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

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#2970685 20-Sep-2022 21:18

Behodar:

Years ago, in a small plane, which I think had four propellors:

Propellor 1: Starts up fine
2: Starts up fine
3: Starts up fine
4: Slow whir. Stop. Starts slowly again. Stops again. Starts up. Slows down.

Meanwhile the stewardess is just standing there, watching it, with her "customer services smile" on her face.

The flight was fine once they got the thing started.

Was on holiday with my parents as a child in some Greek island or other. Corfu, Crete - they are all much of a muchness really at that age.

Anyway, we get onboard the flight home. One of those jets with an engine under each wing and one in the tail fin.

Taxi out. Turn onto runway. Pause. Accelerate.

10 seconds...15 seconds...BANG!! Engines reversing, brakes on, plane slowing hard.

Turn at end of runway and see fire engines....

Disembark, look back at plane. Paint burned off tail fin...end up in new hotel before flying home a day late.

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#2970686 20-Sep-2022 21:24

Tinkerisk: THAT annoys you after years? The Lockheed Super Constellation was one of the most beautiful three-engine propeller planes in the world - one prop of the four was somehow always feathered.

I was just telling a story as a response to another. Do I need to add "people who conflate anecdotes with annoyances" to the annoyance list? 😁

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#2970718 21-Sep-2022 05:07

Behodar:

I was just telling a story as a response to another. Do I need to add "people who conflate anecdotes with annoyances" to the annoyance list? 😁

Well, it depends …

… (of the anecdote). :-)

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#2970793 21-Sep-2022 08:41

Asking a colleague for help on something, being told it's fairly easy and getting an instruction manual (of sorts) instead of actual help.

I have the paperwork - I know how to read - it doesn't really make sense to me - which is what i stated in the first place - how about you just help?

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#2970795 21-Sep-2022 08:50

And then if they do help, they use excessive jargon, as if it already makes sense to you

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#2970956 21-Sep-2022 14:01

tdgeek:
And then if they do help, they use excessive jargon, as if it already makes sense to you

And if you try to de-jargon it and make it accessible to a general audience you get accused of mansplaining.

Now matter which way you go, you can't win.

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#2971019 21-Sep-2022 16:00

Brewing up a cup of tea, seeing some small job that needs doing which you can do while it brews, coming back an hour later to a cold cup of over-brewed tea, lather, rinse, repeat.

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#2971027 21-Sep-2022 16:02

neb: Brewing up a cup of tea, seeing some small job that needs doing which you can do while it brews, coming back an hour later to a cold cup of over-brewed tea, lather, rinse, repeat.

Heh, it's been a running joke in my office the past few years that I often have iced tea by the time I go back to get my originally scalding hot version.

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#2971031 21-Sep-2022 16:05

networkn:
Heh, it's been a running joke in my office the past few years that I often have iced tea by the time I go back to get my originally scalding hot version.

I know people for whom a circle of half-a-dozen half empty cups of cold coffee around their keyboard is part of the office decor...

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#2971059 21-Sep-2022 17:15

neb: Brewing up a cup of tea, seeing some small job that needs doing which you can do while it brews, coming back an hour later to a cold cup of over-brewed tea, lather, rinse, repeat.

Starting a small job - being distracted by a larger job, getting distracted by making a cup of tea, going back to the big job, getting a phone call, going back to the big job, remembering the cuppa and summarily cursing that it's cold, answering another call, going back to the big job, then getting a call to say you didn't do the small job.

Then making another fresh cuppa because the original one is so old it's pretty gross by this stage.

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#2971119 21-Sep-2022 18:14

Visas. It’s such a ridiculous rigmarole.

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#2971218 21-Sep-2022 19:38

People who conflate an explanation (for why something happened or why a particular decision was made) and defence as if they were the same thing. You can explain why a decision was made and yet still disagree with the decision made.

Edit: Just to add one more to the list, people who arrive at the front door of a house and just stare at the door - unless you knock on the door I don't know that you're there. Yes, I get delivery people staring at the door as if they had just seen a portal to a new dimension.

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#2971350 21-Sep-2022 22:38

neb: Brewing up a cup of tea, seeing some small job that needs doing which you can do while it brews, coming back an hour later to a cold cup of over-brewed tea, lather, rinse, repeat.

@neb That is why I always set the kitchen timer for 4 minutes when I pour the water in.

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#2971351 21-Sep-2022 22:39

Handle9: Visas. It’s such a ridiculous rigmarole.

Agreed. If you want money to let me in to your country, just swipe my card when I go through passport control.

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#2971359 21-Sep-2022 23:07

Geektastic:
Handle9: Visas. It’s such a ridiculous rigmarole.

Agreed. If you want money to let me in to your country, just swipe my card when I go through passport control.

You can’t create hundreds a of make work jobs if you do that.

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