Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Andy in Germany]

I have this conversation fairly frequently. Someone trying to make small talk asks what music I like.
I tell them that I don't really listen to music.
They generally push a bit, because they assume I must like something. They ask about genres, or British pop music: do I prefer that?
I say that, no, and I'm pretty indifferent to music generally.
They than say something like:
"Oh, that's sad."
No it isn't. I just don't have any interest in something you like. Just because it's different to your tastes doesn't make it "sad".

 

[Hover Fly]

I have this conversation fairly frequently. Someone trying to make small talk asks what music I like.
I tell them that I don't really listen to music.
They generally push a bit, because they assume I must like something. They ask about genres, or British pop music: do I prefer that?
I say that, no, and I'm pretty indifferent to music generally.
They than say something like:
"Oh, that's sad."
No it isn't. I just don't have any interest in something you like. Just because it's different to your tastes doesn't make it "sad".

As a musical anhedonist I’ve Had that all my life, from school assembly , (why Is everyone talking funny) through to later life, “You must listen to (insert string of silly words, the name of a bunch of noise-makers, apparently) it’ll blow your mind, (no it won’t it’s just an annoying racket with pretentious pseudo intellectual words) to “what do you want played at your funeral?” (Nothing, I intend to not have a funeral if I can avoid it.)
”Oh that’s sad” (no it isn’t, what is sad is the small fortune you’ve wasted on listening to the air vibrate.)

 

[mistyoptic]

what is sad is the small fortune you’ve wasted on listening to the air vibrate

But they enjoyed it, even if you wouldn’t. So not a waste to their ears

 

[raleighnut]

As a musical anhedonist I’ve Had that all my life, from school assembly , (why Is everyone talking funny) through to later life, “You must listen to (insert string of silly words, the name of a bunch of noise-makers, apparently) it’ll blow your mind, (no it won’t it’s just an annoying racket with pretentious pseudo intellectual words) to “what do you want played at your funeral?” (Nothing, I intend to not have a funeral if I can avoid it.)
”Oh that’s sad” (no it isn’t, what is sad is the small fortune you’ve wasted on listening to the air vibrate.)

I'm almost the opposite, still listening to things I was as a kid..................Manfred Mann, Buddy Holly. Lonnie Donnegan, Alex Harvey and a whole bunch more. I have picked up on a few new bands like Gomez, Fun Lovin Criminals, David Gray etc. and a whole slew of local groups.
I've spent a couple of grand on the kit to make the air vibrate and I dread to think how much on Records and CD's and don't begrudge a penny.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I'm almost the opposite, still listening to things I was as a kid..................Manfred Mann, Buddy Holly. Lonnie Donnegan, Alex Harvey and a whole bunch more. I have picked up on a few new bands like Gomez, Fun Lovin Criminals, David Gray etc. and a whole slew of local groups.
I've spent a couple of grand on the kit to make the air vibrate and I dread to think how much on Records and CD's and don't begrudge a penny.

I've now discovered the concept "acquired musical anhedonia" and I'm terrified. I like those air vibrations so much I even try and make them sometimes, though not very well.

 

[Jameshow]

Can somebody please explain to me how this makes sense...?!

My new Android tablet has a fingerprint scanner on the power button. In landscape mode the button is on the top of the left-hand side of the tablet. At first, I was using the tablet in landscape mode so I trained the device with the index finger of my left hand. All good.

Now, however, I will mainly be using the tablet in portrait mode, held in my left hand. Like that, the power button is on the top of the tablet on the right-hand side. I now needed to train it with the index finger of my right hand.

I used my left index finger to power up the device and log in. I navigated to setup/fingerprints. It popped up a box...

"PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR PIN"

I shouldn't need to do that because I have already logged in!

If the device really needed me to log in again in case I had left the device lying around logged in and vulnerable to someone else setting up their fingerprint, I should be able to do it with the fingerprint that it already knows, right? WRONG!!!

The reason that I am 'annoyed beyond reason' is because I couldn't find my PIN in any of the places that I normally write down critical information like that. After 30 minutes of searching, I gave up and looked up what I was supposed to do next. I though

I have this conversation fairly frequently. Someone trying to make small talk asks what music I like.
I tell them that I don't really listen to music.
They generally push a bit, because they assume I must like something. They ask about genres, or British pop music: do I prefer that?
I say that, no, and I'm pretty indifferent to music generally.
They than say something like:
"Oh, that's sad."
No it isn't. I just don't have any interest in something you like. Just because it's different to your tastes doesn't make it "sad".

I hate the phrase I have a wide eclectic taste in music often heard on R2.
These people must listen and remember music all day long.

I remember a few good sings but the rest is just noise, just like the presenters!

 

[raleighnut]

I hate the phrase I have a wide eclectic taste in music often heard on R2.
These people must listen and remember music all day long.

I remember a few good sings but the rest is just noise, just like the presenters!

I'd say 75% of people have no real interest in music, to them it is just background and what is popular at the time...................How else do you explain Simon Cowell and 'Stock Aitkin Waterman' and the dross they peddle to the public.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'd say 75% of people have no real interest in music, to them it is just background and what is popular at the time...................How else do you explain Simon Cowell and 'Stock Aitkin Waterman' and the dross they peddle to the public.

I found that funny, even though I have no idea who you are talking about, thank goodness...

 

[raleighnut]

I found that funny, even though I have no idea who you are talking about, thank goodness...

The gentlemen referred to are now multi-millionaires due to the 'Hits' they have financed/produced/marketed.

 

[classic33]

The gentlemen referred to are now multi-millionaires due to the 'Hits' they have financed/produced/marketed.

Doesn't Waterman have something to do with model trains?

 

[Jameshow]

Doesn't Waterman have something to do with model trains?

And big ones!!!

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I'd say 75% of people have no real interest in music, to them it is just background and what is popular at the time...................How else do you explain Simon Cowell and 'Stock Aitkin Waterman' and the dross they peddle to the public.

Though to be fair, Roadblock was an absolute banger.

I think "no real interest in music" is a bit strong tbh. I mean I'm probably pretty much the guy on R2 mentioned above and can talk about music for hours. I know that John Coltrane influenced Hip-Hop through Rakim, who tried to incorporate Trane's approach to saxophone into his rap flow (which was unique and groundbreaking). I can tell you why Grime isn't Hip-Hop, how Ska evolved into Reggae, why Ginger Baker drove through Africa to meet Fela Kuti and what Rachmaninov said about jazz pianist Art Tatum ("If this man ever decides to play classical music, we're all in trouble"). I can tell you about five or six songs that in the right circumstances are almost guaranteed to reduce me to tears

BUT....

I meet people all the time that don't have anything like that relationship to music. They listen to stuff because it's on the radio, because their friends like it, because that's what they listened to when they were young. They don't know where it came from, or where it's going. They aren't bothered if it's plastic and disposable, todays chart, tomorrow's ...err...chip wrappers? (sorry, that''s cycling terminology...!). A mate of mine only listens to hardcore church-burning lock-up-your-goats Norwegian death metal (or something like that, I've honestly got no interest in finding exactly which subgenre of screaming over guitar it is). He wouldn't know Miles Davis from George Clinton.

And you know what? They're as liable to cry at a song as I am, the rush of nostalgia the first few bars of some one hit wonder pop tune brings them is as intense as anything I know. They're never going to lie in a room with the lights out and listen to Coltrane's Love Supreme and wonder if they heard a man talking to God or God himself and most of the stuff they love is bloody awful junk (imo). But they love it anyway, and that's OK. Let's not confuse music appreciation with loving a tune, they're different.

🎶

Apologies to the musical anhedonists above that started this bit of discourse, didn't mean to hijack your annoyance to bang on about stuff you don't give a shït about

 

[raleighnut]

Doesn't Waterman have something to do with model trains?

Pete Waterman has indeed spent some of the millions he made in 'music' on a model train layout, said to rival that of Rod Stewart another model train enthusiast.

 

[classic33]

Pete Waterman has indeed spent some of the millions he made in 'music' on a model train layout, said to rival that of Rod Stewart another model train enthusiast.

Pete Waterman having the "O" guage layout
and
Rod Stewart having the "N" guage layout(s).

 

[Andy in Germany]

As a musical anhedonist I’ve Had that all my life, from school assembly , (why Is everyone talking funny) through to later life, “You must listen to (insert string of silly words, the name of a bunch of noise-makers, apparently) it’ll blow your mind, (no it won’t it’s just an annoying racket with pretentious pseudo intellectual words) to “what do you want played at your funeral?” (Nothing, I intend to not have a funeral if I can avoid it.)
”Oh that’s sad” (no it isn’t, what is sad is the small fortune you’ve wasted on listening to the air vibrate.)

I can certainly empathise with a lot of that, especially the "pretentious pseudo-intellectual words". I've asked people if they actually listen to the words of some of the supposedly brilliant songs, but that usually gets me a blank look.