[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2841834 2-Jan-2022 12:00

neb:
Geektastic: How would you prefer your meat kept free of contaminants?!

Could you maybe run a 5G phone near it and that'll kill any lifeforms that may be present?

I could. If there was a 5G signal anywhere in NZ other than 3 blocks in the middle of Auckland! 😁

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#2841835 2-Jan-2022 12:01

Geektastic: I could. If there was a 5G signal anywhere in NZ other than 3 blocks in the middle of Auckland! 😁

Or Lambton Quay/The Terrace.

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#2841836 2-Jan-2022 12:02

MikeB4: Brain dead idiots riding motorcycles very fast on a beach with a lot of children and riding right through groups.

I'm struggling to think of any time I've ever seen a motorcycle on a beach in Europe. Is it a NZ thing?

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#2841838 2-Jan-2022 12:37

Geektastic:
MikeB4: Brain dead idiots riding motorcycles very fast on a beach with a lot of children and riding right through groups.

I'm struggling to think of any time I've ever seen a motorcycle on a beach in Europe. Is it a NZ thing?

For some stupid reason some beaches here are actually designated as roads so idiots immediately interpret that a race track

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2841839 2-Jan-2022 12:39

Geektastic:
MikeB4: Brain dead idiots riding motorcycles very fast on a beach with a lot of children and riding right through groups.

I'm struggling to think of any time I've ever seen a motorcycle on a beach in Europe. Is it a NZ thing?

Definitely seen it in Greece.

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#2841844 2-Jan-2022 12:40

Behodar:

Definitely seen it in Greece.

’Nuff said.

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#2841846 2-Jan-2022 12:47

Didn't Burt Munro use the beach to test his Indian?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2841848 2-Jan-2022 12:48

MikeB4:
For some stupid reason some beaches here are actually designated as roads so idiots immediately interpret that a race track

I'm totally in agreement that there are idiots, but I do like the fact that some beaches are legal roads. We often go to Foxton / Himatangi / Tangimoana and it's awesome to be able to drive down onto the beach and along to a spot a little bit distant from others.

I've often seen the local constabulary out and about on the beach too - one advantage of it being a road is that they can issue fines to the idiots for things like no rego / warrant / speeding etc.

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#2841856 2-Jan-2022 13:17

The speed limit on the Foxton Himitangi beach is 30km/h. In the past the council had the section in front of the Foxton Beach car park/surf club 10km h but those signs have gone. Some guys on MX bikes have used up any chance of a warning when the Police do catch them. It can be self regulating, late last year one was helicoptered off the beach with a broken leg.

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#2842129 2-Jan-2022 21:46

Geektastic:

The fact that I have a nice new GoPro to attach to my Spyder when I leave early on Tuesday for the South Island and (a) it takes micro SD cards when every camera I own takes standard SD cards of which I have many and (b) Noel Leeming, the only realistic source of such things around here, has none in stock of decent spec or quality.

Combined with the fact that it is a bank holiday on Monday so when I go over to Wellington in the afternoon pre-ferry, none of the camera shops etc will be open...

WTH is a "bank holiday"?!

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#2842131 2-Jan-2022 21:51

bazzer:
WTH is a "bank holiday"?!

It's a UK thing, a standard public holiday but historically banks have closed on those days so they came to be called bank holidays. So for example Christmas Day is a standard public holiday but the Numpty-teenth of Octember, which has no otherwise special significance, is a bank holiday.

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#2842140 2-Jan-2022 22:19

neb:
bazzer:

WTH is a "bank holiday"?!

It's a UK thing, a standard public holiday but historically banks have closed on those days so they came to be called bank holidays. So for example Christmas Day is a standard public holiday but the Numpty-teenth of Octember, which has no otherwise special significance, is a bank holiday.

Oh, so we don't have them here? 🤷‍♂️

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#2842143 2-Jan-2022 22:21

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Oh, so we don't have them here? 🤷‍♂️

Not that I know of, we have public holidays to mark specific occasions but none that are held just because.

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#2842206 2-Jan-2022 23:09

Here's one that annoyed me. Went strawberry picking with my wife an toddler today, and afterwards were enjoying an ice-cream at a table in the shade - socially distanced and all.

A fairly large family perhaps two rocks up and crowded around us, no masks, sits right next to my wife and then the loud mouthed mother in the group proceeds to tell us that we should move as the person sat closest to us from their group was pregnant.

Then she doubles down saying we should mind our tone and begins laughing like a high school student when we casually and calmly remind them we were sat there before they rocked up, and that it was their choice to sit besides us without masks or any concern for social distancing.

Honestly, the mind boggles sometimes. I really feel sorry for their 5 or so kids that watched how their mother behaved. We just got up and left (were going to anyway)

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#2842207 2-Jan-2022 23:14

insane: Here's one that annoyed me. Went strawberry picking with my wife an toddler today, and afterwards were enjoying an ice-cream at a table in the shade - socially distanced and all.

A fairly large family perhaps two rocks up and crowded around us, no masks, sits right next to my wife and then the loud mouthed mother in the group proceeds to tell us that we should move as the person sat closest to us from their group was pregnant.

"Hey Tim, do they know you got out of MIQ a week before you were supposed to?"

"Naah, they'll never - excuse me, achoo!, weird cold I can't seem to shake - never find out I slipped out. How about you, that nasty cough gone away yet?"

And then they voluntarily decide to go elsewhere.

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