 2019, 04:11:39 PM
Horrible week was horrible. :( My nerves are so frayed right now...

So I guess my specific complaint is... I hate it when my anxiety acts up so badly that I start to feel depressed and apathetic. I know how to cope with anxiety, profoundly unpleasant as it is... but I feel helpless when it comes to depression. :shrug: Maybe this week will be better...

*gives cookies* Hang in there, it will get better :hug:

My trivial complaint, I had a deadline, and now it's a shorter deadline since I need to get something to another professor in time for him to write me a reference. Sigh. Motivation, where art thou.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 11, 2019, 10:33:38 PM
I've got a pimple up in my nostril that is a bit soar, I also has a cold with a runny nose. The combination is quite unpleasant.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2019, 06:39:03 AM
Today added another deadline to the above. All my books and notes still boxed from the move. Yay sorting them is going to be fun.

Really the deadlines are not bad things. Logistically figuring out how to meet them is the complaint.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 12, 2019, 07:22:53 PM
The air-conditioner is acting up. I know everyone's like "But fall's almost here, it's a good time!" Lol. It's not. It's still hitting the 90s here everyday. Fall won't show up for at least another month where I live.

I'm pretty sure we got this air-conditioner within the last 5 years, so I have no idea why it is messing up so quick. It's a mystery what's wrong with it, too, as when it comes on it is cool and works just fine, but it turns off within a couple of minutes of coming on, so it doesn't stay on long enough to be effective.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on September 14, 2019, 03:26:28 AM
Some kid I don't know keeps sending me creepy messages on Facebook about wanting to "kiss me and marry me" and blowing up my inbox with "you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen can we get married". I blocked him but he seems to have multiple accounts. Suspiciously, he lives in the same (small) village as my ex...
How do these people find me???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on September 14, 2019, 07:35:26 AM
I contacted those idiots who sent me a wrong order again about my set of books but it turns out that apparently it got permanently lost somewhere and all they can do after more than a month of struggle is refund me :sad: Now if I ever want to get those books I will have to hunt for each of them individually and most of those available for sale online are in a very poor condition :enraged: I have a policy to never write negative reviews anywhere because I believe if you can't say anything nice it's better not to say anything, but this time I have made a resolution to make an exception to that rule and once the refund appears in my bank account I will write a lengthy, detailed one-star review about what I think of them, because they truly earned it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 14, 2019, 03:57:47 PM
I found out the other day that Taco Bell no longer serves my favorite item on their menu. :sad: It was what I usually ordered when I went to Taco Bell.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 16, 2019, 01:30:04 AM
So photobucket caught up with my signatures here and blurred them out. Fine I knew that would happen in the end. I just transfer them to my flickr account I thought. But flickr is on the move. I tried to log in and got transfered to a page to agree to the new terms. That took me to the create a new account page. Farther down in small letters were a link for those already a member. I clicked on it. Tried to log in but instead of my page I got transfered to the page to agree on the new terms. I agreed again and got sent to the create a new account side. Clicked again on aldready a member and so the circle began anew.. I even tried to set up a new account but as the email was already taken (duh) that failed, which I knew it would, but just to make sure.

So as any smart person would do I went to the help page, looked through everything that was about log in problems, tried every suggestion and nothing helped so I ended up sending a message to support. Today I got a reply.

First I needed to resend the request from the email for the account I tried to access (which I already had, I only have this email for accounts, but according to them it would end with yahoo.com which I've never had an email with, also weird that my original email was already in use on the site when I tried to make a new account).
I have to send detailed descriptions of a couple of photos in the private setting (don't have any as the only ones I uppload there are for sharing purposes).
Name of my private albums (again, don't have any)
Details from flickrmails. (Haven't got any)

Subscription information like;
The last four digits of my credit card (have never used my credit card on flickr so don't get this at all)
Payment amount (again, never paid anything for or on flickr)
Subscriptionnumbers, subscription type etc (again I don't subscribe!)
I mean seriously.. I don't even have 20 pics there and the limit of free account is a hundred? a thousan pictures?

If all else failed I was to send a picture of my drivers license. That is never happening.

So.. GOOD BYE flickr! :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 16, 2019, 01:38:12 AM
^ It almost sounds like you went to a fake site that's trying to phish you :blink:

I use imgur for all my photos and never had an issue. You can make everything private (don't post to the community) and you won't get comments. The community can be fun but they're largely not pony fans.

---

My complaint is not sleeping again. Yay.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 16, 2019, 10:09:48 AM
Service people who give a time range to come fix something in the house and then don't show up at all in the given time.

I put my whole morning on hold, keeping myself close to my phone waiting for the call that they'd come and they never called, much less showed.

Even worse it's battery issues related to the smoke detector and alarm system. The darn alarm system keeps on alarming loudly to let me know that it needs to be fixed. That was supposed to be fixed this morning, but nope.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 16, 2019, 10:18:07 AM
I got pulled over for the first time. Super scary, I'm a crier over everything but I didn't so that was surprising. I got off with a warning but my dad had let the registration expire so he's getting a citation for that.
Ugh, now how I wanted my Monday to go. I did get my cheap Whitecap so is this the balance?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 17, 2019, 08:39:50 AM
I hit my face on a metal safety bar over the weekend. I thought I was fine but this morning I noticed my face is swollen right where I hit the bar.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on September 17, 2019, 12:38:59 PM
Dental saga continues...
Spoiler

got my crown made in late August, got it fitted BUT the dentist put is on incorrectly and the cement set very quickly, so she couldn't adjust it. She ground a bit off but still not good... she admitted her error straight away and sent off for a new one to be made...

today I go in... over an hour-and-a-half in the chair just to grind off the old crown and cement... my mouth is grazed on one side from the instruments rubbing against it...

then, the replacement crown was put on, with TEMPORARY cement, an appointment in 2 weeks to have it set properly (as we ran out of time).  :cry:

It's currently set too high and I can't chew properly nor close my jaws without that lumpy feeling. Gah! This has been going on for MONTHS!!!  >_<

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: AvianWing on September 19, 2019, 11:08:43 PM
I've been having a pretty crappy week.

Monday I overall felt like crap for some reason and bombed a quiz in one of my classes.
Tuesday was a really busy and tedious day at work, most of which was in 90 degree weather outdoors.
Wednesday I also felt like crap, but a bit less so. Also found out that my insurance has skyrocketed.
Today (Thursday) I locked myself out of my house.

And the whole week I've been stressing myself out over a homework assignment due next Wednesday that I honestly have no idea how to do and is making me seriously consider withdrawing from the class, which would mean graduating a semester later than expected.

Kind of afraid of what tomorrow's going to bring.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 20, 2019, 12:50:30 PM
Not to get too WYP but it bothers me that I just want to switch off and relax but I can't because of persistent mental health problems. I don't need to be overanalysing every little thing that happened during the day, thinking in circles at a million miles an hour, I need to just enjoy the comedy podcasts that I put on with the express intention of chilling out. My stupid brain needs to shut up and co-operate already. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 20, 2019, 01:26:47 PM
I don’t like getting shots. I got a pneumonia 1 shot about 3 years ago and didn’t get the pneumonia 2 shot when I was supposed to. Now I have to take the pneumonia 1 shot again.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: seaweedstar on September 20, 2019, 02:47:34 PM
Not to get too WYP but it bothers me that I just want to switch off and relax but I can't because of persistent mental health problems. I don't need to be overanalysing every little thing that happened during the day, thinking in circles at a million miles an hour, I need to just enjoy the comedy podcasts that I put on with the express intention of chilling out. My stupid brain needs to shut up and co-operate already. :pout:
Right?????? I am in the same situation. I need to my mind to slow down and relax.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on September 20, 2019, 05:23:45 PM
I ordered an express delivery on Amazon, but it still wasn't supposed to arrive until Monday (not so long ago it used to be two days), then I got excited when a text message came from DHL that it would actually be on Friday, then on Thursday I got another text saying that I wasn't home when they delivered it so I needed to schedule another delivery time on their website, it turned out the next possible date was Monday just like the original date, and then today on Friday I got another message saying I wasn't home again when they delivered it :argh: Who the **** works there?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on September 20, 2019, 06:09:45 PM
No matter how much I should be used to it after so many years, I still can't help but feel really depressed and frustrated when I look at the 15 day forecast and it's hitting the upper 80s and 90s for highs every single day.

There's no sign of fall in sight.  :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 21, 2019, 02:29:45 PM
No matter how much I should be used to it after so many years, I still can't help but feel really depressed and frustrated when I look at the 15 day forecast and it's hitting the upper 80s and 90s for highs every single day.

There's no sign of fall in sight.  :sad:

*gives some British rain*

It's actually quite warm here too during the day at the moment, though nothing like that. It's nice warm, not scary warm. But autumn officially begins today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 22, 2019, 08:50:03 AM
Stereotypical British problem: yet another umbrella broke on me today. I'm thinking of treating one of my cotton jackets with otter wax to make it waterproof as a more practical alternative but I'm a bit concerned about potentially making a total mess of it. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 23, 2019, 09:30:05 AM
It's sunny outside so some genius returned their DVDs completely soaking wet this morning.  :argh:  It's not just today and that is, sadly, one of the more intelligent things that happens here.

I can't decide if people everywhere are too stupid to function (and I was just too young to notice) or if the area where I live is specifically populated with a special breed of stupid so the government can study them without having to cover too many areas.  I don't recall people being this dumb anywhere else that I've lived.   These people are so incompetent that I'm to the point where I wonder how some of them breathe without help.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 23, 2019, 09:32:06 AM
It's sunny outside so some genius returned their DVDs completely soaking wet this morning.  :argh:  It's not just today and that is, sadly, one of the more intelligent things that happens here.

I can't decide if people everywhere are too stupid to function (and I was just too young to notice) or if where I currently live is specifically populated with a special breed of stupid so the government can study them without having to cover too many areas.  I don't recall people being this dumb anywhere else that I've lived.   These people are so incompetent that I'm to the point where I wonder how some of them breathe without help.

It's not you. THis is the world. It's awesome -.-.

Also, having worked in libraries, I've also met the awesome face to face on a few occasions in the past.

This area...is not a good place for brains. I have been known to refer to it as moron central.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 23, 2019, 12:16:08 PM
It's sunny outside so some genius returned their DVDs completely soaking wet this morning.  :argh:  It's not just today and that is, sadly, one of the more intelligent things that happens here.

I can't decide if people everywhere are too stupid to function (and I was just too young to notice) or if where I currently live is specifically populated with a special breed of stupid so the government can study them without having to cover too many areas.  I don't recall people being this dumb anywhere else that I've lived.   These people are so incompetent that I'm to the point where I wonder how some of them breathe without help.

It's not you. THis is the world. It's awesome -.-.

Also, having worked in libraries, I've also met the awesome face to face on a few occasions in the past.

This area...is not a good place for brains. I have been known to refer to it as moron central.

I work at a library where the employees don't know the alphabet and think I am being unreasonable for wanting them to not only learn it but actually use it.  Moron Central sounds like an intellectual haven compared to what I deal with.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 23, 2019, 01:44:47 PM
It's sunny outside so some genius returned their DVDs completely soaking wet this morning.  :argh:  It's not just today and that is, sadly, one of the more intelligent things that happens here.

I can't decide if people everywhere are too stupid to function (and I was just too young to notice) or if where I currently live is specifically populated with a special breed of stupid so the government can study them without having to cover too many areas.  I don't recall people being this dumb anywhere else that I've lived.   These people are so incompetent that I'm to the point where I wonder how some of them breathe without help.

It's not you. THis is the world. It's awesome -.-.

Also, having worked in libraries, I've also met the awesome face to face on a few occasions in the past.

This area...is not a good place for brains. I have been known to refer to it as moron central.

I work at a library where the employees don't know the alphabet and think I am being unreasonable for wanting them to not only learn it but actually use it.  Moron Central sounds like an intellectual haven compared to what I deal with.

Sounds like a pretty poor job match up. I mean, I have problems number sequencing so I was never left in charge of shelving and shelf tidying dewey, but I made up for it by trading my share of the non fiction tidying with someone else's abc shelving. There are ways and means...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: beajjai033 on September 24, 2019, 05:30:12 AM
It's already 1:30pm, on my 2nd cup of coffee, and my body and brain cells say no to coffee and work and yes to sleep  :lookround: >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 24, 2019, 08:55:20 AM
The internet has been out all night and a tech was supposed to be here between 1 and 3. My extremely trivial complaint is he was here at 11:30. I wasn't really awake yet and not ready for him. But he fixed the issue. Usually they're late, I get the one guy who's early. Pffft.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 26, 2019, 12:14:24 PM
I ate out today and the waitress did not refill my drink even once. She also did not bring the ketchup I asked for until after I finished eating.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 26, 2019, 01:02:33 PM
My eye keeps leaking! :bawl:

I thought there was an eyelash in it but I can't see anything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on September 26, 2019, 08:25:42 PM
Pokemon Duel mobile game is being closed down at the end of October.  I'm so bummed.  It's sooo much better than Pokemon Go, but it never got any marketing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on September 26, 2019, 10:46:16 PM
We got all the Halloween stuff to the store yesterday so I spent the entire evening packing up and checking it off the list. I used to love this, but now I just feel like meh.. I don't get excited at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 27, 2019, 10:20:43 AM
I just shelved an entire cart and a half of picture books (8 shelves of approx 75 books each) in a building with no air conditioning this morning.  It's SO hot!  Even people who aren't moving around much are complaining about how hot it is.  But the building's fine according to the people who don't want to build a new one.  We'll see if they agree when our older patrons start passing out from the heat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 27, 2019, 10:25:36 AM
Working without air conditioning is terrible. :hot: Where I work the main office usually turns off the ac/heat around 3:00-3:30 and it can get very uncomfortable if you need to stay later.

I think I have a cold. I have been taking extra Vitamin C to try to make it go away faster but I'm not sure it's working.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 27, 2019, 11:11:17 AM
I'm gonna be a bit rude for a second, what is up with these high school cashiers not doing their job properly?? It feels like all of the cashiers we hired at the start of the summer still don't know things that they should be doing, like writing the number of the register lane at the top of their till sheet. Don't take ticker tape coupons. Stuff like that. I'm realizing it a lot more now that I moved to accounting and have to deal with them a lot more. I understand if it were the first month or two of the job, but it's been four months at this point and they are still making the same mistakes over and over again! I do want to be patient and gently guide them there, but some of them seem a bit helpless and it's frustrating.
ANYway, I work a lot this weekend. Boo. I also feel like I'm struggling in my classes. I want to blame the brain fog  and the bad teachers, but I'm scared of how much is actually me. I was an easy A high school and community college student, I don't know how to study.
I think I have a cold. I have been taking extra Vitamin C to try to make it go away faster but I'm not sure it's working.
Oh yes, the sickness time is starting. Wash your hands, guys!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 27, 2019, 05:34:42 PM
Our air conditioning at work isn't working.  Fortunately, I only had to work until 11 am.  However, the director chose to close the library at 2 and we're closed tomorrow, too, because it's too hot.  I don't work tomorrow, so it isn't something that directly benefits me (but I guess that's good for the people who were scheduled tomorrow).

I went to Arby's today just before 3pm because I hadn't had anything to eat after running errands several towns over and I really needed something with protein.  I went through the drive-thru because I figured that would be faster.  I was wrong.  After waiting almost 5 minutes to even place my order, I ended up waiting close to another six for the person in front of me to get their food (I hadn't even known there was someone else in the drive-thru until after I ordered because it goes around the building).  I really should have just left and gone to the McDonald's next door but I very naively thought that it wouldn't take long to get my ONE plain roast beef sandwich once the person in front of me was gone.  Then I waited another three minutes to pay and after waiting for at least another 5 minutes they finally brought me my sandwich.  Which was wrong.  However, because I had already gotten on the excessively busy street (it's right off a highway exit) and there was nowhere to turn around and get it fixed, I decided I would just try to eat the wrong sandwich on my way to the next town where I needed to do some things as well.  Well, the sandwich was disgusting (I cannot stand their "cheese") and after one bite I decided that I couldn't even eat it.  So I decided I would answer the survey after I finished one of my errands in the next town and the automated survey cut me off as I was trying to explain what was wrong with my order so now I'm going to fill it out online.  I ended up going to Little Caesar's and getting a hot 'n ready pizza so I finally got to eat lunch at 4pm.   I gave the rest of the sandwich to my dog.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on September 28, 2019, 12:04:45 PM
Will I ever learn to stop procrascinating? :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 28, 2019, 12:24:53 PM
Will I ever learn to stop procrascinating? :yikes:

Maybe you'll do it tomorrow... :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 28, 2019, 12:54:43 PM
Finding out that they’re only doing the flu jabs for the over95s and doing those under95s in the evening (which I’m not going to go to). They should do those who are type 1 diabetic along with the over95s
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 29, 2019, 02:56:53 PM
First my eye was leaky now my ears are itchy. Must be allergies :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on September 30, 2019, 01:11:30 AM
Will I ever learn to stop procrascinating? :yikes:

Maybe you'll do it tomorrow... :P
The funny thing is, I wanted to respond to your post two days ago.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 01, 2019, 04:15:35 AM
I had a terrible asthma attack today. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 01, 2019, 07:26:38 AM
It's getting colder here.  I need to find somewhere that stays between 50F and 80F year round...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 01, 2019, 11:31:02 AM
It's getting colder here.  I need to find somewhere that stays between 50F and 80F year round...

I'd love to take your colder weather!

We're still waiting for any sign of fall. If it even does, it's barely been getting below the 70s for overnight lows. I'm the kind of person who would much prefer it not even to hit 70 for a high.

There is a cool down on the way, so there is improvement.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 01, 2019, 03:13:51 PM
Rain.

There is rain. With rain. And a side of rain. With rain for dessert. Rain. Sigh.

And I need fillings. Well I expected it, honestly.

And how do you deal with a fanbase who selectively remember stuff and then act like you're the idiot??
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 01, 2019, 04:29:54 PM
It's getting colder here.  I need to find somewhere that stays between 50F and 80F year round...

I'd love to take your colder weather!

We're still waiting for any sign of fall. If it even does, it's barely been getting below the 70s for overnight lows. I'm the kind of person who would much prefer it not even to hit 70 for a high.

There is a cool down on the way, so there is improvement.

We've already had snow.  It didn't stick, but we've had it.   :cold:  And it's weird because it's been cold outside but last week the library building was so hot inside (even with as many doors open to let as much air in as possible) that we had to close early.  No idea what's going on but it's super annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 01, 2019, 09:16:49 PM
I'd love to take your colder weather!

We're still waiting for any sign of fall. If it even does, it's barely been getting below the 70s for overnight lows. I'm the kind of person who would much prefer it not even to hit 70 for a high.

There is a cool down on the way, so there is improvement.

I'm with you. I forget where you live, is it Florida? Well, it wasn't my decision to move here anyway. Really wish I could afford to go back to Wisconsin though that might be too cold for me now :lol:

---

My complaint is a continuation to my "it must be allergies" statement earlier; nope. Not allergies. I caught something. It's working its way down my body. First it was in my head and sinuses now it's in my chest. I slept for about 15 hours but still feel like garbage.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 01, 2019, 10:19:33 PM
The rain yesterday was so heavy it soaked through my waterproof raincloths, they haven't dried properly yet and it's raining today as well and the wind is heavy enough to make chanterells of the umbrellas. I just want to stay indoors at home and not go to work..   :lookround:

Also, a café in the mall I work in has declared bankruptcy and has closed down. That makes it the 15th business that goes out of business within two years now. The mall seems so desolate with all the grey curtains all around. On the second floor there is an entire wall with five closed locations next to each other. Perfectly fit for a horror movie :(.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 02, 2019, 12:13:11 PM
I knew I needed to clip my nails earlier. I just tried to open a drawer and somehow bent my fingernail backwards :crazy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on October 02, 2019, 01:24:16 PM
^ouch!

My neighbor's german shepherds keep getting out.  Three times yesterday!  They are nice to humans but aren't friendly to other dogs.  So I have to drive my dog to a park for walks.  It's getting to be annoying.  They promised to fix their fence and keep their doors shut... last year.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on October 02, 2019, 02:27:07 PM
I'd love to take your colder weather!

We're still waiting for any sign of fall. If it even does, it's barely been getting below the 70s for overnight lows. I'm the kind of person who would much prefer it not even to hit 70 for a high.

There is a cool down on the way, so there is improvement.

I'm with you. I forget where you live, is it Florida? Well, it wasn't my decision to move here anyway. Really wish I could afford to go back to Wisconsin though that might be too cold for me now :lol:

I live in Oklahoma. No chance in the world I could survive in Florida. I think I would always be depressed. Oklahoma's climate always gives me so much depression, especially as the climate change has been making summer take over more of the year and winter diminish. I've lived here all of my life and still can't adjust to the climate.

I actually know someone who was born and raised in Michigan and moved to Florida. Despite growing up in Michigan, she is now someone who considers temperatures like the 60s chilly and I can't understand. So if you're like her it is possible you might not be able to handle the Wisconsin winters anymore. Not that I could blame you, as I know the winters are brutally cold up in that region.

---

My trivial complaint of today has been a pesky headache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 02, 2019, 05:14:18 PM
I just got a voicemail:

This message is for (my name).  We are trying to reach (coworker's name).  If you can have her call us at (phone number).

Um...since when am I your personal assistant/secretary?  Isn't contacting this person YOUR job?  Why am I suddenly their babysitter?  Why can't they contact my co-worker at the number she would have given them?  Not to mention that I Googled the number and the company calling closes at 6 pm.  They called me at 5:59 pm.  Even if I was right there with my co-worker (we both got off at 5 and live 20 miles away from our workplace in opposite directions) she wouldn't have been able to call them before they closed.  Great way to do business.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 02, 2019, 05:46:49 PM
I didn’t see my dog’s food dish and put my foot on it by mistake. My kitchen floor is tile so my foot slid across the floor on top of the food dish for a few inches.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 08, 2019, 10:21:40 AM
An older lady remarked on my weight today at the thrift.  :stressed: I impolitely said "Thanks, I have a disease" and went to check out for my stuff. I'm still trying to get up to a healthy weight and I don't enjoy being reminded that I look like a twig, especially when I'm just sick. :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 09, 2019, 03:08:16 PM
I started a new medicine last week and feel like I am just now coming out of a fog.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: caseysealia on October 11, 2019, 10:04:43 AM
An older lady remarked on my weight today at the thrift.  :stressed: I impolitely said "Thanks, I have a disease" and went to check out for my stuff. I'm still trying to get up to a healthy weight and I don't enjoy being reminded that I look like a twig, especially when I'm just sick. :cloud:
That's so mean!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 11, 2019, 12:25:17 PM
Today hasn’t been a good day for me :sad: 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 11, 2019, 03:32:31 PM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan :hug: I hope things get better for you!

---

I woke up with a terrible headache and it won't go away :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 11, 2019, 04:16:05 PM
Fan factions. I seriously don't even know where to begin to explain the lack of logic involved.

Spoiler
So in a discussion the other day, I expressed an unpopular opinion about some characters in an anime/manga series. I did make it really clear that it was just my opinion, but apparently I stepped on a community minefield.

Apparently my opinions were not correct because they didn't adhere to the established fan faction rules of how characters interact and which characters can be discussed in rabid detail and which can't.

Total double standards fail, since the same people who got on my case for saying positive things (which are backed up by the manga as it happens) about x character spent THREE HOURS yesterday wailing and babbling about another character, one of them calling him her husband and the other saying stupid things like her tears had all dried up (he didn't even die, seriously) over the latest events in the story.

So I'm not allowed to express an opinion on something that's actually in the manga, but it's fine for them to marry the character now? And that makes ME the deluded and obsessive one?

*headdesk*

Also it seriously bugs me when people call anime characters their wives or husbands. Like...no. Sorry, but no.

@Ponyfan :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on October 11, 2019, 05:16:31 PM
Storm coming in is making my leg hurt.   :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 11, 2019, 08:37:59 PM
Sleep loss and general malaise. :(

My neck has been acting up... I fell down a flight of stairs years ago, and my neck has given me trouble ever since, despite no fracture or break ever being found. I just went to have more x-rays done on it the other day (doctor’s orders). I really hope a solution can be worked out for the pain, headaches, and stiffness... it’s getting hard to manage. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 12, 2019, 03:30:03 PM
Thank you Taffeta and BlackCurtains. Today has been better but both of my arms are still sore from the shots I got yesterday.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 12, 2019, 09:11:56 PM
I'm not feeling very well and I can't sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on October 15, 2019, 02:49:25 PM
@ Taffeta -

Spoiler
It's awful, isn't it? I'm not involved in fanfiction communities, but behaviors like you described are exactly why I avoid participating in fandoms - vintage MLP aside, of course. I fully understand being passionate over a series, but some people get unhealthily riled-up over something that, at the end of the day, is meant for entertainment. :huh:

Hope you guys that are feeling ill recover soon!

My complaint is borderline TMI (female problems, lol) so I'll spoiler it:
Spoiler
My PMS has been getting considerably worse over the past two years. I thought once I got out of my teens that it would even out, but nope! No need for me to track it, I can always tell when it's coming by the depression that precedes it. :cloud: Diet changes and regular exercise are helping, but it's been a slow process.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 15, 2019, 04:33:36 PM
@ Taffeta -

Spoiler
It's awful, isn't it? I'm not involved in fanfiction communities, but behaviors like you described are exactly why I avoid participating in fandoms - vintage MLP aside, of course. I fully understand being passionate over a series, but some people get unhealthily riled-up over something that, at the end of the day, is meant for entertainment. :huh:


Gah. Yeah.

I'm too old for drama.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 16, 2019, 02:33:30 PM
I'm going to be late for an exam. This stresses me out so much. I think I might be ok and he'll let me take the test anyway (10-15 minutes) but I'm really upset and it's starting a domino effect in my head. I felt like a city college was the only option and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Ugh. It would be a waste to drop out and it's not a rational thought but navigating everything is very difficult when I'm still sick all the time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 16, 2019, 02:36:45 PM
Robocalls are SO. IRRITATING.

The house phone rings every 15 freakin' minutes. They call on my cell too. I report them to the Do Not Call website but everyday there is a new one. Now I'm getting them for credit card debt. I don't even have a credit card :mad: At least the ones about "your social security number is at risk" (which doesn't even make sense) have stopped. One of those my mom answered and got through to a person and asked where they were located. They said after a pause New York, USA. lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 16, 2019, 04:24:02 PM
Robocalls are SO. IRRITATING.

The house phone rings every 15 freakin' minutes. They call on my cell too. I report them to the Do Not Call website but everyday there is a new one. Now I'm getting them for credit card debt. I don't even have a credit card :mad: At least the ones about "your social security number is at risk" (which doesn't even make sense) have stopped. One of those my mom answered and got through to a person and asked where they were located. They said after a pause New York, USA. lol

She should have told them that she knew they were a scam because the Social Security Office is obviously located in Miami Beach... :P

My favorite one was the one claiming that I owed money to the IRS after I got my tax return.  They said that they were monitoring my assets (home and vehicle) so when I reported them to the IRS and Do Not Call Registry I put in my complaint that I felt unsafe because they clearly stipulated that they were stalking me.  And since the idiots put in their robocall where to contact them, the government knew just how to get ahold of them.  I haven't gotten another one from them...

My trivial complaint is that I'm trying to take vacation from work but nobody I work with is stepping in to cover my shifts.  I'm going whether they cover them or not, I can call in sick those three days and they'll have to cover them anyway.  But it annoys me because whenever they want to go, I'm willing to cover for them.  I have almost 300 hours of vacation that I need to start using because I haven't used any for the last couple of years but everyone else goes as soon as they get their hours and I get to hear complaining about how they want to take a long vacation but they can't because they can't get enough vacation hours.  It isn't my fault they call in every time they don't feel like getting out of bed. And other people complain about wanting more money but they don't want to work the extra hours for it.  It's ridiculous.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 16, 2019, 06:17:23 PM
Robocalls are SO. IRRITATING.

The house phone rings every 15 freakin' minutes. They call on my cell too. I report them to the Do Not Call website but everyday there is a new one. Now I'm getting them for credit card debt. I don't even have a credit card :mad: At least the ones about "your social security number is at risk" (which doesn't even make sense) have stopped. One of those my mom answered and got through to a person and asked where they were located. They said after a pause New York, USA. lol
We get them so often on the house phone. I'm confused as to why we haven't just dropped it but i wouldn't have another phone number to put on websites so they would end up calling my personal cell all the time instead...
My mom played stupid with one call and held up a representative for 5-10 minutes once...that was fun.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 16, 2019, 11:30:48 PM
Monday two weeks ago, I accidentaly broke a customers phone while doing a battery replacement. I'm not even sure how I did it, but one of the 'buttons' on the motherboard broke when I tried to put the sensors back on. The customer wasn't too happy about it which I can understand, but she was fully cooperative when I made the arrangement for sending her phone to the workshop and giving her a replacement for the time being, I even downloaded and installed the apps she wanted. The full affair took about four hours.

When we send broken phones into the workshop, routines stipulate very clearly that we can drop the matter until the phone gest back into the store, the repairmen in the shop will do all the communication with the customer. Well, the woman had called the store Monday (my day off) and talked to the manager. He sent an email to the workshop asking about the phone and got the reply that they were awaiting a replacement and had talked to the customer. The manager emailed back asking when they had talked to her to which he recieved no reply.

Tuesday she called again and I took the call. I knew nothing of the mail conversation or that she had called the previous day, but when I logged on the repair site and looked for updates on her phone it simply stood she would get a new unit and it looked like it was sent to us so I informed the customer that it looked like it was in the mail.

Yesterday (Wednesday) she called again. This time I knew about the email convo but she said none had contacted her at all about her phone. I promised the customer to call the shop and ask for an update and she said she would call back within the hour. The man at the shop said there must have been some miscommunication. The phone was not in the mail, they were till awaiting it. He told me the entire status of the errand and said he would talk to the guy handling this and have him call the customer.

The customer never called within the time frame she said so I was positive the repairshop had called her and told her what was happening. But no. She called again about four hours later and my coworker was the unfortunate one to take the call. Now the customer was threatening legal action and demanded not a new phone likewise the one I broke, but a better one. She also said she was gonna call again today.

The thing is, I get the customer I really do. She wants answers and don't get any and everytime she calls there is a new person. But the whole situation is becomming really uncomfortable as well. We tell the customers the timeframe for packing the phone, sending it away to the shop, the shop working on it or ordering a new one and then pack it and send is back is about ten business days. It has not even been ten businessdays. I'm also angry at the shop for not comunicating with her, which leads her to call us. The chain of communication is too long. They should talk to her as they have the answers she needs. Right now, my store is just the middleman. I'm dreading today, if she calls I'm not sure what to do.. might as well ignore it until manager arrives and can take care of things. At the same time I feel awful because I was the one who broke it, it feels like I'm responsible for the entire mess because of it  -_-.

/Rant
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 17, 2019, 05:02:35 AM
I'm sorry that is happening to you Beldarana.


I have to spend a lot of time with a neighbor. She is a nice person but she has some very set ideas on what can and can not be discussed in front of her and a lot of times her reasoning for deciding what falls in to the "can't be discussed" category doesn't make sense. For example I was telling her about a commercial I saw that featured the character Forky from Toy Story Story 4. She replied saying that "She hated the name Forky because it sounded like a stupid name."  When I mentioned Disney inspired engagement rings she said "Do you know anyone personally that has gotten married at Disney?"  However, right after she said that she started talking about some people she knew that did get married at Disney so I don't know why she was making such a big deal about it when I was talking about it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 18, 2019, 08:20:26 AM
Woke up with another bad headache. Those are the worst.

I want to go back to bed but I'm waiting for a phone call. I'm afraid I won't hear t if I fall asleep even though my phone always wakes me up anyway. It's an important call so I guess I'll just have to stay up and suffer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Sora on October 18, 2019, 11:42:07 AM
Think my computer is wearing out. It's been cutting out randomly, and the monitor keeps flickering and making a somewhat sinister hissing sound ever since it last cut out... I really, really don't want a Windows 10 computer as my main one :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 18, 2019, 11:45:37 AM
Got a NPB and someone lowballing me on eBay. I know my prices are a bit wonky but $16 is NOT $20.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on October 18, 2019, 09:22:42 PM
It's my favorite kind of weather....cloudy, cool, and a little windy.  But the humidity is like 1000% and ruining everything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Gator on October 19, 2019, 01:47:54 PM
At the fast check out line in the market today (20 items or less), the lady ahead of me had a total of $48 and change.  She gave the cashier $50 in one dollar bills, so we all had to wait while he counted them out.
Thanks lady, thanks a lot. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 20, 2019, 12:07:55 AM
I'm sorry that is happening to you Beldarana.

Thanks Ponyfan. It solved itself, thanks to my manager stepping in and working some magic.


I finnished a great book yesterday and I miss it. The weather today is perfect for reading that story. I'm not sure what I want to read now,
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 20, 2019, 07:23:19 AM
Without dragging this thread into the controversial mire of politics, I'll leave it up to your varied imaginations.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on October 21, 2019, 01:42:19 AM
The air pollution this week has been horrible, not surprising since I live in China but it is causing a coughthat wont go away.
It wasn't so bad when I lived in the western part of China, the air was ususally OK but the eastern seaboard is not so great.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 21, 2019, 07:17:59 AM
I get respiratory illnesses a lot and I'm sick again. :sad: 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 21, 2019, 07:55:28 AM
I finnished a great book yesterday and I miss it. The weather today is perfect for reading that story. I'm not sure what I want to read now,

I recommend "Stalking Jack the Ripper."  It's good and great for Halloween time!

My trivial complaint is that I'd rather stay home and paint some more.  If I get time later I'll post pics of what I've been working on.  :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on October 21, 2019, 08:50:54 AM
My trivial complaint of the day is people coughing or sneezing into their hands. It's like they want to spread it.

Attn, gross...
Spoiler
And men spitting on the ground. Swallow! SWALLOW! Use that primal mechanism, please. Why are they doing this? And 'best' is when they do it right in front of you like some animal marking its territory. Even 'better' when they snort and really collect that snot before they spit...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: AvianWing on October 21, 2019, 09:53:05 AM
Attn, gross...
Spoiler
And men spitting on the ground. Swallow! SWALLOW! Use that primal mechanism, please. Why are they doing this? And 'best' is when they do it right in front of you like some animal marking its territory. Even 'better' when they snort and really collect that snot before they spit...

The only thing I can think is that they want to appear more "alpha" as in, trying to assert their dominance or something. I dunno, as a dude and I absolutely do not condone nor fully understand this behavior.



My trivial complaint is that my university decided to roll out this "two-factor authentication", which means any time you want to login to one of their websites you have to tap a notification on your phone or w/e. I get it, it's much more secure but gosh it's inconvenient!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 21, 2019, 01:24:03 PM
My insurance is refusing to pay for my medicine because they say I already reached the maximum amount they will pay for. I wouldn’t need a prescription if I wasn’t sick.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 21, 2019, 03:14:07 PM
My insurance is refusing to pay for my medicine because they say I already reached the maximum amount they will pay for. I wouldn’t need a prescription if I wasn’t sick.

Ponyfan

Ugh...I hate dealing with insurance.  They said I didn't need a brace for my knee because the surgery was successful but my doctor said that a brace was necessary for the first year after to keep it safe.  But the insurance rep who might not have graduated high school definitely knows more than the surgeon who's been practicing for 20+ years.  And I only need 20 sessions of physical therapy (that I still have to pay for) each year.  Yeah...if I could have walked on my own I wouldn't have needed surgery or physical therapy in the first place.

Still want to paint...have an hour of work left.   :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on October 21, 2019, 04:51:25 PM
Bruised my right wedding finger yesterday putting down a folding bunker lid that slammed on my hand. I honestly feared my fingernail was going to drop off in the night, but I think it's just bruised on the nailbed. VERY damn tender, I can't put much pressure on it  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 22, 2019, 12:49:00 AM
Without dragging this thread into the controversial mire of politics, I'll leave it up to your varied imaginations.

Someone posted this on their fb wall as a perfect example of what's going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlVu7Y5m5JQ  :P


I finnished a great book yesterday and I miss it. The weather today is perfect for reading that story. I'm not sure what I want to read now,

I recommend "Stalking Jack the Ripper."  It's good and great for Halloween time!

My trivial complaint is that I'd rather stay home and paint some more.  If I get time later I'll post pics of what I've been working on.  :)

Thanks for the tip  ^.^. I can't find the book or the author on the library webpage unfortunaly, I only found it in online bookstores but I'm not in a position to buy any books now. But I put it down on my list of tips, so hopefully I'll get the chance to read t it later :). I ended up beginning to read Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad. It's written like a novel but is in fact the true story of a SomaliNorwegian family whos two teenage daughters got radicalised and went to Syria to join the Islamic State and their dad who went after them to take them home. It is really interesting and heartwrenching.


Complaint of the day: My regular headache got a friend on the opposite side. My sinuses are stuffed as well. Lovley day today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 22, 2019, 01:11:44 AM
My trivial complaint of the day is people coughing or sneezing into their hands. It's like they want to spread it.


Absolutely no kidding on this. My mother has a compromised immune system and a lot of respiratory issues and she's just come down with another cold because people cannot cough behind their hands, I guess...

Last one of those she had she ended up in hospital for a week with pneumonia. I really hope it isn't one of those colds.

@Beldarna, no kidding. Although there would need to be far more mudslinging and backbiting to make that clip really reflective.

@Ponyfan - the insurance system sounds horrible. With all that's going on here, politically, and who is making the decisions, or trying to, I really worry we might end up with that kind of system in the future.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on October 22, 2019, 05:28:10 AM
@Ponyfan - the insurance system sounds horrible. With all that's going on here, politically, and who is making the decisions, or trying to, I really worry we might end up with that kind of system in the future.

I would sooner die than have an American-style health care system. I will take to the streets and riot if they get rid of the NHS. I am absolutely not joking.

Complaint: Poor birb has a bad tummy and needs to go to the vet :c I hate stressing her, but last time she had a bad tummy, she needed medication, so she needs to go this time as well. Old girl won't be happy with me tomorrow
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 22, 2019, 07:41:07 AM
And the insurance saga continues... My dr's office said they won't do anything without a paper fax and when I called the pharmacy (4th time I've called them now) they said they don't send paper faxes only electronic ones. I just want to get my medicine so I can get better  :enraged:




Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on October 22, 2019, 10:20:43 AM
Attn, gross...
Spoiler
And men spitting on the ground. Swallow! SWALLOW! Use that primal mechanism, please. Why are they doing this? And 'best' is when they do it right in front of you like some animal marking its territory. Even 'better' when they snort and really collect that snot before they spit...

The only thing I can think is that they want to appear more "alpha" as in, trying to assert their dominance or something. I dunno, as a dude and I absolutely do not condone nor fully understand this behavior.

If that truly is connected to showing dominance I have to laugh because no man I know finds that threatening. Disrespectful, maybe.
It always strikes me as a childish way to show how rebellious you are. Like "I drink, spit n smoke and you can't stop me, mum!!!" or yanno, they are just trying to gross people out like 5 year olds :lol: Certainly works on me. Next time I'll spit back and watch the reaction XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 22, 2019, 04:02:01 PM
My birthday hasn't gone well :cloud:

It's a lot better than last year, I didn't have to put a pet to sleep, but overall it still turned out to be a bad day. At least I have some yummy sushi.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 24, 2019, 01:53:17 PM
Finally got my prescription but had to use Good Rx since my health insurance  wouldn’t pay for it. It ended up costing double than when the insurance pays part of the price but far less than it would have without Good Rx.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on October 24, 2019, 09:40:31 PM
It's raining. No wait, let me rephrase that....it's RAINING ELEPHANTS!  There's already a foot of water in the parking lot and it's not gonna slow down for at least 3 hours. If I'd known, I'd have brought my waders!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 25, 2019, 09:49:17 AM
Here I was foolishly believing that autumn was here for good when it had gotten so cold in September, but then in October a stupid warm front came from Africa and now it's almost like summer again :hot: :yikes: Thankfully it's supposed to go back to normal in a few days from now, but I don't like where things are going with climate these days...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 26, 2019, 10:46:45 AM
I would take warm. It's rained almost all day yesterday and today. That's not my complaint, though.

I mentioned before my mother's got a cold...or something...we're not totally sure if it's a cold or a chest infection or what at this point - but she went down to the doctor to get stuff for her asthma and she got soaked THEN had to wait 45 minutes because the doctor was running late, THEN had to go get her prescription and walk home.

My parents no longer have a car and the surgery is close by, but seriously?

Not the ideal situation given her immune system issues.

On other notes - the delusional fans are at it again. I should just ignore them but when they're reinventing what happens in scenes to fit their weird concept of the story, it's so hard to bite my tongue.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on October 26, 2019, 11:26:19 AM
A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 26, 2019, 11:43:38 AM
I'm sorry that happened to your mother Taffeta.  :( 



On other notes - the delusional fans are at it again. I should just ignore them but when they're reinventing what happens in scenes to fit their weird concept of the story, it's so hard to bite my tongue.


I was reading some fanfiction stories and I had to stop reading some of them for that very reason.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on October 26, 2019, 01:22:16 PM
A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.

URGH, totally agreed! I was close friends with a male co-worker about this time last year and someone else I was working with asked if we were a couple and I said no and she replied with "well you should be, I totally ship you guys!" Made me feel sick
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 26, 2019, 01:25:18 PM
A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.
That stuff really annoys me. You are not to matchmake others. It's like when this random customer told me I should date my coworker. Why? he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it anymore obvious?
I think calling it shipping is a whole nother level of disrespect. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 26, 2019, 05:00:18 PM
A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.

Is he twelve? Man, I am glad my small circle of friends probably don't know what shipping even is. Sorry you deal with such stupidity.

---

My sister is sick but she's being so dramatic about it, it's hard to feel sorry for her.

My face is breaking out bad.

I can hear my Dad watching Fox News in the other room.

I ate too fast and gave myself a headache.

Earlier I dropped a pill and it rolled way under my bed. I had to get on the floor to find it.

Social media is... a thing.

*sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 26, 2019, 11:56:06 PM
Here I was foolishly believing that autumn was here for good when it had gotten so cold in September, but then in October a stupid warm front came from Africa and now it's almost like summer again :hot: :yikes: Thankfully it's supposed to go back to normal in a few days from now, but I don't like where things are going with climate these days...

Tell me about it. We hade a nice cold crisp air and even snow, the temperature going -7 degree C, and now it's like +7 and rain.


I'm sorry to hear that about your mother Taffeta. I hope she's recovering though. :hug:


A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.

 :blink: :shocked:

A dude who has only seen me 3 times and doesn't even know my last name has a crush on me. How is that even possible. And then someone told me she "ships" us. The heck? I am off the market. How dare you "ship me" with some stranger just because he like-likes me.

Some people really lack respect. I am not a fictional character.

URGH, totally agreed! I was close friends with a male co-worker about this time last year and someone else I was working with asked if we were a couple and I said no and she replied with "well you should be, I totally ship you guys!" Made me feel sick

For reals? I mean.. like.. wow..



Yesterday was the annual Halloween party and despite me working this weekend I wanted to go so off I went, and I got home early because of work. The clocks were turned back this night so I felt I would do anyway with an hour of extra sleep. But no, I got home around 1 am. 3 am I had yet to fall a sleep, finally slept and woke like six am. My alarm was put on 8, formely nine am. Still I only got four hours of sleep and my headache is acting up.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyMoondancer on October 27, 2019, 08:46:05 AM
The people who designed my house put weird-shaped lights in the kitchen instead of regular light bulbs.  There's one fixture that looks just like any normal "dome" kitchen light but there's a 9" circular bulb inside it??

It is so hard to find the right bulbs! 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 27, 2019, 12:05:36 PM
It's about one million degrees outside :hot:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 27, 2019, 04:53:23 PM
Thanks guys. Yeah, she seems to be doing better at the moment - cautious optimism as you never really know with her :P

As for the shipping thing, it's like reality broke somewhere in their heads or something. It's one thing to ship any story character with any other story character (they're made up, so probably they don't mind all that much, even if some of the ships are a bit far fetched) but you can't just apply those same rules to real people. "You said good morning to him once so now I'm going to impose my ideas on you of how you should live together".

Gah. Sorry that stuff happened.

I get a bit creeped out online with people calling anime characters their husbands/wives/sons/whatever (they're not real!) though I guess it's a free world, but today I saw someone say, and I quote, "I would literally die for him to be happy."

...About a fictional character.

...From a manga series.

I mean, I have a lot of anime characters I like very much. Would I die for any of them? Obviously not.

Reality. Maybe it went out with the twentieth century? Or maybe I'm just old. Dunno...the world is weird.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 27, 2019, 10:52:21 PM
I get a bit creeped out online with people calling anime characters their husbands/wives/sons/whatever (they're not real!) though I guess it's a free world, but today I saw someone say, and I quote, "I would literally die for him to be happy."
She's likely 15.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on October 28, 2019, 01:58:24 AM
If my input is valid, I can kinda semi relate.

Spoiler
For a significant chunk of my teenage years, I would've had the same sentiment for a certain character but it mostly stemmed from being unable to feel bonds, being rejected because of my weird behaviour, having issues ignored, ect so as a literal reason to live and having not felt such a genuine/real-est connection thing before, I fell head over heels for him and would've probably died for him were he real.

But that may just be me, since some teens (and maybe some adults) may just be going through new extreme or amplified emotions.

Now I have a basic feeling for human to human bonds, have much more self worth, ect but I still consider him attractive, emotionally attached to him and he's an important part of my life.

Maybe tangent, idk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on October 29, 2019, 11:14:55 PM
I woke up to -9 degrees, that's like 15F. In October! :blink: What in the world?? :shocked: At least we have snow..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 30, 2019, 01:43:17 PM
Walking over Westminster Bridge in London today and being held up due to crowds dawdling around those cup-and-ball scammers.
I lost count how many groups of scammers there were along the bridge.

Do folks actually fall for this old trick? Some must do...  :shrug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 30, 2019, 01:52:25 PM
Walking over Westminster Bridge in London today and being held up due to crowds dawdling around those cup-and-ball scammers.
I lost count how many groups of scammers there were along the bridge.

Do folks actually fall for this old trick? Some must do...  :shrug:
Looked it up...my Dad taught me this trick when I was 5 for fun. They're still doing this? It sounds like something from the early 1900s.
My complaint of the day: I'm still sick! I'm congested and fatigued but had a math test and couldn't miss it today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 30, 2019, 04:10:42 PM
My sister is sick but she's being so dramatic about it, it's hard to feel sorry for her.

Quoting myself for an update... She's been in the hospital for three days. I guess she was as bad off as she said. She had a large kidney stone that got infected and the infection ran through her whole body. Had to have emergency surgery and a ton of meds.

So I kinda feel like a huge jerk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 31, 2019, 04:00:20 PM
My sister is sick but she's being so dramatic about it, it's hard to feel sorry for her.

Quoting myself for an update... She's been in the hospital for three days. I guess she was as bad off as she said. She had a large kidney stone that got infected and the infection ran through her whole body. Had to have emergency surgery and a ton of meds.

So I kinda feel like a huge jerk.

I hope she feels better soon ><

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 31, 2019, 07:47:37 PM
Why are Blu-Ray cases so flimsy? I have one that has a hole in the bottom (came that way from the website I ordered from) and just tonight I was opening another case that had only been opened once before to make sure the right discs were included and the top is trying to separate from the bottom.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on November 01, 2019, 03:46:17 AM
Friends I am going to be death as I'm rushing a not even half complete assignment to get it submitted tonight by 11:59pm. Rip me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 01, 2019, 06:25:33 AM
I'm just going to skip class today which in itself isn't a huge deal but I'm frustrated that colleges rarely consider commuters. We had a horrible bout of wind last night that uprooted a tree in the backyard and toppled the top few branches of a much larger tree, and my mom damaged the car on the way to work because of a limb she didn't see. It took my dad 40 minutes to get to work that takes 10 mins usually.
The campus close to me that I take a shuttle from to main campus itself is closed, there's a power outage. The bus is still running but I'd be scared to rely on it considering just how much damage there is.
I can understand that main wouldn't have a ton of issues, it's in the city, but there's quite a few people who commute on the shuttle with me, I'd imagine there'd be quite a few more considering how many people drive in and take the subway. I wish they'd just have no class today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 02, 2019, 05:16:42 AM
I slept like garbage :mad: I haven't been feeling very well the past few days but my sister is still in the hospital so I've had to pick up the slack around the house (our parents both had strokes and have difficulty doing things) and it's just ugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. I just want some decent rest and sleep :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 02, 2019, 06:43:07 PM
Big Easy Con in New Orleans has one day left and nobody's bought any of my stuff.  It's a smaller con, I think it's the first year, but they have the craft tables far away from where everything is happening so it seems like nobody's making it over there.  Even the stars at the autograph tables nearest to our booth seem bored.  I wasn't counting on selling everything but I thought I'd at least sell something.  My friend is selling her stuff (she makes crochet things, I have painted things) so I'm glad for her but everyone just says my stuff is "really cute!" but doesn't buy it.  I don't think it's over priced (I have stuff as cheap as $5) so I'm going to chalk it up to bad con attendance.  It's just a little disheartening to think that you created something adorable (everyone at work wants to buy what I've made) but nobody actually buys any of it.  Oh well.  One more day to try...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 03, 2019, 01:07:34 AM
Seriously, Halloween is not a National Holliday here, it's a curiosity that has trickled over through movies and other medias over the years and has as a concept grown bigger and bigger and is now considered one of the huge marketweeks in the retail industri. Before it was only nightclubs and school discos and the odd home party that took notice. Now it is full blown with Trick and Treaters, pumpkins and the lot (heck, when I was a teen, getting a pumpkin was hard, we got creative with oranges etc instead).

Over the past three or four years kids doing trick or treat has become a very annoying thing and parents have decided the overall concensus is that if you decorate the house for Halloween, you must accept these trick or treaters. Some parents claim that if your porch light is on, that means you also accept trick or treaters. So now, people who don't celebrate this thing have to black out their yards so the kids wont come there. I live in an apartment complex. Up here it's dark already at five pm. But I can't put my balcony lights on this week.. not that it stops the kids though. This shouldn't be a huge problem, but as earlier stated, 31st octobre is not a public Holliday here, it's a normal weekday so the kids don't stick to just that day, I've had trick or treaters behind the door the entire week! :mad: I usually like Halloween, my favorite nightclub has had a party since the 90's and I've been going there since I was 19. It used to be fun, but now I can't decorate, can't even light my balcony in the evening and I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY CANDY! :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on November 03, 2019, 01:48:07 PM
and I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY CANDY! :pout:

:haha:

I’m always a bit sad that I live too far out in the country to get trick-or-treaters... But I guess that means more candy for me, lol? XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 03, 2019, 02:01:34 PM
My mobile (cellphone) for some reason won't read my micro-SD card  :cry: It reads on desktop, but not in the phone, so I'm doing a backup and gonna wipe it
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on November 03, 2019, 02:29:05 PM
As for the shipping thing, it's like reality broke somewhere in their heads or something. It's one thing to ship any story character with any other story character (they're made up, so probably they don't mind all that much, even if some of the ships are a bit far fetched) but you can't just apply those same rules to real people. "You said good morning to him once so now I'm going to impose my ideas on you of how you should live together".

I think some people are saying it for fun (like I sometimes say to my friends "I ship you" when they stand next to eachother) but when it's said about someone who has a crush on you IRL it gets creepy real fast. Like people should be supporting the one who says "no", not the one who pines for someone unavailable.
Does anyone honestly want to know with whom your random aquaintance ships you with? Because I feel this stuff is always unappreciated. Nobody wants to be told what is essentially: "I don't support your relationship, be with somebody else" :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 03, 2019, 02:40:18 PM
I had to sit in my house with all of the lights off on Halloween night so I wouldn't have trick or treaters. I don't mind handing out candy but I didn't have enough candy to give out to more than 5-10 people. One year after the front door was closed  and the porch light was off but the lights inside the house were on there were still people ringing the doorbell.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 03, 2019, 07:25:02 PM
I had to sit in my house with all of the lights off on Halloween night so I wouldn't have trick or treaters. I don't mind handing out candy but I didn't have enough candy to give out to more than 5-10 people. One year after the front door was closed  and the porch light was off but the lights inside the house were on there were still people ringing the doorbell.


Ponyfan

At that point you hand out cans of spinach and Lima beans.  Those kids will NEVER come back.   :devious:

The hotel room I'm in doesn't have a phone.  I thought it was because everyone has cell phones but I mentioned it to the front desk staff last night (because the neighbors were being loud and I had to go down to tell the staff) and the lady was like "You should have a phone in your room" so she came in and looked and our phone is indeed gone.  Who steals a phone from a hotel room?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 03, 2019, 08:01:16 PM
Why do my nails keep getting so dirty? :crazy: I wash my hands all the time and haven't been doing anything anyway? They look like I've been gardening or something. Maybe it's brown fuzz from my blanket? It's weirding me out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kingluke on November 04, 2019, 08:18:33 AM
my cat went missing because some dumb people thought he was lost when in fact he was 2 streets away. Cost me about 2 days of stress and 35 bucks. Ignorant people make me furious!  :pout: :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on November 05, 2019, 01:24:20 PM
Seriously, Halloween is not a National Holliday here, it's a curiosity that has trickled over through movies and other medias over the years and has as a concept grown bigger and bigger and is now considered one of the huge marketweeks in the retail industri. Before it was only nightclubs and school discos and the odd home party that took notice. Now it is full blown with Trick and Treaters, pumpkins and the lot (heck, when I was a teen, getting a pumpkin was hard, we got creative with oranges etc instead).

Over the past three or four years kids doing trick or treat has become a very annoying thing and parents have decided the overall concensus is that if you decorate the house for Halloween, you must accept these trick or treaters. Some parents claim that if your porch light is on, that means you also accept trick or treaters. So now, people who don't celebrate this thing have to black out their yards so the kids wont come there. I live in an apartment complex. Up here it's dark already at five pm. But I can't put my balcony lights on this week.. not that it stops the kids though. This shouldn't be a huge problem, but as earlier stated, 31st octobre is not a public Holliday here, it's a normal weekday so the kids don't stick to just that day, I've had trick or treaters behind the door the entire week! :mad: I usually like Halloween, my favorite nightclub has had a party since the 90's and I've been going there since I was 19. It used to be fun, but now I can't decorate, can't even light my balcony in the evening and I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY CANDY! :pout:

It's not a national holiday here in the US either.  Which is so weird and kind of annoying as I would like Halloweens off.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2019, 02:17:57 PM
Disney’s The  Little Mermaid is one of my favorite Disney movies and  I also enjoy most of  the songs from the Broadway show.  I was only able to watch a few minutes of The Little Mermaid  live show and  I was disappointed with the short portion that I saw. The animated movie had scenes cut out to fit in the live performances. I knew the songs would be live but I didn’t expect the film to be cut in other places to fit (such as Sebastian and the chef at the very end.)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 06, 2019, 06:40:36 PM
Just got a text saying my flight in the morning had been cancelled and to reschedule it.  Oy.  At least I hadn't tried to go to bed early in order to get up for said cancelled flight... :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on November 06, 2019, 06:47:54 PM
Ack my toy corner is ever growing and I love my fictional husband too much
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 06, 2019, 06:57:15 PM
Depressed -_-

A game I've been looking forward to came out yesterday but I can't get into it. I want to but my brain just isn't giving out the dopamine.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 06, 2019, 11:09:16 PM
Seriously, Halloween is not a National Holliday here, it's a curiosity that has trickled over through movies and other medias over the years and has as a concept grown bigger and bigger and is now considered one of the huge marketweeks in the retail industri. Before it was only nightclubs and school discos and the odd home party that took notice. Now it is full blown with Trick and Treaters, pumpkins and the lot (heck, when I was a teen, getting a pumpkin was hard, we got creative with oranges etc instead).

Over the past three or four years kids doing trick or treat has become a very annoying thing and parents have decided the overall concensus is that if you decorate the house for Halloween, you must accept these trick or treaters. Some parents claim that if your porch light is on, that means you also accept trick or treaters. So now, people who don't celebrate this thing have to black out their yards so the kids wont come there. I live in an apartment complex. Up here it's dark already at five pm. But I can't put my balcony lights on this week.. not that it stops the kids though. This shouldn't be a huge problem, but as earlier stated, 31st octobre is not a public Holliday here, it's a normal weekday so the kids don't stick to just that day, I've had trick or treaters behind the door the entire week! :mad: I usually like Halloween, my favorite nightclub has had a party since the 90's and I've been going there since I was 19. It used to be fun, but now I can't decorate, can't even light my balcony in the evening and I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY CANDY! :pout:

It's not a national holiday here in the US either.  Which is so weird and kind of annoying as I would like Halloweens off.

It's not? :blink: Huh, I learned something new. Maybe I thought so as people always seems to be off work in the movies.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 08, 2019, 06:54:59 AM
I think I might have caught a cold yesterday.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on November 09, 2019, 06:02:56 PM
It's pretty annoying when you block someone and they make two new accounts to harass you for it in a public comments section. It's especially more annoying when other people tell you that you need to be more tolerant of others and that you shouldn't block them.

No. If I want someone to leave me alone, I'm going to block them. That's why there's an option to block. This person also thought that I blocked them because they had a different opinion than me. No. If that was the case I'd have also blocked a ton of other people on that site. I don't block people over differing opinions.

They should've gotten the hint the first time I blocked them. But no. They made another account and publicly called me out. I blocked them again. Then a third account showed up, now using more extreme language, and again it was public.

 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SunbeamV on November 09, 2019, 06:13:21 PM
people are already blasting christmas carols and putting up obnoxious decor and i'm jewish and tired

also i love my new tattoo but my whole forearm feels like sandpaper now and i wanna rip my skin off
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 09, 2019, 07:15:17 PM
I can't do anything without getting out of breath and having pain in my chest. My doctor was going to refer me to a new cardiologist but I haven't gotten a letter yet. I'm worried there's something wrong but I don't want to go to the hospital.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 09, 2019, 08:02:58 PM
people are already blasting christmas carols and putting up obnoxious decor and i'm jewish and tired

I celebrate Christmas and I hate that people are already obsessed with Christmas.  Seriously, can't we at least get through Thanksgiving first?  You know...talk about being thankful for what we have before we run out and get a second mortgage just to have what everyone else has on Black Friday?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on November 10, 2019, 04:56:37 AM
Theres a couple kids across the street who have been playing basketball in the afternoon, and the dribbling of the ball keeps waking me up. I don't feel like I can say anything though because they're playing at a perfectly reasonable time, and they're not being obnoxious. I just happen to work overnight shifts and their playtime is when I need to sleep. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 10, 2019, 05:02:53 AM
people are already blasting christmas carols and putting up obnoxious decor and i'm jewish and tired

I celebrate Christmas and I hate that people are already obsessed with Christmas.  Seriously, can't we at least get through Thanksgiving first?  You know...talk about being thankful for what we have before we run out and get a second mortgage just to have what everyone else has on Black Friday?

Here it's 5th November - or it always used to be - that after 5th November the Christmas stuff started. But here in the UK stuff has been up since well before Hallowe'en. I think it's because so many retail outlets are struggling, though (especially here, with Brexit uncertainty still on the horizon for the third Christmas running) so that's a part of it. They begin early. And now we have Black Friday here too (which, frankly, is stupid because we don't have Thanksgiving) it puts additional strain on as people end up waiting for the sales instead of shopping normally. So that means they begin earlier.

It's like you get hot cross buns in stores in January, as well as Easter eggs. It bugs me too. Things should come in their normal seasonal time, not randomly stretched to fill other months because stores don't know what to do...

@Poniesthatsparkle - that sucks. I have experienced that (sadly here in the pony community a long time ago). All I can suggest you do is put serious distance between you and them by not responding and not posting on that account for a bit until things die down.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 10, 2019, 02:21:27 PM
I'm sick again for the 3rd time in a month. :sad:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: AvianWing on November 12, 2019, 08:34:09 PM
How did the temperature seriously drop 30 degrees in one afternoon/evening?  :cold:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 12, 2019, 09:05:51 PM
I woke up all sweaty. I hate that. I also woke up with a headache and heartburn. Not. Fun. :mad:

My eczema is flaring up too and I think I have a new spot on my scalp of all places. It's at the end of my craniotomy scar so it's extra itchy. Ugh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 12, 2019, 10:16:14 PM
It's been raining all night, so all the wonderful snow we had is now slush and ice. Gonna be fun going to work today,
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 13, 2019, 06:10:41 AM
Sailor Moon Stars part 2 came out yesterday in the US. I was really excited to get it but the store that always has Sailor Moon DVDs didn't have it yesterday.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 13, 2019, 06:52:29 AM
I can't find my good gloves! They're probably in the pocket of my good coat. Which I can't find either. Waah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on November 13, 2019, 08:48:03 AM
I woke up all sweaty. I hate that. I also woke up with a headache and heartburn. Not. Fun. :mad:

My eczema is flaring up too and I think I have a new spot on my scalp of all places. It's at the end of my craniotomy scar so it's extra itchy. Ugh!
Hope you get better soon!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 13, 2019, 10:00:10 AM
Sailor Moon Stars part 2 came out yesterday in the US. I was really excited to get it but the store that always has Sailor Moon DVDs didn't have it yesterday.


Ponyfan

I found that as well!  I don't know if they didn't get their shipment or if their employees just didn't get around to putting it out (around here that's a real issue-people expecting to be paid without actually doing anything).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 13, 2019, 10:54:36 AM
Sailor Moon Stars part 2 came out yesterday in the US. I was really excited to get it but the store that always has Sailor Moon DVDs didn't have it yesterday.


Ponyfan

I found that as well!  I don't know if they didn't get their shipment or if their employees just didn't get around to putting it out (around here that's a real issue-people expecting to be paid without actually doing anything).

I checked a different store today and they didn’t have it either but the employees were still unboxing DVDs and putting them out. Maybe something did happen with their shipment as I can’t even find it listed on Walmart.com yet.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on November 13, 2019, 03:16:05 PM
I have recently started a new job at the Post Office and some of the customers are unbelievable! Adults walking in asking how to send a letter because they've never done it before. People putting a UK 2nd class stamp on their massive parcel that's going to Australia. I turn my back for one second and someone's taken our whole supply of passport forms. Someone thinking  stamps, envelopes and packaging are all free... No it's the Royal Mail not the NHS!! It's an eye-opener to the real stupid of society.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 13, 2019, 10:20:29 PM
I have recently started a new job at the Post Office and some of the customers are unbelievable! Adults walking in asking how to send a letter because they've never done it before. People putting a UK 2nd class stamp on their massive parcel that's going to Australia. I turn my back for one second and someone's taken our whole supply of passport forms. Someone thinking  stamps, envelopes and packaging are all free... No it's the Royal Mail not the NHS!! It's an eye-opener to the real stupid of society.

Welcome to the world of Customer Service :biggrin: Also, if you haven't already been there https://notalwaysright.com/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 14, 2019, 03:38:14 AM
I have recently started a new job at the Post Office and some of the customers are unbelievable! Adults walking in asking how to send a letter because they've never done it before. People putting a UK 2nd class stamp on their massive parcel that's going to Australia. I turn my back for one second and someone's taken our whole supply of passport forms. Someone thinking  stamps, envelopes and packaging are all free... No it's the Royal Mail not the NHS!! It's an eye-opener to the real stupid of society.

I once saw a guy in the post office near where my parents live, who came in to do some kind of transaction.
His card didn't work in the machine and he ended up yelling abuse at the clerk as if it was his fault.
He stormed off and so the clerk started serving me, next in the queue...

I post stuff a lot so international things I bring ready marked up and with custom forms and airmail labels which was clearly a relief to this poor guy. But in the middle of our transaction that customer turned up again. He started saying that he'd accidentally used his wife's pin or card or something and so now he could do the transaction. Came straight up to the desk while the clerk was serving me and tried to butt in.

Clerk was awesome. Told him that he'd have to go join the queue now again as he was serving and there were other people waiting.

On this occasion the clerk was the only one on duty (it's not a huge post office and not in a huge town).

The customer was an older guy...who apparently thought the PO was his personal space.

I worked for a long time in a library on the front desk and experienced a lot of this kind of thing from people, though. Sadly it's true that the person behind the counter gets a lot of garbage. I used to put out newspapers only to find them shredded into sections and tossed all over the place by the end of the day. If you can read a paper, you can put it back neatly, right? Apparently not. And the stuff people would try to get onto the computers if they had no ID...sigh.

The reality of the world is that people, in general, suck. They may be nice to the people they like, but their true nature comes out when they expect someone to provide them with a service. We live in a really entitled world where the customer thinks they are amazing and the only person in existence, thus nobody else matters. Sad observation, but unfortunately true...

And of course when they get something wrong then they get angry like it's your fault because how could it be theirs? Sigh. This is also symptomatic of the UK in general right now, tbh, but yeah. Customer service is like that. You get to see the real face of people working on the front line.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 14, 2019, 10:37:38 AM
I checked a store again for Sailor Moon Stars part 2 and still can’t find it. :( I was really hoping to get a copy in time for the weekend. I even contacted Viz about not being able to find the DVD and just got a standard response of check out the webpage for retailers. The store I’m checking is listed as a retailer and they carry many Viz titles but I can’t find Sailor Moon.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 14, 2019, 12:06:42 PM
we need the furnace replaced, that is gonna be a few grand.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kandykidsaturn on November 14, 2019, 02:24:18 PM
I got a spinal injection for my herniated disc related back and leg pain yesterday.  While that pain is gone, it triggered a horrible headache that I’ve been stuck in bed all day with.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 15, 2019, 06:44:05 AM
The AC went out last night. We're in a cool front with low humidity so it wasn't bad... until it started to rain! Oh, and as soon as the rain stopped the prisoners showed up to do yard work. So not only is it humid now but my allergies are going to go crazy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 15, 2019, 09:21:23 AM
I'm very frustrated with this chapter of Stats and it feels like everything is crashing in on me emotionally. I'm worn out, my appetite is poor, my PMS is starting, and everything just feels like too much. Maybe when the PMS clears up in a week I'll feel better, but right now I just want to stay home and mope in bed.  :shrug: It's always so hard to tell how much of it is my actual anxiety and how much of it is my hormones.
I just have to survive this week and then next week, and then it'll be Thanksgiving break. But then it's final crunch time, so I'm not sure if that's a positive.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 17, 2019, 12:59:29 PM
I'm trying not to be ticked. I bought my kid 40 bucks in eshop cards and she lost all three of them on our way home. Went all the way back to the store to look n couldn't find em.  She felt really bad about it, so I lied n told her it was okay and not to worry...but it was 40 bucks down the drain n that's not chump change for us. So yeah, secretly, I'm still really ticked.

 *sigh*  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on November 17, 2019, 01:36:51 PM
I've finished my serving of flaming hot Cheetos, but I want more  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 17, 2019, 01:37:51 PM
I'm trying not to be ticked. I bought my kid 40 bucks in eshop cards and she lost all three of them on our way home. Went all the way back to the store to look n couldn't find em.  She felt really bad about it, so I lied n told her it was okay and not to worry...but it was 40 bucks down the drain n that's not chump change for us. So yeah, secretly, I'm still really ticked.

 *sigh*  -_-


I'm sorry that happened Leave a Whisper. :sad:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 17, 2019, 02:45:35 PM
I'm trying not to be ticked. I bought my kid 40 bucks in eshop cards and she lost all three of them on our way home. Went all the way back to the store to look n couldn't find em.  She felt really bad about it, so I lied n told her it was okay and not to worry...but it was 40 bucks down the drain n that's not chump change for us. So yeah, secretly, I'm still really ticked.

 *sigh*  -_-


I'm sorry that happened Leave a Whisper. :sad:


Ponyfan

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on November 18, 2019, 06:57:24 PM
Had a successful thrifting session yesterday... or so we thought. I'm putting it in spoilers due to a blood mention.

Spoiler
My youngest brother picked up an excellent copy of Ian Falconer's Olivia at the thrift store yesterday. It was beautiful, thing looked brand new!
...Until we brought it home, turned it over and found a small amount of dried blood on the dust jacket. Further inspection found more on the last page; someone must have gotten a paper cut while handling it. We threw it away. :(


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 19, 2019, 08:14:21 AM
I don't know what is going on with the machines in this house but everything is acting haywire today. My tablet pen wasn't responding for no good reason. Despite not indicting it was low, my phone cut off in the middle of an important call. The printer is plain not working, it says it's connected to the network ok but all the computers say it's offline - no clue how to fix it. It took two tries to get my desktop running. The taskbar stopped responding immediately (which might be a Win 10 update glitch?) and then it kept kicking me offline. Seems to be working fine now... for now.

I'm scared to use anything else that has a circuit board  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 19, 2019, 09:21:53 AM
Those bozos lost my id in the mail. Now I hafta go back tomorrow and get a replacement, for my replacement.  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 19, 2019, 11:04:02 PM
Mouse (my cat) is peeing on the carpet by accident. I bought a third litter box to keep in my bedroom because her and our other cat don't get along and I wanted her to have a fully stocked safe space. This litter box is different from the other two. It must be shorter since when she tries to pee in the corner it just sails right over the edge. It wasn't expensive, only like 8 bucks on Amazon but now I have to get carpet cleaner and put down a towel or something until I get another one. I guess I should measure it and make sure it's the same height as the old ones.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 20, 2019, 04:53:20 AM
I ordered an item from Amazon Saturday and it still hasn't shipped yet. I know I'm being too impatient because it's an item I'm really looking forward to getting but it feels like all of my other Amazon orders shipped fast even though I'm not a prime member but this one seems to be moving very slowly. Maybe it will ship today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 20, 2019, 07:37:46 AM
If one more customer licks their fingers before giving me money I am going to SCREAM  :enraged:

I've been having nightmares for two weeks, I just want them to stooppppp
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2019, 07:48:49 AM
Mouse (my cat) is peeing on the carpet by accident. I bought a third litter box to keep in my bedroom because her and our other cat don't get along and I wanted her to have a fully stocked safe space. This litter box is different from the other two. It must be shorter since when she tries to pee in the corner it just sails right over the edge. It wasn't expensive, only like 8 bucks on Amazon but now I have to get carpet cleaner and put down a towel or something until I get another one. I guess I should measure it and make sure it's the same height as the old ones.

Oh ugh. That sucks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 20, 2019, 01:42:51 PM
On the train to London this morning, I was sat in a 2-seater, facing the opposite way to the motion of the train (I prefer facing where I am going + looking out of the window when travelling alone) anyway, for half of the journey all I could hear was some gross guy snuffling and grunting, honestly, it was animalistic! BLOW YOUR NOSE, MISTER!

When folks got off the train half-way through the journey, I managed to move away from Mr Grunt to a table seat. Ah yes. Peace.

Then...

3 other random folks came and sat with me. The guy next to me was breathing heavily and I could smell his very stale garlic breath.  :X  (I enjoy garlic, but this was rancid)

Then, a warm waft of another stench... was is bad BO? No. A woman 3 seats from me was eating a hot Greggs meal of some sort, it involved onions and stunk. BAD. I must have pulled a face in disgust as the woman caught my eye, but continued to chomp through.

I got my puzzle book out and sweated it out with some suguru  :cool:

Arrrgh! Stinky, noisy people on trains!!! 

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 24, 2019, 03:39:56 AM
I have tried FOUR times to superglue my Funko Princess Luna's tail back on, but it just won't stick! I know you need to hold it in place while it attaches, but it doesn't seem to be taking at all!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: kingluke on November 25, 2019, 07:16:32 AM
I send messages to multiple arena members and and I got zero replies. The messages are weeks old by now! It was to help both of them so no help for you I guess. i can even see they have been online too.
Also same with someone on Instagram. Just plain not replying on my comment. Again same situation with my job. I ask for a colleague for help, nothing. My boss asks another for help. nothing. my boss is also a hot mess sometimes. Spelling mistakes in multiple e-mails, addressing me with the wrong name, asking me near impossible stuff...Anything for pony money I assume...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 25, 2019, 07:37:13 AM
It snowed again.  Again people here can't drive in it.  There were six slide-offs that I saw on my way in, one of which was stopping traffic going the opposite direction from me.  Guess where the snow plows were?  Yup...in the line of cars trying to get past the slide-off so neither side of the road was getting plowed. 

SLOW DOWN PEOPLE! 

I went 25 MPH the entire way to work.  I left 15 minutes earlier than usual and was 10 minutes late.  Do I care?  Nope.  My boss is just happy that I made it in because people who live closer were calling in because "the roads were too scary" (even though they live IN town and the roads there are plowed!). 

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on November 26, 2019, 11:57:22 AM
It snowed again.  Again people here can't drive in it.  There were six slide-offs that I saw on my way in, one of which was stopping traffic going the opposite direction from me.  Guess where the snow plows were?  Yup...in the line of cars trying to get past the slide-off so neither side of the road was getting plowed. 

SLOW DOWN PEOPLE! 

I went 25 MPH the entire way to work.  I left 15 minutes earlier than usual and was 10 minutes late.  Do I care?  Nope.  My boss is just happy that I made it in because people who live closer were calling in because "the roads were too scary" (even though they live IN town and the roads there are plowed!).

I can empathize, as when the first snowfall hits here people all of a sudden forget how to drive and its chaos.  It happens every year, like how can you forget?!
And good on you for making it in!  :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on November 26, 2019, 12:17:24 PM
I was outside and a wasp landed on me. A wasp. December is less than a week away! Bugs are supposed to have gone dormant a month ago!

Screw this mild weather. Bring on the snow so these harmful pests go away once and for all!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 26, 2019, 12:24:05 PM
Yes, why don't people slow down when it is snowing and icy! I actually slid last year on ice (didn't hit anything, was driving in a fairly empty road) because someone behind me was getting too close to me and I tried to brake on the ice to not hit the person in front. Everyone is always in a rush, just slow down and don't hurt anyone.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on November 26, 2019, 04:05:18 PM
I want to continue this cross-stitch, but it's black thread on black aida and I can't see crap in this light  :silly:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 26, 2019, 04:21:46 PM
It snowed again.  Again people here can't drive in it.  There were six slide-offs that I saw on my way in, one of which was stopping traffic going the opposite direction from me.  Guess where the snow plows were?  Yup...in the line of cars trying to get past the slide-off so neither side of the road was getting plowed. 

SLOW DOWN PEOPLE! 

I went 25 MPH the entire way to work.  I left 15 minutes earlier than usual and was 10 minutes late.  Do I care?  Nope.  My boss is just happy that I made it in because people who live closer were calling in because "the roads were too scary" (even though they live IN town and the roads there are plowed!).

I can empathize, as when the first snowfall hits here people all of a sudden forget how to drive and its chaos.  It happens every year, like how can you forget?!
And good on you for making it in!  :)

Yeah, apparently the highway patrol yesterday had to deal with almost 300 accidents because of the weather.  And we're supposed to get another storm tonight that is even WORSE!  I may call in tomorrow because I just can't handle it.

Also, the Nanowrimo group was scheduled in one room of the library and the library director changed it because of a last minute story time they decided to do and instead of saying we could have the room after the story time, she just said nobody was going to be allowed to use the room.  So there's another group in there now and we're in a smaller room because apparently "nobody" is allowed to use the room that we had SCHEDULED.

The problem is that I work at the library so I'm going to have to come up with a good reason why WE can't use the room but people who weren't scheduled to use the room (there are about 4 of them so it isn't like they needed the biggest room in the building) are allowed to use the room.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on November 26, 2019, 05:47:14 PM
The problem is that I work at the library so I'm going to have to come up with a good reason why WE can't use the room but people who weren't scheduled to use the room (there are about 4 of them so it isn't like they needed the biggest room in the building) are allowed to use the room.
Blame a scheduling error...or administration error!  People don't know what it means but it always sounds super official and final.  Bites you didn't get to use the room though
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on November 27, 2019, 08:32:30 PM
I've been waking up in the early ams for the past three weeks. Sometimes I manage to go back to sleep, sometimes I end up going up. My husband gave me a weighted blanket as an early christmas present which has helped tremendously, but still I have mornings like this one when it's just about after 5 am and I can't go back to sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 28, 2019, 06:26:43 AM
I hate Thanksgiving -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Hannah66665 on November 28, 2019, 07:54:38 PM
We have an uncooked turkey and we're all hungry. Mom's given up and gone back to bed.
Maybe tomorrow...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 29, 2019, 10:15:48 AM
Preface this by saying I don't drive and never have.

It's amazing how my sister can get up and go to the gas station for cigarettes and to her friend's house for pot (which is still illegal in the state of FL) but she can't go get water and ice because "it's Black Friday" and "I'm too tired".

We have no water left and only a small amount of ice. I put a bunch of sodas in the fridge so I'll have something to drink but really it isn't ideal. I want water. My dad went out today too. He goes to McDonald's for coffee every day. Could he have gone to Publix which is NEXT DOOR and gotten a couple of gallons? Noooooo.

 :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 29, 2019, 11:33:31 AM
In the UK full time students don't pay council tax.

All last year my proof of studentship sat on my desk but the council never asked for it once.

Today they decided I owe them council tax because their records are incomplete.

I have moved from the property since and had to have a mad search through my boxes to find the proof.

They also sent the email last thing on a Friday so obviously it can't be settled till Monday at the earliest.

Suffice it to say I am not amused.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2019, 11:15:04 AM
One of my favorite stores to buy anime that always had the new releases recently remolded. Now the anime section is much smaller and the selection of titles is more limited. It makes me a little sad that I can no longer count on this store to have the latest anime release.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 01, 2019, 12:13:12 PM
That I haven't been online here in ages! :throw:


(Hi! :wave: )
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on December 01, 2019, 12:32:15 PM
Why is it that just as I buy 2 separate purchases for ponies I want and pay separate shipping charges that all of a sudden a couple weeks later there's BIN with not only the 2 I just bought but also another one I want and I could have gotten all 3 at once with one shipping charge?! :argh:
First World Problems

Post Merge: December 01, 2019, 12:32:50 PM

That I haven't been online here in ages! :throw:


(Hi! :wave: )
Hi! Good to see you!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 01, 2019, 01:34:23 PM
^ Thanks! ^.^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on December 05, 2019, 03:42:16 AM
I seem to have lost almost my ENTIRE ugly sweater collection. I only have about 5 that I can find. :(

I brought them to be dry cleaned at the end of the holiday season and I swore I put them all in a little cubby closet we have at home but now they don’t seem to be there. I’ve checked literally everywhere I can think to look and even asked my Grandma if she somehow ended up with them but they are nowhere to be found. I’m not sure how, but I fear they may have been accidentally donated. :cry: I’m going crazy and even questioning if I even picked them up from the dry cleaner?? I don’t know how I would forget but that dry cleaner is now out of business so there’s no way for me to check!

My collection was pretty sizable and I’ve been slowly collecting for years. Luckily I was able to find one of my most favorite ones on amazon since it was pretty new, but a lot of them were thrift store finds and likely one of a kind at this point. I won’t be able to ever really replace them. The two I’m going to miss the most were a couple of really lovely Nordic type sweaters. They don’t show up at thrift stores often and the two I had were some of my absolute favorites, I wore them all the time. :(

*Sigh* if nothing else I suppose I don’t have to feel guilty if I find others I want to buy. It’s not like I have too many anymore.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 05, 2019, 05:43:39 AM
When your supermarket has this stunt where you receive an adorable little mini winter building when your groceries are €15 or over, and yours turn out to be €14,86. :jealous:

I really wish to collect them all, but it's expensive enough as it is. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 07, 2019, 09:48:46 AM
Woke up again with a massive headache that won't go away. Why does this happen so often? :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on December 07, 2019, 11:07:44 PM
When your supermarket has this stunt where you receive an adorable little mini winter building when your groceries are €15 or over, and yours turn out to be €14,86. :jealous:

I really wish to collect them all, but it's expensive enough as it is. -_-

Next time, borrow a young child when you go shopping - make sure they are charming and smile at the cashier - you are then in with a chance of getting extra goodies OR having the person in front of you giving you their freebie "would your kid like this?"  :devious:

It worked for me recently when M&S were giving away mini grocery toys  :cool:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 08, 2019, 08:13:50 AM
Haha, that's not a bad idea! XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 08, 2019, 09:30:56 PM
I ordered something from Amazon UK on Cyber Monday, it says it's supposed to arrive in 2-4 days but it has yet to be dispatched (I live in the US).  I'm sure they're behind their estimated dates due to lots of orders (which I get and I'm not annoyed about) but shouldn't they have adjusted the arrival dates at least a little bit?  I know there are ways to still get it here on time but I don't think it's going to happen. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on December 09, 2019, 03:39:27 AM
The air pollution here is horrible here past few days.   >_<
I cant even SEE the building next door
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on December 09, 2019, 03:54:17 AM
Hermes said my parcel was out for delivery on Thursday but it's Monday and no sign of it
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on December 09, 2019, 12:17:35 PM
I bought coffee cups with lids in bulk so I could always enjoy my coffee on the go, but it turns out the styrofoam gives it a weird taste :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Chrissytree on December 09, 2019, 03:06:18 PM
Woke up again with a massive headache that won't go away. Why does this happen so often? :(

Could you be grinding your teeth at night? I got a mouth guard and I sleep so much better and get no morning headaches anymore :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 09, 2019, 04:49:19 PM
Woke up again with a massive headache that won't go away. Why does this happen so often? :(

Could you be grinding your teeth at night? I got a mouth guard and I sleep so much better and get no morning headaches anymore :)

Maybe. I have sleep apnea too which probably doesn't help.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 09, 2019, 07:05:35 PM
I ordered something from Amazon UK on Cyber Monday, it says it's supposed to arrive in 2-4 days but it has yet to be dispatched (I live in the US).  I'm sure they're behind their estimated dates due to lots of orders (which I get and I'm not annoyed about) but shouldn't they have adjusted the arrival dates at least a little bit?  I know there are ways to still get it here on time but I don't think it's going to happen.

They dispatched it today so it should arrive in about 10 days.  Now I sit back and wait...trying to be patient because I've been wanting this for a long while now.   :biggrin:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SunbeamV on December 09, 2019, 09:16:05 PM
I ordered some leggings on black friday and one of them is WAY too small to be the plus size I ordered/it's labelled as but customer service is being a massive pain about exchanging it for a size up.

also, hating Billie Eilish isn't a personality trait. oh my gods. just because she has a soft voice or an edgy aesthetic that isn't your preference doesn't mean she's a bad singer. she's just different. grow up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 10, 2019, 02:06:25 PM
My mom is a terrible, toxic person sometimes -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 10, 2019, 02:28:53 PM
I just realized that once I pay my federal loan, I'm going to have 1/10th of what I had at the start of the semester. I have three semesters left. Sigh, I miss community college prices.  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on December 11, 2019, 01:20:32 PM
I'm trying to help my sister find herself a good service dog prospect, but it seems like every time we contact a breeder, they either ignore us or they don't have any puppies left and forgot to take down their ad. We almost found a promising litter but we won't be able to see the puppies until Monday and they'll likely all be gone by then.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 11, 2019, 02:44:18 PM
I've been having trouble with migraines the last few days. 

Also went to a store today and they had a poster advertising a sale that wasn't valid anymore  :( I know it's a busy season for retail workers and mistakes happen but it was still disappointing that the advertised sale wasn't being honored.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 12, 2019, 07:28:32 AM
Election.

Need I say more.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 12, 2019, 12:26:07 PM
I managed to live through one of my worst nightmares.

My sister bought me a new bed for xmas and they are delivering it today. I pulled all my sheets and stuff off to wash 'em and pulled the bed away from the wall so I could vacuum. There, on the floor in the corner, on the side where I put my head, was a pile of dead ant bodies :crazy:

I'm deathly allergic to RIFA (red imported fire ants - since FL does have a native fire ant but they are not the same) and I have always been terrified of being attacked by them in my sleep. I am so, SO SO glad I sprayed ant killer in that corner and along the wall when we were having heavy rains and ants were coming in through the bathroom and living room. I thought I was being paranoid at the time when I went around and sprayed my entire room.

I'm not 100% sure these ants were RIFA but I don't care. I vacuumed the area and sprayed it again. It's freaky to think they were coming in through that corner for who knows how long... man, I'd rather have ANYTHING else in my house than ants. We had a snake once in the kitchen. I'd take a dozen snakes. Rats, mice, spiders, anything is better than ants :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 13, 2019, 06:07:02 AM
The whole "#ZombieToABillion" campaign makes me sick. In short: if Zombie (The Cranberries) reaches a billion views on YouTube, they will release a better quality version of the video. Zombie is my life, it has been since 1994, but I can’t believe they are taking part in this stupid “like/views” war that is going on today.

I'd hate to attack the (very humble and non-attention seeking) boys for this and I can hardly imagine them as the masterminds behind it, I'm pretty sure it comes from the management. If I turn out to be wrong, I will be shocked. It's ugly and cheap, and Zombie is the LAST song they should use for jokes like this. I only see positive comments about this campaign; I can't believe nobody sees anything wrong with it.

This is old news by the way, but since the two new Zombie T-shirts I ordered have this slogan on the back, I am angry all over again. I will probably cover the slogan with something.

Oh! And while am at it... The Cranberries have been nominated for the Best Rock Album at the Grammys 2020. Awesome, you say? Yeah, not so much. I can't believe the hypocrisy... The Cranberries had already been out of the picture for a very long time, most of their later releases stayed under the radar. You can't make me believe for ONE SECOND that this album would be nominated for a freaking Grammy if Dolores was still here with us. People say she would be so proud... I say she'd turn in her grave if she knew this (and she probably does).

Sorry, I just HAD to vent... This really upsets me. :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 13, 2019, 06:10:45 AM
The song Zombie has been misused and misappropriated and misinterpreted since it was released...it always gets me slightly when it gets used or trivialised for something that it wasn't first meant to signify. If I remember rightly the record company didn't want them to release it because it commented on things that crossed boundaries - but they released it anyway.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 13, 2019, 08:20:38 AM
I am annoyed that I can only order 3 each of certain Funko Pops (the Game of Thrones dragons in this case) from Amazon without going through a different (read: more expensive) seller.  I customize them so I like to have some on hand in case I come up with a brilliant idea for a set or in case someone at work wants one for a gift.  So I have maxed out the number of them (even in keychain size) that I can order from Amazon and will have to resort to ordering from other places like Walmart, I guess.  Not that that I have anything against that but it would be nice to be able to order things in the quantities I need from one place instead of having to scour the internet every time I need some more. 

Don't they want my money?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 13, 2019, 12:02:07 PM
The song Zombie has been misused and misappropriated and misinterpreted since it was released...it always gets me slightly when it gets used or trivialised for something that it wasn't first meant to signify. If I remember rightly the record company didn't want them to release it because it commented on things that crossed boundaries - but they released it anyway.


That's right, I have always admired their guts! And I really can't stand it either, Zombie is an anthem and should be treated as such.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on December 14, 2019, 03:34:28 AM
Burst a blood vessel in my left thumb  :mad: I wasn't even doing anything; just standing at work, then suddenly I felt SHARP needles in my thumb and yeah, it decided to burst.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on December 14, 2019, 03:33:34 PM
Burst a blood vessel in my left thumb  :mad: I wasn't even doing anything; just standing at work, then suddenly I felt SHARP needles in my thumb and yeah, it decided to burst.
Holy crap this happens to me over the littlest bumps on my hands and man does it ever freakin' hurt!!!  Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy (cause they've never heard of it) when I tell them what just happened. I feel for you!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 15, 2019, 08:23:20 AM
Having to work in the parking lot on the 23rd, gonna be super busy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 15, 2019, 11:21:26 AM
The sheer amount of water that is getting into this house is verging on absolute farce. It started in the kitchen, with water seeping in through cracks in the walls (which have clearly been painted over to cover up previous issues), then the kitchen window started leaking, then the back door, now water has gotten into the bedroom ceiling through the roof. I'll be glad when it's March and my lease is up. All I can do in the meantime is keep mithering the landlord about it. I'm trying to be reasonable and make it clear that I want to be as helpful as possible in this situation but if he's not responding to my e-mails, then I'm not really sure what I can do. :/
Edited to add: There is now water seeping through the wall in the spare room as well. Guess I'd better sort myself a swimming costume at this rate.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 16, 2019, 04:07:42 PM
My dog decided that 3 AM was the perfect time to make me get up so that he could go outside and sit in the snow while he watched cars go by.  He didn't have to pee, there was nothing in the yard...he just wanted to sit in the snow and watch the cars on the highway two fields over.

SERIOUSLY???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 16, 2019, 11:47:04 PM
My cat woke me up by going kawasaki on my butt with the claws on all four paws and her teeth. I don't know if she slept next to me and dreamt something that made her do that or if I moved in my sleep that made her defend herself or what, but it was a painful way to wake up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on December 17, 2019, 01:37:10 AM
My dog decided that 3 AM was the perfect time to make me get up so that he could go outside and sit in the snow while he watched cars go by.  He didn't have to pee, there was nothing in the yard...he just wanted to sit in the snow and watch the cars on the highway two fields over.

SERIOUSLY???

Our cat did that once. We were keeping him in because it had been snowing heavily and his usual way of getting in and out (via a window) was too icy. 2am, he's crazy to go out. Oh well, we thought, he probably just doesn't like the litter tray and wants to nip out and do his business like he usually does. Next thing we're standing at the door in the freezing cold, watching him skip about playing in the snow :lol:. Quite cute really, but not at 2 in the morning!
Animals: cute, yet also frustrating :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 17, 2019, 02:20:19 AM
It's going to be 17°C today.  :pout:


It's mid-December.


I have a frikkin Christmas tree.


I have frikken snowy decorations everywhere.


Say, why don't we celebrate Christmas on the balcony this year? Hold my lemonade while I put out the garden furniture! :hmm: :green:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on December 17, 2019, 01:35:42 PM
It's going to be 17°C today.  :pout:


It's mid-December.


I have a frikkin Christmas tree.


I have frikken snowy decorations everywhere.

Don't worry, in ten or twenty years you will look back to this post and realize it wasn't actually that hot :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 17, 2019, 01:46:28 PM
*squints* Where'd my motivation go?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 17, 2019, 02:20:35 PM
Don't worry, in ten or twenty years you will look back to this post and realize it wasn't actually that hot :P

It's already getting there! XD A few years ago I was afraid of 30°C during the summer, now I am happy when it's "just" 30°C after two summers with 40°C...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 17, 2019, 03:59:35 PM
It's going to be 17°C today.  :pout:


It's mid-December.


I have a frikkin Christmas tree.


I have frikken snowy decorations everywhere.


Say, why don't we celebrate Christmas on the balcony this year? Hold my lemonade while I put out the garden furniture! :hmm: :green:

I wish it was that temperature here. Right now it is minus 2. But we won't get anything nice like snow or frost to make it Christmassy for the big day this year. No. It will rain. As it always does.

I think it's time to change the lyric to "I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas" as the official British version of the song.

Though today was quite frosty and bright, that was also unhelpful since I was plant salvaging and the last thing plants need when you're trying to rescue them from coldness is...coldness.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 18, 2019, 10:14:16 AM
It's been two days on the trot that my bus to work has been a no-show. I have two days left before I finish for Christmas, surely Arriva can get their act together for that long at the very least. :\
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 18, 2019, 10:33:59 AM
It's been two days on the trot that my bus to work has been a no-show. I have two days left before I finish for Christmas, surely Arriva can get their act together for that long at the very least. :\

Methinks you expect too much.

Arriva only seems to work well in two places I've experienced. One, London, and two, Malmo in Sweden :P

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 18, 2019, 10:43:22 AM
It's been two days on the trot that my bus to work has been a no-show. I have two days left before I finish for Christmas, surely Arriva can get their act together for that long at the very least. :\

Oh Lord, you have Arriva there too? Same here. I could write a book about them. >_< There's also a new bus schedule since last Sunday, and it's pretty much rocket science. My brains were not designed for this.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 18, 2019, 11:55:15 AM
It's been two days on the trot that my bus to work has been a no-show. I have two days left before I finish for Christmas, surely Arriva can get their act together for that long at the very least. :\

Methinks you expect too much.

Arriva only seems to work well in two places I've experienced. One, London, and two, Malmo in Sweden :P

Yep, I've been catching buses (or at least attempting to) long enough to know better but my naive optimism will not be defeated! XD It's nice to know that Arriva do manage to deliver a decent service in some pockets of the world at least; they may be faint glimmer of hope for them yet.


Oh Lord, you have Arriva there too? Same here. I could write a book about them. >_< There's also a new bus schedule since last Sunday, and it's pretty much rocket science. My brains were not designed for this.

Oh no, schedule changes are the worst! Especially when you've gotten so used to the previous one that it's practically become second nature and then you have to change your routine to suit the new one. Absolutely ghastly. Good luck with the new schedule!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 18, 2019, 12:18:54 PM
Not to make this a bus topic or anything, but the garage local to where my folks live has two crowning timetable change achievements.

One - when they changed all their bus routes, including renumbering and relocating most buses, on the same day it snowed heavily and half the routes were cancelled.

Two - when they managed to route a bus via five different routes within the first week of it running, so that nobody knew what its actual route was. It wasn't meant to come by my parents' house, but I caught it there twice. Once they took the trouble to stop to inform us they weren't picking us up.

Also Arriva.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 18, 2019, 02:22:04 PM
Man, I wish I had a bus to complain about. I'd love to live somewhere with public transportation. One of the reasons I never got a driver's license was because I took the bus everywhere in my hometown. Then I moved to the middle of nowhere, twice! If I move again, it'll probably be back home to the city. I'm tired of living in the outskirts.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 21, 2019, 07:24:51 AM
Critics going on and on about how bad Cats is, clearly they need better people who understand the musical better than them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 21, 2019, 09:07:44 AM
I mistook the hour hand on my clock for the minute hand, so now I have no idea what time I actually started cooking and it's a mystery as to when the fish will be ready. It's completely scuppered my timing for doing the vegetables as well! D:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 22, 2019, 12:02:38 AM
Critics going on and on about how bad Cats is, clearly they need better people who understand the musical better than them.

I read a review of The Witcher yesterday, by someone who openly admitted to never have read the books or played the game, but had watched enough walkthroughs and gameplays on youtube to understhand the lore and to get and give an accurate point of it. According to the comments beneath it the person had clearly not seen enough as things she complained about was exactly as in the game, including the voice of the actor. It was a fun read, but yeah, I agree. People should know about the things they're reviewing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 23, 2019, 05:58:37 AM
I didn’t have to get up early today yet I was wide awake for several hours during the night.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on December 23, 2019, 11:46:48 AM
Dear mom,
If it seems like everyone in your life is being a huge jerk for no reason, consider for a moment if they're simply reacting to your jerkishness.
Sincerely, everyone if your life

If only she knew the solidarity she's helped create between me and my siblings. That every time she opens her mouth, we exchange glances and shrug like "it's ok, I don't believe the things she says about you either" :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 23, 2019, 03:52:22 PM
Dear mom,
If it seems like everyone in your life is being a huge jerk for no reason, consider for a moment if they're simply reacting to your jerkishness.
Sincerely, everyone if your life

If only she knew the solidarity she's helped create between me and my siblings. That every time she opens her mouth, we exchange glances and shrug like "it's ok, I don't believe the things she says about you either" :rolleyes:

Sounds like my mom! Sorry.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on December 24, 2019, 11:09:43 AM
I hate how my tolerance to alcohol is so low that even the obligatory glass of wine with christmas dinner is enough to make me feel like I had an inflated balloon inside my head :drunk: (on the plus side, mom really liked her present)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 24, 2019, 11:19:11 AM
I really don't get why people feel a need to hurl abuse in the street. I went for a walk, just minding my own business, did nothing to naff off anybody, did nothing to warrant any kind of flack and still ended up being yelled at by total strangers for absolutely no reason. I just don't understand it and I really don't need it, either. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 24, 2019, 11:33:00 AM
This will probably be long and rambling, but anyway...

Our mom likes to shop online. She grocery shops and we go pick up the order. Usually she gets practical things but sometimes she goes overboard or forgets we already have x-amount of something. She had stroke last year and mentally she has a few issues. Shopping online makes her happy so we don't interfere too much.

Well. She wanted to be in charge of the holiday food shopping. Instead of cooking a big meal we were going to order some things ready made from Publix and just make smaller things like the deviled eggs and dips. She was supposed to order a big party sub. Nope, she got a regular foot long sandwich.  For xmas day, we were going to have farmer's potatoes with all the fixings (something we normally do for New Year's too) but mom ordered them to early and/or the person who did the shopping picked the worst ones because they're all moldy.

So now mom is mad because she messed up both days plans but she's the only one making a big deal about it. My sister and I threw some stuff in the oven and we have plenty of snacky things. I mean, it's not like we don't have food. We aren't entertaining anyone, it's just the four of us (plus two cats).

There's weird tension now because mom is easily explosive and she's being so dramatic. But then that isn't unusual for a holiday.

Anyway, my sister and I are talking about how we can oversee her shopping without making her mad since she obviously needs some help. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on December 24, 2019, 12:43:32 PM
I hate how my tolerance to alcohol is so low that even the obligatory glass of wine with christmas dinner is enough to make me feel like I had an inflated balloon inside my head :drunk: (on the plus side, mom really liked her present)

I have the opposite problem due to struggling with drinking problems for a while. I've built up so much tolerance that it's so expensive to get drunk
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on December 24, 2019, 09:11:53 PM
I really don't get why people feel a need to hurl abuse in the street. I went for a walk, just minding my own business, did nothing to naff off anybody, did nothing to warrant any kind of flack and still ended up being yelled at by total strangers for absolutely no reason. I just don't understand it and I really don't need it, either. -_-
I'm sorry this happened to you, and I agree with you whole heartedly.  I once was minding my own business waiting for the bus and as a car full of teenage boys drove past one of them jumped up through the sunroof and yelled (while pointing at me) "There be the white whale!!" and they drove off laughing.
Like thanks, you jerks  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on December 25, 2019, 04:12:28 AM
I bought a Top 2000 block-calendar with facts and stuff on every page (the Top 2000 is a big happening here each year that takes place between Christmas and New Year), but it's not very cheerful. About 80% of the "facts" is about what artist died that day (including how). I mean sure, these things can be interesting to know, but I don't need to read about death on every day of the year. :pout:

Bonus irritation: Dolores isn't mentioned anywhere (and there are three of her songs in the Top 2000). Not on January 15th, not on January 23rd, not on September 6th... They seem to prefer dead artists for their calendar, so where is she? Now, where's my pitchfork? I have a company to visit...

I really don't get why people feel a need to hurl abuse in the street. I went for a walk, just minding my own business, did nothing to naff off anybody, did nothing to warrant any kind of flack and still ended up being yelled at by total strangers for absolutely no reason. I just don't understand it and I really don't need it, either. -_-

Wow, that is really messed up. I'm sorry you had to go through that! :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 26, 2019, 02:04:30 PM
Who takes the garbage down to the street at 3PM? My dad, that's who. He also didn't check if everyone had gotten their garbage and recycling out. Why?

I have two bags but it's raining now and I really don't want to walk to the road with them. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 26, 2019, 03:11:49 PM
I really don't get why people feel a need to hurl abuse in the street. I went for a walk, just minding my own business, did nothing to naff off anybody, did nothing to warrant any kind of flack and still ended up being yelled at by total strangers for absolutely no reason. I just don't understand it and I really don't need it, either. -_-

Welcome to modern Britain >< I'm sorry that you had to deal with that :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pawpatrolbab on December 26, 2019, 07:33:57 PM
I've been coloring nonstop and now my hand and wrist hurts :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on December 26, 2019, 10:35:24 PM
My new medicine is making me sweat like crazy as soon as I do anything that demands a little effort in bodymovement. Just biking to work makes me sweat like I've run a marathon in highsummer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 29, 2019, 12:26:54 PM
Man what a day :(

I woke up with my face completely broke out. I'm 37, aren't I too old for that? Stupid skin. My shower curtain breaks at the top. After the shower I went to spray on some cologne and somehow managed to get it in my mouth and eyes (I swear I didn't spray my face, I don't know how it happened). I go to make a wrap for lunch and find someone has eaten all my spicy mustard. I forgot I had a cut on my finger but am reminded very painfully while eating salt and vinegar potato chips. Just now I snapped one of the feet off the back of my keyboard! How?! I dunno.

It's only 3:30. I wonder what other stupid little things are going to happen. Maybe I should take a nap for the rest of the day... 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on December 29, 2019, 04:22:37 PM
Last night I actually woke up from a bad dream a few hours too early, which hadn't happened to me since forever :brow: On the plus side, I went right back to sleep and the next dream was much more tolerable :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on December 29, 2019, 06:55:34 PM
A bad ice storm tonight  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on December 29, 2019, 08:23:47 PM
Every time I read a negative review on a fashion doll by some loopy parent who doesn’t like the way it’s dressed... I feel like buying multiples of that doll—just to spite the reviewer and support the brand—and giving them out to everyone I know. Honestly...

I can never express how grateful I am to have had parents who were NOT crazy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2019, 06:01:02 AM
I was watching a DVD last night and it kept freezing and skipping. I had to take the DVD out and clean it before I could watch the movie.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on December 30, 2019, 01:00:31 PM
I haven't weighed myself for 12 months.

Today I did, OMG, I have SERIOUSLY piled on the pounds!  :freak: :shocked:  :yikes:

I have been very good with attending gym etc but I can't blame it on muscle mass, there is certainly a lot of blubber on my tummy and I have been devouring tubs of Lurpak butter on toast these past few months. And I almost drowned in Lindt balls (chocolate) this Christmas. Due to wearing stretchy clothes I have not noticed the creeping expanse of my wobbly bits, my shoulders and arms remain toned (through my weights workouts) so perhaps this allowed me to be complacent, ah well...

Time to take back control and focus on being a healthy weight again!  :bateyes:

So I'm starting a day early with my healthy eating regime -
I will get my stats done by my PT at the gym tomorrow
I have fired up my dormant My Fitness Plan
I have already planned my food diary for tomorrow
I have set a date for August which gives me plenty of time to achieve my goal weight-loss.

Turning this negative into a positive!  :frolic:

I shall reward myself with a trip to a neighbouring town to peruse some of their barbells and rubber bumper weights (just like the lovely ones I use in my gym) but that will be sometime in the future - I want my husband to start weight too, it should help strengthen him for his running too!  :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on December 30, 2019, 02:16:03 PM
Good luck on your plan, Glitterball! Sounds exciting.

My allergies are bothering me and making my contacts too hard to use.  Unfortunately, I can't get new glasses till January.  Stinks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Hannah66665 on December 30, 2019, 06:24:04 PM
some kind of cold bug was going around the household and I thought I avoided it but nope  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2019, 07:04:42 PM
I have been exhausted most of the day  :zzz:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 31, 2019, 03:35:14 PM
It's only 6:30, you don't have to start with the fireworks yet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 01, 2020, 04:25:57 AM
Every time I read a negative review on a fashion doll by some loopy parent who doesn’t like the way it’s dressed... I feel like buying multiples of that doll—just to spite the reviewer and support the brand—and giving them out to everyone I know. Honestly...

I can never express how grateful I am to have had parents who were NOT crazy.

I can relate to this, because what a toy is wearing is the sole cause of all the world's problems.

Ironically more problems are caused by judging on appearances, but never mind...

It is January. I don't like January :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 01, 2020, 10:55:05 AM
I purchased a tv show from iTunes this morning at it took a lot longer than it should have to get in on my iPod.

I think I might be coming down with something again.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 01, 2020, 03:03:25 PM
My new mattress is a good two inches thicker than my old one. My protector and sheets keep coming off the corners. It's a pain to put them back on since my bed is pushed against the wall and I've been so weak and sick lately.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on January 02, 2020, 11:44:49 AM
I just learned that the sparkling water brand I like the most is officially being phased out. The company is replacing it with a new line, which I was like "Okay, I'll just switch over" but then I saw that it's a line of combo flavors and thus the Lime and Black Cherry flavors I like will not be around anymore. The new Black Cherry flavor will have caffeine in it! What in the world?

Bubly has a similar Lime, but no one has a similar Black Cherry and that's really disappointing because I like drinking that Black Cherry flavor with a lot of the foods I eat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 02, 2020, 01:23:18 PM
One of my co-workers couldn't get anyone to cover her shift for tomorrow since she was going on vacation and she just called to say she won't make it in because of the weather...which is clear today.  Anyone else want to call BS?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 03, 2020, 01:23:50 AM
Missed out on Max and Marie Barbie’s cousins from a Pony Tale movie on eBay.uk not happy at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on January 03, 2020, 05:28:05 AM
I have to work 6 days a week  for the next 2 weeks  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 03, 2020, 02:10:04 PM
I'm meeting with a new therapist because my regular one is MIA (or she quit/was fired - I don't know the details). I'm so nervous meeting new people but it's especially so since it's at my house and she'll be inside. I'm not worried about my pony or other collections but my room is so small and there's just stuff everywhere. Ugh. Where is my regular therapist? :cry:

Edit: She cancelled on me. Again. We were supposed to meet yesterday and she "forgot" now today she got lost trying to find my house and gave up. She wants to meet tomorrow instead. So that's three days of me being a nervous wreck, not getting sleep, anxiously waiting for someone. Gosh, I sure am glad I'm listed as a critical patient otherwise how would I be treated???

:cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 03, 2020, 03:22:01 PM
They're getting dumber. 
I just had a patron tell me she couldn't find Stephanie Meyer's The Host and I told her it would be under Sci-Fic Fantasy Meyer and she said, "Yeah, I know but I'm not seeing it" as she pointed to books with a call number of Sci-Fic Fantasy Star Trek. 

I wonder why she couldn't find it... :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 08, 2020, 01:24:43 PM
Edit: She cancelled on me. Again. We were supposed to meet yesterday and she "forgot" now today she got lost trying to find my house and gave up. She wants to meet tomorrow instead. So that's three days of me being a nervous wreck, not getting sleep, anxiously waiting for someone. Gosh, I sure am glad I'm listed as a critical patient otherwise how would I be treated???

:cloud:

Oh man, I understand this SO well... I'm the same way. I've had a couple of days in a row ruined by the fact that someone was supposed to call or come over too. I can't handle that AT ALL. People really don't get this... Sorry I'm no help, I just wanted to say that I do get this. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pawpatrolbab on January 09, 2020, 08:23:18 AM
Super emotionally drained from Twitter, wether it's disasters in the world or callout posts. Wish things could just be nice for once
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 09, 2020, 08:44:06 AM
Super emotionally drained from Twitter, wether it's disasters in the world or callout posts. Wish things could just be nice for once
I hear you on that.  :sleepy: My friends use Twitter to start fights with posts that are so obviously bait, or they keep retweeting bigoted takes that I don't really care to see. It's like everyone forgot how to use the block button, or to be courteous and just not put dumb stuff on my timeline. I so miss when Tumblr was more active, at least people could blacklist stuff. Twitter really needs something of that ilk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pawpatrolbab on January 09, 2020, 04:36:54 PM
Super emotionally drained from Twitter, wether it's disasters in the world or callout posts. Wish things could just be nice for once
I hear you on that.  :sleepy: My friends use Twitter to start fights with posts that are so obviously bait, or they keep retweeting bigoted takes that I don't really care to see. It's like everyone forgot how to use the block button, or to be courteous and just not put dumb stuff on my timeline. I so miss when Tumblr was more active, at least people could blacklist stuff. Twitter really needs something of that ilk.

I definately agree, Twitter does allow you to mute words now but the feature sadly doesn't work most of the time. I've honestly considered making a Tumblr account again at some point but I always remember the site being extremely drama-centric and focused so I'd be worried of that happening again. But maybe since NSFW has been wiped it's been better?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 09, 2020, 04:43:59 PM
I definately agree, Twitter does allow you to mute words now but the feature sadly doesn't work most of the time. I've honestly considered making a Tumblr account again at some point but I always remember the site being extremely drama-centric and focused so I'd be worried of that happening again. But maybe since NSFW has been wiped it's been better?
It's definitely quieter. It's all about who you follow. I follow a bunch of aesthetic and pony accounts and I rarely if ever hear of any drama on there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 09, 2020, 05:14:40 PM
I definately agree, Twitter does allow you to mute words now but the feature sadly doesn't work most of the time. I've honestly considered making a Tumblr account again at some point but I always remember the site being extremely drama-centric and focused so I'd be worried of that happening again. But maybe since NSFW has been wiped it's been better?
It's definitely quieter. It's all about who you follow. I follow a bunch of aesthetic and pony accounts and I rarely if ever hear of any drama on there.

I am the trogladyte of Social Media but I use tumblr now for translations in an anime community (long story short, I was going to do the translations, had nowhere to put them, someone in the fandom suggested tumblr, taught me how to use it, now I put them there). I have no idea what else goes on on  tumblr outside of this fandom and frankly, this corner of the fandom but it suits me fine. At worst I get bombarded by Haikyuu, Furuba or Bungo Stray Dogs fanart, because a lot of people are cross-fandoms, but I can handle that xD.

It's actually the safest area of space for this community I've found since the other options are reddit (nuff said) and discord (which would be fine except it's in the stranglehold of a clique of trolls and literally everyone who tries to join ends up leaving or muting all the main channels and only staying for the manga notifications. But that is my only experience of tumblr, and everything I post is entirely linked to the anime stuff, and not anything in my real life.

The fandom in question has some controversial fan faction points that flare up sometimes (mostly in the discord because of the aforementioned troll clique) but I try to avoid them and so far, so good.

I don't understand twitter nor do I want to use it since there have been several cases here of people being prosecuted for hate crimes on twitter. That tells me that I don't want to use that platform as it's full of trolls as well as nice people.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 09, 2020, 06:31:59 PM
During the Sentai Filmworks holiday sale I purchased a blu-ray and the second episode won't play on it.  It freezes and skips to the third episode.  So I contacted Sentai to ask if they can replace just that disc because the rest of it works great.  Well, after over a week of waiting for a response, they told me it was probably because my player needed an update. Um...no.  I tried the disc on my parents' blu-ray player (which is only about 2 years old) and it did the exact same thing.  Froze at the beginning of the episode and jumped to the third one.  And if it was a problem with my player, why would the other 21 episodes play just fine????

I hate stupid support people who are just too lazy to do their jobs. 

So I contacted the company that makes the show in the first place, telling them about Sentai's response and we'll see if they're any more helpful.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on January 10, 2020, 03:31:23 AM
This may not be too related to the topic, but it is a trivial thingy. I'm making wishlists with pictures and I'm wondering how one would go about crediting the photographers? Or if I should ask them before posting them online? I just don't want to be a dick.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 10, 2020, 12:14:46 PM
During the Sentai Filmworks holiday sale I purchased a blu-ray and the second episode won't play on it.  It freezes and skips to the third episode.  So I contacted Sentai to ask if they can replace just that disc because the rest of it works great.  Well, after over a week of waiting for a response, they told me it was probably because my player needed an update. Um...no.  I tried the disc on my parents' blu-ray player (which is only about 2 years old) and it did the exact same thing.  Froze at the beginning of the episode and jumped to the third one.  And if it was a problem with my player, why would the other 21 episodes play just fine????

I hate stupid support people who are just too lazy to do their jobs. 

So I contacted the company that makes the show in the first place, telling them about Sentai's response and we'll see if they're any more helpful.


I hope you get a better response from the company that makes the Blu Ray set.

One year for Christmas I got a copy of Ducktales on DVD. When I opened it one disc was missing out of the set. It was still sealed in factory plastic wrap when I got it.  I contacted Disney and after I sent them the information they requested Disney replaced the entire set for free.


I have no energy today and I can't figure out why.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 10, 2020, 02:33:06 PM
I felt good when I went to bed but when i woke up I felt awful. I wanted to get some things done today but I don't have the energy or motivation.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 11, 2020, 01:24:47 AM
I'm in total zombie mode today. I do stuff by default, but it feels like I'm not 100% present.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 11, 2020, 08:42:08 AM
Sometimes I really can't stand being short and fat. >_< Well, I never enjoy it (especially the fat part), but sometimes the confrontation is too much. I bought this lovely blouse, but those things NEVER sit right on me! Anything with an accentuated waistline looks stupid on me. If I were thin, I'd just buy a small size and everything would be cool. But nooo, I need the biggest size, which is also about a mile longer than the smallest size, so the waistline falls pretty much on my hips... :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 11, 2020, 02:39:27 PM
This may not be too related to the topic, but it is a trivial thingy. I'm making wishlists with pictures and I'm wondering how one would go about crediting the photographers? Or if I should ask them before posting them online? I just don't want to be a dick.

You should ask first if it's something that's going to be public :) I dunno if it is pony related, but if it were me personally I would be pretty upset if someone was using my images without asking first.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 11, 2020, 03:35:43 PM
I want to watch a DVD but it keeps skipping. :(



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 13, 2020, 11:38:35 AM
Why doesn't natural stuff ever work? I believe in natural things, I hate chemical garbage, but it proves me wrong every single time. >_<

Biological nose spray only makes it worse, natural stuff against panic attacks never works, and I tried to unclog the sink with natural cleaning vinigar and baking soda: NOTHING. So today I bought a bottle of chemical crap for the sink and it did the trick in five minutes. Come on, make me love natural solutions for once, I want to love it, but I still don't! >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 14, 2020, 07:26:40 PM
I haven't had TV in my bedroom in a long time. I have Netflix and I watch a lot of stuff on DVD. I was thinking of getting basic Hulu for TV shows but a TV receiver for the cable cost the same amount and I'd be able to watch local news and whatnot along with stuff like Judge Judy and WWE Smackdown, so I went with the cable box.

It's not working. I get an error and it says to check the cable connection, which as far as I can tell is fine. What is the problem? Is it the wiring in the wall? Knowing my luck, probably.

Anyway, I am very annoyed because I had to move a heavy dresser out of the way to get to the cable in the wall and the cable itself is too short to go above the door so it's in the way. Also my TV only has two HDMI ports which means one of my Playstations needs to be unplugged.

I got myself a snack of cheddar cheese and a granny smith apple but I'm upset so I'm just eating all the cheese... there goes my diet...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 15, 2020, 07:23:04 AM
It’s about -40 Celsius up here, and I don’t want to do anything because it’s too cold. Normally it’s -25, but it’s worse this winter. There is frost on the inside of our windows. I don’t complain much about the cold, but this is absolutely ridiculous!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 15, 2020, 10:33:43 AM
The chain I work for has gone bankrupt. We're still gonna be open for business, but we can't do returns, warranty issues or accept giftcertificats and store credits.. Gonna be a fun next few days with angry customers and not knowing how long I will have this job.

Also, rain in January.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 15, 2020, 12:45:56 PM
I have a co-worker who, in the past, has insisted on getting the book drop in the mornings, not letting other people even have a chance to get it (she takes it out while others who are going to take a turn are in the bathroom or she comes early and takes it before anyone else gets here).  Well, last Friday she came in with the drop and said to me, "Can you do me a favor and get the book drop sometimes so I'm not doing it all the time?" To which I told her that, yes, I can get it.  So, Tuesday was my next turn to have to get it so I decided to use the bathroom and when I came out, even though it was more than 5 minutes before the drop was supposed to be gotten, she had gotten the bin and gone out to get it.  How am I supposed to get it when she leaves with it before I have a chance to get it?  Less than an hour ago, the library director sent out an e-mail saying that everyone needed to take their turn to get the drop. 

So...is my "always the martyr never the saint" co-worker complaining about everyone else "making" her do all the work or is it just a coincidence?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on January 15, 2020, 05:09:27 PM
Windows 7 is dead, and I don't want to upgrade  :cry: I can't afford a new PC, my girl is very old but I can't risk security stuff, so updating as we speak ...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 16, 2020, 10:27:17 AM
Win 10 isn't bad. I didn't want to upgrade either but I've been running it for about a year with no issues :)

My complaint is the usual - woke up with a killer headache. My cat that passed away could always make my headaches feel better, I called it her 'kitty power' :lol: My cats now won't let me rest my head on them so I don't know if they have power or not, rude fluffs.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 17, 2020, 11:26:26 AM
Today hasn’t  been a good day for me. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 17, 2020, 12:27:03 PM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan :(  :deathhug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 17, 2020, 02:51:16 PM
Thanks BlackCurtains. It's one of those days where everything has seemed to go wrong and I'm completely drained.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 17, 2020, 06:14:09 PM
I woke up with a horrible neck pain, as if I had been sleeping in a very bad position. I literally couldn't turn my head for about an hour! Thankfully I'm almost fine now...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 19, 2020, 05:53:35 AM
I'm waiting to hear back about the perfect place in town (compared to my current house, anything would be perfect, but the apartment I'm after is in my favourite part of town and it's a lovely place). Everything is probably going to be fine but my nerves refuse to settle until I hear for definite that my application has been approved and I can pick up the keys. The uncertainty is doing my head in!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2020, 09:41:28 AM
Stuck on a bus in trafgic with some genuine idiots tirning it into a casino with their annoying betting commentary.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on January 22, 2020, 03:27:37 PM
I hate hate HATE gnats!! It's too late to go out and get some apple cidar vinegar, there seems to be more than a few in my indoor greenhouse, LEAVE MY ORCHIDS ALONE YOU PESTS!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 23, 2020, 07:59:16 AM
I accidentally dropped one of my earbuds in my coffee (which I hadn't finished yet) and now both the earbuds AND the coffee had to be thrown out :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 23, 2020, 04:04:38 PM
I mailed a package on Tuesday and checked the tracking. It has traveled about 5 hours away from where I am since Tuesday.    :what: I think I could have driven the package to its destination faster than the shipping company is going to take.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 23, 2020, 04:13:27 PM
I ate but I'm still hungry. Dieting is hard :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 24, 2020, 02:49:05 AM
I have been waking up extra early the last few days and unable to go back to sleep.  :zzz:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 26, 2020, 06:47:20 AM
I got a political call at 5:15 this morning. That is too early in the morning on a weekend for that kind of call.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 26, 2020, 10:41:53 AM
Ugh, had to book a private swimming lesson today for my kid who had to miss a midweek session.

I think I will try to move the lessons to the weekend as having to do them after school is such a struggle (what with being tired) and I can do without the tears !
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on January 26, 2020, 10:48:36 AM
Last monday I submitted paperwork for my residency renewal along with my passport. Now I can't leave China because their government has my passport till at least Feb. 7th  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 26, 2020, 12:53:37 PM
My sister asked me to make dinner and stupidly I said okay. Since I've been having heart problems, it's hard to do anything. It's only baked spaghetti so it's not difficult but it's still taking its toll on me :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Astor on January 27, 2020, 12:58:06 AM
I keep coughing a lot and its getting annoying to the point I get a bad headache
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 27, 2020, 01:04:09 AM
I got a nasty infection the very same day I learnt my store chain has gone bankrupt. I've been without a voice for a week. Today I had to sign up on the unemployment agency to be eligble for unemployment. Of course the info my union has on me is wrong! I can't even! I want to sit beneath a blanket sipping tea, not sitting infront of computer to correct some stupid typo while waiting to be called back. I can't even talk!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 27, 2020, 11:04:03 AM
Beldarna, I really hope things pick up for you soon. It sucks about your store :(

So I have been carefully looking after three rescued plants from last year's hanging basket - a Verbena, a bacopa and a nemesia. They're the ones that survived and were growing against the odds when Dad went to compost it last year. And they've all been doing great (despite removing a caterpillar, some aphids and a baby slug from the verbena pot, I am not even kidding...wtf was a caterpillar doing there in November?)

Then this morning I noticed that two of the Verbena's three stems had flopped like they'd wilted. The main stem so far is fine but I'm worried something has got into the roots and is eating it from below (which I can't really investigate without traumatising the plant's roots even more). It's not a lack of water or a surfeit of water, they're not against the hot of the radiator or the cold of the glass and the other two plants seem quite happy (the Nemesia is actually now bigger than it ever was in the basket, go figure).

So I am just hoping that it's not something that's going to take the whole plant, since it's done so well in growing from a tiny shoot in November and up till yesterday it looked absolutely fine.

I get super protective of my rescue plants so I don't like to see it in trouble.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 27, 2020, 04:10:07 PM
And our Midyear Reviews start tomorrow (we follow the fiscal year so it ends in June).  Commence stress and nausea--not due to reviews at this job but caused by PTSD from a previous employer.  I await the day that this is no longer an issue for me but it has been several years since I left that last job so I'm not sure when that will happen for me.   :cry:  At least I was able to sign up for a slot tomorrow so I can get it over with.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 27, 2020, 11:39:14 PM
Thanks Taffeta. The hard part is not knowing. Like, we're still open, we stil have to go to work, but if it's because they think they can rescue us or if it's just temporarly we don't know. I have a schedule for a month ahead of me when I'm better, but we can get a call that we need to close up within the hour. That is tough and I guess the stress of not knowing is one part of me being so sick.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 28, 2020, 07:42:23 AM
Thanks Taffeta. The hard part is not knowing. Like, we're still open, we stil have to go to work, but if it's because they think they can rescue us or if it's just temporarly we don't know. I have a schedule for a month ahead of me when I'm better, but we can get a call that we need to close up within the hour. That is tough and I guess the stress of not knowing is one part of me being so sick.

I went through this with my library some years back, while we were all waiting to know about redeployment and such like, and it's hugely stressful, though people don't realise because they think, well, you're still working...

In any case, I hope it all works out for you. Fingers crossed for a takeover of your store.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 28, 2020, 12:46:34 PM
Had to endure a "ladies intimate check" today -
next one due in 3 years, if results all ok...

I know that they are necessary but - yuck!!!  :X :X :X :X :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 28, 2020, 08:22:55 PM
I cut my thumb on a can of olives and it buuuuuuurns!

edit: Darnit, I made a new page!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on January 28, 2020, 11:00:12 PM
Thanks Taffeta. The hard part is not knowing. Like, we're still open, we stil have to go to work, but if it's because they think they can rescue us or if it's just temporarly we don't know. I have a schedule for a month ahead of me when I'm better, but we can get a call that we need to close up within the hour. That is tough and I guess the stress of not knowing is one part of me being so sick.

I went through this with my library some years back, while we were all waiting to know about redeployment and such like, and it's hugely stressful, though people don't realise because they think, well, you're still working...

In any case, I hope it all works out for you. Fingers crossed for a takeover of your store.

Thanks :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LivioKelem on January 29, 2020, 02:07:08 AM
Few days I use my stimulants but effect is not so noticeable. I must be strong and energetic for my plans! I hate this @#%# depression...  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 29, 2020, 06:03:13 AM
I woke up with a sore ankle. How? Why? Did I hurt it in my sleep? Did I do it yesterday and only felt it today? Don't I have enough problems? :mad: :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on January 30, 2020, 10:04:01 AM
My toilet wont stop running and nobody can fix it till maybe monday
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 30, 2020, 10:53:26 AM
I tried some raspberry jaffa cakes and in theory, they sounded like a great idea, but they were horrendously bland - they didn't taste of anything whatsoever! What an affront!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 30, 2020, 11:08:08 AM
Stubborn parents insisting on doing home DIY themselves (both over 70) because it's too much hassle to call someone in, and then not understanding why I'm concerned about them climbing up on ladders and the cabinet to drill the walls...

Also the fact that a hard drive I had had four months died on me. I didn't lose anything of value, but I bought it to back up a drive that's 12 years old (and yet the 12 year old drive is still functioning...whereas...sigh, cheap new tech).

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 30, 2020, 11:30:33 AM
This is a very trivial complaint.

My sister doesn't know how a bar of soap works. We usually have liquid hand soap in the bathroom but we're out. Every month I get some free medical supplies which includes these (kinda harsh tbh) antibacterial bar soaps. So I put one out. The sink has indents where you can place a bar of soap. These bars are, like many soaps, curved on one side. This is the down side. You place it curve side down so it doesn't sit in water and get all funky. My sister does not understand this concept and keep placing it upside down so it sits in water and gets all funky. It is driving me insane. How much of a doofus are you to not know how to operate a bar of soap!?

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 30, 2020, 02:17:37 PM
My uncle that I've only seen a few times called my mother today and then wanted to talk to me. He kept telling me all kinds of strange things that didn't make a lot of sense like I should be an auto mechanic even though I told him that I don't understand cars and that I should get a "real job" I have a real job it's just not a very good one.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 01, 2020, 12:39:45 PM
I enjoy doing 3d puzzles.  Most of them have a pole that helps hold the pieces together. I was almost done with the puzzle I was working on but had to take it apart because I had put the pole in at the wrong time and the top of the puzzle wouldn't fit. :sad:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 01, 2020, 05:59:47 PM
The weather is being stupid. It's very humid but cold. My body doesn't know if it should sweat or get under a blanket.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 01, 2020, 10:05:22 PM
I enjoy doing 3d puzzles.  Most of them have a pole that helps hold the pieces together. I was almost done with the puzzle I was working on but had to take it apart because I had put the pole in at the wrong time and the top of the puzzle wouldn't fit. :sad:


Ponyfan

I bought a glue gun just the other day because of that! I have a pegasus I'm trying to build but my fingers are too short to hold it together and it's like five pieces left until the pole is going in. Drives me bonkers so now I'm gonna glue it together :pout:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 02, 2020, 06:48:07 AM
I enjoy doing 3d puzzles.  Most of them have a pole that helps hold the pieces together. I was almost done with the puzzle I was working on but had to take it apart because I had put the pole in at the wrong time and the top of the puzzle wouldn't fit. :sad:


Ponyfan

I bought a glue gun just the other day because of that! I have a pegasus I'm trying to build but my fingers are too short to hold it together and it's like five pieces left until the pole is going in. Drives me bonkers so now I'm gonna glue it together :pout:.

Happy birthday Beldarna!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on February 02, 2020, 07:53:06 AM
I am sick of being confined to my apartment.  -_- It's been over a week now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 02, 2020, 11:09:26 AM
I enjoy doing 3d puzzles.  Most of them have a pole that helps hold the pieces together. I was almost done with the puzzle I was working on but had to take it apart because I had put the pole in at the wrong time and the top of the puzzle wouldn't fit. :sad:


Ponyfan

I bought a glue gun just the other day because of that! I have a pegasus I'm trying to build but my fingers are too short to hold it together and it's like five pieces left until the pole is going in. Drives me bonkers so now I'm gonna glue it together :pout:.


I haven't glued one together yet but I might end up gluing the one I'm working on (crescent moon)

Happy birthday! :birthday:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 02, 2020, 11:22:41 AM
That person on eBay.uk still hasn’t gotten in touch, I’m this close to going in a  :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 02, 2020, 05:45:36 PM
I keep forgetting my new pill box starts on a Sunday, not a Monday like my old Pillmate one did (had to toss it as the Tuesday door was damaged for good). So guess who forgot to take her medication today until right now. Oops.

(Normally I fill the boxes on a Monday as part of a routine, totally threw me off)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 02, 2020, 09:49:10 PM
I enjoy doing 3d puzzles.  Most of them have a pole that helps hold the pieces together. I was almost done with the puzzle I was working on but had to take it apart because I had put the pole in at the wrong time and the top of the puzzle wouldn't fit. :sad:


Ponyfan

I bought a glue gun just the other day because of that! I have a pegasus I'm trying to build but my fingers are too short to hold it together and it's like five pieces left until the pole is going in. Drives me bonkers so now I'm gonna glue it together :pout:.


I haven't glued one together yet but I might end up gluing the one I'm working on (crescent moon)

Happy birthday! :birthday:

Ponyfan

Thanks :blush: :biggrin:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 03, 2020, 08:22:56 AM
It's snowing again.  Not much out by my house but there's a lot in town where I work.  I find it annoying that I left way early to get to work on time (I have a minimum 20 minute commute when I am able to drive 60 MPH, much longer when the roads are bad like this morning) and the people who live in town (we're talking less than 5 minutes--some can walk to work in 5 minutes) are all LATE.  And we had a late start today so they had a whole extra hour to get ready!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2020, 08:54:08 AM
A troll who I had blocked on one of my anime fandom accounts just randomly reared their head on a comment I made in another community. The name is different and I have no idea if they know who they're ranting hysterically at, but I recognised something in their posting and the way they spell the second half of their handle, so I know it is them.

Have now blocked them but not before wasting some time engaging with them thinking they were a human being.

I love this series, I hate some aspects of its fandom. Especially the trolls that crawl out of the echochamber.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 03, 2020, 10:27:50 AM
A troll who I had blocked on one of my anime fandom accounts just randomly reared their head on a comment I made in another community. The name is different and I have no idea if they know who they're ranting hysterically at, but I recognised something in their posting and the way they spell the second half of their handle, so I know it is them.

Have now blocked them but not before wasting some time engaging with them thinking they were a human being.

I love this series, I hate some aspects of its fandom. Especially the trolls that crawl out of the echochamber.

I'm sorry that happened to you Taffeta. :hug: 


I seem to be attracting trolls as well in some other groups I'm in also. One person tried to start an argument because they thought I used the wrong name for a character.

In another group if you post spoilers past a certain point the group requires that you put a warning followed by a series of dots so people that haven't reached that point yet won't accidently find out something that they don't want to know. The other day I was making a comment and wanted to be sure I had enough dots so I wouldn't spoil  a major plot point. I admit that I did put in a lot of dots because I was on my phone and it was hard to tell how many dots I was posting. Someone replied to my comment that I had put too many dots and they thought at first it was a "prank" because of all of the dots.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2020, 12:23:39 PM
Internet people are strange.

*gives cookies*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 03, 2020, 03:27:13 PM
The sticky electrode pads on the Holter monitor I have to wear are itchy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 04, 2020, 10:07:58 PM
I got to know yesterday that despite our chain being bought and therefor saved from the bankruptcy, my store is still closing down. I have three regular work days left, next week we're packing everything and sending it it the warehouse. So I'm out of job in two weeks. It feels tough.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 05, 2020, 04:52:14 AM
I got to know yesterday that despite our chain being bought and therefor saved from the bankruptcy, my store is still closing down. I have three regular work days left, next week we're packing everything and sending it it the warehouse. So I'm out of job in two weeks. It feels tough.

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 05, 2020, 06:21:14 AM
I got to know yesterday that despite our chain being bought and therefor saved from the bankruptcy, my store is still closing down. I have three regular work days left, next week we're packing everything and sending it it the warehouse. So I'm out of job in two weeks. It feels tough.

I'm sorry to hear that your store is closing . :hug:




A new book I have been waiting on was published yesterday but I wasn't able to get to the bookstore. The weather is bad today so I will have to wait for a few days. I read a short preview online but that only makes the anticipation worse for me as the preview always ends abruptly and makes me want to read the new book even more.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 05, 2020, 06:40:46 AM
I missed out on New Horizons preorders from Target...I am just going to get it from GameStop but I wanted the journal. I kept delaying it because I want to pick up in store.
At least the console preorders are sold out now so I don't feel stupid for getting that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 05, 2020, 09:29:56 PM
Thanks Taffeta and Ponyfan. At least I will have three months of pay, but I really liked that place and the people working there. I'm gonna miss it.

I've still got a soar throat and my voice is not back 100%. I guess it's the stress of work circumstances that keep me from getting better.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 06, 2020, 02:06:24 PM
I had to open a missing mail request for some ponies I bought off Instagram two weeks ago. I've never had to do that before, but I've had mail not reach me on time for other issues, so I asked the seller if she had it returned to her and she said "No, sorry, it's out of my hands."
I know it's out of your hands? Holy crap lady. I wasn't attacking you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 06, 2020, 04:38:32 PM
I need to take a shower but I'm so tired and my body is very sore. I wish I could take a bath :sad: If i ever own my own home I'm getting a walk-in tub installed.

edit to add another complaint: I have terrible sores in my mouth from my wisdom teeth. They hurt so much. I'm terrified to see a dentist because of the implant in my head/brain - I was told long ago that any work done to my teeth, even a cleaning, could cause an infection that travels to the implant. I haven't seen a dentist in 20 years...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on February 09, 2020, 02:28:37 AM
The new Nightwish single. :|

I'm just so... utterly unimpressed with it? The theme is right up my alley, but the song actually bores me to tears. It's just another Storytime. Ooooo, did I really go there? Yes. Yes I did. Sorry.

On the other hand, thanks to their new single I stumbled upon Delains's latest work. Now THAT impressed me. I never thought I'd ever say that I would like their work better than Nightwish's since I've always thought of Delain as an "okay-ish" band, apart from a few songs, but here we are! I absolutely love it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 10, 2020, 06:26:18 PM
I thought I turned on the cold water on the faucet but I turned on the hot water instead. I put my hand under the faucet and got a minor burn from the hot water.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 10, 2020, 11:05:44 PM
The new Nightwish single. :|

I'm just so... utterly unimpressed with it? The theme is right up my alley, but the song actually bores me to tears. It's just another Storytime. Ooooo, did I really go there? Yes. Yes I did. Sorry.

On the other hand, thanks to their new single I stumbled upon Delains's latest work. Now THAT impressed me. I never thought I'd ever say that I would like their work better than Nightwish's since I've always thought of Delain as an "okay-ish" band, apart from a few songs, but here we are! I absolutely love it.

Oh, I know! And their video reminds too much of the one to Storytime. I thought Endless forms was boring to be honest :lookround:. Floor is such an amazing singer who can work magic with her voice and her own works with Nightwish is just bleh.. I truly hope the rest of the Album is better.
And Delain.. I've never saved an entire album from them on my Spotify before, but this one is maybe not gold but at least silver.


After an 12 hour workday yesterday just packing, I slept a total of three hours. Today's gonna be fun..
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 11, 2020, 04:29:42 AM
I just can't game like I used to. I tried to pull an all-nighter playing Planet Zoo and my whole body is sore. Even my scrolling finger hurts  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2020, 09:20:20 AM
So sad yesterday's unexpected snowstorm didn't stick :(

Also, went for a short walk and saw one of the big trees on the edge of the green had come down in the storm :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 11, 2020, 12:10:37 PM
Definitely a trivial complaint: I have the chocolate cravings to end all chocolate cravings and there is absolutely no chocolate in the flat. There are ginger biscuits, and those are very nice, but they're not chocolate.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 13, 2020, 02:18:52 PM
I had a stressful day at work today.  :yikes: :yikes:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 15, 2020, 03:13:42 AM
I'm sorry Ponyfan :( :hug:

I can't sleep. I'm tired but my brain won't shut off.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on February 15, 2020, 04:11:31 AM
It is -8 degrees right now and will not get any warmer. (Yesterday wasn't as cold but still in the negative.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 15, 2020, 07:39:20 AM
I'm sorry Ponyfan :( :hug:

I can't sleep. I'm tired but my brain won't shut off.

Thanks BlackCurtains. Yesterday was better but I did feel lightheaded a couple of times.

I’m sorry you can’t sleep. I hate it when that happens to me.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on February 15, 2020, 11:17:16 AM
So tired of drama in my life. I’m just... Tired. Of. It. I would like a day to pass without someone being a drama queen/king over some petty thing or other. I honestly don’t feel like getting out of bed anymore, because I don’t know what hornet’s nest of drama I will walk into next.

Moving to an isolated hut on a mountaintop (with my kitties and MLP collection in tow, of course) is looking better by the day. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 15, 2020, 09:22:58 PM
My work life these past few weeks has been a rollercoaster of emotions and lack of sleep.. 

Bankruptcy - still staying open- being bought (aka known as saved) - store closing anyway - job offer at other store for 7 hours a week - new offer, 11 hours a week - new offer 50%

I can live with 50% but my economy will be a bit tight.. so yeah, still gonna look for another job :pout:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 16, 2020, 06:34:44 AM
:hug: nemesis.

Beldarna, I'm glad at least there's some light, seems a good plan to keep looking though.

My trivial complaint of the day - someone on an anime site so determined not to accept they made a mistake that they started blaming other posters for them making a rant post. Even though it was the first post they had made, and nobody ever met them before.

But apparently it's all of our fault that this person initially disliked the anime, because now they've watched more they like it and it couldn't possibly have been their error...

This in spite of the fact all we did was point out reasons why we liked the anime.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 17, 2020, 04:08:58 AM
Lost three blue wheelie bins to arson. Joy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on February 17, 2020, 05:08:45 AM
I am so bored.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on February 17, 2020, 08:22:25 AM
I've been cooped up in the house for about 5 weeks now and I would greatly enjoy resuming my regularly scheduled programming as soon as possible.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2020, 06:21:02 AM
My go to store for the latest anime releases is once again not stocking the titles I'm most interested in. I don't expect the store to stock every anime title, but I do wish they'd stock the latest releases especially when it's a highly anticipated release


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on February 18, 2020, 07:15:17 AM
Quote
I've been cooped up in the house for about 5 weeks now and I would greatly enjoy resuming my regularly scheduled programming as soon as possible.

I feel your pain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on February 18, 2020, 07:26:15 AM
My drawing capacity exceeds what I can imagine and improving so slowly is frustrating.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 18, 2020, 10:52:37 AM
My mom fell last night and couldn't get up. We couldn't get her up ourselves and had to call the paramedics to come do it. They are required to make a note of falls and after a certain number of times, they will take you to a hospital/nursing home. I think it's some kind of law in Florida (or every state, i don't know). Anyway, she's fallen before and we've had to call paramedics. Once they took her to the ER because she thought she broke her arm (she didn't though just hurt it badly). My sister and I can't remember how many times this makes, or what number at they come to get you.

Not that a nursing home or hospital rehab center or whatever wouldn't be good for her... I think it would benefit her actually. She's a better person around strangers and takes better care of herself. She treats us like garbage, ha. But still it would be odd if she was gone.

Just doing a lot of thinking since I've been awake since 3:30 this morning.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 18, 2020, 11:13:23 AM
Tried listening to "The Count of Monte Cristo" but there are so many side stories that I just can't focus on it.  I like the classics but some of them I have to read myself because I can't follow it when someone else reads it to me.  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 20, 2020, 04:18:08 PM
I've been battling a cold this week.  I've been coming to work because I don't like to give up my vacation hours just because the parents here don't love their children enough to leave them home when they're sick.  The only times I get sick are when parents bring their sick children to the library to cough and sneeze and wipe boogers all over everything.  Because if they're too sick to go to school, they MUST need to come to the library because if they don't get brand new movies to watch their little worlds will just end.

Today I decided I could come in to work even though I felt worse than yesterday because I was supposed to have a day in my office and not be on the desk.  Well, someone else called out (who always calls out when they just don't feel like getting out of bed--there's a reason I have almost 300 hours of vacation saved up and they don't even have 10) and I had to cover on the desk for them.  Again.  So now I don't feel good and I have a headache and on top of that I didn't get 90% of what I needed to get done today done so I'm behind because someone else couldn't be bothered to show up.  Again.  If I wake up not feeling 1000% tomorrow, I'm calling out so someone else can cover the desk for ME for once. :sick:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on February 20, 2020, 10:05:20 PM
One would think the roads downtown would be better kept. When I worked at the mall ouside of town I could bike or walk in either weather, which I did, because the walkways were kept. But going down to the city center is a deathtrap of ice, slush and more ice and the occasional spot of dry road. I could walk to my former work all year round without feeling at risk of falling and breaking my bones. Now I need to take the bus because I don't dare walk to walk. It's just :nuts:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2020, 10:24:57 AM
Supermarkets not watering the plants they want to sell you.

People leaving plants to suffer and die is one of my pet peeves.

Did rescue some though.

Also...

All the fuss over the UK passport going back to being blue is so annoying.

I never had a blue passport, as I had my first one after they went burgundy. While mine is burgundy and has a long time to run on it before it expires, it really irks me that there's this whole fanfare about blue being more iconically British.

In the past, maybe it was, but this isn't the past and we haven't been living in that since 1988.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 25, 2020, 04:40:53 PM
They rescheduled my dentist appointment from 5PM to 4PM and I had to get there in a rush!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 26, 2020, 06:25:29 PM
The flooding.

I'm not affected here, but the stuff being shown all over the news is really not that far from here. I mean, this isn't even just local flooding, this is on the national news, that's how bad it is :/ Yeah, this river is aggressive and wild at times and everyone in the region knows it, but this is extreme since it's actually breaking or breaching its barriers all along the flow of the river.

One of the local towns, which is basically surrounded by the river anyway, shut down its station because of the floods. All the trains in this area basically go through there one way or another, so that meant no trains for 2 days, pretty much. Although my sister somehow managed to find one to get back home this afternoon...most of them are still out even now the water is starting to recede there.

The flooding is really bad in this region. A lot of people have been evacuated, homes flooded (some twice) and it looks like raining again over the weekend. Hearing so many stories, it just makes me hope it all settles down soon.

I don't think it can get to us here, I think we're far enough from the river...but yeah, it's all pretty terrifying :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on February 27, 2020, 07:34:43 AM
Only one of my chocolate habanero seeds sprouted, so I picked it out and repotted it ... and it's wilted overnight  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 28, 2020, 07:44:20 AM
Just my newly adopted cats freaking out if we move furniture to clean it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 28, 2020, 10:03:20 AM
It's only Feb and I'm ready tired of US political ads.  :enraged:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 28, 2020, 10:09:33 AM
I'm going to request not to work with one of my co-workers anymore.  Her Majesty is getting on my nerves.  She is NOT my boss but if I'm not where she thinks I ought to be, doing what she thinks I ought to be doing, she asks "Is someone covering your shift today?  Because I wasn't sure if you were working it."  Just because she calls out and expects everyone else to do her work because she doesn't feel like getting out of bed doesn't mean that the rest of us (who actually show up to work on time) aren't doing our jobs. :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 28, 2020, 11:16:57 AM
Her Majesty is getting on my nerves. 
My pony brain was a bit confused at first. :P
I've had to work with a baby boss like that too. So annoying. Uhh, no, don't tell me what to do at night, you don't even close and it's none of your business.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 28, 2020, 03:26:04 PM
I overfilled my coffee! :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 28, 2020, 06:32:14 PM
I overfilled my coffee! :yikes:

I don't have any coffee! :yikes:

It's my sister's turn to buy and she didn't feel like going out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on March 01, 2020, 06:30:09 PM
I got excited about some toys I found at Thrift Town, only for the cashier to take them out of my hands and put them behind the counter because they weren't in a bag bundled with other toys. I didn't get to buy them :(

I've purchased loose toys from this store many times before, so this weird. And very disappointing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Satin Slipper on March 01, 2020, 08:40:52 PM
I got excited about some toys I found at Thrift Town, only for the cashier to take them out of my hands and put them behind the counter because they weren't in a bag bundled with other toys. I didn't get to buy them :(

I've purchased loose toys from this store many times before, so this weird. And very disappointing.

Why didnt you ask to stand by the register until they were bagged?  Or make your purchase, get lunch/dinner/dessert and return to the store later in the day?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 01, 2020, 11:53:41 PM
I got a job coach. We have a meeting today. Last week she emailed me and wanted me to send my CV, which I did. She sent it back with lots of comments and suggestions to alter it to the better. I have now followed her will and instead of five paragraphs on a single page, it's now four pages long. I asked my manager and he likes short and simple CVs and usually goes after the personal letter instead. I know everyone is different.. but I'm just unsure if anyone will ever read a four page CV :blink:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 02, 2020, 11:33:04 AM
I was ill last week and thought I was over the worst of it but the way I feel right now I’m not sure anymore.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 02, 2020, 12:35:35 PM
Internship season. Blah. I hate it. At least there's a job fair at main campus but it's at 11...I have a class an hour away at the local campus at 2...I think it'd be worth skipping to be honest and I think if I talk with the professor beforehand it might be alright, but it's right after a project is due.
My cat also had sludge or a stone. He was worrying me all yesterday and the day before and today seems to be just fine. I'm glad he's acting like himself again and is eating but ughh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on March 02, 2020, 02:30:29 PM
Work was frustrating today, couldn't stay on schedule to save my life  :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on March 02, 2020, 11:41:49 PM
I got excited about some toys I found at Thrift Town, only for the cashier to take them out of my hands and put them behind the counter because they weren't in a bag bundled with other toys. I didn't get to buy them :(

I've purchased loose toys from this store many times before, so this weird. And very disappointing.

Why didnt you ask to stand by the register until they were bagged?  Or make your purchase, get lunch/dinner/dessert and return to the store later in the day?

I asked if I could buy them after they were bagged, but she said she wouldn't sell them to me. I just paid for the rest of my stuff and left because I didn't really feel like dealing with her after that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 03, 2020, 05:33:37 AM
My disability hearing is today. I have an attorney so I'm hopeful but I'm still a nervous wreck. I hardly got any sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 03, 2020, 07:32:38 AM
I got excited about some toys I found at Thrift Town, only for the cashier to take them out of my hands and put them behind the counter because they weren't in a bag bundled with other toys. I didn't get to buy them :(

I've purchased loose toys from this store many times before, so this weird. And very disappointing.

Why didnt you ask to stand by the register until they were bagged?  Or make your purchase, get lunch/dinner/dessert and return to the store later in the day?

I asked if I could buy them after they were bagged, but she said she wouldn't sell them to me. I just paid for the rest of my stuff and left because I didn't really feel like dealing with her after that.

I probably would have told her that I wanted the toys for a niece/nephew's birthday and asked to speak to a manager.  My guess is that they wanted whatever you found and were hiding it to buy later.

Post Merge: March 03, 2020, 12:02:35 PM

Today's complaint:  People who smoke and smell like an ashtray or don't smoke but just plain don't bathe.  I will never understand why someone's right to smell like something my dog would be ashamed to roll in trumps my right to breathe.  It isn't like breathing is necessary to stay alive or anything... :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 03, 2020, 01:14:28 PM
My disability hearing is today. I have an attorney so I'm hopeful but I'm still a nervous wreck. I hardly got any sleep.

I hope it went well. Having been through one of those fighting against a govt department who either lost or misunderstood my evidence and thus forced me to go to tribunal, I know how stressful it can be. Hopefully it will all be resolved for you today :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 03, 2020, 06:58:18 PM
My disability hearing is today. I have an attorney so I'm hopeful but I'm still a nervous wreck. I hardly got any sleep.

I hope it went well. Having been through one of those fighting against a govt department who either lost or misunderstood my evidence and thus forced me to go to tribunal, I know how stressful it can be. Hopefully it will all be resolved for you today :)

Thanks! It went well. My attorney said he felt good about it. We don't know the judges decision and it might take several more months to find out. I can keep submitting evidence while the decision is being made, so that's good. I still have a bunch of heart related tests coming up this and next month.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on March 04, 2020, 02:51:57 AM
Argh I've been trying to get into contact with an artist to do a commission for a considerable while (more than 2 weeks atm!)

I message every few days and I even got one of their friends to message them, no response while every few days they upload new drawings!

I've contacted them on the platforms they listed, there's no email to contact them or any sort of protocol in order to get a response/commission.

They've given no indication that they don't do commissions or if they're closed or what.

I really want a piece from them but I don't know how much I can take before it gets too much.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on March 04, 2020, 11:22:23 AM
Putting up a play house for my cousin's son and touched a hot screw and it's blistering. That's what I deserve for not wearing gloves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on March 05, 2020, 05:24:15 AM
Working a night shift always makes me realize just how many irons I have in the fire, so to speak.

Not to mention my boss keeps trying to discuss controversial subjects (i.e., politics, religion.) :| I'm just here to calve your cows, dude.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 06, 2020, 08:34:01 AM
I have been waking up too early and can’t go back to sleep.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on March 06, 2020, 02:44:21 PM
I got a bus to leave a friend's house this morning.  I had a £10 note to pay with, and the person in front had paid theirs with a £5 (the fare is £5) so the driver kept that money in his hand as my change however before handing it over he COUGHED INTO HIS HAND AND ON IT. I mean that's disgusting when there ISN'T a global pandemic virus in the headlines!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 07, 2020, 09:51:29 AM
I got a bus to leave a friend's house this morning.  I had a £10 note to pay with, and the person in front had paid theirs with a £5 (the fare is £5) so the driver kept that money in his hand as my change however before handing it over he COUGHED INTO HIS HAND AND ON IT. I mean that's disgusting when there ISN'T a global pandemic virus in the headlines!

Germs aside, that's a ridiculous bus fare unless it was a dayrider or you were travelling something like 10 miles :P

ANd yeah, that's one of those moments you want a disinfectant spray to spray it, and him, pointedly...

My complaint...crazy people emptying shelves of soap, antibacterial hand gel , and other stuff.

My family have used the hand gel since my mother had chemo in 2012 because her immune system then was zero. She's a lot better, but she's had 2 pneumonias in 2 years and is still monitored, so we all still always carry it as a matter of course.

Now it's impossible to buy it just as a normal commodity because a bunch of overreacting people who might get a mild cold are stockpiling it (and some selling it on ebay for silly prices).

Not that I think it's bad people are taking the hygiene things seriously, but when you have someone in your family whose immune system and respiratory health is compromised and who might be badly affected, it's frustrating not being able to get something you've normally bought for 7 years.

I hope nobody else with struggling immune systems is losing out because of healthy hypochondriacs.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on March 07, 2020, 12:04:51 PM
I got a bus to leave a friend's house this morning.  I had a £10 note to pay with, and the person in front had paid theirs with a £5 (the fare is £5) so the driver kept that money in his hand as my change however before handing it over he COUGHED INTO HIS HAND AND ON IT. I mean that's disgusting when there ISN'T a global pandemic virus in the headlines!

Germs aside, that's a ridiculous bus fare unless it was a dayrider or you were travelling something like 10 miles :P

ANd yeah, that's one of those moments you want a disinfectant spray to spray it, and him, pointedly...

My complaint...crazy people emptying shelves of soap, antibacterial hand gel , and other stuff.

My family have used the hand gel since my mother had chemo in 2012 because her immune system then was zero. She's a lot better, but she's had 2 pneumonias in 2 years and is still monitored, so we all still always carry it as a matter of course.

Now it's impossible to buy it just as a normal commodity because a bunch of overreacting people who might get a mild cold are stockpiling it (and some selling it on ebay for silly prices).

Not that I think it's bad people are taking the hygiene things seriously, but when you have someone in your family whose immune system and respiratory health is compromised and who might be badly affected, it's frustrating not being able to get something you've normally bought for 7 years.

I hope nobody else with struggling immune systems is losing out because of healthy hypochondriacs.

I was travelling 20 miles actually but bus fares are silly in Cambridge especially for shorter journeys- and it's a rubbish service. A whole new trivial complaint in itself

I agree with the rest of your post too, I mean, did people not wash their hands before all this or something?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 07, 2020, 03:10:17 PM
I got a bus to leave a friend's house this morning.  I had a £10 note to pay with, and the person in front had paid theirs with a £5 (the fare is £5) so the driver kept that money in his hand as my change however before handing it over he COUGHED INTO HIS HAND AND ON IT. I mean that's disgusting when there ISN'T a global pandemic virus in the headlines!

Germs aside, that's a ridiculous bus fare unless it was a dayrider or you were travelling something like 10 miles :P

ANd yeah, that's one of those moments you want a disinfectant spray to spray it, and him, pointedly...

My complaint...crazy people emptying shelves of soap, antibacterial hand gel , and other stuff.

My family have used the hand gel since my mother had chemo in 2012 because her immune system then was zero. She's a lot better, but she's had 2 pneumonias in 2 years and is still monitored, so we all still always carry it as a matter of course.

Now it's impossible to buy it just as a normal commodity because a bunch of overreacting people who might get a mild cold are stockpiling it (and some selling it on ebay for silly prices).

Not that I think it's bad people are taking the hygiene things seriously, but when you have someone in your family whose immune system and respiratory health is compromised and who might be badly affected, it's frustrating not being able to get something you've normally bought for 7 years.

I hope nobody else with struggling immune systems is losing out because of healthy hypochondriacs.

I was travelling 20 miles actually but bus fares are silly in Cambridge especially for shorter journeys- and it's a rubbish service. A whole new trivial complaint in itself

I agree with the rest of your post too, I mean, did people not wash their hands before all this or something?

Apparently not. Kinda gross when you think about it :/

And I guess for 20 miles it's maybe not so bad. In London it's a flat fare of 1.50 within an hour on TFL buses, but where my parents live, it's £2.10 for 1 mile and about the same to the local hospital which is even closer. (And there are many fewer buses to many fewer locations, but it all costs more. Bah).

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on March 08, 2020, 05:17:21 AM
When your last name is the worst but you have to reveal it to anybody you're buying from :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on March 08, 2020, 02:33:07 PM
This is extremely trivial and I feel awfully greedy for it, especially now during Lent... But hey, it's "complaints" like these that make me realise that we have a good life, which something I should and will never take for granted, so. :P

My backpack is too small for all the awesome patches I want. :cry: I have a large-ish backpack with a lot of patches on it (music, statements, pretty things, etc.), but now I discovered sooo many awesome ones on Etsy... I want them all, but I have next to no space left. :wail: It's always Etsy that ruins me. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 09, 2020, 07:37:50 AM
The implant in my head hurts a lot today. I must have slept on it funny.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 10, 2020, 12:15:57 PM
^ My implant is still bothering me and today I'm battling dizziness.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on March 10, 2020, 01:15:27 PM
Corona virus panic. People are mass-buying toilet paper for some UNHOLY reason.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 10, 2020, 03:51:31 PM
Corona virus panic. People are mass-buying toilet paper for some UNHOLY reason.

The toilet paper thing is totally bizarre. There was some film of people fighting over it in an Aussie store a few days ago. But our local supermarket had a lot yesterday. I guess advantage of being in a place nobody in their right mind visits...

But you know, you can't eat toilet paper...and toilet paper doesn't kill viruses.

*shakes head*.

Media here asked a guy why he was buying so much and he said, well, because everyone else was. Total FOMO in a warped and weird sense. Though I also feel like if the media wasn't making SUCH A HUGE DEAL of this with stats and updates and such, most people would just be getting on with things. I mean, yeah, keep people informed, but do we need itemised breakdowns hour by hour of how many people are infected in every single region of this country and every single other one they can find on a map?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on March 10, 2020, 04:36:30 PM
My ceiling fan is acting up and not wanting to work most of the time. This is really not a good time of the year for this to happen, as the weather has gotten a lot warmer and the days are becoming a lot more sunny. It is really warm in my room today. =/ And of course we can't turn the AC on yet. God, I hate Spring so much.

Also, a work one: I work in retail and in the aisles we have an extra shelf on top where extra stuff gets put. Oftentimes it is tasked on me to bring that stuff down. If I'm in a light aisle it is a breeze and is actually the easiest on me of any task there. But today I was tasked in a heavy aisle where very heavy cases were up top. Not only are they really not supposed to put entire cases up there, but how in the world do they get them up there to begin with? It's just very inconsiderate.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lady Frostbite on March 11, 2020, 12:55:59 AM
I keep falling asleep on my arms or elbows and waking up with dead arms/pins and needles so bad it wakes me up  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 11, 2020, 08:38:13 AM
Overhearing people’s cell phone conversations while they are in the restroom. I might be able to overlook it if it was an important conversation but I can’t understand why some people think it’s acceptable for everyday talk and it’s not private since everyone can overhear.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 11, 2020, 11:25:37 PM
I was standing normally washing my hands and my left hip gave out. Just like that! I almost fell to the floor. Now it really hurts. What the heck?! It's done this once before but was probably over a year ago.

My body is falling apart :sad:

My implant stopped hurting but I have a terrible headache and still having bouts of dizziness, especially if I close my eyes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 12, 2020, 07:07:24 AM
One of my daily research tasks on Pokemon Go is to get an excellent throw.  It's been there for about a week and I haven't been able to do it because all the pokemon are suddenly tiny and very far away.  I know as soon as I throw the task away I'll get one...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 12, 2020, 08:07:14 AM
I'm worried about Target cancelling my preorder from JANUARY 31st. Ugh. Everyone seems to have shipping emails and I got nothing.
Also, the pressure changing and pollen count is driving my head insane.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 12, 2020, 10:08:38 AM
Today isn’t a good day for me. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 12, 2020, 11:32:32 AM
Today isn’t a good day for me. :sad:

Same :sad: :hug:

I hope things get better for you (and me)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 12, 2020, 11:43:31 AM
Today isn’t a good day for me. :sad:

Same :sad: :hug:

I hope things get better for you (and me)

Cookies to both of you :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 12, 2020, 03:23:29 PM
Today isn’t a good day for me. :sad:

Same :sad: :hug:

I hope things get better for you (and me)

Cookies to both of you :hug:
Have some cookies from me :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on March 12, 2020, 05:32:40 PM
It is like 90 degrees in my room. It feels like a rainforest. But we can't even think of turning the air conditioner on because tomorrow the highs will be in the low 50s. I say that cool air needs to come RIGHT NOW.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 12, 2020, 05:54:42 PM
Thank you BlackCurtains, Taffeta and Safflower.  *eats cookies*

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 13, 2020, 12:44:16 AM
Thank you too *munches cookies*

I can't sleep :( I'm in so much pain I can't get comfortable. Plus, I keep hearing banging noises outside. I think it's the neighbors. Or maybe trucks going by. Whatever it is, it's making me nervous.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 13, 2020, 12:53:18 AM
You know I said that the little boy I know was supposed to go hospital? Well the Ambulance didn’t show up to take him.

That just make me  :enraged: :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 14, 2020, 07:54:40 PM
I just tried Vegemite for the first time :scared:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: flutterscotch on March 14, 2020, 08:14:57 PM
My cat is looking at me like I owe him money. I want him to stop.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: IceCrystal02 on March 15, 2020, 06:31:20 AM
My cat is looking at me like I owe him money. I want him to stop.

Ha ha, our four cats (all girls) are always doing that when they don't like the food (which happens almost every day  :rolleyes:)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on March 15, 2020, 12:57:48 PM
I just tried Vegemite for the first time :scared:

I love that you wrote  this in the trivial complaints thread :lol: (I've only ever tried Marmite... nope didn't like it  ^^; )

My complaint is that Hiro the cat has gained weight again... it's probably because we haven't been able to walk that much during the winter. And he likes his food well enough, lol! Now that we have more daylight I should try to be more diligent about walking him.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 15, 2020, 06:47:20 PM
Would you say it's inconsiderate to leave without telling anyone and bring back fast food just for yourself when you live in a house with three other people? (and you know they haven't eaten and the house is running out of stuff to eat???)

Because I think it's a pretty crappy thing to do.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 16, 2020, 05:05:28 PM
I just opened a Coke that was still quite a ways from the Best Buy date and it had no flavor to it. :( I also bumped in to a large display today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonlady on March 19, 2020, 07:43:00 AM
This happened yesterday but I'm still salty about it. I had gone to the PO to mail some packages and was trying to write on the tracking number slips which was what (we're old school and don't have the nice printed out receipts that say that) but the pen didn't work. I politely asked for another. The post master kind of half rolled her eyes and VERY reluctantly gave me another pen. When I handed it back she took it between the tips of her fingers like it was a dead thing and then made a huge show of wiping off the pen and Purell-ing her hands. I understand taking precautions but to make such a huge deal about it was very annoying. She's normally a little rude to me anyway but now I'm only going to the PO on Saturdays as she doesn't work that day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 19, 2020, 10:28:42 AM
I was annoyed that I was informed via e-mail that I would be covering someone else's shift again instead of being asked if I would cover it.  Fortunately, one of my co-workers who has nothing to do offered to do it for me so I could get actual work done.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 19, 2020, 05:25:54 PM
I'd kill for a soda right now -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 19, 2020, 07:22:14 PM
I think I might have a headache coming on.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on March 21, 2020, 02:16:27 AM
I always forgot how awful this brand of 'icecream' is until i have first bite. They keep changing the packaging! It's like a booby trap in the freezer section....blech.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 21, 2020, 08:05:17 AM
I wish Funimation wouldn't have non skippable previews on their DVDs. I don't mind watching a preview for another show every once in a while but last night I had to take my DVD out and put back in because it was skipping and had to watch the same preview for My Roommate is a Cat twice in a row. I muted my TV the 2nd time.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 21, 2020, 02:11:34 PM
As we are practically on lock-down here in the UK, (my kid's school closed yesterday and her activities cancelled) I spent the day at home and decided to do a mega hit of laundry whilst spring cleaning the house.

I awoke with a sore throat, bum gravy and a cough but no fever. No lethargy so I thought I'd keep myself moving and useful. The weather was sunny and warm enough to have the doors and windows open so, great, I could do some de-moulding spray too. Husband cut the lawn, kid had a remote zoom dance lesson then played outside, I was feeling much better.

Just finishing my 4th load and then there was a strange noise from the washing machine (front loader) it began to vibrate like crazy, I actually had to hold the machine down! Then the spin cycle went MADLY fast and making a high-pitched whine. My kid shouted out "what's happening?" and I didn't know! I turned it off... waited... took out the clothes.

Checking the Gospel of Google, it appears I have a broken machine! Oh well, it was 14 years old and served us well. Looks like I am on hand-washing duties until we come out of lock-down and after self-isolating. I am thankful for having a well-stocked larder and finding that extra pack of toilet roll under the stairs! Ah 14 days...  >_< 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 21, 2020, 03:37:22 PM
I hate when I'm reading a nice fanfiction and then the author switches to first person. I *hate* first person.
I've been feeling quite lonely lately. I found out people from my old department hung out...they never did that while I was working there. It was, like, all the people in my age range too. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Kazzellin on March 21, 2020, 05:08:52 PM
Sometimes I really can't stand being short and fat. >_< Well, I never enjoy it (especially the fat part), but sometimes the confrontation is too much. I bought this lovely blouse, but those things NEVER sit right on me! Anything with an accentuated waistline looks stupid on me. If I were thin, I'd just buy a small size and everything would be cool. But nooo, I need the biggest size, which is also about a mile longer than the smallest size, so the waistline falls pretty much on my hips... :pout:
If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the models and famous people have those clothes tailored to fit them exactly--basically, if they were buying it off the rack, it wouldn't fit them properly either. My understanding is they buy a shirt 1-2 sizes too big, then take it to a tailor/seamstress and have it altered to fit perfectly. So, even if you were a small size (and I'm in the same boat you are, as far as that goes), chances are the off-the-rack stuff still won't fit properly. :shrug:

I have a sore throat and dry cough, and can't tell if it's allergies or not. :( I'm assuming it is, since I'm not running a temperature or nauseated, but still. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: dragonfly on March 21, 2020, 08:08:34 PM
I have a zit on my neck which won't pop and also won't go away  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StarDapple on March 21, 2020, 11:06:32 PM
I have all chocolate-type snacks in the house and I am really craving some fruit snacks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 22, 2020, 01:13:20 PM
Pizza Hut forgot the little plastic table and my cheese stuck to the top of the box -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 23, 2020, 08:22:45 AM
We watched my nephew for three days while his mom was in the hospital having a new baby.  When we dropped him off at his home, we were not allowed in or to hold the new baby (understandable) but when my nephew wanted to hug us all goodbye, his parents told him he couldn't.  Um, we just spent three days cuddling, hugging and playing with him.  How is a hug outside his house going to give him the corona virus that none of us have?  It was super annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on March 23, 2020, 08:46:35 AM
The photoshop file i was working on (Bratzillaz wish list) become corrupted after a power outage. Now all the images i saved are gone
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 23, 2020, 10:05:22 AM
The photoshop file i was working on (Bratzillaz wish list) become corrupted after a power outage. Now all the images i saved are gone

Can you right click the file and restore a previous version?  You might lose a little bit but you might be able to get most of it back that way.  If you can get the file to come up again as a previous version you just have to "Save As" to resave it without being corrupted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on March 24, 2020, 12:10:42 PM
Humidity is currently 20% inside the house, normally I like dry air, but this isn't fun anymore. >_< I just changed the sheets on the bed, and everything was crackling so bloody hard that it actually hurt. A LOT. :cry:

Sometimes I really can't stand being short and fat. >_< Well, I never enjoy it (especially the fat part), but sometimes the confrontation is too much. I bought this lovely blouse, but those things NEVER sit right on me! Anything with an accentuated waistline looks stupid on me. If I were thin, I'd just buy a small size and everything would be cool. But nooo, I need the biggest size, which is also about a mile longer than the smallest size, so the waistline falls pretty much on my hips... :pout:
If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the models and famous people have those clothes tailored to fit them exactly--basically, if they were buying it off the rack, it wouldn't fit them properly either. My understanding is they buy a shirt 1-2 sizes too big, then take it to a tailor/seamstress and have it altered to fit perfectly. So, even if you were a small size (and I'm in the same boat you are, as far as that goes), chances are the off-the-rack stuff still won't fit properly. :shrug:

That does make it a little better. Thanks! :happy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 24, 2020, 12:29:43 PM
I have a headache and I think I have a fever.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 24, 2020, 04:07:33 PM
As the day goes on just feel worse and worse.

Plus my niece had a friend over. Whyyyyyyy??? Go away. There is a pandemic. GO. HOME.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 24, 2020, 04:11:57 PM
Mum complaining all evening about losing a future delivery slot because sister phoned and it timed out. Sister basically unhelpful leaving me to deal with the backlash. As if I am not stressed enough.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 24, 2020, 05:06:25 PM
Mum complaining all evening about losing a future delivery slot because sister phoned and it timed out. Sister basically unhelpful leaving me to deal with the backlash. As if I am not stressed enough.

:hug:



I have another headache or maybe it’s the same one returning. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 24, 2020, 05:32:42 PM
Mum complaining all evening about losing a future delivery slot because sister phoned and it timed out. Sister basically unhelpful leaving me to deal with the backlash. As if I am not stressed enough.

:hug:



I have another headache or maybe it’s the same one returning. :(


Ponyfan

Maybe you need an early night with something relaxing??

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Hannah66665 on March 25, 2020, 12:27:37 AM
I have really bad teeth and one is starting to break and crumble in my mouth and it hurts and there's no way I'm doing a dentist right now... bit freaked. hopefully have enough meds to get me through the next month or so if I eat careful. @_@ time to make a new chart to keep track of what I'm taking and when...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on March 25, 2020, 01:25:56 AM
Me and Hubby got our Animal Crossing Games yesterday. Unfortunaly once you set one up, you can't transfer it to another console (yet) and since I am wanting my own Switch Lite (the coral one) which is released next month I can't play until then unless I want to loose everything and start over again :pout: It was fun to watch hubby played tho.. (not really)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2020, 01:43:10 PM
Mum complaining all evening about losing a future delivery slot because sister phoned and it timed out. Sister basically unhelpful leaving me to deal with the backlash. As if I am not stressed enough.

:hug:



I have another headache or maybe it’s the same one returning. :(


Ponyfan

Maybe you need an early night with something relaxing??

:hug:

My headache finally went away. It’s been a while since I had a headache that lasted 2 days.

I was just on hold for over 13 minutes. I know a lot of places  are overwhelmed right now but  there was absolute silence on the line during that time. No “please continue to hold” or “thank you for your patience”  I will try again tomorrow.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 25, 2020, 01:55:27 PM
Ponyfan, I hope you feel better soon!


The Prime Minister of the UK said we could go out once a day (solo or with current household occupants) for exercise. I go out for a run, I run 3 days a week and I stay home to do my strength exercises 3 times a week. Going out is precious gift at the moment, I am not taking it for granted.

It really annoys me when I see people not bothering to keep their distance at the moment; the path gets quite narrow near our local lake and I saw a small crowd spread across rather then walking single-file past other people. I had to walk through bushes to keep a safe distance.

I have a run scheduled for tomorrow, I am thinking of driving to a park with a wide, open space so that I can keep an eye open for other people. According to Google Maps and the distance measuring tool, one circuit around the park is just a smidge over 1km, so that's a decent "track" size to run.

Right, that's my plan for tomorrow, woe betide anyone who crosses my path!!  :lol:  :throw:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 25, 2020, 03:10:50 PM
That is one thing that is a blessing from being here because there really aren't many people roaming around most of the time. Although when we went out the other day we avoided the local popular places people go to walk dogs/hang out/enjoy nature, because we thought everyone would be there.

People tend to emerge here more in the afternoon as well, so we're going out in a morning.

My only concern is that there are three of us going walking and that could be misconstrued as a 'gathering'. But we live together right now - I just don't want to have to get close to anyone to prove it with ID.

I admit that I'm never the most passionate person about being in close contact with other people, but right now I have zero interest in even being on the same path as them.

And while I'm complaining - everyone in this house coughs as a matter of course. Mum has to cough in the mornings as physio for her lung condition. Dad has asthma. I have allergies. We cough. And now every time one of us coughs we're washing hands...which means our hands are horribly dry right now :/

(NB these are not dry coughs xD)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 25, 2020, 04:42:59 PM
I have really bad teeth and one is starting to break and crumble in my mouth and it hurts and there's no way I'm doing a dentist right now... bit freaked. hopefully have enough meds to get me through the next month or so if I eat careful. @_@ time to make a new chart to keep track of what I'm taking and when...

Same here! When I flossed yesterday a whole chunk came out from the back of one of my bottom teeth. Totally freaked me out! It doesn't hurt thankfully but it sure feels weird.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 26, 2020, 06:28:50 AM
And while I'm complaining - everyone in this house coughs as a matter of course. Mum has to cough in the mornings as physio for her lung condition. Dad has asthma. I have allergies. We cough. And now every time one of us coughs we're washing hands...which means our hands are horribly dry right now :/

(NB these are not dry coughs xD)

Ugh and spring pollen is happening now, I hope your family is not too affected by it!



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 26, 2020, 07:23:22 AM
I feel like I might be more likely to get an important phone call these days.

So I just answered something without screening it. It was a flipping chinese robo call. I'm not happy. I'm back to screening calls.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 26, 2020, 09:29:21 AM
Thank you glitterball.  I feel much better today but do have another slight headache coming on.

It took 3 calls but I finally got someone at the pharmacy. They just wanted to tell me my medicine was ready. Wouldn't it have been simpler to leave a message saying I had a prescription ready?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on March 26, 2020, 09:59:19 AM
Why doesn't dolly hair stock glow in the dark hair anymore and were can I find another supplier?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 26, 2020, 11:44:24 AM
I'm so tired today I can't wake up. I tried to take a nap but that didn't work. My eyes are itchy and watery and I want to keep them closed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on March 26, 2020, 02:29:27 PM
Urrrgh... I ordered a wonderful book from/about an island I love, and I paid extra to have it wrapped in special island paper. So obviously the post office felt the need to open my package and rip the paper off, they didn't even put it back in the package, it's just gone!  :stressed: I'm 100% sure the seller didn't forget to wrap it, because the package had clearly been opened...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on March 26, 2020, 04:10:02 PM
can anyone answer my question please.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 27, 2020, 08:12:02 AM
I have another headache coming on.  It’s been a while since I’ve had one so many days in a row.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on March 27, 2020, 08:38:01 AM
So no ones gonna give me an answer?

Why do I even bother asking...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 27, 2020, 08:41:03 AM
So an hour before the end of my shift at work today, we got a call from the Big Important Boss who wanted two emergency control boxes making, on top of the cleaning tasks and getting the heck out of there by 2:15 so the next pair of people can come in without making contact with the people who have been on the previous shift. He could've done it himself but told us he "hates preparing boxes". Well, I hate preparing boxes too but I do it because - newsflash, mate! - it's an important part of the job. Nothing can be completed if it doesn't have a control box. It's this weird thing called responsibility and considering he's in his late 40s and is running a business, you'd think he'd know a thing or two about that.
I got his boxes done, but it was done with copious amounts of cursing him six ways from Sunday. Not particularly Buddhist behaviour on my part but to be fair, my boss is a childish, self-centred, money-worshipping slimeball (and that's the massively cleaned-up version of my assessment.)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on March 27, 2020, 10:49:10 AM
So no ones gonna give me an answer?

Why do I even bother asking...
This is the trivial complaints thread - maybe asking in customs would get you an answer.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on March 27, 2020, 12:23:52 PM
I have not just one complaint today, but three:

1. The stress of the last few months (not just the virus, but personal / family matters as well!) has caught up to me. I'm exhausted... and in a procrastination loop, which is stressing me out even more.

2. I have to crawl under the house sometime today to inspect a leaking pipe.

3. My 3DS SD Card is on its last legs and I'm having a heck of a time transferring my data to a new card.

Sorry for being so negative, but... I needed to get these off my chest.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 27, 2020, 01:27:21 PM
My eyes are still bothering me :mad: I haven't been outside so I don't think it's allergies and I feel okay otherwise (a very slight headache but that's normal for me). I flushed them with water which helped for a bit. I thought I had some eyedrops but I can't find them.

I want to play Skyrim, darnit *blinks angrily*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Artemesia's Garden on March 27, 2020, 01:34:52 PM
I'm craving deep fried food but I'm too scared to order a takeaway #COVID-19
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on March 27, 2020, 02:21:19 PM
I'm craving deep fried food but I'm too scared to order a takeaway #COVID-19

Easy Chinese-takeaway style salt & pepper king prawns (or little strips of chicken)

slosh your meat in some beaten egg (oo-err that sounds so wrong!)
toss eggy meat in potato flour (or corn flour or last resort, regular flour, depends what you have)
fry the floured meat in a shallow pan of vegetable oil for 2 to 3 minutes

meanwhile...
in some oil, fry a chopped onion, chopped garlic, grated fresh ginger, spring onion
add chopped fresh chilli too, or a sprinkling of dried chilli instead
for extra flavour, if you have it, add a splash of vinegar and sesame oil

add the fried meat to the onion pan, stir everything through so that the oils all mix through the veg and meat.

Season with a mix of salt, sugar, Chinese five-spice powder (and a dash of MSG if you have any but this is optional)

There you have it!  :biggrin:  :yummy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Artemesia's Garden on March 27, 2020, 03:26:31 PM
Thank you I wasn't expecting a solution to my problem and will definitely try it! Sounds really good :heart:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 29, 2020, 06:42:07 AM
I found an old folder with music files from my old MP3 stick that I had back in 2006, I sorted them in a list view by modification date with plans of going on a nostalgia trip, but then it turned out that about a half of them were somehow modified in 2008 and 2009 (possibly by whatever music player I had on my PC at the time) and now I'll never be able to know what was the original order of when I first listened to these songs :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on March 29, 2020, 12:24:32 PM
My kids for my online classes  REFUSING TO SPEAK. The classes have 16-20 kids but the platform only allows you to see 6 of them at a time so they rest are off screen. you can not see or hear them
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 01, 2020, 11:17:26 AM
Had to deal with another tedious day of pointlessly lingering around work, achieving nothing, and having far too much time to dwell on the entirely unethical nature of the whole thing (far too much to unpack here, and probably more a WYP topic, so I'll leave it out). The boss is staying home and hasn't contacted any of us for days, so we have no idea what's going on in the wake of all our work having dropped off, there is genuinely no acceptable reason for us all to still be going in, especially with the lockdown in place. It's irresponsible and potentially putting people's health at risk, and I don't want to be involved in such scummy, shady business.
I'm definitely looking for a new job that I can do in better conscience once life is a bit more normal; at the moment, I'm just trying to focus on the thought that going to work at this completely worthless and ethically bereft job is just what I need to do to survive in the meantime but it is really exacerbating my anxiety issues. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 01, 2020, 11:44:17 AM
I think I accidentally triggered an asthma attack by putting my head down too far while I was working on something.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: cuddlebuggy on April 01, 2020, 06:50:43 PM
It just dawned on me that Easter is in 11 days. Can't order stuff online because it would take too long to get here. I am going to have to go to the store soon anyway, so I'll be able to get some stuff (hopefully.)
You may think that as teens they'd understand if I blew it off but this is the last year with both kids. My oldest will miss out on so much this year so I feel like making a bit of effort to let him be a kid for a few more months.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 02, 2020, 10:33:43 PM
All this extra handwashing and sanatizing is making my hand eczema flare up :(.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 03, 2020, 12:19:18 AM
All this extra handwashing and sanatizing is making my hand eczema flare up :(.

I relate. My hand is red raw. I am trying to swap in moisturiser soap because apparently they are no less effective than antibac.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 03, 2020, 06:08:07 AM
All this extra handwashing and sanatizing is making my hand eczema flare up :(.

I relate. My hand is red raw. I am trying to swap in moisturiser soap because apparently they are no less effective than antibac.


I can also relate. My hands are becoming raw too.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 03, 2020, 10:49:04 AM
All this extra handwashing and sanatizing is making my hand eczema flare up :(.

I relate. My hand is red raw. I am trying to swap in moisturiser soap because apparently they are no less effective than antibac.


I can also relate. My hands are becoming raw too.

Ponyfan

I had to wear gloves to go to the local store this morning (the actually having to go to the store is another trivial complaint but it was at least basically deserted and the store is taking seriously all the safety precautions so I guess it was okay). In any case these gloves and my hands don't get along, so my right hand currently looks like something mauled it along the thumb line and around the wrist.

At least Dad was ready with the wipes when I got home so I could wipe down the stuff I bought and such. It's a related note but I feel like I'm having to be super hyper vigilant because my parents are in the high risk categories and that's also pretty stressful. That includes my reasoning for not wanting to go to the shop, and if we hadn't needed bread, tomatoes (and milk, which apparently is essential, I wouldn't know, I wouldn't drink it if you paid me) I would not have gone just to get a tv magazine and a lottery ticket :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 03, 2020, 11:28:03 AM
This time I wanted to prepare a little so looked up some dried foods on eBay. Cheap???? NO CHANCE!!! :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
Still, for a milk-lover like myself the milk powder was a major boon. That at least will help me eke out what fresh I can get...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 03, 2020, 12:38:13 PM
 :mad: My neck and shoulders are sore from having to shovel out of a huge dump of snow we just got
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 03, 2020, 01:11:26 PM
All this extra handwashing and sanatizing is making my hand eczema flare up :(.

I relate. My hand is red raw. I am trying to swap in moisturiser soap because apparently they are no less effective than antibac.


I can also relate. My hands are becoming raw too.

Ponyfan

I had to wear gloves to go to the local store this morning (the actually having to go to the store is another trivial complaint but it was at least basically deserted and the store is taking seriously all the safety precautions so I guess it was okay). In any case these gloves and my hands don't get along, so my right hand currently looks like something mauled it along the thumb line and around the wrist.

At least Dad was ready with the wipes when I got home so I could wipe down the stuff I bought and such. It's a related note but I feel like I'm having to be super hyper vigilant because my parents are in the high risk categories and that's also pretty stressful. That includes my reasoning for not wanting to go to the shop, and if we hadn't needed bread, tomatoes (and milk, which apparently is essential, I wouldn't know, I wouldn't drink it if you paid me) I would not have gone just to get a tv magazine and a lottery ticket :P


I'm allergic to rubber and latex and have to be really careful about gloves. Before many places went latex free I had to request that people not use latex gloves when they were going to do something like draw blood. My mom still uses rubber gloves to do dishes and even if I just brush up against the glove I will start to itch and get red. I also have to be careful what soaps I use as certain ones will irritate my hands.

 I don't drink milk either.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 03, 2020, 01:14:32 PM
I discovered one of my favorite shows (Hoarding: Buried Alive) has all seasons on Amazon Prime. I binged seasons 1 and 2 yesterday and wanted to continue today but the internet is acting up and the stream keeps getting interrupted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 03, 2020, 11:18:38 PM
Omg! I feel for all of you! Dry itchy hands is its own level of h*ll I would say :crazy:. I have a really powerful steroid creme I can use so my hands still looks like normal hands, they just itch like crazy. Luckily I have tons of moisturising hand creme and is off for a couple of days not where I most likely will stay indoors and can keep the washing to a minimum.

Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on April 04, 2020, 08:17:58 AM
I lost my favorite lotion somewhere! I have a giant thing of body cream I'll bring in to work, the handwashing is really drying out my hands.
Also, I don't know what sort of sanitizer we have out on the sales floor now, but it's basically water? It smells bad, too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 04, 2020, 12:33:03 PM
Omg! I feel for all of you! Dry itchy hands is its own level of h*ll I would say :crazy:. I have a really powerful steroid creme I can use so my hands still looks like normal hands, they just itch like crazy. Luckily I have tons of moisturising hand creme and is off for a couple of days not where I most likely will stay indoors and can keep the washing to a minimum.

Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.

In my case although I have eczema it's not eczema, I think it's just super dry and so raw from all the washing. But if I put hand cream on it it stings and one of them actually brought up a rash on it (would not normally) so I am actually steering clear of doing that right now. I'm using the kind of cream you'd use on a cut and it seems to be helping a bit. But I can't stop washing them for obvious reasons (especially since I'm also spending time in the garden during the lockdown) so I don't know what the solution is.



@Ponyfan, another sane person who doesn't drink milk <3 My family think I'm crazy :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 05, 2020, 09:38:15 AM
Ugh, I woke up with a complaint today -_-

My pillowcase has dried blood all over it. There's a cluster of moles on the back of my neck that get very itchy occasionally and they've been bothering me the last couple days. Apparently, I scratched at them in my sleep enough to bleed. It's my childhood Popples pillowcase too, I hope I can get the stains out :(

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 05, 2020, 10:09:08 AM
Omg! I feel for all of you! Dry itchy hands is its own level of h*ll I would say :crazy:. I have a really powerful steroid creme I can use so my hands still looks like normal hands, they just itch like crazy. Luckily I have tons of moisturising hand creme and is off for a couple of days not where I most likely will stay indoors and can keep the washing to a minimum.

Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.

In my case although I have eczema it's not eczema, I think it's just super dry and so raw from all the washing. But if I put hand cream on it it stings and one of them actually brought up a rash on it (would not normally) so I am actually steering clear of doing that right now. I'm using the kind of cream you'd use on a cut and it seems to be helping a bit. But I can't stop washing them for obvious reasons (especially since I'm also spending time in the garden during the lockdown) so I don't know what the solution is.



@Ponyfan, another sane person who doesn't drink milk <3 My family think I'm crazy :/

Could you try those cheap cotton gloves? Slather cream on your hands, pop on the cotton gloves, then wear your gardening gloves over them or washing-up gloves if you are getting your hands wet doing chores? Hopefully they will moisturise your skin for a bit longer and help it heal?

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 05, 2020, 01:16:23 PM


Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.


Last year there was a water balloon fight at work and afterwards everyone was supposed to help clean up. I couldn't throw the balloons or help clean up.


Omg! I feel for all of you! Dry itchy hands is its own level of h*ll I would say :crazy:. I have a really powerful steroid creme I can use so my hands still looks like normal hands, they just itch like crazy. Luckily I have tons of moisturising hand creme and is off for a couple of days not where I most likely will stay indoors and can keep the washing to a minimum.

Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.

In my case although I have eczema it's not eczema, I think it's just super dry and so raw from all the washing. But if I put hand cream on it it stings and one of them actually brought up a rash on it (would not normally) so I am actually steering clear of doing that right now. I'm using the kind of cream you'd use on a cut and it seems to be helping a bit. But I can't stop washing them for obvious reasons (especially since I'm also spending time in the garden during the lockdown) so I don't know what the solution is.



@Ponyfan, another sane person who doesn't drink milk <3 My family think I'm crazy :/

My mom doesn't drink milk either but my dad loves it.


Ugh, I woke up with a complaint today -_-

My pillowcase has dried blood all over it. There's a cluster of moles on the back of my neck that get very itchy occasionally and they've been bothering me the last couple days. Apparently, I scratched at them in my sleep enough to bleed. It's my childhood Popples pillowcase too, I hope I can get the stains out :(




I have eczema and have woken up the past few nights scratching.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 05, 2020, 04:21:14 PM
Omg! I feel for all of you! Dry itchy hands is its own level of h*ll I would say :crazy:. I have a really powerful steroid creme I can use so my hands still looks like normal hands, they just itch like crazy. Luckily I have tons of moisturising hand creme and is off for a couple of days not where I most likely will stay indoors and can keep the washing to a minimum.

Ponyfan, I'm allergic to latex and rubberglows as well. We got some latex glows to use at work because the hand sanatizers are almost up but I got red just touching those -_-.

In my case although I have eczema it's not eczema, I think it's just super dry and so raw from all the washing. But if I put hand cream on it it stings and one of them actually brought up a rash on it (would not normally) so I am actually steering clear of doing that right now. I'm using the kind of cream you'd use on a cut and it seems to be helping a bit. But I can't stop washing them for obvious reasons (especially since I'm also spending time in the garden during the lockdown) so I don't know what the solution is.



@Ponyfan, another sane person who doesn't drink milk <3 My family think I'm crazy :/

Could you try those cheap cotton gloves? Slather cream on your hands, pop on the cotton gloves, then wear your gardening gloves over them or washing-up gloves if you are getting your hands wet doing chores? Hopefully they will moisturise your skin for a bit longer and help it heal?



Unfortunately gloves cannot be had for love nor money :/ Though today I potted up two of my house plants and the fabric gardening gloves alone were fine. One hand is not too bad now. The other is still dry and I had to put antiseptic cream on earlier because the skin had broken, but I'm managing. The problem with the hand cream is that you aren't meant to use it on skin that's broken. Sigh.

I am not sure if this is a complaint, but my main and most significant achievements this week have been getting a supermarket delivery slot and managing to obtain dettol wipes.

If you told me 3 months ago that that would be something to be proud of, I'd have probably laughed.

Also the toy fair would have been today. But obviously, not.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 07, 2020, 09:39:31 AM
I know Amazon is prioritizing orders for essential items over non essential ones and I completely understand why they are doing this  I was looking at some new books I wanted to order and shipping will take about 3 weeks since they aren't essential items.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 07, 2020, 10:41:34 PM
The internet has been wacky for two days but it's been really bad today. It keeps coming in, going out, coming in, going out. If it was just OUT then I'd be annoyed but fine. I would find something else to do. But this is making me check it too often and when it's back in I want to visit sites (like this one!) and things and it just goes out again and it's driving me crazy!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 08, 2020, 12:14:52 AM
This morning I went for my appointment with my therapist only to be told they could not find me on the list. Thinking I might have taken the wrong day I asked about it but the receptionist could only find my past appointments, nothing new booked at all. She said it was strange and told me she would have my therapist call me during the day. So I had to go home and now I have to keep my phone on me the entire day while playing the waiting game. At least I got a nice bikeride out of it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 08, 2020, 02:05:14 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 08, 2020, 02:17:33 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 08, 2020, 02:25:46 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Seconded!!! There is a My Little Pony & Friends comic being held for me by a seller & she may fling another goodie in there wi it (or may not but still...) as she can't post anything due to having to self-isolate until this mess is over. At least this way I know I'm getting the comic EVENTUALLY. If your seller is as decent they will have no issue holding an item for you until post-trouble.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 09, 2020, 11:00:41 AM
I'm really tired today.  :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 09, 2020, 11:10:48 AM
I've eaten too many Cadbury mini eggs....but just...can't...stop!  :gah: :bunny:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 09, 2020, 01:22:52 PM
Earlier my mom gave my sister money to buy everyone lunch and she brought everyone something except me :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 10, 2020, 12:07:46 AM
Aaww, that sucks BlackCurtains! I'm so sorry!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 10, 2020, 01:14:12 AM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Seconded!!! There is a My Little Pony & Friends comic being held for me by a seller & she may fling another goodie in there wi it (or may not but still...) as she can't post anything due to having to self-isolate until this mess is over. At least this way I know I'm getting the comic EVENTUALLY. If your seller is as decent they will have no issue holding an item for you until post-trouble.

Thank you both for your input, I really appreciate it! :hug: I probably would've gotten myself tangled up thinking round in circles otherwise. And happy birthday, Ponybookworm!  :birthday:

As for today's trivial complaint, I spaced out while making breakfast and now there's porridge burnt onto the bottom of one of my pans. It's soaking in some soapy water at the minute but it's still going to be proper palaver to scrub it off later!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on April 10, 2020, 01:24:31 AM
I fell off my bike and now my knee is all kinds of messed up. It’s scabbing over and every time I bend my knee it just feels all gross and crusty. I hate trying to heal wounds when they’re right where a limb bends, it always feels like I’m messing up their progress when I move.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 10, 2020, 12:40:48 PM
I finally start embracing my baking skills and hubby says he doesn't want it laying around the house because he's going to eat it and get fat  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 10, 2020, 01:49:22 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Seconded!!! There is a My Little Pony & Friends comic being held for me by a seller & she may fling another goodie in there wi it (or may not but still...) as she can't post anything due to having to self-isolate until this mess is over. At least this way I know I'm getting the comic EVENTUALLY. If your seller is as decent they will have no issue holding an item for you until post-trouble.

Thank you both for your input, I really appreciate it! :hug: I probably would've gotten myself tangled up thinking round in circles otherwise. And happy birthday, Ponybookworm!  :birthday:

As for today's trivial complaint, I spaced out while making breakfast and now there's porridge burnt onto the bottom of one of my pans. It's soaking in some soapy water at the minute but it's still going to be proper palaver to scrub it off later!
Cheers & glad I could help!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2020, 02:21:56 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Seconded!!! There is a My Little Pony & Friends comic being held for me by a seller & she may fling another goodie in there wi it (or may not but still...) as she can't post anything due to having to self-isolate until this mess is over. At least this way I know I'm getting the comic EVENTUALLY. If your seller is as decent they will have no issue holding an item for you until post-trouble.

Thank you both for your input, I really appreciate it! :hug: I probably would've gotten myself tangled up thinking round in circles otherwise. And happy birthday, Ponybookworm!  :birthday:

As for today's trivial complaint, I spaced out while making breakfast and now there's porridge burnt onto the bottom of one of my pans. It's soaking in some soapy water at the minute but it's still going to be proper palaver to scrub it off later!
Cheers & glad I could help!!!

Hey, happy birthday, Pony Bookworm! Sorry you have to spend it in lockdown :( Hope you had cake!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 10, 2020, 02:50:29 PM
While looking for puppets for inspiration for a homemade comedy variety show I'm working on, found the most stunning horse marionette, super folky-looking, and reportedly from the 1970s, which is my favourite era for design, but now is not the time to be buying puppets. Hopefully it'll still be there when things have calmed down a bit. Kind of wondering if it would be worth contacting the seller to ask if I could pay for it, reserve it, and then they could send it out when it's safer to do so. It's just such an amazing puppet, I love it so much, but there are far more important concerns afoot right now...

I totally would, I was thinking that as I was reading your post. Or at least asking them to hold it for you? What's the worst they are going to say...no?  There is no harm in trying!  Good luck!
Seconded!!! There is a My Little Pony & Friends comic being held for me by a seller & she may fling another goodie in there wi it (or may not but still...) as she can't post anything due to having to self-isolate until this mess is over. At least this way I know I'm getting the comic EVENTUALLY. If your seller is as decent they will have no issue holding an item for you until post-trouble.

Thank you both for your input, I really appreciate it! :hug: I probably would've gotten myself tangled up thinking round in circles otherwise. And happy birthday, Ponybookworm!  :birthday:

As for today's trivial complaint, I spaced out while making breakfast and now there's porridge burnt onto the bottom of one of my pans. It's soaking in some soapy water at the minute but it's still going to be proper palaver to scrub it off later!
Cheers & glad I could help!!!

Hey, happy birthday, Pony Bookworm! Sorry you have to spend it in lockdown :( Hope you had cake!
About to, re smile thread xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 11, 2020, 03:34:28 AM
I am having no luck with dampening the noise from my typewriter today. I started at the kitchen table with a book underneath it, then folded up a rug and put that between the book and the typewriter, still too noisy. I figured the size of the living room/kitchen and the laminate floor might be contributing to the problem, so I went to the bedroom which is much smaller and has a carpeted floor, still with the book and the rug under the typewriter; that was less noisy but still very clattery. As a last resort, I ended up trying to type with the offending machine sitting inside the wardrobe, hoping that it might be less noisy in there, but nope, still ridiculously loud. Also, even with my small and slight build, there's just not enough room to sit down and type comfortably at the threshold of a wardrobe. :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 13, 2020, 08:35:09 AM
I have several books at home that I haven’t read yet but one of my favorite series released the next book last week.  Due to the current situation the world is in, it will be a while before I can get the new book.  I know there’s much more important things  right now then getting a new book but I would still like to get the next book in the series.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 13, 2020, 02:21:48 PM
I have a lot of things I want to do and should be doing in lockdown but I'm still not on top of all of them.

And my academic stuff has basically gone out of the window since the middle of march...because right now there are so many other things to focus on that I really don't want to reread and rewrite the same article yet again...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 14, 2020, 04:35:51 PM
It's 7:30pm and it's still 93 degrees outside :drunk: It's only April!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on April 15, 2020, 04:28:39 AM
It's 7:30pm and it's still 93 degrees outside :drunk: It's only April!

Where I live it's the opposite, it actually got much colder out of sudden recently.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 16, 2020, 01:27:18 PM
I don't know if this makes laugh or cry (I'll go with both XD ), but I made a fool of myself again this morning. I had an appointment with my GP this at 08:10, and when I got there it looked like a war zone. About ten warning posters on the door, barrier tape everywhere, and no one there except two assistents, as far as I could see through the glass doors. They are automatic sliding doors, and they didn't open... I chalked it up to the war zone, and figured they'd only open the door for people with an appointment, so I rang the fricken doorbell...

...And then I realised it wasn't even 8 o' clock yet, it was only 07:45, so they were still SUPPOSED to be closed. :duh: Luckily I was just ignored, but man, I felt STUPID. :ninja:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 16, 2020, 03:53:41 PM
I had a very long depression nap and lost an entire day. What's worse is I woke up on my back and both my legs had gone numb. Now they hurt a lot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 17, 2020, 01:50:17 PM
Trying to install a firmware update for my drawing tablet and every time I go into the Wacom Desktop Centre, the laptop digs its heels in and stalls hard; it's not a very good laptop anyway but it really is taking the proverbial mick with all this umming and ahrring that it's doing today. Get it together, Pye! Come on!
(Grumbling at a laptop is totally normal behaviour...)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 17, 2020, 07:01:45 PM
I have been learning French on Duolingo for quite a while. I have to admit that I only recently started working at it again after not doing to for a long time. I feel like I'm learning how to read French but not how to speak it. I have a song in French on my iPod and I can only understand a few words.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 18, 2020, 12:07:36 AM
The only way to get dried pasta is order it online. I did, two weeks ago, but said pasta didn't arrive. Seller sent a second pack of dried pasta out, saying the post was chaos that day. I know I should be expecting this (post is now handling EVERYTHING non-essential), but it still leaves me mostly pasta-less until either pack arrives.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 18, 2020, 01:09:56 PM
Woke up with a bad headache that I've been fighting for about 3 hours now. Just took a second dose of medicine and having a Dr. Pepper for the caffeine boost. Hopefully, it helps.

My allergies have been bad the last couple of days. I keep sneezing and my eyes are very crusty. Luckily my mom stockpiles eyedrops so I have a new bottle. They're just moisturizing, not allergy, but it's better than nothing. It's been drizzling on and off but not enough to clean the air of pollen and dust. We're technically in a drought. I think the whole country is?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on April 19, 2020, 02:25:09 PM
I am out of Bing energy drink.  It’s my favorite and though I ordered some on Amazon, it’s not here yet and I have a caffeine headache. 

It’s frustrating knowing it’s just at the store and I shouldn’t go.  It’s not an emergency but I’m doing everything I can to try to forget it.   :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on April 19, 2020, 03:26:41 PM
I’m trying to draw a few requests I’ve got torn on DeviantArt. I haven’t been able to draw much as of late, with the bulk of my computers power being dedicated to rendering. And now that I need/want to draw, my tablet isn’t working.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 19, 2020, 05:19:08 PM
You'd think that staying home would mean spending less money but I keep buying stuff online!  It's terrible because I do NOT need any more t-shirts but Teeturtle is having a rotating sale (they put new stuff on every day and take some things off every day) and their shirts are SO cute!  They've been releasing a new design every day as well.  I've already bought shoes and jeans as well, though I actually did need new shoes and jeans.  The day I was going to go buy new jeans was the day all the clothes stores decided to close so I kind of had no choice there, I can't get away with wearing jeans with holes in the places there are holes at work much longer... :blush:

And I found myself looking for the extended editions of the Harry Potter films.  Why?  Because I was watching my perfectly good DVDs and realized that I like watching them on TV with the extra scenes added in so I thought I'd see if they were available on DVD or Blu-Ray.  Do I need them?  No.  I don't think I'll buy them as they're more expensive than I'd like to pay for but if I keep looking for them, there's a chance I'll run into something else that I decide I want and spend money on it.  Seriously, I do NOT need more stuff.  I do NOT need more stuff.  I do NOT need...Oooh that's cute!  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 20, 2020, 02:31:41 AM
You'd think that staying home would mean spending less money but I keep buying stuff online!  It's terrible because I do NOT need any more t-shirts but Teeturtle is having a rotating sale (they put new stuff on every day and take some things off every day) and their shirts are SO cute!  They've been releasing a new design every day as well.  I've already bought shoes and jeans as well, though I actually did need new shoes and jeans.  The day I was going to go buy new jeans was the day all the clothes stores decided to close so I kind of had no choice there, I can't get away with wearing jeans with holes in the places there are holes at work much longer... :blush:

And I found myself looking for the extended editions of the Harry Potter films.  Why?  Because I was watching my perfectly good DVDs and realized that I like watching them on TV with the extra scenes added in so I thought I'd see if they were available on DVD or Blu-Ray.  Do I need them?  No.  I don't think I'll buy them as they're more expensive than I'd like to pay for but if I keep looking for them, there's a chance I'll run into something else that I decide I want and spend money on it.  Seriously, I do NOT need more stuff.  I do NOT need more stuff.  I do NOT need...Oooh that's cute!  :P
Lol this is me so much!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 20, 2020, 09:02:21 AM
I keep buying plants.

No ponies. Plenty of plants. I love plants. But you know. There's only so much space for them.

And a wasp just flew in my room.

Also supplies.

(See Covid decomp thread for my rant about that).

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 20, 2020, 11:31:05 AM
The apple fritter hubby brought home this morning was still doughy in some places in the middle.  Ruined the good mood I was in that I was finally getting a donut after 5 weeks of being home  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 20, 2020, 04:39:20 PM
My family made baked potatoes 2 days in a row.  I like baked potatoes but not every day.

I’m also impatiently waiting for a book I want to be restocked.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Light Heart on April 20, 2020, 09:42:49 PM
I want to be active on all on my sites, but…over a hundred is too time consuming…
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 20, 2020, 11:09:55 PM
I think I'm going to shave my head. Before things got bad, my sister and I were supposed to get our hair cut together. Like usual she blew me off and I never got over there.

My hair grows super fast and the longest part is almost at my shoulders. I hate having it on my neck, summer is coming, I don't have the patience to cut it myself. So I'll just buzz it off. I haven't been going anywhere so I don't have to worry about people staring at my brain surgery scar :P

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 21, 2020, 07:19:13 AM
Too. Much. Wind! >_< The weather is so gorgeous today, I want to drink my coffee and have my dinner on the balcony, but the wind will probably blow it all away. It's coming from the north-east; guess which direction my balcony is facing. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on April 21, 2020, 05:04:20 PM
>expecting large pony mail
>ups truck pulls up with large box
>get excited because it’s pony mail
>it’s moms pillow, not ponies
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on April 21, 2020, 10:33:24 PM
So two of my bras broke and the inner seems on three of my leggins ripped. Like I can afford to order new ones right now? *headdesk*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 22, 2020, 01:27:38 PM
I do not like flat soft drinks.  There is a family member that says they can’t tell the difference so it doesn’t matter to them whether it’s flat or not. Usually this isn’t a problem until that person puts a drink that’s gone flat in the refrigerator and then I find out it’s flat when it doesn’t taste right to me.

Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 22, 2020, 01:39:23 PM
I am so fed up with conversations about delivery slots, online orders...and being the one who has to come to the rescue to ensure we actually have food.


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 22, 2020, 10:01:14 PM
I went to bed at 11pm Tuesday and woke up at 6pm Wednesday. I've been sleeping a lot lately but usually I can tell when I'm going to be comatose the next day. I was surprised by the time. And I didn't wake up at all that I can remember, which is unusual.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 23, 2020, 06:08:16 AM
I think I have a migraine coming on.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 23, 2020, 09:48:19 AM
The whole "Zombie to a billion" thing (Cranberries) still irks me. I complained about it here when they first posted about it, and now I will complain again because apparently they made it to a billion and released the video. :razz:

Call me an old-fashioned purist if you must, but to me this is wrong on so many levels... First of all I hate like/view battles, it's cheap and incredibly shallow. And second, of all the videos you guys made, you had to pick Zombie for this!? Forgive me for the pun, but what's in your head!? I sincerely hope that it was the management who insisted on it...

I don't care about your super duper big honkin' high quality video if it has to be done this way. I'll just stick to the old, barely visible version, thank you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 23, 2020, 09:52:13 AM
Zombie has a particular meaning as a song and was written with a particular message in mind. I'm not even sure how I feel about the cover version/the rerelease that was going to happen before Dolores passed away...

Having grown up here where the Troubles were a constant thing, I will always see Zombie as a protest against killing innocents to make a political point. But NI is and always will be extremely complex. I feel like Zombie belongs in that context, rather than being repurposed for Syria or other conflicts.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 23, 2020, 09:54:22 AM
Zombie has a particular meaning as a song and was written with a particular message in mind. I'm not even sure how I feel about the cover version/the rerelease that was going to happen before Dolores passed away...

Having grown up here where the Troubles were a constant thing, I will always see Zombie as a protest against killing innocents to make a political point. But NI is and always will be extremely complex. I feel like Zombie belongs in that context, rather than being repurposed for Syria or other conflicts.
Agree fully!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 23, 2020, 10:04:05 AM
Zombie has a particular meaning as a song and was written with a particular message in mind. I'm not even sure how I feel about the cover version/the rerelease that was going to happen before Dolores passed away...

Having grown up here where the Troubles were a constant thing, I will always see Zombie as a protest against killing innocents to make a political point. But NI is and always will be extremely complex. I feel like Zombie belongs in that context, rather than being repurposed for Syria or other conflicts.

Just like Ponybookworm, I couldn't agree more! :worshippy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 23, 2020, 11:07:45 AM
Lots of research pictures for an Ancient Rome project, maths and English grammar worksheets etc (set work for home schooling) cannot be printed because or printer decided to be EVIL and just mess with our heads.

Two days of fiddling, wasting paper, jammings, rude words and headache.

I have wasted so much time copying worksheets (using handwriting) to prepare home lessons.

I think we are going to order a new printer tonight...

In other news, I cut a toilet-roll tube in half to make two mini Scuta (scutum = Roman shield) and had a bit of fun painting them; it was a task meant for my kid to do,  but *I* NEEDED the diversion!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 23, 2020, 04:27:00 PM
Lots of research pictures for an Ancient Rome project, maths and English grammar worksheets etc (set work for home schooling) cannot be printed because or printer decided to be EVIL and just mess with our heads.

Two days of fiddling, wasting paper, jammings, rude words and headache.

I have wasted so much time copying worksheets (using handwriting) to prepare home lessons.

I think we are going to order a new printer tonight...

In other news, I cut a toilet-roll tube in half to make two mini Scuta (scutum = Roman shield) and had a bit of fun painting them; it was a task meant for my kid to do,  but *I* NEEDED the diversion!!!

Printers always choose to fail at the worst possible times. They plan for it. Years ago someone made a whole video about printers conspiring against us. It's a fact of 21st century life. Printers hate us.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 24, 2020, 12:25:36 PM
Okay, so I and the chap with whom I do the morning shift have been bending over backwards for weeks to keep stuff ticking over at work - without us two, that place would have gone under - we went above and beyond yet again today and did a ten-hour shift, along with everything else we've been doing for the past 6 weeks, working like dogs, basically... and we've not been paid. To really add insult to injury, we found beer bottles strewn about the office. So the boss turns up during the afternoon shift and has a bash with his buds, and we hear nothing whatsoever from him for weeks; we just turn up, slog our guts out and don't get so much as a "thank you" or even our wages. Well, I'd like to see how he thinks he can get on without an engineer and a wiring technician, because if we don't get paid by the end of the month, then the pair of us are out of the door. :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on April 24, 2020, 01:03:06 PM
Okay, so I and the chap with whom I do the morning shift have been bending over backwards for weeks to keep stuff ticking over at work - without us two, that place would have gone under - we went above and beyond yet again today and did a ten-hour shift, along with everything else we've been doing for the past 6 weeks, working like dogs, basically... and we've not been paid. To really add insult to injury, we found beer bottles strewn about the office. So the boss turns up during the afternoon shift and has a bash with his buds, and we hear nothing whatsoever from him for weeks; we just turn up, slog our guts out and don't get so much as a "thank you" or even our wages. Well, I'd like to see how he thinks he can get on without an engineer and a wiring technician, because if we don't get paid by the end of the month, then the pair of us are out of the door. :enraged:
WOW! How irresponsible can your boss be???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on April 25, 2020, 05:35:02 AM
Okay, so I and the chap with whom I do the morning shift have been bending over backwards for weeks to keep stuff ticking over at work - without us two, that place would have gone under - we went above and beyond yet again today and did a ten-hour shift, along with everything else we've been doing for the past 6 weeks, working like dogs, basically... and we've not been paid. To really add insult to injury, we found beer bottles strewn about the office. So the boss turns up during the afternoon shift and has a bash with his buds, and we hear nothing whatsoever from him for weeks; we just turn up, slog our guts out and don't get so much as a "thank you" or even our wages. Well, I'd like to see how he thinks he can get on without an engineer and a wiring technician, because if we don't get paid by the end of the month, then the pair of us are out of the door. :enraged:
WOW! How irresponsible can your boss be???

Precisely! It's all down to his horrendous attitude; he thinks he can do whatever he wants and never has to face any consequences, whenever someone calls his actions into question, then he will just have a massive tantrum - goodness forbid that anyone threatens his precious ego! On the plus side, when I find another job, I'll be all the more appreciative of it!

As for today's complaint, rather less heated, the laptop is being awkward. I want to organise some sketches for my big art project, but it's stalling and digging its heels in.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 25, 2020, 08:07:41 AM
I tripped over some stuff last weekend. It hurt at the time but I didn't think too much about it after that. Last night I discovered a big bruise in the middle of one of my toes.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 25, 2020, 10:40:31 AM
Miniature Sheep, your boss is seriously taking advantage of you, I hope he pays you at the end of the month  :enraged:

My kid had a nightmare at 4am and woke me up, I went to give her a hug and she fell asleep again; I did not  >_< so, as the dawn broke, I slipped out of the house and did a 6k run. As you do... lovely and quiet though, empty streets.

I cooked an afternoon BBQ and hand-cut fries, boxed-up some food for Dad and drove them over to him as "meals on wheels", drove straight home, answered a phonecall from a friend and finally ate my (cold) meal.

I am now upstairs, resting on my bed, because I AM SOOO TIRED!!!! Ach, I shouldn't really complain as I achieved a lot today, but... tired.... so tired...

In other news, our printer is still kaput and my husband did not get round to ordering a new one *sigh*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 25, 2020, 03:46:55 PM
Miniature Sheep, I'm sorry you have to deal with a boss like that.

My family is making baked potatoes for the 3rd time this week. :(



Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 25, 2020, 08:38:01 PM
My family is making baked potatoes for the 3rd time this week. :(

Send them to me! :P I love potatoes and could easily eat them everyday.

---

My dad keeps turning the thermostat up. I'm the one that pays the electric bill, so I keep setting it where I want it at 74°. He complains it's too cold and turns it up to 77. That is way too hot for me. I tell him he can wear a hoodie or get under a blanket. It's easier to get warm than it is to cool off. I told him I pay the bill and if he wants to control the temp he can pay it. He just laughs. And we keep going back and forth with it.

I'm seriously thinking of getting a little cage for it or something.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on April 27, 2020, 04:52:33 AM
No fleamarkets today. :( Today was supposed to be the Big Pony Day (Kingsday), but for obvious reasons there's nothing now. Usually this is a huge day for me, but now it's just a normal one (I don't want to have anything to do with the royal family, so for me this really is just Pony Day every year :P ).

I am looking on the bright side though. No horrible stomach ache from excitement and stress (yes, I am pathetic like that), no collecting coins for weeks to make sure I have enough (plus getting bank notes from the ATM which I really can't afford, but what if there's a huge box of ponies for €50? :freak: ), no uncomfortable but cute clothes in which I have to walk and ride my bicycle all day...

Nah, it's a fine day. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 27, 2020, 10:05:07 AM
Stuff at work that is stupid and would take too long to explain so the nutshell version is: If there's a smart/fast way to do it, we aren't going to do it that way.  Why?  Because showing any measurable level of intelligence within the borders of Utah is a surefire way to get sent straight to hell and we wouldn't want that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 28, 2020, 01:05:18 AM
Tesco is now offering alarm clock services.

By which I meant they decided to phone at 7.45 this morning to tell my parents their priority slot delivery will arrive between 10 and 11.

They had to do that before 8am? Seriously??

To add...and then we have no internet almost all day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 28, 2020, 11:27:57 AM
Tesco is now offering alarm clock services.

By which I meant they decided to phone at 7.45 this morning to tell my parents their priority slot delivery will arrive between 10 and 11.

They had to do that before 8am? Seriously??

To add...and then we have no internet almost all day.
No internet stinks when you're stuck at home xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on April 28, 2020, 03:13:41 PM
I'm tired of making dinner.  Why can't we just have complete meal pills like in the Jetson's?  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on April 29, 2020, 11:59:27 AM
Visited Asda supermarket this morning.

Grey, drizzly weather, so a tiny queue to get in.

But inside - have people forgotten to keep their distance, at one point I was trapped in an aisle with 2 sets of people in front and behind, stalemate, no-one moving (or obeying the arrows on the floor) until one guy moved to let me pass (while I held my breath).

So now I have a "psychosomatic sore throat" from the thought of all those folks crowding me. Urgh!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 29, 2020, 12:20:36 PM
Right now I have nothing bad to say about Asda's delivery service as they were the only ones making slots available to us until this week (bear in mind we went into lockdown on the 16th March). But their actual stores...have you ever been to the one in Roehampton? It's a huge shed where you walk in the door and are greeted by a polygamous gnome wedding ceremony. Gnomes also look down on you from the top of the toilet roll aisle. You have to walk through an underground carpark to get to it (for carpark, read racetrack). I almost miss it...the local one here is a lot more boring. (Fewer gnomes, too).

Can't be worse than Morrisons though. When I lived in North London, the Morrisons there would get so crowded I'd literally have to step outside. And the last time we went to the one near here, it was worse than Christmas. Admittedly this was right before lockdown happened for older people, but still.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 29, 2020, 12:27:50 PM
Can’t get any mini jammy dodgers from anywhere. Home and Away, and Neighbours are only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, got to wait till the 11th May for Neighbours to be on five days a week (don’t know about Home and Away)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 29, 2020, 03:18:05 PM
I just tried to leave a voicemail and had trouble figuring out what I wanted to say in the recording. :( 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 01, 2020, 06:32:05 AM
Had too much coffee on an empty stomach. Now I'm shaking. :pout: I knew it was coming as it's a common phenomenon for me, but I really wanted that second (big) cup of black coffee... People will be people. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 01, 2020, 11:18:13 AM
Coffee gets me twitchy, too. I normally have decaf, but on certain mornings I will have the real stuff and I can certainly feel it afterwards!!  :P  :freak: :wacko: :dizzy: :mrgreen:

So, after weeks of hand-washing (machine broke down at start of lockdown) and not being able to fit bedding sheets in my sink, we have at last ordered a new machine and arranged for the eco collection of the old, broken one. 

So many obstacles, though!

1) working out how to disconnect the old one - got there in the end, it was quite simple, really.
2) moving the old machine out of the house by myself (husband busy on vidconf with work all day so I did not want to bother him - a carpet off-cut made things so much easier!
3) moving my husband's car out of the way so that I can get the old machine out on the drive - the battery was dead and... after much faffing with jump-starters, I managed to move the car the required distance!  :blink: 

So, need to do the same AGAIN tomorrow, in reverse, when the new machine arrives.  :lol:

Ah, clean laundry, saved hands...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: deermeat on May 01, 2020, 12:13:13 PM
Goodwill is closed due to the pandemic, which sucks because I am stuck at home and it'd be nice to see the antiques :read:

The virus is a terrible one for sure. A historic event we are living through.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 01, 2020, 01:29:03 PM
@Glitterball - it seems to be a washing machine epidemic as well.

One of our neighbours had theirs turfed out on the street for collection a few weeks ago. And ours is basically on its last legs...Mum and Dad actually had people in to repair it at the end of March (cue Taffeta freaking out about safety but they came like the masked avengers with gloves, wipes and everything so it was fine). But our machine is basically ready to collapse any time...the fix they did on it is literally to try and see it through the pandemic. Sigh. If only the parents had decided a new machine was more important than getting the kitchen painted at the start of March...(hindsight is beautiful).

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on May 02, 2020, 03:47:22 AM
I don’t think I’m really in a financial position to buy a house quite yet, but I was browsing Zillow for fun and found a home in downtown Phoenix that I was absolutely in love with. Like, it was every thing I ever wanted in a home and it was a REALLY good price. Located just minutes from all the stadiums and concert venues in the city. It went off the market within 2 days. It just makes me sick because I’m pretty sure some investor snapped it up and is going to rent it out at some ungodly price. :( I wanted to at least talk to an agent and see if it was a dream within my reach.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 02, 2020, 09:31:43 AM
Setting up a printer for the first time in about 17 years... well, there's an hour and a half of my life I'm never gonna get back! It really shouldn't be that much of a faff just to install a driver. Modern technology indeed... :drunk: But on the plus side, I have free ink cartridges for 5 months, that's certainly not to be sniffed at. I'm not after starting up my own publishing house from the flat or anything, but it's nice to know that if I do need ink over the next few months, I'm covered.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 04, 2020, 12:05:50 PM
MEN! :argh:

Spoiler
Ugh, really! I'm putting this under a spoiler because complaining about my husband to others is something I never do, but I'm so fricken frustrated right now (please forgive me Father)!

So all the barbershops are closed, and they probably won't open anytime soon. My husband has been complaining about his hair non-stop; it's too long, it looks bad, it's in the way, etc. (for the record, I love how it looks and he knows it! :heart: ). So he's been bugging me for weeks if I can cut/shave it off for him, and I've been telling him that it would be a bad, bad idea because I don't even know the basics. His answer to that is a "threat" that he will just shave his whole head then (which would look terrible).

So, fast forward to today. I really wanted to help him, so I told him that I made a serious effort to learn how to cut men's hair (looked up how-to videos and tips online), and that I thought I could do an okay job now (no big risks, just a basic, modest trim). And even that I was going to buy a proper comb and a proper pair of scissors for the job.

...And now he's scared. But does he tell me that? NOOO! He suddenly says things like "if you like my hair like this I can just keep it this way until the barbershop opens again" and "maybe you can just use some of that mousse that you brought to keep it out of my face" (which he REFUSED to let me do before!) So what is this, reversed psychology or something!? >_<

For an outsider this probably sounds cute (and of course I will admit that it is, after I have cooled down  :P :heart: ), like, "First all this big talk, and now he got cold feet, d'aww!", but for now... GRRRRRR!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 05, 2020, 05:24:15 AM
Wireless blinking mouse!!! Thing is testing my patience & is the reason I phoned my pal in the first place!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on May 05, 2020, 02:34:05 PM
My (relatively new but we're quarantining together) partner's dad is doing my head in
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on May 06, 2020, 10:33:11 AM
This morning's storm was accompanied by severe wind - nearly ripped our young broccoli / cauliflower plants out of the ground, tore the shadescreen off my chicken run and rolled one of my smaller coops. (Thank God nobody was killed or injured.)

It's only noon and I already want to go back to bed. :yikes:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 06, 2020, 12:56:48 PM
I've been re-reading a fanfic online that was never finished and I really want the author to finish it.  Though, I don't even know if they're still writing.   :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 06, 2020, 01:10:18 PM
I've been re-reading a fanfic online that was never finished and I really want the author to finish it.  Though, I don't even know if they're still writing.   :(


This happens to me a lot when I read fanfiction.  I'll find an amazing story and really get in to it only to be disappointed that the author never completed it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 06, 2020, 01:12:59 PM
I've been re-reading a fanfic online that was never finished and I really want the author to finish it.  Though, I don't even know if they're still writing.   :(


This happens to me a lot when I read fanfiction.  I'll find an amazing story and really get in to it only to be disappointed that the author never completed it.


Ponyfan

It's one reason why I don't start posting a story in any fandom until I feel fairly confident I've written enough that it has somewhere to go. I have a few unfinished but not many. The thing is people often get a great idea then don't have time to get it all down, and then stuff happens...and they move on and leave it hanging.

I've been there too with reading a great story only to find it has yet to be continued...and was last updated several years ago ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: freezestime on May 06, 2020, 01:36:22 PM
ack i want and need sleep but random muscle is preventing me from doing so, its super weird and idk what caused it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 06, 2020, 08:21:05 PM
Trying to get motivated to finish my second in a three-part series (third is even started & bugging me to write it) on the topic of fan fics. The first part IS finished; the only reason it isn't all up yet is my policy where I post it is wait for a comment then post next bit.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on May 06, 2020, 09:46:50 PM
I've been re-reading a fanfic online that was never finished and I really want the author to finish it.  Though, I don't even know if they're still writing.   :(


This happens to me a lot when I read fanfiction.  I'll find an amazing story and really get in to it only to be disappointed that the author never completed it.


Ponyfan
The Miraculous fandom got me in the habit of just looking for finished fics only...but now I'm treading into less-written territory and unfinished is all that's left. The plight never ends.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 07, 2020, 10:34:57 AM
I had an idea for an epic adventure fanfiction but I ran out of ideas and ending up just rewriting the same scenes over and over and lost any inspiration that I had.  :sad: 

I was going to re-read one of my favorite fanfics yesterday but I couldn't find the link and searching for it using what I could remember of the dialogue didn't lead me to the correct one. I guess it was taken down by the author for some reason. 


There's been so much drama in my house today. :sad: :wail:


Ponyfan

 

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on May 07, 2020, 10:42:12 AM
I bought a very cool (and large) OOAK art piece from Japan. *_*; I don't know why I'm so crazy, but I'm pretty sure I'm crazy.

And this is a complaint, because I don't know how to treat myself. I'm not sure it's the right time either. But here we are.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on May 07, 2020, 10:44:09 AM
I finally got the fabric to sew a dress for my first doll!
...except I have little to no sewing experience at all!
So yeah...kind of confused and worried, but it will turn out fine. Right?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 07, 2020, 11:14:06 AM
It's always nice to wake up to your dad and sister yelling obscenities at each other -_- extra nice when they throw the n-word around.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on May 07, 2020, 01:37:32 PM
I finally got the fabric to sew a dress for my first doll!
...except I have little to no sewing experience at all!
So yeah...kind of confused and worried, but it will turn out fine. Right?
You'll only get better by doing it! It might be a bit hard on a small scale, though, especially if you use a machine. Take it slow, get a seam ripper or small pair of scissors handy, and don't be afraid to look for patterns or online tutorials. Winging it is hard.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 07, 2020, 03:41:07 PM
Today has been such a frustrating day. I want to scream and cry at the same time.
 :argh: :argh: :argh:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 08, 2020, 05:04:35 AM
Ugh, rude people on evilbay. I was about to respond to a question someone had sent me when I got another message from them, demanding that I answer their question. It doesn't sit well with me to be contentious anywhere in life, but I did amend my response before sending it, to tell them to be a bit more patient in future, as not everyone is constantly online. If they're that impatient behind a computer, I dread to think how much of a foot-stomper they must be in real life. Yeesh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2020, 08:04:12 AM
There’s more on this in my Smart TV thread but  my dad has been rearranging TV sets since we got a new one.  He keeps switching out the other sets and throwing items in to boxes to clear out space but then can’t remember what he put in a box or where.

This morning he couldn’t find one of the remotes for the TVs he’s been switching around. My mom kept asking me if I gave him the remote, where did I put it etc... It’s almost like she doesn’t  believe me when I tell her something. I know she’s probably just trying to process what I told her but it gets to me sometimes.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 08, 2020, 10:01:28 AM
My brush broke this morning.  Now I have to go to the store as my hair is far too long to go without one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 09, 2020, 04:17:23 AM
Just spent an hour in total reorganising the layout in the bedroom, and putting it back again because I wasn't keen on how it looked, now it's back to its original layout and I'm not entirely sure that I'm happy with that now either. It is a bit of an awkwardly-shaped room and my indecisiveness really doesn't help matters...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 09, 2020, 02:59:21 PM
I was just watching a movie on TV. When it was time for the credits, the channel sped them up so fast that I almost felt motion sickness watching them.  I thought at first something was wrong with my TV.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 09, 2020, 09:43:43 PM
About two weeks ago I was at an interview for a new job that I ended up NOT getting. I am sad about that. However, I got to know by a short email, which irritated me. I hate phone calls but at least that gives me opportunity to ask why I was not selected so I know what to work on until next time. With this email I felt like I was left hanging. I'm a dweller and can think about things for decades so when I had a meeting with my therapist the day after she encouraged me to email back and ask so I don't linger on it and goes over the interview in my head for the next coming weeks. So I took a deep breath and did it, which I felt proud of. It's just that I haven't gotten a reply. So now I feel like I'm a wortless piece of s*** that doesn't matter instead. Sometimes I hate my head.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 10, 2020, 02:21:27 AM
About two weeks ago I was at an interview for a new job that I ended up NOT getting. I am sad about that. However, I got to know by a short email, which irritated me. I hate phone calls but at least that gives me opportunity to ask why I was not selected so I know what to work on until next time. With this email I felt like I was left hanging. I'm a dweller and can think about things for decades so when I had a meeting with my therapist the day after she encouraged me to email back and ask so I don't linger on it and goes over the interview in my head for the next coming weeks. So I took a deep breath and did it, which I felt proud of. It's just that I haven't gotten a reply. So now I feel like I'm a wortless piece of s*** that doesn't matter instead. Sometimes I hate my head.
:hug: :hug: :hug:
Feeling like a rude word is never good xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 10, 2020, 06:39:56 AM
I'm sorry, Beldarna :( My mind and anxiety are like that too. Maybe you'll still get a reply? Even if you don't, it doesn't mean you don't matter. And if the person really thinks that, would you want to work for them anyway? I hope you feel better :hug:

---

I'm having a really rough morning, keep having waves of dizziness and nausea. I had one cup of coffee and not sure if it made things better or worse. I haven't really been eating because we don't have a lot of foods that aren't carbs and I've already gained like 20lbs, I don't need anymore. My dad just came back from the store, I should see if he got any veggies but i don't know if that would help or hurt my stomach.

Ugh  :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 11, 2020, 08:16:14 AM
:hug: I hope you feel better soon, BlackCurtains :/

So my parents have finally got online shopping sorted out.

Or so I thought.

...Until today Dad's ancient PC browser fritzed out Asda's website, meaning I had to log in on my PC to check out their order.

Again.

...Sigh.

And with shielding likely to continue, people, right now, THIS IS MY LIFE ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 11, 2020, 08:53:24 AM
I hope you feel better soon BlackCurtains.





So my parents have finally got online shopping sorted out.

Or so I thought.

...Until today Dad's ancient PC browser fritzed out Asda's website, meaning I had to log in on my PC to check out their order.

Again.

...Sigh.

And with shielding likely to continue, people, right now, THIS IS MY LIFE ><

:hug:



My dad decided I should be in charge of setting up  a new TV. He’s having trouble understanding that the older DVD player isn’t compatible with the new TV.  I have explained this several times and yet he keeps saying “But the other tv worked like this.”


Also there is only one table large enough in the house for bigger craft projects. Mom and I usually share the table by agreeing to get our projects out on different days. I haven't been able to get mine out as much as I wanted lately because something came up the day that my mom was planning on using the table and when I tried to talk to her about the other day she said she still wants the table because she didn't get to work on her project on the day she wanted to.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 11, 2020, 09:31:11 AM
I hate it when everyone assumes that tall people always have it easy and you can only be disadvantaged due to your height when you are short. Right now I am trying to buy myself some nice comfortable office chair that I could rest in when taking a break from working, but even in the ones with really tall backs the headrest is usually no higher than my neck level, because chair manufacturers apparently assume that nobody is taller than around 5'10".
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 11, 2020, 10:00:58 AM
I was looking for a Scottish sea shanty to act as a bit of window dressing in a writing project, so some sailors on a ghostly ship can sing it while ominously trekking across the sea, and I did find what appears to be the perfect song, except for that scouring the internet only brought up the melody in midi form. There are no properly recorded performances of it. I'd like to get an authentic feel for how the song in question would sound. Granted, it's not exactly vital in order for me to go ahead with writing the story, but it'd be nice to be able to get properly immersed in the moment, as that tends to give my writing a more natural flow. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on May 11, 2020, 10:00:44 PM
Thanks Ponybookworm and BlackCurtains :hug:. I know rationally it's not like that, and I'm not worthless. There could be a ton of reasons why they haven't got back to me, but my brain still weep with self loath. It's like I can't escape from it..

Anyway, new day new complaint. I got a wood splint in my hand yesterday and even tho I got it out, it still hurts.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 13, 2020, 06:02:55 AM
I tried to watch Netflix last night on the Smart TV and after only a few minutes in to the movie it started to buffer and I got a "Sorry we're having trouble playing this title message." When the movie reloaded it became extremely pixelated to the point it was unwatchable. So my family had to find the DVD of the movie to watch instead.  That was only the 3rd of 4th time we've used Netfix on the new TV.

I just tried watching Netflix on my computer and didn't have any issues so hopefully it was just a glitch.

Also my favorite manga series is on sale but the volume I need is out of stock.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 13, 2020, 06:06:08 PM
Dizzy and nauseous again, plus a headache. My face is breaking out. I have a swollen lymph node or clogged gland or something under my arm and it really hurts! Just all around kind of miserable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 14, 2020, 11:12:33 AM
I hope you feel better soon BlackCurtains.

My family had baked potatoes for the 2nd time this week. I’m starting to really dislike baked potatoes.  :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 15, 2020, 09:08:53 AM
Well, I'm out of a job again. Probably more WYP territory but my thoughts aren't together enough to make that work... I will hold my hands up, I could have and should've done better, but also being fair to myself, I could've been met halfway with my mental health issues, rather than that being seen as being "spoonfed". I can't interpret things if they're not spelt out to me.
I was worried at first about losing my flat and having to move back home with my dad but to be honest, I'd be glad of the company at this point because it's not like I have anyone else to talk to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 15, 2020, 10:10:58 AM
I work with someone who is so beyond useless that if they caught COVID, I don't know that anyone would be sad about it.  Don't be that person, people.  Don't be that person.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 16, 2020, 04:50:03 AM
I bought some stupid novelty carbonated drink from Japan online and for some reason it had a glass ball stuck in the opening, when I tried to open the bottle I literally sprayed it everywhere :yikes: (and it didn't even taste that good)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 16, 2020, 08:02:16 AM
I have really been wanting the next book in my favorite series, but the website I want to order it from hasn't restocked it yet. While I've been waiting for that book to come back in the other book that I wanted to order from the same website went out of stock again. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: deermeat on May 16, 2020, 12:35:24 PM
Dizzy and nauseous again, plus a headache. My face is breaking out. I have a swollen lymph node or clogged gland or something under my arm and it really hurts! Just all around kind of miserable.

That's no good at all! Tbh, I've been dealing with similar stuff but swollen lymph nodes is a step too far- maybe you should get that checked out : 0
I've heard that's a sign of infection or even cancer- plus the added bonus of headaches and breaking out? It makes me worried for you. Hope you are feeling better, hope you get better soon <3 Best wishes.

Post Merge: May 16, 2020, 12:40:49 PM

I hate how a lot of the stuff I see on Craigslist are 'curb alerts' in the Free section. I can't drive ever, so why would I risk taking so long in the blazing sun when chances are the stuff I wanted would be gone?

I wish Craigslist would add a 'curb alert' section on their site so I'd stop seeing those.  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2020, 01:28:29 PM
Two months in lockdown.

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 18, 2020, 01:51:44 PM
Two months in lockdown.
Were you put in a quarantine, or was it just imposed by your local authorities on everyone in the area?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2020, 02:15:04 PM
Two months in lockdown.
Were you put in a quarantine, or was it just imposed by your local authorities on everyone in the area?

The UK has been in lockdown since 23rd March, and is only slowly releasing some restrictions now, but in the case of my family, because my mother is high risk, we're not going anywhere for a while to come yet.

At least till the end of June. Possibly longer.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 18, 2020, 03:40:50 PM
I had to be outside for an extended period of time today and I think I got a little too hot. :hot:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on May 19, 2020, 07:17:15 AM
Ugh, a package from the US to me has already been in transit for over a month now... I wonder if I will ever see it. -_- I've had other things coming in the mail from abroad (US too), and they have all arrived within an acceptable time. But this one, gah. Of course I understand why it's taking so long, but the package hasn't moved since April 22nd...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on May 19, 2020, 03:39:11 PM
I broke my sandal this afternoon but it's not worth the hassle to repair :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 19, 2020, 04:19:54 PM
Husband will not respect the space I need to be able to work from home!  ARGH
Yes I need you to clean up, take care of Kid, deal with the online schooling, and lend your assistance to meal planning.  it would be nice if you also volunteered to make coffee and/or snack offerings throughout the day.  You are hobby-learning and on temporary layoff which means government employment assistance, not actually having to work your standard job. meanwhile I have been given half the hours and still have the workload.  ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 20, 2020, 06:52:53 AM
Birds are eating the flowers (pansies) found five petals on the fake lawn.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 20, 2020, 10:08:43 AM
We are trying to RFID the items at the library.  I am doing all 22,000 DVDs that we own.  As part of my tagging, I was going to change out broken cases and fix nasty artwork (because seriously, some of that artwork is moldy) but I keep getting notes from the director saying "[these items] need to be tagged and out today because someone wants to check them out."  Well, if nobody wanted to check them out, we wouldn't own them.  So now instead of doing it right, I'm just doing it right now.  Which means that all those tags that I have to put on crappy artwork will just be thrown away when they get sent back through mending for better artwork.  That's not a waste of thousands of dollars at all-RFID tags are not cheap.  I think in the future I will require the librarian's signature before changing out artwork or cases because clearly my decisions on them are not good enough.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 20, 2020, 10:18:43 AM
Get a Customs card through the door (expected for incoming US package). Go online to pay it by automated system. Automated system said this package not processed through Customs yet???!!! Pay fee manually & hope I got the amount correct as postie handwriting unclear. Don't shove a card through my door and NOT have fee ready for me to pay!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 20, 2020, 11:56:37 AM
The wine. Has turned. It's not quite vinegar, but it's gone really gross and musty. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 21, 2020, 03:44:02 AM
Last night I yawned and my jaw made a horrific cracking/popping sound. It only hurt for a second so I didn't think much of it beyond 'that was weird' and went to bed. I woke up several times to pain in and around my left ear. It hurts when I chew or swallow. My ear feels really itchy inside. Looking at diagrams and such I think I hurt my temporomandibular joint.

In the past I've yawned and hurt myself but never this bad. I hope with rest and ice or heat it'll get better. I'm scared to yawn again though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 21, 2020, 09:54:35 AM
Last night I yawned and my jaw made a horrific cracking/popping sound. It only hurt for a second so I didn't think much of it beyond 'that was weird' and went to bed. I woke up several times to pain in and around my left ear. It hurts when I chew or swallow. My ear feels really itchy inside. Looking at diagrams and such I think I hurt my temporomandibular joint.

In the past I've yawned and hurt myself but never this bad. I hope with rest and ice or heat it'll get better. I'm scared to yawn again though.
Hope you get better!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on May 21, 2020, 10:12:38 AM
 >try to brush my first ever reroot to style it
>lots of hair falls out.  -_-
I glued it and everything, so now I’m going at it a second time with the glue. And I was hoping to finish her today...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: deermeat on May 21, 2020, 02:28:56 PM
I got woken up by a seizure and ever since, I've been feeling the terrible effects of the meds : (
Been really drowsy and feeling electrified, I haven't had a seizure in a while so this was completely unexpected. I hate it so much, I want to feel normal. This been going on all day, ugh. So uncomfortable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on May 21, 2020, 02:52:57 PM
>try to brush my first ever reroot to style it
>lots of hair falls out.  -_-
I glued it and everything, so now I’m going at it a second time with the glue. And I was hoping to finish her today...
This is why I knot my reroots. I had just one plug of hair fall out of my Twilight Sparkle and I was devastated.
Work is booooringg
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on May 21, 2020, 03:09:46 PM
>try to brush my first ever reroot to style it
>lots of hair falls out.  -_-
I glued it and everything, so now I’m going at it a second time with the glue. And I was hoping to finish her today...
This is why I knot my reroots. I had just one plug of hair fall out of my Twilight Sparkle and I was devastated.
Work is booooringg
It’s not even plugs! It’s like, if a human head with a serious hair loss issue shed all over the comb! I don’t even know where it’s coming from but it worries me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on May 22, 2020, 09:11:57 PM
Last night I yawned and my jaw made a horrific cracking/popping sound. It only hurt for a second so I didn't think much of it beyond 'that was weird' and went to bed. I woke up several times to pain in and around my left ear. It hurts when I chew or swallow. My ear feels really itchy inside. Looking at diagrams and such I think I hurt my temporomandibular joint.

In the past I've yawned and hurt myself but never this bad. I hope with rest and ice or heat it'll get better. I'm scared to yawn again though.

TMJ is horrible, I can empathize.  Fingers crossed you feel better soon!

Now I feel super trivial complaining about the roast that I tried to cook, but I hate wasting time and money  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 23, 2020, 08:27:08 AM
Hope you get better!

TMJ is horrible, I can empathize.  Fingers crossed you feel better soon!

Thanks! It's feeling better :)

I got woken up by a seizure and ever since, I've been feeling the terrible effects of the meds : (
Been really drowsy and feeling electrified, I haven't had a seizure in a while so this was completely unexpected. I hate it so much, I want to feel normal. This been going on all day, ugh. So uncomfortable.

I'm sorry. Seizure meds don't mess around. I was on dilantin for two years and not only did I gain a ton of weight but spent the whole time in a fog. I hope you're feeling better!

---

My complaint is getting cut off by everyone mid sentence when I try to say anything. Everyone talks at me like I'm a personal living journal but doesn't care if I want to talk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on May 25, 2020, 07:49:20 AM
^ Ah that sucks, I'm so sorry :/

I'm fighting with Photobucket. Ever since they did their... thing, I simply left my account as it was at the time. Initially, I didn't want to pay them to get my images back. Then I had issues logging back in - sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. So I've just left it be, they've kept bombarding me with over storage warnings but what can you do if you can't even log back in? Except contact customer service but I didn't really care enough to do that. :lol:

Now I finally decided to do something about it, so I'm trying to save all my images and then delete the account (some of the pics are really old and I don't have them anywhere else, that's why haven't deleted it yet). I've managed to save a bunch and remove quite a lot of images, too, but it's a slow progress. Not sure if it's the ads or something else but the site doesn't work properly, I can usually only delete a few pics and then I can't view any of them for a while. So I'm frantically trying to refresh the page, or jump from one page to another, or open new tabs, because that sometimes works. I've already tried all their troubleshooting tips, disabled AdBlock, cleared up the cache, tried different browsers etc. but the problem persists. I'm happy when I can finally say goodbye to the site (and good riddance!)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2020, 05:59:53 PM
^ Ah that sucks, I'm so sorry :/

I'm fighting with Photobucket. Ever since they did their... thing, I simply left my account as it was at the time. Initially, I didn't want to pay them to get my images back. Then I had issues logging back in - sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. So I've just left it be, they've kept bombarding me with over storage warnings but what can you do if you can't even log back in? Except contact customer service but I didn't really care enough to do that. :lol:

Now I finally decided to do something about it, so I'm trying to save all my images and then delete the account (some of the pics are really old and I don't have them anywhere else, that's why haven't deleted it yet). I've managed to save a bunch and remove quite a lot of images, too, but it's a slow progress. Not sure if it's the ads or something else but the site doesn't work properly, I can usually only delete a few pics and then I can't view any of them for a while. So I'm frantically trying to refresh the page, or jump from one page to another, or open new tabs, because that sometimes works. I've already tried all their troubleshooting tips, disabled AdBlock, cleared up the cache, tried different browsers etc. but the problem persists. I'm happy when I can finally say goodbye to the site (and good riddance!)


I had a lot of trouble trying to get rid of Photobucket too. I couldn’t even go in and try to save my pictures because the ads would disable the site on my computer and when I tried to delete my account I got “Sorry there was an unexpected error.”


Today’s complaint Is that I tried a new recipe and didn’t like it.

Ponyfan


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on May 25, 2020, 09:03:42 PM
Complaint about shipping. All I want is some new shells for my pet hermit crab because I cannot find the shells he prefers at my local pet store very often, and more shells is always a good thing. But all the places selling the size and shape I need seen to be in the United States. Fine, but why oh why does shipping have to be so expensive for just four or five shells? 30 bucks shipping for that? I can pay it but ugh! Can’t shipping be a bit less? My budgets are somewhat tighter than normal as it is right now...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 26, 2020, 02:57:55 AM
Finding out that I might not be able to go out because of my type 1 diabetes after I finish my lockdown. I want my ingrown toenails removed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 26, 2020, 12:43:29 PM
I've been really wound up and going round in circles in my head for days, couldn't sleep last night because of it, I've been trying to do things to take my mind off the situation but of course, nothing works. I am seriously done with the inside of my head right now.
:argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 26, 2020, 01:26:56 PM
i did something to my shoulder and back and now i can't move my head.  I feel like a g1 with the head glued on... worst, in Shy Pose!

ow
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 26, 2020, 04:37:02 PM
I touched something I’m allergic to accidentally and my hands feel like they are on fire.  :enraged:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 27, 2020, 04:19:33 PM
Two weeks ago, I told the library director that I thought it would be a good idea to shut down completely and just RFID all the things while nobody was in the building.  It would get it done and over with without the distraction of letting people come pick up their things because we already weren't allowing people inside.  Well, she didn't want to do that.  Now the mayor is insisting that we open on Monday (with a whole bunch of restrictions that we're going to have to figure out how to enforce in place).  We aren't done tagging things.  We haven't even started on the children's area and that's the largest collection we have.  So now the director wants us to shut down, Friday only, and somehow magically finish all the areas we still aren't finished with and get the children's area done and clean and rearrange furniture and get everything ready to open on Monday.  Um if we could have been done with the tagging in a day, we would have finished it already.  But we couldn't possibly have let our patrons go for a week or two without items while we were closed to the public so that we could finish a really huge project.  No no...we just have to figure out how to get it all done in one day.   :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 28, 2020, 07:56:42 AM
My hands are still broke out.  I consider myself to have a high pain tolerance but my hands hurt so much that I want to cry.   :sad:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on May 29, 2020, 02:01:41 AM
Library services are gradually starting to open and I got a request to return a book to the National Library at Helsinki as someone has made a reservation. I had to phone them and ask if it can be returned by post and they said yes. But it will still be late by several days because the book is in my office on campus, I need a permission to visit (hope to do that on Monday) and then shipping will obviously take a couple of days... Luckily I was able to renew all the other loans. I have tons of library books in the office.  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 29, 2020, 11:10:09 AM
I think i'm getting the pony collecting bug again. I sold off quite a few ponies this year because I thought I was done.

But I just ordered some new shelves so I'm able to display my collection again. Now I want to re-collect the ponies I sold and add more.

I'm complaining because I thought I wasn't going to have any seller's remorse.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 29, 2020, 12:57:59 PM
No YouTube on PS4 I’m  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on May 30, 2020, 03:48:37 AM
Getting started with crochet is a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. I understand that it's a skill and getting to grips with it isn't going to happen overnight, but flamin' 'eck.  My working yarn keeps slipping out of the hook when I try to make a chain stitch. I'm going to take a break and have a cup of tea instead, then have another crack at it tomorrow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 30, 2020, 03:27:41 PM
Getting started with crochet is a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. I understand that it's a skill and getting to grips with it isn't going to happen overnight, but flamin' 'eck.  My working yarn keeps slipping out of the hook when I try to make a chain stitch. I'm going to take a break and have a cup of tea instead, then have another crack at it tomorrow.


Keep practising, you'll get there!

My complaint:
my quarantine quilt is nearly done, but boy, trying to find just the right fabric from my stash is such a challenge: I found some lovely bits to use, but NOT ENOUGH so have had to introduce new colours and patterns. Ah well. Just need to decide upon what fabric to use to fill in some empty hexagon spaces!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 01, 2020, 07:12:25 AM
Government: "Shielding people need to self isolate till end of July."
Also Government: "Shielding people can go outside now."


...It's not happening in this house. Fortunately Mum agrees (especially given today is her birthday).

She was commenting how last year when the nice weather came in May she was in hospital and this year it's here and she's locked down.

Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 01, 2020, 10:05:52 AM
She was commenting how last year when the nice weather came in May she was in hospital and this year it's here and she's locked down.

Sigh.
Ha! My grandmother is doing the same. She was in the hospital almost all summer last year, and now she can’t go anywhere, like to breakfast with her friends.

My complaint is regarding the cherry tree in our backyard. It’s always so beautiful when in bloom, like a big light pink ball that’s full of bees. But this year, the tree hasn’t bloomed so much. I know sometimes there are good years and bad years, but it’s a little disappointing granted the long winter we had. It’s always been a herald of spring for me. A sign of warm weather and that the winter and frost are finally over. And there are fewer bees. I like the bees...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 01, 2020, 09:50:24 PM
The riots in Salt Lake are preventing my Amazon and TeeTurtle orders from arriving. (Sorry but it stopped being a protest as soon as the vandalism and looting started.)  Of course, my TeeTurtle order would have been here over a month ago if the post office hadn't "lost" it.  TeeTurtle was awesome enough to resend it free of charge for me and I'm afraid this one won't arrive, either.  Our mail has been conveniently misplaced by our delivery person before (scanned as out for delivery but mysteriously never actually delivered and they "just don't know what happened to it") so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 01, 2020, 10:37:32 PM
I happened to burn myself pretty badly on the first warm day up here. Two days later and I still look like a tomato with a strawberry nose.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 02, 2020, 08:01:24 AM
The weather is gross today. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 02, 2020, 11:37:14 AM
Woke up with a terrible headache. I have a lot I need to do today too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 03, 2020, 03:50:37 AM
I've reached the Moon Cave on Okami again... so that's me making no progress with that game for a month, then. It's not particularly difficult or anything, but the dungeons in that game do bore me out of my wits. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 03, 2020, 08:52:41 AM
My kid is still at home (which I am very much OK with) however, she keeps hogging the TV to watch you-tube vids on Toca Life, Animal Crossing and Minecraft. I refuse to get involved!!

She is allowed electrical entertainment after home-schooling.

Tried stitching more of my quilt sat on the sofa, but these vids playing in the background are driving me nuts.

I have retreated upstairs, peace and quiet, background radio and my laptop to entertain me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 03, 2020, 11:46:40 AM
My kid is still at home (which I am very much OK with) however, she keeps hogging the TV to watch you-tube vids on Toca Life, Animal Crossing and Minecraft. I refuse to get involved!!

She is allowed electrical entertainment after home-schooling.

Tried stitching more of my quilt sat on the sofa, but these vids playing in the background are driving me nuts.

I have retreated upstairs, peace and quiet, background radio and my laptop to entertain me.

Just tell her that for every video game youtube video she watches she has to watch a non-video game video or a video from the history channel or animal planet.  They both have youtube channels.  I've never understood the fascination with watching someone else play a video game and talk about it.  I'd rather just play the game myself.

My complaint is that I'm tired of living where I'm at.  I grew up a military brat and have now lived in the same state for 20 years.  I wanna move but it's so hard to do right now and I'm not even sure where I'd want to move to.  I just want to move...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 04, 2020, 01:48:54 AM
This isn't trivial but I don't want to type up a WYP post right now.

I had a weird day. Lots of things going on all at once, both good and bad. My brain is swirling. I'm so tired and in a lot of pain but I can't sleep. I didn't sleep last night either. I tried meditating but thoughts are still creeping in. I just want to sleep :cry:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 04, 2020, 03:01:24 AM
My kid is still at home (which I am very much OK with) however, she keeps hogging the TV to watch you-tube vids on Toca Life, Animal Crossing and Minecraft. I refuse to get involved!!

She is allowed electrical entertainment after home-schooling.

Tried stitching more of my quilt sat on the sofa, but these vids playing in the background are driving me nuts.

I have retreated upstairs, peace and quiet, background radio and my laptop to entertain me.

Just tell her that for every video game youtube video she watches she has to watch a non-video game video or a video from the history channel or animal planet.  They both have youtube channels.  I've never understood the fascination with watching someone else play a video game and talk about it.  I'd rather just play the game myself.

My complaint is that I'm tired of living where I'm at.  I grew up a military brat and have now lived in the same state for 20 years.  I wanna move but it's so hard to do right now and I'm not even sure where I'd want to move to.  I just want to move...

I want to move, too. I want to go back down to the South East, where there are actually...well...things.

I love my family but this is a really quiet area and yeah, I need transport to get anywhere.

Right now, of course, everything is not as normal, but I hope when it gets back to a place of stability, I can still get back down to the south east and regain independence.

Fed up with being shackled to the welsh borders.

I also miss being able to go literally anywhere at all. My mother's shielding and my navigation/lack of publically available transport right now means I have not left the neighbourhood in over 2 months.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 04, 2020, 07:53:40 AM
The air smells awful. >_< We finally have some much needed rain (and we'll need much, much more), but it smells like hell. It's not petrichor, which I love, it really just smells like dead ocean. :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 04, 2020, 09:14:34 AM
Ugh I can handle my "COVID chub" expanding and causing most of my pants to not fit. 

But it drives me CRAAAAAAAAAAAZY when the fat storage moves up my torso and now NONE of my bras fit!  WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

truly a trivial complaint! 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 04, 2020, 09:18:44 AM
My blood pressure goes up every time they let the cycle-obsessed Transport Secretary give the govt briefing.

Masks will become mandatory on public transport when 'more things' are open from mid June.

This is a game-changer for me. I may tolerate a covering for a bus journey, but not a train one or anything longer. They say that some people will be exempt and as an autistic person I would qualify for that - but at the same time he says people will be refused access, may be fined and it will be enforced by the police. By the time I've been interrogated by random people wanting me to publically share private details and glared at for not wearing a mask, I won't want to be on the transport.

So yep, not going to be getting a job, moving, doing anything of any value whatsoever for the forseeable future, since my ENTIRE independence involves public transport.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 04, 2020, 11:01:00 AM
I was letting my computer render several images overnight. Usually this goes without a hitch, but our house lost power for a moment or two. This shut down the computer, and I didn’t realize what had happened until I went to check the next morning. It finished 1/14 renders. I explained this to the man who asked for the pictures, and I think they understand. But I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed, as this puts it behind schedule.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 05, 2020, 06:46:20 AM
I think my DVD player is wearing out.  I have been watching a series before I go to sleep to help me relax.  My DVD player will play the DVDs fine but then suddenly stop every few seconds and get stuck.  The DVDs have only been played a few times and I don't remember having this much trouble.  I have tried removing the DVD and putting it back in, cleaning the disc and trying it again etc..   It's so annoying to get in the middle of an episode and suddenly have to fight with the DVD player to play the movie.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 05, 2020, 07:14:33 AM
I think my DVD player is wearing out.  I have been watching a series before I go to sleep to help me relax.  My DVD player will play the DVDs fine but then suddenly stop every few seconds and get stuck.  The DVDs have only been played a few times and I don't remember having this much trouble.  I have tried removing the DVD and putting it back in, cleaning the disc and trying it again etc..   It's so annoying to get in the middle of an episode and suddenly have to fight with the DVD player to play the movie.


Ponyfan

Have you tried cleaning the DVD player?  Like a CD player, it should be cleaned regularly.  You can buy a disc that will clean it for you (I think I picked mine up for less than $10) and it usually only takes about a minute and can be reused many times.

My trivial complaint is work related.  Basically, our hours have changed due to COVID stuff and we are trying to RFID the library materials while we are now open to the public.  Because of my co-workers lack of initiative, all of our schedules are now being micromanaged to the point where it is on the schedule when we are to go out and work on the RFID project.  I hate being micromanaged, especially since I know that when I'm not working at the check-out desk I'm supposed to be doing the RFID thing.  It isn't rocket science but some of our part timers "don't have anything to do" (because they refuse to do anything unless they "like" to do it) so we are now all being treated like incompetent kindergartners.  I swear if some of these people were any lazier they wouldn't be capable of breathing on their own.  Also, according to them, the alphabet now has S before K and R before N.  Also Keri and Sarah are the same name as are Rachel and Jennifer.  We work in a library.  If you can't read and you don't know the alphabet, this is not the job for you.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 05, 2020, 07:43:24 AM
My ear hurts  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on June 05, 2020, 10:54:57 AM
It got up to 102 degrees yesterday >_< Too hot! Gah!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 05, 2020, 11:26:54 AM
It got up to 102 degrees yesterday >_< Too hot! Gah!
I knew California was hot, but hot dang! That’s 39 decrees Celsius for us. It’s but below average seasonal temperature here, so blow some of your hot air this way!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on June 05, 2020, 11:42:13 AM
It got up to 102 degrees yesterday >_< Too hot! Gah!
I knew California was hot, but hot dang! That’s 39 decrees Celsius for us. It’s but below average seasonal temperature here, so blow some of your hot air this way!
I second this!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on June 06, 2020, 12:03:29 PM
It got up to 102 degrees yesterday >_< Too hot! Gah!
I knew California was hot, but hot dang! That’s 39 decrees Celsius for us. It’s but below average seasonal temperature here, so blow some of your hot air this way!
I second this!
Gladly!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 06, 2020, 09:47:58 PM
The whole time I've been complaining about Blender not saving my renders, you want to know what happened? It WAS saving them, just in a different spot than where I was looking! :shocked: I've been fretting for days trying to figure out the problem, thinking it was the save location or the script I gave the computer to render them in order, and how to tell my client. Nope, its all in one file that I accidentally made in a different directory on my computer...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on June 07, 2020, 02:52:30 PM
@Mewtwofan1:
Glad you found your renders!

Not going to elaborate, but this is going to be a very stressful week for my family. I keep telling myself not to worry, and I do... exactly that...  :freak:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 08, 2020, 06:21:58 PM
I got a letter from Social Security and thought it was going to be a decision on my disability claim, but it's for another hearing. I already HAD a hearing in March. Why do I have to have another one? It's the same judge. I don't understand :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 09, 2020, 03:15:44 PM
Felt meh all week, finally went for a run today, my leg muscles took ages to loosen-up and my feet have new blisters after I wore a brand-new pair of socks  :mad:

Also - have my feet shrunk? Suddenly my running shoes feel too big? Maybe it was the new socks...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 10, 2020, 06:19:09 PM
My wireless adapter quit working for my desktop :( I had a feeling it was on its last leg. For a cheap Netgear it did an okay job for about 6 years or so. I suppose it is time to upgrade.

Though this means my PC has no internet. I do all my social networking on my PC since I find the apps for my tablet too annoying to use. My phone is ancient and doesn't have internet  -_-

Well the new one should be here by Saturday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on June 11, 2020, 12:20:25 AM
Because of Corona the unemployment agency is swamped with requests so the handling time is up to seven weeks! I am glad I have a part time job, but the pay is not enough, it just keeps my nose above the surface along with my savings. I've had to cut back on so many things and really think before I make a purchase of any kind. Good news is that when it finally gets approved I'll get a huge chunk at the same time, but until then I'm treading water.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 11, 2020, 07:19:30 AM
So, the library is closed to the public again and we're all trying to finish RFID-ing the collection.  I'm the ONLY person allowed to tag our 22,000 DVDs (due to too many people not being capable of following simple instructions) so I've been doing that.  I get an email from the director this morning saying that "relabeling the DVDs" can wait until after we're open because I can "take them to my office to work on" but the children's collection need to be tagged before we open again (in at least 2 weeks).  Um...we have 20 other people who "should" be capable of tagging the books.  If they can't manage the collection that we have in that amount of time, why the Hades are we paying them?  So I told her I wasn't "relabeling" anything.  I'm tagging the DVDs, which check out more than any other part of our collection and actually need to be done before we open because we have so many checked out right now that it will literally be months before I can get them all done even if I manage to finish what we have in the building before we open because some of them will be on a wait list that long.  But what would I know?  I've only done this at another library system before and I know what does and doesn't check out because I actually work the check-out desk.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 11, 2020, 07:46:40 AM
The air smells like dead swamp. AGAIN. The weather is incredibly gross. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 11, 2020, 09:14:45 AM
I got a letter from Social Security and thought it was going to be a decision on my disability claim, but it's for another hearing. I already HAD a hearing in March. Why do I have to have another one? It's the same judge. I don't understand :(

That sucks Black Curtains :(

I am waiting for the govt to figure out that disabled people exist and that we do need to know what is going to happen with our assessments etc other than "they'll be postponed if they were meant to happen up until June." Mine is due for review in September and I had a year long fight over it which went to a tribunal last time because of issues with the DWP's unique approach to handling my supporting evidence (note, the govt department in charge of benefits, who also recently lost a court case brought by their disabled employees citing examples of discrimination within the workplace).

So right now I have no idea when I will be able to go out, when I will be able to apply for jobs, when I will be able to do anything meaningful again and whether I will be able to contribute to the household or keep my bus pass or any of those things beyond September...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 11, 2020, 07:43:31 PM
Well, I finally figured out why all may packages keep taking forever to show up or don’t show up at all. Turns out my paypal address changed the last digit, and it’s my neighbours address now. They’re new neighbours, and I feel so embarrassed. I’m going to try and see them tomorrow and explain myself...not sure how to approach the topic. “Oh hey, sorry all these random packages might keep showing up, I can’t type correctly it seems.” We don’t talk much to our neighbours, so I have no clue how to do this. Especially with the pandemic making people refuse to open their doors to strangers.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 11, 2020, 10:37:29 PM
Well, I finally figured out why all may packages keep taking forever to show up or don’t show up at all. Turns out my paypal address changed the last digit, and it’s my neighbours address now. They’re new neighbours, and I feel so embarrassed. I’m going to try and see them tomorrow and explain myself...not sure how to approach the topic. “Oh hey, sorry all these random packages might keep showing up, I can’t type correctly it seems.” We don’t talk much to our neighbours, so I have no clue how to do this. Especially with the pandemic making people refuse to open their doors to strangers.

Could you put a note through their door explaining and apologising for the mix up?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 12, 2020, 08:10:21 AM
Well, I finally figured out why all may packages keep taking forever to show up or don’t show up at all. Turns out my paypal address changed the last digit, and it’s my neighbours address now. They’re new neighbours, and I feel so embarrassed. I’m going to try and see them tomorrow and explain myself...not sure how to approach the topic. “Oh hey, sorry all these random packages might keep showing up, I can’t type correctly it seems.” We don’t talk much to our neighbours, so I have no clue how to do this. Especially with the pandemic making people refuse to open their doors to strangers.

Could you put a note through their door explaining and apologising for the mix up?
Possibly. They seem like alright people (the last residents of that house were...less than ideal neighbours) and I would like to apologize. I’ve had time to think about it, because I never make mistakes like that. I’ve never had to apologize for a typing error with postal services. But I’ll try that if they don’t want to open the door to a stranger.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 13, 2020, 11:32:16 AM
I'm trying to read something and can't stay focused on what I'm reading.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on June 13, 2020, 11:39:33 AM
I hate all those idiots on motorbikes who always go out of their way to make us much noise as possible to make sure everyone knows they have a motorbike :angry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 16, 2020, 03:02:52 AM
Three months in lockdown.

And...they look like they won't review shielding till June 30th.

Have fun all the people who can 'safely' go shopping (if it is, indeed, safe...)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 17, 2020, 05:40:22 AM
My family got a smart tv about a month ago.  We tried to watch a movie in Netflix through the tv last night but the movie kept stopping, pixelating and losing sound so we ended up  just putting a DVD in instead.  Netflix has worked through the TV before but we’ve also had trouble with Netflix through the  TV 2 out of the 5 times we’ve tried it. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 17, 2020, 12:26:18 PM
My head and sinuses hurt. I'm thinking of taking some antihistamines but they always knock me out and leave me feeling groggy. Not that I have anything to do really. I just hate that foggy feeling.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: AvianWing on June 17, 2020, 04:45:35 PM
I first heard the G3/3.5 theme a few days ago.

It's been horribly stuck in my head ever since.

I keep humming or whistling it at random intervals throughout the day. Constantly.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2020, 10:23:46 AM
Delivery people trying to deliver things we didn't order because someone gave them the wrong address.

Especially when it means MUM opening the door, which she isn't meant to do.

Gah.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 18, 2020, 02:19:36 PM
I don't know why my arm, shoulder and neck hurt so much but it's really interfering with everything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on June 19, 2020, 09:11:10 AM
I have the tiniest cut on the pad of my thumb but holy moley it hurts like hell... didn't help that I got onion juice in it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 19, 2020, 01:20:58 PM
My new 3D puzzle is missing a piece. :sad: I think the manufacturer will replace my puzzle but this is the 2nd time that pieces were missing from a sealed puzzle made by this company.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: gemini_pony on June 20, 2020, 02:28:55 AM
My allergies are making me miserable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 20, 2020, 08:18:10 AM
Teeny-tiny fruit flies have erupted from somewhere, I have gone through all our fruit and veg and checked the soil in the houseplant pots... can't see where they are coming from.

Can only catch them if I wet my hands and swipe at them - they stick to my skin then I can dispose of them... but yet more appear!

So annoying, especially when they fly up in my face and mock me!!

Now using an old-fashioned glass wasp catcher but, instead of jam, am using apple cider vinegar. I can see about 10 in there already, having a bit of a party!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 20, 2020, 04:23:27 PM
Teeny-tiny fruit flies have erupted from somewhere, I have gone through all our fruit and veg and checked the soil in the houseplant pots... can't see where they are coming from.

Can only catch them if I wet my hands and swipe at them - they stick to my skin then I can dispose of them... but yet more appear!

So annoying, especially when they fly up in my face and mock me!!

Now using an old-fashioned glass wasp catcher but, instead of jam, am using apple cider vinegar. I can see about 10 in there already, having a bit of a party!

Fairy liquid in water in a mister spray. >.>

...So mine is a very first world and selfish kind of complaint but...

Today I discovered they finally made an iteration of a Japanese game I like set in one of the historical periods that I'm interested in. BUT they also changed which console they run the games of this series on. So in order to play it I would need to buy a new console and the game as well of course.

..Neither of which is really in my budget right now.

It's really trivial but it would've been so much better if they had done this for the previous iteration.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on June 20, 2020, 11:43:58 PM
Fairy liquid in water in a mister spray. >.>

Good call! I will prepare some to zap the stragglers!


Perhaps not "trivial" but certainly a complaint:
(spoilered as it may be triggering)

Spoiler

Last night there was a multiple stabbing and fatalities in a historic town centre park (Forbury Gardens, on the site of ancient Reading Abbey) - a place that was part of my childhood and a hang-out during my teenage years.

Earlier, some folks had a peaceful BLM protest, finished, went home. All good.

A couple of hours later, other folks have a relaxing picnic and a few al-fresco beers enjoying the sunshine, as they have always done.

Then a man with a knife attacked random groups, leading to this awful tragedy; so, so sad.

The town centre is closed-off; my Dad called me last night to say the whole neighbourhood was posting messages on local WhatsApp groups, hearing the sirens, watching the helicopters circling above.

And then some dude at the park goes round with his phone videoing it (including CPR, blood) very, VERY graphic, posting it on Twitter. Dude, some of those victims were dying and you go ahead and post those images before their families even knew about it. Have some respect for those poor people.  :shakefist:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: deermeat on June 21, 2020, 09:48:03 AM
I am not going to assisted living, my case manager told me about it, and well... It's just not for me, I suppose. So right now I am thinking about 'going on an adventure' to Nashville after my SSI is set up, I've lived on the streets before but this time I'd be travelling a great distance  (Baltimore, Maryland to Nashville, Tennessee)

I keep on asking myself "is it worth it?". My roommate isn't so kind to me, in fact every situation I've been in has been abusive. It makes me worry whether or not the next one I'll be in will be the same, as that's all I've dealt with all my life. That is why I do not like the idea of Assisted Living anymore, it turns out you share a place with many other people and that is very scary to me- I don't trust people too much. I'd rather go my own way and have fun, the world is my playground. I don't have a true home nor family, so really what's the point of being alive? What is the point of living? Where am I to go? I keep asking myself these questions and I don't have any answers.
Death does not scare me, I have lost a lot in my life so I'm always wondering if I'd be the next to leave this planet. I see people my age talk about 'buying a car' or trying to make a name for themselves, people my age have housing and have families. Normally, if you are 19 and you are homeless without a family- people will assume you did something wrong, but I was merely dealt a bad hand at life. I am not a druggie, I am not a drinker, I am not an abuser. I'm physically disabled, I can't drive. I can make friends but I find myself distancing away in fear of losing them too.

I have to keep on thinking about the positives. So much has happened in my life, I feel so old- but I know this is only the beginning. All I want to do is live on my own in a nice house, with all my collections, and having a few pets.  I do not like how everyone relies on technology too much, I can't even apply for a job without it being online. It's scary, it's untrustworthy.

But I'll manage. If there's a will, there's a way. Thanks for listening, I guess. Hope everyone here is having a swell time  :bird:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 21, 2020, 12:17:59 PM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2020, 02:06:46 PM
I have a migraine.  :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 21, 2020, 02:09:14 PM
I should be packing for my move but my body is very sore today for some reason. Even just sitting in this chair hurts :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 23, 2020, 09:13:07 AM
Sisters keep having disagreements, and I’m here listening to them argue. It’s annoying, so I tell the older one to leave the other alone since it’s a trivial argument over a clothing choice, and I get told to stay out of it. Thing is, I’ve been asked by them to make sure their arguments don’t cross a line...like what do you want from me?! Do you want me to intervene or not?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 23, 2020, 12:32:16 PM
Well this is great. My psychiatrist retired and as such my appointment was cancelled. July 7th I have a Zoom appointment with a new one. I can't get my meds refilled because it's been longer than 90 days since I was last seen (the clinic was closed for a while like everything else). I run out of my meds very soon.

Let's just ignore the bolded warning on every piece of info about the medicine that says "do not suddenly stop taking this or you could die".

I know from past experience that after about three days without my depression meds I start getting, uh, a bit unstable.

Great.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 23, 2020, 12:44:58 PM
I had a horrible migraine for 3 days. Today the sunlight was so bright that it hurt my eyes. I’m not usually that sensitive to sunlight.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on June 24, 2020, 12:05:18 PM
Packages hurtling through time and space. >_<

I know the mail system doesn't function that well right now, but it's still a massive nuisance. I have this one small package that was shipped to me from the US on April 14th, and it still doesn't look like it's going to be here anytime soon (under normal circumstances it usually takes a week). It was well on its way, until it said "Mail Preparation", The Hague. So I thought "Yay! It's in The Netherlands already!" Forget it. :pout: First it stayed that way for weeks, then it showed a whole freaky route through China and Vietnam and whatnot, then they removed that update and it went back to "Mail preparation" in The Hague (with the old date). Now it says "Arrived via USPS Surface", Rotterdam. FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. -_-

Now another package from the US says "Mail preparation" in The Hague as well, and now I'm scared, lol. What does it even mean? I never saw that status before. :lookround: It doesn't mean it's here, that's for sure. XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 25, 2020, 05:39:17 AM
My conference folder for job interviews arrived, which technically is a very good thing. I can take my notes and a copy of my CV with me in a way that will look very crisp and professional, but there's somewhat of a stumbling block in that I have no interviews lined up. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 25, 2020, 08:06:26 AM
As is normal for me, I woke up with a headache and sour stomach, plus my body still aches in general. I'm having some tea instead of coffee, for my stomach.

Aside from all that I'm in a fairly decent mood today so if I can fix up my body to not feel terrible maybe I can get some packing done.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 25, 2020, 11:06:02 AM

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 25, 2020, 12:27:39 PM
I'm trying to make meals out of what's left in the fridge/freezer before we leave for vacation, but I'm suddenly super picky. I don't want to have to buy a bunch of stuff before we leave.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on June 25, 2020, 03:12:00 PM
My partner kicked me out and I'm living with family again. Oh well I should be grateful I have a home at all
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 25, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/

I can relate. Lockdown has killed my ability to work on anything academic. Creativity is limited to fanfiction at the moment, too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 26, 2020, 08:18:33 AM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/

I can relate. Lockdown has killed my ability to work on anything academic. Creativity is limited to fanfiction at the moment, too.

It's good to know that I'm not alone in this! It seems that loads of other people have been achieving all manner of things during lockdown and I was the only one who didn't have the energy of focus for it.

And my complaint for today is the excessive humidity. It did rain a little bit earlier and that did take the edge off briefly, but now the sun's out again, it's gone back to being very oppressive and claggy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on June 26, 2020, 08:54:00 AM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/

I can relate. Lockdown has killed my ability to work on anything academic. Creativity is limited to fanfiction at the moment, too.

It's good to know that I'm not alone in this! It seems that loads of other people have been achieving all manner of things during lockdown and I was the only one who didn't have the energy of focus for it.

And my complaint for today is the excessive humidity. It did rain a little bit earlier and that did take the edge off briefly, but now the sun's out again, it's gone back to being very oppressive and claggy.

I would see it like the people who only post the happy moments on facebook. Everyone is having some struggles with lockdown of some sort, I'm pretty sure - but probably want to share the positive things most so as not to bring other people down.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 26, 2020, 09:00:14 AM
My dad is incredibly frustrating. Last week a biopsy from his arm came back as skin cancer. He never wears sunscreen or a hat or anything that protects from the sun. My sister and I gave him some UV blocking long sleeved shirts for Father's Day. He's out mowing the lawn right now in a tee shirt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on June 26, 2020, 12:08:16 PM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/

I can relate. Lockdown has killed my ability to work on anything academic. Creativity is limited to fanfiction at the moment, too.

It's good to know that I'm not alone in this! It seems that loads of other people have been achieving all manner of things during lockdown and I was the only one who didn't have the energy of focus for it.

And my complaint for today is the excessive humidity. It did rain a little bit earlier and that did take the edge off briefly, but now the sun's out again, it's gone back to being very oppressive and claggy.

I would see it like the people who only post the happy moments on facebook. Everyone is having some struggles with lockdown of some sort, I'm pretty sure - but probably want to share the positive things most so as not to bring other people down.



If you look at my Facebook it probably looks happy but there are things I'm dealing with right now that I don't feel comfortable posting on Facebook due to having people I've met through work, extended family members etc.. on my friends list.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 27, 2020, 03:55:37 PM
There's a fruit fly problem in my room. The darn things keep on flying right into my face! Why do bugs have to be so annoying in that way? Why can't they just mind their business?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 27, 2020, 04:39:42 PM
There's a fruit fly problem in my room. The darn things keep on flying right into my face! Why do bugs have to be so annoying in that way? Why can't they just mind their business?

Do you want the truth? They're trying to drink your tears :shocked:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 27, 2020, 11:48:16 PM
Got a request to do a picture of the apple siblings in blender. Thing is, I need an applebloom and big macintosh model, and no such models exist for blender. So I figured I would import it from SFM (where a lot of pony models are used)  since you can import and export between blender and SFM. I’ve got Big Mac right now, and am trying to work out the problems before I do applebloom. But the textures aren’t loading at all! Big Mac is a grey model that’s fully posable. No red coat, orange mane, eyes or cutie mark. It’s frustrating because I don’t know what I’ve done wrong, or how to fix it since texturing isn’t something I have much experience in.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on June 28, 2020, 12:14:48 AM
This is definitely an extremely trivial complaint of the highest order but I can't work up the motivation to work on my art at all. It's been about a month that I've been failing to get to any traction now, and it has been an immensely rough month, but I don't want that to hold me back; it hasn't held me back from doing other constructive things, but it has kind of killed off my creative drive. I've tried taking the compassionate route and just trying to do a quick sketch each day, even if I don't feel like doing it, but even that feels like too much aggro at the moment. I really want to go back and study the structural basics of drawing, then use that knowledge to develop a new art style and hopefully make something worthwhile that I could exhibit locally when things are more normal, and I know that goal isn't going to happen without a lot of work and consistent effort, but urgh, I am too all-over-the-place to focus on it at the moment. :/

I can relate. Lockdown has killed my ability to work on anything academic. Creativity is limited to fanfiction at the moment, too.

It's good to know that I'm not alone in this! It seems that loads of other people have been achieving all manner of things during lockdown and I was the only one who didn't have the energy of focus for it.

And my complaint for today is the excessive humidity. It did rain a little bit earlier and that did take the edge off briefly, but now the sun's out again, it's gone back to being very oppressive and claggy.

I would see it like the people who only post the happy moments on facebook. Everyone is having some struggles with lockdown of some sort, I'm pretty sure - but probably want to share the positive things most so as not to bring other people down.



If you look at my Facebook it probably looks happy but there are things I'm dealing with right now that I don't feel comfortable posting on Facebook due to having people I've met through work, extended family members etc.. on my friends list.


Ponyfan

Yes, there is that; I forgot that side of the equation after I quit social media a while back, but the same probably applies to people calling in to radio stations to talk about what they're doing; they probably just want to share in some good vibes rather than getting their frustration out on the air too. Thank you both for your input; having some more perspective on things does help to put my mind more at ease.

And my complaint for today is gloopy, slightly runny porridge. It tasted alright, but the texture was just plain nightmarish.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on June 28, 2020, 01:48:11 PM
My watch is now dead after being in the water for about 10 seconds yesterday. "Water resistant up to 50 meters"... right -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on June 28, 2020, 03:33:54 PM
I sold some ponies around the time we moved and forgot to update my collection records. so i thought i still had Baby Buttons, Italy Heart Throb, and Italy Surprise. Now that i've had seller's remorse i need to track those down too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on June 28, 2020, 06:35:18 PM
There's a fruit fly problem in my room. The darn things keep on flying right into my face! Why do bugs have to be so annoying in that way? Why can't they just mind their business?

Do you want the truth? They're trying to drink your tears :shocked:

That's certainly an ...interesting factoid! I don't know whether to be amused or freaked out. Lol.

Anyway, I've learned that the reason they've come into our house is that my mom has been bringing lots of fruit home lately.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on June 29, 2020, 09:21:42 AM
Between the pollen and Saharan dust my allergies are going crazy. It needs to storm again and clean out the air.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on July 01, 2020, 01:40:54 PM
A lot of people walk their dogs at the park I go to for walks, and one dog that was off leash (which is illegal in the area) started circling around me and barking real aggressively. It took a while for it to go back to its owner... good thing it wasn't bigger, I would've freaked out much more, especially since it did it twice :unsure:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2020, 04:38:15 PM
I wanted to watch anime on Crunchyroll but the website was having problems.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: orangepeachmango on July 01, 2020, 09:00:38 PM
too long to get into it but..my parental units (dad and step mom) are yelling and arguing about this beach trip we were supposed to take for my dads birthday, but not they're sort of just ragging on me from downstairs for not wanting to bike? theyre arguing with eachother but i can hear it. it seems really trivial but its making me really upset  :redface: i feel so ashamed! but i didnt really do anything wrong
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: RLisa on July 02, 2020, 03:03:46 AM
maybe not so trivial.. but I was going to have an online presentation for a conference today and during my presentation my internet connection was lost. On my screen there wasn't any error message, seemed like I was still presenting, and it's the kind of platform where if you present your screen, you cannot see the audience anymore. So yeah that went well.

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2020, 05:54:41 AM
A lot of people walk their dogs at the park I go to for walks, and one dog that was off leash (which is illegal in the area) started circling around me and barking real aggressively. It took a while for it to go back to its owner... good thing it wasn't bigger, I would've freaked out much more, especially since it did it twice :unsure:

That sucks.
I hate dogs, thanks to a childhood trauma involving one when I was really small, but I hate irresponsible dog owners more. Dogs can be trained and can be lovely and well behaved and not invade the space of random strangers if their owners have spent time taking care to teach them how to behave in public. But too many people just get a dog and that's it.

One of the biggest issues during early lockdown going for a walk were people and their dogs getting in the way and thus not obeying the distancing rules.

...Also hate people who think rules don't apply to them because they are apparently more special than everyone else...

My trivial complaint for today - I was going to go out this morning for a walk (and try to explore without getting lost) but it clouded over like it was going to rain and so I didn't. Well, it still hasn't rained...but I don't want to risk it in case it does, because me going for an explore-walk can take some time...(zero navigation xD)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on July 02, 2020, 10:07:01 AM
A lot of people walk their dogs at the park I go to for walks, and one dog that was off leash (which is illegal in the area) started circling around me and barking real aggressively. It took a while for it to go back to its owner... good thing it wasn't bigger, I would've freaked out much more, especially since it did it twice :unsure:

That sucks.
I hate dogs, thanks to a childhood trauma involving one when I was really small, but I hate irresponsible dog owners more. Dogs can be trained and can be lovely and well behaved and not invade the space of random strangers if their owners have spent time taking care to teach them how to behave in public. But too many people just get a dog and that's it.

One of the biggest issues during early lockdown going for a walk were people and their dogs getting in the way and thus not obeying the distancing rules.

...Also hate people who think rules don't apply to them because they are apparently more special than everyone else...

My trivial complaint for today - I was going to go out this morning for a walk (and try to explore without getting lost) but it clouded over like it was going to rain and so I didn't. Well, it still hasn't rained...but I don't want to risk it in case it does, because me going for an explore-walk can take some time...(zero navigation xD)
Definitely - I've seen quite a few people who just don't leash their dogs in that area. Usually it's not a problem, but come on... there's a sign that says you need to leash your dogs right before you enter the field...

too long to get into it but..my parental units (dad and step mom) are yelling and arguing about this beach trip we were supposed to take for my dads birthday, but not they're sort of just ragging on me from downstairs for not wanting to bike? theyre arguing with eachother but i can hear it. it seems really trivial but its making me really upset  :redface: i feel so ashamed! but i didnt really do anything wrong

That sounds stressful mango :( I'm sorry they're making you so upset, sending pony hugs :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 02, 2020, 03:39:45 PM
I overslept or more accurately slept until 5pm because I couldn't fall asleep until after 4am. I wanted to get up early to make some calls and spend the day packing for my move. As tired as I was last night and despite having gotten up early yesterday, my brain just wouldn't shut up.

I'm naturally nocturnal, which is fine if I lived alone (my current goal) but it's hard to get things done when everyone else is sleeping. Staying in my room and packing isn't really the problem. It's things like taping up the boxes, going to get ice for a drink, making something to eat, going in and out of the garage. Anything that makes noise. I hate tiptoeing around. HATE it.

But that's what I'm faced with right now since I inexplicably slept 12 hours after trying and failing to fall asleep for 5! Argh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on July 02, 2020, 10:07:31 PM
Extremely trivial, but I was playing Minecraft with a friend. And he managed to make an entire horde of zombie pigmen upset and hostile to him. I could have just left him, but I went to help because that’s what friends do. They slaughter every zombie pigman in the nether. Whenever we thought it was over, more showed up.
    We had fun until it was time for me to go to bed. We weren’t done, and if I left and logged in tomorrow...any survivors would have been hostile to me. Not fun, so I stayed to help clean up. We managed to pull through somehow, and made it home after loosing the majority of our things. My sister is now upset with me because I didn’t help get the dogs ready for bed, even though I do it on my own most nights anyways and look after them most of the day because she’s too busy hiding in her room. She says it’s just a stupid game, and not worth my time or energy. Let alone helping someone in a situation on the game. She’s really passive aggressive to me now (as she usually gets when she’s upset) because of it. I’m sorry I couldn’t help you with a five minute not that urgent task, but I’m not going to leave my friend hanging! But I’m the bad guy for trying to help a friend I guess?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 03, 2020, 05:30:55 AM
I hit my head against the corner of a shelf the other day and there's a sharp pain in my temple that refuses to budge. :s
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on July 03, 2020, 07:01:05 AM
Ugh! Just got my  blood test results phone call and have to redo the test AGAIN cause my platelets were even lower this Tuesday than they were 2 weeks ago!  I'm still working Mon-Fri and don't have time to go do all these tests when the labs are open  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 04, 2020, 11:52:24 AM
A shirt I ordered came today, but it looks like a paper bag on me. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 04, 2020, 01:36:53 PM
My cat is sick :( She was doing great yesterday and today is like a complete opposite.

I'm more worried than normal because my mom said that when I moved into my new apartment my cat would die :cry: That would be my punishment for leaving my mom (who is a wonderful person as you can see).

I'm keeping a close eye on her and will take her to the emergency vet if I have to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on July 04, 2020, 09:19:11 PM
It's trivial but multiple people in my area are setting off fireworks. Big ones! That explode in the air and they've been doing it for hours. Not fair as it's against the city and county ordinance.  I would have loved to play with some if I'd known the police were going to look the other way.  It's probably them setting them off.   :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 04, 2020, 11:37:08 PM
I'm more worried than normal because my mom said that when I moved into my new apartment my cat would die :cry: That would be my punishment for leaving my mom (who is a wonderful person as you can see).

Woah that's harsh  :shocked: did she really say that??

Regardless - take into account your cat's age, previous health history etc. I am keeping my paws crossed that kitty recovers, but if not, remember that a similar outcome would have happened if you had not moved.  :hope: it's NOT your fault and no one is getting punished!!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 05, 2020, 07:23:58 AM
I'm more worried than normal because my mom said that when I moved into my new apartment my cat would die :cry: That would be my punishment for leaving my mom (who is a wonderful person as you can see).

Woah that's harsh  :shocked: did she really say that??

Regardless - take into account your cat's age, previous health history etc. I am keeping my paws crossed that kitty recovers, but if not, remember that a similar outcome would have happened if you had not moved.  :hope: it's NOT your fault and no one is getting punished!!



That's what she told me :( She's always said things like that. She's Catholic and life is sin. Everything bad that happens to you is deserved. Honestly, we have learned to tune it out or roll our eyes and move on, but it bothers me when she says stuff about my pets. Say what you want about me, I don't care, but leave my 17 year old cat out of it. It just fuels my anxiety.

But I'm glad to say my kitty is feeling a little better this morning!  ^.^ she's still mopey but she was talking and was able to eat some and her ears and feet aren't hot anymore. I think she has a bad hairball. I gave her a little bit of tuna with olive oil and have some medicine on the way.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 05, 2020, 07:50:46 AM
Hopefully kitty is just feeling her age :/ Fingers crossed she continues to do OK :)

@Slyons -  I don't know what the tests are relating to but please do make sure you get them if you can. Platelet count is really important!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on July 05, 2020, 01:40:02 PM

That's what she told me :( She's always said things like that. She's Catholic and life is sin. Everything bad that happens to you is deserved. Honestly, we have learned to tune it out or roll our eyes and move on, but it bothers me when she says stuff about my pets. Say what you want about me, I don't care, but leave my 17 year old cat out of it. It just fuels my anxiety.

But I'm glad to say my kitty is feeling a little better this morning!  ^.^ she's still mopey but she was talking and was able to eat some and her ears and feet aren't hot anymore. I think she has a bad hairball. I gave her a little bit of tuna with olive oil and have some medicine on the way.


Well, 17 is already a grand age for a cat, and I'm glad to hear that she seems much better today!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 05, 2020, 10:37:28 PM
Mouse continues to improve and the hairball treatment I ordered should come tomorrow :)

My current complaint is this not being able to sleep at night thing. I got up early, got stuff done, am physically tired and - nothing. I could have easily fallen asleep at 3pm and again at 7 but I stayed up because that was too early and I know I'd be waking up around 2-3am. Well it is 1:30am and I have been tossing and turning since 11. I also have a bad headache.

One of the meds I was given for my sinus infection (did I mention that I have a sinus infection?) is an allergy pill that is supposed to cause drowsiness. It's not an old-timey antihistamine otherwise I'd be out by now. But I'm not drowsy at all. Completely exhausted, but not drowsy. Man, my head hurts.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on July 07, 2020, 04:15:06 AM
Good to know your kitty is doing better, BC! :hug:

Yikes, I had to remove a tick this morning. It's been years and years since I had one but I guess I've just been lucky. I walk my cats on a leash so they get ticks from time to time... I gave the cats a good brush yesterday before going to bed but I didn't shower or check my clothes like I should have. :/ I've been thinking about the TBE vaccine, this isn't the worst of areas but still...  I'm less worried about Lyme disease as I noticed and removed the tick pretty quickly and can be on the lookout for any signs of rash.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 07, 2020, 01:01:49 PM
I wanted to color today but my gel pens are so old that the ink has dried up/separated. Now instead of coloring I have to go through my pens and figure out which ones are still usable.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 07, 2020, 01:03:48 PM
I've reported six text messages as spam in the last two days.  Seriously, if I don't contact you first, I don't want it.   :enraged:  I am seriously considering an unlisted number because I'm tired of the BS that some inbred gene pool rejects keep sending me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 07, 2020, 07:49:08 PM
All this medicine I'm taking makes me nauseous -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 08, 2020, 02:24:52 AM
My bank. :pout: They have renewed the page where you can transfer money, and it's a joke. Huge letters, and there are comments all over the page how this is "All for YOU! :biggrin:" and "It's even EASIER now! :biggrin:", and it makes me sick. What am I, a 5-year-old? :angry:

My bank did always have a habit of treating you like you are simple (they don't even say "u" (polite pronoun) anymore, it's all "je" and "jij" (impolite pronoun!!!), even in letters and on the ATM. I guess they are trying to attract younger people, I don't know. But it's a BANK for heaven's sake, I expect some level of decency and respect! But this new page is really taking it too far, they are dumbing everything down like there's no tomorrow. Seriously, if I didn't have my savings account there I would have transferred to another bank years ago already. :angry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 09, 2020, 08:10:51 AM
I had to throw away over half of my gel pens. I have some new ones that I had bought because I love the colors but it looks like even in some of the new ones the ink has gone bad. :sad:

I am trying to make a playlist  on iTunes but since they are songs I had in my computer and transferred to iTunes the playlist doesn’t look like the others I’ve made and makes it more difficult to put the songs in the order I want.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on July 09, 2020, 03:41:36 PM
Had a bit on my mind that I wanted to do, like talk to my neighbour and make some art. But my anxiety and depression today has really spiked to the point I just want to sit and not do anything. Do not think, not do, not anything. But on the bright side, my friend got released from hospital after about three months! So there’s that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 09, 2020, 05:54:49 PM
Packing up my main "junk drawer" I found a few sheets of 90s Lisa Frank stickers but on top of them was one of those squishy Koosh-type toys. The oil or whatever in the toy leaked onto the stickers and they all slide off the sheets :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 11, 2020, 04:15:10 AM
We finally got a bit of sunshine, so I set about doing some work at the garden at long last, which is a good thing... but less than five minutes into cutting back a wildly overgrown hedge, there was carnage, bloodshed, the blade on the polesaw got stuck in a branch and I had to use the tiny, faffing little hacksaw to liberate it. After that excessively time-consuming farce, I just decided to settle for clearing some branches in order to tidy up the space between the hedge and the fence, so visiting wildlife can get through there more easily, and call time on it for today. The weather's gone naff now anyway, so I have a sort-of valid excuse. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on July 11, 2020, 06:55:34 AM
When depression makes you miss a friend's birthday... :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on July 12, 2020, 04:46:08 PM
I ate too much at dinner and now have a gut ache  >_<
But the ribs and mushrooms skewers were sooo good, lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 12, 2020, 11:16:44 PM
I hate when I can feel and hear my heartbeat. It's keeping me up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 13, 2020, 06:09:49 AM
Urgghhh, grubby pony mail, badly packed and in a weird-smelling box. I got Flower Bouquet, and she was grey with muck! I'm fine with adopting ponies that have flaws, and given their age and the fact that they've most likely been played with in the past, clearly most ponies are not going to be in their finest fettle, but she was quite gross. I've cleaned her up now, she needed three baths to get the grime off her body and her mane and tail had to be washed and detangled. She's drying right now, and after all that effort, she finally smells of lavender instead of her initial aura of weird-chemical-stench.
Oh, the joys of evilbay... :/
Still, I'm happy to have finally gotten one of my grail ponies, even if there was some unexpected panic-washing involved in the situation.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 13, 2020, 01:31:30 PM
It’s 108F where I live right now. :hot:  I was outside for less than 5 minutes and my skin already started turning red from the heat.

Miniature Sheep, I’m sorry your Flower Bouquet was covered with yucky stuff when she arrived.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 14, 2020, 12:07:30 PM
I'm not sure if this is a rant or what it is really.

A year ago, before I finished my PhD, I submitted an article to a journal.

Today I found out they'd rejected it (not surprising, this journal is really hard to get into)...but that I should have been told that 6 months ago. Oh well. Stuff happens.

It's more that I have a strong feeling I know who one of the reviewers is. It's all anonymous, but let's just say I'm not sure how I feel being reviewed by someone who I don't really think has read most of the stuff I'm talking about.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 14, 2020, 02:02:51 PM
The medicine I was off of for months is starting to kick back in. I had to restart at a low dose and ease myself back up to where I was. I did .5mg for a week and am halfway through 1mg. I need to get back to 3mg.

Anyway, it's in that awkward brain augmenting stage and I'm feeling rather loopy :lol: Also working with some double vision. I know it'll pass so I'm not concerned. I just wish this would have happened before or after my move.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on July 15, 2020, 08:52:11 AM
Never put corn in your potato salad! >_<

I had a kilo of potatoes that I needed to get rid of before they went bad, so I decided to fry half of them for today, and to make a salad of the rest for tomorrow. Then I found a can of corn in my kitchen cabinet that was about to expire (I know you can still use it well after that date, but I prefer not to), so I threw it in my potato salad.

...GROSS. I don't know what it was, but it made the whole thing smell and taste like plastic! >_< In the end I fished the potatoes out to save them for tomorrow, and attempted to eat the loose corn now so it wouldn't go to waste. But it was just gross. I usually like corn with pretty much anything, but maybe the fact that I left the skins on the potatoes (I absolutely love potatoes with skin!) caused that vile reaction, as it's a very distinctive taste... Now the smell won't get out of my nose. I'm still nauseous. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 15, 2020, 11:48:12 AM
It’s 108F where I live right now. :hot:  I was outside for less than 5 minutes and my skin already started turning red from the heat.

Miniature Sheep, I’m sorry your Flower Bouquet was covered with yucky stuff when she arrived.

Ponyfan

Thank you. :heart: I'm feeling much better now that she's cleaned up well. And yikes, that weather sounds brutal! I hope you can stay safe in the sun!

As for my complaint today, I tried a different type of support for my wrist, as the adjustable one got worn out by the velcro attachment and kept coming undone. This one is okay in theory, as it goes on like an armwarmer, it's much less restrictive and it stays in place really well, but even with having gotten the smallest size, it's still a bit loose around my wrist, so it doesn't really help all that much with the pain. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 16, 2020, 08:53:01 PM
Uh, I think I accidentally packed away my Aleeve yesterday. I can't find it.

I tried to keep the medicine I use regularly separate from what was going in boxes but must have missed it.

Now I have three boxes to open and check. I ran out of packing tape yesterday too, but there is some on the way.

edit: Yes indeed I packed it! Duh. It was in box #2.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 17, 2020, 01:05:52 PM
 I’m really stressed out right now. :argh:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 17, 2020, 03:34:46 PM
i bit  my TONGUE.  right on the TIP!!!!! big chomp mark through it.

euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur.  ow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 17, 2020, 03:54:09 PM
I’m really stressed out right now. :argh:

Ponyfan

:cookie: Ponyfan

@BlackCurtains - at least it wasn't in box 3 ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 18, 2020, 12:18:22 AM
I’m really stressed out right now. :argh:

Ponyfan

Hugs for you!  :hug:

My complaint is that yesterday evening, the handsaw went right into my hand, ironically. Adding insult to injury, while I was trying to get the wound to stop bleeding so I could clean and dress it, I had to contend with a buzzing feeling in my head, really bad tinnitus and my vision went all grainy. No idea what that was all about. Could've done without all that, really. I just want to get some more work done on fixing up the house. :/
On the plus side, it doesn't look quite so severe this morning. It's still a nasty gouge and it hurts, but it's manageable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 18, 2020, 10:54:51 PM
The wires in all my bras except one decided to travel out from their places. I've tried to put them back but they wont stay so now I have to get new bras, and since I'm on the larger size it wont be cheap. Also, the store I prefer has closed its location here so I have to order them from the web.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 19, 2020, 06:16:54 AM
I woke up and my mouth was so dry. I drank some water but it went dry again. I'm also sporting chapped lips. It's certainly not the weather, very hot and humid.

I wonder if my sister turned down (up?) the dehumidifier. I'll check after I have my tea.

edit: Nope, it's still set at 45. Hmm. Could it be anxiety? I don't feel anxious but maybe I am subconsciously.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 20, 2020, 06:31:29 AM
Thank you Taffeta and Miniature Sheep *eats Taffeta’s cookies* :hug:  Things have settled down now but  it was a one stressful thing after another.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 20, 2020, 11:08:28 AM
A mosquito bit me! :mad: I've avoided them all this year. Worse, I packed up my After Bite like a doofus -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on July 20, 2020, 01:17:47 PM
It's 21:14! My dad and I have this running joke that whenever it's 21:12, it's Rush o'clock, but we've missed Rush o'clock tonight by two entire minutes because I was making a cup of tea. Utterly shameful.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 23, 2020, 03:54:38 PM
Today should have been my PhD graduation ceremony.

But Covid rather got in the way.

Should have been in London right now :(

It should hopefully happen next year though, fingers crossed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 23, 2020, 10:43:44 PM
Today should have been my PhD graduation ceremony.

But Covid rather got in the way.

Should have been in London right now :(

It should hopefully happen next year though, fingers crossed.

*waves flags and sends out the pony parade*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 24, 2020, 04:31:26 AM
I'm not sure if I broke my toe. I stubbed it hard yesterday on my wicker ottoman. It hurts, it's completely bruised, it's swollen, but I can still (painfully) move it. So I dunno. It's the pinky toe.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on July 24, 2020, 08:02:59 AM
Today should have been my PhD graduation ceremony.

But Covid rather got in the way.

Should have been in London right now :(

It should hopefully happen next year though, fingers crossed.

*waves flags and sends out the pony parade*

<3 Thanks LBS.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on July 24, 2020, 09:39:46 AM
I'm not sure if I broke my toe. I stubbed it hard yesterday on my wicker ottoman. It hurts, it's completely bruised, it's swollen, but I can still (painfully) move it. So I dunno. It's the pinky toe.
Oh ouch :(


Pony hugs Taf :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on July 24, 2020, 01:35:56 PM
The evening sky had that weird color today where the light coming into the room made everything look blood-tinted, it just didn't feel right.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 24, 2020, 02:16:18 PM
Oh ouch :(

Thanks, especially since I bumped it again >.< The bruise is still spreading too.

---

My complaint today is that I keep finding things that belong in a box I already taped up. Very annoying!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on July 24, 2020, 10:14:09 PM
Oh ouch :(

Thanks, especially since I bumped it again >.< The bruise is still spreading too.

---

My complaint today is that I keep finding things that belong in a box I already taped up. Very annoying!
Not nice!!! Keep an eye on toe, & if it gets worse take toe to doctor.
I still recall when I was taking a bin out, tripped & badly hurt half of one foot... Fortunately it got better & nothing was broken, but still not nice
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Gator on July 25, 2020, 03:51:39 PM
My complaint:
Yesterday afternoon this lady calls minutes before closing to tell us she's on the way with her dog for an emergency c-section.  I'm done with my work, so I say "Peace Out!" and skedaddle before I get stuck staying late. 
Today, I have to work on my Saturday off to cover for another employee.  Once I get there, I find out my boss didn't think the dog was ready last night, so told her to come back at closing today for surgery.  So I loose my Saturday off and stay 2.5 hours late for a c-section.  Ugh. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tornadoe on July 26, 2020, 05:41:25 AM
dollyhair wont accept my payment details!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on July 26, 2020, 05:16:38 PM
I've got to the point where something really, REALLY bad has to happen in my story & I don't want to go there!!! I know I have to, & make it a truly awful thing, followed by utterly terrible consequences, but I'm so NOT looking forward to it!!! :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

(the story itself is off-topic, being based on people not Ponies, but I really want to get this one finished) :art:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 26, 2020, 06:31:15 PM
I’ve tried searching for some fanfics on Archive of Our Own but even when I put in specific dialogue that I remember being in the fanfic I can’t find it. :(

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on July 26, 2020, 10:42:41 PM
Me and hubby went for a four hour long bikeride yesterday which was wonderful. It's not so wonderful today when my legs feel like jelly and keep protesting when I move. I have to work today. Somehow I have to get to work!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on July 27, 2020, 02:55:53 PM
Not a trivial complaint, per se, but I don't feel like posting a lengthy WYP post.

Here's the rundown of what's happened over the last ten days:

- Like the rest of the northern hemisphere, it's hot
- I need to re-do a large page on the family website
- Three of our cows have injured hooves

And to top it all off, our favorite bull has a hernia and has to be put down. Despite being six years old, he's remained extremely docile, both to humans and other animals - heck, he lets my horse nibble on his ears. Losing him is devastating, to put it mildly. :cry:

I just want this month to be over.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on July 28, 2020, 02:01:16 PM
The pandemic has been good for requests and art traffic on my website but man! I’m having a hard time getting into some of these requests. I’m just not feeling it, and I’m worried that might cause them to turn out sub par to what my standards are. Not to mention my sister and I have been butting heads for the past week over trivial things. Like, I ask if she needs any help with her chores and she gets mad at me because “I shouldn’t have to ask you to do it! You should know what to do!” And she tells me no, she has it under control. Only to then get upset when she’s feeling tired and “I’ve been doing XYZ all by myself, and you’re just a lazy bum!” Like what do you want me to do?! I’m stressed about my future in a post covid-19 world, trying to do my work without interruptions, handle client control because “it’s taking a while” (shut up you asked for 17 pictures). The last thing I want are some mixed signals because I am terrible at reading people! You need to tell me exactly what you want me to do, not be passive aggressive about it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on July 29, 2020, 01:58:52 PM
I've had a really bad day :(

I wake to find my sister has moved some of my boxes. She screwed up my plan to put all the bins in one place and boxes in another.

My dad made me cry. My sister made me cry. I haven't cried since I was still only on paroxetine.

I tried to take some things to my apartment and barely made it up the stairs. I had an asthma attack and my inhaler started leaking brown goo.

I've had a headache all day.

My body is so sore I can't put my shoes on :sad:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on July 29, 2020, 03:21:19 PM
I've had a really bad day :(

I wake to find my sister has moved some of my boxes. She screwed up my plan to put all the bins in one place and boxes in another.

My dad made me cry. My sister made me cry. I haven't cried since I was still only on paroxetine.

I tried to take some things to my apartment and barely made it up the stairs. I had an asthma attack and my inhaler started leaking brown goo.

I've had a headache all day.

My body is so sore I can't put my shoes on :sad:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :deathhug: :deathhug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2020, 04:22:46 PM
I've had a really bad day :(

I wake to find my sister has moved some of my boxes. She screwed up my plan to put all the bins in one place and boxes in another.

My dad made me cry. My sister made me cry. I haven't cried since I was still only on paroxetine.

I tried to take some things to my apartment and barely made it up the stairs. I had an asthma attack and my inhaler started leaking brown goo.

I've had a headache all day.

My body is so sore I can't put my shoes on :sad:



I am sorry you are having such a bad day Black Curtains :hug:


My DVD player is not working right. The movie I was trying to watch last night got stuck inside the player and I almost didn’t get it back out.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 03, 2020, 06:06:00 AM
My DVD player will not play a DVD without skipping.  It doesn't matter if it's a movie that's only been played a few times or one that has been played a lot.  I know that many of my DVDs can't be defective.  I'm on a very tight budget right now so I will not be able to get a Blu Ray player right away. 

There's a player in the living room I can use but I live with my parents and a lot of the movies I like to watch are not interesting to them.


Ponyfan   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 03, 2020, 09:05:43 AM
I bought a loaf of my favorite bread, Publix bakery sourdough, it was the last one on the shelf. I wanted toast this morning so I grabbed a slice and there's a big air hole in the whole loaf :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 03, 2020, 02:07:39 PM
I had an extra hour in bed this morning and stayed home in order to relax and unwind, but still somehow ended up completely fried. :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on August 03, 2020, 10:14:37 PM
     I’m working on an ambitious request for art, and I think I’m getting burn out and getting sore from posture. I tell myself I’ll stop and enjoy playing a video game or reading...but then I realize I just want to finish the darn thing, and so get right back into it. One of these days I’ll get myself a proper desk chair. The one I’ve been using the last few years is nice...but I really need something that isn’t all hard plastic.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 04, 2020, 12:22:34 AM
I need new socks.  However, the only socks that Walmart had today were ankle socks.  I don't like ankle socks.  So I did not get socks.  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2020, 10:42:24 AM
I was filling out a job application that wanted a digital signature. Instead of checking a box, I had to actually sign using my mouse.  It was really difficult because it’s hard  for me to write legibly with a computer mouse.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 04, 2020, 12:23:10 PM
I ordered the Fruits Basket Season 1 Part 2 DVD from Amazon 2 months ago.  It came, but I didn't have time to watch it.  Finally had time to open it up and put it in and it's a Region 2 DVD.  Nowhere on the order page did it say that it was Region 2!  I looked multiple times before placing my order and even today, it still didn't say anything about being a different region.  So now I can't watch it.  I did report the listing to Amazon as incorrect so hopefully nobody else ends up screwed over by it.  I've contacted the seller and I'll see if they'll actually do anything because their seller page says to check the regions on DVDs before purchasing.  I did that, they didn't have it listed correctly.  If they don't do anything about it, it will result in a bad review (something I don't usually do but other people need to be warned if that's going to be the case).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2020, 02:12:05 PM
I ordered the Fruits Basket Season 1 Part 2 DVD from Amazon 2 months ago.  It came, but I didn't have time to watch it.  Finally had time to open it up and put it in and it's a Region 2 DVD.  Nowhere on the order page did it say that it was Region 2!  I looked multiple times before placing my order and even today, it still didn't say anything about being a different region.  So now I can't watch it.  I did report the listing to Amazon as incorrect so hopefully nobody else ends up screwed over by it.  I've contacted the seller and I'll see if they'll actually do anything because their seller page says to check the regions on DVDs before purchasing.  I did that, they didn't have it listed correctly.  If they don't do anything about it, it will result in a bad review (something I don't usually do but other people need to be warned if that's going to be the case).


That's really frustrating.  I hope that the seller will make it right.  Region codes should be clearly/correctly  listed on all pages since there are a lot of different regions.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 04, 2020, 03:28:44 PM
I miss thrift stores.  *pout*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on August 04, 2020, 03:29:22 PM
I miss thrift stores.  *pout*
Me too :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 04, 2020, 05:48:45 PM
Ugh. I need a new phone and laptop. My phone is so old it doesn't have internet and my only laptop is a Macbook Pro that's 11 years old and can't support a lot of things anymore. I just wanted to post some photos to my Facebook from my camera, but I can't upload them to my Mac. That means I have to get on my desktop, which is a big gaming rig. I only need to post a couple pictures! I don't wanna turn my PC on...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on August 05, 2020, 12:00:21 AM
I ordered the Fruits Basket Season 1 Part 2 DVD from Amazon 2 months ago.  It came, but I didn't have time to watch it.  Finally had time to open it up and put it in and it's a Region 2 DVD.  Nowhere on the order page did it say that it was Region 2!  I looked multiple times before placing my order and even today, it still didn't say anything about being a different region.  So now I can't watch it.  I did report the listing to Amazon as incorrect so hopefully nobody else ends up screwed over by it.  I've contacted the seller and I'll see if they'll actually do anything because their seller page says to check the regions on DVDs before purchasing.  I did that, they didn't have it listed correctly.  If they don't do anything about it, it will result in a bad review (something I don't usually do but other people need to be warned if that's going to be the case).
Me every time DVDs are only available in Region 1 = this frustration. (I live in Region 2)
I do hope the seller corrects your issue & gives you the proper region DVD.

i did get myself a portable DVD player which is region free so I can watch some Pony DVDs which aren't available in Region 2, like World's Biggest Tea Party for example.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 05, 2020, 02:19:13 PM
The DVD player is now completely broken with a DVD stuck inside. :(

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 05, 2020, 05:07:56 PM
I just discovered what tonsil stones are today.  >.< 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 05, 2020, 06:36:48 PM
I ordered the Fruits Basket Season 1 Part 2 DVD from Amazon 2 months ago.  It came, but I didn't have time to watch it.  Finally had time to open it up and put it in and it's a Region 2 DVD.  Nowhere on the order page did it say that it was Region 2!  I looked multiple times before placing my order and even today, it still didn't say anything about being a different region.  So now I can't watch it.  I did report the listing to Amazon as incorrect so hopefully nobody else ends up screwed over by it.  I've contacted the seller and I'll see if they'll actually do anything because their seller page says to check the regions on DVDs before purchasing.  I did that, they didn't have it listed correctly.  If they don't do anything about it, it will result in a bad review (something I don't usually do but other people need to be warned if that's going to be the case).


That's really frustrating.  I hope that the seller will make it right.  Region codes should be clearly/correctly  listed on all pages since there are a lot of different regions.



Ponyfan

So, the seller's response was "Since the order is so old, there's nothing we can do."  Because as the seller, you definitely can't just refund or exchange the item like a decent human being.  Okay.  1 star review for you and a review on the product that says it's region 2 and not to waste your money unless you have a region 2 player. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ZeldaTheSwordsman on August 06, 2020, 07:07:16 AM
I've been put off responding in poll threads lately, because I accidentally voted for the wrong pony in the "Favorite Brush'n'Grow" thread and I can't fix it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 06, 2020, 08:14:07 AM
The Raunds Library is still closed, guess I won’t be going to work there in a while.  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 06, 2020, 03:21:51 PM
I went to take some garbage to the garage and when I came back inside and sat down I felt an incredible pain in my leg. My mind immediately defaulted to fire ants so I checked my chair and started swiping at my shorts. More pain. So I ran to the bathroom and tore my clothes off still thinking it was ants. Nope. I turned my shorts over and it was a big wasp!

I'm allergic to insect stings so I started to panic and beat the wasp to death with a towel. It got me three times in the thigh and once on my hand. I took Benadryl right away and I think I'll be okay and won't need to go to the ER.

What the heck though?! It crawled up my shorts and hung out there until I sat down. Like??? I'd tell the wasp to go home because it's drunk but it's dead now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ZeldaTheSwordsman on August 06, 2020, 05:38:07 PM
OW! You poor thing.. I hope you'll be alright.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2020, 07:16:26 PM
I ordered the Fruits Basket Season 1 Part 2 DVD from Amazon 2 months ago.  It came, but I didn't have time to watch it.  Finally had time to open it up and put it in and it's a Region 2 DVD.  Nowhere on the order page did it say that it was Region 2!  I looked multiple times before placing my order and even today, it still didn't say anything about being a different region.  So now I can't watch it.  I did report the listing to Amazon as incorrect so hopefully nobody else ends up screwed over by it.  I've contacted the seller and I'll see if they'll actually do anything because their seller page says to check the regions on DVDs before purchasing.  I did that, they didn't have it listed correctly.  If they don't do anything about it, it will result in a bad review (something I don't usually do but other people need to be warned if that's going to be the case).


That's really frustrating.  I hope that the seller will make it right.  Region codes should be clearly/correctly  listed on all pages since there are a lot of different regions.



Ponyfan

So, the seller's response was "Since the order is so old, there's nothing we can do."  Because as the seller, you definitely can't just refund or exchange the item like a decent human being.  Okay.  1 star review for you and a review on the product that says it's region 2 and not to waste your money unless you have a region 2 player. 


I'm very sorry to hear that.  You would think the seller would make it right since it was their mistake for listing it as a Region 1 DVD when it is Region 2. 



I went to take some garbage to the garage and when I came back inside and sat down I felt an incredible pain in my leg. My mind immediately defaulted to fire ants so I checked my chair and started swiping at my shorts. More pain. So I ran to the bathroom and tore my clothes off still thinking it was ants. Nope. I turned my shorts over and it was a big wasp!

I'm allergic to insect stings so I started to panic and beat the wasp to death with a towel. It got me three times in the thigh and once on my hand. I took Benadryl right away and I think I'll be okay and won't need to go to the ER.

What the heck though?! It crawled up my shorts and hung out there until I sat down. Like??? I'd tell the wasp to go home because it's drunk but it's dead now.

Ouch.  I can't imagine how much that must have hurt.  I hope you don't have to go to the ER.

Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 07, 2020, 01:29:14 AM
Didn’t sleep well last night because my dad had to go downstairs to the bathroom because he had the poops. That woke the dog up she got excited to see him, and she started coughing (that almost got me upset), then my brother came upstairs because he was staying down here because the dog is scared to go into her bed playpen because of what happened before. So my dad stayed downstairs with the dog. Took me awhile to get back to sleep.

I’m cranky today so I might not be active on here till the afternoon.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on August 07, 2020, 01:54:48 AM
I went to take some garbage to the garage and when I came back inside and sat down I felt an incredible pain in my leg. My mind immediately defaulted to fire ants so I checked my chair and started swiping at my shorts. More pain. So I ran to the bathroom and tore my clothes off still thinking it was ants. Nope. I turned my shorts over and it was a big wasp!

I'm allergic to insect stings so I started to panic and beat the wasp to death with a towel. It got me three times in the thigh and once on my hand. I took Benadryl right away and I think I'll be okay and won't need to go to the ER.

What the heck though?! It crawled up my shorts and hung out there until I sat down. Like??? I'd tell the wasp to go home because it's drunk but it's dead now.
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :ack: :ack: :ack:
Need to find an ouchy Emoji cause that must have been so sore!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 07, 2020, 04:47:08 AM
Thanks everyone :hug:

No ER trip was needed!

It was a paper wasp which aren't pollinators so I don't feel too bad for killing it. And I was right, it got me four times. The sites are easier to see today. I think the one on my hand was shallow since it didn't keep hurting hours afterward like the others.

All in all painful but far from the worst (which is still invasive fire ants whom I am terrified of.) But I think I'll be avoiding the garage and outside for a few days ^^;
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 07, 2020, 09:59:58 AM
Glad you're ok, BlackCurtains!

@Pokeyonekenobie Re the Region 2 DVD - will it play on your PC?

I have a region free dvd player here because I have a lot of DVDs from the US as well as UK/European bought ones and so on...but I'm not sure how it works in reverse with R1 and R2 because of the NTSC/PAL thing. I know that US TV systems struggle with PAL format things...but the PC ought to be able to play it??

(Japan is also R2 but NTSC, but if it's Japanese it might not have subs if you need them).

If you have a CD drive of course. Or an external one ;)

My complaint for today...is two actually.

My parents went out to town for the first time in 4 months today, to get their prescriptions. They had a lot of things to make sure they did, and they walked in instead of getting the bus, and wore masks and used sanitiser...and then Dad apparently decided he needed to linger inside the newsagents to read the headlines while Mum bought a lottery ticket. Don't remember that on the essential list. Sigh. Trying to get them to absorb that little things matter is so tiring. Thankfully sister is here to lecture them too now but it makes me worry about them deciding bigger risk things are no big deal ><

And I was going to go into town with them - or at least part of the way - but I had to stop in and wait for a plant to be delivered. Which of course, didn't come till they got back.

Sigh.


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on August 08, 2020, 09:26:29 AM
    Woke up this morning an my younger sister is throwing a fit for some reason. When I ask her what is the matter, she tells me “you know what’s wrong! Open your eyes!” as I think she was trying to rearrange the cupboard? Like, if I knew what was wrong I wouldn’t be asking about it. And then when I offered to give her a hand, she yells at me some more staring “I’ll just do it myself, because you can’t ever seem to figure it out. 19 year olds don’t need chore boards, but you do!” Like thanks for that. I appreciate being reminded of the fact that I am a bit slower when it comes to household things like cleaning. I love being reminded of the fact that I will never be good enough for you to treat like a human person because of my own stupidity.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 08, 2020, 09:42:41 AM
Mewtwofan :hug: you're not stupid.

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I dropped my hair tie in my tea -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 09, 2020, 03:33:51 AM
I am put on medication A. It has, however, been very difficult to get ahold of so instead I've been taking medication B which is kind of a reserve and pretty much the same thing, only from another company. Last week when I went to the pharmacy to pick it up I was told that medication A has been permanently put off the ordering lists in Sweden, probably because it was so hard to get anyway. Medication B is getting difficult to get as well but none knows if the supply is gonna increase or if they will stop it altogether like they did with medication A. No pharmacy had my strength in place of med B so I had to get an emergency prescription for a lower strenght which costed me around 200 sek.

My doctor has offered me to switch to medication C until we know exactly what's happening to medication B. I've tried medication C before and while it lets me sleep through the night it did nothing much for my pain and I gained a ton of weight. I had finally gotten to a dose with med B where I felt like a human being. I slept during the night, I was not as tired and I had the strength to do things. Now I have to take a lower dose to make it last for as long as possible so i can switch to med C without too much chemical hassel and I intantly started to sleep badly again (only four to five hours a night) and the pain increased.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2020, 12:23:41 PM


My complaint for today...is two actually.

My parents went out to town for the first time in 4 months today, to get their prescriptions. They had a lot of things to make sure they did, and they walked in instead of getting the bus, and wore masks and used sanitiser...and then Dad apparently decided he needed to linger inside the newsagents to read the headlines while Mum bought a lottery ticket. Don't remember that on the essential list. Sigh. Trying to get them to absorb that little things matter is so tiring. Thankfully sister is here to lecture them too now but it makes me worry about them deciding bigger risk things are no big deal ><

And I was going to go into town with them - or at least part of the way - but I had to stop in and wait for a plant to be delivered. Which of course, didn't come till they got back.

Sigh.




:hug:



Sometimes living with my parents gets to me.  We are together all the time  and that leads to some minor conflicts.  Earlier my mom asked me to get the cheese for her.  We have many different types of cheese in the fridge right now.  I admit I have trouble reading people sometimes but I guess she thought I didn't want to get the cheese for her because she went to the fridge and starting going through it for the cheese.  She finally said she wanted shredded cheese.  If she had told me that at first I would have been able to get it for her.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 10, 2020, 07:16:24 AM
I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 10, 2020, 09:28:03 AM
I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:

I'm really sorry but this made me laugh out loud xD.

You have the power to bring forth a swarm O.o. Use this power well.

@Ponyfan, thanks for the solidarity :) It is stressful sometimes. Sigh.

@Mewtwofan = you are definitely not stupid.

@Beldarna - that stinks >< Is this supply issue because of Covid?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 10, 2020, 11:21:55 AM
I'm really dizzy. I think the ride on the on/off ramps triggered my vertigo :dizzy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: ZeldaTheSwordsman on August 10, 2020, 03:21:59 PM
I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:
I've heard of (and experienced) updates causing bugs, but this is a whole new level of that
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 10, 2020, 04:21:59 PM
I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:
I've heard of (and experienced) updates causing bugs, but this is a whole new level of that

XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 11, 2020, 04:26:39 AM
I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:

I'm really sorry but this made me laugh out loud xD.

You have the power to bring forth a swarm O.o. Use this power well.


That is a good point! I am rather tempted to amass an army of ladybirds with this newfound power. :devious:

I just went to print some notes, but the printer went ahead and installed an update instead. Then when I succeeded in printing the notes, there was an insect scuttling about on them. So was that the update? I'm not seeing how it could feasibly be useful to print live insects at home, to be honest. :blink:
I've heard of (and experienced) updates causing bugs, but this is a whole new level of that

:lmao:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 12, 2020, 10:58:34 AM
I’m beginning  to dislike green beans and grilled chicken. Usually I like them but my family had green beans twice in one day last week (and again a few days later) and we’ve  had grilled chicken salad a lot too. I don’t like salad so I eat the grilled chicken by itself but it doesn’t taste as good without something to go with it.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: northstar3184 on August 13, 2020, 02:12:34 PM
I'm sick of reboots: I watched a favorite childhood movie last night (Masters of the Universe), then read up on it and a reboot is in the works. Then I read up on another childhood favorite (Red Sonja) to find it is also being rebooted. I'm over this trend
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 14, 2020, 07:03:39 AM
^ I'm with you on that. What I don't get is they keep rebooting things that were originally good when there are plenty of things that had good ideas but were executed badly. Why doesn't someone try remaking those? Especially horror movies. So many bad ones with potential.

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I stretched or twisted wrong, probably in my sleep, and now I have a new pain in my back. Like I needed more back problems.

My eczema is out of control on my hand. It's spread across my knuckles and man does that hurt.

I've had a headache off and on the last three days but I'm out of medicine. No one else has generic Excedrin, just aspirin or ibuprofen which do nothing for me.

In short, I'm kind of miserable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 14, 2020, 11:53:55 AM
I’m so sorry BlackCurtains. :hug:

I had a bad eczema flare up on my hands at the end of May and the pain was so bad I was almost in tears.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2020, 08:40:11 AM
I’m really frustrated with my parents right now.  :enraged:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beldarna on August 18, 2020, 10:40:02 AM
Quote from: Taffeta
@Beldarna - that stinks >< Is this supply issue because of Covid?

I don't know :(. None could tell. Med A was in bad supply already a year ago. I talked to my doctor about it and he seems upset that med B is dissapearing as well.


I tripped with my bike and hurt my left arm. No broken bones but I can't use it much. Also it's covered in scraps and bruises and so is my right leg. One could think I've been in a fight  >_<.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on August 18, 2020, 11:35:44 AM
I spent over $200 on a tower fan but now I don't think it was really worth it >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 18, 2020, 12:29:20 PM
So, I understand why Walmart has a mask rule, I really do, but there was an old man (I'm guessing in his 80s-90s) who was all by himself that didn't have a mask today and the lady at the door was telling him the she couldn't let him go inside without one.  Fortunately, as I was digging out a spare mask, someone else handed him one.  But seriously: What if he has a breathing condition and can't wear one?  Besides that, half of the Walmart employees that I see have their masks down around their chins.  If they aren't going to wear one properly I can't see how they can force that old man to wear one at all.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2020, 03:10:57 AM
There was an article on the BBC today about someone being abused because of not wearing a mask...having a panic attack and is now afraid to leave her home.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-53827911

It's not the first, it won;t be the last, because the UK govt are doing nothing to protect exempted people. They just say "some people are exempt" and then leave it at that.

I get that masks are important too, though the mandation has severely restricted what I am able to do based on how long I can tolerate the mask on my face without suffocating or panicking that I can't breathe).

But even though masks are important, abusing someone for not wearing one is never acceptable. Chances are they have a reason.

For me it's just another example of how people with disabilities are still treated. I could fil this post with a lot of recent examples of ableism, but in covid terms, just things like abusing visually impaired people for not socially distancing...when obviously they can't discern that distance and you should distance FROM THEM.

And the govt mandated care home testing - but only for the elderly. Not the disabled. At the start of the crisis there were a number of papers which suggested people with disabilities would be overlooked for ventilation or medical treatment if there was a high demand for these things.

 Fortunately the wording of that was challenged, things were reworded and it also never became a problem because the NHS was not overwhelmed.

A couple of years ago the Chancellor blamed the UK's lack of productivity on the rise in numbers of disabled people in work, who couldn't work as fast. And he didn't even have to apologise, much less quit. Another minister suggested disabled people should be paid less because they don't understand the value of money properly.

Ableist language is also rampant online, which helps to normalise attitudes. I genuinely saw someone say that not wearing a mask is terrorism akin to ISIS, and it took two complaints to get the comment taken down. THe first person didn't think it was a problem to imply disabled people with exemptions and those with health problems were the same as extremist suicide bombers.


So this is  not really a trivial complaint, but I am so fed up with unconscious ableism being just normalised and accepted. With all these movements to try and sort out other inequalities, it really bothers me that this one has been so left behind. Covid has just made it worse.

Most of the time though we're just expected to put up, shut up, and take it as a joke. I can only imagine how that would work if it was a different type of discrimination.

...Masks are just the thin end of the wedge for me. Every person who doesn't think this is a problem IS the problem.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on August 19, 2020, 03:44:36 AM
Taffeta, do you wear the "sunflower lanyard" when out and about? I think most stores have had staff training to identify those wearers as having hidden disabilities thus shouldn't challenge you if you go maskless.

Took Dad out to the town centre on Monday as he had decided to buy a new phone and needed his old SIM card changed to nano-size. Queued outside the store, they took his details and said he would be allowed in after they had finished serving their customer... it was then his turn so I left him to it while I had a quick browse of the shops.

4 pounds charge to park for under an hour. Daylight robbery. If we had gone to the next town it would have been half that!!

Oh - my tooth went CRAZY at the weekend, the molar nerve caused the side of my face to ache: jaw, cheek, eye socket, even loud noises and lights made me feel queasy.

Managed to grab a late cancellation on Tuesday so had my root-canal done quickly and efficiently by a very experienced (and gentle) dentist. Gums a bit sore after the treatment but I no longer hurt when I take a step, so, silver linings!

Oh, the poor dental assistants, dressed in full PPE, aprons, visors, respirators, gloves... thankfully our heatwave has subsided but wow, what a way to spend your day at work!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2020, 04:23:15 AM
No...I don't.

I do have an Autism Alert card but I have only ever used it once, at an airport, when it was really manic and I wanted to get a time out in the disability lounge.

But I am really uncomfortable broadcasting my disability to strangers in an obvious way. I tend to get overloaded by having a lot of attention focused my way, and I've had a few times when I've had to explain my disability that have ended up making things worse (the full scale argument between two passengers about whether it was ok for me to have my case with me on the train springs to mind...) and drawing more attention.

So yeah, I try and keep myself to myself when I'm out as much as possible, so as not to attract undue attention. It means trying to pretend I'm not lost when I am a lot of the time though xD. I'm sure some people think I'm casing stores when I walk around them five times before I find the exit xD.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on August 19, 2020, 04:46:12 AM
I'm sick of reboots: I watched a favorite childhood movie last night (Masters of the Universe), then read up on it and a reboot is in the works. Then I read up on another childhood favorite (Red Sonja) to find it is also being rebooted. I'm over this trend

MotU fans have screamed for a reboot of the live-action movie for decades because the 80s one wasn't like the cartoon. You are the first person I see who doesn't want it :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 20, 2020, 05:34:56 AM
I had a curry pot for lunch at my volunteering job and normally I love a good curry, but this one was mingin'! It was very bland and disappointing. In future, I'll have to make my own and bring it with me!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: CloudyGlow on August 20, 2020, 05:51:28 AM
Me: minding my own business
Random person I never seen before: Make this art for me.
Me: no
Random person: then make this
Me: no, please stop asking
Random person: You're mean!!!

 :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on August 20, 2020, 08:22:16 AM
It is too freakishly humid here, like Florida humid  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 20, 2020, 10:57:43 AM
The director just announced an opening date of September 8th and the part timers are already complaining about the shifts, which are the exact same length as they are now.  There's just an hour between the morning shift and the afternoon shift where we're supposedly going to be closed in order to clean, which is during the full timers' lunch hour so we will either have to start going to lunch at 2 or 12 since clearly the part timers aren't going to want any extra time because they "don't like" cleaning. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 20, 2020, 01:08:14 PM
I still haven't moved into my apartment :cloud:

Now I'm thinking of staying through the 25th. My mom's birthday is the 24th and the next day I have a 10am physical appointment with my PCP. I figure it will be easier to just stay instead of visiting one day, going home and being picked up the next morning. I could stay the night but I wouldn't want to leave my cat alone.

So I've paid two months rent and utilities for an empty place. My dad thinks I'm scared to move but that's not it at all. My health dictates what I can do each day and packing is taking so long. I am down to the bare essentials now and could call the movers tomorrow but will probably end up staying another week.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2020, 04:03:07 PM
I'm so tired.  :zzz: :zzz:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on August 22, 2020, 07:38:00 PM
Just spent the week babysitting the neighbours dog, went to bed super late last night because I was at a friends house. I feel tired and all I want is to have a quiet afternoon with my projects then go to bed. Simple wish, right? Wrong! As soon as I get in my sister is hounding me about university applications and “how come you haven’t done it yet! It’s almost September Mewtwofan1!” Like I just want to stop and finish this project! Nothing more! I am too tired to deal with applications, and too tired to fight with my family on the subject.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 23, 2020, 10:28:38 AM
Sister went back to her place yesterday. We all walked into town to see her off at the station. The local station mandates masks on the platform unless you are exempt, so we all wore one onto the platform (even though both Mum and I are technically exempt).

A group of youths hanging out on the platform, not wearing masks, and apparently not interested in getting a train, reallllly annoyed me. I am the first to stand up for the rights of the exempt, but these were basically commenting how pointless it was. NOT exempt. Just stupid.

The station in our local town is unstaffed on an afternoon, so there's nobody to enforce the rules.

...Idiots.

I am reminded how much I hate living in this area and why >.> I really miss London now.

It's also weird with sister gone back now...because none of us know how long it will be before she can come again, or what the situation will be like going forward.

On the positive...the walk into town was nice, aside the bit where a greenfly flew in my eye...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 23, 2020, 03:39:00 PM
I woke up all sweaty. Gross. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 23, 2020, 11:39:00 PM
My left big toe hurts
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 24, 2020, 05:22:13 AM
There's no way to and from town that cuts out the steep hills. My knee hurts when I walk anyway, but it's worse when I have to go up and down a load of inclines. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 24, 2020, 06:07:15 AM
I hope it's not rude to start complaing right upon my return, especially about such trivial things. :lookround: But I have two things!

First, I hate, hate, HATE valerian! I have no words for how much I loathe that disgusting smell. >_< I bought some tea in a super cute box (with a fricken sleepy barn owl, I mean, come on! :heart: ) that was supposed to bring me some peace of mind at night. It contains lavender, chamomile and valerian. I absolutely love the smell of the first two, so I was pretty much expecting that those would mask the vile smell of the valerian.

I WAS WRONG.

I took the foil off the box, and the stench nearly knocked me out. No matter where I put it (I even banned it from my house and stored in on the balcony for a couple of days) or what I do with it, it keeps stinking up my entire house! >_<  I even threw the packaging out and put the bags away (because the bags themselves smell okay-ish, the box is worse), but the stench is still everywhere. I smells like an exceptionally gross pile of old and vile laundry. :pout:

Second complaint: I ordered an awesome Red Hot Chili Peppers watch, but my order was cancelled because they don't carry that model anymore. :( I was looking forward to it so much...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 24, 2020, 08:43:29 AM
I don't want to go to the office today.  I hate leaving my house and dealing with potentially infected idiots.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 24, 2020, 08:57:33 AM
Woke up to no power this morning.  No idea why.  Might be the people building across the street knocked it out.  I just hope it's back on by the time I get off work tonight.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 25, 2020, 11:42:01 AM
I have another complaint. :P I installed this avatar and signature when I was rewatching Kommissar Rex and got obsessed with it again (how can you not adore that show?). Then I had one of my involuntary sessions of absence, so no one got to see it. Now that I am posting again I'm not as obsessed anymore, so these images don't make sense anymore for me at the moment.

I don't want to ditch these "unused" pictures yet, but I do want something else now! >_<

EDIT: I caved and changed it. Sorry Rex. Sorry Moser. :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 25, 2020, 12:30:24 PM
I have another complaint. :P I installed this avatar and signature when I was rewatching Kommissar Rex and got obsessed with it again (how can you not adore that show?). Then I had one of my involuntary sessions of absence, so no one got to see it. Now that I am posting again I'm not as obsessed anymore, so these images don't make sense anymore for me at the moment.

I don't want to ditch these "unused" pictures yet, but I do want something else now! >_<

Follow your heart and let your current favourite things run free in the forum meadows! :cheer:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 25, 2020, 12:32:05 PM
I just did, haha! :silly:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 25, 2020, 12:32:28 PM
Grub Hub's fees are outrageous.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 25, 2020, 12:50:01 PM
I have another complaint. :P I installed this avatar and signature when I was rewatching Kommissar Rex and got obsessed with it again (how can you not adore that show?). Then I had one of my involuntary sessions of absence, so no one got to see it. Now that I am posting again I'm not as obsessed anymore, so these images don't make sense anymore for me at the moment.

I don't want to ditch these "unused" pictures yet, but I do want something else now! >_<

Follow your heart and let your current favourite things run free in the forum meadows! :cheer:



@MiniatureSheep
YOUR AVATAR IS BERK!!!

...Ahem. That was OT but still. It had to be said <3.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 26, 2020, 08:47:55 AM
I have another complaint. :P I installed this avatar and signature when I was rewatching Kommissar Rex and got obsessed with it again (how can you not adore that show?). Then I had one of my involuntary sessions of absence, so no one got to see it. Now that I am posting again I'm not as obsessed anymore, so these images don't make sense anymore for me at the moment.

I don't want to ditch these "unused" pictures yet, but I do want something else now! >_<

Follow your heart and let your current favourite things run free in the forum meadows! :cheer:



@MiniatureSheep
YOUR AVATAR IS BERK!!!

...Ahem. That was OT but still. It had to be said <3.

It sure is! I found my old Trapdoor books recently and ended up down a happy rabbit hole revisiting my favourite episodes of the show.

And my complaint for the day is that I swore out of frustration after tripping over my dad's guitar, which he hadn't put away, and we ended up in a massive row... over a guitar. It is a plank of wood with strings on it but apparently no-one is allowed to say a wrong word about it, as if it's some kind of sacred artifact. There was no need to take it as massively personally as he did. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2020, 09:45:15 AM
The first viable academic position since COVID began was advertised today.
Only problem is they rotate eligibility with subjects.
Mine is not included this year.
...And yes, I did check with them.

Back to the drawing board.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 26, 2020, 10:40:45 AM
The first viable academic position since COVID began was advertised today.
Only problem is they rotate eligibility with subjects.
Mine is not included this year.
...And yes, I did check with them.

Back to the drawing board.

I’m sorry to hear that, Taffeta. :hug:

I applied for a job and had an interview scheduled but the day before my interview the company called and said “due to circumstances changing” they were cancelling my interview.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2020, 10:55:36 AM
The first viable academic position since COVID began was advertised today.
Only problem is they rotate eligibility with subjects.
Mine is not included this year.
...And yes, I did check with them.

Back to the drawing board.

I’m sorry to hear that, Taffeta. :hug:

I applied for a job and had an interview scheduled but the day before my interview the company called and said “due to circumstances changing” they were cancelling my interview.

Ponyfan

Hugs right back at you :hug:
I guess we'll both just have to keep going...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 26, 2020, 11:13:06 AM
And my complaint for the day is that I swore out of frustration after tripping over my dad's guitar, which he hadn't put away, and we ended up in a massive row... over a guitar. It is a plank of wood with strings on it but apparently no-one is allowed to say a wrong word about it, as if it's some kind of sacred artifact. There was no need to take it as massively personally as he did. :/

Sounds like my dad, he is exactly the same way with his guitars (and his studio equipment, for that matter). >_< The worst time was when he called me in rage at 05.30 AM, barking that we had to take "our" cat* back right this instant, or bring him to a shelter, only because the poor cat tripped over a cable and pulled some equipment down to the floor... It was not even broken!

*The cat used to be ours, but my father adopted him four years prior to this happening, he fully acknowledges him as his cat. Until the cat breaks something of course. :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on August 26, 2020, 11:18:32 AM
Just popping in to let folks know I'm not dead. Just... spread really thin.

One of my bookshelves - a cheap pressboard thing - is on it's last legs. I've been looking for a replacement on Craigslist, but all the nice shelves are either slightly too big, out of my price range, or too far away. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 26, 2020, 11:43:34 AM
I was putting something in one of my fire safes and the lid slammed down onto my thumb >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on August 28, 2020, 11:25:01 AM
I took pictures for some Etsy reviews (jewellery, so showing my face is inevitable), and now I feel like such an ego tripper, awful. >_< It couldn't be further from the truth though! I am not a "selfie" person AT ALL, and it took over fifty pictures to get just a handful of decent ones. :lookround:

Oh well, on the plus side, I did take one (one!) that I actually happened to like. :shocked: So I'm going to hang on to that one whenever I need a mugshot. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on August 28, 2020, 12:22:35 PM
freaking annoying mouth ulcer right inside the top of my upper jaw. Gets hit by nearly every bit of food I eat... Just heal already!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on August 28, 2020, 12:26:06 PM
I read the saddest story today about cyber bullying in online communities... The elitism and gatekeeping of it all just sickens me. How can these people be so caught up in themselves that they don’t even care if they’re affecting the mental wellbeing of others?

It makes me sad that there are individuals who have nothing better to do than mock and demean others. :( There is no excuse for bullying (online or off). Ever.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 28, 2020, 02:48:00 PM
I slept okay for once but I woke with a headache that's persisted all day, plus my implant itches. I have that weighted feeling in my right eye, so the source is the implant. By sleeping for several hours in a row I must've been laying on it. Can't ever have a decent nights sleep ever!

Edit: Argh! I made a new page :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 28, 2020, 07:28:52 PM
I'm sorry to hear that BlackCurtains.  :sad:

My hands have been tingling the last few days.  It feels like they are falling asleep but sometimes they feel that way when I am doing something.  My hands also seem swollen. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 29, 2020, 04:02:19 AM
Thanks, Ponyfan.

I'm sorry about your hands. The same thing happens to my feet sometimes. Try drinking electrolytes, that always helps me when I get that tingly feeling.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on August 29, 2020, 09:04:06 PM
My eye is itchy right in the corner by the tearduct.....and the more I rub it out seems to being relief for a minute... but then it itches more....vicious circle  :nuts:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on August 30, 2020, 03:04:05 AM
I had to use my rescue inhaler twice yesterday and this morning my throat hurts  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on August 31, 2020, 02:27:50 AM
I once again fell into that trap of giving a book the benefit of the doubt, when I should've stuck to my rule of the 50 Page Test (that is, if it's dull or irritating by page 50, I'm not sticking with it). I stuck with it thinking that all the build-up in the really ominous, sparse, slow release of little details might go somewhere interesting, but it didn't. It just fizzled out with the most obvious conclusion, no disercnible character development for anyone involved in the narrative and the conclusion of the story basically boiled down to "Everyone is useless. The end!" Yeah, great job on that. I'm all for subverting established literary tropes but it has to be done with skill, not just a petulant, artless, bait-and-switch. Honestly... :pout:
And now the electric metre is beeping outside, so I'll have to go and stick the emergency on it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on August 31, 2020, 07:17:45 AM
I have been waking up extra early for no apparent reason.  I went to bed at 11:30 pm and was wide awake at 2:30 am. My usual relaxing strategies for going to to sleep didn’t work. I finally feel back asleep around 5:30 am.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 31, 2020, 08:02:27 AM
I wanted to rearrange my room this last weekend, but what I had in mind didn't work so I had to put everything back.  When I went to move a large shelf (it was empty thank goodness) it literally fell apart in my hands.  Maybe that was a good thing that it fell apart when it was empty but now I have to go buy a new shelf because I thought it through and I really need the shelves and can't get away with just not having them. 

And it was hot last night and I broke a nail opening my window. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 31, 2020, 09:32:28 AM
Left big toe is still hurting, woke me up at 3am (my local time), slept with my leg out of the bed cover. In the morning I had a bad back because my back wasn’t covered.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 01, 2020, 06:33:10 AM
My laundry won't dry with this level of humidity! :mad: On Sunday I washed a load of towels, and I still can't put them away. It sucks, because I only have ONE drying rack, and there's other laundry piling up. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 01, 2020, 07:13:54 AM
My laundry won't dry with this level of humidity! :mad: On Sunday I washed a load of towels, and I still can't put them away. It sucks, because I only have ONE drying rack, and there's other laundry piling up. :pout:

Do you have a stair railing or a shower rod you can hang things on? 

My complaint for today is that my parents are supposed to be up hunting for the month.  So I had planned to gut my room, rearrange and clean everything and then put it back.  Well I got started on Friday and since I broke a shelf on Saturday I wanted to put away everything that could be put away last night after work (staying up until midnight to get as much done as possible) so I could buy a shelf today, put it together and then finish up tonight.  However my parents came home yesterday while I was at work (didn't bother to call/text me to let me know) in order to go to a funeral today.  That meant that I had to wait until 7pm to have dinner because they "weren't hungry and didn't know what they wanted" and then I had to be done cleaning by 9 so that they could go to bed.  So I lost an hour of work time waiting for them to decide on dinner and then another three hours of work time because they wanted to go to bed.  Wow.  A whole hour of time to myself to get things done.  So you can imagine that I did NOT get anything finished last night.  And my parents will be back later in the week for the burial part of the funeral because it's going to take three days to transport the body about 50 miles.  So I basically won't get anything done this week, either.  And they brought the dog home so now I will have to completely re-clean the house after they leave next weekend (instead of being able to do something fun and enjoy the house that I already spent 2 days cleaning) because he's already covered the couch in hair.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 01, 2020, 10:38:53 AM
Do you have a stair railing or a shower rod you can hang things on? 

Unfortunately not. :( However, I just "solved" it by draping the towels over the edge of the clean clothes hamper. Luckily it's mostly the bottoms of the towels that are still damp, so I strategically placed them so those parts get some air. It looks ridiculous, but it's the best I can do with what I have. :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 01, 2020, 12:59:50 PM
My laundry won't dry with this level of humidity! :mad: On Sunday I washed a load of towels, and I still can't put them away. It sucks, because I only have ONE drying rack, and there's other laundry piling up. :pout:

When I lived in London I didn't have any rails or anything to put laundry on. Yeah, we had a drier, but there were things you couldn't put in that. I got very adept at hanging things over the doors of my cupboards and wardrobe to air and dry (with the window open). xD.

I am not sure my complaint is trivial, but universities genuinely haven't grasped the reality of COVID well enough IMO...

Or maybe it's just me and my bad timing.

I finished my PhD too late to get into any kind of postdoc in 2019.
There are not many of these anyway and they are really competitive, but some of the ones I applied for for 2020 got cancelled because of covid.
Now there are some being listed for 2021 but most of them are restricting it to people who submitted after October 2019.

...So I am not sure right now where that leaves me. I'm not worried about getting a non-academic job, if and when it's safe to do so without putting my family at risk. I had one I almost applied for this week but didn't because the logistics of where it was would be problematic given the covid situation. But it's frustrating to want to get back into academia and to have all the doors shut because of timing. :/ I dunno.

I am working on some things of my own around this, and my former supervisor keeps sending me random links to things I know literally nothing about *lol*. But still. It's a bit of a pain :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on September 02, 2020, 08:38:15 AM
I found a tokidoki unicorn the other day and it sparked the want to collect.

I swear to God I have some sort of collector / hoarding gene inside of me and I hate it *so* much.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 02, 2020, 09:50:43 AM
I'm having a lot of trouble with my asthma.  I keep using my rescue inhaler and nebulizer but they're not helping much.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 02, 2020, 10:52:08 AM
When I lived in London I didn't have any rails or anything to put laundry on. Yeah, we had a drier, but there were things you couldn't put in that. I got very adept at hanging things over the doors of my cupboards and wardrobe to air and dry (with the window open). xD.

That's actually not a bad idea! XD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2020, 01:28:38 AM
When I lived in London I didn't have any rails or anything to put laundry on. Yeah, we had a drier, but there were things you couldn't put in that. I got very adept at hanging things over the doors of my cupboards and wardrobe to air and dry (with the window open). xD.

That's actually not a bad idea! XD

Student life ;)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 03, 2020, 05:52:43 AM
First day of school-were doing learning from home. You’d think that since we no longer have to accommodate for the school commute, we could sleep in a little bit later. Guess who’s been woken up at 6:30 when I set my alarm for 7, and I had a rough sleep? This girl!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on September 03, 2020, 06:26:15 AM
I am not sure my complaint is trivial, but universities genuinely haven't grasped the reality of COVID well enough IMO...

Or maybe it's just me and my bad timing.

I finished my PhD too late to get into any kind of postdoc in 2019.
There are not many of these anyway and they are really competitive, but some of the ones I applied for for 2020 got cancelled because of covid.
Now there are some being listed for 2021 but most of them are restricting it to people who submitted after October 2019.

...So I am not sure right now where that leaves me. I'm not worried about getting a non-academic job, if and when it's safe to do so without putting my family at risk. I had one I almost applied for this week but didn't because the logistics of where it was would be problematic given the covid situation. But it's frustrating to want to get back into academia and to have all the doors shut because of timing. :/ I dunno.

I am working on some things of my own around this, and my former supervisor keeps sending me random links to things I know literally nothing about *lol*. But still. It's a bit of a pain :/

I feel you, Taffeta :hug: How sucky that the timeframes are so strict, especially when there is so much competition, AND a pandemic going on.

I'm in the same career phase currently and I feel ashamed now because my own situation is not nearly as difficult (structurally), it's just my own insecurities holding me back. I should focus on grant applications, or job applications, or something, and instead I feel like I'm just drifting. Everything feels so pointless right now.

I know this will pass, as soon as I get excited about some research question again. I guess what applies to my hobbies applies to my career as well, I can be super passionate about things, and I actually do manage to finish projects, but my interest in all things waxes and wanes. It's really, really difficult to force myself to do something that I don't find interesting at that particular moment, even if it's something I generally enjoy (or something I volunteered to do because it seemed enjoyable at the time). But I can do it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2020, 10:13:53 AM
@Griffin, I absolutely relate. My sister and her partner both finished PhDs already and reckon it takes a couple of years to really recover and get your head straight afterwards xD.

I put in a bunch of applications last year but as I said, my timing was a bit sucky because of when I finished, so I didn't get anywhere. But I really relate to how you feel because its like...suddenly you don't know where the path leads any more or how to get onto the next one. Everyone else seems like they have it all worked out and you feel like you're left behind.

I also had a couple of articles rejected, and while some of the advice was helpful, a lot was contradictory. Two reviewers stick out in my mind. The patronising modernist who called my text a ballad and the person who reviewed an article built from my thesis and tried to argue with points I didn't make because the ones I made they didn't understand.

...So yeah. COVID just hasn't helped the situation any. I wish you tons of luck with whatever you figure out doing next, but taking a break is okay and don't feel guilty if you are taking one. It's so easy to feel the expectations on you from everyone else.

On topic, my trivial complaint for today - I went out to town for the first time on the bus since March. Actually, mask compliance was up (me included, I mastered it!!) to around 90% or more, and the bus was well ventilated and it didn't seem scary. The town centre though has a one way system and it's all so confusing in how it's marked out. I can't navigate so now I don't know how to get to any of the places I need to get and I had to give up on Town Park, where I had actually been heading. Then on the way back, this woman on the bus, right before we got to her stop, took off her mask and started shouting down the phone at her daughter's school. Yeah, she was getting off, but there is a sign on the bus saying wear the mask FOR THE ENTIRE JOURNEY. Not "unless you need to rant on your phone."

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 03, 2020, 12:06:44 PM
I know it's not unheard of, but it's relieving to hear of other peoples struggles with career/academic stuff. :P I feel behind a lot of other people at the same academic level as me. I can't help but compare myself even though I know everyone's got different life experiences and whatever, I feel totally left in the dust when those younger than me talk about how they have worked at this job at a certain level.
I wanted to pursue a masters degree, but being back in classes is taking a severe mental toll even though these are all classes I'm interested, so now I'm not so sure it's right for me. Time's running out to apply for programs, too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on September 03, 2020, 01:08:24 PM
Taffeta & Tailrust :grouphug:

We should start a thread for this stuff :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2020, 03:47:00 PM
Taffeta & Tailrust :grouphug:

We should start a thread for this stuff :P

We really should.

TRTL - I decided I wanted to do a MA in 2004.

...I began my MA in 2011.

In an entirely different field. (Well, related in terms of discipline, totally different region).

So there is literally NO rush, if anything it's good to take a break and do something else.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 03, 2020, 04:13:09 PM
Thirding that a thread for related issues would be lovely to see!
TRTL - I decided I wanted to do a MA in 2004.

...I began my MA in 2011.

In an entirely different field. (Well, related in terms of discipline, totally different region).

So there is literally NO rush, if anything it's good to take a break and do something else.
That's really reassuring to hear, thank you.  :happy: I worry a lot about this stuff, and everything seems to be lining up very poorly with the current pandemic and milestones I feel I *should* be achieving. I feel very left in the dust.

Another trivial complaint that's much more trivial...I melted pony hair!  :cloud: It was an All About Starlight Glimmer I was defrizzing between classes. I had just finished fixing tails on some other G4 (bagged releases too) so by the time I got to this pony, either my straightener was too hot or it's really just that the plastic hair sucks that much. I've turned down the setting much lower now. She was a double at least, but gah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 03, 2020, 04:14:45 PM
Part of me wants to have friends over on Monday to watch a movie and part of me wants to hide away all weekend and paint...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on September 03, 2020, 04:34:37 PM
Watching hubby cook and instead of appreciating it all I can see is the mess he's making that I will have to clean  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NanoRuby on September 03, 2020, 05:30:31 PM
Was just cleaning a pony and her tail rust was so bad that bits of her tail started to break apart. -_- I'll have to see what I can salvage and hope that she'll turn out presentable in the end.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 03, 2020, 06:38:41 PM
Also echoing the career/academic woes and the vote for a separate thread for those of us that are going through that stuff.  I also feel stuck.  I have a Master’s degree and yet my current job is only part time.  I have applied for several openings but never get selected for the better openings. I have seen many that started in my line of work after me get promoted to full time while I am still stuck in part time work.  I have done more than was required of me and tried to do everything that was asked of me without complaint.

I mentioned this a few weeks ago but since we are talking about job situations l fell that it’s worth mentioning again. I applied for a position and got called to come in for an interview.  The day before my interview the company called and cancelled “due to changing circumstances.”  There’s still hope that I might get the next position that opens up there though.

@Taffeta I see people do stuff like that all the time.  It’s really annoying that they seem to think the rules don’t mean what they say.  It’s really bad at Walmart where I live. People will take their masks off or pull them down around their necks once they’re in the store even though there are signs that say masks required.  Or take their mask off to talk on the phone.



Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2020, 07:32:00 AM
I started a thread in “What’s Your Problem” for career/academic stuff.

Yesterday I was at the store and 3 people decided they needed to come down the aisle I was on. The aisle was very narrow and the only way for me to make enough room for them was to go back down the aisle (even though I needed to go up the aisle to get where I was going).

I’m very non confrontational and have had a lot of real life stuff going on but I’ve always been sensitive about people acting like they have more right to occupy the same space I am in than me.  I’m not saying other people can’t be in the same aisle as me just that it’s annoying when people seem to assume I am just  there without a purpose.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2020, 09:11:49 AM
I hate people who think they are more deserving of space than others.

I've had incidents in the past where I have blocked pushing crowd people so that a person in a  wheelchair could get through a convention hall and a person with a visual impairment and a white stick could get off a train.

In London you see it especially. Everyone is hurrying to get on the same tube train or commuter train. There's not a lot of community spirit in those places at rush hour.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on September 06, 2020, 11:07:59 PM
I can't fall asleep and i just realized that one of my newer shirts already has a hole in the front. why are all clothes made to be worn only a couple of times?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 07, 2020, 12:36:45 AM
I've made a start on an online college course, and have gotten five questions done, but I just had a cursory glance at the overall number of questions... and there's 48 of them in total, to be done by the beginning of October. So now I'm in a fuss about being able to get it all done in time, what with volunteering, jobhunting and finding time to maintain my wellbeing. It'll probably be fine, but there's *the fear*...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 07, 2020, 02:41:44 PM
Some idiots in el dorado shot off fireworks during a baby reveal party and is burning hundreds of acres. The air is thick with smoke. We were doing so good this year. We almost made it to the end of summer. Thanks a lot %×!:&!!$@€
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 07, 2020, 10:22:17 PM
Was working on a very important project for personal animation. Guess who’s house had a tiny power glitch and lost 15 minutes of work?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on September 08, 2020, 01:39:50 AM
Workmen outside doing loud bashy things at least since yesterday... AND I HAVE TO CONVINCE MYSELF TO GO OUTSIDE!!! Not fun...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 08, 2020, 10:26:02 AM
I have a migraine.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 09, 2020, 10:11:26 AM
I wass excited to go shopping with my parents at a store I haven't been to in a while! But I think I got glutened, my GI is all messed up and I feel tired. But it could be because of a poor breakfast, but it's usually not this bad. But I could have eaten something bad yesterday? 
I'm staying home just in case. I asked for pictures of certain things at the store, but I was really looking forward to going. :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 10, 2020, 06:06:25 AM
Enough. With. The. WASPS!!! :enraged:

I've had enough. -_- I put everything under my window to keep them away: a plate with cloves, a lavender plant, coffee... Just a few things wasps are supposed to hate. But somehow my house seems inviting. WHY!? >_<

I'm crazy scared of those monsters, because I have cats and because I don't know if my husband and I are allergic or not. I have to catch and release one at least twice a day, it give me serious panic attacks. I don't think there's a nest somewhere, it's just the time of year. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 10, 2020, 06:17:07 AM
My ceiling fan is too noisy  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 10, 2020, 06:17:15 AM
I can relate on the wasps although I am a lot less scared of them than I used to be.

My family have a quite old grape vine, and it grows right beneath my bedroom window. So in the summer/autumn there are grapes. It's quite high up and awkward so mostly the fruit gets left for the birds...and the insects. So at this time of the year, they're quite numerous.

Most have gone out quite easily so far, but Mum and I had a mad chase after one around the landing at some random time at night last week. We did get it out in the end though...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on September 10, 2020, 10:47:19 AM
Just letting everyone know that my share of the MLW editing is on hold until further notice. We got hit by a wildfire on Tuesday-Wednesday. Didn't lose anyone or anything, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I'll be on hiatus until I get back on my feet.

Stay safe, guys!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 10, 2020, 11:09:40 AM
Just letting everyone know that my share of the MLW editing is on hold until further notice. We got hit by a wildfire on Tuesday-Wednesday. Didn't lose anyone or anything, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I'll be on hiatus until I get back on my feet.

Stay safe, guys!
Stay safe and hope you get on top of the damage asap!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on September 10, 2020, 02:37:12 PM
You're so lucky!!! Wildfires are dangerous xxx Hope you get the repairs sorted out soon enough...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on September 11, 2020, 10:19:56 AM
@Taffeta and Ponybookworm -

Thank you both! :lovey:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 12, 2020, 01:00:59 PM
My dad is very vocal about what political candidate he doesn't approve of.    Almost every day he says "I don't like this person because..." It's starting to get really annoying because he says all the time.

I wish it was easier to search for some songs on iTunes.  Sometimes I have to hit on very specific search terms to get the song I'm looking for.  There was a song I wanted to download and I assumed it wasn't on iTunes but I found it last night by looking by the singer's name instead of the title. 


Ponyfan   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 13, 2020, 01:51:22 AM
Is everything a "like"/"follow" contest these days? :pout:

So I just got another notification that some random person has started following me on Etsy. I mean, Etsy...! There's absolutely nothing to follow! I just buy stuff, and I'm pretty sure that's not out in the open for everyone to see, even my favourites are set to private. So what do you want from me?

Somehow I have accumulated 9 followers over the years. Yay for me? :yawn:

I can relate on the wasps although I am a lot less scared of them than I used to be.

My family have a quite old grape vine, and it grows right beneath my bedroom window. So in the summer/autumn there are grapes. It's quite high up and awkward so mostly the fruit gets left for the birds...and the insects. So at this time of the year, they're quite numerous.

Most have gone out quite easily so far, but Mum and I had a mad chase after one around the landing at some random time at night last week. We did get it out in the end though...

Oi, that sounds like fun. :crazy: I just had to catch another visitor too, and I just got up. -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 13, 2020, 07:18:03 AM
I am several hundred miles away from the wildfires burning in the US, but the smoke has travelled to my area.  I can smell it inside my sunroom.  I have respiratory issues so the smokey air is bothering me.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 13, 2020, 07:46:51 AM
The wildfires over to the west are very concerning, it's scary to think so many people are living in extremely hazardous air right now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 13, 2020, 09:24:13 AM
Went back to a forum I've been away from for three years, and while I'd like to get back to participating in that community, I really don't know how to go about it. It feels very awkward.
Also conflicting news reports are completely frying my brain but I guess that's just a standard part of the human condition at this point. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on September 13, 2020, 10:37:14 AM
Just things breaking around the house, and the front porch rebuild has been delayed by yet another month, they say Oct 13th now, and has to be a complete tear off. I hope it gets done in time for Halloween
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 13, 2020, 12:08:30 PM
I thought my cat got outside. I couldn't find her and she wasn't answering me. I even shook the treat bag and nothing! I was panicking and about to text my sister that Mouse was missing.

I checked under the bed since it's been storming all day and sometimes she's afraid (not always though... she slept through a hurricane once). Anyway, I was about to grab my phone when I saw the white of her tail tip under my jewelry chest. I squeezed it and she came out.

She'd just been ignoring me!!!  :mad: :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on September 13, 2020, 05:19:49 PM
Went back to a forum I've been away from for three years, and while I'd like to get back to participating in that community, I really don't know how to go about it. It feels very awkward.
Also conflicting news reports are completely frying my brain but I guess that's just a standard part of the human condition at this point. :/

Welcome back!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 15, 2020, 09:56:22 AM
With the following thing, I started a tumblr for an anime community because I was doing some translation stuff for them and someone suggested that would be a good place to post them.

So now I get random emails that people are following me, which is fine, I guess that's the point. But for some reason tumblr likes to add random words to the end of the follow emails. So it's like, X is following you. FINALLY! X is following you. Whatever! X is following you, YAY!

...It was funny the first four or five times. 240 follows later, it's got a bit old. Get some new words, Tumblr.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 15, 2020, 10:10:32 AM
A leg on my gaming chair SNAPPED. I almost crashed sideways into the window.

Now, I fully admit I am a bit hefty but that's one reason I chose this chair, it has a stated load capacity that I am well under. I did not have it on high pile carpet, I wasn't riding it down the hallway at full speed or anything else that would make this my fault.

I went to the website to contact them and I see that they've upgraded all their chairs with a fully metal "heavy duty" wheel base. So I wonder if this happened a lot.

This isn't my first issue with the chair but last time it WAS my fault; I tripped and fell into it and damaged the seat plate and gas lift. That time, they sent replacements for free. Great customer service but just a lousy product.

It's a Killabee chair for those wondering. It'll be the first and last gaming chair I ever have. Next time I'm getting an executive office chair. My last one lasted for a decade! I've had this gaming chair for... almost 3 years? So. Yeah. It's not very comfortable either. I like the armrests. That's about it.

Anyway, I'm waiting to hear back from them about this newest issue. It would be nice to get it replaced for free again, especially because I didn't do it this time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on September 15, 2020, 11:32:07 AM
That has happened with a chair I had, but as that one was second-bum I just sought a replacement.

here's hoping you get yours replaced for free xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on September 15, 2020, 05:02:14 PM
We've been dealing with the bad air quality since the fires started back in August, but it's getting so bad I'm getting headaches from it. At least my town isn't in danger of actually burning.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on September 15, 2020, 05:32:19 PM
We've been dealing with the bad air quality since the fires started back in August, but it's getting so bad I'm getting headaches from it. At least my town isn't in danger of actually burning.
I've been seeing the fires & their effects & progress on several Discords & my heart goes out to everybody in California xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: NanoRuby on September 15, 2020, 06:05:13 PM
This past week has been such a mess. First there's a huge storm that knocks out the power of 100,000 buildings. My mom calls the power company every day for like a week to try and get them to fix the power line that was smashed by a neighbor's tree. People at the power company are rude and we're left without power for over five days. We resort to buying a bunch of rechargeable batteries and charging our devices at my school and job. My mom snaps because her ex husband/my dad is a tightwad who refuses to help her replace the food we lost cause we didn't have a freezer. We go to a nearby hotel for a couple days and find out that now we do have power, but no internet, TV or landline, so now I have to go to school in person which is stressful. Today my mom calls our internet provider to ask what's going on and they say that the soonest they can send someone out to check our wires and stuff is next Tuesday.

I'm so tired and stressed, and my mom is tired and stressed, and I just want this year to be over.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 16, 2020, 07:02:10 PM
I. am having the worst tech luck today. I'm trying to write an essay, I have school tomorrow, I want to skip my classes tomorrow just out of stress. I really need to buy a new laptop, a LAPTOP that isn't a GLORIFIED TABLET with detachable keyboards. I'm using my mom's laptop but it's barely functional, I can't do anything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 17, 2020, 09:33:41 AM
Guess who’s pet hermit crab was doing a molt and dragged his exoskeleton to the surface and left it there before going back to his hole, leaving it there and giving me a tiny heart attack when I initially thought it might be his corpse? I inspected it after my initial shock-it is not a corpse and he is healthy. He just wanted to decorate for Halloween.
     I’m proud of him for growing, and it was a good anatomy study for me...but that’s not what you want first thing in the morning. Great start to the day!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on September 17, 2020, 01:28:29 PM
^ Oi, that must have been quite a scare! Glad he's okay! :D

My complaint is my hair. Lately it just looks like a mop, completely dull and lifeless and ugly. :pout: I eat lots of whole grain bread, nuts, vegetables, I drink water all the time, so I don't know what it is. I haven't been particularly happy lately, I guess it just shows through my hair. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 17, 2020, 03:29:21 PM
Every time I go to my parents house I get a headache. Not from them (though sometimes they don't help) but from the house itself.

You know all those headaches I'd wake up with? Hasn't happened since I moved. I seriously think that house is toxic. Mold and rat infested.

So today, to make things worse, my dad was mowing the lawn when I got there, which made my sinuses act up. Plus, it's always so hot in there. I was a sweaty, sneezy, headachy mess. Glad to be back in my apartment but I'm worried about my mom being cooped up all the time. She doesn't even go to the doctor anymore.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 17, 2020, 08:01:11 PM
I got a county wide alert for evac warnings. While not in my county specifically, both cities that did are roughly over half an hour away from us. That's a little too close for my comfort. I hope the happy couple with their dumb baby shower fireworks are squeezed for every last cent.

 What kind of mentally bankrupt butt- nuggets think its a grand idea to set off fireworks or whatever in tall dry grass during 100+ degree weather? See we don't have fire season in Cali. Just Dumb People Season.

hope they are slapped with prison or jail time. Because this was super avoidable.

 I seriously hope that my area isn't next on the evac list, and I hope the poor folks in Pinion Hills and Wrightwood will be okay and won't end up homeless.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 18, 2020, 05:11:21 AM
That sucks, LAW :( Stay safe (and wishing the people in those near towns good luck as well, hope it passes them by).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 18, 2020, 05:47:29 AM
That sucks, LAW :( Stay safe (and wishing the people in those near towns good luck as well, hope it passes them by).

We will. We've got some bags packed just in case. :hug: I'm just aggravated that anyone would think this was a good idea. People get dumber and more inconsiderate every year I swear.   :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 18, 2020, 08:21:36 AM
Once again I have to cover someone else's work.  It's not like I have my own work to do.  Oh wait...yes I do.  Some of it has been waiting for almost a YEAR to get done because every time I think I'm going to get to it, I, once again, have to cover someone else's stuff.  And there are currently people who are scrounging for busy work that refuse to cover this stuff.  But we wouldn't want to interrupt busy work for actual work.  That would just be too much.  Seriously considering calling out for every single one of my desk shifts for the next 3 months just because I can.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 18, 2020, 09:02:49 AM
Once again I have to cover someone else's work.  It's not like I have my own work to do.  Oh wait...yes I do.  Some of it has been waiting for almost a YEAR to get done because every time I think I'm going to get to it, I, once again, have to cover someone else's stuff.  And there are currently people who are scrounging for busy work that refuse to cover this stuff.  But we wouldn't want to interrupt busy work for actual work.  That would just be too much.  Seriously considering calling out for every single one of my desk shifts for the next 3 months just because I can.

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on September 18, 2020, 09:37:42 AM
I either got glutened or ate something funny, my body is not happy and today was a day that would've been fun at work, too.  :cloud: I always feel so guilty calling out when I don't have a fever even though I would not be able to work without stressing out or falling asleep. I need to teach myself it's okay to take a day off and rest, especially considering how hard this past week has been.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 18, 2020, 10:11:55 AM
Am over trying to remove sawflies from the gooseberry bushes.

Seriously.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mana Minori on September 18, 2020, 10:13:03 AM
I’m so sick of people insisting that all the curtains and windows have to be closed also day every day, so no sunshine or fresh air can get through, because people are VAMPIRES!  It’s too gosh darn dark and depressing!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 18, 2020, 10:29:42 AM
I got a county wide alert for evac warnings. While not in my county specifically, both cities that did are roughly over half an hour away from us. That's a little too close for my comfort. I hope the happy couple with their dumb baby shower fireworks are squeezed for every last cent.

 What kind of mentally bankrupt butt- nuggets think its a grand idea to set off fireworks or whatever in tall dry grass during 100+ degree weather? See we don't have fire season in Cali. Just Dumb People Season.

hope they are slapped with prison or jail time. Because this was super avoidable.

 I seriously hope that my area isn't next on the evac list, and I hope the poor folks in Pinion Hills and Wrightwood will be okay and won't end up homeless.

I think the scariest part of this is that those people are reproducing.

And now my mouse at work is starting to poop out so that's not making my work go any faster.   :dumbpc:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: CloudyGlow on September 18, 2020, 10:48:20 AM
I got a county wide alert for evac warnings. While not in my county specifically, both cities that did are roughly over half an hour away from us. That's a little too close for my comfort. I hope the happy couple with their dumb baby shower fireworks are squeezed for every last cent.

 What kind of mentally bankrupt butt- nuggets think its a grand idea to set off fireworks or whatever in tall dry grass during 100+ degree weather? See we don't have fire season in Cali. Just Dumb People Season.

hope they are slapped with prison or jail time. Because this was super avoidable.

 I seriously hope that my area isn't next on the evac list, and I hope the poor folks in Pinion Hills and Wrightwood will be okay and won't end up homeless.

Yikes! That is super scary and also what the heck at those people. I'm in Oregon and we're having trouble too. Isn't it just terrible having to wait around to see what happens? I've been on edge. And the smoke  :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 18, 2020, 10:50:25 AM
I got a county wide alert for evac warnings. While not in my county specifically, both cities that did are roughly over half an hour away from us. That's a little too close for my comfort. I hope the happy couple with their dumb baby shower fireworks are squeezed for every last cent.

 What kind of mentally bankrupt butt- nuggets think its a grand idea to set off fireworks or whatever in tall dry grass during 100+ degree weather? See we don't have fire season in Cali. Just Dumb People Season.

hope they are slapped with prison or jail time. Because this was super avoidable.

 I seriously hope that my area isn't next on the evac list, and I hope the poor folks in Pinion Hills and Wrightwood will be okay and won't end up homeless.

I think the scariest part of this is that those people are reproducing.

And now my mouse at work is starting to poop out so that's not making my work go any faster.   :dumbpc:

Ha!   :lol:

Also bummer about your mouse starting to malfunction.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 19, 2020, 12:43:16 PM
My sister has a Keurig and got me hooked on coffee. I didn't want one for myself because I think it's too wasteful, so I got a simple Mr. Coffee machine. I just brewed my first batch and it's waaaaaay too weak :lol: I'll have to experiment with the amount.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on September 19, 2020, 03:06:25 PM
I got a county wide alert for evac warnings. While not in my county specifically, both cities that did are roughly over half an hour away from us. That's a little too close for my comfort. I hope the happy couple with their dumb baby shower fireworks are squeezed for every last cent.

 What kind of mentally bankrupt butt- nuggets think its a grand idea to set off fireworks or whatever in tall dry grass during 100+ degree weather? See we don't have fire season in Cali. Just Dumb People Season.

hope they are slapped with prison or jail time. Because this was super avoidable.

 I seriously hope that my area isn't next on the evac list, and I hope the poor folks in Pinion Hills and Wrightwood will be okay and won't end up homeless.

I live in Michigan, and the smoke from the California wildfires has actually been darkening the skies over here. Yikes. I really hope your area will be okay, LaW. :(

I’m having another fun round with medical issues. Currently taking antibiotics (that upset my stomach) for an infection that might not be an infection, but that I need to treat as one to be safe. If it’s not an infection, it could be a number of other problems, all of which seem to require special dietary restrictions. The result? I don’t even know what I should or shouldn’t be eating right now. So many things could be the culprit, nothing seems safe. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 20, 2020, 09:28:13 AM
@Nemesis :hug:

I have issues with antibiotics sometimes too - I can't take one type because it messes with me and another is fine if it's not in the capsule form, because the capsule casings irritate my throat...(of course the solution also tastes vile when you have to take it like that ><) Hope they get to the bottom of the issue soon!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 20, 2020, 01:20:46 PM
Ugh. I don't feel very well today. I slept like trash, been up since 4:30 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. My stomach is bothering me. I just want to lie down and watch TV. The problem is, the TV is in the living room and all I have is a dining chair (my gaming chair is still broken) and there's no TV in the bedroom.

I tried to login to Netflix on my old MacBook but I need to download Silverlight and I can't without my Apple ID - which I forgot and don't have written down anywhere. Soooo I'm just in bed listening to the neighbors crappy music. Yay.  :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 21, 2020, 07:18:41 AM
>sister complains about always having to do everything herself
>offer to help her with a task I was going to do later that she has taken upon herself to do now
>Get yelled at because “you don’t do it right! And you’d never do it anyways!”
>ask her what she means by “never do it right” so I can learn
>”I’m not saying, I’m tired of repeating myself! You figure it out!”
     
Yeah I haven’t figured it out yet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 21, 2020, 08:35:00 AM
Omg that sounds like my mom. Her line was always "you're doing it the hard way" and then laugh like she was superior to you because she knew a better way.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 21, 2020, 11:30:36 AM
I’ve had some kind of breakout on my face of the past few days. I’m pretty sure it is acne.  Last night my mom said I had a “big red spot on my neck” and now my dad is worried that I’m having an allergic reaction to something. Sometimes my neck turns read from the seatbelt rubbing against it.

I’m also having to explain things more to my mom because she is only listening to part of the conversation before asking what is said which is usually the thing I just said seconds before.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 21, 2020, 06:55:25 PM
I just wanna update on my gaming chair saga.

The company is great. They offered me a replacement for free and it'll be the upgraded steel base. The only thing they wanted to see was the invoice to check and see if I bought it from their Amazon store. Turns out, I did not.

So I got two replies in two hours, one saying that I can still get the upgraded replacement but it will cost $40 and the other said it would cost $25. I replied back and asked which one was correct. It took awhile to hear from them again but they said they'll give me the discount of $25 since that's what I was told (though the $40 quote was the earlier reply). Free was better, but $25 is good too.

Like I said before, the customer service is great but the product isn't so great. I think they're a newer company and they've already made improvements to the chairs so maybe in another 5 years or so, the products will be better. That said, my next chair is going to be an executive. No more gaming chairs for me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 23, 2020, 07:04:27 PM
I'm glad your gaming chair is getting replaced Black Curtains.


I really want a Coke but it's late here and if I drink one now I will probably have trouble sleeping.

Also, I drank from 2 brand new water bottles and the water had a kind of plastic taste to it.

Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 23, 2020, 09:32:23 PM
Been trying to build a very special pony project in Blender. It’s...not going as well as I hoped. The textures on the first one refused to load, then when they did they were backwards. The rig messed up (my fault, I’m very new to rigging which is what makes the model move) and broke the mesh. Ahhh....gotta love when your art fails to work and you have a self imposed deadline to meet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 24, 2020, 05:57:20 AM
Even without the Coke I woke up extra early and couldn't go back to sleep.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on September 24, 2020, 07:03:32 AM
My trivial complaint today?   I don't feel like working and would much rather hunker down and catch up on my "I-wanna-watch-this-movie" list.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 24, 2020, 07:12:20 AM
My downstairs neighbor decided to do laundry at 4:30 am and the load went unbalanced, and now EVERYONE is awake and cranky.  >.<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 24, 2020, 10:18:03 AM
So my sister had to come home this week to go to the dentist. That might sound crazy since she doesn't live here any more but this has been going on THREE YEARS or more now over the same tooth and so she has to finish it up at this dentist. So even though everything is mad, she had to come home and is now maniacally distancing from us (because Mum is high risk, obviously).

Sister has a habit of bad reactions to dental treatment and normally doesn't go alone. So I walked into town with her and agreed to wait for her to make sure she was ok after to get back.

It was a half an hour appt. It took 1 and a half hours. Current situation in the UK isn't exactly such that you can go and shelter indoors...so I was pretty cold by the time she finally came out.
*brr*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 24, 2020, 10:28:26 AM
Pizza Hut doesn't deliver to my new address  :bawl:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 24, 2020, 05:43:35 PM
I found a wooden skewer in my steak tonight at a restaurant.  :shocked: That’s never happened before. It was completely covered by steak. Luckily I didn’t bite in to it.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 24, 2020, 11:50:56 PM
My plans for working in the garden over the weekend have been delayed until Sunday. That means Saturday is free and I have nothing worthwhile with which to fill that time. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 25, 2020, 11:14:22 AM
I'm so sick of these fruit flies! :shakefist:

I don't even know how they got in here. I'm keeping on top of the cat litter and don't have any food out. Why are there so many?! Why do they keep trying to fly up my nose?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on September 25, 2020, 11:44:39 AM
I'm so sick of these fruit flies! :shakefist:

I don't even know how they got in here. I'm keeping on top of the cat litter and don't have any food out. Why are there so many?! Why do they keep trying to fly up my nose?!

I feel your pain.  Question...do you have your windows open ever?  That's how I figured out how they were getting into my house... I caught one of those little a-holes crawling right through the screen! 

If you don't have your windows open, they could be coming through your drains, through the pipes from other suites.  Fruit flies/drain flies are pretty similar a quick glance.  Try keeping your drains plugged for a bit with your stoppers after setting up a simple fruit/drain fly trap and see if that helps :)

I don't have an explanation as to why they are trying to fly up your nose though  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 25, 2020, 02:17:05 PM
I feel your pain.  Question...do you have your windows open ever?  That's how I figured out how they were getting into my house... I caught one of those little a-holes crawling right through the screen! 

If you don't have your windows open, they could be coming through your drains, through the pipes from other suites.  Fruit flies/drain flies are pretty similar a quick glance.  Try keeping your drains plugged for a bit with your stoppers after setting up a simple fruit/drain fly trap and see if that helps :)

I don't have an explanation as to why they are trying to fly up your nose though  :lol:

Thanks for the tips! They're definitely fruit flies and they're Florida sized (meaning bigger than they should be). My windows haven't been opened since I've moved in, around 3 weeks? The only thing I can think of is the garbage. I can't put it outside and the compactor is too far away for me to walk so my sister comes by with the car. I rinse everything like cat food and soda cans but maybe I missed something. Luckily, I have a disposal so there isn't any food in the garbage.

I'll definitely try a trap though! Lousy bugs.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on September 25, 2020, 02:29:50 PM

Thanks for the tips! They're definitely fruit flies and they're Florida sized (meaning bigger than they should be). My windows haven't been opened since I've moved in, around 3 weeks? The only thing I can think of is the garbage. I can't put it outside and the compactor is too far away for me to walk so my sister comes by with the car. I rinse everything like cat food and soda cans but maybe I missed something. Luckily, I have a disposal so there isn't any food in the garbage.

I'll definitely try a trap though! Lousy bugs.

It is quite amazing what a cup with some wine or rotted fruit and a lid poked with tiny holes can do, those little suckers go in, but can't get out.
A food disposal?  Definitely try plugging those drains for sure :)

My trivial complaint today is my pantry/fridge are pretty bare and there is nothing that doesn't require work to prepare. Which is a good thing tbh, cause I have been wanting to munch all day  ^^; 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 25, 2020, 07:18:15 PM
I've been using a very old version of Microsoft Word on my computer.   I think soon I probably won't be able to use it anymore but I can't afford a newer version right now.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 25, 2020, 11:04:05 PM
The heater's duffed up and the only repair appointment I could get is in a week's time. I've been without hot water before and know how to deal with the situation, but that was for a day or two. I'm not looking forward to a week of messing about with the kettle and a bucket in order to have a really rubbish version of a bath every morning. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on September 26, 2020, 12:22:01 AM
By this time you all likely know I have loud bashy workies round my house. They hammer, they drill, they grind, they vacuum, they thump...

The scaffold makes it pretty obvious to everybody they're there, & I'm sure anybody coming within range of my home will likely hear them too.

So WHY, when a postie came yesterday, did they NOT ring the doorbell (which sounds very different from the loud bashy workies) when they came round, instead knocking (sounds like loud bashy workies wi a hammer), giving up, & leaving a card through my door??? Makes. No. Sense
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 26, 2020, 06:51:57 PM
Last night I couldn't sleep. I got maybe three hours. Then all day I had a bad headache and my body was extra sore since it didn't get a chance to heal. I tried to sleep at around 7pm and finally the headache went away. It's now almost 10pm and I still can't sleep. I told myself if by 10 I was awake, I'd get up and do something... I'm just too tired to think of anything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on September 27, 2020, 03:41:59 AM
Whyyyyyy does my stupid self always buy 20 pounds of stufg at the mall thats a 3 mile hike home....my arms are killing me
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 27, 2020, 07:10:50 AM
I was using hand sanitizer yesterday and  somehow got some in my mouth.  :shocked:  It tasted terrible. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on September 28, 2020, 05:21:32 AM
I'm trying a new cat litter, Fresh Step Clean Paws. It's supposed to be low tracking. Well, I just finished washing my cats feet because the litter stuck to them. Granted, it didn't track on the floor so I guess the product isn't technically wrong.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 28, 2020, 07:58:45 AM
The dog decided that I needed to let him out at 1am.  If he does it again he'll be sleeping in the office because I don't get the option of sleeping all day like he does. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 28, 2020, 12:49:50 PM
I cleared out the cupboard under the worktop in the kitchen today, and encountered my dad's old slow cooker... well, that was horrific. It was like finding a zombie, but an old kitchen appliance. I have no idea quite how something ends up looking like it belongs in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea just from sitting in a cupboard for a few decades but my word, that thing is frightening. It's sticky, dusty, rusty, yellowed, and there appear to be barnacles on the pins of the plug. Barnacles! :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 28, 2020, 01:43:15 PM
First ever flu jab today. Not really that traumatic, but my arm aches a bit now.

But if it helps keep my family safe this winter, it's worth having done it. Mum and Dad still waiting for theirs, as GPs taking a while to get organised. ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on September 28, 2020, 08:24:32 PM
I honestly feel like I’m being physically smothered by all the anger and negativity in the world right now. :( I just want this terrible year to end...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on September 29, 2020, 12:44:50 AM
I honestly feel like I’m being physically smothered by all the anger and negativity in the world right now. :( I just want this terrible year to end...

:hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on September 29, 2020, 08:39:12 AM
I bought an album from iTunes Then I decided I wanted another album but since I bought the first one I don’t have enough credit to get the 2nd. Physically copies would be much more expensive than the digital copies on iTunes.

On a more serious note I am getting really frustrated with my parents. Being together 99% of the time is making us get on each other’s nerves.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on September 29, 2020, 10:14:39 AM
Ok, 2020, I'm officially bitter that I can't order from Japan as I often did. I'm letting so much roll off my back, but this one is finally getting to me.

I can handle $22 (fed ex), but I can't handle $70 (fedex) for a small $10 item. All I can assume is it's the difference between a business account and a personal account.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on September 29, 2020, 04:23:05 PM
i got some battery oper fairy lights to decorate my pony shelves. the batteries died a couple of months ago so I took the lights down. today i opened the battery cases and one was already corroding. its only been a couple of months :( ugh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on September 30, 2020, 04:21:37 AM
It's currently 8 degrees Celsius and I'm sitting outside to wait for an hour until the lab opens to get blood work done.  I gotta be first in line as I start work at 8  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on September 30, 2020, 07:01:27 AM
Woke up today, 4 degrees outside. Typical fall weather. But my bed is sooo cozy and I didn’t sleep well last night. So now I just want to go back to sleep in my nice cozy bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on September 30, 2020, 09:55:58 AM
I honestly feel like I’m being physically smothered by all the anger and negativity in the world right now. :( I just want this terrible year to end...

I can relate to this. 

I don't think it's a good idea I write more detail about the complex way I feel about some of the current politics here and globally.

Yesterday the govt made a guarantee that students will be allowed home for CHristmas. So my family have given up everything pretty much this year so far. I have stopped my life completely to support my family. My parents have stopped all their plans ato protect each other. My sister has stayed away most of the time, and when she has been here she's been distancing and masked and such. We don't know if we can at the very least have Christmas at the end of this horrible year of sacrifices.

If everyone did what they were meant to do, including the students, we would all be able to spend Christmas together.  But right now we have too many people who don't care and who are actively ignoring isolation or quarantine rules. We're not so bad here but we're so close to the West Midlands which are under some level of lockdown, it's hard to know if we'll get sucked into that or not.

I am fed up with selfish people. But I'm more fed up with having to make more sacrifices because of those selfish people. ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 03, 2020, 06:02:50 AM
I hate how YouTube keeps bugging you with that stupid popup that asks you to login and always opens when you're already a second or two into the video :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2020, 09:57:55 AM
I am very frustrated with my dad right now.  He said he would order take out for lunch but got upset because the fast food place won’t accept more than one gift card per order.  He had 2 cards but neither one will cover the balance and he now thinks that the fast food restaurant is “cheating him.”

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 03, 2020, 12:31:38 PM
My right shoulder doesn't like me today. No idea why: it just sends me its achy complaints...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 03, 2020, 01:22:01 PM
Rain.

Rain rain rain.

Rain.

Rain rain rain rain rain.

Raiiin.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Emillia on October 03, 2020, 01:42:43 PM
My very intelligent friend just got rejected for the student council because "they already had a blonde girl".
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 03, 2020, 01:48:49 PM
All my Judas Priest is on cassette and I don't have my stereo hooked up yet. I have some money in iTunes and I thought I'd use it to buy the essential album. The album is $14.97 and my balance is $14.95 -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on October 04, 2020, 10:57:55 AM
     Attended a funeral/celebration of life for a friend of my younger sisters who passed away due to glioblastoma, a rare brain cancer, at age 16 after 21 months of battling the disease. It was a beautiful ceremony, and his family got food trucks to do catering for the celebration afterwards in his honour since he loved the food these truck provide. I was mingling with the other guests outside, and was introduced to one of his older brothers (he has two). I had never met his eldest brother (my age) until the funeral. And he is a pretty cool dude. Gaming and animation, (uses blender like me which I’ve found is more of a rarity in the 3DS max and maya filled world) and we agree on a variety of topics. I think this is the start of a good friendship between us two nerds.
     Afterwards though, mom asks for my opinion on him and I give it. Funny and smart, probably a good friend. She asks me if I think he is cute, and I tell her “yeah maybe, I mean I’m not into him that way I think you’re hinting at” and she asks if I ever might consider dating him. I tell her no because well...I’m gay. I like women and he is very much not a woman. Mom tells me “I don’t think you know what you are, I think you’re bi.”.
     Like, I have said it for about 4 years now that I am gay. Pretty sure that I am considering how I’ve never had a crush on a guy, but admired a few girls and all my “What does your future look like” questions involve me and my wife (whomever she is I don’t think I’ve met her yet!) But no. I’m just confused supposedly.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 05, 2020, 07:23:07 PM
Both the neighbor downstairs and the one I share the walls with are so loud.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 06, 2020, 11:34:28 AM
I hate how all my favorite Nicolas Cage movies are always used as negative examples in discussions about how diverse in quality his movies are :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 07, 2020, 01:21:47 AM
OMG my neighbor is so freaking loud! She just woke me up (again) with her stomping around. This is the next door neighbor who I share walls with. She throws these tantrums and stomps through her apartment and wails. THUD THUD THUD.

She might be mentally disabled, I don't know. I feel so sorry for the old lady that lives below her.

Then during the day, my downstairs neighbor leaves for work and her dogs bark all day. She also slams her door a lot.

...tantrum lady has stopped. For now. This is like the third time she's actually woken me up. Ugh. I wonder if I should complain?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 07, 2020, 01:13:40 PM
I moved my Kitty in My Pocket collection to a smaller shelf and arranged all the cats and props in an arc formation, which looks alright... but there's a blank space in the middle of the shelf and I can't find anything suitable to put there in order to tie it all together.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 07, 2020, 04:14:57 PM
I moved my Kitty in My Pocket collection to a smaller shelf and arranged all the cats and props in an arc formation, which looks alright... but there's a blank space in the middle of the shelf and I can't find anything suitable to put there in order to tie it all together.

Perhaps you need a mouse or a fish bowl of some kind.  Perhaps if you had a beta in a small dish swimming about...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on October 08, 2020, 12:29:37 PM
I use masking tape to tape my paper to my table in order to ensure a clean border and to stop it from sliding around. Nice trick and I enjoy doing it.
     Guess who just ran out of tape and doesn’t want to go outside again today to go find more?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on October 09, 2020, 12:31:21 PM
Got a free bar of chocolate in the mail today from our energy company as a gift. I already got a mail about that a while back, and they said the flavour you receive will be picked randomly. They sent me a 85% extra dark chocolate bar. I. HATE. DARK. CHOCOLATE. :pout:

That brand has all these awesome flavours (white chocolate with red velvet, cookie caramel seasalt, birthday cake flavour!), and they send me this. -_- I feel guilty for being so ungrateful, but it's such a bummer! My father loves it though, so I'll just give it to him.

Complaint #2: The radio at work. The same mindless songs ten times a day, and it's TOO. LOUD. >_< I work at a social work place (no idea what that would be in English, but it's production work for people with various disabilities), shouldn't that be quiet and peaceful place? Also, it doesn't really help that our team leaders pump up the volume and start to dance a few times a week. I wish I was making this up. >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 10, 2020, 01:18:11 PM
I haven't been able to get into any kind of flow with my art all week, every time I've tried to do something, it's just made me feel really tense and anxious and I have to stop. It's left me wondering if I've made a mistake by coming back to it too soon. Writing hasn't been a problem at all, it's just drawing that is really frying my nerves. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 10, 2020, 07:30:10 PM
Ugh! My eczema is coming back on my hand :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 10, 2020, 08:19:43 PM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Zapper on October 11, 2020, 04:41:28 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 11, 2020, 07:49:16 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

...My complaint for today...

Job adverts sent to my email claiming they're related to Japanese studies, only to find they're Spanish, Chinese, or anything but Japanese. How hard can it be for a search to pick up the actual search terms you enter?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 11, 2020, 08:37:45 PM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mana Minori on October 12, 2020, 01:10:01 AM
Frack sleep. Too many consecutive nights, people wake me up at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the dang morning opening doors, letting cats in from outside, closing doors, dropping noisy dry cat food in bowls at every ungodly morning Hour possible. So frack sleep. It’s 1:00 And they’ve already made all the noise. Frack sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 12, 2020, 02:50:35 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X

I would probably have run a mile. Though you say that. Last Christmas we were decorating and a dead wasp dropped out of the tinsel bag. O.O. No idea what it was doing in there. The horror!

The stupid thing is I am fine with nearly every minibeast if they are alive. I love spiders. I can deal with wasps, even if I don't like them much. I'll happily pick up moths, craneflies, slugs, worms, snails...so long as they aren't dead.

The dead ones...they freak me out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: gemini_pony on October 12, 2020, 03:21:57 AM
My vision change and I can't afford new glasses so I can hardly see my computer screen xD
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 12, 2020, 09:52:35 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X

I would probably have run a mile. Though you say that. Last Christmas we were decorating and a dead wasp dropped out of the tinsel bag. O.O. No idea what it was doing in there. The horror!

The stupid thing is I am fine with nearly every minibeast if they are alive. I love spiders. I can deal with wasps, even if I don't like them much. I'll happily pick up moths, craneflies, slugs, worms, snails...so long as they aren't dead.

The dead ones...they freak me out.

I found a dead wasp in a bag of prepared salad. I didn't see it until I got home. I went back to the store (which was Publix) and said I can't eat this salad. Lady asked me why and I pointed to the wasp and said I was a vegetarian and didn't eat insects :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on October 12, 2020, 09:58:10 AM
it rained and now everything is WET
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 12, 2020, 10:08:55 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X

I would probably have run a mile. Though you say that. Last Christmas we were decorating and a dead wasp dropped out of the tinsel bag. O.O. No idea what it was doing in there. The horror!

The stupid thing is I am fine with nearly every minibeast if they are alive. I love spiders. I can deal with wasps, even if I don't like them much. I'll happily pick up moths, craneflies, slugs, worms, snails...so long as they aren't dead.

The dead ones...they freak me out.

I found a dead wasp in a bag of prepared salad. I didn't see it until I got home. I went back to the store (which was Publix) and said I can't eat this salad. Lady asked me why and I pointed to the wasp and said I was a vegetarian and didn't eat insects :lol:

LOL XD
I would have thrown the bag at someone else to deal with and gone to hide.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on October 12, 2020, 10:43:58 AM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X

I would probably have run a mile. Though you say that. Last Christmas we were decorating and a dead wasp dropped out of the tinsel bag. O.O. No idea what it was doing in there. The horror!

The stupid thing is I am fine with nearly every minibeast if they are alive. I love spiders. I can deal with wasps, even if I don't like them much. I'll happily pick up moths, craneflies, slugs, worms, snails...so long as they aren't dead.

The dead ones...they freak me out.

I found a dead wasp in a bag of prepared salad. I didn't see it until I got home. I went back to the store (which was Publix) and said I can't eat this salad. Lady asked me why and I pointed to the wasp and said I was a vegetarian and didn't eat insects :lol:

Eww gross!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 12, 2020, 11:47:45 PM
Dust. I’m so sick of dust. I don’t really want to lock all of my stuff up behind glass, but the alternative is perpetually cleaning dust off of everything... Uuuuuuugh.

Dust on doll hair is the worst to me.

Dust on doll hair is bad. When you find dust and a dead moth in said doll hair, that's worse.

Literally threw a doll across the bathroom once last year because of that. Really hate dead bugs.

You’d have loved the bunch of dead wasps I found in bag of ponies last year. :shocked: :X

I would probably have run a mile. Though you say that. Last Christmas we were decorating and a dead wasp dropped out of the tinsel bag. O.O. No idea what it was doing in there. The horror!

The stupid thing is I am fine with nearly every minibeast if they are alive. I love spiders. I can deal with wasps, even if I don't like them much. I'll happily pick up moths, craneflies, slugs, worms, snails...so long as they aren't dead.

The dead ones...they freak me out.

I found a dead wasp in a bag of prepared salad. I didn't see it until I got home. I went back to the store (which was Publix) and said I can't eat this salad. Lady asked me why and I pointed to the wasp and said I was a vegetarian and didn't eat insects :lol:

 :lmao:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on October 14, 2020, 08:45:22 AM
Why oh why oh why do they need to have leaf blowers come by my neighborhood every week at 7am?? It seems like they are here for 2 HOURS at least one morning a week. Sometimes 2 mornings. We live in Arizona. My condo complex has mostly desert landscaping. We don’t have that many leaves to blow around. :mad: I want to sleep!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on October 14, 2020, 11:17:46 AM
I have 40 lbs of chestnuts sitting under the dining room table. I feel overwhelmed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 14, 2020, 11:55:02 AM
This is a bit gross.

Parents really like yogurt.
They have it all the time because it's doesn't impact Dad's low cholesterol diet.

Tonight he opened a strawberry yogurt to find a patch of mould an inch across growing on it.

It's BBE date is the 16th. But apparently not in this case.

...so gross.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 14, 2020, 01:14:09 PM
Ooh, cultivating your own penicillin, eh Taffeta?  ;)  :lol:


Not so much a complaint, more a sad sigh:

our local John Lewis has their Christmas section on display now, usually something I look forward to visiting each year.

This year, they have their special collections and themes as normal (including a Japanese theme, sea creatures theme and some funky fantasy theme involving frogs and brightly coloured creatures) but I don't know what it is, maybe the social distancing spacing of the floorspace, but it felt so depressing and didn't give me that feeling of excitement for the upcoming season; I only bought one single bauble, it is very beautiful and gives me joy, but usually I am overwhelmed by all the rest of the pretties and want to buy them all - not this year, though.  :(

linky to the bauble - far prettier in-person!
Spoiler
https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-post-impressionism-teardrop-finial-bauble-blue-green/p4981073
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 14, 2020, 02:15:48 PM
The other night I couldn't sleep, and didn't. Last night I was having the same problem as tired as I was, my brain just wouldn't let me sleep. I ended up taking a benadryl because the diphenhydramine knocks me out. It worked and I was able to sleep but it left me feeling very groggy the whole day. Hopefully, tonight I'll be able to sleep by myself with help from these lasting affects.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 15, 2020, 09:01:45 AM
Ooh, cultivating your own penicillin, eh Taffeta?  ;)  :lol:


Sure seems that way. Maybe should've sent it to a lab to see if it's a cure for covid.
Just be glad you didn't get a photo. I had to take one with my camera so Dad could complain to the store.

...I miss being able to go browsing shopping centres. Especially stuck here, but also stuck here in lockdown. I usually start feeling christmassy in october, because we have a family tradition of going to a local Christmas thing in october - but not this year, and frankly, I don't want to think too much about Christmas without knowing where we'll be in 2 months time. Or if sister can come home - which if she can't, will be a first in 33 years that we haven't spent Christmas together as a family.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 15, 2020, 10:32:10 AM
Today I started work at 8 am as I usually do.  However, on Thursdays I stay late, meaning that I am not supposed to start work until 9:15.  So now I have to take an extra long lunch.  I don't know what to do for 2 hours...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on October 15, 2020, 03:39:35 PM
I'm just whiny... for no good reason...that is all  :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mana Minori on October 15, 2020, 06:40:39 PM
I’m losing my mind
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 15, 2020, 10:26:57 PM
When you just feel SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired for no reason at all
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 16, 2020, 01:28:43 PM
This isn't at all trivial but I don't want to make another thread in WYP.

My disability claim was denied. My insurance will cease on Nov 1st and assuming my monthly check.

My attorney is filing an appeal so maybe I can keep my money, but what am I going to do without insurance? One of my medications is $1300. The one that's keeping me from falling into a pit of despair and keeping me from trying to end it all.

****.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 16, 2020, 07:09:19 PM
My disability claim was denied. My insurance will cease on Nov 1st and assuming my monthly check.

My attorney is filing an appeal so maybe I can keep my money, but what am I going to do without insurance? One of my medications is $1300. The one that's keeping me from falling into a pit of despair and keeping me from trying to end it all.

I hope things get better for you!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 17, 2020, 02:18:24 AM
This isn't at all trivial but I don't want to make another thread in WYP.

My disability claim was denied. My insurance will cease on Nov 1st and assuming my monthly check.

My attorney is filing an appeal so maybe I can keep my money, but what am I going to do without insurance? One of my medications is $1300. The one that's keeping me from falling into a pit of despair and keeping me from trying to end it all.

****.
You have GOT to be kidding me!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 17, 2020, 03:27:23 AM
This isn't at all trivial but I don't want to make another thread in WYP.

My disability claim was denied. My insurance will cease on Nov 1st and assuming my monthly check.

My attorney is filing an appeal so maybe I can keep my money, but what am I going to do without insurance? One of my medications is $1300. The one that's keeping me from falling into a pit of despair and keeping me from trying to end it all.

****.

That's horrendous.
I am absolutely rooting for you here. I know how horrible it is when the govt arbitrarily decide you don't need help any more beause they want to save money and how stressful the whole process is from start to finish even without that.

Here's hoping this is an error in the system or something that can be straightened out. I'm glad you have someone there able to fight your cause from a legal standpoint. The insurance thing is an added complication you really don't need right now either.

My fingers are crossed for you. ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 17, 2020, 09:52:44 AM
Thank you guys :hug: I'm going to add it to my WYP post about my back.

Another thing, and this is my complaint for today: I went to Wal-Mart yesterday. It was the first time I've been to an actual store in a while. Well, since the governor opened the state to Phase 3, which means businesses can't "operate normally", Wal Mart is no longer requiring masks. The also took off all of the 6 feet  and one-way stickers. Most people were still wearing masks, I was too. Some weren't. But today I woke up with a sore throat and ear (it's all on the right side). It probably didn't come from my trip to the store, since it was only yesterday - BUT - I can't help but feel a bit paranoid.

I'm hoping it's just from allergies. I have been needing to take decongestants lately. Catching Covid would be the icing on my terrible cake right now though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on October 19, 2020, 11:10:40 AM
That is so frustrating, BlackCurtains! I know I haven't spoken to you directly, but from what I've seen of your previous posts, you've been trying to get that claim for a long time. :( Hope everything works out for you.

The cold weather has been making it difficult to use my hands - if they're even slightly cold they tense up. Not sure if it's due to an underlying health issue or if I just need to stretch them more.










Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 19, 2020, 06:17:51 PM
BlackCurtains, I’m so sorry to hear about everything you’re going through right now. :( I had a frightening episode with my insurance provider recently, and I know how mind-numbingly stressful it can be. :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 19, 2020, 06:21:14 PM
Thank you all :hug: Sorry I took over the thread!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mana Minori on October 19, 2020, 08:51:29 PM
I finally decided to start allocating a fund toward the Lolita fashion that I have long been getting into, and I even announced over on some Amino blogs that I wouldn’t be collecting pony much anymore (aside from what o already had saved for two future Kotobukiya ponies)

And not even a week after that announcement- guess what i fracking find? A g3 Rainbow Dash plush at the thrift store! And then the new wave of Basic Fun ponies that I thought I’d never see!!! Sonofafish!!!and of course, I couldn’t get any of them!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on October 20, 2020, 11:51:55 AM
Was cooking Kraft dinner in the microwave, went to stir it and some of the water splashed up on my hand. I burnt my hand. And my boots I think have something wrong with them because my feet hurt. I’m just in pain in my extremities.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 20, 2020, 11:58:14 AM
When there's bits in my eye & I've no idea why that's a bummer
When I clean & I pout but just can't get them out that's annoying...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 20, 2020, 12:45:38 PM
I think I’m having allergies or else a bad reaction to the cold air... My nose aches, and it’s painful to breathe. :P Uuuuuugh.

Also, I have never in my life seen so many scalpers online. Everything is scalped the minute it’s released, and at really ridiculous prices. I’m sick of paying $50-$90+ for things that are meant to cost $15-$25. This year has just really sucked overall.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 20, 2020, 04:51:08 PM
I bought a tea strainer at a dollar store but its holes turned out to be a little too big and some of the tinier leaf particles got out into my tea >_< Oh well, it's back to the french press for now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 20, 2020, 05:38:32 PM
My next door neighbor is at it again. Stomping, screaming, slamming doors. Earlier, I don't think she was home, something on the same wall my bed is on kept buzzing. TV maybe? It was like an emergency broadcast but it kept going on and on.

So much for my nap and going to bed early :( I really need a sofa so I can nap in the quieter living room (that I think is her bedroom? Our apartments seem to be flipped judging by the noise she makes).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 21, 2020, 04:05:32 AM
I woke up an hour earlier than I needed to.


Sometimes I feel like my parents still think of me as kid or teenager instead of an adult.  We went out to eat last night and after I finished most of my plate my dad without asking decided that we needed to take home what was left on my plate.  There's a mandatory side that comes with the meal I usually get that I don't like.  Most of the stuff that was left over is not going to be good anyway as it was mostly dips, lettuce, etc.. My dad even saved the side that I don't eat.  I have been exhausted lately so it probably just rubbed me the wrong way more than it should have but still...



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on October 21, 2020, 07:51:48 AM
why does our downstairs neighbour do laundry at 5am?  WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on October 22, 2020, 01:56:11 AM
I cut a chunk out of my finger with my penknife....ouch. So now I have blood everywhere and a really sore finger, plus the challenge of keeping it from getting infected. The moral of the story is, don't use a penknife late at night ('but I'll just quickly do this before I go to bed!'. No, not a good idea).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on October 22, 2020, 11:32:09 AM
My mom is having some neighbors over and they're just sitting there and yelling about the pope, I can literally hear them all the way here, I just don't get old people sometimes...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on October 22, 2020, 12:27:15 PM
A bird dropped a bit of rotini pasta with a bit of a sauce on it into our yard. My dog picked it up and tried to eat it, but I took it away from him. Now he is a bit mad at me for taking away his precious.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 22, 2020, 01:34:20 PM
A cast iron fire poker fell on my foot today, pointy end first. Could've done without that! :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 22, 2020, 03:07:29 PM
why does our downstairs neighbour do laundry at 5am?  WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I used to do my laundry at 5am when I lived in London. It was the only way to guarantee access to the machines without having to queue. Sure I drove the people with rooms on that floor mad though, even though I tried to be quiet going back and forth xD.

@Miniature Sheep - OUCH!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 23, 2020, 12:48:38 PM
I've had a list of things to do for months at work that I haven't been able to get to.  Today I decided that I was going to go ahead and do 4 of the things on the list that I KNEW wouldn't take long to do but that nobody has been letting me get to.  It took me half an hour.  Seriously, I just wish people would let me handle my work MY way.  It would be done and out of the way, opening the path for other things.  But if we don't do it the stupidest way possible, we might be mistaken for intelligent creatures and that would get us sent straight to h-e-double hockey sticks and we wouldn't want that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 24, 2020, 03:25:29 AM
I was told Thursday at work that lunch would be provided yesterday for the staff.  I always bring a lunch to work but yesterday I only brought a drink.  When lunchtime came, I found out that there wasn't any food provided unless you had preordered a meal (I wasn't given a chance to do that) from a food truck. I had no cash on me.  One of my coworkers had extra food for lunch that she let me eat but I felt really bad that I had been misinformed and had to rely on someone else to eat lunch.  If I could have skipped lunch I would have but I learned the hard way that skipping lunch doesn't work for me.


Ponyfan   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on October 24, 2020, 09:21:49 AM
I apparently think I have more cookie decorating talent then I really do, and now I have ruined my 3 dozen Halloween sugar cookies  :pullhair:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 24, 2020, 12:28:35 PM
I have one more box of this terrible cat litter to go through before I can order something else. I'm tired of washing the litter out of my cats feet.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 24, 2020, 04:27:15 PM
I've been having trouble with the external speakers plugged in to my computer for a while.  Sometimes I have to turn the volume all the way up on the speaker to hear the audio clearly for the video I am watching.  Today I bought a new set of speakers that weren't the cheapest ones the store had but also not the most expensive ones either. The are bigger than the old set so I had to make more room for them to sit on my desk. I tried testing them out and so far I can't tell if they are slightly better or worse than the speakers I had before.  The sound isn't distorted but I've already had to turn the volume up on the speaker all the way once.  I'm hoping the sound was just low on the video I was watching and that I didn't just replace speakers for no reason.

Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 25, 2020, 06:18:07 AM
Ponyfan - Do you have Windows 10? An update recently messed up audio for a lot of people. I had to fix my mom's laptop. Try reinstalling the driver for your sound.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 25, 2020, 07:18:02 AM
I have Windows 10.  I first noticed having to turn the speakers up much higher a couple of months ago.  I tried looking for the sound driver but all I found was Realtek audio and no way to reinstall it.  Maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 25, 2020, 07:38:36 AM
I'm sorry, I said reinstall but I meant update.

Type device manager in the search bar and open it. Go down to sound, video and game controllers. In the list, right click on your audio and the option to update driver is there. If it says the driver is up to date then I guess that's not the problem.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 25, 2020, 03:31:20 PM
It said my driver is up to date.  I haven’t tried streaming videos yet with the new speakers (I’ve only listened to music or YouTube videos) but I will soon.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: eveningstar79 on October 25, 2020, 10:44:20 PM
Internet been giving us problems. We live in a rural area and only option is satellite internet which isn’t that great. We get a certain amount of gb a month and once that’s gone you get slowed down,and it just isn’t working well for us. Very frustrating and just hoping we can have a better option in the near future.    :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 26, 2020, 08:14:44 AM
My coworkers are LAZY.  There.  I said it.  They leave THEIR work for ME to do and then wonder why I get upset about it.  I'm to the point where I hope some of them catch COVID so that I can have 2 weeks without having to put up with them.   :pullhair:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on October 26, 2020, 08:34:39 AM
It's so windy and it's kicking up all the ash from the fires :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 26, 2020, 08:44:28 AM
Workies get October holidays apparently. Two weeks of bliss & they're back banging like mad. Bashy bashy bashy...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 26, 2020, 11:00:55 AM
Just my incredibly noisy neighbor again. This time along with the usual stomp, slam, scream, I think she threw something at the wall.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on October 26, 2020, 09:43:23 PM
My migraines are back. =P I was hoping to do some organizing, but now I feel too icky.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 27, 2020, 09:10:00 AM
It is extremely cold where I live.  My dad lit a fire in the fireplace but didn’t make sure the flu was open. I asked him if it was open and he said he thought it was but didn’t double check. I thought I saw smoke building up in the house and sure enough the smoke detector went off.  This is after my mom said that she couldn’t tell if it was getting smokey in the house. Sometimes I wish my parents would  realize that I can tell some things that they can’t instead of just acting like I’m making a big deal out of nothing.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 27, 2020, 11:43:23 AM
I'm so stressed out. My eczema is breaking out all over, I can't eat anything without getting heartburn (even with my medicine!), I have a constant headache, I'm overheated, my implant hurts. Ugh.

Just a few more days...

edit: ...and I just found my pain pills from this morning in my pocket. I forgot to take them. No wonder I barely survived the walk down the street.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 27, 2020, 01:13:48 PM
Dell computers are the biggest pieces of :dumbpc: that I've ever had to use.  And it's all they'll buy at work.  Because they're cheap and it shows.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on October 27, 2020, 01:19:31 PM
I’m not feeling well.  It started yesterday but I assumed it was mostly asthma due to the bitter cold and damp, icy weather. Now I think that I might have caught a cold. 

Ponyfan.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 27, 2020, 01:50:37 PM
I’m not feeling well.  It started yesterday but I assumed it was mostly asthma due to the bitter cold and damp, icy weather. Now I think that I might have caught a cold. 

Ponyfan.

Take care Ponyfan :hug:
Make sure you keep an eye on it!

So my trivial complaint - twice I've tried to buy a particular DVD, twice it's not arrived. The sellers in both cases have refunded me, but my complaint is that less than 24 hours after the case was closed with a refund, I got an email from Ebay asking me to review the DVD/did I like my item?

...Well, if I had received the item, that would be different. But seriously? :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 27, 2020, 02:35:52 PM
Dell computers are the biggest pieces of :dumbpc: that I've ever had to use.  And it's all they'll buy at work.  Because they're cheap and it shows.
I bought a Dell once. Never again! I'll stick with Lenovo!!
My complaint is this one class is horribly disorganized. We're three weeks late on this midterm and the class always runs over time. I have a class five minutes after this one is scheduled to end so I can't really stick around. We didn't even get to go over the entirety of the practice exam last class, and our professor tends to forget to provide links to Zoom recordings or links to the answer key.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 27, 2020, 05:11:06 PM
I’m not feeling well.  It started yesterday but I assumed it was mostly asthma due to the bitter cold and damp, icy weather. Now I think that I might have caught a cold. 

Ponyfan.

Take care Ponyfan :hug:
Make sure you keep an eye on it!

So my trivial complaint - twice I've tried to buy a particular DVD, twice it's not arrived. The sellers in both cases have refunded me, but my complaint is that less than 24 hours after the case was closed with a refund, I got an email from Ebay asking me to review the DVD/did I like my item?

...Well, if I had received the item, that would be different. But seriously? :P
Ponyfan huggles!!!

Taff eBay reviews are the bane of my life & most of the time they get ignored. I think I only filled out one, & that was for a G4 Craft Egg whose paints weren't sealed properly & LEAKED OVER EVERYTHING!!! The entire thing was sealed when I got it so not the seller's fault... The crayons were destroyed, I had to wash everything about six times & the paper still has stains
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on October 28, 2020, 06:17:23 AM
I went searching for jobs, specified Macclesfield and 'exact location only', and it brought up a job in Widnes. How exactly is that Macclesfield?! :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 28, 2020, 06:56:40 AM
I went searching for jobs, specified Macclesfield and 'exact location only', and it brought up a job in Widnes. How exactly is that Macclesfield?! :shakefist:

That's like the fact I get jobs for Chinese, Spanish, and every language other than Japanese...
Algorithms are stupid.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 29, 2020, 08:48:56 AM
Went shopping and left my comfy fabric mask in the car, but had a disposable one in my handbag.

It was awful to wear - the little fibres in the papery fabric fluffed-up into small hairs that tickled my nose constantly, making me want to sneeze and rub my nose. Sorry, couldn't help it.

After making a large purchase I scuttled off back to the car to load our goodies within, and seized my chance to grab my trusty fabric mask, ahhhhhh instant relief!

Then a trip to Nandos; normally I do a take-away order but for once we decided to eat-in. We were shown to our table and then left to scan the QR code on our phone and then place & pay for the order via our phones.

Wi-fi was not great nor was mobile-data strength, so it took 20 flippin' minutes (and a lot of grumps)  to place our order!!!!!  >_< >_< >_< >_<

But then it only took a few minutes for the meal to arrive. I had the bean burger which was actually very good (my husband does not understand this!!).  :cool:

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 29, 2020, 09:34:45 AM
Stress at work.   :yikes: :freak: :wail: Not looking forward to tomorrow, but then the worst of it should be over.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 29, 2020, 11:01:04 AM
I had a horrible nightmare and it keeps replaying in my head.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 30, 2020, 09:33:57 AM
The stress I was under at work was evaluations (I just absolutely hate them even if I'm not getting in trouble for anything) and the director wasn't feeling well this morning so she had to cancel them until next week.  Now I have to wait longer.  :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 30, 2020, 10:04:22 AM
From tomorrow, we're in Tier 2 and so is the city where my sister lives.
If that remains the case up to 10th December, she won't be able to come home for Xmas (as she needs to quarantine - or wants to- beforehand).

Govt keep talking about a break in restrictions over Christmas to allow families to come together.

They haven't thought about shielding families where extra precautions are necessary.

Everyone else might get Christmas together, but right now ours looks unlikely. And we are a close family who always spend Christmas together - it will be the first year since my sister was born (in 1987!) if it doesn't happen.

I am dreading it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on October 31, 2020, 04:07:42 AM
From tomorrow, we're in Tier 2 and so is the city where my sister lives.
If that remains the case up to 10th December, she won't be able to come home for Xmas (as she needs to quarantine - or wants to- beforehand).

Govt keep talking about a break in restrictions over Christmas to allow families to come together.

They haven't thought about shielding families where extra precautions are necessary.

Everyone else might get Christmas together, but right now ours looks unlikely. And we are a close family who always spend Christmas together - it will be the first year since my sister was born (in 1987!) if it doesn't happen.

I am dreading it.

I hear you! 100 percent.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on October 31, 2020, 07:33:52 AM
From tomorrow, we're in Tier 2 and so is the city where my sister lives.
If that remains the case up to 10th December, she won't be able to come home for Xmas (as she needs to quarantine - or wants to- beforehand).

Govt keep talking about a break in restrictions over Christmas to allow families to come together.

They haven't thought about shielding families where extra precautions are necessary.

Everyone else might get Christmas together, but right now ours looks unlikely. And we are a close family who always spend Christmas together - it will be the first year since my sister was born (in 1987!) if it doesn't happen.

I am dreading it.
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on October 31, 2020, 11:13:03 AM
:hug: Glitterball and PonyBookworm. Thank you.
Ironically the full lockdown being talked about today gives us a better shot, depending on how it works. Some worry, though. Wales is about 45 minutes to the West. Right now it's locked down, but if it opens up on 9th November, there may be some cross border stuff happening. It's not such an issue for our side of the county - we have more links with the West Mids which is why there is a spike here. BUT...it's not like anyone's going to keep people out if they want to come in from Wales. They talk about watching the roads right now to stop crossing in the other direction. Having gone over the border as a kid for holidays year after year I am pretty sure they're not lurking all over the backroads of dogellau and bala looking for escapees.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on October 31, 2020, 11:39:28 AM
I took a sleeping pill to help me sleep last night. It did not do that. Instead I am very groggy and tired now when I need to be awake. Well actually, I don't need to be awake. I prefer to be awake now. Thinking of brewing some coffee.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 01, 2020, 06:27:28 AM
From tomorrow, we're in Tier 2 and so is the city where my sister lives.
If that remains the case up to 10th December, she won't be able to come home for Xmas (as she needs to quarantine - or wants to- beforehand).

Govt keep talking about a break in restrictions over Christmas to allow families to come together.

They haven't thought about shielding families where extra precautions are necessary.

Everyone else might get Christmas together, but right now ours looks unlikely. And we are a close family who always spend Christmas together - it will be the first year since my sister was born (in 1987!) if it doesn't happen.

I am dreading it.



 :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:


I hope your family will be able to celebrate Christmas together. 


I'm still sick.  I've been on antibiotics for a few days and although I don't feel as bad as I did on Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday I'm still not well.  Simple tasks that should only take a few minutes seem to take much longer.

The speaker saga continues.  I finally had a chance to try out the new speakers on my go to streaming site and I had to turn the master volume up even higher than before. just so I can hear at a comfortable level and the dialogue doesn't sound like everyone is whispering. :(  I don't think I can return the speakers since I've already tried them out so I will make do with them. 


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on November 01, 2020, 10:43:15 AM
I was cleaning the fish tank and replacing filter medium as I do on the first of every month. All of that was done and I was carrying a bucket of water over to fill in the tank (replacing water is important) and my legs went “lol we’re just gonna trip” and so I tripped on my own two legs. I am now wet and I think the fish are laughing at me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 01, 2020, 06:50:31 PM
Eczema is so itchy!!!! *cuts off hand*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 02, 2020, 11:01:36 AM
I got excited today, as I received an e-mail that mentioned the terms 'tin whistle' and 'dispatched'... what it actually meant was the cleaning brush for the tin whistle. That's very useful and all but it's not really all that exciting. :lookround:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 02, 2020, 12:32:21 PM
This day has been a TOTAL stress-ville.

Driving to town this morning, got caught up in nasty gridlock traffic. I was sat at the start of the traffic lights, they cycled red-green at least 8 times before there was space to move on! 

In amongst that the warning light on my car appeared with the message:
ENGINE MALFUNCTION
 :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak:

driving manual transmission, I was getting no response when I revved the gas pedal, I had to keep it under hafway clutch-control to keep moving, but at a crawl, poss 5mph. I think car mechanics call this "limp mode".  I had to somehow escape 3 different directions of traffic, a bus trying to overtake me from a bus lane on my left with the gamble of hitting a box-junction and being fined for driving on to a box junction when my exit was not clear (i.e. the gridlock ahead) but I took a chance as the last thing I wanted was to conk-out in this horror show. Yay the traffic ahead moved, clearing the box junction, so I was "legal".
 

I turned off down a side road, hoping to find somewhere safe to stop and call the car breakdown services. NO SPACE TO PARK, the narrow road was filled up on one side with parked cars and I slowly crawled along until the next junction - ah, there was a space! I stopped the engine, waited, pressed the start button again - the engine purred beautifully. OK...

OMG the relief. :faint:

I decided to abandon travelling to town and turn back home and GUESS WHAT? After a couple of minutes it happened AGAIN  :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak: :freak:

I was in a bit of a panic and cursing just...try... to... reach... home...

I made it. I almost cried. I had a coffee, called the garage folks and they told me to (try) to drive it over. They are a mile away so I chanced it - it was fine. They ran diagnostics. It seems they need to remove electrical things from my car, send them off to be repaired, may take a week and cost me a few hundred to sort out. Well, I had no choice really, what with lockdown imminent.

Currently charging the battery on my husband's unused car, one that is automatic and that I have never driven before   :sigh: :ack: as this will need to be my chariot for the interim...

Oh, and walking home past the shops, seeing folks panic-buying again...  :shrug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 04, 2020, 09:23:04 AM
I've been on antibiotics for almost a week and although I feel much better than I did last week I'm still over the bronchitis.  I have coughed so much the last few days that my chest has hurt.

I downloaded a free app with in app purchases yesterday.  I saw that there were some things that you need to pay for in the app but thought the free version would be enough.  The main reason I downloaded the app was that you could make puzzles from pictures on your phone.  I created some puzzles but after only a few the app told me I needed to pay for the full version which is $10.  That's too expensive for an app for me so I deleted it from my phone.  I know apps need to make money but I wish the app had been more clear that the main feature I wanted was only included in the premium version.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 04, 2020, 12:04:56 PM
Spent some time with the family :dizzy: SO glad I can come home to my own place.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 05, 2020, 08:22:57 AM
I’ve coughed so much my chest hurts. :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 05, 2020, 08:56:58 AM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan :( Try some Vicks vapo-rub?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 08, 2020, 08:07:15 AM
I actually feel like drawing something for the first time in weeks and right on cue, the sharp pains in my wrist have started up again. :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on November 08, 2020, 01:04:54 PM
Every time I go through major stress, my pain and migraines get worse... Uuuugh, my neck and jaw feel so stiff, it’s awful. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 08, 2020, 01:22:31 PM
Parents plus tech xD.

Parents did their online shop this morning. They didn't get a confirmation email, had a little panic and spent 30 minutes on customer support. Then ended up asking my help anyway because they were confused - while still on the phone to this guy.

...But I could've resolved it for them without them needing to call the customer service people. I mean, the order was there just fine, it was only the email that was missing and once they came to ask me I was able to do what the guy on the phone was suggesting and it worked.

...After I asked why they didn't just ask my help straight up. The answer, "Well, we didn't want to bother you..."

Heh :P *pats them*
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 09, 2020, 10:59:46 AM
I went out without eating anything for breakfast, I just had coffee. I made it home just in time to eat because I was crashing bad. I really need to remember to have something when I wake up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on November 09, 2020, 11:30:36 AM
It’s not at all trivial, but I honestly just don’t have the emotional energy to make a full thread in WYP...

My elderly aunt and uncle were diagnosed with Covid-19, and are having trouble getting treatment (presumably due to hospital shortages and the surge in cases). I lost two grandparents this year (unrelated to the pandemic), and this really just feels like too much. I feel like crying, but I’m just so numb and shocked that the tears won’t even come. I can’t wait for this terrible year to end, even though obviously a new calendar can’t actually restore the people and things we’ve lost...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 09, 2020, 11:58:27 AM
It’s not at all trivial, but I honestly just don’t have the emotional energy to make a full thread in WYP...

My elderly aunt and uncle were diagnosed with Covid-19, and are having trouble getting treatment (presumably due to hospital shortages and the surge in cases). I lost two grandparents this year (unrelated to the pandemic), and this really just feels like too much. I feel like crying, but I’m just so numb and shocked that the tears won’t even come. I can’t wait for this terrible year to end, even though obviously a new calendar can’t actually restore the people and things we’ve lost...

:hug:
Wishing them the best.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 09, 2020, 12:18:53 PM
Nemesis  :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 09, 2020, 12:20:29 PM
Parents plus tech xD.

Parents did their online shop this morning. They didn't get a confirmation email, had a little panic and spent 30 minutes on customer support. Then ended up asking my help anyway because they were confused - while still on the phone to this guy.

...But I could've resolved it for them without them needing to call the customer service people. I mean, the order was there just fine, it was only the email that was missing and once they came to ask me I was able to do what the guy on the phone was suggesting and it worked.

...After I asked why they didn't just ask my help straight up. The answer, "Well, we didn't want to bother you..."

Heh :P *pats them*


This sounds similar to the stuff I go through with my parents.  My mom is a little more tech savvy than my dad but I have to help them with a lot of tech stuff.  The most common theme is when their smart phones need updates and my mom will ask “Do I need this update?”

When I watch anime on my computer I usually put my headphones on if my parents are also in the room (our computers are all in the same room) because they aren’t anime fans and can’t see the screen.  One day my dad was having trouble with his computer but he didn’t tell me about it until after I had taken my headphones off because he thought he would be bothering me since I had my headphones on.

It’s not at all trivial, but I honestly just don’t have the emotional energy to make a full thread in WYP...

My elderly aunt and uncle were diagnosed with Covid-19, and are having trouble getting treatment (presumably due to hospital shortages and the surge in cases). I lost two grandparents this year (unrelated to the pandemic), and this really just feels like too much. I feel like crying, but I’m just so numb and shocked that the tears won’t even come. I can’t wait for this terrible year to end, even though obviously a new calendar can’t actually restore the people and things we’ve lost...

:hug:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 09, 2020, 01:35:10 PM
Here's hoping you can get them treatment Nemesis xxx ><^:>((((((())))))) Bakana swims in to give you a huge snuggle xxx :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 10, 2020, 01:41:41 AM
Hugs for you, Nemesis :hug: Hopefully your aunt and uncle can get the treatment they need.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on November 10, 2020, 02:26:51 AM
:hug: :hug: :hug:

Hugs for all! Thank you for the support, everyone. It means a lot, honestly. This has been such a difficult year to process, and just being able to visit this forum and be part of this community has helped so much to ease the strain.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on November 10, 2020, 09:40:57 AM
Sister finished her exams for this quarter, and I thought it would make her more chill since she tends to get aggressive and short tempered under stress. I was wrong she is actually worse now. I try to do things to help and then she’s like “no you’re not doing it right!” Then does it herself. After I watch her do a task I tell her that I can do it now that she’s shown me what she wants. “I’m already doing it” she says, then complains to whomever listens that I “do nothing” and “I have so many chores”. Bruh, I offer you solutions and you decline! And to top it off she and mom keep arguing about her school because “an 89 in math isn’t going to get me anywhere!”. Honestly I’m just tired of her behaviour.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 11, 2020, 09:22:51 AM
There's a new vaccine on the horizon maybe for COVID. Which is truly awesome.

But my mother can't have it, because it can't be used on people with immune system problems. This is true of all vaccines that use a live/part of the actual virus as the immune system cannot necessarily cope with this. Mum is not allowed vaccines for certain other things as well, like malaria, for this reason.

We're all hoping one of the others comes through soon. But it's upsetting for her and for us that there's all this hope floating around and it doesn't include her.

We're also not sure whether if Dad were to get it, whether he could somehow transmit virus to Mum (being that it uses live parts of the virus). So yeah. Happy but...yeah. The wait goes on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 11, 2020, 10:48:28 AM
This tropical storm won't go away. I'm glad it's not a hurricane anymore, of course. I need to go across the street to the office but it's windy and raining and the rain is COLD.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 11, 2020, 01:01:47 PM
I keep seeing these gorgeous stickers of winter foliage which would be perfect for the outer walls of my Festive Cottage... but they have to come HALF WAY ROUND THE WORLD to reach me!!! Why can't more local people sell winter foliage stickers???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: pinkkittywinks on November 12, 2020, 02:25:36 PM
I found internal mould in a G4 today, it is my first time finding that in a G4 body (the head was ok, no mould) the washer was rusted as well.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 12, 2020, 03:37:15 PM
I’ve been waiting on a training video to be released on a website.  I need to watch the video for my profession but it’s been delayed  3 times.  I understand that a lot of stuff is delayed right now but the website doesn’t update the release date on the video until the date on the website passes.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on November 13, 2020, 12:18:49 PM
Stupid virus pushing up the cost of wood, and our porch was full of rot.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 15, 2020, 03:36:41 PM
I was trying to research nerve damage after a bullet wound for my nanowrimo project and the site I found had pictures.  I don't do blood and guts, hence why I'm not a doctor.  :nope: :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 15, 2020, 04:33:29 PM
My A/C keeps setting itself on 73. That's a little chilly when I'm just sitting on the PC or sleeping or whatever, so I usually turn it up (down?) to 75. I kept setting it at 75 and when it turned on it would set itself to 73. I'd open the windows but it's unseasonably humid right now, too sticky. Monday there's a cold front coming with dryer air so I can open the windows then.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 18, 2020, 06:12:40 AM
I have to stop using Bath and Bodyworks hand products because they can't guarantee no trace gluten and the hand sanitizers use a wheat amino acid. Boo. I have no clue where to find good hand creams now or if I can get fun smelling ones that actually state their gluten free...dom.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 18, 2020, 05:19:57 PM
The weather where I am is really nice right now (it actually gets cold at night!) so I've had my windows open. I live in an apartment complex that's like a small village, we have our own police and everything. Anyway, there are designated play areas and parks for kids and dogs but most of the kids around my place just play out in the street or parking lot. Now... I'm not fond of children on a good day, but seriously what is with the SHREIKING? There were two girls playing tag in the parking lot outside my bedroom windows and they were literally screaming. Like someone was murdering them kind of screaming. Then later, some older boys were playing with a basketball and they too, were yelling and being unnecessarily loud. THEN, as if to answer my question, the mom of the boys started screaming too! She was calling their names and to "get inside". Like??? Is that why they think it's okay?

Everything ended up giving me a headache.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 19, 2020, 10:56:38 AM
One part of my  restaurant meal wasn’t cooked all the way through. Once I realized it wasn’t fully cooked I didn’t eat that part of it but ate the rest of the meal since it was fine.  My dad insisted on taking the undercooked part of the meal home saying “it will be fine after we microwave it.”

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 19, 2020, 11:37:34 AM
My pen has run out and I don't have any refills for it, so I won't be able to take down any notes by hand until my next trip out to Sainsbury's, which won't be until the middle of next week. Having looked online for refills, it would actually be cheaper for me to just buy another pen altogether, which is absurd.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 19, 2020, 11:47:49 AM
I don't like the falling leaf that appears on Google today.  I keep thinking it is an insect on the scree.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 19, 2020, 11:51:52 AM
I don't like the falling leaf that appears on Google today.  I keep thinking it is an insect on the scree.


Ponyfan

omg Same! Every time today. It's really annoying!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 19, 2020, 12:52:17 PM
I don't like the falling leaf that appears on Google today.  I keep thinking it is an insect on the scree.


Ponyfan

omg Same! Every time today. It's really annoying!

I had to go type in google.com to get that to show up because I was curious. But it totally does look like a bug on the screen!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on November 19, 2020, 04:02:22 PM
I've never posted a trivial complaint here before, I always think I will but never do. Maybe I will today if I don't delete it before hitting the post button.

My pony spa week is coming to an end. My husband has been away on business all week (a rare occurrence), and I took the opportunity to spread pony cleaning stuff all over the master bathroom while he is gone. I've been cleaning, styling, re-glittering, restoring frizzed hair, touching up chipped eyes/symbols, and just taking the basic chance to be surrounded by ponies since Sunday. My bathroom is pretty much out of commission...so no bathtub! I've had to bathe the kids in the shower downstairs all week because the tub is surrounded by ponies. I've gotten a lot done, but not as much as I would have liked, and I'm bummed to have to pack them up in boxes tonight since he comes home tomorrow and won't be pleased to see hundreds of eyes staring at him if he tries to use the loo.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 19, 2020, 04:06:18 PM
My family are completely inured to randomly finding ponies staring at them from the bathtub. It takes careful training and patience to wear them down xD >.>

Today is my sister's birthday (well, it's just turned midnight so yesterday). She's stuck in Oxford, though, because of lockdown, so it was birthday via skype.

My family try to get together at least for birthdays and Xmas but this year since my birthday in February we've managed absolutely none (from mother's day through mum and Dad's birthday, father's day and now sister's birthday). Christmas seems likely to be next. It's just depressing that the last family event we were all together for was back in February. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on November 19, 2020, 08:40:12 PM
It's going to be a strange Thanksgiving/Christmas around here, too. My family isn't doing anything, and my husband's family is holding gatherings, but we've opted out (well, more accurately, I'VE opted out...my husband is disappointed that I don't think it's a good idea to sit elbow-to-elbow with 15 people in his aunt's small kitchen together). The past 4 years since we've lived back in the midwest, I've gotten sick at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and this year with the 'Rona spiking in my area, I'll pass, thank you.

He is a patient man when it comes to ponies staring out from the linen closet, but if he saw the current state of the bathroom right now he would likely do an about-face right out of there.

Happy birthday to your sister...I hope next year you can celebrate together.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 20, 2020, 05:52:01 AM
This is really trivial (or maybe not, I don't know). I can't decide what video game to play. I've been bouncing between Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, The Sims3 and Planet Zoo. Each of which I've played for thousands of hours. They're among my favorite games ever! But when I want to play I only end up doing so for maybe 15-20 minutes and then I get bored. It's frustrating because I still want to play them.

I think maybe I'm in a depression slump? It's hard to tell because my medicine works to keep most symptoms in check. With everything that's gone on recently I probably am depressed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 20, 2020, 07:17:07 AM
Could be BC xxx I know I went off my gaming when my last big bout hit. I just never went back to those games afterwards, as it was my big story which helped me come out of it.

Have a few of these in the meantime xxx  :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2020, 07:44:47 AM
This is a really trivial complaint but  I need somewhere unconnected to vent about it where people might actually care.

Spoiler
I entered a writing event on a non-MLP website.
The event had a max of 1000 words.
My entry, according to MSWord, was 997 words.
I entered. I was disqualified for too many words.

I asked the organiser about it. Organiser told me they had used a website and google docs to count the words.
When I checked these sites, both added words that were not words (one counted dashes, the other just didn't add up words properly). I was able to show that (you guys know me, I'm datacentric. And I have screen captures that prove it). I asked them to check it and got a really rude PM in response telling me basically to get over it. Also that if I am going to use MSword in future, I should make sure I'm 'under the word limit'. This is in spite of the fact I have a MSWord screen grab that shows 997 words. Apparently MSWord is less accurate than a website that counts dashes as words. So anyway.

I went back and manually counted the words in my post on the actual entry on the site. I still make it under 1000 words.

So as you guys know, I have autism. I am fundamentally terrified of contacting moderators on websites about anything and absolutely would not have pursued this if I was not sure that I was correct. Confrontation of this nature makes me physically ill so I have to choose my battles, but I was pretty sure of my ground this time and I assumed they would listen to me at the very least.

I am also very careful about following rules. I checked and doublechecked before I posted it originally, and I checked and doublechecked before contacting them about it as well.

I am also not a liar, but I feel like I'm being made out to be a sore loser. I haven't asked for a prize and don't expect one. I just want acknowledgement of the mistake - either theirs or mine - after all avenues have been cleared.

I asked them to count my words manually but I don't think this has happened. As far as I can tell they have just continued to use the same sites despite my proving one of them counts dashes as words.

My autism is not disclosed on this site and I have no intention of trying to use it as a pity card. So probably they don't understand why I am being so pedantic about it and think I'm just trying to be difficult. But anyone here on the spectrum will know and understand that if something is not right then it's NOT RIGHT...and it not being right is unresolved and so preys on you until you know it has been put right. I have no way of coherently explaining this to people who just think I'm being a nuisance because I don't want to be banned or sanctioned for perseverence.

I am certain that I met the rules of the event, but I don't have anyone objective to ask to check it for me to make sure it's not my mistake, and so there's nothing I can do.

I KNOW THAT it really genuinely is a nothing situation that I shouldn't even care about. But it has been such a horrible year, and I have been juggling so much emotionally and practically, and I really just am sitting here right now feeling like crying. It's just the last straw. I have been using this site and its events a lot to offset some of the hard realities of 2020, not least an eight month lockdown and the fact my family cannot see each other and probably won't at Christmas either. This has just pushed my limits.

Especially because it's a WRITING event, and writing is also my stress escape.
Sorry for the long post. Thanks for listening to me rant.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 20, 2020, 08:13:02 AM
 :deathhug: :tackleglomp: :hug: to Taffeta and BlackCurtains and everyone else who needs one.

Work stuff is annoying.  Basically, one of our co-workers is out sick and has been for over a week.  She tested negative for COVID but has been sick ever since so she was going to be retested.  Knowing that this person is sick, the director hasn't bothered to find someone to cover her shifts so now the full-timers (who have other work to do) have to cover it instead of having one of the part-timers (who have nothing to do) come in and get some extra hours right before holidays that they don't get paid for.  They will have to do make up hours anyway if they want their checks to be the same so there's no reason they can't cover her desk shifts.  But then if we did anything that made sense, the world might end and we wouldn't want that. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 20, 2020, 09:59:05 AM
Taf huge huggles!!! Dashes & hyphens are not words & never should be, so such a thing would have me fuming too. :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2020, 10:05:13 AM
Taf huge huggles!!! Dashes & hyphens are not words & never should be, so such a thing would have me fuming too. :hug: :hug: :hug:

Thank you both :D @Ponybookworm, tell me about it!

It's not that I think it's any kind of personal conspiracy, I just think it's Too Much Effort to go and actually count the words in the entry to settle the dispute once and for all. It's also frustrating feeling as though the evidence about the dashes etc was completely ignored because, again, it's Too Much Effort and if they did it and I was right, it might involve Admitting Error.

On the other hand, it might be MY error, but if so, I would benefit from having that actually shown to me, rather than a snippy PM.
Title: Digital snails
Post by: Glitzi86 on November 20, 2020, 10:51:11 AM
Apparently, even snails adopted a digital lifestyle during the pandemic. I received two e-mails today. Sent on November 9th, the other on Nov 12th. So, it's digital snail mail? Or did they first try to deliver it to the 80s, since it was about some G1 ponies I wanted to buy? My spam filter is usually reliable - Outlook had no problem with my other web.de accounts it is collecting.

If you try to send me an e-mail and wonder why I'm not answering - it's probably the snails. Sorry.  :sheepish: :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 20, 2020, 10:57:42 AM
I am so sorry that happened to you Taffeta.  :hug:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on November 20, 2020, 01:28:25 PM
Sorry to hear that, Taffeta, they should disclose what counts as a "word" (dashes, etc) at the onset, it would make things clear and save on the heartache especially as it takes a certain amount of effort to write the essay/story in the first place! Ugh, these things should be fun, it's such a bummer that the judges are being so snooty about it. Could you ask them to allow your entry if you remove a few "token" words just to satisfy their fussy word-count app? I guess you are probably too upset to take this further anyway  :(


Spent all day scrubbing our kitchen and bathroom, stripping down my cooker and soaking the metal gas round things from the hob in a tray of soda crystals; did 2 loads of laundry; mended a ripped duvet cover; tried vacuuming the lounge - big noise - looks like our vacuum cleaner has bust a belt;  >_< lots of cleaning, standing, scrubbing.

Now my back has got a pain in the same place that I had physio for a few years ago... maybe my body is telling me that I shouldn't do cleaning chores!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2020, 01:35:34 PM
Sorry to hear that, Taffeta, they should disclose what counts as a "word" (dashes, etc) at the onset, it would make things clear and save on the heartache especially as it takes a certain amount of effort to write the essay/story in the first place! Ugh, these things should be fun, it's such a bummer that the judges are being so snooty about it. Could you ask them to allow your entry if you remove a few "token" words just to satisfy their fussy word-count app? I guess you are probably too upset to take this further anyway  :(
Aside venting my feelings here I am done with it, it really isn't worth the emotional stress and in any case the disqualification happened after the event ended, not before. I don't think dashes counted as words, but yeah, it would have been helpful at least if they had stated up front what software was going to be used/valid or whatever. I decided not to reply to the PM. I will just think twice in future if it's a writing event run by that person.

It is what it is. :hug: In the world we are currently living in it is a very trivial complaint. But I needed to rant somewhere unconnected, to get it out of my system.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on November 21, 2020, 05:36:19 AM
This is a really trivial complaint but  I need somewhere unconnected to vent about it where people might actually care.

Spoiler
I entered a writing event on a non-MLP website.
The event had a max of 1000 words.
My entry, according to MSWord, was 997 words.
I entered. I was disqualified for too many words.

I asked the organiser about it. Organiser told me they had used a website and google docs to count the words.
When I checked these sites, both added words that were not words (one counted dashes, the other just didn't add up words properly). I was able to show that (you guys know me, I'm datacentric. And I have screen captures that prove it). I asked them to check it and got a really rude PM in response telling me basically to get over it. Also that if I am going to use MSword in future, I should make sure I'm 'under the word limit'. This is in spite of the fact I have a MSWord screen grab that shows 997 words. Apparently MSWord is less accurate than a website that counts dashes as words. So anyway.

I went back and manually counted the words in my post on the actual entry on the site. I still make it under 1000 words.

So as you guys know, I have autism. I am fundamentally terrified of contacting moderators on websites about anything and absolutely would not have pursued this if I was not sure that I was correct. Confrontation of this nature makes me physically ill so I have to choose my battles, but I was pretty sure of my ground this time and I assumed they would listen to me at the very least.

I am also very careful about following rules. I checked and doublechecked before I posted it originally, and I checked and doublechecked before contacting them about it as well.

I am also not a liar, but I feel like I'm being made out to be a sore loser. I haven't asked for a prize and don't expect one. I just want acknowledgement of the mistake - either theirs or mine - after all avenues have been cleared.

I asked them to count my words manually but I don't think this has happened. As far as I can tell they have just continued to use the same sites despite my proving one of them counts dashes as words.

My autism is not disclosed on this site and I have no intention of trying to use it as a pity card. So probably they don't understand why I am being so pedantic about it and think I'm just trying to be difficult. But anyone here on the spectrum will know and understand that if something is not right then it's NOT RIGHT...and it not being right is unresolved and so preys on you until you know it has been put right. I have no way of coherently explaining this to people who just think I'm being a nuisance because I don't want to be banned or sanctioned for perseverence.

I am certain that I met the rules of the event, but I don't have anyone objective to ask to check it for me to make sure it's not my mistake, and so there's nothing I can do.

I KNOW THAT it really genuinely is a nothing situation that I shouldn't even care about. But it has been such a horrible year, and I have been juggling so much emotionally and practically, and I really just am sitting here right now feeling like crying. It's just the last straw. I have been using this site and its events a lot to offset some of the hard realities of 2020, not least an eight month lockdown and the fact my family cannot see each other and probably won't at Christmas either. This has just pushed my limits.

Especially because it's a WRITING event, and writing is also my stress escape.
Sorry for the long post. Thanks for listening to me rant.


That would probably bring me to tears of frustration as well. I can relate to this situation so much; I am the same way about contacting/confronting people to dispute something, I'm often paralyzed from taking the steps to make things right because I'm often wordy and wordy people tend to get dismissed a lot, because no one wants to take the time to read/hear out what they have to say. Yet it takes me forever to carefully plan out what I want to say, and it just seems like I need more words than most people do to convey the thoughts that are in my head, and to have my carefully thought-out complaint about an injustice just dismissed like that is so infuriating. Then like you said, it is left Not Right in my head, and I can't let it go. But my husband and mother are both 90% certain that I'm on the spectrum, so maybe that is why I'm like this, who knows.

Can they let you reduce the number of words in your essay and then re-submit it? I'm guessing not, or they would have suggested that, but either way, they didn't need to be so rude. I'm sorry that happened to you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 21, 2020, 06:49:00 AM
This is a really trivial complaint but  I need somewhere unconnected to vent about it where people might actually care.

Spoiler
I entered a writing event on a non-MLP website.
The event had a max of 1000 words.
My entry, according to MSWord, was 997 words.
I entered. I was disqualified for too many words.

I asked the organiser about it. Organiser told me they had used a website and google docs to count the words.
When I checked these sites, both added words that were not words (one counted dashes, the other just didn't add up words properly). I was able to show that (you guys know me, I'm datacentric. And I have screen captures that prove it). I asked them to check it and got a really rude PM in response telling me basically to get over it. Also that if I am going to use MSword in future, I should make sure I'm 'under the word limit'. This is in spite of the fact I have a MSWord screen grab that shows 997 words. Apparently MSWord is less accurate than a website that counts dashes as words. So anyway.

I went back and manually counted the words in my post on the actual entry on the site. I still make it under 1000 words.

So as you guys know, I have autism. I am fundamentally terrified of contacting moderators on websites about anything and absolutely would not have pursued this if I was not sure that I was correct. Confrontation of this nature makes me physically ill so I have to choose my battles, but I was pretty sure of my ground this time and I assumed they would listen to me at the very least.

I am also very careful about following rules. I checked and doublechecked before I posted it originally, and I checked and doublechecked before contacting them about it as well.

I am also not a liar, but I feel like I'm being made out to be a sore loser. I haven't asked for a prize and don't expect one. I just want acknowledgement of the mistake - either theirs or mine - after all avenues have been cleared.

I asked them to count my words manually but I don't think this has happened. As far as I can tell they have just continued to use the same sites despite my proving one of them counts dashes as words.

My autism is not disclosed on this site and I have no intention of trying to use it as a pity card. So probably they don't understand why I am being so pedantic about it and think I'm just trying to be difficult. But anyone here on the spectrum will know and understand that if something is not right then it's NOT RIGHT...and it not being right is unresolved and so preys on you until you know it has been put right. I have no way of coherently explaining this to people who just think I'm being a nuisance because I don't want to be banned or sanctioned for perseverence.

I am certain that I met the rules of the event, but I don't have anyone objective to ask to check it for me to make sure it's not my mistake, and so there's nothing I can do.

I KNOW THAT it really genuinely is a nothing situation that I shouldn't even care about. But it has been such a horrible year, and I have been juggling so much emotionally and practically, and I really just am sitting here right now feeling like crying. It's just the last straw. I have been using this site and its events a lot to offset some of the hard realities of 2020, not least an eight month lockdown and the fact my family cannot see each other and probably won't at Christmas either. This has just pushed my limits.

Especially because it's a WRITING event, and writing is also my stress escape.
Sorry for the long post. Thanks for listening to me rant.


That would probably bring me to tears of frustration as well. I can relate to this situation so much; I am the same way about contacting/confronting people to dispute something, I'm often paralyzed from taking the steps to make things right because I'm often wordy and wordy people tend to get dismissed a lot, because no one wants to take the time to read/hear out what they have to say. Yet it takes me forever to carefully plan out what I want to say, and it just seems like I need more words than most people do to convey the thoughts that are in my head, and to have my carefully thought-out complaint about an injustice just dismissed like that is so infuriating. Then like you said, it is left Not Right in my head, and I can't let it go. But my husband and mother are both 90% certain that I'm on the spectrum, so maybe that is why I'm like this, who knows.

Can they let you reduce the number of words in your essay and then re-submit it? I'm guessing not, or they would have suggested that, but either way, they didn't need to be so rude. I'm sorry that happened to you.

No...

To be honest nothing about this situation makes sense to me, because if it were my event, the first thing I would do if someone flagged an issue with wordcount is go to the actual event and manually check the number on the entered post. It would be the obvious way to settle once and for all who was right, and so I really don't understand not doing that as a first step. It would have taken a lot less time and hassle.

As far as I can gather all they've done is have multiple people re-check it using the same two systems I flagged errors in. When I realised that was all they were going to do I stopped contesting it.

I could say a LOT MORE about it, but I won't.

I relate to everything you're saying though, LadyAmalthea. It's exactly like that for me too. I should be doing so many more important things this weekend. But it's still there in my head, because I really can't stand being accused of something - much less punished for it - that I know - and can prove -I didn't do. It's also the academic in me, analysing for evidence and proving my case. You guys know how I post things here and how much detail I can go into. That's just who I am.

I get fed up with being singled out and picked on because I'm not great with putting my thoughts and feelings into words concisely. It happens way too often, and it just makes you feel so lost. I've noticed it's got worse as I've got older - people used to stop and read and think about things, but now they don't even do that. Think of customer service departments and the way in which they just copy paste an unconnected answer at you without reading your question...

This is like that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on November 21, 2020, 09:59:18 AM
That's lazy internet culture these days...everyone expects every thought to be read in 140 characters, and if it's more than that, it gets skimmed and glossed over. I hate it.

I would have taken the time to count the words manually as well, especially after being informed that your manual count was so close and that the word-counting program is less than accurate due to it counting dashes. Why even bother having human moderators if they are going to do the same job as bots.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 21, 2020, 03:44:50 PM
I just don't know what to do with myself :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on November 21, 2020, 08:39:41 PM
i bought some new clothes about a year ago before covid. i haven't really been able to wear them much because i don't leave the house anymore. maybe i should get dressed in outside the house clothes for work. but i'll never do that. so i have a bunch of clothes i haven't been able to wear.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on November 22, 2020, 04:02:32 AM
i bought some new clothes about a year ago before covid. i haven't really been able to wear them much because i don't leave the house anymore. maybe i should get dressed in outside the house clothes for work. but i'll never do that. so i have a bunch of clothes i haven't been able to wear.

Ditto! I bought a whole bunch when in London in January.

....Yeah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 22, 2020, 04:16:00 AM
I just don't know what to do with myself :cloud:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Hang in there. We're here xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 22, 2020, 04:15:25 PM
My dad doesn't understand how Netflix works very well. Every discussion of Netflix usually ends with him saying that my aunt's  Netflix "is better than the Netflix we have."  I've tried to explain to him that Netflix removes shows from time to time and that just because he saw something on Netflix over a year ago or googled it doesn't mean that it is still there.

I tried looking for a series that we can all watch together on Netflix but the last time I did that, no one seemed interested in the series I picked or gave me suggestions for a series they would like.


Ponyfan




Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 22, 2020, 07:29:54 PM
I hate when I buy something on Amazon, look for something similar 2 days later and have the item I just bought come up on sale.   >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on November 22, 2020, 07:30:29 PM
Netflix removes shows from time to time and that just because he saw something on Netflix over a year ago or googled it doesn't mean that it is still there.

This is exactly why I prefer direct download of movies and shows so that I can watch them anytime I want and no one can take them away from me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2020, 01:12:19 PM
The weather has turned cold and damp.  Tomorrow is supposed to very windy with blowing dust.  These are all types of weather that I need to avoid being in for extended amounts of time due to respiratory issues.  Last week the weather was nice.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 23, 2020, 05:14:35 PM
Yeah, the weather where I am turned unpleasant too. The humidity is back, but it still gets cold at night, so everything gets condensation on it and you're cold but sticky. It's uncomfortable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on November 23, 2020, 05:30:27 PM
I gotta spend 2 1/4 hours commuting tomorrow just to change my password.. because it can only be done in the office.

:( I think I'm getting used to sleeping in, and working at home.......
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 24, 2020, 05:43:44 AM
Last night our alarm system went off when my dad dropped something.  The alarm company used to call us if the alarm sounded for too long but they haven't for a long time.   Last night the phone rang right after my dad turned off the alarm.  I gave my mom the phone so she could talk to them but she had trouble answering it.  I told her it was probably the alarm company and she said that it wasn't.  A few minutes later my cell phone was ringing.  It was the alarm company trying to reach us again. I told my mom that they had probably called my phone because hers was turned off.   

What hurts is that my mom acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. :sad: 


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 24, 2020, 03:59:41 PM
My co-workers can't figure out how to put the artwork into a DVD case without destroying it.  I'm getting really tired of replacing things my co-workers have mutilated because they lack the ability to pay attention to what they are doing.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 24, 2020, 04:42:43 PM
I wanted to watch Hulu but every time I click an episode I get the loading screen and then nothing happens.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 25, 2020, 05:50:34 AM
I have a headache and I'm very dizzy today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 26, 2020, 09:07:16 AM
I wanted to get a picture of my cat but she has this long-standing habit of moving right at the crucial moment, so pretty much every attempt comes out looking like a cursed image from the early days of the internet...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 26, 2020, 02:59:29 PM
Thanksgiving is still the holiday I hate the most. Every year is a disaster and not in a family comedy movie kind of way.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on November 27, 2020, 07:26:42 AM
Webs.com will terminate their free website hosting... I'll have to find another site for my pony custom page, or just stick to Deviantart from now on...

// oops my cat stepped on the keyboard  :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on November 27, 2020, 10:05:08 PM
Maybe it’s just the isolation and lack of activity taking a toll on my mental health and my brain, but I am becoming more forgetful than I usually am. I’m not so scatterbrained when it comes to objects and dates, but lately I’ve noticed I’ve forgotten when things are supposed to happen, or momentarily what the name of an item is. Silly little things, like more frequent brain farts. I remember big things, just not as many details.
I’ve also noticed that I’ve become more worried/somewhat irrational. My first thought when I noticed I was becoming scatterbrained was “great. Now you have dementia or something” despite the fact that I’m only 19, and am most likely not suffering from something my 74 year old grandma has. Ah, gotta love depression and anxiety getting worse as time moves on!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on November 29, 2020, 05:33:13 AM
I can't concentrate on anything today. It probably doesn't help that I haven't been able to sleep properly for the past few nights. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on November 30, 2020, 05:57:52 AM
I've written out a text message for my bank. It reads: "Hi! Do you respond to inquiries via SMS? I have problems with phone calls due to anxiety" and all I have to do is press send. But it turns out phone calls aren't the only things that give me trouble :pout:

I was so sure I'd found the solution too, because even if I'm deathly afraid of calling people I know, I text them all the time. If I can text my bank instead of calling, then I can finally sort out that thing I was supposed to do weeks ago... Right? Right??? So why is my brain like this >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on November 30, 2020, 07:48:37 AM
I've written out a text message for my bank. It reads: "Hi! Do you respond to inquiries via SMS? I have problems with phone calls due to anxiety" and all I have to do is press send. But it turns out phone calls aren't the only things that give me trouble :pout:

I was so sure I'd found the solution too, because even if I'm deathly afraid of calling people I know, I text them all the time. If I can text my bank instead of calling, then I can finally sort out that thing I was supposed to do weeks ago... Right? Right??? So why is my brain like this >_<
THIS RIGHT HERE is why I hardly touch my phone xxx

You're not alone xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 30, 2020, 07:56:26 AM
I'm afraid of phone calls too. The only person I really text is my sister and I'm not very good at it, haha. Coincidentally, I have to call my bank too. I'm... not stalling... why would you think that?


And my main complaint is my eczema is flaring up again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2020, 08:02:36 AM
I was trying to watch something on Youtube that isn’t in English.  I need subtitles to be able to understand what the characters are saying. The problem is that I’m having trouble finding clips with official English subs and the auto generated ones from Youtube don’t make sense in context with the scene.

 For example one character was confronting some bullies and according to the official subs, one of the bullies said “I’m still bigger than you are!”  but the Youtube subtitles say the dialogue is “ When you go to Chile or go Solis” which is obviously not even close to what’s being said. :lol:



I also don’t like talking on the phone. I will if I absolutely have to though.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on November 30, 2020, 10:31:15 AM
I hate phone calls too. It doesn't bother me to talk on the phone when other people call ME, but the thought of making a call myself gives me anxiety. Not sure what the psychology behind that is, but I can see that I'm hardly alone in this.

Ugh...that reminds me...I have to call the hospital to get my kid's test results from an EEG, plus argue with them about why she wasn't recommended for an MRI as well...I hate confrontations. There's my trivial complaint for the day...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 01, 2020, 03:51:16 AM
I've written out a text message for my bank. It reads: "Hi! Do you respond to inquiries via SMS? I have problems with phone calls due to anxiety" and all I have to do is press send. But it turns out phone calls aren't the only things that give me trouble :pout:

I was so sure I'd found the solution too, because even if I'm deathly afraid of calling people I know, I text them all the time. If I can text my bank instead of calling, then I can finally sort out that thing I was supposed to do weeks ago... Right? Right??? So why is my brain like this >_<
THIS RIGHT HERE is why I hardly touch my phone xxx

You're not alone xxx

OMG totally relate.
It's got worse as well since last month where getting up the courage to send a PM to a mod on another forum resulted in me getting into trouble for something I absolutely didn't do (and the thing I was raising with them never did get resolved). I'm fundamentally afraid of contacting people I don't know because I don't know how they'll react. Unexpected hostility for something absolutely not said is the worst too. The thing is people read ten things into what you write or say when you never even thought or said them and THEN they judge you based on what they decided you said, rather than bothering to find out if that was what you meant. (And of course they're all neurotypical and "normal" so they can't possibly be wrong.) Ahem. Excuse rant,but this is the trivial complaints.

It took me a whole extra week after that forum fiasco to get up the courage to even send EMAILS to my two academic references WHO KNOW ME and have done for years...because I was that traumatised and blindsided by the whole thing.

...With my bank I have no choice but to phone them if there is an issue, although I will say this for them, they are actually REALLY nice whenever I do and give me time to say what I need to say.

But I hate when I apply for something and they need my phone number because like heck am I going to answer the phone to a complete stranger.

Good luck Luxrayx. The world is really poorly designed for communication, despite being run by people who profess to be awesome at communicating :rolleyes:.

ETA - and my actual trivial complaint for today just happened. Dad managed to break the front door. Sigh. It won't open, which means my family are taking lockdown a little bit too literally :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 01, 2020, 06:41:16 AM
I’m sorry your front door is broken Taffeta.

I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I don’t drink caffeine after noon and I go to bed at a reasonable time at night.  Lately I have had trouble going back to sleep after I need to get up during the night or I will become awake enough that I want to know what time is it.  I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine at night but I’m still not sleeping as well as I should right now.

It sometimes it takes me a while to realize someone is waving at me. I’ve had to apologize to them because they were wondering why I didn’t respond to them.

Also, I think I’m getting a headache.

Ponyfan



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 01, 2020, 07:13:36 AM
My nephew takes melatonin to help him sleep.  He says it works really well for him.

My trivial complaint is that I stayed up way too late doing last minute Cyber Monday shopping and now I am tired but I have to work today so sleeping in later isn't an option.   :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 01, 2020, 09:42:48 AM
Here's hoping your front door is fixed faster than my skylights Taff xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 01, 2020, 09:48:18 AM
I'm having issues breaking apart my chocolate orange... :orange: :choc: :bomb: :devious:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 01, 2020, 09:54:32 AM
I'm having issues breaking apart my chocolate orange... :orange: :choc: :bomb: :devious:
:haha: :haha:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 01, 2020, 12:54:29 PM
My nephew takes melatonin to help him sleep.  He says it works really well for him.

My trivial complaint is that I stayed up way too late doing last minute Cyber Monday shopping and now I am tired but I have to work today so sleeping in later isn't an option.   :zzz:

I tried melatonin once but it it wound me up even more.  I might need to give it another try though.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 01, 2020, 01:26:24 PM
I'm having issues breaking apart my chocolate orange... :orange: :choc: :bomb: :devious:
:haha: :haha:

Time for a mallet!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 01, 2020, 03:19:16 PM
I went to Wal-Mart to pick up my medicine and get a few things. My sister wanted to get some groceries, so we went separate ways in the store. I got done quickly since I only had like 5 items after I got my meds, so I did self check-out and parked (I have to use an electric cart) next to the hair salon out of the way and waited for my sister to get to the check-out. It took forever and there were more and more people coming in. It was too loud and bright and people kept making eye contact with me, so I started to panic. My sister had the keys to the car and I had no idea where she was. She finally showed up and I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

I've had a headache all day since then. I have anxiety medicine I can take if I start to panic or get too nervous, but I don't keep any in my bag and I was going to my parents house afterward. I should put some in there so I have it on hand if that happens again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on December 01, 2020, 03:40:48 PM
Korean Airlines cancelled my flight out of China  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 PM
I'm having issues breaking apart my chocolate orange... :orange: :choc: :bomb: :devious:
:haha: :haha:

Time for a mallet!
Mallet's mallet???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 02, 2020, 07:34:14 AM
Today has barely started and already it’s not been a good day. :(

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 02, 2020, 10:16:16 AM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan :hug:


I don't feel very well today. I've a headache, my throat hurts from coughing last night and now my stomach is bothering me. It might all be stress related from yesterday. Hopefully I just need a day or two to recover and I haven't picked up any germs. I wore my mask and disinfected my cart so I should be okay.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 02, 2020, 11:46:08 AM
I would like it if it snowed and it didn't melt within 2 days. Winter is just depressing when it's muddy and cold.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 02, 2020, 11:54:47 AM
It was my first day back volunteering today and of course, the customers were just the worst. I've been struggling with anxiety for the past few days (despite making conscious efforts to get it under control) and I really didn't need to be dealing with loud, entitled, rude, obnoxious people today. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 02, 2020, 03:47:41 PM
OUCH I just bent my fingernail backwards :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on December 02, 2020, 09:34:19 PM
Got deadlines to meet and images are rendering much too slow and I don’t know why. And my blind pet goldfish is behaving oddly (it’s swimming and behaving normal, but it’s upside down.) and the looming pressure of Christmas and gift giving. Been having crazy deja vu lately too, so I have no idea what’s happening anymore.  And on top of that I’ve been having nightmares the last two days.

Can I just go into hibernation now? The bears had the right idea!  :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on December 03, 2020, 07:04:08 AM
its allergy season in Central Texas. I've also been having nightmares. I'm just overall annoyed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 03, 2020, 07:36:16 AM
Aside from my daughter and my boyfriend, who unfortunately can't be here, I don't want to spend christmas with my family. We're driving each other up a wall.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on December 03, 2020, 09:00:24 AM
Why is my hip hurting whenever I move it! I didn’t even do anything...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 03, 2020, 09:30:25 AM
Why is my hip hurting whenever I move it! I didn’t even do anything...

Maybe you layed down on it weird last night?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on December 03, 2020, 01:33:06 PM
Why is my hip hurting whenever I move it! I didn’t even do anything...

Maybe you layed down on it weird last night?
It was hurting last night so I could have made it worse when I was asleep. It might actually be dislocated, usually my hips just sublux. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so my joints pop out of place quite frequently, or they just hurt. I’ve tried everything I usually do to push it back in place but it’s not budging :/ Might actually have to go to the doctor for this one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2020, 01:34:33 PM
Got deadlines to meet and images are rendering much too slow and I don’t know why. And my blind pet goldfish is behaving oddly (it’s swimming and behaving normal, but it’s upside down.) and the looming pressure of Christmas and gift giving. Been having crazy deja vu lately too, so I have no idea what’s happening anymore.  And on top of that I’ve been having nightmares the last two days.

Can I just go into hibernation now? The bears had the right idea!  :P

I had a goldfish who did that. We determined in the end she had epilepsy...she used to have random seizures where she'd jump and then swim backwards and upside down and then she'd be fine again afterwards.
Although if yours is doing it all the time it may be a swim bladder infection.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 03, 2020, 02:12:08 PM
Why is my hip hurting whenever I move it! I didn’t even do anything...

Maybe you layed down on it weird last night?
It was hurting last night so I could have made it worse when I was asleep. It might actually be dislocated, usually my hips just sublux. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so my joints pop out of place quite frequently, or they just hurt. I’ve tried everything I usually do to push it back in place but it’s not budging :/ Might actually have to go to the doctor for this one.

Ooh.  :blink: poor safflower
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 03, 2020, 02:34:03 PM
I’m so sorry you’re in pain Safflower. :hug:

My trivial complaint for today is still auto generated Youtube subs. They are so far off that I can’t concentrate on the show I’m trying to watch. :argh: :dumbpc:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2020, 03:29:06 PM
Hope you feel better soon, Saff :hug:

My complaint...for some reason my firestick decided to have a spasm and reset itself to factory basics this evening. I wouldn't mind but I was trying to show Mum how firesticks work and that it isn't scary.

Sigh.

Also, our government are morons.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Safflower on December 03, 2020, 07:12:32 PM
Thanks for the well wishes everyone :hug: :hug: I just got home from urgent care where they did an x ray. Nothing was abnormal, so they just told me to ice it. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 04, 2020, 11:47:09 AM
Thanks for the well wishes everyone :hug: :hug: I just got home from urgent care where they did an x ray. Nothing was abnormal, so they just told me to ice it. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow.

Oh that's good news
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 04, 2020, 04:24:39 PM
I've been a night owl all my life but for some weird reason when I moved into my own place I started getting up early. Now I get up early and go to bed early. I mean early, like I'm ready for bed at 7pm. I want to stop this because I'm not wired for daytime activities. All my life I would get a burst of energy and feel better physically and emotionally at night.

I've been making coffee at 7pm and forcing myself to stay up until at least 1am. Then if I can sleep until 10-12, that'd be more normal for me. I've also always need more than 8 hours to really feel refreshed after sleep. I don't have a job or any on-time responsibilities other than feeding my cat... and trust me, she wouldn't let me miss breakfast :lol: So there's no reason NOT to stay up and sleep in.

Today I got up at 9. I tried going back to sleep but I couldn't and now it's 7:30 and I'm super tired. It's frustrating to look at the time. What am I? 80 years old?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 06, 2020, 08:29:09 AM
My laptop has bricked itself in the few minutes it took me to go downstairs and hoover the living room. I'm trying some methods on the HP website to fix it, but to be honest, given the sheer amount of bother I've had with it, I am questioning whether it's even worth trying to save it. Apparently there's no hard drive installed...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 06, 2020, 03:03:32 PM
I've been dizzy all day and my vision is blurry/double. Weirdly, I don't have a headache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 06, 2020, 09:46:25 PM
My laptop has bricked itself in the few minutes it took me to go downstairs and hoover the living room. I'm trying some methods on the HP website to fix it, but to be honest, given the sheer amount of bother I've had with it, I am questioning whether it's even worth trying to save it. Apparently there's no hard drive installed...
Your hard drive might be on its way out. I've had my hard drive die on me & it wasn't fun. I hope all your files are backed up xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 06, 2020, 11:13:01 PM
My laptop has bricked itself in the few minutes it took me to go downstairs and hoover the living room. I'm trying some methods on the HP website to fix it, but to be honest, given the sheer amount of bother I've had with it, I am questioning whether it's even worth trying to save it. Apparently there's no hard drive installed...
Your hard drive might be on its way out. I've had my hard drive die on me & it wasn't fun. I hope all your files are backed up xxx

It looks like that is what's happened, as I reseated the hard drive and when the laptop detected it, it mentioned that the drive had failed. I also heard some clicking noises which are never good. :/ Some of my files are backed up on USB sticks but I've definitely learned my lesson and will be a lot more thorough with backing things up in future!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 07, 2020, 08:12:03 AM
I ordered some movies from a sale on one website and today another website had every single DVD I ordered on sale for at least $1 cheaper.  It's like they got my cart from the other site and then put them all on sale.  So annoying! :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 08, 2020, 06:23:48 AM
When your bulb dies, you put a new (energy saver) bulb in & within an hour it's dead too... (today, me)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on December 08, 2020, 06:25:35 AM
when you're trying to quietly get through the house and not wake anyone up, but you step on a bit of bubble wrap that the cat was playing with...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on December 08, 2020, 11:55:56 AM
when you're trying to quietly get through the house and not wake anyone up, but you step on a bit of bubble wrap that the cat was playing with...

Lol
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 08, 2020, 12:52:50 PM
when you're trying to quietly get through the house and not wake anyone up, but you step on a bit of bubble wrap that the cat was playing with...

Lol
:lol:

My laptop has bricked itself in the few minutes it took me to go downstairs and hoover the living room. I'm trying some methods on the HP website to fix it, but to be honest, given the sheer amount of bother I've had with it, I am questioning whether it's even worth trying to save it. Apparently there's no hard drive installed...
Your hard drive might be on its way out. I've had my hard drive die on me & it wasn't fun. I hope all your files are backed up xxx

It looks like that is what's happened, as I reseated the hard drive and when the laptop detected it, it mentioned that the drive had failed. I also heard some clicking noises which are never good. :/ Some of my files are backed up on USB sticks but I've definitely learned my lesson and will be a lot more thorough with backing things up in future!
Hope you can replace it without replacing the entire laptop xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 08, 2020, 04:27:15 PM
I'm enjoying the cold weather but all my aches and pains are much worse :( My legs are really bad today and I had to go to my parents house. Both the couch and chair that I use when I'm there are very low to the ground and I was having a hard time getting up from them. I'm only 38! :cloud:

Post Merge: December 09, 2020, 10:37:56 AM

Sorry for double posting (I'm feeling a little better today, I was able to walk across the street to drop off my rent, yay)

Anyway, new complaint for the day - junk mail! Physical junk mail! I opted into NOTHING and I get tons of coupon clipper type magazines and catalogs of all kinds. The coupon magazines I can't figure out how to opt-out, I get two of them and they both have some of the same ads in them for local restaurants and grocery stores. The catalogs, two are being sent to me because I bought something online for my mom's birthday back in August (it's religious stuff... I am not religious). The other ones I have never bought anything from, online or otherwise. Which means someone sold my information :mad: Gah!

I hate it because I'm never going to use these coupons (you can't even use them online!) and if I want something I'll buy it from a website. But also the waste. As an environmentalist that's recycled since they were a child - I seriously got a can crusher as an xmas present one year, I was like 7 and I loved it - there's so much paper waste. Yeah, I'm recycling it, but I shouldn't get it in the first place :mad:

I just went through and got rid of a bunch of this stuff, now I have another haul. Two coupon things and 4 catalogs, plus independent ads and one (1) piece of actual mail. And this is in a weeks time. Beyond frustrating.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on December 09, 2020, 03:34:51 PM
Why does every app have a social component? I was trying to use the Glow app to track my cycles. (Don't worry i'm not sharing details) But every time i try to go into the app i can't find the stupid calendar to check and make updates. First it wants me to upgrade to premium. Then it wants me to share on their social network thing. I check once a month or so and i can never remember how to find the calendar. I don't want to share, i don't want to read other people's stories and i don't want to upgrade. i want simple tracking. anyways i just deleted the app. i'll live in suspense from now on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 10, 2020, 05:39:28 AM
Last week a book that I was really looking forward to reading was published.  The last time I wanted a new book in this series the bookstore got their shipment on the Friday after the release date.  Yesterday I checked the bookstore and they still didn't have the book I want in stock. I even asked an employee that was stocking other titles from the same publisher hoping that she might have seen a copy but the store doesn't have it. 

Another person was also looking through the manga section and asked about a different book and the woman said "We don't carry that much anymore." 

I am not blaming the bookstore for not having the book in stock yet.  I know they can't stock it if the publisher doesn't send it but I'm hoping that the bookstore didn't just not order it because although the series seems to always have volumes missing when I look, it doesn't look like it's a big seller.

I can always order online after Christmas.

Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 10, 2020, 02:41:44 PM
I've been in a funk all day and I'm dizzy. I wanted to cook a big pot of creamy potato soup but I don't feel like it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 12, 2020, 04:14:45 AM
The chromebook has now thrown its little hat into the ring or troublesome computers, as it randomly switched itself off without warning. I'm hoping it was a one-off malfunction, as it was running just fine prior to that. It's probably something of nothing, but with this happening so recently after the laptop drama, there's the fear. To be on the safe side, I'm going to make a recovery drive for it; hopefully I won't ever have to use it!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 12, 2020, 01:31:06 PM
Oh man. I woke up with a massive headache, almost a migraine. It's been holding on for almost 5 hours now. I've tried everything I know to get rid of it but nothing is working. I was lying down for a while with ice, then I tried heat and massage. Then I sat up and meditated for a bit. I just took some more generic Excedrin, my fourth dose in as many hours (don't try this at home).

It's right on the cusp of a migraine. My eyes hurt, my jaw hurts, my temples are throbbing. Ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 15, 2020, 05:06:58 AM
SO we have a quarantine rule in our house at the moment, since March.
Everything that comes in has to be wiped down or put on the old computer desk for 4 days to quarantine before being opened.
Parents are usually really good about this, but today Mum, convinced it was Wednesday, decided to take out all the items for tomorrow and open them.

...Sigh. I mean, I realise that probably it's fine, and she did wash her hands after, but still.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 15, 2020, 07:53:50 AM
We attended a funeral 10 days ago, and I just now found out that a bunch of people that were there came down with the Coronavirus. No one bothered to let us know, and we still wouldn't know if my husband hadn't had to meet up with his dad in Chicago yesterday, and he casually mentioned it. I suppose I should be grateful that my 2-year-olds were being naughty during the service and I had to take them out into the entryway; that at least minimized our exposure, but my husband hugged one of the affected people and we did go to the house afterwards and we were in the same room as one of the infected, so I guess I can count that as having been exposed. Hopefully we're out of the woods if we haven't gotten sick by now, but someone should have called all the people who attended if you ask my opinion.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on December 15, 2020, 06:19:12 PM
I am doing all original art and tokens for a dnd thing I’m making. I feel really proud of it. I get my hands on the sourcebook for the campaign with some notable NPC’s I’m planning on featuring just to make sure I can play them right. My token is entirely wrong. The wrong eye and hair colour, and turns out this guy is missing a whole arm.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 16, 2020, 10:50:05 AM
I'm so furious at work.

The world is on fire around us, I do NOT want to go into work right now to change my password (again) at the whim of IT deciding now is a great time to change me over to a new OS.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on December 16, 2020, 07:20:40 PM
My anxiety has been surging up. :( Maybe my nerves are finally shot after surviving a year like this, I don’t know... I just can’t seem to relax. I feel so on edge, and my sleep pattern is taking a hit. I wish I could find a way turn the panic button in my brain off. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on December 17, 2020, 02:03:43 PM
I can't concentrate on or enjoy doing anything this evening at all, it's really dragging, I can't relax and it's still too early to justifiably go to bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 18, 2020, 08:18:12 AM
I believe my cat saved my life a couple weeks ago. She woke me up when I was struggling to breathe.

But since then she's been waking me up every two hours. It's frustrating but I can't get mad at her. I'm supposed to have a CPAP but I need a sleep study and who wants to do that with covid running around.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 21, 2020, 07:19:49 AM
Black Curtains would you be able to do an at home sleep study?  That's what I did a few years ago to see if I needed a CPAP machine.


I woke up extra early today even though I didn't have too.  :zzz:


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 21, 2020, 01:49:28 PM
Maybe. I keep forgetting to call the clinic. I'll look into it in January.



My complaint for today is I think I have a new spot of eczema. At first I thought it was an insect bite but instead of going away, it spread a bit and is really itchy and red. It's been a few weeks so if it was a reaction to the bite it would have stopped by now. I cut some aloe from my plant outside and put it on it for now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on December 21, 2020, 01:58:25 PM
Feeling tired and blah. I can't really focus. Also more junk calls.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on December 21, 2020, 02:45:27 PM
My step-dad just learned of MLP and is terrified of/hates it and thinks it's to brainwash children.
 :lookround: :blink: :shocked: :huh: :( :mad: -_- :pout:
Sorry about all the emotes but I do not know how else to express my utter confusion
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 21, 2020, 02:54:18 PM
I went to send my husband a text asking him if he wanted me to exchange a pack of underwear he had accidentally bought the wrong kind of for the boxer briefs he wanted, since I have some time to kill while my son is in therapy, but I accidentally sent the text to my dad instead, because he was the last one in my text queue. I'm totally mortified. Like I hit send, realized what I did, and saw the little wheel spinning because it was sending, I'm silently screaming NOOOOO!!! and trying to search for some way to cancel it before it went through. Oh well. Hope he has a sense of humor about it...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on December 21, 2020, 06:51:03 PM
My brain feels like it’s going to explode if it has to deal with one more instance of human stupidity today. I won’t go into details, as it would take too long and just leave me more deeply entrenched in feelings of hurt and depression. I’ll just say that I’m exhausted by this world and the many people whose mission is to make it a miserable, paranoid, conspiracy-theory-ridden place.

My step-dad just learned of MLP and is terrified of/hates it and thinks it's to brainwash children.
 :lookround: :blink: :shocked: :huh: :( :mad: -_- :pout:
Sorry about all the emotes but I do not know how else to express my utter confusion

Speaking of which... This is maybe the strangest conpiracy theory I’ve ever heard. :blink: Why does your stepdad think that??? Sorry you have to deal with such nonsense. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on December 21, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
My brain feels like it’s going to explode if it has to deal with one more instance of human stupidity today. I won’t go into details, as it would take too long and just leave me more deeply entrenched in feelings of hurt and depression. I’ll just say that I’m exhausted by this world and the many people whose mission is to make it a miserable, paranoid, conspiracy-theory-ridden place.

My step-dad just learned of MLP and is terrified of/hates it and thinks it's to brainwash children.
 :lookround: :blink: :shocked: :huh: :( :mad: -_- :pout:
Sorry about all the emotes but I do not know how else to express my utter confusion

Speaking of which... This is maybe the strangest conpiracy theory I’ve ever heard. :blink: Why does your stepdad think that??? Sorry you have to deal with such nonsense. :(
He says it's because of the rainbows and that all the ponies are girls...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 22, 2020, 06:24:48 AM
I touched something made of latex even though I tried really hard not to and now my eczema is breaking out on my hands (always on my hands) It's painful.   I do have some medicine I can put on but I need to do it when I'm not going to be handling anything for a while.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 22, 2020, 07:57:14 AM
Bought new camera. Needed SD card. Bought SD card. Fitted SD card to camera. Tried taking pics. Camera has no flash. Oh well, back to the phone because going outside in this circumstance is a big NOPE :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 22, 2020, 12:10:56 PM
I'm so tired today. I can't wake up  :zzz:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on December 22, 2020, 11:12:30 PM
I am on medication that makes it so my period only comes every 3 months (I was considered anemic when it came once a month because my flow is very, very heavy). I am not due for it to come for another month.
Guess what decided to show up and made a mess while I slept? Merry Christmas to me I guess  :mad:
Worst part is that I can’t figure out why it happened. I have not skipped any of my medicine, and my health has remained consistently normal. So hurrah for Christmas surprises!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on December 23, 2020, 04:21:08 PM
One of my dogs had an accident in the living room overnight. I put her out before we went to bed but sometimes she doesn't like to go on the grass. i think she just pretended to go. She's so sweet and cute i can't even stay angry at her. She knows it too. I try to withhold dog treats when she messes in the house but we always give in. who can stay mad at this face?

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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 24, 2020, 09:01:45 AM
Nothing is going right today. :cry:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 24, 2020, 10:37:25 AM
I went to bed at a more normal time last night trying to get my sleep pattern a bit more balanced for tomorrow, since we're skyping with sister and stuff at certain times.

And so I slept for maybe 2 hours. On the positive, I did get through a lot of chapters of a Japanese audiobook....so there's that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 26, 2020, 12:20:12 PM
I know lots of people are complaining of shipping delays right now, but this one is baffling. It came from several states east of here. It was supposed to arrive before Christmas (it is a gift...guess my recipient is getting it late). However, it sat at a Madison facility (45 minutes away) for a week. Now the tracking is saying it's somewhere in Iowa. So...it sat for a week, and instead of coming to my house, it bypasses it and keeps going west? I was getting impatient last week and was wishing I knew which Madison facility it was being held hostage at; I'm in Madison 4 times a week and could I just go pick it up there? Ugh!

It's for my niece, and my sister is coming by today to drop off her gifts for my kids, and it would have been nice to send ours back with her (I already put her off once last Wednesday when she wanted to stop by then). I'm going to just have to admit that I don't have my crap together, and sorry, I had a whole year to put your kids' presents together but I dropped the ball.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on December 27, 2020, 08:54:42 AM
@LadyAmalthea

Eh. Logistics are funky right now. Sometimes the packages have to move farther away because there is no room for them to move to the next closest facility. There are consequences to packages just sitting right now too. They are doing "last in, first out" right now, so there are a TON of packages from Nov that can't move at all until they move the newer packages out of the way.

It's really not your fault, you didn't drop the ball.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 27, 2020, 11:03:33 AM
I'm so sore from the last two days :( Plus right now I have the hiccups and they're annoying and giving me a headache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 28, 2020, 08:22:29 AM
Got woken up at 5 this morning by ALL the smoke alarms in our house going off (there are at least 3 on each level, including the basement).  The cause?  The detector in my parents' room is faulty.  It was installed in 1999 and should have been replaced before now (I think they should all be replaced so we know when they were done IMO) and because they're all connected as a security feature, when one gets triggered for any reason, they ALL go off--if you ignore the chirruping when the battery dies it will trigger them all, too.  Not how I wanted to wake up the morning I have to go back to work after being off for 2 weeks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2020, 11:49:44 AM
Today is a horrible  day. :wail: :wail:  :wail:  :wail:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 28, 2020, 12:08:45 PM
Today is a horrible  day. :wail: :wail:  :wail:  :wail:

:( :hug: :deathhug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 28, 2020, 12:35:06 PM
@LadyAmalthea

Eh. Logistics are funky right now. Sometimes the packages have to move farther away because there is no room for them to move to the next closest facility. There are consequences to packages just sitting right now too. They are doing "last in, first out" right now, so there are a TON of packages from Nov that can't move at all until they move the newer packages out of the way.

It's really not your fault, you didn't drop the ball.

Ah. Thanks for explaining. As long as it gets here eventually, I suppose. If I check the tracking now, it says that it departed the Iowa facility 48 hours ago...destined for where exactly, I don't know. Doesn't really matter now; I've explained to my sister why their gifts will be late, so it can take its sweet time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on December 28, 2020, 03:45:28 PM
so tired of snow. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 28, 2020, 05:22:12 PM
Today is a horrible  day. :wail: :wail:  :wail:  :wail:



Ponyfan

:hug: :hug: :hug:
Hang in there.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 28, 2020, 10:46:29 PM
Today is a horrible  day. :wail: :wail:  :wail:  :wail:



Ponyfan
Some days are xxx  :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Thimble on December 29, 2020, 03:30:39 AM
Future Thimble is insisting that I go out to 7-11  and get milk for her tea in the morning.

....but it's cooooold. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2020, 06:41:56 AM
Thank you BlackCurtains, Taffeta and Ponybookworm.  :hug: :hug:

I barely slept last night because what happened yesterday kept replaying in my head.  Two of the gifts I sent out for Christmas were stolen before they reached their destination. :sad:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 29, 2020, 07:40:42 AM
Thank you BlackCurtains, Taffeta and Ponybookworm.  :hug: :hug:

I barely slept last night because what happened yesterday kept replaying in my head.  Two of the gifts I sent out for Christmas were stolen before they reached their destination. :sad:


Ponyfan
That is just terrible xxx

No need for that kind of behaviour from the thieves xxx :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 29, 2020, 08:38:12 AM
Thank you BlackCurtains, Taffeta and Ponybookworm.  :hug: :hug:

I barely slept last night because what happened yesterday kept replaying in my head.  Two of the gifts I sent out for Christmas were stolen before they reached their destination. :sad:


Ponyfan

That's terrible...will the mail service be able to do anything, since it happened before they were delivered?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on December 29, 2020, 01:18:28 PM
Thank you BlackCurtains, Taffeta and Ponybookworm.  :hug: :hug:

I barely slept last night because what happened yesterday kept replaying in my head.  Two of the gifts I sent out for Christmas were stolen before they reached their destination. :sad:


Ponyfan

That's horrible :( I can't believe someone would do that. I echo what Ponybookworm said, and also Lady Amalthea. Is there anything that can be done via the postal service?

My trivial (but probably won't be trivial going forward) complaint for the day.

The dreaded letter came this morning. By which I mean the letter telling me my disability support is due to end and I need to contact them. Last time this happened it was the start of a year of hell. Wish me luck...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 29, 2020, 01:36:36 PM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan, that's terrible. I hope there is something you can do.

Taffeta, oh no! Hopefully everything works out and quickly.


My complaint is I feel very off today. I'm dizzy and lightheaded, shakier than normal, kinda... floaty? I thought I needed something to eat but it made me feel worse. My heart is beating fast. I dunno. Think I'll go lie down.

edit: blegh new page :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2020, 04:16:52 PM
Thank you everyone.  :hug:  Unfortunately I don't think there's much that can be done.   The items that were stolen were 2 gift cards meant for a friend of mine and her daughter.  I always put them in a Christmas card and take it inside the post office to mail because it requires more postage than a regular card due to the weight.    I have sent many gift cards this way and never had someone steal them before.  Yesterday my friend got the Christmas card I sent but the envelope had been sliced open and the gift cards were gone.  :wail:   I will never send gift cards this way again.

I felt so horrible when my friend told me about it. 


@Taffeta I hope it will not become another year like the last and that it will get worked out quickly for you.

@BlackCurtains I'm sorry you're not feeling well. 

Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on December 29, 2020, 07:48:46 PM
Oh, I'm so sorry Ponyfan! I don't think I'll ever mail gift cards again either...I sent Visa gift cards in the mail to my stepkids across the country ($125 each) and was nervous after they told me at the counter that they don't offer insurance on gift cards. I paid for the tracking, because that was all the reassurance I could get. One out of the 3 cards made it on time, and the other 2 finally arrived today (a week later than the first), even though I mailed them all at the same time. The wait was nerve-wracking.

I wonder how someone knew what was in your cards to open them. I'm so sad for you and your friend that this happened.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on December 30, 2020, 01:15:28 AM
Ponyfan, I don't blame you!!! What despicable behaviour!!!

Taff, my fingers are crossed xxx

BC huggles
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 30, 2020, 07:20:36 AM
Yesterday I was asked to help cover part of someone else's shift at work.  I was okay with it until I showed up to do what she is supposed to do.  Her job is to go get the book drop once an hour and help out if the check-out desk gets backed up.  What happened was I showed up to tell the desk people that I was doing her job for the hour and the person who was supposed to be back in the check-in area hadn't shown up yet.  So I went back there to make sure it wasn't too backed up.  What I found was that the last book drop hadn't been emptied yet and the person who was supposed to be clearing that out hadn't done it "because the computer shut down on us."  You can't clean books and empty the book drop bin because the computer wasn't working?  I understand not being able to check the things in but the bin should have been emptied.  Instead of emptying the bins, she had put ALL the cart in order.  Which is something that someone else is supposed to do.  So I ended up doing HER job while I waited for the person who was supposed to be back there to show up.  She was fifteen minutes late.  So instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing, I once again got stuck doing other people's jobs while they screwed around and the work that I am supposed to be doing didn't get done.  And my boss wonders why I don't volunteer to "help" while in the same breath accusing me of not being able to prioritize my work.  I would LOVE to do my job but I have to finish everyone else's work before I'm allowed to.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 30, 2020, 09:37:26 AM
I got into a car accident yesterday. No, not the day before when I was driving for an hour around town, but in my three minute drive to work at the first intersection. >< I was going straight and the other person failed to yield when they made a left turn, I t-boned them. No one was hurt but it feels like we literally JUST got this car! And the insurance company might decide it's not worth fixing and then we'd have to start the used car search all over again.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on December 30, 2020, 10:32:09 AM
^ I'm glad no one was hurt! Car accidents are scary.

Thanks all for yesterday :hug: I'm feeling better today but I sure am tired. I've got so much to do around the house but absolutely no energy. I didn't even take a shower this morning (well, and it was cold, lol) but I might do that later.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2020, 11:40:11 AM
Thank you Lady Amalthea and Ponybookworm.


I mailed another gift card inside a Christmas card and that one has still not arrived but I am hoping it is just taking longer than usual and nothing happened to it. 

I'm not sure how the thief realized that there were gift cards inside as  I had chosen a large Christmas card and placed them inside the card itself  not just in the envelope with the card.  I even glued the envelope shut (I always do because I don’t lick envelopes to seal them).   It still makes me want to cry when I think about it. :cry:   

@Pokeyonekenobie, I'm sorry that happened to you. 


@tailrustedtealeaf I'm glad you're okay. 

@BlackCurtains, I'm glad you're feeling better today.

 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 01, 2021, 10:28:25 AM
I asked about getting one of the stolen gift cards replaced today and although the person I spoke to was very sympathetic she said that the store can't do anything because my receipt doesn't have enough of the card number to  be able to replace it/confirm it it's already been used.  I knew that might be the answer I would get but it was still disappointing to hear.


Other complaints for today:

iTunes decided my computer was a new device due to an update a couple of weeks ago even though it is the computer I always use for iTunes. This was not an issue until today when I tried to purchase a couple of episodes of an anime.  They would not download to my iPod.  I knew there was a way to make it work but I had to look it up because I couldn't remember how to do it.  I had to go in to the iTunes settings and change something because iTunes thought it was on a new device and switched to the default setting.


Also I found a new book I wanted at the bookstore but it's release date is Tuesday.  I knew if I tried to buy it, the book would be taken away at the register (This has happened to me a few times. ) plus I didn't want to get one of the employees in trouble that put it out early.


Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 01, 2021, 10:40:33 AM
Sorry the store couldn't help you, Ponyfan :(

My complaint is my PC won't import videos from my camera anymore for some reason. The option to "import from camera/scanner" isn't even there. Well, Paint has it still but it doesn't support avi files so...

I'll need to use my old MacBook to import the video, email it to myself and hope it'll import to Media player. How annoying.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 02, 2021, 04:13:19 AM
I ended up locked out of the house this morning and had to trek into town to borrow my dad's keys. Not exactly a stunning start to the year. I am very much feeling this at the moment:
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Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 02, 2021, 03:28:30 PM
Thanks BlackCurtains.  I'm pretty sure trying to get the companies to replace the cards is a lost cause now.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: StarCyrin on January 02, 2021, 11:58:49 PM
I'm tired but I don't wanna go to sleep cause when I got to sleep tomorrow will come quicker... I have to work tomorrow and it's my birthday... of course the one dang day they have me working is my birthday.  Not a brilliant start to 2021.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 03, 2021, 09:19:35 PM
When you’re still waiting on a small package a month later, and are trying to find the original seller just to make sure it did ship, this is one of your grails, and the seller has seemingly gone entirely off the map...and y’know, just general anxiety and depression is creeping up again. 2021 is off to a roaring start guys.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 04, 2021, 10:45:58 AM
Two things today.

One - people complaining about Brexit impairing companies shipping to the UK. Well duh. That's what you voted for. Shut up and deal with it. We have to.

Two - starting the rigmarole of dealing with my disability claim this morning. They have over 200 pages of evidence on my file but we had to still give all the information from scratch again and I expect the form next week. The one blessing is that there can't be a face to face assessment in the current situation, but a phone assessment basically prevents me from speaking for myself, so that's great.

I don't have high hopes of being treated any more like a human being than the last time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 05, 2021, 02:53:53 AM
Sorry that you have to deal with that, Taffeta. :hug:

My complaint is that I can't work up the motivation to start blogging again. I made plans and set a goal to make a start on it, but it hasn't happened yet because even when the desire to do it is there, I inevitably end up getting nervous at the last minute and not going through with it. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on January 05, 2021, 03:45:00 AM
My back hurts and I didn't sleep well. -_- Stayed up for a couple of hours, did some stretching / light exercising, then went back to sleep. Feeling a bit better now, physically at least. Although I did manage to pour oatmillk into my glass of water instead of the coffee cup. :doh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on January 05, 2021, 04:15:54 AM
Wishing you all the best Taffeta, & may the process go smoothly (though I doubt it). Hang in there xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 05, 2021, 11:07:57 AM
The PERFECT font for a project doesn't have apostrophes or dashes and I need them.   :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 05, 2021, 11:54:50 AM
Oof, Taffeta. I wish you luck.

My complaint is my sister. I've been asking her since last week to pick me up and take me to my parents place so I can do my laundry. Her kids and some of their dogs are visiting for a while, and they have been making plans. I understand that. I really do. But I'm only 7 miles away and I need a shower and have no clean clothes. She keeps telling me, oh yeah I'll come get you, and then later changing her mind. Yesterday, I asked her to pick up my meds from the pharmacy. Instead of going herself she let my dad do it. My dad is very frail and he's half blind and 1, shouldn't be driving and 2, I asked her not him. She's so lazy and I can't count on her for anything.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 05, 2021, 06:42:40 PM
Thanks all. Hooves crossed.

Oof, Taffeta. I wish you luck.


Yeah. I know absolutely you know absolutely what it's all about >< But we keep fighting.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 06, 2021, 02:32:48 PM
US iTunes always responds a little slower than usual when I have to search for a song in a language other than English. It eventually begins working but there is pause that doesn’t occur when I search for other songs.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 06, 2021, 02:40:41 PM
Two minor complaints.

One, Netflix put the Uk costs up. Thanks, Netflix.

Two, CR was behaving really stupidly the other night with the series ReLife, which is a series I enjoy watching. On the app it would only give me the English dub ( :shocked: ) but on the website the Japanese is still there? So I could watch it on the website on my PC and my tablet but it wouldn't work on the fire TV.

HOWEVER when I had watched an ep in Japanese, on the fire TV stick it showed up as a past viewed episode and now I can watch in Japanese again although the menu is still missing?

...Get your stuff together, CR. Seriously, I only pay your monthly ransom so I can watch anime in Japanese :P

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 06, 2021, 03:01:32 PM
I had issues with Crunchyroll recently too.  I was trying to watch Free in Japanese but Crunchyroll was automatically selecting the dubbed version.  I had to go to the info page and manually select Japanese but since I was trying to figure it out, it still assumed that I wanted the dub.  Once I watched the first episode in Japanese CR has moved on to the next episode in Japanese instead of going back to the dub.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 06, 2021, 07:35:53 PM
Argh! :argh:

The ants have found me! I'm not even safe on the second story! Thankfully, it's just the tiny sugar ants. They're on my nightstand... and I just crushed one running across my tablet :mad:

I'm not sure if they're in the garbage can, they're so hard to see. I don't have any bug spray left either. I was going to get some when I go shopping next week. Ugh. I hate ants.

edit: Annnnd I somehow managed to take my morning medicine for tomorrow instead of my night meds. They're even in an AM/PM pill box!!! How did I do this? I'll blame the ants for upsetting me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 06, 2021, 07:55:03 PM
Two minor complaints.

One, Netflix put the Uk costs up. Thanks, Netflix.


They're increasing their prices over here too. i'm not sure if its still worth it since i mostly just watch old sitcoms.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 06, 2021, 09:56:42 PM
I wanted to buy something on eBay and was trying to pay with my debit card as always when it suddenly turned out that apparently now my bank requires me to log into my user account to verify every online payment with the card - which I could sort of understand even though it takes away the whole convenience of paying with a card, but then when I tried to log in on the embedded page, it turned out that the browser couldn't display it and the transaction was rejected :argh: Luckily I had enough money in my PayPal balance so I just paid with PayPal instead. At least I managed to log into my user account and change the settings to verify card payments with a text message instead, which isn't very convenient either but at least I can live with that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on January 07, 2021, 03:39:40 AM
Anti-depressants making me lose interest in everything
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 07, 2021, 05:04:19 AM
Looks like UK folks now need to pay extra tax at point-of-sale on worldwide purchases on Ebay & Aliexpress, even for small values, I will post a new topic about it, but it took me my surprise...

Post Merge: January 07, 2021, 05:05:25 AM

Looks like UK folks now need to pay extra tax at point-of-sale on worldwide purchases on Ebay & Aliexpress, even for small values, I will post a new topic about it, but it took me my surprise...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 07, 2021, 07:42:58 AM
I’ve had terrible trouble with my asthma the last several days. I’ve been using my rescue inhaler and nebulizer almost around the clock for at least 2 days. I can tell when the medicine starts to wear off because I will begin to have another attack. :sad: I am really sensitive to atmospheric changes and it was very windy yesterday.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 08, 2021, 01:16:00 PM
I managed to find where the ants were coming from and put a few drops of peppermint oil there. That seemed to stop them but I still wish I had bug spray so I could do the windows and door. I'm all paranoid now that more will find their way in.

I had to drop off my rent check and decided to check my mail too. The office is across my apartment and the mailboxes are about a building length down the street. I almost collapsed on my way back. My back and legs just don't want to work sometimes. I had to stop and sit on my steps before walking up the stairs.

A package I've been waiting for says it delivered today, but I don't have it. I'm thinking it went to one of the other units, which is frustrating. My aforementioned back and legs aren't going to let me go to the other apartments to check. Not today. If no one comes by I'll try tomorrow. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 08, 2021, 02:30:57 PM
I don't know if it works, as I only tried it as an outdoor experiment once, but I have heard that if you sprinkle cinnamon or cayenne pepper down to make a barrier around your house (or at least across the area they are getting in), ants won't cross it. I put some cinnamon on the sidewalk once, and the ants did seem to avoid it.

My trivial complaint...my son and I have not been getting along. He had me in tears both last night and this morning, and I'm not usually that thin-skinned. I'd expect this kind of behavior from a teenager, but not a 5-year-old.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 09, 2021, 11:14:23 AM
I went back to the bookstore yesterday to buy the book I wanted that the bookstore had put out before its release date.  The book was out of stock.  :sad:  I know eventually it will be restocked but this is not the first time that I've found a book put out too early that I had to make another trip to the store to purchase after the release date.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on January 10, 2021, 09:10:42 PM
I am being stalked and verbally harassed by a local at my workplace. :cry: He is known for being a dangerous character, too - I don't know why the hell he hasn't been arrested yet. Thank God I have a team of strong women who have my back. We're done with his crap.

Definitely not a trivial complaint by any means, but I don't want to make a full thread for it. Just needed to get it off my chest.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on January 10, 2021, 11:28:40 PM
I am being stalked and verbally harassed by a local at my workplace. :cry: He is known for being a dangerous character, too - I don't know why the hell he hasn't been arrested yet. Thank God I have a team of strong women who have my back. We're done with his crap.

Definitely not a trivial complaint by any means, but I don't want to make a full thread for it. Just needed to get it off my chest.
Glad you have strong women to support you xxx That is a truly horrible thing to do to a person what he is doing to you
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on January 11, 2021, 07:11:06 AM
Yikes. Stay safe, Pheasant!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 11, 2021, 07:48:25 AM
I am being stalked and verbally harassed by a local at my workplace. :cry: He is known for being a dangerous character, too - I don't know why the hell he hasn't been arrested yet. Thank God I have a team of strong women who have my back. We're done with his crap.

Definitely not a trivial complaint by any means, but I don't want to make a full thread for it. Just needed to get it off my chest.

Document everything he does in detail. This happened to me over a decade ago, and it escalated to breaking and entering my home while I was taking night classes an hour away, and eventually an attempt to run me over in a dark parking lot. When I had to face my stalker in court, he didn't stand a chance with the judge due to my detailed accounts of his forays. Please, please take care of yourself. I'm glad you have a good support network!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 11, 2021, 07:49:34 AM
Stay safe, pheasant.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 11, 2021, 09:50:15 AM
That's awful, Pheasant :( I'm sorry you're going through that. Stay safe.


My complaint is I ordered groceries to be delivered. One of my items was a plastic jug of tomato juice. It was substituted for two large cans. I don't think I have anything to put the juice in after I open the can. You're not supposed to leave stuff in cans after opening, even in the fridge. I'm not sure what I'm going to do...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 11, 2021, 03:29:03 PM
Oh Pheasant, that's awful, yes DO document everything, make sure you have witnesses too (where possible). LadyAmalthea, I never knew you went through this, & that it went as far as it did - what a living nightmare!!!!  :shocked:

Complaint du jour: missing out on getting 5kg dumbbells in Aldi because it was their "weekly special" at the start of Jan (the time I stayed home!) and they sold out in both the stores I later visited & online; got a weedy set of 2kg to slowly build my strength up (this time last year I was pressing 15kg in each hand, I'll get back up to fitness again soon, now that my broken finger has healed).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 11, 2021, 05:13:27 PM
Pheasant - take care of yourself and good luck resolving the situation. Glad you have people looking out for you.

...It's raining.

I don't want rain, sky. I want SNOW.

Wretched British winters.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 11, 2021, 10:59:22 PM
Updated Ubuntu and no longer does drag/drop to/from desktop work.
Why, just why.
And I can't find any stable extensions or anything to fix it...
 :dumbpc:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 12, 2021, 05:53:24 AM


...It's raining.

I don't want rain, sky. I want SNOW.

Wretched British winters.


I wish I could send you some snow.  :snowball:

 


I feel absolutely awful today and I'm not sure why.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on January 12, 2021, 06:49:39 AM
Thanks, everyone. I'm running out the door and will have to update this later, but the TL;DR version is that multiple police reports were made. Apparently a lot of people heard when he was cussing me out the other night.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 12, 2021, 07:33:23 AM
Pheasant: good, I'm glad there is something on record now. Hopefully he will just stop if he thinks people are watching him and he won't get away with it. Stay safe!

Glitterball: yes, definitely the stuff nightmares are made of. Seems like it was another lifetime ago now, and it's been years since I've had a nightmare about it, but I'll probably always look over my shoulder and keep a low internet profile.

Trivial complaint: I've needed to pick up a prescription for days. My son gets dropped off at school at 8, and the pharmacy doesn't open until 9. We don't live in town. I really don't want to drive around wasting gas for an hour with 2 2-year-olds until I can pick it up...we already spend way too much time in the car.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on January 12, 2021, 09:12:27 AM
Thanks, everyone. I'm running out the door and will have to update this later, but the TL;DR version is that multiple police reports were made. Apparently a lot of people heard when he was cussing me out the other night.
That same lot of people are restoring my faith in humanity xxx And you still have my hugs & Bakana the Sharky's snuggles xxx (she's a sharky so nasties shouldn't mess)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 12, 2021, 11:57:54 AM
That's good you got some reports in, Pheasant!


My complaint is the weather. We're coming off a cold front and it's rainy (which I don't mind) but that makes it humid and my body can't decide if it's cold or wants to sweat. I was freezing all day yesterday until it got dark, then I had to turn my fans on. I have the fan on now and the windows open and it's cold air blowing in but it's still stuffy in the room. Ugh. Humidity makes everything worse. The good news is another strong cold front is coming and should sweep the state on Friday. Also, since I'm not running the A/C my electric bill is practically nothing :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 12, 2021, 04:26:45 PM
Sick and tired of Target saying they have the new Cadance when they do not actually.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 12, 2021, 06:25:33 PM
husband won't stop listening to banjo music.  aauuuuuugh no more banjo
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 13, 2021, 05:01:41 PM
I accidentally knocked over a framed print my step dad gave me and glass went everywhere  :cry:
Then I had to get the cat in her carrier so my sister could take her to the vet and she attacked me so bad I have a cast on my arm now...

Post Merge: January 13, 2021, 05:30:16 PM

Aaand now a line in the dishwasher broke and we can't have any of the water on in the house or it sprays all over the living room...yes even the ceiling is dripping.
What the heck.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 13, 2021, 07:31:19 PM
husband won't stop listening to banjo music.  aauuuuuugh no more banjo

 XD My husband did that with bagpipe music the other night.

My trivial complaint: I was supposed to pick up a prescription today and turns out my out-of-pocket cost was $665.00. I really, really need the medicine, but there is no way I'm paying that. I seriously want to cry. Big pharma sucks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 14, 2021, 09:47:38 AM
I keep waking up about 4 hours into my sleep and unable to get back to rest after, and good lord is it leaving me tired during the day :zzz: I want to take a nap later but I'm sure if I do I'll end up sleeping for hours on end!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 14, 2021, 10:28:38 AM
My mouse keeps jumping around. Uh, my PC mouse, not a mouse mouse. I changed the batteries and cleaned out some cat hair that was in the optical thingy and it's still being jumpy. It's a gaming mouse and wasn't cheap... I've had it for maybe 3 years? They should last longer than that, shouldn't they?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 14, 2021, 11:17:09 AM
Microwave has died.


Since I can't use the cooker, this is a very big issue for me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 15, 2021, 07:09:40 AM
Well, I planned out how to get my work done for today so of course someone else called out and now I have to do their work instead of mine.  Again.  Why do I bother?  If I don't get my work done, I get in trouble and I'm told I don't know how to manage my time.  If I refuse to cover the other person's work so I can get mine done, I get told I'm not a team player and get in trouble.  I can't win.  It's so frustrating.   :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 15, 2021, 07:50:18 AM
Today has not been a good day so far.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 15, 2021, 09:19:05 AM
I always stumble upon this chart of body types in one of my art books. Why is it now that I’m looking specifically for that chart, I can’t find it?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 15, 2021, 09:46:54 AM
Grr having to pay VAT again at 20 percent when buying stuff from Ali Express....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 15, 2021, 11:50:33 AM
I slipped on a patch of ice yesterday and now my legs and toes are sore :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on January 15, 2021, 12:01:20 PM
I slipped on a patch of ice yesterday and now my legs and toes are sore :(
Aww... I hope you feel better soon.



I let my dog out and 10 min later we heard her screaming and yelping.  I ran out so fast!  But she came right inside with her tail wagging.  She has no signs of injury.  I can't find anything out back that would hurt her.  Now I'm nervous to let her out.   :|
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 15, 2021, 12:12:42 PM
I slipped on a patch of ice yesterday and now my legs and toes are sore :(
I’m sorry to hear that.

I am so frustrated right now.  :cry:  My dad bought a computer program that he doesn’t know how to use and I’ve spent the entire day working with it. I don’t mind helping him with technology but he didn’t like any of my suggestions and kept telling me “I want to do it this way”  and then when I did it that way he decided that he didn’t like it so I had to start over. After that he decided that he wanted it done the first way again.

I love my parents but sometimes I wish they would leave the technology stuff to me and not try to be helpful.  If my dad had just let me handle the computer program I would probably be done by now instead of still working on it.

I have been in a good mood today so that has probably made the situation worse.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 15, 2021, 12:27:07 PM
I was waiting to be picked up from the eye doctor sitting on one of their benches outside. An older man was on the other bench. A lady came out with a walker and wanted to sit by the older man but he pointed at me and said "she should give up her seat". I said that just because I'm still young doesn't mean I don't have a disability myself and offered the lady to sit next to me.

I hate invisible illnesses and people who assume I must be healthy and fine by looking at me. It happens a lot in waiting rooms because I'm usually the youngest person there. I can feel the judging eyes on me. Bah.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 15, 2021, 12:44:03 PM
I was waiting to be picked up from the eye doctor sitting on one of their benches outside. An older man was on the other bench. A lady came out with a walker and wanted to sit by the older man but he pointed at me and said "she should give up her seat". I said that just because I'm still young doesn't mean I don't have a disability myself and offered the lady to sit next to me.

I hate invisible illnesses and people who assume I must be healthy and fine by looking at me. It happens a lot in waiting rooms because I'm usually the youngest person there. I can feel the judging eyes on me. Bah.

It really gets to me when people do that. I remember one time my mom was having trouble walking for an extended period of time and got an electric cart to shop in the store. There was another lady that was asking for an electric cart and when she saw my mom had one she gave my mom a nasty look because my didn’t look like someone that needed  an electric cart. I’ve never forgotten it.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 15, 2021, 01:34:56 PM
And someone else called out this afternoon so I have to cover THEIR stuff now.  Gee, why is my work getting more and more backed up?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 15, 2021, 01:46:19 PM
And someone else called out this afternoon so I have to cover THEIR stuff now.  Gee, why is my work getting more and more backed up?

I’m sorry this keeps happening to you. :(

I had a wardrobe malfunction. Luckily I was home and not out when it happened. It was quite surprising when part of my clothing literally came apart.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 16, 2021, 02:11:34 AM
Yet more emails from Disney telling me to consider booking a cruise/holiday soon!

Stop it! We don't yet know how things will turn out in the next 12 months!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 16, 2021, 06:28:50 AM
We ran out of milk and the next delivery from the milkman isn't until Tuesday, so I had to venture out down to the Co-op to get some more. It's only about two minutes down the road but it's a claustrophobic, cramped place and it's unpleasant at the best of times. Today, however, there were really rude people in there, completely ignoring the one-way system and barging about like angry bulls, so it was even worse. :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 16, 2021, 02:34:42 PM
I'm extremely annoyed at my broken down body today. Mentally and emotionally I'm in a great mood but my stupid body doesn't want to do anything. I've been trying to clean up the kitchen and pantry all day. I'd like to get this junk off the floor so I can mop. My brain tells me 'okay, go!' and as soon as I do one tiny little thing my back and legs are causing pain and giving out and I have to sit down again. I did sit in a chair while I organized the pantry but I have other things to put in there and I'll have to carry them and walk. Like, 15 feet. It's in the hallway. Right there. But noooooooooo that's just too much for my body to handle! :mad: :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on January 16, 2021, 04:06:51 PM
We ran out of milk and the next delivery from the milkman isn't until Tuesday, so I had to venture out down to the Co-op to get some more. It's only about two minutes down the road but it's a claustrophobic, cramped place and it's unpleasant at the best of times. Today, however, there were really rude people in there, completely ignoring the one-way system and barging about like angry bulls, so it was even worse. :facepalm:
This is why when I have to go it's either just after opening or just before closing. Nice & quiet, almost nobody but staff & everybody gives distance.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 17, 2021, 01:19:32 AM
Trivial complaint: there is a hole somewhere in my (newish) trainers that lets in water when I go outside, making my socks wet and my toes feel cold...


I'm extremely annoyed at my broken down body today. Mentally and emotionally I'm in a great mood but my stupid body doesn't want to do anything.


Take it easy on yourself, there are good and bad days. You went to the effort to tidy your pantry, so that is a WIN! You made a good start, moving those other things can wait. Small steps! :)

Miniature Sheep, some customers are just plain selfish, as Ponybookworm says, sometimes going at quieter times is best to avoid them bumping into you, but when you run out of something you need to go asap, eh? When I do my "big" shop, using my car to transport the heavy things, I stock up on fresh milk and also that longer-keeping Cravendale milk to store in the back of the fridge. We get through a LOT of milk in our household! Last year, my husband saw someone locally was getting rid of their little old fridge, we collected it & it now lives in our garage as our "lockdown" fridge, it has been very handy for storing our fresh food, saving us the need to make extra trips to the shops.



Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 17, 2021, 07:57:10 AM
I hate how all those paywall news websites always assume that just because you want to read one paid article, it means that you are willing to enter a committed long-term relationship with them. Sure, I don't mind paying just like I will pay for a physical newspaper, but why would I want to register an account tied to my e-mail, provide my personal data, enter my credit card number, read and agree to the Terms and Conditions, read and agree to the Privacy Policy, read and agree to the Clickbait Policy, receive a newsletter to my inbox that I need to actively unsubscribe from, and then have to remember to cancel before the end of the current billing period just so that they don't charge me for another month/year. I mean, would it hurt them so much if I could just, say, send a text message to a premium number and receive a one-time code that I would enter so that I can read that one particular article and then be on my merry way? Seriously, all those online news agencies need to realize that I only wanted to read their stupid article because it happened to be one of the results that popped up on Google when I searched for some story, not because I find their journalism to be that much more special than everyone else's. [rant over]
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 17, 2021, 08:54:57 AM
I'm extremely annoyed at my broken down body today. Mentally and emotionally I'm in a great mood but my stupid body doesn't want to do anything.
Take it easy on yourself, there are good and bad days. You went to the effort to tidy your pantry, so that is a WIN! You made a good start, moving those other things can wait. Small steps! :)

Thanks :) Looking at the kitchen today, I guess I did do a lot yesterday. I think I can get it finished.


My complaint is allergies :bawl: My eyes are itchy and there's a lot of pressure in my sinuses. Even though it's winter something is always blooming here and it rained all day Friday, so everything is feeling fresh and renewed, flinging pollen everywhere.


Edit: My evening complaint is ants in the kitchen! They were in my cats food bowls. It's the tiny ants again. I'm calling maintenance tomorrow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 18, 2021, 05:55:48 AM
I was waiting to be picked up from the eye doctor sitting on one of their benches outside. An older man was on the other bench. A lady came out with a walker and wanted to sit by the older man but he pointed at me and said "she should give up her seat". I said that just because I'm still young doesn't mean I don't have a disability myself and offered the lady to sit next to me.

I hate invisible illnesses and people who assume I must be healthy and fine by looking at me. It happens a lot in waiting rooms because I'm usually the youngest person there. I can feel the judging eyes on me. Bah.

You have my sympathies. I was once kicked out of the disabled area of a train to make room for a bike.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 18, 2021, 07:38:10 AM
I popped into Aldi to pick up a handful of things yesterday, and thought my bill seemed a little on the high side, but didn't question it. Now I realize I accidentally bought Greek yogurt instead of the regular vanilla whole milk variety I usually buy...it was $6! I'm irritated because I'm low on cash this week. The worst part is, I hate Greek yogurt. Hopefully my kids won't know the difference and will eat it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 18, 2021, 10:22:08 AM
I was at the store today and an employee approached me saying he thought I was his friend. What really took me by surprise is that the man that I've never seen before said my name.  I think it had to just be a lucky guess that his friend happens to have the same name as mine but it made me really uncomfortable and I was too shocked to by this fact to reply to him that that was my name.  Once he talked to me he said that he was mistaken and I wasn't the person he thought I was.  I'm sure he meant no harm and made an honest mistake.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: brightberry on January 18, 2021, 10:26:22 AM
I hate how all those paywall news websites always assume that just because you want to read one paid article, it means that you are willing to enter a committed long-term relationship with them. Sure, I don't mind paying just like I will pay for a physical newspaper, but why would I want to register an account tied to my e-mail, provide my personal data, enter my credit card number, read and agree to the Terms and Conditions, read and agree to the Privacy Policy, read and agree to the Clickbait Policy, receive a newsletter to my inbox that I need to actively unsubscribe from, and then have to remember to cancel before the end of the current billing period just so that they don't charge me for another month/year. I mean, would it hurt them so much if I could just, say, send a text message to a premium number and receive a one-time code that I would enter so that I can read that one particular article and then be on my merry way? Seriously, all those online news agencies need to realize that I only wanted to read their stupid article because it happened to be one of the results that popped up on Google when I searched for some story, not because I find their journalism to be that much more special than everyone else's. [rant over]

I hate that too. Even our local paper is basically call to cancel.  :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 18, 2021, 11:02:10 AM
Kid wanted me to set up a keyboard to learn to play the new Shera theme "Warrior".

She then had a melt down because she couldn't get it all straight away (simple notes, but she is inexperienced at the piano and wants to run before taking small steps!)  She had a cry and I tidied the keyboard away... she can try again another time...   :whistle: :dizzy:

I was at the store today and an employee approached me saying he thought I was his friend. What really took me by surprise is that the man that I've never seen before said my name.  I think it had to just be a lucky guess that his friend happens to have the same name as mine but it made me really uncomfortable and I was too shocked to by this fact to reply to him that that was my name.  Once he talked to me he said that he was mistaken and I wasn't the person he thought I was.  I'm sure he meant no harm and made an honest mistake.


Ponyfan

 :shocked: oh that's creepy, I would be freaked out, too!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 18, 2021, 11:15:28 AM
I need to find a way to organize spices in my kitchen. I keep the most used ones in a drawer so they're usually not a problem. but others that i don't use often are just in a plastic tub in the pantry. But i still lose track of them and sometimes i buy duplicates on accident because i don't know what i have. I need to look for an organizer but all of the ones i see are too big or too small. and i have enough stuff on the counter.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 18, 2021, 05:06:51 PM
This is an extremely trivial complaint but I'm really annoyed :mad:

I have a Smart TV in my bedroom but a plain TV in the living room and I have my PS3 set up with all the apps I like to watch. For whatever reason, I can't watch Hulu in the living room. The overlay stays on the screen no matter what I want to watch. It's very annoying. I don't know if the PS3 controller has something to do with it, but even when the controller turns off, the overlay doesn't go away. I had been watching Hulu in the bedroom so out here I switched to Prime Video. Then when I went back to my bedroom I put on Prime Video to continue and it froze! Just Prime Video. Everything else was working. Argh!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 18, 2021, 06:53:34 PM
I ate some Flamin' Hot Cheetos today and apparently my intestines disagree with my choices... :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 19, 2021, 06:21:22 AM
I ate some Flamin' Hot Cheetos today and apparently my intestines disagree with my choices... :yikes:

I bought those recently but haven't tried them yet, are they really that intense?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on January 19, 2021, 06:49:13 AM
I ate some Flamin' Hot Cheetos today and apparently my intestines disagree with my choices... :yikes:

I bought those recently but haven't tried them yet, are they really that intense?

They’re pretty spicy! I still prefer them to regular Cheetos though, they have a better flavor.

While we’re on the topic, my dad will NOT stop making spicy food for dinner. I love spicy food, and they are really good dishes, but OMG my stomach needs a few days to recover every now and then. He apparently has intestines of steel, idk how he is NOT bothered by so much spice
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 19, 2021, 08:08:28 AM
I ate some Flamin' Hot Cheetos today and apparently my intestines disagree with my choices... :yikes:

I bought those recently but haven't tried them yet, are they really that intense?

They’re pretty spicy! I still prefer them to regular Cheetos though, they have a better flavor.

While we’re on the topic, my dad will NOT stop making spicy food for dinner. I love spicy food, and they are really good dishes, but OMG my stomach needs a few days to recover every now and then. He apparently has intestines of steel, idk how he is NOT bothered by so much spice

Definitely a better flavour--I just can't eat them too fast or my stomach goes nuts! Apparently they even make extra spicy Flamin' Hots... I could never :yikes:

I woke up way too early again and I just know I'm gonna be all messed up today :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 19, 2021, 09:37:03 AM
Amazon delivered all three of my packages to someone else. I know because of the picture the driver sent. UGH. My curtains and my cats new tree is in those boxes! Hopefully, whoever got them will take them to office and the manager will contact me. Soon. I was really looking forward to those packages :(

Update: The lady who received my packages says they're too heavy for her to take to the office. She called Amazon and they refused to re-deliver them. It's too far for me to walk and my sister doesn't feel good today to give me a ride *sigh* So I'm going to pick them up tomorrow.

2nd update: This lady opened my packages :blink: She said Amazon said she could keep them so she opened them to see if she could use anything. Like ??? She knew I was coming today. But I only got one package. She said UPS (?) picked the others up. The whole thing is really annoying. And in fact, I think I could have walked it, so it's extra frustrating.

So now I'm waiting to see if the other two packages get re-delivered to me or if I have to tell Amazon I need replacements.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 19, 2021, 10:24:06 AM
Trying to organise my disabiliry claim and turns out the local GP failed to update some information on my record from 16 years ago. It relates to my disability diagnosis being confirmed, so it's very important. I have the confirmation letter. THEY apparently have it, as well. So they know that it should be on my record.

So today they were meant to phone us to say they'd managed to update the record and hopefully sen d me a corrected print out. Did they phone? Nope.

But that may also have been because mum decided that it would be a good idea to tell sister to call at lunchtime instead of this evening because of the delivery...

I have no idea if they tried to call or if they just didn't bother, but I have a deadline on my claim being submitted and right now I am missing an important piece of paperwork because someone didn't do their job 16 years ago.

I could just send the information we have with the confirmation letter, but the DWP on my previous claim cherry picked words from my evidence and discarded the rest. There's a big risk that if I send them the current incorrect form they will use the mistake as a reason to deny my whole claim. Because that's how they operate.

So I am now apprehensively waiting to find out if I will have the documents I need, and if they will be corrected, in time to meet the DWP's deadline.

Bear in mind that the DWP already know I have autism and already know how it affects me. Also that it is permanent. And that they have a court tribunal ruling which supports  that fact. But they still demand I do it over from scratch just in case I have been magically cured in the meantime.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 20, 2021, 05:25:46 PM
I'm sorry, Taffeta. Hang in there!


My complaint is myself. I'm trying to eat healthier and I've been steadily losing weight but honestly not feeling any better. Today has been a hard day and I really wanted to order a pizza. After closing out the tab twice I went ahead and ordered it... and ate the entire thing -_-

Now I feel gross and guilty and I'm not going to sleep well because I've stuffed myself and my stomach can't digest food correctly and it will take 12 hours or more to feel better. Plus, I'm undoing my weight loss. Just... what's wrong with me? :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 20, 2021, 08:21:44 PM
I'm sorry, Taffeta. Hang in there!


My complaint is myself. I'm trying to eat healthier and I've been steadily losing weight but honestly not feeling any better. Today has been a hard day and I really wanted to order a pizza. After closing out the tab twice I went ahead and ordered it... and ate the entire thing -_-

Now I feel gross and guilty and I'm not going to sleep well because I've stuffed myself and my stomach can't digest food correctly and it will take 12 hours or more to feel better. Plus, I'm undoing my weight loss. Just... what's wrong with me? :cloud:

Nothing is "wrong" with you.  :hug:  You just ate more than you should have.  You know that you did it, and next time you're tempted to do the same, you can remember how you felt this time and do it differently next time.  There's nothing wrong with the occasional change up in what you're eating.  I know people that have tried to lose weight eating nothing but green vegetables and chicken.  It works for a while but then they get sick of chicken and green veggies and end up going off the deep end eating true junk food and undo everything (we're talking gaining 10 lbs. on top of what they originally lost) before they try another diet that doesn't work for them.  Keep going and don't beat yourself up over one day of not following a strict diet.

I've been slipping up in my weight loss journey as well because of the holidays and need to get back to counting calories because that seemed to work for me.  I actually haven't tracked what I've been eating since Halloween and have gained back a little weight but I think I can get it back off again if I lay off the holiday food. 

2nd update: This lady opened my packages

Um, intentionally opening other people's mail is a felony offense regardless of if it was misdelivered.  It can have a fine of up to $250,000 and up to 5 years in prison. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on January 21, 2021, 01:30:40 AM
Amazon delivered all three of my packages to someone else. I know because of the picture the driver sent. UGH. My curtains and my cats new tree is in those boxes! Hopefully, whoever got them will take them to office and the manager will contact me. Soon. I was really looking forward to those packages :(

Update: The lady who received my packages says they're too heavy for her to take to the office. She called Amazon and they refused to re-deliver them. It's too far for me to walk and my sister doesn't feel good today to give me a ride *sigh* So I'm going to pick them up tomorrow.

2nd update: This lady opened my packages :blink: She said Amazon said she could keep them so she opened them to see if she could use anything. Like ??? She knew I was coming today. But I only got one package. She said UPS (?) picked the others up. The whole thing is really annoying. And in fact, I think I could have walked it, so it's extra frustrating.

So now I'm waiting to see if the other two packages get re-delivered to me or if I have to tell Amazon I need replacements.
Sorry but GRRRR!!! :enraged: :enraged: :enraged:
If this person KNEW the packages were meant for you ie addressed to you, bought by you etc, they should neither have opened the packages or "claimed" to have sent them elsewhere.
And then, of course, there's that delivery person who got the wrong address...

Post Merge: January 21, 2021, 01:31:09 AM

Trying to organise my disabiliry claim and turns out the local GP failed to update some information on my record from 16 years ago. It relates to my disability diagnosis being confirmed, so it's very important. I have the confirmation letter. THEY apparently have it, as well. So they know that it should be on my record.

So today they were meant to phone us to say they'd managed to update the record and hopefully sen d me a corrected print out. Did they phone? Nope.

But that may also have been because mum decided that it would be a good idea to tell sister to call at lunchtime instead of this evening because of the delivery...

I have no idea if they tried to call or if they just didn't bother, but I have a deadline on my claim being submitted and right now I am missing an important piece of paperwork because someone didn't do their job 16 years ago.

I could just send the information we have with the confirmation letter, but the DWP on my previous claim cherry picked words from my evidence and discarded the rest. There's a big risk that if I send them the current incorrect form they will use the mistake as a reason to deny my whole claim. Because that's how they operate.

So I am now apprehensively waiting to find out if I will have the documents I need, and if they will be corrected, in time to meet the DWP's deadline.

Bear in mind that the DWP already know I have autism and already know how it affects me. Also that it is permanent. And that they have a court tribunal ruling which supports  that fact. But they still demand I do it over from scratch just in case I have been magically cured in the meantime.
Consider my fingers crossed Taff xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 21, 2021, 06:51:23 AM
Amazon delivered all three of my packages to someone else. I know because of the picture the driver sent. UGH. My curtains and my cats new tree is in those boxes! Hopefully, whoever got them will take them to office and the manager will contact me. Soon. I was really looking forward to those packages :(

Update: The lady who received my packages says they're too heavy for her to take to the office. She called Amazon and they refused to re-deliver them. It's too far for me to walk and my sister doesn't feel good today to give me a ride *sigh* So I'm going to pick them up tomorrow.

2nd update: This lady opened my packages :blink: She said Amazon said she could keep them so she opened them to see if she could use anything. Like ??? She knew I was coming today. But I only got one package. She said UPS (?) picked the others up. The whole thing is really annoying. And in fact, I think I could have walked it, so it's extra frustrating.

So now I'm waiting to see if the other two packages get re-delivered to me or if I have to tell Amazon I need replacements.

This happened to me when i first moved. They delivered one of my packages to an empty field because my address was new and not in their system yet. I contacted Amazon and they sent new ones. I just went through the order history where it lets you notify them that a package was never received. Their customer service was surprisingly good. It's not your job to track their packages down.

Also I just ordered groceries and i wanted 3 serrano peppers but instead i ended up with 3 packs of 5-6 peppers each. what am i going to do with all of these peppers!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on January 21, 2021, 02:22:42 PM
Also I just ordered groceries and i wanted 3 serrano peppers but instead i ended up with 3 packs of 5-6 peppers each. what am i going to do with all of these peppers!

I make homemade sriracha when I'm overloaded with peppers in the summer, then freeze small batches for lunches. (I don't really like sriracha sauce, but the homemade kind tastes super good. )

But that reminds me when the grocery people gave me 1 small brussel sprout instead of 1lb.

Sooo.. today I learned that monday was a work holiday, and I didn't know, so I worked. I think they mentioned it like 6+ months ago. A reminder would of been cool...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 21, 2021, 02:33:55 PM
Nothing is "wrong" with you.  :hug:  You just ate more than you should have.  You know that you did it, and next time you're tempted to do the same, you can remember how you felt this time and do it differently next time.  There's nothing wrong with the occasional change up in what you're eating.  I know people that have tried to lose weight eating nothing but green vegetables and chicken.  It works for a while but then they get sick of chicken and green veggies and end up going off the deep end eating true junk food and undo everything (we're talking gaining 10 lbs. on top of what they originally lost) before they try another diet that doesn't work for them.  Keep going and don't beat yourself up over one day of not following a strict diet.

I've been slipping up in my weight loss journey as well because of the holidays and need to get back to counting calories because that seemed to work for me.  I actually haven't tracked what I've been eating since Halloween and have gained back a little weight but I think I can get it back off again if I lay off the holiday food.

Thanks :hug: I bookmarked this page so the next time I crave pizza I can look back and remember that that is NOT a good idea. Even if I don't eat it all in one sitting and saved half for another day, I'm still eating a whole pizza by myself. That's not good.

Good luck with your weight loss too! I'm making vegetable or fruit smoothies everyday with my Nutribullet and having something light for dinner. Trying not to snack, which is easy since there's nothing in the house to snack on :lol:


Regarding my package saga - I got a replacement coming for my cat tree, the box mail-opener-lady says was picked up to be re-delivered to me. Speaking of her, she did open the box I did get but she didn't tamper with anything inside the box. Talking to her I got the impression she wasn't 'all there'. So... I'm letting it slide. I got all my stuff minus the cat tree. The replacement should be here Saturday. We'll see.


Annnnd today's complaint is just it was a bad day and I have a headache, my back and legs hurt, and my allergies are acting up again  -_-

...and I made a new page :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 21, 2021, 02:55:10 PM
Pony mail showed up today...the pony had an undisclosed haircut. It's not the very front piece, but a few plugs back. It looks kind of like she has a mullet. :crazy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2021, 03:44:02 PM
We had snow last night, but it had all melted by this morning. I wanted to go play in it :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on January 21, 2021, 05:21:29 PM
We had snow last night, but it had all melted by this morning. I wanted to go play in it :P

Where I live we had about a week of heavy snowfall and everything was covered with a thick layer of snow, and then it got warmer and started raining, and now there's just gross slush everywhere >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 22, 2021, 06:01:47 AM
Trying to organise my disabiliry claim and turns out the local GP failed to update some information on my record from 16 years ago. It relates to my disability diagnosis being confirmed, so it's very important. I have the confirmation letter. THEY apparently have it, as well. So they know that it should be on my record.

So today they were meant to phone us to say they'd managed to update the record and hopefully sen d me a corrected print out. Did they phone? Nope.

But that may also have been because mum decided that it would be a good idea to tell sister to call at lunchtime instead of this evening because of the delivery...

I have no idea if they tried to call or if they just didn't bother, but I have a deadline on my claim being submitted and right now I am missing an important piece of paperwork because someone didn't do their job 16 years ago.

I could just send the information we have with the confirmation letter, but the DWP on my previous claim cherry picked words from my evidence and discarded the rest. There's a big risk that if I send them the current incorrect form they will use the mistake as a reason to deny my whole claim. Because that's how they operate.

So I am now apprehensively waiting to find out if I will have the documents I need, and if they will be corrected, in time to meet the DWP's deadline.

Bear in mind that the DWP already know I have autism and already know how it affects me. Also that it is permanent. And that they have a court tribunal ruling which supports  that fact. But they still demand I do it over from scratch just in case I have been magically cured in the meantime.

I’m sorry, Taffeta :hug: I hope everything gets worked out correctly.

It’s been a very stressful week for me.


Spoiler
My dad ended up going to the ER on Tuesday. He went to a free standing ER/urgent care instead of one connected to a hospital. He is doing okay now but there were a couple of times I was afraid he would need to go back.


My dad has been extremely demanding this week. Nothing I do is right or pleases him even when I do exactly what he wanted.  He’s also made hurtful comments. I’m trying to overlook it because I know he’s not feeling well but it’s hard. 

Also work ran out of the nice hand sanitizer and replaced it with terrible stuff that is sticky and smells bad.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 22, 2021, 10:44:45 AM
Ponyfan, sorry to hear about -

Spoiler
your Dad being unwell and that his illness is making him act cranky towards you, it's such a difficult thing when a loved one seems to act so hurtfully when all you want to do is try and help!  :hug:

Taffeta, I hope the pen-pushers sort themselves out, that really is NOT on, 16 year old error? Crazy...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 22, 2021, 10:56:24 AM
There was someone screaming for help, sounded like a little kid. I know kids can scream bloody murder for the stupidest reasons, like my 2 yo cousin sounds like he's being killed whenever he's told No. But the tone seemed wrong, so I called in case anyone needed help. I guess it was nothing and I wasted the officers time. I feel really dumb.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 22, 2021, 12:24:34 PM
There was someone screaming for help, sounded like a little kid. I know kids can scream bloody murder for the stupidest reasons, like my 2 yo cousin sounds like he's being killed whenever he's told No. But the tone seemed wrong, so I called in case anyone needed help. I guess it was nothing and I wasted the officers time. I feel really dumb.

But if it had been something terrible and you didn't call in you would have felt awful.  So better safe than sorry and maybe the kid will learn not to scream when it isn't important.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 22, 2021, 12:42:09 PM
New drama starts tonight on TV that I really want to watch but it has very adult content, so not suitable for a young child... so guess who has followed me downstairs and now upstairs to sit with me?
Looks like I'll need to watch this tomorrow morning while she is home-schooling in another room...  >_<


There was someone screaming for help, sounded like a little kid. I know kids can scream bloody murder for the stupidest reasons, like my 2 yo cousin sounds like he's being killed whenever he's told No. But the tone seemed wrong, so I called in case anyone needed help. I guess it was nothing and I wasted the officers time. I feel really dumb.

But if it had been something terrible and you didn't call in you would have felt awful.  So better safe than sorry and maybe the kid will learn not to scream when it isn't important.

Agreed! Better safe than sorry!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 22, 2021, 01:45:49 PM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan :( :hug:


The ants were back in my cat's food :mad: Maintenance came and sprayed the other day but at the time I wasn't sure where the ants were coming from. Turns out they were coming from a wood joint at the top of the door, crawling across the wall, down the side of the door and to the floor by the food. I was able to buy some Raid ant killer at the store yesterday so I sprayed the whole thing all the way around and the door next to it (which is my food pantry - I certainly don't want them going in there!). The doors the food is in front of are for the washer & dryer, that I don't have, so it's just storage for now (incase anyone wondered why I had food by a door).

I hope that takes care of them. I think the tiny sugar/grease ants are too small for some poison to work on them, like the botanical stuff maintenance uses. Raid is a little more deadly :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 22, 2021, 02:25:43 PM
Have to wait tomorrow for two games to download on my PS4, re downloaded Abe’s Odd World New ‘n Tasty and brought Detroit Become Human (a game I wanted when it first came out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 22, 2021, 10:00:09 PM
My brother and his wife are stopping to spend the night on their way through town.  Last time my brother was here it took me 3 hours to clean my bathroom because he doesn't use the toilet so much as mark it as his territory.  My dog leaves less of a mess on the fire hydrant...  :yucky:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 23, 2021, 04:19:09 PM
My brother and his wife are stopping to spend the night on their way through town.  Last time my brother was here it took me 3 hours to clean my bathroom because he doesn't use the toilet so much as mark it as his territory.  My dog leaves less of a mess on the fire hydrant...  :yucky:

I'm sorry, but eww.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 23, 2021, 05:15:10 PM
My brother and his wife are stopping to spend the night on their way through town.  Last time my brother was here it took me 3 hours to clean my bathroom because he doesn't use the toilet so much as mark it as his territory.  My dog leaves less of a mess on the fire hydrant...  :yucky:

I'm sorry, but eww.

It's been an issue so long that my younger brothers sit because they got tired of being blamed for his mess.

Today's complaint it that I have to spin Pokestops in order to get the Pokemon I need in Pokemon Go.  The issue is that I have to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest Pokestops that have the challenge I need. I live in the middle of nowhere but can't suggest Pokestop locations until I level up three more times, which takes forever because I don't have easy access to raids.  If the weather isn't awful tomorrow maybe I'll go for a drive...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 23, 2021, 05:15:55 PM
Package saga conclusion - I got my cat tree today :) Just finished putting it together. Mouse is a little apprehensive but curious. I'm sure she'll try it out soon.


My complaint is I got up super early and thought I'd wait a couple hours to take my day meds... but I forgot. I took them a little bit ago, a few hours before I plan on going to bed. No wonder my stomach has been bothering me and I have a headache that won't go away. Duh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 23, 2021, 05:30:03 PM
And I just found out that there's a special incense event tomorrow for Pokemon Go so I didn't have to spend an hour and a half trying to find the right challenge (that didn't give me the right Pokemon anyway) at Pokestops miles and miles away from my house in the snow today.  Seriously, why can't they make these announcements available on their site instead of making me come across them as I'm googling how to find the Pokemon they want me to catch?  :dumbpc:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 24, 2021, 11:01:50 AM
i wanted to try baking bread for the first time ever but my yeast died. now i have to wait for my grocery order. i miss going to the grocery store. i always forget to buy at least 1 item and this wasn't a problem when i could just make another quick trip. but since the pandemic started i haven't been able to go to the grocery store. my partner has heart disease and is high risk so we're being extra cautious and doing delivery and curbside only for groceries.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on January 24, 2021, 12:35:30 PM
:hug: Ponyfan.

Thanks Glitterball. I have an updated version now and the form is all done bar that (which is coming out of post quarantine tomorrow). Then I can get the monstrosity posted away to the monsters to process and probably ignore. Normal service and all.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 24, 2021, 01:49:19 PM
Thank you everyone.  It's been better the last few days.

Spoiler
The dr said my dad lost a lot of blood

I have been feeling off lately.  Some days I feel great and other days not.  I think I might have had a sinus infection a few weeks ago but it wasn't bad enough to require antibiotics.   

Also the ice maker in the refrigerator burned up either Thursday night or Friday morning.  I opened the fridge to get a bottle of water and noticed water dripping from the freezer.  I opened the freezer to find where the water coming from and water poured out of the freezer.  The leaking water smelled bad.  On Friday my dad found that the inside of the ice maker had burn marks. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 25, 2021, 10:16:13 AM
I don't know if it's my depression or what but I can't get into any new games lately. I have probably 100+ video games on various platforms that I've never started.  Over the last two days I've tried 6 games and only one held my interest for longer than 20 minutes (Farming Simulator 19). The others just make me want to play other games I know well. I was just playing Stranded Deep and I couldn't find any rope for the tutorial and it made me mad. It made me want to play Minecraft instead. There's another game, Kenshi. It was on my Steam wishlist for two years and I finally got it on sale. I really want to get into it but I just can't. Again, it makes me want to play something else, Skyrim. It's really disappointing :( I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 and I have all these potentially great games at my fingertips and I just want to keep playing the same old stuff.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 25, 2021, 10:28:02 AM
Spent the afternoon sewing a quilt together & now I have bust my back!

Not felt like this for a couple of years... going to run myself a hot bath now....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 25, 2021, 04:02:21 PM
In this house you can't use the microwave and the coffee maker at the same time or it throws the breaker. Why
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 25, 2021, 05:18:33 PM
The people I'm closest to are panicking about Covid and calling quarantine and social distancing something we're going to have to do forever... not helping my anxiety, y'all :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on January 27, 2021, 04:31:00 AM
Husband's car up for a service, MOT & replacement of a re-called air bag.
He has to stay home for work & babysit.

I drove the car to the dealership, then walked on to a supermarket nearby. It was raining and I got DRENCHED by some car going fast through a puddle.  >_<

Then I booked a taxi to take me home, I was nervous but it as a big, airy taxi and the driver was masked (me too) and I sat in the back to keep as distanced as poss.

So good to be home again in clean clothes...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 27, 2021, 07:46:44 AM
I’m sorry you got drenched glitterball. :(  I’ve wondered sometimes why some people think it’s fun to speed up through puddles and splash other cars or people on purpose.

I had a bad asthma attack while I was trying to eat breakfast.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 27, 2021, 02:27:38 PM
It's been one of those annoying days where the little things add up.

It was 84 degrees today. There's another cold front coming thankfully. I've been sweaty and miserable all day though. I was supposed to see my doctor today but she called in sick. So I went over to my parents house instead and my mom wanted to get Burger King for lunch (I like the impossible whopper) but when my sister and I got there the dude at the thing said the broiler was broken and the only sandwiches they had were chicken and fish. We ended up going to Taco Bell instead and I ordered the vegetarian crunchwrap. It was soggy.

When I got home there was a note in my door about my water & sewer bill going up by 11 dollars. Also I got a fun little letter from Social Security (more on that in WYP). AND I'm out of veggies for my Nutribullet and my EBT card doesn't kick in till the first.

This whole day was just  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 27, 2021, 03:15:34 PM
I’m sorry your day had been terrible, BlackCurtains. :(

I misjudged the distance turning in to the driveway and hit my dad’s car with mine. I put a dent in my car and scraped the paint on his car.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 27, 2021, 07:16:12 PM
My local shop that carried a good stock of Sylvanian Families shut down, and my local Wal-Mart is godawful for selection... so seeing the new releases on other sites is making me frustrated. They're so cute; too bad I'll probably never see them.

I hope everyone has a better day tomorrow. :lovey:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 27, 2021, 07:57:39 PM
my kitchen sink is leaking and there was water all over the island dripping onto the floor. i can't figure out how to fix the faucet so i have to call a plumber. i really don't want anyone to come into the house because Covid is really bad here. but i need to cook so i need the sink
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 27, 2021, 09:16:59 PM
Everybody’s been in a bad mood all day and now my sisters are arguing over who has what in the bathroom while I am trying to get to sleep and end this horrible day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 27, 2021, 09:32:16 PM
Up late with a sick baby...she is having a 24-hour EEG on top of everything else, so as she is squirming restlessly in my arms, I'm trying to keep the wires from wrapping around her neck. I'm honestly afraid to put her in her crib because of it, even if she would tolerate it. I wish I could give her something to knock her out just to put her out of her misery for a while, but none of the children's medicines I have are for kids under 20 lbs like she is. I hope it isn't the Coronavirus...she was tested 2 weeks ago and it was negative, but things could have changed between then and now.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 28, 2021, 05:47:42 AM
Group hug for everyone having a bad time :grouphug:


Today's complaint is my eczema is flaring up at full force and there's a new spot because four places wasn't enough, I guess.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 28, 2021, 12:02:17 PM
Urrrgghhh, I am so sick of not being able to get a decent night's sleep. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 28, 2021, 01:17:44 PM
I keep getting calls from United Health Care for people that I don't know. I've told them multiple times that I don't know those people and they keep calling.  Someone I talked to told me that she needed the birthday associated with the account in order to take MY number off of it.  Um..hello?  Anyone home in there?  If I don't know these people how on earth would I know their birthdays?

I talked to someone this morning and she was able to remove my phone number from one person's account but apparently not the other person's because I got another automated voice mail (less than 10 minutes later) saying they were going to call in a few days to do a wellness check.   :pullhair:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 28, 2021, 04:53:39 PM
I keep getting calls from United Health Care for people that I don't know. I've told them multiple times that I don't know those people and they keep calling.  Someone I talked to told me that she needed the birthday associated with the account in order to take MY number off of it.  Um..hello?  Anyone home in there?  If I don't know these people how on earth would I know their birthdays?

I talked to someone this morning and she was able to remove my phone number from one person's account but apparently not the other person's because I got another automated voice mail (less than 10 minutes later) saying they were going to call in a few days to do a wellness check.   :pullhair:

That sounds unsettling. i would not give out your birthday. sometimes identity thieves need it to take over your account.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 28, 2021, 05:10:57 PM
I hate blindbags. I got some secret rings ponies and my niece threw a fit because she didn't get Rainbow Dash.
Kids don't even like blind bags! What's the point of them - to make the kid so upset that parents buy more to calm them down?
Awful shady tactic. Making kids cry for money...
/rant
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 29, 2021, 07:13:35 AM
I keep getting calls from United Health Care for people that I don't know. I've told them multiple times that I don't know those people and they keep calling.  Someone I talked to told me that she needed the birthday associated with the account in order to take MY number off of it.  Um..hello?  Anyone home in there?  If I don't know these people how on earth would I know their birthdays?

I talked to someone this morning and she was able to remove my phone number from one person's account but apparently not the other person's because I got another automated voice mail (less than 10 minutes later) saying they were going to call in a few days to do a wellness check.   :pullhair:

That sounds unsettling. i would not give out your birthday. sometimes identity thieves need it to take over your account.

It wasn't my birthday they wanted, they wanted the birthday of the person they were trying to contact, which there was no way I could possibly know.  They didn't listen when I told them that I didn't know who the people were that they thought they were calling.

I hate blindbags. I got some secret rings ponies and my niece threw a fit because she didn't get Rainbow Dash.
Kids don't even like blind bags! What's the point of them - to make the kid so upset that parents buy more to calm them down?
Awful shady tactic. Making kids cry for money...
/rant

I guess if I gave something to one of my niblings and they threw a fit because it wasn't what they wanted I'd either stop giving them things or open it myself and not give it to them unless it was the one they wanted.  It would certainly depend on the child and how big of a tantrum they were having over it.  But I agree that sometimes blind items are very frustrating, especially when you just need that one thing.  But I also find the mystery of them fun so I guess I'm just on the fence about them altogether.   :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 29, 2021, 08:07:33 AM
I hate using the telephone :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 29, 2021, 02:33:27 PM
Me too. Phone calls are the worst especially because I live in a rural area and don't get reception.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on January 29, 2021, 08:22:00 PM
I'm sick of my nose being stuffed up... and I was supposed to get a package by today but DHL never contacted me and it didn't show up. Maybe next week :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 30, 2021, 08:53:23 AM
There’s a dust storm right now where I live. I can’t go outside until the dust dies down because I have asthma.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on January 30, 2021, 02:08:52 PM
I cut up and removed the seeds from some serrano and jalepeno peppers and now my hands feel like they are burning. seriously if you're working with peppers wear gloves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on January 30, 2021, 02:54:31 PM
I cut up and removed the seeds from some serrano and jalepeno peppers and now my hands feel like they are burning. seriously if you're working with peppers wear gloves.

Whatever you do, don't touch your eyes! (Ask me how I know :cry:) Scrub under your fingernails, too...it lurks under there no matter how well you think you've washed your hands.

My trivial complaint: I just can't seem to get a painted symbol right on a pony restore I'm doing. I'm so frustrated!

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on January 30, 2021, 04:29:36 PM
I split coffee everywhere! Thank goodness I invested in a waterproof keyboard...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on January 31, 2021, 05:52:17 AM
I think my dad borrowed the phone charger that my mom and I always use and didn't put it back where he found it.  When I started looking for the charger Friday night I couldn't find and it didn't turn up yesterday either.  My dad has a bad habit of using things and then not just putting it down somewhere else. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 31, 2021, 07:40:23 AM
I bought two variety packs of Starbucks coffee to try and the one I'm drinking is really good and strong. I have this Folgers coffee that I bought before I got the Starbucks and compared to that the Folgers is so weak and tastes watered down no matter how many scoops I put in. I don't want it to go to waste so I'm drinking it but man, it's not very good :poke:

...new page! :shakefist:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 01, 2021, 06:24:58 PM
I've just been feeling down lately. i think its post holiday blues. it's cold outside.

i've also been missing home and my friends. it's been about a year and a half since i've been home and i just feel really disconnected from everyone. also my parents told me one of my favorite restaurants back home closed over a year ago and that made me really sad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 01, 2021, 09:05:16 PM
I found a mouse poo in my bathroom.  I'm pretty positive it wasn't there this morning before I left for work.  I set a trap but I'm conflicted because I don't want the mouse in my living space but I also don't want to kill it, but I don't have a no-kill trap.  Plus, if I don't kill it, it will just keep coming back.  :yuki:  I live in the country so I know that there are critters--I just wish they would stay outside instead of coming in.  It hasn't even been a cold winter, we've been at or above freezing for most of the month.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 03, 2021, 05:01:46 PM
It's not been a good day and I'm feeling worse as it goes on. My throat hurts and I've been sneezing a lot. It could be allergies... the tree pollen is moderate and there is a tree right outside my (open) window, so.

Also my back and neck are still hurting from my doctor visit from Monday. They wanted an EKG and I had to lie down on a flat examine table and the EKG wasn't working right so I was in that position for a while (it was my glasses interfering with the machine). Being flat on back HURTS A LOT and my extremities start to go numb. It wasn't a fun time!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 04, 2021, 06:38:27 AM
I'm sorry you aren't feeling well BlackCurtains. :(



I was exhausted last night and feel asleep without my CPAP machine on.  When I woke up enough around 2 am to realize I wasn't using it I put it on but I can tell that I didn't have it on most of the night.  I am even more exhausted now.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on February 04, 2021, 09:56:42 AM
The most trivial complaint of the day: I want COOKIES! XD

I've been on a low-calorie diet since late 2019 and staring wistfully at the cookie aisle ever since, but I made some calculations and found that none of them have fewer than 880 calories per pack. And, I just know that if I open a pack of cookies, then I'm eating an entire pack of cookies. And you have no idea how badly I want to do that right now :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 04, 2021, 10:56:48 AM
Thanks Ponyfan.

Unfortunately, I am much worse today. Coughing, sneezing, sore throat, itchy eyes, chest congestion... the list goes on. It still might be bad allergies. I very rarely get colds or the flu. Whatever it is, it sucks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 06, 2021, 01:32:44 AM
Got my two Disney Little Mermaid DVDs today and the first one wasn’t the one advertised in the picture from eBay.uk my mum got in touch with them saying that it wasn’t the 2006 2 disc special edition. If they don’t send the one I want then I’m sending the imposter back it’s the 2013 edition with no audio commentary on it.

The doll I ordered wasn’t the one that was sent, got in touch with the seller saying the wrong one was sent, they got back to my mum and will send the one I ordered (Nakoma Sun Colours) and a return label for the one sent.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on February 06, 2021, 09:38:25 PM
I have made a mess of my jeans today, and now have no more clean jeans or long pants when it’s -30 outside. Also yeah, it’s -30 outside and I am just feeling icky on top of everything else. Fun times!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 07, 2021, 03:54:29 AM
I hate people whose idea of a page break is hitting enter multiple times. :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LordBlumiere on February 07, 2021, 03:57:22 AM
I can't sleep through the night anymore, apparently :drunk:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on February 07, 2021, 06:52:13 AM
Being nearly 47, having the monthly cycle, feeling bleugh throughout, & wondering, is this what's in store for the next three odd years???
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 07, 2021, 08:25:03 AM
Just so burnt out on lockdown and the fact there's no realistic end in sight, but people are talking again about opening pubs and going on holiday.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 07, 2021, 02:22:03 PM
Not so trivial but my sister is in the hospital again, she's bleeding internally and has a mass on one of her kidneys. Apparently, where the blood is coming from (some type of gland) is a teeny, tiny area so they aren't wanting to operate just yet. She's been admitted for observation and pain treatment. She'd been complaining about her back hurting for like a week.

She's the primary caretaker of my mom and the house in general. I went over there today to clean the litter boxes and move the cat food out of the laundry room and into the kitchen. My mom is in a wheel chair and it's hard for her to get around. My dad is half blind but still insists on driving and he came to pick me up and just dropped me off at my place.

I'm worried about my sister but now I have to worry about my parents too. I could always bring my cat and stay there for a few days, which is maybe what this will come to. The situation sucks for a lot of reasons.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on February 07, 2021, 08:20:06 PM
Aww BC xxxxx :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 08, 2021, 10:05:32 AM
@BC - it all comes at once for you doesn't it >< I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Hope she's doing better soon!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 08, 2021, 10:10:13 AM
Ugh...it's parent/teacher conference day (via zoom), and my laptop won't power up. It is only 2 years old and barely used; I have no idea what is wrong with it. We did have to replace the screen when my twin daughters did something to it, but I thought it was fixed. I am extremely technologically impaired and my husband is out of town this week. I have 2 hours to figure this out... :dumbpc:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 08, 2021, 06:52:50 PM
@BC - it all comes at once for you doesn't it >< I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Hope she's doing better soon!

It really seems so. They took CT scans and she met the surgeon on stand by, but they are still hesitating to operate. So, the gland is bleeding into her stomach, not like, in the ether. Because I was confused when she said "bleeding internally" but they weren't operating. So It's not life threatening or anything. But anyway, this gland is responsible for regulating chemicals and hormones that affect your emotions. Which explains SO MUCH about my sister. Next is an MRI. That's all I know for now.

My mom was saying how much she wants me to stay at the house. I'm like :huh: about it. Since her stroke my mom is hard to deal with (not that she was ever a nice person) and I think she might have a bit of dementia starting. But I know all she's going to do is boss me around, though she doesn't ever see it that way. She'd prefer to stay in bed and have everyone wait on her. She uses a wheel chair sure, but she's not paralyzed. She messed her leg up from staying in bed all the time, it's crooked, and she 100% did it to herself. She's supposed to be doing physical therapy exercises and she lies to her nurse and says she does them, but she never does. She's extremely manipulative. Ugh. I don't want to go over there :( Plus the futon they have is really uncomfortable, I don't have a proper laptop anymore to bring with and I just bought a bunch of fruit and veggies.

It's stressing me out and I'm already under a massive amount of stress.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Hannah66665 on February 08, 2021, 08:20:29 PM
No hot water for weeks. Bleh.  >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 09, 2021, 07:56:47 AM
@Black Curtains  I'm sorry to hear about your sister :(


Yesterday at work a lamp overheated and caught fire.  I smelled something bad but assumed it was food that was cooking.  The fire was extinguished quickly and a lot of us didn't even know what happened until after work.   By the time I got home my throat felt like it was burning and today I woke up with either the start of a headache or slightly lightheaded feeling (not sure which one it is)  My throat stopped hurting a couple of hours after I got home.  I didn't  think that I breathed in enough of the chemical smell from the lamp to affect me but now I'm wondering if  it's related to that.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 10, 2021, 06:26:55 AM
Ugh. The post office still must be having issues. My package that was supposed to  arrive 2 days ago seems to be bouncing around on the east coast. All of my other packages have arrived with no issues, and no bouncing, even if a day or two slower.

It's worrying me because it's from a 0 feedback seller, so that makes me more uncomfortable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 10, 2021, 08:38:31 AM
I had a horrible migraine yesterday and today I'm still suffering the effects.  I haven't had a migraine like this for a long time.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 12, 2021, 09:37:19 AM
I'm frustrated...I received the news recently that as a parent of a child with a disability, I am eligible for a Covid vaccine (as is my husband). I wish I could give my dose to someone else who needs it more. I want my parents to get theirs, and their state/county is blocking them at every turn. They only live an hour away from me, but in a different state. If they lived here, they would be eligible.

There is a major automotive plant in their county, and its employees get vaccine priority, to keep the unions happy, I imagine. My high school best friend's sister works there, and she has priority over their elderly, handicapped, medically fragile mother. It just makes me mad that they aren't letting the people who need it most get it first. My husband just lost 2 family members to the virus, and I don't want to see my parents or my friend's mom be next because of a bunch of bureaucracy. Sorry for my rant...thank you for giving me a space to vent.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 12, 2021, 09:52:47 AM
Vaccine politics are so messy wherever you are. I'm wrestling with the contradiction that carers of disabled people are eligible, but not the people they care for. This in spite of the fact disabled people are 6x more likely to die of COVID. I guess this would make some sense if there was published evidence that the vaccines prevent transmission. And there does seem to be some evidence that's the case. BUT the UK Blood Cancer charity (which my mother communicates with given her medical condition) is lobbying for households of those people to be vaccinated to give them protection. Govt is refusing atm, saying there's no evidence vaccines prevent transmission.

...So back to those disabled people. It feels like a case of, 'let's protect the "normal" healthy carers, but if they infect their disabled patrons, whatever..." Which is against the law by the way, but equality legislation is mostly treated differently if it's a disabled person than if it's another characteristic.

Of course, if they do prove the transmission thing it might be good news for me because I'd then qualify because of Mum - but it's all so confusing at the moment.

Our vaccine priority decisions are also being decided by a bunch of academics who are smart but apparently not clued in to real life scenarios. They're disproportionately obsessed with age and not other factors, despite the masses of data that shows it's not all about age...

And to top it off tonight the council called on people in certain wards in our borough to get a test as the numbers are high. Guess what? Most of these wards are about as far as you can get from the testing centres at the south of the borough. Are they surprised these people aren't wanting to travel 10+ miles if they don't have symptoms on buses with people who might be infected?

..Sigh. It's just frustrating when you can see all the things that are wrong with the system, because it's been devised by people who drive cars everywhere, live in a place where things are in easy reach, and have probably never met actual people...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 12, 2021, 03:14:49 PM
I was thinking the same thing, how it makes no sense to have caretakers eligible for vaccination, but not the actual person with the disability. I didn't get a notice saying my son was on the list to get it. As far as transmission, that might make sense if the disabled person was housebound and the caretaker was in and out of the home, because it is then assumed that the caretaker would be the one to likely bring the virus into the home. But in many cases, such as my own, (my son still attends in-person school and also spends 10 hours a week at a therapy center), the person with the disability is the more likely party to be the point of transmission. I wouldn't even be leaving my house if not for shuttling my son to the above-mentioned places, and then having to kill time while he is at the latter. Not that I'm even advocating that my son be moved up the vaccine list; he's healthy and no more at risk than I of getting the virus other than the fact that he's 5 and less conscious about hygiene than I am! Plus, I believe the Coronavirus has already had its way with my household; my husband tested positive for antibodies last week, therefore I wish we could give our 2 doses to someone who needs them, as they are basically wasted on us.

On the subject of people who aren't able to easily travel to vaccination sites; I remember an election year here a few years back when a certain political party was rounding up people weren't able to travel to be bussed to the polls. Funny how those politicians were able to make it happen to get themselves a few votes, but no one can organize a type of home-delivery of a life-saving medication to help those same people. I suppose there's more to it all than I see on the surface, but man...so much of this escapes logic as far as I can see.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 12, 2021, 05:03:46 PM
my husband tested positive for antibodies last week, therefore I wish we could give our 2 doses to someone who needs them, as they are basically wasted on us.
CDC recommends those who have antibodies should still get the vaccine (feel free to read resources on it). It's not a waste, and it's important. Your son wasn't on the list because kids will not be able to get the vaccine for a long time. They haven't done trials for young kids yet.

Also, as a mom -- do not feel guilty of getting the vaccine before other people. They are giving you the opportunity to help protect your child. It's a gift. I wish my state was good enough to do that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 12, 2021, 07:09:20 PM
It's going to be super cold down in Central Texas this weekend. they're saying maybe possible blizzard conditions and maybe below 0 fahrenheit . i've never been in weather colder than 10 fahrenheit. i'm kind of nervous about the house. my yard is already frozen and there is ice all over the house from the freezing rain we had earlier this week.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 12, 2021, 08:38:48 PM
my husband tested positive for antibodies last week, therefore I wish we could give our 2 doses to someone who needs them, as they are basically wasted on us.
CDC recommends those who have antibodies should still get the vaccine (feel free to read resources on it). It's not a waste, and it's important. Your son wasn't on the list because kids will not be able to get the vaccine for a long time. They haven't done trials for young kids yet.

Also, as a mom -- do not feel guilty of getting the vaccine before other people. They are giving you the opportunity to help protect your child. It's a gift. I wish my state was good enough to do that.

Thank you for the reassurance :) I just want my mom to have it so badly; after watching the virus take down my husband's uncle, all the ups and downs and the hopes that he was on the road to recovery only to succumb during the night before he was supposed to be moved to a long-term care facility, I just don't know what I would do if that were her. I know it's still recommended that we get it, but I figured we had a little time. I wish I could give mine to her, and I could catch the next batch, but I know it doesn't work that way.

I hope your state lets you get yours soon  :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 13, 2021, 05:38:51 AM
Oh, I understand completely.. I would feel the same way. It makes me really mad that the older population struggle to get spots. My thought is it's just a bottle neck and every state is trying things that they think might be the fastest to distribute (rather then sticking to absolute high priority in order).

The reality is most people need one to help the pandemic as a whole. Younger folk  (teachers, nurses, etc) who get a jab and go out in the community actually helps lessen the spread-- which is important too.

I'm not sure what my state's next plan is since they haven't announced it. I hope I could get some sort of priority, or at least could get it done by the health dept instead of impossible trying to snatch a spot at a random pharmacy/hospital. (The health dept did a nice set up for those with disabilities, and teachers). but who knows. Every state just kind of does it different. I think it's NJ that prioritizes smokers. like, what the heck.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 13, 2021, 07:31:29 AM
my husband tested positive for antibodies last week, therefore I wish we could give our 2 doses to someone who needs them, as they are basically wasted on us.
CDC recommends those who have antibodies should still get the vaccine (feel free to read resources on it). It's not a waste, and it's important. Your son wasn't on the list because kids will not be able to get the vaccine for a long time. They haven't done trials for young kids yet.

Also, as a mom -- do not feel guilty of getting the vaccine before other people. They are giving you the opportunity to help protect your child. It's a gift. I wish my state was good enough to do that.

Thank you for the reassurance :) I just want my mom to have it so badly; after watching the virus take down my husband's uncle, all the ups and downs and the hopes that he was on the road to recovery only to succumb during the night before he was supposed to be moved to a long-term care facility, I just don't know what I would do if that were her. I know it's still recommended that we get it, but I figured we had a little time. I wish I could give mine to her, and I could catch the next batch, but I know it doesn't work that way.

I hope your state lets you get yours soon  :huh:

As I understand it, they haven't done tests on the vaccine in kids yet, which is part of the reason that your son wouldn't be called yet. But in terms of the other people you're worried about...yeah. I understand completely.

In the case of the UK vaccinating carers but not recipients, this is regarding adults not children. Although they are looking into vaccinating children here going forward, they're not on the scale yet.

The rules are all over the place, and very much a regional lottery as far as I can see.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 13, 2021, 10:17:46 AM
I didn't even think about the fact that it hadn't been tested for kids yet. I hope they do soon...that would be the first step in being able to get kids back to school full time.

First priority for smokers in NJ...that's kind of appalling. I wonder what the reasoning is behind that...I also heard Illinois was prioritizing prisoners on the grounds that sickness spreads very quickly withinthem, but I would have thought maybe they'd start with vaccinating the guards and staff first. But then this is also the same state that is vaccinating the automotive workers before the elderly and compromised so why should I be surprised.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 13, 2021, 12:41:46 PM
I spent over an hour trying to get my printer to print something. Everything else prints fine except the thing that's really important.   :dumbpc:  I finally got it to print but it's a little smaller than it's supposed to be.  I'm hoping it's acceptable. I've never had this problem with printing out the form before. I've tried 2 different printers and 2 browsers. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 13, 2021, 02:46:34 PM
I spent a few days at my parents house and when I got back to my place it is infested with fruit flies. I left my cats dry food out along with her water. I didn't even think of picking it up when I left. I guess the water source and enough fly spit/poo was enough to turn the food mushy and it was full of maggots. When I lifted the dish up I swear about 100 flies took off. Now they're scattered around the kitchen.

I made dish soap and vinegar traps and while I was making more they were working, drawing the flies in and trapping them. Their lifespan isn't long so if I keep on top of the litter box and not leave food in the garbage, they should die off quickly - I hope. There are worse things to have in your house but they are certainly annoying, always flying in my face and trying to get up my nose and in my eyes.

edit: Oh, I should add I took my cat with me. I wouldn't leave her alone for that long and my parents love her too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on February 14, 2021, 08:34:32 PM
I have 4 packages that I've been waiting for for months just arrive at the post office.
It's going to be snow storming and in the minuses tomorrow so I can't go get them  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on February 15, 2021, 05:42:05 AM
You have to feel for the posties in this squall tbh. The one delivering my post today said there's a backlog of post of four posting days due to the weather xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 15, 2021, 06:27:12 AM
I wanted to watch a video on YouTube but, even thought it was literally a scene from a G-rated children's cartoon, it was apparently flagged as mature, so I had to log in. Then, when I finally logged into my throwaway Google account, it turned out I also need to verify my age by sending my credit card info or an ID scan! WTH? So now whenever some poopyhead flags a video as mature, I will need to either disclose my identity to them or give them my credit card details (which isn't suspicious at all!) just to be able to see it? Seriously, eff you, Google. :dumbpc:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 15, 2021, 11:22:13 AM
I've had trouble with Youtube too.   Sometimes when I try to watch a video especially if I'm using my phone, I'll get an error message even though the video showed just fine in the list or a message that the video isn't accessible in the US.  If  I'm not able to view the video, why does it show up on Youtube ?

My not so trivial complaint for the day.  We are experiencing extreme cold and winter weather.  We haven't lost power yet but the electric companies just announced that the grids are overloading and they are starting to do rolling blackouts to try to reduce the strain on the grid.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 15, 2021, 11:56:20 AM
My fruit fly traps are working wonderfully. I also discovered that they're attracted to soap bubbles, so I filled both sinks with some water and soap and trapped tons more. There is still a good amount avoiding everything though. I just set three more traps. I'll get them all eventually.

My complaint for today is I'm ordering pizza. Again. I just had pizza on Friday. I haven't gained any weight... but I haven't lost any either. I ate a lot of bread when I was at my parents' house too (they always have the good sourdough bread from Publix - I can't resist it) so I should be happy I didn't gain. It's not that I don't have food in the house, I just don't feel like making anything. It's too much effort for me right now. I can barely get out of bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 15, 2021, 05:32:29 PM
even though i dripped the faucets last night and all day i think one of our pipe froze. the hot water in one sink isn't working and the cold water in the other sink isn't working. we rent but we just signed another year lease. i hope everything will be ok once it thaws. i don't even know hot to function in this weather.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: otocolobus_manul on February 15, 2021, 05:45:57 PM
It's so cold! It's 8°F windchill (and dropping!) and the entire city of Houston has no power! My hands are numb as I'm typing, and I'm under a comforter, 2 very warm blankets and a fluffy cat, as well as wearing layers in my own bed. I'm especially worried about my cat - I'm afraid she'll freeze to death if she's not laying on me, and theres nowhere warm to go in the house. We have no idea when the power will be back - I'm definitely missing assignments and my professors have made it clear that statewide power outtages won't be considered an excuse for turning something in late :pout: Nevermind that I only have internet through cell service, and Canvas won't load on my phone! How do people live like this year-round?!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on February 15, 2021, 09:36:36 PM
Hope all of you in the States being affected by this storm are safe!

My company’s whole system seems to have been knocked out by the storm. I’m online, but nothing in our intranet is working. We’re stuck taking calls from people who have been holding for 4 hours just to tell them there’s actually nothing we can do. >_< This is painful!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 16, 2021, 03:09:35 AM
I was hoping for a nice snow storm, and we didn't get much snow. I'm pretty bummed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 16, 2021, 06:35:30 AM
I was hoping for a nice snow storm, and we didn't get much snow. I'm pretty bummed.

i would send some to you if i could. i think you dodged a bullet this time. how to people up north deal with winter? i now fully understand why people leave the northern states and move to Miami.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 16, 2021, 07:09:41 AM
I was hoping for a nice snow storm, and we didn't get much snow. I'm pretty bummed.

i would send some to you if i could. i think you dodged a bullet this time. how to people up north deal with winter? i now fully understand why people leave the northern states and move to Miami.

Up north, people are prepared to deal with the cold/snow. Be it salted roads, winter tires, appropriate clothes, etc.

But for me --  I really like the snow. And I'm really irritated that weather patterns have changed so much, that we don't get a decent amount of snow anymore. I would of way preferred the predicted 9+ inches of fluffy snow then the back breaking dense thick god awful sleet ice snow mess that we got.

Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for everyone in Texas. :/ It's dangerous to not have electricity in a cold snap. I'm just tired of getting my hopes up.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 16, 2021, 07:27:17 AM
After being assured yesterday that we would not experience rolling blackouts the power company reversed that today.  There's no warning if/when the power will go out.  I expect it to happen anytime.   Some schools were planning on virtual learning today but due to the rolling blackouts they decided to give all the staff and students a day off.

We might get another 1-3 inches of snow today. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 16, 2021, 07:54:55 AM
The weather in Texas made our news as well. I don't usually associate snow with TX, although I know you do have some crazy weather over there!

We've had some little bits of snow here in the midlands, which is about normal. We've had flurries mostly. At the start of the month there was an inch or two, but that's all. We've been luckier than some other parts of the country where they also experience bad flooding at this time of the year thanks to the rather rebellious river that runs through the county. The snow in some areas has also been impacting tests and vaccines, but not here (although our closest testing centre did close briefly at the start of the month).

Wishing all the best to everyone dealing with extreme weather.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 16, 2021, 08:50:12 AM
Sorry to everyone who is dealing with bad weather. It must be really hard if your area doesn't get it often and the municipalities aren't prepared to deal with it. I spent a winter without heat once when I was in my early 20's and I don't wish a day of it on anybody.

We have had below-0 temperatures here for almost 2 straight weeks. Our snow is measured in feet too. Usually this time of year we get a day here or there with these temps, and sporadic snow that melts within a week before we get a few more inches, but we've had a solid layer that hasn't gone away since right after Christmas. It's pretty unusual really. For the most part I don't mind the extreme cold right now because we're on virtual learning this week, so I only have to leave the house for my son's therapy a few days a week. Otherwise I'm warmer than usual because my heat is pretty much constantly running. It's trying to kill 3 hours in the car during his therapy that is the worst. When it's this cold, if I have my daughters with me, we're pretty much forced to go walk around Target or someplace rather than sit it out in the car like usual.

Trying to look on the bright side...with the heat constantly on, it only takes 10 minutes to blow-dry my hair instead of 20, and my air-dry laundry is dry a lot quicker. I'd hate to see the heating bill, though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 16, 2021, 11:40:47 AM
Meanwhile, in Florida...

The tree pollen is so bad, there's yellow everywhere and it's been windy. I'm having a huge allergy attack. My eyes hurt >_< We're supposed to have storms everyday so hopefully it'll hit my area and clean the air out. On the other hand, the rain will make everything bloom again. There's no escape!

We're going to have one (1) chilly night this week. I'll be honest. It kinda sucks that this arctic blast is being blocked by low depression or whatever because I'm not ready for Spring, some more cold weather would be nice.

I'm sorry to those having a hard time.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: otocolobus_manul on February 16, 2021, 12:09:57 PM
even though i dripped the faucets last night and all day i think one of our pipe froze. the hot water in one sink isn't working and the cold water in the other sink isn't working. we rent but we just signed another year lease. i hope everything will be ok once it thaws. i don't even know hot to function in this weather.

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I think you would know if your pipes had burst.

On the bright side, we got power! ...5 minutes after our pipe exploded, brought a huge chunk of the ceiling down, flooded the living room and drowned our wifi router. No idea how I'm gonna make online classes now, but it could have been so much worse (our neighbor turned off our water for us, what an absolute angel, we owe him big time).
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 16, 2021, 01:05:58 PM
oh no! @otocolobus_manul at least no one was hurt. i'm glad the power came back though. stay safe 😊

the water did come back this afternoon. it's still 21F but the sun is out so the ice is melting. i left the pipes on so the water just came on and scared my partner. but now after the power was going off and on one of the breakers is tripped. i'm not sure what that means and i'm a little scared.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 16, 2021, 03:33:40 PM
I'm sorry that happened to you otocolobus_manul.  :shocked:  That must have been really scary.


So far I haven't lost power or water.  The power grid is very close to overloading though and more major consumers  (schools and some businesses) are remaining closed to try to ease the strain.

There has also been several warnings to not go out on frozen lakes or ponds because the ice isn't think enough to support someone trying to walk or skate on it.  A few people have been seen doing that

I had to walk in the snow to the neighbor's house so she could fax some important paperwork for me since I don't have a fax line in my house.  The deadline to submit the paperwork was in a few days and I'm not sure if the storm will be over by then.   The walk across the street wasn't too bad but the snow was starting to get a little deep in a few places.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 16, 2021, 04:35:33 PM

There has also been several warnings to not go out on frozen lakes or ponds because the ice isn't think enough to support someone trying to walk or skate on it.  A few people have been seen doing that


Ponyfan

We live on a river, and this is the first time that I've seen it frozen all the way across. I'm so tempted to walk out to see if I can cross it, just to see what's on the other side. I never would, it's just fun to think about.

My trivial complaint is that during a brief excursion out of the house without any kids in tow (I had to go vote in our primary), I popped into the grocery store in hopes of finding leftover Valentine's Day chocolates, and there was none to be had. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on February 16, 2021, 05:49:49 PM
Not sure if this is trivial but my step dad crashed my car. It's totaled. I don't think insurance covers it. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on February 16, 2021, 08:01:04 PM
Oto ouch!!! That looks like a nightmare!!! I've had leaky roof trouble in the past but that is horrific!!! Hope you get things fixed xxx

Starry oh no!!! Hope everybody's ok & that somehow you can afford a new(er) car
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2021, 09:33:41 PM
I was sitting on my bed, typing on my laptop, minding my own business when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye.  There was a spider crawling on my laptop.    :wail: :spider:

It was black and fuzzy, it looked like a miniature tarantula, and it completely freaked me out because I wasn't expecting it.  I managed to catch him in a mailer that I'd emptied earlier and dumped him out the window.  I feel a little bad about it because it's barely above freezing here and there's snow on the ground...and I'm on the second floor.  But he had no business being in my room!  I don't like squishing spiders because of the icky crunch noise they make but I hate trying to catch them to get them outside, too.  If I know a spider is poisonous (we have Hobos and Black Widows here) I definitely kill them--usually with a shoe, sometimes with a hockey stick--but if I think it's just an invader, I'll try to stick it outside. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on February 16, 2021, 11:07:18 PM
I feel awful because I was really annoying to a nice seller because I don't understand how to use paypal properly :(
I wish my cognitive abilities were better  :cloud:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 17, 2021, 07:47:11 AM
It was black and fuzzy, it looked like a miniature tarantula

I don't know where you live but it sounds like a jumping spider. They're harmless and quite intelligent :)


My complaint is there are no grocery delivery slots left for today unless I want to pay an extra $10 for express. My lettuce went bad while I was staying at my parents place and I really want either tacos or nachos. I have everything I need but lettuce and that won't do. If I was a normal functioning person I could hop in the car and go get a head of lettuce but no. Now I have to think up a list of stuff to justify the cost.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 17, 2021, 12:20:49 PM
we have power but no water, a few of the switches in our breaker box seem to be fried including the one that handles the hot water heater. of course there is no water to heat anyway. we were too lazy and afraid of the power going out to shower last night but that was a mistake.

i harvested some ice to use if we need water to flush our toilets later. ugh i can't believe i thought snow would be fun. i hate it now
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 18, 2021, 02:21:34 AM
My mother has to have a blood test today, for her routine hospital check next month. They scheduled it really early because she's shielding and high risk. Today they called her to say they had to make the appt later because the person who was doing it is off. That means she now is down there while it's busier.

So fed up with this doublestandard. Same GP that told her to shield and avoid unnecessary contact...same GP that decided to set up its vaccine hub miles from where its patients live, forcing them to make long journeys or alternative arrangements.

Unimpressed.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 18, 2021, 01:43:52 PM
I'm just really depressed today :sad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 19, 2021, 07:22:47 AM
I'm just really depressed today :sad:

 :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2021, 09:17:00 AM
My mother has to have a blood test today, for her routine hospital check next month. They scheduled it really early because she's shielding and high risk. Today they called her to say they had to make the appt later because the person who was doing it is off. That means she now is down there while it's busier.

So fed up with this doublestandard. Same GP that told her to shield and avoid unnecessary contact...same GP that decided to set up its vaccine hub miles from where its patients live, forcing them to make long journeys or alternative arrangements.

Unimpressed.




I'm sorry that happened to your mother Taffeta.  :hug:

After my mom's surgery in Sept she was kept waiting for over an hour for her follow up appointment.

I think small things are building up for me today.  My dad decided to block the front door because my mom went out of it yesterday to check the mail even though I told her not too.  I know he's doing it because he doesn't want her to fall on the icy sidewalk but I really don't like having the front door blocked off. I think it sets off my claustrophobia a bit.  I could go outside through the garage to the front yard if I need to but for some reason him deciding to block off the front door until the ice melts is really getting to me. 

Last week my mom's printer stopped working and my dad ordered a new one online.  It came today and it's the exact same model that she had before.  I deleted the other printer from the computer because my parents told me that they probably would get a different model.  If I hadn't deleted it we could have just plugged in the new one without any problems.

I also cannot get access to the print cartridges and my mom keeps opening the  top part of the printer thinking that's the part where the print cartridges are instead of the part where you put documents you want to copy.

I finally got the print access door open. It was just stiff because it's new.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 19, 2021, 11:18:17 AM
Thanks, Beth :hug: I feel a little better today.

My complaint? ANTS! Freaking ANTS! Again! On my desk this time, of all places. They were feasting on what I assume was soda residue on a coaster. HOW in the WORLD did they did it?! I couldn't find a trail anywhere but I sprayed the window sill and baseboards around the area. Then I saw them on the cable for my MacBook which I keep hooked around a drawer knob when not in use. They were using that to get on the desk. I thought then they were in the small garbage can I keep here but I didn't see any when I emptied it... not that I put food in there but who knows, maybe they found a napkin with a pizza stain.

I HATE ANTS.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2021, 04:29:40 PM
I'm sorry you're dealing with ants again BlackCurtains. :( 





Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on February 20, 2021, 12:58:53 PM
Just spent way more time than I wanted this morning struggling with 3 bait ponies that just didn't want to clean up. Not sure I'll even be able to use one of them. I'm irritated because I paid a bit more for them than I normally would for baits...I didn't expect these to be that stubborn. To add insult to injury, while I was working on them, I should have realized the house was too quiet: my girls had managed to get ahold of a tub of my husband's foot lotion, and fingerpainted their clothes, their hair, several toys, and the living room rug. Not sure which thing I dread more...steam-cleaning the rug or 'fessing up to my husband about what happened to his expensive lotion.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 20, 2021, 01:44:50 PM
Time passes wayyy too fast.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 21, 2021, 06:36:55 AM
i wanted to make bread because i can't get grocery deliveries or pickup because of the terrible weather we've had in Texas and i can't go into the store because of covid. except i can't follow directions and i refrigerated the dough overnight instead of leaving it out to rise. I'll try again tomorrow :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 21, 2021, 02:46:57 PM
Two things.

One, I either didn't hear my pizza delivery person knock or they didn't knock at all. Almost 45 minutes went by before I decided to check outside and there was my pizza, blowing in the cold wind. It's still warm thankfully.

Two, I thought I was having another eczema outbreak on my arm but now I'm thinking it's something else. The rash keeps moving and it gets very itchy with these tiny bumps all over that bleed. It's pretty gross. My skin is hot to the touch where the rash is. I looked up hives and it might be it? I'm certainly under enough stress but it's only in this one place. I think I'll take an antihistamine tonight and see if it helps, even though that will make me useless tomorrow.

eidt: and now I can't sleep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 22, 2021, 06:22:56 AM
Mice got into our taco shell stash!  ARGH! 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 22, 2021, 08:46:35 AM
Remember that GP I had a moan about the other day, changing mum's appt around and such?
Today they phoned Dad to invite him to go for an asthma review. Which at the moment is just a chat because they aren't checking anything respiratory that isn't an emergency.

...Apparently they forgot that we're shielding and that parents have only had 1 dose of the vaccine so far. And that calling people in for unnecessary appointments is stupid.

If they have so much free time on their hands maybe they'd like to do vaccinations locally instead of sending people 10 miles away to get them. I'm  sure it's not a coincidence that 2 weeks after that hub opened cases spiked in various of the areas where people would be travelling from to get to it. I mean, their advice from here was get 2 buses, travel 2 hours and then walk 10 mins each way. For people in their seventies.

Yep.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 22, 2021, 02:45:27 PM
Now there are ants on my bookshelf. Wha..? Why? I still can't find where they're coming from but I sprayed the other window. I suppose I should do the windows in the bedroom too. AND I was at my parents place today and they also have ants. I can't escape them.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 22, 2021, 03:01:56 PM
:O The post office has lost my incoming IRS letter. of all the things to get lost. It's been over a week since it should have been delivered and our local post office is claiming they never received it.

I've never experienced this. Sometimes mail is delayed (usually by the local post office not delivering that day), but never had anything vanish. Informed Delivery is such a nice thing to have. . .
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 23, 2021, 07:12:31 AM
I'm trying to get back into drawing again and I have an idea of how my ideal art style would look, but I'm so used to drawing in a certain way that even after a long break, I still keep falling back into the same old patterns. :/
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 23, 2021, 10:03:02 AM
The library where I work has the old BBC movie series of the Chronicles of Narnia and they aren't together like the newer Disney versions of the movies. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is under "Lion", Prince Caspian is under "Prince" and The Silver chair is under "Silver" while the Disney ones are all under "Chronicles."  The BBC movies have "The Chronicles of Narnia" on them just like the Disney ones do.  When I asked a co-worker's opinion about putting them together, she told me that they should stay separate because "kids have a short attention span."

Seriously?  Then why don't we separate the Pokemon, Power Rangers, Veggie Tales, or any of the other Nickelodeon or Disney series?  Maybe it's because we put series together so that they can be FOUND.  I really hate dealing with people who can't think things through.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 24, 2021, 09:09:22 AM
The computer saga continues.  The surge protector on my mom's computer was making a constant, annoying high pitched beeping sound.  My mom asked me to take a look at it and see what was wrong.  I wasn't sure what the problem was but was trying to figure it out.  Before I could finish working out what was wrong my mom was already back on her computer.  I just needed a little more time but she was in such a hurry. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on February 24, 2021, 07:00:16 PM
Funko is making POPs of the old Candyland characters from the 80s/90s, which is awesome. My complaint: Why is there no “Retro!” edition of the board game itself available for sale? The new Candyland boards are hideous.  -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 25, 2021, 05:38:48 AM
Funko is making POPs of the old Candyland characters from the 80s/90s, which is awesome. My complaint: Why is there no “Retro!” edition of the board game itself available for sale? The new Candyland boards are hideous.  -_-
There was.... I bought it for my family when the Kid was young enough to play...  :)  I think it was an anniversary edition though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 25, 2021, 06:34:41 AM
Funko is making POPs of the old Candyland characters from the 80s/90s, which is awesome. My complaint: Why is there no “Retro!” edition of the board game itself available for sale? The new Candyland boards are hideous.  -_-

I remember seeing a retro CandyLand at target for quite awhile in the same endcap as ponies. Although that was quite a bit ago. I don't know if it was 80s or 60s tho.
They have this one at Amazon -- https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Candy-Land-1967-Game/dp/B01C3J4DNU/ref=asc_df_B01C3J4DNU
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 25, 2021, 07:43:07 AM
Dear Job alert website.
Please note, "Russian Studies", "Spanish Studies" and "Chinese Studies" are not search results for Japanese Studies. Those emails are thus spam.
Thank you.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 25, 2021, 09:08:21 AM
Dear Job alert website.
Please note, "Russian Studies", "Spanish Studies" and "Chinese Studies" are not search results for Japanese Studies. Those emails are thus spam.
Thank you.

Didn't you know?  There are only 2 languages in the world.  English and Everything Else.   :silly:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Miniature Sheep on February 25, 2021, 09:31:33 AM
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong today. :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 25, 2021, 02:55:12 PM
I guess the rash on my arm is eczema after all, just a really bad case of it. It's breaking out again on my hand too. So itchy!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on February 25, 2021, 04:01:42 PM
Dear Job alert website.
Please note, "Russian Studies", "Spanish Studies" and "Chinese Studies" are not search results for Japanese Studies. Those emails are thus spam.
Thank you.

Didn't you know?  There are only 2 languages in the world.  English and Everything Else.   :silly:
Tell me about it ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 25, 2021, 04:24:22 PM
Today was a day of meetings about the meeting in regards to the meeting we need to have... LOL
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 25, 2021, 04:45:16 PM
Sorry to post again so soon but my neighbor has a really annoying (and against the rules) habit of letting her dogs out by themselves, no lead. That's bad enough but to get them to come back she stands below my window, claps her hands, and yells their names. Like? Just put a lead on the fence and hook them up before you open the gate? It's not hard. We did that exact thing for my dog. The clapping is the most irritating thing, it bothers my cat too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on February 25, 2021, 06:11:54 PM
Funko is making POPs of the old Candyland characters from the 80s/90s, which is awesome. My complaint: Why is there no “Retro!” edition of the board game itself available for sale? The new Candyland boards are hideous.  -_-
There was.... I bought it for my family when the Kid was young enough to play...  :)  I think it was an anniversary edition though.

Was it the cutesy 80s/90s one that had the candy characters (Queen Frostine, Jolly, etc.) on it? If I can find one on Ebay, it might be easier than getting in a bidding war for an original.

Funko is making POPs of the old Candyland characters from the 80s/90s, which is awesome. My complaint: Why is there no “Retro!” edition of the board game itself available for sale? The new Candyland boards are hideous.  -_-

I remember seeing a retro CandyLand at target for quite awhile in the same endcap as ponies. Although that was quite a bit ago. I don't know if it was 80s or 60s tho.
They have this one at Amazon -- https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Candy-Land-1967-Game/dp/B01C3J4DNU/ref=asc_df_B01C3J4DNU

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the 60s version... It’s charming in its own way (I have a T-shirt with the old art, haha), but I really want to see the version I had growing up. I believe my original copy was sadly destroyed in a flooding incident. :’(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 25, 2021, 07:36:07 PM
I think I had the same Candyland game as Nemesis. :D  The new version is nothing like the 80'/90's version. 

Last night I noticed a hole in my sheets.  The hole is right where my feet are so of course the hole is much bigger now because my foot got caught in it several times while I was sleeping. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on February 26, 2021, 01:08:22 AM
I took one of my diamond art pieces to michaels to get it dry mounted and got suckered into a full custom frame. There’s a kid there who insists they can’t dry mount the diamond art due to the heat but that’s bull. I’ve totally had it done before and the diamonds don’t melt. I was curious to know what a frame would cost, and for some reason I went along with it even though it was WAY over priced and more than I wanted to pay. I immediately felt regret but I’d already paid and handed everything over, so I guess it’s getting framed. It’s going to look nice but I just feel....stupid. It might seem silly but I’ve been doing better about standing up for myself and saying no to stuff I don’t need. This feels like such a set back. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on February 26, 2021, 06:44:07 AM
So mad.

I'm working on an article which is highlighting the struggles of working moms, and the blur between work/home balance due to the pandemic.... and I've been forced to work on my vacation days, and most likely the day I took off to tend to my child's medical needs.

Let alone that's not my job to work on internal articles. .. but "goals" to do "teamwork with other departments".

I sure am one of those 1 in 4 women who just want to quit. dang.. u_u many tears are going to be had over the next week.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on February 26, 2021, 08:36:30 AM
So mad.

I'm working on an article which is highlighting the struggles of working moms, and the blur between work/home balance due to the pandemic.... and I've been forced to work on my vacation days, and most likely the day I took off to tend to my child's medical needs.

Let alone that's not my job to work on internal articles. .. but "goals" to do "teamwork with other departments".

I sure am one of those 1 in 4 women who just want to quit. dang.. u_u many tears are going to be had over the next week.

 :hug: Work culture in the US is toxic.

I'm just annoyed in general today. At least its friday
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 26, 2021, 09:42:32 AM
I need something to slow my brain down :dizzy: I have an anxiety pill I can take but it makes me groggy and I have pressing things I have to do. I'm listening to one of those lo-fi channels on YouTube but it's not helping.

Update edit: Well those smooth tunes did end up working :P
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: starrynights on February 27, 2021, 03:59:22 PM
I got the flu! Not covid thankfully....
Not sure how I got it, considering how I've been social distancing....
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on February 28, 2021, 10:47:45 AM
OMG. The ants are back in a big way! So, remember when I said they were on my desk and bookshelf but I couldn't find where they were coming from? Today I'm at my desk as usual, which is in the living room, and I turn enough to see the wall behind me and there's a trail of ants! It's the same tiny kind as before (thankfully not regular ants or worse fire ants - RIFA give me nightmares!). So I follow the trail and it goes aaaaaaalllllllllllll the way around the living room and kitchen up near the ceiling. In the kitchen it goes down the wall to the floor and leads to my cat's dry food dish. I've been sitting here all day being literally surrounded by ants! :yikes:

I sprayed - probably too much; feel light headed, haha - the trail intermittently and where it started was in the small window in the living room, approx. 8 feet from the food dish. So the ants took the super long way around.

Back to them being on my desk and bookshelf... they must have been coming in for a while but hadn't found anything yet (except the soda on my coaster but there sure is nothing on the bookshelf for them to eat) until one took that long trip to the food dish and back. I know they hadn't reached it yesterday because I cleaned the cat area and washed everything and put fresh dry in the dish.

omg

So SO glad they're the tiny ants.

I'm probably going to have nightmares tonight anyway.

:mad: I. HATE. ANTS. :mad:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on February 28, 2021, 11:26:24 AM
I hate how so many DVD releases of classic shows try so desperately to adapt to the modern technology by stretching the video to the 16:9 aspect ratio or just downright cropping out some of the top and the bottom, as if assuming that most viewers would be more annoyed by some black empty space on the sides than by the characters being disurbingly stretched horizontally or by some of the details on the edges missing :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 28, 2021, 01:47:03 PM
My complaint is the goodwill auctions with common gen one ponies go for outrageous prices.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on February 28, 2021, 01:52:07 PM
Sorry you have the flu starrynights. :(

BlackCurtains I hope you can get rid of the ants.  I don't like ants either.


My parents bought a new bathmat yesterday and the plastic smell is so strong that I can smell it several rooms away.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: banditpony on March 02, 2021, 02:56:01 PM
boop.
My dog just ate the ear off of my pony. So odd. She rarely plays with toys.. and she ignores all the kiddo's toys.

I'm broken hearted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 03, 2021, 03:18:23 PM
Thanks Ponyfan, I think they're gone for now.

banditpony - sorry about your pony :( I hope it wasn't a very valuable one.


My complaint for today is - my apartment smells like fishy cat food :yucky: I went to my parents house for a few hours and when I came home, the smell was so strong I went around and Frebreezed everywhere. My cat didn't eat all her breakfast, which was oceanfish and tuna flavor. The thing is, I have two scented plug-ins. One by the front door and another in the bathroom where the litter box is. They don't work very well :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Nemesis on March 03, 2021, 08:28:19 PM
Two trivial complaints tonight (besides insomnia):

Firstly, my medication is drying my eyes out, and it’s getting to me.

Secondly... Funko made an error numbering one of their Pops, and my OCD just wants it corrected. XD How can I have a Popple and a Mr. Potato Head sitting next to each other on my shelf, BOTH with “02” written on the boxes! It’s MADNESS! :pullhair: Lol.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on March 04, 2021, 06:23:58 AM
Ugh why is the seller part of the ebay site so hard to use. i'm trying to send a refund for a package that was lost in the mail and it takes me in circles.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 04, 2021, 07:40:31 AM
Two trivial complaints tonight (besides insomnia):

Firstly, my medication is drying my eyes out, and it’s getting to me.

Secondly... Funko made an error numbering one of their Pops, and my OCD just wants it corrected. XD How can I have a Popple and a Mr. Potato Head sitting next to each other on my shelf, BOTH with “02” written on the boxes! It’s MADNESS! :pullhair: Lol.

I've never been able to figure out how Funko decides what numbers to give their Pops except that each set in a series seems to have it's own set of numbers.  I was surprised that the Fruits Basket Pops have numbers in the 800s.

I wonder if either the Popple or Mr. Potato Head was supposed to be 20 and the boxes are misprinted?

I started coughing and losing my voice after work yesterday.  I'm hoping it's just asthma as I had an attack at work yesterday and not something more serious.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 04, 2021, 10:49:26 AM
I ordered some vitamins to be delivered with my groceries but I got an email that said they weren't available and no substitutions were made. I find it hard to believe that the store was 100% out of magnesium and vitamin D3. They could have picked up a different brand or something :huh: I guess this means I have to go in person to get them. I wanted to avoid just that -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 04, 2021, 02:33:09 PM
The Amazon package I got today looked like someone tried to open it to steal the contents.  Luckily my item was still inside.  There was a hole big enough in the top to see inside.  Now I'm wondering if someone was thinking about stealing it and decided it wasn't worth it when they saw it was a puzzle.     


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on March 04, 2021, 02:56:48 PM
sometimes ebay's website is so terrible i want to through my computer against the wall!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 05, 2021, 09:16:58 AM
The wind is so high that there is blowing dust where  I live. :(



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 05, 2021, 09:28:07 AM
I'm sorry, Ponyfan. We get dust from the Sahara sometimes and it's terrible for my allergies and ashma.


Speaking of allergies, I woke up and my head feels like it weighs 50 lbs. My ears and sinuses are all stuffed up too.

...and I made a new page :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on March 05, 2021, 10:36:34 AM
My girls figured out how to use the water dispenser on the front of the fridge...they aren't tall enough to actually reach it, but they discovered that if they use the stem part of their stacking toy without the rings on it, it serves as an arm extension. They waited until I got a phone call and picked the (corded) phone up in the bedroom (yep, still have one of those!) and saw their chance. When I came out, the floor was flooded and both girls were giggling, facedown in the mess making what looked like snow angels on the floor. Of course it was right before I had to leave the house to pick my son up from school...they didn't understand why I wasn't as delighted as they were.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 07, 2021, 09:02:23 AM
Ugh wow, I did not have a good night. My allergies continue to bother me making breathing difficult, I had some heartburn around 3am and had to take something for it, and my head is killing me. My implant hurts a lot, my eyes hurt. I think this might be the start of a migraine. I have to scan and print more documents today for my public housing review, otherwise I'd still be in bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 08, 2021, 03:18:58 PM
Just got an email from one of the librarians wondering why the DVDs they ordered aren't in the catalog yet.  Um...maybe because I've been waiting 3 weeks for them to print the paperwork so I can catalog them. And yes, I did ask the librarian for the paperwork 2 weeks ago and again last week. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on March 09, 2021, 08:11:48 PM
i feel anxious and sad today.

also ebay won't let me send a refund for a buyer who didn't receive her items. there's an error when i try to send the refund. i contacted customer support and they said it didn't go through. now the buyer is understandably upset. i sent her a refund through paypal but she says that didn't go through either. i'm not sure what to do. i've never had an issue with a buyer on ebay before.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 10, 2021, 01:25:10 PM
:hug: Beth.

I maimed my foot. I accidentally kicked a heavy box file in the dark. It hurt, but I didn't realise until I took the sock off later on that it had bled everywhere. Fortunately I didn't lose the nail, but yeah. It's now awkward trying to keep it from getting rubbed...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on March 10, 2021, 04:48:12 PM
Breaking a nail that much is horrible. OUCH!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 11, 2021, 05:08:38 AM
Omg, my cat. She's old, 18, and isn't the best at paying attention. She got out of the litter box and came to lay beside me in her spot and I smelled... something... well, she had a poo foot. I cleaned that up. Then she sat in the hallway for a bit before yowling loudly and then threw up (probably from trying to clean the poo off herself) and promptly fell into it >_< So I had to clean the vomit off her side.

Pets :bigups:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on March 11, 2021, 05:19:47 AM
Yeah.... my cat tried parkour up and down our hallway, and then he decided he was bored so he came and played electric keyboard on my body in bed.  Lots of little claws poking and dancing across my leg...  OW
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 13, 2021, 09:02:10 AM
Midnight: tried to go to bed but could hear scratching and chewing noises coming from inside the wall between my room and the bathroom.  Spent an hour trying to figure out where the critter might emerge and set traps accordingly after moving items to guide said critter to the traps (which had been set using a Reese's Peanut Butter cup as bait because I had nothing else in my immediate vicinity to put in them as my parents were asleep downstairs and I was trying not to wake them up).

1:30: The noises stopped, no sign of the critter.  Stayed up reading to see if it stayed quiet. 

2:45: decided to put away story (I was reading it online) and go to bed as nothing new had happened.

4:30: woken out of dead sleep by unknown source, laid awake trying to figure it out.

4:45: Mouse Trap Triggered.

5:00: After listening to see if there were others about and hearing nothing, I got up and turned on the light.  Was saddened by the sight of the dead mouse.  I didn't want it in my space and feel bad for killing it, but it had to be done.  They carry diseases and poo on everything. Plus we know someone whose house started on fire after a mouse chewed through the wiring.  My parents picked this as the ONE day they weren't up early so I decided to try and go back to sleep for a couple of hours instead of waking them up trying to dispose of the mouse.

7:30: Managed to fall asleep again but my alarm went off so I got up and asked my dad to dispose of the dead mouse.  He did so and then brought me back the trap to re-set...still covered in mouse blood.   :X  When I mentioned it, he told me to leave it.  Um...I'm not touching it to put more bait inside until the blood dries and I can clean it off without wanting to vomit.  There's a reason I chose not pursue a medical career like 2 of my siblings.  Could not find where the mouse came out of the walls in order to keep a trap nearby. 

Now I'm tired and want to sleep but I have too much to get done today.  :zzz:

How was your morning?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on March 13, 2021, 09:49:16 AM
Aw Pokeyonekenobie, I'm sorry! I went through that when I got married and moved into my husband's house...it was in the middle of a field and was infested with mice. They would die inside the walls and reek to high heaven. They'd crawl up inside the inner workings of the island oven and get out onto the counters...so disgusting. The day the trap finally caught one, my husband was of course out of town for several weeks and I was forced to deal with the trap myself. I have MAJOR necrophobia and about had a panic attack. I had to pour myself a stiff vodka soda at 9 in the morning to even think about attempting it. It was a fat sucker, too...probably pregnant! I threw the whole thing, trap and all, in the outside garbage toter, and then was terrified of the garbage toter for the rest of the time we lived there (which wasn't long after that, believe me!). I can't work in the medical field either, needless to say.

My trivial complaint is that there is this online auction event for my son's school this weekend, and bids are not anonymous. I think this discourages bidding...at least for me, because who wants to get in a bidding war with another parent that you know and like? Not I.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 13, 2021, 10:15:38 AM
I'm sorry Pokeyonekenobie.  :( I hope the rest of the day goes better.

My dad got up extra early today and turned on the hallway light.  I wanted to sleep in this morning but it's hard to do that when the hallway light shines right in my room. 


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on March 13, 2021, 01:49:18 PM
Poor Pokey xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 19, 2021, 04:26:54 PM
My war against the fruit flies continues ever onward.

I had made vinegar traps, which were working wonderfully. I got fly tape for extra defense. As soon as I thought I had finally defeated them, they came back in force. From where? I've no idea...

The litter box is scooped daily and put into a small bag into a larger bag which is tucked under itself. There is no food left out or in the garbage. Cat food, once done feeding the cat, is put into the garbage disposal - which might be the culprit. I haven't seen any flies come from there, but they do like to hang around the sink. Hmm.

I'm considering getting out the big guns - Foggers, or well, one fogger would probably be enough. But I must disconnect my smoke alarms and I... don't know how to do that nor do I know if I CAN do that living in a complex and all.

For now, I'll continue with the traps and tape. I have thoroughly sprayed all windows and doors. So it is just me, my faithful feline, and the flies.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 19, 2021, 04:36:42 PM
Well, this is the third game of tic tac toe that my co-workers haven't figured out. The first one started with X and someone put another X on the board.  Someone tried to fix it by putting 2 Os on but then 2 more Xs were added.  The second game started with X and ended with 2 Xs and 3 Os in a line.  The current game started with X and now has 4 Xs and 1 O on the board (and the Xs aren't even in a line!).  I can't bring myself to print off instructions on how to play tic tac toe because it's just too painful for words.  Why are people so dumb?

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on March 20, 2021, 04:03:46 PM
Dad decided the census had to be filled out at some ungodly hour this morning. Mum got dragged up early. I got dragged up early...with no prior preparation to be interrogated by the computer (sigh).

Not to mention some of the questions were really intrusive and IMO not necessary for a census.

And I resented being allowed to opt out on details of my religion and sexuality, but not on my disability. In the UK it's illegal to even ask in a job interview if you have a disability, but apparently the census can ask you to disclose it. It's not like the stats are even helpful, because there's no breakdown of types of disability - so they're not going to have a clue about who needs what support and figures based on it.

Also...a slightly rueful reflection for me on the census being done today in the middle of lockdown. All the places I've been and other places I've lived and things I've done in the last 10 years - but the census doesn't indicate any of it, because 10 years ago I was here, and thanks to COVID, 10 years later I'm here again.

Sigh.

I know that's how these things work, but it's just a bit sad thinking on it like that.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 21, 2021, 04:51:02 PM
I slept really well but woke up with a headache and a sore tooth. I think I had my jaw clamped. When I was a teen I had to wear a mouth guard because I would grind my teeth. I don't think I still do that. I don't like mouth guards because they make me drool :lol:

Another complaint. I bought some different food for my cat. It's the same brand but different textures and one has more gravy. Despite the flavors being her favorite, she's not really eating the food. So now she cries and whines all the time for something else. I keep telling her to eat her dry food or if she's really hungry, eat the food in her dish, but she's so stubborn!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Lilithdrff on March 21, 2021, 08:08:01 PM
I hate getting called into work on my day off...I hate myself even more because I never say no.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 22, 2021, 03:28:38 PM
I ate a piece of cheese before I realized the bottom part was moldy.  :X 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 22, 2021, 03:29:00 PM
How does Taco Bell screw up a BEAN burrito?  By adding rice when you didn't ask for it of course.  So I couldn't eat it (I didn't have time to go all the way back to the restaurant to get one that wasn't messed up) and now I'm stuck snacking on Trail Mix because I couldn't eat lunch. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 23, 2021, 12:30:21 PM
I guess I'm paying for that good sleep I got the other day. I'm so tired and can't fall asleep now. I was up until 2am and my cat woke me up at 5. I've been awake since. My eyes are starting to go bloodshot. It's too noisy to nap, I tried.

Bleh 😪
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 23, 2021, 12:37:33 PM
100% thought this assignment was just a page long. It's not, it's actually four pages long. Should've looked at it on Thursday. I'm making good headway but it's nice today. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 23, 2021, 01:20:56 PM
How does Taco Bell screw up a BEAN burrito?  By adding rice when you didn't ask for it of course.  So I couldn't eat it (I didn't have time to go all the way back to the restaurant to get one that wasn't messed up) and now I'm stuck snacking on Trail Mix because I couldn't eat lunch.

I wanted to say that they replaced my burrito today and it was done right. 

Today's trivial complaint: I decided to make Easter Baskets for several of my niblings and now every time I go in to the store I buy things and I'm afraid the baskets I got them may not be big enough.   :lol:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 24, 2021, 08:50:36 AM
My dad brought me a Amazon gift card today, went to put it in and it’s invalid because the shop he got it from refunded him because it he picked up two instead of one and the removed the one I got instead of the second one. I wanted to get my region 1 DVD of Cats Don’t Dance. I’m ticked off and  :enraged:

Stupid cashier at Asda. I feel like  :argh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 24, 2021, 03:06:11 PM
I'm not sure if I took another dose of Aleve or not :what:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 26, 2021, 12:57:28 PM
It is super windy out, and we had to put all the bins in the carriage house. They called for 60MPH winds most of the day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on March 26, 2021, 03:11:29 PM
I miss my boyfriend, sadly he lives 2 hours away  :yikes:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 26, 2021, 03:29:52 PM
I had a horrible migraine today.  :cry:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on March 26, 2021, 05:07:21 PM
i'm missing my sheltie dog a lot. today would have been his 14th birthday  :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 27, 2021, 01:36:30 PM
Since I went out yesterday my allergies have been acting up. My eyes burn and itch, I keep sneezing and coughing. My A/C is on but there's probably pollen in my hair and I don't want to wash it again :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on March 27, 2021, 03:35:49 PM
I ordered a few things from Amazon earlier this week and got a notice last night that they shipped.   Instead of my package taking the most direct route to me it's going on a very round about course to reach its destination.

I ran out of hot water while taking my shower again for the second time in a little over a week. :brr:


Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 28, 2021, 11:49:47 AM
Somehow I lost a day? Or skipped a day? I'm so confused that it's Sunday. I was positive it was Monday today. My medicine box shows that it's Monday. I don't know what I did, I must have taken a double dose of my meds one day. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone or something.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on March 29, 2021, 02:15:28 PM
I had some annoying moth-like creature flying in front of my screen for some time, I tried to kill it a few times but seemingly to no avail because it just kept coming back, until I turned the lights on and I saw a few dead moths on my desk, that's when I realized there was more than one of them :crazy:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 30, 2021, 02:50:11 PM
I have so much to do but I'm not getting anything done :freak:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 30, 2021, 02:51:56 PM
Until classes end for the Spring, I'm going to continue to have rotten Tuesdays where I just stare at my computer and get barely anything done. -_- At least I can go eat dinner now, but I have two more things to do today.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on March 31, 2021, 12:32:30 PM
OMG

My fruit fly problem? The one I thought I'd solved when I found the moldy onion? Yeah... no.

I knew something was up because there seemed to be more this time around than the first time. I set more traps and tape and killed hundreds, but they just kept coming. Well. I had been keeping up on the cat litter by scooping it daily (or so) and putting it in small bags then putting the small bags into a garbage bag in the bathroom. The garbage bag was just sitting up against the wall.

I MOVED IT TODAY.

And found a nest of eggs and maggots!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

They were under the bag!

So I sprayed the nest and doubled bagged the bag and it's going out tomorrow! It's super heavy. I wanted to divide up the smaller bags into, um, other smaller bags to make it less daunting but NOPE not sticking my hands in there. If the flies were able to get UNDER the bag then they probably got INTO it and into the smaller bags.

I'm seriously grossed out but at the same time am confident that I finally finally found where they were coming from.

ALL trash and anything resembling trash is leaving my apartment tomorrow. If it takes me multiple trips up and down the stairs so be it. I'll rest in between but I want this garbage OUT.

edit: I promise I'm not a filthy person :( I just get behind on chores.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on March 31, 2021, 01:27:06 PM
^ Sounds gross but glad you were able to find the nest, hope that clears the problem!

Ugh, it's been a long week and it's only Wednesday.  -_-  I'm so grateful for the Easter break. We switched to daylight saving time last Sunday and it threw off the sleep routine I've been working hard to maintain. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on March 31, 2021, 05:00:15 PM
You don't have to be a dirty person to have a problem like that...a few years ago we had a piece of food trash fall down behind the garbage can in our pull-out cabinet trash once. It resulted in a nest of maggots before we realized it had happened.

My current complaint: something in my fridge has turned bad and I can't find it! I threw out some questionable half-and-half a few days ago, and tossed some stir-fry veggies that were past their prime, but there is hardly anything else in there right now, much less something that would be responsible for reeking up the kitchen every time I open the fridge door.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on April 01, 2021, 11:00:28 AM
I found something on eBay that I was really excited about, but just when I was about to buy it, the seller decided to take a whole month off :wail:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 01, 2021, 01:18:07 PM
I found something on eBay that I was really excited about, but just when I was about to buy it, the seller decided to take a whole month off :wail:
I sympathise. I've been waiting since November to try and buy a DVD I want from the second hand services in Japan, but my proxy is on hiatus until Japan's post sorts itself out. Sigh...

My complaint for the day.

To be honest, I'm so fed up with it I'm just going to sum it up as human hypocrisy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 01, 2021, 03:08:01 PM
Today has been terrible! :mad:

Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. It's been an endless stream of disappointments. Even my regular pizza guy who usually makes the best pizzas managed to mess up!

It's 6pm and I'm going to bed. So done with this day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 02, 2021, 06:55:15 AM
I have a Sony Blu Ray/DVD player that is less than a year old.  Last night I decided to watch some anime before I went to sleep and put a Blu Ray disc in the  player.  It got stuck on the FBI/piracy warning and I had to unplug the Blu Ray player to get it to respond.   

The Blu Ray got stuck again in another player so it's going back to Amazon. I hope I can get in the mail today because the return window closes tomorrow.

I'm sorry you had a terrible day BlackCurtains. :hug:  I hope today is better.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on April 03, 2021, 08:28:58 AM
I ate some canned macaroni and cheese. Eww, it was so putrid! I just wanted to clear out some cupboard space and to be able to say I've tasted mac n' cheese at least once, but if someone asks, I'll still say I haven't tried it... because there's NO way it's actually supposed to be this bad :snicker:
I've got a pretty high tolerance for bad microwave food, too. Ew ew ew
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 03, 2021, 08:04:28 PM
I ate some canned macaroni and cheese. Eww, it was so putrid! I just wanted to clear out some cupboard space and to be able to say I've tasted mac n' cheese at least once, but if someone asks, I'll still say I haven't tried it... because there's NO way it's actually supposed to be this bad :snicker: I've got a pretty high tolerance for bad microwave food, too. Ew ew ew

Ew.  Canned macaroni and cheese doesn't sound appetizing to me at all.  I'd try making it yourself before you judge whether or not you like it.

My sister and her kids were here this week and it took all day to clean up after they left.  I'm exhausted.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 03, 2021, 08:25:59 PM
I ate some canned macaroni and cheese. Eww, it was so putrid! I just wanted to clear out some cupboard space and to be able to say I've tasted mac n' cheese at least once, but if someone asks, I'll still say I haven't tried it... because there's NO way it's actually supposed to be this bad :snicker: I've got a pretty high tolerance for bad microwave food, too. Ew ew ew

Ew.  Canned macaroni and cheese doesn't sound appetizing to me at all.  I'd try making it yourself before you judge whether or not you like it.

Yeah it's much better with real cheese. i like sharp cheddar. i also like to add cauliflower or broccoli so it's not just cheese and noodle
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 04, 2021, 05:54:17 PM
I ate some canned macaroni and cheese. Eww, it was so putrid! I just wanted to clear out some cupboard space and to be able to say I've tasted mac n' cheese at least once, but if someone asks, I'll still say I haven't tried it... because there's NO way it's actually supposed to be this bad :snicker: I've got a pretty high tolerance for bad microwave food, too. Ew ew ew

Ew.  Canned macaroni and cheese doesn't sound appetizing to me at all.  I'd try making it yourself before you judge whether or not you like it.

Yeah it's much better with real cheese. i like sharp cheddar. i also like to add cauliflower or broccoli so it's not just cheese and noodle
Tinned macaroni cheese is literally the worst!!! Even the cheap packet stuff is better.
The best though is when you prepare the pasta, place it in a baking tray, add a white sauce with cheese mixed through it, & mix in herbs & a bit of tomato or your favourite vegetable, adding some grated cheese (& optional crumbs) across the top, then heat in the oven. Scrummy!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 05, 2021, 07:37:47 AM
I don't think the US even has canned mac'n cheese :blink: At least, I've never heard of it. We've got Easy Mac, which is Kraft in a small microwavable cup. You can get it frozen too (which isn't bad depending on the brand). This is kinda weird because I just bought stuff to make homemade mac'n cheese.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on April 05, 2021, 08:57:23 AM
I ate some canned macaroni and cheese. Eww, it was so putrid! I just wanted to clear out some cupboard space and to be able to say I've tasted mac n' cheese at least once, but if someone asks, I'll still say I haven't tried it... because there's NO way it's actually supposed to be this bad :snicker: I've got a pretty high tolerance for bad microwave food, too. Ew ew ew

Ew.  Canned macaroni and cheese doesn't sound appetizing to me at all.  I'd try making it yourself before you judge whether or not you like it.

Yeah it's much better with real cheese. i like sharp cheddar. i also like to add cauliflower or broccoli so it's not just cheese and noodle
Tinned macaroni cheese is literally the worst!!! Even the cheap packet stuff is better.
The best though is when you prepare the pasta, place it in a baking tray, add a white sauce with cheese mixed through it, & mix in herbs & a bit of tomato or your favourite vegetable, adding some grated cheese (& optional crumbs) across the top, then heat in the oven. Scrummy!!!
Stop it you guys, you're making me hungry! I don't think we have the "cheap packet stuff" here. Actually, I have no idea where the can I ate even came from, none of the stores around here carry anything like it. Or maybe they did once, and it didn't sell... for some strange reason :lol:

You've got my attention with the broccoli and cauliflower idea, though. Not to mention Ponybookworm's recipe sounds absolutely delicious... I just might have to try both :drool:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 05, 2021, 03:03:21 PM
Why am I cursed with flying insects? Am I possessed by a demon? I left my door open while I watered my plants and three (pretty sure it's three) regular flies came in. The door was open for like, 20 seconds. Reminder I'm on the second floor and my balcony has a roof. What are they even doing up here? My plants are aloe cactus, they don't have flowers. Get away, you silly flies.

So from what I can tell there are two in the living room and one in the bedroom. There was a horse fly in here a few days ago too. That one came in by itself from a gap or something in the windows (I tried to find it but couldn't see anything obvious) but it was dead by night. I'm thinking, bug spray residue got to it since I sprayed my windows and door a couple weeks ago. I hope these other flies don't hang around. I miss not having to cover my drinks, watch my food like a hawk, and sit here without something buzzing my face.

Swear I'm cursed or something...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2021, 07:50:26 AM
I'm sorry you're still having trouble with flies BC.  :(  I hate flies too especially when they buzz in my ears.  When I was little I would try to cover my ears with something because I didn't want them to fly in my ears.

I don't understand how Amazon's search filters work.  I've been looking for a movie and even though I type the exact title of the movie, the first couple of results have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 07, 2021, 06:01:41 PM
Ugh we always have flies that come in during the summer. i don't know where they come from but the dogs go crazy trying to catch them.

My complaint for the day is I went to photograph an LPS set to sell and I can't find one of the pets. I know i had it so maybe i sold it as a misc LPS extra. Ugh! Also debt i really hate debt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 08, 2021, 07:41:16 AM
I'm having a lot of trouble with my asthma.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 08, 2021, 09:00:14 AM
I hate having to be my family's tech support. Yesterday, my mom cancelled all the extra stuff she was paying for cable TV. Then when they only had 11 channels, she changed her mind and called them to reinstate it but they couldn't because the equipment was too old. So my dad calls me and says I need to come over and unhook all the boxes and he's go and get new ones and I could hook them up and set everything up. Okay fine.

I got there at 10 in the morning and didn't finish until 6PM. Some of that time was waiting for my dad to get back with the new boxes but most of it was spent setting up the remotes. They have 5 TVs. Each one had to be paired with a remote and it takes forever because the process is so slow. I put in a code for the voice command and have to wait 5 minutes for it to actually work. And had to do the same for the power/channel/volume control. UGH.

THEN when I get to the last box, it doesn't work. It gives me an error and says something about turning off a non-DVR set top box. But there isn't anything connected to the TV! So I Google, I try a couple things, nothing. I talk to the chat bot, try a couple things, nothing. I finally called them, and dude says to do everything I JUST did. I said no, I already tried all that. So then I have to wait while he's typing and trying to figure out what's wrong. Finally, he says we have one tuner too many and in order for the one in the room I'm in to work, I have to unplug another one.

WHAT?! 

Why did they give my dad a box and 4 tuners if it was too many? Well, the dude says, your neighborhood equipment is too old as well and the signal isn't strong enough. So send someone out to fix it, I said. Oh, we currently have many work orders but eventually we should make it to your area. Eventually like in a few years? Probably!

So I had to switch out the main box in my dad's media room, put it in my mom's room, so my dad can unplug the tuner in the media room before he goes to bed, and plug in the one in his bedroom at night. Then reverse the process the next day. It was a complete pain in the... back. My back is so sore today I can hardly move. My thumb hurts from screwing and unscrewing the cable cords a million times. And I'm annoyed because I just started working on a custom pony and had planned to sculpt all day. Plus, they didn't have the A/C on and I was sweating a lot, so I'm kinda miserable because I'm too sore to take a shower today. Maybe tonight I'll feel up to it.

Then the last thing. When I finally got back home, I opened my door to a wall of litter box and cat food stink. I started to cry because I don't want my apartment to smell bad but the door opens to the kitchen and right there is the cat food. i had fed her tuna flavored food, which has the strongest smell. The litter box was on my list to clean that day, but my dad came to get me a half hour after I woke up. Just like the shower I was too sore to clean it last night (too much bending down). I cleaned up the bowl of cat food and gave her something less stinky and cleaned the litter today. So I'm hoping the smell will dissipate. I sprayed Febreze to help.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 08, 2021, 09:43:01 AM
I'm sorry BlackCurtains. :hug:

I'm my family's tech support too and sometimes it can be hard.  They switch between thinking I know and can fix everything tech related to thinking that I know nothing. 

When we got the Smart TV my dad  unboxed it, plugged it in and then said "You take it from here" and it was really overwhelming because he just walked away and expected me to handle everything.  I eventually got the cable box hooked up and working but it took a couple of hours.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 08, 2021, 12:11:28 PM
Oh, tech support...

I can relate. Since lockdown me and my laptop have been the rescue party in several situations where Dad's outdated PC can't cope. Or when he spends 2 hours looking for the print mail label to send something to my sister, and I have to come find it (which takes less than a minute, but is annoying).

But the most similar example...my parents bought an amazon fire stick in the black friday sales, so that Mum can watch stuff on catchup without the old cable box imploding, and access netflix and such.

They still haven't set it up. Dad plugged it into the TV for the first time yesterday...then had to come ask me for the internet password. It still isn't activated. Sigh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 08, 2021, 12:28:21 PM
My dad bought a Firestick and a subscription to SlingTV. I had to set it up and he lasted three days with it before having me cancel the sub. and set his TV back to cable.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pheasant on April 08, 2021, 01:32:07 PM
Possibly TMI, but I'm having a PMS flare-up and my chest -really- hurts today. :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on April 08, 2021, 03:19:00 PM
So disappointed...Hobby Lobby stopped putting out their 40% off coupons. I drove 20 minutes out of my way to get there only to realize this; I could have gone to the Joann Fabrics right around the corner for my item if I knew I had to pay full price for it. Ugh. Their explanation? 'We now just discount more of our items throughout the store.' Well, not any of the items I want to buy, apparently! Plus, um, you did that before too. Instead of that stupid PR statement, just be honest and say, hey, the Coronavirus really hit us hard, man, and we're trying to recoup our losses. Don't try and spin it to make it look like it's in my best interest NOT to have a coupon for 40% off an item of my choice!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 08, 2021, 04:56:28 PM
Sorry that happened LadyAmathela.  I heard that Hobby Lobby was going to stop issuing their 40% coupons but I didn't know when it would go in effect.

At some point iTunes decided that an album I bought songs from previously is now different than the exact album that is now in the store.  This doesn't sound like a big deal but now I have 2 copies of the same album in my song  library with one of them only showing 2 songs (all of the songs I bought are in my library, just some are showing on a different album than the rest)  It makes it a little harder to make a playlist when I have to figure out the album order because iTunes decided  to treat the same album like 2 different ones.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on April 08, 2021, 08:11:30 PM
Thanks Ponyfan. The new policy went into effect at the end of February, she said. I'm just sad...it seems like it's on a growing list of things I can no longer afford.

iTunes has always confused me. I used to use it back in the day, but I gave up trying to pretend to know how to use it, and now I no longer have a compatible device to use it on.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 09, 2021, 10:11:40 PM
On the seventh of April I ordered a Our Generation doll from Amazon.uk and  it was suppose to come today and I got a email saying it’s been cancelled because they couldn’t find it in the warehouse. I bet someone in the Amazon Warehouse kept it for themselves. Not very happy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2021, 11:31:02 AM

iTunes can be confusing sometimes especially if you are searching for songs that aren't in English.  I've got a lot of songs in Japanese from iTunes and sometimes you can find them by searching the song or album title  sometimes you need to use the Japanese characters and other times you find it listed one way in the store but then it's listed another way on your receipt.  Recently I found a bunch of songs that were listed differently from everything else associated with the same anime title.  I just got lucky that I tried different search terms and the songs came up.


I stayed up too late last night watching a movie.
 
Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 10, 2021, 01:09:46 PM
Re iTunes, I've never been able to figure out how to import my iTunes Mac library to my PC library. It sucks because a lot of the songs on my outdated Mac are actually from people I know. There are a couple podcasts by friends on there too. I don't really use my Mac anymore, and I miss having all that music at my fingertips.

My complaint is I waited too long to eat and had a massive sugar crash. Luckily, I just restocked my sugary snacks.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2021, 03:11:10 PM
I just found out that iTunes is having a sale on a series I've buying episodes of every once in a while because it's usually expensive to buy the entire season at once.  Now the series is on sale and I would have had enough money in my iTunes account to cover it but I bought an album from iTunes this morning. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 11, 2021, 10:49:41 AM
Well I'm annoyed :mad: I've been looking at external HDDs for both my PC and PS4. Yesterday, I looked on Amazon and found a couple that were perfect and together they'd cost $140. TODAY the price of one of them shot up to $130! AND it doesn't have different sizes available like yesterday. It's 5T and I don't need that much, 2 or 4T would be fine but apparently they don't exist today.

I know prices on Amazon change constantly but jumping from $90 to 130 kinda sucks! I can only hope the price will go back down...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 12, 2021, 09:03:46 AM
What I thought was just trouble with asthma  has turned in to a sinus infection and might also turn in to bronchitis.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 12, 2021, 09:14:15 AM
I didn't sleep well last night and I'm having trouble focusing today. I hate mondays
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 12, 2021, 09:27:56 AM
Ponyfan, I'm so sorry! I have chronic sinusitis and it sucks big time. Bronchitis is no fun either.


The FedEX driver left my heavy Chewy package half way up the stairs. I had to get my stair cart and haul it the rest of the way myself. I get that it's heavy, it's an order of cat litter and canned food, but isn't that part of their job? To deal with heavy packages? The email says it was delivered at 9:40pm and at first I thought maybe they couldn't see because I don't leave my outside lights on. But there is a street light catty corner to my stairs and it illuminates the whole thing. I was really irritated about it but I don't know, maybe it was a driver who had worked a 12 hour shift and that was the last package and they were just like "eff this heavy box". Now, if I didn't have my stair cart I'd be really angry because I don't think I could carry it up myself but that's not the case so... I'm going to imagine the overworked driver scenario... it's a complaint but with sympathy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 12, 2021, 10:48:56 AM
I have a lot of complaints today.

My refrigerator is too narrow and deep so vegetables always get pushed in the back. I found some rotting potatoes and onions today. and i had to throw out a bunch of greens that went bad. I tried adding bins for organization and they didn't work out. Those nicely organized refrigerators on instagram are such a lie. They're for people who never have left overs.

I can't believe that i'm excited about going back to the store. Grocery deliveries were nice at first but it's hard to schedule because there still aren't a lot of slots every day. and i have to order a lot to justify a delivery. Sometimes it's nice to just get a few days of food instead of trying to plan for 2 weeks out.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 12, 2021, 11:54:38 AM
I can't believe I forgot my appointment with my therapist! Again! This is the third time. I get caught up in something and completely forget. I need to set an alarm.

Also something in my chair broke? Or maybe it's just lose. It's tilting forward at an annoying angle. I have to get down on the floor to see what's wrong and I can get down fine but getting back up is another matter *sigh*

Also also I am terrible at keeping track of my spending. I got a stimulus check and after paying my bills early I went on shopping spree. Everything posted today and I'm not sure where two charges of $9.99 went. My email inbox is a mess too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 12, 2021, 12:55:02 PM
I finally bit the bullet and made a dental appointment.  Unfortunately, their next opening isn't for a month so I have way too much time to freak out about it.   :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 12, 2021, 01:35:17 PM
The ants managed to get into our back room and so we had a great family bonding session of human vs ant in a vaccuum cleaner special. Probably going to have to repot my fuschia and begonia, who winter inside, tomorrow. Not helped by the drop in temperatures here - they should be outside already, but British weather isn't cooperating.

Also, went looking for Daiya spoilers and accidentally encountered the lunatic element of the fandom.

I made a quick retreat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 14, 2021, 10:53:13 AM
I've been feeling anxious lately.

also one of my dogs has developed a phobia of walking down the hallway. so now she won't go from the living room to the bedroom without one of us there. i don't know what happened. my other dog is so fearless its weird.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 14, 2021, 02:04:40 PM
I post too much in this thread.

The day started out okay, I slept well, I walked to the office and mailbox, things were fine. Then I ate lunch and have felt bad ever since. I made a Greek salad even though my stomach can't handle raw veggies. I let it marinate in red wine vinegar and oil for a while before eating it, thinking it might help but nope. So now I feel blah and blergh :(

My cat has been whining and crying all day. I don't know what she wants. She's usually very vocal but today it's getting on my nerves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 14, 2021, 03:39:01 PM
Thanks BlackCurtains.  I'm feeling a little better but I'm still sick.

I've been really down today.  Nothing has gone like I thought it would for the  past few weeks.  :(  I shouldn't let it get to me but it does. 


Also, went looking for Daiya spoilers and accidentally encountered the lunatic element of the fandom.

I made a quick retreat.



Sorry you encountered that part of the Daiya fandom.  I was reading a fanfiction the other day and ran in to 

Spoiler
some fan ideas about how Eijun feels about the way Ochiai treated him that aren't supported by canon.



Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 15, 2021, 06:39:26 AM
Thanks BlackCurtains.  I'm feeling a little better but I'm still sick.

I've been really down today.  Nothing has gone like I thought it would for the  past few weeks.  :(  I shouldn't let it get to me but it does. 


Also, went looking for Daiya spoilers and accidentally encountered the lunatic element of the fandom.

I made a quick retreat.



Sorry you encountered that part of the Daiya fandom.  I was reading a fanfiction the other day and ran in to 

Spoiler
some fan ideas about how Eijun feels about the way Ochiai treated him that aren't supported by canon.



Ponyfan



TBH, my first experience of the Daiya fandom was the lunatic aspect.
Spoiler
I don't mind so much in fanfic, I mean, fanfic allows people to have their own perspective and rewrite a story if that's what they want to do. I see a lot of AU fics for Daiya, often things like rock bands or whatever, and I can handle that. The people that bother me are the ones who detach from reality in discussions about the actual manga, and then act like it's personal. FOr example, I once saw someone write a vitriolic hate post of the teacher Oota because he likes Nori better than Eijun. I mean, seriously disturbing stuff. Eijun's fans are actually the most delusional, although not all of them. Just some of them. The ones that scream loudly that everything is anti-Eijun if he's not in absolutely every scene.

Two things to add today.

Yesterday, got divebombed by a queen wasp in the bathroom. Today, had to wage war on greenfly taking over the flowers on one of parents' cacti. With the ants, it's really us vs nature right now.

The other thing...conflicted with what to do on another forum site. They keep talking about improving inclusivity and diversity while at the same time completely ignoring the issues raised by disabled users regarding things like contrast and other stuff. I am not undermining their other case, but am literally fed up with people holding discussions on diversity like it doesn't apply to disabled people. But I know that if I post something I'll probably end up having a complete meltdown over it because those kinds of confrontational situations scare me so much.

I want people to be more aware, but I'm afraid of stepping into a discussion to raise that awareness, because I have already seen two autistic/neurodiverse people experience abuse for simply being themselves and being obviously misunderstood.

I really don't feel comfortable with this selective approach to equality. But I am also genuinely afraid to get involved because I'm way too sensitive to such things.

I just wish that it didn't need to be pointed out. But that's the world we live in.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 15, 2021, 07:25:52 AM
Taffeta, i'm a web developer and it's so depressing that most companies don't really care about making their products accessible for everyone. they really only improve accessibility when they are going to get sued or actually get sued. even then they only do the minimum to not violate the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

usually these fixes are pretty easy but there's such a lack of empathy.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2021, 07:26:23 AM
I'm sorry you're having to fight bugs and deal with people treating other people like that on a different site. Taffeta.




TBH, my first experience of the Daiya fandom was the lunatic aspect.
Spoiler
I don't mind so much in fanfic, I mean, fanfic allows people to have their own perspective and rewrite a story if that's what they want to do. I see a lot of AU fics for Daiya, often things like rock bands or whatever, and I can handle that. The people that bother me are the ones who detach from reality in discussions about the actual manga, and then act like it's personal. FOr example, I once saw someone write a vitriolic hate post of the teacher Oota because he likes Nori better than Eijun. I mean, seriously disturbing stuff. Eijun's fans are actually the most delusional, although not all of them. Just some of them. The ones that scream loudly that everything is anti-Eijun if he's not in absolutely every scene.




I see.

Spoiler

The one I was reading got to me because in the story Miyuki and Eijun had a misunderstanding and some readers felt like Eijun was too quick to forgive Miyuki after he learned Miyuki's reasons for doing the things that upset Eijun. 

To justify why he forgave Miyuki so quickly the author used the interactions between  Ochiai and Eijun during the yips and basically said Eijun must have forgiven Ochiai for for  things because he's still speaking to him.  I just can't see Eijun overlooking Ochiahi trying to ruin his pitching among the other things he did.

I've seen a few of those people that always complain when we don't see Eijun in the scenes.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 15, 2021, 08:02:42 AM
Thanks guys. It is true...when I worked with the kids at the college for those two years I learned about a lot of stuff that they needed which people just aren't aware they can implement.

But in this case it was the userbase that was annoying me. They were chirping about equality and inclusivity while at the same time not including the accessibility issues as important stuff to change.

The staff also have responded to posts about other diversity issues, but even though there are people who have to highlight text on the site to read it, as yet nothing for those people to cling to.

I just feel like diversity should apply to everyone, not just some groups. I absolutely agree with better gender, race and sexuality awareness on any platform. I just don't like that disability gets left out.

@Ponyfan - believe me, if I tackled all the crazy in this thread, I'd break the thread. The stuff they write about Miyuki is bad enough, but the stuff they write about Furuya is just...*sigh*.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 15, 2021, 08:07:49 AM
Sorry you have to deal with bugs and ants... I think everyone knows my stance on ants.

Regarding people with disabilities, yeah I agree. It seems to stop at wheelchair ramps and large public bathrooms or brail on signs. No one really acknowledges people with anxiety or depression or something else that's "invisible". Like virtual meetings could have been being done for years but it takes a pandemic for companies to put it to use.


My complaint is they are powerwashing the building and using bleach. I'm extremely sensitive to bleach. My windows are closed and the A/C is on but the smell has filled my apartment. I'm feeling lightheaded and nauseous and I can taste it in my mouth. When I still lived with my parents and sister, they would all use bleach for laundry or cleaning. I told them dozens of times how it makes me sick and to please use an alternative. They just laughed and ignored me and kept using it. Every time they would I would hide under my blankets, trying to block the smell. Since I've moved I don't use anything with bleach. It's not allowed in my apartment. I don't have a washer and dryer but if I did I would use hydrogen peroxide, which is better for the environment too.

I just hope he gets done with my building soon so I can spray Febreze and hopefully get rid of the smell.

Also, we got letters that said to move things out of the way and if we didn't we'd get a $25 fine. I have two plants and a metal folding chair on my balcony and I moved them away from the side of the building, but the guy is standing downstairs and just aiming it up here, getting my chair wet. I don't care about the chair (it'll be fine) but are they in the way? He's spraying the railings on my balcony too. Now I'm worried I'll get the fine :(

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 15, 2021, 09:10:07 AM
Sorry you have to deal with bugs and ants... I think everyone knows my stance on ants.

Regarding people with disabilities, yeah I agree. It seems to stop at wheelchair ramps and large public bathrooms or brail on signs. No one really acknowledges people with anxiety or depression or something else that's "invisible". Like virtual meetings could have been being done for years but it takes a pandemic for companies to put it to use.

Exactly. It gets wearing being inconvenienced or flat out punished for having a different set of requirements that other people are too lazy to fulfil (while they preach about equality and empathy and other things they don't really understand).

Cranky Taffeta out.

On the subject of the bleach, ugh. I hate bleach too, it's really intrusive. And if the guy is recklessly spraying your stuff, why should you be fined? I don't really understand their logic - seems a bit mad to me.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2021, 09:50:39 AM
I'm still sick and frustrated that although the medicine is working it's not working as fast as I had hoped.  :(

I'm also sensitive to bleach. The last time my dad used a lot of it to clean I was almost sick.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 15, 2021, 11:41:43 AM
Oh look, it's me again.

I got a bad headache from the bleach but it's finally starting to go away.

I have a wound on my side and have been covering it with medical pads and what is supposed to be non-allergen tape. Everything was fine until today when I looked at it, I'm breaking out in a rash where the edges of the tape are. It itches and hurts really bad. I know I'm allergic to medical tape but I got this because it said it won't cause allergies :mad:

None of my packages came in the mail today :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2021, 11:53:17 AM
I'm allergic to latex and can't use Band Aid brand stuff because even though the packages say they don't contain natural rubber latex I itch and break out from them.  NexCare brand doesn't make me break out though. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 15, 2021, 12:34:53 PM

I'm also sensitive to bleach. The last time my dad used a lot of it to clean I was almost sick.

Ponyfan

Wait, some people don't get irritated by bleach. i thought it was just normal that i nearly pass out every time i clean the bathroom with bleach.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 15, 2021, 01:45:35 PM
And yet again someone hasn't shown up for their shift today so I have to cover part of it.  I can almost guarantee they won't show up tomorrow, either, so I'll get stuck doing it tomorrow, too.   
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2021, 03:08:24 PM
I took some cough medicine and now I'm drowsy.  :zzz:

Another smell that I'm really sensitive to is cigarette smoke. I think I'm allergic because everyone time I smell it I start coughing.     

Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 15, 2021, 03:38:16 PM
Well, I ate and just like the other day I feel sick. It was my usual cheese and tomato wrap. I must be having a gastritis flare up.

I'm sensitive to cigarette smoke too which is funny because I used to smoke. After I quit I had to get rid of some stuff and furniture because the smoke smell was so strong.

Lysol makes me sick too. It burns my lungs and eyes. I use white vinegar (that smell I don't mind) for disinfecting and cleaning the countertops and stuff. My sister would spray Lysol in the air conditioner so it would come out the vents. I hated it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on April 15, 2021, 08:02:13 PM
I ran to 4 different stores yesterday looking for a pair of green pants for my son; he needs them for a school project tomorrow. Never found them. Spent all afternoon/evening dying a pair of khaki cargos I found at a thrift store. At least there is some use for that neon Rit dye I bought last week that didn't dye ponies very well! I imagine I'll be up till all hours working on the shirt he needs.

I'm super smell sensitive...I picked that up during pregnancy and it never went away. I couldn't even walk past the cleaning product aisle at the store without wanting to throw up, and it's not much better now. Lysol makes me gag, and the 'clean linen' smell of some Glade Plug-ins will drive me out of the house if someone has one.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 16, 2021, 08:39:11 AM
Um, okay? I tried to sign up to Instagram but it says the username BlackCurtains is already being used (darn it) so I put in blkcurtains instead and that name is available but then it said my email already belonged to a user. Okay. Maybe I signed up in the past and don't remember? I go to forget your password, put my email in and it says "no users"

Eh??? My email is being used by someone AND there are no users with that email? I did it a couple of times thinking I had typo'd. Nope. It rejects my email then says no users have it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on April 16, 2021, 09:54:02 AM
I have to be careful with a lot of aerosol sprays too.  If I inhale too much I'll start to cough and I've even gotten sick from the chemicals in spray on hair color before.

BlackCurtains I hope you figure out what's going on with Instagram. 


Today's complaint: It has been damp and rainy for 2 days.  The ground is muddy so every time my dog goes outside to take care of stuff I have to wipe her feet and legs when she comes back in because she gets muddy.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 16, 2021, 11:24:18 AM
i'm tired and annoyed today. that's all
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 16, 2021, 02:12:58 PM
Thanks Ponyfan. I found some helpful links and I have an account now :)


I've had a headache all day and my tooth hurts.



Post Merge: April 17, 2021, 12:05:32 PM

Not very trivial but I bought external HDDs for my PS4 and PC. The one for PS4 worked without any issues whatsoever. I was able to transfer my games over no problem. The one for PC... I have dedicated backup software, Acronis True Image. I do not recommend it. It has given me problems for months. It would stall during backup of my old drive. The new drive, it got about 400gigs copied and then I got a "backup error". That's it, that's all it said. What error? Don't know. I'm sick of dealing with Acronis so I decided to wipe the image and start over with Windows 10 backup.

It gives absolutely NO information. It says "backing up your data..." the drive's light is flickering and I can feel it moving. But other than that there's no idication that it's working. No estimated time, no amount of data copied. Nothing.

I'm extremely frustrated. I just want to backup my computer :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 19, 2021, 08:12:59 AM
It's me again. I woke up with a migraine, a bad one too, with nausea and everything. I took some headache medicine and stayed in bed until it dulled enough for me to function.

I'm still having problems with my computer. Today it wanted boot media. I know I made a CD a long time ago but couldn't find it. Weirdly, after I hit Esc Window loaded fine. Something is wacky in my set-up. And I still can't get any software to back up onto the new drive. I think it might be bad so I'm going to look into returning it today. I'm also going to purge a bunch of stuff from my main HDD, make a little more space, before switching out my hard drive. Ideally, I'd like to have it backed up but at this point I just want the new drive installed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on April 19, 2021, 10:32:11 PM
My friends and I play dnd and other table top games whenever we can. Since the group seemed to have much fun with my first time running a game for Christmas, I decided to try and write a longer campaign. I have the first session writing and art done, and am working on the second, with mere ideas and sticky notes for everything beyond that. We haven’t started playing yet, but we are scheduled soon.
As an artist, I have also taken it upon myself to draw all the tokens, backgrounds and items for the game. Quite the experience! But now I’m finally taking the big bad evil guy from my writings and jot notes into a visual form. And...none of what I’m developing looks right! Since this is the big bad, I want this to look and feel the part perfectly. A true villainous mastermind! But everything I’ve made looks either goofy, gross (undead things really don’t do skincare) or just plain weird. Not quite what I’m looking for.
 I don’t usually get this frustrated over a character, but he is driving my nut in! I think I’ve taken like...fifty tries at this and I feel like going in circles!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 20, 2021, 04:30:03 AM
Let me have a small complain about the DWP.

This is the organisation that deals with disability benefits, among others, in the UK. (badly, may I add).

My PIP benefit was court awarded by tribunal in 2018 and backpaid. But it expired on 26th March. Because of the pandemic I thus have zero income right now...fortunately my parents aren't inspired to evict me, but because of their shielding and other stuff like vaccines it won't be possible for me to safely look for work or at moving out till June at the earliest.

After we sent in all the form and stuff, we had a call asking about stuff like assessments and the person said she'd call back in a couple of weeks to check details. She never did. We've contacted them twice, but they said it was still in progress.

Then today, a dreaded brown envelope arrived. It's not an exaggeration when I say I was (and still am) physically shaking at the sight of it. That's the level of deep trauma the last PIP claim left me in, and the very fact that I have to keep reclaiming when I have a permanent disability that's triggered by stress is kind of ironic...

But the letter today was just them telling me they now have enough data to make a decision and would be in touch.

Well, thanks a lot for scaring the heck out of me for no reason. And also, stop spending the tax payer's money on unnecessary letters to traumatise disabled people.

...My last claim took me a year to get passed because they first ignored then secondly cherry picked my evidence and withheld assessment documents from me until it went to tribunal, when they had to give all the evidence to the court. The court found in my favour, but I really don't want to have to go through another year like that again. Hence the feeling of dread at the sight of the envelope...

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpaceButtPonies on April 24, 2021, 06:43:38 PM
Today was supposed to be a fun trip to Orlando, I finally was able to get a weekend off! Myself and my roomies got in the car and went! At first it was a great time for the first few hours, then we went to the mall and pretty much the mood tanked. My roommate was no longer having a good time, when we ask if he was okay he said he was fine, which he obviously wasn't.
We tried to make our mall trip quick so he would feel better but nothing... he was having an overall tantrum. The rest of the trip felt ruined and awkward, I just wanted to jump ship and be left somewhere.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 25, 2021, 06:55:55 AM
Inspections start tomorrow. I wish they'd told us sooner. But I suppose, it being sprung on us is sort of the point. We're supposed to have at least one window free from anything and my bedroom window still has boxes in front of it. I need to move them. Then just general cleaning up. I'm really nervous though. My building is building #3 so I wouldn't be surprised if they come tomorrow but I'm hoping I get another day. It's hard for me to vacuum and I'd like to mop the floors too.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 25, 2021, 08:59:24 AM
i think my eyes are getting worse. i've always had good vision and haven't needed glasses. but in the last year i've noticed that i'm making mistakes because i just don't see things. a few days ago i almost made a wrong turn because I misread the street sign. i don't know if its my eyes or if i'm just having trouble focusing. i definitely need to get my eyes checked soon. i haven't been to the eye doctor in 15 years i think.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on April 25, 2021, 11:08:50 AM
I woke up this morning to SNOW!  GLORIOUS SNOW!  *stops evil laughter*  I am not pleased about how we get water in springtime LOL

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on April 26, 2021, 04:36:11 AM
Has anyone here had a blood test taken (non-covid related) after the pandemic started? How long did it take to get your results? My doctor said he'd call me, but it's been 3 weeks and still nothing. He's no doubt got a lot on his plate right now, so it's not like I want to phone him down and cause a bother... Still, I feel kind of left in the dark about my, uh... unidentified medical issue :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 26, 2021, 07:15:50 AM
It takes about 2 weeks for my blood tests to come back. And the lab is in my doctor's office. I would give him a call. It's your test results after all.

---

It's inspection day and only an hour has gone past :drunk: I'm going to be a wreck until they get to my place. They're doing it today through the 30th, 9am-4pm. Glad I have anti-anxiety meds!

eta: my PC is working fine now, btw :)

eta#2: Inspection has been done. Whew!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SunPony on April 26, 2021, 09:36:16 AM
Has anyone here had a blood test taken (non-covid related) after the pandemic started? How long did it take to get your results? My doctor said he'd call me, but it's been 3 weeks and still nothing. He's no doubt got a lot on his plate right now, so it's not like I want to phone him down and cause a bother... Still, I feel kind of left in the dark about my, uh... unidentified medical issue :huh:

My blood tests always come back within 48 hours, even after the pandemic started.  If I were you I would definitely check with them!  You can probably reach out to the administration instead of the doctor himself.  Hope you get a useful result. ^.^
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on April 26, 2021, 12:09:34 PM
I had some business to attend to on the other side of the town today but I only had a one way bus ticket, I figured I would just buy the return ticket from the driver but it wasn't until the bus was already pulling up to the stop when I realized it's no longer possible due to covid, and there wouldn't be another bus going my way for almost an hour :scared:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 27, 2021, 07:54:42 AM
The phone woke me up. I remember saying 'okay' and 'no problem' but I can't remember what the guy said. I don't know what I said okay to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on April 27, 2021, 10:18:31 AM
i can't find my scissors. i have no idea where they disappeared to.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 27, 2021, 03:39:03 PM
I hate my sleep being messed up, especially as I need to keep it relatively balanced at least until Thursday (appointment I can't miss).
Please, don't fail me now...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 27, 2021, 06:42:34 PM
I go to bed early and get up early. It was only 9pm but I was trying to sleep and my neighbor decided it was a good time to turn on her music, which is right on the other side of the wall where the head of my bed is. I'm up now but I don't want to be.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on April 27, 2021, 09:22:28 PM
I am writing an entire campaign for my Dungeons and dragons group. It is going to be awesome (I hope to whatever higher power) and I am doing al the art as well! And then I started having trouble sleeping and having nightmares when I do get to sleep. So in addition to my usual anxiety about anything, I am now tired constantly! Yaaaay...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 28, 2021, 11:57:45 PM
I'm starting to remember why I left a certain site that will not be named several years ago, and unfortunately am seeing the same situations manifest themselves repeatedly.

Aside from their attitude to neurodiversity, I've seen two people leave the site because of moderator high-handedness.

It's not all the moderators, not even most of them. But having been punished once for daring to raise an issue with them, I feel like if you're not part of the clique, then you might as well not be there.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 29, 2021, 03:11:26 AM
Ugh, I had a string of jerk-you-awake nightmares. I kept falling back asleep but I finally forced myself to sit up. I'm still tired. Hopefully, if I clear my mind or something I can sleep for another hour or two.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on April 29, 2021, 05:52:15 AM
Two complaints in one day is not a good sign, but the disability benefit people really need to proofread their letters before sending them, not afterwards.

Yesterday I had a letter telling me that my entitlement certificate was valid from one month after my PIP ended. So that was interesting.

On the phone we were told that was a mistake and that another letter was coming to clarify.

Today we got that letter and we're more confused than we were yesterday when we basically needed a time machine to use the certificate.

...I'm not going to go into the specifics but...gah.

I already have hyperanxiety reactions to any communication from that office after the last battle. So two letters in as many days without actual clarity is not doing much for my nerves.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Shaz on April 30, 2021, 02:35:52 AM
Taffeta, I feel you on the disability benefits. We're still traumatised from trying to get my gf's benefits sorted a couple of years ago (she's autistic too). They left her without money for a year!! Good thing she has a supportive family. We actually eventually gave up on PIP (the stress was making us both ill), but we found she was eligible for Universal Credit. I don't know if that's worth looking into in your case?

My trivial complaint: our local vet practice is closed for refurbishment, so the vets have moved to a different practice outside of town. Both our cats hate travelling (Garfield gets car-sick, poor lad). "Isn't he lucky neither of them has an appointment booked?" we said to each other, "The local vets will be open again by the time they need their checkups." Famous last words :facepalm:. We have been practically living at the vet these past few weeks. Flash fell out of a tree(!) and hurt his leg. Garfield's asthma flared up. We had to go back again to get a new inhaler for Garfield. I'm starting to think I might just grab the cats and camp in the vets car park :lol:.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 30, 2021, 11:33:38 AM
Great, just great. I have appointments on the 3rd and 5th. I get free medical transportation through my insurance so I called to book a ride. Well, they need 1 full business day for processing, I'm too late for the first ride. As for the second? It's a sleep lab and I need to be there at 8:30pm and leave at 6am. They don';t operate at those hours, sorry.

What the heck? Why have this service at all?

So I try Uber through my PC (my phone is old and not a smartphone and it doesn't even have internet). You can book a ride online in advance. Great, looks like it'll cost less than $20. I add my debit card for the payment and... we're sorry, we're having trouble processing, please use in-app help. Um. I'm on the website because I don't have the app. Uh duh.

Let's try a taxi service. Holy moly do the taxi companies around here get bad reviews! There are exactly 2 that have 4 and 5 stars. I chose the 5 star one but their website is devoid of information. No rates posted, no hours of operation. Just a picture of a car and a phone number. edit: The phone number doesn't work. Wonderful. The other one is at least 24hrs so I know they can do the sleep lab.

Things are VERY inconvenient if you don't drive and have your own car. Especially living in a place with no public transportation that runs like normal. There IS a bus, but like my medical transport, you have to call ahead and they don't run 24hrs.

Also? My cat is sick. She won't eat and has thrown up twice - it's foam, so it's a hairball. I have medicine I can give her but she's sleeping under a piece of furniture and won't come out and I can't reach her. I

editx2: Man, this day. I took a nap and woke up with a bad headache. The pizza guy was trying to flirt with me and now my noisy neighbor is fighting with her daughter, screaming at each other.

The only positive is my cat is feeling better :)
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on April 30, 2021, 03:13:12 PM
Public transport can stink xxx
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on April 30, 2021, 03:57:57 PM
I'm sure it can but I took a public bus all through Jr High and High School. I lived too far away to take a school bus. And I used it frequently to get around town. The drivers all knew my name. I never had a bad experience.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 01, 2021, 08:30:34 AM
I'm lucky there were no crowds on the buses I took for my jab the other day. Crowded buses are my worst nightmare
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 01, 2021, 08:35:23 AM
Now i can't find some dishes I ordered. Seriously how do I lose dishes. I looked in all of the cabinets and now i'm worried that I accidentally threw them out with the packaging. first the scissors (which are still missing BTW). now dishes. I'm usually pretty organized. i feel like i'm losing my mind.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 01, 2021, 02:41:31 PM
I feel like I post too much in this thread :huh:

Very dizzy and shaky the last couple of days, it's really bad today. I slept in which was nice even though I had questionable dreams. Been dreaming about death a lot. This time it was dead pets :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 01, 2021, 04:30:55 PM
I feel like I post too much in this thread :huh:

Very dizzy and shaky the last couple of days, it's really bad today. I slept in which was nice even though I had questionable dreams. Been dreaming about death a lot. This time it was dead pets :(

Ugh I have dreams like that too. I hope you feel better soon  :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 01, 2021, 06:47:54 PM
I feel like I post too much in this thread :huh:

Very dizzy and shaky the last couple of days, it's really bad today. I slept in which was nice even though I had questionable dreams. Been dreaming about death a lot. This time it was dead pets :(
:hug: :hug: :hug:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 02, 2021, 10:13:52 AM
Aw, thanks :hug: I'm positive it was triggered by going into my dog's urn and collecting some ashes my niece wanted. Not a very happy activity. But I had non-depressing dreams last night and my dizziness seems to have passed :)

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 02, 2021, 11:28:00 AM
I feel like I post too much in this thread :huh:

Very dizzy and shaky the last couple of days, it's really bad today. I slept in which was nice even though I had questionable dreams. Been dreaming about death a lot. This time it was dead pets :(
:hug: :hug: :hug:

If it helps to post in the thread, then post in the thread :) Nobody's keeping count. =D

Glad you're feeling better.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponybookworm on May 03, 2021, 05:34:50 AM
Post jab bruising still sore
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 03, 2021, 09:23:48 AM
I'm supposed to be going to my doctors office to see her and get vaccinated, but the clinic called and said she was out today. They rescheduled me for the 10th. At least it's soon, usually she's booked for months.

edit: And a dog crapped on my stairs. If I had to guess, it was one of the downstairs lady's dogs. She let's them loose in the morning and at night and then when they don't come back right away she claps incessantly and calls for them. It also peed on my chair, there's a damp spot and little pawprints everywhere.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 03, 2021, 02:53:02 PM
Today it rained a lot. Well, fine. It also was very windy. NOT fine.

It blew my patio gooseberry plant over (fortunately it didn't lose too many of its newly developing fruit.)
It tried to blow my mini greenhouse out of the garden (where the basket plants are growing up, we've had so much frost recently that they're still inside it).

And it damaged the main stems on one of the Delphinium plants I grew from seed last year. There are three of them and I've been growing them on for a year now to hopefully put them in the garden. The other two were battered but not really damaged...this one had both its main stems bent over by the wind.

I've had success before with splinting bent stems if it's done really soon after the injury (before the leaves wilt) so I've done that and am hoping it will manage to survive. The last plant I did this to managed to strengthen its own stem and I was able to take the splint off after a couple of months. But these are babies I grew from seed so I am not happy.

I really don't like seeing any of my plants hurt.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 03, 2021, 04:43:11 PM
the hot weather is back. and it may rain again overnight. at least we had sun today. ugh Texas one day i'll finally move somewhere else. I've been saying it for years and years.

also i've been feeling really anxious lately. i just feel like everything is so unpredictable lately. and my parent's cat is sick. he's pretty old and it doesn't sound good :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 03, 2021, 08:59:22 PM
Got 2 pieces of mail today with a yellow sticker stating that they were unable to forward them.  Um...I have lived here for 7 years and have not filed to have my address changed.  The name/address on the mail is correct.  One piece was time sensitive and was supposed to be delivered 2 WEEKS AGO.  So now I get to spend my Saturday morning going down to the post office (because I have a job and can't just take time off to go 20+ miles in the completely opposite direction from my job to the post office) and try to sort out why my mail is suddenly not deliverable to me, even though it's been doing just fine for the last 7 YEARS. 

There have been issues with our mail carrier before--usually things not delivered to correct mailboxes even though they are ALL very clearly marked--and our neighbors have complained multiple times.  Part of me wonders if I need to threaten to report them for tampering with the mail if they're going to be this incompetent.  Seriously, this is your job.  Do it right or quit so someone with functioning grey matter can do it.    :enraged:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 04, 2021, 04:03:54 AM
I was running out of vitamins, so I ordered some with my groceries from Wal-Mart. I was taking Centrum Energy which has an orange bottle (no, the color is not why I take them :P ) but other than added ginseng and some other stuff it's just like regular Centrum. They were out of it, so Wal-Mart substituted it with gummy vitamins. I hate gummies, that's why I had pills. The dumbest part? I think the shopper picked the gummies because they too, have an orange bottle.

It's really my fault, for having substitutions at all. Normally, the subs aren't bad and make sense. This one though?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 04, 2021, 12:38:57 PM
I'm too impatient for a particular, local music store to reopen.

This store has sister stores around the country, but our local one seems to be the last one to wake up! I emailed their web site & had a polite reply saying that they are re-stocking that store (that's good news) but as yet no idea of what date it will open...

Hurry up I want to try out new guitars!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2021, 05:05:25 AM
GP phoned this morning.
Booked a second vaccine appointment for Friday morning.

....But as of now, I have no transport, as the person who took me to the last one can't do it.

...It's 10 miles away. We have no car and it requires a bus and a walk so I can't navigate it on public transport either.

...So now the race is on to find a means to get there...

It really annoys me that GP hubs seem to have paid zero attention to the accessibility factor. Our GP is seriously 2 mins down the road, but I have to go 10 miles because who knows why. ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 05, 2021, 07:36:14 AM
So the mayor of the city I work for sent out an email yesterday saying that they plan to give us all up to 3% raises (based on performance, so basically that means if they can't make up enough reasons not to give the whole raise to us) and reinstate the whopping 2% 401k match.  She also said that they would be reevaluating the pay rates for certain jobs that aren't matching up to the pay rates of the same jobs in other places. 

The problem I have with this is that my job would need to be paid 10k-15k more a year (we're talking an $8-10/hr pay raise) in order to match up to what other areas are paying for the work I do--part of the reason 2 people have left already and the rest of us are looking for jobs elsewhere.  And there are 4 of us currently in my position at work.  That means that the 8 people higher up than we are will also require a significant pay raise so I don't know just how much money they're actually going to grace us with.  Basically, full-time city employees cannot afford to live in the city we work in.  And they don't see an issue with this. 

And seeing as how the attitude around here is that "women only work because they are bored housewives and their husbands bring home the real money" and most of us are women means that we've been paid crap on purpose even though the majority of us are single and NEED the income.  A male co-worker was promoted above the female co-workers even though he didn't have the Master's degree and they did after he mentioned to the director that he was thinking about asking his girlfriend to marry him. We know that's not the reason they put on the paperwork for promoting him but there's enough subtle sexism here--regardless of what HR tells us every year in our required Sexual Harassment Training--that we can't shake the suspicion that was the reason.  Of course when you live in a place where the only purpose of being female is to make babies and sandwiches we should just be grateful someone is paying us at all.

The mayor also said to make sure that we count that 401k match as part of our income when we compare how much we make to other places.  Of course we're expected to consider our insurance as part of our income as well--even though it's crappy enough that we are required to pay 4k out of pocket before they start paying for anything and it's more if you're on the family plan.  Benefits are supposed to be in addition to your pay, not take the place of it.  These people suck as employers and think they're wonderful.  Maybe if they'd ever left the craphole bubble they've created here they'd realize it. 

So I guess I'll believe it when I see it but I'm not holding my breath.  I'm keeping my eyes out for an opportunity to work someplace that actually values me instead of trying to convince me that this is not only acceptable but normal.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 05, 2021, 09:11:12 AM
I feel like everything is going wrong lately.  No matter how hard I try to do the best job I can at wrong it seems I keep making mistakes.  They are small and I'm sure they seem much bigger to me than they do to others but it's hard not to keep telling myself I should have done  things differently.

The zipper on my purse snagged again.  The purse isn't even that old and this is the 3rd or 4th time that it's got caught.  I'll probably have to get a new bag because I'm not comfortable taking it to work if I can't zip it closed.

My elderly dog is at the vet today.  She has been crying a lot and acting like it hurts to walk.

Everything is just piling up.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 05, 2021, 09:30:37 AM
Ugh Pokeyonekenobie. why do we still have to deal with these attitudes? I hope you find a better place to work :hug:

My complaint today is that the housing market is bonkers and i feel like i'm never going to be able to afford to own a house ever. who is buying all the houses and where is the money coming from.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on May 05, 2021, 09:54:09 AM
Just really down in the dumps...I lost a bunch of cash yesterday. I had gotten a real score on something I found in a local ad, but had to drive a ways to pick it up. I timed everything impeccably with an out-of-town appointment so as to double up on my tank of gas. Then...my girls needed a diaper change, so I stopped to use a McDonald's bathroom because I knew it was likely to be cleaner than a gas station and guaranteed to have a changing table. I felt obligated to make a purchase for using their loo, and we had an hour to kill before my appointment, so I got my girls a snack. I know I had the cash when I paid; I remember pulling it out of my phone wallet and sifting through the bills to give exact change. I thought I put it back in my phone, but I could have just dropped it in my purse. When I got to my appointment, it was gone. I did leave my purse unattended for a minute while I went to grab 2 highchairs, but it was dead in there, and I don't in the least suspect the 2 old men having coffee with whom we amicably chatted, or the elderly lady who was cleaning tables. I must have hastily shoved it in my phone wallet without tucking it in the pocket in my haste to usher my girls away from the checkout area, and then dropped the phone while at the table and it must have scattered out onto the floor. Guess someone else had a lucky day finding 40 or 50 bucks on the floor...I hope it was someone who needed it.

The biggest bummer is, it negates the good deal I got on my item I purchased, to the point where I'm not even excited about it anymore.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 05, 2021, 10:28:09 AM
Wow, everyone is having a really bad time :(

:grouphug:

My complaint is I'm sick. I haven't gone anywhere with people except the office and everyone had masks on. Maybe the stress of my dad being gone and my sleep study (which was cancelled) made me sick. I was up all night tossing and turning, couldn't decide if I was too cold or too hot. Bad headache, white tongue, sore all over, my throat feels constrained. Just very uncomfortable feeling.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 05, 2021, 03:35:21 PM
I'm sorry you're sick BlackCurtains. :hug:

LadyAmalthea, I'm sorry that happened to you.

My dog is back from the vet and everything has to be drastically changed.  I thought that maybe her hips were out of joint or arthritis but the vet said that my dog has two vertebrae that are fused together and a third that could possibly fuse to the other 2.  The vertebrae are so fragile that they might break and if they do, my dog will be permanently paralyzed. The vet said keep her still for 30 days and she's not supposed to move around a lot.  So if she isn't laying down she needs to be in a crate. She also has to be carried outside (no going through the doggie door)  We didn't crate train her so she isn't used to it.  She is still living a good life but I didn't expect her appointment to end with all of this.


I had to buy a new purse.  No one in my family could get the zipper unstuck.     :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 05, 2021, 03:37:15 PM
 My parents' had to put one of their cats to sleep today. I haven't seen him in over a year and i didn't get to say goodbye :cloud: :sad: he was such a good cat.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2021, 03:44:34 PM
:hug: to all of you guys above :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 05, 2021, 07:10:21 PM
I'm so sorry for your pets, Ponyfan and Beth :(  :hug:

I'm feeling a little better after sleeping most of the day but my new complaint isn't so trivial. I got a letter in my door - I've learned these are usually not full of good news. I'm coming up for review for my apartment. Officially the date has passed, but they gave me an extension already to get some more documents to them. I have a previous letter right here that says the documents I needed to turn in. NOWHERE does it say anything about tax forms. In fact, there is a Tax Forms spot and it is blank. I got this letter a month ago.

The new letter is saying I am missing documents. One of them is a couple of tax forms. I need to turn these documents in tomorrow. ????? Okay fine. I go to the IRS site and am relieved I can print what I need. First they have to verify my identity. Because this is the government they play by their own rules and cannot use my SSN to verify me. They need a credit card number or numbers from loans or debts. Guess what I don't have! Debit cards cannot be used and for some bizarre reason, bank accounts are not an option. So they are unable to verify my identity. Instead of getting the forms I need online, now I have to fill out a form to get the forms and mail it to them. Once received, it will take 5-10 business days to get the forms.

I get a letter a month ago, says nothing about tax forms.
I get a letter today, saying I need tax forms.
The forms have to be handed in tomorrow.
If they are not, I may not be renewed and will be asked to vacate.
I cannot get forms online because I have no credit card, loans or non-medical debt (medical debt does not count)
It will take at least 5 days to get said forms. Probably longer.
What. The. Flip.

Tomorrow I am taking both letters to the office to show that, a month ago, no one said I needed tax forms. Like I said, I had already been given an extension for the prior paperwork (I needed my parents signatures and then have it notarized - that was its own headache).

UGHHHHHHH
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 07, 2021, 08:28:14 AM
I'm supposed to get a call about my IRS forms dealie. Today is when I'm supposed to turn them in... I hope they call so I can explain the situation. It's making me nervous.

And my complaint for today (thus far) - My speakers are all messed up! :pout: One is really loud, I can't turn it down, the other one I can't hear at all. There's a break in the wire or something because when I move it even slightly it goes all staticky.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Minty_Magic on May 08, 2021, 03:39:05 AM
I tried baking brownies for Mother’s Day and I messed them up so bad. :mad: First of all the batter ended up WAY too thick, it felt more like a cookie dough than a brownie batter. And then when I was putting away my ingredients I see i forgot to add sugar in! UGH no wonder the batter tasted bad. But then again I feel like it was so dry to begin with another dry ingredient would have really messed it up more.

I put....whatever I created into the oven anyway. We’ll see what comes out, but I think I need to just make another batch tomorrow night. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2021, 03:31:09 PM
Thank you BlackCurtains and Taffeta.  My dog is doing a little better but we still need to be very careful with her.

I have been so exhausted lately that when I get home I don't feel like doing much even activities that I usually enjoy.

Work has been stressful lately. 

I went to  store today and the employee standing at the entrance asked me if I wanted hand sanitizer.  I told her no because I already had my own with me.   She then asked me if I wanted a bag (This store's Covid policy is that you put all the items you want to purchase in a bag and bring it to the register.)   I grabbed a cardboard candle holder because I wanted to buy candles and asked politely if there were any larger bags because all of the ones up front were too small for the candle holder to fit in.  The employee replied that the only way to get a bag big enough was after the purchase was made.  For some reason her response rubbed me the wrong way.   

Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 09, 2021, 05:04:46 PM
I watched Mulholland Drive but didn't understand a thing :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 09, 2021, 06:05:00 PM
I had a coughing attack that left my eyes watering and my nose running. Think it was a cat hair caught in my throat.

Then I was putting some sodas in the fridge and hit my thumb knuckle on one of the door shelves and immediately got a blood blister.

I've been saving boxes for my sister and they're starting to pile up. There's a big one in the hallway that I tripped on earlier.

I wanted to take a shower so I cleaned out the tub and my handheld showerhead started leaking. I don't have any plumbers tape.

It's been an annoying day.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 10, 2021, 08:01:34 AM
A plant I ordered 3 months ago, which should have been despatched in February, arrived today.

Pretty sure its dead.

It was apparently only despatched on Friday.

...The people sending it must have noticed the state of it when despatching.

Not amused.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on May 12, 2021, 03:49:24 PM
It's finally getting nice enough out that I can spend some time outside waiting while my son is in his therapy. I've been wanting to explore this nice trail in the area, and we finally did. We walked a while, and stopped at a rest area so I could feed my girls and let them run around a bit. It's pleasantly isolated, with people passing by occasionally but not consistently. This loner-looking guy comes up, makes a pass around the shelter we were at, then disappears for a few minutes. Then he comes back and flies a drone right over where I was sitting and my girls were playing. He was trying to hide from us behind a restroom structure about 50-60 feet away, but I could see him popping out from behind a support beam as he tried to maintain remote contact. He flew it rather purposefully for about 2 minutes, like he was after really specific footage, and then caught it and walked away. It kind of creeped me out, and I was contemplating packing my kids up to leave right before he caught it. I hope he's not a pedophile. Am I just being paranoid and overprotective? Maybe normal people do this and I'm just out of the technology loop...it made me feel uncomfortable though.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 12, 2021, 04:21:23 PM
It's finally getting nice enough out that I can spend some time outside waiting while my son is in his therapy. I've been wanting to explore this nice trail in the area, and we finally did. We walked a while, and stopped at a rest area so I could feed my girls and let them run around a bit. It's pleasantly isolated, with people passing by occasionally but not consistently. This loner-looking guy comes up, makes a pass around the shelter we were at, then disappears for a few minutes. Then he comes back and flies a drone right over where I was sitting and my girls were playing. He was trying to hide from us behind a restroom structure about 50-60 feet away, but I could see him popping out from behind a support beam as he tried to maintain remote contact. He flew it rather purposefully for about 2 minutes, like he was after really specific footage, and then caught it and walked away. It kind of creeped me out, and I was contemplating packing my kids up to leave right before he caught it. I hope he's not a pedophile. Am I just being paranoid and overprotective? Maybe normal people do this and I'm just out of the technology loop...it made me feel uncomfortable though.

I would have thrown rocks at it.  If he said anything I'd have told him off for being a creeper and told him to go right ahead and call the cops to sort it out.  Then they'd know who he was when the next person complained about his creepy behavior.

Trivial complaint is that I've pulled something in the back of my knee and while it's slowly getting better it makes me not want to walk on the treadmill or ride my exercise bike until it stops hurting so I don't damage it worse. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 12, 2021, 07:39:02 PM
@Taffeta.  I'm sorry your plant was already dead when it was sent to you.

@LadyAmalthea, I'm sorry that happened to you.  I would have been wary of that guy too.

   I love my parents  but they are doing small things that are really annoying me.  I know they're not doing it on purpose but there has been something almost everyday. It doesn't do much good to talk about it with them because most of the time my mom will just dismiss it.  I won't list everything but two things happened today. 

First the bathtub faucet has been dripping for long time but it finally got so bad that my parents called our plumbing/air conditioning/heating  company to look at it.  They were able to fix it.  Hours later I went in to take a shower and spent several minutes having to clean debris out of the tub before I could use it.  I don't know why  my parents didn't notice that the tub needed to be cleaned after the plumbers left.

We are still having to take my elderly dog outside when she needs to go.  I asked my mom if she thought the dog needed to go out and she said no.  Five minutes later the dog needed to go outside. When I asked her why she didn't take the dog out five minutes ago she just said "I didn't think she needed to go outside."

Edit: My dad ordered a multiple device charger and I had to help set it up.  Now he's decided that we can't use it because I said we should only use the cords that came with our devices.  The instruction book says you can take the outlet plug off of the original cord and then plug in to the charger.   He's not satisficed with that though and wants to return it.  The company wants him to pay $15 to return the charger.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 13, 2021, 10:22:53 AM
i just want to hide from the world today :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on May 13, 2021, 11:32:43 AM
i just want to hide from the world today :(
Oh yeah? Try hiding from THIS :tackleglomp: :deathhug: (but seriously, I hope you feel better soon :heart:)

I've been having some... worrying thoughts lately. It seems like all I can think about during the day is food and calories, but I've also had nightmares about overeating several nights in a row. Even last night, I had this really cool dream about going on a highly dangerous mid-winter rescue mission, and wouldn't you know it, there was a subplot about me making too much pizza and freaking out about it (Hello?? Brain?? How are those things even related?) I'm going to take a break from weight loss now before it becomes a REAL problem, no worries. It's just so annoying because I'm so close to being done anyway! >_<
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on May 13, 2021, 11:48:13 AM
@Pokeyonekenobie: haha, I don't think my aim is would have been good enough to hit that thing! After thinking about it a while, I decided to mentally give him the benefit of the doubt. He was young; late teens or early 20's...I tried to see my son in 15 years or so, he is on the spectrum and becomes very obsessed with specific things without awareness of the social boundaries such as how close it is acceptable to come to people, or that certain behaviors could be viewed as creepy. Maybe he is a kid like that, who is obsessed with flight and just got a drone for his birthday and didn't realize he was weirding me out. Maybe not, either, and he IS a creeper, but if I see him there again maybe I'll just point-blank ask him what he's doing and go from there. I have the feeling we are going to be spending a lot of time in that area this summer.

@Ponyfan: I'm sorry you're struggling with your parents. I have found that living with people in general is just so, so hard. I can't imagine doing it with my parents! I think we'd drive each other batty.

My trivial thing: I came across an ad for a garage sale while searching for a non-pony-related item. Upon zooming in on a picture, I spotted a bag with a label 'vintage My Little Ponies, $5'. It was mostly cut off on the side of the picture, but I could tell that it had a SS Cupcake in the bag for sure. The problem? My day is completely full between a zoom meeting, watching my son speak at his class church liturgy on the YouTube livestream, and picking him up from his art club, and there's no way I can make it to that sale and get back in time for any of it! Why, oh why, do I even torture myself...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 13, 2021, 04:29:29 PM
My mom ordered a recliner for me from Wayfair. It was an open box on clearance for only $74. Regular price is 230. It wasn't supposed to come until next week so I wasn't expecting it. Luckily, I had ordered stuff from Amazon yesterday. I was actually in bed already when someone knocked on the door. I figured it was Amazon and got up to get the box, thinking the driver would be gone. Nope! He was extremely nice and told me there was a big box at the bottom of my stairs. Did I mention it was raining? It was raining and had been for awhile. He offered to bring it in for me. Of course, the box was soaked and fell apart but he was able to get it inside. The chair was wrapped but the one armrest got wet. Not badly, I think it will dry fine. I thanked him profusely and will give him 5* with above & beyond.

But what about Wayfair??! My mom orders from them all the time, she has a credit card even and is always saying how great they are. Pffft. Maybe I got a lazy driver but seriously, not bringing it up the stairs is a jerk move. It's mainly a furniture company, what did they think? The Amazon guy had no trouble aside from the box falling apart and it wasn't wet when it was delivered :mad: 

I would be even more ticked if it was bought new.

I'm putting in a complaint tomorrow. It says delivery to your dorr, not to the bottom of your stairs!
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 13, 2021, 09:53:04 PM
I have 2 nephews graduating this month.  One can only have 5 people at his graduation so I understand why he invited his grandparents and not me.  The other can have as many people as he wants (they live in a tiny town so the rules aren't as strict there).  I want to go, but if I do then we have to figure out what to do with the dog and change my schedule at work.  If I don't go, my parents can go without worrying about their dog (because I will be here to babysit) and I will be able to help my parents watch 2 of my other nephews and their 2 dogs the following week.  Either way I won't get any painting done because of babysitting. 

Sometimes I really hate feeling like the live-in nanny instead of the aunt...
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 14, 2021, 02:10:26 PM
An update. I was mad and blamed Wayfair yesterday but the chair was delivered by FedEX. I called today and complained about the driver. Finding out how to lodge a complaint with FedEX took a couple of Google searches but I finally found a number.

Anyway, my complaint for today is I did way too much last night and hurt my back (which is always in pain as it is) and then earlier I stepped wrong and hurt my ankle. THEN I hurt it again when I went to get the mail so it's very painful now. I don't feel well today. My cat woke me up at 4am for breakfast and I decided to make some coffee and stay up. That was a mistake.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 14, 2021, 03:18:00 PM
I live in the suburbs but close enough to the countryside.

Yesterday a cow got loose and "did a runner" in a residential part of my neighbourhood, headbutting a woman.

The police were called but came to the decision that they could not dart the cow. (Why not?)
What did they do instead?
Hint - there is phone video posted of the incident online -
yep, they drove into the poor cow & knocked it over.  :shrug: :facepalm: :shakefist:
The poor animal was then euthanised.

C'mon. There are more humane ways to deal with this incident, no?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 14, 2021, 03:44:24 PM
I live in the suburbs but close enough to the countryside.

Yesterday a cow got loose and "did a runner" in a residential part of my neighbourhood, headbutting a woman.

The police were called but came to the decision that they could not dart the cow. (Why not?)
What did they do instead?
Hint - there is phone video posted of the incident online -
yep, they drove into the poor cow & knocked it over.  :shrug: :facepalm: :shakefist:
The poor animal was then euthanised.

C'mon. There are more humane ways to deal with this incident, no?

And they didn't just loop a rope around its neck and walk it home?  Cows are kind of dumb but generally sweet (at least the ones I've come into contact with are) and usually if you lure it with something to eat it will follow you willingly.  It probably head butted that lady because it was scared.  Poor cow.  It's sad when people are dumber than livestock.  :hatsuharu:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 14, 2021, 06:20:17 PM
We are resetting our store people are crabby at us over it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 15, 2021, 03:22:01 AM
I live in the suburbs but close enough to the countryside.

Yesterday a cow got loose and "did a runner" in a residential part of my neighbourhood, headbutting a woman.

The police were called but came to the decision that they could not dart the cow. (Why not?)
What did they do instead?
Hint - there is phone video posted of the incident online -
yep, they drove into the poor cow & knocked it over.  :shrug: :facepalm: :shakefist:
The poor animal was then euthanised.

C'mon. There are more humane ways to deal with this incident, no?

And they didn't just loop a rope around its neck and walk it home?  Cows are kind of dumb but generally sweet (at least the ones I've come into contact with are) and usually if you lure it with something to eat it will follow you willingly.  It probably head butted that lady because it was scared.  Poor cow.  It's sad when people are dumber than livestock.  :hatsuharu:


Apparently it was "too aggressive"
- more like frightened to the core and naturally running away from weirdo hoomins!!
A lot of folks are very upset at what happened.

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 15, 2021, 08:22:36 AM
Aw, no :( Poor cow. Most humans are so stupid around other animals. Then the animals pay the price.


I've misplaced my favorite hair tie. I think I fell asleep with it on but can't find it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 15, 2021, 11:45:44 AM
Last night I didn't see my dog and accidently stepped on her.  She got mad and bit my toe.   I was walking around barefoot so it really hurt.  She didn't puncture the skin but she left teeth marks and it hurt for a couple of hours afterward.  This first thing my mom asked was if the dog was okay.  I tried to talk to her about that this morning and she said that she was worried that something happened to the dog and knows I would be upset if that happened.  I would be but it seemed odd that she didn't ask me if I was okay first after the dog bit me.


Also, Target has redesigned their carry baskets.  I held one today and watched a blister or something form under my skin after touching it.  They must be using rubber or latex on the handle. :( I'm allergic to latex. 

Ponyfan 

Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: glitterball on May 15, 2021, 02:38:57 PM
Also, Target has redesigned their carry baskets.  I held one today and watched a blister or something form under my skin after touching it.  They must be using rubber or latex on the handle. :( I'm allergic to latex. 

Ponyfan

Sorry about the doggie incident, hope she isn't giving you the side-eye today!

If Target really have started using latex then they really should have disclosed it! I'm not allergic to latex but I can't stand touching it - my skin ends up smelling strongly of it and really bothers me - even rubber gloves are a no - no (I especially seek out latex-free gloves) so I really sympathise with those who actually are allergic to it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 16, 2021, 11:33:00 AM
I almost fell twice getting out of the shower. For some reason, my tub is elevated somewhat and the sides are taller than most bathtubs. I have trouble lifting my legs up so I have to be very careful getting in and out. I was a little dizzy and nauseous and wasn't paying close attention when I put my foot down on the rug and tipped forward. Then my other leg didn't make it over the edge and I almost fell again. 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 16, 2021, 03:46:52 PM
I almost fell twice getting out of the shower. For some reason, my tub is elevated somewhat and the sides are taller than most bathtubs. I have trouble lifting my legs up so I have to be very careful getting in and out. I was a little dizzy and nauseous and wasn't paying close attention when I put my foot down on the rug and tipped forward. Then my other leg didn't make it over the edge and I almost fell again. 

I'm glad you're ok. i have so much hatred for the shower/tub combo. just build showers with no tub or separate tub and shower. i have strong opinions about bathrooms.

I fell getting out of the shower in the at house i lived in. it had porcelain tile that would get very slippery if there was any water. we pretty much had to cover the floor with towels. luckily i didn't hit my head but i fell into the door frame and bruised my back. i also slipped and fell into dog pee twice. that house was a death trap. porcelain tile is terrible for flooring.

my complaint today i listened to a podcast about the exxon valdeez oil spill and now i'm sad and angry at the oil industry. it happened on my birthday when i was a kid and i just remember all of the animals covered in oil. which was horrible enough. but there wasn't a lot of follow up in the press on how the entire community was completely devastated. i don't know why i listen to podcasts that make me angry and sad.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on May 16, 2021, 07:21:41 PM
I always hated the tub/shower combo...until I had kids. Now all I have is a stand-up shower in one bathroom and a stand-alone super deep jacuzzi bathtub in my bathroom, and I haaaaate it. I pretty much just have to get in the tub with my girls to get them washed up, because it kills my back trying to sit on the ledge and reach down. I can't wait to get out of this house. I'd kill to have a combo deal now!

Trivial complaint: (other than complaining about my bathroom misconfiguration!) I just washed my bathroom rug, and my daughter promptly wet on it before getting into the bath. More laundry...ugh.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 17, 2021, 07:10:55 AM
I have a dentist appointment today and I don't want to go.  I don't like going to the dentist because I had such bad experiences with it growing up... :cry:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 17, 2021, 09:27:55 AM
As for yesterday's convo, I have to add that since I've gotten arthritis my balance in the shower has gotten a lot worse. I don't know why. Early on I got some slippers/slides by Oofos to wear in the shower and I have had absolutely no issues whatsoever since.

Shower/tub convo is all I've really ever known in my life. Once we went on vacation to this condo and the bathroom I got had a walk in shower, it was so different for me.

Anyway:

Not feeling great today. Lost my breakfast and still have a bad headache.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 17, 2021, 11:13:14 AM
I have a dentist appointment today and I don't want to go.  I don't like going to the dentist because I had such bad experiences with it growing up... :cry:

I know that feel, I used to hate going to the dentist and sometimes I would get myself in trouble by avoiding a visit, but luckily I found a good private practice a few years ago and I have never been afraid since.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 17, 2021, 02:36:52 PM
If I owned my own home I would want a walk in tub. They're a tub/shower combo but tall like a shower and it has places to sit. They come with jets too. So you can either sit and shower or soak in the tub.

My complaint is pain and discomfort. My legs hurt a lot. I'm so tired. I took a 4 hour nap and don't remember falling asleep. No energy. No appetite. I wanted to change my sheets and put my little side tables together, I couldn't do either. It's 5:30pm and I'm ready for bed.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on May 18, 2021, 08:29:33 AM
I've never lived in an apartment with a tub or a combo! They're not that common in Finland, we like our walk-in showers, I suppose. :D So you mainly find them in older houses, or maybe some new ones where it's a design choice. My granny used to have a tub when I was a child, later her bathroom was renovated and they switched the tub for a shower. I don't really have preferences either way. What I find most peculiar about some tub/shower combos when travelling abroad are fixed showerheads, though... Now those are extremely inconvenient!

My trivial complaint of the day... I can't find my bus card anywhere! I haven't used it since around October, have been avoiding public transportation as much as I can. Today I wanted to go to the city centre for the first time in ages and it takes me nearly an hour to walk, so I figured I might take a bus and then walk back home. But well. I've checked pretty much every bag that I own, the pockets of all my coats, it's nowhere to be found.  >_< (I hear they take contactless payment these days but still, after searching for an hour I didn't really feel like going anymore... ^^; )
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 18, 2021, 09:50:36 AM
Is it true that houses in Finland have saunas and heated floors? I haven't been in a sauna since I was a little kid at a hotel. And growing up in Wisconsin we could have used a heated floor :lol: We did have a pool though... my family has always been pro-pool.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 18, 2021, 09:56:04 AM
I wish we had a shower in our apartment :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 18, 2021, 10:03:32 AM
SpacePinto, you can get handheld shower heads that attach to the tub faucet - like this one (https://www.amazon.com/KLLEYNA-Sprayer-Washing-Bathtub-Powerful/dp/B0836TBMGG/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2VJNSWVQE7HNQ&dchild=1&keywords=tub+faucet+sprayer+attachment&qid=1621357146&sprefix=tub+faucet+%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-4) and put the holder up high if your tub is connected to a wall. My mom used one of these when my niece was a little kid because they have a large soaking tub and a walk-in shower, but she wanted a better way to rinse her hair.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: LadyAmalthea on May 18, 2021, 10:35:17 AM
I lived in a house with a heated floor once...it was weird. The only place where you really felt warmth was the kitchen and bathroom, because the carpet was thinner in those rooms. Otherwise, it just kept the floor from getting cold. Yes, there was actually carpet in the kitchen and bathroom, which was totally gross! I guess that was a 'thing' in the 60's when the house was built. I lived with 2 male roommates who didn't cook (other than the pan of pot-brownies I found on the counter when I came home from work late one night),  so the kitchen wasn't too funky. As for the bathroom...well, I sure didn't walk barefoot near the toilet!

My complaint: trying to find someone willing to pick my son up from school one day this week so I can go visit a friend who will be coming home to Chicago for a few days. I haven't seen her in 5 years and I really hope I don't have to miss seeing her this week.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2021, 12:03:35 PM
I remember the hotel I stayed in in Helsinki (I know, not the same) had a sauna, but not heated floors.

My trivial complaint...

We had hail today.

HAIL.

It's May. ><
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on May 18, 2021, 12:24:08 PM
Is it true that houses in Finland have saunas and heated floors? I haven't been in a sauna since I was a little kid at a hotel. And growing up in Wisconsin we could have used a heated floor :lol: We did have a pool though... my family has always been pro-pool.

Well some do, some don't :) Most detached houses probably have a sauna and many apartments do as well, even rentals but of course the rent will be higher... A block of flats will typically have a shared sauna that you can book, but nowadays I guess more and more people want to have their own private saunas so in new buildings, even smaller aparments may have them. Pools on the other hand aren't common at all! Then again, we have all these lakes and summer cottages which makes up for it. Heated bathroom floors are pretty normal but it depends on the age of the building and whether someone wanted to cut costs. :lol: The rental apartments I've lived in haven't had floor heating. (And oh yeah, we don't do carpets... or maybe some did in the 70s/80s or something, one of my childhood friends lived in a house with carpets. That was weird, I always associate them with public spaces and hotels! Heated floors are usually tile.)

This is getting totally off-topic, maybe we should start a separate thread for interesting cultural differences and housing :lol:

I don't even have anything specific to complain about, just the fact that I'm constantly anxious and stressed :/ 
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 18, 2021, 03:14:09 PM
SpacePinto, you can get handheld shower heads that attach to the tub faucet - like this one (https://www.amazon.com/KLLEYNA-Sprayer-Washing-Bathtub-Powerful/dp/B0836TBMGG/) and put the holder up high if your tub is connected to a wall. My mom used one of these when my niece was a little kid because they have a large soaking tub and a walk-in shower, but she wanted a better way to rinse her hair.

We do have a shower head, but showering in a bathtub is just not the same.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 19, 2021, 03:13:46 PM
I put my media cabinet together and didn't realize until I stood it upright that I nailed the backing on backwards -_-
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 19, 2021, 03:52:44 PM
I put my media cabinet together and didn't realize until I stood it upright that I nailed the backing on backwards -_-

i always forget to tighten the bottom shelves on my ikea shelves :( i'm not great at following directions.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 19, 2021, 06:46:21 PM
I hate it when I'm trying to organize my pony fanart folder by artists and it turns out that an artist deleted all their original profiles and I can't verify if something was really by them, or that two artists might actually be the same person using different nicknames and I don't know if I should merge both folders or keep them separate :stressed:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 20, 2021, 03:21:38 PM
ANTS!!! Again *cries* They found the cat food bowl. Again! They're coming from the laundry closet but I don't know exactly where. I don't have a washer/dryer so I use it for storage. I'm not going to pull everything out, I'm too sore and tired from yesterday. So I sprayed under the doors. I picked up all the cat stuff and washed the floor under it with white vinegar. Ants, I hate ants. At least I am still only dealing with the tiny grease/sugar ants.

Also, I think I've killed the aloe plants my sister gave me. The little one is almost for sure dead. The big one still has some green on the bottom of the fronds so maybe I can save it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on May 22, 2021, 10:37:11 AM
Hot and humid, and we need rain on top of that due to less snow.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 22, 2021, 11:16:11 AM
I have a lot of trivial complaints.  I was really down yesterday.

 I had my hair cut the other day and although the stylist cut it the same way she always does I feel like it's too short now. 

I was going to switch out my earrings yesterday and I couldn't find one my favorite go to pairs.  I'm not sure where I put them.  I started looking for another pair of earrings since I couldn't find the original ones and realized I have very few pairs of earrings that I can wear for everyday.

I've also been feeling guilty about buying non essential things.   I'm not even spending a lot but I still feel guilty.

My elderly dog still needs to be watched carefully and can't go outside by herself.

Also my dad cannot let a single day pass without commenting on politics.  It's been like that since Nov  and it's getting harder and harder to stay silent and not tell him that I wish he'd stop.  I can't ask him to stop because he will get angry and hold a grudge against me for it for a really long time.

It's been rough lately.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 22, 2021, 05:26:28 PM
My battle with ants continues... this morning there was one (the tiny ones again - must be the same colony) on my water bottle on my nightstand. I had just woke up and my eyes couldn't focus to see if there were more. It's amazing I saw the one to begin with. Anyway, after I woke up some more I looked everywhere; the baseboards, the wall, the ceiling, the carpet (I highly doubt I could see them on the carpet but looked anyway) and didn't see any more. Later, I took a nap and when I woke up again, there was another one in the same spot. I got the spray and sprayed the baseboards even though I saw no ants on them. The only way for them to have gotten on my nightstand would be to crawl up the cord for my lamp so I sprayed that area too, which is behind my bed.

I dunno. I'm hoping they were scouts and since I killed them, more won't come. There is no food in my bedroom and I only have gummy vitamins as any kind of candy or whatever, but they're sealed in a bottle.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 24, 2021, 08:20:44 AM
I hate that I'm not going to my nephew's graduation this weekend because of a dog.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Griffin on May 25, 2021, 06:12:53 AM
I just spent over an hour getting a document printed, signed and scanned.  >_< Had to reinstall my printer etc. etc. just to get this simple job done.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: tikibirds on May 25, 2021, 11:20:31 AM
I have to move to a new apartment but I am leaving here in December  >_< You can't wait a few months before you sell the apt?
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: SpacePinto on May 25, 2021, 12:26:59 PM
I bought some sticky notes at the supermarket yesterday to keep myself more organized, but now it turned out they were piece of junk that just won't stick and some of them keep falling off :argh: I already ordered a better brand online that is said to be super sticky and has pretty good reviews, but I am still pretty mad about it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 25, 2021, 06:27:39 PM
I have a nervous habit of licking my lips too much. To the point they get raw and hurt. Well I must be nervous lately because they're red and sore. Also, the eczema on my arm is breaking out bad. It itches and it's so painful.

I don't know what I'm anxious about. My brain is annoying sometimes.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Harmonie on May 25, 2021, 06:59:42 PM
^I pick at my lips and it takes me until I'm getting to the point of it hurting and I'm bleeding for me to realize "why am I doing this?".
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 26, 2021, 03:58:14 PM
For some reason I can't use my mouse on my speaker icon to get the screen to adjust the volume on my speakers.  It was working the last time I adjusted the sound.  I can still use the the buttons on the keyboard but it's easier to do with the mouse.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: slyons on May 28, 2021, 06:01:50 AM
I have a package being sent through international post... but the person did not use any packing material in a large post box so I can only imagine what kind of shape my stuff is going to be in when it gets here  :huh:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Luxrayx on May 28, 2021, 06:26:17 AM
^I pick at my lips and it takes me until I'm getting to the point of it hurting and I'm bleeding for me to realize "why am I doing this?".
I do the same thing!! I tried to train myself to just touch my lips gently when I need comforting, but even that doesn't work anymore because I shouldn't be touching my face at all. Now I just pick at my fingernails until there's hardly anything left. Thanks, brain :pout:
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 28, 2021, 01:33:28 PM
I'm having a lousy day -_-

My internet took a payment out of my bank even though I already paid it. Instead of having $80 in the bank I now have $16. edit: and I need cat food. There are 2 cans left.

I didn't sleep well so I'm really tired.

Earlier I had a massive allergy attack and have a headache since.

I made a frozen pizza and put extra cheese on it including some feta. I like feta but it made the pizza too salty.

My neighbors are loud today and it's annoying me.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Ponyfan on May 28, 2021, 03:34:34 PM
I'm sorry you're having a rough day BlackCurtains. I hope tomorrow is better. :hug:


My car is still in the shop and I'll be lucky if I get it back tomorrow.  My family is beginning to think that because my dad mentioned wanting to get a $10 service that is only good tomorrow that the shop might have interpreted that to mean that they could keep the car until tomorrow instead of starting to look at it right away.


I plugged my iPod in to my computer to download some new songs I bought to it and once again iTunes didn't seem to recognize that the iPod was connected.  I tried a different USB port and it worked fine. I'm not sure why the port I usually use isn't working.

Our city is changing to a different power grid. They decided to make the change this weekend working with different sections of the city at a time to complete the change.  The city has promised it will only be for about 30 minutes and yet they are advising to turn off and unplug all devices.

Spoiler tag for talk about ticks

Spoiler
My mom found a tick on her a little while ago.  I was hoping it was cold enough this winter to kill them.   Now when I think about I feel like they might be crawling on me.  I don't like ticks.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 29, 2021, 05:11:23 AM
Got a loud buzzing fly that came into the house, I’m scared of them and it went upstairs. I hope it finds that spider web in my room so that it can get stuck and then I can kill it.
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: Beth3346 on May 29, 2021, 10:25:19 AM
the news is bumming me out today. not anything specific. just in general. :(
Title: Re: The trivial complaints thread
Post by: BlackCurtains on May 29, 2021, 11:58:21 AM
Argh! :argh:

I'm so frustrated! The bank will be closed Monday since it's Memorial Day and I need to get some money in my account asap. I can't do it today because there is no one around who can give me a ride. I'm going to be so screwed if I overdraft on an auto payment. Thankfully, the person I support on Patreon is taking next month off, so I won't be billed the 10 bucks for that. But that still leaves Prime, Netflix and Hulu and maybe Jagex if this is the month for it. They don't all post on the 1st. I think Hulu does. Jagex does. I'm so screwed :wail: All because I paid my internet bill EARLY. What kind of backwards bull is this?!
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