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

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#2875435 26-Feb-2022 19:01

neb:
Journeyman:

What's the "Ukrainian tank man" story?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/ukraine-tank-man-video-clip

The nads on that guy! 😲

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#2875445 26-Feb-2022 19:35

Journeyman:
The nads on that guy! 😲

That's nothing compared to the defenders of Snake Island. Alongside other Famous Last Words replies like "La Garde meurt, elle ne se rend pas!" (Cambronne at Waterloo) and "Nuts" (McAuliffe at Bastogne) we have a new one: "Russian warship, go f--- yourself".

(Replace the XXX in the link to the Guardian article with the obvious letters, I can't post it otherwise).

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#2875532 26-Feb-2022 21:19

Our supa dupa "Beat the Landfill" rubbish collection system that leaves rubbish around the neighbourhood when the wheelie bins are emptied and some of the rubbish is spilled over the side and the truck drivers just drive off leaving the rubbish to blow all over the place.

Feel like picking it up and taking it to the council offices and dumping it just inside their front doors.

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#2875878 27-Feb-2022 21:44

The fact that in all of this:

there are exactly zero RG6 or equivalent cables, which means I can't test the amplifier on some electronics gear I've just finished.

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#2875882 27-Feb-2022 21:47

neb: The fact that in all of this: there are exactly zero RG6 or equivalent cables, which means I can't test the amplifier on some electronics gear I've just finished.

Do you need one? What ends on it? I can drop one off if so.

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#2875894 27-Feb-2022 22:19

richms:
Do you need one? What ends on it? I can drop one off if so.

Oh, thanks for the offer! Just generic F connectors, so I should be able to grab one from Jaycar or similar unless you're passing through the area anyway...

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#2876099 28-Feb-2022 09:34

Behodar:

I may or may not be getting a partial refund; the website says something like "if there was a thing saying "guaranteed release date delivery" when you ordered" but since I ordered several months ago I have no idea whether it was there at the time and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell after the fact!

You might try the Wayback Machine.

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#2877038 1-Mar-2022 15:21

The fact that the government has its cake and eats it.

It treats a couple as two separate people for tax. If you want pensions, student support or benefits you're suddenly a couple and expected to live off one another!

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#2877177 1-Mar-2022 18:57

Geektastic: The fact that the government has its cake and eats it.

It treats a couple as two separate people for tax. If you want pensions, student support or benefits you're suddenly a couple and expected to live off one another!

That’s the real reason people are tracked via COVID19 to figure that out? ;-)

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#2877193 1-Mar-2022 19:38

The Lotto iphone app. It is so terrible and they literally have so much money they give it away…

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#2877511 2-Mar-2022 09:34

MS Teams again.

"Something went wrong when we tried to download updates."

And the "something" is...? How in the world am I expected to debug the problem when there isn't a single hint as to what it's about?

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#2877597 2-Mar-2022 10:21

Behodar:

MS Teams again.

"Something went wrong when we tried to download updates."

And the "something" is...? How in the world am I expected to debug the problem when there isn't a single hint as to what it's about?

Cloud hosted services are great.

A P1 outage used to be 1 or 2 engineers fixing stuff and 8 or 9 account managers, business unit managers and IT leadership folk running around panicking, madly sending email and texts and making phonecalls.

These days it's just 8 or 9 account managers, business unit managers and IT leadership folk running around panicking, madly sending email and texts and making phonecalls.

That's 10% - 20% efficiency gain right there. 😝

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2877603 2-Mar-2022 10:31

One of our production systems went down unexpectedly a few years ago, and I was tasked with getting it up and running again. It was a very strange problem, although I've forgotten the specifics now.

What I do remember is 'exploding' at my boss after about the seventh phone call.

"Do you have an ETA yet?"
"No! People keep ringing me every five minutes asking for updates, knocking me out of the zone, and making it impossible to actually get this fixed!"

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#2877613 2-Mar-2022 10:52

maybe if they gave an eta, even an unrealistic one people would stop asking?

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#2877630 2-Mar-2022 11:20

floydbloke:

A P1 outage used to be 1 or 2 engineers fixing stuff and 8 or 9 account managers, business unit managers and IT leadership folk running around panicking, madly sending email and texts and making phonecalls.

These days it's just 8 or 9 account managers, business unit managers and IT leadership folk running around panicking, madly sending email and texts and making phonecalls.

That's 10% - 20% efficiency gain right there. 😝

Actually, not so much. Because a fair amount of what the engineers were dealing with was panicky emails and texts and phonecalls from account managers, business unit managers and IT leadership.

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