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

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#2877632 2-Mar-2022 11:23

Jase2985:

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

Yeah, make some shit up. Always a good way to deal with your boss. Actually true, if he's a PHB. (For the non-engineers, that's a Dilbert reference).

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#2877633 2-Mar-2022 11:25

New annoyance: The profanity filter is perfectly happy with the post above, yet blocks links to "The Daily W T F" because the URL contains a "bad word"!

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#2877636 2-Mar-2022 11:30

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!

There was talk about combining incomes for tax purposes a few years back. I guess it has been forgotten or is in a range of things being looked at

Probably need a change of government for it to be looked at as current government is more about taking it and then deciding if you get any of it back.

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#2877669 2-Mar-2022 12:14

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!

Ah, it's all perfectly logical. The government has to do that for consistency.

In both cases, it does that so you don't get an advantage. Glad I could clear that up.

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#2877769 2-Mar-2022 14:11

Can't discriminate on marital status, so married or de facto or whatever have to be treated the same as single people.

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#2877883 2-Mar-2022 19:56

I really, really, really, really hate reality TV.

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#2877884 2-Mar-2022 19:57

Fortunately there's a Power button!

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#2877889 2-Mar-2022 20:15

I prefer a small grenade.

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#2877915 2-Mar-2022 22:03

Rikkitic:
I really, really, really, really hate reality TV.

I ~~really, really, really, really~~ hate ~~reality~~ TV.

Mine's just a big monitor for Britcom DVDs and occasional streaming.

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#2877943 2-Mar-2022 23:16

Rikkitic:
I really, really, really, really hate reality TV.

Assuming you mean the dross on FTA prime time?
Must be popular with some demographic otherwise it wouldn't be screened.
Or some marketing wonk is filling in some dodgy spreadsheet cells because the supposed demographic are not primarily FTA consumers.

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#2878024 3-Mar-2022 08:04

Jase2985:

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

Do you work on Transmission Gully? 😉

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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#2878132 3-Mar-2022 10:13

SepticSceptic: Assuming you mean the dross on FTA prime time?
Must be popular with some demographic otherwise it wouldn't be screened.

Housebound over-70s who can't figure out streaming AFAICT.

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#2878142 3-Mar-2022 10:33

neb:
SepticSceptic: Assuming you mean the dross on FTA prime time?
Must be popular with some demographic otherwise it wouldn't be screened.

Housebound over-70s who can't figure out streaming AFAICT.

near vegative state in retirement homes is the view base for one news from what I have seen when at those places.

Also boomers watch it out of habit, think that its keeping them informed because when they were young the idea of seeing pictures on the TV from overseas at 6pm was amaaaaaazing so they made a ritual out of stopping doing what they are doing and sitting down and watching it, then they keep going with whatever is on after it.

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#2878144 3-Mar-2022 10:42

Leave the ageism out of it. Or maybe we should discuss the slurping soporific young glued to their brain worm phones.

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#2878148 3-Mar-2022 10:47

Rikkitic:

Leave the ageism out of it. Or maybe we should discuss the slurping soporific young glued to their brain worm phones.

That assumes they're actually capable of lifting it all the way to their ear...

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