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

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#2955706 17-Aug-2022 20:24

MikeAqua:

Truck has always been used in NZ, instead of lorry (which seem to be a UK thing).

I agree that we used to refer to fire engines. I'm not sure when it changed to trucks.

When working in England in 1989, I had a colleague refer to these vehicles as a lorry when the semi-trailer was attached and as a truck when there was no semi-trailer. It surprised me to hear him call it a truck, and it seems to have stuck in my mind.

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#2955784 17-Aug-2022 21:39

Rikkitic:

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Car = Trunk and Hood

Baby = Boots and Bonnet!

Trunk and Hood = American cultural imperialism

Boots and Bonnet = Our beloved colonial masters

So kiss the backside of your new owners and wash the aftertaste away with a coke zero!

IIRC you're Dutch...does that not make you somebody's Colonial master rather than someone who was colonised? 😇

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#2955785 17-Aug-2022 21:41

Handsomedan:

Geektastic: ASB’s iOS app.

If you go to pay a bill and complete every box, then realise you forgot to select the correct account and change the account from which the bill will be paid……it wipes every bit of info and you have to start again. Grrrrr.

I'll pass on your feedback...

Thank you. It is madness that it should wipe every entry just because you change the account from which you will pay!

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#2955787 17-Aug-2022 21:43

floydbloke:

Geektastic: People who insist on sitting right next to you in places like waiting areas when every other chair in the room is empty.

Covid?

Foolproof way to make sure no one sits next to you.

Every time someone enters the room, bus, whatever... make eye contact, give them a broad smile and gently pat the empty seat next to you a few times.

In these humourless times, that might get you arrested...!

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#2955795 17-Aug-2022 22:00

Geektastic:

IIRC you're Dutch...does that not make you somebody's Colonial master rather than someone who was colonised? 😇

We SAID we were sorry! Where are you from, by the way?

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#2955830 18-Aug-2022 05:58

Two of them are about to become really close friends.

Hey guys, you only live once and life is too short to put on every shoe in history. As a German, should I go through the world with my head down? My grandfather was buried as an infantryman at Verdun and survived, my father saw the lights of Moscow as an infantryman and survived and I had decided to join the Luftwaffe.

They a.) had cooler uniforms and girls and b.) were still pure NATO and national defence when I was active. When they wanted to go abroad militarily again and shoot the one or other goat herder or tanker truck in Afghanistan, I had thrown that officer career away and continued in civilian life. I was never a coward, but the excessive Holocaust remembrance of the 80s (as if we children had done that) and the "Never again war!" cries of our parents still resound in my ears.

So, what the hell? ;-)

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#2956049 18-Aug-2022 13:27

Companies where the owner offers a 'personal guarantee', and claim to only sell a product that their grandma would be happy with blah blah. He literally writes this on their website.

But, when you need to get them to fix a huge mistake they made, they hide behind a change in company register to weasel out of their consumer guarantees obligations!! Personal guarantees are irrelevant to their morals!

In this case, it is a large aluminum sliding door. We only just found out why the doors are not sealing out the wind -- they literally made them the wrong size which means the mechanism designed to seal the doors does not engage and leaves a floor to ceiling air gap.

We never knew until now, thought it was just a thing with sliding doors. They are 10 years old, but doesn't matter, they were built to the wrong dimensions! So it is not wear and tear or maintenance! We asked him nicely, but he wants us to pay to fix his mistake!

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#2956089 18-Aug-2022 15:47

Tinkerisk:
I had decided to join the Luftwaffe. [...] They a.) had cooler uniforms and girls

Thus the term Luftwaffenmatratze :-).

(For non-German speakers, matratze = mattress).

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#2956091 18-Aug-2022 15:50

neb:
Tinkerisk:

I had decided to join the Luftwaffe. [...] They a.) had cooler uniforms and girls

Thus the term Luftwaffenmatratze :-). (For non-German speakers, matratze = mattress).

What you mean is called NATO-Matratze ;-)

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#2956092 18-Aug-2022 15:51

Rikkitic:
We SAID we were sorry! Where are you from, by the way?

The thing about pretty much any country in Europe is that, while most of them at some point were the aggressors, pretty much all of them have been at one or more other points overrun, invaded, looted, and pillaged, by assorted other countries in Europe.

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#2956146 18-Aug-2022 15:54

Tinkerisk:
Thus the term Luftwaffenmatratze :-). (For non-German speakers, matratze = mattress).

What you mean is called NATO-Matratze ;-)

Or Kasernenmatratze, Offiziersmatratze, and probably others, I think it depends on which branch you were in.

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#2956277 18-Aug-2022 17:06

Well, you guessed it? Day 18 of NO water on the Street and the Flooding Signs are still there!

The Street did get wet for a bit in the last 24 hours - Does that count?

Totally unbelievable if it wasn't the CCC!

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#2956291 18-Aug-2022 17:42

msukiwi:

Well, you guessed it? Day 18 of NO water on the Street and the Flooding Signs are still there!

The Street did get wet for a bit in the last 24 hours - Does that count?

Totally unbelievable if it wasn't the CCC!

I am long over such nonsense. When a temporary, forgotten traffic sign fell on a parked car during a storm, the damage was replaced without complaint and the sign was picked up (for this, the location to be addressed must be noted here in GER on the back of every installed traffic sign). However, something has to happen first - like with the police, someone has to be dead before a investigation can take place.

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#2956294 18-Aug-2022 17:52

Just tried telling them that one of the signs has had the "Flooding" Part stolen!

Only a big "!" now! The other sign is still complete.

Answer from the CCC call centre - "The job has been closed!" It beggars the mind!!!!

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#2956295 18-Aug-2022 17:58

msukiwi:

Just tried telling them that one of the signs has had the "Flooding" Part stolen!

Only a big "!" now! The other sign is still complete.

Answer from the CCC call centre - "The job has been closed!" It beggars the mind!!!!

I would take the thing and hang it in the hallway as a memorial. It's the cheapest way to legally get an universal use "Attention!" sign. ;-)

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