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

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#2842208 2-Jan-2022 23:26

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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.

On the way home we were thinking of all the things we could have said... Faking a cough was one of them :)

I'm guessing they're also the kind of people who park across two disabled parks and cut every queue to reinforce their entitlement.

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#2842212 3-Jan-2022 00:13

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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.

I keep looking at my iPhone13 when I am there and so far never seen it.

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#2842213 3-Jan-2022 00:19

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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.

It's the ubiquitous term for any public holiday in the UK really. Some have names (eg Christmas Day etc) but some do not (there is at least one in August just referred to as :August Bank Holiday) but in conversation the term is used commonly to refer to any such event.

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#2842215 3-Jan-2022 00:22

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.

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)

Hell is indeed other people.

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#2842231 3-Jan-2022 06:52

@Geektastic:

freitasm:

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.

I keep looking at my iPhone13 when I am there and so far never seen it.

Vodafone or Spark? Solid 5G with Vodafone in that area for me.

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#2842307 3-Jan-2022 08:59

Spark. I'll check again next time I'm over.

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#2842308 3-Jan-2022 09:05

Geektastic: Spark. I'll check again next time I'm over.

This is, of course, going to vary depending on where in the country you are, but in general Vodafone seems to be ahead of Spark for 5G. For example, here in the BOP, Vodafone 5G coverage:

And meanwhile, Spark:

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#2842409 3-Jan-2022 11:52

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Geektastic: Spark. I'll check again next time I'm over.

This is, of course, going to vary depending on where in the country you are, but in general Vodafone seems to be ahead of Spark for 5G. For example, here in the BOP, Vodafone 5G coverage:

Is that a coverage map provided by Vodafone or taking a 5G phone there and checking whether you get a 5G signal?

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#2842414 3-Jan-2022 12:02

That's the Voda coverage map. It probably 'overreads', and is just for illustrative purposes only, etc etc.

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#2842423 3-Jan-2022 12:23

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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.

Certainly in my day working for a NZ insurance company in the mid 1980's, there were two days where banks and insurance companies were closed, but other retail businesses were open - these being Easter Tuesday and the day after Boxing Day. I never heard them referred to as Bank Holidays however and long gone now.

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#2842433 3-Jan-2022 12:42

I've heard the term "bank holiday" countless times and haven't given it a second thought. I've only spent three weeks of my life in the UK so I probably didn't pick it up from there!

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#2842450 3-Jan-2022 13:48

Look at all the territory coloured red on an old map to see how far the UK influence spread.
"The term ‘bank holiday’ can be interpreted very literally, with banks closing on these days, postponing any financial dealings until the next day. The Bank Holiday Act ensured no penalties were incurred for these delays. Before the introduction of the Act, banks feared they’d go bankrupt if they closed on a weekday," . The Act was probably the result of a lawyer smelling a way to score. The UK banks had been closing for holidays for 100s of years prior to the Act.

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#2842455 3-Jan-2022 14:05

Ok another minor annoyance. Bought three planks of Kwila decking from Bunnings and needed it cut to fit into the car.

Got told they can't cut it as their face masks aren't good enough for Kwila fibres. Staff were happy for me to use my circular saw in the car park though (which I fortunately brought).

Odd that it's significantly unsafe for them, but not a single warning anywhere about the extreme dangers of these wood fibres, which will get released on every Kwila decking job.

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#2842456 3-Jan-2022 14:17

Geektastic:

It's the ubiquitous term for any public holiday in the UK really. Some have names (eg Christmas Day etc) but some do not (there is at least one in August just referred to as :August Bank Holiday) but in conversation the term is used commonly to refer to any such event.

Not totally ubiquitous, obviously. World famous in the UK, I guess.

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#2842491 3-Jan-2022 16:15

insane: Ok another minor annoyance. Bought three planks of Kwila decking from Bunnings and needed it cut to fit into the car.

Got told they can't cut it as their face masks aren't good enough for Kwila fibres.

Another case of Australians getting up people's noses.

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