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

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#3051585 18-Mar-2023 17:52

Geektastic: That should have read

I’ll type this as it comes out on my iPhone 13 Pro Max. As you can see it’s hardly accurate swipe typing.

The Swype keyboard on my prior Android phone was impeccable. I've tried a few Apple keyboards on my iPhone including GBoard and Swiftkey. They are terrible. The worst part is they don't learn. Am constantly correcting the same errors. And these errors are replacement of a very common word such as "and" with a bizarre uncommon word, in this case "ABs"... Grrrrr!

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#3051593 18-Mar-2023 18:08

Having friends round for dinner. Then discovering a bottle of red opened in the kitchen, with about one glassful missing from it and no attempt to reseal it. The last bottle of a very nice (and not cheap) select purchase I made more than 30 years ago, and had been keeping for a *very* special occasion. It hadn't even been drunk. My wife had used it to make spaghetti sauce.

When I complained, she explains she didn't want to use a nice wine in sauce, so had used the oldest bottle she could find.

Arrrrggggggh

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#3051672 18-Mar-2023 20:02

JimmyH:

Having friends round for dinner. Then discovering a bottle of red opened in the kitchen, with about one glassful missing from it and no attempt to reseal it. The last bottle of a very nice (and not cheap) select purchase I made more than 30 years ago, and had been keeping for a *very* special occasion. It hadn't even been drunk. My wife had used it to make spaghetti sauce.

When I complained, she explains she didn't want to use a nice wine in sauce, so had used the oldest bottle she could find.

Arrrrggggggh

Grounds for divorce.

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#3051679 18-Mar-2023 20:36

No, the fault lies in a woeful lack of staff training.

I've heard of a similar case. Two sisters on the phone, one says that she's just started a bottle so the other grabs the top bottle on the rack and opens it without really looking. After a couple of glasses she thinks that's better than usual and realises that it was the bottle her husband had been given as a very expensive thank you. Of course she finished it to fortify herself for the owning up.

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#3051682 18-Mar-2023 21:07

JimmyH:
Having friends round for dinner. Then discovering a bottle of red opened in the kitchen, with about one glassful missing from it and no attempt to reseal it. The last bottle of a very nice (and not cheap) select purchase I made more than 30 years ago, and had been keeping for a *very* special occasion. It hadn't even been drunk. My wife had used it to make spaghetti sauce.

When I complained, she explains she didn't want to use a nice wine in sauce, so had used the oldest bottle she could find.

Does the sleeping-on-the-couch-tonight thing apply the other way round as well?

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#3051683 18-Mar-2023 21:09

johno1234:
Grounds for divorce.

Something close to that has happened in the past. A friend of mine used to like coffee quite a lot, meaning much more than he's been medically advised to like now. A girl he was dating at the time complained that when she kissed him he tasted of coffee, and it was either her or coffee.

Well, he really liked coffee...

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#3051691 18-Mar-2023 21:53

Rubbish. We have just purchased a caravan so thought we would do a few days down the Waitaki Valley to try it off grid. Made it there safely, found a nice secluded sunny spot, backed it in and proceeded to be extremely happy with our wee spot amongst nature. Then we saw the rubbish left behind from previous campers. It was everywhere, mostly plastic drink bottles and cans along with several rolled up dirty nappies stuffed in a tree and the odd e cigarette holder.

We collected two armfuls and walked 50m to the cleanest most organized rubbish/recycling drop-off point I have ever seen. (Well done Waitaki District Council) Fifty bloody metres and they were too lazy to walk up the road to leave it there. Humans, sigh.

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#3051721 19-Mar-2023 07:45

I've seen people parked in the parking space that's closest to the bin (I'd say less than two metres) and still toss their McDonald's cup out the window and onto the ground.

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#3052116 19-Mar-2023 17:35

Not very much a small thing but seeing Police protecting Neo-Nazis in Melbourne. I'm all for freedom of speech but I refuse to give an inch to anything associated with Nazis. Screw the lot of them (Neo-Nazis) and may very unfortunate things happen to them.

Shit makes my blood boil.

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#3052128 19-Mar-2023 17:59

Bung: No, the fault lies in a woeful lack of staff training.

I've heard of a similar case. Two sisters on the phone, one says that she's just started a bottle so the other grabs the top bottle on the rack and opens it without really looking. After a couple of glasses she thinks that's better than usual and realises that it was the bottle her husband had been given as a very expensive thank you. Of course she finished it to fortify herself for the owning up.

About ten years ago I was on a bit of a Japanese culture kick, and coincidentally I'd moved into a house previously inhabited by a Japanese couple. My parents would pop around fairly regularly, and one day I got home from work to find a brand-new set of fancy-looking boxed chopsticks on the kitchen bench.

I happened to see Mum that evening and thanked her for them. Blank stare. Dad piped up with "Oh that was me; I found them downstairs while I was [doing whatever he was doing]."

I rang the previous occupants and she came around and picked them up. "Oh I was wondering what happened to these! They were given to me as a wedding gift."

I was actually fairly appalled to hear that, as if things had gone differently then I might have opened them and used them!

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#3052134 19-Mar-2023 18:37

Maybe we should do what Singapore does for a******s that dump rubbish.

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#3052148 19-Mar-2023 21:02

That the coach of a national sports team should be allowed to represent a betting agency in advertising. (Brendon McCullum and Bet22)

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#3052149 19-Mar-2023 21:05

networkn:
That the captain of a national sports team should be allowed to represent a betting agency in advertising. (Brendon McCullum and Bet22)

What's the problem there? Celebrity endorsement has been around forever.

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#3052151 19-Mar-2023 21:11

neb:

What's the problem there? Celebrity endorsement has been around forever.

Gambling has many many negative impacts, and he is the current captain of a national sports team. Not really sure what to say if you don't think that's an issue.

It's pretty different from repping a car brand or water bottler etc.

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#3052152 19-Mar-2023 21:14

k1w1k1d:Maybe we should do what Singapore does for a******s that dump rubbish.

And in the last hour TWO mattresses have appeared on the berm at the corner!

One carried past here (As seen on driveway camera), the other from somewhere else!

Why pay dump fees! The ratepayer will pick up the cost!

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