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

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#2938188 4-Jul-2022 14:16

MikeB4:

Drivers not waiting for me to get off the road before taking off at pedestrian crossings. Also drivers the creep towards me as I am crossing. Buses are a regular annoyance with this. I realise that sometimes it takes a few seconds for me to negotiate the curb and I need to slow down as I approach the curb but I am not doing it to annoy folks.

Are they keeping their distance while creeping forward? As long as they're maintaining safe distance and speed then I'm not sure why this would be an annoyance?

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#2938191 4-Jul-2022 14:18

Geektastic: I think people should choose what languages they learn. If Te Reo is important to you, by all means learn it. If it isn’t, don’t.

Dropping random words in is just a recipe for confusion. Or perhaps a recipe pour manque de clarté.

Alas nz history shows you that we didn't give that option for Maori speakers, it was English or English.

Making Maori an official language and encourage its use seems to be reasonable. Maori and its influences are one of the major differences between us and the other English speaking ex British nations.

Objecting to something which has minimal effect on you seems to be a disappointingly small hill to die on.

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#2938193 4-Jul-2022 14:23

MikeB4:

Drivers not waiting for me to get off the road before taking off at pedestrian crossings. Also drivers the creep towards me as I am crossing. Buses are a regular annoyance with this. I realise that sometimes it takes a few seconds for me to negotiate the curb and I need to slow down as I approach the curb but I am not doing it to annoy folks.

Sure you are, Mike. Everyone knows that people have specifically been put on this earth to annoy others maliciously. And constantly.

Honestly - I don't get the attitudes of some drivers. Literally seconds are shaved off travel times with poor behaviour and shoddy driving, but still they persist...while stressing themselves into an early grave.

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#2938252 4-Jul-2022 14:59

Me: Spends weeks producing, testing, re-testing a web form.
Test group: Spends weeks looking for bugs in form.
Bigger test group: A hundred or so users checking for bugs in the form.
First (yes, really) actual customer: Somehow submits the form with three required fields blank.

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#2938264 4-Jul-2022 15:46

Auto workshops -- all of them are so busy these days, and, usually the mechanics are getting on in age too.

A few years ago you'd take your car in for a wof and they'd do it right away. These days, lucky to get your car back before 5pm, and if they find something it often means an overnight stay .

Case in point, took my car in for a wof today (booked in 1 week ago), no parking at the garage... they are extremely busy.... i asked for my car back before 3pm, almost 4pm now and no call.

And this is my second garage.

My primary garage are down an employee and WOF's need to be booked 2 weeks in advance.

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#2938268 4-Jul-2022 15:59

Behodar:

Me: Spends weeks producing, testing, re-testing a web form.
Test group: Spends weeks looking for bugs in form.
Bigger test group: A hundred or so users checking for bugs in the form.
First (yes, really) actual customer: Somehow submits the form with three required fields blank.

Had an angry customer because our website was telling him that is phone number was invalid. We had to explain the difference between O and 0 to them. Making the oldies use the website to order is working sooooooo well....

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#2938269 4-Jul-2022 16:01

surfisup1000:

Auto workshops -- all of them are so busy these days, and, usually the mechanics are getting on in age too.

A few years ago you'd take your car in for a wof and they'd do it right away. These days, lucky to get your car back before 5pm, and if they find something it often means an overnight stay .

Case in point, took my car in for a wof today (booked in 1 week ago), no parking at the garage... they are extremely busy.... i asked for my car back before 3pm, almost 4pm now and no call.

And this is my second garage.

My primary garage are down an employee and WOF's need to be booked 2 weeks in advance.

Try finding rust repair panelbeaters. They're all telling me short on staff so only doing insurance work at the moment.

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#2938273 4-Jul-2022 16:07

richms:
Had an angry customer because our website was telling him that is phone number was invalid. We had to explain the difference between O and 0 to them. Making the oldies use the website to order is working sooooooo well....

The web site could help there though by applying some common-sense filtering and translations. The one that absolutely every web site should do is strip invisible leading and trailing spaces from usernames and passwords, which is the #1 problem I encounter in friends&family tech support. Over and over again, "I can't log in", select and delete the extra space at the start and/or end and suddenly it works again.

I don't know how they get the spaces in there, I just know that I have to keep deleting them.

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#2938274 4-Jul-2022 16:08

richms:

Had an angry customer because our website was telling him that is phone number was invalid. We had to explain the difference between O and 0 to them. Making the oldies use the website to order is working sooooooo well....

This is the final step in a 3-step process. The first two steps are to find and confirm your existing record, and then the final step asks for some details. All I can conclude is that he for some reason stripped the record ID from the query string on the last page (it uses this to prefill the fields), or more likely had some sort of "privacy" browser extension that did it automatically.

Now that I think of it, I'm not sure whether anyone tested in Brave...

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#2938294 4-Jul-2022 16:15

@Kyanar at pedestrian crossings vehicles are required to stop behind the white line and wait until the pedestrian has cleared any part of the crossing on a zebra crossing with out safety island. At one with and island the vehicle must wait until the pedestrian has clear the drivers half of the zebra crossing. Creeping up to the pedestrian is not only illegal it is dangerous and frankly stupid.

Being in a wheelchair means you are very vulnerable and yes it takes me a little to cross compared to an able bodied person but it is only a matter seconds. I have experienced buses coming so close to me that I can touch the the front of the bus and yes that is bloody scary. Also cars taking off very quickly and passing very close to me.

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

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#2938299 4-Jul-2022 16:23

People in wheelchairs, people with obvious disabilities, elderly people, etc, all deserve more space/time than normal.

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#2938310 4-Jul-2022 16:54

MikeB4:

@Kyanar at pedestrian crossings vehicles are required to stop behind the white line and wait until the pedestrian has cleared any part of the crossing on a zebra crossing with out safety island. At one with and island the vehicle must wait until the pedestrian has clear the drivers half of the zebra crossing. Creeping up to the pedestrian is not only illegal it is dangerous and frankly stupid.

Being in a wheelchair means you are very vulnerable and yes it takes me a little to cross compared to an able bodied person but it is only a matter seconds. I have experienced buses coming so close to me that I can touch the the front of the bus and yes that is bloody scary. Also cars taking off very quickly and passing very close to me.

That wasn't what I was suggesting. It wasn't clear to me whether you were meaning they were moving past the stop point or not - in which case my point was why would you care if they're idling forward behind the diamond - obviously they should not be at any point on the crossing side of the stop line.

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#2938312 4-Jul-2022 16:56

afe66: Alas nz history shows you that we didn't give that option for Maori speakers, it was English or English.

Making Maori an official language and encourage its use seems to be reasonable. Maori and its influences are one of the major differences between us and the other English speaking ex British nations.

Objecting to something which has minimal effect on you seems to be a disappointingly small hill to die on.

Agreed. You should see the people of Sydney up in arms about the installation of an Indigenous First Nations flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You'd think the government was attending all of their houses personally to kick their puppies.

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#2938316 4-Jul-2022 17:04

Kyanar:

afe66: Alas nz history shows you that we didn't give that option for Maori speakers, it was English or English.

Making Maori an official language and encourage its use seems to be reasonable. Maori and its influences are one of the major differences between us and the other English speaking ex British nations.

Objecting to something which has minimal effect on you seems to be a disappointingly small hill to die on.

Agreed. You should see the people of Sydney up in arms about the installation of an Indigenous First Nations flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You'd think the government was attending all of their houses personally to kick their puppies.

Ah, you must be talking about the sick racists then. There are always some.

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#2938317 4-Jul-2022 17:08

afe66: Objecting to something which has minimal effect on you seems to be a disappointingly small hill to die on.

And that's the important thing, "minimal effect". As a counterpoint, there are unfortunately industries, and I'm thinking primarily education but also healthcare, where the amount of entirely-voluntary-but-actually-mandatory virtue signalling required is such that it affects people's ability to do their job. I know of several very good educators who have left, or cut down their time in, the profession out of frustration at having to put more effort into virtue signalling than educating children.

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