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

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#2946202 25-Jul-2022 13:52

lchiu7:

The Wellington Metlink app that says the bus is due and yet it does not come for another 5 minutes at least. One would assume it's using GPS but if so, then their GPS is pretty in accurate. And it's made worse for me when the bus shelter is an older style with no windows so if you sit inside the bus can come whizzing while you are sitting inside sheltering from the wind and rain.

Metlink's "Real-Time Information" is one of the world's three great lies. Another is "the cheque is in the mail" and the third one I'm not going to say because it's really rude and I'd get banned.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2946217 25-Jul-2022 14:33

lchiu7:

The Wellington Metlink app that says the bus is due and yet it does not come for another 5 minutes at least. One would assume it's using GPS but if so, then their GPS is pretty in accurate. And it's made worse for me when the bus shelter is an older style with no windows so if you sit inside the bus can come whizzing while you are sitting inside sheltering from the wind and rain.

At least there is an app. Was in Christchurch recently and trying to use their MetroGo app as per:

"Metro apps make it easy to ride the Metro network across greater Christchurch, with live bus arrival and trip planning right there in your pocket."

Except, it's just a web page which is pretty horrible to use on a mobile phone and which they even admit works better on a desktop...

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#2946238 25-Jul-2022 15:36

Rikkitic:

Well, we all know what tables are used for!

Why do you think, after puzzling for a while, we had to redesign the folding baby changing tables on the plane, because they were broken too often? :-)

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#2946267 25-Jul-2022 16:25

richms:
Also things like this are really helpful when there is no way to appeal.

From this facebook page...

Some of the replies are pretty good:

It's big, it's round, it's hard, it has a chocolate tan, it's a morning wood, of course it was flagged as overtly sexual

They know who’s been on that table and the actions that happened on it

So I been using mine wrong this whole time??!?!

Why would you sell a perfectly good Sex Table like that?

Where can I buy a table like that??! It's.. Erm... For a friend

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#2946268 25-Jul-2022 16:26

That for the past month or two, after opening the YouTube home page there's a delay of several seconds before the video lengths (times) appear.

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#2946426 26-Jul-2022 09:55

One of the drives in my NAS failed over the weekend. I ordered a new drive, picking one from the NAS manufacturer's compatibility list. I just tried to install it only to find that the middle set of screw holes isn't present. Guess which screw holes the NAS uses!

Can you really call the drive "compatible" if it has to sit there without being screwed in?

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#2946442 26-Jul-2022 10:32

Waking up to a power outage and it seems the UPS is now so dead battery that it cant even beep.

Also angry cat because the water fountain wasn't running.

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#2946542 26-Jul-2022 14:46

Champagne prices for budget motels.

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#2946587 26-Jul-2022 16:24

richms:
Waking up to a power outage and it seems the UPS is now so dead battery that it cant even beep.

You can address this with a power monitor downstream of the UPS that monitors power upstream of the UPS and alerts you if there's an issue. I set mine up a while back when neighbours on a different phase lost their neutral and started seeing very hard-to-reproduce and -explain behaviour from some of their electrical devices, although most were unaffected due to either having switchmode power supplies or not being too affected by out-of-spec voltages.

Also angry cat because the water fountain wasn't running.

Get an older model cat. Our one: "House on fire around me? I'll think about reacting after I've finished my nap".

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#2946979 27-Jul-2022 15:49

Getting on the road at 5.30am today to head from AKL to HAM and having 6 individual Ranger drivers either tailgate or try to intimidate me on the road - when there was plenty of other traffic to hassle. I wasn't driving too slowly or being at all annoying. Simply moving from A to B on the Motorway/Highway system.

It can't be a coincidence that all of the idiots I met on the road today were driving Rangers...

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#2946985 27-Jul-2022 15:58

That there is no backspace key on the Apple laptop. Love them or hate them, they have some weird ideas.

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#2947002 27-Jul-2022 16:42

I recall being told years ago that "if you come across more than three asshats in one day, perhaps they aren't the asshat".

I wonder if it could equally be applied to idiots on the road...

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#2947011 27-Jul-2022 17:01

Rikkitic:

That there is no backspace key on the Apple laptop. Love them or hate them, they have some weird ideas.

That is an Apple innovation. It should be clear that from now on there are only steps forward, no steps back!

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#2947014 27-Jul-2022 17:05

Handsomedan:

Getting on the road at 5.30am today to head from AKL to HAM and having 6 individual Ranger drivers either tailgate or try to intimidate me on the road - when there was plenty of other traffic to hassle.

I had to smile about the long journey to HAM - because it is the IATA 3-letter code for Hamburg airport.

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#2947015 27-Jul-2022 17:08

Rikkitic:

That there is no backspace key on the Apple laptop. Love them or hate them, they have some weird ideas.

It's not all that weird in context. It dates back to the keyboard for the Apple IIGS, which was the first Apple II to have a point-and-click GUI and needed a way to delete files etc. You don't backspace a file, you delete it, so the key was marked Delete (this keyboard lacked the 6-key block with Home, End, etc).

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