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

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#2938325 4-Jul-2022 17:30

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.

A fair chunk of the people up in arms don’t care about the indigenous flag, they care it’s costing $25 million for a flag pole.

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#2938337 4-Jul-2022 18:11

People who want to emphasize their opinions with weapons that are carried in public - even if this should be "their constitutional right". Guns are tools, not opinion boosters. If you ever see my guns, I'm either out hunting, on the training ground, or determined to defend myself.

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#2938415 5-Jul-2022 10:26

Tinkerisk:

People who want to emphasize their opinions with weapons that are carried in public - even if this should be "their constitutional right". Guns are tools, not opinion boosters. If you ever see my guns, I'm either out hunting, on the training ground, or determined to defend myself.

If you ever see my guns it's because there's a Zombie Apocalypse. Because I currently don't own any - nor do I want to.

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#2938423 5-Jul-2022 10:41

Tinkerisk:

People who want to emphasize their opinions with weapons that are carried in public - even if this should be "their constitutional right". Guns are tools, not opinion boosters. If you ever see my guns, I'm either out hunting, on the training ground, or determined to defend myself.

Plenty of states in the US have Open Carry permits.

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#2938424 5-Jul-2022 10:42

Misuse of 'myself' and 'yourself' in place of 'me' and 'you'.

I actually had an email today that began "Thank you for getting back to myself."

Just..NO.

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#2938430 5-Jul-2022 10:52

Geektastic:

Misuse of 'myself' and 'yourself' in place of 'me' and 'you'.

I actually had an email today that began "Thank you for getting back to myself."

Just..NO.

Perhaps that person lacked coffee support. Hence why I, myself and me proof read everything to catch those gotchas :-)

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#2938442 5-Jul-2022 11:09

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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...

Well, Brave wasn't the issue. But it's moot at the moment because IT let the HTTPS cert expire this morning.

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#2938446 5-Jul-2022 11:14

When people feel that they're being victimised or attacked because you disagree with them on something.

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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#2938454 5-Jul-2022 11:27

neb: 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.

In Android keyboard, it automatically adds a trailing space when you select a word (or email address). e.g. type A-P-P and it lists "apple" as one of the words. You tap on "apple" and it adds "apple " (NB trailing space) to the textbox or whatever you're typing into. Likewise with email addresses and passwords.

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#2938463 5-Jul-2022 11:48

Kyanar:

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?

Because it's intimidating and shows a lack of respect for the person crossing the road, especially if you can see that person needs a moment to get up the kerb. I've had buses and trucks stop within arms reach of me as I cross the road. For what reason ? To be 20cm closer to their destination even though the lights are red for them ?

It's like the people who stand next to the luggage carousel with their trolleys instead of standing back and allowing space for people to collect their bags. You aren't going to get yours any faster but you will have me shoulder you out of the way to collect mine as it comes around.

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#2938492 5-Jul-2022 12:26

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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.

Also, if you assume that children have a limited capacity for learning, then IMHO it is far more useful to learn a language that will enable then to communicate effectively in other countries than one that has cultural value only. I absolutely support the learning and use of Maori for anyone that wants to, and its inclusion as an optional subject in all levels of schooling, but not as a mandatory subject beyond primary level.

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#2938501 5-Jul-2022 12:48

I also support a mandatory introduction to Maori at Primary, and perhaps 1 term of a refresher at Intermediate with it as an elective subject for those who want more, but from HS onward it should be optional as any other language.

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#2938502 5-Jul-2022 13:06

networkn:

I also support a mandatory introduction to Maori at Primary, and perhaps 1 term of a refresher at Intermediate with it as an elective subject for those who want more, but from HS onward it should be optional as any other language.

Learning a language is also learning a culture. The two can't be separated. As long as there are people born here who continue to be offended by the use of Māori words and place names, the language should be required at all school levels. As long as there are people born here who still can't use correct English grammar and spelling, so should that language.

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#2938503 5-Jul-2022 13:09

Rikkitic:

Learning a language is also learning a culture. The two can't be separated. As long as there are people born here who continue to be offended by the use of Māori words and place names, the language should be required at all school levels. As long as there are people born here who still can't use correct English grammar and spelling, so should that language.

Languages are not taught in a vacuum. There is already Maori culture taught at all levels of schooling.

The people who typically are offended by the use of Maori aren't of school age, so that won't help.

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#2938505 5-Jul-2022 13:18

networkn:

The people who typically are offended by the use of Maori aren't of school age, so that won't help.

They have children.

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