Really trivial stuff that bugs you

[DonM435]

I tried buying some new handkerchiefs and was told they were "seasonal," so come back later on.

[Trebuchet]

Speaking of Christams shopping...the store decorations going up just after Halloween annoys me.

One of my major pet peeves, perhaps beyond the "trivial" point!

When I'm King of the World (KOTW) rushing the season will be prohibited!
No Valentines schlock until February 1. (Except the original flavor Necco conversation hearts, which they'll be require to bring back and sell year-round.)
No Easter stuff until Ash Wednesday.
No Fourth of July stuff until Flag Day (which is in June, your mileage may vary in other parts of my world.)
No Back to School sales until August 1.
No Halloween stuff until October 1.
And above all, no Christmas stuff until Thanksgiving. That's the USA Thanksgiving in November, not the Canadian one in October!

[redshifter]

I tried buying some new handkerchiefs and was told they were "seasonal," so come back later on.

I hope there isn't an underwear season...

[Noclevername]

I hope there isn't an underwear season...

Do you need a hunting licence for that?

[Gillianren]

Trivial stuff that bugs me? People who do their Christmas shopping annoyingly early.

Oh, I don't plan it. I just see things in shops and think, "Oh, that's perfect for so-and-so!" Saves having to deal with the mall in December, and it means that most of my friends get gifts they love instead of tolerate.

Here's one: What is the difference in weather forecast speak between Parly cloudy or partly sunny? Don't they mean the same thing?

Not officially. Partly cloudy is mostly sunny, and partly sunny is mostly cloudy. I have the exact ratios somewhere.

[Trebuchet]

Not officially. Partly cloudy is mostly sunny, and partly sunny is mostly cloudy. I have the exact ratios somewhere.

How interesting! I always assumed it was the opposite!

[Noclevername]

The local news has taken to using "a mix of clouds and Sun" to avoid having to be too specific.

[pumpkinpie]

So does that mean the order of increasing cloudiness: sunny/clear, mostly sunny, partly cloudy, partly sunny, mostly cloudy, overcast?

[Luckmeister]

In Seattle, the weather prognosticators just say, "If you don't like the rain where you are, go a couple of miles and the rain will be a little different."

[R.A.F.]

In Seattle, the weather prognosticators just say, "If you don't like the rain where you are, go a couple of miles and the rain will be a little different."

My son in Seattle has become a "wimp"....85 plus and he has to have an air conditioner in the window...


.....103, and a fan to "move the air" is all I need...

[Luckmeister]

My son in Seattle has become a "wimp"....85 plus and he has to have an air conditioner in the window...

Zombies can't take hot weather.

[Gillianren]

So does that mean the order of increasing cloudiness: sunny/clear, mostly sunny, partly cloudy, partly sunny, mostly cloudy, overcast?

Exactly. Once you know that, the information is a lot more understandable. Though I'm not sure how valuable it is either way.

My son in Seattle has become a "wimp"....85 plus and he has to have an air conditioner in the window...


.....103, and a fan to "move the air" is all I need...

I've always been a wimp. It's why I moved to Seattle in the first place. Saturday's jaunt through the Central Valley would have been unbearable without air conditioning.

[R.A.F.]

I've always been a wimp. It's why I moved to Seattle in the first place. Saturday's jaunt through the Central Valley would have been unbearable without air conditioning.

It must be something in the air...i know my "wimpy son" was able to withstand southern Ca summers for the first 25 years of his life...


...guess that is what happens when people move away from each other...

[Noclevername]

It is reversible. My sister went from New England to Florida and acclimated there, then had to re-acquire winter skills when she moved to the Midwest.

[swampyankee]

In Seattle, the weather prognosticators just say, "If you don't like the rain where you are, go a couple of miles and the rain will be a little different."

The line here is "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

Trivial dislike?

People who beep their horns at me when I'm cycling. I have every right to be where I am on the road; drivers who think otherwise are wrong.

[closetgeek]

This is really, really trivial but it annoys me to no end. When someone is already eating their food and you ask them to pass you something, only then do they decide that they need to use it first. I get that it's less productive to have them hand it to you, only for you to have to pass it back to them but I can't help it; it just gets under my skin.

[Moose]

The line here is "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

In Halifax, five minutes is a long time. We say "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute". A friend of mine wrote a song with a line: "for whatever the reason, we've got all four seasons running twenty-four hours a day".

[Trebuchet]

My son in Seattle has become a "wimp"....85 plus and he has to have an air conditioner in the window...

Wimpy as charged! We also wear socks with sandals and shorts, and dunk our fires in tartar sauce.

[Jim]

... and dunk our fires in tartar sauce.

I guess that would put them out, but isn't it dangerous picking them up to dunk them?

[Trebuchet]

I guess that would put them out, but isn't it dangerous picking them up to dunk them?

Oh my! You want FRIES with that?

And yes, I just initially typed "fires" again in the line above.

[swampyankee]

In Halifax, five minutes is a long time. We say "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute". A friend of mine wrote a song with a line: "for whatever the reason, we've got all four seasons running twenty-four hours a day".

We're closer to the equator, so the weather is slower

[redshifter]

My son in Seattle has become a "wimp"....85 plus and he has to have an air conditioner in the window...


.....103, and a fan to "move the air" is all I need...

I thought it was more like 80 +...and if it's below 38F, we complain about how frigidly cold it is...It could be worse, we could be living virtually anywhere else in the country and have to experience actual hot/cold weather...

The climate here does seem to 'wussify' people. I'm one of them...though I've heard many a non-native complain about our weather as well.

[Trebuchet]

...though I've heard many a non-native complain about our weather as well.

That usually has to do with the rain, however. We're accustomed to that.

[Delvo]

All the weather stuff reminded me of this one: people who talk about how wildly variable the weather in their location is (especially with that overused "just wait" line), as if that place were particularly notorious for its extreme variability... especially when they're actually in a place that DOESN'T change much. I grew up in Missouri and then lived in Florida for a while and still had to hear people doing this, even there. IN FLORIDA?! The weather there never ever ever ever ever ever changes at all!

[Paul Beardsley]

Oh my! You want FRIES with that?

Good recovery!

[Van Rijn]

All the weather stuff reminded me of this one: people who talk about how wildly variable the weather in their location is (especially with that overused "just wait" line), as if that place were particularly notorious for its extreme variability... especially when they're actually in a place that DOESN'T change much. I grew up in Missouri and then lived in Florida for a while and still had to hear people doing this, even there. IN FLORIDA?! The weather there never ever ever ever ever ever changes at all!

Well, to me it sure seemed to change a lot when I went there on vacation one summer. Every day, up and down Florida (Miami, up to Disney and the space center, down through the Keys) it would be sunny one minute, stormy the next. Thunder, lightning, the whole works. Compare that to Sacramento, where an overcast sky is an unusual event in the summer and a sprinkle of rain is almost unheard of. About the only thing that varies substantially in the summer is how much of a Delta breeze we're getting, but even that changes over periods of days or weeks, not minutes. Last year there was great annoyance in Sacramento because we actually had significant rain in June, and for a number of substantial events there had been no provision for that, forcing a lot of cancellations.

[HenrikOlsen]

That usually has to do with the rain, however. We're accustomed to that.

There's a meme currently going 'round Danish FaceBook members at the moment, basically any picture of The Ark with the text "In the Bible it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and it was called a catastrophe. Here we call it Summer.'

[Moose]

All the weather stuff reminded me of this one: people who talk about how wildly variable the weather in their location is (especially with that overused "just wait" line), as if that place were particularly notorious for its extreme variability...

[anecdotes in lieu of data]
Two memorable days in Halifax.

Memorable because I spent the day sailing.
9am: Downpour.
11am: Not a single cloud to be seen, anywhere.
Noon: Thick fog rolls into harbor.
1pm: Thick fog rolls out. Not a cloud to be seen.
5pm: Downpour.
And that sort of weather variability wasn't especially uncommon for Halifax. The forecasts have been saying "mild, variable cloud, chance of rain" since Confederation.

Memorable because Valentines Day and I'd been missing Halifax and my then gf. February 14th, and 24C all day. For those of you who can't handle base-10 math, that's about 75F. (Every store that sold ice cream or anything remotely ice cream-like had line-ups around the block. My group had gelatto in a variety of pastel colors.)

The Atlantic Provinces have quick weather, but even among Maritimers, Halifax is particularly renowned for it. Not that any of it's especially difficult weather, just wildly unpredictable.
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[swampyankee]

Back to trivial stuff that bothers me: weather forecasters who stir up panic for the possibility of snow fall where I live. This is New England, not Hawai'i. It snows. Get over it.

[DonM435]

There are still some local (Florida) weathercasters who think that 95 degrees is a nice day, and a dip down to, say 70, is cause for concern. Why should anyone trust those people?