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

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#2912466 10-May-2022 19:21

There's a fantastic piece of legislation that allows the brigade to take "action deemed necessary" in situations like this. Absolutely annoyingly, in all my years volunteering and seeing this what seems like "all the time", never once have I been to a call where it's been an issue needing action! So frustrating...

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#2912469 10-May-2022 19:31

Ge0rge: There's a fantastic piece of legislation that allows the brigade to take "action deemed necessary" in situations like this. Absolutely annoyingly, in all my years volunteering and seeing this what seems like "all the time", never once have I been to a call where it's been an issue needing action! So frustrating...

I have it in writing from FENZ that they have no policy, and if another hydrant is available they will use that!

Why possibly damage a BRT (Big Red Truck) or risk an injury to the crew moving the offending car!

They had a call in town (and Lyttelton) this year I know of where a car was on the hydrant. They just phoned the CCC to ticket them!

They were both "real" fire calls too!

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#2912480 10-May-2022 19:51

rb99:
Don't know if I'd be that lucky and imagine its still too new.

Given that those films are 60-70 years old I would imagine they'd license them to anyone wanting to put together yet another Hitchcock collection for a song. While that exact set may be a relatively recent release, there's bound to be plenty of others out there.

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#2912484 10-May-2022 20:07

msukiwi:

I have it in writing from FENZ that they have no policy, and if another hydrant is available they will use that!

Why possibly damage a BRT (Big Red Truck) or risk an injury to the crew moving the offending car!

They had a call in town (and Lyttelton) this year I know of where a car was on the hydrant. They just phoned the CCC to ticket them!

They were both "real" fire calls too!

Oh you're absolutely right that there is no National Commanders Instruction or SOP - I was thinking more of s44 of the FENZ Act, which is just about a cover-all: "May generally do all other things necessary..."

Bearing in mind of course that the goals are to preserve life and protect property so putting a standpipe through the window of a car, even if it is illegally parked, does run contrary to that aim - especially when in most towns there is another hydrant with 150m.

Even as an OIC at calls where there has been the opportunity to put a feeder in one window of a car and out the other, and having the authority to do so, there has never been the justification - You don't get voted NZs most trusted professionals multiple years running by smashing up people's property!

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#2912489 10-May-2022 20:24

rb99:
neb: I believe the correct procedure is to kill the person responsible, slaughter the whole of their family, friends and relations, burn down their house, and then have Harris go and sing comic songs on the ruins. (In case this is felt to be going a bit far, it may be possible to persuade Harris to not sing comic songs on the ruins).

Who or what is a Harris ?

Harris is George, Montmorency, and Jerome's friend whom they rowed up the Thames with. Do try and keep up at the back there.

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#2912858 12-May-2022 11:30

My work PC with no ad blocker. With a Google ad there's a cross in the corner and it invites you to send feedback. The options change, with no rhyme or reason (e.g. "Ad is inappropriate" sometimes isn't there).

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#2912965 12-May-2022 13:54

Behodar:
My work PC with no ad blocker. With a Google ad there's a cross in the corner and it invites you to send feedback. The options change, with no rhyme or reason (e.g. "Ad is inappropriate" sometimes isn't there).

Glad you mentioned this. I spent ages trying to read one line at a time above the advert as I scrolled because the google ad was covering the content bar one line. Clicked on the X hoping that this would get rid of said ad and got options of ad inappropriate and ad covering content. No sooner the latter was clicked, the ad changed to something else instead and still covered the page. Needless to say won’t be visiting that webpage again.

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#2912973 12-May-2022 14:10

Eva888:

Glad you mentioned this. I spent ages trying to read one line at a time above the advert as I scrolled because the google ad was covering the content bar one line. Clicked on the X hoping that this would get rid of said ad and got options of ad inappropriate and ad covering content. No sooner the latter was clicked, the ad changed to something else instead and still covered the page. Needless to say won’t be visiting that webpage again.

That kind of thing is why I have a Javascript switch on my browser. There are also extensions that can remove specific page elements. Handy when you prefer to be the one in control of what you are seeing.

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#2913147 12-May-2022 20:38

That Jaycar has four staff for each customer while Bunnings has 0.04 staff for each customer.

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#2913271 13-May-2022 09:51

Rikkitic:
Eva888:

Glad you mentioned this. I spent ages trying to read one line at a time above the advert as I scrolled because the google ad was covering the content bar one line. Clicked on the X hoping that this would get rid of said ad and got options of ad inappropriate and ad covering content. No sooner the latter was clicked, the ad changed to something else instead and still covered the page. Needless to say won’t be visiting that webpage again.

That kind of thing is why I have a Javascript switch on my browser. There are also extensions that can remove specific page elements. Handy when you prefer to be the one in control of what you are seeing.

This happened on an iPad with a safari browser. There isn’t a way to avoid this as far as I know. That particular page had adverts down the side, and one flashing in the bottom corner as well. Maddening.

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#2913280 13-May-2022 10:15

Petrol stations with one person behind the counter in the morning. That person goes away to make a batch of coffee drinks for someone who is holding the whole queue of people who just want to pay for the petrol and get out ASAP.

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#2913281 13-May-2022 10:16

neb: That Jaycar has four staff for each customer while Bunnings has 0.04 staff for each customer.

And they still manage to congregate to talk to each other, even at 8:30 PM.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2913283 13-May-2022 10:19

freitasm:

Petrol stations with one person behind the counter in the morning. That person goes away to make a batch of coffee drinks for someone who is holding the whole queue of people who just want to pay for the petrol and get out ASAP.

was this by any chance the BP in Wakefield St this morning. Huge queues of cars at 8.30 am

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#2913288 13-May-2022 10:22

stocksp:

freitasm:

Petrol stations with one person behind the counter in the morning. That person goes away to make a batch of coffee drinks for someone who is holding the whole queue of people who just want to pay for the petrol and get out ASAP.

was this by any chance the BP in Wakefield St this morning. Huge queues of cars at 8.30 am

No, a Z station but I guess it applies to most stations these days.

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#2913296 13-May-2022 10:30

freitasm:

Petrol stations with one person behind the counter in the morning. That person goes away to make a batch of coffee drinks for someone who is holding the whole queue of people who just want to pay for the petrol and get out ASAP.

+1 and to add to this. People who fill up their car then go in and pay, order a coffee and leave their car sitting in front of a petrol pump. Once you've paid for your fuel and are waiting for your coffees to be made move your car to a car park so someone else can use the pump!

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